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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yes, we got it.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Hey I'm here.

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey we got a piping hot mic.

Speaker 3 (00:03):
Yeah, a lot of a lot of fuzzy bounce on
those upper eqs.

Speaker 4 (00:07):
What a kick in the pants from News Talk eleven
ten and ninety nine three w beat.

Speaker 5 (00:12):
Move over my lasses and ladders and make wait for
your soul rocking dead.

Speaker 4 (00:16):
This is good Morning Beaty with Bo Thompson and Beth
trout with Hello.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
First time and the goose says hello to you too.

Speaker 5 (00:31):
The days starts like the rest.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
I've seen a lot of the carbon copy, aware I've
already been.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Days keep coming one a one, they keep coming. Good morning.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
What I wish I had, but just don't turn off
for thinking things like that. I've got too much to do,
too much too, We've got too much to do, too
much to.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Love. Then well you would come.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Say hello, Hi, you men get a.

Speaker 5 (01:09):
Scene some day. Never change, never change, never change.

Speaker 6 (01:20):
Do that.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
I'm going into all this place that happened, and I've
been on the block.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
And just came back again. Could be worse song making work,
no old places perfect.

Speaker 7 (01:31):
She's like the Beth Troutman wake up.

Speaker 8 (01:32):
Songs, actually getting diabetes hearing.

Speaker 5 (01:36):
The song oddly from from the musical waitress.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Okay, same?

Speaker 9 (01:45):
What if?

Speaker 8 (01:45):
I hope we did a daily Bernie wake up song,
But it's like the same three Creed songs.

Speaker 5 (01:49):
Like every day, or just the same one creen song
every day.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
I told Beth, I woke up with the song today.
Oh wow, guys, we were walking in together this morning
and the same that's.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
The same thing I said. I said, wasn't opening up
by Sarah Barrales.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
It was very much molded by the show this week though.

Speaker 5 (02:10):
Oh that makes me so giddy.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Come that's better.

Speaker 10 (02:19):
All.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
I literally sat up in bed this morning and was
peaches coung from a can.

Speaker 7 (02:24):
They were put there by a man.

Speaker 5 (02:26):
So here's the question for you, bo, isn't it the
best feeling you've ever had to wake up and there's
constant music in your head like waking up to a soundtrack?
Didn't it feel lovely?

Speaker 7 (02:39):
Went to the kitchen and looked for some fruit?

Speaker 5 (02:41):
Did you look for some canned peaches? Yeah, we didn't
have anything.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Did you wake up to this part? Move into the country.

Speaker 7 (02:47):
I just kept playing on a loop in my head.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Got in the shower, peaches, But back to this song.
So anyway, for once, so I'm tracking with you, not
the same song, but the same thing.

Speaker 7 (03:01):
I guess we'll know we have something if I do
this again to Mark.

Speaker 5 (03:03):
We are effectively changing Bo Thompson. You know, just little
increments daily.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
We need backups for the days you're not here. So
it'd be great if folk would wake up with a
song every day, just to keep the bit going.

Speaker 5 (03:16):
Pretty soon, Bo's going to be a tap dancer and
enjoying musicals.

Speaker 11 (03:19):
I don't do that.

Speaker 5 (03:20):
He might even join an a cappella group.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Hey, it's theater of the mind. I might be doing
that right now.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Bargoll, you know post radio career.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's right, that's the second WBT, the musical right.

Speaker 7 (03:31):
Some people go and drive limousines.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
I'll go teach you own a.

Speaker 7 (03:41):
Thursday.

Speaker 11 (03:41):
Oh is it over?

Speaker 5 (03:42):
Okay, that's kind of an abrupt en thing there.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Thursday, August twenty first, we're often running. There is a
lot to tell you about. We of course have a
hurricane Aaron, which is still off the coast of North Carolina.
We'll talk to race Stagic next hour.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
Yes, that was my being excited about to race stage
had a race stager.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
She she waved, she hailed her arms, up like she
had something to add.

Speaker 7 (04:04):
No, that was just me celebrating.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Okay, good that was just a Celen big grace stage,
big race, stagic energy.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
I have a big grace, stagic energy.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
You know, every time I say his name there there's
at least one lady who will email me and say
that I'm saying it wrong.

Speaker 7 (04:20):
I like, it's they think it's.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Stagic, Oh stage, it's it's stagic.

Speaker 7 (04:25):
I know Ray.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
I've known Ray for almost thirty years. I know how
to say it.

Speaker 5 (04:29):
Wouldn't it be hilarious though for.

Speaker 7 (04:33):
Thirty years you have new Ray. Okay, here we go.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
That was a good morning, bet humble bro.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
I've known Ray Stagic for thirty years.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
What a lot of people don't realize is Ray he
does the weather, but he also is the director of
affiliates for the Weather Channel. He's like the big guy
at Weather Channel Radio. But if if there's a big
storm and I don't know if last night qualified because
you know it didn't make land fall, but a lot
of times Ray, when there's big, huge storms that hit
the mainland, he will he will go on TV overnight.

(05:07):
So he's like he's like this, He's like the Swiss
Army Knife of the Weather Channel. Like everybody knows Jim Cantre,
But I'm telling you, if you watch Ray Stage, who
watched the Weather Channel, Race Stagic does a lot of stuff.
That's why I've always loved the fact that we have
him on this show, because he's a he's a pretty
big deal in the weather world. But I used to
you know, I told you all when I left here,
I went and worked at a smaller station for a
few years and we started our back during that time,

(05:30):
the Weather Channel wasn't affiliated with BT it was ACU
Weather at that time, so we had the Weather Channel
over there.

Speaker 7 (05:36):
But I got I got to know Ray well before
he was ever our morning meteorologist.

Speaker 5 (05:39):
So anyway, wouldn't it be funny if we did ask
him today and he was like, actually, it's Stage.

Speaker 7 (05:43):
It maybe he will, maybe he will. It's Race Tagic,
it's Race Static.

Speaker 11 (05:49):
I've just been embarrassed to correct you this year.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
I just want to keep going, George, it's George, George Stag,
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
And we have and actually today we're gonna do it twice.
We're gonna do it early, and we're gonna do it late.
We're gonna give away Toad the Wet Sprocket tickets.

Speaker 5 (06:07):
We haven't done this with our six am audience, so
I'm so excited to give them a chance to name
some weird nineties bands?

Speaker 11 (06:13):
Did you all do it? Yesterday?

Speaker 5 (06:14):
When I was we sure did? It went so swimmingly
well that so I still am not ever going to
say the name of this band out loud, but so
many people love saying the name of the band that
pretty much every caller said it, even when it wasn't
the answer.

Speaker 11 (06:27):
Oh yeah, you.

Speaker 7 (06:28):
Mean Butthole Surfers.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah, that was Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
No, it was yesterday again, Yes, no, no, yesterday, yesterday
we had another guy call in and say it, and
then I actually used it as a as a.

Speaker 5 (06:38):
And he actually played a song by them, and the
guy missed it.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, gotta listen carefully on this show six thirteen, because
you know, I mean, sometimes we will hand you the clues,
but it sort of it's veiled.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
And usually I'm the one who hands clues. And yesterday
it was bo all the way you usually.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Do riding And what about that one, Mike, It's like
a muddpole.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
So are we gonna crank this up at six twenty.
Is that too early, do you think?

Speaker 5 (07:03):
I don't think so. I think the people out there.
We've got to give what people want, all right.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
So it is Toad the Wet Sprocket tickets. And look,
we we get to approach to give away things all
the time.

Speaker 7 (07:12):
And when they when we.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Found out live on the ear from Bernie that we
were giving away Toad the Wet Sprocket tickets. But when
we did, I thought, okay, is this going to be
a tough sell because Toad the Wet Sprockets, you know,
it's been and thought about them in a while. People
are all about Toad the wet broad Band.

Speaker 5 (07:27):
We didn't know we needed in Rugs that we didn't
know we needed on WBT. But we just got a
text to the WBT text line driven by Liberty Buick
gmc rob Rob needed to hear your song this morning.
He actually woke up with the Peaches song in his
head this morning.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Come your soul made.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Hey Hey Rob, Hey Rob, you know the man that
put them there?

Speaker 1 (07:54):
It was me.

Speaker 10 (07:56):
Put it in your head for listener. Nick Craig is
also happy about this. Here. How did I know Nick
Craig love Peaches.

Speaker 11 (08:03):
He said, love me some hotus. Hey send me this word?

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yes, did you talking about buff hotus? The baby?

Speaker 7 (08:10):
Hey tell Nick Craig. Thank you for your attention to
this matter.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Good morning DT. This is good morning Beatty. What's your name, dude?
My name is the name name got a stupid.

Speaker 11 (08:23):
Name is in.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Now that's your name. I've not said the long.

Speaker 12 (08:36):
Name.

Speaker 13 (08:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
I worried maybe six twenty might be a little early
for the toad.

Speaker 5 (08:42):
For the toad, oh, because people are maybe brushing the
cobwebs off the brain, thinking, man, I can't remember the
nineties right now. I haven't had my coffee.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
What that toad?

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Seven O four five seven Lama seven O four five
seven oh eleven ten. If you'd like to get on
board and get the queue going, here for a toad
the wet Sprocket tickets giveaway, which is named that nineties
band with a weird name, and boy do we have
a lot of them. But while we're waiting for the
phone lines to populate, you know what we do here.

Speaker 14 (09:14):
Casey Top from Hollywood, California. This is Casey casem and
jumping five notches to number thirty two is a band
from Santa Barbara, California. Here's Toad the Wetsprocket with fall Down.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Set Abound, the cover of Trims and Manhats.

Speaker 14 (09:34):
Send Season.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Left, seven oh four, five, seven oh eleven, ten, State,
She Trips.

Speaker 15 (09:45):
Always Soon to three?

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Can I play the countsertgoers are probably just getting home
right now?

Speaker 5 (09:55):
That's true late night.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, you could play, like I can put the song
on the board, but you don't get to win. You
can play, but you can't win. So Bernie put the
song up on the board for Beth Troutman. Who is
this nineties band with a weird name.

Speaker 14 (10:14):
This time?

Speaker 5 (10:21):
I don't know. I've got allergies. I'm wheezing.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
Does that make you a wezer?

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Oh? A wheezer wheezer, which it is, like, so I
kind of.

Speaker 5 (10:37):
Don't you want to sit down and interview all of
the nineties bands and be like, tell me the tell
me the backstory. You know how the Commodores they apparently
their story was they threw a dictionary up in the
air and then they pointed to a word on the
page that it landed on, and they were almost the commodes.
Oh have you ever heard that story?

Speaker 2 (10:54):
I have not. I feel like we're on an episode
of one of my one of my favorite shows from
v H one, and then they hit rock bottom.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
They were almost the KMO the bottom of the toilet.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Okay, so thank you Kurt Loader seven four five, seven
eleven ten. I think I've figured out now that six
twenty is too early for Toad the wetsprocket.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yeah, maybe we'll circle back around.

Speaker 10 (11:24):
You know my old job that used to say eat
the frog. That was the first thing you do in
the morning. You eat the frog, which is the thing
you didn't want to do, so you just get over with.
So this is the opposite of that. You're eating the toad.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Okay, where'd you grow up?

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Let's just eat.

Speaker 11 (11:38):
It was a company I worked for before I got here.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
I'll pay up it way out in the country.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
All right, We ask him, we receive, we stall, and
we finally get Brian is online one. He is daring
enough to to give it a shot early today. Good morning, Brian,
stuffing off the cob web.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
There you go, my boy, flapjack, right now go.

Speaker 5 (11:59):
We're so proud of you, Brian. This makes you a
brave man.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
All right, Brian. The song that's on the board already
because Beth put it.

Speaker 7 (12:06):
There is this one.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
This time, all right, Brian, come on, that's an easy one.

Speaker 16 (12:20):
This is an easy one.

Speaker 11 (12:22):
Weether to help out.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
I said the word wheezer about you.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Gonna now, Brian, you don't mean wheezer, you mean weezer, righteez?

Speaker 7 (12:31):
Yeah, okay, yeah, that's right, thank you.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Okay, let's see you got a name too, to get it,
so Bernie, let's uh, let's go number eighteen. See if
Brian can get this one, which will send you to
Toad the wet Sprocket on Saturday night.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Here we go.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
Es wounded.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
Loud ye.

Speaker 7 (12:58):
Everything nothing personal, Brian, just the song.

Speaker 5 (13:02):
We don't hate you, Brian.

Speaker 16 (13:04):
I gotta be honest.

Speaker 17 (13:05):
I actually had this T shirt in high school.

Speaker 6 (13:07):
Ugly kids chet that's it.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
See you are you dusted off the cobwebs. You thought
back to that old T shirt And now you have
two tickets to not only Toad the wet Sprocket, but
sixpence none the Richer and KT Tunstall at the Amp
Valentine on Saturday night.

Speaker 5 (13:24):
How excited are you Brian for getting up early this morning?
You got free stuff.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
It's awesome, Thank you guys. Oh well, walking flap check
see see all day long, all day long, Brian can say,
the early bird gets the toad.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
Oh oh, we'll done the toad earlier.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
We'll put you on hold there, Brian, thank you.

Speaker 11 (13:44):
It took a little while. We got one though.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
Actually I don't show up at like six twenty years.
Totally get that. How don't start trying to like six thirty.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
We have one final pair of tickets to give away.
We're gonna do that in the nine o'clock hours.

Speaker 5 (13:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think I think six six am
might be a little early. The people eat breakfast, maybe, yeah,
let them have maybe two cups of coffee.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
The early worm gets the worm, the toad the toad
joyraises a gross all right, so enjoy some toad.

Speaker 5 (14:14):
For a few moments here, Shine, Shine, Just so that
you know, people out there were feeling bad about the

(14:35):
fact that people weren't calling for the tickets, Wayne, And
this is not the Wayaney act. This is a whole
different Wayne, he said, I really want to play, guys.
I am listening, but I'm traveling to Miami, and if
I win the tickets, I won't be able to go.

Speaker 12 (14:50):
Well.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
See, the best thing about these contests is you can
play in your car and you don't even have to win.

Speaker 5 (14:54):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
So we have like lazy contestants that just texted in
their answers.

Speaker 5 (14:58):
On the Oh, we've forgetten them. We've been getting there.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
I don't want to be in the radio file. Here's
the answer, and I.

Speaker 5 (15:03):
Did get a Weezer text this one.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
And maybe we'll do like a text only contest at
some point because you know, look, I think at this point,
right we can speak for all of the people that
work here. The text line has been a rousing success,
and you.

Speaker 8 (15:14):
Would note the order they come in, so you actually
could do it where people text in first person to
text in the right answer.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yeah, and you can text back like smiley emoji if
they lose you.

Speaker 7 (15:26):
That's right.

Speaker 11 (15:27):
It's even got a smiley face.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Can you can you put the poop emoji on this?

Speaker 6 (15:30):
Now?

Speaker 11 (15:30):
You can smiley face or to a toad.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
There you go, it's a toad, all right. So congratulations
to Brian who's got the tickets. One more pair before
ten am this morning. Look, we're serious fun. That's what
I love about this show. We have very serious days
and serious issues, but we don't ever ignore the opportunity
to sit back and laugh at ourselves and have some fun.
And most days, if we're doing it right, in my opinion,

(15:55):
both things happen over the course of the show. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
The great thing about this bus stop radio. I like
to say, at some point you're gonna find a bust
you want to get on, Yes.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Get your So this is good morning beat.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
All right, six thirty nine on WBT on your Thursday
Friday Eve, or as Boomer von Canna would say, friya Eve,
We're gonna do the Friday thing again tomorrow. Uh, yes,
this is a new thing. Tell us something good.

Speaker 5 (16:29):
Yes, it was my favorite favorite part.

Speaker 7 (16:31):
Okay, it's settled. We're doing it tomorrow again tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
Friya Yeah, yay, yay, Yeah.

Speaker 7 (16:40):
Pardon us if it's already Friday in this room.

Speaker 5 (16:43):
It's always Friday in here.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
We talked to Mick mulvaney earlier this week. We always
talked to Micklveney, our longtime political analyst and former White
House Chief of staff about all things going on in
the Trump White House. But of note, this week and
this has been quite the topic in political realms. What's
going on with the governor of California and the President Trump. Now,

(17:05):
President Trump has not reacted directly to some of these
posts by Gavin Newsom doing the you know, doing the
the ex post's Trump style, but it's it's interesting where
this seems to be going. Right now.

Speaker 5 (17:17):
Governor Newsom of California has been making waves online and
with a press conference over the past week. His his
press office has been sending out X posts that are
similar in nature to post on truth social from Donald Trump.
I'll just I'll just read one a little bit of
one to you. This is again from the Governor Newsom

(17:39):
press office X account. It says Trump just fled the
podium with putin, no questions, nothing, total low energy. The
man looked like he'd just eaten three buckets of KFC
with Vlad. Is he afraid the press will ask about
me America's favorite governor and the fact that I stole
the cameras this week with the maps And of course,

(18:00):
Gavin Newsom is referring to the special election that he
has called for to get redistricting done in California as
a result of the conversation that, according to reports, President
Trump had with Governor Greg Abbott of Texas that is
leading to their redistricting and the fact that Democrats left
the state of Texas. It has been a gigantic story

(18:20):
on top of all of the international headlines. What do
you make of what Governor Gavin Newsom is doing? By
kind of you would I think a lot of people
would call it trolling the president online by sending out
x posts that look a lot like President Trump's posts.

Speaker 13 (18:37):
Look, you know, I'm not a big Gavin Newsom fan,
but I got to tell you, if I'm just sort
of a disinterested third party looking at this, this is
a genius.

Speaker 18 (18:43):
It just is.

Speaker 13 (18:45):
First of all, we're talking about it. My guess is
that Gavin wants to do a couple of things. He
really wants to get under Donald Trump's skin. That's absolutely
going to do this. He's trying to raise his, you know,
sort of profile as a leader of the Democrat parties
that go into the twenty twenty eight primary for president,
and that's doing this, and he's trying to establish himself
as the anti Trump. I've read a lot of them.

(19:05):
They're funny.

Speaker 6 (19:06):
They just are.

Speaker 13 (19:06):
I mean, if you're gonna have a sense of humor
about politics, you can't help but giggle at some of them,
it's really really well done. I think the guy's, you know,
probably a threat to the economic health of the country.
But it's it's it's been very, very entertaining, and I
think that's probably what it's meant to be.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Do you think Trump dares respond to any of them
or does he stay above the phrase as far as
that goes?

Speaker 13 (19:27):
Oh, great question. If I know the man, I'm not
gonna do anything. I'm not gonna do it. I'm not
going to do anything. And all of a sudden two
o'clock in the morning, he'll do something.

Speaker 7 (19:37):
Eight responses in the middle of the night.

Speaker 16 (19:39):
Right, So look, it's he.

Speaker 13 (19:43):
He lives on Twitter, he does he you know, true
social is he lives on social media. He's reading every
single one of those. If he tells you you know
that I haven't seen it yet, that's not that's not
just like him saying he doesn't watch MSNBC. He watches
it cover to cover. So look, it's it's it's it's
it's fun politics. And again, if I if I'm a
political advisor to Gavin Newsom, I think he's doing the

(20:04):
exact right thing.

Speaker 7 (20:05):
McK mlvain.

Speaker 13 (20:06):
I like him, but doesn't mean that. It doesn't mean
he's wrong.

Speaker 7 (20:08):
McK mulvaney joins us.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
You can hear the entire conversation anytime on demand at
WBT dot com and Spotify and wherever you get GMBT content.
It is interesting to me that thus far President Trump
has not directly responded to these.

Speaker 5 (20:22):
I would imagine people are saying, hey, don't respond. But
like you just heard Mix say, he thinks that he
won't respond, thinks he won't respond, and then suddenly, you know,
eight eight posts will come out about it. However, someone
within according to according to posts on Gavin Newsom's press
office account, someone from Trump's office did send Politico a

(20:46):
meme and then their press office retweeted it and said, wow,
we're you know, like living rent free in your head
some kind of some kind of response like that.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
The Vice President has officially responded. He was on with
Laura Ingram last night was asked about this Newsom back
and forth.

Speaker 19 (21:02):
Yeah, it was like one in the morning, Moscow time,
and they had no anticipation.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
He so, Ernie, that's the wrong one. I believe I
want number Did I say number one?

Speaker 11 (21:11):
You said two?

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Do you want one?

Speaker 3 (21:12):
I want one?

Speaker 20 (21:12):
I want one.

Speaker 7 (21:13):
I'm sorry, So let's try this again. This is what jd.
Vance said the Vice President last night about Newsome and.

Speaker 19 (21:19):
This idea that Gavin Newsom is someow going to mimic
Donald Trump's style. I think that ignores the fundamental genius
of President Trump's political success.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Which is that he's authentic. He just is who he is.
You've got to be yourself.

Speaker 19 (21:31):
You've actually got to talk to people honestly about the issues.
I don't think it's that complicated. Don't be a crazy person,
be authentic. If the Democrats did that, they'd do a
hell of a lot better. But the thing is, the
Democrats really can't help themselves. If you look at the
transgender issue, they're still talking about letting, you know, men
playing women's sports. If you look at the crime issue,
they're calling Donald Trump a fascist for taking action that

(21:55):
in nine days has dropped armed robberies by fifty five percent.
So part of sounding less crazy is being less crazy.
And if the Democrats were less crazy, I think we'd
all get along a whole lot better.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
There you go, the Vice President on Fox last night.
So he's responded. Remains to be seen whether or not
Trump engages at all here going forward, But Gavin Newsom
is not stopping.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
He's still doing it.

Speaker 6 (22:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (22:17):
Well, and it has gotten a great deal of response
from the folks at Fox News. They've been talking about
it quite a bit, and the Gavin Newsom Press office
has responded to so many some of the hosts again
you know, kind of Donald Trump's style, responding to their
comments about his comments. So it has become this entire conversation.

(22:40):
That is, it's one of the number one accounts right
now on X. People are flocking to read these posts. Well,
this goes out to Bill.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah. Still, I think this might be a little too
deep for the toad the Wetsprocket contest. But as Rush
Limbaugh would say, that's Helmet News Talk eleven ten, WBT
ten before actually nine before seven. Now, this is one

(23:22):
that we've known was coming because you and I talked
about this when the announcement was first made. Apparently the
logo switches finally happened.

Speaker 5 (23:29):
Yes, we talked. I mean this might have been six
months ago. I think during this business segment we said
that changes were a coming to cracker Barrel, that the
interior design was going to change to a more streamlined look,
And the reason I remember this is because we said
it was going to have banquet seating, and someone corrected
us that it was banquette seating, which yes, I get now,

(23:51):
it's like the benches, you know, the booth type banquette seating. AnyWho,
the changes have actually arrived at cracker barrels in places
across the across the nation. And the biggest issue that
some people are having not necessarily with the clutter feel
change of cracker Barrel, but the fact that the iconic

(24:13):
logo is slightly different. And if you look at the
pictures side by side, it's pretty obvious to tell what
the difference is. The colors have stayed the same, the
font is the same, but it's missing one piece.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
The picture the barrel and the guy leaning against it, the.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
Little fella, the little fella who looks like he's about
to tell you a fun story. I always thought that
he looked you know how you go. I don't know
if you've ever waited and done the actual weight thing
at cracker barrel. Yeah, I mean like and you sit
out in the rocking chair.

Speaker 21 (24:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
It is the It is the ultimate place of you know,
the impulse buy oh, because they stack stuff around you,
no matter where you stand in that little country store. Yeah,
because you know, it's all it's all designed to make
you buy things that you don't need.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (24:59):
I every time I am at a Cracker Barrel, I
buy weird candy there. Candy is legit. It makes me
feel like I'm five years old. I will buy the
little like I.

Speaker 11 (25:09):
Bet they have Charleston shoe there.

Speaker 5 (25:10):
They have Charles they shoes?

Speaker 1 (25:11):
They do?

Speaker 6 (25:12):
They do?

Speaker 7 (25:13):
They have different sizes, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
And if you need a you know, a why know
Nah Judd CD or a George Jones CD that you
didn't know that you had the need for, that, it's
there to buy.

Speaker 7 (25:23):
Or you may not have a CD player anymore.

Speaker 11 (25:24):
But who cares?

Speaker 5 (25:25):
Those little willow decor items you know that are like
carved out of the willow tree and it looks like
I have one that my mom and I when it
was one day after chemo, I had taken her to
chemo treatment. We went to Cracker Barrel and had lunch,
and then we were in the little store and we
bought a willow figurine and it's a mom hugging a daughter.

(25:45):
And I gave it to her and then when she
passed away. Now I have it and it sits by
my bed. But we got it a cracker barrel.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
But if I'm to understand this correctly, this is the
beginning of this of the change, like the logo change
is today are now. But eventually it's not going to
be the country Store anymore either, well it won't have so.

Speaker 5 (26:03):
You know when you go into cracker barrel. We also
had this story about a lady that put a picture frame,
a framed picture of herself and like her family on
the mantle at a cracker barrel and it stayed there
for like months because cracker barrel is full of pictures
and you know, like old wagon wheels hanging on the
door or on the walls, and it just kind of
has like a like a barn kind of feel or something,

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you know, just like things just hanging. They're changing that look.
There will still be stuff on the walls, although according
to photos, walls will be a lighter color, it will
be less cluttered, and the seating will the look of
the seating itself will actually change, so inside it just
won't look as barn like. I don't know if barn

(26:48):
is the right word, but but you get kind of country,
kind of that country I don't stick. My great grandparents
had a barn and so you know, when you went
in there, there were always things hanging on the walls
and it just kind of felt I don't know, it
just felt it well home, homey, homie and warm.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
But have we look when they when we first heard
this was happening, there were rumors that the country store
part of it was going to go away or at
least change.

Speaker 7 (27:17):
Have they gone back on that?

Speaker 2 (27:18):
So, like, did they get so much pushback that they haven't?
They've decided not to do that because as of right now,
it's just a logo.

Speaker 5 (27:24):
Well, it's so here, so let me show you too, Bo.
It's the logo and then the seating areas. Yeah, so
the seating areas are changing up.

Speaker 7 (27:32):
So the Charleston Chew is not necessarily going away or not.

Speaker 5 (27:36):
Well right now, it's just people are upset about the man,
the little Man leaving the logo. People are really upset
because they liked the little man and the barrel oh
well and really paid.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Much attention to the man take away both of those things.

Speaker 5 (27:50):
Well about the rocking chairs out front, I hope they
don't ever get rid of those, because that would be
like getting rid of the rocking chairs at Charlotte Douglas Airport.

Speaker 10 (27:57):
I kind of let you know the wait time too.
What's going on inside the crier, what's happened a lot
of people outside? You're gonna wait for a minute, you
know that.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
I may have said this the last time we talked
about this, but I was an adult, well into adulthood
before I ever darkened the door of a Cracker Barrel.

Speaker 7 (28:10):
Now I love the Cracker Barrel.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Every time we go to Atlanta on the boys trip,
we part of the deal is that the morning after,
on the way back home, we stopped and get breakfast
at Cracker Barrel. But I was like, when I was
a kid, we never went there. I don't know why
we never did.

Speaker 5 (28:23):
I don't remember when it actually opened up. I know
that when one came to Concord, everybody was pretty darn
excited about it. But the only one I used to
remember was kind of the one that was on going
toward the airport. It's still there, it's still right. It's
whatever that exit was at the old exit that you
would take to go to the airport.

Speaker 11 (28:44):
The one I always went to was one seventy four, oh,
towards Matthews.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
And then what I go to now?

Speaker 2 (28:49):
I went I probably, uh, probably three four months ago
last time.

Speaker 5 (28:53):
I think it's the Billy Gram Parkway. Is the is
where it is. It's like if you take the Billy
Gram Parkway and turn right rather than going left, there's
a cracker barrel there. I think that's the one.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
The one I go to is across from Krawins Oh,
okay Carowin's Boulevard.

Speaker 11 (29:05):
I will get right there one stop shop.

Speaker 5 (29:07):
I will go to any cracker barrel anywhere.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
I don't.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
You know, you can change the seating if you want
to change the stuff that's hanging on the wall. Don't
change your recipe for your chicken and dumplings. Don't change
your chow chow. And don't change your greens and beans,
because that is one of my favorite things in the
whole world to order, is they're greens and beans plate
and it's pento beans and it's collared greens or their
turnip greens, I guess, and you get chow chow and
get the hot pepper vinegar and a slice of corn bread.

(29:32):
That don't change that.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Don't change that cracker Barrel where you can leave Carowins
and then still feel like you're at Carowins.

Speaker 21 (29:39):
Right.

Speaker 5 (29:40):
Oh, it is that? Which is that the way you
feel if.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
I walking in Walking in a Cracker Barrel still feels
like Carowins in many ways to.

Speaker 5 (29:46):
Me, it is like a gift shop.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Yeah, and then they only have maybe they've taken it
away because Carowins used to have a whole themed area
that felt like Cracker Barrel, not named Cracker Barrel, but
it had like old timey.

Speaker 5 (29:58):
They had the oaken bucket and that's where the gold
rusher was, and they probably had a little old man
sitting with a barrel.

Speaker 7 (30:04):
He's probably over at Carowin's right now.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
From Me's talk eleven ten and ninety nine three double bet.

Speaker 15 (30:14):
Yeah, the energy in this place is just amazing, pure energy.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
This is good Morning Beat with Bo Thompson and Beth Trout.

Speaker 15 (30:21):
With what I'm talking about is the pulse of the
collection coming a little percussion.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
I don't need Joe rocking chair, the javert or your medicare.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah, you still want to buy George Jones CDs, Build
on Me on my back, Cracker barrels your place.

Speaker 16 (30:45):
That's what I know.

Speaker 7 (30:45):
That's what I've learned.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
Mean fine, But the question is.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Is that still the case?

Speaker 2 (30:53):
Like, am I gonna walk into Cracker Barrel now and
it's gonna feel like a hospital waiting room?

Speaker 12 (30:57):
Right?

Speaker 2 (30:57):
It is?

Speaker 5 (30:57):
The gift shop going to be like an airport where
I can get a couple of paperback books and maybe
a snow globe.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Here's what I'll say. This is the one place where
I don't want to self checkout.

Speaker 5 (31:08):
Sure, I don't.

Speaker 7 (31:10):
That takes the whole thing out of Green Ready for
the junk yard.

Speaker 22 (31:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (31:15):
We got a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
I was gonna go down a different road here, and
they want to keep us on the Cracker Barrel road.

Speaker 5 (31:20):
Oh man, our text line has blown up about Cracker
Barrel driven by Liberty GMC seven oh four, five seven
oh eleven ten. I first want to give some love
to Angela because she told me that her favorite food
all day long at Cracker Barrel, because by the way
they serve breakfast all day long, you don't just have
to get it in the forrning.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
I don't think I've ever not had breakfast there.

Speaker 5 (31:39):
Oh I've had breakfast.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
That means you haven't had the chicken and dumplings.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
No, but somehow I knew they were there. The dumplings, the.

Speaker 5 (31:45):
Chicken and dumplings. They used to on Saturdays. They used
to have a chicken and rice dish. They don't do
it anymore, and I miss their chain.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
That's like off the secret menu.

Speaker 5 (31:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
I've never even this nice secret menu at Cracker Barrel.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
Do you guys have any rice?

Speaker 5 (31:59):
And maybe?

Speaker 10 (32:01):
Now?

Speaker 1 (32:01):
Look?

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Seven four five, seven, oh eleven ten. I want to
talk to somebody who's been to the new Cracker Barrel.

Speaker 5 (32:05):
Yes, okay, so we've been getting tons of texts. Oh,
by the way, sorry, I got to give Angelas some love.
I didn't read the love. She her favorite, her favorite
food the egg sandwich with tomato with a side of
raw onion. For that reason, I'm out, I'm here, so
I'm feeling you, girl. I am feeling you all day long.
John says that his sits.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
Next to her, while she said, I would onions, raw onion.

Speaker 5 (32:27):
Raw onions and on tomato and egg sandwich. I'd eat
that all day long.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
I would not eat that at all. I can think
of her.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
That's where you make your own cushion chicken and dumplings.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
How hard is these people got the chicken and dumplings.

Speaker 5 (32:37):
I love their chicken and dumplings, John says, My daughter
and I really hate the new look. It's that country
girl's chic, as his daughter calls it. He says that
the one in Matthews already has the new look, that
they've already done, the new breakdown, the new uh, and
the cracker barrel. According to the Muffin Man, the cracker
barrel in Concord Mills.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
Do you know the muffin mats I know exactly where
he lives.

Speaker 5 (33:07):
But the Muffin Man says, the cracker barrel at Conqueror
Mills has already been remodeled. So muffin Man, John, I
want you to call us because what I really want
to know, what is the store? Can I still get
the weird pinny?

Speaker 7 (33:19):
I want you to clear the lines for the muffin Man.

Speaker 10 (33:22):
It's almost as good as when clover Teeth emails, and
that's my second favorite name to see Papa.

Speaker 5 (33:27):
I do love clover Teeth emails, but I so the
remodeled ones. Can you buy the weird stuff? Can I
still get my Christmas sweater? Can I still get Christmas ornaments?
Can I still get the funny Birthday cards? Can I
still get the cute kids clothes? Although my nephews and
niece are they outgrown the cute kids clothes from cracker Barrel?
But can you is there still a wall of candy?

Speaker 2 (33:49):
Can you still get the George Jones on compact?

Speaker 5 (33:52):
Still get? And books on CD? I used to go
on road trips when I would drive across the country
by myself. You would eat at a cracker barrel. You
could get a book on CD, and then when you
stopped at the next cracker barrel, you could trade that
book for on CD in and get another buck.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
Oh I didn't.

Speaker 7 (34:06):
That's like that's like hitting two in one trip.

Speaker 5 (34:08):
That was like a stealth thing.

Speaker 16 (34:09):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
And if you if the George Jones has sold out,
there's got to be plenty of Crystal Gale, right.

Speaker 5 (34:15):
Yeah, Crystal Gale.

Speaker 21 (34:16):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (34:18):
Apparently they've they've taken the eggs in a basket off
of the menu too. This is according to Cindy, who
just sent in a.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
Text eggs in a basket? Have you what is that
all about?

Speaker 5 (34:28):
Have you never had eggs in a basket?

Speaker 3 (34:30):
Are they cooked? Or they just eggs in a basket.

Speaker 5 (34:32):
All right, No, it's a recipe, guys. I make this
at home, so you It's basically, you take a piece
of bread, you cut a little hole in the center.
You put the bread in a frying pan, if you've
got it, the cast iron skillet filled with butter. You
put the bread in the cast iron skillet. You crack
an egg into the hole in the bread. It is,
flip it over and you you make it. It's an

(34:54):
egg in a bread basket is basically what, Oh my god,
and it is the I've this. It's so delicious.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
How I missed that all these years? That's amazing.

Speaker 5 (35:02):
You need one? Oh did we get a call about it?

Speaker 2 (35:06):
I thought it was false alarm. I thought somebody's gonna call.
And so they've been to the new, you know, no
frills version.

Speaker 5 (35:14):
Somebody else is very upset about the Saturday special of
chicken and rice being gone.

Speaker 16 (35:18):
Gone.

Speaker 5 (35:18):
They didn't send me their name, but they yes, the
Saturday special of chicken rice is gone. It's been gone
for a while and it was my favorite, favorite, favorite thing.
I would go on Saturdays just to get it. I
think the one at Carowins Michael has just passed the
one at Carowin's, and he sent us a picture of
the sign, the one at Carowins. The man with the
barrel is still on, Still on the Carawins sign.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
Old your ground, South Carolina.

Speaker 5 (35:40):
And we had a texture tellers hold your ground.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
That's the state line.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
Cracker and barrel in place. Cracker and barrel still in
the place.

Speaker 5 (35:48):
We had a We had a caller tell us that
that little man has a name, that his name is
Uncle Herschel, and that he was apparently like the Uncle
Herschel kin to the actual owners of the original Cracker barrels.
And I guess there was a breakfast item on the
menu that was like Uncle Herschel's Special. So the man
with the barrel has a name, Herschel Herschel according to one.

Speaker 7 (36:10):
Of Stand with Herschel.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
I figured it was just a rufus or something like
that hashtag Stand with Herschel's rufus. Actually sit with Sit
with Herschel because he's sitting next to a barrel.

Speaker 11 (36:19):
He's kind of leaning, isn't he.

Speaker 5 (36:21):
No, he was sitting like he's sitting but leaning. He's
sitting and leaning.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
On careful there leaning seven thirteen on WBT so the
if we get somebody legit that calls and says I've
been inside the new.

Speaker 7 (36:36):
May or may not be improved Cracker Barrel.

Speaker 5 (36:38):
But the people have texted us about the new and
improved ones. The one on Independence has been remodeled, one
in Matthew's, the one in Concord Mills, but no one
has told us about the store. I want to know
how the store has been remodeled.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Go inside and don't just see the sign. Go inside
and tell us what's inside.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
To take pictures, side pictures and pictures.

Speaker 8 (36:55):
This is the biggest news and show that since they
took the Big Boy down on Woodland Road, maybe maybe
that's where herschel is.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
With the big Boy, they.

Speaker 5 (37:02):
Could put a little that big giant rocking.

Speaker 7 (37:05):
Chair and rufus Lynx.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Lost lost rooms of Charlotte's.

Speaker 7 (37:14):
Hunting Bobcats.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
Why see it just sounds like Cracker Barrel. Go inside,
have a nice meal, peruse the gift shop, and leave
with a compact disc by the juds.

Speaker 7 (37:43):
Or Crystal Gale, Crystal Gale or George Jones.

Speaker 5 (37:46):
I was obsessed with Crystal Gail as a little girl.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
That's great, Let's go to line, Let's go Jerry Jerry's
online one.

Speaker 7 (37:57):
Welcome to Good morning Bet Jerry.

Speaker 5 (38:00):
Hello, Hey Jerry.

Speaker 21 (38:03):
Hi. I listen to you guys every morning driving to
work at Sam's Glove and rock Hill, and just wanted
to tell you guys that we're talking about Cracker Barrel.
I'm one of those people. I love the old ambience
and I think the new modern ones up into rock
Hill and the one at Caroline's, they both have been modernized,

(38:25):
and it lost a lot of that ambience.

Speaker 16 (38:28):
It really did.

Speaker 21 (38:30):
It's very nice, it's well done. It's still a pretty place,
but they still have good food, but it just lost.

Speaker 16 (38:40):
A lot of a charm.

Speaker 21 (38:42):
And I've got to I've got to say this. I
have been saying this to Cracker barrels. My friend and
I go all the time, and the only problem with
Cracker Barrel is getting the food to come out hot.
We have the offlest problem with the food coming out cold.
I bet you eighteen out of twenty one times that week.

(39:04):
Then in the last year that our food has come
out lukewarm.

Speaker 8 (39:10):
Oh, and we have to send it back.

Speaker 21 (39:12):
And I was commenting, not fussing, but commenting at the
cashier one day in rock Hill and didn't know it,
but the district manager was standing over there, right to
my right, and I told her, y'all have the nicest staff.
You always hire the nicest people. The food is delicious.
Love coming here. It just breaks my heart that I

(39:33):
can't get a hot meal. And she said, I'm so sorry.
And the district manager stepped up and said how often
did this happen? And I told her, I said about
seventy nine eighty percent of the time. Oh my, she said,
this can't happen. She said, your meals are on the
house today.

Speaker 16 (39:52):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (39:54):
Well, Jerry, you know what. You got some free meals
for speaking up. But has it changed? Have you been
and was your meal hot?

Speaker 21 (40:02):
It's still the same.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
It's a harsh reaction.

Speaker 21 (40:06):
Al wait, I have to I started what I ordered.
I tell them if my plate is not ready, when
my friend's plate is ready, I want you to put
mine in the microwave.

Speaker 17 (40:19):
I don't care what the.

Speaker 21 (40:21):
Rules are this as you can't put mine in a
micy way, for it was sixty seconds before you bring
it out.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
It sounds to me like Jerry's like this close to
like marching into the kitchen and saying I'm the sheriff
in town.

Speaker 5 (40:32):
Now I'm going to start.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
I'm the district man.

Speaker 5 (40:34):
I just show you how to do this.

Speaker 16 (40:37):
Jerry.

Speaker 21 (40:37):
I've worked in a restaurant for twenty something years. I
want to go back there and just watch a minute
and see what's going on and give them some taip.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
I think you should, Jerry.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
I think they'd let you back, let you make your
own food.

Speaker 7 (40:49):
I cannot imagine.

Speaker 21 (40:51):
It's a great place to eat. They're nice, They're nice
enough to go rewarm it.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
But you know you shouldn't have to do that.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
I hear you, Jerry, like you ask and you receive
on this radio station. You are exactly who we needed
to talk to a full report Jerry before I let
you go. When you have been, you said you've been
twenty one times recently. When you go in the store
part of it, the general store part of it, has
that changed it all?

Speaker 21 (41:19):
Oh no, see tail dance, she fined, The store park
is the same. Nothing changed in the store part.

Speaker 5 (41:26):
So I can still get my candy candies.

Speaker 21 (41:29):
You still get all the candies, all the nostalgia, old
stuff you could never find now on the walls, all
the signs, all that, all that's still.

Speaker 5 (41:37):
The same, all right, so I can still go in
and get those little caramel chewes with the cream in
the middle of the Jerry's Oh yeah, Jerry.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
We had somebody else holding to talk about this, but
I think that person realized they there's no way they
know more than.

Speaker 5 (41:50):
You, and they couldn't compare to you, Jerry, so they
just hung up.

Speaker 11 (41:52):
People are also backing you up on the text line.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Jerry, your your Cracker Barrel knowledge is scaring others away.

Speaker 7 (41:58):
So listen, listen.

Speaker 21 (42:01):
You guys are awesome. Love listen to you every single morning,
well at least five days a week, and y'all do
an awesome job.

Speaker 16 (42:08):
Keep up the good work.

Speaker 7 (42:09):
Thank you, Jerry.

Speaker 5 (42:10):
Jerry, we love you, and I hope you the next
time you're at Cracker Barrel. I hope your greens are
steaming hot.

Speaker 21 (42:15):
Thank you, and have a blessed day you too.

Speaker 7 (42:18):
I'm telling you. Let's it's like drop the mic, drop
the phone.

Speaker 8 (42:21):
I know she knew we could add anything to My
favorite is eighteen not the least twenty one times.

Speaker 3 (42:27):
I just love it a mathematic basis.

Speaker 7 (42:32):
Are we sure she's not the muffin man?

Speaker 11 (42:34):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (42:34):
I think she's the district manager.

Speaker 7 (42:36):
Yeah, I think so too, or she should be.

Speaker 5 (42:37):
She should be. It sounds like she could go in there.
I feel like you cover a.

Speaker 8 (42:40):
Three straight area district manager at the cracker barrel.

Speaker 5 (42:44):
Jerry could go in and whip that place into shape.
I am convinced if she went back in the kitchen,
everybody's meal would be ticking.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
Like that bar rescue dude that just comes in and
like redes everything.

Speaker 5 (42:53):
Jerry needs a cracker barrel show.

Speaker 3 (42:54):
Cracker barrel Rescue.

Speaker 5 (42:56):
Oh and she could go into all the cracker barrels
and and help make their food better, and then maybe
help redecorate because she she said that it's lost its ambiance.
So maybe they could do a mix between the old
and the new.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
Cracker Rescue.

Speaker 5 (43:10):
That doesn't have a ring, doesn't roll off the tongue there,
Jim does not roll off the tongue doesn't feel natural.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
I mean, we've done what we set out to do.
We have basically set the record straight on. The sign
has changed, but the rest of the stuff he heard,
the temperature of her meal, notwithstanding no the general store,
the ambiance to a degree has stayed.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
It's not been that often recently, but I don't remember
the heating issue.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
You haven't been twenty one time.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
I know, I mean twenty one times.

Speaker 5 (43:39):
Well, here's here's the thing, though, every time you're gonna
you're not gonna be surprised by this. But every time
I go to Cracker Barrel, pretty much every time I go,
I go alone.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
You sit at the bar. They have a bar.

Speaker 5 (43:51):
I go alone with a book, but there is no bar.
I will sit and read my book and eat.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
Do you play the little golf tea game or mylf Oh?

Speaker 10 (44:00):
I sure do.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
If you ever won the golf team, you don't win.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
Here's that lady again. You can't win, muffin lady.

Speaker 5 (44:06):
She was here by herself. But when I go by myself,
it comes out hot. But it could be because I'm
by myself. So as soon as they make it, they
bring it.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
Out because they're not waiting on your friend that isn't
there with you by yourself.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
So Larry says on the text line, all this Cracker
Barrel talk, and no one has brought up the hash
brown casserole. Oh oh, Larry, He says, I could put
a scoop of that on a flip flop and still
eat it.

Speaker 5 (44:30):
Yep, I would eat a flip flop with that on it.

Speaker 7 (44:32):
It's not wrong, a.

Speaker 3 (44:33):
Weird way to eat it.

Speaker 7 (44:36):
Fights, Yeah, Larry's been there twenty one times.

Speaker 11 (44:38):
Just get rid of the word castle.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
I'm really tired of the I loves see that's what
you bring to people. The trauma castle role is great
if it's done right. Yeah, I just have negative connotation
with castro's.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
Come into a little white tray with a little blue flowers.

Speaker 11 (44:53):
Anytime someone says they have a castrole, I'm out cover.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
It's a cover. It's a covered, dished staple.

Speaker 7 (44:57):
Here's the rule of thumb, Bernie, Bernie, burmee.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
Hermie, Hermie does it?

Speaker 11 (45:02):
Why it be Heremie?

Speaker 2 (45:04):
The rule of thumb is, if someone just brings you
something called a cast role, you stay away from it.
It's got to be attached to another something.

Speaker 5 (45:10):
Yeah, like a chicken and rice castrole or green bean castroles.
My mom used to make a sparagus castrole. Man, I'm missing, Okay.

Speaker 7 (45:17):
We're done.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
Listen.

Speaker 22 (45:18):
I'm a grumpy old man. When I open my eyes
in the morning, I'm I'm angry and I'm just miserable.
And then I start listening to your show and I
start laughing. And you guys are great.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
Look if we can turn curmudgeons into two happy people,
that's what it's all about.

Speaker 22 (45:34):
Hey, this is turning into a world class citty.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
Oh I agree.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
Yeah, I thought he was gonna say this is turning
into a world class interview.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
I love your show.

Speaker 17 (45:45):
I was here at first.

Speaker 20 (45:46):
I got just as much right up to.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
Here as you do.

Speaker 18 (45:56):
I'm Casey Caseon. These are the week's biggest hits, from
forty to number one. We're count them down and soaring
ten notches to number nineteen. Is the latest big hit
from the Santa Barbara, California band Toad the Wetsprocket. Here's
Something's always long Nundy, I'll call speed.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
We actually had a guy named bet U and said
you should play this song?

Speaker 7 (46:23):
Do you remember that one?

Speaker 19 (46:25):
Dot Cat?

Speaker 2 (46:26):
Of course we do bt mud show for everything, but
you know we have to add a little Casey Caseum
to it on this show. We'll just play it.

Speaker 7 (46:38):
So lean in altogether.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
Now see sweets.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
And sleep.

Speaker 5 (46:53):
Y'allways said.

Speaker 4 (47:01):
So weird.

Speaker 5 (47:04):
All it's so right, though, I forgot how many hits
they have has this one?

Speaker 2 (47:10):
This was later And speaking of later, we'll do later
on one more time, One more edition of name that
is the nineties band with a weird name. Potowed the
Wetsprocket tickets and sixpence none the Richer and KT Tunstall.
It's a flash contest because the concert is Saturday night
at the Amp Valentine, so with the nine o'clock hour

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this morning, one more time. I've had a lot of
people text this week and said, I don't you know,
I can't go to the show. But it's been a
lot of fun listening to the contest because everybody remembers
those weird nineties.

Speaker 5 (47:44):
Doesn't it just make you want to put on some
Doc Martin's and a big old baggy T shirt.

Speaker 11 (47:49):
Everybody loved the nineties before.

Speaker 7 (47:50):
That's about to say everybody remembers the nineties, But Bernie, I.

Speaker 11 (47:53):
Was born in the nineties. I'm a man. That's you're forty.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
I have looked nicer, I've looked.

Speaker 5 (48:00):
I get pictures from the nineties and I was wearing
really long jean shorts and like a gigant George T shirt.

Speaker 7 (48:07):
This time of year, it would have been George Georts.

Speaker 5 (48:09):
Oh yeah, but I don't think we were cool enough
to call him Georts. Then they had to be as
long as my arms went down my legs or.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
Else we got kicked out of school fingertip link.

Speaker 7 (48:20):
Yeah, eighteen out of twenty one times.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
All right, So that's coming up to the ten o'clock
hour or the nine o'clock hour. Approaching ten o'clock. Tonight,
seven o'clock the pre season finale for the Carolina Panthers.
They welcomed the Pittsburgh Steelers, or, as Bill Razinski used
to say, the Pittsburgh Steelers come calling.

Speaker 7 (48:41):
Back in the day.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
Zop will be on the call tonight. Now I held
this over from yesterday because you were off yesterday, and
we really need to dig into this a little bit.
This is Dave Canalis after the final practice of training camp.

Speaker 23 (48:55):
They have pushed the guys a little bit too hard
in the team meeting this morning. They were excited today,
but you know, final opportunity in pads for the starting
groups who will not be playing Thursday. We had a
great move the ball session at the end. It got
heated towards the end, kind of going in there. There
were some unbelievably physical plays, some hard runs, safeties showing up,

(49:18):
some great rushes and they just kind of are in
a competitive moment, you know, they tempers flared. We try
to push the guys to the edge. We went a
little bit over, but at the same time, like that's
the edginess we have to play with when we have
these opportunities. We have to be able to play a
physical style of football and and you know, sometimes it
goes a little too far. I'm going to talk to
the guys this afternoons, like, okay, now you throw a punch,

(49:40):
You're gone, you know, So then all of a sudden,
where are we at? Where does the rest of the
team sit? You know when that happened. So good teachable
moment right there, But a fantastic day at work.

Speaker 16 (49:49):
They're a matter of safety too, just because help like
hitting hands on helmets and stuff like that.

Speaker 11 (49:53):
Like is that a concern at all? Too sure?

Speaker 23 (49:56):
But I mean, honestly, it's just don't punch your teammates, Yeah,
other teammates. Like let's let's just let's make sure that
we play with the forty six guys we brought to
the game, you know, and that's got to be the focus.

Speaker 1 (50:07):
And see who always involved. But we saw J C. Dicky.
Did you get a good vantage point of there's a.

Speaker 23 (50:13):
Lot of guys, a lot of guys chirping both sides,
you know, again like this is this is like the
dog days of camp and this is the one last
shot in pads and uh, you know, they took it.
They crescendo to a place that I want our football
to be and we have to be comfortable operating there.

Speaker 5 (50:28):
Do you dislike the fact that it's spilled over after practice?

Speaker 23 (50:33):
I mean they kept talking. Uh, you know, Chuba kind
of came up at the end, was like, guys, the
end of the day, we're all family. It's going to
get heated like this sometimes, but we got to move
forward together.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
Okay, I can't be the only person who thought this
after hearing all that, But it was twenty fifteen in
training camp where Josh Norman and Cam Newton got into it,
and you see what happened after that altercation.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
They ripped all that, Beth, didn't you super Bowl?

Speaker 5 (50:56):
Super Bowl?

Speaker 3 (50:57):
That's how it begins.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
So you know, and if you listen to Canalis, you
know it's okay to have a little bit of spirited activity,
especially in the last day of training camp.

Speaker 7 (51:06):
But what what do you make of what he said
there and what it is that a good sign a
bad sign?

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Or is it just the guys being guys in training
camps along process and they're tired.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
I saw Bryce Young kill a man with a tri
death wasn't pretty.

Speaker 11 (51:21):
It's true Bryce killed the guy.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
It's it's.

Speaker 5 (51:26):
I hope people have seen Anchorman, by the way.

Speaker 11 (51:29):
That that was a movie.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
I should clarify that Rich Mahogany did not that.

Speaker 8 (51:34):
I think you know he said on him at it
was it was the last practice of the training camp
part because they'll get into the regular season mode and
the starters are not going to play in the game.
So I think they were amped up to kind of like,
you know, this is gonna be our our last big
momentary in pads.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
Get after it. So it did spill over, obviously, but
again nobody got hurt.

Speaker 8 (51:52):
You don't want the punch throwing, because we saw that
in the first preseason game with Xavier League. Get because
if you do, if you lose your head and you
practice where you're going to play. If you do that
in a practice, are you going to do that in
a game and then you're ejected and you're fined and
you're going to miss time and hurt your team. So
it's fine to be spirited and whatever, but it's like,
you do not want to get ejected from games and
you don't. I remember, you remember Jason Peter who was

(52:12):
with the team years ago, high draft pick, first round pick.

Speaker 3 (52:16):
He punched a guy at practice and broke his hand.

Speaker 8 (52:18):
Because amazingly, these helmets are you know, even with the
guardian thing on it, are still very hard to hit
and will break your hand. So you don't want an
injury coming from that either. So fine line of yeah,
you want them to be amped up and practicing hard,
but you don't want to spill over to the point
where you're punching people and getting hurt or getting ejected
from games later on.

Speaker 5 (52:37):
Should we feel sad that the head coach of the Panthers,
in a you know, presser, had to say don't punch people.

Speaker 3 (52:43):
Yeah, you think that'd be like one of those I
feel like you should know something.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
We should know this, don't You might hurt your hand.

Speaker 5 (52:49):
Yes, And it's a bad thing to just, you know,
go around punching people.

Speaker 11 (52:53):
Don't do it.

Speaker 3 (52:53):
Don't do it anyway.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
We know that Aaron Rodgers is not going to be
playing tonight. We know the Panthers starters aren't playing tonight,
so this is the you know, this is for most
and now not all, because I saw I heard that
the Kansas City Chiefs are going to play their starters
for a little bit in the third game.

Speaker 8 (53:06):
Some do it different, like Cleveland didn't really play their starters.
They didn't play their starts when they're here. They'll play
them in the last game as the app up, whereas
the Panthers did it the other way where they played
the first two games and we'll sit out this one.
I think we'll see some starters for Pittsburgh. I know
coach Tomlin talked about they have a lot of veteran
guys with the trade that they made this offseason bringing
in Jalen Ramsey, they want to get the communication and
the defensive secondary. So I'm assuming Jack Plumber will start

(53:29):
this game at quarterback. He'll probably facing the Steelers opening
day defensive secondary, which is loaded with some big name
players like Joey Porter and some others mentioned Jalen Ramsey
coming in, so it'll be a good test probably at
least early on for those guys.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
Well, this is where you get down to the to
the you know, the very end here about guys making
the team or not making the team, and the next
hour we'll get to Zoki's thoughts on maybe some matchups
that you are or players that you are looking at
tonight that is not necessarily a household name because you
know this last Preseast game, is it before we start
doing this for real? As they'll play Jacksonville coming up

(54:05):
in a few weeks. News Talk eleven ten dou WBT
traffic Check Thursday morning and coming up, we're gonna we're
gonna link up with lockhorns.

Speaker 5 (54:12):
That's about to say a We're gonna start yelling at
race stage.

Speaker 7 (54:15):
We're gonna fight race da light race check. But the
fright end.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
Now, Ray's gonna chess take on the Weather Channel. We'll
walk outside.

Speaker 7 (54:22):
We have a storm that is.

Speaker 2 (54:23):
Right off the North Carolina coast. You may have heard
of her Aaron, which is making her her feelings known.
This morning, we'll talk to Ray momentarily from the Weather
Channel about the latest on that storm's track.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
This is good morning, BET.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
News Talk eleven ten, nine to nine three WBT eight
in front of eight am Bo Thompson, Beth Troutman and
on the WBT hotline right now busy guy today from
the Weather Channel, meteorologist Ray Stagic now joins us and
Ray got quite a storm off the coast of North Carolina,
my friend.

Speaker 6 (54:57):
Do you have we do one five cat but actually
may go back to Cat three strength as it looks
like a hurricane error and trying to get back together
once again. Now officially the Hurricane Center doesn't bring it
back officially to one ten two, there are chances that
it may become a little bit stronger or cut back
to Cat three excuse me, but does bring the chances

(55:19):
of maybe get a little bit stronger, but moving away
now that's making a north northeasterly turn. So the latest
one hundred and five mile per hour as a five
AM Category two storm moving north northeast at seventeen and
getting past now thirty five north latitudes, so that's about
at our latitude and now starting to go north northeast

(55:39):
and eventually northeast at about seventeen miles per hour. But
you know, this is the thing that I do want
to emphasize, and this is another one of those examples.
Don't always concentrate on the center of the storm. That
center is four or five hundred miles offshore. Right now,
the impacts are being felt all the way up into
coastal not only Northeast, but also went to coast to

(56:01):
New England as well as the hardest hit areas in
the Outer Banks. Well.

Speaker 5 (56:05):
Speaking of the Outer Banks, Highway twelve, which is one
of the only roadways in and out of some of
those areas, parts of it flooded due to this storm
and what it's created in the surf.

Speaker 6 (56:16):
Yeah, it has and flooded well out ahead of even
the center getting to the latitude of the Outer Banks
was just overnight and into early this morning. So water's
still coming in. Luckily, now the winds are starting to
go around to the north northeast and now it's pushing
some sound side flooding in from the other direction, and
some of that water should begin to retreat. So Highway

(56:38):
twelve already being flooded as early as yesterday. Earlier than that,
the water was rising, And you do want to take
into consideration over the next couple of days too, if
you're still taking that beach trip, it's still probably going
to be a little bit rough. Outer beaches from about
let's say, I would say the South Carolina beaches today
and then tomorrow and into the weekend, head on up

(57:00):
the coast, especially into the northeast of England. I mean,
the beaches are closed in around New York City and
Long Island too, so impacts being even a couple of
days ago, there were several rescues on the Jersey shore
from the rip current and from the dangerous We don't
always concentrate on the center. I mean, some will say
that this is a s but don't. So that's folks

(57:21):
in the outer Banks. Now, I do have to apologize,
and I read earlier this morning that I already forgot
and I couldn't find war. I founded some spots. They
actually seen some of the worst flooding from any tropical
storm or hurricane in the Utter Banks that they've had
in re memory. So there are areas that are seen
significant flooding. Again, this all goes back to not only

(57:45):
the power of the storm at one point being a
Category five, but also kind of the slower movement now
and luckily that's all starting to accelerate away and away
from the US coastline here as we go on through
the next couple of days.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
Yeah, mat Beth was talking about some of the video
that we were seeing, uh in recent hours, and and
of course there was high tide last night and then
high tide today. Now high tide last night looked bad enough. Yeah,
but you got the you got the double WHEREMI here
obviously with what comes in the morning. But it is
it is taking the track that you expected it to take, correct, Yes,

(58:17):
it is in.

Speaker 6 (58:18):
Terms of fourcast track. Actually a I would say very
wealth story. I mean, of course a week or so
would go had the outliers that every once in a
while the model runs, would you know, throw it into
the coast as a direct hit. We knew we were
throwing that out as probably just you know, just phenomenal.

(58:38):
If it did do anything that won't expect might have
been just a little bit AARs back, a little bit
to the west end, maybe the hur consider attack. But
I think a well cast track. The intensity, at least
initially was a little bit tough. And when you do
hurricane forecasting usually the track guidance is a lot better

(58:58):
than the intensity guidance. That's where you usually have the
most margin of error with the intensity. Got it so
that played out with this storm that would be the
only thing luckily worked intense, But I really didn't much
impact anybody. But that would be the thing with this
storm that was a little bit up from the beginning,
it's becoming rapidly intensifying to Cat five.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
Okay, well, you're breaking up a little bit on us,
so I'm gonna let you go, but we'll stay in touch,
and I appreciate you on a busy morning giving us
a call here.

Speaker 7 (59:24):
Ray, thank you.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
Okay, all right, off, he goes Ray Stagic from the
Weather Channel's breaking up there at the end. But I
think you could pick out what he was saying.

Speaker 5 (59:31):
Yeah, maybe he's in the heart of the storm. Maybe
he is on the coast reporting and it's you know,
breaking up.

Speaker 2 (59:37):
Are you calling him, Jim Cantori?

Speaker 11 (59:39):
Is that what you're doing.

Speaker 5 (59:41):
I'm just creating theater of the mind. I'm picturing Ray
Stagic like standing in the surf and some waiters.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
Ray Stagic, Yes, that's right stage, Jick. He's our meteorologist.
We appreciate him. We'll keep you up to date on
the latest with Hurricane Aaron throughout the morning right here
on WBT.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
Well, I checked out the track and I loved it,
and I wrote you this big sexy hook.

Speaker 5 (59:59):
I think you're gonna re Oh wow, that's great.

Speaker 11 (01:00:01):
So should we just lay it down?

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
Let's get to it.

Speaker 4 (01:00:03):
From News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three Double Bet.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
I don't know they were jammies and yodas. This is
Good Morning Beat with both Tubson and Beth Trout.

Speaker 17 (01:00:16):
Baked Naked and crop Day McKey.

Speaker 16 (01:00:19):
What's it hand?

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
Thursday, August twenty first Taboid Studio Boe and Beth and
the Zoke and Bernie and Steve and Zoke was just
mentioning NASCAR schedule for twenty twenty six released yesterday, and
North Wilkesboro gets a Cup race for the first time
in years coming up on Sunday, July nineteenth. So uh,

(01:00:45):
North Wilkesboro gets a race, or gets a Cup race.
The All Star Race, which had been there before, now
goes to Dover. And this is interesting, how you know
now there's a renaissance for these older tracks that you
thought would never see racing again.

Speaker 5 (01:01:00):
Everything old is new again and people love nostalgia, kind
of like we're doing this nineties contest this week here
on the show. It's like nineteen nineties in here. Wilkesboro
is a big thing again.

Speaker 8 (01:01:11):
Cracker Barrel's going to bring back the barrel. I'm sorry
I got back where they took it away. But yeah,
that's that's a cool schedule. We mentioned San Diego too,
at the naval based Coronado there. That's going to be
something of a road course like how Chicago Land is.
So I think it's it's a fun schedule and they
keep trying to find new ways of doing things and
it's cool. I think North Wilkesboro obviously, for a lot

(01:01:33):
of folks in this area, means a lot. So you know,
Dale Junior and the folks that got involved with that,
Marcus Smith, all these people that help.

Speaker 3 (01:01:39):
Invest in that.

Speaker 8 (01:01:40):
It's cool to see that coming back. Yeah, of course
they had the All Star Race a couple of years ago.

Speaker 5 (01:01:44):
It just feels like, you know, drinking coke out of
a bottle. That's what Wilkesboro feels like peanuts, and with peanuts,
it feels like cad memory. It feels like what just.

Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
Barchnically Cashews, which was a bad idea.

Speaker 5 (01:02:00):
It feels like what racing is supposed to feel like,
you know, like an ice cold coke and a in
a glass bottle and.

Speaker 3 (01:02:07):
In a bottle of choke.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
Choke is it choke.

Speaker 11 (01:02:13):
So zero.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
The NASCAR is coming back to North Wilkesboro, or at
least adding a it's going even further than it did.
It brought back North Wilkesboro with the All Star Race,
and now that goes to Dover, and now they get
a Cup race, so they're really making it part of
the I mean, this is a big deal now going
back in time. Speaking of going back in time, we've
been talking about the fact that NBC is going back
to covering the NBA. They get the NBA back this fall. Now,

(01:02:38):
multiple sources are reporting the deal is close to being done,
but not quite there yet, but it looks like that
the new Major League Baseball TV schedule is finally going
to be worked out within days here and if if
this holds up, I don't know if anybody has not
many people been watching Apple Friday night baseball games on
Apple tv ye.

Speaker 5 (01:02:58):
But when you go to Apple's homepage, it showed it
had been showing right up like there would be some
live baseball movement in my menu, And.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
I was like, what's happening, because that's almost all they have.
They don't have a whole lot.

Speaker 5 (01:03:10):
They have Ted Lasso and Severance but Apple.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
Is out of the baseball broadcasting world. According to this news,
NBC in Peacock is in for Friday and Sunday exclusive
Baseball and wild Card Baseball. Now, this is getting a
little bit in the weeds here, but you know, ESPN
has had Sunday Night Baseball for years now. In the
last few years it's just been confined to Sunday night

(01:03:34):
with a few exceptions. But you know, back in the day,
in the early nineties when ESPN got the baseball deal,
ESPN was almost doing baseball every.

Speaker 3 (01:03:41):
John Miller and Joe Morgan are like my favorite baseball broadcast.

Speaker 1 (01:03:45):
Oh they are.

Speaker 8 (01:03:46):
They haven't done it for years. I don't even know
why they got rid of them back in the day.
But John Miller for many years was the voice of
the Orioles and then the Giants, and I think he
still does the Giants, but he has just got one
of those like Bill Roziski voices where it's just so
spot on and funny. And him and Joe Morgan, Joe
Morgan was an up to Hall of Fame player and
the manager just you would learn so much, like it

(01:04:09):
was like entertaining, but you would learn so much inside baseball.

Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
But by watching those two and.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
When you heard John John Miller's voice it was Sunday
Night Baseball on ESPN, you heard the theme in your head.

Speaker 8 (01:04:20):
We should find some John Miller. If you get a chance,
and you tell me what food, it sounds like you're
always good at like it sounds like biscuits and gravy.
Ye John Miller's voice. I don't know what food you'll
say it is, but it is like one of the
most calming voices. It just was just resonated with this
is baseball on Sunday Night.

Speaker 5 (01:04:38):
Oh, I'm excited to hear it now.

Speaker 2 (01:04:40):
So to that point, John, I don't know who NBC
is going to use for their Baseball on Sunday night,
but this deal would have NBC and Peacock getting Friday
and Sunday Night baseball. MLB TV would be sold to ESPN.
So what that means is ESPN would begin I assume
a TELEVI a lot of local sort of regional stuff,

(01:05:03):
uh and and not so much the national games they've
been doing. We'll see how how that goes. Netflix would
get the home run derby if you're keeping score at home.
So as streaming service is complicated.

Speaker 5 (01:05:13):
How are we gonna find all of this?

Speaker 3 (01:05:15):
I already forgot what he said.

Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
I do too.

Speaker 5 (01:05:17):
I do that Apple's gone, NBC's in in Netflix run
the home run Derby Live Live, or am I just
going back and watching it last year.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
I don't think it's gonna be taped. But but here's
the thing that strikes me about this. So, once upon
a time when I was growing up, you had Monday
Night football and you had Monday Night baseball. You remember
that because that was back when, I mean, you had
Howard Cosell and uh, and that was different. Al Michaels
was doing baseball on Monday night. But this actually the

(01:05:48):
way it sets up. If this shakes out the way
they say, then NBC would have would they would have
Sunday Night football, obviously, they would have Sunday Night Basketball,
and they would have Sunday Night Baseball. So Sunday nights
on NBC would sports year round. So NBC is now
not the national broadcasting company. They're the national ball company.
They ball in all the time.

Speaker 5 (01:06:08):
A great job, it's all.

Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
I'm sure that'll catch you a national ball company.

Speaker 5 (01:06:13):
But they're playing sports all the time.

Speaker 11 (01:06:14):
Our ball will buy it. Suit which ball.

Speaker 5 (01:06:17):
It's a smart business move because we have talked about
the fact that broadcast television only about nineteen percent of
the people are watching broadcast television anymore, and I'm telling
you sports might be the only way to save broadcast television.

Speaker 3 (01:06:31):
Then they slipping the whole peacock thing. So it's like, hey,
it's on NBC. It's like that's over on the peacock.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
So it's a little bit of both. And then they
start doing the commercials during the game. You know that
that's that's something that's crept in the less.

Speaker 5 (01:06:43):
Wait on peacock you mean, or you're.

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
Watching the game and they'll say, well, Paul's for thirty seconds,
so y'uring this pitch and split screen it, you know,
Or you watch golf on NBC, they call it playing through.

Speaker 3 (01:06:53):
Oh we we like commercials here.

Speaker 7 (01:06:57):
In fact, let's go to some.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Enjoy the show.

Speaker 5 (01:07:01):
Thank you for taking the time to call in.

Speaker 1 (01:07:03):
Well, y'all keep with Worried doing a great job.

Speaker 7 (01:07:05):
Thank you man, keep on keeping on.

Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
This is good Morning Beaty with Boo and Path.

Speaker 7 (01:07:12):
It was Zochie saying that you needed to hear the voice.

Speaker 11 (01:07:15):
You say what it.

Speaker 7 (01:07:16):
Sounds like the food you have what kind of food.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
It sounds like Sunday Night baseball back in its heyday,
like Zokie said, Joe Morgan or Jim Morton, John Morgan,
John Miller and Joe Morgan, We roll back, John Miller
and Joe Morgan.

Speaker 20 (01:07:30):
Here you go, Beth and from nineteen thirty two and
Babe Bruce called shot to two thousand and three, same venue,
Rickley Fields, same two teams, the Yankees and the Cubs.
Tonight Sunday Night Baseball presented by Next Tow.

Speaker 3 (01:07:43):
And we've got the rubber.

Speaker 20 (01:07:44):
Match here at the Venerable Ballpark, and we've got Cubs
fans and Yankees fans. And right now, after rain much
of the day, we've got excellent weather.

Speaker 1 (01:07:55):
And right now the wind is blowing out a home run.

Speaker 20 (01:07:58):
Hitter's wind blowing out Lake Michigan. And of course you've
got the Sluggers. Jason Giambi ready to go for the Yankees.
Sammy Sosis lamon, Sammy getting ready to take the field,
come for these Chicago Cubs. Hello everyone, I'm John Miller,
and there's a lot of excitement in Chicago.

Speaker 3 (01:08:16):
That's a voice right there that doesn't sound like baseball
from Central Casting.

Speaker 5 (01:08:21):
I was about to say, it sounds exactly like baseball.
That's the sound you hear in your head when you
hear baseball.

Speaker 3 (01:08:26):
I'll tell you what uses the word venerable.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
I don't know what in everyday conversation, no one else
but Jim, I mean John, and even.

Speaker 7 (01:08:32):
I mean John Miller.

Speaker 5 (01:08:34):
I will tell you what food it sounds like, and
it immediately came to me. It is a melted ham
and Swiss sandwich on a croissant with spicy mustard. That
is what his voice is.

Speaker 11 (01:08:44):
Listen to that.

Speaker 20 (01:08:45):
Do you do?

Speaker 5 (01:08:45):
You have the crumbly hang on toasted croissant, the melted
Swiss and the ham and the spicy mustard. Do you
hear it?

Speaker 1 (01:08:52):
For the ease Chicago Cubs?

Speaker 3 (01:08:54):
Nobody to see it, though I knew you'd have one to.

Speaker 20 (01:08:56):
See the vision, and there's a lot of excitement in Chicago.

Speaker 1 (01:08:59):
These two balked.

Speaker 3 (01:09:00):
I was historic, friends, you go, I'm eeling eggs in
a basket vibe too.

Speaker 5 (01:09:04):
So there's still toasty bread, I know, toasty tasty bread
and melty ham and cheese on a croissants spicy mustard.

Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
Like I said, it is John Miller and Joe Morgan
but Zoki's right. I mean those two together, why they
ever broke them up? The Karl Ravach and and friends
just doesn't just okay.

Speaker 3 (01:09:23):
But it's like they're not. John Miller is just like
this gravitas that comes with Sometimes.

Speaker 5 (01:09:27):
I think bosses get intimidated by strong partners, you know,
like when there's a strong partnership. I think like little
we Wei, bosses get get scared. No, no, no, no,
I didn't mean that, then, explained Tim Kerk.

Speaker 11 (01:09:40):
It wouldn't be scared.

Speaker 3 (01:09:41):
I didn't mean that.

Speaker 5 (01:09:42):
I didn't mean that. Like I'm just talking about the
like whiny is what I'm like.

Speaker 3 (01:09:46):
If you called it their face, they probably do get
mad at you. You anymore. I was thinking boss, speaking.

Speaker 5 (01:09:54):
More about the little pig when we we we all
the way home?

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
Is you you added one too many wheeze you had
said if you had said we balls, I heard little
we Wei.

Speaker 5 (01:10:03):
Guse even my face, my face is red right now
because that is not what I meant.

Speaker 3 (01:10:07):
That is not what I meant.

Speaker 5 (01:10:08):
I'm leaving bye.

Speaker 7 (01:10:10):
You like the exercise.

Speaker 4 (01:10:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:10:15):
Yes, Oh my goodness, guys, there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:10:22):
That's the little pig. That's what I was thinking.

Speaker 1 (01:10:25):
Was terrible.

Speaker 3 (01:10:25):
Clean that up. That'll be a fix for the me
is how I meant this? That will not be in
the podcast. We'll clean that part them after.

Speaker 7 (01:10:33):
The show today. We're gonna go play our wieze right.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
Yes, this is an interesting story though, because we were
talking about we were talking off the air, and now
it's on the air. You can't continue, Kenny.

Speaker 5 (01:10:45):
I have I have officially lost my mind. I have
officially like I I have officially.

Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
The bosses did not hear call them little wei bosses.

Speaker 5 (01:10:54):
Listening until they break up the power teams.

Speaker 3 (01:10:58):
You didn't mean here. You meant from television, we TV power,
the power couples.

Speaker 7 (01:11:03):
Beth got to radio.

Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
I'll just trying to fix it up so you can continue, y'all.

Speaker 5 (01:11:10):
So sports exercising, yes, bo exercising? How many people? How
many of you guys exercise on the daily or at
least a few times a week?

Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
Bo.

Speaker 5 (01:11:20):
We know that you run, right, What do.

Speaker 11 (01:11:23):
You do, Jim?

Speaker 3 (01:11:23):
I run and I left weights not at the same time?

Speaker 5 (01:11:26):
What about you burns?

Speaker 10 (01:11:26):
Lift the baby, carrying the baby around, getting up constantly
and sit back down, getting up with the baby, and
more more stuff with the baby.

Speaker 1 (01:11:34):
Occasionally on golf when I can he plays golf.

Speaker 7 (01:11:36):
Yeah, sir, Stephen. Do you exercise?

Speaker 3 (01:11:40):
Okay, okay, cut your pickleball contribution.

Speaker 5 (01:11:44):
I think here's the biggest question. When you exercise, bo Jim, Bernie,
do you do you enjoy it? Do you enjoy what
you are doing? Do you look forward to the process
of exercising? And if is that what keeps you going
back to it?

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
No, I do not enjoy the process of it. I
enjoy like I enjoy the fact that it gets me
like an hour to myself when I can listen to
a podcast or I can listen to music, I can
think about things. I also like the way that it
makes me feel when it's over, like I've accomplished something
and I've done something, and I feel like I've you know, exercised,

(01:12:22):
and I feel more fit. But I don't like when
I think about I've got to go run. I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:12:28):
You don't feel entertized, like, ah, I'm.

Speaker 7 (01:12:29):
Okay, Oh you're excited to go run? You run to eat, right,
That's exactly right.

Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
And my wife and I've joked about this, but but
I run specifically so I can eat what I want
to on the weekends. But you don't like it whilst
I like it once I'm out there, and like, like,
if I've gotten halfway through it and I can see
the finish line, then I feel like, Okay, I'm accomplishing
something here for a purpose. But when I'm sitting on

(01:12:53):
the couch, like I go home after the show and
sometimes I'll kind of doze off for a little bit,
I'll just kind of sit and watch Sports Center or
something like that, and while i'm doing it, I'm thinking, Man,
the last thing in the world I want to do
right now is go run. But then I do, and
when I get out there, I'm glad that I did,
But I don't look forward to it. There's a difference
between looking forward to something and then once you're in

(01:13:13):
it sort of getting something out of it that makes sense.

Speaker 5 (01:13:16):
Is that the same for you?

Speaker 3 (01:13:17):
No, he did what he said.

Speaker 7 (01:13:18):
I don't.

Speaker 8 (01:13:19):
It's getting ready to go out and run those first
I don't know something about that first quarter a half
mile of running where it's like, eh, well, once you
get to a point where it's like you've gotten at
least to a halfway point or whatever, you're kind of like, Okay,
I'm fine, I'm going to be you know, sometimes you
start you're like going, my knee hurts and my leg
hurts or whatever, and then you just work through it
and then lifting weights. I've learned to limit myself to

(01:13:40):
like just thirty minutes, so I don't try to do
like these monster workouts because I feel like I really
used to dread that. So if I keep it to
at least I'm going to go if it's thirty minutes, yeah,
I'm not going to go if it's an hour. So
that to me is what works, is like not making
it such a burden that I don't want to go.

Speaker 5 (01:13:56):
Well, there's a people, I guess there's a whole issue.
I understand this that people start exercise regimens or exercise
routines and they don't stick to them. And so scientists
have been trying to figure out why why people don't
stick to them. So if you if you if you
go to BBC Science, guys, if you read BBC Science
as I do, occasionally, they have come up with and

(01:14:19):
I always think this is really funny, you know how
they like, this is a menu hack. You add your
chicken tenders to the burger, you know, and they call
it a hack.

Speaker 7 (01:14:28):
Well, this this was the voice.

Speaker 3 (01:14:31):
This that's the hack for a good run bow add
some chicken tenders.

Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
In order to have chicken tenders, I have to run well.

Speaker 5 (01:14:41):
The new hack for exercising to keep your routine going,
to actually make it into a routine is you should match.
This is the hack. Match your exercise routine to your personality.
Scientists have figured out that if you match the two
things together, you're more likely to have fun doing the

(01:15:02):
thing that you do, so that you don't dread it
and you actually enjoy the process, that you're not just
excited that it's over, that you're excited during the process.
Because I know, I absolutely and I fell out of
doing it for a little while with this crazy schedule.
But I love boxing.

Speaker 3 (01:15:19):
I love it.

Speaker 11 (01:15:20):
I get so.

Speaker 5 (01:15:21):
Excited when I'm in there and I have those gloves
on and I'm punching things and kicking things and love
it and look forward to it. But if you asked
me to go to like a pilates class, I would
be bored out of my mind and would never make
it through it. So maybe I found my personality match.
Maybe just like punching things, so.

Speaker 3 (01:15:38):
Pick things at you.

Speaker 8 (01:15:40):
I'm that way with food too, like I'll go to
the grocery store, I really should eat, you know, broccoli
or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:15:45):
Like I hate broccoli. I'm never gonna eat this bag
of broccoli.

Speaker 7 (01:15:48):
You sitting here beefing broccoli.

Speaker 3 (01:15:50):
That's crazy to put those two items with a little
bit rice.

Speaker 5 (01:15:53):
So you neique.

Speaker 3 (01:15:54):
But you're saying like sometimes you get a grocery story,
you try to eat healthy. It's the same thing.

Speaker 8 (01:15:57):
Pick my points, pick the things I like, actually like avocado,
So pick healthy foods that you you like as opposed
to healthy foods you don't like.

Speaker 3 (01:16:03):
And same with exercises.

Speaker 5 (01:16:05):
It's matching. Matching your exercise routine to your personality may
keep you doing the routine.

Speaker 2 (01:16:11):
Real quick, I mean really quick. Mike is online one Mike,
Welcome to WBT.

Speaker 16 (01:16:17):
Yes, good morning, how you doing.

Speaker 7 (01:16:18):
What's up?

Speaker 20 (01:16:19):
Man?

Speaker 16 (01:16:21):
Y'all were talking about looking forward to working out and
exercise years ago. I used to live down in Dealworth
and it was right it was back when the it
was on Marsh I was close to Marsh Road. And
when I lived there, my wife always wanted me to
go out and jog in the mornings and it was crueling,

(01:16:42):
and so I'd get up and jog every morning. And
one morning I turned around and I went the opposite
direction that I've never gone because I was new to
the neighborhood. And I got down to the corner of
Marsh Road and South Boulevard and there was a Kristy
Krean and I was like, oh, from then on for
the next for a don't those year or so, I

(01:17:04):
would jog every morning with a dollar in my pocket.

Speaker 7 (01:17:09):
There you go. That's like a little treat the Promised Lands.

Speaker 16 (01:17:11):
Really looking forward to the job man.

Speaker 3 (01:17:13):
So your workout was break even by the time you
get Yeah, seriously, Jil.

Speaker 1 (01:17:17):
Mike is doing it.

Speaker 5 (01:17:18):
He matched his workout to his personality. This is the
best call ever. You jugged every day to Krispy Kreme.

Speaker 16 (01:17:24):
Yeah, out to the corner. And then they when they
just you know, they finally destroy that store and then
lot changed drastically.

Speaker 2 (01:17:32):
That's when Mike says, God is sending me a sign.

Speaker 8 (01:17:37):
Real quick, Mike, if he's still there. You know, NC
State does a Krispy Kreme run every year. I'm not
an NC steak guy, but there's a run where you
run I think it's a mile to the Krispy Kreme
and you eat six doughnuts and then you have to
run the other mile back.

Speaker 20 (01:17:50):
Is that right?

Speaker 16 (01:17:51):
Always? You know that hot is always the turning point.
If they're cold, I could eat warn or two. But
if they're hot, I'm sat there and eating a whole Well,
you know all does Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:18:02):
I'm with you. A Krispy Kreme hot donut is like
a pillow of sugar. There is something about it with
a big old glass of milk with ice in it running.

Speaker 2 (01:18:13):
Down the street. There goes Mike.

Speaker 3 (01:18:14):
Here was a bad idea.

Speaker 13 (01:18:19):
Be good.

Speaker 7 (01:18:20):
Thanks for calling my friend.

Speaker 21 (01:18:21):
Good morning, Hey Nancy, enjoy your show.

Speaker 1 (01:18:24):
Thank you love the show.

Speaker 6 (01:18:26):
Long time list there over a decade, considering you guys
a family.

Speaker 1 (01:18:30):
Oh, he says, you're very kind. Wow, there you This
is good morning beauty. All right?

Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
Tonight the final dress rehearsal for the Carolina Panthers, seven
pm at Bank of America Stadium, Panthers and Steelers. It's
gonna be an interesting stretch here for Carolina because so
much talks, so much chatter in the season about whether
or not Bryce Young can carry over the momentum. You're
not going to see it tonight. Bryce is not going
to play tonight. But you have, as is always the

(01:19:08):
case with the final preseason game, these are where the
battles are won to just make the team and zoke,
you're on the call tonight on the Panthers radio network.
Are there some players or there's some matchups that you're
looking at that people should know about that aren't necessarily
household names.

Speaker 8 (01:19:25):
Yeah, I mean, as I want to say, mundane as
it might be, but I don't know who our kicker
is going to be, so be interesting. They've had a
veteran guy Matthew Wright, and a rookie out of Florida State,
Ryan Fitzgerald, where they both have had some good and
some bad moments. In the last game, Fitzgerald hit his
field goal in Matthew Right missed his. So there's battles,
and then you wonder where they go outside the organization
and bring in somebody different there.

Speaker 3 (01:19:47):
I think two receiver we talk about that's like the
deepest position group.

Speaker 8 (01:19:51):
There's not enough room to keep all the good receivers
they have, which is a great problem to have. So
it be interesting to see as you get to the
bottom of the receiver, like someone like a David Moore,
who's a veteran guy. Because of the existence now of
Hunter renfro With and Adam Field. You've got some veteran
guys and then this Price and Tremaine's probably been like
I wouldn't say quite Jalen Cocher esque, but undrafted, younger

(01:20:12):
guy that's here that you don't want to lose. And
brad Izac, our offensive coordinator, actually recruited them when he's
out at Stanford. Can you keep him maybe at least
on the practice squad and not lose him. I think
he'll be interesting to watch. And then the depth at
because again we're talking about the backup players here in
the secondary at corner in particular as the undrafted rookie
Corey Thornton, who looks like he'll be here for sure,

(01:20:33):
But where's the depth coming from there?

Speaker 3 (01:20:35):
Inside linebacker?

Speaker 8 (01:20:36):
So not necessarily the starting twenty two, but a lot
of really interesting position battles as far as who's going
to make the fifty three. And there will be players
brought in from other organizations.

Speaker 3 (01:20:44):
When the roster cuts happened.

Speaker 5 (01:20:45):
I always feel so bad for the guys who are
there and they've been practicing and they just don't make
the cut. I know that they could go somewhere else.
I know that they could still have a successful career,
but there's always something that feels a little bit heartbreaking
about well.

Speaker 8 (01:20:58):
And the worst is like next Tuesday's cut. Sometimes they
do advanced you make the fifty three like I made it.
I'm in the fifty three, and then another linebacker pops
up on waivers from another team and you're off the
team like that guy better than you? And I will
say the practice squads are much bigger than they used
to be. I think it's sixteen players now ever since COVID,
so there's more opportunities for keeping players and they don't

(01:21:20):
have to be rookies. And second, your players have some
veterans on there, so there are other opportunities on the
practice squad, which often times they pull up from during
the season with injuries.

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
Can I just put a plug out there for I
know we're talking about football, but for tennis for a moment.
I'll tell you what I.

Speaker 12 (01:21:35):
Hope.

Speaker 2 (01:21:36):
I know y'all are waiting for this, But the US
Open starts on Sunday. It does one of the greatest
times of the year, greatest two weeks of the year.
But they've started something this year and actually I think
other sports could take notes because we talk about how
the home run derby and especially the dunk contest in
the NBA, and then don't get me started on the
the you know what the Pro Bowl has become. It

(01:21:58):
was never good to start with, but now the whole
sort of field day a high school. Yeah, but the
US opened for the first time this year, so there
is a mixed doubles tournament. There's there's there's regular doubles.
You know, we're female female, male male, but mixed doubles.
This year, they've gotten all of the players, not not
all of them, but a lot of them, a lot
of the big stars to play in the mixed doubles tournament.

(01:22:19):
And they've made it a million dollar prize, so they
put they put enough money out there that so for
the first time this year, and I can't imagine they're
not going to say, you know, count this as a
roaring success because the stadium was was Arthur ash Stadium
was capacity last night for the Mixed Doubles Championship and
you had Novak Djokovic playing in this Earlier this week,
you had Carlos Alcaraz and Rodi Kanu playing together.

Speaker 7 (01:22:40):
And now the US Open.

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
Official essentially started on Tuesday, whereas usually you had to wait.
So I was watching this last night and I did
not see this coming, and I think it's a great idea.
My point being, whether you like tennis or not, what
tennis has done here, Quit laughing, Bernie. What tennis has
done here is incentivia the big players to play in
kind of a novelty tournament, and now they've extended the

(01:23:05):
whole thing by several days and packed the stadium. If
the NBA would somehow incentivize, you know, the best players
to be in the Dunk Contest and not some guy
who plays on a G League team, then people would
watch it again.

Speaker 5 (01:23:16):
Get them to play mixed games of basketball or or
one on one like something like that. I think it
would be y'all.

Speaker 3 (01:23:23):
And I know that this is tennis.

Speaker 8 (01:23:24):
People should have been playing pickleball. Well, if people are
into that, it could be different. Like we know tis
who's the best at pickleball? That would be a big
event on.

Speaker 11 (01:23:33):
Peacock mixed on we can start a doubles team.

Speaker 5 (01:23:40):
I know this isn't the same thing, but it's kind
of the same thing and makes me just as excited.
American Ninja Warrior. They're having men race women this season
like they're they're doing there. It's not just it's it's it's.

Speaker 7 (01:23:52):
Men women beating men.

Speaker 5 (01:23:54):
I have not watched it because I'm asleep, but.

Speaker 11 (01:23:59):
This is it. This is what she just said.

Speaker 2 (01:24:00):
Are you American Ninja Worder? And I'm asking you about
it and you say, I have.

Speaker 5 (01:24:05):
Not watched it, but I watched the commercials every morning
when I'm watching the news, and I always think, good
for them, good for them, how fun?

Speaker 2 (01:24:12):
Like what inspiring stories? I was talking about Tennis.

Speaker 5 (01:24:15):
Beth Well American Ninja Warrior. Also they have taken notes
bo from Tennis.

Speaker 7 (01:24:20):
American Ninja Warrior.

Speaker 2 (01:24:21):
My son used to love it.

Speaker 5 (01:24:22):
I just have not watched it because I'm asleep now.
But they always have such great stories. The stories that
they tell about the people who are about to race
over those things, it makes you want to go do
American Ninja Warrior.

Speaker 2 (01:24:35):
So say, we've covered this has like been worldwide of
sports here, we've done everything.

Speaker 8 (01:24:39):
That's a sports quarter with Jim is here in the
sports course wide world with the agony of defeat.

Speaker 2 (01:24:44):
The only thing missing is Jim McKay his.

Speaker 3 (01:24:47):
Little studio with a little jacket with a patch on it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:49):
Speaking of great voices from sports past.

Speaker 16 (01:25:02):
Sun Go.

Speaker 5 (01:25:06):
Craw that was beautiful dagholes with bows of holly.

Speaker 6 (01:25:14):
Falla la la la la la la la tis the
season to me, jolly Falla la la la la la la.

Speaker 3 (01:25:19):
La done win ow ur Gay Beryl La Hey engines
You'll tie Carol follow La la la la la la la.

Speaker 5 (01:25:27):
Take it ross.

Speaker 1 (01:25:29):
Good morning.

Speaker 3 (01:25:30):
Falla la la la la la la lad.

Speaker 1 (01:25:32):
Can you explain again what we're doing now?

Speaker 7 (01:25:35):
There's a good reason why I'm playing this right.

Speaker 2 (01:25:37):
Now, old fashion family Christmas by heading out into.

Speaker 20 (01:25:40):
The country and the old front wheel drive sleigh to
embrace the frosty majesty of the winter landscape and select
that most important of Christmas symbols.

Speaker 7 (01:25:48):
December twelfth.

Speaker 2 (01:25:49):
If you're a Charlotte Tean, you might need to mark
your calendar if what I just played is music to
your ears, because a live conversation with Chevy Chase is
coming to Oven's Hut a tour following a screening of
Christmas Vacation.

Speaker 5 (01:26:03):
Isn't this the coolest news that you guys have heard
in a while? Chevy Chevy, Chevy, Chevy, Chevy, Chevy Chevy.
I don't know Chevy Chase, Chevy Chase. I think Chevy,
Chevy Chase, Chevy. Y'all that we're gonna scream Christmas vacation
right before Christmas.

Speaker 3 (01:26:25):
And it's Chevy Chaser, Chevy Chevy.

Speaker 5 (01:26:27):
That's what I said, Chevy. No, I wasn't. I wasn't
correcting you. I was wondering. I was wondering for myself.

Speaker 2 (01:26:35):
Chevy Chase is coming to Oven's Auditorium, and I'm just
the more I think about this, I'm surprised by it
because everything that I know about Chevy Chase makes me
think that he would not be the kind of guy
that would do something like this.

Speaker 3 (01:26:49):
Or does it make you think money?

Speaker 2 (01:26:51):
Yeah, well, I mean they're obviously obviously they're paying them
money to do it. But I'm kind of wondering how
this would go because I'm you know, Saturday Night Live
had their fiftieth anniversary this year, and so he re
emerged from that for that and he went to it,
but he didn't do anything on it. And I've been
listening to a podcast called Fly on the Wall with

(01:27:12):
David Spade and Dana Carvey, and they talked to all
the different SNL Greats and it's really awesome. But they
interviewed Chevy Chase one time, and it might have been
one of the awkwardest interviews I've ever heard. Because Chevy
Chase is big star, huge success, but I mean, I
think we all know that the guy is a bit unpredictable,
and you know, he's not exactly the easiest interview that

(01:27:34):
there's ever been.

Speaker 5 (01:27:35):
Well, and that's what I'm wondering about this particular conversation.
Is he going to be in jolly faula la la
la Clark w Griswold Christmas vacation mood in the conversation
or is he going to be a jerk? And who
who is facilitating the interview? And if they haven't locked
that in yet, I.

Speaker 7 (01:27:55):
Think it needs to be.

Speaker 5 (01:27:56):
I think it needs to be. I really want to
have this conversation. As much as we love the vacation nostalgia,
I really want to see if if we can warm
him up, if we can get Chevy Chase Chevy shake.

Speaker 2 (01:28:09):
I think the best way to warm him up is
to say, Chevy, have him on the show goes.

Speaker 5 (01:28:14):
Drop him down a peg. But I think we could
get him all. I think we could get him warm
and fuzzy.

Speaker 3 (01:28:20):
Mister Chevrole, I have a question.

Speaker 2 (01:28:24):
You are excellent in Spaceball.

Speaker 8 (01:28:28):
But yeah, by all the casts, like for many many years,
what was the last show was young? It wasn't Parks
called community Community Community. Ye, like he was not funny,
like he'd lost his fastball, Like he wasn't funny anymore
and to the point like of awkward and mean. So
there's kind of like this, I want to see what
that looks like and like it may not be a

(01:28:49):
lot of laughs, but kind of like want to see.

Speaker 3 (01:28:51):
What is going to happen. We have the unpredictable nature.

Speaker 5 (01:28:54):
It could be the draw that people that it will
I don't know, pull a huge crowd in because they
want to see what chevy are you getting?

Speaker 8 (01:29:01):
Remember one Charlie Sheen went on that tour with this
little winning thing that was hot for like ten days
and it was like so bad like you did like
four chows and just they.

Speaker 3 (01:29:10):
Stopped because it wasn't funny.

Speaker 5 (01:29:12):
Well, we talked about we actually talked about this last week.
Netflix has done a full documentary series on that phase.

Speaker 3 (01:29:18):
Of Charlie White's life. I just brought that up.

Speaker 5 (01:29:21):
Yeah, it comes out in September.

Speaker 7 (01:29:23):
No idea, Sorry about that. Hit the wrong button over here.

Speaker 5 (01:29:26):
He was excited horns playing. But Charlie Sheen is it
is a brand new, a brand new documentary series. I
think it's three episodes, two or three episodes.

Speaker 3 (01:29:36):
It was as long as his tour went.

Speaker 5 (01:29:38):
Yeah, yeah, it's about that period of his life.

Speaker 2 (01:29:42):
So according to the Bojangles, you know, the bo Plex
ticket office, they say, join us for an unforgettable evening
of holiday cheer and laughs as we celebrate the timeless
classic National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation with a special screening of
the film, followed by a live conversation and Q and
A with Heavy Chase and his wife Jane. So, I mean,

(01:30:03):
this has happened, and they're selling tickets for it right
now and again December twelfth at Ovens. I just I'm
sort of trying to imagine how it's going.

Speaker 16 (01:30:11):
To go now.

Speaker 2 (01:30:12):
I back in nineteen eighty one, ish, I've played clips
from it on the show before, But Henry Bogan had
Chevy Chase on one time back at the sort of
the zenith of his career, when he had just finished Vacation,
the first one, and he had been in some he
was another movie with Goldie hallme that was really popped over.

Speaker 5 (01:30:29):
But oh oh, oh oh, it was in my head
and now it came into my you know.

Speaker 7 (01:30:34):
What I'm talking about.

Speaker 5 (01:30:34):
I know exactly what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:30:36):
And he was awesome, and he was talking to Henry
and he was great. He was funny, he was he
was quippi. He was like the guy that you saw
in most of his hit movies. But in recent years,
like I said, if you listened to Dana Carvey and
David Spade and come on, those two guys are are
institutions from SNL and of themselves, and when you listen
to the interview, it's like he's just kind of like

(01:30:59):
toying with them, and part of it seems kind of disrespectful,
and part of it seems just kind of awkward. And
I'm thinking, Okay, well, that's the Chevy chase that I've
heard in recent years, kind of that one, the unpredictable one,
And so that one, if you were going to get
the one that talked to Henry Bogan at Ovens Auditorium,
I can I can see how that one would work.

Speaker 7 (01:31:18):
This one to me just seems like happy holidays now
I'm going to insult you.

Speaker 5 (01:31:23):
I'm picturing it kind of like a press conference with
Donald Trump where he's like, what a stupid question, you know,
like that's a terrible question to people who are getting
up and doing the Q and A and who pay
to be there, and we'll pay to be there. But
maybe his wife, maybe his wife will you know, like
soften the edges.

Speaker 3 (01:31:38):
I wanted to be like, he comes out like Billy
Bob Thornton and bad Santa, which is kind of like
got a bottle of bourbon saying awful things.

Speaker 5 (01:31:47):
But it still could be highly entertaining. I really want
to facilitate this conversation with them. I really really really
do Ovens.

Speaker 2 (01:31:54):
Where are you gonna put that, mister Griswold, I'll show you.

Speaker 5 (01:31:57):
So the movie that he was in with GILDI huh,
I can't remember the name. But they eat chicken pepperoni.
Oh you they eat it.

Speaker 3 (01:32:04):
They have it.

Speaker 5 (01:32:05):
There's an eating seed and they eat chicken pepperoni together.
Foul Play is the name.

Speaker 2 (01:32:10):
Of that one, Chickens and that was a big hit.
So that's when he talked to Henry. But anyway, December twelfth,
Oven's Auditorium a live conversation with Chevy Chase. If nothing else,
I'd like to be a fly on the wall and
just watch this.

Speaker 5 (01:32:24):
Oh I think we should for sure.

Speaker 8 (01:32:26):
Yeah, maybe you guys could do one of your narroway
things where you're sitting in front row and I'll screen it,
take some listeners with you, have dinner.

Speaker 7 (01:32:32):
While we watch.

Speaker 5 (01:32:33):
Oh, that'd be amazing. I'll bring po jingles.

Speaker 3 (01:32:36):
Here you go, We'll get your biscuit.

Speaker 2 (01:32:39):
All right, more to come on Good Morning BT. But
you know, helping you make your holiday plans in August.

Speaker 1 (01:32:53):
If we do this, how do we know it's going
to end any differently than it did before? Because before
you didn't have me.

Speaker 4 (01:33:00):
I like this one from Me's Talk eleven ten and
ninety nine three Double Beatty.

Speaker 11 (01:33:05):
I like you to do me a favor.

Speaker 1 (01:33:06):
I'm like you to tell all your friends about me
for you.

Speaker 4 (01:33:09):
This is Good Morning Beatty with Bo Thompson and Beth Troutman.
Yeah you know we have two of them.

Speaker 1 (01:33:16):
Wow, you must be rich.

Speaker 11 (01:33:21):
Christmas is the time movie for me with the Waes.

Speaker 7 (01:33:31):
We love Ah, but how much is it gonna cost you?

Speaker 2 (01:33:34):
Beth?

Speaker 11 (01:33:35):
And so much joy and cheer?

Speaker 4 (01:33:39):
What a one of f fee.

Speaker 5 (01:33:42):
You're not gonna be feeling wonderful when you hear.

Speaker 3 (01:33:44):
This watching the ones we love.

Speaker 7 (01:33:48):
So did you go and do a little sleuthing on
ticket prices?

Speaker 5 (01:33:52):
Yes, our good friend Kevin said, is Beth going to
talk about how much these tickets to see chev Chevy
shaped Heavy Chase to see him at Evan's auditorium? Is
Beth's going to talk about this? Because everyone knows that
I have a love hate relationship. Actually it could just
be a hate relationship with ticket Master because of fees
and all that kind of craziness. So I googled tickets

(01:34:15):
and I was immediately taken to event ticketcenter dot com
for the tickets for this event, and I first saw
one hundred and fifty four dollars. So I thought, well,
that's pricey for you know, a movie screening and a
you know, a conversation.

Speaker 7 (01:34:31):
That might might get to meet cousin Eddie backstage or something.

Speaker 5 (01:34:34):
For one hundred and fifty four, you would think.

Speaker 11 (01:34:36):
Right at least night, really nice.

Speaker 5 (01:34:38):
But guys, guys, I kept scrolling. I kept scrolling that
those were the back balcony tickets, one hundred and fifty
four dollars. I scrolled all the way to the bottom
of my menu for Orchestra Center, right row A, which
that would be the front row one thousand, three hundred

(01:34:59):
and seventy eight dollar per ticket.

Speaker 1 (01:35:01):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:35:02):
That spirit of Christmas, that spirit of Christmas time.

Speaker 7 (01:35:06):
My goodness.

Speaker 16 (01:35:08):
See.

Speaker 2 (01:35:08):
I mean, if you're just joining us, Chevy Chase is
going to be doing a Q and A, a live
Q and A. After a private screening of Christmas Vacation
Oven's Auditorium on December twelfth, I was.

Speaker 5 (01:35:20):
Thinking when I was scrolling through the prices and it
was getting into the three hundreds, I thought, Man, this
is getting crazy. I didn't realize that as I kept scrolling.
I mean, mezzanine center rod GG five hundred and forty
five dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:35:33):
Now, can you see where you are, like you can
at some venues these days, whether seats have been purchased yet?
You know how you can go and let's see the
grid and see how many seats have been purchased, because
I wonder if anybody's paying these prices this this map.

Speaker 5 (01:35:48):
On this particular site doesn't have any seats purchased on
its map, But I don't know if this site provides that.
Oh my gosh, and my time just expired, like your
tickets have been sold, not that I was buying tickets,
but also it did give me a warning this event
may sell out, so buy your tickets now. But that
could just be a marketing thing that this particular site does.

(01:36:10):
But this map does not have it still has most
tickets available. But I'm looking at Orchestra Center, in the
very very back of Orchestra Center. Two hundred bucks.

Speaker 1 (01:36:23):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:36:24):
I mean, I love the movie. I love him in
his heyday, but I got to buy Christmas presents for
everybody else.

Speaker 5 (01:36:31):
Yes, I am actually blown away. I am actually blown
away by the by these ticket prices.

Speaker 7 (01:36:37):
And I didn't even know that he did this kind
of thing.

Speaker 5 (01:36:39):
I didn't either, So maybe that's why tickets are so high,
and maybe that's why it's a coveted ticket because he
doesn't do a lot of them. But it looks like
according to this website, I just got the warning again.
It says tickets may sell act now to get the
seats you want, but the show is going to be over,
and that's gonna have bought a whole row there by accident.
But there are tour dates, so he's doing this in Monterey, California,

(01:37:02):
Daytona Beach, the Walt Disney Theater in Orlando, here in Charlotte,
Grand Prix Prairie or Grand Prairie, Texas, sugar Land, Texas, Austin, Texas,
and Newark, New Jersey. So he's doing a few of
these little locations and they're all they say. He begins
on October twenty ninth.

Speaker 2 (01:37:18):
So again back to the original conversation, point, is this
going to be fun? Because if you've watched Chevy Chase
in modern times, he's not an easy interview, even for
I mean even for guys that are SNL alums on
their podcast, Dana Carvey and his buddy David Spade, it
was it was hard to listen to because he was
just so all over the place and sometimes would play

(01:37:41):
ball with him and sometimes wouldn't, and you wouldn't know
where he was going to EBB and flow. You know,
if you got the Clark w Griswold, as you said
from nineteen eighty nine when that movie came out, then okay,
but I'm I'm not sure what you're even paying for
at this point, right, But he's going to be doing
it all these different places, and you know, what he's
going to get tired.

Speaker 5 (01:38:00):
Yeah, but maybe maybe as it goes on, maybe he'll.

Speaker 2 (01:38:04):
Maybe maybe it's super jolly, Maybe he's had an epiphany
and maybe this is what he wants to do to
sort of rekindle. Maybe it'll be great. I'm not saying
it won't be. And if somebody said, hey, you know,
here's a ticket for you, I'd go. But I'm not
paying those kind of prices.

Speaker 5 (01:38:19):
Yeah, I just went to another side. I went to
tickets on sale dot com, and their prices are similar.
And I still don't see a map that has any
I don't know any seats that are sold yet.

Speaker 2 (01:38:30):
And again, this is just Clark. This is not Ellen
and Russ and Audrey and cousin Eddie and even the dogs.

Speaker 5 (01:38:37):
Not No, No, I would go. I might pay the
price to see the dog's not man.

Speaker 2 (01:38:42):
He lifted his leg the next morning, telling me nine
thirteen on News Talk eleven ten WBT. Okay, when we
come back the final stretch, towed the Wetsprocket tickets, We've
got two more tickets to you know, we don't have
Chevy Chase tickets. Maybe we'll have those to give away.
Wouldn't that mean Wow, that's a and that's a.

Speaker 5 (01:39:00):
That's a big gift for a thousand left twelve hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:39:03):
I need to go talk to LaToya. We need to
get some tickets to this show. Can't give away because
can you imagine how much fun we'd.

Speaker 11 (01:39:09):
Have at that?

Speaker 2 (01:39:09):
Oh, but we have towed the wet Sprocket tickets. The
next best thing coming up at the Amp Valentine on
Saturday night with sixpence none the richer and KT Tunstall.
You know how this works. Name that band from the
nineties with the weird name. Got a few more on
the list. If you'd like to get in the queue,
win yourself a couple of tickets to that show on

(01:39:30):
Saturday night. It's a flash contest, meaning the concert is
right away. You win today, you go on Saturday night
seven oh four, five, seven oh eleven ten. The finale
of this fun week long contest is coming up.

Speaker 7 (01:39:42):
I just want to be prepared to hear the stage.
Do we go France or do we say France?

Speaker 5 (01:39:46):
I think you have to say tour de France, Tour
de France. Maybe I get yes.

Speaker 2 (01:39:49):
Well, what do you think, bo your international I know
nothing about cycling, Hey, of.

Speaker 5 (01:39:54):
Course is gonna say France, but he'll say piano bo.

Speaker 11 (01:39:57):
You're internationally noted. What do you say? Let's say you.

Speaker 2 (01:40:02):
I'm not internationally known, but I'm known throughout the microphone.

Speaker 1 (01:40:08):
This is good Morning Beat with Bow and Beth. Oh
come on dad, this is really ray. Come on now, Russ.
You want to look like a tourist? Do you all
the French Worthies National hat fellow?

Speaker 6 (01:40:31):
Ah?

Speaker 7 (01:40:31):
Yeah, just get.

Speaker 2 (01:40:39):
The least edgy band of the nineties. Sixpence none the
richer and very soon here will this contest go. This
is the last chance to win tickets to Toad the
Wetsprocket sixpence none the richer and kt KT, he said

(01:41:00):
Tonstall Saturday night. The amp Valentine had a lot of
fun this week where you can name that nineties band
with a weird name, Pete.

Speaker 7 (01:41:12):
It's not a weird name. We like to name Pete.

Speaker 11 (01:41:14):
Pete.

Speaker 7 (01:41:15):
You're on WBT. How you doing, man?

Speaker 1 (01:41:17):
I'm doing really good.

Speaker 4 (01:41:18):
How can you not be?

Speaker 12 (01:41:19):
It's a beautiful Thursday in the Carolinas unless you're on
the coast.

Speaker 3 (01:41:23):
Here you go.

Speaker 7 (01:41:23):
That's the Pete I was hoping it would be.

Speaker 5 (01:41:25):
I love you Pete.

Speaker 2 (01:41:27):
How you been Pete love y'all?

Speaker 1 (01:41:28):
Two man?

Speaker 7 (01:41:29):
All right, well you know how this works because you've
been listening right, oh yeah, all the time.

Speaker 3 (01:41:33):
Wouldn't miss it.

Speaker 2 (01:41:34):
All right, Pete, here's your first nineties band with a
weird name.

Speaker 1 (01:42:09):
Okay, God, I forgot to put my shazam on.

Speaker 3 (01:42:16):
You don't know.

Speaker 16 (01:42:18):
I know this song. I actually love that song.

Speaker 5 (01:42:21):
It's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (01:42:23):
I just don't know the band.

Speaker 12 (01:42:24):
I'm more of a meat and.

Speaker 16 (01:42:25):
Potatoes rocker, you know, think led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd.

Speaker 5 (01:42:29):
You know, we get you, We get you, Pete.

Speaker 1 (01:42:33):
Oh I'm so disappointed.

Speaker 13 (01:42:35):
Well, someone else will have a great time tomorrow night
or a Saturday night.

Speaker 7 (01:42:38):
Pete.

Speaker 5 (01:42:38):
We love you, man, oh man, do we ever?

Speaker 7 (01:42:40):
If I could give you the tickets, I would care.

Speaker 17 (01:42:42):
Kay, thank you?

Speaker 20 (01:42:43):
Be good.

Speaker 7 (01:42:44):
Don't be a stranger.

Speaker 11 (01:42:47):
Not giving him the buzzer.

Speaker 2 (01:42:48):
You think you think that's that was too hard.

Speaker 11 (01:42:51):
That's a tough one. I think I know what it is. Okay.

Speaker 7 (01:42:53):
Let's go to Jeff online number two.

Speaker 3 (01:42:55):
Hi, Jeffy morning, buff.

Speaker 22 (01:42:59):
How are you, Jeff?

Speaker 5 (01:43:00):
We're great? How are you doing?

Speaker 14 (01:43:01):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (01:43:02):
Doing well?

Speaker 15 (01:43:02):
All right, Jeff, this is the song currently on the board,
The Primitive Radio Guy.

Speaker 3 (01:43:13):
Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 (01:43:14):
Oh wow, Jeff, you are good.

Speaker 7 (01:43:18):
Jeff.

Speaker 2 (01:43:19):
I had a moment there where I thought that maybe
that was too off the beaten path, But you made
me look good. Here you brought it home.

Speaker 11 (01:43:26):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (01:43:27):
For a minute, I thought it was the song the
arrested Development song.

Speaker 2 (01:43:30):
Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee.

Speaker 7 (01:43:33):
Yeah, lord, I've been really good, real stressed.

Speaker 5 (01:43:36):
I am still thirsty.

Speaker 2 (01:43:39):
No you do, but I am still thirsty. All right,
enough of us chattering here, Jeff, you ready for your
second song? Yes, all right, let's go to Bernie. How
about number seven, Jeff, here's the song you gotta know
to win the tickets.

Speaker 21 (01:44:00):
That would be.

Speaker 2 (01:44:02):
Blue Car Dishwala. That's exactly right, counting blue Cars Way
to GOA.

Speaker 5 (01:44:08):
I mean, I forgot about that band, now.

Speaker 2 (01:44:10):
See, Jeff, I'm glad this happened because I was thinking
for a moment. I had a moment yesterday where I
decided the song was too hard, and.

Speaker 7 (01:44:18):
I gave him a mulligan.

Speaker 2 (01:44:19):
But I just had I knew you were waiting, and
you knew both those because primitive radio gods and Dishwala.
I mean, that's we're getting into sort of the obscure nineties,
I mean not the not.

Speaker 16 (01:44:33):
Only are the odd bands are kind of like one
hit wonder band.

Speaker 2 (01:44:36):
Yes, you know your nineties man, and now you're going
to see Toad the wet Sprocket.

Speaker 17 (01:44:41):
I am overwhelmingly happy, all.

Speaker 7 (01:44:45):
Right, Jeff, be good man, Thank you for calling.

Speaker 2 (01:44:48):
We appreciate it. Enjoy some sixpence, none the richer because
Jeff is now richer.

Speaker 5 (01:44:53):
I love Jeff so much. I am overwhelmingly did you
say thrilled? Overwhelmingly happy? He was excited one way or
the other. So we're excited for Jeff to get to
go to the concert.

Speaker 2 (01:45:03):
Absolutely, Bernie, you know we've reached the end of the line.
We can burn off a few of these before we
hit the bottom of the hour. Do you think anybody
would have known? Number four? Let's go number four?

Speaker 7 (01:45:14):
Would anyone have known this?

Speaker 11 (01:45:23):
Steve has his hand raised immediately.

Speaker 7 (01:45:28):
Is that a silver chair? You're sitting in?

Speaker 5 (01:45:31):
A silver throwne?

Speaker 21 (01:45:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:45:34):
Silverchair? Okay, so that's silverchair all right? So would anyone
other than Steve have gotten these?

Speaker 5 (01:45:41):
I remember this song, but for some reason in my brain,
I think I always thought it was Stone Tipple Pilot.

Speaker 11 (01:45:45):
I always I remember the song too, But I didn't
remember the.

Speaker 5 (01:45:47):
Name of Yeah, I don't. I don't think I remembered
that it was Silver Chair. But I remember the name
of the band Silver Chair.

Speaker 7 (01:45:52):
How about fourteen.

Speaker 2 (01:45:53):
We'll see if Steve knows this one. This is a
number fourteen on the board that was there but not used.

Speaker 1 (01:46:00):
Oh yeah, but no one ever?

Speaker 11 (01:46:03):
Does I know the name of the song flag Pole?

Speaker 1 (01:46:10):
Sit?

Speaker 16 (01:46:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:46:19):
Only people?

Speaker 11 (01:46:21):
Oh no, do you guys do well? So obviously as Beth.
Do you know the name of the band?

Speaker 3 (01:46:26):
Anyone?

Speaker 7 (01:46:28):
Anyone? It's uh, it's Harvey Danger, that's it.

Speaker 6 (01:46:32):
Oh.

Speaker 11 (01:46:33):
I actually heard this song on Spotify DJ the other day.

Speaker 5 (01:46:35):
I knew the song. I don't know that I ever
ever heard the band's name, Harvey Danger.

Speaker 2 (01:46:40):
Is it Danger?

Speaker 5 (01:46:41):
Is that the lead singer? Is his name Harvey Danger?

Speaker 2 (01:46:44):
No idea, it's a great name. Flag Pole Sita. Uh, Bermie,
Bernie said, Bermie, that's the second time that they have
called you Burmi. Go back to six for a second.
Go back to six because because you know, we said
this is primitive radio gods, and this has got a
bb king like a sample in it at the beginning
of it.

Speaker 7 (01:47:01):
Go back to that one again, for.

Speaker 11 (01:47:07):
I had never heard this one.

Speaker 2 (01:47:09):
Well, I was going to ask, do you know the
name of a song? Should I let Steve answer?

Speaker 12 (01:47:15):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:47:15):
Of course, Steve is the nineties Trivia Collin.

Speaker 3 (01:47:18):
All right, go ahead, standing outside of a broken phone
booth with I can't remember?

Speaker 1 (01:47:23):
Is it a quarter in my hand?

Speaker 11 (01:47:24):
Dollar in my hands?

Speaker 7 (01:47:25):
Money, money?

Speaker 3 (01:47:25):
Okay, money in my hand.

Speaker 2 (01:47:26):
It's one of the longest song titles in the history
of pop music, standing outside a broken phone booth with
money in my hand.

Speaker 5 (01:47:33):
I did that once.

Speaker 11 (01:47:37):
That's relatable.

Speaker 2 (01:47:39):
You know, the easiest one on the board before we
go to news, The easiest one on the board. I
never used this one, but this would be like break
the glass if nobody could get at number sixteen.

Speaker 9 (01:47:48):
But it is.

Speaker 2 (01:47:48):
It is like the classic weird nineties band name right,
go with number sixteen?

Speaker 16 (01:47:54):
Love You.

Speaker 5 (01:47:57):
The Bassicody, There you go, Dooty and the Blue Fan.

Speaker 2 (01:48:02):
You know, Darius Rutger still goes to his country shows
and they say, oh, it's Hooty Judy.

Speaker 5 (01:48:07):
He plays, he plays. I've seen him live at one
of the country shows and he plays a few of
the Hoody songs, The Hoody, the Blyefish song.

Speaker 2 (01:48:13):
Nine eight on WBT, Congratulations to all of our winners
to go see Toad the wet Sprocket on Saturday night
at the Amp Valentine. And thanks to the Amp Valentine
for the contest to give away the tickets. This week,
it's been fun naming bands with weird names from the nineties.
News Talk eleven ten, WBT nine thirty eight on your
Thursday morning, Mark Harrison just had the breaking news in

(01:48:37):
this direct from NASCAR dot com. H Humpy Wheeler, who
helped usher NASCAR's presence onto the national stage in the
nineteen seventies with imaginative, over the top pre race shows
and a completely new vision to racetrack facilities, has died.
He was eighty six years old and native of Belmont,
North Carolina. And of course you can't talk about Charlotte

(01:48:59):
Motor Speedway. Not mentioned Humpy Wheeler in the same sentence,
thirty three years at the helm of Charlotte Motor Speedway
and Beth, we have somebody who's agreed to come on
with us on very short notice. And I so appreciate
him doing this because I know he's been inundated with
phone calls and will be all day. But look, there's
nobody better to talk to about the legacy of somebody

(01:49:20):
like Humpy Wheeler and give us perspective than the guy
who was the spearhead of everything with the Performance Racing
Network over the years, and he recently retired, But the
longtime voice is Doug Rice and he joins us right
now on WBT. Doug, thank you for coming on on
short notice.

Speaker 17 (01:49:37):
Both, thank you so much, and I'm honored to come
on and talk about Humpy. His greatness can't really be
measured in words, but thanks for asking me.

Speaker 8 (01:49:45):
To be on.

Speaker 5 (01:49:46):
Oh, we're certainly honored that you are spending some time
with us this morning as you got the news. First
of all, just where where are your thoughts? Where is
your heart right now? Because I'm I'm sure this was
a shock to you the way it was to all
of us this morning learning the news.

Speaker 17 (01:50:04):
Well knew Humphy had been in declining health, but yeah,
it's still the reality sinks in when you hear that
somebody you've admired passed so much. Beth, I can tell
you just from my personal aspect, my career is almost
one hundred percent due to Humpy Wheeler encouraging me, giving
me direction, telling me that I could go on and

(01:50:26):
do things that I didn't think I could do, And
he took a chance on me, a guy from a
small market radio station, and kept massaging me as he
did so many other people. And I think that's what
folks are going to find out in the upcoming days,
all of the people that Humpy helped. Yeah, they remember
him for the great pre race shows and the stunts

(01:50:48):
and all the big things he did. But the fact
that he was such an awesome humanitarian helping people he
didn't know, people that he did know. That is a
legacy that I hope gets told about this man because
he was always giving.

Speaker 2 (01:51:05):
Well, you know Doug growing up in this area and
Beth did too, right near the in race Country. You
think about Humpy Wheeler and the word that keeps coming
back to me. I've only known about this for five minutes,
but I know the long legacy of Humpy Wheeler and
you can't you can't talk about Humpy and not use
the word vision. This is a guy that had big ideas.
But not only did he have big ideas, he figured

(01:51:26):
out ways to make those things into reality.

Speaker 17 (01:51:29):
Oh, he absolutely did. And he was paired up with
the right guy in Bruton Smith I mean when they
were teamed up together, that was a powerful duo. But
you look back at the condominiums at Charlotta the Speedway,
and people called those a falling until they tripled their
value in the first year. And the Speedway Club here again,
that's a joint vision. Lighting the speedway that was huge.

(01:51:54):
No people told us over and over again that couldn't
be done, but Humpy went out and found a way
to do it. He tracked down a lighting company from Iowa,
from Muscatine, Iowa must go lighting, and they came in
and did that. And that's all attributed to his vision
and his ability to see what was the next thing.

(01:52:14):
He he I think more than any other person, and
I don't want to short anybody, brought NASCAR from its
rural days of we're kind of a backwater sport into
the next century with what he thought fans needed and
the experience that they wanted.

Speaker 5 (01:52:33):
You know, we're going to hear over the next few days.
We'll certainly read a lot about his resume and like
you're saying, all that he did for the motorsports industry,
but like you mentioned, he was a helper. He liked
people and he liked to help move people forward. Is
there a story that you that comes to the top
of your mind about your relationship with him? Something you remember,

(01:52:55):
a funny story, you know, a serious story, or something
that you learned from him, or a time that he
gave you a talking to you know, any of those,
any of those things from your personal life.

Speaker 17 (01:53:06):
Yeah, I got a couple of those talking to you.
You pretty much shut up and listened because he had
a way of getting your attention. I got called into
his office one time, and you all were like an attention.
I mean, that's pretty close to the principal's office, and
I thought, I don't have anything that should be on
his desk right now. And he called me in and

(01:53:27):
he talked to me, and he told me two things.
He goes, Doug, he said, you know what people like
in North Carolina, and I'm going t Hoban's I don't know,
and he goes, they like he said, they like Mayberry.
He said more than that, they liked the idea of Mayberry.
And I thought on that a while. He goes, they

(01:53:48):
want that comfort, they want what comes from living in
a town like Mayberry, where everything works, And I thought,
why are you telling me this? But then it kind
of dawned on me that that was part of that's
what he wanted people to have a comfort level and
a familiarity with people. And then he gave me a
book to read that had nothing to do with Maybury

(01:54:08):
that same day called Pillars of the Earth.

Speaker 2 (01:54:11):
Oh yeah, and it was it was.

Speaker 17 (01:54:13):
Kind of an odd book and I read it and
then I realized, Okay, there was a purpose that he
gave me this book to read because it was about
building things that last from the ground up, and those
two things I will I don't know that I'll never
forget that moment because I felt like that was aimed
just for me. So that meant a lot, you know.

Speaker 7 (01:54:34):
What I think about.

Speaker 2 (01:54:35):
And this is probably a good place to end because
I know you've got to go and this is going
to be quite a day as everybody processes this news.
But if you want to know how big a deal
Humpy Wheeler was when that movie for Disney, and my
kids were right at the age when this movie came out,
so we saw it in the theaters. But when Cars
first came out, you know what, fifteen years ago or so,

(01:54:57):
you know, they had Richard Petty and they had big
names in that movie that were voices for this animated
Disney deal. Humpy Wheeler was in the movie.

Speaker 7 (01:55:06):
He was a character.

Speaker 2 (01:55:07):
I think his name was Tex If I remember correctly,
I have to find the clip. But that tells you
all you need to know, right that Humphrey Wheeler was
big enough to be in that Disney movie when they
wanted the Who's who to.

Speaker 7 (01:55:17):
Create that sort of stock car race and feel No,
you're right, bo.

Speaker 17 (01:55:21):
I mean, that's a promoter that made the cut, yeah,
to get into the major Disney release. I will say this,
he was original. There are no more like him, and
that's kind of sad and his big saying that he
said it. I don't know how many meetings I was in.
He goes, we bring technicolor to people's black and white lives,

(01:55:44):
and I thought, okay, that's all I need to know.

Speaker 2 (01:55:46):
Let's go. Well. Look, I literally called you five minutes
before you came on, and you knew why I was
calling as soon as I did. But you picked up
and you came on, and we really appreciate it because
I can't imagine a better person to help us. You know,
remember Humpy Wheeler and for the younger crowd. Have them
understand his legacy, because you can't talk about NASCAR without

(01:56:07):
mentioning him. So, Doug, longtime voice of the Performance Racing Network.
I hope you're enjoying retirement and I hear you from
time to time doing things and that's the way it
should be. But thanks for coming on this morning.

Speaker 17 (01:56:19):
Gods, thanks so much. And NASCAR is not where it
is if we don't have a Humpy Wheeler I'll just
leave it at that.

Speaker 7 (01:56:24):
Yeah, amen, thank you so much.

Speaker 20 (01:56:26):
Dog.

Speaker 2 (01:56:27):
There he goes Doug Rice, one of our You know,
he's a guy who has come on many times over
the years and always been gracious with his time, And
like I said, I can't imagine a better voice to
sort of put in perspective. Humpy Wheeler's lost this morning.

Speaker 5 (01:56:42):
And certainly heavy hearts in the world of NASCAR as
people are finding out this news.

Speaker 2 (01:56:47):
Humpy Wheeler has passed away at the age of eighty six.
More throughout the day here on WBT, this is good.

Speaker 9 (01:56:54):
Morning, bet hangline, how about coming over here and talking
him a minute?

Speaker 21 (01:57:02):
Son?

Speaker 9 (01:57:02):
That was some real racing out there. How'd you like
to become the new face of Donako? But I didn't
win lightning. There's a whole lot more to racing than
just winning.

Speaker 5 (01:57:17):
He was so rusky when he drove down the street.

Speaker 11 (01:57:20):
The buzzers just a circle.

Speaker 3 (01:57:22):
Of thank you, mister textbook.

Speaker 2 (01:57:27):
But these rusties guys over there gave me my big
breakstck with them.

Speaker 1 (01:57:33):
Well, I sure can't respect that. Still.

Speaker 9 (01:57:37):
You know, if there's ever anything I can do for you,
just let me know.

Speaker 1 (01:57:42):
I sure appreciate that. Thank you.

Speaker 16 (01:57:46):
Boy.

Speaker 2 (01:57:46):
That conversation was from a movie by Disney, and yet
you could imagine that same conversation, especially on the heels
of hearing what Doug Rice had to say. You can
imagine that same conversation coming from the real Humpy Wheeler
to somebody in the world Nascar.

Speaker 5 (01:58:00):
Yes, the heart because you under if you ever were
lucky enough to meet Humpy Wheeler, you got little lessons
like that, just in a general conversation. And I think
that that's the thing that people will miss the most.
As remarkable as he was as a businessman, I think
that it's the kind of the life lessons and the
connections between people that he was so good at.

Speaker 2 (01:58:22):
So Disney made a movie about race cars and they
put a promoter as a voice in it because he
was such a big deal Humpy Wheeler. There he was
playing text from the Cars animated movie right there that
we were talking to Doug Rice about. On the WBT hotline.
We have Jim Zochi, WBT Sports director, jumping on with
us here. We just saw Zoke and then this news

(01:58:42):
broke shortly after he was out of the studio. But Jim,
I'd be remiss if we did not get some thoughts
from you before we get out of here about the
passing at age eighty six of Humpy Wheeler. Today.

Speaker 12 (01:58:53):
Yeah, I wish I'd heard what Doug had to say,
because nobody, I'm sure knew him better than Doug. But
I mean, we did so many shows from out there,
and it was always a staple to interview Hampy and
have him come on, which he was always gracious to do.
And Nashtar part NASCAR part P. T. Barnum. I mean,
it was like to think about those pre race events

(01:59:16):
they would do in the flyovers, the different things you
a concoct that were just brilliant. It would always get attention.
But Charlotte Motors Speedway is huge and for him to
run it as he did for so many years and
all the things that he brought to it with just
his style and his sense of humor, his patriotism, all

(01:59:37):
those things that stand out about all the great race
events that did up there. Just a fun promoter, human
being and just really a big slice of what is
a big part of the fabric of what is Charlotte today.

Speaker 5 (01:59:49):
Did you ever have one of those moments with Humpy
Wheeler Jim Zochi that Doug Rice was talking about. He
gave him a book, He gave him Ken Follette's book
Pillars of Pillars of Earth or Pillars of the Earth,
and was constantly trying to teach him some life lessons.
We just heard that moment from the movie Cars where
his character was even that kind of person. Did you

(02:00:10):
ever have one of those moments where he recommended something
or where he told you a story that that stuck
out in your mind. I know, I'm putting you on
the spot just in the you know, the middle of
just finding out this news, But are there memories that
you have of your conversations with him?

Speaker 12 (02:00:25):
You know, now I'm extra said, I didn't get a
book from Humpy with a little dug gear, But no,
I just just the conversations with him. He was just
like a It was just a constant show mem He
was just energetic, bubbly personality, obviously very good at what
he did, but just would love to have him on
every year when we would go up there, see what
was he concocting. I mean, it was more than just

(02:00:47):
the pre race festivities, but that was a big part
of it that kind of stood out, going what's he
going to come up with this year, what's going to
be flying through the air, what tank is going to
be out there? What stealth bomber is going to fly
over the skies? Just having them on and every year
is just kind of this great NASCAR showman and brainstormer
of all this stuff. You know, I think I only
build Beck back in the day what he must have

(02:01:08):
been like in baseball and guys like that. And I
forget the guy's name now, but the guy was the
Savannah Bananas, these brilliant minds in the world of sport
that kind of think and creatively at a different level.
So you can imagine, you know, as much fun as
ILL need to have on the air, just to get
to spend time with him and to be at these
events and talking with somebody to that degree of that

(02:01:29):
knowledge and just those decades of experiency brought.

Speaker 2 (02:01:32):
Well, you said the word there event. Humpy Wheeler was
an expert at taking a race and turning it into
an event and all kinds of events around it. And
it's why you have, you know, when we go up
to the racetrack twice a year to do our show,
and we talked to them about all the things that
are happening the week ahead and the weekend around and
concerts and carnivals and all the stuff across the street.

(02:01:55):
That's the brainchild, especially there of Humpy Wheeler and just
the excitement that he created around the focal event, which
of course is the race.

Speaker 7 (02:02:05):
Zoke, thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:02:06):
We'll talk more about this tomorrow, I'm sure, and throughout
the day here on WBT. But I'm really happy that
we were able to get Doug Rice and also Zoke
to weigh in on this, because you guys knew him
and what he did very well.

Speaker 12 (02:02:17):
Hey, real quick guy, just for ten seconds. I don't know.
Jug brought it up at that Boxing Hall of Fame
they did up there. He was a big boxing guy
that was in a little of his passion so to
make that part of the Charlot Motors Speedway, just his
passion for boxing. That Hall of Fame was just another
part of what he.

Speaker 2 (02:02:33):
Had and we all left absolutely Thanks Soak, We'll talk
to you later.

Speaker 12 (02:02:37):
Bye, guys.

Speaker 2 (02:02:37):
All right, he of course, we'll be behind the microphone
tonight on the Panthers Radio Network for the final preseason
Panther game tomorrow. Much more on the legacy of Humpy Wheeler.
Hopefully we can link.

Speaker 7 (02:02:49):
Up with Brett McMillan.

Speaker 2 (02:02:50):
I'd love to talk to Brett about Humpy, but for now, again,
the breaking story is that Humpy Wheeler has died at
the age of eighty six. More coming up in the
news with Mark. Thanks to everybody on the show today.
We'll talk to you tomorrow. Good talk about, Good talk about.

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