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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let me take a wild guess.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
You're not calling to wish me a good morning.

Speaker 3 (00:02):
Good morning.

Speaker 4 (00:03):
Well, no, it's not exactly a good morning.

Speaker 5 (00:05):
You have kind of a situation down here at the
squawk the signal it's it's gone all wonky from a.

Speaker 6 (00:09):
One oh seven point nine FM WBT Charlotte's FM News Talk.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
You didn't get the turbo charger.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
No, I'm also giving out free hug.

Speaker 6 (00:17):
This is good morning Beatty with Bo Thompson at Beth
troutwith Is your.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Receiver in any way connected to the flex capacitor? I

(00:44):
may not.

Speaker 7 (00:45):
Always love you, good luck?

Speaker 8 (00:48):
Is there a sts love you?

Speaker 3 (00:52):
You never meet you?

Speaker 9 (00:54):
Dad?

Speaker 7 (00:56):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Thank you?

Speaker 10 (00:57):
Such good omen knows what I believe with the June
If you shall, God believe me?

Speaker 11 (01:16):
Who love?

Speaker 8 (01:17):
This show nothing to me?

Speaker 3 (01:21):
So what good?

Speaker 7 (01:22):
What mean? Dom me? God?

Speaker 12 (01:25):
Amen knows what I.

Speaker 13 (01:27):
Mean with that.

Speaker 14 (01:38):
I was thinking about this. Brian Wilson passed away back
in June. We were playing this song a lot. This
by many people considered one of the greatest songs of
all time.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Oh wow, I think that potentially you incepted my brain
yesterday because we talked about love actually, and I had
forgotten until you reminded me this morning that this song
is from love actually, and I have to this is,
you know, at the beginning of the movie, when they're
playing this song and they're doing this kind of slow
mo of the airport arrivals, I have to say out

(02:09):
loud what Hugh Grant was saying, because I think it's
the perfect kind of Christmas message and the people who
are feeling grumpy and stressed out about all of the
holiday hubbub that happens around this time of year. Hugh
Grant at the beginning Humbug or Humbug, he says, whenever
I get gloomy with the state of the world, I

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think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinions
starting to make out that we live in a world
of hatred and greed. But I don't see that. It
seems to me that love is everywhere.

Speaker 8 (02:48):
And that'll do it for our pre Christmas show folks.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
But I think that's a beautiful message because at this
time of year, where people start feeling like they're focusing
on the commercial aspect of this holiday and feeling overwhelmed
by it and maybe feeling like hatred and greed are
the emotions and the sentiments of the day. No, no,
because if you really look, it's love. Is it too cheesy?

(03:20):
Too cheesy for this early in the morning.

Speaker 14 (03:22):
Oh, it's It's Tuesday, December twenty third. We are live
on the air today. In most years we have been
off by this point in the holiday season, but today
marks the first day. And I don't mean to rain
on your parade, but actually I do, Beth, can you
pin me.

Speaker 15 (03:41):
George, Festivus is not all some of this stuff dose
last froble.

Speaker 8 (03:47):
Today is our first ever live broadcast on Festivus.

Speaker 14 (03:52):
Happy December twenty third to you and yours or unhappy
December twenty third, depending on your situation.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
I mean.

Speaker 14 (03:59):
George Hayes, our producer today and for Steve is wearing
a sweatshirt that says humbug, Bah Humbug, Bah humbug. The
hat says humbug. Oh it says that too. I thought
it said Festivus.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
It's a Santa hat that says ba humbug.

Speaker 14 (04:14):
Going out there, we go, well, look, it's not gonna
be all ba humbug today, but we are certainly going
to give you your chance to air your grievances. Maybe we'll
do that in the seven o'clock hour, or maybe we
should start it now. I mean, the phone lines are open,
the text line is open, driven by libertybew at GMC.

Speaker 8 (04:31):
If you want to.

Speaker 14 (04:32):
Pepper us with your your airing of grievances today, we're
gonna have some fun with that. Because look, when we
talked about what our schedule was going to be this December,
and things have changed a little bit because one oh
seven point nine WBT got a lot of new listeners
that were communicating to for the first time.

Speaker 8 (04:51):
And look, we love what we do.

Speaker 14 (04:52):
We hope that you will come to love what we
do and join this carnival because we have big plans
in twenty twenty six. But we're all on the air today.
We're on the air next week on Monday and Tuesday,
and we're gonna take some time off like everybody does.

Speaker 8 (05:06):
A little bit.

Speaker 14 (05:06):
But we wanted to be here on the air live
as much as we could in December, and so here
we are.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
We wanted to talk with you, we wanted to have
fun with you. So here we're gonna do. If we're
actually gonna do Festivus and air Grievances, I kind of want,
and you can stay anonymous, or maybe change the name
you know of the co worker or family member like Patricia,
you know, or maybe we.

Speaker 8 (05:25):
Should call any that was specific Protessa.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
I actually I don't know anyone named Patricia.

Speaker 8 (05:31):
It's like like a Sam or a day Patricia.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
So maybe if you want to air agreements about somebody
that you work with or somebody that you've had to
deal with, well just we could call them all Patricia.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
You can use actual names. That'd be even better. I
would love that.

Speaker 8 (05:46):
Or yeah, you can use first and last names.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Give me that tea.

Speaker 8 (05:48):
Probably shouldn't do that.

Speaker 14 (05:49):
But so we're gonna have some fun with Festivus today.
We're gonna have some fun with regular holiday stuff too.
David Chadwick and Marilyn Chadwick are gonna be in studio.
This will be decidedly not Festivus eight thirty to about
nine thirty, and they're going to talk about angels today.
So it's gonna be one of those shows where we
have a little bit of everything, but we always have
a great time on our This is kind of like

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the Going Home Show. Now this year we will be
back before the start of the year because we're gonna
be on Monday and Tuesday of next week. But this
is the last show before Christmas, and we're going to
be off for several days. So this is always a
lot of fun. And so here's the thing. Seven oh four, five,
seven eleven ten, I'm gonna try this. Bernie, go ahead,
and we'll head over to the traffic center. Now I'm

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gonna try. This is really difficult. I'm trying to try
to complain about Boomer von Cannon. There's no way how
do you air your a grievances about Boomer?

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Here's no way. Boomer is no, He's the opposite of
any kind of grieving.

Speaker 8 (06:45):
Here's my grievance.

Speaker 14 (06:46):
I can't figure out what to say negative about Boomer
von Cannon. Huh yeah, I'm sure, Yeah, you're not. You
don't go with this holiday very well, this this Festivus.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Georgia has one.

Speaker 8 (06:59):
George's Oh, George has got one.

Speaker 13 (07:01):
He's always too positive.

Speaker 8 (07:02):
Yeah, there it is.

Speaker 16 (07:03):
Sometimes you just want to be in a bad move, Boom,
and you just can't be when you're.

Speaker 8 (07:07):
Just freaking positive.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
What George is saying is he's mad at you for
being happy.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Beth understands.

Speaker 17 (07:15):
I get it better.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Watch out get well, I get a lot of people
mad at me for being happy too. We'll be happy together.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
I tell you why.

Speaker 8 (07:24):
I will say this.

Speaker 14 (07:26):
I know for a fact that Beth tried to tackle
some parking lots yesterday and so one of the toughest
in town. I was doing the Christmas shopping thing yesterday.
I got some grievances about parking lots. Oh yeah, And
I know some people listening probably are are doing the
last minute Christmas shopping. But again, Festivus for the rest
of us.

Speaker 18 (07:46):
Have you noticed how tight the spaces are in parking
lots now barely open your door.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Well, I don't think it's always because the parking lots tight,
it's because people don't park.

Speaker 8 (07:56):
After the break, we'll talk about Festivus. Before the break,
we'll go to that guy. I just can't stand Boomer
von Cannon.

Speaker 18 (08:04):
But you know a song that a lot of folks
we hear holiday songs this time of the year, but
one is really fitting for Christmas Eve and Christmas the
day before, so many people are going home. Just take
Me Home, Country Roads. You play that song in the stadium,
the whole stadium erupts. Everybody sings along with it a
wht a more fitting song than that for today when
you're hitting the road home.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
Look at how sweet you are here.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Almost him, There.

Speaker 19 (08:29):
We go, almost Heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Channing.

Speaker 8 (08:38):
Go c Santa.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Right now life is old, older than the trees.

Speaker 9 (08:49):
That is me.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Grow in and rees country roads.

Speaker 19 (08:56):
Take to West Virginia.

Speaker 7 (09:14):
Now.

Speaker 14 (09:15):
Now here is the thing about this song? Boomer like,
I love this song. It's a great song, but it
has become like the the anthem for the NFL Europe Games.
Have you noticed that? And so they break out singing
this in these NFL stadiums overseas. And then you're like,
wait a minute, there's not an NFL team in either

(09:35):
of the Virginia's.

Speaker 8 (09:36):
This doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 14 (09:38):
And we're overseas.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
They just think we're all West Virginia.

Speaker 14 (09:46):
If you if you literally wanted to go to Virginia
right now, you couldn't take a road.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
But anyway, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 8 (09:55):
Everybody happy.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Started complaining, what can really help you sort through these
important issues?

Speaker 8 (10:03):
What orange bocu fronto.

Speaker 14 (10:12):
I'm not gonna wham him, you know, I'm not gonna
wham him, but I can dance around it right.

Speaker 8 (10:16):
I can kind of get close to it, but not
really do it.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
I think as long as it's just not the last
Christmas Wham song, I think any other Wham song is
totally appropriate.

Speaker 14 (10:24):
You noticed he was here yesterday and he kind of
he's kind of he when he's walking around me, he's
kind of on edge and antsy because he thinks I'm
gonna play it.

Speaker 8 (10:35):
I don't because I did it to him one year.
I whammed him one year. I didn't know what it was.
And and he's kind of like, oh, I'm kind of.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Didn't Steve get him last year, Steve. It wasn't unintentionally,
it sounds like something Steve. I think Steve was.

Speaker 16 (10:47):
Like filling in for me one day and Heed, Yeah,
and Winnable.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Was not happy. Yeah, we got his listeners got stirred
up too.

Speaker 8 (10:56):
He does not like it. Like it is not like,
oh you've made a little mistake, poor little man. No,
it's like it's fighting word.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
I hugged him for an extensive long time yesterday and
I almost almost in his ear. I almost went less. Chris,
I don't know if it counts if it's me singing.
I don't know if it counts, but I was gonna
sway it.

Speaker 8 (11:17):
I think you have to be careful. You can't experiment
like that, like yeah, all right, anyway, happy fest of Us.

Speaker 14 (11:24):
And at the festest dinner you're Gavie family around and
tell him.

Speaker 6 (11:29):
All the waysday I've disappointed you over.

Speaker 9 (11:31):
The best years.

Speaker 8 (11:32):
I just want to And is there a tree? No, instead,
there's a poll requires no decoration. I find tinsel distracting it.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
This new holiday of yours.

Speaker 20 (11:41):
Is scratching me right where.

Speaker 8 (11:49):
That's right?

Speaker 14 (11:50):
It's go home Christmas show And today added bonus, we're
doing a live show on Festivus for the rest of us.
Seven four five, seven oh one O seven nine good?

Speaker 8 (12:15):
But do you really music?

Speaker 21 (12:19):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (12:19):
Yes you do? Right now. We're getting some people chiming
in already.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
We already have one Festivus complaint from Christian. And I
love Christian for saying good Morrow, Bo and Beth.

Speaker 8 (12:32):
Nice somewhere Steve, Steve's ears just wrung.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
It is a deep cut listener. Christian says good Morrow,
Bo and Beth. This is Christian, and I would like
to vent about some grievances. I found a new church
home in Washington, d C. Called Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church.
And honestly, I am getting a little frustrated with my
church's leadership because they are not giving me updates as
quickly as I would like. Regarding Act to Drama Ministry,

(13:00):
that's what it says.

Speaker 14 (13:01):
I feel like every time we have agreements, we need
to have a sounder and I think maybe it should
be this.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Oh oh, and I'll read it darker. I would like
regarding Act to Drama Ministry and the singles ministry, and
I tried to get connected with the men's ministry and
the young adult ministry, but they haven't reached out to me.

Speaker 20 (13:23):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
And the leadership shall remain nameless.

Speaker 6 (13:26):
Christmas story, because what would happen if you gave them
a name.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
I love that Christians listening in Washington, d C. Talk
about reach.

Speaker 8 (13:40):
Wow, that's that's next level.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yeah, Christian's listening in Washington.

Speaker 22 (13:44):
D C.

Speaker 8 (13:44):
That's a DC grievance.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
But it's so funny. Christian texts us often and they're
always so incredibly positive. So the fact that Christian is
complaining about his church ministry, it's actually funny. It's funny
because he seems or she Christian could be either. Actually,
I guess if it was the men Ministry, the adult
Men's Ministry, then it's probably a man so Christian. The
mail he seems like a really lovely.

Speaker 8 (14:06):
Man, so Christian. Goodmorrow to you or Badmorrow.

Speaker 14 (14:09):
But let's talk about Let's talk about Beth Troutman's personal
grievances yesterday.

Speaker 8 (14:13):
Because you you, you went. You went to South Park yesterday.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
I was brave. So let me tell you what I did.
I went to Paper Skyscraper. I went to South Park
and I had to go to the post office, to
FedEx and to Ups to go to all three. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
So my first grievance was at Paper Skyscraper. If you've
been there on East Boulevard, that that parking lot's a
little bit tricky. It's it's it's tight.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Right next to ty taste.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
I also love Paper Skyscraper. Paper Skyscraper is an adorable
little shop and if you want something creative, sorry, yes,
I love Paper Skyscraper.

Speaker 8 (14:50):
It's an adorable little shop.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
But so it was crowded. I mean, people are there
doing last minute shopping. And I parked beside a gigantic
like orange pickup truck. Adorable truck, but it's a big truck,
and it could one. He has to remind me to
be negative.

Speaker 14 (15:13):
That is the only person who will gives you this
long grievance, and Adorable is in it several times.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
So he needed to be very thoughtful in parking that
large truck in those spaces, and instead just pulled in
willy nilly and kept his tire turned so his whole
tire was over in the other parking space that nobody
could fit in. I tried to fit in it, but
I knew that I was going to be in and
out really really quickly, so it wasn't going to block

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anybody's door. But here's just a tip, just a word
for the wise. This time of year, parking lots are
going to be full. Think of other people when you park.
You know, park in the park in the space. Don't
park in two spaces. Don't, don't, don't don't hold up
the line trying to park and repark and back in

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and repark and and and and keep people. I had
a lady pull in and then back out and then
pull in, so I thought, Okay, she's probably done, so
I started backing out. No no, no, no, she almost backed
into me. I had to start honking.

Speaker 14 (16:12):
See and that's the thing you get in parking lots,
and you'll see people that will watch you to see
if you're walking to your.

Speaker 8 (16:18):
Car, and then they follow you.

Speaker 14 (16:20):
And if you really really want to make somebody mad
in this hot this this this festive, festive season, h
walk to your car and they think that they're going
to get your parking space. You open the door, you
put a gift in, and then you close it and
walk back to control.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
Oh man, I always I always say to them, I'm
not getting in my cr I I panami, I like
mime out like this is in my car.

Speaker 16 (16:44):
I can help you with what your grievance should be.
If you can't drive or park a large truck, maybe
don't have a large truck, have a large drive a
Prius or a smart car. Maybe that's more suited for
that smart driving.

Speaker 14 (16:54):
I had a how about that, I had a parking
lot stare down with a truck yesterday.

Speaker 8 (16:59):
I did I did not. I did not win the
stair down.

Speaker 14 (17:04):
It was it was actually, on one hand, it was
remarkable what he did, and on the other hand.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
It was the most hell was it demoralizing?

Speaker 8 (17:12):
It was a demoralizing for me.

Speaker 14 (17:13):
Because A I didn't have a truck like that, and
b I can't believe he did it.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
You don't have a small car, bo.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
So is this your first grievance of the day? At first,
your first one.

Speaker 8 (17:22):
I'm glad you put first on that one.

Speaker 6 (17:24):
Happy Festivus from one O seven point nine f M
Tell You BT, Charlotte f M News Talk. This is
Good Morning BT with Poe Thompson and Bev Trout Me.

Speaker 8 (17:47):
Right, So, Beth, welcome up to well beach.

Speaker 14 (17:52):
Boys, some festive seasonal beach boys, because you know, I
love actually and all. But we had Bubba on the
text line say not what I was expecting this morning
from Beth, but merry Christmas. And I said, well, hang on, Bubba,
what were you expecting? Apparently this.

Speaker 6 (18:16):
I have.

Speaker 8 (18:17):
I haven't heard this in a while. This is from
the Polar Express.

Speaker 14 (18:20):
But there was a time where I watched the Polar
Express ninety two times during the holiday season.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
You counted it.

Speaker 8 (18:27):
It seemed like that.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Is that a Festivus complaint?

Speaker 8 (18:29):
No, it's funny. My kids were.

Speaker 14 (18:35):
Right at that spot, that sweet spot in age when
the Polar Express came out. So we saw it in
the theater and we I remember buying the DVD and
we watched it over and over and over again. There
were some people when that movie came out, and still
to this day, because now I think the animation looks
a little dated. But there's some people that did not
like the sort of combination of the Tom Hanks animation.

(18:58):
I don't know what there was a word for now,
I can't remember what it was. Well, but some people
didn't like the animation style that they used. And I
get it, but I don't know that that movie was
such an important movie when my kids were growing up
that it's a nostalgic for me.

Speaker 8 (19:13):
So I watch it now and I love it.

Speaker 14 (19:14):
But but when you look back on it, the animation
it looks antiquated now, but it almost sort of seems
seems quaint. I don't know, but it's a it was
that was kind of a polarizing holiday movie. Polar express.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
I'm about to admit something that was bad. That was
great though, I've found yourself on the back never seen
it really, Yeah, I don't know. Isn't that a strange
thing for I've never seen it.

Speaker 14 (19:37):
No, knowing you the way I do, part of me
thinks you're not gonna like it? Oh really not, because
I mean it's it's a feel good movie.

Speaker 8 (19:46):
But what are you saying?

Speaker 23 (19:47):
Then?

Speaker 14 (19:47):
It takes a while to get there, takes a while
to get there, and the animation is kind of weird
like it is. I mean, I I know there are
people listening right now that agree with me and maybe not.
And it if that's a grievance that the oh you're wrong,
this is your place.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Oh yeah, because we're getting all consent.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Agreement number two?

Speaker 8 (20:06):
Is that grievance number two? Let me finish up my
grievance number one or three.

Speaker 14 (20:09):
I don't know where I left off, but Beth was
talking about uh here in the honoring Festivus today at
twenty third we're live and local right here on Good
Morning VT. Merry Christmas, and Happy Festivus. But I was
in the parking lot yesterday and you told a parking
lot story reminded me of mine. I was in you know,
the I don't know what the shopping centers called. It's
across from It's like a couple of streets down from

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South Park.

Speaker 8 (20:31):
It's where the Barnes and Noble is.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
And yes, that's a tricky parking lot. Because I feel
like it's like a Rubik's cube. They've they've got all
these little squares of parking, but there's only one little
driveway to.

Speaker 7 (20:42):
Get in there.

Speaker 8 (20:43):
Get the little traffic circles too.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
I love that Barnes and Noble there.

Speaker 14 (20:46):
Oh it's great. I love That's why I was there. No,
that's why I was trying to be there. I gave up.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
Oh gave up.

Speaker 14 (20:54):
And I hit a couple of places yesterday and I like,
over at Cotswold, I found a spot and that was cool,
and then South Park.

Speaker 8 (21:02):
So South Park I went the day before that.

Speaker 14 (21:05):
Here's a pro tip for South Park this time of
year if you want to get a parking spot. And
I'm kind of I kind of don't want to say
this because if I have to go there today then
it's going to be packed, it's gonna be my fault.
If I'll go ahead and tell you my secret to
my secret tip here. If you're trying to park over
by Dick Sporting Goods, don't even bother no, don't even
bother no.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
You can't park there on a random Tuesday in March.

Speaker 14 (21:30):
You're trying now, if you're trying to park like out
in front of Macy's. Don't bother you're trying to park,
really anybody, But the best place to try to get
a parking spot is keep on going down Share and
take that right into the top of the parking deck
at Belks.

Speaker 8 (21:45):
If you go to the top level at.

Speaker 14 (21:46):
Parking deck and then you enter the store, and if
you go down to the mall level, you have to
go down the escalator. But if you're willing to walk
through Belks to get to where you want to go,
maybe Belks is where you want to be in the
first place. But if you're willing to go and park
on that upper level parking deck, there almost are always
spots there and pretty easy ones.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Willing to brave the halls of Belk Park here.

Speaker 14 (22:08):
No, but I mean, like if you if you're going
there to go to Dick's Porting Goods, that's a long
way from Belk.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
So so here's the other here's the halfway in between
Bow because I was there yesterday. I was at South
Park yesterday and you're right, the parking lot is mad
chaos and I was there like after the show. So
it was ten forty five, maybe it was pretty early,
or maybe eleven Dillard's. Dillard's that back, that back parking
side off of Carnegie there were parking spaces and not

(22:36):
the parking deck, not where the parking deck is at Dillard's.
And Dillard's is a good, like weird halfway point in
that mall. You can kind of get to everywhere from Dillard's,
and the people were all parked normally. Everybody had their
little space. Everybody was super polite. People were letting everybody
cross the road. No one was grumpy at Dillard's.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
The Belkon deal just the gateways wanted.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
To hug everyone at Dillard's.

Speaker 14 (23:03):
Dillard's is an interesting place because you walk in there
and there's always lots of room.

Speaker 8 (23:09):
I mean, there's it.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
Seems like they're always clearing a second.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
What a compliment, I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 14 (23:14):
Here it's it's not the best thing, I guess because
he won a lot of inventory and even did a
matter of the time of year. You walk in Dillards
and it's kind of like the winds kind of whipping up,
and you know, it's like, I like Dillards. I got
nothing against it, But when I go there, I think
many they don't have as much stuff as I thought, well,
I went.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
The other day and I was there before eleven, and
they still had the little the garage door down, you know,
in front of their doors, So I don't know do
they open later?

Speaker 8 (23:37):
Now I I did not want you.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
Then I'm saying Dillard's is a good place to park
at South Park.

Speaker 14 (23:44):
Dillards is my great oasis. Like there's nobody there.

Speaker 16 (23:48):
You're gonna start closing the door and be like you're
cutting through or are you gonna shop here?

Speaker 1 (23:52):
You're going to buy something?

Speaker 14 (23:53):
That's the way, That's the way back in the day. Now,
this is back before Dick's Sporting Goods, back in the
day when Sears was there, Like Sears was the ultimate
cut through to get to the mall.

Speaker 3 (24:03):
That's actually true, but every now and again you'd end
up with a washing machine.

Speaker 14 (24:06):
Oh yeah, yeah, you might stumble across something, but you
Sears was never the endpoint. It was the means to
get to the place you were going entrant. And the
thing that I loved about it is is you went
through Sears and when you got to the mall, out
of Sears, to your right there was Eckerds. To your left,
there was there was the record bar, and then in
years later, they moved the record bar across the hall,
but it was all the places I wanted to hit

(24:27):
were right there, right there as the wait a minute,
hold on the music burning. Because I didn't tell you
what happened to me, I interrupted you. So in the
parking lot yesterday. This is not at South Park. This
is a couple of blocks down where the Barnes and
Noble is. I see a spot, okay, and I can
either and it's in an area where I can. I
can turn right there and go around into the spot
where I can I can go down and curve back around.

(24:51):
I curved back around because I saw this this white
pickup that like, I mean Ford like six fifty.

Speaker 8 (24:58):
I mean, it was huge.

Speaker 14 (25:00):
It was huge, and I'm like, there's no way that
thing's going in that spot. And that dude proceeded not
only to get in that spot and to rev up
and get there before me.

Speaker 8 (25:11):
He backed in.

Speaker 14 (25:12):
George, Oh no, he said that he was going to
back into it, and he knew I wanted that spot
because he saw me eyeball it.

Speaker 8 (25:17):
And then I went and I came around the corner.

Speaker 14 (25:20):
And it's kind of bad because I came around and
then I started guessing it because I was realized he's
actually gonna try to get this. I'm gonna try to
And then I got there and it's like, you know,
it's like, basically, it's a tank next to my car,
and it was there was no way to get out. No,
and he would have he would have like run over
me if he wanted to. But I'm thinking that dude
knew I wanted that spot. I was there first, he
was bigger, so he just basically said, I'm a Ford

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six hundred, seven hundred and fifty, I'm gonna do this,
and I knowing that I'm gonna back in to make
it worse, I.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
Would have both had parking issues with trunks yesterday.

Speaker 8 (25:48):
M hmm. I mean it's basically a small tank.

Speaker 14 (25:50):
It was basically it's like one of those Trump era
battleships that they're building.

Speaker 8 (25:54):
I mean, that's how big it was.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Did you give him the Robert Redford head nod? I mean,
I feel like you kind of just have to.

Speaker 8 (26:01):
I said, Happy Festivus, sir. So there's my grievance from yesterday.

Speaker 14 (26:07):
I have another grievance about the Carolina Panthers that I'll
get too later we have so.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Many grievances coming in on our text line. I can't
so I can't wait to read some of these because
I'm with like Brian has sent multiples and I'm with
him on both.

Speaker 14 (26:20):
Brian, Brian. Okay, Brian, you're on the docket. Yep, we'll
get to you coming up. It's a Festivus for the
rest of us on a December twenty third. Don't worry,
we're not going to complain the whole show here. But
oh gosh no, but but when we knew we were
going to be on the air today, we haven't been
on the air on December twenty third years. So we're
live in local today having some fun. But we have
to commemorate Festivus when we're here.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
Right, yes, because we've never had like you just said,
I'm just gonna repeat exactly what you said, we've never
been here for.

Speaker 8 (26:47):
It's traffic for the rest of us right now, Boomer
von Canna.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
Oh, you hit that right.

Speaker 17 (26:52):
That's a place to park your South Park.

Speaker 14 (26:53):
That's the place except when you have a Trump battleship
in your battleship.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
I work for Space Force.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
I'm here to tell you guys. Carnegie the Carnegie side
of Dillard's. Yes, yes, that's the greatest parking lot.

Speaker 8 (27:07):
Or the third third level of.

Speaker 17 (27:08):
Belks, the third level right there the corner. A lot
of folks will go there.

Speaker 8 (27:12):
Or you know the bat cave entrance at Sears.

Speaker 17 (27:15):
And you take watch for a road back up to
Colony to get out of everything.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah, yeah, I came into south Park instead of going
down Tavola. I went the backway from Parkridge.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
I appreciate your alternate spoomer. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Go get a man.

Speaker 8 (27:27):
Come on, I just want to go ice skating at Eastland?
Is that too much to ask?

Speaker 3 (27:30):
I know, I know that's my grievance. Where's Easlyn Mall?

Speaker 8 (27:34):
Welcome, you'll come us.

Speaker 21 (27:38):
The tradition of Festivus begins with the airing of cratances.

Speaker 20 (27:42):
Listen, Harry, I need the twenty third off.

Speaker 8 (27:44):
I hired you to work during the holidays.

Speaker 13 (27:47):
This is the holidays, but it's Festivus.

Speaker 8 (27:49):
What you're infringing on my right to celebrate new holidays.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
That's not all right.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
It's goin Abe because I'm going back on struck.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
No, I gotta stay. Wait for the club.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
You're signing with management now, I'm.

Speaker 7 (28:04):
Jes down.

Speaker 8 (28:10):
Past three.

Speaker 20 (28:12):
It's nice, little present farmer, unless.

Speaker 14 (28:19):
Your George who has his BA Humbug sweatshirt today in
honor of fest That's right, it's the show for the
rest of us today. Bowen Beth here Live and local
on Tuesday, December twenty third, seven O four five seven
oh one O seven nine text line driven by Liberty

(28:39):
Viewick GMC.

Speaker 8 (28:41):
It's a name on this one. I don't have a name.

Speaker 14 (28:44):
It says glad the man could share good memories of
his children.

Speaker 8 (28:50):
Are we talking to That made me happy? I don't
know much much like yesterday what's happening? But we got
some more grievances.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
Oh my gosh, we have so many good ones. I
love all of you guys out there so much. Brian,
Brian and I. I'm with Brian. I'm with Brian here
his first one. Brian has multiple. Brian said, people who
drive slowly in the passing lane are the worst.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
You know.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
I feel you, Brian, I feel your pain.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
He just sent another one in too, that hits right
at home.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
Oh okay, what's what's that?

Speaker 16 (29:25):
People who have full grocery carts that go to self checkout?

Speaker 1 (29:28):
I mean, come on, yes, you're could not agree more.

Speaker 8 (29:31):
Brian, you're in the wrong neighborhood.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
Yes, And he has another one. This one also has
to do with shopping. Follow up to that, people who
leave shopping carts in parking spaces, it tells a lot
about their character in my opinion, on all of those things,
I think all of those things, all three of them, Brian,
you're so dead on and all three of them I
think represent people not being aware of other people around that.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
It's a special place for people like that.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
Like driving slow in the passing lane and toys, Bernie,
people not you know, being aware that there's a line
of traffic behind them, trying to get around them, not
being aware that they could just get over and let
the other people pass. It's a passing lane. People who
leave their shopping carts, not being aware that other people
might need to park in that space, and then just

(30:21):
thinking that someone else is going to do the job
of taking the cart either to the little bin or
back in the store.

Speaker 16 (30:26):
For Well, you're right, she makes it so positive. Like
people not aware. I just think they don't care, Beth.
I think people are aware. Some people don't care. They
just don't get They're like, yeah, I'm too lazy to
take it back.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
I see people do it all the time.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
Oh I do. I see people do it, and I
would love to just.

Speaker 16 (30:40):
Get out of my car and you know, just roll
the cart into Sorry it's hit your car.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Sorry about that.

Speaker 15 (30:46):
But Brian was talking about the pull.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
Up that mic there, But you're a little closer.

Speaker 15 (30:50):
Brian was talking about the shopping car or the going
to the checkout.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
With a full car.

Speaker 15 (30:56):
Yeah, well, what about the clerks that have two hands
and grab stuff out of the basket one hand and
transfer to the other hand to check it instead of
using both hands.

Speaker 8 (31:10):
I love this. George just sounds like Festivus.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
That's right, he is.

Speaker 8 (31:16):
Forget forget Constanza, we want hazel It.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Let's complain about the people that have to deal with
the people. Yeah, how about those people I don't even know.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
What that complain is their hands.

Speaker 15 (31:30):
When they're checking you out, the grocery clerk, they reach
you to your basket or your buggy whatever you want
to call it, your buggy, They pull out one item,
transfer to the other hand to scan it instead of
pulling out two items and then scanning, scanning, and then
scanning scan.

Speaker 14 (31:51):
That man knows his Festivus kids.

Speaker 8 (31:56):
How are you doing all right, sir?

Speaker 6 (31:58):
Ship morning from one Who's seven point nine f M
w BT Charlotte's FM News Talk.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Gosh, that's not a good thing.

Speaker 8 (32:06):
Have you thought about moving?

Speaker 6 (32:08):
This is Good Morning Beatty with Bo Thompson and Beth Troutman.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
I found you a horseshoes a game of horseshoe.

Speaker 7 (32:17):
That's breds of Ezza.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Nothing, it's a conference that what is it?

Speaker 24 (32:25):
Wait, dear son, happy festivus?

Speaker 2 (32:31):
It is a festivous It's nothing.

Speaker 8 (32:32):
It's not Jordan's growing up.

Speaker 5 (32:34):
His father not at all the commercial and religious aspects
of Christmas, and so he made up his own holiday.

Speaker 8 (32:40):
Oh and another piece of the puzzle, closing the pace?

Speaker 1 (32:44):
All right?

Speaker 4 (32:45):
And instead of a tree, didn't your father.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
Put up an aluminum pol.

Speaker 8 (32:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (32:53):
Tuesday, December twenty third, Live in local right here on
Good Morning beat Bo Thompson and Beth Troutman from the
Historic Boyd Studio on Glorious FM one oh seven point
nine WBT, Charlotte's FM News Talk.

Speaker 8 (33:08):
Don't forget tomorrow. We will be off tomorrow, but the
best of Good Morning BT and the return of Boomer
von Cannon's Holiday boom Box. It will debut during our
time slot tomorrow.

Speaker 14 (33:22):
And that's that's you and me and the whole gang
here and Boomer at the Helm playing the greatest hits
of the greatest holiday hits of all time and having
some fun along the way.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
The FM stands for Festivus Music.

Speaker 8 (33:36):
It's exactly right, Bernie. Thank you for clearing that up.
So we're in a festive mood today.

Speaker 14 (33:42):
Got a lot to get to, but the Festivus has
sort of taken over so far.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
Oh, I am so obsessed with all of our listeners.
Can I Can I say that? It's just like the
John Falconberry's of the world are even getting in on this,
and he's like the jolliest person in the in my opinion,
the jolliest person ever. He said, I think North and
South Carolina dealerships actually inactivate the turn signals. People don't
know how to use them, and then when they want

(34:08):
to move over, they move over into a space that
you're supposed to and they don't have any distance between
the two cars. Yes, my car has the if I
don't turn on the turn signal, it has that lane
assist feature so that if I don't turn on the
turn signals. Yeah, it'll jerk me back into the lane.
So I am completely hidding.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
Oh I didn't drive like a real man.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
I didn't know I could turn it out.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
You can. You should be able to.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
I don't like processes, Bernie. If something, I have to
figure something outs.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Button Well.

Speaker 8 (34:37):
Speaking of Kevin, who brought us gifts last week, Kevin
is one of the most positive people that I know.
He is just by nature.

Speaker 14 (34:46):
So it's always interesting on Festivus when you get an
email that has this in the subject line. Forget your
crappy parking spaces, okay, Kevin, Kevin, I see where he's
going to a good start. He says, go to Bow's.
Now this sound like I own it. I don't, but
but I highly endorse it. Says go to Bow's Great
Harvest Bakery on Ray Road.

Speaker 8 (35:06):
Now I don't.

Speaker 14 (35:07):
I don't have any stake in ownership, but if I did,
if if somebody said, what's a place that you'd like
to own a part of because you love it so much?
Great Harvest Bakery, and the one I go to is
on King's Drive, but there's one on Ray Road too,
And Kevin says they don't have parking spaces there at
Ray road and the Trader Joe's customers don't know nor
care about how they parked there. Everybody has a deal
with it attitude. But he says, but if you're gonna fight,

(35:31):
if you're gonna fight the wave, make sure you pick
up a loaf of their cinnamon chip. He said, even
Bo gives that to people.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Oh, I got a loaf of it.

Speaker 8 (35:39):
I gave it to Beth.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
Yes, yeah, he gave me a loaf of the cinnamon
but bred yesterday. And can I tell you that, Craig,
I gave you something. Craig did a little happy I
could have brought some.

Speaker 8 (35:51):
Taste, Bernie. You could go buy ten loaves Craig.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
Craig did a happy dance that I brought the cinnamon loft.

Speaker 8 (35:58):
And it is.

Speaker 14 (35:59):
I'm telling you it's. And I'm a bread guy and
that's my favorite bread.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
It's it's, it's it's delicious.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
I'm not gonna lie bread guy.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
A little bit of butter on that stuff toast anybody
who knows what he would say.

Speaker 8 (36:11):
I needs a certified bread guy. Yeah, I know, I'm
I'm not the only one by far, but hey, look,
if you're serious about your bread, that's where you go
all right.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
I have to get to Laurie's because Lourie Laurie is
on it. I get it, Laurie. I have a story
to tell. Laurie says, how about that hard plastic packaging
that is totally heat sealed around every single edge that
requires either a chainsaw or scissors the size of Edward
scissorhands hands to open it? You risk a medical emergency

(36:40):
just to get to that flashlight or whatever.

Speaker 24 (36:43):
Why?

Speaker 3 (36:43):
Why? Why? And then she says, if you give a
gift with that hard plastic, you better get liability insurance
for the person who's gonna sue you for their cut hand. Okay, Laurie,
I'm one hundred percent with you. Now, this wasn't a gift,
although it was like a little gift to myself because
I love my quiet time in the morning and I

(37:04):
love that moment. Like the last thing I do before
I come here to work is I make myself a
little breakfast and I sit at the little table just
alone in my kitchen, a normal sized table. I sit
there and I eat my breakfast. I have my boiled egg.
Today I had a piece of cinnamon toast with a
little bit of butter on it.

Speaker 8 (37:24):
With my egg cinnamon chip cinnamon chips.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
You did, yeah, that you gave me. And I was
really really looking forward to a glass of orange juice
with my breakfast.

Speaker 8 (37:35):
I really was.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
I had the glass out, got the orange juice out
of the refrigerator, new bottle Tropicana. I have a blister
and you guys can see it on my hand from
trying to twist open the Tropicana. And guess what, guys,
it never opened. I had a towel trying to get
that thing open. I twisted and turned and twisted. I

(37:58):
had it between my legs. Twist, damon. I have a
blister on my hand and I never got the orange juice.
I left a note for Craig. Can you open this
on the on the orange juice in the refrigerators?

Speaker 8 (38:11):
First world problems for me.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
I couldn't even open my own.

Speaker 24 (38:17):
Blister.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
But Gloria's right, I can liability insurance. Trying to get
into it into a bottle of or.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
I was counting my money and got off paper cut.
I cannot believe this.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
I hate you all.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
I couldn't have my orange.

Speaker 8 (38:37):
Well there you go.

Speaker 13 (38:39):
That is uh.

Speaker 8 (38:41):
This is the glorious Festivus for all the rest of
us here.

Speaker 14 (38:44):
You know what, I just had a note from somebody
before we go to Boomer here, let's let's let's bring
this up.

Speaker 24 (38:48):
Bernie.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
How about this driving?

Speaker 8 (38:54):
Oh, I can't wait to see those faces.

Speaker 20 (39:01):
Trialing home for Christmas.

Speaker 14 (39:05):
Well, I just had a note from a listener. Wanted
to hear this as I was handing off the traffic
with Boomer von Cannon this morning. So there you go, Boom,
it's Chris Ray.

Speaker 24 (39:19):
Oh.

Speaker 8 (39:19):
We lost Chris Ray yesterday.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
Yesterday. I didn't know that until this listener told us.

Speaker 14 (39:24):
So rest in peace and and here's your song, my friend.
See in the middle of Festivus. I'm still a giver,
as Pete Calender would say.

Speaker 3 (39:33):
Thanks you, Oh you are.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
You're a giver because it's a democracy. Unless you have
the cinnamon bread. You don't give that to everybody.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
You gave it to me, Bernie.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
That sounds good.

Speaker 6 (39:43):
I love that.

Speaker 8 (39:43):
How Bernie's like I bot didn't give.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
Some Larry Sprinkle to Beth.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
H Yeah, well I took half my little favorite Larry.

Speaker 8 (39:52):
How are we doing that there?

Speaker 17 (39:53):
Boom, we had the same Chris Ray.

Speaker 24 (39:54):
He gave us.

Speaker 17 (39:55):
Fool if you take it's over. Uh, I have a
song like that. I believe it is.

Speaker 3 (39:59):
I'll have to look at that was Chris Ray Butterfly Kisses.

Speaker 8 (40:02):
That's Bob Carlyle, all right, not Chris Ray. Why I
know that, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
I'm lovely that you do.

Speaker 8 (40:09):
I'm a givert.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true lucky to me, do.

Speaker 24 (40:21):
Do do do do do do?

Speaker 25 (40:29):
On the twelve day, my true love gave to me
twelve drummers, jomming like Olympus above the sad begin, eleven
papers pots.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
There it's a milking.

Speaker 7 (40:53):
They were milking. Just one.

Speaker 8 (40:57):
Christmas down and up forgot.

Speaker 24 (41:02):
Christmas, for.

Speaker 20 (41:06):
Christmas, Good Morning.

Speaker 7 (41:34):
Part Portray Bank Petry.

Speaker 8 (41:45):
Just a classic.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
It's so good and and the song that made them famous.

Speaker 8 (41:50):
It went viral and it made them famous for good reason.

Speaker 14 (41:53):
I mean that is and they've done some great stuff
over the years. Straight no chaser, but that's the one
that start and finish with.

Speaker 9 (42:01):
Y know.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
They were a college a cappella group. They were a
college a cappella group.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
And they never heard that one.

Speaker 3 (42:06):
Somebody posted this from one of their concerts.

Speaker 8 (42:09):
They went by Ernie. I played it last year.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
Oh sorry, I wasn't listening all right, or.

Speaker 8 (42:15):
Maybe you were paying attention to this last night.

Speaker 18 (42:18):
Half the nine It's third and goals shotgunsnapped the party.

Speaker 8 (42:21):
Five man Rush.

Speaker 26 (42:22):
Cotts his arm throws Goline Cat touchdown Crab McCaffrey just
inside the paiwan on the.

Speaker 8 (42:30):
Near sideline at the goal line.

Speaker 18 (42:31):
The nine yards Trike have a fifth touchdown pass shown
by forty nine er quarterback Block Party.

Speaker 8 (42:41):
He is her first forty nine er with five.

Speaker 18 (42:45):
Regular season touchdown passes in a game since the Hall
of Famer Joe Montana back in nineteen ninety.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
Wanted us play.

Speaker 14 (42:55):
Kevin Harlan on Westwood One last night, Monday Night Football.
Five touchdowns from Purdy CMC getting it done, and the
forty nine ers just walloped the Indianapolis Colts. Now like
the Panthers, the Colts still have a shot to make
the playoffs, and Philip Rivers is at the helm and

(43:16):
trying to get it done.

Speaker 21 (43:17):
Now.

Speaker 14 (43:18):
We talked about him last week, you know, getting off
the couch, and he has not won since his return yet.
But he looked He didn't look as good as brock
Purty last night, but he didn't look terrible last night.

Speaker 8 (43:28):
He actually you know, the for a forty five year old.

Speaker 3 (43:30):
I mean, come on, I thought he looked great out
there on the field. You would think that he has
been practicing with the team and playing with the team
for the past five years, even though he had been
retired and has been you know, coaching a high school team.
And I would like to give a big round of
applause to the Colts designer, whoever they are. That helmet

(43:51):
was amazing. That the black helmet with the blue with
the blue horse shoe on it, that was it was
like a matte black helmet. That was a good costs
a good a good uniform. I caught myself whoever designed
these things, that that was a good look for the Colts.

Speaker 14 (44:07):
Well, it's got the same thing going for it that
the Panthers black helmet does and they were wearing that
list this past weekend. So, like I said, both teams
are still in the mix.

Speaker 8 (44:16):
Now.

Speaker 14 (44:16):
Philip Rivers is trying to will this team into making
the playoffs. And what a story that would be if
they could get there.

Speaker 3 (44:22):
That would be movie worthy. That would be like tell
the story of the guy that got off the couch
and came and took the Colts to the playoffs. Disney
needs to go ahead and buy.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
The rights like mister three thousand, Bernie Mack.

Speaker 8 (44:34):
Right, right right, Philip Rivers.

Speaker 23 (44:36):
Last night after the game, I'm torn of how to
express it because it's been a blast. It's been a
blast to prepare and to go stick and get ready
and go out there and warm up and do all
that with these guys again. But again, the name of
the game is not you know, go have a good time.
It's helped find a way to lead your team to win.
And we've come up short here these first two, but

(44:56):
we've been I've been a part of us percentage chances
of getting in and got in before. So you'll you'll
certainly won't hear me losing hope here as we prepare
next week.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
One that's question quickly. This is I guess on a
personal level too. But it was the whole family here
and yeah, everybody, everybody was here.

Speaker 23 (45:16):
Yeah, no, it was, it was. It was special. They
were excited all day and uh it was.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
It was.

Speaker 23 (45:20):
It was special and seeing them here and and mom
and dad were here too, brother was here, uh and
his family.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
No, it was, uh, it was it was.

Speaker 23 (45:29):
It was Like I said, those things, those things, I've
learned to really realize that those those things can all
you can appreciate all those still although the outcome and
what it was right, they did still happen, you know
what I mean. Uh, those first few drives were in
and touchdowns, those did occur, right, Those those those memories
will be there.

Speaker 4 (45:45):
But again at the end of the day, Uh, we
are here to try to win the ball game.

Speaker 23 (45:48):
But I've I guess I've grown up and learned how to.

Speaker 4 (45:52):
Handle that a little better now.

Speaker 8 (45:53):
See.

Speaker 14 (45:54):
I like watching him go through this as an older
man with perspective and understanding. You know, you've got lots
of kids, grandkids even, and so everything sort of hits differently.
But he knows he's there to win. And they've got
two games left. They're home against the Jaguars this coming Sunday,
and then January fourth, they'll.

Speaker 8 (46:14):
Be on the road against the Texans.

Speaker 14 (46:15):
Both those teams are playing well, and if you look
at their record, they're eight and seven, so they have
to win out and they'll be a wild card. They
can't win their division, but there's still a chance. And
they lost forty eight to twenty seven last night, but
look forty eight is obviously great for the forty nine ers.
But if you're a Philip Rivers, you're two weeks in
and you're responsible for your team getting twenty seven points

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or most of those.

Speaker 8 (46:40):
You know, it's not like went out there in laid
an egg. He's not embarrassing himself.

Speaker 16 (46:43):
He said, throws last night where you were like, all right,
I mean, like that looked like a good It didn't
look like a forty five year old man out there
that just came off the couch two weeks ago.

Speaker 4 (46:51):
He looked didn't look like people.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
He looked he didn't not look like people. He looked
incredibly talented on the field last night. And like he
just said, and it because he is. You can just
tell what kind of soul he has. He's just a
positive guy. There have been teams that have made it
that had worse odds than this team has right now.

Speaker 8 (47:09):
Oh yeah, that's why. That's why they went out and
got him.

Speaker 14 (47:12):
That's why they're reaching here, because it's not like he's
inheriting a team that was that had no chance. This
team early in the season some people thought was a
surefire Super Bowl team, and they had a they came
out of the gate smoking, and then the wheels has
sort of fallen off in recent weeks because of for
a variety of reasons, namely, your your starting quarterback goes down.

(47:33):
But you know he wouldn't be here either if he
didn't think there was a somewhat plausible shot to get
get to the playoffs. And if he gets to the playoffs,
then you're right. This becomes like thirty for thirty worthy
and we're all sort of watching almost like like like hoosiers.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
Yes, it's like a rooty kind of story. It's a
it's a Disney sports film story. It's the Kevin Warner corner.
Kurt Warner, Kurt Warner, Kevin Warren is Kevin Warren. And
it's the current Warner story. I mean, it's the story
of of of maybe it's like a parable for life.
You get back up and you succeed. That's everybody wants

(48:11):
to see that story.

Speaker 14 (48:12):
Now we have our own story here and Charlotte the
Panthers are trying to make the playoffs. They have a
number of different scenarios. And you may wonder, so does
Dave Canais. Will Dave Canalis be clock watching or I
should say scoreboard watching. This weekend because if the if
the Bucks lose and the Panthers win, then then we clinch.
But you know, there are other things that could happen

(48:33):
and we could be going down to the wire in
the final week of the season. But Dave Canalis, Panthers
head coach, was asked yesterday are you going to be
watching the scoreboard while you play this game?

Speaker 8 (48:41):
Yesterday?

Speaker 14 (48:42):
I will tell you what he said here in just
a moment, as the Panthers get set to play the
Seattle Seahawks at Bank of America Stadium coming up on
Sunday afternoon.

Speaker 6 (48:51):
Hey, Buddy.

Speaker 11 (48:53):
The phone, I wanted to touch on something last week,
takes about it.

Speaker 3 (48:56):
That was you, buddy, that was me.

Speaker 8 (48:58):
You know what, the best part of all of this
has been. See, we love our listeners and I feel
like we're all kind of family. Now Buddy calls in
about something else and he says to us, well, I've
got you on the line.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
That's the greatest call the day, Betty, by.

Speaker 11 (49:15):
Joe, have a great morning.

Speaker 9 (49:16):
I love to listening to you.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
It's gonna be good morning, bet and Betty.

Speaker 5 (49:19):
That's right, it's gonna be good morning, bet Buddy. Alright, guys, Bye,
This is good morning beat with Bow and pell.

Speaker 13 (49:31):
How do you like to spend Christmas on Christmas? How'd
you like to spend a holiday away across Susie?

Speaker 11 (49:45):
Do you hear?

Speaker 13 (49:46):
Do you like to spend Christmas on Christmas?

Speaker 8 (49:51):
Where have you heard this before?

Speaker 27 (49:54):
Else?

Speaker 13 (49:54):
How'd you like to hang your talking on a great
big cob?

Speaker 8 (49:58):
Leon Redbone is the guy's name.

Speaker 13 (50:01):
How do you like to stay?

Speaker 14 (50:03):
Actually, Boomer has a Leon Redbone Christmas song, not this one,
but he has one in the Holiday boom box. So
listen carefully, very famous voice. Where have you heard it
before on this show?

Speaker 13 (50:16):
If you ever spend Christmas?

Speaker 8 (50:21):
Dig deep now? Actually not that deep. It's been like
the last week day Christmas. You are disappointing me.

Speaker 1 (50:30):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 8 (50:32):
James Keithly, James kith fly, No like go back to
It's just just Leon here.

Speaker 13 (50:42):
On Christmas?

Speaker 1 (50:44):
All right, I'm gonna.

Speaker 8 (50:45):
Blow your mind ready, it's actual like to hang his stock.

Speaker 13 (50:48):
Here we go a great big cop Tree street song.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
It's it's your favorite theme song, singer as.

Speaker 8 (51:00):
Mean, come on, that's next level?

Speaker 24 (51:04):
Wow?

Speaker 8 (51:06):
Any excuse, Bethel, any excuse to play this song? All
hands look out there? Not a Christmas song but makes
me feel.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
Christmas Eve they had a Christmas episode.

Speaker 8 (51:17):
That's right. Hell, how do you know that because you
listened to this show all right? According to On Arrival,
you Gotta Finish was more than news s, survival, right,
even festivals?

Speaker 14 (51:28):
Just my live good life here okay, seven thirty nine
on News Talk eleven to ten WBT, we were, well,
we're gonna get to the canalis here in a second.
But something happened off the year that you said this
must go on the year, so I will a block.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
Well we are still, I mean, our text line is
blowing up with grievances for Festivus. And first of all,
I love this person's name. This is Pickle Pickle and
fort Mill you're my new best friend. Pickle Pickle says,
here's a scary thought. People that use their blinker at
a roundabout or to breed.

Speaker 16 (52:01):
Oh why are they talking like that, Beth? Because their
name is Pickled, you just assume that they talked that way?

Speaker 3 (52:07):
No, don't. Was I using a one?

Speaker 1 (52:08):
I have a British eccent?

Speaker 3 (52:09):
Was I using a voice? Did I have a voice?
But then this is the next part, he said, Oh,
and couples sitting on the same side of the booth.
It's just creepy. We had a conversation about this like
a month ago, and one of my best friends was like, Beth,
we sit on the same side of the booth. Not

(52:30):
she and I, but she and her man. And so
they went to dinner that night and sent me a
picture and it just said saying hi, from the same
side of the booth.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
Oh, that would creep me out.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
So I said to bo We talked about the fact,
you know, sitting beside someone in the booth and not
across from them. If and I said this to bo I, look,
I said, Well, if I'm on the same side of
the booth and I have to turn my head to
talk to them, if I turn my head for too long,
I get nauseated.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
What both say?

Speaker 3 (53:00):
What did both say?

Speaker 1 (53:01):
Right back to me, You're so weird.

Speaker 3 (53:03):
You're so weird, and shook his head in serious judgment,
like seriously judging. But if I turn my head, like
if I'm on an airplane and somebody talks.

Speaker 14 (53:13):
Most people say, I turn my head, and I if
I do it too long, I get like a criock
in my neck, I get a nausey.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
To go to the hospital.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
I was at a Mexican restaurant with friends, and I
like the person that.

Speaker 8 (53:25):
Was no, wait wait wait, stop looking at me, looking
at me cross. I don't want time to I don't
want you to. You know, we can have a have
an accident here.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
You're across for me. I'm looking straight at you know.

Speaker 14 (53:36):
But but but like everybody's like, Okay, you stare at somebody,
and you stare at too long, what's going to happen?
I think like point zero zero one percent would say, oh,
I'm going to throw up.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
No, it's not when I stare at somebody across from me.
It's when I look, especially to my left. If I
look to my left for too long, I will throw up.

Speaker 8 (53:56):
I get sick again.

Speaker 24 (53:58):
Again.

Speaker 8 (53:59):
You are oh odd.

Speaker 3 (54:01):
This has to happen to someone else. This has to
happen to other people where if you look for too long,
if your head has turned for too long.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
What happened to her? Doctor el, she just fell asleep
on her left side. You get threw up. She kept
throwing up and wouldn't stop.

Speaker 3 (54:15):
I get nauseating.

Speaker 8 (54:16):
Hang on, hang on, Merry Christmas, Charlotte.

Speaker 3 (54:21):
I cannot be the only person. Is this weird?

Speaker 1 (54:24):
It sounds like Verdigo for the first time ever.

Speaker 8 (54:26):
I hope no one calls.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
I really hope that this happens to someone else real quick.

Speaker 14 (54:31):
I promise we get to the Canalis. Dave Canalis. He
spoke yesterday Scott Fowler from the Charlotte Observer. Bernie, this
is number one for the Panthers. Scott Fowl, Charlotte Observer
had a question, and I think it's a good one
given what's on the line on Sunday.

Speaker 27 (54:45):
So on Sunday you need a very particular result for
it to matter. Really, you win, Tampa Bay loses. So
I wonder, first of all, will you keep an eye
on the Tampa Bay score throughout the game?

Speaker 2 (54:59):
I will not.

Speaker 4 (55:00):
We can't approach it that way.

Speaker 22 (55:02):
We have to make sure, especially for us, you know,
I appreciate the question, but as we're trying to create
consistency in our product of what we do on the field,
gaming and game out, you know, that's what we're after
and that's what's out there for us to find our
best football, we have to approach it that way, and
we have to make sure that we approach this game
plan that way as the game, you know, continues to

(55:22):
go however it goes. You know, it's like I'm trying
to win this down. I'm trying to win this series
right here, and we all have to be locked in there.
We can't afford to do that in the place that
we're in collectively as a team. We have to continue
to find consistent football.

Speaker 27 (55:38):
I appreciate that. And one other thing related to that,
and that is you have to prepare for all outcomes,
good and bad.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
So if you're down by.

Speaker 27 (55:48):
Three scorers, say in the fourth quarter, ultimately the Seattle
game is pretty meaningless for you, no matter what has
happening in Tampa Bay. Would you at that point consider
setting starters a little earlier, knowing you have to beat
the Bucks in the finale.

Speaker 1 (56:03):
I don't envision us doing that.

Speaker 22 (56:05):
That's again, that's a conversation that you know, Dan and
I have to have philosophically about how we're approaching this.
But you know, again, I think it kind of goes
back to answering it the same way. You know, all
of these reps are so valuable. You know, every series.
You know, as we continue to grow together as a team,
every series matters. As we're trying to develop our schemes,
and our concepts and make sure that we go into

(56:26):
each week with that and then so that we can
learn the lessons so that we can take the next
step when the Bucks week comes on. But we have
all of our focus has to be right here, right
now in the Seahawks.

Speaker 8 (56:33):
He has to say what he has to say. I
don't know that I can totally believe that he's not
going to be looking at that scoreboard if I were
him and you're playing, especially if we're we're winning.

Speaker 14 (56:42):
Yeah, but either way, it's got And the other thing
is is, even if he's not, somebody in his ear
or within the earshot is going.

Speaker 3 (56:49):
To, oh yeah, maybe that's what he does. He has
somebody on his team that he gives that job too,
so that he can keep his mind focused on the
game that he's playing, and then knows that whoever that
is that he assigned that job will tell him in.

Speaker 8 (57:00):
His ear guess what, or or if you're at the stadium,
maybe they you know, keep constant watch on it. Like
I don't know.

Speaker 14 (57:08):
I've never been to a Panthers game where there's been
another game going on at the same time that basically
was contingent on or part of your fate. So I
don't know the degree to which they are allowed to
do that, but you know they flash like if you're
at the game, they'll.

Speaker 8 (57:22):
Have scoreboard updates from around the league.

Speaker 14 (57:25):
But I wonder, like, on the scoreboard this coming Sunday,
are they going to have like a box where it
says what's going on in the other game?

Speaker 3 (57:31):
They should.

Speaker 8 (57:31):
They should at least if it's going well, it's going
badly drama, so it adds to the drama.

Speaker 28 (57:37):
Huh.

Speaker 14 (57:38):
Seven forty five on WBT, let's se John Faulkenberry just said, hey,
tell Beth that for guys turning their heads, they should
follow it up with a cough.

Speaker 21 (57:46):
Oh.

Speaker 6 (57:48):
I do have to.

Speaker 3 (57:50):
I gotta give it. I have to give a shout
out to Jeff too. We wrote in and said, just
tell Beth to look right. She'll be okay just looking
over there. But if if someone is sitting next to
me and they're talking, I'm not gonna be rude and
look away. But if I look there for too long,
I get nausey.

Speaker 1 (58:09):
I can't look at you. I'm gonna throw a No.

Speaker 8 (58:12):
I really like you, but you're making me queasy that
I missed it. I missed it. I'm really queasy about you.

Speaker 14 (58:25):
I'm gonna use that line copyright bo Thompson, Traffic Jack
Boomer Von Cannon turn and call.

Speaker 3 (58:33):
See I can't really Oh yeah you would, Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 8 (58:38):
If anyone has the right to be queasy, it's the
guys not you know.

Speaker 3 (58:42):
I am sorry. Guys, you're never gonna win on this one.
You're never because you don't have to go put your
feet in stirrups.

Speaker 27 (58:48):
It is.

Speaker 3 (58:49):
You're never gonna win on this one.

Speaker 18 (58:51):
Is when you turn and they do what they got
to do. Do you start singing like Melvin Franklin at
the Temptations Papa.

Speaker 3 (58:58):
Or yeah, yeah, Like, oh, poor guys, you have to
turn your head in it off, poor fellows, how did.

Speaker 2 (59:08):
Us versus you?

Speaker 8 (59:09):
You just I'm just talking about that specific case because you.

Speaker 3 (59:12):
Guys were like, you have no idea bout You're right.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (59:15):
Women could really just go childbirth and then that's like
end of argument.

Speaker 3 (59:19):
You're not gonna win it that. I'm not trying to.

Speaker 8 (59:23):
I'm just talking about that particular example.

Speaker 3 (59:26):
Oh you, poor fellas, look at coffee. Must be so hard.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
That's her orange juice.

Speaker 17 (59:31):
If you go to a concert or a name with bath.
Make sure you sit to her right.

Speaker 20 (59:35):
I'm sorry, right, I'm sorry.

Speaker 14 (59:37):
I'm over here, really struggling with my Trafficanda, that's the drink.
Oh man.

Speaker 8 (59:46):
We can't get out of the way of Festivus today.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
We keep coming back to festivals by accident.

Speaker 7 (01:00:13):
Hi.

Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
Oh, let's go. Oh, let's go. Oh, let's go, let's go.

Speaker 11 (01:00:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:00:25):
We're moving things around a little bit today some holiday tetrising.
David Chadbuck and Marilyn Chadbuck are going to be in
here from eight thirty five to nine thirty five today.
Special pre Christmas visit with them Dirty Restaurant Tuesday is
going to happen at eight twenty today and our visit
with Breaking Brett Jensen is a little bit earlier too,

(01:00:47):
and he is kind of like us. He's on at
Spot places over the next few weeks. Brett Jensen, Merry Christmas,
Happy holidays, my.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
Friend, Merry Christmas, Happy holidays.

Speaker 14 (01:00:59):
So what is your schedule for the next couple of
weeks here as far as your show and it's it's
usual spot.

Speaker 29 (01:01:06):
So I was off for a week and a half
and then I worked yesterday, and I work tonight and
today and then I come back January fifth.

Speaker 3 (01:01:16):
Col So you've got a nice little little holiday break.
Are you doing one of your famous Brett Jensen travel extravaganzas.
Are you going somewhere bizarre to celebrate?

Speaker 29 (01:01:25):
You know, it's funny you say that because over the
last I don't know, like a week or so. Yeah,
I've been looking. I've narrowed it down to like three places.

Speaker 8 (01:01:34):
So yeah, she's just trying to get me to play it, Brett.
She's trying to you know what I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
I gotta be honest with you. I love the song.

Speaker 4 (01:01:45):
Breaking it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
Where in the world is okay?

Speaker 8 (01:02:04):
That's a Christmas gift to all of Charlotte.

Speaker 14 (01:02:07):
Hey, I told you, and we'll get into this in
a moment, but I told you when we talked yesterday,
I said, this is going to be our last conversation
with Brett for the year because of your schedule and
our schedules. So before we end this conversation, you're going
to tell us your biggest story of the year and
your biggest prediction for twenty twenty six. It's the back
and forth thing that we do annually here. But first,

(01:02:27):
let's talk about your show last night. Your show's tonight
because you got these two, what have you got cooking?

Speaker 29 (01:02:34):
Well, So tonight I've got David Longo coming in studio
with me for an hour. And he may not be
someone familiar with you know, the average listener, but or
even you know the average person, but he is.

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
He was the CEO of the.

Speaker 29 (01:02:51):
Charlotte Regional Business Alliance no longer is you know, he's ranking,
you know, he's real high with the Charlotte City Center partners,
you know, but he's the one who basically is behind
and helped put forth the ones in sales tax and
he sort of oversees and he's gonna be like sort
of like, yes, they've named their chairs and everything else,

(01:03:14):
but he sort of oversees the Transit Authority and he
just they just had their first meeting last Thursday where
they went through and they named their you know, the
chair and everything else. So he's gonna come in studio
with me for an hour tonight and we're gonna break everything.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
Down with the light rail and cats and safety and
what are the priorities, what are not the priorities?

Speaker 29 (01:03:38):
You know, is it possible to have a police officer
on every single light rail car?

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
There's only twenty cars. There's only twenty.

Speaker 29 (01:03:45):
So like there's sixty, there's twenty cars, So why can't
you have twenty officers at all times on the light rail.

Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
So we're gonna talk about all that tonight.

Speaker 14 (01:03:55):
Okay, So that's coming up tonight six o'clock right here
on WBT, and that'll be your life show for the year,
right correct.

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
Well, yes, well, let me take that back.

Speaker 29 (01:04:06):
So on December thirty first and January first, I will
be doing breaking down the top ten stories that I
broke this year.

Speaker 3 (01:04:17):
Oh okay, so a nice little top ten countdown. Do
you have speaking of that, do you have predictions for
twenty twenty six where we're headed, what's going to happen,
what you might be able to break?

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
Well? I do think this.

Speaker 29 (01:04:35):
You know, we saw a preview of it in November,
on November fourth, on election Day, and I think it's
going to be a very very tough year, specifically in
North Carolina locally for Republicans. I do think it's going
to be a very difficult year when it comes to
the elections in November and everything else. But I will

(01:04:58):
say because North Carolina is just one of the weirdest states,
in the country. When it comes to voting, they tend
to vote Democrat locally and they tend to vote Republican federally.
I mean, that's that's the only way you can explain
how Mitt Romney ever won this state and Trump's won
the state three times, so even though they've had Democrat

(01:05:18):
governors and Democrat everything else.

Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
So I think that, you know, I think that Wattley.
I think that Michael Wattley.

Speaker 29 (01:05:28):
You know, it's going to be really really close and
a point point and a half, but I think Watley
does pull out the states or the Senate seat.

Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
But when you look at everything else, whether it's local elections.

Speaker 29 (01:05:41):
Here across Wake County, Durham, wherever it is, I think
it's going to be a very difficult year for Republicans
here in the state, just because the way the state
is acting. And you saw it in November fourth where
in you know, many of the counties, the Democrat turnout
was up minimum fifty percent, up one hundred and twenty

(01:06:03):
five percent across the state, not just Mickelibar County. And
when you see that, you're going, Okay, a lot of
people are really ticked off right now, And yeah, go.

Speaker 3 (01:06:13):
Ahead, you just made probably one of the biggest predictions.
You just predicted that Roy Cooper would lose his first
election ever.

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
Well, but you have to look at to why.

Speaker 29 (01:06:25):
When he ran for state Senate, he was in one
of the most gerrymandered districts in the state, and so
he never really had a challenger. And then he ran
for attorney general. And when you're run for attorney general
in North Carolina, a Republican has never in the history
of North Carolina won the attorney general in an election
ever in the history going back to the eighteen sixties

(01:06:47):
when Republicans, you know, were coming around, and so it's
a position that a Republican has never won. And then
when he ran for governor twice, he ran against someone
that had the worst campaign maybe in the history of
North Carolina, Dan Forest. And then he was running against
Pat McCrory who had upset so many people in the
Charlotte area with a transit with the transit line, or

(01:07:09):
excuse me, with the toll lanes. And each of those
two people, McCrory and Dan Forrest, decided they weren't going
to do anything negative or say anything bad about Roy Cooper.

Speaker 2 (01:07:20):
They were just going to.

Speaker 29 (01:07:20):
Focus in on themselves. Meanwhile, Roy Cooper's throwing darts, slings
and arrows, and neither one of them had a chance
to win. Okay, so you know, this will be the
very first time someone will have gone after Roy Cooper
in an area that is generally fifty to fifty or
maybe even Lean's republican most of the time in terms

(01:07:43):
of elections as opposed to governor, because governors only had
what three four Republican governors since what the nineteen hundreds.

Speaker 14 (01:07:50):
Okay, we got about we got about thirty seconds. I
want to get your story of the year because we
had the prediction and that's a big one, and we're
gonna keep watch on that obviously, But what would be
your story of the year for twenty twenty five.

Speaker 29 (01:08:01):
It's got to be the originals of Risco, Like that's
the one that I had hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
of thousands of views on Twitter and everything else that
made not just national news, but it made global news.
They were talking about it literally in Australia and Germany
and France where it made all their news. The BBC
was talking about it. The mayor's statement literally went international.

(01:08:21):
It was so bad and that has to be, without question,
the story of the year for Charlotte in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 14 (01:08:28):
Okay, and many stories this year that Brett Jensen broke,
and that's going to be part of the special that's
coming up, the top ten stories that breaking Brett broke
in twenty twenty five. We're going to have to stop
it there. And this is our last conversation with you
live on this show. So happy holidays.

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
Mery Christmas, Smith, Merry Christmas everyone.

Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
And I know.

Speaker 8 (01:08:49):
You said Big Burn.

Speaker 14 (01:08:51):
I have it on good authority that this is Brett's
favorite Christmas song because it's part of Boomer's holiday boombox.
So that'll be coming up tomorrow borrow and throughout the
next couple of days we'll talk to you on the
flip side.

Speaker 8 (01:09:03):
Man, be safe out there.

Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
Sounds good, guys, Appreciate it all right, Merry Christmas. Wonder
twins weren't.

Speaker 8 (01:09:18):
Got to learn of the true I don't know about
I'm a drink race.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
In the first straight fact rate district.

Speaker 8 (01:09:22):
We'll get right on it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
Why they're drink.

Speaker 6 (01:09:26):
From the one o seven point nine FM w BT
Charlotte Fmdues Talk.

Speaker 2 (01:09:31):
This is the way this is the way, the way.

Speaker 6 (01:09:35):
This is good morning bat with Bo Thompson and Beth Trouts.

Speaker 24 (01:09:39):
Shut nor.

Speaker 29 (01:09:44):
God, hurry, let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
It's about time for the official light.

Speaker 3 (01:09:47):
Of the Christmas extreme my gods, come on, come on,
come on, Connie. I hope you didn't get back into
this whole competition thing again.

Speaker 17 (01:09:53):
Please, I'm passing, okay, I have nothing to prove this year.

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
I'm going through it like a low key approach.

Speaker 24 (01:09:59):
All right.

Speaker 25 (01:10:00):
When I put the switch to be kind of bright
so you can need these sunglasses, don't look directly at
the snowman.

Speaker 13 (01:10:07):
Come on, it's Christmas.

Speaker 20 (01:10:09):
What about Jesus? You think he cared about getting a
bunch of gifts on his birthday?

Speaker 8 (01:10:14):
Rum, that's all he wanted.

Speaker 1 (01:10:17):
I'm singing, I'm in a store. I'm singing it.

Speaker 8 (01:10:21):
I made a store, right bright bet, pipe down over there,
I mean that is you.

Speaker 3 (01:10:31):
You're gonna laugh because look at my socks today.

Speaker 8 (01:10:33):
Oh well there you go.

Speaker 14 (01:10:35):
We got the Will Ferrell Elf socks and the green
matching shoes.

Speaker 3 (01:10:39):
Yeah, I'm very festival esque. Festival festivity, festive, festive, festive
is the word I'm looking for.

Speaker 8 (01:10:48):
Festivus if.

Speaker 14 (01:10:52):
Happy holidays, everybody, Merry Christmas, Happy Festivus as well. I
want to bring on the WBT hotline right now two
people very very very special to us. We talk about
them every year with the Kids First Hancock's Bikes for
Kids Drive, and that happened a few weeks ago, but
we have an update today and it's our last show
of the year. So I thought it'd be great to

(01:11:12):
get Brent Sanders and Hailey Sanders of Kids First of
the Carolinas, because Brent and Haley have been flooding my
text stream here with all kinds of great news about
bikes that are being distributed and resources that are getting
to people, and we ask you all here over the
fifty thousand watts to help us with us every year
and whenever we can, I like to follow up because

(01:11:34):
I think people want to know how things went. And
so our last live show of the year, great, great
opportunity to welcome back one more time Brent Sanders from
Kids First.

Speaker 24 (01:11:43):
Hi, Brent, Hey, bo, Hey Dath, how are you.

Speaker 14 (01:11:46):
Hi?

Speaker 3 (01:11:47):
Merry Christmas to you, and I'm so excited about this update.

Speaker 14 (01:11:50):
And Haley you're there too, right, Yeah, Hey, y'all have
it going going well, going well, But actually you should
be telling us how it's going, cause Brent, I was
trying to keep track of all the stats here and
all the all the bikes that have been deployed out
there into the city already.

Speaker 8 (01:12:04):
So give us an update.

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
We need to we need to hire a.

Speaker 21 (01:12:09):
Statistician or whatever we call them. We've got, you know,
we because of you and your listeners with the bike
drive and right after we got eight hundred and twelve
bikes and we're down to thirty in the store, they've
gone out into the community and it's been a catalyst.
We've helped over a thousand families so far with bikes

(01:12:32):
and gifts and clothing and and and and food and
bare necessities. This year, your listeners have have gone to
our website, you know kids first of the Carolina dot
orgon they've donated and it's been an amazing, an amazing
holiday season. And we're doing this, you know, today tomorrow,

(01:12:54):
all the way through Christmas. We're helping families right up
until you know, Christmas Eve at midnight. And your listeners
have just been a tremendous, tremendous boost to this community
this year. It's amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:13:07):
So, Haley, I know that you guys just love love
doing this every year, and I know that it fills
your hearts. I know it fills our listeners' hearts to
be able to give and to help. Do you have
any stories in particular that you want to share with
us of some of the families that you've helped.

Speaker 28 (01:13:24):
Oh, my gosh, absolutely we've had, you know, some amazing
stories come in this year and some not so amazing
that we got to help those families too. And you know,
we had a family that the father passed two days
before Thanksgiving and they found their way to kids first
and we were able to help them have Christmas and

(01:13:44):
get them bikes. And I think that was really special
because these kids have been going through it, so they're
going to wake up with hopefully a smile Christmas morning.

Speaker 14 (01:13:53):
Well, and I love the pictures that you sent Brent
and Haley, because again we see the bikes being loaded
up into the trucks and we see the listeners drop
them off Friday a few weeks ago. But now you
see pictures of those bikes going into the hands of
the families that need them too.

Speaker 21 (01:14:09):
We had a family come in the other day that
was so cute. Bo and Beth that the mom came in.
She had three, three boys, and they came in a
little razor scooters and they got their gifts and they
had you know, you know, we actually go shop for
the families. We have shoppers that go out. We take
the donations and we shopped for the special things that
they asked for. That's the essence of kids first. And

(01:14:32):
we got them all the things they ask for, their
toys and clothes, and we said, do you want bikes?
And the mom goes, we didn't ask for bikes, but
the boys go, can we please have bikes? And the
mom goes to get you have to give and they go,
we'll give them our We'll donate our scooters if we
can have bikes. And they gave us their scooters and

(01:14:54):
they took the bikes. And you've never seen three happier
young boys in your life.

Speaker 28 (01:15:00):
Wow.

Speaker 14 (01:15:01):
And that's great because you know, that's teaching them a
lesson at the same time, and hopefully that creates sort
of a worldview going forward that no matter how much
you have, or maybe you think you don't have that much,
you've probably got more than somebody out there. And then
that sort of you know, reinforces as they get older.
I think that's a great that's a great story because
there's a lesson in there too.

Speaker 8 (01:15:22):
That's right, that's awesome.

Speaker 28 (01:15:24):
Well, look, and we can definitely tell you there's some
there's some kids first, kids that are now old enough
and coming back to volunteer. The parents have changed their
lives around, and so it's it's just heartwarming to see
it come full cycle too.

Speaker 14 (01:15:38):
Well, your mom would be proud, Haley, I know she would.
And this is carrying on the grand tradition that she
started so many years ago. Sharon Sanders And look, we
love you guys. This was great to get an update
and and remember we'll reinforce the fact that the need
is still there. You guys are working all the way
up until till crunch time.

Speaker 8 (01:15:56):
Kids.

Speaker 14 (01:15:56):
First of the Carolinas dot O RG and then Brent
reminded the locations of where people can drop off things.

Speaker 21 (01:16:03):
Yeah, it's pineal Matthews eighty three twenty eight pineal Matthews Road.
It's mollen Creek Shopping Center. We're right by the quick
walk and we have our store location there. Come see
us or make a donation. Thank you so much for
Merry Christmas. Bow and Bath you.

Speaker 3 (01:16:17):
Too, Thank you, Mary, Christmas to you all, Thank you, Haley,
Thanks you all have a great holiday.

Speaker 14 (01:16:22):
And I mentioned that Sharon would be so proud. I
know John Hancock is too, because he's been part of
the text chains as well, and he of course this
is all stemming back to Hancock and Sharon's relationship. Kids
First of the Carolinas, back in the day. Kids First
of the Carolinas, dot o RG.

Speaker 8 (01:16:38):
It's time for order up Dirty Restaurant Tuesday.

Speaker 21 (01:16:41):
Waiter, there's a.

Speaker 3 (01:16:42):
Fly in my so could you do something about it?

Speaker 29 (01:16:45):
Ah?

Speaker 14 (01:16:45):
Yes, it's a special holiday early edition of Dirty Restaurant
Tuesday with the one only Oh Mark Santa Garrison.

Speaker 8 (01:16:53):
Yeah, good morning, sir.

Speaker 30 (01:16:56):
Hey, good morning. Why are you still working? Don't you
people know it's Christmas in two days. You're supposed to
have some kind of mediocre substitute in.

Speaker 2 (01:17:02):
For you this morning.

Speaker 3 (01:17:04):
Good morning. Bet it's the gift that keeps on giving
to us.

Speaker 8 (01:17:07):
I'm telling you, wow, this is what we love doing
the show.

Speaker 17 (01:17:11):
Mark always have what it is?

Speaker 10 (01:17:14):
Water?

Speaker 30 (01:17:16):
Are you going to tell us someplace you've been eating?
You like there in sugar Bell before this is all done.

Speaker 3 (01:17:22):
I certainly can you know I'm always eating.

Speaker 8 (01:17:27):
You and me both trapping eating.

Speaker 30 (01:17:32):
Start in Cornelia's Phonam Vietnamese an eighty five point fun.
Person in charge was not ensuring that anybody was washing
while prepping food.

Speaker 24 (01:17:46):
That's encouraging.

Speaker 30 (01:17:48):
The inspector saw the person in charge and an employee
not wash before putting on their gloves and handling food
and dishes. So I had to stop and have a
hand washing lesson. The deli slicer was not clean, had
old food stuck to it.

Speaker 24 (01:18:03):
That was a repeat violation.

Speaker 30 (01:18:05):
Yum yum, Yeah, there you go. Had pork and a
pot of soup on the stove that was not nearly
hot enough. Observed fried tofu, cooked cabbage and pork and
noodles all sitting out too long and had to be
thrown out.

Speaker 24 (01:18:19):
And they had some kind of flying insects in the kitchen.

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
Oh ooh, so it's the.

Speaker 30 (01:18:24):
Phone Nom Vietnamese Cornelius eighty five point five. Now if
you like to eat at a golf course, The kitchen
at the Pine Island Country Club had an eighty eight
point five and the inspector Rights observed an overall lack
of control throughout the kitchen.

Speaker 8 (01:18:45):
It's chaos.

Speaker 30 (01:18:46):
It's just chaos back here. Somebody keeps yelling four and
employee not washing. Worked with dirty dishes, then clean dishes
and never washed. But no wonder there was no soap
or paper towels at the hand scene. The dishwasher had
no sanitizer and no detergent at all. They didn't have any.
So the inspector said, you don't have to wash things

(01:19:08):
by hand. So the soux chef goes running out and
buys some detergent.

Speaker 8 (01:19:11):
Oh, I had to make a soap run.

Speaker 1 (01:19:14):
Whatever it takes you.

Speaker 30 (01:19:15):
Yeah, a lot of items had no date there at
the golf course, cooked mushrooms, bacon, jam, sweet potatoes, just
to name a few. They had other items way out
of date, fruit salad, hot dogs, mac and cheese. That
must have been some old hot dogs. All of them
had to be thrown out. Employees cell phones on the
table where food was being prepared, so the inspector made

(01:19:39):
them put away the phones and sanitize the table.

Speaker 24 (01:19:42):
So that's the kitchen at the Pine Island Country Club
eighty eight point five.

Speaker 8 (01:19:47):
I don't know about the nineteenth hole on that one.

Speaker 30 (01:19:50):
Yeah, for sure, I'd be in the hole if you
eat there. Here's the lowest one of the morning. Cafe
Brundovin that's kind of an elegant name.

Speaker 24 (01:20:02):
Cafe broom Dog.

Speaker 30 (01:20:03):
Wait what Brundoven in the University area eighty one point five.

Speaker 3 (01:20:08):
Oh oh no, is that a little German place? Is
it German?

Speaker 30 (01:20:12):
Kind of sounds German, doesn't it? Yeah, octum repeat violation.
Nobody there washing. The hand sink, in fact, was blocked
and had other stuff stored in it. Raw chicken was
stored above ready to eat foods. The cutting board was
dirty with old food on it.

Speaker 24 (01:20:30):
Let's see.

Speaker 30 (01:20:30):
They had a lot of items that had wrong temperature
and some kind of mystery potato dish. The inspector didn't
recognize it, but it had whatever it was, it had
no date on it.

Speaker 24 (01:20:41):
So they had to take care of that.

Speaker 30 (01:20:44):
They had this is weird a spray bottle of peroxide
sitting by the cooler.

Speaker 24 (01:20:50):
The manager said, I don't know why it's there, so.

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
They threw it out making throwers.

Speaker 8 (01:20:57):
They thought they were gonna need it for something though, Yeah, sure,
uh so.

Speaker 30 (01:21:00):
Cafe Brundawn in the University area near Mallard Creek eighty
one point five.

Speaker 8 (01:21:06):
You know what I say to that, Bernie to say chose,
or before.

Speaker 3 (01:21:10):
You go in you say octog Babe.

Speaker 8 (01:21:14):
Off Viterson.

Speaker 30 (01:21:18):
Got us a dirty food truck here it is called
tasty Halal number two.

Speaker 4 (01:21:24):
Oh, it's an unfortunate seven.

Speaker 24 (01:21:28):
It might affect number two eighty seven. Uh.

Speaker 30 (01:21:32):
The manager had no food safety training. The manager also
admitted they do not clean the prep table or the
utensils except once a day. The inspector said, no, you're
supposed to clean throughout the day. The spatula, this is
kind of weird dispatula they were using on the flat
top was stored in a dirty crevice on the wall.

Speaker 1 (01:21:55):
Crevis.

Speaker 3 (01:21:56):
Why is anyone storing a specula in a crevis?

Speaker 1 (01:21:59):
It's in that crevice of there.

Speaker 24 (01:22:02):
Well, I guess it was convenient.

Speaker 8 (01:22:03):
Maybe this is not a word that's just show.

Speaker 3 (01:22:06):
Up anywhere, especially with hell all number two.

Speaker 30 (01:22:09):
Yeah, which kreviser we talking? Oh God, tasty helal number
two and eighty seven.

Speaker 24 (01:22:20):
Let's see you've got a couple more here. Oh, this
is interesting.

Speaker 30 (01:22:26):
The Knichiwa Sushi, Steak and Seafood on East Boulevard had
a ninety two. That's a little low for me, but
this is interesting. Shows you even in ninety two. There's
problems there. The health department is forcing them to set
up a specific plan to put dates on food because
they've been repeatedly in violation.

Speaker 24 (01:22:47):
So it's forced compliance put date on food or else.

Speaker 3 (01:22:50):
And it's a sushi place.

Speaker 30 (01:22:52):
Yeah, And this particular inspection found a container of raw
tuna way out of date had be thrown away, crab
salad had the wrong date, and another fish mixture that
sounds mysterious was out of date.

Speaker 24 (01:23:04):
And had to go into the trash. So that's the
Knichiwa Sushi, Steak and Seafood East Boulevard in ninety two.

Speaker 30 (01:23:11):
And I got one more here mesa Mediterranean on Strawberry Hill,
Province Road eighty seven. Person in charge no food safety training,
inspector said, could not answer most questions about food safety.
Finally his boss showed up and he apparently knew a
little more.

Speaker 1 (01:23:30):
There you go. That's good.

Speaker 30 (01:23:33):
The flat they're kind of wondering how they cooked anything there.
The flat top grill which they used to cook meat
was not working, most of the burners broken. The oven
was in total disrepair. So the inspector said, you need
to get this stuff fixed. Employees' coats and their phones
were hanging above customer food.

Speaker 2 (01:23:56):
What different coat?

Speaker 24 (01:23:58):
Yeah, their coats and their phones hanging above the food.
That's kind of weird.

Speaker 8 (01:24:02):
That is really weird and crabit.

Speaker 30 (01:24:04):
There you go, mes a Mediterranean grill, Strawberry Hill and
eighty seven one a petite a lot of dirt right
here before Christmas.

Speaker 3 (01:24:16):
I will tell you really quickly.

Speaker 24 (01:24:17):
I ate it.

Speaker 3 (01:24:18):
My favorite Bono's this spot. I take him there often.
My favorite little spot when I'm out and about running errands.
Chopped Creative Salad Company over at Park Road Shopping Center.

Speaker 24 (01:24:27):
Oh did he survive?

Speaker 8 (01:24:28):
Well, I'm a big fan of chep.

Speaker 2 (01:24:30):
Oh I am good.

Speaker 24 (01:24:32):
I am I finally tried it.

Speaker 3 (01:24:33):
It is delightful. I always get their kale caesar salad,
all kale, no romain.

Speaker 8 (01:24:39):
Okay, what's wrong with you? I never ever get kale anywhere?

Speaker 1 (01:24:44):
Yeah never.

Speaker 21 (01:24:45):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:24:46):
They have a ninety seven point five.

Speaker 30 (01:24:48):
Yeah, they're good, and some of their salads are just spectacular.
I go through there and go, yeah, I want this,
I want that, I want this, yeah please, And by
the end there's no green.

Speaker 24 (01:24:58):
I'm so disappointed that feat kale, but not surprise.

Speaker 6 (01:25:01):
Oh, I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:25:02):
I love Kale.

Speaker 8 (01:25:03):
Keith what the kale are you talking about?

Speaker 24 (01:25:08):
Thank you Mark, Yes, Merry Christmas, New kids.

Speaker 8 (01:25:10):
You too, well see, we'll see on the flip side.
I used to always play this.

Speaker 14 (01:25:24):
Particular rendition of this song leading into the final segment
of a Christmas show that I used to put together
for WBT back in the nineties in the early two thousands.

Speaker 8 (01:25:35):
It was called Christmas and Charlotte.

Speaker 14 (01:25:37):
And it was about at its height, and what I
mean is at the height of my ambition to try
to put this together. It was about five hours long,
and it featured all of our WBT team members and
a lot of the network talent that you would hear
as well. So a lot of you know, a lot
of work went into putting this together. But I would
always close it out with a segment with David Shadwick,

(01:25:59):
who would wort of put the kind of the cap
on the year and sort of give everybody a message
going in to their holiday celebrations and then things to
think about heading into you know, the year that was
upon us.

Speaker 8 (01:26:11):
And it was always a great way to end things.

Speaker 14 (01:26:14):
And as I've done this show over the years, David
Chadwick has also been part of this show, and so
we always end up visiting towards the end of the year,
and this year the best trap when we have a
very special way to do this because not just David Chadwick,
but Marilyn Chadwick is with us for the next hour
and we're going to talk about the holiday season. We're
going to talk about Christmas, and we're going to talk

(01:26:35):
about a very important word, David Chadwick.

Speaker 4 (01:26:38):
Angels. Angels. Yeah, you know, Marylyn and I right now
in the church we passed for Moments of Hope Church,
we're studying the Gospel of Luke verse five, verse and
I intentionally did that during the Christmas season because the
first two chapters are all about the Christmas story. But
if you really read the Gospel of Luke through it out,
it has so many stories about angels. And angels are

(01:26:59):
everywhere in the Christmas narrative. And in case our listeners
don't know, they are creatures created by God who have
two purposes to worship Him and also to serve Him.
So God directs angels like Gabriel to go to Elizabeth
and Zachariah and to Mary and to say, hey, you're
going to have a baby. Elizabeth and Zachariah is John
the Baptist, than to marry, of course, is Jesus. And

(01:27:20):
so we thought it'd be fun, Bod Beth to come
in to be with you and just talk about angels
during this segment because they're so powerful. But actually, Marilyn
and I have had some encounters that we have no
other explanation except they must have been angels. And Marilynd,
I know you love this subject.

Speaker 3 (01:27:35):
Well, David, I do.

Speaker 31 (01:27:36):
And I also love the Gospel of Luke, which is
often called the Gospel of the Angels. Did y'all know that?

Speaker 3 (01:27:42):
And he was the scientist.

Speaker 31 (01:27:43):
Luke is the doctor, but he has more references to
angels than any of the gospels. And David, how many
times I think angels are mentioned three hundred times in
the Bible. They're everywhere. They kind of sneak in and
out of every narrative.

Speaker 4 (01:27:55):
Yeah, and again. Their purpose is to do whatever God
directs them to do, and they're oftentimes coming from heaven
to serve God's people here and again, we just have
several stories ourselves. We have no other explanation except God
must have sent an angel to help us during a
time of need. I know, Beth you love this topic
as well as we've talked all about angels and just
how important they are to our personal lives, to the

(01:28:16):
scripture and to the Christmas story, and to.

Speaker 3 (01:28:18):
The experiences that people have, you know, just like you.
I think so many people have experiences, have these moments
in their lives where they don't have an explanation other
than it has to be it must have been an
angel that touched my heart or changed the direction of
my life, or changed just some moment that meant so

(01:28:39):
much to their hearts.

Speaker 4 (01:28:40):
So I'm in a car in Orlando, Florida, driving down
Interstate Forward. This is early on in our married life.
We finally had Bethanny, our daughter. She was in the
back seat as a baby, strapped into the car seat,
driving down the road at night, and it's pouring down
rain and I'm just trying to see as best I can.
A few feet ahead of me, and I start to

(01:29:02):
signal and go into the right lane next to me,
and all of a sudden, I mean this literally, something
took hold of the wheel and turned it back to
the left and put me back in the lane where
I was right at that moment. A sixteen wheeler or
However many wheels it was zipped by me, and had
I gone into that lane, well, we wouldn't be in

(01:29:22):
the studio right now together. I can promise you that,
and especially our daughter would not have lived through that.
I have no other explanation. I know I was turning
it to go into that right lane and suddenly something
grabbed hold of the wheel and turned it back into
that other lane. I have no other explanation except I
think God sent an angel from heaven to protect us
because he had a plan for our lives that wasn't
yet fulfilled.

Speaker 14 (01:29:43):
We're talking to David and Marilyn Chadwick and if you're
new to the show via one oh seven point nine.
David is the senior pastor and Moments of Hope Church
here in town. He also hosts The David Chadwick Show
on Sundays at eight am, and it is one of
the longest running shows period on this radio station, been
going on for over a quarter of a century. And
so David's always been somebody near and dear to me

(01:30:06):
and somebody that's been part of this show. And we
also today as we're heading this is our last show
before Christmas. If you have a story now, David, I
know you have stories, and Marylyn you have stories, and
Beth and myself. But if you have a story, if
you're listening seven oh four five seven oh one oh
seven nine, you can also text us at or driven
by libertybuw at GMC as always, but if you have

(01:30:28):
a story, we'd like to hear that because I feel
like this is a message that as Beth and I
always say that somebody out there may need to hear
this morning, maybe more than anybody else, and you never
know who that's going to be. But we want this
to be interacted today if you all will indulge us
here on WBT seven oh four five seven one oh
seven nine.

Speaker 8 (01:30:48):
Will continue twelve minutes away from.

Speaker 14 (01:30:57):
Nine o'clock here on WBT one o seven point nine FM,
Charlotte's FM News Talk. It's our final show before Christmas.
We are live and local today on Good Morning BT.
Bow and Beth and joined in studio by two of
our favorite people out there and longtime voices you've heard
on this station. David Chadwick from Moments of Hope Church

(01:31:17):
and The David Chadwick Show and his wife Marylyn, and
they are both together in studio today.

Speaker 4 (01:31:22):
It's great to be with you guys. Thank you for
the privilege the day before Christmas Eve to just share
some things that are dear to our hearts.

Speaker 3 (01:31:29):
Well, I got a good, solid, twenty second full hug
for Maryland. That's right, and it's been a long time
since it does. And I wouldn't let her go. She
tried to move away and I was full twenty seconds.
That's a nice way to start my day.

Speaker 24 (01:31:42):
Ben.

Speaker 4 (01:31:43):
Yeah, listeners, Beth is the huggiest person on mcclanet.

Speaker 14 (01:31:46):
I think a that's a good description, the huggiest person, huggist,
you know. And it's not lost on us that you
all are here for an hour in person. And what
is one of your most hectic weeks all year. I
know you love this week just as you love the
Easter season, but as as someone who does what you do, David,
there's a lot going on.

Speaker 4 (01:32:07):
There's a lot going on. Christmas and Easter are our
two most hectic times of the year. And you know,
tomorrow we'll have three services of the church, I pastor
Moments of Hope Church, and we're also trying to raise
money too through WBT and we are now I think
around sixty percent of our goals has been reached. So
if any listener would like to give to a cause
that's going to help feed kids and help them learn

(01:32:28):
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can give in. Your money is immediately double. So it's
a busy time for a lot of different reasons.

Speaker 14 (01:32:35):
We have people that are already calling us seven oh
four five, seven, one oh seven nine. The text line
is available as well, but I said I wanted this
to be interactive if if you wanted it to be,
and you do apparently. Line number one is Stafford Stafford,
Welcome to Good morning BT, Thank you.

Speaker 9 (01:32:53):
Good morning to you guys.

Speaker 3 (01:32:54):
Hi, good morning companion.

Speaker 8 (01:32:58):
What you got Scott Stafford.

Speaker 9 (01:33:00):
So I used to be a part of a campus
ministry in Virginia and one of my responsibilities was to
drive the assistant pastor to the various Bible studies at
other campuses. And so we were going to Washington, d C.
To do a campus there. And so the event was over,
we had done the Bible study, and I was going
to go back to get the vehicle to pick up

(01:33:22):
my pastor. Well, as I was coming to my car,
somebody was literally trying to kick the window in, to
steal it, or to do whatever they were going to
do to it. And so I ran toward them. It
was a righteous indignation that rose up inside of me,
is like, how dare you try to break into my
fastest car? And as I ran up to him, he said, man,

(01:33:42):
this is not your car. I said, it is my car.
He stopped, moved out of the way. I'm putting the
key into the door to open it, and my other
friend is on the other side waiting for me to
let him in. And the guy comes up behind me.
Now I don't know whether I saw his reflection or
whether it was just the Lord's letting me know that
this guy is behind me. And I turned to him

(01:34:02):
and I said, Jesus loves you. And it was like
somebody just grabbed him and pushed him back across the
street so that I could continue to enter into the vehicle.
And as soon as I got into the vehicle and
cut the car on and let my friend, and of course,
it was like the spell broke over him and he
just started cursing us. He said, you better be glad

(01:34:23):
you said that. MF Jesus, you better be glad you
said that MF Jesus, and I'm like, I'm so glad
I said it too. But that was to me an
angel that had moved his guy from behind me, because
I have no idea what his intention was toward me,
and I'm glad I never found out because of the
intervention of that angel.

Speaker 4 (01:34:41):
Well, there's an invisible world that exists, and we do
believe that God sends angels to protect us in times
of need, and Stafford, I think that's exactly what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (01:34:51):
Wow, Stafford, what a powerful story. Merry Christmas, my friend.

Speaker 1 (01:34:55):
Merry Christmas, thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (01:34:57):
Well, just so many of those not in Maryland, you
have several in our lives. Would you share one?

Speaker 31 (01:35:01):
Well, the fun part of talking about angels is that
we do all have stories, and isn't it fun to
share them with each other? David, you and I talked
about how it took us such a long time to
have our daughter. You were talking about Bethany in the
back seat. Well, it didn't come quickly.

Speaker 28 (01:35:14):
Did it.

Speaker 4 (01:35:15):
No, it was a long long wait.

Speaker 8 (01:35:16):
We had to learn patience, We had to learn patience.

Speaker 31 (01:35:19):
But when I finally did go to the hospital to
have my surgery, my final surgery, hoping one last ditch
effort and lots and lots of prayer that maybe we'd
have a baby after the surgery was over, and before
you came in to see me, the guy that was
like the orderly on duty came in with a white
coat and red hair, and he got real close to
my face and he said, I want you to know

(01:35:40):
that you are perfectly healed. Everything is fine and you
are perfectly healed.

Speaker 4 (01:35:45):
And we had studies and tests and all of that
beforehand which showed she had severe scarring and oh it
was a mess abdominal area or tube.

Speaker 31 (01:35:51):
It had been years and years. And he said, you
just need to know, got real close to my face.
I don't remember everything about his hair and his jacket
and all. So then I dozed back off sleep. You
hadn't seen me at that point. I was still in
the recovery room, and so when David came in, I said,
wait a minute, before you tell me, tell me anything.
I want to know. I want you to know that
I am perfectly healed.

Speaker 28 (01:36:11):
Yea.

Speaker 4 (01:36:11):
And it was from this orderly and after Marylyn was
able to get a little stronger going home, she went
back to the hospital to want to talk to him,
and described him perfectly to all the people on duty there.
This is who he was, long red hair, white garment.
And what did they say to you?

Speaker 31 (01:36:25):
They said, nobody was here on duty, nobody here has
red hair. There was nobody in that room that night.
I mean, they remembered every detail. And what's so interesting
is we got pregnant and had our Bethany there after.
But we will always remember. And I think part of
the neat thing about an angel's story, if it really
is legitimate, you remember it that's forty two years ago,
and you remember it in such detail.

Speaker 4 (01:36:46):
So angels can take on human form biblically is what
it teaches. And we think this was an angel sent
by God to tell Marylyn after eight years of waiting
and all this labor and problems that she gives you through,
and she had been the doctor came up to me
at that same time and said, I can't explain this.
I don't understand this. We have the medical information beforehand,

(01:37:07):
we have it now afterwards. She is perfectly well. Those
were his words.

Speaker 1 (01:37:11):
Exactly to me.

Speaker 31 (01:37:12):
He started coming out our church. I'd just like to
have proof.

Speaker 4 (01:37:15):
He was so moved by it.

Speaker 14 (01:37:18):
Let's go to get James online too. James has a
story about a miracle. He says on a beach James,
welcome to good morning BT.

Speaker 11 (01:37:28):
Hey, good morning everybody, and Merry Christmas, Mary Christmas. I've
got a story that is pretty incredible to me. I
promised God that I would never go around just telling
this story because it was just so miraculous to me.

(01:37:49):
But I said, I will share it whenever it comes up.
And you asked people to call in. And so what
happened was I was out on the beach with about
four other kids. They were about eight years old, and
we're playing tag, and of course they can't catch me.
Once in a while, one of them Wilka. There's four
of them, but I can easily get away. And so

(01:38:10):
I was about to be tagged, and I dove into
a wave and suddenly the wave went away and I
dove headfirst into the sand. And imagine the crown of
your head touching your spine. Try it right now, and
you go back as far as you can, and you
see you can only go so far. I felt the

(01:38:31):
crown of my head touched my spine, and I was
laying face down, in the water and I couldn't get up,
and I said, oh, Lord, is this how it ends?
I said, this is so weird. I can't get up,
and I felt something. I felt like I was lifted
up outs of water and I was obviously standing, but

(01:38:54):
I couldn't. I wasn't. It didn't feel like I was
doing it, and I couldn't find I opened my eyes
and I started moving toward it. But obviously my legs
were moving or else everybody would have said, hey, look
there's the guy walking on the water. But I didn't
feel like I was moving my legs. I had no

(01:39:15):
feeling at all. And when I got up on the shore,
I laid down on the warm stand and I was
laying there and I said I started praying and I said, Lord,
I can't get up. I can't feel anything. And I said,
now I talked to God, just like I'm talking to
everybody else. I know that might sound weird, but I said, God,

(01:39:39):
you know me, and I can't make you promise this
because we all do that when we're in trouble. Lay old, Lord,
please help me. I'll do this, and that I said,
if I do, if I tell you that, you know
I'm lying, and I can't lie to God, I said,
but my kids are out there and they still need me.
If you could just keep me around long enough to

(01:39:59):
raise the them up. I said, it's not for me,
it's for them. And so I was laying there and
I couldn't, like I said, I couldn't feel my hands,
I couldn't feel my faith, I couldn't feel the air.
And all of a sudden, my feet started tingling, like
when your leg goes to sleep. And then like a

(01:40:20):
line moved up my body and it came up through
my legs, through my chest, and when it got to
my head, I felt this energy just shoot straight out
the top of my head and I could move again,
and I rolled over, and I was still hurting. My

(01:40:42):
neck still heard. It wasn't that miraculous. It hurt like crazy.
But I knew that it was a miracle because I
was asking for it, and it happened right then and
till this day. I'm seventy now and I'm still alive,
and I'm still hanging out and still going to the

(01:41:04):
bike drive, which was great to see you guys there.
And I knew that a miracle had happened to me.
And because when I got out of the water, my
legs were moving, but I wasn't moving. Everything was on autopilot.
And I just laid there and I said, God, I

(01:41:24):
can't make promises that you know I can't keep because
that would be lying. But I will share this story.
Anytime it comes up in conversation that somebody else is
talking about something similar, I will share my miracle story
with them and just let him know that God is
good that and I don't know why he answers some people.

(01:41:49):
You know, people will say, well, God didn't answer my prayer.
The fact is God does answer your prayer. Sometimes the
answer is no. But that's just the way it is.

Speaker 24 (01:42:00):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (01:42:01):
I can't tell you how God works. That's above my
pay grade. But that's my miracle story.

Speaker 4 (01:42:06):
Well, when you figure that out, please call me and
let me know, because I've been ministering for forty five
years and I still haven't figured out why God says
no sometimes.

Speaker 6 (01:42:14):
But he does.

Speaker 4 (01:42:15):
But that doesn't demean the fact that there are angels
and there are miracle stories to share.

Speaker 14 (01:42:20):
James, thank you for calling in with your story. We'll
continue with perhaps yours as you listen, and more with
David and Marilyn Chadwick here on Good Morning VT.

Speaker 6 (01:42:32):
From one oh seven point nine f m w BT,
Charlotte FM News Talk. This is Good Morning BT with
Poe Thompson and Beth troutbite.

Speaker 8 (01:43:29):
Nine minutes past nine o'clock on WBT.

Speaker 14 (01:43:34):
If you listen to the Boomer von Cannon Holiday boombox,
you'll hear this song tomorrow. Because we all have to
tell you what our favorite Christmas song is, and this
has always been mine. It's actually a tie, this song
and a song by Amy Grant, but this Michael W.
Smith rendition of this song has.

Speaker 8 (01:43:54):
Always been my favorite. Inappropriate for what we're talking about
right now.

Speaker 14 (01:44:05):
David Chadwick and Marilyn Chadwick here talking about angels this
morning on our final show before Christmas. So thank you
so much for you all being here. And we've already
had some great calls from listeners. Seven oh four five, seven,
one seven nine. Have you had an angelic encounter in
your life? We had two people in one right there

(01:44:26):
before the top of the hour about the beach and
then a robbery or an altercation that was upended or
at least averted because of what the caller said had
to be the help of an angel. But this is
a this is a topic that it's interesting when you
bring it up how many people end up calling the station.

Speaker 4 (01:44:47):
Yeah, it's interesting too. Both the song that you played
is a glory and at Chelsea's Day, Oh, that is
from the angelic choir that showed up to the shepherds
and told them, Hey, go to that stable and you're
going to see the birth of the Christ Child there.
So they're everywhere in the Gospel of Loup. There everywhere
in the Bible. And Marilyn and I love sharing these stories,
and you know, we have so many of them. I

(01:45:09):
think we could probably take several hours just between ourselves,
and I know our listeners have those stories as well. Beth,
do you have one. I think we've hinted at that
through the years that you have had angelic kind of encounters.

Speaker 30 (01:45:21):
I have.

Speaker 3 (01:45:21):
I mean I've had communications through dreams. They have been
very real. One of them we were just talking off
the air that you know your story about wanting children
and the struggle that that was. I had the same
kind of heavy burden on my heart and my story
is completely different, but I was was faced with the

(01:45:45):
knowledge that I had been married for a long time,
and I had we still had not had a child.
And I was in Phoenix, Arizona at the time, and
I was buying a rug of all things. You know,
you're just out about out and about doing things. But
I had been thinking about this issue for a long time.
And there was a woman that was in the store
that I was in and she was pushing twins in

(01:46:07):
a stroller and she was pregnant, and I just I
went to my car and I just sat in my
car and I cried, and I was mad at God,
and I was like, I don't get it. I don't
understand what is happening. And that night I went to
sleep and I had this very vivid dream that, just
like you were saying merrily, you don't forget them. And

(01:46:29):
I was in a park and there was a little
boy with curly blonde hair, and I knew he was
my son. I knew it, and so I went to
him and I picked him up and I put him
on my lap, and I said, he was talking to
me like an adult, and I could feel all of
the love. And I looked at him and I said,
you know, I'm really really missing you. Are you ever
going to come to me, and he put his little

(01:46:49):
hands on my cheeks and he said no, because I'm
not supposed to. And then I woke up. Wow, and
then I was okay with the idea of being the
cool aunt and and being a mother in a different
way in the world. And that's what this kind of
angel told me, is that I was supposed to mother
in a different way, and that my children are it's

(01:47:10):
a a broader group of people, and that I'm supposed
to love in the best ways that I can, and
maybe not the biological love that you share with a child,
but the love that I'm supposed to give to the
people that come in and out of my life. That's
one where I feel like an angel was communicating to me,
or God was communicating to me through a dream. And
then I had when I was at Carolina. You remember

(01:47:32):
the campus, well, David, I was Halloween night, which you
remember Halloween was a big deal, and I was with
friends and they wanted to go to this fraternity party
and I went with them. And you know, sometimes when
people are under the influence of things, they misbehave, and
there were some guys who were being really inappropriate and

(01:47:53):
they were scaring me. I guess. So I just got
myself out of the situation and I couldn't find my friends,
and so it was nighttime, and I know as a
woman to not walk at night, but I needed to
get away from the scenario because I felt in danger
where I was. And I was walking back to my
apartment and it was very late at night, and I

(01:48:14):
was alone, and a car pulled up and said, I
need to take you home. And I got in that car.
And I know not to get in a car with
a stranger, but I wasn't scared, and I got in
the car, and all he said to me he drove
in silence, and he said, you're meant for more. And

(01:48:35):
I got out of the car and I was taken
to my apartment. I don't even know how he knew
where I lived.

Speaker 4 (01:48:41):
You didn't tell him, No, He drove me.

Speaker 3 (01:48:43):
To my apartment and I got out of the car
and went inside and was shocked and stunned. And I
don't think I really processed all of it until the
next morning, when I realized that I had gotten myself
out of a dangerous situation and put myself potentially in
a more dangerous situation. But wasn't I wasn't frightened, and

(01:49:05):
I would never you know, I'm not a not a
person that would do that, that would get in a
car with a strange area. So that's an angel in disguise,
you know.

Speaker 31 (01:49:14):
Billy Graham wrote a whole book on angels, right, and
he has a section in there about how angels come
in disguise to do their work. Sometimes it's the big
choir right, like in Luke, But sometimes it's the person
that is right there in front of you. But you
felt peace. Isn't that interesting? I think that might be
one of the characteristics.

Speaker 3 (01:49:30):
Yeah, I didn't feel afraid, and I can't see you
just getting into a car and was completely of sound mind.
That's a you know, but you're not that friend.

Speaker 9 (01:49:42):
But he knew where you live.

Speaker 31 (01:49:44):
You remember it in such detail, you know, all these
years later. Isn't that interesting?

Speaker 4 (01:49:47):
Well, Well, there are stories of criminals who are getting
ready to attack somebody and they get forwarded and then
arrested by the police. And the person comes in and
files the report and is asked by the police, why
didn't you go head and fulfill the attack and do
what you wanted to do? And he said, are you crazy?
They had two eight foot white creatures standing next to them,
and I dare not attack because I knew I would

(01:50:09):
be at harm if I did so. I mean, there
are hundreds of those kind of stories, and I just
believe they're angelic encounters where God sent them to protect us.

Speaker 31 (01:50:17):
Well, so that would be one of their roles to
be a guardian and a protector. But the word in
the New Testament angel just means messenger. So it's just
interesting to me that they give messages, they guard, they protect, they.

Speaker 4 (01:50:27):
Guide, Yeah, and say this is the way you need
to go.

Speaker 3 (01:50:30):
Get in the car right now, because you're in trouble.
You go back where you were.

Speaker 4 (01:50:34):
I guess there was something that was very evil waiting
for you.

Speaker 3 (01:50:38):
I forgot I felt it there and had gotten out
of the situation. Interesting, but he was a messenger too.

Speaker 31 (01:50:44):
He gave you a message and he got you out
of it, and he got me out of there.

Speaker 14 (01:50:47):
We have one more segment with David and Marilyn Schadwick.
We'll come back with your phone calls. We'll also talk again.
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(01:51:07):
in just a moment.

Speaker 32 (01:51:09):
Coloring nods the Burns the second.

Speaker 14 (01:51:41):
Talking about angels today on Good Morning BT and two
angelic people in the studio. I think a lot of
people out there would would say that about David Chadwick
and Marilyn Chadwick. David, of course, the longtime senior pastor
at Moments of Hope Church and you hear him on
the weekends on The David Chadwick Show.

Speaker 8 (01:51:59):
And Marilyn's written a book about angels.

Speaker 14 (01:52:02):
And we've talked to you all about this concept for
many years, and we thought it would be a fitting
thing to discuss for a few minutes before we actually
wrap up our show, Beth and I do for this
year before Christmas.

Speaker 4 (01:52:13):
Yeah, we really enjoyed the whole topic of angels. They're
just everywhere in the Bible, but particularly the Christmas Story.
I mean from Gabriel appearing to Mary saying you're going
to have a child at the age of thirteen, but
it's going to be supernaturally created by the Holy Spirit
in your womb, to the shepherds who had the angels
come to them and announce the birth of the Christ Child.
To other stories as well. Joseph had a Gabriel angelic

(01:52:36):
appearance too to say, hey, this child really is from
God and you don't have to worry what people whisper
about you two and he went ahead and did marry Mary.
So it's a wonderful story, the Christmas narrative, but to
have angels be a part of it just makes it
even more special. And if I had to tell all
our listeners what's Christmas all about? Is God made a
decision to send love and into this world through his
son Jesus, and he invades our hearts and we are

(01:52:59):
what's called biblic born again. Our old selfish nature is
torn away. We have a new nature put into us
as a nature of love. And the command is to
take into this really hurting, godless world the message of
love and to be people of love. And if we
just learned, bev how to love one another, how different
this world would be.

Speaker 3 (01:53:16):
It's the most powerful gift we were given as the
ability to love.

Speaker 4 (01:53:20):
And that's what Christmas is all about God came down
to invade this selfish world with love, and that when
Jesus lives in our hearts, we are consumed with love.
And as we learn to love one another, evil is conquered,
enemies go away, and love is the foremost virtue.

Speaker 31 (01:53:37):
And with the whole message of angels, it's interesting the
Bible reminds us when you are serving a stranger, sometimes
reministering to somebody that you don't even know, the Bible
tells us, you know what, you might have just entertained
an angel without knowing it. I think this weaves a
lot of fun and mystery into our world, especially at Christmas.

Speaker 4 (01:53:55):
Yeah, and we've had encounters with people that we go
what was that all about?

Speaker 2 (01:53:59):
And then we look back.

Speaker 4 (01:54:00):
Was that an angel?

Speaker 6 (01:54:01):
God?

Speaker 4 (01:54:01):
God sending an angel in human form to minister to us,
to care for us? And I was going through a
broken time one time in my life and I thought, Oh,
I don't know if I have any hope at all.
We were at a worship service and this little guy
who was about I guess seventy years old, looked just
like Santa Claus with the long white beard, like George
over here, and He was about five feet four inches tall.

(01:54:22):
George is a little taller than that, and he prances
up to me literally, and I'm in this kind of
state of going, Lord, what are you doing? I don't
know what's going on in my life? This really hurts
the stinks and he just walks up to me and
out of the blue.

Speaker 17 (01:54:33):
I don't know this guy.

Speaker 4 (01:54:34):
Out of the blue. Between services, he says, the past
is the past, keep moving forward. I haven't seen him since.
I never saw him again, didn't see him again. But
all I know is he spoke a message of hope
to me, and I am convinced Small Santa was an
angel sent by God to me that day to give
me a note of encouragement, which I still live in
that encouragement today.

Speaker 24 (01:54:55):
Wow.

Speaker 14 (01:54:56):
Well, we appreciate you all being here as always, make
sure before we part that we remind people City of
Hope CLT dot org. And we'll continue to give those updates.
Beth and I'll be on the air on Monday and
Tuesday of next week. So I have a feeling we'll
circle back with you and see where we are post Christmas.

Speaker 8 (01:55:13):
But the need is out there.

Speaker 4 (01:55:14):
Yeah, We're making advances and the purpose of the campaign, folks,
is to feed hungry kids in our area, but also
help them have reading programs. The greatest predictor of going
to prison as if the kid can read by the
age of third grade. So we're trying to help them
with reading abilities as well, but also discipleship to help
them grow in their faith. And we believe with all
of our hearts that if kids can read by the
end of the third grade, have good food that's a

(01:55:36):
part of their life and process, they can grow up
and be healthy go to college. We have another program
maryl And helped start called Seeds of Hope Scholarship Program.
We've had a guest on in this show about that
as well. So we're just trying to help kids have
upward mobility and be all that God created them to be.
So go to CITYFHOPECLT dot org and your gift is
immediately match. We're trying to raise one hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 8 (01:55:55):
Well, Merry Christmas to both of you. Thank you so
much for coming in today in Christmas to you guys.

Speaker 31 (01:56:00):
It's fun telling stories, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:56:01):
Oh, it's just fun.

Speaker 4 (01:56:02):
It's great to be with you, and Merry Christmas. To you,
and may the love of God invade your hearts as well.
As we move into twenty twenty six.

Speaker 8 (01:56:21):
Cris.

Speaker 7 (01:56:26):
Cuzy last.

Speaker 3 (01:56:33):
Sny Home, I think we'll go with a little Bohemian rhapsody, gentlemen,
good call never recorded.

Speaker 7 (01:57:28):
Sixty as Myli and my ol.

Speaker 12 (01:58:10):
Garth.

Speaker 8 (01:58:11):
That was a high coup.

Speaker 28 (01:58:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:58:24):
Does this seem weird to anybody else?

Speaker 20 (01:58:26):
That's something man, that's weird.

Speaker 1 (01:58:28):
Man, That's what I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:58:31):
We gotta get going, no, no, no, stick around, hang
out with us, plant out our whole day.

Speaker 4 (01:58:35):
First, we'll make snow angels for two hours, and then
we'll go ice skating, and then we'll get a whole
roll of toll House cookie dough as fast as we can,
and then to finish will snuggle cool.

Speaker 3 (01:58:44):
Yeah, we'll stay and hanging.

Speaker 6 (01:58:46):
Around with you.

Speaker 2 (01:58:50):
That's for you.

Speaker 8 (01:58:50):
We're in the the elf socks over there.

Speaker 3 (01:58:55):
Buddy's face right on the sox man through.

Speaker 1 (01:58:58):
The snow literally told me she's man, Mike. Before we
start the second.

Speaker 14 (01:59:04):
We're on the home stretch for the holiday season here.
Thanks to David Chadwick and Marilyn Chadwick for joining us.

Speaker 8 (01:59:11):
I think we've appropriately celebrated Festivus today, Like what other
show has them in to talk about angels for an
hour and celebrates Festivus?

Speaker 15 (01:59:18):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:59:19):
I mean, can we just uh just pause and say
thank you? You know, pause and say thank you to
the fact that our listeners love to go on this
little roller coaster ride with us. We so appreciate that.
And also you know the fact that I do lack
a big a bit of a cognitive filter. I'm gonna
say thank you. I usually say I'm so sorry for that,
and I'm going to say thank you for that this year,

(01:59:41):
for whoever gave me that inability to censor myself because
I even verbally vomited angel stories.

Speaker 8 (01:59:49):
I just realize.

Speaker 14 (01:59:50):
I never tell that I haven't done this yet this
holiday season. And it's funny because when I play this,
I always get like an interesting look from Beth.

Speaker 3 (02:00:01):
Are you going to play the Christmas like he?

Speaker 8 (02:00:03):
When she first joined us on the show.

Speaker 14 (02:00:05):
I said, well, you have to do this because it's
a long standing tradition that if I don't do it,
it doesn't happen anymore. Actually, Pete may do it. Pete
may play this song too, but but I make sure
every year it gets played at least once. And I
remember the first time I played it for Beth. See,
Beth thought, I know that all there is to know
about this guy bo, I've got him figured out. And
then I played this and then you kind of had
like a somebody pete in your corn fill like face.

Speaker 3 (02:00:29):
You surprise me actually daily, but in all of the
in all of the best ways.

Speaker 14 (02:00:35):
If you're new to us on one oh seven point nine,
I may be about to be a surprise to you
as well, not necessarily because it's about me. But you've
never heard this, and maybe you have, but this is
a passed down from w IBC Radio. Is actually extends
back to Indianapolis. I know this because I know the
origins of this song and it came to WBT by

(02:00:56):
way of one Brad Krantz, who who passed away recently
earlier this year.

Speaker 8 (02:01:03):
So sorry about Brad.

Speaker 14 (02:01:05):
And he used to host the show called Spires and
Krantz back here in the early two thousands. He and
Richard Spires and Brad Krantz, and that is where this
station first played this song. And I'm going to continue
a long standing tradition right now.

Speaker 12 (02:01:18):
There are lots of such cute little Christmas cluts, little angels,
reindeer at snowflakes that drive. But from all of those
you under ducks. Fonte my memory lungs won multiple vertebrae.
Kind of a guy. Salmi the Christmas Snake hid in
the corner of Sata's workshop. Salmi a Christmas snake bit
all the hells and made all the works up in

(02:01:39):
the stock Easy hit up the Fluludolf deil his no
third blue, ain't no telling what a Christmas nag aldoo
Merry Christmas. Salmi the Christmas Snake at Pepperman stripes and
party old bangs Sammly that Christmas snake he hides in
the Hollywood on missile cohangs hit in the stock eas

(02:01:59):
he hit up the flu it been on Old Sat.
I am missus Sada true, sell me that Christmas snake.
Jesus Merry Christmas. Kids sing with me.

Speaker 14 (02:02:12):
Now.

Speaker 12 (02:02:13):
Sammy lived with the Christmas dar pat Sada's house. No
one liked him much since he been said the Christmas
mouse still, Rick the Christmas mon goose went berserk and
tried to wreck Leslie. And Sammy said the day when
he broke Rick's Christmas neck, Hey sell me the Christmas Snake.

(02:02:35):
Now there ain't a ban on anacondas in the Arctic.
Sell me that old Christmas snake, and now those hells
don't chase him with that cortstick water.

Speaker 6 (02:02:42):
Merry good.

Speaker 12 (02:02:43):
He has all the girls and boys in him and
out the cheer.

Speaker 3 (02:02:45):
Am pumped back a poison.

Speaker 12 (02:02:47):
Sammy the Christmas Snake.

Speaker 3 (02:02:49):
Hey, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 14 (02:02:54):
See there are people out there that thought I forgot,
and no, I did not get through a Christmas holiday
season without playing a little Sammy thanks to Spiers and
Krantz all those years ago.

Speaker 3 (02:03:06):
Sammy the Christmas Snake. I do remember. I can actually
feel the look on my face the first time when
he played that. It's kind of I liken it to
that episode of South Park Mister Hanky the Christmas Pooh.

Speaker 28 (02:03:17):
You know.

Speaker 3 (02:03:17):
It's a similar, similar sounding, is right, And it's a
similar kind of theme. It's just something you don't associate
with Christmas.

Speaker 1 (02:03:26):
So there you go.

Speaker 14 (02:03:27):
If you were out there awaiting, wishing, hoping that we
would play Sammy, there it is. That's one of our
smaller stocking stuffers for the City of Charlotte on our
Go Home Christmas episode. Here today, it has been fun
because we're not usually live this late end of the
Christmas season, and with all our new listeners on one
oh seven point nine, you and I said, hey, we
need to make sure that we're here where the people are.

Speaker 3 (02:03:51):
Jeremy just texted us he has a grievance. He has
a festive his grievance. Let me guess, he said, yet
another song I had. I could have gone my entire
life without hearing.

Speaker 8 (02:04:04):
You think that. You think that, but listen, you'll be
singing it all day long and you'll say, that's thanks
a lot. Beth and Bo.

Speaker 3 (02:04:11):
What the best part about the text? He said, And
it's not even Bett's doing this time.

Speaker 8 (02:04:23):
Another classic. Gotta get this one in before we get
out of here, disease.

Speaker 26 (02:04:34):
Yeah, you may have all you bong, what I got
something you need.

Speaker 7 (02:04:44):
To the call.

Speaker 26 (02:04:51):
Told you, you know, you say my good little bit
out the streets again, thinking.

Speaker 1 (02:05:03):
You were selo friends. Not got talk to big Big.

Speaker 8 (02:05:23):
Never thought I could like this song.

Speaker 3 (02:05:25):
I love that the lyric is I know you're semi
good looking.

Speaker 8 (02:05:31):
He's like, thanks, yeah, that's his response. All I want
to wish you up.

Speaker 6 (02:05:37):
Mary.

Speaker 14 (02:05:41):
This is the song I always have loved to hate,
but not anymore thanks to my buddy David Lee Roth.

Speaker 8 (02:05:58):
I'm into the So Boomer, yes.

Speaker 14 (02:06:02):
Sir, is this song on your holiday playlist? I got
something for Boomer. This is tomorrow during our show. You're
going to hear the best of Good Morning BT for
the first half, and then the second half is going
to be what we call second year in a row,
now the Holiday boom Box with Boomer von Cannon. And

(02:06:23):
this is a throwback to a Boomer playing the greatest
holiday hits of all time, like when you used to
work at Magic Goldie's ninety six and you had the
time machine back on this station back in what about
fifteen years ago or so, yes, sir, and last Christmas
credit Mike Shaffer, our program director, he said, we need
to bring Boomer back for the holidays, and so tomorrow
it'll debut during our shift starting at to eight am tomorrow,

(02:06:46):
and then it will replay several times over Christmas, even
Christmas Day. The Holiday boom Box with Boomer von Cannon.

Speaker 17 (02:06:53):
Thank you so much, bo Thank you man. It's an honor,
it really is.

Speaker 14 (02:06:57):
And this has not been heard yet, but you will
hear this tomorrow right here.

Speaker 8 (02:07:01):
This is your favorite DJ Yogi bar saying stay cool
and dig do you yeah, booming even louder with more
FM power.

Speaker 6 (02:07:12):
This is Boomer von Cannon's Holiday boom Box on one
o seven point nine w BT.

Speaker 2 (02:07:20):
W b G lit'sten do It to It?

Speaker 8 (02:07:23):
First ever holiday boom box on one oh seven point nine.
How about that?

Speaker 9 (02:07:27):
Wow?

Speaker 17 (02:07:27):
Both Yeah, I had no idea.

Speaker 8 (02:07:32):
Thank you, Ben, that's great, Thank you so very man.

Speaker 14 (02:07:34):
We're thanking you. You sit back and get the jukebox going.
And the beautiful thing about this is it's it's your
favorite holiday DJ, Boomer von Cannon, but all of us
are part of this.

Speaker 3 (02:07:44):
YEP with our favorite holiday songs. Some of the holiday
songs maybe you've never heard before. And as you can
well imagine, Boomer, I'm going to bring some more straight
no chaser your way.

Speaker 17 (02:07:53):
Oh I can't wait, bring it home.

Speaker 1 (02:07:55):
I can wait.

Speaker 14 (02:07:56):
And I have it on good authority that mister Nick
Craig is about to fill in for Vince Cokeley.

Speaker 8 (02:08:01):
Right that right, sure is so. Nick Craig is part
of this. Nick Craig has brought yacht rock.

Speaker 3 (02:08:07):
Oh come on, Nick.

Speaker 1 (02:08:09):
Nick is an eighty year old he is young man's Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 14 (02:08:13):
I love I pride myself on being pretty eclectic when
it comes to holiday music. I mean, from all the
years I spent putting together the Christmas shows for this station,
back when I was in high school and in college,
I got to know a lot of songs. But I
have to say that mister Craig brought one to my
attention a Michael McDonald's song that I didn't know.

Speaker 8 (02:08:35):
Was out there. All right, So there you go.

Speaker 14 (02:08:37):
That's that's coming up tomorrow. Jensen's got some good stuff
in there. Winterable TJ Ritchie as part of this too.

Speaker 3 (02:08:45):
You as member of our team, Boomer. It's so cool
that you're doing this for us, And what a perfect,
perfect way to start your Christmas Eve morning. Have some
I mean you could have eggnog in the morning, right,
Just eggnog in the morning, finish wrapping those last minute gifts,
or if you're driving around going to those last minute gifts,
having Boomer on in the background in your car. I mean,
come on, what a present.

Speaker 17 (02:09:04):
We're just trying to set the scene. That's how we do. Man,
played the tunes, let them roll, So we'll.

Speaker 8 (02:09:08):
Do that over the next several days. This let mean
more thing here.

Speaker 1 (02:09:15):
Fast a seventy.

Speaker 8 (02:09:16):
One until you pit me George.

Speaker 2 (02:09:19):
First of missus not on some of this stuff because.

Speaker 14 (02:09:22):
Last from so we spent the early part of the
show today allowing for the airing of grievances. Just had
somebody say they have a grievance based on something I
just did. Said that now Sammy the Christmas Snake is
part of his annual grievances.

Speaker 3 (02:09:40):
He said he just never needed to hear that song
he's going to the greatest part was that it wasn't
me who brought the terrible song his way.

Speaker 14 (02:09:49):
We got We've never been on the air live on
December twenty third, at least nothing like that since you
and I have been doing this, and so today was
an opportunity to be on and sell lebrate Festivus the
way it deserves to be celebrated like all the other
holidays here on the Great Colossus. We had some fun
with all of your grievances, and boy did you have grievances.

Speaker 3 (02:10:09):
Well, And speaking to your point of people texting us,
we're getting tons of texts in right now with just
wishes of Merry Christmas. But Russ and I love Russ's
in our system is Beth's favorite Russ, and I did
remind him. I read him back and I was like,
you're my fave. Russ wrote us and he said the
Chadwicks and fest of us in one day, deep spirituality

(02:10:30):
and petty grievances, my people, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 8 (02:10:35):
He is our people.

Speaker 3 (02:10:36):
He is our people, and that's exactly right. We offer
it all here. You just never know where we're going
to go.

Speaker 8 (02:10:42):
Well, we are going to go away for a few days.
That is the plan.

Speaker 14 (02:10:47):
We're going to be back next Monday, Monday and Tuesday
of your New Year's week. And that was important to
us because look, honestly, the shift to one oh seven
point nine happened quickly, and so when it happened, we
sort of made some adjustments in the wake of that, because, look,
we have so many devoted listeners that have been with

(02:11:08):
us on WBT for so many years, and we love
all of you, and we've had such a great time
with all of you, and now we have an opportunity
to speak to another group of people on one oh
seven point nine that hopefully we'll find reason to stay
with us and we can take this whole big carnival
parade and make it an even bigger thing in twenty
twenty six. But we are so excited about this new year.

(02:11:31):
I've been in radio a long time, and now with
the advent of one oh seven point nine FMWBT, this
is just you know, the sky's the limit for this
next new year.

Speaker 3 (02:11:42):
Well, I mean, look, we consider the people who are
listening and part of this show, we consider you all
our family, and we're so excited to extend the family,
to make the family bigger and to bring more people
into Like Bo just said, this crazy what did you say, festival,
carnival parade ride something like that? This ride, We're you
just want.

Speaker 1 (02:12:02):
More present experience. No, I saw you wanted the listeners.
You just wanted more presents.

Speaker 3 (02:12:06):
I just want more people to join us and be
part of this every single day. And like you said,
I think twenty twenty six is going to be a
really really special year.

Speaker 14 (02:12:15):
Well, we are so appreciative of all of you being
out there. We want you to have a great holiday
season coming up and be back with us, hopefully on Monday,
and we'll have some.

Speaker 8 (02:12:24):
Fun to start the next week.

Speaker 14 (02:12:25):
Hopefully the Panthers will have a win, yes, and we'll
talk about a Monday morning and be playoff bound, but
we'll see and Zoch, you'll be back with us on Monday,
but again off tomorrow. Best of Good morning, BT Boomer's
Holiday boombox. I think Scott Scott Hamilton's going to be
with you on Friday with you and I just can't

(02:12:47):
tell you how much we appreciate and never take for
granted that you listen to us every day and hopefully
much more ahead than the year to come.

Speaker 3 (02:12:54):
We love you all, and we hope you have a
wonderful holiday, a merry merry Christmas, and thank you for
being on this ride with us, and we hope that
it continues. For it like cross country cross country road trip,
a long ride through the snow.

Speaker 1 (02:13:11):
Ain't that right?

Speaker 14 (02:13:11):
Ray, You'll be good. We'll talk to you on Monday.
Have a safe and happy holiday season. Merry Christmas, Happy
New Year, and good talk Beth.

Speaker 3 (02:13:21):
Good talk that.

Speaker 1 (02:13:42):
I'm still here and I'm staying here.

Speaker 3 (02:13:44):
That in New York who I'm staying here?

Speaker 7 (02:13:48):
The wrong is Don

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