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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How do you do fellow kids here?

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Good morning?

Speaker 3 (00:02):
How are you doing all right?

Speaker 4 (00:03):
Sir?

Speaker 5 (00:03):
Good morning from.

Speaker 6 (00:05):
News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three. W bet gosh,
that's not a good thing. Have you thought about moving?

Speaker 4 (00:12):
This is Good Morning Beauty with Bo Thompson and Beth Trout.

Speaker 7 (00:16):
But I found you to my horseshoes. I gave my horseshuito.

Speaker 8 (00:41):
Good morning.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
I'm waking up.

Speaker 9 (00:43):
At the start of the end of the world. What
it's feeling, just like every other morning before. Now I
wonder what my life is going to mean it it's gold.
The cars are moving like a half a mile an
hour and started staring at the passengers and weaving.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Can you tell me what was ever really special about me?
All this time?

Speaker 10 (01:05):
What funny?

Speaker 4 (01:07):
It's burnt with the crowd. We're going down out.

Speaker 7 (01:15):
Let's see out.

Speaker 10 (01:18):
Funny it's coming to os.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
We're going a pree tail.

Speaker 10 (01:23):
Let's see Bobby come. Let's see Bobby come.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
We can turn two o'clock.

Speaker 10 (01:31):
Three and a half years is how far we've gone.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Remember calling for an hour soul three and a half
or four.

Speaker 10 (01:36):
And a half? How long have we been here?

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Technically three and a half sat down on the street
since we started doing shows together four and a half
ten Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:47):
Years, it's been. It's been forever.

Speaker 11 (01:49):
It was never a time where we weren't working together.

Speaker 10 (01:51):
That's right, funny. It's Purdue burying the lead. The world
is coming to him. Yeah, yeah, what's going on here?

Speaker 11 (02:00):
It's our last show, number sixty on the Good Morning
BT Song of the Day playlist on Spots one.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, this is one of those days where we had
like thirty seconds still air and I said, what's your song?
I know, and then you were fumbling with your headphones
and it was like we were all like, oh, yeah,
we got to do a show here.

Speaker 11 (02:21):
I was sitting here just like ding dong and I
don't know what that means.

Speaker 10 (02:24):
It's like fiddling around, which is it.

Speaker 11 (02:28):
Just you have little dog too, just over here fiddling around.
And then I realized the show was starting and my
headphones were still wrapped up in their case. They were
just like still in their little container here, and I thought, well,
maybe I need these.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
One of these days it's going to happen where it's
time to play the song and you haven't told me
the song, and I don't because I don't always have
the song and sometimes you reach into the A lot
of times I do, but sometimes I don't.

Speaker 10 (02:50):
So and then there are the days when I have
to lyric check Oh way to hit the post Wow,
Natchbox twenty.

Speaker 11 (02:58):
I think that they are under I think Rob Thomas
an underrated songwriter. He's so good, He's such a great lyricist.

Speaker 10 (03:06):
I'm not training with more energy. Yeah that's true. Maybe
I just have a sound.

Speaker 11 (03:11):
Maybe it's just like Train Matchbox twenty Sarah Barrales. Maybe
it's just I'm definitely a child that in early two
thousand nineties or early two thousands.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, nothing puts me back into right around two thousand
and two thousand and one, Spires and Krantz in the
Afternoon then, Richard Spires was an Arista record rep on
the side, no way, So he used to play songs
like this, and he played this bumper like every other time,

(03:43):
just you know, in case you're wondering.

Speaker 10 (03:44):
He was an Arista record rep on the side, so
he would.

Speaker 11 (03:50):
Would he just go to clubs and try to sign acts?
Is that what he did?

Speaker 1 (03:54):
No? He started doing the afternoon show with Brad Krantz,
and I don't think he thought he was going to
get that like that was something kind of fell in
his lap and he kind of turned into something. So
he was already a record label representative, and so he
stayed doing that, and so he was working songs.

Speaker 10 (04:10):
But this was one of the songs that he he
loved and either that one.

Speaker 12 (04:14):
Or this one.

Speaker 11 (04:16):
Oh, this song, I loved doing it. Game out It
got so overplayed.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
But man, I know that.

Speaker 10 (04:24):
Smooth.

Speaker 13 (04:29):
Michael was a little hot.

Speaker 10 (04:31):
He got so excited. See what happens when Rob Thomas
wakes you up in the morning.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Oh so, see, where are you taking away these songs?

Speaker 10 (04:48):
I can't wait. You go back and listen to that later.
My guys, that's smooth, my favorite party. Brett Jensen, you
didn't say it fast enough. I was I was an
overmodulate I heard.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
So.

Speaker 10 (05:05):
By the way, is not with us today. He is
on holiday and apparently he's enjoying Canadian Thanksgiving.

Speaker 14 (05:12):
Yes, I didn't know that was a thing till yesterday.
Canadian Thanksgiving was yesterday, if.

Speaker 10 (05:16):
You follow Brett Jenson. I didn't know it until just now.
It's like a month before our Thanksgiving.

Speaker 14 (05:23):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I don't know why they've been hiding
this holiday for these decades and now it's just Americans
are learning about it.

Speaker 10 (05:32):
Thanksgiving. I can't laugh this hard at six eleven. Come
on now, I gotta pace myself.

Speaker 11 (05:40):
If you guys are following Brett Jenson on Twitter last night.

Speaker 10 (05:44):
His he was tweeting but underscuaed Jedson.

Speaker 11 (05:48):
It was tweeting the conversations he was overhearing at a restaurant.

Speaker 15 (05:53):
Yes, what was it about, though, I want to know
what the topic was, someone's breaking up or someone's dad's ashes.

Speaker 10 (06:00):
Yeah, it was some ladies. Some lady is talking at
a restaurant and.

Speaker 12 (06:04):
You should.

Speaker 10 (06:06):
Expect law. Were like, I don't say anything about that,
and he tweeted it to the world.

Speaker 12 (06:11):
A weird thing.

Speaker 10 (06:12):
This week's kind of horse.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah, that's why he is breaking Bret Jensen, He's always
breaking his breaking news, always breaking the news you didn't
know you needed.

Speaker 13 (06:22):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Well, we have a lot going on on your Tuesday,
October fourteenth. It's the annual day each year where Mark
Garrison returns from the North Carolina State Fair with all
the stories to tell.

Speaker 11 (06:33):
And I love this day and I live vicariously through
him with all of the yummy It's like Thanksgiving there really,
that's how you celebrate Thanksgiving?

Speaker 10 (06:44):
Is that the fair? Forget Canada? Yeah, Raleigh a triangle Thanksgiving.
This is when I miss living in Chapel Hill.

Speaker 11 (06:51):
Is the fair time when I used to go over
there and get that big old ear of corn that
still had the flaps on it.

Speaker 13 (07:00):
Oh my gosh, the flalaps.

Speaker 16 (07:03):
Only the flaps on corn flaps like flaps on I
couldn't think of the word.

Speaker 10 (07:10):
This is the same person who's with the shell on us?

Speaker 13 (07:13):
Yeah, what's that stuff? Which remember one is called the crust.

Speaker 10 (07:17):
We don't need to shut the corn. The beef with
the brotholay with the beef, O boy.

Speaker 9 (07:22):
Hey.

Speaker 10 (07:24):
They grill it. That still has the hut.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
We have to go with Traffic report six thirteen on
WVT Boomer von Cannon.

Speaker 12 (07:32):
Shell with all.

Speaker 10 (07:33):
Hey tell, that's a good good fiber source had for
you eat corn with the hut?

Speaker 4 (07:37):
Got it?

Speaker 10 (07:38):
Yeah? That all will see that there is I say,
the flaps, the flaps, I will see that. Did you
know did you know about Canadian Thanksgiving?

Speaker 12 (07:45):
Hey?

Speaker 10 (07:46):
No, sir, I know. Okay, that's that's two of us.
I learned it from baseball just because the Blue Jays
are playing. It was like good thing some of.

Speaker 12 (07:52):
Those wacky Canadians I learned from sports.

Speaker 11 (07:54):
None of y'all ever watched How I Met Your Mother,
because they talked about it quite a bit in that show.

Speaker 10 (08:00):
Another one of those shows. I don't think I've ever
seen an entire episode of I love it in the
same way. But I know who sent five minutes at
a time you're talking about my mama.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
This is good morning BT.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
I'm gonna start coming back saying WB TWI I'm Bo
Thompson along with Beth TRUMPMT just icond sound like the
commercial break, all right, six twenty on WBT. Very very
momentous day in the Middle East. Yesterday President Trump was
addressing the Israeli Parliament about this time as we were

(08:39):
talking on our show yesterday, and then of course he
finished his speech and a lot of stops along the way,
including Egypt yesterday. Now he's back in America. We had
a chance, as we do on most starts to the week,
to talk to Mick mulvaney, former White House Chief of Staff,
knows President Trump very well knows a lot of the
players that were in the process of this peace deal happening.

Speaker 11 (08:59):
Yeah, and it's always so fascinating, especially on a day
like yesterday, to have his perspective where he could talk
about what parts of the speech were written, what parts
of the speech he was ad libbing, and how surprised
he was at how much he actually ad libbed during
the speech yesterday.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Mick mulvaney, former White House Chief of Staff, reacting to
the events of the day.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
I thought the speech was.

Speaker 17 (09:20):
Really, really, really well done. Again, I'm assuming that Stephen
Miller wrote all or part of it. You know, Steve
doesn't do all of Stephen doesn't do all of writing anymore,
but that's how he got into Trump's world as a speechwriter,
and it's still, to my mind, one of the most
talented people at speaking in Trump's voice.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
But how is it that's not a great day?

Speaker 17 (09:38):
I mean, I know there's a lot of folks and
you're right to ask questions about what comes next and
how do you secure the piece and will it hold?
And those are all fair questions to ask, But maybe
you just take this one day to celebrate the fact
that the hostage is at home and for a day
at least, there's peace. Might not last till tomorrow, but
enjoy it well is here.

Speaker 11 (09:56):
There were some great ad lib moments in the speech
as well. So the part that got me chuckling a
little bit was when he started talking about how long
the other people spoke. You know, he was talking about
how Benjamin Netanyahu spoke a little too long and his
his counterpart spoke a little too long, and He's.

Speaker 10 (10:12):
Like, you've kept me here too long. I need to
get to Egypt.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
I really got to go, but let me say this one.
I gotta go, but let me say one more thing.

Speaker 10 (10:19):
So he got me. He got me chuckling in his
in his moments of riffing.

Speaker 11 (10:22):
But he also talked a lot about the Abraham Accords.
He recognized Jared Kushner twice in that in that one speech,
but also talked about how those members, those initial members
of the Abraham Accords, the four countries I think it's Bahrain, Morocco,
the United Arab Emirates.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Made Jordan, I can't remember.

Speaker 10 (10:41):
I can look that up really quickly, and.

Speaker 11 (10:44):
Talked about the fact that it sounds like Sudan. Sudan
is the other one, that they might be some of
the countries involved initially in helping rebuild Gaza.

Speaker 17 (10:53):
Listen, I think there's gonna be some wonderful stories about
One of the things that that that that struck me
that Trump said was he said, you know that Marco
Rubio maybe looked at as one of the one of
the greatest secretary of state of all time.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Of course, that's that's Trump.

Speaker 17 (11:06):
That's how Trump speaks anyway, right, But in this particular circumstance,
I'm trying to think, Okay, I mean, who were the
great secretaries of state? And you know, Kissinger clearly comes
to mind, and I'm wondering, Okay, did what Kissinger accomplished
in the relationship with China? How does that measure up
to what just happened here. So I think it's a
fair comparison that that Jared Kushner. You know, people I know,

(11:27):
reading social media and reading some press and so forth
over the weekend people were critical him sort of air
dropping in at the last minute to take credit.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
I don't see it like that at all.

Speaker 17 (11:36):
Jared had some very long standing relationships here because of
all the work he did in the Abraham Accords, So
it doesn't surprise me. In fact, the things surprised me
was he wasn't involved before this, So it doesn't surprise me.
He's there at the end of try and get things
wrapped up. And it moved relatively quickly in the last
several days. I mean, the twenty point plan has only
been out what a week, maybe two, I lose track
at the time, but so it progressed.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Very very quickly.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Well, and as it relates to Jared Kushner, perhaps he
has been doing more than we know, just because he's
been doing it out of the spotlight. But my question
to you is, now, we saw Ivanka, we saw Jared,
their front and center, as you would expect given the
part they played in this, but they have been you know,
if you think back to the first Trump administration, Ivanka

(12:20):
and Jared were almost always present, and then they sort of,
unlike members of other members of the family, they Ivanka
has been almost you never see her anymore. And all
of a sudden, I wonder if this is going to
be sort of a re emergence of the two of
them as we get into the latter part of his
second term.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
Yeah, I was one of the same.

Speaker 9 (12:38):
Thing.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
I can't help but think that it won't be.

Speaker 17 (12:42):
I've been wondering where they have been for the first
nine months and so forth where they be involved.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
I just can't see Jared because.

Speaker 17 (12:48):
Jared have to give up what you have to give
up your day job to go work in the White House, right,
most folks do. There's certain exceptions to that, and so
maybe he becomes a special government employee and so forth.
But I don't think they're going back to what they
were in the first term, which was Jared's office was
next to mine. I mean it was he was actually
closer to the to the Oval office, and I wasn't.
Ivanka had the office right above the Oval, So I
mean they were physically in the West Wing.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
I don't think you'd see them going back to that.

Speaker 18 (13:10):
Well.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
And I always thought that she was a very good
spokesperson for his administration. I thought she anytime she spoke
on behalf of the administration, she was one of the
better people that would would would carry the message on.
And she has decided in recent years to sort of
pull away from that spotlights, almost like she was sort
of tired of politics. But now I see maybe there's

(13:33):
a route for her to become a more front and
center again, just just an observation watchings.

Speaker 17 (13:37):
Probably more the foreign policy. They're not I mean, they're
not the most conservative people in the whole world. When
we had discussions about you know, the pro life movement,
discussions about gun control and so forth. Ivanka, as talented
and as bright as she is, is not really aligned
with the MAGA base on a lot of policy, which
is fine.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
I mean, you know, it just that's you know, everybody's different.

Speaker 17 (13:58):
But so I don't see them sort of becoming senior
policy advisors again, because this administration is clearly sort of
not nearly as afraid to break the glass as we
were in the first time around.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
The question now is he talked about when he made
this initial announcement last week about the phases of this Yeah,
what now? What happens after today is in the rear view.

Speaker 17 (14:20):
You just look at the twenty point plan and try
and figure out what are the real sort of difficult
ones to deal with, to address, to fix. And I
got to think the first one is Hamas disarming. That's
part of the deal. We've seen some videos of Goza that,
if they're accurate, would suggest that the Hamas still has
their weapons, and so that that's going to be the

(14:42):
next thing in order for there to be a lasting
piece or at least anything that lasts longer than you know,
the next couple of days, Hamas is.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Going to have to agree to disarm. We here's to
see if that happens.

Speaker 11 (14:52):
Do you think that they will rebuild in that area
the way that President Trump had had initially planned that
it becomes much more more of a resort type space
than I mean, obviously right now it's completely decimated from
the footage that we see from that area.

Speaker 17 (15:11):
A couple things, and do I think, you know, I
don't think the resort thing was that well thought through.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
It certainly does have. I think I know where it's
coming from.

Speaker 17 (15:20):
If you go back historically forty years ago, Lebanon was
perceived as sort of the rivi era of the Eastern
met It just was It's a beautiful part of the world,
you know, great natural beauty, great weather, et cetera. And
because of the stability they had politically forty fifty years ago,
it was where everybody wanted to do business. It was
a banking center, It was a paradise in the Middle

(15:42):
East and had Jews and Christians and Muslims living together
in relative peace and harmon.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
It was an example for how you could do it.

Speaker 12 (15:52):
Right.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
I don't know if that's a model they're using for gaza.

Speaker 17 (15:55):
I don't think it's going to be golf courses in resorts,
but there could be a bunch of economic development as
to whether or not it's built there. That's a that's
a that's a practical question, that's logis. I don't know
if you can build on top of that much rubble rubble.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
I don't know if you can dig it all out.

Speaker 17 (16:08):
I don't know what the unexploded bomb ordinance is that's
lying around. So there's a lot of the questions to ask.
But you know, listen, the first threshold is to have
the will to do something positive. And it sounds like
sounds like that that will is building.

Speaker 10 (16:21):
That's Mick mulvaney.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
You can hear the entire interview on demand, WBT dot
com or wherever you get Good Morning BT podcasts.

Speaker 10 (16:35):
Can you imagical Fati magic, your best friend.

Speaker 7 (16:42):
Sticking up? Even when I know your mom, you a
magical man conversation the best So I'm not saying that's
you ever had.

Speaker 10 (16:58):
I was waiting for that one to best one. Did
the wind sweep you love you of me?

Speaker 7 (17:05):
Did you finally get the chance of downs alone, a lot.

Speaker 10 (17:08):
Of it, and you're tall.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
It's well not that you any of you need any
excuse to play train ever on this show. There's a
reason why I'm playing this.

Speaker 10 (17:21):
This is, according to Rolling Stone Magazine, the two hundred
and fiftieth greatest song of the twenty first century. And
I strongly disagree. I think it's in the top ten.
It's number two fifty.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
I know.

Speaker 10 (17:35):
I don't agree with this list at all. See no, no, no, not,
I don't agree with that at all. Now that's why
you have your own list on Spotify. That's it's true.
That's your your place, that's my place.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
So Rolling Stone has ranked the two hundred and fifty
greatest songs since the turn of the century. They say
this is number two fifty out of their top two fifty.

Speaker 11 (17:59):
Out of all of the songs released in the two thousands,
all of them.

Speaker 10 (18:03):
Let's go all the way to number five. Number five
on the list is well, I thought I had it
rolling here it.

Speaker 7 (18:09):
Is I can do and I forget about shoes long
enough to forget away.

Speaker 10 (18:20):
All too well.

Speaker 11 (18:23):
By Taylor Swift the ten minute version.

Speaker 13 (18:27):
Yeah, I've never even heard this song.

Speaker 10 (18:30):
Oh no, oh, guys, it's glorious, and it's inefferently.

Speaker 11 (18:34):
It's apparently her her song about the heartbreak she experienced
with Jake Jillenhall.

Speaker 10 (18:44):
That takes ten minutes.

Speaker 11 (18:45):
Yeah, no kidding, have y'all never had heartbreak that would
take that long to describe, not.

Speaker 10 (18:50):
In song form.

Speaker 13 (18:50):
Oh yeah, here we go.

Speaker 10 (18:52):
Number four, Smooth. It's talk about your product, your production.

Speaker 12 (18:58):
Shields's rude white stripes.

Speaker 10 (19:02):
So out of two hundred and fifty, you said white strips.
Taylor Taylor Swipt was five. This is four seven Army Nations.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
You cannot go to any college or high school football
game and not hear the band play this song.

Speaker 10 (19:14):
Oh really, that's where that's actually probably where I first
heard it. I was like, what is that?

Speaker 11 (19:20):
I just don't feel like I like this song, but
I don't feel like top five of the two thousands.

Speaker 10 (19:26):
Yeah, everybody else is saying yes, okay, no, I mean
so since the turn, So that's number four, here's number three.
I don't know if this is number three, but this
is this is one of them. This is one of
the jams since since two thousand. You can't deny that. Yeah,

(19:49):
I would say top twenty.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
All right, So this is this is three, getting closer
to number one. As a countdown continued, I was waiting
for some boy say all right, let's see what else
we got going on here.

Speaker 10 (20:03):
This is number two.

Speaker 13 (20:13):
I know this song.

Speaker 10 (20:15):
Has anybody in the room but Bernie, no.

Speaker 13 (20:18):
Steve knows.

Speaker 10 (20:19):
Guys.

Speaker 11 (20:20):
If train is two fifty and this is two, I
feel like this is an inverted list.

Speaker 10 (20:25):
Who is this the Yeah? Yeah, yeah, it's called maps.

Speaker 13 (20:29):
Yes.

Speaker 11 (20:31):
I was going through this list and I was going
through it talking to my husband and he was like, oh, yeah,
you've heard that song.

Speaker 10 (20:36):
I was like, oh, that helps me exactly.

Speaker 13 (20:41):
They've also sang heads will roll. You guys probably know
that song.

Speaker 15 (20:44):
You heard that that you've heard like the instrumental, it's
been repurposed many times, said.

Speaker 10 (20:49):
I've become that old guy.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
I don't know all right, So, according to Rolling Stone magazine,
the number one greatest song since the turn of the century.

Speaker 10 (21:00):
Old Oh yeah, I mean it's a good song.

Speaker 19 (21:10):
But one.

Speaker 10 (21:15):
Missy Elliott, what's her other song? So I don't even know,
Like this is the only one I know?

Speaker 13 (21:23):
No, no, no, you know which one? So many? Oh yeah,
she does have a lot.

Speaker 10 (21:30):
Listen to now. She was we run this Now, that
is my favorite Missy Elliott song.

Speaker 7 (21:35):
We run this.

Speaker 13 (21:36):
She was on fire for long.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
She was lit.

Speaker 10 (21:39):
Feel like it was more I sound like somebody's parents.

Speaker 13 (21:45):
Parents in the.

Speaker 10 (21:46):
High school football stad's going. She was li's like, literally
on fire.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
We run this with no cap.

Speaker 11 (21:55):
We run this with such a good song. I feel
like we this was better than this.

Speaker 10 (21:58):
This list is very suss, but she does have riz.
We hit all the ones.

Speaker 11 (22:05):
Who knows, I don't know it's six seven guys, Well okay,
hold that thought.

Speaker 10 (22:10):
Yeah yeah, because I didn't know what that meant until
last night. Oh yeah, my ten year old niece said it.
So six to seven.

Speaker 14 (22:17):
Learn how you just learned about Canadian Thanksgiving. This is
me hearing mapped the first time.

Speaker 10 (22:20):
This list is so six seven. But did I even
use it right? Yeah? Well kind of. It's a six seven.

Speaker 14 (22:26):
So the top five Drops of Jupiter we're.

Speaker 10 (22:31):
Gonna play and fifty could play six seven. Oh I
see what you I can look up.

Speaker 11 (22:37):
We could play six seven and sixty seven.

Speaker 10 (22:40):
We could play all of those things. Let's see.

Speaker 11 (22:43):
But the fact that Drops of Jupiter was two fifty.
If you guys remember, did y'all buy that album? Drops
of Jupiter the whole album when you got it just for.

Speaker 10 (22:50):
The record, No, okay, So I bought it literally for
the rest of CD.

Speaker 11 (22:54):
And when you opened it up, a little card fell out.
A little card fell out of the CD case that said,
if you do not love this album, we will give
you your money back. And I thought, oh, I could
get my money back. But then I listened and I
love the album, so I couldn't get my money back
in good conscience.

Speaker 10 (23:09):
Sure it's got a two hundred and fiftieth best song
on it. No, it's one of my favorites.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Well, so when we come back, I can do six
seven because that'll be a dual segment. I'll tell you
what number six and number seven are. Sixty seven, what's sick?

Speaker 10 (23:21):
Well, yeah, I can do sixties sixty seventeen. All right,
I got my homework during the break traffic check right now,
boom er von Canon.

Speaker 12 (23:27):
I think beth And needs some more train.

Speaker 10 (23:29):
Yes, there is never enough train in the world.

Speaker 11 (23:32):
I really do feel like Pat Monahan and I would
be friends if we met Trey.

Speaker 10 (23:37):
I want to be his buddy.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
Oh, may we really have to do this?

Speaker 1 (23:39):
I guess we do.

Speaker 12 (23:40):
Where's roads that.

Speaker 10 (23:45):
Jack if you were here, like twenty years or maybe
twenty five years ago. He was in that studio right
next door, all right. They used to have some pretty big.

Speaker 14 (23:56):
Artists that would come in and do live on the
morning show on I guess that it was probably the Link.

Speaker 13 (24:01):
Yeah, Beth, I was right down the hallway just twenty
years ago.

Speaker 10 (24:05):
They called it the Link Lounge. I would faint.

Speaker 11 (24:10):
I think there are very few people that I think
I would feel starstruck by if I met them in person,
and I think I would feel start A couple.

Speaker 14 (24:17):
Of years ago, when we had our former GM from
like five years ago bo, they had Johnny Swim in
there to you know Johnny Swimmer is yeah, couple and
they were there.

Speaker 10 (24:24):
He goes, I don't know who you guys are, but
you're really good.

Speaker 14 (24:29):
Like who says that to it acts famous enough to
bring in to have them play live. I don't know
who you guys are, but you sound really good.

Speaker 10 (24:37):
Thanks General Manager. But I could totally see him saying it, well,
back to my cocaine.

Speaker 20 (25:04):
I'm looking over at Steve, do.

Speaker 10 (25:23):
You know do you know the song's terrible but you
don't know who it is, so nobody.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
In the room knows who it is and it's the
sixth greatest song.

Speaker 13 (25:31):
It's a remake, is it not? Isn't this a This
is by Robin?

Speaker 10 (25:35):
I know this song? Yeah, you know it was by Robin.

Speaker 13 (25:39):
I've heard covers of this song, but I have not
heard the age.

Speaker 10 (25:42):
Okay, look, I woke up out of a twenty year coma.
I don't know why Caffrey's song.

Speaker 11 (25:45):
Oddly, the best cover of this song was a competitor
on the Voice. It was a duo, a dude duo
from the Voice, and they sang it together and it's fantastic.

Speaker 10 (25:57):
They do it as a ballad. It's better than this.
But I do like these lyrics. They've got just Tiffany.

Speaker 6 (26:04):
Who is this?

Speaker 1 (26:05):
No, it's Robin, but I do remember her. I remember,
but I didn't know if she's sang this song.

Speaker 10 (26:11):
This is the This is number six And I can't
roll right into Kendrick Lamar without without surveying the lyrics.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
And I'm not going to do It's all right, Oh,
that's number seven, Kendrick Lamar Is that's number seven.

Speaker 10 (26:24):
Receiving votes was Kendrick Lamar?

Speaker 8 (26:26):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (26:26):
I thought this was number seven?

Speaker 8 (26:28):
No, No, No.

Speaker 10 (26:29):
Six?

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Six was dancing. Well, oh that was number six.

Speaker 11 (26:32):
And then number seven is Kendrick Lamar, gotcha? And what
about sixty seven?

Speaker 10 (26:35):
Sixty seven is oh wait, it's not going to let
me play it.

Speaker 13 (26:39):
It needs see.

Speaker 10 (26:40):
This is what happens when I try to do things
on the fly. If you talk for a second, I
can get.

Speaker 13 (26:43):
You sixty ten.

Speaker 10 (26:44):
So so you guys had an a cappella group, the
barbershop quartet.

Speaker 11 (26:48):
We did have a barbershop quartet in here on Friday.
They were called three and a half Men.

Speaker 8 (26:54):
Who is the half men?

Speaker 10 (26:55):
That's the same thing we asked, and.

Speaker 11 (26:56):
They said they said that it is literally just a
conversation starter, that it just gets people to ask about
them and then remember their names. But the world go
for world Champion, World Champion Barbershop Quartet, And they performed
at an event on Friday night and then one on
Saturday here in town. They were on the show on
Friday morning. If you did not hear them perform on

(27:17):
Friday morning, I highly recommend going back to the podcast
on WBT dot com and listening to you was losing it?

Speaker 21 (27:23):
I did.

Speaker 11 (27:24):
I really did kind of lose my mind. My face
melted off. Their harmonies were so precise.

Speaker 10 (27:31):
Now back to the countdown at number sixty seven.

Speaker 12 (27:36):
Oh that, what's waiting for.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
Number sixty seven on not billboard? It's actually it's actually
rolling Stones two hundred and fifty greatest songs since the
turn of the century.

Speaker 10 (27:51):
Now sixty seven. All right, get all that all the way.
The six to seven thing, Okay, if you have heard your.

Speaker 11 (27:59):
Youngsters, the kids say that's so six seven or just
six seven. My niece ten years old, I took her
to a late lunch yesterday and we were practicing for
a musical that she's trying out for, and she said
it like six seven, and I was like, oh my gosh,
this is so weird that this has become a thing.
It came from some rap song or something, and then

(28:21):
it became a viral TikTok meme and now all of
the kids say it, and it has a couple of
different meanings, and it's not sixty seven, and it's not
six two seven, it's just six seven. And it's either
a way to reject someone and tell them to go away,
like six seven. So kind of like we used to
say eighty six when you worked in when you worked
in the food industry, like eighty six, the special meaning

(28:44):
that it was out.

Speaker 10 (28:45):
You say six to seven, that means go away, but
it also means so so so.

Speaker 11 (28:49):
A lot of kids will say six seven while holding
their palms up and doing like the little wave.

Speaker 10 (28:54):
Mad yeah, just so so or mid mid may.

Speaker 22 (28:58):
So.

Speaker 10 (28:58):
It's kind of like it's it's the ac walks in.
Can I say you're so six seven? Because he literally
is six seven six?

Speaker 21 (29:06):
Why six seven? Why not fifty five thirty three twenty four?

Speaker 23 (29:09):
Right?

Speaker 10 (29:10):
It came from the six sevens above average.

Speaker 11 (29:13):
It came from a scrilla song, a scrilla.

Speaker 13 (29:17):
Yeah, it came from his scrilla.

Speaker 11 (29:19):
The lyrics it says he says six to seven dut dute,
six seven dut dute. And then a guy said six
seven to the camera in a viral TikTok video and
it became part of the young lexicon.

Speaker 15 (29:32):
You know, I love my child, but I do not
love the children with this stuff, Oh the skimmity toilet stuff.

Speaker 10 (29:39):
What are they doing?

Speaker 13 (29:40):
What are we doing with the kids.

Speaker 10 (29:42):
Now, Bernie, hasn't anyone ever told you that the children
our future?

Speaker 13 (29:46):
It doesn't feel like it.

Speaker 10 (29:46):
I remember that that's a song. Actually teach them well
and let them lead.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
The way.

Speaker 10 (29:52):
The children. What I got out of that second sexual chocolate.

Speaker 6 (29:58):
Is just follow my mouse from Me's talk eleven ten
and ninety nine three double.

Speaker 4 (30:06):
Bet, this is we have a four?

Speaker 12 (30:08):
Who is Andre and the drive?

Speaker 4 (30:10):
This is good morning beat with boats, humpson and bed trout.
But thank you, Amity high school man for that eloquence.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
Select you.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
All right?

Speaker 1 (30:23):
October fourteenth, it's a Tuesday, coming up, just past the
bottom of the hour. Mark Garrison returned to the North
Carolina State Fair yesterday and he's back here to tell
us the stories about it.

Speaker 10 (30:41):
You ready for this?

Speaker 11 (30:42):
Yeah, it's my favorite time of year to live vicariously
through through Mark Garrison.

Speaker 10 (30:47):
You guys thought the great Pumpkin came on Halloween night.
This is my greatest pumpkin of the year. Thanks great,
it's fried pumpkin, though it is deep fried.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
Mark Harrison coming up at seven thirty five. So Monday
night football. One of the games last night, the Atlanta Falcons,
as Zoke just said, beat Buffalo twenty.

Speaker 10 (31:09):
Four to fourteen. I feel like this boat's well for us.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Well, I mean, the Panthers play the Falcons blew them
out thirty to nothing. Panthers play at New York this
coming week. They're winless, and then they come back home.
The Panthers do to play the Buffalo Bills. So if
we blew out the Falcons, then the Falcons took care
of the Bills, then what's going to happen here in
two weeks?

Speaker 10 (31:31):
Can they transitive thing? We should be the old if
then principal if then? I mean, hey, you know when
you're when you're when you're five hundred, you can start
playing these games, right? I agree? It was it the
six to seven. Have we clinched the playoff spot yet?
I'm just I figure out at three wins?

Speaker 1 (31:46):
But isn't it great just to be uh in the
position where you can actually we usually out of it
by you can imagine.

Speaker 14 (31:53):
Well the ju said, they go, we're done, Like are
we going to have the first draft pick or second?

Speaker 11 (31:59):
We're defeated at home? Gentlemen, we are.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
So the Atlanta Falcons, the question is who are they?
You know, you get blown out by the Panthers and
then you beat Buffalo and Buffalo is considered a Super
Bowl favorite, right, I mean, you'd have to say that
that last night they didn't look like that. But Buffalo
is one of the teams that you would say has
a good shot at making it all the way to
the end. So I asked you yesterday, and I know,

(32:23):
I know you're like, hold on, don't get get ahead
of yourself.

Speaker 10 (32:26):
What's it?

Speaker 1 (32:26):
I said, could Rico possibly Supplantba Hubber Chuba Hubber when
he returns? And it looks like he's kind of come back.
So Dave Canalis was asked this yesterday in the press conference.

Speaker 24 (32:39):
It was in twenty twenty three in Tampa, and Skip
Pete's the running back coach in Tampa. He had Rico
as a practice squad running back in Dallas, so when
he worked with me in Tampa, he said, a guy
would need to take a look at his Rico Daldell,
you love this kid. He's aggressive, he's smart, he's really

(32:59):
into it. He's a little bit quiet, a little serious,
but he's he loves the game, plays the game with passion,
and you know, just kind of knowing his history, you know,
we didn't end up, you know, acquiring him at the time,
but Skip was right, you know, he sees all those things.
He's an aggressive runner, and he's tough, and he cares
and he's focused and all the things you love in

(33:19):
a teammate and a player.

Speaker 13 (33:20):
He earned the right debate the starting running back.

Speaker 10 (33:22):
Now and we'll see, and there was we'll see that
tells you the answer right there.

Speaker 12 (33:27):
We'll see.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
Now you saw him last night because he had panther
talk last night, and you see the coach once a week,
had that conversation go anymore from that conversation, that may
would sort of lead you to make an assumption about
what you just heard.

Speaker 14 (33:41):
Part of it is tube was not fully clear did
play this week. I think a lot of people are
anticipating he was so close last week that he probably
would be ready this week.

Speaker 8 (33:48):
But they don't.

Speaker 14 (33:49):
They don't have to talk about injury status till Wednesdays,
usually the first time of the week they have to.
So they always delay until they have to talk about that.
But we did talk about it.

Speaker 10 (33:58):
We were talking about, you know, being on down the
hall ifen Ze.

Speaker 14 (34:02):
It's like we got to trade one of them. We
gotta get some value. It's like, no, keep them both.
I mean, as I said to the coach, I go,
you know this. I'm sure, but you know DeAngelo Williams,
Jonathan Stewart, you had Stephen Davis and Deshan Foster. Nothing
wrong with having two great backs, and as Cuba just proved,
he was just out two weeks with the cap injury.
The health of a running back can be difficult over
a long season, so you want to have at least

(34:24):
one of those guys available. So I think they're excited
about that. My personal opinion, not from the coach, would
be like, you don't mess with winning streaks. You don't
talk about no hitters. I mean, you don't when things
are going good, you just keep it the same. So
I would start the game with Rico, then bring Cuba in.
Plus he's coming off the injury, so you have that
reasoning that you could use as well. So I wouldn't
mess with just kind of the chemistry of what's going

(34:44):
on right now. I heard that Cheoboar organically runs for
two hundred yards and Rico runs for forty yards. Then okay,
chewball or whatever, but play the hot hand.

Speaker 10 (34:52):
I wouldn't mess with it.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
I saw Cam Newton was on the first take yesterday
and they were asking him about this, and he was
bringing up the DiAngelo Jonathan Stewart tandem as well, And yeah,
I mean if you think back to the Panthers greatest
greatest successes, it's usually with with with a one two punch.

Speaker 15 (35:10):
So Jim, I could be wrong here and I'm just
spit bowling. But Rico Dawdle is more of a downhill runner.
Cuba has become really patient between the tackles. I feel
like he kind of waits for his whole Rico is
just going to run through you. I feel like they
compliment each other really well. So I don't see why
we wouldn't, you know, run a two back system that
Detroit has really great success with it.

Speaker 14 (35:27):
They'll do what's called pony sometimes we put two running
backs back there and I would love to see them.
Then teams don't know even if you're going to run
our pass because they can both catch the ball. Because also,
by the way, Rico was the top receiver last week
with four catches fifty six yards, so you.

Speaker 10 (35:40):
Could like play action them to death. I mean you
could do a lot.

Speaker 14 (35:42):
And we're about to get back Jalen Coker, one of
our best receivers and our starting ten J T. Sanders
at all could be this week. So an embarrassment of
Riches for this three and three Panthers tame.

Speaker 12 (35:51):
Hey, all we do is win.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Like like I said, we'll take it because in years
past you're talking about draft picks and a draft orderately
e the n SC South. As of today, Buccaneers are
out out in front five and one, but the Panthers, Uh,
the Falcons are three and two. Panthers are three and three,
so right there, and then the Saints are in the basement.

Speaker 14 (36:11):
It's like it's like Baker Mayfield with a rec league,
Like everybody's hurt, so it's just like Baker and ten
guys and and there's still five and one. I mean,
he's really he's playing like an MVP this year'll it'll
be interesting to see. We don't play them till I
think two of our last three games are with Tampa.

Speaker 13 (36:26):
That's been the last few years.

Speaker 14 (36:27):
Tampa is usually somebody it's like Atlanta or Tampa. But yeah,
I think you're right.

Speaker 10 (36:31):
Two of the last three years it's been exactly with Tampa.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
And Baker's getting MVP mentions. I know it's early in
the season, but if you had to pick one right now,
right now, you know he's the first quarter of the season,
I think you'd be hard pressed to name a different guy.

Speaker 14 (36:43):
So Dak was the other one that was kind of
being mentioned. Who just played last week with me Wes Josh.
I think you always picked from a winning team, and
obviously Tampa's had a lot more success.

Speaker 4 (36:53):
This is Good Morning Beat with both Thompson and Beth
troud Man.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
To talk eleven ten WBT Bowen, Beth Here and the
Zoke on a Tuesday morning. Shocking news yesterday that the
founder of lending Tree and a well known Charlotte business executive,
Doug Lebda, passed away. We learned yesterday after an ATV
accident in western North Carolina and try On North Carolina.

Speaker 11 (37:22):
Yeah, this was such heartbreaking news to hear so many people,
I mean, like both said, it's just such a shocking
story that was revealed, and just I mean just it's
terrible for everyone who works at the lending Tree facility
here in Charlotte, and so many people have stories and
you know, interactions that they've had with him with Doug Lebda.

Speaker 10 (37:44):
So I had a chance to meet Doug. I know
you did too.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
And Doug was close friends with Pat McCrory and during
the Pat McCrory show days, he came in here Doug
did several times during that period of time. And this
is a piece of audio from twenty nineteen. This is
actually April of twenty nineteen. Doug was here in studio
and we asked him to tell us how he came

(38:09):
to be in business with lending Tree and how it
got off the ground and why Charlotte.

Speaker 25 (38:13):
So the idea for lending Tree came from me getting
a mortgage on a fifty five thousand dollars condo in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
went to two banks, got the run around, and decided to.

Speaker 8 (38:24):
Make banks compete. How old were you at the time.

Speaker 25 (38:27):
I was twenty four when I got the mortgage, twenty
six when I started the company.

Speaker 26 (38:30):
And where were you when you started the company? Geographically?
Were you in school at the time.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
No.

Speaker 25 (38:37):
I was working for Price Waterhouse, And then I did
go to business school, and during that first year I
wrote the business plan there and then at the end
of that year decided to leave and moved.

Speaker 8 (38:46):
To Charlotte and make this thing happen.

Speaker 25 (38:48):
I was very lucky I did not, and I was
very lucky that I, out of exasperation, I said to somebody,
what would it take for you to invest ten thousand
dollars in this company, and he told me exactly what
it would take and what was his answer, And I
did it need. I needed to prove that a lender
would join the network, and I had to prove that
consumers would actually do it. And with five hundred dollars

(39:10):
of buying ads on Yahoo, we proved it out. And
then he gave my first ten thousand dollars and then
from there we raised a little bit more money. You
were talking about branding earlier. We knew we had to
do it because we just spend so much money on advertising.

Speaker 26 (39:23):
And now what's that You started out with ten thousand
dollars five hundred of your own money.

Speaker 25 (39:28):
Yeah, oh yeah, well five thousand of my own money initially,
But that I proved.

Speaker 8 (39:32):
I proved the business case with five hundred bucks. And
now what's the value of the company. I hate to
talk about it. It's about four billion dollars.

Speaker 25 (39:40):
By the way, I don't own a lot of it,
but it's a it's pretty amazing.

Speaker 8 (39:44):
Well, that's that's the American story. That's the best of
America right there.

Speaker 25 (39:48):
It's we love the fact that we can help the
consumer save them real money, and also that lenders can
build big and during businesses around.

Speaker 8 (39:55):
All Right, why I got you? Why did you bring
the company to Charlotte?

Speaker 25 (39:58):
So I was interviewing for jobs in Charlotte at the
time with Nations Bank and with McKenzie, and I thought
this was the right city to build a company that
I called Built to Last with great people, where we
can recruit people in. We were always trying to recruit
people to Charlotte. There were times that it wasn't It
was harder to raise venture capital. But the good news

(40:21):
is over a twenty plus year span, this has been
the right spot.

Speaker 26 (40:26):
And you got to remember this was at a time
when I used to be recruitment manager for Energy and
I'd tell college students to move to Charlotte, and they'd
go where Charlotte?

Speaker 8 (40:34):
Yep?

Speaker 26 (40:35):
I mean just twenty years ago college students had at Knoxville, Tennessee.

Speaker 8 (40:40):
I'd be recruiting engineers at Tennessee. I'd go, how'd you
like to move to Charlotte, THEYD go, Whe's Charlotte.

Speaker 12 (40:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 25 (40:44):
I knew nothing about banking, didn't really know anything about technology.
Was very fortunate that I got a great technologist, guy
named Rick Stiegler, to move down here with me and
we got it going.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
That's Doug Lebda on this radio station back in twenty nine,
back on the old Pat McCrory show. And again, Doug Lebda,
the founder of a lending Tree, passed away this week
after an ATV accident. He was building a farm, or
had a farm in Tryon, North Carolina, and that's about
ninety miles west of Charlotte. But Pat McCrory was very

(41:19):
close with them, and I know there are a lot
of people that can hear this right now that we're
close with him. But the company's board described Lebda as
quote a visionary leader whose relentless drive, innovation, and passion
transformed the financial services landscape, also saying that he had
an unwavering commitment to the team, customers and partners and

(41:42):
shaped Lending Trees culture and values. That's unquote from the
board's statement yesterday following this really really shocking news because
this is a guy that was only fifty five years old.

Speaker 11 (41:55):
Fifty five years old and to pass away unexpectedly due
to this ATV accident on his farm. The board also
said that he touched the lives of millions of consumers
and they have that board has now appointed lending Tree's
chief operating officer and President, Scott Peirey to succeed Lebda,
and that is effective immediately. But I would imagine everyone

(42:17):
who works and that building is just really a stone
throws a stone's throw away from where we are right now,
and such a unique culture. I had the unique opportunity
to do a video piece with the folks at lending Tree,
and it's how I met Doug and I was really
impressed by the culture he created there that it felt,

(42:41):
at least while I was there, like a fun, positive
work environment. And you love hearing that story that he
was twenty four years old, saw a need and then
figured out how to fill that need and make banks compete.
And as you heard in that interview six years ago,
the company was valued at billion of dollars and he
started it with five hundred dollars.

Speaker 10 (43:03):
Of his own money.

Speaker 11 (43:04):
And just think about that. Pat McCrory was right in
that interview. It is a true American story, And what
a loss to the banking industry, What a loss to
the financial industry to lose him at such a young age,
at the age of fifty five.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Pat McCrory obviously was close with him. Tark McCary was
also very close with him. Posted a lengthy message yesterday
after learning about this news. If you remember back to
when the NBA first started putting advertising spots on their uniforms,
and it's still to this day. If you look at
an NBA uniform, there's one place, it's over on the

(43:39):
left hand side on the chest where most teams have
some entity that's bought that space and they've changed hands
over time. Same thing with the Hornets. But the original
advertising logo there for the Charlotte Hornets was lending Tree.

Speaker 10 (43:55):
Lending Tree.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
Yeah, and Doug was a big Hornets fan, and you
saw him at a lot of Hornets game and you know,
just a guy who was very well known in this community.

Speaker 10 (44:04):
And again I keep going back to that fifty five.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
It's an ATV accident all terrain vehicle that he had
an accident and passed away. But just a lot of
heavy hearts across the community today, really in shock about
the news.

Speaker 11 (44:18):
I always when you hear stories like these, especially a
sudden accident like this one, it always it just hits
your heart in ways that when you learn the ending
of a story, it's especially it hits when you go
back and hear and interview and you hear how much
life and energy he had and so many, I'm sure
so many things he felt he.

Speaker 10 (44:39):
Had left to do.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
He is survived by his wife, Megan, and three daughters.
His wife said in a statement yesterday, quote his energy
was magnetic, his smile contagious, and his presence was a
source of comfort and inspiration unquote. So rest in peace
to Doug Lebda again, founder of lending Tree, and passed
away this week at the age of fifty five. All right,

(45:07):
seven thirty seven on WBT on this Tuesday, October fourteenth.
We look forward to this day every year, the day
that Mark comes back from the North Carolina State Fair
with stories to tell.

Speaker 10 (45:19):
I'm fat and happy.

Speaker 8 (45:21):
I'm just fat.

Speaker 10 (45:23):
You're not happy, but I I'm happy too. Yeah, I
heard you.

Speaker 12 (45:26):
People are jolly. H we are.

Speaker 21 (45:29):
We are because we're too fat to run. Let's see,
there are eighty eight new foods at the fair this year,
eighty eight. Now, we got to sample about two dozen yesterday.
Members of the media sample as much as they can
and then they vote on their favorite dish. You know,
this is seventh year I've done this.

Speaker 10 (45:46):
I've had.

Speaker 21 (45:47):
Let's see, yesterday I had everything from oxtail fried rice
which was really good, to cotton candy iced tea, which
I'll tell you more about a minute. But my first
fair food encounter was with the Scott family. They are
there every year. They're cowgirl bites or what they're offering
up this year. They have a catering business in Raleigh

(46:08):
is called Fat Boys Barbecue, and every year at the
fair they always have something new with cue.

Speaker 19 (46:14):
This year we got a cowgirl bite. We got found
famous last year with a cowboy bite, so we tried
to put a spin on it.

Speaker 21 (46:20):
Well, this would be for hefty cowgirls who aren't exactly
counting calories. The cowgirl bites look like big old' hush puppies, a.

Speaker 19 (46:29):
Cross between the hushpuppy and a cornd doll, because it's
got corndoll better on outside.

Speaker 10 (46:32):
And what's in it?

Speaker 19 (46:33):
It is our famous Eastern style pulled pork and pomented cheese.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
Pulled pork and pomented cheese and a crunchy hushpuppy.

Speaker 19 (46:41):
All right, Martin, let me know oo gooey cheesy pork.
Oh man, Right, So it's all about nothing like cheese
and pork mixing inside up.

Speaker 21 (46:53):
About it right, and Bobby Scott says they're already working
on next year's barbecue surprise.

Speaker 10 (47:00):
Seem to be having a lot of fun.

Speaker 19 (47:01):
I love this, dude, I do.

Speaker 10 (47:03):
But not everything is deep fried here.

Speaker 21 (47:05):
Sarah Foreman is another longtime fare vendor, her family business
processing fresh crab meat that's caught off the North Carolina coast,
and this year she's concocted something rather sophisticated for affair.

Speaker 11 (47:18):
So we're having North Carolina blue crabsavice.

Speaker 21 (47:20):
Savice, in case you don't know, is usually raw fish
mixed with citrus juice, onions, tomatoes, and other veggies. But
in this case, the blue crab meat is first cooked crab.

Speaker 11 (47:30):
Meat, and it has a mixture of cucumber, tomato, onion, cilantra, lime,
very light and refreshed and served with housemaid and tortilla chips.

Speaker 10 (47:37):
Oh wow, thank you.

Speaker 21 (47:40):
And Sarah's other fresh caught delicacy, North Carolina shrimp fried
up in a coconut batter.

Speaker 27 (47:47):
Oh man, hmm, dipping in a little orange thoughts. Oh
my gosh, there's some of the best shrimp I've ever had.
Who don't tell my cardiologist we're doing this. I gotta
tell you, I was shut in how good the savice was.
It's not typical fair food, but it was just unbelievable.

Speaker 10 (48:07):
Savich good savich.

Speaker 11 (48:09):
There is no top in it.

Speaker 14 (48:10):
I didn't know what that was till two months ago
we went to a house party. I thought I was
just eating some kind of salsa. They said, that's got
raw fishing, and I go, I just thought it was something.

Speaker 12 (48:17):
Really my wife sauce.

Speaker 8 (48:19):
She loves savice.

Speaker 15 (48:20):
Yeah, every time I go to an ex mastaurant, she's
always getting sevich.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
You know what the challenge for Mark is. I know
this because I've done the Taste of Charlotte judging before.
But I heard the guys say, all right, Mark, let's go,
let's see what you like, and they want and they are,
they're watching you, and they want you to eat that
whole thing.

Speaker 21 (48:34):
Yeah, that's right, which is hard to do because I'll
tell you there was one thing I did not like
barbecue donuts. It was barbecue inside a donut with coal
slaw on top.

Speaker 10 (48:45):
It was a hot mess.

Speaker 21 (48:47):
And so I just sort of yeah, thank you, that's tasty,
and sort of backed away and threw it away.

Speaker 11 (48:52):
I really am all about that cowgirl bite though.

Speaker 10 (48:55):
Man, that was really good. Amino cheese on a hush bumper.

Speaker 21 (49:01):
Yeah, they're French fries that are a big deal at
fair too, And yesterday I had some fries.

Speaker 10 (49:07):
I thought I'd never.

Speaker 21 (49:09):
Eat deep fried pickle fries.

Speaker 16 (49:12):
What in the world?

Speaker 10 (49:13):
So we have pickled French fries.

Speaker 21 (49:15):
And that's Philip. He and his wife Jesse are from Canada.
They spend seven months a year on the road at
American fairs. They get to see the world.

Speaker 10 (49:24):
Yeah, it's a great way to make a living.

Speaker 21 (49:26):
This year traveling with a new addition.

Speaker 10 (49:28):
With your little guy. How old is a nine months baby? Adams?

Speaker 8 (49:31):
He had his first French fried pickle yet.

Speaker 19 (49:33):
Oh yeah, he loves it.

Speaker 21 (49:34):
Philip and Jesse are constantly trying to think up new stuff,
and this year they.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
Thought, everyone loves pickle, everyone loves French fry, and what
a better way to combind them.

Speaker 21 (49:43):
Okay, so how it works. Philip cuts fresh potatoes into
thin strips, soaks them in pickle juice, and then into
the deep fryer.

Speaker 10 (49:52):
Those are good, thank you, very addictive. And you know what,
I don't like pickles. There you go, I'm happy you
enjoy them.

Speaker 11 (49:58):
I'm not a big pickle person here, but I I
love the pickled French fries, crispy and pickley.

Speaker 5 (50:03):
It's been a hit.

Speaker 10 (50:03):
Reception has been incredible.

Speaker 21 (50:05):
Now to wash down those pickles a drink I've never
seen anywhere else.

Speaker 10 (50:09):
Cotton candy ice tea.

Speaker 7 (50:11):
Yes, it is all. So everyone goes to the carnival
to go get cotton candy.

Speaker 10 (50:16):
Why not con candy tea?

Speaker 21 (50:18):
Well, that sounds like a logical question to me, So
I had a sip to see does it taste like
cotton candy?

Speaker 4 (50:24):
But it does it? Does?

Speaker 21 (50:26):
They get excited about their tea?

Speaker 10 (50:28):
How do you make the tea taste like cotton candy?
That's a secret.

Speaker 27 (50:31):
Now.

Speaker 21 (50:31):
The brains behind the secret cotton candy tea is Tammy Long.
She and her crew from Florida travel the fair circuit
serving teas of all kinds.

Speaker 10 (50:41):
Tammy wouldn't spill the beans either.

Speaker 12 (50:43):
On how they do it?

Speaker 10 (50:44):
Oh, come on, give me a hit cotton candy.

Speaker 21 (50:49):
She's laughing all the way to the bank. I mean,
people love that stuff. And the pickle French fries, I
mean they're green and at first I thought nuh, But.

Speaker 10 (50:59):
They were really good. See that sounds good to me. Yeah,
I actually like fried pickles.

Speaker 12 (51:04):
Yeah, that.

Speaker 21 (51:07):
Ranch or ketchup. They had an homemade ranch that actually
in ranch.

Speaker 10 (51:13):
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 8 (51:14):
I'm a redneck.

Speaker 10 (51:15):
Give me that ranch. Some of the stuff's expensive.

Speaker 13 (51:19):
Let's see.

Speaker 21 (51:20):
The teas about ten bucks. Oh, the cavice is twenty
Let's see those French fries are twenty as well.

Speaker 4 (51:28):
Wow.

Speaker 21 (51:29):
Yeah, but they give you a good helping.

Speaker 13 (51:32):
Yeah, we make radio money.

Speaker 10 (51:33):
The company's paying for this for you.

Speaker 21 (51:35):
Oh it was free yesterday. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (51:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (51:39):
Now.

Speaker 21 (51:39):
One of the messiest things, which I was not crazy about,
there was a cone made of pizza dough filled with
mac and cheese and bacon. It was okay, but it
was so messy. I got cheese on my glasses. And
then somebody came up to me and said, hey, buddy,
you got cheese on your microphone.

Speaker 10 (51:54):
I was like, okay, great, I.

Speaker 13 (51:56):
Should go interview people that way.

Speaker 10 (51:58):
Cheese w was on the end of your micro sticking
under their nose.

Speaker 1 (52:01):
By the time it's over, Mark himself is deep fried.

Speaker 21 (52:05):
He's got a shell around him. All Right, we have
more coming up, right, Yeah, we do. We'll find out
who won. And I just met an adorable crazy woman
who called herself the Queen of.

Speaker 10 (52:16):
Sweets, and we'll let you meet her too. I saw
you in the hallar, You've got some cheese on you.
Good morning, This is good morning, bet.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
All right nine in front of eight.

Speaker 10 (52:29):
O'clock here on News Talk eleven to ten WBT.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
We go back to WBT News director Mark Garrison, who
spent the day yesterday in Raleigh, the state capitol side
of the North Carolina State Fair.

Speaker 21 (52:41):
And like I said, he's back with stories to tell.
That's all right, thanks for not calling me fat Albert.
So yesterday it was media day where some of the
new fair foods were sampled in the media votes on
their favorite.

Speaker 8 (52:55):
Now.

Speaker 21 (52:55):
One disappointment I had. They have fried chicken feet this year,
and I was kind of looking forward to trying that.
They had a table set up for the guy there,
but he was a no show. Maybe he was out
chasing chickens, I know his feet. According to surveys, the
number one reason people go to the fair is to.

Speaker 10 (53:16):
Eat, not to ride the rides. Oh yeah, yeah, and
I believe that.

Speaker 21 (53:20):
And it's so cool. The vendors are an interesting lot.
Some are North Carolina foodies. Some are local farmers and
some of them are fair people who just travel the country.
A lot of reporters were there yesterday and a lot
of people kept gathering around one table where they were
serving up deep fried lamb chops.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
This is a little bit of an inspiration from our
deep fried ribs. Came up with the idea.

Speaker 10 (53:43):
That is RJ.

Speaker 21 (53:44):
Perry, a young man in his early twenties, very ambitious.
His food truck is known for his deep fried ribs,
so he figured why not fry up some lamb chops.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
Yes, sir, they're seasoned and they're battered, and then they're
joseph with balsamic, maple, honey and dash or dried mint
on top.

Speaker 21 (54:03):
Now, in full disclosure, I'll tell you I don't really
like lamb, but this that is hot.

Speaker 6 (54:10):
Thank you.

Speaker 10 (54:10):
We'll appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
We hope you enjoy it and make sure you tell
all your friends about us.

Speaker 21 (54:14):
Ha ha ha oh we'll tell everybody. And even though
I don't like lamb, I did ask for seconds. The
balsamic glaze on this lamb chop is just unbelievable.

Speaker 13 (54:23):
Oh appreciate that.

Speaker 21 (54:25):
Now, how about something sweet? I guess maybe I was
looking a little run down at one point, so I
was beckoned by a woman who said I needed a
pick me up.

Speaker 7 (54:33):
I think you'll be better when you get some sugar,
add some salt in you.

Speaker 10 (54:36):
What are you gonna do for me?

Speaker 7 (54:37):
I have the chocolate covered potato chip. Caramel apple is
the perfect glimb of sweet and salty. You need to
come and see me sweeting.

Speaker 21 (54:43):
Who could resist that? And yes, she said? It was
an apple dipped in chocolate covered with potato chips.

Speaker 7 (54:49):
You don't have to eat a potato chip and a
chocolate bar. It's all together. We're taking care of all
the hard work with the n apple.

Speaker 10 (54:55):
It's healthy.

Speaker 7 (54:56):
It's healthy. Let me drug. Yes, there you are, sugar.

Speaker 10 (55:00):
And what's your name?

Speaker 12 (55:00):
Sugar?

Speaker 7 (55:01):
My name is Semisha and I'm the candy queen.

Speaker 21 (55:03):
Shamisha lives near Raleigh. She has a candy food truck
that she takes to fairs and festival.

Speaker 7 (55:09):
We just travel about spreading sugar. That's what we do.

Speaker 21 (55:13):
Her chocolate covered apple with potato chips is the perfect
sweet and salty combination.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
Up.

Speaker 7 (55:19):
Oh yeah, yeah, sweet a little tart with the apple. Right,
So you have all these things going on in your
mouth at one time.

Speaker 21 (55:27):
Amisa said she came up with this idea to streamline
the process of eating candy and potato chips.

Speaker 10 (55:34):
You know, if you want to do both at the
same time.

Speaker 7 (55:36):
Yeah, I was eating some snickers and some chips and
got tied of alternating, so I said, why not put
them on an apple? So, you know, take all the
guestwork out right, make it easy.

Speaker 10 (55:46):
I love the way you think.

Speaker 7 (55:47):
Yeah, I mean, life is hard, so sweet should be simple.

Speaker 21 (55:51):
So good, thank you, and with an apple, Hey, it's healthy.

Speaker 7 (55:55):
The sweetest job on the planet.

Speaker 10 (55:57):
I loved her. I loved her. Are you and Misha
in a relationship?

Speaker 4 (56:02):
We could be?

Speaker 21 (56:05):
I just love it when she said, yeah, you know,
I was eating a candy bar and alternating with potato chips,
and I thought, this is too much work.

Speaker 10 (56:13):
I got tired. I needed it to be in windbite.
We've all thought that before. She said, I'm a multitasker.

Speaker 21 (56:19):
Sugar well, and full disclosure, she called everybody sugar.

Speaker 10 (56:25):
But I loved it. So the apple, the chocolate, the
potato chips.

Speaker 21 (56:29):
You would think it's weird, but honestly, it tasted really
good altogether.

Speaker 10 (56:34):
That sounds delightful. Salty and sweet is such a great combo.
It really is. Okay, Okay, so here's the big question.

Speaker 12 (56:43):
Marks.

Speaker 11 (56:43):
We got to try all of this yummy food, and
you all voted.

Speaker 10 (56:47):
Did you vote for the winner?

Speaker 4 (56:49):
I did.

Speaker 21 (56:50):
It's the first time in seven years that I voted
for the person that actually won.

Speaker 10 (56:55):
It was RJ.

Speaker 21 (56:57):
Perry's deep fried lamb chops. You and that that's not
your typical sounding kind of fair food because when they
serve it to you on the little plate, it's very
elegant looking.

Speaker 10 (57:06):
But oh it was so so good. Is it on
the bone? So you're just yes, yes, so.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
You can just walk around gnawing it off the bone,
looking the sauce off.

Speaker 10 (57:16):
You for little lambies.

Speaker 21 (57:18):
Oh and you don't like lambie so I don't, but
I would. I'm thinking about going back to the fair
just to get.

Speaker 12 (57:24):
Some of that.

Speaker 4 (57:25):
What was it?

Speaker 10 (57:25):
Was it like the spice rub? Was it the sauce?

Speaker 11 (57:28):
Was it just the combo of all of it?

Speaker 10 (57:29):
It was the combo of all of it together.

Speaker 21 (57:31):
I mean the meat was very flavorful, you know, it
was deep fried, but then that that drizzle they put
on top was very sweet. So oh man, Now speaking
of sweets the best sweet. Unfortunately, my friend Sugar did
not win. The best sweet was a big old corn
dog that was filled with mozzarella cheese and rolled in
cinnamon sugar.

Speaker 10 (57:52):
What wait and it was really good to So when
you go to.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
This every year, do you see the same reporters coming
back time and time again?

Speaker 12 (58:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (58:01):
Pretty much. Now, this year was interesting. There were a
lot of social media influencers there who were live on Facebook,
you know, holding up food and tasting it for the camera.
But yeah, the same reporters there. I mean, the guys
from WRAL send about ten people over just eat free.
Only one of them actually does a story.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
Do you have to go through some sort of detox
like like today and for the rest of the week,
because you know, you know this routine by now you
go every year.

Speaker 10 (58:28):
So do you not eat for five days after this
is over?

Speaker 3 (58:31):
No?

Speaker 10 (58:31):
I didn't need a lot.

Speaker 21 (58:33):
Yeah, I didn't need any breakfast or anything yesterday, but
I woke up hungry at three thirty this morning.

Speaker 1 (58:38):
So well, never disappoints.

Speaker 10 (58:41):
Expanded your stomach, that's what I'm more free now after
listening to all this, are we still doing dirty restaurants
today too?

Speaker 25 (58:47):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (58:47):
Yes?

Speaker 21 (58:48):
Oh, speaking of that, you may be curious about. An
army of health inspectors will fan out on the fairgrounds
today and tomorrow. They go to every food booth and
they make sure that it's up properly, and they stay
there the entire ten days.

Speaker 10 (59:03):
Oh, I love that. Yeah, there's a good reason why
they all behave on media days because Mark's there. Yeah,
they want to make sure really really quickly.

Speaker 11 (59:11):
Mark Tracy just texted us on the text line and said,
can you ask Mark what the winner of the fair
receives as a prize? So they get a prize, do
they get the They get a big plaque that says
we were the media selection as the best new fair
food and they can hang it in the window of
their booth or their trailer, and so the ideas that
would attract more business to their booth.

Speaker 10 (59:31):
That's more money.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
Yeah, well, thank you Mark, Yes, sir, all right, So
Mark's back in half an hour with Dirty Restaurant.

Speaker 10 (59:37):
Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (59:38):
He's back in seconds with the newscast now on the
other side of the news. He mentioned Wril You remember
the guy last week that broke the story about Bill
Belichick and did all that investigating. Well, Bill Belichick spoke
to the media for the first time since all of
this yesterday, and that guy, his name is Pat Welter.
He was there asking questions and this got pretty interesting.
So you'll hear some of that coming up. The latest

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Speaker 10 (01:00:43):
Bernie Bowles Bowls.

Speaker 4 (01:00:47):
Bowels.

Speaker 1 (01:00:49):
Yeah, this building's got something. So Bill Belichick been quiet
for the last week. We know that last week all
those reports, namely out of wr L, but you know
a lot of other people within the college football world
sort of speculating about what's going on behind the scenes.
After North Carolina was blown out by Clemson and just

(01:01:11):
has not had the start that they wanted.

Speaker 10 (01:01:13):
And well it's just not good these days. Yeah, yeah,
way to bring it home. Belichick agree more. Yeah, he's
not doing well, guys.

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
Belichick spoke for the first time since all those allegations
surfaced last week. This was his opening statement right as
he took the mic yesterday at the press conference.

Speaker 23 (01:01:37):
All Right, so I'll just start with, you know, right
off the bat, like just the some of the reports
out last week about am I looking for a buyout
and trying to leave here and all that, it's just
categorically false.

Speaker 8 (01:01:49):
It's zero truth to any of that. Glad I'm here.

Speaker 23 (01:01:54):
We're working towards you know, our goals, and the process
had great support from uh, you know, Chancellor roberts Ka,
Bubbo Steve and so forth. You know, Michael Bari has
been you know, those people have all been great, and
I appreciate all their help and everything, and you know,
we just believe very much in the process. I like

(01:02:15):
Bill Wills, you know, the squirrel take care of itself.
And I've always believed that you just got to keep
working and grinding away, and that's that's exactly what we're
doing now.

Speaker 7 (01:02:23):
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:02:24):
He he hoped that that would be the end of it.
Of course, of course, of course it was not remotely
the end of it. And the guy you're about to
hear is that guy Pat Welter. He's an investigative reporter
with w r L and he's the guy that that
released that story last week with all the allegations about
behind the scenes, unrest in the locker room and possible exits,

(01:02:46):
et cetera, et cetera. But when it was hence his
turn to answer questions, now, you can't hear him as
well as you can hear Belichick because it's the mic
is not as close to him, But you can hear
what's going on here, and he he digs.

Speaker 20 (01:02:57):
In the ring.

Speaker 28 (01:03:00):
A very u reported that there was buying a lot
of room and culture streams within the program.

Speaker 12 (01:03:06):
Uh, what do you have to say, is in the frames.

Speaker 28 (01:03:08):
That people are making in the building and the ground
the spoiling.

Speaker 23 (01:03:12):
Yeah, I mean, I'm with uh all these people every
day coaches players on the field. Uh, our guys work hard,
they have a great attitude, great energy, and and we've
shown a lot of improvement.

Speaker 8 (01:03:22):
You know, we made a lot of improvement.

Speaker 23 (01:03:23):
I think that's exciting for all of us to see,
certainly for the individual players to see it, you know,
in the units that they worked with. So I don't
know what kind of perspective some of those people have
that are saying that, but I think anybody that's around
it on a daily basis, would you know, would see that.
And I'm sure the players all seeing improvement that they're making.
As as this coaching stuff.

Speaker 28 (01:03:42):
There good built where lots game in twenty to three
first quarter figuring out at that run. Specifically, you and
Seeds drawing from frame gold contender to statistically one of
pepre schem than college football right now, and people in
the spuilding are said things gross.

Speaker 13 (01:04:01):
Watching here's South dream here.

Speaker 28 (01:04:04):
I mean, can you acknowledge you're telling me that you
leave this process is.

Speaker 8 (01:04:10):
Working at one percent?

Speaker 13 (01:04:12):
Yeah? Absolutely, Yeah, it's a learning curve.

Speaker 8 (01:04:14):
We're all in it together.

Speaker 23 (01:04:16):
But we're making a lot of progress and and you
know the process will eventually produce the results that want
to produce like they have everywhere else I've been. So
I'm very confident the players are working hard, they're getting better.
Then we're going to continue to do that.

Speaker 8 (01:04:29):
And improved.

Speaker 28 (01:04:30):
Do you expect that to change them along?

Speaker 23 (01:04:32):
The coaches out, Yeah, we're going to do everything we
can every day to continue to improve.

Speaker 4 (01:04:37):
That's what we do.

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
Slowly, but surely it's becoming. We're moving on to Cincinnati from.

Speaker 8 (01:04:42):
Back in the day.

Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
But the tar Heels play Friday night this week on
the West coast.

Speaker 10 (01:04:47):
They're at cal.

Speaker 1 (01:04:48):
Friday night, and it's here on WBT, of course because
we carry all the games a ten to thirty kickoff
Friday night.

Speaker 10 (01:04:55):
Wow, So they will be back on the field.

Speaker 1 (01:04:57):
It's been a while, but it's going to be interesting
to see how things go from here, because, as you
heard right there, he came out and said, hey, the
rumors of me looking for an exit plan are wrong
and we're plowing forward here and we'll see. But there
you go with Bill Belichick. That's finally he's spoken since
all this came out.

Speaker 11 (01:05:18):
But he didn't say that he wasn't going to change
up the coaching staff. He said, we're going to do
what our work.

Speaker 14 (01:05:24):
Cund Well, you know, his sun's the defensive coordinator, so
he's not going to touch that, so it'd have to
come from the offensive side if he did. And I
think you know again there Mac Brown, I would say
almost famously when one in ten his first two years
when he came out of Tulane and took that job
and he became the winning his coach in Targiho's history.
So I will give you that it could take time.
I think it's more the money and the circumstances and

(01:05:45):
the resources, and it's not It's been very dysfunctional, I
think is the word.

Speaker 10 (01:05:50):
He says.

Speaker 14 (01:05:50):
The progress are making their last game. They lost thirty
eight to ten to Clemson. The game before that, they
lost thirty four to nine to Central Florida. And I've
talked before about his record after Tom Brady, and he
talked about all his successes. He said everyone without Brady,
he went eighty three and one oh four, So like
a forty four percent winning percentage without Tom Brady. So
I'm not saying he didn't have a lot to do

(01:06:11):
with those Super Bowls in Tom Brady in collaboration, but
mine is Tom Brady. And what he's shown so far
is like there's not a there's no other successes to
lean on. And you know he was with Cleveland and
they you know, they were okay. Actually, you know people
joke about the Browns with it. They were okay when
he was there before they moved to Baltimore, but it's
like he's not outside of Brady had a lot to
hang his hand on.

Speaker 11 (01:06:29):
What it sounds like to me is that he's good
at putting together maybe plays, but bad at being a
leader and an inspirational form of guidance. It sounds like
he maybe has a football brain for the ins and
outs and the intricacies of football, but he doesn't really
get the human.

Speaker 8 (01:06:44):
Part of it.

Speaker 13 (01:06:45):
It's like Doherty said, he's a transactional coach.

Speaker 4 (01:06:48):
Oh well, yeah, I really.

Speaker 1 (01:06:49):
Will well And to Jim's point, I mean Tom Brady
left and then won a Super Bowl with Dampa Bay
That made it even worse for Belichick's you know, parent legacy.
The Tar Heels will play on WBT Friday night, like
I said at ten thirty, then they're back at home
against number eighteen Virginia. Then they go to Syracuse on
the road, and then they'll be at home against Stanford

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and then Wake Forest, I mean Wake Forest on November fifteenth.
The wake Forest is putting together a decent season and
is a lot better than people thought, so it's not
an easy road from here on out for the tar heels.
And he finally did speak yesterday, So there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:07:25):
This is good Morning Beat with both Thompson and Beth's
trout man.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
There's some sparring going on there.

Speaker 10 (01:07:34):
No, it's a little feisty.

Speaker 4 (01:07:38):
They are.

Speaker 10 (01:07:39):
Yes, they have a cute relationship.

Speaker 1 (01:07:42):
I mean Pete is very very succinct. Pete is the completest, right,
he is Pete and Pam afternoons Pam the jam on WBT,
Bow and Beth and the Zoke and Bernie and Steve
and bloom, Ervon, Cannon and Mark.

Speaker 10 (01:07:58):
I want to leave him by f.

Speaker 1 (01:08:01):
Every morning from six to ten right here on your
W your B and your T and a couple of
things on the burner.

Speaker 10 (01:08:09):
Today.

Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
You've been hearing about this new how do we describe this?
It's new policy from the Pentagon that Secretary of War
Pete Hegsath has announced for reporters that will cover happenings
on site there. And this is something that he announced
several weeks back. Today's actually the deadline for various outlets

(01:08:32):
to sign an agreement that they are going to comply.

Speaker 5 (01:08:35):
Right.

Speaker 11 (01:08:36):
Basically, he has asked them Pentagon reporters specifically to sign
a pledge to report only officially approved information, and multiple
news outlets, now, according to reports, have refused. The Hill
released an article about eleven hours ago of describing a

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lot of the news outlets who have refused and one
of the big things that has happened. So many of
these news outlets have released statements on social media, and
our Secretary of War has now responded on social media
with the goodbye emoji, kind of.

Speaker 10 (01:09:12):
Like, Okay, you're not going to sign it. Goodbye.

Speaker 11 (01:09:15):
Some of those let's see include The Washington Post, The Atlantic,
the Associated Press, Reuters, the New York Times, the Atlantic.
I just said that, CNN and NPR they have all
said that their journalists would not sign the new paperwork.
And now some of the conservative news outlets, according to reports,

(01:09:35):
such as Newsmax and The Washington Times, are now saying
they will not allow their reporters and will not sign
this particular pledge to only only report approved information because
they say that that goes against the freedom of the press.

Speaker 1 (01:09:53):
Journalists seven until five pm today to decide whether to
sign the pledge. Heg Seth said, Pentagon access is a privilege,
not a right, and it's going to be interesting because
it also not only does it clamp down on information
that is disseminated, but it also restricts you know, you know,

(01:10:14):
your your movement around the Pentagon. A lot of reporters
who've been covering that beat for years have been pretty
free to roam about the premises and that, in fact,
that was one of the first things that came out
about this, was that those sort of abilities to to
to roam are coming to an end without you know,
without some sort of escort or pre approved I don't

(01:10:35):
know if it's a lanyard or what it is, some
kind of badge, but it's the kind of thing that says,
I have been pre screened to be here, and someone
knows that I am here, as in right here.

Speaker 11 (01:10:44):
Jeffrey Goldberg who is the editor in chief of The Atlantic.
He is also the reporter who broke the story about
the communication that was happening on the signal app He
famously had a back and forth with Secretary of War
Pete Hegseth as a result of that story. Jeffrey Goldberg
is one of the journalists who posted his statement and

(01:11:06):
the Atlantics statement online that Pete Hegseth then responded with
the goodbye emoji. This is the statement online from Jeffrey
Goldberg of the Atlantic. It said, in part, the Atlantics
journalist will not sign the Pentagon's press policy. We fundamentally
oppose the restrictions that the Trump administration is imposing on
journalists who are reporting on matters of defense and of

(01:11:31):
national security. He added, the requirements violate our First Amendment
rights and the rights of Americans who seek to know
how taxpayer funded military resources and personnel are being deployed.
We will continue to cover matters of defense, war, and
national security independently and fairly. And to that post on

(01:11:53):
social media again, Pete Hegseth reposted it with a goodbye emoji.

Speaker 1 (01:11:57):
Now I was looking up I was looking up something here,
and you were mentioning the ones that have said no.
Did you mention the one that has said yes? I
did not mention, because there's one yes. The one that
has said yes to this new agreement is what American News.
That's OAN and former Representative Matt Gates has a show
on the OAAN network and he said, yesterday, frankly, I'm

(01:12:20):
shocked these weren't already the rules it's the Pentagon. I'm
happy to follow these reasonable conditions grounded in care for
our national security. And Pete Hegseth again posted that response
to various journalists, saying that it's the access is a privilege,
not a right, but an is so far now? Five
pm today is the deadline?

Speaker 11 (01:12:42):
Well, and the fact that two other conservative networks have
said no that they will not sign it, and that
being Newsmax and The Washington Times both saying that their
journalists will not sign this pledge because they do believe
that it infringes upon their First Amendment right.

Speaker 1 (01:12:56):
So the question is five pm today is the imposed
day deadline that the Secretary of War put out there.
If you cross the five pm deadline and oa in
is the only one that complies, then what does he
extend it? Or all of a sudden is the place
closed off to press access? We'll see, I mean, it's
going to be interesting to see who budget is here.

Speaker 11 (01:13:16):
Well, And as Jeffrey Goldberg said that they were going
to The Atlantic was going to continue to report on
military issues, what kind of access will they get? How
will they report those stories? And does this end up
promoting more unnamed sources because people are going to the

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connections that they have, and how will you shut down
those leaks?

Speaker 10 (01:13:41):
Because I know that this was an attempt to actually
do that.

Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
So there's the story as it stands.

Speaker 11 (01:13:47):
Right now.

Speaker 10 (01:13:47):
Five pm is the deadline.

Speaker 12 (01:13:48):
Today.

Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
We'll be watching to see what the Secretary of War
does in reaction. Maybe some other ones will jump aboard
before then, but right now it's just oa in and
there are a lot more on the out side looking
in as far as the new policy goes.

Speaker 4 (01:14:03):
It's time for order up. Dirty restaurant Tuesday.

Speaker 10 (01:14:07):
There's a fly in my so could you do something
about it? Man? You're putting in the overtime on this
show today, I'm telling you. Are you exhausted? No, I'm hungry,
says the guy who spent the day at the North
Carolina's State Fair eating this. Yes, big man, yesterday.

Speaker 13 (01:14:27):
Market sound yesterday?

Speaker 4 (01:14:31):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:14:31):
Well today Mark Harrison is back for his usual spots,
dirty restaurants.

Speaker 10 (01:14:36):
That's right.

Speaker 21 (01:14:38):
Uh, this is an interesting one. It's the lowest score
we've seen in a while at Runaway Streetcar that's the
name of it. It's a bar on thrift Road. They
got a seventy eight.

Speaker 8 (01:14:48):
That's a sea.

Speaker 21 (01:14:51):
And they are on increased supervision with the Health Department.
They've got to come up with a written plan to improve.
They were not properly dating items using food way too long.
A bunch of items were dated, for example ten to six.
They were not prepared on the six, so they weren't
engaging in truthful date marking. Employees not washing properly. They

(01:15:12):
had stored raw salmon and onions together.

Speaker 10 (01:15:16):
That's kind of gross.

Speaker 21 (01:15:18):
Sanitizer and the dish sink too weak to do any good.
Potato slicer was stored as clean but still had old
food stuck on it. You would think they would have
seen that. Gone, No, that's not green. The buffalo chicken
dip cooling overnight still at the wrong temperature, threw it
out raw chicken not cold enough. That was a repeat violation.
And fruit flies throughout the kitchen. So a runaway street

(01:15:43):
car is a runaway train for sure. A seventy eight
point five, let's just see that's how low score.

Speaker 4 (01:15:49):
Yeah it is.

Speaker 21 (01:15:50):
Now we have a little trendy uptown joint called Pisco
Gastro Lounge on West Fifth.

Speaker 10 (01:15:58):
Pisco you're saying it right, I don't know, is it
the piss company.

Speaker 21 (01:16:07):
As soon as it came out of my mouth, I
was like, well, I'm not sure if that's what they
want to be called. Eighty four point five. There was
no management control. The inspector said, no one there with
any food safety training. Somebody had turned off the water
at the hand washing sink, so guess what couldn't wash
ross seafood stored above ready to eat sauces and veggies. Ooh,

(01:16:29):
they had green slime on the soda nozzle.

Speaker 10 (01:16:32):
Eh, what a nozzle? Yeah, but they told me a
Nickelodeon show green slime.

Speaker 21 (01:16:36):
Yeah, but they told the inspector, well, we're not using that,
and the inspector said, okay, then get rid of it.
They had lamb shanks that had been taking way too
long to cool had to be thrown out, repeat violation.
Cold food's not cold, and chicken lamb and other items
had no date when prepared. So that's the pisco, pisco

(01:16:57):
whatever you.

Speaker 8 (01:16:58):
Want to call them.

Speaker 21 (01:16:58):
Gastro's moving off that one on West fifth, that's right.
There a lot of lamb information to that eighty four
point five. And we have another one, the bulla gastro
bar in South Park. Yeah, Sharon Road eighty one point five.

Speaker 14 (01:17:13):
I've not been before. We've had friends invice to go
do like a Friday happy hour.

Speaker 10 (01:17:17):
They've got there. We're going to do one of these Fridays.
Sounds like it might not be too happy.

Speaker 21 (01:17:21):
This require employee handling dirty dishes, then handling clean dishes
without washing or changing gloves. Both of the dish machines
were not sanitizing dishes. They had to call a repair guy.
Corn puree and brisket were at the wrong temperature after
sitting out cooling all night. They had to be thrown out.
And let's see here. Some other items had to be

(01:17:43):
thrown out, including two pans of meat balls that had
been sitting out too long. So that's the BULLA gastro
bar on Sharon Road eighty one point five duly noted, Yeah,
tell your friends to feed you somewhere else.

Speaker 10 (01:17:56):
Yeah, easy, like Sunday. I like the name of that.

Speaker 21 (01:17:59):
Oh yeah, on Woodlawn and eighty seven point five not
too easy. Employees did not Employees did not understand proper
cooling of food. Also did not know if you're sick,
please don't come to work. And the manager said, oh, well,
they didn't get any training on that.

Speaker 10 (01:18:14):
You think We got a news with all of the
strawberries had mold on them. They were thrown out.

Speaker 21 (01:18:23):
Raw beef stored ready to raw beef was stored under
the ready to eat sausage kind of weird. A lot
of items in the cooler not cold enough had to
be thrown out, and cooked potatoes sitting under the heat
lamp not hot enough had to be thrown out.

Speaker 13 (01:18:37):
What do you think about that?

Speaker 10 (01:18:38):
Boy, you're the yucky noises. We'll taking the yucky noises.

Speaker 12 (01:18:44):
You're not doing any.

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
Yeah we are.

Speaker 10 (01:18:48):
So that's easy.

Speaker 21 (01:18:49):
Like Sunday on woodlawn eighty seven point five. Got a
couple more here if we have time. Let's see Taco
boy Losso. What an interesting name? Taco boy, Taco boy,
I need no boy eighty eight. Food employee touching his face,
then continues preparing food.

Speaker 10 (01:19:10):
You know, I see a lot of people do that
where they scratch and then they touch things. Yeah, careful,
Oh gosh, we had a.

Speaker 8 (01:19:18):
Well.

Speaker 21 (01:19:20):
One of the funniest inspections I ever read was the
inspect The inspector wrote, employee reached in pants to make
a personal hygiene adjustment.

Speaker 11 (01:19:29):
No, that that's the kind of scratch, and you really
don't want to happen.

Speaker 13 (01:19:36):
Go struck.

Speaker 10 (01:19:37):
Let's see.

Speaker 21 (01:19:38):
Uh other employee did not change gloves. The inspector said
employees need hand washing lessons. The salsa had to be
thrown out it was not cold enough. A lot of
other items way out of date. The salsa verde, kimchi, chicken, takitos,
most of it thrown out. That was a repeat violation.
And flying pests throughout the kitchen. Did not identify the pest,

(01:19:59):
but they were all like eagles.

Speaker 8 (01:20:01):
You think maybe or what do you think?

Speaker 3 (01:20:02):
It was?

Speaker 21 (01:20:05):
Taco boy Lasso South Boulevard eighty eight and one more
Yakiko on West Trade. That's a trendy area, right eighty
nine point five observed in employee wash hands for less
than five seconds, and then the same employee a few
minutes later handled his cell phone and kept preparing food
without washing.

Speaker 10 (01:20:25):
There's an employee that just doesn't learn right.

Speaker 21 (01:20:30):
Using sanitizer that was not strong enough to kill germs,
large flies buzzing around the dining room, large large.

Speaker 10 (01:20:38):
Once it's ys. The eagles and the food.

Speaker 21 (01:20:44):
Handlers were not wearing any hair or beard restraints.

Speaker 10 (01:20:48):
Hey want a good beard hair in my food?

Speaker 4 (01:20:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (01:20:50):
Right there you go the worst Yakiko West Trade and
eighty nine point five.

Speaker 12 (01:20:58):
Ye, yeah, there you go.

Speaker 10 (01:21:01):
Thank you very much, mister Garrison.

Speaker 21 (01:21:02):
You're welcome, sir.

Speaker 29 (01:21:03):
I look you guys.

Speaker 3 (01:21:04):
You guys make paull morning.

Speaker 29 (01:21:05):
I love driving you in I sometimes I take the
back road so I can go a little bit longer
so I can hear y'all more.

Speaker 11 (01:21:11):
Oh, that's the sweetest thing I've ever heard.

Speaker 10 (01:21:14):
Hey, boss, I've been driving all day.

Speaker 11 (01:21:18):
I'm sorry out.

Speaker 26 (01:21:19):
I'm supposed to be there at seven, but it's eleven,
so I'm just gonna go ahead and break for lunch.

Speaker 1 (01:21:23):
Hey, look, just just blame Bow and Beth and we'll
fix it for you.

Speaker 8 (01:21:26):
Get the right meet and excuse.

Speaker 12 (01:21:28):
Can you all do that?

Speaker 11 (01:21:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:21:29):
Oh, absolutely, be a slacker for the rest of your life.

Speaker 4 (01:21:31):
This is good morning Beatty with Boat Hudson and Beth Troutman.

Speaker 1 (01:21:37):
You know, looking at the text line here seven O
four five seven eleven ten, driven by Liberty Buick GMC.
Angela texts us a lot. But I am wondering if Angela,
just what do you call it when your phone's in
your pocket.

Speaker 10 (01:21:53):
And it's at text?

Speaker 1 (01:21:55):
Yeah, I'm thinking maybe she butt texted us twice. Is
that the first time ever on the f WBT text
line that someone has done that? Because and actually, if
I go back and read some of her other messages
that I may have missed, looks like maybe she was
doing you know how Sometimes you'll leave your phone and
might even be beside the radio, but it might be

(01:22:15):
recording you and you don't know it, and then it
dictates your conversation into a text.

Speaker 10 (01:22:22):
Maybe that might have happened too.

Speaker 11 (01:22:23):
I have done that so many times in here in
this room, where I will randomly have texts open and
it will dictate an entire segment that we've done, and
I'll randomly send it to, you know, my father, and
he won't miss a beat.

Speaker 14 (01:22:38):
It should be the best person you could send it to,
as opposed to like one of your political guests or.

Speaker 10 (01:22:42):
Something like that.

Speaker 11 (01:22:42):
Well, exactly, I have done that as well, where I've
accidentally I was in kind of a oh my gosh, I've.

Speaker 10 (01:22:48):
Already done this. Sorry, Marcia, I didn't mean to send
that to you.

Speaker 11 (01:22:51):
I've been in like a funny text exchange with a
friend over something, and in this particular case, a friend
had written this really kind of off color screenplay and
I was quoting some of his funny lines back to him,
and one of them included some not great words.

Speaker 10 (01:23:06):
And I sent that to a congressman. A former congressman was.

Speaker 11 (01:23:11):
Like, oh my gosh, likely I knew him well, and
was like, that was.

Speaker 7 (01:23:15):
Not meant for you.

Speaker 10 (01:23:17):
Because somebody hacked my phone. I'll get to the bottom
of this.

Speaker 1 (01:23:20):
So Angela, we love getting texts from you, but I
think maybe we've got a couple that weren't meant for us.
And then one that might have been like a screen
you know, like a screen capture from an Encyclopedia Britannica
or something.

Speaker 11 (01:23:31):
Yeah, but the funny ones are the empty texts that
just randomly come to us, and they did. I think
she just kind of hit send by accident.

Speaker 10 (01:23:38):
Well, who was it last week?

Speaker 1 (01:23:39):
You just say?

Speaker 4 (01:23:40):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (01:23:41):
Yeah, that's like Mary and Scrabble, where you can put
whatever letter you want on the blank slate. Yes, that's
a text where I can put whatever I want there.
That was good, fantastic show.

Speaker 10 (01:23:50):
Marconi worthy. Yes, don't think we're gonna skip past this
today after six weeks and the Good Morning Bat Fantasy
Fall League guys, if I played in a different order,
I would be beating you.

Speaker 1 (01:24:06):
You would have beaten several people this week if you
had been matched up against them. But as we know,
Megabath was matched up against Jason's basement. Is that the
name of the same, Yes? Yes, the score this week
Megabath or I'm sorry, where is it here? One thirteen

(01:24:28):
point sixty eight, So one hundred and thirteen points to
Jason's one hundred and forty four. That guy must be good.

Speaker 10 (01:24:35):
But if I had been playing like Jim Zokie, I
would have won. I'm glad you mentioned him.

Speaker 14 (01:24:39):
Oh those people that they weren't even playing that could
have beat me last week, I'm very glad that you
mentioned him as well.

Speaker 1 (01:24:43):
To Infinity and beyond that is Sir Steven of Anthony
versus the Radio Flyers, Jim Zokie, Steve wins that one
one thirteen to seventy scour.

Speaker 10 (01:24:52):
I would have beaten Steve even did you forget to
update your team?

Speaker 14 (01:24:56):
Both of my receivers got hurt in the game. Oh okay, yeah, man,
I would have lost any ways by bits. That's why
the score was so amazingly low.

Speaker 13 (01:25:03):
Pay super Bowl?

Speaker 10 (01:25:04):
How is everybody? Super Bowl?

Speaker 14 (01:25:06):
I got a target at my back, sporting sports guy.
I mean, but when I went to the newspas goes, wait,
do you go, sports guy?

Speaker 1 (01:25:13):
Let's see Wayney x beach Trolls beating Mark's monstrous team
one oh five to sixty one.

Speaker 11 (01:25:20):
See, I would have beaten my dad and Mark would
have Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:25:23):
And Meki, you would have beaten Mark.

Speaker 10 (01:25:26):
Steve, why we play Mark?

Speaker 11 (01:25:28):
I just am playing the wrong people at the wrong time,
Like I've got bad luck.

Speaker 10 (01:25:32):
Matchup Burns and the Bees.

Speaker 1 (01:25:34):
That's Bernie bowls against Boomer von Cannon, Smash and Crash.

Speaker 10 (01:25:38):
Bernie wins one forty four point seven. So you would
have beaten me, big man.

Speaker 13 (01:25:44):
That's give myself a big man there.

Speaker 10 (01:25:46):
Yes, that's the right place.

Speaker 1 (01:25:47):
You're forty forty four one thirty over Boomer.

Speaker 14 (01:25:52):
That's the game of the week. I believe that was
the national broadcast. That's right, That one had KB on
the call.

Speaker 10 (01:25:58):
It was at four o'clock game even Kyle Bailey, Kevin Burg.

Speaker 1 (01:26:03):
Yeah all right, So at the end of six weeks,
the end of six weeks, I have my I have
compiled a five and one record.

Speaker 10 (01:26:14):
No wonder you love this segment. I know, let's go
ahead to do it.

Speaker 4 (01:26:19):
That was a good morning et humble breath.

Speaker 1 (01:26:23):
Three way tie for second place, Boomer, Bernie and Jim
at four and two.

Speaker 10 (01:26:27):
Sir Steven is three and three, the Wayneac and Mark
tied at two and four, and oh in six and
six the New York Jets of our fantasy. I am
you do have some bad luck though several people. I
would have beaten several people this week.

Speaker 13 (01:26:45):
Who's Beth got next week?

Speaker 10 (01:26:48):
Probably Boomer? I haven't played to make me go into
the app, I'll tell you right now, but I played Boomer.

Speaker 15 (01:26:53):
No, Beth, Beth has got Yes, Boomer Beth is against
Boomer next week.

Speaker 10 (01:26:56):
Who is Zochie playing?

Speaker 13 (01:26:58):
Zokie has got Jason's bare go?

Speaker 10 (01:27:00):
Somebody trade me two wide receivers.

Speaker 13 (01:27:02):
They're both hurt and minor bad too. Actually, he's got
all the wide receivers Boomer and Mark probably.

Speaker 16 (01:27:07):
Oh well, thank god that Joe Flacco joined the Bengals,
because I actually had Jamar Chase score me some points
this week.

Speaker 1 (01:27:14):
Hey, this is only through six weeks. We got more
than half the season left to go, so you got
you got time though.

Speaker 10 (01:27:19):
Not really, not really, I think I've lost. I think
that you're going to just throw in the towel at
O and six. Well, no, I'm still thanking this season
for the first round draft pick next year. Yeah, it's
exactly what I'm going to do. I'm going to do that, guys.
I'm doing this on.

Speaker 1 (01:27:32):
Perfect but but you are set to make a very important,
uh lineup decision. You're going to pick up Rico Dubdell
because no one else can get him before you, because
you're O and six.

Speaker 11 (01:27:42):
I got him on the waiver wire.

Speaker 10 (01:27:44):
Did I do to that already? Not where you waved
to the players.

Speaker 13 (01:27:46):
No, I put in the claim for you this morning
and by tomorrow he should be on your.

Speaker 11 (01:27:50):
Team because Bernie told me to wave at him, and
so I was like, well, how do I do that?
So Bernie came over and did some magic on my phone.

Speaker 13 (01:27:55):
It's because you have tuba already.

Speaker 10 (01:27:57):
If you played Bryce Young, would you have one?

Speaker 28 (01:27:59):
No?

Speaker 10 (01:27:59):
If I played Rice Young, would I have one?

Speaker 15 (01:28:01):
Daniel Jones actually played better than Bryce Young statistically on Fantasy?

Speaker 10 (01:28:04):
Well he did, okay? Should I put mark?

Speaker 1 (01:28:07):
No?

Speaker 10 (01:28:07):
Mark? Do you know that you were soundly beaten by
Wayne Troutman.

Speaker 12 (01:28:11):
That's what I heard.

Speaker 13 (01:28:13):
Yeah, like fifteen players on a bye week this.

Speaker 10 (01:28:15):
Week it was on TikTok, though you probably didn't see it.
That's right, it was. It was on a Facebook marketplace.

Speaker 1 (01:28:20):
All right, So there's your there's your update. After six weeks.
I think you know this is the beginning of the
of the of the big turnaround.

Speaker 8 (01:28:27):
Beth.

Speaker 21 (01:28:27):
She's in a rebuilding year. I am, I am.

Speaker 10 (01:28:30):
She's a expat.

Speaker 13 (01:28:33):
Chokes almost.

Speaker 11 (01:28:34):
I didn't know what I was doing, Mark, and so
now I have learned.

Speaker 10 (01:28:37):
It's like Bill Belichick, take it over the Tar Hills.

Speaker 4 (01:28:39):
It is.

Speaker 13 (01:28:40):
But I have sleeves getting the king sleeves.

Speaker 10 (01:28:43):
You don't know what you're doing. Mark just ignores the
whole thing.

Speaker 11 (01:28:49):
I should have taken your lead and just done that, Mark,
I would have been way better.

Speaker 10 (01:28:52):
All right, Almost nine o'clock here.

Speaker 3 (01:28:55):
What does it mean to slide into someone's d MS?

Speaker 10 (01:28:58):
It sounds like a lot of fluck.

Speaker 6 (01:28:59):
Okay, I'm not ready for that from Me's talk eleven
ten and ninety nine three WT.

Speaker 8 (01:29:04):
And what does that have to do with anything? It
has everything to do with anything.

Speaker 4 (01:29:08):
This is Good Morning Beauty with Klote Thompson and Beth Trout.
That's all. With a second, we ride up Troy's bucket.

Speaker 10 (01:29:25):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (01:29:26):
Halloween month is here. Halloween's on a Friday night this year.

Speaker 10 (01:29:31):
Yes, families everywhere, rejoice.

Speaker 1 (01:29:36):
My kids are older now, but back when they were young,
I was riding that train of make Halloween on a
Friday or a Saturday night permanently.

Speaker 11 (01:29:43):
Right, right, just have it be on a weekend night.
But this year the kids can get sugared up, stay
up late, and don't have to go to school the
next morning.

Speaker 10 (01:29:51):
Are you a haunted house kind of person?

Speaker 11 (01:29:55):
Not really, No, I have been to haunted houses. I
tend to laugh when I'm scared. And do you guys
know that my nickname was Puddles. When I laugh, I
tend to I tend to leave something behind and a house,
and I've done that at multiple haunted houses, and so

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now it's just embarrassing.

Speaker 10 (01:30:18):
So I just don't do it anymore. I've said this though.
I shouldn't say these things out loud. Oh no, you should.

Speaker 13 (01:30:24):
It's haunted houses.

Speaker 10 (01:30:28):
It's just us. Exactly does anybody else do this at
haunted houses? Do you tinkle?

Speaker 1 (01:30:34):
No?

Speaker 10 (01:30:34):
No, I will tell you this though.

Speaker 1 (01:30:36):
Best haunted house I ever went to was over on
Independence Boulevard. It's where the car Max is now it
used to be this old. Whoever owned the property used
to have a haunted house every year, or at least
when I was in like a middle school in high school,
for about three or four years, they did a haunted
house out on East Independence. And then car Max bought
the property and now it's a car lot, but I remember.

Speaker 10 (01:30:58):
That's where it was.

Speaker 1 (01:30:59):
That's the best haunted house I ever went to. I've
been to scare ones a couple of times. They do
They do it up right there. It scares me pretty intense.
But you know, then some people will do their own
haunted houses and neighborhoods.

Speaker 11 (01:31:10):
Oh I did a fantastic story when I worked at
W C and C. There was a neighborhood down in
Matthews and the family created a haunted maize in their backyard.

Speaker 1 (01:31:19):
Tell me you didn't go and do the story in
your peek. Oh Beth Troutman is judging haunted house contest.
Here's how you'll know.

Speaker 11 (01:31:33):
You want Here's how you know you scared her the scariest,
the scariest I ever went to. Do You guys, y'all
know where Jackson Training School is over in Cabar's County
due to Jackson Training School. Well it's it's like it's
I think it's all empty now, but it was where
they they they they well, at least this is what
my parents told me that this was where the kids

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that were like doing bad things.

Speaker 10 (01:31:56):
That was where they went troubled teens where they went
to school.

Speaker 11 (01:32:00):
And my parents kept telling they were going to send
me to Jackson Training School.

Speaker 10 (01:32:03):
Anyway, they had a you would have done great there.

Speaker 11 (01:32:07):
They had a haunted house in one of the empty
buildings that was one of this, and a guy with
a chainsaw like chased you out into the parking lot.

Speaker 10 (01:32:15):
That was one of the scariest things I've ever been to.

Speaker 1 (01:32:17):
I drained the bladder, yeah, like twice.

Speaker 11 (01:32:21):
Once in yeah, once inside, and then once in the
parking lot.

Speaker 10 (01:32:25):
Okay, So here's what I'm getting at.

Speaker 1 (01:32:26):
We can all think of the best haunted house that
you ever went to, and then maybe you only went
to one and that was enough for you. I know,
some people can't stand the haunted house thing. And then
have you ever tried to do one at your own house,
like in the neighborhood for trick or treaters, which obviously
those are a bit more tame, but I growing up,
there was always that one house that tried. They had

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like older kids, like teenagers, and they wanted to make
it really scary. So they tell you, Okay, we're going
to really try to mess with you here, and sometimes
it worked. Yeah, there's a there's a house. Now. Have
you ever heard of a fountain in South Carolina? Fountain
in South Carolina is a town just below Simpsonville in
upstate South Carolina. This story has, well, shall we say,

(01:33:09):
caught fire across the country because of what they've done
with I see what you did there, little optical illusion
and little CGI.

Speaker 10 (01:33:19):
I don't know how they did. Actually you'll hear in
the story.

Speaker 1 (01:33:22):
This is from Wyff in South Carolina, roll it Burg.

Speaker 29 (01:33:25):
Every night eight to ten, we cut the lights on
in the smoke machine and it looks like the house
is on fire.

Speaker 18 (01:33:31):
A house on main street going up in flames, except
they're not real and this is just a Halloween display.

Speaker 29 (01:33:38):
We did it back in two thy twenty three, same
thing didn't get the response that this year did. But
for some reason, this year's went viral and I just
can't explain it.

Speaker 18 (01:33:48):
And it's all smoking mirrors or in this case fog
machines and lights that have garnered over twenty seven million
views on talk.

Speaker 22 (01:33:56):
I thought, well, you know, if that house was on fire,
top and bottom line, that those flames would be shooting
out in the roof and those windows would be popping out.

Speaker 18 (01:34:04):
The display of flames had many locals fooled as they
made calls to the Fountain In Fire department, who says
they were made aware of the display ahead of time.

Speaker 29 (01:34:13):
This week is fire prevention week. The Red Cross reached
out and asked if they could come film a fire
prevention video, which we said absolutely.

Speaker 18 (01:34:21):
And the homeowners want to use the attention for good,
raising awareness for fire safety well also giving neighbors a
little scare that they say is all meant in good spirits.

Speaker 22 (01:34:31):
This is all in fun and it's not meant to
traumatize anybody. And once you realize that's what it is,
then it's all fun. And Halloween is bigger than Christmas
on Main Street, Fountain men, and we love it.

Speaker 1 (01:34:44):
Okay, So I'm just gonna go on record here. I
don't think things like this are all in fun. I
am a guy who if I decide to go into
a haunted house and I have and I probably will again.
Like those are cool, and I like the ones that
are that are really well done, but things like this
that are that are designed to make you think that
something terrible has happened, really like a house is on fire. Yeah,

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I think that's too far.

Speaker 11 (01:35:08):
In my old neighborhood, there was a house that they
went all out with these big screens in the windows
and they did an entire like healthscape scene in their
front yard and they did flames on screens in the
window and I mean it was incredibly effective and scary
they did it.

Speaker 10 (01:35:28):
I mean it was it was.

Speaker 11 (01:35:29):
It definitely won the neighborhood. As far as going all
out for Halloween decorations. The ones that always get me
that I was trigger treating with my nephews and my
brother's neighborhood and there the garage was kind of half
not even halfway open, just a little edge of the
garage was open, and there was a robotic like goblin

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that would crawl in and out from under the garage
that scared the but Jesus out of me. And my
nephew was like four at the time. He went like
running crying down the se down the driveway and like
that like that probably traumatized too well.

Speaker 1 (01:36:04):
And you mentioned the hellscape one like, you can look
at a house and you can know that that's decorated
for Halloween and you can say, oh, my goodness, the effects.

Speaker 10 (01:36:13):
Make it look really well done.

Speaker 1 (01:36:14):
That's different than making a house look like it's on
fire to the point where people call nine one one
thinking somebody's inside or somebody doesn't know.

Speaker 11 (01:36:20):
Well, you know around Christmas time when they do there
are some people that have like a Santa hanging from
the chimney or hanging from the gutters, and people call
not like.

Speaker 13 (01:36:30):
Christmas vacation type stuff yah Chevy Chase.

Speaker 11 (01:36:32):
On and people will call nine one one thinking that
somebody was cleaning out their gutters and the ladder fell
or something there that that has happened as well. So
I would imagine, and I've seen if you google this,
you can see the images of this home they have
the it's the smoke machine that they have that really
puts it over the.

Speaker 1 (01:36:50):
Top seven four or five seven oho eleven ten. I
know some people are out there that have that do
this kind of thing every year, that try to make
it as realistic as possible. But I do think there's
a line that shouldn't be crossed because and you've heard
the stories about I've seen a couple of times over
the years where someone will do like it looks like an.

Speaker 10 (01:37:10):
Accident scene in a driveway. Oh yeah, I don't like that.

Speaker 1 (01:37:13):
Like someone's been run over or somebody's gotten caught, like
there's blood that's supposed to look like blood. And I
just again, I'm all for Halloween and have fun, but
it's almost it's kind of like you got to know
what it is before you go into it. If it's
supposed to make you think it's real and there's an emergency,
I don't think that's productive. I just really don't may
and maybe I'm in the minority, but I don't know.

Speaker 11 (01:37:35):
What's the scariest that you've seen, or what's the scariest.
Here's the other question, that you've done, the scariest you've done.

Speaker 3 (01:37:43):
As far as you just took it down a different road.

Speaker 10 (01:37:46):
Yeah, I kind of want to know the people who
go all out, oh wow, snap, just got real snaw
and that what the kids say instead of the other words,
oh stuff, stuff just got real. I just learned something.

Speaker 13 (01:37:59):
This just got real.

Speaker 10 (01:38:01):
Bo just invented his lang.

Speaker 1 (01:38:17):
Kirk says, bo just had to get off my lawn moment.

Speaker 10 (01:38:22):
No no, no, no, you can.

Speaker 1 (01:38:24):
You can put all kinds of Halloween decorations on my lawn.

Speaker 10 (01:38:28):
You can. You can have all kinds of Halloween fun
on my lawn.

Speaker 1 (01:38:31):
I'm just saying that if you go, if you if
you cross that line of I'm gonna make it look
not like a Halloween decoration and like a real life
terrible thing has happened. Someone's hurt. You need to call
nine one one. The house is on fire for real.
That's where I'm saying. I think it goes a little
over the top. I'm all about haunted houses.

Speaker 10 (01:38:50):
About that. I'd love to find a good one.

Speaker 25 (01:38:52):
Bo.

Speaker 15 (01:38:53):
I'd like to stand on the lawn and yell at
people with you about this, because I feel like that
should be reserved for just for Halloween night. Like, if
you're going to do something like that, at least on
Halloween night, people are like, oh for Halloween.

Speaker 12 (01:39:03):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 15 (01:39:05):
I feel like that's fine on like a Halloween night,
But if it's you know, the weeks leading up to, I.

Speaker 13 (01:39:09):
Could see where that would create an issue.

Speaker 15 (01:39:11):
And especially if I work at the fire department and
I keep getting calls about the fake fire that's going on.

Speaker 13 (01:39:16):
That's ear too.

Speaker 10 (01:39:17):
Oh yeah, that's a whole other level right there.

Speaker 13 (01:39:19):
Not trying to be you know, get off my lawn, but.

Speaker 1 (01:39:20):
No, you're just standing on my lawn in solidarity.

Speaker 13 (01:39:23):
Yes, that's right, yes, with both.

Speaker 1 (01:39:25):
Kim says on the text line, I detest Halloween. Several
years ago, I actually told a guy walking in the
neighborhood with Adjason Mask from the movie who I swear
kept following my group on purpose, that if I saw
him again, I would flood out drop his butt on
the ground.

Speaker 10 (01:39:39):
He left us alone.

Speaker 11 (01:39:41):
Yeah, ah, Chris, I'm very excited about Chris and Floyd.
They both know of Jackson Training School. Gentleman Floyd says Beth.
Anyone from this area growing up in the seventies and
eighties knew of Jackson Training School. We were all threatened
many times to be sent there. And Chris says that
it's still I will confirm that it is because I

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drove past it over the weekend and it's abandoned and
it's scary to drive by even now. I will agree.
I get the shivers. I got the shivers on Saturday.
I went to watch my niece cheerlead at her little
football game, and I drove past Jackson Training School and
I got the shivers. I got the shivers. It reminded
me of that haunted house.

Speaker 1 (01:40:22):
I used to get the shivers when I would And
I don't know, this is like going down a different road.
But I'm curious if I'm the only one. I used
to get shivers and I still do when I rat
when I go somewhere that's abandoned, Like when Eastland Mall
was abandoned and I would drive over there on Central
and I would see the big cavernous place and it
was this before it was was demolished. It I felt

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eerie when I was over there.

Speaker 10 (01:40:46):
I didn't like it.

Speaker 11 (01:40:47):
Yeah, there's something about abandoned buildings that feels uncomfortable. It
feels there's I don't know what is it. What is
it about abandoned.

Speaker 10 (01:40:55):
Buildings, because is it that they're abandoned? Well, yes, but
why do they feel so eerie?

Speaker 11 (01:41:01):
I know that. Why does the empty building with the
one window that's knocked out, like Jackson Trading School? Now,
I mean, I was wondering if there was still like
one of the houses that was still functioning but I
apparently it's all abandoned. But the windows are gone and
the paint is peeling, and the grass and the weas
are they growing up really tall. And I'm surprised no

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one's done anything with that space, you know, like turned
it into a like remodel them in the.

Speaker 10 (01:41:27):
Like houses houses would they be houses?

Speaker 11 (01:41:31):
They're big brick structures and they're actually quite lovely the
structures themselves, but the abandoned nature of them and the
old basketball court that used to be there.

Speaker 1 (01:41:40):
Now that day, I was talking about the reels that
you see where people are unclogging drains. They also if
you go down that tangent you can also people going
and abandoned malls and abandoned places. You love that I am,
I'm fascinated by it. I would not say that I
love it. I just it's something about it that there's

(01:42:01):
a cure curiosity about it. But like I said, when
I when when Eastland was still there and I would
drive over there, I would get this feeling about like
I don't like being here right, Like I feel like
there's a ghost or something.

Speaker 11 (01:42:11):
Because you remembered the experience of it being full of people,
You remembered the experience of shopping there at the structure
or you know ice skating in.

Speaker 1 (01:42:20):
The not the structure store, the structure store.

Speaker 10 (01:42:23):
No, I'm talking to the structure store. We know you
were thiss. I honestly have never set foot in a
structure store. I just know that was one of them. Yeah,
well I was connected to the Limited. It was like
the Limited in the structure across from Bennigan's. Yes see,
this is how we make it all fun. You know,
we're talking about the cavernous Eastland Mall or.

Speaker 1 (01:42:45):
You know, like that that place before they revitalized it.
I never went there, but I never would when they
would talk about the Land of Oz up on.

Speaker 11 (01:42:51):
Beach Mountain, Well, they open it up every now and again, but.

Speaker 10 (01:42:54):
Then it's closed again. So now if you went there
would be weird.

Speaker 11 (01:42:56):
Well that's the thing that's about like abandoned theme parks.
I've even gone back to look at because I was
at the Olympics in Rio. The structures that I was
in for these events that were just so beautiful and
well manicured, and now they're covered in weeds and like
strings are hanging from them and stuff. And there's something
so strange about the fact.

Speaker 10 (01:43:15):
That the Earth reclaims winds.

Speaker 11 (01:43:18):
The Earth always wins, Mother Nature wins.

Speaker 1 (01:43:22):
Gives me beck what's much exactly and soci that happened.

Speaker 10 (01:43:25):
Two weeks later they win.

Speaker 1 (01:43:28):
Nine eight on WBT. We got some great texts coming
in here. In fact, Bill from the Mallard Creek Barbecue
just sent one the again, the old Mallard Creek Barbecue.
I'm sure if I went out to the site that
would be weird because I'm like, they're supposed to be
miles and miles of barbecue and it's a big field.
I know it's their athletic, it's their event center, so
they do all kinds of things there. But you know
what I mean, when you go to places where things

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used to be and there's all this open space.

Speaker 13 (01:43:51):
I thought that way about the old Colosseum for a
long time.

Speaker 10 (01:43:53):
Same things.

Speaker 1 (01:43:54):
Tyboll arose, Yes, I was just about to say that,
I know there's development there now, but for a while
it was just this big, open, cavernous place where there
was nothing where there had been this building they tore down.

Speaker 11 (01:44:03):
And it's creepy to go into empty things. It's creepy,
like have you ever been the first person on an airplane.
It's so creepy.

Speaker 10 (01:44:10):
I wish what empty thing.

Speaker 13 (01:44:12):
You know, usually it's for first class people. That's a
good reserve.

Speaker 10 (01:44:16):
There's a reason we can't share this story, Bernie, I think,
But okay, this is.

Speaker 4 (01:44:21):
Good morning, Beaty.

Speaker 8 (01:44:24):
It's the Halloween way.

Speaker 10 (01:44:26):
It's what the holiday is all about.

Speaker 12 (01:44:27):
Sure, there's spooky goblins, creepy crawlers, hocus focus, but it's
about camaraderie.

Speaker 21 (01:44:34):
Really, meet the neighbors you don't want to see again
on any other day.

Speaker 4 (01:44:41):
After all, you can't spell Halloween without hell good morningside.

Speaker 1 (01:44:58):
Yeah, a little bit dark, you might say, talking about Halloween.
This this got rolling because there's this family in upstate
South Carolina that has a house that, by way of
special effects and some clever ingenuity, their house looks like
it's on fire every night, like really to the point

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where people are calling nine one one and thinking that
somebody's in peril. And I said, and I've already had
people say get off those lawn.

Speaker 10 (01:45:27):
I said. I love a good haunted house.

Speaker 1 (01:45:29):
I don't like a house that's made it look like
there's an emergency or a crime scene there. That's where
to me, you take it over the top a little bit.
But if I go somewhere and I have said I
want to go to a haunted house, then all bets
are off.

Speaker 10 (01:45:46):
Let's do it right.

Speaker 1 (01:45:47):
But it's got to be me knowing I'm walking into that,
not being shocked because I think somebody's in trouble.

Speaker 11 (01:45:52):
Anything that's that's scary. Well, Cindy, and I love Cindy
for saying this, because I had forgotten about this. She said,
good morning. Does anyone remains when Red gold Mine did
the Mad Miner haunted house? And oh, Cindy, Oh yes,
I do the Red Have y'all been to Regold Mine?

Speaker 4 (01:46:09):
Have y'all been?

Speaker 12 (01:46:09):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (01:46:10):
But not not at Halloween time.

Speaker 11 (01:46:12):
So for Steve, since you don't know, it's the first
place where gold was discovered and it's in Concord basically,
and it's you can go into the gold mine. I
don't know if they'd still do tours at Regold Mine
used to be able to go into the mine.

Speaker 1 (01:46:25):
There's no way you grew up in this area. Any
of us who didn't know, Steve didn't, but you and
I did. Anybody who was in grade school in this
Greater Charlotte area went to read gold and.

Speaker 11 (01:46:34):
Then you pan for gold. After you did, you did
the tour, you did the tour of Regold mine. But
then one year, not one year, I guess they did
it for like a little handful of years. They did
a haunted house in the mine, and that was some
scary stuff. One of my high school friends was actually
one of the scary creatures. But it looks like Cindy
was too. She said, I worked there in college and

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knew how we decorated the mine, but it even scared
her working in it.

Speaker 10 (01:47:00):
How cool is that? Yeah, it's an abandoned mine.

Speaker 1 (01:47:03):
Abandoned places in general are just I mean, now, somebody
just sent us a note about about Maggie Valley and
ghost Ghostown in the Sky which still isn't is not
back open yet, right, It's it's still there and you
can sort of see the remnants of it, but it's
not been it's not been reopened like Land of Oz
at Beach Mountain.

Speaker 10 (01:47:22):
I loved ghost.

Speaker 11 (01:47:23):
Town in the Sky when I was a kid, like
that was a cool place. It seems like a cool
place to be, and the fact that that's abandoned feels
eagerie to me.

Speaker 1 (01:47:31):
See Bill says, And here's what I was talking about
the Haunted House on Independence. He says, that was the
old gus Percell fish camp.

Speaker 12 (01:47:39):
Is that right?

Speaker 1 (01:47:40):
I didn't know that, and it was a that's where
the that's where the car max is now, that's where
That's where gus Percell's fish camp was. I I probably
should know that as a lifelong Charlotte teen, because I
might have gone there at one point in time, but
I don't remember it. I don't so anyway, that's from Bill.
A lot of people chime it in here.

Speaker 11 (01:47:59):
Emily says that haunted forests are the most terrifying. There
was a family who had Fright Night on their property
every year and it was a race slash scavenger hunt
that she still vividly remembers. I agree about the haunted forest.

Speaker 13 (01:48:10):
There's a.

Speaker 11 (01:48:12):
Park in Concord again everything all the scary stuffs and
Concord frank Lisk Park, and they used to do a
haunted forest that you do like a little hay ride through.

Speaker 10 (01:48:25):
Scary. I wouldn't want to be one of the people
hanging out in the woods. I've been part of a
haunted forest before.

Speaker 11 (01:48:31):
You're with the scary person one of Yeah, when I
was terrifying because you're tall.

Speaker 4 (01:48:35):
Well, I a tree.

Speaker 10 (01:48:36):
I did like drama in high school. Yeah, thanks, you'd
fit right in in the forest tree, don't you make
like a tree and get out of here. But you
would be scary because you're tall and imposing.

Speaker 16 (01:48:48):
Well our I mean I was part of our you know,
drama club and did plays and all that stuff through
middle school and high school. And in high school it
was one of those things where our director, basically our
you know advisor, made us volunteer for different events. And
one of them that she made basically the entire club
going volunteer. I was this haunted forest down in South Florida.

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So there were a few nights where it was basically
all of you know, our drama club was all of
the creepy crawley random people in the haunted for committed
to it too.

Speaker 10 (01:49:21):
Yeah, because you were drama full long committed to the parks. See,
that would be scary.

Speaker 4 (01:49:26):
You were drama.

Speaker 11 (01:49:29):
I do need to point out too, Mike and Lisa Kanger,
who are huge, huge friends of the show, love those guys.
The Haunted backyard maze was that was them that I
did the story on back in what that would have
been twenty fifteen, so I met them before I met them. Yeah,
I've met them before I became friends with them.

Speaker 1 (01:49:48):
So basically the congers Kim confirmed that you wanted to
do long.

Speaker 10 (01:49:54):
It's not a fertilizer.

Speaker 13 (01:49:56):
That's not how they sound.

Speaker 7 (01:49:57):
You scared me.

Speaker 10 (01:49:58):
That was a scary man in their yard. We've also
gotten well.

Speaker 1 (01:50:02):
First of all, you and I were talking about the
gray Man verses and what you said the mountains.

Speaker 10 (01:50:07):
You're talking about the brown mountain lights.

Speaker 11 (01:50:10):
The brown mountain lights. That's what I was talking about,
the brown mountain lights.

Speaker 10 (01:50:13):
And this was all from a book that I read
as a kid.

Speaker 1 (01:50:17):
I loved this book, used to check it out from
the public library, called Ghosts of the Carolinas. That it
was written, I read it so many times that I
remember the authors like it was yesterday. It was Bruce
and Nancy Roberts. They wrote these series of books called
Ghosts of the Carolinas and Ghosts of the Old North State.
But that's where I learned about the Gray Man and
the Brown Mountain lights and the mysterious hoof prints at Bath.

Speaker 10 (01:50:40):
Ever heard of those? Remember the yes?

Speaker 7 (01:50:43):
Did?

Speaker 1 (01:50:43):
Do?

Speaker 11 (01:50:43):
People read these out loud in school? Because now I'm
having vivid memories of this.

Speaker 1 (01:50:47):
I used to go check the books out camp and
there was the Lovely Apparition, which was near Siler City.
I think somewhere up in the triangle, I want to say,
but yeah, I mean I was like mesmerized by those
things when I was a kid, telling you, I don't
need a haunted house.

Speaker 10 (01:51:03):
Give me that book.

Speaker 1 (01:51:04):
Look at me reading and multiple books at that.

Speaker 11 (01:51:08):
Oh speaking of reading, one of our listeners let me
know that read Goldmine is actually in Locust, not not
in Concord. I try to make everything in Concord Locust.

Speaker 10 (01:51:17):
Guys like WBTS and Concord. Hey, the Charlotte Minter Speedway
is really in Concord. That's right, traffic check right now.
Boomer von Cannon.

Speaker 12 (01:51:26):
Was the school. It was school up there to Jackson
School that's near Concord.

Speaker 4 (01:51:30):
Right there, you go.

Speaker 11 (01:51:31):
See this is what we were talking about. Jackson Training School.

Speaker 10 (01:51:34):
That place is spooky and it's abandoned.

Speaker 13 (01:51:37):
What's this place. I haven't heard of this place.

Speaker 12 (01:51:39):
Oh you gotta go, Bertie, Oh my gosh, you got
to go.

Speaker 10 (01:51:42):
It's you would be the same.

Speaker 11 (01:51:44):
My parents threatened me with that place. Anytime I misbehaved.
They were going to send me off to track Jackson.
Oh yeah, they were gonna send me to Jackson Training School.

Speaker 5 (01:51:55):
Welcome to camp, crystally, thank you honey camp. But ain't
you never come back again?

Speaker 3 (01:52:00):
Shut out around.

Speaker 10 (01:52:01):
It's got a just curse.

Speaker 21 (01:52:05):
You're there, Freddy.

Speaker 12 (01:52:11):
You think you was going to get away from me.

Speaker 4 (01:52:14):
It's too late, Cruiser, I know the secret.

Speaker 15 (01:52:18):
Now.

Speaker 23 (01:52:20):
This is just a dream.

Speaker 4 (01:52:22):
You're not alive.

Speaker 23 (01:52:25):
This whole thing is just a dream.

Speaker 10 (01:52:27):
It began the nightmare on my streets.

Speaker 1 (01:52:34):
Talking about nightmares on your street or other streets. We're
in abandoned buildings. What's the place you keep talking about?
People are emailing about in Concord.

Speaker 10 (01:52:44):
Jackson Training School.

Speaker 11 (01:52:46):
Julie just sent us a message that said Jackson Training
School used to be a fully functioning farm with.

Speaker 10 (01:52:52):
A butcher room with meat like Texas chainsaw and.

Speaker 11 (01:52:57):
Saying that to the music in the back. That made
it even scarier. I just got scared. I'm gonna have
I tend to have nightmares when scary things like I
don't like scary movies that my brain's too too overactive.

Speaker 10 (01:53:10):
I'm just got scared because of the Will Smith James
scary James online number one. James.

Speaker 1 (01:53:17):
Now, see I mentioned we were talking about the book
that had all those ghost stories, the Gray Man was
Paully's Island, South Carolina, and the mysterious hoof prints at
Bath Bath, North Carolina. Now James just brought another one
and I remember it like it like it's in front
of me right now. The picture from the book Ghosts
of the Carolina is about the Devil's Tramping Ground in

(01:53:41):
Siler City. James, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 5 (01:53:46):
Yes, thank you. So I wanted to share a little
bit of an aerie story and experience that I had
while trying to visit the Devil's Trampling Ground when I
was a kid. So I found the same book Goes
to the Carolinas that you found, checked it out out
from my local library in Irondale County, and I was
fascinated by the stuff as well. My godmother at the time,

(01:54:08):
I was probably let's say twelve thereabouts. My godmother at
the time had a work trip to Raleigh or Rocky
Mount somewhere over there, and so I tagged along with her,
and I insisted that we had to go to check
out the Devil's Trampling Ground. So if you remember the

(01:54:29):
picture from the book, it was like this circle in
the middle foots just off the side of the road
where nothing grew, you know, dirt. It was, I mean nothing,
you know. Allegedly if somebody threw sticks or rocks or
something in there, they would just mysteriously be gone the

(01:54:49):
next morning, or you know whatever. So we're driving along.
We you know, this is way before GPS, this is
like nineteen nineties. So we're driving along. We kind of
know it's off of this certain road. I don't remember,
highway whatever, eighty, I don't remember the number of it.
So we're driving along, but we're not exactly sure where

(01:55:11):
it is, but we know it's somewhere in this area,
no kidding though. We're on a two lane country highway
and a truck flashes its lights at us to get
our attention, and we slowed down and pulled over, and
they stayed in the lane, rolled.

Speaker 12 (01:55:33):
Up next to us.

Speaker 5 (01:55:34):
My godmother rolled her window down, and it was two
ladies in the truck and they said, are you guys
looking for the Devil's trampling Grounds? And we're like what,
And my godmother told me to stay in the car.
She got out to talk to them, because we just
came from Statesville, you know, next stop Devil's Trampling Ground.

(01:55:58):
We're driving along the road Silar City and some people
just mysteriously, out of the middle of nowhere ask us
if we're going to the Devil's Trampling Ground. So we
found that to be a little bit of an eerie sign,
and we did go there. They let us there, but
I stayed in the car at her insistence, and we

(01:56:20):
just kind of looked at it because you could see
the clearing through the trees from the side of the roads,
and we decided not to get out and go in there.
Leslie becomes some sort of like sacrifice or part of
a ritual.

Speaker 10 (01:56:32):
But it looked the way it did in the book.

Speaker 8 (01:56:34):
Then, well it did, I will.

Speaker 5 (01:56:36):
Say, like some low vegetation was starting to grow. It
did not quite have the same stark, devastated appearance that
the book had. There was little, little tiny bits of
stuff that were starting to grow. And I hear now
that the circle is still there, but it is overtaken

(01:56:59):
by and weeds and stuff. And I don't know if
people cut it, but supposedly no trees have thrown back.

Speaker 1 (01:57:05):
All right, don't tell me that the gray Man walked
up and said, you've you've come to the Devil's Tramping Ground.

Speaker 10 (01:57:12):
All right, James be good man, Thank you, Yeah, thank you.
I wonder if the ladies in the truck work ghosts.
That's a good point. I wonder what their names were,
good point, doth, Belma and Daphne. Yeah, that's that's perfect.

Speaker 1 (01:57:31):
All right.

Speaker 10 (01:57:31):
Well, this has been fun.

Speaker 1 (01:57:32):
It's only October fourteenth, so we have a lot of
Halloween left to go. So you might have to get
back on this road again for it's too long.

Speaker 10 (01:57:40):
Yeah, I'm not going to sleep tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:57:42):
News Talk eleven ten, WBT. Thanks to all who bring
this show together. Another good talk, Beth, Good talk Boo.

Speaker 10 (01:57:49):
Bye bye, fun storming the Castle. Think it a light
it would take him here?

Speaker 4 (01:57:54):
Good bye.

Speaker 11 (01:57:56):
You've been listening to Good Morning bet here us live
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