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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What does it mean to slide into someone's DM That
sounds like a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Okay, we're not ready for.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
That's talk eleven ten and ninety nine three double.

Speaker 4 (00:09):
Bet And what does that have to do with anything?

Speaker 5 (00:11):
It has everything to do with anything.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
This is good morning Beatty with quote Thompson, that Beth trout,
that's all over a second. We ride up in Troy's bucket.

Speaker 4 (00:22):
Good at every reason. Suddenly I skin full it back.
God tell me, where'd you get the move? Okay, you're
the same miss so that we have, but I don't
really care how bad even.

Speaker 6 (00:40):
When you broke me.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Toko ours and our first boy.

Speaker 5 (00:52):
This is a way to start the show.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Well, don't look Google, you know, I don't know what's
going on yesterday. It's too late to apologize today. You
broke me first. What have you guys been doing one?

Speaker 5 (01:00):
I don't know, but I have to I have to
leave Miss McCrae right there because I don't trust the
rest of the song. Sorry about that, but this is
the way it goes.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
So you can go to the Beth Song of the
Day playlist on Spotify, which someone asked me yesterday, Steve
how to find it. And I had no answer for
them because I don't use Spotify. I'm an Apple Music gal,
so I couldn't.

Speaker 7 (01:24):
I couldn't help, so they can. I mean if they
just search Beth's song of the day. As far as
searching under a playlist, hopefully it will populate and it
is your I keep wanting to say selfie, but it's
a bofy of you and Royal Rory McElroy.

Speaker 5 (01:40):
I like Royal mclroy or Roy McAvoy from ten Cup.
But see, what you need to do is just search.
I mean, it's the only playlist on the internet that
has Tape McCrae anywhere near meltormee, right, I mean if
you look at the list list of songs from just
the past week.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
I yes, But you know what, if you want a
varied listening.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
Experience, that you would definitely be getting that.

Speaker 8 (02:05):
Literally, search good Morning BT on Spotify and it will
populate and one of the things is seventeenth segment and
then best Song.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Of the day right under.

Speaker 7 (02:14):
Yeah, because good Morning BT, I created a user, you know,
like a profile for a Good Morning BT that has
those two playlists. So the other thing they can do
is send us a text during the show on the
on the WBT text line and I will respond to
them with the link and they can just click and
save the playlist that way your code.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
Fine, that's fantastic. So you have best playlist, you have
the seventeenth segment. You can also on Spotify get the
entire show every day just a little while after the
show ends. And I have found more people do that
than I realized. They go and they listen to the
show in the afternoon, and they listen to it at night.
Because what Bernie does is he takes all of the
segments and then he takes you know, the stuff that

(02:55):
would be dated after the shows that were like traffic
reports and some of the news reports, and that stuff
is taken out. So you listen to it, you know,
like like you would one of our other shows that
aren't so news traffic, weather dependent when they're on. So,
I mean, you got all these options on Spotify.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
You could have all all us all the time. It
really if you really want it. If need sleep, that's right.

Speaker 5 (03:18):
And you know Tate McCrae, the full Tate McCrae song
will be on the Spotify list.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
It might have some bad words in it.

Speaker 7 (03:25):
Well, I did put there's there's multiple explicit versions on Spotify.
Multiple Yeah, at least three of them that popped up
when I search for it. But apparently there is at
least one edit that does not have the explicit tag,
So of course if it's if those are available, those
are the versions that I put on our playlist to
make it family friendly and just.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
So you know, listening at home. If I could, if
I could have the song the night before, I would, yeah.
But by definition, it's what you wake up to.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Right, and we can't populate it. We've tried to incept
my brain. Steve has come the closest, but not because
he tried with songs. It was more about it was
like words you used in a conversation.

Speaker 7 (04:02):
Yeah, and it was just once. And I've been here
now over a year, so the ratio is now incident.
So today is Tate McCrae. If you're not familiar with
Tate McCrae, go search Tate McCrae. It's very interesting experience.
Or don't or don't search some creepy.

Speaker 5 (04:18):
Well you know what I do when when I can't
play the whole song, I have a backup song. Now,
come on, explain come on, am I the only one
who had this in my head all day yesterday? Good
time to tell you that the contest returns today in

(04:39):
the eight o'clock hour. Named that weird nineties band like
this one. We have tickets to sixpence none the Richer,
kt Tunstall and the Headliner towed the wet Sprocket on
Saturday night at the Amp Valentine. And all you have
to do is name that weird nineties band, or that

(05:00):
I should say, that band with a weird name from
the nineties is kind of just all of the nineties. Yeah,
it really is, and more so than I realized because
I had to go through the process of finding all
these songs.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
But didn't it feel so good suddenly going back and
listening to how ridiculous some of our youth oh really was.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
People are like, oh, are we doing this again today?

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Hello?

Speaker 5 (05:25):
We got a new list today, a new list I'm
going to see. I'm going to surprise you today. Because
when I first we first started talking about the contest,
Beth like, immediately send me like fifty fifty bands.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Come on, I'm a child of the nineties. I was
in college, high school and college in the nineties. So
I was the prime nineties band gal and I was
so disappointed at the very end of the nineties when
Britney Spears and like en Sync came about, because I
was the original New Kids on the Block person, and
I thought they're just poor man's new kids.

Speaker 5 (05:59):
But I kind of thought, Okay, they're rescuing us, They're
getting us back to at least some sense of pop
music the way it used to be. I'm a reluctant
adolescent of the nineties. Oh so, yeah, you I love
I'm a what is this crap from the nineties.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
I loved eighties music just as much as anybody. I
will admit, though, in the early nineties when Nirvana and
Pearl GM and when they first came out, I switched
over to country music for a quite some time.

Speaker 5 (06:22):
As did I. That's why I learned who Travis Tritt
and Clint Black And.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Is that why you're such a fan of Shanaiah in
the Mirk Way?

Speaker 5 (06:32):
I like Shanaiah, Okay, I did it, was a huge
fan of hers. But you know, Garth Brooks, so yeah,
so see we're tracking here. We're gonna give you Toad
the wets Brocket tickets or a chance to win them.
Just after eight o'clock today, Teresa Payton, our longtime cybersecurity expert,
is well waiting in the wings for our Wednesday conversation.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
This is good Morning Beati.

Speaker 5 (06:59):
Wednesday News Talk eleven ten nine to nine three WBT
and worldwide on the WBT mobile app and anytime of
day on demand on Spotify. Bo and Beth here in
time to welcome our longtime cybersecurity expert, a member of
the extended show family. Here we can say that the
founder of Forderless Solutions. You can follow her on x

(07:21):
at Tracker Peyton is her handle. The one and only
Teresa Peyton, who I have it on good authority, is
on our way to Quantico later today. How about that? Teresa, Hey,
good morning.

Speaker 9 (07:32):
And yes, I am on my way to Quantico to
spend some time with the FDI today and tomorrow. I'm
always looking forward to those conversations, giving a briefing and
getting briefings. I always walk away much smarter and also
very encouraged by the brave men and women who serve
in the FDI.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
You're one of the coolest people that I've ever met
in my whole life.

Speaker 9 (07:55):
No I just know lots of cool people like you, Beth.

Speaker 5 (07:58):
So well, we all try to be cool. Yeah, we
try to. Now listen to this, I heard this from Teresa.
Did you know this?

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Now?

Speaker 5 (08:09):
The Winter Olympics are still with their next year and
then we're several years away from the LA Summer Olympics.
But did you know? And I know this because of Teresa,
the Robot Olympics are underway in China. Is that? Is
that right? Teresa?

Speaker 10 (08:25):
That's correct.

Speaker 9 (08:26):
There's a humanoid from sixteen nations. I guess you could
call it competing, but based on the videos I saw,
I wouldn't call it very competitive.

Speaker 5 (08:37):
But they're really like that there's a robot Olympics. I mean,
who knew?

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Actually scares me that we now have a robot Olympics.
I hope we don't ever get to a point where
the actual Olympics has robots in it competing against the humans.

Speaker 9 (08:51):
I mean, are we living a movie right now? They
call it the World Humanoid Robot Games. I don't know
what could go wrong, but the robots are competing, and
based on the videos I've seen, they're not doing well.
So some of them are falling over just in the

(09:11):
middle of the sport. Actually it's you know, I would
say kind of three to five year old soccer games probably.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
Go oh oh BLUs. I've been there and done that one,
and you're not wrong.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Well, you know what, Teresa, I'm glad you said something
about three to five year olds because I do want
to take a serious turn with our conversation with you
today based on another story that you alerted us to.
You posted about this yesterday on social media, and I
would love to get an in depth take on this.
But a US senator is opening an investigation into Meta

(09:45):
after a leaked document reportedly showed that the tech giants
artificial intelligence was actually permitted to have romantic or even
sensual chats with children. And I feel like Meta has
a lot of explaining to do with this, and I'm
wondering about legal ramifications.

Speaker 9 (10:05):
Right, I mean, here's the thing. Meta has a couple
of weeks to turn over documents and then I'm assuming
there will be sworn testimony taken from executives from Meta.
I doubt mister Zuckerberg will show up, but you never know.
But honestly, Meta needs to explain their past, current and
future protections for children.

Speaker 11 (10:27):
The first question is that I have for.

Speaker 9 (10:29):
The Hill, did meta break any laws? And so there's
two answers to that. If they say no, they didn't
break a law, then in this country we are behind
on children's protections. But if they did break the law,
I would like to know what are the consequences going
to be because we have, you know, this big theater
on the Hill where people come and testify and say,

(10:51):
we know we need to do better, but you don't
really see any ramifications and you don't really see things getting.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Better, right, and then you just see these tech billionaires
you know, well with leaders at events, and so you think, well,
what what are these consequences if our children aren't protected?

Speaker 9 (11:08):
Yeah, I mean we deserve better for our children. Our
children deserve better from us. And and Beth and I
say this very seriously, but it sounds funny too at
the same time. You know, we were talking about robots
and like three to five year olds playing soccer probably
would do a better job than robots. It is the
same thing when you hear things like agentic AI or

(11:29):
AI chatbots or AI algorithms, or you're interacting with chantybut
or Gemini or Claude or you know, pick your tool.
These tools are very immature. They are not technology proven,
they are not tested. They do things like hallucinate and candidly.
They do operate like you walk into a library with

(11:52):
a group of kindergarteners and you see the whole library
to choose from. Bring me a book that has this topic,
and you know a lot of times kids will grab
the first thing that they see and bring it back
to you. That doesn't always mean it's the right answer.
And that's the way I want people to be thinking
about this technology. It's very immature, which means our children,

(12:13):
for certain, should not be interacting with it. Also, if
you're using it for work, you should have other ways
that you vet the sources. So if you get an
answer from chatgybt, do yourself a favor and go do
research at an authoritative, vetted research paper or source or
new source and then compare it to the answer you

(12:36):
got to chat Gypt. It might not always be accurate.

Speaker 5 (12:40):
Well, if you're a parent, or you're just anybody out
there just trying to make it in life and you're
hearing all these headlines about AI, it's enough to make
you really really worry about where this is all going on.
The flip side of that. There's a piece in the
Atlantic and the title of it is AI is a
mass delusion event. I read you just a little little

(13:00):
bit of this. It says, this strange brew of shock, confusion,
and ambivalence is the defining emotion of the generative AI era.
Three years into the hype, it seems that one of
AI's enduring cultural impacts is to make people feel like
they're losing it. And you know, there's a lot of
truth to that. People hear about all these headlines and

(13:21):
it sounds so doomsdayish, and then you turn around you'll
hear a headline about how AI is actually helping someone
do something, and it's hard to know to draw that
line between robots are going to rule the world in
five years and hey, you know, if we can harness
this correctly, maybe it can actually be of benefit.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
Well, And there are so many stories Teresa books, movies, films,
everything that talks about a version of AI and the
fact that it is not human and discovering that the
humans are the problem. And then Lord knows what happens.
And you go to any plot line of any you know,
dark book or futuristic film.

Speaker 9 (14:00):
Yeah, I think the way I like to look at
this technology is to say, with governance and guardrails, this
technology is going to be incredibly amazing and helpful. But
it's new technology. And what feels different about it is is,
you know, when the Internet became a thing where it

(14:22):
was available to everybody, not just academic research institutions and
big corporate America, but it was something everybody could interact with.
And the thing about that technology iteration was it mostly
was creating new growth in the economy, new types of jobs,
not necessarily shedding and eliminating jobs. The thing that people

(14:45):
are experiencing right now is a lot like when we
saw the textile industry get dis intermediated in the Carolinas
by offshoring of textile making as well as you know,
sort of the automation that came to textiles. But it's
sitting across all sectors in all industries, so it feels unsettling.
But with the right governance and guardrails and the right conversations,

(15:08):
this technology has the power to give us individualized healthcare diagnosis.
It has the power to help us sort through information
and a security operations center to stop the next ransomware event,
like it has incredible opportunities, but we don't have the
right conversations going on about safe and secure use of

(15:28):
this technology.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
Yeah, I feel like we're a couple of steps away
from Ultron having no strings, you know. I mean, you
come around the corner and there's James Spader and he
has no strings. If you saw the Second Avengers movie,
you know what I'm saying. Teresa Payton, our cybersecurity expert,
have safe travels as you head to Quantico today and
look forward to hearing stories reporting back on that, and

(15:49):
remember to follow Teresa on x at Tracker Payate in
twenty four to seven. Thank you so much, Beth and Bo.

Speaker 10 (15:55):
Always great to be with you.

Speaker 9 (15:57):
Be safe out there.

Speaker 5 (15:58):
This is a water cooler show. It's the big audio
water cooler on this show, we try to.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Give you the facts. We don't want to tell you
what to think. We want to tell you what to think.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
About, but we ask that you remain in your seats
until the ride has come to a safe and complete stuff.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Enjoy the rest of your day here at Good Morning
Bet with Bo Thompson and Beth Trout with the.

Speaker 5 (16:19):
Best group of people.

Speaker 10 (16:20):
Have breck the swift.

Speaker 5 (16:21):
You guys have fun Oh, thank you, Bob, thank you
so much.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Warton girls, Marcturia, keep your hands on the handle works
at all fun.

Speaker 5 (16:27):
Hey, hey, hey, all right, Michael Stipe wasn't ready for
me yet. News Talk eleven ten WBT. The text line
always there's driven by liberty view. At GMC, employees are
being forced to do something excruciating at work. Sometimes it

(16:51):
involves sleepovers. Now I guess we sort of. I mean,
when we go to the beach, we have we all
have our own rooms, and you know, we're all separated
by walls. But it's not like we're all in sleeping
bags in the den. But which if we did do that,
that would be the weirdest work trip, especially for me.

(17:13):
I think you guys it might be normal. For me,
it would be uncomfortable. But this, uh, the point here
is I mean, look, have we all been in situations
at work? And I by all of us, I mean
all of us listening here, not just the room where
you've been asked to do something like an icebreaker at work,
or a or a field trip or or some excursion
that brings you closer together.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
Well, there are so many companies that do these quote
unquote team building fun experiences, and I'm going to even.

Speaker 5 (17:41):
Put fun in quotes, functivities.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Funtivities, Bernie that Slate magazine is saying it's becoming more
and more and more frequent for people who are working,
especially in office settings, that bosses are creating these after
work hour activities and the expectation people feel pressured to
be part of the quote unquote fun and some of

(18:04):
the examples that are given are hysterical, including Bo Thompson, Yes,
a sleepover. One employee who doesn't want to name the
actual office says, next month is a big milestone in
our team's work, and to celebrate their planning a retreat
at my colleague's vacation home. We're all going to sleep

(18:24):
over there for the weekend. And they don't know anything
specific about the sleep arrangements, but they feel like they
have to go.

Speaker 5 (18:32):
Okay, So we don't know the details, and I'd like
to know them, But on its face, that is what
we do.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
That's exactly what we do.

Speaker 5 (18:40):
And because because when I first read this, I'm thinking,
first of all, I didn't think it was at a
vacation house. I thought it was at the office. You know,
we're all gonna sleep in the conference room.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
Can you imagine in the floor. They suggested that.

Speaker 5 (18:53):
Well, so sevenh four five, seven eleven ten. Definitely if
you've ever been roach about that subject, because this is
something real we're reading to you here. It's not just
our example or when we made up. If you're in
an office setting or whatever, whatever you do for a living,
have you ever been given the notion of something like that,

(19:15):
like a sleepover or other outrageous stories.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yes, so, according to Sleep magazine, like I said, this
is happening more and more frequently. There are activities like
fun time, group karaoke, or teams bosses have created a
group song for the team and whenever they get together.
This is according to the magazine, that whenever they get
together for meetings, they all have to break out in
group songs or they have things that are akin to

(19:39):
pep rally.

Speaker 5 (19:40):
I would quit on the spot. I would.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
But then some of the other examples are drinks after
work or dinner after work, and these are after work events,
but people feel obligated to go because they've noticed that
the boss looks more favorably at the ones who actually
attend these events, and so people are concerned that those
are the ones the people who go to these events,

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they are the ones who are going to get the
promotions or the best assignments or the best work travel,
And so it feels like an extra job, but you're
not getting paid necessarily for those hours.

Speaker 5 (20:15):
See here to me is where you break it down,
like like, we were not forced to go anywhere that
we didn't want to go to outside of work. We
decided as a group, because we like each other, that
we would do it.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
Did you feel forced, Bernie, Oh no, not at all.

Speaker 5 (20:31):
No, No, you're not helping this. That's going to turn
this into Bo made everyone go.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Bo dragged us down there kicking and screaming.

Speaker 5 (20:39):
Bo called Beth's dad and said, we need your place
for the weekend.

Speaker 8 (20:42):
I don't know, like this happened when I had only
been working here like a month, and you were like,
so you're going to the beach with us, right, I'm like,
what's the beach?

Speaker 5 (20:49):
And you're like, no, no, you're going to the beach
with us.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
But I didn't give up a choice.

Speaker 5 (20:52):
You're also the same guy at the end of that trip,
and during that trip he said, I've never been part
of a team working at a place that did something
like this correct, and it was your birthday you So
as soon as I'm saying that we shouldn't go singing together,
we had a yacht rock band sing your birthday live
on the air.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
I get.

Speaker 7 (21:11):
I did get serenaded with Happy Birthday on my birthday
on a work trip.

Speaker 5 (21:16):
Maybe we're much more like all this than I thought
we were.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
I think we're guiltier of this than we think, because
we also do the after show breakfasts at Snooze, and
we're like, come on, guys, we're all gonna go. We're
gonna do teas.

Speaker 5 (21:27):
Okay, But Steve and Bernie when we are gone from
the room later in the day and you guys are talking,
do you sit around the water cooler and say, yeah,
I can't believe they're making us go to you know,
eat after the show at place the Snooze and gosh
the beach. Who goes to the I mean, you guys
are actually enjoying this process, right, Oh of course? Okay, sure, yeah, no, definitely.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
But I do want to know from people who work
for because we're a tight knit group of you know,
we're just like seven little people in here. But are
there companies I want to buy you the best.

Speaker 5 (21:56):
And I'm a regular sized person.

Speaker 8 (21:58):
I'm not a little I am slightly tall, average sized man.

Speaker 5 (22:02):
I have four plasma screens, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
I want to hear stories from people who work for
these big companies. Does this happen with your team? Do
you have to break out into after hours karaoke or
do you do team songs?

Speaker 12 (22:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (22:15):
What's the most useless team building activity that you've ever
been presented to do that you didn't want to do?

Speaker 1 (22:20):
And you can use a fake name or if you
don't want me to use your name, if you text us,
I won't use your name.

Speaker 5 (22:26):
We'll call you Tricksie or Chet in honor of Spiers
and Krantz. Yeah, it's the one that says big hugs
Raleigh five away from seven o'clock. We're talking about workplace.
You know what do you call them fundtivities?

Speaker 13 (22:47):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (22:47):
Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to think of fundtivities.
It's interesting in the last you know, five minutes or
so on the text line driven by Liberty View at GMC,
that people keep talking about gun range.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Yes, after work gun range activity. That was part We're
all talking about this because of a story in Slate
magazine about the rise in quote unquote fun activities for
team building most of the time after work, and people
in were interviewed for this story and talked about very
various ideas of quote unquote fun for team building. And

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one of the things in this story gun range activity.
Gun ranges, And now our text line is proving that
that's actually a thing.

Speaker 5 (23:29):
Yes, several people mentioning gun ranges. Here's another one that
caught my attention. Oftentimes those after work activities are called
destress activities. What management doesn't realize is the people you
are being asked to spend time with are often the
cause of stress. You know what I would do a
team building activity.

Speaker 8 (23:49):
I would do a breakroom with people I work with,
Like you know where you go break you break everything, like.

Speaker 5 (23:55):
Where you just tear stuff up. I would I would
do that with people I work with. I feel like
that would be as guest stresser foam walls.

Speaker 8 (24:00):
Yeah, yeah, you could scream at people, got here, greatact,
But that that could that could.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
They could open the door on who it is that's
actually the cause of the stress. As Laurie's text so
eloquently points out, Because if you are a stressed out worker.

Speaker 5 (24:20):
She's right.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Some of the times it is the co worker who
is the cause. That's the like whatever a communication gap
or the work ethic differences that just that cause the
actual stress. So what do you if you go out
and have a few beers with them, do you end
up at evilable and like, all right, Barbara, let me
let me get some let me be honest with you.

Speaker 5 (24:42):
And then you know, the boss has to make the
decision when you go do these things. Is alcohol involved?

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Well, right, and and and if it is, that can
be problematic for people. Like what if you have someone
who's on your team who's in recovery and they feel
forced to go to a social setting where everyone's, you know, drinking,
and then they may people might not know that person's
in recovery, and then they're suddenly forced to have a
conversation about why they're not drinking. That can just create
all kinds of awkwardness.

Speaker 7 (25:07):
There's also the issue of who pays for it if
it is an afterwork activity. Technically, in most cases you
would think the employee would have to cover their own
tab or bill or entry fee or whatever. But like,
if you want me to be there as part of
my job. Then you should be covering the cost for
this thing.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
We made you pay for your own burger at Mamy's
going down to the beach. We made it, we did.
We didn't buy the burger.

Speaker 5 (25:32):
He keeps receipts. She does. Now see, here's the thing
I'm going back to. The if you, as a group
of people at work that enjoy each other, decide to
do it on your own, that's different than the boss
saying I want because then you get into the situation
where you get with people who do cause more stress.
But you know, we said, hey, we enjoy each other
in the morning, let's go to the balls. Hey let's
go to the beach. Essentially, that's how it happened.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
That is how it happened.

Speaker 5 (25:53):
But you know, it's interesting to me because when we
did that, one member of the team went down a
few days early so didn't have to deal with us.
That would be Mark Garrison. I'm as human as anyone.

Speaker 8 (26:03):
I wake up every morning, and despite not knowing what
to do, I put one foot in front of the
other and I try to make the best choices I can.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
From Me's talk eleven ten and ninety nine three double.

Speaker 8 (26:13):
E BT, I screw up all the time, but that
is being human and that's my greatest strength.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
This is good Morning Beat with both Thompson and Beth
Trout with This place is a mouth of business and
a mixed up work.

Speaker 5 (26:29):
Seven oh seven on WBT on your Wednesday morning hump Day.
And I've got all kinds of plans of things to
talk about. I want to get to the panthers little
brew haha. Yesterday. You know that's a workplace thing, right.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
They make it to use a little afterwork funtivity together.

Speaker 5 (26:48):
But we can't quite leave this because the sheer number
of text line texts about gun ranges. So I mean
it's a this is over the top.

Speaker 14 (27:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Dave sent us a text and he said, I work
with a bunch of folks from the UK and when
they come over they beg, beg, beg for a trip
to the gun range. Then he says, America, Yes, have
you ever been to a gun range?

Speaker 3 (27:18):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (27:19):
Okay, do you guys remember.

Speaker 5 (27:21):
This right yesterday after the show.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
It was right after I started here. The folks from
Hyatt Farms, they brought me out to Hiatt Farms and
let me try out all of the different gun ranges.

Speaker 5 (27:35):
If I had thought about this, I would have known
the I knew that, I remember that you.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
It turns out I'm a sniper and I had no idea.

Speaker 5 (27:42):
It was like it was I and I'm still standing people.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
I usually oddly good at it, and it was it
was just a delightful afternoon.

Speaker 5 (27:55):
Well so that that wasn't like a workplace team building activity.
That was you know, they invited you out because they
heard you talking about it.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
From the well it was it was I was invited
because of my workplace. And then I went with a
member of our sales team and we he doesn't work
here anymore, but we had a ball. We had just
an absolute ball together.

Speaker 5 (28:15):
So it was great, great team you built their Beth
just you know what.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
Though he does still text me from time to time
just to see how things are going.

Speaker 8 (28:22):
As far as guys being dudes to go, though, there
is something to say about going to a gun range
and then showing your coworkers that you're pretty good shot.

Speaker 5 (28:28):
I feel like that's that's like uplifting. That makes you
feel like cool, It makes you feel like strong, get
you cool points.

Speaker 8 (28:34):
You know, they're like, wow, that guy's cool.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Well, apparently this is a thing that a lot of
workplaces are doing that.

Speaker 5 (28:40):
It's like, don't cross me.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
John even said, our small office, we offer an annual
team building outing at point blank range. Novice or seasoned shooter.
It's always a fun Friday. So there's a lunch and
then an afternoon at the at the at the shooting range.
Jeff says the same thing that they go out and do.
Let's see what his is. He also sent me a
picture of the sky, which is lovely. A big thumbs

(29:05):
up to gun range functivities. We go twice a year
to shoot Sporting Clays. Oddly, I was oddly good at
that too, Guys, I have never I had never shot
Sporting Clays ever, and I got eight out of ten.

Speaker 5 (29:19):
Have you read a text in the last to thirty
seconds from Billy.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
From Alice Cooper Billy, Yes, no, I have not read
that one.

Speaker 5 (29:26):
Okay, I will do with him, Alice Cooper. Billy says,
gun range therapy for me is very important. You don't
need to stay long or with someone else alone. Time
is valuable.

Speaker 6 (29:37):
Bo.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
You would love gun range time because you have on
earphones to blocks out all the noise. You kind of
are doing your own thing and you're aiming at your
own target.

Speaker 5 (29:45):
And you don't think that I do this every day
after the.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Ship plenty of elbow room. Oh, Mike says that it
was a humble brag that I that I got the
the eight Clays. I guess that is kind of a
humble brag, isn't it.

Speaker 5 (29:59):
I was so it was so see Sean, hang on,
you have to wait for the humble bag.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
That was a Good Morning BET humble brag.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
It was so shocking. I can't even call it a brag.
I think everyone who was involved in that afternoon with
me was surprised, including myself. I was completely surprised.

Speaker 5 (30:17):
Nick is online one, Nick, welcome to Good Morning BT.

Speaker 15 (30:22):
Hey, thank you, glad to be on. We used to
I used to work for a company and there was
a lot of younger people. I was sort of the
old guy, and they used to call the afterwork of
activities fundatory, mandatory.

Speaker 5 (30:38):
Fun fundatory.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
That's so fit.

Speaker 5 (30:42):
Well, okay, so the question for you is it was mandatory?
Was it fun?

Speaker 15 (30:49):
The gun range stuff was definitely fun, and there was
a couple activities, but some of them seemed pretty poorced yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
Yeah, well, and then like what do you talk about
when you go, do you end up just inly talking
about work because you don't really have anything else in common.

Speaker 15 (31:05):
No, you really get to know each other and open
up and talk. So in that way it is probably
achieving the goals of the owners of the company. But
from the from the other point, all I'm saying I
didn't call him that. The younger guys called him that.

Speaker 6 (31:24):
It was mandatory fun. So you know, you'd go ball
three frames or something, and then you do scavenger hunts.
Oh you know, they they'd put you in a basketball
team together, so they would they not everybody likes the
same things, right, That's why they called it fundatory.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah, fundatory basketball game.

Speaker 5 (31:45):
I'm all about like going bowling or like going to
top golf or doing something fun where you can talk
while you're doing it. But scavenger hunt, anything where you
have to actually work.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
Oh do you know what of all of the things
that he mentioned, I thought, Oh, a scavenger hunt would
be so fun. They had like puzzle little clues and
you had to solve problems.

Speaker 5 (32:03):
No, you have to think, and I don't want to
do that. Like I do enough of that at work.
Like if I'm gonna if I'm gonna get to know somebody.
I wanted to be an environment where I get to relax,
not where I have to work hard. You could like, like,
I'll tell you my worst nightmare of a of a
team building exercise is going with with really anybody but
co workers, friends, anybody. So I don't like the mazes either,

(32:25):
but going somewhere where you have to like, you know,
there's escape places, like that's.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Hard.

Speaker 5 (32:33):
I don't want to over. I don't want to go
and facts. I just want to go and chill.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
I love escape rooms.

Speaker 5 (32:39):
You could just hang out in the escape room and
just drink a beer.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
Bo.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
Yeah, you could let us do the work and then
you just walk through the doors as they open.

Speaker 5 (32:46):
And then we'll come back in the following Monday, we'll
be doing these segments about how Bo did no work.
He just stood there with us. Guys.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
You learn a whole lot about people in escape rooms.

Speaker 5 (32:56):
Though, good morning, BT, it's fundator. Oh here are you I?

Speaker 1 (33:03):
Our text line is absolutely going nuts. I know we've
got to get to traffic. But Anne says that she
actually suggested skeet shooting as a fundatory option, and she
got a hard no. She got a hard no from
her team, which I think is interesting team building for
this person. They didn't give us their name. Axe throwing, Yeah,
it's a good time. Never done that, really, yeah, never

(33:24):
done that. I didn't know that that are there ax
throwing things?

Speaker 5 (33:27):
Harga. There was a place in Cotswold and it closed down.
Now it's a place called Crave, a restaurant and it
had like, you know, burgers and chicken sandwiches and axe throwing. Wow,
I'm not kidding. It didn't last very long. But they
that was a thing like right down the street from
my house. So never did it.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
I also just need to read this message from Carl.
It says, note to self, Beth is lovely and a
crack shot. Don't mess them or no, don't make her mad.

Speaker 5 (33:56):
That's true. And before you all turn this into bow
doesn't like any team building activities. Our team building activity
to the beach is my perfect scenario.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
There are escape rooms probably on the day.

Speaker 5 (34:09):
Don't don't add escape rooms to them. I'm saying. It's
it's great as is, Like we go, we do the show,
but we relax and chill.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
Well, and we also ride separately, which is perfect bowtime.
It's a perfect bow time. You just you get to
be alone. But you know that we're all going to
end up at the same place the morning.

Speaker 5 (34:25):
It's both exactly right. Though, next year we're all going
to stop. I think we're stopping at like Maymi's or
BUCkies and we stop in an escape room. Yeah, I'm
good to totally. It'll take a whole day to get there.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
It's fake him out. Let's fake them out.

Speaker 5 (34:38):
We were here for three hours. See. You know, people,
people lament the fact that you know pumpkin spices everywhere,
that that's what you don't like about the Halloween and fall.
I don't like the mazes everywhere.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
I love.

Speaker 5 (34:51):
No and I feel like, you know, children of the
corn a is going to break out in front of.

Speaker 13 (34:53):
Me or something.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
Well, yeah, like a Malachai might just like peek out
from behind a corn.

Speaker 5 (34:58):
You are right on point, Boomer van Cannon, what's going on?

Speaker 16 (35:01):
Man?

Speaker 5 (35:01):
I take gun range is great? Right, Boom building great?

Speaker 3 (35:05):
Really is?

Speaker 1 (35:06):
We could all do a highatt farms day and do
clay shooting.

Speaker 5 (35:08):
I'm telling you it's fantastic.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
They have like little lookouts. They give you the shotguns,
you got the goggles.

Speaker 5 (35:13):
No escaping though, right, No escaping those well, you might
need to escape me. I don't know about that at
throwing something threatening me that's got a gun and a
corn maze shine, No, no, no, A at the target

(35:37):
on the wall. Talking about workplace fundatory activities and you
know those team building excursions that bosses like to take
their employees on so we can all get to know
each other.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
I had no idea that this would take off the
way that it has. We were reading an article in
S eight magazine about the rise in mandatory quote unquote
fun in the workplace, everything from karaoke to even sleepovers
and days out at the gun range.

Speaker 5 (36:11):
We gave it our best shot and it turned into something.
Mark is online number two. Mark, Welcome to Good Morning BT.

Speaker 10 (36:18):
Hey guys, good morning, How are you good?

Speaker 5 (36:20):
What's up? Good?

Speaker 10 (36:21):
What a great topic.

Speaker 9 (36:23):
Listen.

Speaker 10 (36:24):
I just recently got into skeet shooting and and oh
my gosh, is that a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
Yes.

Speaker 10 (36:30):
And I've done it through through fundraisers through my kids.
My children's school does an annual fundraiser at out at Meadowood,
and I've done it with the Ronald House here locally,
and and since then, me and buddies have gotten into
it and it is just as it's a blast literally

(36:54):
but yeah, it's a blast. So my call in today
was a suggestion, if you guys went with one of
the one of the charities at WBT Sports, why don't
you guys host a charity play tournament, get some sponsors
and Beth, I would love to come shooting with you
so we can be on a team together. I'll pick

(37:15):
up your slack a little bit. And it's so much
fun and you raise great money you do sponsorships and
you know everybody will pay the way, and I bet
there are a ton of your your audience out there.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
That would be into this.

Speaker 5 (37:30):
Well at the last thirty minutes, is any indication we
just started talking about these these workplace activities and then
everybody started chiming in about the skeet shooting and shooting
and shooting ranges in general ranges. Yeah, that's well.

Speaker 10 (37:43):
I will tell you I have a coworker that has
a very stressful job and when we I have a
membership at one of the ranges down in South Boulevard
and and I have told her that went between stressful meetings,
meet me over there half an hour. Let off some stress.
And go back to work, and you know, and what

(38:04):
a great way have a little fun, de stress a
little bit, and you know, enjoy your day well.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
And while you're there, you end up learning gun safety.
You learn the proper way to hold a firearm. I
had never until I went to Hyatt Farms. I had
actually never done skeat shooting. I had never done target shooting.
And they took me around to every one of their
little shooting locations and taught me how to properly do it.
And I was blown blown away. I was actually amazed

(38:31):
by the entire process, but had so much fun skeat shooting.
I had never done it. I had no idea how
amazing it was, so so.

Speaker 10 (38:39):
Empowerment and empowering and confident building. I took my son
this summer for the first time. He'd never shot a gun,
and his very first shot he hit a clay, and
seeing the confidence and the look on his face of
how much he accomplished was was just it was. It
was wonderful.

Speaker 5 (38:57):
Well Mark, you have planted an idea here.

Speaker 10 (39:00):
You know, the annual WBT charity play shoot it's coming.

Speaker 5 (39:06):
I mean, if we if we can go do a
show on a balcony at the beach. We can go
do what you just said.

Speaker 10 (39:12):
I mean, come on, absolutely, pick your sales team on it.
They'll be all over it.

Speaker 5 (39:15):
All right, Mark, good call man, Thank you, great idea.
All right, off, he goes. You know, we're talking about
these activities and how sometimes the process of going on
an excursion or going somewhere to do something with someone
who stresses you already, like that's just going to add
stress on top of it. This is the kind of
thing where you go and maybe it's you know, as

(39:36):
a group, but you're not there to you know, you're
not there with the express purpose of interacting with the
person you're already getting annoyed by. You're actually going there
and blowing off steam. And then maybe you go back
to work and you have a better probability of getting
along with that person well.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
And when you get that person outside of the work
environment and you're not dealing with whatever it is that
you deal with, maybe they don't do spreadsheets right, or
maybe they're terrible at presentations or whatever. But you go
out to you know, higatt forum, shooting range, and you
start talking about something else you might find like, wow, Marge,

(40:13):
here is delightful, and I had no idea.

Speaker 5 (40:15):
Maybe there's a reason she's so bad at spreadsheets.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Right, maybe she's not meant to be doing spreadsheets.

Speaker 5 (40:20):
Or I mean, when you go to these places, I
know you can shoot to the clay, but you could
also they have paper targets, right, you could shoot the
spreadsheet that you could shoot Marge's spreadsheets, Yes, her spreadsheet.
Good borrow Laura, Laura Dicks.

Speaker 3 (40:35):
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Speaker 5 (40:42):
Coming up at eight oh five, your chance to win
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Speaker 3 (40:50):
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Speaker 1 (41:15):
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Speaker 5 (41:17):
I have. I added to the I added to the
arsenal last night. I got some on here that you
probably weren't even thinking about, and some that you did
because Beth like spit out immediately like fifty. But we'll
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(41:41):
Doing it this week as the contest is Saturday night.
It's what we call a flash contest. You win the
tickets today and you go to the concert this weekend.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
That's so fun, great date night.

Speaker 5 (41:50):
We've been talking about your office and do you go
on these excursions that a lot of times the boss
will come up with to a team build and that
can be a lot of different things. I mean, we
started off talking about sleepovers, believe it or not, but
it's kind of morphed into so many people wanting to

(42:11):
talk about going to gun ranges.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
Yeah, this is apparently a huge team building thing. Going
to the gun ranges, places like Carolina Sporting Arms on
South Boulevard or also axe throwing seems to be a
big team building. But I want to put the exclamation
point on this segment, and this all is thanks to
an article in Slate magazine. But Jefferson, I think wins
wins the team team building text messages. Jefferson said, a

(42:37):
friend of mine went on a cruise for a team
building exercise paid for by the boss and a small
group of workers. It was a nightmare, being trapped for
days at sea. It ruined her opinion of cruise ships.
She still works for the same boss who also vowed
never again.

Speaker 5 (42:56):
They now just go out for drinks. Yeah, a cruise
is a bit of a that's an investment time money,
and you're all in a very relatively small space together
for like Jefferson said, days on end. I mean, really,
a cruise is one giant escape room that you can't escape, right,
There's no escaping.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
It doesn't matter how many puzzles you saw for each bo.

Speaker 5 (43:19):
I mean, I went on a cruise. I've only been
on one in my entire life, and I actually enjoyed it.
Other members of my family not so much.

Speaker 8 (43:27):
I went on a Disney cruise when I was much younger,
like nineteen ninety nine, and it was a great time
for me, but I'm sure my parents were.

Speaker 5 (43:33):
Here's one of my lasting memories pulling into port and
it was cool because we went to the Bahamas, but
we pulled into the port in Nassau and we were
on the little deck on our ship, and then a
Disney cruise pulled up beside us, and I realized how
much bigger that ship was. Well, you guys knew it.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
I worked on a cruise ship, so I was stuck
at sea for months on end because it was my job.
And I also bo had a similar experience pulling a
support with other ships around. Thinking, man, I started calling
my ship the SS tugboat.

Speaker 5 (44:06):
Yeah, I mean, that's not far off what I'm talking about.
I mean, here I am or like this little tiny
I mean you're thinking, oh, this is kind of cool,
got a little balcony outside my window, and then all
of a sudden, like this humongous Oh yeah, I mean
it was as big as the Titanic.

Speaker 1 (44:19):
Well, they're gorgeous, and some of the ships are gorgeous.
I I my ship not gorgeous. And also because when
you work on the ship, you basically live in the
bottom of the ship, so you know, I was underwater
at night pretty much. I think my room was down
just in the.

Speaker 5 (44:34):
Hole under the poop deck. And my kids were young,
I mean my kids were younger, and so we're sitting
there on the balcony and the Disney ship pulls in
and it's got like water slides that come out like
protrude from the side and.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
I'm sorry, okay, so I've seen these. Does that scare
anybody else?

Speaker 5 (44:53):
There are some massive mega ships and I'm like, I
would never get on that.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
But you have like rides that swing you out like
a swing will go no, no no.

Speaker 5 (45:00):
I was like, that is very cool, and my son
was having me going wow. And on our ship there
was like a there was a putt putt range that
was open that was up there, but it was closed
the whole time because the weather was bad.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
Oh oh, that's too bad. On the ship that I
worked on, I had to when I wasn't doing the show,
I had to put on like this little you know,
like the little khaki shorts and a little golf tee
and do pool games. But our pool, the pool for
the whole ship was like the size of someone's hot tub.

Speaker 5 (45:28):
Oh that's another thing. That's another thing that we You know,
when you watch the Love Boat or when you when
you watch those commercials, you know the old Carnival with
Kathy Lee Gifford. Yes, you think it's got an Olympic
sized pool, and then you get on the you get
on board and you realize that it's like smaller than
your tub. Yes, and they're like twenty four people in it,
like they would never do that on land, but because

(45:50):
you're on a boat and it's the size of a tub,
they're like, hey, let's all get in at once.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
And it's like people's soup.

Speaker 5 (45:55):
Don't even need to heat the water, lill soup, seven
forty people soup.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
This is good morning, Beat.

Speaker 17 (46:02):
I have a radical idea.

Speaker 5 (46:04):
And the door swings both ways.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
We could reverse the particle clow through the game.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
How we'll cross the streets.

Speaker 3 (46:15):
He's welcome, Brett Quitterble.

Speaker 5 (46:19):
We know each other. He's a friend from work. All right,
it's that time of the week. We check in with
our good friend Brett Winterble from the Brett Winterble Show
every weekday afternoon here on the Great Colossus, three till
six pm. A lot going on in the world. Good
time to check in. How you doing, my friend? Oh,

(46:40):
everything's great.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (46:41):
I mean if you and I were talking on your
show yesterday afternoon about where this is all going with
President Trump and of course the initial meeting with Putin
last Friday, and then of course you had Monday all
the representatives at the White House, including Zelenski, and now
we're kind of at that point where we're waiting to
see how Putin reacts to all of this. I mean,

(47:03):
it has been one of the more measured activities I've
ever seen President Trump carry out on this level. And
I was telling you yesterday. You asked me what I thought,
and I said, well, you know, this is the kind
of place where you need that mode, and we've seen
President Trump demonstrate it at times, and I feel like
at least the pacing of this is going the way

(47:24):
that you would want it to go.

Speaker 18 (47:26):
Yeah, And one of the things that should not be
overlooked is the fact that Putin is pretty much isolated.
He doesn't have a lot of friends and folks like
that out there other than you know, like Lukashenko and
people like that that really don't rate. And so President
Trump's done a really good job keeping together all of

(47:47):
these cats that are, you know, running around the world.
And I think it's I think it's been very very
successful so far, and I think he's been measured, and
I think there's going to be a good outcome at
the end.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
Of this, you know they are now it seems that
a meeting will happen between Putin and Zelensky with then
Trump involved. One of the really fascinating things that is
happening right now is trying to find a location to
have this actual meeting because of an ICC warrant for
Putin's arrest on war crimes charges, and there are several

(48:23):
places around the world that Putin actually can't go too,
so they're looking for places like I think Budapest is
one of them. Geneva, Switzerland could be one of them.
But I'm sure the ICC is probably thinking, you know,
he was on American soil.

Speaker 18 (48:39):
Yeah, you know, we could we could be on the
United you know, you could have that meeting in the
United States as well. We could go back to Alaska.
Nobody's going to go and arrest Vladimir Putin because if
they arrest Vladimir Putin, this whole thing comes apart. And Zelenski,
as much as he hates Vladimir Putin, he needs to
get this deal on and it's unfortunate that it has

(49:04):
come this far. But I think that they're just gonna
have to consummate this thing and figure out how how
it is, we're going to get this thing under control
and what it's going to look like moving forward.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
Were you surprised on Monday, after President Trump's meeting with
Zelensky that Putin launched two hundred and seventy drones and
attacked an apartment building and killed a one year old
after that conversation with Donald Trump on Friday.

Speaker 18 (49:28):
No, Vladimir Putin is a savage, He's an awful human being.
He's he's in many ways, I think he's he's cornered
like a rat. And you don't do deals with people.
You don't do deals like this with people.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
Who are nice.

Speaker 18 (49:48):
And unfortunately that that's what's going to end up happening.
And you have to you have to cut the deal.
You have to do these things, and that's what President
Trump is trying to effort.

Speaker 5 (49:59):
To that point, what's your concern level about something out
of left field, something unexpected, because so far, you know,
Putin has you know, aesthetically speaking, just watching from the
outside looking in, things have gone quote unquote, Well, do
you think there's going to be a curveball in this
mix before it's before the deal is done, if it

(50:20):
gets done. I mean, I look when you look at
the world.

Speaker 18 (50:23):
As it is today, right, you could have like, I'll
kinda do a terrible attack or something like that could happen.
But I think this is everybody's on board with getting
this thing done, and I can't I can't expect. I
don't expect that Putin's going to do anything to crash this.
I don't I know, I don't think Selenski's going to

(50:43):
try to crash this either. So I think this is
they're going to just try to get to this deal,
get this thing under control, and then move on with
a lot of other stuff. I think the President has
done a wonderful job working with these European leaders, and
you know, I mean for somebody who was an ice
Steo air quotes, it's it's been very very effective.

Speaker 5 (51:04):
So what is coming up on the Brett Winterbill Show today?

Speaker 18 (51:08):
So we're gonna have a couple of guests coming by
talking about foreign policy, uh Nan Howorth and a couple
of other people. We're gonna break all that stuff down,
and we're also going to be looking at what comes
next because think about the contracting and all the stuff
that's going to have to happen to rebuild Ukraine. I
think that is going to be the fascinating story. And

(51:31):
I think this is why you've got all of these
European capitals kind of looking at this and saying, Okay,
how can we not just make sure that the buildings
are rebuilt, but maybe in a strategic, you know, method
to slow down the attack it should it ever come again.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
Well, and I'm sure that that people are looking at
this as a financial opportunity, you know, as well, and
it's certainly relationship building.

Speaker 18 (51:58):
Yeah, that now that is true. And you know, they
are going to have to build all the infrastructure that
you would have to go and replace, right, whether it's pipes,
whether it's buildings, whether it's any of that sort of stuff.
And they're going to have to also strap up again
to make sure that Putin doesn't come knocking at the door.
So this is going to be a very interesting thing

(52:19):
because it's going to be like we're negotiating for a
deal to end a war, but we're also at the
same time going to try to build back up and
see how it goes a lot of shades of like
nineteen thirty eight, and let's hope that we don't end
up in that situation again. Because I think it would
be terrible, and I think if Putin acts like a rat,

(52:40):
President Trump is probably not going to want to do
another deal with them ever again, and it's going to
be over all right.

Speaker 5 (52:45):
Well, a lot to watch and keep track of and
stay with WBT throughout the day because each of one
of our shows are connected to the latest breaking news.
So we appreciate talking to you. Well, hear you later
on today, enjoy the sleepover. Yes we're plotting this now,
but see you may be part of it.

Speaker 1 (53:03):
So yeah, we're gonna drag you along with us, no way.

Speaker 5 (53:06):
Yeah, but not Bread Jensen. Sorry, that's where it's at.
We have serious problems to solve and we need serious
people to solve them.

Speaker 3 (53:13):
You cannot be serious. From News Talk eleven ten and
ninety nine three w BT Beth Troutman, She's looking out
for you. You always know when you listen to both.
This is Good Morning Beat with Bo Thompson and Beth Troutman.
Flock at you. You written what's your name? Dude?

Speaker 1 (53:34):
My name is the name?

Speaker 13 (53:36):
Name?

Speaker 1 (53:38):
Stupid name is it?

Speaker 3 (53:45):
That's her name? I'm not long teonname all right?

Speaker 5 (53:53):
Round two of our big contest for Toad the Wet
Sprocket tickets. They are coming to the AMP Valentine on
Saturday night with sixpence none the richer and KT Tunstall.
All you gotta do is name that band from the
nineties with the weird name. There are lots of them.
There are so many, I think all of the nineties
bands seven oh four, five, seven oh eleven, ten. If

(54:16):
you want to get on board and play this game,
we had a great deal of fun with this yesterday,
much thanks to crash test dummies.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
Oh holy moly.

Speaker 5 (54:24):
And while I'm waiting for the lions to populate here
because I know the Toad is in big demand.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
Toad the wet Sprocket.

Speaker 5 (54:31):
How about a little casey case.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
K cites time.

Speaker 5 (54:37):
I'm Ksey Cason. These are the week's biggest hits from
forty to number one, and we're calmed them down and
soaring ten notches to number nineteen. Is the latest big
hit from the Santa Barbara, California band, Toad the wet Sprocket.
Here's something that's always long day.

Speaker 3 (54:56):
I'll call speed you.

Speaker 5 (55:00):
Let's see forgot about this one, didn't you? I did
this change Dot.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
Gave me.

Speaker 5 (55:10):
Much show for everything. Leave the lines, Cat you.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
See sweet and spaces and.

Speaker 5 (55:32):
Change, good morning.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
You're always said.

Speaker 5 (55:42):
Something so word, but it's very right to go to
line number two and welcome David to the show. Hi David, Hi,
what's going on? You know why you're calling?

Speaker 10 (55:57):
Right?

Speaker 16 (55:59):
Yeah? You know I through the nineties, so hopefully all recognize.

Speaker 1 (56:03):
Oh we think you will, David. We're here for it,
all right.

Speaker 5 (56:07):
Every once in a while somebody calls and it kind
of sounds like that we've called them. I just want
to make sure David's locked in, all right, David, you
get a name. Two bands from the nineties with weird names.
Here is band number one.

Speaker 3 (56:21):
You okay, you have change?

Speaker 12 (56:22):
You okay, okay, trying to see you okay you wait,
sit No, Danny to Bobby, let's see it.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
And then you're right to the bag.

Speaker 5 (56:36):
You are struck down from shopping.

Speaker 12 (56:39):
You okay, you okay, Okay, Daddy, You're okay you okay
you ok Addy?

Speaker 3 (56:47):
You okay, you have change?

Speaker 12 (56:49):
You ok Yanny Subna been struck back Smookova.

Speaker 5 (56:55):
I love this version.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
I hate this.

Speaker 1 (56:57):
Oh, I love it. But I've always wondered Michael Jackson.
These guys are they sing Eddie or Annie Annie, and
it's Annie Annie.

Speaker 5 (57:04):
Okay, Well you can't understand that anyone, Okay, David, David,
who is singing that version of Smooth Criminal?

Speaker 16 (57:12):
Come on, David, Well you know, I mean it sounds
like Michael Jackson's speed Up at seventy eight rpm. So
I don't know that particular band, David.

Speaker 5 (57:25):
Sorry, David, you know, I just want to Bernie. I
need to do this, play the real version.

Speaker 13 (57:31):
I like that.

Speaker 5 (57:32):
I mean all the songs that didn't need a remake.

Speaker 1 (57:34):
Oh, I like it.

Speaker 5 (57:35):
This is the song as perfect.

Speaker 3 (57:36):
As it is.

Speaker 1 (57:37):
Yeah, it's a great kickboxing song.

Speaker 5 (57:39):
Yeah by Michael Jackson.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
No, No, because the speed up version it's raw.

Speaker 19 (57:44):
Man.

Speaker 5 (57:44):
They just don't mess with Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson does
Michael Jackson. It's like the Fallout Boys that did the
other Yeah Ghostbusters. They're not Ray Parker Jr.

Speaker 15 (57:53):
No.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
But they also did the Michael Jackson song.

Speaker 5 (57:56):
And they also did the Billy Joel song and they
messed that up too. Oh boy, All right back, come
back to outdown. But I'm so upset I am, and
nobody even nothing even happened yet. Jay is online Number one. Jay,
How you doing my friend.

Speaker 9 (58:16):
Good morning.

Speaker 17 (58:16):
How are you doing doing well?

Speaker 1 (58:18):
Good morning, Jay?

Speaker 5 (58:19):
Great boys. All right, Jay, here is the eighties of
the nineties band the nineties band because Michael Jackson from
the eighties the nineties band that has a weird name. Okay, okay, okay,
that's no who is that? Jay?

Speaker 14 (58:40):
Well?

Speaker 7 (58:40):
After yesterday, I don't think it's the by hole of surfers.

Speaker 5 (58:44):
Yes, yeah, I love it. I say what you're doing.
I see what you're doing, and I love it. I'm
tracking with you today, Jay. All right, So you're halfway
there because of alien Ant Farm.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
I am so happy to be talking to Jay right now.

Speaker 5 (59:01):
Oh my goodness. All right, Jay, Bernie, let's see. Let
me give him. How about number twelve?

Speaker 3 (59:08):
Got it?

Speaker 5 (59:09):
All right, Jay, you've got alien Ant Farm. Tell me
who this is?

Speaker 13 (59:15):
So show I forgot this song?

Speaker 6 (59:23):
My clothes?

Speaker 13 (59:27):
Sure song?

Speaker 5 (59:29):
Please spoken lies you? Okay, Jay?

Speaker 9 (59:39):
Do you know?

Speaker 5 (59:40):
I hope you do, because that would just make this
all perfect.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
Oh this is a tough one.

Speaker 1 (59:48):
God wee can do you need to hear it again?

Speaker 3 (59:52):
Well?

Speaker 2 (59:52):
Yeah, if you could play it one more time?

Speaker 5 (59:53):
Yeah, there you go. Here it comes.

Speaker 3 (59:59):
So so it shows?

Speaker 17 (01:00:04):
All right, Jay, I'm gonna try mud honey.

Speaker 5 (01:00:16):
That's a good guess. It's a good guess, but it's
not the correct answer. I'm sorry, all right, man, all
right too.

Speaker 1 (01:00:24):
I feel like he was so close because he kind of.

Speaker 5 (01:00:28):
I thought about giving it to him because of that, and.

Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
Right because and isn't the song? Isn't it a weird name?
Like it doesn't have really anything to do with a
It's like a condiment or like a like a season.

Speaker 5 (01:00:40):
You mean you mean it's a song with a title
that it never says in the song. Yes, yeah it is?

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
Yes, so is it?

Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
Does it?

Speaker 19 (01:00:47):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
Because the song makes you sneeze.

Speaker 5 (01:00:50):
I could have given him a hint and say, we
really like saying the name of this band.

Speaker 1 (01:00:53):
I know, and he I can't give it away, but
I don't do it. I don't know, I know, I know,
I know.

Speaker 5 (01:01:00):
Stay on your surfboard, I know.

Speaker 13 (01:01:03):
Morning, Yes, down by the ground, swing, I've done, tame time,
bring your fallen hot, will take the chair, my don

(01:01:23):
your father's maright.

Speaker 5 (01:01:30):
We're not going to kiss you, but we're gonna give
you some tickets.

Speaker 3 (01:01:32):
Hopefully.

Speaker 5 (01:01:34):
What you do with the show is your own business.
That's good. Let's go to Donnie Donny be on the
backup drug free. So put the crack up, Donnie. Welcome
to Good Morning BT. All right, good morning, hey, Donnie.

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
You got quite the intro there from when Bear Tom said.

Speaker 13 (01:01:52):
I guess.

Speaker 5 (01:01:54):
Just just go with it, Donnie. Donnie, are you ready
to play our game? Yeah? All right, Donnie, this is
on the board right now. Show All right, Donnie, what

(01:02:17):
what band from the nineties is that that has a
weird name?

Speaker 6 (01:02:20):
I think it was as ironic as the last guy
I missed it, so I'm pretty sure it's the Butthole.

Speaker 5 (01:02:25):
Ser sir, that's right way to go? Where to go?
See see? You gotta pay attention on this show.

Speaker 1 (01:02:33):
Did you ever think you would call into a radio
station Donnie and say those words together?

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
Absolutely not.

Speaker 19 (01:02:40):
I love it.

Speaker 5 (01:02:41):
All right, let's go with I'm gonna change it, Bernie.
Let's go to thirteen, all right, Donnie. Number thirteen off
our board is the song that could win you the tickets?
Here we go, see this is this is today's song

(01:03:11):
that's gonna stick in your head all day. This is
a tough one.

Speaker 11 (01:03:17):
You played one more tile?

Speaker 5 (01:03:18):
Yeah, here we go. Actually, I like I like re
racking at there, Bernie, because I love the hook on
this song. So let's go back and ready scene. She
doesn't like me, oh my goodness, but she sure likes
the trumping. Beth just figured out what the words of

(01:03:45):
the song were.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
I just now remembered.

Speaker 10 (01:03:47):
All right, Donnie, Yeah, I'm dress drawing a blank. I've
known every other band.

Speaker 3 (01:03:53):
I feel one.

Speaker 5 (01:03:54):
Is that one too far out there? You think it is?

Speaker 10 (01:03:57):
That one's pretty far?

Speaker 4 (01:03:57):
All right?

Speaker 6 (01:03:58):
You know what?

Speaker 5 (01:03:58):
Remember that one? They have a number too?

Speaker 16 (01:04:00):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:04:01):
It's also, isn't it like there isn't there a fish
dish in like Norway? That's similar?

Speaker 5 (01:04:10):
You're telling me something I don't know. I'm gonna I'm
going to retire that one. It's, of course, as everyone knows,
dead eyed Dick.

Speaker 1 (01:04:18):
So I was thinking spotted Dick. I was thinking, spotted
Dick is a fish.

Speaker 5 (01:04:22):
Let's move let's move off this, all right, suggestion, Donnie?
That was not Donnie. I'm gonna give you a different
one now, this one, This one should be easy. This
is number two, right, Bernie, Donnie for the tickets. Here
we go.

Speaker 12 (01:04:38):
Step outside and not take a Then I can.

Speaker 5 (01:04:45):
Donnie, well done? See see I can be charitable.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
Look at him, he must he must really like you, Donnie.
He likes you for the fact that you called in
and said, I can't even say the band's name.

Speaker 5 (01:04:58):
And yeah, I know, I realized when i've I realized
when i've I've gone a little too far. But but
then we started the contest yesterday and what's your name was?
Joj went surf.

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
I love that everybody keep saying it. I'm the only
one who hasn't been able to say it yet.

Speaker 5 (01:05:12):
All right, Donnie, congratulations, hope you enjoyed the show.

Speaker 11 (01:05:16):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:05:16):
All right, I put you on hold for Ster Steven
of Anthony's He's.

Speaker 1 (01:05:20):
Right that the Mary Moon song because of what was
it dumb and dummer that it was in. It was
such a popular song. But I don't know that a
lot of people know the name of the band.

Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
I did not know that.

Speaker 5 (01:05:31):
Yeah, if you further examine like ninety percent of these
songs and what they really say, I mean, you know,
it's pretty uh dear Tay. The nineties were weird, man,
they were a weird time.

Speaker 1 (01:05:45):
The nineties were weird. But guys, the fashion is back.
The nineties fashion is back. Birkenstocks, Doc Martin's baggy stove
pipe jeans of.

Speaker 5 (01:05:56):
Course, we're talking about how like Edgy the nineties were
while I'm play in the background, probably the most innocuous
song of the nineties and.

Speaker 1 (01:06:03):
Not Edgy at all. No, just kiss me and take
me out to the roast.

Speaker 5 (01:06:06):
This song has no edges, none sixpence None the Richer.
They launched a station on this song, essentially one oh
seven point nine the link back in the day.

Speaker 1 (01:06:18):
Did they did sixpence? None the Richer have another song
that anyone knows? Did we know a lot more about?

Speaker 5 (01:06:24):
Apparently not, because they were None the Richer. You're going
to change your name or we'll played though, Thank you,
thank you. I'll be performing on stage.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
Before the concert on setids your stand up.

Speaker 5 (01:06:39):
Yeah, that's great.

Speaker 1 (01:06:40):
I'm looking to see None the Richer. Oh look kiss me?

Speaker 5 (01:06:47):
Yeah, there she goes there. Oh yeah, that's right. That's right,
there she goes.

Speaker 12 (01:06:53):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:06:53):
Is it the same same little tone?

Speaker 5 (01:06:55):
You sound just like her.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
I'll be performing right before the boat.

Speaker 5 (01:07:00):
Yes, okay. So that wraps up today's edition of Name
That Ban with a Weird Name from the nineties For
Toad the Wet Sprocket tickets. We'll go to the natural
next thing after a contest like this Scott Huffman. Scott
Huffman is next, Yes, from Winthrop University. We have more
tickets to give away tomorrow. We've got Emily Ratliff coming
up next hour as well. Busy Wednesday morning. This is

(01:07:23):
Good Morning BET, eight thirty seven on WBT on your Wednesday,
August twentieth. Time to head to the WBT hotline and
welcome as we do on Wednesdays, and we so appreciate
him coming on with us talk about all things politics.
Political science professor at Winthrop University, Scott Huffman is with us.

Speaker 3 (01:07:44):
Good morning, sir, Good morning of y'all are well we are.

Speaker 5 (01:07:48):
I'm glad to have you here, and I think we're
going to start at the obvious place when it comes
to world politics. Let's go back to Friday for starters,
and then we'll get to Monday and where we are
right now. But as you watched Friday afternoon the meeting
between President Trump and Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, what were
your takeaways from that from that day?

Speaker 2 (01:08:10):
Well, you know, the whole thing, the way it was
arranged was kind of different from the norm. But Trump
is a very different from the norm. President. He had
gone into it saying things like, you know, he would
want to demand a ceasefire, he would put serious sanctions
on Russia. And when he came out of it, he
was much more in line with Russia's position of you know,

(01:08:33):
not demanding a ceasefire, no longer talking about sanctions. So
Russia actually came out of that with a propaganda win.
There's just there's no other way on the world stage
to put that. But that was a propaganda win for Russia. Now,
when the European Union leaders came, things went a lot

(01:08:53):
more smoothly than they have in the past. You'll remember
President Zelensky from Ukraine being criticized before for the way
he was dressed. He dresses in military uniform because he
doesn't want to see the people who are fighting for
their lives see their leader all dressed up fancy. So
he's never really done that. But he came in a suit.

(01:09:13):
There was a lot more talk. People knew how to
talk to Trump. They start off with flattery, they go
with the positions he wants. The problem is we're not
seeing strict insistence on ceasefire before the bligerents get to
the table. So Russia invaded, they're going to want territory

(01:09:37):
from the Ukraine while battles are going on and people
are dying. Usually that's not the way these things go
in the modern era. So whether or not there's going
to be a ceasefire before there are direct talks between
Ukraine and Russia with President Trump mediating, of course, that's yet.

Speaker 16 (01:09:59):
To be Well.

Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
You know, I keep pointing out that on Monday, as
Donald Trump is meeting with European Union leaders and with
President Zelenski, Russia launched an attack on Ukraine and killed civilians,
including two children. And to me, I was wondering, as
a political scientist if you thought that that was just
a defiance on the part of Putin, just saying, Hey,

(01:10:24):
I don't like that you're meeting with these people. I'm
going to continue being the aggressor in this scenario. And
if Russia does get some of the land concessions that
he wants, do you as a political science see Whispers
of nineteen thirties and forties Germany.

Speaker 2 (01:10:44):
Well, you know, Trump came away from the Friday meeting thing.
You know, listen, Putin's just tired of the war, and
then immediately Putin launches very active attack. As you mentioned,
in Ukraine. So obviously we never and should never take
anything Putin says, not only hit face values, we just

(01:11:04):
shouldn't take it as true. A lot of the things
that Putin wants is a line of control that would
really break the ability of Maine, you know, central and
Western Europe from protecting from any type of invasion. It
would really weaken that from a standpoint of strategy. And

(01:11:26):
so he wants that amount of territory. The European Union,
even if they say, okay, we'll give up territory, don't
want it at that line. You know, I don't know.
The CRIMEA is probably never coming back to Ukraine. I
you know, I don't know. The other thing is he
wants security assurances that Ukraine will never join NATO. Well,

(01:11:48):
you know, if you go back to the fall of
the Soviet Union, Russia said we will always protect Ukraine,
we will never invade Ukraine if Ukraine will just give
up its nuclear weapons because remember us, when the Soviet
Union fell, Ukraine hadn't there were nuclear weapons there. So
that was the promise that was given back then.

Speaker 1 (01:12:05):
Right, That's one of the history pieces people don't now.

Speaker 2 (01:12:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:12:09):
Talking to Scott Huffman from Winthrop University here on WBT. Now,
you were talking about Trump as the mediator, and of
course now we're waiting to see what this meeting looks
like if it does indeed happen between Zelenski and Putin
and possibly Trump as the third member there of the
Trilat last night, Mark Levin has a radio show. It

(01:12:31):
was on WBT late last night. He had President Trump
on as a guest. I want to play a clip
from that.

Speaker 19 (01:12:36):
We're going to try and stop it, and I think
we have a good shot. I had a very successful
meeting with President Putin. I had a very successful meeting
with President Zelenski, and now I thought it would be
better if they met without me, just to see. I
want to see what goes on. You know, they had
a hard relationship, very bad, very bad relationship. And now

(01:12:59):
we'll see how they do and if necessary, and it
probably would be but if necessary, I'll go and I'll
probably be able to get it closed. I just want
to see what happens at the meeting. So they're in
the process of setting it up and we're going to
see what happens. But you got to stop the killing.
Market's too much killing. I don't care. You know, you
don't have to be We're not again, nobody from America

(01:13:22):
is being killed.

Speaker 3 (01:13:23):
We're not being killed.

Speaker 19 (01:13:24):
The United States soldiers aren't involved were We have no
boots on the ground.

Speaker 5 (01:13:30):
So he is, at least initially here saying he's going
to sit back and watch them hopefully meet, and then
get involved if he needs to. My question for you
is A do you think the meeting will actually happen?
And B do you think that Trump will end up
being involved in the long run?

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
Well, we're involved one way or the other. I mean,
it's similar to the relationship between Indian Pakistan. Very recently
and Indian Pakistan came close to yet another war. Trump
actually claimed credit just in the past few days for
having ended that war. He didn't sit down at the
table with anybody, but we were part of the talks

(01:14:09):
and they worked it out, so we were present in
the room even though there was not a physical presence,
And the same is going to be true here. I
think in the end, I don't know how much can
be accomplished with literally just Zelenski and Putin in a
room while you know, Putin is still hammering away at Ukraine.

(01:14:30):
You know again, what the final deal looks like. I
don't know. You know, we Trump had, of course campaigned
on I'll end it on day one. I don't you know.
Everybody knew that was a bit of hyperbole, but everybody
kind of expected him to work very hard to bring
the belligerents to the table. It looks like they may
come to the table, but the circumstances right now are

(01:14:52):
very favorable towards putin, especially if there's not a ceasefire
in place before they sit down.

Speaker 1 (01:14:59):
One of the things that I wanted to get your
take on this morning is what's going on in Washington,
d C. And President Trump's decision for the National Guard
to take control of what's going on on the streets there,
and for Trump's attempt to take control of the police
force there in Washington, d C. What do you make
of this move and what do you think the actual

(01:15:21):
long term goal is, given that there are cities across
the nation that have higher crime rates than d C.

Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
Right well, the violent crime rate in d C is
at a thirty year all time low, but there was
a high profile crime, you know, attempted crime where a
you know, a nineteen year old kid who'd worked with
Doge was apparently leaving a bar something at three in
the morning. So that high profile crime really got everybody's attention,

(01:15:50):
even though the crime rate in DC has been dropping.
And you know, the symbolism of the dangerous city has
worked well for Trump and it worked well for Trumps supporters.
So the idea that Trump's going to you know, be
the White Knights and in the cavalry and clean things up,
that looks really good for the image he's trying to portray.

(01:16:14):
He can do that easily and quickly in Washington, d C.
Because it's the federal territory. Now I only ask thirty
days that he can do it before Congress has to
weigh in. But this can set the stage for him
to be able to do it in other cities across
the country.

Speaker 13 (01:16:30):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:16:31):
You know, normally it would take the governor to ask
for the National Guard, but we see that didn't happen
in Los Angeles not so long ago, So again, I
think it's sort of testing the waters. If the National
Guard gets police abilities, the ability to arrest, that would
be in violation of the Posse Comittatis Act, So that

(01:16:51):
would definitely go before the courts. But you do see
them walking around with zip ties on their backpacks. The
idea is, Okay, what are the zip ties for. It's
there if they're rushed, are they going to be doing policing.
So it's really kind of both testing the waters to
see what might fly if he does this in other cities,

(01:17:12):
and a sort of show of force to a supporter
saying this is what I said I was going to do.
This is what I'm doing.

Speaker 5 (01:17:20):
You know, it's been a hallmark of his second term
so far to almost just keep the uh. I mean,
there are any number of sort of I mean change
change agents that he's trying to put out there in
the in the in the atmosphere. I mean, I'm going
to read you this one. Mail in ballots are corrupt.

(01:17:40):
Mail in ballots. You can never have a real democracy
with mail in ballots, and we as the Republican Party,
are going to do everything possible that we get rid
of mail in ballots. He says, We're going to start
with an executive order that's being written right now by
the best lawyers in the country to end mail in
ballots because they are corrupt. Unquote. That's from the president.
And what I mean is you know, sort of flooding

(01:18:01):
the marketplace with these sort of revolutionary change ideas that
may or may not happen, but he is. These executive
orders are piling up by now what about this idea
that he could change the way we vote.

Speaker 2 (01:18:14):
Well, you know, again we're not talking about Epstein because
of things like this. But as far as ending mail
in ballots, that is up to the states. The Constitution
gives the states the ability to determine how elections are
played out, so this would take more than a simple
executive order. The interesting thing is, for decades and decades,

(01:18:36):
the mail in ballots favored conservatives because it was a
lot of older folks, more conservative folks who are using
the mail in ballots. It wasn't until Trump and the
Republicans started pushing the narrative that mail in ballots weren't
to be trusted. After Trump lost the popular vote in
twenty sixteen, although he won the presidency, that you start

(01:18:59):
seeing the lines in the use of mail in ballots
by people who were favorable to the Republican Party. So
you've seen you know, I looked at the North Carolina
in numbers actually two days ago on this, so you
see a decline in the number of registered Republicans who
had asked for mail in ballot, but over decades they
had the older white Republicans in North Carolina had been

(01:19:23):
the ones asking for mail in ballots, and that's getting
less and less. But mail in ballots have been traditionally
very safe. It's up to the states to determine this.
An executive order can't change it, and it is keeping
attention away from certain areas where maybe Trump doesn't want
that attention.

Speaker 6 (01:19:40):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:19:40):
One of the things he's been criticism criticized about is
the fact that this became more of a forefront topic
of conversation because Vladimir Putin brought it up on Friday,
and then there was a conversation that was had about
how other countries don't have mail in voting, which is
not true because there are multiple countries around the world

(01:20:01):
that do utilize a male system for voting.

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
Well, you know, there are a lot of countries that
do mail in. There are other countries that do automatic registration.
The millisecond you turn eighteen, you are registered to vote,
and that increases their participation. We don't do that, again,
because the Constitution says it's up to the States to
determine how to do that, it would take an amendment

(01:20:27):
other things. For example, in Australia, it's literally illegal to
not vote. You get a fine if you don't vote.
So there are places where turnout looks like it's ninety percent.
Well that's because they get a fine if they don't
turn out. So yeah, there are a lot of things
in other countries that we could be doing. Picking and
choosing in ways that you think will help your side.

(01:20:50):
You know, I think comes across as a little bit
you know, transparent as to what you're trying to do.
But the truth is, in democracies around the world, real democracies,
fax democracy, there are all types of ways and they
do mail in elsewhere. There are things we don't do
that have proven to participation elsewhere, like automatic registration. So again,

(01:21:14):
you know, if somebody criticizes something to Trump, like you
know Putin does, that definitely puts it on the forefront
of Trump's radar because he wants to always make the
show of being the strongest on the biggest issues, and
he never wants to show weakness. He's always afraid that
somebody's going to look at him and saying, you know,
you're backing down.

Speaker 5 (01:21:35):
Doctor Scott Huffman joins us once a week here on
Good Morning BT Wednesday mornings, professor of political science at
Winsorb University, also the founder and director of the Center
for Public Opinion and Policy Research. We appreciate your time
as always, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:21:49):
Have a great day you too.

Speaker 5 (01:21:51):
We will continue momentarily on wbtwo. We got Emily Ratlift
from Claire's Army waiting in the wings, get a recap
of the big Saturday Night Army gala, and Teresa Payton
also coming up in our final hour as we roll
on on a humpday six minutes past nine o'clock here
on News Talk eleven ten WBT on your Wednesday. It

(01:22:13):
is August twentieth, just a few days after the ninth
annual Claire's Army Gala, which happened at the Case on
Saturday night. I know because I was there at MCing,
like I have done every year they've done this, and
what a year it was. And we always like to
get the founder of Claire's Army on the air with
us after it's over and sort of take stock of
things and hear about the night. And she is on

(01:22:35):
the WBT hotline right now. Claire's Army founder and Claire's
mom most importantly and good friend to the show, it's
Emily Ratliffe.

Speaker 1 (01:22:43):
How you doing, Emily morning, Good morning though thanks for
having me.

Speaker 5 (01:22:47):
How how are you feeling after, you know, a few
days after the big event?

Speaker 1 (01:22:50):
Have you gotten rest?

Speaker 5 (01:22:51):
Is the big question?

Speaker 13 (01:22:53):
Yes, I have.

Speaker 11 (01:22:54):
I mean, it's it's kind of hard to wind down
from something like that, even though you're you're mentally exhausted,
you know, because the energy is just so so incredible
that night, and whether it's donors who've been of us
forever or you know, volunteers who've served a long time
are brand new, it's just it's such a magical night.
So it's hard to wind down in a certain way.

(01:23:18):
But really really excited to start totaling up all the
different amounts and we still have donations coming in, which
is exciting, but love that we can share. Really the
first update with their radio family.

Speaker 5 (01:23:30):
Well, I was telling Beth and I mentioned a little
bit about you know, there are different portions of the night.
There's the silent auction, there's the live auction. There's a
part that we call fund fund the need of various
things that Claire's Army needs to do throughout the year,
because like I always say, this is the engine. This
is the engine. This event drives what they're able to

(01:23:51):
do and what families you're able to support throughout the
year that are fighting cancer and that are in the
hospital and sort of deer in headlights not knowing what
to do. And the Army surrounds all of those people
with the relationships that you have in the area hospitals.
But just the funding the need part of the other night,
the goal was one hundred thousand dollars to fill up
the heart that they have a heart that if you've

(01:24:13):
not been to it before, we have a big heart
up on the stage that sort of fills up as
as we get donations. And the goal was one hundred
thousand dollars. And then Josh Josh Lowensteiner, the auctioneer, and
I were talking before we started and we said, Okay,
this is the year that Claire would have turned sixteen
years old. This is the sweet sixteen party that we

(01:24:34):
had on Saturday night, and so we said, let's go
for one hundred and sixteen thousand dollars and we hit
that mark. And that's like Emily says, that's not the
total mark for the entire night, but it's a it's
pretty pretty great mark to be able to talk about
for just a portion of the evening there.

Speaker 11 (01:24:50):
Emily, Yes, that was just incredible, the whole moment and
seeing everyone just rally together and watching the names appear
on the screen and it you know, I think someone
was saying on Saturday Night, They're like, gosh, wasn't that
very first year A goal was like twenty thousand dollars
to fill the Heart. I said yes, and they're like,

(01:25:11):
oh my gosh, Like I really, I can't believe how
much it's changed and how much we've grown since that
first year. So to hit one hundred and sixteen and
that one portion of the night was absolutely extraordinary.

Speaker 1 (01:25:22):
So with some of the totals you've been able to
put together since the event on Saturday Night, can you
share some of that update, some of those updated numbers
with us.

Speaker 11 (01:25:31):
Yeah, so we're right around four hundred and one thousand dollars.

Speaker 5 (01:25:35):
Wo wow, that's incredible.

Speaker 11 (01:25:38):
One yeah and one one hundred thousand dollars. So, I mean,
just absolutely incredible. See, the fund of Me with the
Heart was one sixteen and our silent augig was incredible
with about eighty thousand dollars, and we've got sponsorships that
contributed and tickets and tables and everything. So it really

(01:25:59):
is it's, you know, a month or two long campaign
that goes into this, and like both said, it's a
big piece of what we do all year because this
event is a time to bring new people into Claire's Army,
new sponsors. For some diners decide, gosh, I think I
can give more and I want to do more this
year because the needs only continue to grow. So just

(01:26:23):
really overwhelmed with the generosity and passion and excitement of everyone.

Speaker 5 (01:26:27):
That was there that night, and one of the other
things that happens that night. If you're listening and you've
been there, then you know about this, but Emily can
sort of paint the picture, you know. We had the
announcement of the money raised, and then we had a
family that we spotlighted on Saturday night that had been
a recipient of care and attention from Claire's Army, and

(01:26:48):
as we announced the number the one hundred and sixteen
portion of the night, the family and the young man
were out on stage. And it's a great a way
to you know, when you go somewhere and you donate
your time and your funds, you want to be able
to see where it goes. And I mentioned as I
was talking on Saturday night that there have been times
when Emily's been out there and she's been in the

(01:27:09):
middle of two or three instances where families were in
need right then and there. So you know, Claire's Army
cuts out a lot of the red tape and gets
resources to people in real time. And there's another example
of that, a family that you got to know throughout
the process of yet another year of serving families.

Speaker 11 (01:27:27):
That's right. I mean, DJ's family was there and you
know he is very much in active treatment and his mom, Jeanine,
was absolutely i mean adamant about being part of this.
And I'm very sensitive families and don't want them to
feel any pressure to you know, represent or speak on
our behalf because their focus should be on their family.

(01:27:48):
But she was just so persistent about helping in any way,
not only you know, doing an interview for the video,
but being there that night, and you know, she and
her family they are absolutely so just they're part of
the army just as much as anyone and we all
need to continue to think about and pray for DJ
and his family. And we had other patients there as well,

(01:28:10):
some who are in mission, some who were finishing treatment,
and you know, they wanted to be there because they
wanted to kind of see and feel the army, but
also let us know just how thankful they are for
the support that we've given them. And that's that's why
we're here every day twenty four to seven, three sixty five.

Speaker 5 (01:28:28):
Well, we're coming up on year number ten next year.
And look, having had the ability to see each one
of these throughout the years, not only how you know
in Marvel, how they've grown, because I remember the first
one we did. I don't even think I had a microphone.
I was just sort of like talking to you, raising
my voice in the room so people could hear. And
now you know, you go from there to the Fillmore
and then to the to the Marriotte Center City then

(01:28:50):
and now at the at the Casey, which is a
fantastic venue. It's right over next to Channel nine if
you need your bearings on North Tryon Street, but a
great venue. You But I think you know DJ on
Saturday night, if ever there was you know, uh, someone
that was speaking out Claire's legacy. I feel like Claire

(01:29:10):
was speaking through him. That was a kid who was
as articulate as any adult I've ever seen going through treatments.
And what a what an amazing kid to articulate, uh
kind of experiencing that but also imploring other people to
give that was so incredibly meaningful.

Speaker 3 (01:29:26):
I thought it was.

Speaker 11 (01:29:29):
And and honestly, his perspective of watching his parents get
through this and articulating the reaction they had, you know,
when he was diagnosed and when support would come through.
He he mentioned how it made it made them sad
but then happy at the same time when you know,
an organization, whether it's Claire's Army or anyone else, did

(01:29:51):
something to help them. And you know, for such a young,
you know, but old soul to watch that happen, even
though again he's the one in treatment. You know, he's
one who is going through something so hard and challenging,
but has that just you know, empathy and ability to
watch his parents observe what's going on and realize, you

(01:30:13):
know the gravity of everything.

Speaker 5 (01:30:16):
Well, look, four hundred and one thousand dollars, that's incredible.
It's a testament to you know what this organization has
grown into, and I know there's much more work left
to do. In fact, that's probably how we should leave it.
The money has been raised, but you know the work
is there to be done, and this this gala was
in place and always happens, so you can, you know,
have that funding to do the things you do throughout

(01:30:38):
the year. But listeners right now may may wonder how
they can be involved, and there will be opportunities as
the year goes forward, which we will do our best
to tell people about on the fifty thousand watts here.
But what can people do who want to help beyond
this weekend, Well, we.

Speaker 11 (01:30:55):
Are always looking for donations. We would love to get
closer to four sixteen for our totals, so you can
make a donation if any amount at Clearsarmy dot org
and honestly following us on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. Those
are the easiest ways to stay updated. And we are
always looking for reliable volunteers to help with our meal
program that happens all year long, so really good at

(01:31:18):
our websites and it's the email, make donation, follow us
on social media. That's the best way you can help, right.

Speaker 1 (01:31:23):
Now a great reminder that people can donate and volunteer
year round, and it's an organization like bo was saying,
you're helping families year round in some pretty tough battles.

Speaker 11 (01:31:36):
Right, that's right.

Speaker 5 (01:31:37):
Well, it's good to hear your voice. And I'm so
glad to be able to relay that number. I'll say
it again because you can't say it too many times,
four hundred and one thousand dollars like we were saying
on Saturday Night. You know, four oh one is pretty
close to four sixteen.

Speaker 6 (01:31:48):
Emily, that's right, it's right.

Speaker 11 (01:31:51):
I mean it's not far, not far away. I think
we can. I think we could certainly reach four sixteen
in the next next few days, a couple of weeks.

Speaker 5 (01:31:59):
C lai Resarmy dot org. It's always great to talk
to you on the show. Call us anytime anytime you
need something out there and we'll get it done.

Speaker 11 (01:32:08):
Thank you boy, Thank you, WVT, thank you best.

Speaker 3 (01:32:10):
Good morning BT. This is good morning BT.

Speaker 5 (01:32:16):
Well, you know there's Carolina Journal News Hour on demand,
and then there's Carolina Journal News Hour on demand. Like now,
like I heard his promo and boom, here he is here.
He is from the Carolina Journal News Hour. You hear
it every day right before us, because we are nothing
if not the postgame show for the Carolina Journal News Hour.

(01:32:38):
Nick Craig joins us right now from Wilmington, where I
understand the waves are kicking up there, something about a
hurricane Aaron off the coast, far enough off the coast
that it's not coming inland, but it is causing some
issues down there. Nick Craig, what a pleasure.

Speaker 14 (01:32:56):
It's nine twenty two. Welcome into an extended edition Carolina
Journal News Hour. Good morning, bone Battle.

Speaker 5 (01:33:03):
Well played, friend, Oh, brilliant, brilliant. So you are close
to where this is all happening. What's it like down
in that part of the Carolinas today.

Speaker 14 (01:33:14):
Well, it was a rough stint. Earlier this week. You
had a close to seventy water rescues out in Wrightsville
Beach Monday. That prompted the town, which typically happens when
you've got these tropical events, to issue no swim advisory.
So that's been in effect since Tuesday, runs through the
end of the week. Fortunately, in southeastern North Carolina, the
impacts look relatively minimal, just some upgraded surf, maybe a

(01:33:37):
little bit of beach erosion, but not expecting a whole
lot in terms of aaron different story thoughs. You had
north up into the outer Banks where some of those
tropical storm warnings are in effect, and some of those
evacuations are underway as we speak.

Speaker 1 (01:33:50):
Yeah, and some of those outer Banks islands are tough
to evacuate from. They have to be people need to
be ferried out, and I know that it's a tough process,
and I know that they're just being extra precautious just
to make sure as those water levels rise.

Speaker 14 (01:34:03):
Yeah, we've got a couple of local state of emergencies
that were issued on Sunday. Governor Stein issued one yesterday,
and he's hosting a press conference in less than an
hour this morning around ten fifteen where he's going to
be walking I guess everybody in the state through what
sort of preparations and things that they are getting ready
with that state of emergency declaration yesterday afternoon.

Speaker 5 (01:34:23):
You know, we're doing the show here and we have
several monitors we keep our eyes on here. CNN, for example,
a few minutes ago, had one of their reporters on
Rightsviul Beach and I thought, well, that's not where I
thought they would go. I thought they'd go further up
the coast into the outer banks Coke. But he was
mentioning possibilities of like twenty foot waves and certain points
of the coast down there. This is a you know,

(01:34:45):
school starts back in Charlotte Mecklenberg, our big public school
system here on Monday of next week, and many schools
are back in session across North Carolina. But it is still,
you know, the last gasp of the summer tourism season
because we're not quite at the labor day yet. So
what kind of activity is down there at Ritsville? I mean,

(01:35:06):
and there are a lot of people there or has
it cleared out a good bit except for the locals.

Speaker 14 (01:35:10):
Similar school situation here. The new Hanover County public schools
start back on Monday as well, so you still have
got some folks that are still traveling into the area.
For those local residents. As we get deeper into the year,
it's what we call local season, where all of the
tourists are gone and we can enjoy the area in
which we live. So there's still a high level of activity.
I was out over the weekend and it's obvious that

(01:35:32):
there's still folks traveling from not only across the rest
of this state, but across the rest of the country
here in southeastern North Carolina.

Speaker 1 (01:35:39):
You know, I want to switch gears for a second
because something else happened in Wilmington yesterday and it's been
getting some national news attention. Unfortunately, there was an explosion
at a veterinary hospital yesterday in the Wilmington area. Now, this,
luckily was an area that was under construction, so there
were no employees or people inside this veterinary hospital. But

(01:36:02):
it was a gas line explosion. How close were you
to this event? I know that a firefighter was injured,
but it was a pretty big deal. The videos that
they've been showing across national news have been pretty dramatic.

Speaker 5 (01:36:15):
Yeah, Beth.

Speaker 14 (01:36:16):
I mean, it's not often that you see a building
exploding and you've got debris, roof and other sort of
material that is raining down, almost like confetti onto the
folks around it. But that's exactly what the situation was
here yesterday morning. You had a forty six year old
individual who's now in custody, a resident of Wilmington, who
was driving while under the influence yesterday hit a gas

(01:36:37):
line which happens from time to time. You've got regular
automobile accidents that cause gas line breaks. Typically the first responders,
fire crews, they come in, they secure the scene, the
gas company come shuts it off, and typically for the
most part, everything is fine. However, while the Wilmington Fire
Department in Wilmington Police were securing that scene yesterday and

(01:36:58):
attempting to make sure that the building was secure, some
something sparked and caused a massive fireball explosion, sending that
debris hundreds of feet into the air and raining down
on local businesses all around it. It was a very
chaotic scene almost twenty four hours ago.

Speaker 1 (01:37:14):
Did you see it or feel the impacts of it?

Speaker 14 (01:37:17):
I did not feel the impacts of it. I'm probably
about fives to seven miles the way the crow flies
north of where this area was. It was in an
area called the midtown Wilmington is probably the more accurate
way to describe it. Only probably about two and a
half miles from U and CW as those kids are
back in school now that beginning this week. So didn't
feel it. Did see some of the lingering effects, some

(01:37:38):
of the black towers of smoke that would sort up
hundreds of feet in the air after that explosion happened.

Speaker 5 (01:37:44):
Though it's nine to twenty seven on the Carolina Journal
Bonus hollar.

Speaker 13 (01:37:48):
I love that.

Speaker 5 (01:37:49):
How about that? Actually, I'll say it this way. That's
Nick Craig from our Good Morning VT Eastern Bureau.

Speaker 17 (01:37:54):
There we go.

Speaker 5 (01:37:55):
It's got a good ring to it. Hey, we appreciate
you checking in. He's down there on the coast as
Hurricane Aaron is not making landfall, but she's making her
presence known, especially on the outer banks and certain parts
of the of the North Carolina coast. Good to talk
to you, my friend, and we'll listen again in the morning,
starting at five am.

Speaker 14 (01:38:13):
Likewise, talk to you guys at five oh five tomorrow morning.

Speaker 5 (01:38:16):
There we go, Nick Craig, the one and only.

Speaker 3 (01:38:28):
Donnie.

Speaker 13 (01:38:29):
He's on the back frets feed on Manzi d I
U G G body, helfy.

Speaker 3 (01:38:38):
Wealthy spring sharification.

Speaker 5 (01:38:42):
Come on, uh huh get it out, an't you Bernie
feel the baby?

Speaker 1 (01:38:48):
Think about how positive that is.

Speaker 5 (01:38:51):
I just love the delivery in which Bo had before.
It just came right off the tongue. It was so natural.

Speaker 1 (01:38:57):
We we are doing the same as Marky Mark. We're
delivering a show without intoxication.

Speaker 5 (01:39:02):
Come on, field the vibration, Yeah we are You're not wrong,
And tomorrow more Toad the Wet Sprocket tickets.

Speaker 1 (01:39:11):
People may be intoxicated at that show. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:39:14):
Maybe.

Speaker 1 (01:39:14):
I mean, you know, it's up to you.

Speaker 5 (01:39:16):
Listen to some of that nineties music you gotta be,
but not Toad. I always like Toad the Wet Sprocket,
Like that's that's in my lane. I remember that song
first came out, that All I Want song. That's that's
a cool sound and song. It doesn't sound like once
there was this kid actually, but anyway, that was just
that was he laughing like you've never heard that before.

Speaker 1 (01:39:37):
I just thought your personation was great. My crash test dummies.

Speaker 5 (01:39:42):
Yeah we uh men. I was singing that song all
day yesterday, aren't you.

Speaker 1 (01:39:48):
That was very good.

Speaker 7 (01:39:49):
Yeah, it must be nice because I had one of
their Christmas songs stuck in my head.

Speaker 5 (01:39:53):
Thanks to you, We'll be careful. I might do it again,
please don't know. Hey, did you guys know that today
is National Radio Day?

Speaker 1 (01:40:00):
I know this thanks to our listener Terry, who actually
sat beside me at the near away show. Yes she
sat beside me. It ain't got new men when we
all went to Nearway productions together, and she wished us
a happy radio day today.

Speaker 5 (01:40:13):
Thanks Terry, well, thank you Terry. You know when I
I was thinking about this the other day, you know,
you think I was thinking about one of our listeners,
I was thinking Terry, and I wonder if Terry likes
this song right here speaking of the nineties. See, I
always hear Terry Mo.

Speaker 1 (01:40:32):
Every time that Terry texts us. I sing this song
every time Terry Mo.

Speaker 5 (01:40:37):
That's where I have joined the two, because you do
it out loud.

Speaker 3 (01:40:41):
I do it out loud day.

Speaker 5 (01:40:43):
I love this because we say these things to Bernie
and he thinks that when we say it they're funny.
Then we finds out where they're from. Yes, right, and
he realizes how weird we really are.

Speaker 1 (01:40:53):
Bernie's always wondering why I'm singing this song is because
Terry text us pretty regularly.

Speaker 5 (01:40:59):
Oh yeah, every time I see her Terrrimo termo.

Speaker 1 (01:41:05):
She's not a vegetarian though, because I ate chicken with her.

Speaker 5 (01:41:09):
This is dead Eye Dick, it is.

Speaker 1 (01:41:11):
That's the name of the band.

Speaker 5 (01:41:12):
Listen to the end.

Speaker 13 (01:41:13):
I love this There you go.

Speaker 5 (01:41:19):
So today's Radio Day, National Radio Day, which means on
social media all those people that work in radio will
flood it with pictures of them back in the day.

Speaker 1 (01:41:27):
Oh does that?

Speaker 16 (01:41:29):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:41:29):
Does that mean that's something I'm supposed to do today?

Speaker 5 (01:41:31):
I think you've been in radio long enough now that
you need to post a back in the day picture
of you in the radio.

Speaker 1 (01:41:35):
I have a photo, I believe, Bo Thompson, of the
very first day that I filled in with you. I
believe I have a photo that we took together the
very first time I came in.

Speaker 5 (01:41:47):
Which means I probably have it too, because I think
I know which one you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (01:41:49):
So that would have been that would have been what
like January of twenty twenty one.

Speaker 5 (01:41:56):
Yes, yeah, exactly, That's exactly when it would have been.

Speaker 1 (01:41:59):
Think about it, that January of twenty twenty one. And
here we are, all of this time, all of this
time later, change the name of the show, and here
we are.

Speaker 5 (01:42:10):
We are here nearly four years later. I mean, you know,
radio is an interesting business. I've been in all my
life save about six years. Well no, no save. So
I left here and I was gone for seven years,
and four of those years were still in radio, but
at a different station, and then three in TV and
three in TV made me say, man, I want to

(01:42:32):
go back to radio.

Speaker 1 (01:42:33):
Well, we were just talking in the commercial break about
that that this is one of those incredible experiences that
I get energized in this room. And that was never
the case really in television, because at the end of
a TV show, I would some days, especially when I
was doing live mornings, at the end of it, I
felt like I had the flu.

Speaker 3 (01:42:52):
Every day.

Speaker 1 (01:42:53):
Every day I had kind of the come down exhaustion feeling,
and this I leave here and go box punch things.
I'm energized.

Speaker 5 (01:43:01):
I never sorry I was. I was good with it
until I leave here and go punch that in.

Speaker 1 (01:43:07):
A good way because I have energy. I'm just getting
all the extra energy.

Speaker 5 (01:43:10):
Yet, what you really are asking, Steve, is when she
goes and punches the bag, whose face is on it?

Speaker 1 (01:43:16):
It differs, gentleman, say it depends on the day. It
depends on what happened that day.

Speaker 16 (01:43:22):
It'll be me.

Speaker 5 (01:43:23):
Well, you know, I spent three years in TV and
I the whole time, and I met a lot of
nice people in TV, and I learned some things in
TV and I certainly think that I took some things
from the TV experience that I brought back here and
it's helped me on this show.

Speaker 1 (01:43:38):
It's that handsome hair that you brought back.

Speaker 5 (01:43:41):
Well, that's right, network hare.

Speaker 1 (01:43:43):
You have network here. You do have network hare.

Speaker 5 (01:43:45):
I do not have networks in a good way.

Speaker 3 (01:43:48):
You have hair.

Speaker 5 (01:43:49):
Well, I know that when I started the show in
twenty twelve, my hair was a different color.

Speaker 1 (01:43:53):
Well, yes, yes, do you has it gotten gray year
in the last four years?

Speaker 5 (01:43:58):
It's right around between twenty eight one.

Speaker 1 (01:44:01):
Okay, so you're not blaming me?

Speaker 5 (01:44:02):
No, No, weird to have about timing works and what
are you trying to say it. I've told him to
his face that he gave me gray hair. He knows
he did, but I still love him. But I think
back to the TV years and the whole time I
was in TV, I thought, man, I can't wait back
to radio. Not because I have something against TV, but
just radio is immediate. Radio is we can do it

(01:44:25):
the moment we think of it. Now. Sometimes we have
a lot of thought that goes into it, but we
have the ability to pivot and TV anything that you
do that winds up on the air for the most
part has to go through six departments, and it has
to start at a production meeting at three o'clock in
the afternoon for it to air at like ten o'clock
at night.

Speaker 1 (01:44:41):
And then you have the graphics and all of the
programming and all of the script writing, and you're kind
of stuck to the teleprompter and what's written. And Bo
Thompson was the one who said to me, Beth, if
you come in here and you try this, I really do.
I think you're gonna love this. I think you're gonna
love it. Just come in here and give it a shot.

Speaker 5 (01:44:57):
Well, and the experience I had in TV sort of
gave me the ability to say to you, I know
what TV's like. I know what's similar and what's different.
And so you know, that's one of the things that
I carried over from it that came in handy, is
the ability to say to you, what's going to be
different if you come over here.

Speaker 1 (01:45:12):
You were like, Beth, I know why you look so
sad all the time, Beth, I've been there.

Speaker 5 (01:45:18):
You don't have to be sad. Come over from the
dark side. Not TV's cool. It's just you know, that's
not my jam. This is with you and Steve and
Bernie and Mark and Zochi and the legendary Boomer Pine
can So Happy.

Speaker 1 (01:45:34):
Radio Dad, everybody, Happy Radio Day for all who celebrate.

Speaker 8 (01:45:37):
Happy Radio Day.

Speaker 5 (01:45:38):
Happy there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:45:40):
Mark, don't sound so happy, Mark, It be Radio Dad.

Speaker 5 (01:45:43):
There it is there, It is all right. Good talk Beth,
great talk boy.

Speaker 6 (01:45:54):
And I'd love for you to come to a live
performance of the Tone Rangers singing live.

Speaker 17 (01:45:59):
That's something you really enjoy.

Speaker 3 (01:46:00):
Good sooner, Okay, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:46:02):
You've been listening to Good Morning BT.

Speaker 5 (01:46:04):
Hear us live weekday mornings six to ten on WBT
A m n F M eleven ten, nine to nine
point three.

Speaker 1 (01:46:10):
You can listen to us anytime right here at WBT
dot com

Speaker 5 (01:46:13):
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