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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning son, isn't this great?

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Blue sky?

Speaker 3 (00:03):
Is fresh cut?

Speaker 4 (00:03):
Grass?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Birds? Turminor sat Man pom.

Speaker 5 (00:06):
Easy from News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three
w BT.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
No, I know you could smoke on stage.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
You can't you a cigarette?

Speaker 5 (00:15):
This is good Morning Beat with quote Thompson and bad
trout Man about bans Band's refrigeration.

Speaker 6 (00:21):
It's about that.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
You will love to learn about this town.

Speaker 4 (00:23):
Sweet you come.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Fat up, goobleum slowly July rolling me cut heah down
to is me.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
Got chope? Joke upy, just do what it please? You
were no shoes. Shanny got to jam football, he walk.

Speaker 5 (01:20):
Coola, He said, I know you.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
You know me.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
One thing I can tell you is you got to
be free.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Come together, all of me.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
This is your first day of school song.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
This is come together everyone join me at the learning.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Board to football And technically you woke up with the
sound effect. Yeah it wasn't even really a lyric. It
was a sound.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
It was the shock and the bass the bass guitar.
Is that a bass guitar? There? I have feet down
below my knees.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
I love it when she chooses these up and coming artists.
I know no one's heard of yet, but they're gonna
be big. I'm telling you, these kids are gonna be hot.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
All They're going to be fire.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
As the young people would say, Oh hey, just look
around and think Pat McCrory's coming around the corner.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
When I play something like that, I think maybe Pat
McCrory infiltrated my brain.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
With this one, either Pat or Jason Lewis.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Although we did, you know, we talked to Scott Paget
on Friday, So maybe that's how Pat McCrory and the
Beatles got in my brain.

Speaker 7 (02:41):
Or all the good mornings.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
That's right, O Garter, Good morning. Well it's the first
day of school in Charlotte Mecklenberg. That means nine hundred
buses hitting the roads out there this morning. One hundred
and forty one thousand students returned to classes today. Not
speed everyone, Yeah, no doubt. We're gonna We're gonna hear
from the CMS superintendent her annual press conference from the

(03:06):
bus loot coming up at six twenty, and you know
we might have to via the new text line and
the old phone line talk about some first day of
school memories over the years.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Oh I love this, and maybe give us a call
if you're on your way dropping the kids off for
the first day of school, let the kids talk to us.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Well, hey, we've had we've been doing this show long enough,
you and me that we've had kids that were on
their way to CMS schools that are now in college.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
I know, you know they're now like President.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
You guys remember the actual first day of school, like
in kindergarten.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yes, I remember my outfit?

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Really yep? Oh my god. Have you told us this before?

Speaker 3 (03:47):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (03:47):
Probably have.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
I know we've done. We did a segment one time.
It sort of told me what I was getting into
with Beth in the room. You told us how the
first day of school smelled. Do you remember that segment? Yeah? Yeah,
I do.

Speaker 8 (04:01):
Remember how a cubby smells like would you put your
bag in the cubby in you know, younger grade school?
Like when I smell that kind of like the fresh
wood smell.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
When you walk in. No, I'm cut it. Everywhere there's
a smell, you know. You know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
But there is a for an I takes you back.
Just you reminding me of that bow made my heart
nervous because I was always nervous.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
On the you know what I mean this time, Bernie,
I'm really trying, but I don't.

Speaker 7 (04:28):
It was always fresh wood, every time, fresh cut cubbies.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
But I mean when you said this a few years ago,
the first day of school, like I remember what the
kindergarten building smelled like. It had its own unique and
I mean it wasn't bad, it just was distinct.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
It's school smell. There is a school first day of
school smell, and it takes your breath away, not because
it stinks, but it's because it made like there are
nerves surrounding every first day of school. I don't care
what if you're a great student. I think everyone is
a little bit nervous on the first steve of school.
Are your friends going to be in your class? Are
you going to like your teachers? Are you going to

(05:03):
be able to get your locker open? Are you going
to remember your combination? Are you going to make it
to class in time before the bell rings? I mean
all of those things. Are you going to find a
parking place?

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Are lockers still a thing?

Speaker 3 (05:14):
I have no idea actually, because today even have books?
Do you have books anymore?

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Locker?

Speaker 8 (05:19):
I will say when I was in school, I rarely
used the locker because you didn't really have enough time
in between classes. If your locker was on the other
side of school, yeah you couldn't, you know, if your.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Class was right.

Speaker 7 (05:28):
You didn't grow up in Ohio where it's cold. Yeah,
sorry to put your winter coat somewhere.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Both ways, I remember lockers in middle school. By high school,
I think we could have them if we wanted. But
sort of to what you're saying is it was so
like on the campus, my locker where I started the
day was so far away from where I finished it, it
was kind of pointless. But in middle school it was
kind of centralized. So I remember going to it a lot.
But now, like it's the same way I think about libraries,

(05:55):
Like when you go in libraries. Beth has probably been
to a library more than any of the rest of
us in this room. But when you go to a
library on a school or not, Like, does anybody actually
go and get the real books anymore? Is it all digital?
Like when they redid the Uptown library, I'm thinking, are
they making it smaller because they don't have the physical
books anymore? How does that work?

Speaker 3 (06:15):
Well, that's what I was wondering about. Textbooks. Do kids
and college students. Do you remember going like the first
day of classes when you moved in and you had
to go to the bookstore and you bought all these
used books for one hundred and forty seven billion dollars
and then you resold them at the end of the
year for seven cents. Yes, you were like yay, and.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
They resold them the next year for one hundred and
forty seven billion dollars.

Speaker 7 (06:34):
Yes, it was such a se that doesn't get talked
about it enough.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
No, it does not.

Speaker 7 (06:38):
Could I had that with our kids when they went.
I had it when I went. It's like, through the
decades that has been one of the great egregious things
in the world of money that happen.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
As if you're not giving the university enough money, you
go and spend a billion dollars on your textbooks every semester,
and then they're like, oh, but you can see, oh.

Speaker 7 (06:54):
The professor wrote his own book again this year.

Speaker 8 (06:57):
Well, there there are some classes where they don't even
utilize the textbook, and you've bought the textbook.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Then you get into the class and they're like, oh,
we don't even use it, or what about this first
day of school thing where you sit down at your
desk and you get your your math book for that year,
and then the first thing you do is you look
in the inside cover to see who had it last year?
Don't you remember you had?

Speaker 6 (07:15):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Like it said who was assigned to.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
You put your names on the inside. I love that
about library books, as you could see who checked it
out before you and when like it. It was kind
of a like a score. If you got a book
that nobody had checked out in like ten years, you're.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Like, I'm cool again. Do they do it that way anymore?

Speaker 3 (07:32):
I don't know, but I thought the lady that worked
at our library that would take the card out of
that little black pocket and put it in that machine
that went Google gurgle. It was the loudest sound, and
I thought she was the coolest lady that she got
to do that Google. I loved the grocery store check
out people, and I love the library.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Lady news talk eleven tenet. That is you can go
and turn that down, Bernie, what that is? That's not
what I intended on playing, but.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
It sounded very happy, kind of like, hey, let's play
the ukulele, get in the car and head to school.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yes, it is the first day of school and a
lot of you out there are, you know, starting new
routines today. Like I keep saying, and this is a
staggering number, but one hundred and forty one thousand students
back to the classes today if you want to know
how many new routines and new just and sometimes it's
restarting old ones. But you know, you think back to
your first day of kindergarten. You know, you could be

(08:33):
starting school for the first time ever today. Maybe this
is your senior year today, maybe you're starting high school
or middle school or whatever it is. You know, it's
not just the students, it's the families that have to
Readjust as long as I've been doing this show, I
always sort of sit back at various points on this
day and think of all the different new new beginnings
because that's where we are today.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yeah, I love I love saying it like that, all
of the different new beginnings that are happening. This is
actually one of my favorite days on social media when parents,
you know, they post those first day of school pictures
where they hold the chalkboard that says first day of
like third grade, and they're at the front door and
you see the little stairsteps, and then when people post
them at the last day of school and you see

(09:13):
how much someone has grown over the course of a year.
This is These are the days that I love social
media because I think they're kind of fun to see
the new traditions that families are creating.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
And starting seven oh four, five, seven oh eleven, ten
is the text line. It's also the hot line. We
can take phone calls today, we can take textures today,
and we have a few that are are chiming in already.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah, Jody, this made me laugh because Bernie was talking
about the ambo. They're talking about the smell of the
first day of school. The smell of kindergarten is what
Bernie was talking about, of the fresh cut wood of
the Cubbies, because apparently they were making Cubbies every year.
But Jody said, I don't remember the first day smell,
but I remember the taste of kindergarten high see and saltines.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
We had high I see and then those little flower
shaped cookies that had the hole in the middle. You
know that the center of the cookie was a hole
and you put your finger through it and eat the
cookie off of your finger. Do I remember those. They
kind of tasted like cardboard. Oh yeah, but they were
great with high C high see like see, I don't
think do they even have high s and spe fruit punch, Yeah,
I don't know. We had. I don't know if ours

(10:20):
was high C. It was probably like the off name
brand fruit punch because it left that film on your tongue.
It was kind of like Harry punch. You kind of
had a hairy tongue after it was over.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
It a hairy punch. Real quick, here, I think we're
going to try to tap into some of the audio
from the superintendent, doctor Crystal Hill, who just did her
annual news conference in front of the buses. Here, let's
try this morning. There we go.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
We're joining us this morning.

Speaker 9 (10:44):
We are so excited for the twenty twenty five twenty
six school year. On my drive in this morning, the
entire center city was lit up with blue. And that's
because today is the first day of school. Go cms blue.
We have been working so hard every since the very
last bell ring to signify the end of the school year,

(11:05):
getting ready for today. Everybody has been working to make
sure that our buildings are nice and clean. Everybody has
been involved in training we're making sure that you are
ready for the first day of school, and we are
so excited to see all of our students and to
welcome all of our families into Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools. If
you haven't done so already, we want to make sure

(11:27):
we remind all of our families to download two things.
Number one, the Infinite Campus app that will be allow
you to make sure that you're able to track everything
for your child this year, from attendance to grades and
everything in between. We also want to make sure that
you have downloaded the parent Square app. That is the

(11:48):
way that we will communicate with all of our families
this year. And finally, if your child rides the bus,
don't forget to download the Here Comes the Bus app.
Thank you so much much for joining us this morning,
and at this time I will turn it over to
our executive that was.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Moments ago at the bus slot for Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools.
And what do you take away from that? There are
three apps for the first day of school. I just
think back to when we were doing this and everything
everything is I mean, it's not a surprise that it's
digital now, but everything cycles through apps. That's that's the
life our kids wake up and live in now.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Well, and you can track the bus. You know, here
comes the bus. You can see exactly when the bus
is going to arrive at your bus stop back in
back in our day. You just you know the bus
came when it came, and you got on it, and
then you got off of it when it showed up
somewhere close to your home.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
Did you ride the bus all the way through?

Speaker 3 (12:42):
I never rode the bush?

Speaker 2 (12:43):
So how do you know so much about the bus?
Are you a bus driver?

Speaker 3 (12:51):
We had to so here's the only time that I
rode a bus. My school was so tiny.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Well, hearsay, Bob, that's what I've heard on the street.
So we're on the street, what say you.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
My school was so small we didn't have a gym
for PE, so we had to ride the bus to
the local y MCA, the boys club and take gym there.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
So every time you had PE, it was a field trip.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
We had PE twice twice a week. Would yeah, we'd
go to the boys club.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
We did too.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
We had to ride to the boys club in order
to to have PE. Coach Sayfrett and mister Lockhart was
our was our bus driver. But I lived too close
to the schools to ride the bus. You know, you
had to live in a certain mile radius away from
the school. My high school was only a mile from
my house.

Speaker 8 (13:38):
You guys have memories of having to waddle back inside
and go to your parents and wake them up and saym.

Speaker 7 (13:42):
It's a school bus.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
You drive me to school. You had to do that.
So did you ride the bus all the way through?

Speaker 8 (13:49):
Yeah, whenever I was. I think I got old enough
and they felt more comfortable with me riding the bus.
But then there was definitely times where you know, you're
a couple of minutes late and you have to be like, hey,
can you drive you to school? And it messes up
there entire morning. They got work and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
So my mom, the worst part, bless her heart, drove
us to school every day. And then there were some
days that my dad would drop us off on the
way to work and you can imagine the rainiac. He
would blare whatever music he was into at the moment
at full volume and sing at the top of his lungs,
and he would hit us, hit our arms to make
us watch him sing, and we would fight over who

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was not going to sit in the front seat because
we would go to school with our arm Bruce.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
You know that horn that they would play in Caddyshack
anytime Rodney Dangerfield would ride up. Yes, that's how I
feel like it was with your dad.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
My dad's horn was the the Dukes of Hazzard. It
was Yes, that was my dad's horn.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
I am not surprised in the slightest morning, six thirty
nine on WBT, Monday morning, and not just any Monday morning.
It's the first day of school, Monday morning, August twenty fifth.

(15:01):
Charlotte Mecklenburg schools back in session today. Eight counties across
the area starting classes today. Union County schools starting classes today,
so lots of routines. We were talking about first day
of school, like do you remember the very very first
day of school kindergarten and Beth was talking about it.
I don't remember the first day per se. I remember

(15:23):
images and things that happened during that first year.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
I remember picking out my outfit on the first day
of day, first day of days of kindergarten, I had.

Speaker 7 (15:33):
Read a kid's Gap or Where'd you Go?

Speaker 3 (15:35):
I don't think the gap existed yet back then. Maybe
it did, but I had gotten my ears pierced over
that summer.

Speaker 7 (15:41):
And I had five.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
I was pretty young, and I don't know.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
I got my ears pier so I was five, Yeah,
it was five. And I had these little strawberry little
studs that I put in my ears for a first
day of kindergarten. And I had a bright green T
shirt with a corduroy skir with a green frog on
it and a ladybug. The ladybug matched my strawberry earrings.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
I have no clue what my outfit was.

Speaker 7 (16:08):
Ban was mine was something my brother gave because the
tweries older than me, so all my clothes were like
stuff he wore for two years.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
See that was the great thing about being the only girl,
because Bill, probably my little brother, probably wore my older
brother's hand me down. But there was a there was
a store in downtown Concord, And there are people in
Concord who are listening this morning that remember shopping. There
was called Nita's and they had kids clothes and Nita
and that's where I got my frog skirt with the

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ladybug on it and the green shirt. I don't know
why I remember that. And I remember this kid named
Matt who was crying behind his mom's skirt and hanging
on to his mom's skirt, and I was real embarrassed him, baby,
But isn't it weird? At five, I was embarrassed for him.
I was like, it's gonna be fine.

Speaker 7 (16:50):
Fact that I was talking during the break that kindergarten
was like a half day she had mourning different schools,
of course, in different decades, and mine was in the afternoon,
and bog goes, wait, you guys only had a half day,
So I felt kind of cool that we had half days.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
I didn't now. I know CMS now because I had
kids come up through CMS. They do staggered starts for kindergarteners,
like they will take the class, but they'll do like
a third on one day that'll be their first day
of school, uh, and then the next day they'll do
another group so they can sort of do the the
ratio be smaller. And I mean, I think it's a
good idea because the kids are already sort of uh,

(17:24):
you know, they're kind of nervous about the process. But
the actual first day of school for the kindergarteners isn't
and the whole group is not together until a few
days in because they they but then again, you know,
shortening the day like I was. They dropped me off
and said, here you go, kids.

Speaker 7 (17:39):
We had a whole year of half a day. We
had the whole year's talking about you were the a
m PM for the first year old kindergarten.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
So first grade was the first time you really went
for the whole day.

Speaker 10 (17:49):
Yeah, that was exhausting, just ends halfway there. I only
have so much some big glue sticks and scissors, crayons
are broke.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
I was terrified of the full day of school first grade.
I knew that it was going to be a longer day,
and it was.

Speaker 7 (18:08):
There's talk about memories. I remember being four. I had
an older brother and sister, and somehow in my head
I thought I was going to kindergarten that year. So
I got up that morning and my mom says, no,
you don't go till next year. I thought I was
going to kindergarten.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
I was like, I was.

Speaker 7 (18:20):
Mad I didn't get to go to kindergarten, like I was.
I don't know why I got that in my head.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
I was going but did you do preschool? Did you
go to preschool?

Speaker 6 (18:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (18:28):
I did a little bit of a preschool. It wasn't
like very formal, but it wasn't like all the time.
It was like a partial thing.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
It just like for an hour.

Speaker 7 (18:34):
It's it's like a drop in thing.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
It's like a preschool pot luck.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Jim didn't go to a full day of school until
like the fifth grade.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
College it was college.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
I don't even do a full day here.

Speaker 7 (18:47):
I just refused. I leave before the show ends. That's true. Yeah,
I just started that when I was four and just
kept on.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
Roll over you like that.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Nobody found he does his best work. We six spot work. Well,
I mean I remember, uh, Missus Summers and Missus Nash.
We had a regular teacher and a teacher's aid that
they had two teachers like for kindergarten. And I don't
remember the first day of school, but I remember various
things that happened that year. Like I remember like they
were setting up the movie projector and Missus Nash went

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up to pull down the screen and it fell on her,
like the thing fell from the ceiling and hit her
head and she was okay, But I like I remember
that moment, like, oh my goodness, that would yeah, but
you know what I mean, Like like you have images
of that first year. I bet you're laughing at Missus
Nash's problem, Burnie's cold.

Speaker 7 (19:38):
I have the teacher with the coolest name for kindergarten,
Missus Brickhammer. Oh she was really nice, though it you
think like leaves thrown up Missus Brickham.

Speaker 8 (19:48):
I had a first grade teacher named mister Berger, and
I accidentally called it mister Booker one.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Time and I got in trouble. I bet that joke
lived on it. They still tell that today. I got
in a lot of trouble.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
My kindergarten teacher was Miss Zukarella.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Oh that's an interesting nick.

Speaker 6 (20:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (20:04):
I had a kindergarten teacher named Miss Hipskin. Wow, one
hundred percent, that's her real I was skin Hipskin right.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Trying to let me out there had any interesting names
over the years, I'm I'm drawn a blank.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
We only had like fifteen people in my entire kindergarten class.
We had tiny, tiny, little tiny.

Speaker 7 (20:21):
To Birnie's point, later, I think middle school had I
had a mister Boger, of course, that okay, mister Booger, Yeah,
mister Booger. So we all had a mister Booger.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
He was cool.

Speaker 6 (20:29):
I liked it.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
I ad an, Oh, well, we were.

Speaker 7 (20:33):
Seventh grader, so we're gonna totally go booger on that.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
I still can't get out of my head. All these
all these years've been talking about your dad, and now
every time I think your dad, I don't think of this.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
Yeah, garbol it was a green Rabbit, a Volkswagen Rabbit green.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
The Wayneyac. It must have been driving up to school
with the Waaneiac must have been there.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
So he worked at a car dealership, and so he
would sometimes come and pick me up at school in
a car all the lot, and I would think it
was really cool when he'd picked me up in a
transam with the bird on the front of it. Was
that firebird? That one a transam was a different car.
Wire bird had a bird on the front of it,
and I would I would button my sweater around my
neck and not put my arms through the sleeves. I

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thought I was so cool, like walking to get into
his firebird.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
She says that like that was way back then. She
still does that now.

Speaker 7 (21:24):
Beth has now arms start the car from me.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Crag boomer, fine cannon, way.

Speaker 11 (21:29):
Do you spin out when you got your school to
figure out yes, burn out.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yes, and transam. He'd he'd pick me up in a
different car. He would just drive some because the car
lot was just right down the street from my school.

Speaker 7 (21:41):
Did you know which car to look for while you're
standing with them? The horn, every card, that horse squealing tire.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Hazard.

Speaker 12 (21:55):
Wow, that's and.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
The smell of aquabella and palmade.

Speaker 6 (22:00):
Way to that.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
He's kind of like Burt Rentals, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
He's a lot like Burt Rentals. He did grow mustache
once too.

Speaker 11 (22:08):
Oh man, cool, go get him way the stop it, baby,
Come on, you got to put that on his phone
when he receives calls.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
That should be his ring generally. Yeah, my man, doors
are welded shut my man. Oh he found the cheeses
over the weekend too.

Speaker 4 (22:32):
He did.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
He sent me that he sent you those two?

Speaker 6 (22:35):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Sorry, he sent everybody a screenshot of him going out
getting the Windy's Bacon eat or cheeses.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yes, he sent me a text and out. He told
me that he texted you and said, do I drink
this with cors light or bourbon?

Speaker 13 (22:46):
The above?

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Did he tell you? That's what exactly what I said?
All of the above. It's the first day of school.
And this is what Beth Troutman thinks of just one
big room.

Speaker 14 (23:01):
Right.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
I did go to school in a house. Yeah, it
was an actual house. It wasn't my house. I wasn't homeschooled.
It was just a house on Union Street in Concord,
North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Seven four, five, seven eleven ten. Ron is online. One Ron.
You've got first day of school memories for us? Ron.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Yeah. One. Growing up in the sixties over here in
the South End, I went to Dilworth Elementary fack of
the day and didn't have I didn't at the time,
didn't have kindergarten, so I just went my first first grade.
So in the second grade, you know, we got the
ready for school and they announced on WBT kids going

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to Dilworth. You don't go to school today. The school's
on fire. Remem we're sitting here going Is that not
the best thing is a little kid going, you know,
not like some school because the schools with the schools
on fire, that's.

Speaker 7 (23:53):
The best day with schools off fire.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah. Okay, Because I've done this show for a long
time and I know that people walk in the room
sometimes when they hear something somebody somewhere just walked in
the room and heard you say, nothing is wrong with
Dilworth today. This is a story.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Wrong today.

Speaker 13 (24:10):
But it was.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
It was the old school. You know, we had to
have the cafeteria the auditorium or something wiring or something
and it took out the auditorium and all. But we
had to have food bust in from Sedgefield Junior High
at the time and things like that. But you know,
he's just as a little kid, You're going, oh, you
know that was back in the sixties. So it's like,

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I thought that was a little antidote.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
So morning, I'm guessing that that that means that ty
Boyd is the one who told you about it. H
probably because that was the tyboid era the city, you know,
nineteen that that was smack in the middle of it,
so that would have been the day. So there you go,
Ron that thank you.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
Ron.

Speaker 6 (24:50):
Ron's got all right.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
You have a great day too.

Speaker 7 (24:53):
Man, what a pleasant memory. That was really happy about it.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
When you're a kid, you we don't have a sense
of anything other than the fact that you don't have ski.

Speaker 7 (25:04):
The only time the food was ever hot in the
cap is your strike team assembled?

Speaker 2 (25:11):
My team's ready. I don't have a command crew for the.

Speaker 5 (25:14):
Shuttle count from News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine
three WBT.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
I understand how you feel this time.

Speaker 7 (25:23):
It's personal.

Speaker 5 (25:24):
This is Good Morning Beat with Bo Thompson and Beth Trouty.

Speaker 7 (25:28):
Why wow, let's frauden our mind.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
All right?

Speaker 2 (25:40):
See tell Jim it was going in the rotation.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
This was Friday song. It was introduced to Bo Thompson's brain.

Speaker 7 (25:49):
I wasn't here Friday. This was all new to me.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
A little keen I added it to the official bumper rotation.
So there you go. Are you keen on this? Jim?

Speaker 7 (26:00):
I'm just new to him, just hearing the first few notes.

Speaker 8 (26:02):
It's a total original Bernie joke. No one has ever
said this before, not even Steve on Friday.

Speaker 7 (26:08):
He is such a cool kid.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
Word.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
It is Monday, August twenty fifth first day of school
in Charlotte, Mecklenberg. Zoki was just talking about the fact
that the Vikings have added draft picks and shed's salary
with the recent trades of Harrison Phillips and Sam Howell.
Jeremy Fowler of ESPN saying this morning, yes, Adam Thielen
is in the mix there, but the Vikings have several

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lines out on this position league wide. So this is
a story that sort of gained some traction late last
week and Friday into the weekend about could the Carolina
Panthers possibly part ways via trade with Adam Thielen. And
you know they've bolstered the wide receiver position this past offseason,
so I have a lot you can see how this

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might work for both teams. But the thing to think
about here is is that you know, this is the
place where Adam Thielen started his career and sort of
made a name for himself before he came here. And
I know a lot of Panthers fans love the guy.
I think he's been a great addition to the locker room.
But it wouldn't be the most Outlandis thing to see
him go back, you know, for what we think is
his final season to his original team.

Speaker 7 (27:12):
Even played college at Minnesota State, so he's he's from there.
Played on the TV show Coach back in the day.
But I think Adam Thielen one thing is like he's
been a big help to Bryce Young Obviously when he's
healthy to be someone that price can rely upon, they
do have some ability to duplicate with Hunter renfro and
maybe David Moore to an extent. So it's you can

(27:32):
see where it's conceivable. It's the final year of his contract.
You would think his final year in the NFL and
a chance for him to go home would be interesting.
But for the Panthers, you know, I think the compensation's
gotta be right. I would hope if they do make
a trade, it's not like for like a sixth or
seventh round pick, but we actually maybe get a player
in return that could help, like depth in the defensive
secondary or inside linebacker, if they make a trade like that,
But hopefully he sticks a round souse. I think he's

(27:54):
a big part of what we do here with some
younger guys. I think he could be a big help,
not only to Bryce, but you know, we've got a
rook the top ten pick wide receiver, we got two
second year guys. I think he's one of those players
that helps others around him, So he could still be
a mentor just to all those guys too.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
If they did trade him to back to Minnesota for
his final year, who would you want who would be
a good person to get I don't.

Speaker 7 (28:17):
Know their roster all up, but we do have depth
needs and like cornerback and safety and inside linebacker. So
somebody that plays in that part of the defense is
where they have the biggest need right now. So if
they got, you know, a player, that would be great.
But I mean not that you can't get a good
player in the sixth or seventh round, but to me,
it's a little bit more less likely to be a
big impact player. Oh I say that I'm feeling wasn't drafted.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
So you guys know, I'm just trying to I'm putting
names in the back of my brain for when we
start this fantasy football draft so that I can pretend.

Speaker 7 (28:47):
Well, please take it back up inside linebacker in your
fantasy draft.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
I couldn't know what I'm doing.

Speaker 6 (28:51):
Well.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
I mean, on the theling note, I would hate to
see him leave and not see this team, you know,
achieve its full potential. I feel like he's been a
bit part of the building the blocks of this Now
maybe they come out of the gate and they don't
do what we are hoping they'll do, so we'll see,
but that's a story to keep an eye on. Of course,
Tomorrow is the roster deadline of fifty three for the

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Panthers before o'clock tomorrow afternoon, so Panthers have a number
of decisions, as do other teams. Another big headline this
weekend was Shador Sanders, who had a really a bad
last game. Had some pretty costly mistakes. But it sounds
like the Cleveland Browns. And remember it was just two
weeks ago that the Panthers played the Browns and Chador
started and was almost like anointed, like the savior of

(29:36):
the Browns. But now two weeks later he's kind of
on the outside looking in, and they it looks like
he's going to make the roster and they're going to
keep four quarterbacks, but he's in by no means the
front runner anymore.

Speaker 7 (29:47):
Now Joe Flacco is the starter, and they're going to
see what the two young guys him and Dylan Gabriel
who might emerged later on. But he was playing. I
was watching that game. He was playing with the backup
like third string offensive line, and it looked like it
and it just looked he just he still does this
thing too. Some college quarterbacks do this, like the pocket
will break down and instead of like stepping up or
moving forward, he'll run backwards. He took a twenty three

(30:08):
yard sack. Twenty three yard sack, and you start runs
backwards and tries to find you know, free space, but
you just can't hang in the pocket. You'll throw the
ball away or do something. And those are things he'll
learn in time, probably in practice, because he's not gonna
be on the field during the games anymore. But he's
got value. I think there might be a team that
would want him. So you definitely don't cut him. So
maybe you think about maybe if you don't have a

(30:30):
spot for him to play, play just sitting on the bench,
maybe you could move him later on. But he doesn't
look ready right now. I mean, he's definitely raw and
he's got a long way to go.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
Of course, he was asked about whether he deserved to
make the fifty three man roster, and his response was, obviously,
that's kind of like playing into the whole issue with
him in the first place. Is the swagger that really
sort of never lacking for coomfidence.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Is that where he says I should do or do belong?

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yeah, that was next, that's the only so he said.

Speaker 7 (31:01):
Beth Tut said, yes, I sure do.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
I should door belong, I should do do. We are
going to do a little experiment on the show this week.
We're going to we're going to have a little fantasy
football contest amongst the hosts here, and uh, we're all
really it's really just to see if Beth can pick
a team where she really doesn't know a whole lot

(31:25):
about and what We're just gonna watch her beat us all.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
I don't even know anything about fantasy football. I don't know.
Bernie came in and he's like, so, Beth, are you
good to do your first round draft? I was like,
I don't even know what that means. I have asking some.

Speaker 8 (31:36):
Very random questions that I thought we're fairly obvious, but
I guess not to someone who has not done fantasy before.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
So, speaking of random, how are you going to determine
the draft order?

Speaker 4 (31:44):
Here?

Speaker 2 (31:45):
So I have is it random? It's going to be random?

Speaker 8 (31:48):
So I enter in all of the names of the
people in the league, eight team league, and I just
click a button and it generates a random draft order
and then we'll go by That is.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
The goal of fantasy football to it is to win? Well,
I get that, because every game is the goal is
to win, right, to win the game, But the fantasy team.
I am picking my favorite people from all of the
teams to make one team, and then you score me
based on how those people did in each.

Speaker 7 (32:12):
One of their Yeah, you're ready to go. Let's go
lives drepped. Now it's hi, who's your first pick? Are
these cards good?

Speaker 2 (32:23):
So?

Speaker 7 (32:23):
I got four kings? Is that good?

Speaker 6 (32:25):
So?

Speaker 2 (32:25):
When are you gonna when are you gonna do the
randomizer that? It'll take twenty It'll take two seconds second
do right now?

Speaker 7 (32:31):
Already keeps doing it till it comes up in his
favorite right.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Well, so we're playing in this room. So that's Bernie
and Steve and Zoke and myself and Beth is Boomer
playing Boomer Mark and Wan the waneiac. Okay, I did
not know if that was confirmed.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
Oh yes, the wayneyacs in. I do have one major question.
How do I know who's available?

Speaker 2 (32:49):
There is an entire Uh, if they're playing in the
National Football League, they're available.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
Oh so it doesn't matter even if they're like third string.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
I could pick and it's offensive players and one defensive team. Yes,
pick the third string running I don't understand what that means.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
I have to pick an offense of I don't get
to pick defense.

Speaker 8 (33:06):
So you pick a team team, a team defense, and
then the whole the rest of offensive players.

Speaker 7 (33:10):
You get the whole Panthers defense or whatever.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
I have to name. To have to have two team names.

Speaker 7 (33:15):
Two, that's just that's one of your players. You have
your quarterbacks, your running backs, you have a team defense individual.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
You can't name your own team though, I don't understand
what that means, but I'll figure it out. I'll figure out.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
We'll help you.

Speaker 7 (33:26):
We usually do it online because.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
Well, what team defense? Meaning I could pick the defense
from one team?

Speaker 2 (33:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (33:31):
Right, you get all there to pick players, get points
based on how the whole team plays defensively in that
one game. Came up with these rules rules, men, men, men.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
But why man, why can't I pick my own defense team?
Why do I have to just take a team's defense.

Speaker 7 (33:45):
Why they don't offer individual I know?

Speaker 3 (33:47):
But why because.

Speaker 7 (33:49):
It's a team defense?

Speaker 2 (33:51):
No man has ever, no man has ever decided to
ask why they.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
Just just go for I'm not I'm not a follower, guys,
I'm a trial blazer.

Speaker 7 (34:00):
We can pick this draft really quickly?

Speaker 6 (34:01):
Can do?

Speaker 7 (34:01):
Let's do a team off a team.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Defense, just as Bernie said it'll take twenty seconds. That
was like three minutes ago.

Speaker 7 (34:08):
Are we doing it right now?

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Then I can order why don't you run't you do it?
And then we'll tell you who when we come back. Oh,
that's right, So let's do it.

Speaker 7 (34:16):
If you go to the sports talk station to talk
about sports, do it live.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
I just want you to know that, Sir Steven of
Anthony just sent me an email Fantasy Football for dummies.

Speaker 12 (34:26):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
Look at this.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
Wow. Jim pushed for it. And Jim has the number
one overall pick, number one pick. Steve is number two.

Speaker 7 (34:33):
He's picked the first.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Dolph the first loser.

Speaker 8 (34:35):
Oh, you're the third pick. Wayne has the fourth pick.
Mark Garrison has the fifth. No, Beth Boomer has the
sixth pick. I have the seventh.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
But you know what. You know what, though, that's not
terribly bad because that means you get the eighth and ninth.
The order reverses, so you get two in a row.
I don't know what that means. It's a snake draft.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
I actually do know what that means.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Well, teach you. We're going to tell you to teach
you all this.

Speaker 7 (35:00):
This is where the fund happened.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
This is with there we go, I love that the
whole Take a picture of this and we'll go ahead.

Speaker 7 (35:05):
And the best party is you have back to back
pic so then you can rest for a long time
before you pick again.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
It doesn't feel like it's good because the entire time
that Bernie was saying names, Jim kept going, oh Ben.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
I did, I was doing that when you have this
few people that what you have is not bad at all. Yeah,
we'll all end up with really good teams.

Speaker 7 (35:23):
Now you got those are good cards, good cards.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
Trust us, I don't understand.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Trust us. You can take two defenses.

Speaker 7 (35:31):
I remember, like the n cua A tournament bracket, you
and I went down to the last game as far
as who was gonna win our little in house thing.
Yeah yeah, just do it, Just do it like that,
take it, form it again Johnson.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
Based on gut, my gut, just my gut. Where do
I get the Does somebody have a print out?

Speaker 2 (35:44):
We're gonna we will, We're gonna have this. We're gonna
be to educate you during the break here, computer.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
I need a list of players, got.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Traffic check right now, Boomer von Cannon.

Speaker 7 (35:52):
Who don't worry, Beth.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
You know you're going to win it.

Speaker 7 (35:54):
You know, she will, she will.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
If I do, If I do, you all have to
like come in we're in grass it's and hulup what
dance for?

Speaker 2 (36:01):
That's that's part of this. We have to decide what
the loser of the league has to do. The loser
of the league in many leagues, you have to do
something like if like like if make make Zokie where
the jersey of his most hated team as a kid, Steelers.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
Yeah, you're gonna make me wear footy pajamas.

Speaker 7 (36:21):
I don't want to you have a panic attack. That's right.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
Maybe you got to stand out here on more here
story you're wearing a chicken suit. Uh see, we can
get creative here. They wanted to say hey and thoroughly
enjoy the show.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
Thank you for taking the time to call in.

Speaker 4 (36:34):
Well, y'all keep doing great job.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Thank you man, keep on keeping on.

Speaker 4 (36:38):
This is good morning Beaty with booing.

Speaker 5 (36:41):
Path because knowledge is power.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Each talk eleven ten w BT Anson County, Burke County, Caldwell, Charlotte, Ecklenburg,
Hickory City Schools, Newton, Conover, Union County, all those systems.
First day of classes today across the listening area, like
I said in Charlotte Meckenberg. That equates to nine hundred
buses hitting the road, one hundred and forty one thousand

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students back in class. Or maybe it's the first time
you've been to class today.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
You know what. I want to give a big shout
out to my niece and my nephews. They're in Caberras
County schools. They started two weeks ago. Wow, two weeks
ago Caberra's County School.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Reag shout out to my son. You didn't even get
a summer break, so you round school. Wait to go Sudon.
It's starting early, bright and early. Actually in the bus lot.
It's tradition for the CMS superintendent to hold a news conference.
It was a short one, but here it was a
few hours or as about an hour ago. Crystal Hill,
Doctor Crystal Hill, the CMS Superintendent.

Speaker 9 (37:53):
We are so excited for the twenty twenty five twenty
six school year. On my drive in this morning, the
entire centricity was lit up with blue and that's because
today is the first day of school.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
Go CMS blue.

Speaker 9 (38:07):
We have been working so hard ever since the very
last bell ring to signify the end of the school year,
getting ready for today. Everybody has been working to make
sure that our buildings are nice and clean. Everybody has
been involved in training. We're making sure that you are
ready for the first day of school, and we are
so excited to see all of our students and to

(38:29):
welcome all of our families into Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools. If
you haven't done so already, we want to make sure
we remind all of our families to download two things.
Number one, the Infinite Campus app that will be allow
you to make sure that you're able to track everything
for your child this year, from attendance to grades and

(38:50):
everything in between. We also want to make sure that
you have downloaded the parent Square app. That is the
way that we will communicate with all of our families
this year. And finally, if your child rides the bus,
don't forget to downlock load the Here comes the Bus app.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
That's the superintendent speaking to reporters in the bus lot
a little bit earlier to start the school year, and
it's all about apps. First day of school, well, there
are apps for that.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
I can't believe how much technology plays a role even
in the bus stop, even in the bus stop routine,
but that's the thing I want to know about is
the routines and the traditions that are starting today or
maybe that are continuing today for families who are out there.
I love, love, love, love love hearing first day of
school stories like call us from the car, tell us
what your kids are feeling. The whole thing is just

(39:41):
to me because and again this, I like to live
vicariously through everyone, because I don't have kids, so I
get to live through everybody else's families and experience first
day of school through everybody else.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
And Beth remembers, like a photographic memory, her first day
of kindergarten.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
So, first day of kindergarten, first day of first grade,
first day of such you do.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
It for every grade. You think you had to sit down,
I mean, don't do it right now.

Speaker 7 (40:05):
We don't have Timy, Good.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
Morning, Bow and Bath. Hi.

Speaker 7 (40:08):
It's a conversation this morning.

Speaker 4 (40:10):
I had to call it. This is good morning Beatty
with Bow and.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
Beth, Monday morning in the Taboid Studio. Back to school, Monday,
August twenty fifth. But yesterday was kind of a milestone
day in history. Did you know this? Thirty years ago?
Yesterday I went down and I was just doing.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
This plus Edridge and I want come on work with
me here. Oh, because she's coming to your window.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
This would have been nineteen ninety four if my math
is correct. But you know, track with me. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
I think she's asking someone else to come to her window.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
Yeah, he's asking her to come to her window.

Speaker 12 (41:04):
All right.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
Yesterday was the thirtieth anniversaries of Windows ninety five. You
know how I know because my memory was jogged by
listening to this too.

Speaker 15 (41:26):
Welcome to the Microsoft Windows ninety five Video Guide.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
This unique program will.

Speaker 15 (41:32):
Help teach you how to use many of the most
important features of the new Windows ninety five operating system.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
Our guide is.

Speaker 15 (41:40):
Separated into three sections. In Section one, you'll get more
than a few laughs as we present the world's first
cyber sitcom, starring two of television's hottest comedy personalities, Jennifer
Aniston and Matthew Perry. They'll be taking you on an
adventure in computing that takes place in the office of

(42:00):
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
Along the way, they.

Speaker 15 (42:04):
Meet a wacky bunch of propeller heads and are introduced
to the top twenty five features of Windows ninety five.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
The pace is fast.

Speaker 15 (42:12):
And funny, but don't worry if you miss anything. In
section two, we'll take you on a step by step
review of all the Windows ninety five components demonstrated.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
In section one.

Speaker 15 (42:24):
In just about fifteen minutes, you'll get a close up
view of how to work in the new Windows ninety
five environment, and we'll become familiar with the speed, power, ease,
and compatibility of Windows ninety five. Finally, in our third section,
Microsoft answers the twenty most asked questions about Windows ninety five.

(42:47):
Twenty Get ready for a few laughs and some great information.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
Sounds like it's going to be a hoot and a half.
Get ready for some laughs, folks, as we tell you
how to use this computer system.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
Thirty years years ago, the thought of using a disc
to install software seemed like a distant memory. Now it
does for a lot of people, but at the time
it was a big deal. You get the little little
it looks like a CD, just like one you would play.
And then they went behind the scenes and showed you
how Windows ninety five merged with MS Doss.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
Oh do you all remember Doss? Do you remember when
you had to open up your computer? It opened up
to a black screen and you had the doss controls
that you typed in by that big green, blinking cursor.

Speaker 4 (43:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (43:34):
Well, I mean it's it's actually kind of crazy when
you really think about it, that we, as our generation,
we have lived through such tremendous technology changes. You think
about people who were born maybe in the late eighteen
hundreds and you know, seeing the invention of the automobile,
and then you'd the airplane, and then suddenly you're on
the moon. But our generation we have seen going from

(43:56):
a completely analog world where we thought word process, we're
pretty darn amazing, to suddenly having these computer systems, and
then you know, fast forward to today and laptops or
paper thin and we have a computer that has more
technology on it in our hand than the actual rocket.
Did you know the capsule that went to the moon?

Speaker 2 (44:19):
I mean it really because what was a few days
ago they were talking about how the the AOL dial up.
They just they just shut that down just now, like
it still existed for somebody somebody. I mean, apparently that's
still out there for somebody. I don't know. Now, I
will tell you this. The computers in our in our

(44:42):
room here, they graduated from Windows XP just like a
few years ago.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
But do you remember I kind of missed the day
of having a disc and installing something on your computer
because now, for for Microsoft, I pay a subscription based
a yearly subscription for it, and it keeps going up,
and it has to like include Excel. I don't use Excel.
I'm a radio host. If I sent you an Excel spreadsheet,

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you should fire me.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
So radio hosts can't use Excel.

Speaker 3 (45:11):
But what would I use it for?

Speaker 2 (45:13):
I don't know, like a fantasy football draft or.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
Now no, no, if you asked me to create an
Excel spreadsheet. That's one of the things about the course
of a broadcast career. I don't if suddenly I don't know,
I'm like it's making me saliva up suddenly. If suddenly
I couldn't do broadcasting anymore, I don't think I would
make it in the corporate world because I don't really

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know or care about Excel. Oh, oh, poor poor Steve
has an Excel spreadsheet over there, doesn't I guess maybe
somebody in the world of broadcasting.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
Does Excel spreadsheet?

Speaker 3 (45:45):
Of what is it's your finances?

Speaker 7 (45:47):
Isn't it?

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (45:48):
Is it your finances?

Speaker 8 (45:49):
Or is that business with these one for discrepancy reports
too when we send those.

Speaker 16 (45:52):
Well, yeah, so the one that's on my screen right now,
just because it's full of random data is a personal one.

Speaker 7 (45:58):
But we do have them.

Speaker 16 (46:00):
I mean, like so our you know, our our analytics
for our podcasts. That's all in a spreadsheet. It's it's
an Excel spreadsheet that I made and keep up with
on a regular basis.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
Yeah, I know that the I know that that Excel
does math for you and stuff like that. I know
that it does. I know what it does. But do
you know that I've never had to make an Excel document.
I've never ever ever had.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
To do If there is a humble brag worth spreadsheet
in your life, in my whole life, oh my gosh, ever, ever,
this one doesn't. It just doesn't like it does justice.

Speaker 4 (46:38):
That was a good Morning DT humble brag.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
Really, I feel like that's like the the I feel
like it's the exact opposite of a humble brag and
that I'm admitting that I don't know technology.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
Well, like a lot of people wish they'd never had
to look at Excel. Well, you know, he said there
that Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry were the guy the tour?

Speaker 3 (47:00):
How how I mean? I guess that was one year
into Friends, So I guess they weren't a big deal yet.
Can you imagine Microsoft getting Jennifer Aniston nout to do
their walkthrough tour of training people.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
Give me a little bit of that, Bernie. That that
second clip there is This is a little bit of
what you would get if you bought the package. And
then you've got the Friends, Jennifer Aniston. I'm Matthew Perry.

Speaker 7 (47:22):
We're here to see mister Bill Gates about a possible
starring role in the video Guy in to Microsoft Windows
ninety five.

Speaker 17 (47:27):
He's out right now, honey, but you can wait in
his office out out out. But in his absence, he
asked me his loyal assistant, Bernice Kupleman, to act as
host and give you a peek under the hood at
Windows ninety five.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
I was very involved in the project.

Speaker 17 (47:43):
You know you well, I kept asking the boss to
clean up his windows.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
Oh it makes me uncomfortable.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
The music that comes on in is really what ties
it all together. Yeah, it's called a digital sitcom.

Speaker 16 (47:57):
Sounds like they're worth twenty million episode mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
Well, little did they know? Well, but there was like
so there was Wednesday, Windows ninety five, then ninety eight,
and then there was one called me. Do you remember
Windows ME, which is like a colossal and U uh huh,
and then Windows XP which called on. And then there
was I think there was one.

Speaker 16 (48:19):
More Windows something Mike Windows eight, well seven first seven,
but it wasn't.

Speaker 2 (48:25):
There another one that was the NT.

Speaker 16 (48:27):
But that was more on the networking side of stuff
like server side or something.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
My whole professional life, I've used Apple. Every office I've
been and had Apple like we always had Apple products?
Is that how the bills? Good morning, humble, bread into
I didn't create the office, I just worked at it.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
I can't keep up with you today?

Speaker 3 (48:53):
Is that humble?

Speaker 2 (48:54):
Now I have one for you. I actually had this programming.
I remember this. It was called Parallels.

Speaker 6 (49:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
You actually if you had an Apple and you liked
Mac like I did, but then you could get this
program that would allow you to run Windows in Mac
or Apple. It's called parallel. Sorry, had it for a
little while.

Speaker 7 (49:14):
Little virtual server action for bo Thompson.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
See Joey just said this.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
It so clunky, it was.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
Joey just sent us a text on the text line
seven o four or five seven eleven ten and said,
bo that wasn't a humble brag. That was an unapologetic brag.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
That's true.

Speaker 3 (49:29):
That's about the spreadsheets.

Speaker 8 (49:31):
Apple products everywhere I've worked have an immense amount of money.

Speaker 4 (49:38):
What was that bow?

Speaker 2 (49:40):
Good near you? I love this. Bernie has a new voice.
It's called the Unapologetic Beth Braggy Voice. Get my Nobil
Peace Prize. In nineteen seventy two, Fancy Beth seven eight
on double debt see see boomer. All these kids going
to school for the first time out there today. Beth
didn't need any no right.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
We didn't have computers when I went to school.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
She invented the computer.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
I'm like al Gore, I invented the Internet.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
You invinted it. You don't need to hang around it.
I didn't need excel. I already excelled.

Speaker 4 (50:14):
This is Good Morning, BT.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
News Talk eleven ten, WBT First day of school Charlotte,
Mecklenburg and many other districts throughout the area. Kevin at
GMBT show at WBT dot Com says, hey, they have
an app that tells them where the bus is on
their route. Then I was reminded how fortunate they are
to have cell phones. I had to stand in the cold,
in the rain while I waited for my bus at

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Billingsville Elementary. It is true. Can you imagine like being
able to just pick up your phone and see where
the bus is? Like I remember back in grade school
where sometimes buses were just late, or you know, you
had friends who missed the bus when things were wrong
with the bus. That's sort of that information had to
kind of relay over several cycles before it actually got

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to the right place. Now you pick it up and
it's like like you're waiting for an uber, you can
see where your driver is.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
I can't imagine what that must feel like to have
all of this technology right in your hands. But now,
I don't know. There are so many schools that are,
you know, banning cell phones. So I guess you can
sit with your cell phone and your app and wait
for the bus and know when it's coming, like you said,
like your uber. But then do you have to turn
your phone off and tuck it away until until school's over.
If you're in one of those schools that said no no, no, no,

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no no phones, this is a no phone zone.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
Well that's kind of where we are with phones at school,
Like some school systems allow you to bring the school
the phone with you, but you have to turn it
off in class. And some systems, and these are the outliers,
are the ones that don't allow them at all at all. Yeah,
you know, And the further I go into this, look,
I had kids who grew up on the you know,

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I mean the more the four who knows where we're
going to be in ten years with phones or whether
it even be phones anymore, and maybe just be all
watches or something.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
I'd like hologram assistants are going to follow us around
and like read text messages out loud to us.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
I mean, look, cell phones in schools when there's an emergency,
that's a game changer. I mean, that's there. We we've
we've been on we've been on the air before and
there have been school shootings and we've talked to parents
who've been able to verify that their kids were okay
because of text messages. So from that standpoint, yes, it's
a that's a that's a positive development as far as

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technology being able to connect us when we really need them.
But then I also sit back sometimes and think to myself,
what would any given number of my class has been
back in the day, back in the days of yr as,
as Beth would say, if all the kids in the
class had cell phones. And we both know there are rules,

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but you know, people find their way around rules.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
Right, I mean we did that with our limited technology.
I think I've talked about this before. The smart calculators
that you had when you were doing like sign and
co sign and trigonometry, and you can go in the
back end of those of those those calculators and program
in the formulas and the definitions of the sign and
co sign.

Speaker 8 (53:07):
We had calculator games, Beth, like, we wouldn't even do
our work on the big computer, the big t I
eighty three calculators. You could program games and then and
just play, you know games.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
I thought you meant because we had we had calculator
games too. Is what the calculator spells out if you
turn it upside down?

Speaker 8 (53:25):
Oh yeah, that's a given you done it on any calculator.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
Really, I means, that's that's how easily we were amused.
You're talking about actual real games on your calculator. Dudes,
both check this out. We may be dudes, but we
ain't wrong. How are you doing.

Speaker 10 (53:41):
I'm thinking, well, thank me up a cup of coffee
or chocolate donut with some of those little sprinkles.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
Off cop where you're going.

Speaker 5 (53:46):
You're thinking amused Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three
w BT.

Speaker 12 (53:51):
Hey Sam practicing gratitude, manifesting abundance.

Speaker 4 (53:55):
This is Good Morning Beat with Bo Thompson and Beth Trout.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
Then he's simistic, I've done a good job. I'll trade
this whole thing out.

Speaker 4 (54:03):
It's a mill of time.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
Come on, Beth is stressing a little bit. It's trying
to make sense of what this big board meetings behind
you on the wall. Yeah, fantasy football. We're gonna do

(54:28):
a little league here, a little experiment on the GMBT crew.
So we have a draft board back there, and uh,
it already has something filled in for the first round,
it says peak Pete Callender selects John Bolton with his
first pick, and then who is the second one up there?
Isaac Isaac Isaac Ok, Yeah, yeah, Pete. No, you can't pick.
You can't pick one, can't pick back to back.

Speaker 7 (54:50):
How does it make Isaac field that John Bolton?

Speaker 4 (54:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (54:53):
I mean all the work Isaac.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
Does for I think Beth is stressing though, because this
is her first draft, never done this, and we actually
have the draft order. Who has the first pick?

Speaker 4 (55:04):
Again?

Speaker 2 (55:05):
That would Jim Sochi?

Speaker 3 (55:08):
Did you pay him off? Did you pay.

Speaker 8 (55:11):
I mean Steve got number two. I would have given
myself a better pick than set right.

Speaker 7 (55:15):
Yeah, be was a giveaway.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
Beth is eight out of eight.

Speaker 7 (55:17):
I'm that's not that it's not what you think.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
It's not what you think.

Speaker 7 (55:21):
But we're gonna this is one of the delusions the
things you'll learn about fantasy football.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
Do you know what's great though, snacks?

Speaker 7 (55:26):
We have snacks.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
I have seven people going before me, so I can
watch and see what it is that you're doing, because
I still don't quite understand what this is.

Speaker 2 (55:35):
So don't worry. This is not going to be like
some sports radio stations where they do the entire draft
on the show. I don't mean f n Z. I
just mean, like I've heard before, like the most boring
thing you can possibly do is talk about someone else's
fantasy football team. We're going to do this because honestly,
all of us in the room play fantasy football except Beth,
and we want to sort of do like a This

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is like a school experiment on the first day of school.
You know, we're going to see if Beth can actually
to go into this and win it without knowing much
really of anything.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
So I'm like the fungus in the Petrie Dish.

Speaker 7 (56:07):
That's a great name for you have to have a
fantasy league team name. That could be your fantasy league
team name, Petri dish, the fungus in the Petrie Dish.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
Because between now and tomorrow, everybody in this room has
an assignment. Tomorrow, you got to come to the show
with your team name. And I'm really saying that to
Beth because all of us.

Speaker 7 (56:23):
You know, I've had the same name for like twenty
five years, a team name. Well, because my first league,
that's like I've been doing for like thirty years, is
with a bunch of writers that panther beat writers. So
I called my team the Radio Flyers, like the Little Wagons,
the Little Wagon, So I was the Radio Flyers. And
then Razinski's in it.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
He says Bills Bills, That's how I have to say it.

Speaker 4 (56:45):
Bill's Bills.

Speaker 7 (56:46):
And Tom Sorens is the best. He changes his name
every year. So like halfway through this every season, I
go on what team am I playing this week?

Speaker 2 (56:51):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (56:51):
Because Tom's changed his name again, so it's a lot
of that one has been around for thirty years. And
then I've got another one with our friend Joe the Fan,
and that was like thirty years old. I just do
radio flyers for all of mine. So Min's already setting stone.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
I remember Steve's name. He's got his team name already.

Speaker 7 (57:06):
How many fins I believe, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (57:08):
That's mine? You didn't have that way?

Speaker 7 (57:11):
He's picking second.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
You guess to have it first to affinity and beyond.
We have two fins. Okay, see see mine mine has
nothing to do with the Miami Dolphins.

Speaker 6 (57:22):
That min.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
Min's mine's jaws related because I have a little icon
and it's Chief Brody and Jokie OOKI knows this. I
know this goes back to nineteen ninety nine because Joe
the fans need take a team name. In nineteen it
was Rams in ninety nine, back when Kurt Warner was
the was the quarterback Greatest show.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
I would love to use the the WBT text line,
I want all the fellas out there or the ladies
if you play fantasy football. I helped me come up
with a really fun team name. I will pick the
best team name. I will use it. I promise I
will use it as my team name seven O four five,
seven eleven ten because I have no idea what I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
Simply the best Oh see see you might have it
that can you top that one? Because the whole novelty
of this is really just hearing what you decide. Because
the rest of us in this room, I mean, it's
it's guys playing fantasy football, but you doing this for
the first time is just going to be uh, we're
all along for them.

Speaker 7 (58:13):
It would be like a like a it's a first
day of school, right, This is like learning a new class.
You've reached out to a class that you wouldn't normally
take for your major, and now you're gonna learn something.
It's an elective for sure, and now you'll you'll grow
and you have life skills that come from this that
you use as an adult when you become an adult.

Speaker 3 (58:30):
It's like when I took racketball in college. I had racketball.

Speaker 7 (58:34):
I started up late for class. I got racquetball and
then bowling for my two classes.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
Bullying was great, that sounds fun.

Speaker 3 (58:41):
I tried to get bowling. It was full sided racketball
in aerubics.

Speaker 7 (58:44):
Yeah, these are y'all's electives for PE, because for PE,
I signed up late for whatever reason. Actually, it was
bowling my first semester because I was at Bowling Green
and my first class was bowling at eleven thirty on
a Tuesday. So remember walking down Cole Hall and going
go to my first college class. Guys, gotta go bowling.

Speaker 2 (59:02):
Later.

Speaker 7 (59:02):
I'll be back about twelve forty five. Gotta go bowling.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
So tomorrow we come. We come with team names.

Speaker 3 (59:09):
Yes, please help me out there, because I don't know
what I'm doing. I need help with a team name,
and give me some hints and some pointers.

Speaker 7 (59:16):
Don't do the frank right though. Too many cooks in
the kitchen, you get too many voices in your ears, right,
you get confused.

Speaker 2 (59:21):
Well, so here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna do
just the first round, like we're not gonna do the whole.

Speaker 7 (59:26):
Thing we'll do is the draft.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
After that, well we'll do we'll do the second half offline,
and then we can come back the next day and
kind of talk. We can go through like who you chose,
because every.

Speaker 7 (59:33):
Day we do it.

Speaker 2 (59:37):
Draft.

Speaker 7 (59:38):
I'm cutting in fifteen rounds.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
There are some sports radio shows that will do this,
like let's do our entire draft on the air, or
you could do auto draft.

Speaker 16 (59:45):
You can just set your computer it'll pick the best
available for that will just wait for the auto draft
to spit out.

Speaker 7 (59:50):
May you can have chat you Hey, Siri, who should
I pick?

Speaker 2 (59:59):
I really don't know how you improve on that one.

Speaker 7 (01:00:01):
Oh, I bet our textbrook will have some good one.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
There's someone on here in the text line, but I
cannot read some of the money. Yeah, yeah, they have
to be air friendly. Come on, seven o four five,
they're already now we're ready to the mad places. Yeah, eleven,
eight thirteen. If you're looking ahead on the show today,
we've got Brett Winnerble coming up at eight twenty. Guess
where he is. He's at the White House. I think

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Beth is reading some of the teams.

Speaker 7 (01:00:28):
Are you reading some of them?

Speaker 3 (01:00:29):
I can't read it out loud, but Brian's has really
made me laugh. It has to do with one of
the nineties bands that we were talking about last week.
You can only imagine.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
Yeah, it's going to be a week seven oh four five,
seven oh eleven, ten, Winnable joins us coming up at
eight twenty and then at nine five Mick mulvaney. So,
lots of political headlines on the way. Good borrow, Laara,
good borrow.

Speaker 4 (01:00:57):
He's good. Laura beats.

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
All right. Eight twenty on News Talk eleven ten wbt
Bo and Beth here, and we're gonna head to the
Nation's capital and linked up with our good friend Brett Winterble,
who is going to be doing some pretty cool shows
coming up in the next several days. Mister Winterble, how
are you, sir?

Speaker 6 (01:01:20):
Hey, it's good to be with you.

Speaker 13 (01:01:22):
It's a lot of fun. It will be one day,
it'll be today, okay, and it's gonna be uh an
opportunity to uh to talk to some of the folks
who are driving the policies here.

Speaker 6 (01:01:34):
And I got to tell you something. I got it.
I as I bare my.

Speaker 13 (01:01:42):
Hand to God, Okay, I heard exactly one siren last
night in the in the Nation's capital. It's unbelievable. What
a change this is here, and it's just remarkable. I
just I just wanted to preface.

Speaker 6 (01:01:58):
It with that.

Speaker 3 (01:01:59):
Okay, Well, if you're going to be talking with a
lot of the policymakers I mean, this story has been
a huge story across national headlines, the fact that the
National Guard is there, the fact that they now are
able to carry firearms to protect themselves if need be.
But it has also created some back and forth conversations
on truth, social and on X between Donald Trump and

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the governor of Maryland, between Donald Trump the governor of Illinois,
between Donald Trump and well, I guess Donald Trump hasn't
really responded a ton to Gavin Newsom, but he has
focused on other places like Chicago for sending in potentially
the National Guard.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
Before you answer that, here is some of what math
is talking about.

Speaker 12 (01:02:45):
If everything works out, and we've already had calls from
other cities, quiet calls from Democrats we'd love you to
come here.

Speaker 14 (01:02:54):
Because they have lost control of theirselves. I'm not going
to say because I don't want them to lose their elections.
It calls from Democrats and gos, from people generally, we'd
love you to come here.

Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
So sort of suggesting that what's happened in DC and
what you're experiencing there perhaps is the prototype for what
may come down the line here in other cities.

Speaker 13 (01:03:15):
Yeah, I mean that's yeah, I think that's exactly right.
And what President Trump does very effectively is he takes
all the chaff, right, he's flying over and he's and
he's you know, saying the things he wants to say.
He says things that are controversial from time to time,

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and he takes all the blast back on him. And
what you see on the ground are people who are
doing the hard work, the cops, the ice agents, those
sorts of people who then get that cover from the president,
Like there are people who would say something like this, right,

(01:04:00):
you know, I didn't think it was going to be
this bad, and certainly we'll try to dial it back
that that will destroy any of the trust between the
people who are working on the ground and the people
who are voting for for Donald Trump, right. And so
what he does is he sends sets off the big
bomb and then after that the work gets done. And

(01:04:22):
I think that is sort of a rhetorical strategy that
that he likes to do. And Wes Moore, you know,
he's obviously somebody who's very upset about about this this approach.
Baltimore has come in for a lot of you know,
knocking and and things like that. But the reality is,
if it looks like this in d C, and it

(01:04:46):
looks like this in two months in Baltimore. I think
people are going to be happy because they're they're safe,
they're not getting killed, and I think you know that's
that's an important part of this.

Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
So you are. So if you're looking at the WBT
schedule today, you have Nick Craig in for Pete Calender,
who's in for Brett Winnable. This afternoon, Brett is at
the White House. He's in DC, and this is an
opportunity for you to talk to some people there and
have some some interviews that I'm sure we'll hear, you know,
later on in the week in your show when you'll

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be back in Charlotte.

Speaker 13 (01:05:20):
Yeah, definitely, that's that's exactly what's gonna work. We're gonna
be over there, gonna jump in there at ten o'clock
and then it'll go until they tell us okay, get out.

Speaker 4 (01:05:27):
And uh.

Speaker 13 (01:05:30):
One of the one of the topics is going to
be they're calling it labor because we're coming up on
Labor Day, and so I'm assuming we're going to hear
from people on the econ side. I'm hoping we get
to see maybe Scott Bessett, maybe we get to see
Howard Lutnak those sorts of things, because the tariffs are
all you know, are all talked about here now with

(01:05:51):
that as well, So I think it's going to be
a very interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:05:57):
Gathering.

Speaker 13 (01:05:57):
I do not have the manifest yest, I do not
know who I'm talking to yet, But once I have that,
I'll kick it over to you guys, and should tell
you who it is it will be.

Speaker 6 (01:06:08):
But we're in waiting mode now.

Speaker 3 (01:06:10):
Well, this is exciting for you. I would imagine up
there there's probably a good deal of conversation going on
about what's happening currently between Ukraine and Russia, the fact
that Vladimir Putin does not seem to be backing down
with his attacks, and now I know that Donald Trump
is incredibly frustrated and saying that he's giving them a
two week deadline. Where do you think this is headed

(01:06:33):
And do you think he'll extend the deadline or do
you think he's going to start being really hard hitting
on Vladimir Putin, especially given that an attack hit an
American factory.

Speaker 13 (01:06:40):
Yeah, look, that was a terrible thing to see, and
that was exactly the wrong thing that should have ever
happened the attack on an American factory there in Ukraine.
And I do think that you're going to see economic sanctions,
but very severe ones. And I think what they're going
to do is they're going to pinch the people who
are still doing business. India comes to mind, China comes
to mind with Vladimir Putin's approach here, and I think

(01:07:04):
at some point, if this thing doesn't, you know, get
cleaned up. I mean, we saw that number that was shocking,
what one point three million wounded and killed in Ukraine
last week, not not last week, but that was reported
last week. I do think what we're going to see
is Donald Trump releasing the hounds and letting Vladimir I'm sorry,

(01:07:27):
Zelensky start to actually go dropping munitions, maybe in Moscow,
maybe in.

Speaker 6 (01:07:33):
Cities where he's got to have to start to feel
the pain.

Speaker 2 (01:07:36):
Yeah, it's going to be fascinating because we're sort of
back to where we were several weeks ago when the
Trump the president was getting exasperated about what he was seeing,
but we knew that we had this that led to
the to the summit being scheduled. Yeah, and now that's
in the rear view and you're sort of getting back.
You're creeping back to the area where you were before.
So I think it's going to be very very interesting

(01:07:56):
to see what sort of mode the President goes into
if he does see some sort of a change from
Vladimir Putin. So you will be in Washington today, and
the whole point is you're there where it all happens.
You're at the White House, so you never know who
might be coming around the corner. And lots of great
material coming from those discussions that you'll have on your
show here in Charlotte later in the week. So enjoy
it and we look forward to hearing it.

Speaker 6 (01:08:18):
Thanks.

Speaker 13 (01:08:18):
I I appreciate that there is.

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
Brett Winnable from the nation's capital there in DC, getting
set to do some interviews over at the radio. Sorry
about that, Folks just bang the microphone over at the
White House on what they call radio Row, and not
a lot of people get to go to that radio row.

Speaker 3 (01:08:34):
That's a big deal.

Speaker 5 (01:08:35):
This is Good Morning DT with both Thompson and Beth
trout Man.

Speaker 2 (01:08:51):
We do have to read some of these, don't we yes?
On the text line seven four five, seven eleven ten
We should have known talking about naming Beth's fantasy team
because we're gonna have a little fantasy football league here
in the on the show.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
And I need help. I didn't know that I was
going to name a team too, so I needed I
needed some assistance.

Speaker 7 (01:09:11):
How you read all of them?

Speaker 2 (01:09:13):
Wait to you to start adjusting your lineup the draft beginning. Yeah, uh,
you want to roll off some of.

Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
Those, So Kevin send us a bunch of options.

Speaker 18 (01:09:23):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:09:24):
Can I read some of these? I can read these right?
Because it has to do with football, I don't know. Uh,
Kevin says, Queen Bee Sack, Queen Sassy Sackers here better
than you. That's ah, that's pretty unbethlievable. A Beth of

(01:09:46):
fresh air.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
I like that a lot actually.

Speaker 3 (01:09:48):
And that he said just one more, just a Beth
of a mess. That seems likely. That seems the way
that that things do go. Roley says, Beth and the
Boys or Beth team ever, be.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
Like Mike Tyson, best team ever.

Speaker 7 (01:10:06):
I'll put you in the face.

Speaker 3 (01:10:07):
Y'all have to read Brian's out loud. I can't. I
can't read Brian's out loud.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
We have to read it.

Speaker 7 (01:10:12):
Yeah, I can't see the screen.

Speaker 2 (01:10:13):
Show is this the one I think it is.

Speaker 3 (01:10:14):
Yeah, we make it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
I don't know if we can't read that, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:10:23):
I don't think we can read that one.

Speaker 7 (01:10:25):
The caller should read their own.

Speaker 3 (01:10:26):
Yeah. Mike says, I should just call it either Cat
Scratch Fever or Beth Beth Beth Beth Beth. Sheila says,
I should call it morning Bethany's Fantasy Football. How do
you like that, Beth?

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
Not much.

Speaker 7 (01:10:42):
I don't know if you be part of the Dame.

Speaker 3 (01:10:48):
Paul Betty, Betty, just sit in one Beth, the Huggers,
the Huggers, I like that.

Speaker 7 (01:10:56):
I think that fits.

Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
Who is the one that had my favorite? The one
that we haven't read yet, but we're not going to read.
But Brian enjoyed this song right here.

Speaker 3 (01:11:09):
Clothes If you know the name of the band.

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
Yeah, Brian, you win. I just can't. I can't. I
can't give you full credit, but trust me, you win.

Speaker 7 (01:11:17):
Could you call her from last week?

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
She said like six times? I think we used up
our quota.

Speaker 3 (01:11:24):
Cheryl says, Beth's ball Boys with a Z with a Z.

Speaker 2 (01:11:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's it's real.

Speaker 3 (01:11:30):
That's really good.

Speaker 2 (01:11:34):
Are you gonna make a choice, Yeah, Yeah, it's your team.

Speaker 3 (01:11:39):
I'm gonna make I'm absolutely gonna make a choice. People
are oh my gosh, now it's going nuts. Keep them
coming because I really will, I promise I will choose
one of these options. Beth Brawlers just came in.

Speaker 2 (01:11:52):
The season is going to be over, and she's still
not going to have a name.

Speaker 3 (01:11:54):
Make it pull Oh, like Brian, Brian said, this is
a different maybe not, this might be the same. This
is the same Brian. Beth rules, boys drool, I.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
Don't like I don't like it, Brian. I like your
rather one better. It's just so good.

Speaker 7 (01:12:18):
I told you could just go with an acronym BBS,
not ever explain what BBS.

Speaker 3 (01:12:25):
Does that mean that you guys are gonna help me
choose the name and we're going with Brian.

Speaker 2 (01:12:29):
I'm going I'm going with BBS BBS all the way
and and and if you connected it's to the last
week's show, you get it. And if you don't, I'm sorry.
I'm not going to do that every week.

Speaker 3 (01:12:40):
Oh, Sean says the Hug Brigade. I like the Hug Brigade.

Speaker 7 (01:12:45):
It's adorable. Yeah, nice, adorable.

Speaker 2 (01:12:48):
It might be good for sixth place.

Speaker 3 (01:12:51):
Oh y'all, me me boy, Me, me boy, this one
might be a winner. Beth picks ever, that's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
Yeah, well, I'm not gonna anything that Mimi says. This
is great, but it's still not the same. It's still
not what Brian did. Troutman's Terrorizers, Jeff.

Speaker 3 (01:13:08):
Oh, Jeff Troutman's Terrorizers.

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
Well, you have a lot of a lot of choices,
Megabet Mega. You have to read in that voice though,
Lock it in then.

Speaker 3 (01:13:24):
I love our listeners so much. These are fantastic.

Speaker 7 (01:13:28):
You forgot mine from like months ago, bed Beth or
Beth bad?

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
Was it best?

Speaker 7 (01:13:32):
Bad and beyond?

Speaker 3 (01:13:33):
It was bad Beth and beyond?

Speaker 2 (01:13:37):
Or the oldie but GOODI the Beth the Center, your
name comes in? Andy does the Beth Troutman Morning Show.
The Bow even has imaging for.

Speaker 8 (01:13:49):
I kind of like that with bo Thompson.

Speaker 7 (01:13:55):
Oh my gosh, what make make your logo your icon
boast face?

Speaker 2 (01:14:01):
And this is how you'd say it The Beth Troutman
Morning Show with.

Speaker 7 (01:14:12):
Oh Man. There's so many that from all right eighty
four on The Beth Troutman Show must not even have
a draft or a league. Let's just keep naming her Chamber.

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
I don't care about fancy football.

Speaker 7 (01:14:23):
Would never matched the fun we're having now.

Speaker 2 (01:14:24):
Everybody does that the name Beth's team probably cared about Beth.
You already won the season. It's over.

Speaker 18 (01:14:31):
Oh.

Speaker 7 (01:14:31):
I finally got to use my line today.

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
I saw them both out in the parking lot, and
so I was walking in and I said, good morning, Beats.
I go to line four. Pete has been waiting patiently here.
I just want to say how much I appreciate waking
up each morning to Bow and Beth. It couldn't be
any better than that.

Speaker 3 (01:14:48):
Oh, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:14:49):
That means the world to us. Hey, Pete, you're my hero.

Speaker 5 (01:14:52):
Now, good morning Beat Thompson and Beth Trout and the preferred.

Speaker 2 (01:14:57):
Choice of Pete's Oh thanks Pete.

Speaker 4 (01:14:59):
That's terrific.

Speaker 14 (01:15:00):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
For Monday morning, first day of school, August twenty fifth,
I hope everybody's being careful out there. One hundred and
forty one thousand students returning to the classes within CMS today,
and that's just CMS. You got Union County and Burke County,
a lot of other counties out there within the sound

(01:15:21):
of our voices. So again, stay with WDBT throughout the
day for the very latest. You still got them coming
out over there.

Speaker 3 (01:15:28):
Oh, I'm gonna tell you, I'm getting a ton Sean
might be my new favorite. He has now found a
Mega Death font generators.

Speaker 2 (01:15:39):
Oh no, yeah, Mega.

Speaker 3 (01:15:40):
Death Mega Death a Mega Death font generator. But he
used the font generator to make a logo that says
Megabeth and it really looks good. It does look good.

Speaker 7 (01:15:51):
But it's your team. You can pick whatever you want.

Speaker 6 (01:15:53):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:15:53):
Sewn also suggested that I pick my favorite five and
then let all of you out there vote.

Speaker 7 (01:15:59):
Nope, I wouldn't. I would not do that.

Speaker 2 (01:16:02):
It'll be fantasy your basketball season by the time.

Speaker 7 (01:16:06):
No, you're not gonna get the one you want, That's
what I'm saying. Oh, but I get the BBS.

Speaker 3 (01:16:10):
I promise that I will. I will choose if we
do the poll, if we do the poll, if we
figure out how to create the poll on our text line,
I will. I will go with the one that they choose,
and I will use the initials if need be.

Speaker 2 (01:16:22):
There's only one just saying to do walk up music.

Speaker 19 (01:16:30):
Listen is actually.

Speaker 3 (01:16:37):
I know, I'm not mad about it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:38):
Okay, it's your team.

Speaker 3 (01:16:39):
Brian made me laugh about it. But we could put
five out there right in a poll and let everybody vote.

Speaker 2 (01:16:45):
Or not just here the one to be like, hey,
there's a few more things to get out of here
before Jim gets out of here, because we've got Nick
mlvaaney coming up. But I want to make sure we
mentioned this. Remember when the Bill Belichick Hard Knocks then
got canceled.

Speaker 7 (01:17:01):
M hm, well, I think that's not why.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
Yeah, that's not coming back, but there is sort of
the version of that coming back. They've announced that Hulu
is going to do a a week by week behind
the scenes special for the Bill Belichick Maiden Voyage at
Chapel Hill.

Speaker 3 (01:17:21):
I bet that he turned down Hard Knocks because they
wouldn't what's his girlfriend's name. I always forget her name, Jordan,
because they.

Speaker 7 (01:17:29):
Didn't want who's the quarterback. It's all about Jordan there,
we've all become swifties. It's Jordan who's the quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:17:49):
But I think that Hard Knocks did not want her involvement.
And I bet you this Hulu deal, maybe she is
more involved and maybe works as kind of an executive.

Speaker 7 (01:17:59):
Really be behind this scenes. It'll be like filtered maybe though.

Speaker 2 (01:18:03):
In an Instagram post this weekend, Hudson posted a photo
of her blowing emoji hearts toward Belichick with Taylor Swift's
Look What You Made Me Do as the music. The
post tagged Hulu, the parent company of Disney, and the
production company ever Wonders Studio.

Speaker 18 (01:18:19):
See.

Speaker 2 (01:18:19):
So it does sound like she.

Speaker 3 (01:18:21):
Has involvement and that was the deal with I think
Hard Knocks not not being part of the UNC Belichick.

Speaker 7 (01:18:29):
Every answer to every question doing the show is we're
not talking about that. On to Cincinnati, behind the scenes,
look at the targos. Yeah, we're not talking about that.

Speaker 2 (01:18:38):
Actually, every answer during this show is this, sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
Do you think do you think that the Hulu series
will be more about their relationship off the field than
the football on the field.

Speaker 7 (01:18:56):
I do not. I can't imagine anybody to consent to that,
learning this now, all this information, but I can't imagine
he would be up for that kind of a show.

Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
According to wra L, the North Carolina football program and
Belichick will appear on a season long series to be
streamed on Hulu. This is about the UNC football program,
said Belichick. It's going to feature players working hard, which
you guys do exciting.

Speaker 7 (01:19:21):
It's players working hard.

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
It'll show our commitment to winning. It'll show our commitment
to the team and that's our priority. Unquote. No further
details have been released by the university or the football program,
and I don't know when this is going to debut
on Hulu, but if it's on Hulu, that means that
it's under the Disney umbrella, and ESPN is under the
Disney umbrella as well. So more to come on this.

(01:19:43):
But if you thought that the so called backstage or
behind the scenes access was not going to happen, it is.
This all you know comes out a week after we
learned that Bill Belichick is not going to do his
weekly coaches show, right.

Speaker 3 (01:19:58):
Which is when Jim's he came up with the brilliant
name for the coaches show called He's not.

Speaker 7 (01:20:03):
Here doing it live from me. He's not here. I
just have like the Clint Eastwood empty chair next to
Jones right.

Speaker 3 (01:20:09):
At all times, he's not here.

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
But you know you have a coach.

Speaker 7 (01:20:13):
Go ahead, just silence the coach. Did you name a
starting quarterback?

Speaker 2 (01:20:19):
Now? Just in you're talking about if you're just joining
us and you haven't heard this till now, there is
going to be a coaches show. It's going to be
called Carolina Football Live instead of Bill Belichick Live, because
in the recent years it was Mac Brown Live. But
they are going to have the show and it's going
to be weekly here on WBT like it always has been,
but only the first episode will have Belichick and then
Michael Lombardi is going to be the host with Jones Angel.

(01:20:43):
After that we're going to start our conversations. I believe. Yeah,
it's this week, So this coming Thursday, we'll have our
weekly chat with Jones Angel. So maybe we can get
some some intel.

Speaker 3 (01:20:52):
Yeah, and maybe we'll find out if if it's live
or if it's just like a taped thing where they
go to the locker room and get some sound.

Speaker 7 (01:20:59):
Being the biggest affiliate of the char Hills Network, that
we should have at least one coach Belichick appearance as
the largest of the affiliates.

Speaker 3 (01:21:07):
Can Youba get Jordan on the phone see if we
can make that happen.

Speaker 7 (01:21:10):
That's probably the route you have to go to make
it happen.

Speaker 3 (01:21:12):
Because she runs his piece.

Speaker 7 (01:21:16):
I don't even know we talk about Michael Jordan.

Speaker 2 (01:21:21):
The ceiling is the roof.

Speaker 3 (01:21:23):
Well, you know you said that you didn't think that
Bill Belichick would sign off on having a documentary about
their relationship off the field. But did you ever think
that Bill Belichick would post on social media him with,
you know, catching a mermaid or doing weird yoga.

Speaker 7 (01:21:38):
We think he hit the buttons on that. I don't
think he hit the buttons on it.

Speaker 3 (01:21:41):
But he did the pose.

Speaker 7 (01:21:43):
He did do the post post, which is what I'm saying, like,
don't don't be a fisherman with a mermaid if you
don't want people to ask about the fisherman and the mermaid.

Speaker 3 (01:21:49):
Right, So this is why I'm saying, I bet that
there's going to be more everybody's writing checks so you
can't cash.

Speaker 2 (01:21:56):
We're not talking about that.

Speaker 7 (01:21:58):
But you are literally laying on the beach when you
picture up with your feet and oh that foot picture, man,
he goes, I don't really think, he goes, I don't
really follow social media. No, you're like the subject, you're
the picture, You're you're in there, and you're dressed like
a fisherman. So that's what I'm saying, A yellow fisherman's thing.

Speaker 3 (01:22:12):
That's what I'm saying. I think they'll probably be more
of the relationship in this than we think.

Speaker 2 (01:22:17):
I just biffed the top gun reference your egos writing
checks that your body can't catch your body, wrote the cash.
I don't even know what I just said.

Speaker 3 (01:22:24):
Oh, I just thought it was a reference to to Jordan.

Speaker 4 (01:22:27):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (01:22:31):
All right, we're almost at nine o'clock on wat Nick
Mulvaney on the other side.

Speaker 5 (01:22:35):
We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious
people to solve them. You cannot be serious. From Me's
talk eleven ten and ninety nine three double.

Speaker 2 (01:22:45):
Bt Beth Troutman, She's looking out for you. You always
know when you listen to both.

Speaker 5 (01:22:51):
This is Good Morning Beat with Bo Thompson and Beth Troutman.

Speaker 2 (01:22:56):
It is written off.

Speaker 4 (01:23:00):
To get back to.

Speaker 12 (01:23:04):
Look for me Sunday going to be there, honey, some
special choice.

Speaker 2 (01:23:10):
Yes, that time of the week we bring in the
former White House Chief of Staff, former White House Budget Director,
former Ambassador to Northern Ireland, former South Carolina congressman. You
see him on News Nation on CNBC and you hear
him on our show. Like I said, back to the

(01:23:31):
start on Monday's, Mick mulvaney is with us. Good morning, sir,
Baring my friend, how are you doing well? Doing well?
We have lots to talk about today, and you know,
here we are a week ago, you were, you were
with us and we were talking about, Okay, what did
you think of the meeting at the White House the
friday before with Vladimir Putin? And then what we were

(01:23:51):
anticipating what would happen with the meeting on Monday at
the White House with all of the dignitaries assembled there.
And now here we are a week later, and President
Trump on Friday was asked about it and he was
not happy with the way things are going. There are
attacks that are still happening by Russia on Ukraine, and

(01:24:12):
I almost kind of feel like we're back to where
we were a few weeks ago before Trump gave that deadline.
We're almost exactly where we were, and we're waiting to see, Okay,
what's Trump going to do next? Because Vladimir Putin is
not playing along like he thought maybe he would.

Speaker 18 (01:24:27):
Yeah, this is this is really not going well. I
can if we talked about on the show last week
or not, if I talked about a news nation, I said,
the thing to watch was the schedule that you know Trump,
remember he met with Putin on a Friday in Alaska
and then he met, I think with the European leaders
the following Monday, as you mentioned, and then you expected
something to happen right away. In fact, Trump sort of

(01:24:47):
hinted that that was things were moving very quickly, and
that Lensky and Putin were going to meet and going
to meet promptly. That's clearly not going to happen. And
I think what everybody needs to be figuring out of
the White House is that something needs to change. There's
a stasis, there's a status quo right now that needs.

Speaker 6 (01:25:05):
To be broken.

Speaker 18 (01:25:06):
Putin is completely happy with the way things are right now.
He's talking, there's no sanctions. He gets to continue, you know,
is wars maybe one hundred percent I means eighty percent,
and he's still you know, slowly taking over land and
so forth. He's got to think to himself, you know
what this is. This is the best deal I can
get right now, and Trump has to change that. No

(01:25:27):
amount of jawboning at this point is apparently going to work.
So you have to look at sanctions, you have to
look at military action, you have look at something to
change the calculation, because right now Putin could Putin, I think,
is sending messages that He's fine with the way things
are for the unforseeable future.

Speaker 3 (01:25:44):
You know, I was wondering about that. Is Putin sending
a message trying to make Trump look weaker. I know
that the conversation that Donald Trump has had since this
war began was if he had been president. You know,
Vladimir Putin wouldn't have attacked Ukraine in the first place.
And I'm wondering now if Vladimir Putin's trying to say, hey, look,
I do what I want no matter who's in office.

Speaker 18 (01:26:05):
Yeah, I don't think that two things are mutually exclusive.
Starting a war is one thing, and continuing it and dragging.

Speaker 6 (01:26:11):
It out is another.

Speaker 18 (01:26:12):
I happen to agree with President Trump, but I don't
think Putin would have invaded if Trump had been president.
I think Putin is very calculated. He likes going to
he likes pressing the Democrats because he thinks they're soft
on national security. Why that's why he invade Crimea under
the Obama administration, I feel, and why he didn't do
anything during the first Trump administration. So I think that

(01:26:32):
that probably is true, but it doesn't solve the problem now.
And you know, every time I watched the president on
TV's like, you know, it's not my war, it's not
my warm I'm like, yeah, okay, it's not. I get
that you didn't start it, but you're president now, and
you know fixing it is part of your problem.

Speaker 6 (01:26:47):
Yes, you do.

Speaker 18 (01:26:48):
Inherit difficulties from previous administrations and this is one of them.
But clearly what they're doing is not working. We are
I mean, he never really believed the twenty four hour
talk during a campaign, but he thought this thing would
be over by now, and it's not. And put is
very very quietly, very subtly, sort of thumbing his nose.
Then we see, you know, Donald's real nice to meet you.

Speaker 3 (01:27:08):
Let's let's let's.

Speaker 18 (01:27:09):
Continue this conversation. Maybe I don't know, six eight weeks
from now, let me go bomb these guys for a
little bit. I'll call you back. That's what's happening right now,
and that's going to continue until Trump changes the changes
the status quo.

Speaker 2 (01:27:21):
Well, he said on Friday that in two weeks he
should know whether progress is possible to in this this struggle,
and we know now that when he says two weeks,
it doesn't always mean two weeks. It sort of means Okay,
that's my that's my cover, or that's my time to
sort of figure out what the next move is. And

(01:27:43):
the last time he gave that, like I started saying
with you, last time he gave that ultimatum, it didn't
take two weeks and he made the decision to have
the summit. Now the summit's happened and he's moved past
that whole thing. So now I just wonder, you're so
good at taking us behind the scenes with what he's doing,
and maybe he's strategizing. You know, what, is this the
time that we actually see Trump sort of go on

(01:28:06):
the offensive as it relates to Vladimir Putin, Because you know,
what we saw at the White House, as you know
last week, was a lot about posturing. It was a
lot about who looks like they have the upper hand.
And that's a big deal to President Trump as it
is to Vladimir Putin. We've never actually seen sort of
the the clash. What really happens when when one of

(01:28:27):
them gets angry.

Speaker 18 (01:28:29):
Yeah, here's here's the difficult conversation I hope that somebody
is having with the President. And you mentioned deadlines and
moved deadlines and all that kind of stuff. Deadlines be nothing.
Now Trump came up, so they we're putting on sanctions tomorrow,
We're putting in sanctions two weeks, putting sanctions in twenty
twenty seven. You know, it doesn't it doesn't make any difference.
And the difficult conversation is that somebody has to go
to this president. We need to do something to re

(01:28:49):
establish our credibility because right now Putin doesn't believe us,
he doesn't fear us, he doesn't respect us. He may
like you, I mean fine, he may you know, you
enjoy your conversations and so forth, but it's not moving
the needle. It's that's not changing anything. It's not getting
you where you want to go. And you need to
do something to re establish credibility. I don't know if
that means setting a deadline and keeping it, if he

(01:29:10):
gives you an ultimatum and keeping it. If it just
means something out of out of the blue, sanctions today
without without any heads up whatsoever, something to change where
we are, because right now it's not that Putin's got
the upper hand, it's just Putin is still I mean
some many times we've talked about this. You don't get
a deal. At the table. Until everybody believes they're going
to get a better deal at the table than they

(01:29:32):
get in the field. That that's that mean, that's that's
that's that's war fighting and peace making one on one,
all right. And right now the Russians still feel like
they've got to they will get a better deal by
staying in the field, and you have to change that.
Until you do, it's it's not going to end.

Speaker 3 (01:29:47):
So that feels like, I know you said that that
Putin doesn't have the upper hand, but that makes it
feel like he has a slightly a bit of an
upper hand. And if if that is the case, how
did we get here? How did how did we get
to this point?

Speaker 18 (01:30:04):
Look, it's a long people keep forgetting that Ukraine is
not a NATO country, right, So it's not the same.
Invading Ukraine is not the same legally as invading Poland
and so forth, And I have to think that has
something to do with it. Look, I was never a
big fan of a wholehearted sort of support of Ukraine.
They're not they're not our allies. Think we might be

(01:30:26):
friendly with them, but you know, and I've always struggled
with the European response and so forth. This has just
been a strange thing. Best. It's not like it's not like,
you know, him invading Australia Ukraine is not. It doesn't
fall into that sort of sphere. I don't know how
we got here this It really doesn't make that much difference.
Trump would say it was Biden's weakness, and okay, that's fine,

(01:30:48):
but again that doesn't explaining how it started doesn't help
us explain how it finishes. Yes, it would not have started.
I will take him at his word that this war
would not be happening if he were president, but that
that doesn't mean difference.

Speaker 6 (01:31:01):
He wasn't a.

Speaker 18 (01:31:02):
President, and the war did start. So here we are
now he's president United States. Does he want to finish
it or not? Is he going to stay committed to
this or is he not? You know, listen, there's always
a chance he throws up his hands and says, you
know what, Europeans, I've tried, this is your problem, not mine.
I don't see how this is in my direct American interest,
and so forth, you guys figure out how to fix this.
I'm out of here. That's always possible that that happens.

Speaker 19 (01:31:25):
This is good morning, Beat, rolling on with Mick mulvaney
on a Monday Bowen beth here and got a lot
more to get to.

Speaker 2 (01:31:36):
I want to hit one more thing as it relates
to Russia and Ukraine. The Vice President was on Meet
the Press yesterday with Kristen Welker, and she asked him this.

Speaker 20 (01:31:47):
The Russians rejected the ceasefire proposal that President Trump put forward.
There's no meeting plan between President Putin and President Zelenski.
And this week Russia targeted an American factory in Ukraine
and there were six hundred people inside at the time.
No one was killed. What makes you think President Putin
is serious about peace?

Speaker 21 (01:32:06):
Well, I didn't say they conceded on everything, but what
they have conceded is the recognition that Ukraine will have
territorial integrity after the war. They've recognized that they're not
going to be able to install a puppet regime in Kiev.
That was, of course a major demand at the beginning.
And importantly, they've acknowledged that there is going to be
some security guarantee to the territorial integrity of Ukraine. Again,

(01:32:27):
have they made every concession, of course they haven't. Should
they have started the war, of course, they haven't, but
we're making progress, Kristin. And what I admire about the
President in this moment is he's not asking three and
a half years ago. He's not trying to focus on
every nitpicky detail of how this thing started three and
a half years ago. He's trying to focus on the

(01:32:48):
nitpicky details of now of what do the parties disagree on,
what do they agree on, and how do you build
a foundation from one side of that ledger to the
other seat that you can stop the killing?

Speaker 20 (01:32:59):
What was President Trump? Were you enraged when you learned
that Russia targeted an American company based in Ukraine.

Speaker 21 (01:33:07):
I don't like it, Kristen, but this is a war,
and this is why we want to stop the killing.
The Russians have done a lot of things that we
don't like. A lot of civilians have died. We've condemned
that stuff from the get go. And frankly, President Trump
has done more to apply pressure and to apply economic
leverage to the Russians, certainly than Joe Biden did for

(01:33:28):
three and a half years when he did nothing but
talk but do nothing to bring the killing to a stop.
So you ask me what I'm enraged by. What I'm
enraged by is the continuation of the war.

Speaker 2 (01:33:38):
It's an interesting exchange there. I was mentioning before the
break about you know what's really going on behind the scenes. Now.
I don't think you can look at how this is
all played out, especially with the first meeting then the
second meeting. Everything has seemed measured from the White House
with this so far. But I think the longer it
goes with Putin not holding up his into the bargain

(01:33:59):
as we thought he would or he was supposed to
or asked to, then you know what's going on behind
that facade of you know, the Secretary of State Rubia
was speaking last week on the Sunday shows, and then
you had jd Vance making the rounds this week, and
both of those guys are are good messengers for the president.
What's the president doing behind the scenes.

Speaker 18 (01:34:18):
Nick mulvaney, Yeah, I mean that's you hope that there's
a lot of backchannel discussion going on. You hope that
you heard jd Vance, for example, there go over some
of the details and so forth, and you hope there's
ongoing discussions with that. I'm not sure that's how this
negotiation is working out. That's not how Trump likes to work.
Trump likes to deal principle to principle. Trump thought when

(01:34:39):
he left Putin in Flord in Alaska and then met
with the Europeans that he was on the sort of
the the arc to a meeting between Zelenski and put
That's not happened, and whatever they're doing right now isn't working.
So this, you know, great, It was great face to
face meetings, and I love face to face meeting Don't

(01:35:00):
get me wrong. I think they're tremendously valuable. But you
ultimately measure the value by what you get out of it.
And what Jadvancis went through, right, there is a bunch of,
you know, verbal commitments. I guess maybe that the Russians
has said they sort of agree to this, and they
sort of agree to that. Look everywhere in life, but
especially in politics and geopolitics, actions speak louder than words.

(01:35:22):
So if I'm sitting in a meeting and go, you know,
I think this, Yeah, listen, I think we've got a
sort of the framework of a deal. I'm okay with
territorial integrity, I'm okay with security guarantee. You give me
a little bit land I'm sort of okay with that.
And then you go out and you bomb an American
factory that speaks a lot louder than whatever words you
said at the table. And I know that the White
House has got me frustrated. I'm just hoping they're doing

(01:35:44):
something to try and change the direction, because it's not
headed towards peace right now.

Speaker 3 (01:35:48):
You know, one of the things that now that we
have a WBT text line is people communicate with us
in real time as they're listening to us have these conversations.
And one of the things that BO and I like
to do is is give everyone a chance to offer
their perspectives. Now, this one I wanted to read to
you because this one is harsh. This person he didn't
leave his name or she didn't leave her name, but

(01:36:09):
they said, just say it. Trump is weak, he's never
had a plan, and he just wants Putin to be
his friend. Do you see any truth to a statement
like that one?

Speaker 18 (01:36:20):
No, except as a means to an end. Look, we
all like dealing with people that we like dealing with.
It's easier to do business with people when you get
along with them. You can do business with people you
don't like. But no one really likes to do it.
And you know, you go back and you read his
books and so forth, and Trump will talk about trying
to develop relationships with people so weak. Look, you can't

(01:36:42):
argue there's been no results. I don't know if that
translates into weakness. And of course, ultimately weakness is judged
in hindsight. So you know, if he does something tomorrow
that's dramatic, is weakness still the issue? I don't think
that it is. I'm trying, Beth, and look, I'm all
for the text line and stuff like that, and I
think it's great to get feedback. I think anonymous commentary

(01:37:03):
is part of the decline of Western civilization. But that's
that's that's another that's another story entirely. But I'm just
I'm not trying to I'm just simply trying. I'm not
trying to defend the president and trying to lay out
where they are and what they need to do next,
because again, as I've said before, it's just not working.

Speaker 5 (01:37:22):
This is Good Morning Betty with Bo Thompson and the
Path trout Man.

Speaker 2 (01:37:34):
Monday morning in the Taboid Studio. Bo and Beth's here
talking to Mick Mulvaney. You see him on News Nation,
former White House Chief of Staff. We talked to him
once a week about all things emanating from Washington and
beyond as it relates to politics, and we were talking
about for the first half hour, mainly about Russia and Ukraine,
Trump and putin the president Trump has I've been doing

(01:37:59):
a lot of things on the domestic front as well,
a lot of talk about what he is trying to
do with Washington, d C. In fact, he was talking
about DC and how DC has changed in the last
several weeks since he has dispatched the National Guard to
areas of the nation's capital. He was talking in the
Oval Office on Friday about how this might extend to
other places in the country.

Speaker 12 (01:38:19):
If everything works out. And we've already had calls from
other cities, quiet calls, calls from Democrats we'd love you
to come here.

Speaker 14 (01:38:28):
Because they've lost control of theirselves. I'm not going to say,
because I don't want them to lose their elections, but
we've had calls from Democrats and calls from people generally
we'd love you to come here.

Speaker 21 (01:38:40):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:38:40):
One of the governors has been going back and forth
online meck with President Donald Trump. That would be Wes Moore,
who is the governor of Maryland. He says online that
Donald Trump can stay obsessed with me, that's fine, but
I will stay obsessed with working in partnership to continue
our historic success of driving down crime in Baltimore. Donald Trump, then,

(01:39:04):
replying on truth Social, Governor Wes Moore of Maryland has asked,
in a very nasty and provocative tone, that I walk
the streets of Maryland with him. I assume he is
talking about out of control, crime ridden Baltimore. That's just
part of the post that he posted on truth Social,
so in that it sounds like he's suggesting that places

(01:39:26):
like Baltimore, which has the fourth highest crime rate in
the nation right now the city of Baltimore according to
crime statistics, that deploying the National Guard to a place
like Baltimore could be a positive thing. And I guess
my real question is DC is a different a different
beast than other cities across the nation. So if he decided,

(01:39:48):
if President Trump decided that he wanted to try this
out in other cities like Baltimore. He's also mentioned Chicago,
how does he get around the Posse Comatatis Act, which
bars the arm forces from serving as civilian police.

Speaker 18 (01:40:04):
Him up in the and I'm not entirely clear if
what he's talking about doing in Chicago and Baltimore in
the cities is the same as what he's talking about
doing with the seventeen hundred National Guard units to the
eleven states or whatever prominently republican states by the way,
if they're the same. The way he gets around the
restrictions on sending the National Guard is that the National

(01:40:25):
Guard are allowed. I think it's Title thirty two or
something like that.

Speaker 6 (01:40:28):
Camera what it is.

Speaker 18 (01:40:29):
We used to deal with this at the Office Menasment
Budget all the time, that you can send the national Guard,
you can federalize national Guard, essentially says the President takes
responsibility for them, and the federal government pays them, and
they go to support federal efforts, so that the state
National Guard, for example in Illinois, would go to support

(01:40:50):
ICE efforts or FBI efforts. This is the tool they
used when they went to California. And I don't know
all the limitations on it, because I don't think we
did this very much. We talked about it, and I
did the research, but it's eight years ago now, so
that's how you get around it. But you're right. Your
basic point is a good one, which is a Washington.

Speaker 13 (01:41:06):
D C.

Speaker 18 (01:41:07):
Is a different thing legally, constitutionally the whole shooting match,
and it'll be issuing to see what they were able
to pull off in the other states. I will tell
you this, it's the politics of it is fascinating to me.
We had some really good polling data on News Nation
last week that in Washington, d C. That eighty percent
of the people polled in this predominantly Democrat city didn't

(01:41:30):
like what Donald Trump was doing. Did I give an
unfavorable approval rating of the efforts by the federal government
to come into the city of DC. But in the
same poll, nearly two thirds said it was working. Said
two thirds said it was actually making Washington safer. So
they didn't like it because it was Donald Trump, but
they admitted that it was working. So that's a very
interesting political place to be because it puts the Democrats in.

Speaker 6 (01:41:51):
A tough bind.

Speaker 18 (01:41:53):
I thought the most interesting interview the Democrat over the
weekend was a Ram Emmanuel, former governor of Chicago, chief
of staff to President Obama, wants to run for president
and says, look take Trump out of it, and what
we're really talking about is, you know, are we willing
to have a discussion within the Democrat Party about law
and order and crime and punishment. And it seems like,
you know, we're not ready to have that yet. It's
one of the reasons we're losing voters so dramatically. I

(01:42:15):
thought that was insightful from somebody else who wants to
be president, key miut Wes Moore wants to be president,
Emmanuel wants to be president. Pritz Kern Illinois wants to
be president. Kevin Newsko wants to be president or knews
I'm sorry, I wants to president. So the politics of
this is fascinating. In addition to the practicalities.

Speaker 3 (01:42:30):
You're someone who has traveled all over the world, and
I know that you have probably been in countries. I
know that I witnessed this when I was in Brazil,
I saw it when I was in Pakistan, and I'm
sure you've seen it in different countries around the world
where the military is present at the airport, the military
is present, you know when you're just walking down the street.
Is that the general feel in Washington, d C. Right now?

(01:42:50):
And is that the feel we want here in the United.

Speaker 18 (01:42:53):
States, thankfully best. I don't know the answer to that question.
I'm one of I'm one of the many people who
tries to get out of Washington, d C. For the
month of August. So I'll be up next week and
we'll see what's happening. I've seen the photographs or seen
the pictures of the news and so forth, and it
looks a little bit heavy handed. There's a tank in
front of Union Station, I think, or at least an

(01:43:14):
armored personnel carrier. So I think that could be striking
to some people who spend a lot of time there.
That being said as someone who takes the metro every
single day in Washington, d C. And I do, I
can assure you that I'm gonna be I've been. I'm
gonna fel pretty good about the fact. It's gonna be
a lot safer at Union Station than it has been
in the past. Union Stations a rough, rough, rough part

(01:43:35):
of town, and it doesn't need to be. So we'll
see what the we'll see. They have two answers to
your question does it look like and feel like? And
there was what the practicality the you know, the crint
that the safety sort of feel of the place.

Speaker 4 (01:43:47):
Good Morning b two. This is Good Morning Beat.

Speaker 2 (01:43:53):
Final stretch here on a Monday, Bo and Beth and
Mick Muldaney. You see him on News Nation former White
House Chief of Staff, South Carolina Congressman. So I wanted
to get into this real quick. A federal judge late
last week disqualified acting US Attorney for New Jersey, Alena Habba,
from participating in any ongoing cases lodged by her office

(01:44:15):
after the lawfulness of her appointment by the Trump administration
was challenged by defendants in two separate criminal cases. And
I've never heard this phrase, the blue slipping, and I
was learning about it this weekend and sort of preparing
for the show today. And then yesterday on Sunday Morning
Futures with Maria Bartiromo, she had Alena Habba on the show,

(01:44:38):
and during the course of that conversation, a US Senator
from North Carolina came into the conversation.

Speaker 22 (01:44:44):
What do you want to say about Senator Tillis. Tom Tillis,
a member of the Judiciary Committee, has stated publicly that
if Chairman Grassley tried moving a district judge or US
attorney through the Judiciary Committee without a blue slip. He
would oppose that nomin eight, and that means we would
not even have the votes to pass a nomination like
Haba out of committee because Tillis would vote.

Speaker 3 (01:45:06):
No along with the Democrats.

Speaker 23 (01:45:08):
You know, they're trying to look at this as they
all need to get along to go along, but they're
not looking.

Speaker 3 (01:45:13):
At what this does.

Speaker 23 (01:45:14):
The President was rightfully voted in by a majority of Americans,
and he is entitled to pick his US attorneys, his
Department of Justice officials, his judges so that we can
continue the agenda that the American public voted for, which
is to get rid of crime. In the state of
New Jersey and June alone, we arrested over three hundred criminals, illegals, rapists.

(01:45:35):
What is so bad about that work? The truth is
it has nothing to do with the work that we're doing.
It has nothing to do with the crime that we're stopping.
It has to do with trying to prevent President Trump
from continuing his agenda, and it has to stop. So
I would say to Senator Tillis and Senator Grassley, you
are becoming part of the issue.

Speaker 2 (01:45:53):
So we'll get to Alena Haba specifically in a second here,
but Mick, the blue slip concept in the chamber there,
can you shed some light on that.

Speaker 18 (01:46:03):
It's pretty simple. It's a tradition in the Senate, of course,
one of those you know, it's not in a constitution,
so if you're looking for it, it's not going to
be there. Essentially, says, look, before any president can put
a judge of a federal bench in a state that
both of the senators from that state need to sign off,
all right, and it's the Senate looks at it's sort

(01:46:23):
of an informal check and balance that you know, even
if you've got a Democrat president, he does get to
a point, say, you know, judges for the federal ben
from South Carolina, but only ones that are acceptable to
the two Republican senators, and then vice versa when there's
a Republican office in Democrat states and so forth, and
it does lead to this compromise judge swapping sometimes, you know,

(01:46:44):
you get a Democrat judge and a Republican judge. Obviously,
if you've got a Republican White House and Senate in
a Republican state, then it's easier. The same is true
and everybody's Democrat, etc. So what's happened here is that
Haba has been appointed or named nominated tower on the
federal bench where there are two Democrat senators, and they
won't approver he. They won't approve her. They won't send

(01:47:07):
in the blue slip saying she's okay with us, which
is not surprising. And what Pillis is saying is, look,
I benefit North Carolina benefits from the blue slip rules
when there's a Democrat president, and I want to keep
the blue rules around, and therefore I will vote to
respect the blue slip rules. And if you can't get
the approval of the two senators from the state of

(01:47:28):
New jersey'll vote against it.

Speaker 3 (01:47:30):
Do you know Alena Haba and do you feel that
she deserves approval from these guys, from these senators?

Speaker 18 (01:47:37):
Yeah, no, I don't know. Is the threshold? I know
how I feel generally about Senate confirmation on judges. I've
been through Centate confirmation one of the most demeaning processes
of my professional career. I've always sort of been in
the opinion that the president should be entitled to his
or her team and a less a person is wildly
unqualified or has significant of moral criminal type of issues,

(01:48:03):
that the president should be entitled to his or her cabinet,
should be entitled to his or her judiciary, et ce.
So I'm not a big fan of the Senate advice
and consent. I think they advising and center is just bizarre.
It makes it it's become more extort and delayed that
is advised to consent. So that's a longer discussion for
another day. But I think I see exactly what Senator

(01:48:26):
Tillis is doing. You're saying, look, this helps North Carolina.
Sometimes if we get rid of it, North Carolina will
be worse off. Therefore, I'm going to continue to stick
by the tradition of the blue slip rules.

Speaker 2 (01:48:35):
You were talking a few minutes ago about all the
various Democrats who seem to be sort of maneuvering to
possibly run for president next time around, and of course
one of the names you mentioned Gavin Newsom. This time
last week we were asking you what about this, this
act of you know, mimicking President Trump's tweets and such

(01:48:55):
and sort of kind of fighting fire with fire, or
coming at him in the same fashion that he comes
at Newsom with. Well, if people thought that this was
just sort of a passing fad for him. Now he's
actually opened up as an online store to sell products
that are themed. You know that there's all the MAGA
style hats and and things you can buy with Trump

(01:49:15):
on them and Trump phrases. But now Newsom has gone
at least he's gone to the extent that he's he's
opening up and actually offering people the option to buy
uh these you know, things that are sort of tongue
in cheek mimicking Trump. And the money's going to his
election coffers. So I guess, I guess Newsom's going to

(01:49:36):
stay with this stick for a while.

Speaker 18 (01:49:38):
Yeah, Imitation is the greatest ord flattery, right. I saw
one of his flags.

Speaker 6 (01:49:42):
The other day.

Speaker 18 (01:49:43):
It's it's that that white text on a blue field
with a sort of a thin white box that says,
Maga make America Gavin again.

Speaker 6 (01:49:51):
Listen.

Speaker 18 (01:49:52):
I can't stand the guy's politics, but you got to
give him credit. This has been a huge success. He's
zoomed up the charts and social media, the impressions and
so forth. Clearly, as of right now, he's the front
runner for the Democrat nomination. He's doing everything right. I
don't know why anybody else didn't think of this sooner.
In fact, I can imagine Pritzker and Wes Moore and
Ram Emmanuel going, goodness graces, if only I thought of that.

(01:50:15):
It's a great marketing tool. And yeah, it's funny. I mean,
if you're willing to sort of suspend your political views
for the sake of humor, sort of stuff is actually
quite creative. So I follow it on Twitter anyway. I
think it's been a huge success for him. Whether it
translates into electoral victories, you know, eighteen months from now
remains actually longer than that, goodness gracious, three and a

(01:50:37):
half years now remains to be seen. But right now
he's certainly the talk of the nation when it comes
to the leading Democrats.

Speaker 2 (01:50:43):
All Right, we've covered a lot of bases here in
a short amount of time. Always good to have you on.
Hope you have a great week and we'll talk to
you next time.

Speaker 18 (01:50:50):
Thanks guys, we see it.

Speaker 2 (01:50:51):
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and Steve and Zoke and Garrison and Boomer. On the
first day of school. Hope everybody has a safe la
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