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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:01):
We got a hping hot mic.

Speaker 4 (00:03):
Yeah, a lot of a lot of fuzzy bounce on
those upper eqs.

Speaker 5 (00:07):
What a kick in the pants from these talk eleven
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Speaker 6 (00:13):
Over my lasses and ladders and make wait for you
soul rocking death.

Speaker 5 (00:16):
This is good morning beating with both Thompson and Beth
Trout with hello.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
First time here, and the goose says hello to you too.

Speaker 7 (00:33):
First this first I'm gonna say, are the words inside
my head.

Speaker 8 (00:37):
I'm tired up and tied up.

Speaker 9 (00:39):
The edded things a ben or.

Speaker 8 (00:43):
The headed things have been.

Speaker 7 (00:45):
Or second thing? Second, don't you tell me what you
think that I can be. I'm the one at the sale.
I'm the master doodo, my seal, the master doodle. I
was broken from a young age, taking my soulk into

(01:06):
the messages, out of my own whims for the dude
they look at me.

Speaker 9 (01:10):
Let me sing him from.

Speaker 7 (01:11):
Heart ache from the pains, taking my message from the banes,
speaking my lesson from the bain, seeing the beauty through the.

Speaker 8 (01:33):
Well, speaking of believer. You're not gonna believe this. Wednesday,
July twenty third Folk Thompson, Jim zochie Bernie Bowls, Sir
Stephen of Anthony in the Tyboid studio. Meanwhile, somewhere in
New Jersey, Beth Troutman joins us right now on the

(01:53):
WBT hotline. Good morning, Beth.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Good morning guys. Yes, you're not gonna believe this. I
am in New Jersey and it's stunningly beautiful, stunningly beautiful.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
It's a great vacation choice.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Sadly, sadly, Jim, not on vacation. I'm working. I never
get a never get a day off, or never take
a day off. It's a choice, I guess.

Speaker 8 (02:18):
So you are off from this show for the next
three days, not to be in New Jersey. You're you're
in New Jersey now, but you're actually headed to Pennsylvania right.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yes, I'm headed over into the Poconos to a camp
called Happiness Is Camping and you will love this though.
It's actually a camp for young people who are battling cancer,
and foundations and corporate sponsors make it possible for these
families to let their children be part of summer camp

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along with their siblings, completely free, no cost to the family,
no cost to the kids. They get a week long
or more camp experience where they can just focus on
being a kid. They can focus on having fun, focus
on a camp experience, do camp activities, and not have
to focus on their cancer battle. They have medical folks

(03:12):
on staff, they have a way for young people to
get treatment if they need it while they're on site
and on location at the camp, but it's mainly a
way for these young people to just get to be
kids and just get to have fun and not have
to think about the fact that they are currently battling cancer.

Speaker 8 (03:31):
And you're there to do some documentary work type work,
because everybody knows that you obviously come from the TV
field and do these kind of things from time to time.
So is this another version of that.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yep, that's exactly what it is. It's to shine a
spotlight on the incredible things that people do that don't
get enough of a spotlight, the corporations that sponsor these
kinds of things, the people who do all of the
volunteer work that people who make camp possible for these
young folks, and also to spotlight these kids who are

(04:04):
brave and incredible and you know, fighting a battle but
still showing you know, so much unconditional love for each other.
We can we can all learn so so much from
just watching young people. And in this kind of setting,
you get to see what unconditional love looks like, what
unconditional unconditional support and strength, what it all looks like.

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And so we are here to capture all of that.
And it's for the Lifetime Network.

Speaker 8 (04:32):
Well you know me, I mean, like you said, any
opportunity that any kid has to go to any camp,
whatever kind of camp, or what situation they're in, I
think is a good thing. That's how I came up
and shaped a lot of the things about me those
days working and being a counselor and a camper at
at at the camp I was at, which is a
YMCA camp. So you're going to be there for the

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next three days, and but you're going to be checking
in in the mornings. So we're gonna we're gonna No
one's gonna lose their Spotify song of the day on
their list.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
It was top of mind for me. I wanted to
make sure that we did not miss a day with
this new Spotify playlist and now.

Speaker 8 (05:08):
Responsibility well, and of course you know I called her
a texted her earlier and I said, Okay, okay, your
song of the day. It's got to be I mean,
it's got to be this, right, I mean, but no,
it's Imagined Dragons today. But Ozzy Osbourne doping.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
I was kind of hoping I could wake up to
Ozzy Osbourne when I learned that news. When I arrived
here in New Jersey last night, I was heartbroken because
we just talked about his final performance a few weeks ago.

Speaker 8 (05:38):
Yeah, it was on July fifth, where he performed the
last song of his set there for that concert they
did for him, and we're going to play some of
that coming up a little bit later. The mama, I'm
coming home. But Ozzy Osbourne, the big news yesterday, passed
away at the age of seventy six. So I know
this wasn't the song you woke up to, but let's
pretend for a second it was.

Speaker 10 (06:31):
I'm going up.

Speaker 8 (06:36):
So much more today about Ozzy Osbourne and Beth. You've
got to get off to doing what you're supposed to
be doing today, but we're all very happy that you
checked in before you started.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Oh well, I love you guys. I'll try to get
some furthers today so that people can see this this
pretty incredible place.

Speaker 8 (06:51):
All right, So stay in touch. We'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
I love y'all. Love you.

Speaker 8 (07:00):
So I'm sure you have some Ozzy stories before this
is all over.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Just remember growing up and black T shirt. I didn't
have one, but that was like the uniform for a
lot of kids would go to high school wearing whatever
concert black T shirts they would go to. Back in
the day.

Speaker 8 (07:15):
Remember when I was in the first grade, I heard
about this dude who bit off the head of a bat,
yes at a concert in Iowa, and I was like,
oh wow.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Again pre internet, how did we know?

Speaker 8 (07:24):
We all know that, we all knew that.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
It wasn't like Walter Cronkit led the.

Speaker 11 (07:27):
News with it up there.

Speaker 8 (07:28):
It was the conversation on every playground among the boys
and some girls.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
I'm sure, but you know what, nos go mess with
that kid on the playoff.

Speaker 8 (07:41):
Boomer That Ossie story continued, I'm telling you.

Speaker 12 (07:46):
And I thought it was a toy ended up being
a real.

Speaker 8 (07:48):
Bad yeah, And he had to go to the hospital
and get a tetanus shot and the rabies test. I
was looking I was reading back about it last night,
and you know, in kindergarten in first grade. It's like
you think eventually somebody made that up. No, they didn't.
That's the crazy Traine all right. So more than that coming.

Speaker 13 (08:04):
Up Black Sabbath, I know, man, that's the show. One
time with Black Sabbath. They were on stage with Riyah Heap.

Speaker 8 (08:10):
You saw a Black Sabbath show.

Speaker 11 (08:12):
They were here in Charlotte.

Speaker 8 (08:13):
Okay, okay, hold that thought. I figured as much. And
by the way, I'm sure people listening have some Black
Sabbath slash Ozzie stories too. We'll talk about those today.
The text line driven by Liberty Buick GMC is wide
open seven oh four, five, seven oh eleven ten. Even
Teresa Payton has a Black Sabbath Ozzy Osboyne. I know
this already. I'll explain what I'm talking about because she
joins us as always on Wednesday mornings. Coming up, cybersecurity

(08:35):
expert Teresa Payton.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
This is good morning, Beatty.

Speaker 8 (08:40):
Okay, I want to go back a little bit earlier
this morning on Fox and Friends.

Speaker 14 (08:44):
First, let's bring you former White House Chief Information Officer
and CEO of the cybersecurity firm Foortalless Solutions, Teresa Pate. Teresa,
great to see, as always, let me go through Trump's
AI action plan for a moment. It won We'll focus
on incorporating AI across the Defense Department.

Speaker 8 (09:00):
That's crucial.

Speaker 14 (09:00):
Create an AI information sharing and Analysis center led by DHS,
prioritize open source and open weight AI development, expand AI
workforce development, and export US made AI technology. What do
you think of this plan, Theresa, specifically whether it is
enough to beat China?

Speaker 15 (09:21):
Yeah, I mean this is definitely America's moonshot, and it's
incredible what's being done here and something we all need
to be thinking about. This is something that has never
been done before. When you think about the energy that's
needed for one data center, that energy is the equivalent
of five nuclear reactors or fifty super bowls going on

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at the same time. It's an enormous amount of energy.
And so here you see us cutting through red tape
for energy deregulation. That's going to be key for powering
these data centers. But one thing if I were advising
the administration for them to be thinking about right now
is jobs are changing at a rapid pace. We need
to take today's workers train them for tomorrow's workforce. And

(10:04):
this is an incredible opportunity in the country to upskill, retrain,
and get amazing Americans in this incredible workforce and make
sure they've got all the opportunities they need.

Speaker 8 (10:16):
Let's jump off there, because well we'll jump back on
here on this interview, because on the WBT hotline right now,
as she always is on Wednesdays, is to Resa Payton,
our cybersecurity expert and the founder Offorderless Solutions. So you're
making the rounds already this morning, Yes I.

Speaker 16 (10:31):
Am, but of course nothing's going to get in the
way of this conversation. And I do need to correct myself.
It's five hundred Super Bowl stadiums equals one of these
data centers that we're talking about for powering AI, cryptocurrency
and quantum.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
I was going correct you since that's a football reference.

Speaker 8 (10:51):
Well when you started, when you started, you said America's moonshot,
and I first thought you said America's moonshine too. I
heard moonshine, and then I realized what you meant. But
all of which, to come back around to Trump is
going to make a major dress on AI today and
that's why you were talking to Todd and Carly in
the first place. And so let's roll back for just

(11:13):
a second here and overarchingly he gave some of the
bullet points. But what are you specifically expecting out of
this in a few hours.

Speaker 16 (11:21):
Yeah, I think what you're going to hear is what
the current plan is. Are we on target some of
the different data sites where they're being built. We already
know about Ablene, Texas. We'll probably hear about some other places.
I do expect to hear about energy deregulation. One of
the things I heard when I was in California last week,

(11:41):
Golden Sex was doing a presentation on what's happening with
AI cryptocurrency, quantum computing and these data centers, and they said,
unless we have a major change to our energy policy,
these data centers are going to be slowed down in construction.
So this is really important because you want to make
sure that anybody who lives near these daydata centers they
get to keep their energy as well as these data

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centers being powered.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
So I think there will be a little bit of.

Speaker 16 (12:05):
Discussion on that today, and maybe there will be a
discussion on how this helps us win the computing war
with China.

Speaker 8 (12:13):
Something else to put on people's radar. And you always
do a great job of this. Whenever there are hackers
or scams or things out there that you may encounter
something called scattered Spider.

Speaker 16 (12:25):
Yes, scattered Spider is making the rounds. So this is
a ransomware syndicate. And the way they are tricking their
way into victims systems is their favorite mode of operation
is to call the IT help desk, because who doesn't
love calling the IT help USK. But what they're doing
is they're convincing the IT helped usk that they are

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an employee not a criminal, and doing password resets. And
by doing the password reset, they're basically getting the master
key into systems. And so everybody on high alert. And
if you feel like it's a little harder for you
to get your own password reset, it's probably for good reason.
It's probably because your IT support desk does not want

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to fall prey to scattered Spider.

Speaker 8 (13:12):
All right, I promised that there would be a Teresa
Pyton Ozzy Osbourne connection here, and you all know we've
been saying this for years. One of the things that's
on Teresa's resume is the fact that she was the
chief information officer in the George W. Bush White House.
I want to take you back to a moment during
George W. Bush's administration two thousand and two. This is

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the White House correspond It's dinner.

Speaker 4 (13:35):
What a fantastic audience we had tonight, Washington, power brokers, celebrities,
Hollywood stars, Ozzy Osbourne. Thing out about Ozzie is he's
made a lot of big hit recordings. Party with the Animals, Sabbath,

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Bloody Sabbath, Facing Hell, Blass guys and Bloodbath and Paradise. Ozzie,
Mom loves your stuff.

Speaker 8 (14:18):
Now, truth be told, you know, I'd forgotten about that,
and you actually brought that back to my attention. Now
did that fall in line with when you were in
the White House or was that before?

Speaker 1 (14:27):
That was before?

Speaker 16 (14:28):
So that was in I think two thousand and two,
and I worked for him two thousand and sixty, two
thousand and eight. But I don't miss those dinners. I
watched them and I still remember that, and I thought, wait,
I feel like Ozzy Osbourne was either at the way
I was trying to go through and.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Look for that.

Speaker 16 (14:44):
And that's why I sent that over to over to
you last night, because we were sitting there morning with
lots of rock and roll great playing his music, and
I was like, wait, I'm pretty sure there is a
funny encounter between President George W. Bush and Ozzy, and
I so glad I found it.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
It's hilarious.

Speaker 8 (15:01):
And that was during the era when the Osbourne's reality
show was on MTV, so he had sort of assumed
a different persona in American pop culture. And I don't
know exactly why, because it's not like like Ozzy was
like an investigative reporter or something, remember of the media,
but he was in the you know, the pop culture
reality show media, I guess, so at any rate, he

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was there. And you go back and find the video
online because it's it's readily available. The funny thing is
is he recognizes him and he gets up and he's
like he is loving it. He is loving all the
applause and all the attention, and.

Speaker 16 (15:34):
He definitely stands out. So when people see the video,
like you'll see as soon as he says Ozzy Osbourne
and the camera moves, You're like, oh, well, there he is.
I mean, it's not like he blended in with everybody
else there.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
What a time to be alive. Now we're in the
kid rock era.

Speaker 8 (15:49):
That's right. You did you ever did a young Teresa
Payton ever attend a Black Sabbath or an Ozzy Osbourne show?

Speaker 16 (15:56):
No, no, I did not get to go to concert.
It's like that. So you know, I went to the
Big Bird Symphony Orchestra concert.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
How old were you? Seventeen?

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (16:09):
I didn't have Ozzy Osbourne Teresa Payton on a BINGO card,
so I wasn't expecting that one, but I had to ask.

Speaker 16 (16:15):
You know, it would have been great, It would have
been great.

Speaker 12 (16:17):
No, it was.

Speaker 16 (16:18):
I think it was college before I went to I
went to a Billie Idol concert.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
Amazing.

Speaker 8 (16:23):
Well, you know that's pretty hardcore right there. Hey, if
if Ozzy Osborne can be at a White House Correspondence dinner,
then Teresa Payton could have been at a Black Sabbage show. Right,
It's possible. But but but it didn't.

Speaker 16 (16:33):
Happen, so it didn't happen.

Speaker 8 (16:35):
All right. Well, look, we appreciate you joining us as always,
and of course Teresa was on Fox and Friends a
little bit earlier, so making those rounds and always making
time for us. Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
It's great to be with you.

Speaker 16 (16:46):
Bo I did not know who approved that being off today,
but hey, Jim, it's always craazy to hear your.

Speaker 8 (16:51):
Voice always great to hear out there, Boomer did he
approves everything around here?

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Turn you have come by, said.

Speaker 11 (17:06):
My mom coming home?

Speaker 10 (17:12):
Time?

Speaker 9 (17:12):
Good bye?

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Seeks to be you get the fan a better breath?

Speaker 6 (17:18):
Do we.

Speaker 9 (17:21):
My mom coment a home?

Speaker 3 (17:26):
You toove me? You drove me out there and me
do stand.

Speaker 8 (17:42):
Cry?

Speaker 3 (17:43):
Jove me nice when I can't stand to be saved
by my mom going home? I knew, I knew.

Speaker 8 (18:14):
This was earlier this month. I was thinking when I
was on vacation, we would have talked. We would have
talked about this a lot, and maybe you guys did.
I don't know, but I would have wanted to talk
about the fact that Ozzie performed his final concert in Birmingham,

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United Kingdom, of course, in front of all those fans,
and this was the final song that he sang, the

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final song of his set that he performed along with
all those other bands, bands like Guns n' Roses. But
that ended up being his final performance. And I think
his wife Sharon kind of knew it would be that,
but I don't think any of us thought it would
be quite this quickly. And so Ozzy Osbourne has passed away.
At the age of seventy six. But I was looking

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around online last night, like a lot of people, and
you kept seeing a recurring theme that this performance now
takes on a whole new feel and meaning. He was
seated in a chair because he's been suffering from Parkinson's
disease for a while now, and he made the comment
that I've been essentially laid up for six years, and

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this was an opportunity for him to get back in
front of his fans and watch some of it that
weekend because I was on vacation somewhat detached from stuff.
But this was a big story, and so yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
Did not chop this up with Mark Harrison while you're off.

Speaker 8 (20:07):
By the way, so you never saw a Black Sabbath
or Ozzie in your childhood, digit No, I've.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
I've seen a lot of heavy metal bands when I
was like high school, college age. That was not one
of the ones I saw, but of course iconic And
I mean it's just like you said earlier, that thing
with inviting the head off a bat was just like
before things could go viral. That was a story that
went viral and we all questioned like was it real
or was it a stunt, and beyond that, obviously the

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legacy of some of his greatest hits in music, with
Black Sabbath and on his own. It was amazing. And
the fact that, as you said, that just was a
couple of weeks ago that they had this knowingly final
appearance he was going to have, not knowing they'd be
passing away so shortly thereafter, is incredible and I'm glad
he had that experience for every fan and for his
family and everybody.

Speaker 8 (20:57):
Well. I saw this also this last night, that Ozzy
Osbourne essentially attended his own funeral before he died, And
I mean that in the most positive of ways. You know,
everybody wonders, what's my funeral going to be? Like, how
many people are going to be there, things like that
that you could never know. But he got basically a
celebration of his life less than a month before he

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passed away. So Ozzy Osbourne died knowing how appreciated he was.
I don't think there's any question about that. Steve no
I agree.

Speaker 17 (21:26):
I mean that the amount of musicians and people that
showed up to this show to share the stage with him,
to play along with him, and just to kind of
pay tribute to an absolute legend. Was like you said,
I mean, it is the closest thing to being able
to kind of attend to your own memorial, so to speak,
you know, as potentially dark as that sounds, that, yeah,

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I mean, I can't imagine a better way for somebody
like Ozzie to have, you know, kind of gone out
in a final performance.

Speaker 8 (21:55):
Well, we'll be talking about Ozzy throughout the morning. And
I mentioned this to the guys in the room off
the air, and we'll get into some of this because
you know, you ask Bernie what he thinks of when
he thinks of Ozzy Osbourne, and it's a completely different
era than I think of, and I think mine is
I have I know the first time I ever heard
of Ozzy. I told you it was the guy that

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bit off the head of a bat when I was
in first grade. Okay, so that sort of messed with
me for a while. But then the first time I
really knew about his music, it was nineteen eighty six.
And I'll tell you coming up after the top of
the hour why that is for me. It'll make sense
once I explain it. But it's funny, but it made
me immediately go out and buy the Black Sabbath album Paranoid,

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And that's an album I think came out in nineteen
seventy or thereabouts, so it was an old album by
the time I heard it for the first time, but
there was something that made me go to the store.
I went to the record bar and bought Paranoid and
then listened to that and thought, Okay, this dude, this
dude's pretty hardcore and his band and then you talk
to Steve and you talk to Jim and you get

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slightly different eras, and you know, I think it's the
sign of of someone who has accomplished a lot of
things in their field. When when you have different eras
of things that you think of based on your age
for one person, you know, we talked about that with
somebody like Michael Jackson or John Madden even And we'll
get into some of this coming up as we remember

(23:18):
the Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne passing away at the
age of seventy six yesterday, Boomer von Cannon, what U boat?
I don't think they played Ozzie on Magic ninety six,
did they?

Speaker 6 (23:28):
No?

Speaker 11 (23:28):
We did not, no, no, no. We did see a
show early in his career there.

Speaker 13 (23:31):
Were Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath, and see they were with
Uriah Heap and I want to say a deep purple.
At that time, it was known as the Park Center.
It's now the Gravy Coles Center. Yeah, it was a
Sunday afternoon.

Speaker 8 (23:44):
So you saw, you saw Ozzy and Black Sabbath at
the Park Center.

Speaker 11 (23:48):
At the early days. Wow.

Speaker 13 (23:49):
And to this day it's the loudest concert of all time,
I have no doubt.

Speaker 11 (23:54):
For weeks after that one.

Speaker 8 (23:55):
And that's not that big a place. So it was
a relatively you know, intimate's not the right way, but
it was a small crowd.

Speaker 11 (24:03):
It was so loud.

Speaker 13 (24:04):
Security actually opened the doors on the side of the
arena and toward the back just to let some of
the sound escape.

Speaker 11 (24:09):
It was that loud.

Speaker 8 (24:10):
Yeah, Boomer intended an intimate Black Sabbage, Yes, right at
the at the what is now the Grady Cole Center. Well,
that's cool. Hold that thought.

Speaker 11 (24:18):
They wonder why I have brain damage.

Speaker 8 (24:20):
They wonder why none of us can hear.

Speaker 11 (24:22):
That's that's true.

Speaker 8 (24:23):
All right, we'll talk more about that coming up. Right now.
Let's talk traffic. Here's Boomer.

Speaker 11 (24:27):
By the way, Larry's.

Speaker 13 (24:28):
Sprinkle could give you some good stories with him too.
I'm sprinkle with it.

Speaker 8 (24:32):
Maybe we need to call.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
He would have have to sprinkle that in.

Speaker 11 (24:36):
Yeah, he sprinkle.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
It doesn't work mornings anymore, so it might be available.

Speaker 8 (24:41):
He'll be here till ten am. So this is a
story that's been making the rounds on TikTok, and I'm
curious as to whether anybody in the room today. By
the way, Beth is not here today. She is off today,
tomorrow and Friday. If you joined us earlier, she's on.
It's not a vacation, it's not a work trip to

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the Pocono's. And she's doing a documentary for Lifetime, and
the Lifetime network does this every once in a while,
So she'll be back in a few days. Got the
zoke and Bernie and Steve here. This TikTok trend of
people taking extreme day trips, I'm talking about like twenty
four hours is roughly the limit, but going somewhere and

(25:26):
doing as much as you can in twenty four hours,
but only twenty four hours. This guy, Kevin Droniak, I
believe is how you pronounce his name. So he has
posted recently about his extreme day trips. For example, He
traveled from New York City to see the Colisseum in Rome,
the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and the Pyramids as part
of his trip to Egypt, all to head home and

(25:47):
no more than twenty four hours. So you've got to
get there and then you got you know, boots on
the ground, go sight see, and then go back home,
all in about a day's period. But he said, one
of the many, He's one of the many jet centers
embarking on these trips. It's a trend that squeezes as
much sight seeing as possible in just a matter of hours.
And you don't have to stay in any hotels. You

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lose some of the expense, but then you got to
travel to get there, and you can still got to
spend all the money that you do to go to
the museums or the sites, but you know, a chunk
of it is gone. If you're willing to basically not
have any downtime.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
That's an exclusive audience. I can afford to take that
kind of a trip. I had no idea you were
going to bring this story up. But when my son
Andy was about eight years old, it was like this
time of year, I had like a Saturday before like
Panthers season was going to begin, so I didn't have
time to do a trip. And I realized we had
not gone to the beach like at a year or two,
and so I took my son Andy, and I said,
we're going to wake up early Saturday morning and we're

(26:44):
gonna go down to Myrtle Beach in North Myrtle Beach
and we're gonna do as much as we can and
drive back. No hotel room because I didn't have time
for more. And he's like, yeah, And this was back
in the days of when you'd have like the in
car TV was like an actual TV. So we take
this little TVVCR player EHS tapes and he'd be watching
movies in the backseat. I had it bungeed into the

(27:04):
back seat so it wouldn't kill anybody, But anyway, we'd
get up our first in the morning, crack it dawn,
drive down there. He'd watch movies, and we did this
like probably like three years in a row. And then
we would go down and play putt putt and play
the par three Cane Patch golf course, go to the beach.
We would walk into pools of hotels, we weren't staying
at which actually represent my birthday parties being a childhood memory,

(27:27):
and we would just eat awful foods and go to
the arcade down there on the boardwalk and all that stuff,
and then get back of the car and drive back.
So that's not exactly going to see the Pyramids of Egypt,
but it was a day trip that was you know,
again about seven hour round trip drive and squeezing as
much as we could into that day was what we
tried to do.

Speaker 8 (27:43):
I'm going to tell you right now, how old was
he then?

Speaker 2 (27:45):
First time we did it was like at eight, so
like from eight to like eleven or so, we did
like a three four years.

Speaker 8 (27:50):
Old my eight year old self. That's that's like the
greatest thing I've ever heard. And I'm sure if you
go back and talk to him, you know, he's not
thinking about the travel or the driving or paying for anything.
He's just hopping in the car, are watching videos and
when the video's over, I'm at the beach and then
they get to pay play putt putt. I mean that
sounds that sounds.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
Like it was Jackie Chan and it was like Austin Powers.
I could even tell you what movies Shrek, So yeah,
it was. It was just kind of fun, like let's
do it, and then it became like an annual thing
for a while. Then we started spending more money and
actually getting hotels and being affluent.

Speaker 17 (28:19):
I mean, day tripping is is cool, and I mean
I've done that as well, especially when I lived in Florida.
You know where we could like hop to you know,
when I was in Jacksonville, it's like an hour and
a half, two hours to get to Orlando, so you
could you could drive, you could hit a theme park,
you know, be at Disney or Universal or something for
the day, and then drive home that same night, you
know what I mean. So day tripping on that level

(28:40):
is fine when your travel time is a few hours,
you know, three hours, four hours. But you know, Jim,
you were recently you recently went to Greece. I mean
I've made trips back and forth to Europe. Just the
flight alone take so much out of you. You know,
that six seven, eight, nine hour flight, depending on where
you're going out alone takes so much out of you,

(29:01):
like I couldn't imagine. And maybe it's because of you know,
my age or the fact that I'm just wildly lazy.
I can't imagine it being an enjoyable experience of let
me fly for eight or nine hours, then go absolutely
wild for twelve hours of doing touristy stuff, and then
fly for another eight hours. That doesn't sound like an

(29:23):
enjoyable experience to me.

Speaker 8 (29:25):
Well, if you're talking about this guy, Droniac, the TikTok
guy that sort of started this, or at least started,
you know, posting things on social media about it. He's
in New York City. His day trip to Rome cost
six hundred and forty one dollars, to Paris seven hundred
and forty two. He spent eleven hundred and ninety two
on his trip to Egypt, which included a hotel room

(29:45):
to freshen up during the journey. So you can do
it on the cheap if you work hard enough. I'm
just as a look as a kid the way Zokie
explained it, I mean that sounded like and as a
kid you're not as expensive. But as an adult, to me,
part of the problem would be these it's all great,
but once you get there, you feel like you just
want to take a nap.

Speaker 17 (30:02):
Right the recovery after the fact. I mean you've got
to take two or three days to recover from something
like that. That's that's part of the other issue is
what happens on the other side of your twenty four hours.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Esta on that plane as I thought about it too,
but I didn't even give it enough credit. We did
go karts, we did patting cages. I mean, I can't
tell you who probably did, like I'm not kidding, like
ten things, different things, and then got back in the
car and came back. It was it was a blast.
Kind of the adventure was as exhausting as it was
was that you could cram that much into one day
and get back.

Speaker 8 (30:32):
So the moral of the story is, kids, if you'd
like to rent out the gym as a dad.

Speaker 18 (30:37):
I checked out the track and I loved it, and
I wrote you this big sexy hook, I think you're
gonna really dig.

Speaker 8 (30:42):
Oh wow, that's great.

Speaker 11 (30:43):
Should we just lay it down? Let's get to it.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
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Speaker 3 (30:49):
I don't know they were jammies and yodasnt s on them.
This is Good Morning Beat with both thumbson and Beth Trouting.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Take it nakedy and prop Ta.

Speaker 8 (31:01):
Matella News Talk eleven to ten WBT Bow and the
Zoke and like I said, Bernie and Stevedict, it Panthers
training camp officially begins today. It's a different era that
we live in now because back in the day it
would be spartanburg and you would have all the stories

(31:21):
about the players arriving and setting up shop and summer
camp for several weeks. And now that's all in house
at Bank of America Stadium, and aside from FanFest, it's
not open to the public. So today is practice number one.
It'll start at ten am. The media members will be there,
including Jim Zochi and Sharon Thorsland and so Zoke. You know,

(31:44):
as time goes on, things keep evolving, and this is
an example of that across the NFL.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
It is at that time of year and for the
Panthers type to say, for the first time in a
number of years, like a feeling of optimism about direction
of where the team is going. For team that went
five to twelve last year, there's a lot buzz and
excitement about what what can be based on how Bryce
Young played, how the team played. You know, that closing
win over Atlanta and the direction that they're headed what

(32:10):
they've tried to do this offseason, adding to the offense
and the defense. So it'd be fun beginning to see this,
and not too far away from that first preseason game
coming up August eighth against Cleveland to see it on
the field too.

Speaker 8 (32:20):
August sixth, Charlotte will have a joint practice with the
Cleveland Browns, and then August fourteenth and Houston, they'll have
a joint practice with the Houston Texans. So this has
been a thing that has become more and more prevalent
over the last few years. Now. Dan Morgan was in
front of the microphones yesterday taking questions from the media.
We heard from him a few minutes ago. More from

(32:41):
the Panthers GM on the idea that you go into
this season Panthers have a primetime game, could have more
if they play well and get flexed in. But the
idea that this season going in there's a little more
buzz about the Carolina Panthers than normal.

Speaker 10 (32:57):
You know, I think timelineise. We don't put timelines on things,
you know. I think Dave and myself when we're talking
about the team and and where we want to go,
we just want to get better every single day, bring
a mindset every single day, start back at zero every
single day. And I think that's the mindset we have
to have, you know, myself and Dave as the leadership.

(33:20):
But I also think our players need to do that too,
and I know that they're they're already doing that. So
you know, we just gotta we got to earn everything.
You know, you can talk all you want, but we
got to go earn it. And it starts out there
on the football field tomorrow.

Speaker 8 (33:35):
So and that's now today, as the Panthers get going.
They have a practice tomorrow at ten. Then Friday they
have a walk through practice and you know, you can
find the practice online. It's a little harder to find
I found last night because you know they're not they're
not posting these invited Yeah, essentially so and again the

(33:56):
last few years, it's it's been in Charlotte, hasn't been
in Spartanburg in a while. But this is another new
era today. So are you how many times will you
actually get to watch the Panthers practice during this training camp?

Speaker 2 (34:08):
I mean I go, I go to most of them,
So I didn't count up the total number of practices.
It's much fewer than it used to be years ago
when they first started, when they were doing two a days,
if you could believe that, and they would do scrimmaging
and those kind of things. Obviously, go today, I'll go tomorrow.
Friday is just a walk through, So I think that
would be it for this week, but several days every week.
I say, we're not too far away from that Browns

(34:30):
joint practice, which whenever that happens, typically the preseason game.
The roster ATTRICI as far as who's on the field
is significant because they've just gone through a joint practice sessions.
He really does certainly see the backups and all the
teams are doing this now where you seldom see many
starters in any preseason game, but especially when there's a
joint practice session, they tend to get most of their
work in during that time, as opposed to putting the

(34:50):
starters and the key reserves out there for the exhibition games.

Speaker 8 (34:53):
And going through this season, one of the themes, no
doubt's going to be the ten year anniversary of the
team that went to the Super Bowl and that magical
twenty fifteen season. And coming up a little bit later,
we'll hear from Ron Rivera, who was in town yesterday,
not for the Panthers but ACC kickoff media days. And
of course now Ron Rivera is working with the cow

(35:15):
with Cal and Cal is now part of the ACC,
which is still strange to say. Yeah, I know we're
two years in now, but Rivera was in town. And
of course anytime you see Ron Rivera, you got to
ask about twenty fifteen. So that's always good to hear
from him. And he still has family here in town
as well.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
Great guy. And if your interview doesn't include him chewing
some kind of chewy candy like saltwater Tappy or something,
I'm not going to believe it's him and not AI.

Speaker 8 (35:37):
All right, let's go to traffic now, Boomer von Cannon.

Speaker 13 (35:42):
What you got man, One of the greatest stories I've
ever heard, Riverboat, Ron and Mick Mixon. That's incredible, man,
I love that. Well, welcome back home for a few
days here, Riverboat. You good to have you back in town,
my man, You're the man.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
This is good morning.

Speaker 11 (35:57):
Beati.

Speaker 8 (36:10):
Speaking of TJ, I heard he was talking about this
song last night, because this was from that album in
the early nineties where Ozzie kind of became a pop rock,
mainstream guy for a few years. I heard this song
on the Fox. I remember they played this and of

(36:31):
course Mama, I'm Coming Home. Those were from the same album.
But you know, people talk about Grateful Dead and Touch
of Gray, and you know that's the top forty songs.
This actually was not a top forty hit, but it
was a mainstream hit. You heard great song. Ozzy Osbourne

(37:07):
dead at the age of seventy six yesterday. So the
song he ended his concert with back on July fifth
was Mama, I'm Coming Home. This was the same album

(37:30):
that this song was from. Now, we were talking earlier

(37:56):
about the legacy of Ozzy Osbourne, and of course starts
with Black Sabbath, and I was mentioning that he's one
of those people that was around for so long that
there are there eras like we talked about. Michael Jackson
had the era of the Jackson five, and then of
course when he became a solo artist, and then in
the later years when he became more known for his

(38:18):
tabloidy stuff, and then the later later years when of
course the trial and all that stuff. So, you know,
Michael Jackson, depending on when you were born, you sort
of cling to one era. You know, John Madden in
the world of sports is that way was a coach,
but then of course he was alongside Pat summer All
and then later years with other people on Fox after

(38:39):
Summer All moved on, but then and on Monday Night Football.
But then there's the whole video game era where a
lot of kids think he just was the guy on
the Madden video game. And you know, it depends on
when you were born. Ozzy Osbourne that way too. If
I say, Jim Zoki, first thing you think of when
you think of Ozzy Osbourne, it's what.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
I think of, the kind of the original I think of,
like because grew up in the eighties mostly like late
seventies eighties, that kind of black concert T shirt, black
Sabbath Ozzy, the Biting of the bath Head and so
just that the rocker more than the TV show version
and the later version.

Speaker 8 (39:14):
Jim was a punk.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Sounds like I just knew some punks. So my freshman
year at Bowling Green, my college roommate that first year
was a high school buddy of mine, and he was
the classic like heavy metal guy. He had like all
the posters, all the shirts and every band and stuff
like that, so like every day's like I used to
joke which black concert t shirt you're wearing today with
like the list of the cities and the dates on
the back of it, kind of like a beabis and
butt head.

Speaker 8 (39:37):
Now I'm the second oldest in the room. Zokie is
a few years older than me. But I, of course,
now as I sit in front of you know about
Black Sabbath's catalog and Ozzie's sort of timeline. But I said,
the first time I ever heard of Ozzy Osbourne was
I think maybe in the first grade in nineteen eighty two.
I went back and looked at the timeline of when

(39:58):
this actually happened. Nineteen eighty two at a con certain
Iowa was where Ozzy Osbourne famously or infamously bit the
head off of a live bat. And I heard about
that on the playground at school from some of the fellows,
and that was like mythical for years, like guy bit
off a bat? What kind of dude must this be?
And then you sort of learned about it in yours.
I was reading last night that he did. It was

(40:19):
a live bat and he actually had to go to
the hospital and have a rabies test and a tetanus
shot and all that stuff. I would assume that goes
along with when one does that. But then a few
years later, it was around nineteen eighty six. I've told
you guys, if you've listened to the show. I used
to be a big pro wrestling fan, because pro wrestling
for that era one of the areas where it was

(40:41):
a hotbed with Charlotte, North Carolina. It was Jim Crockett
Promotions and the Crockett family. Francis Crockett owned the Charlotte O's,
and Jim Crockett, her brother, ran the National Wrestling Alliance
in mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling. And there was a tag
team that I saw for the first time that came
out of the back to this song on It was

(41:11):
Hawking Animal, the Legion of Doom the Road Warriors, and
I said, what is this?

Speaker 2 (41:19):
I now love it? You as Teresa Payton if she'd
never been doing I.

Speaker 8 (41:23):
Mean so immediately found out who the band was, realized
it was Black Sabbath, went to the record bar and
bought the album Paranoid and Hurt Ozzie, and suddenly the

(41:49):
kid who loved Huey Lewis now felt really hardcore. Yes,
I'd like to buy Paranoid you.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
Skipped like six steps, but I did.

Speaker 8 (42:00):
I bought this album, still have it somewhere in the
cassette closet. And that's how I started listening to Black Sabbath,
and you know, the rest is history and learn more
about Ozzie.

Speaker 9 (42:12):
And then.

Speaker 8 (42:15):
So the first the first introduction to Ozzie was was
different than now what I think back on, you know,
the whole career. Now, Steve, next oldest person in the room.
That's right, right, yes, wait your turn, berniey. That's right,
Bernie's coming up to Bernie. Bernie's got a very important
one out of this. Wait when any presents at Christmas?

Speaker 2 (42:33):
You respect your elders.

Speaker 11 (42:34):
All good Steve.

Speaker 8 (42:35):
When you think of Ozzie, what first comes to mind?

Speaker 17 (42:38):
So similar, somewhat similar to you bo I was I
was exposed to him. I want to say it was
like early nineties, early to mid nineties. So I was
born in eighty two, but early to mid nineties. I
remember hearing about the bat story. I remember hearing about
him being banned from the Alamo where there's no basement,
and and I I had actually I distinctly remember we

(43:03):
had like a neighbor across the street from where I
lived who knew that I had gotten into via friends
like Metallica and nine Inch Nails and things along that line,
like the again the early to mid nineties stuff that
was getting popular. And he was like, oh, well, you
need to be familiar with this and this and this,
and was handing me cassettes and eventually CDs of things

(43:26):
that he thought that I needed to be educated on,
and one of them was Paranoid. And I remember putting
the cassette in and playing it and turning it up,
and my dad coming into the room and basically taking
the cassette out of my tape player and walking it
back across the street to the neighborhood, telling him my
son is not allowed to listen to this, which of

(43:49):
course only made me want to go listen more and more.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
Did you go back to churning your own butter after them?

Speaker 8 (43:56):
Mark? Yes? Were you a black seat guy?

Speaker 2 (44:00):
Please say yes, not in the least.

Speaker 17 (44:03):
Oh man, Sorry, but you have that giant Ozzie decal
on the back of your try We're I mean, that's
blue painter's taper.

Speaker 8 (44:11):
That's exactly where it is. Yeah, Well, Okay, So we're
gonna get to uh to Bernie's portion of this because
it's a very important one.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
This is good morning, Beatty Case.

Speaker 8 (44:24):
I'm Casey Case.

Speaker 19 (44:25):
I'm counting down the biggest hits in the USA and
rising two notches to twenty five as a singer who
got its started back in the sixties in the British
band Black Sabbath. Here's Ozzy Osbourne and Mama I'm Coming home,
times and.

Speaker 4 (44:38):
Jays and times is strange, Peter come by, Mama, I'm coming.

Speaker 8 (44:48):
Of course, this is the studio version of the song
he sang on July fifth at that farewell concert. Ozzy
Osbourne coming passed away yesterday at the age of seventy six.

Speaker 9 (45:06):
Yeah, we're both right.

Speaker 20 (45:12):
I'm gonna take it's not just got you.

Speaker 3 (45:33):
I don't care.

Speaker 8 (45:47):
Early nineties when Ozzie actually got some mainstream airplay on
radio stations, we've gotten some reaction on the text line
seven oh four, five, seven oh eleven ten, driven by
libertybu at GMC. Let's see, Jeff says my first intro
to Ozzy in the corner of Captain Lou Albano at
the Britain and the British Bulldogs at WrestleMania two when

(46:08):
they won the tag titles from Brutush the Barber, Beefcake
and Greg the Hammer. Valentine rest in Peace, the Prince
of Darkness. No, I'll see, Jeff, I didn't know that
Ozzy was at WrestleMania too. I was mentioning earlier that
my gateway to Ozzie was through the Legion of Doom
when they were wrestling in the NWA and they came out.
Then when they moved to the WWF, they had to

(46:29):
stop using the Black Sabbath. I think there were copyright issues,
and of course when you went to the Vince McMahon's
wrestling gig, it was national, so you couldn't get away
with some of the things you could when you were
sort of regional, like they were here in Charlotte. Back
when they were here, they used to come to the
ring to Iron Man. But I did not know that
Ozzie was at WrestleMania too, So there you go.

Speaker 17 (46:50):
I saw that text message and immediately was like, that's
the most Bo Thompson text message I think we've ever gotten.
So I was shocked that that wasn't part of your
your wrestling trivial knowledge.

Speaker 2 (47:01):
Well, if Beth were here, she would say cool, yeah, cool, cool,
cool cool cool cool.

Speaker 8 (47:06):
And some of you may say, where's Beth today? Beth
is off today, Tomorrow, and Friday. She is on. She's
on assignment for a Lifetime TV doing a documentary up there,
and she'll tell us more about that when she gets back.
But she's she'll be back on Monday, so have no fear.
But she is not here today. That's why you don't
hear her voice. Let's see, we got this one does

(47:26):
not have a name attached to it, but this is
from the text line. Let's see, I'm sixty. My older
brother's favorite band his whole life was Black Sabbath. I
was introduced to them in the seventies. Let's see. My
brother passed in March of twenty four. So Ozzie passing
was like a guy was a gut punch yesterday. And
I'm sure that's the way it is for a lot
of people. Doug says, I went to see the Blizzard

(47:46):
of Oz concert at the Old Coliseum when I was
in high school, and we've heard from some people today
that have seen Ozzy over the years. I never saw
Black Sabbath or Ozzy Zoke did not not if you
have an a head, no, nope. But you have seen
Wayne's World two I have.

Speaker 17 (48:05):
I have, and I quote this line way way more
than anybody has any rate.

Speaker 21 (48:10):
Here and there, I am in Sri Lanka formerly so
Long at three o'clock in the morning, looking for one
thousand brown m and ms to fill a brandy glass
or oss. He wouldn't go on stage that night, so
Jeff Beck props his ed round the door and mentions,
there's a little sweet shop on the edge of ten.
So we go and it's closed. So there's me and

(48:33):
Keith Moon and David Crosby breaking into this little sweetshop right. Well,
instead of a god dog, they've got this bloody great
big Bengal tiger. Well I managed to take out the
tiger with a can of mace, but the shop owner
and his son, that's a different story altogether. I had

(48:56):
to beat them to death with their own shoes. No
steep business fit. But sure enough, I'll go to the
MNS and Oti went on stitch and did a quite
shuh wow.

Speaker 3 (49:11):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
That was.

Speaker 8 (49:14):
Wayne's World too.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
You quote this on the regular, Well.

Speaker 17 (49:18):
At least at least the I had to beat them
to death with their own shoes. Oh okay, that's yeah,
that's another story altogether.

Speaker 8 (49:26):
And I had to beat them to death with their
own shoes real quick, Ken, Ken, we got to make
this quick because we're up against the clock. But Ken,
you saw Black Sabbath in nineteen seventy one.

Speaker 22 (49:35):
Right at the Park Center and they opened up with
White Witch, Wild Turkey and then Black Sabbath and it
was loud, full of marijuana smoke all over the Park Center.

Speaker 8 (49:52):
Boomer, can you hear this? I think the Sunday Afternoon
wasn't Is this the same show you think, Boomer?

Speaker 2 (49:56):
I think it is a different lineup that you quoted.

Speaker 11 (49:59):
He I remember you Ari Aah Heap being with them
at one time.

Speaker 22 (50:03):
And if I may tell you the if you've ever
seen the movie Almost Famous and that show that they
portrayed in the movie in the San Diego Arena, that
band was actually instead of Stillwater, that was the Wild
Turkey Band, And I guess they couldn't use their name.

(50:24):
And that was the show about ten days after the
Charlotte show that they portrayed in the movie in San Diego,
that very tour.

Speaker 11 (50:33):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (50:34):
So so here's what we've learned today that the Ozzy
and Black Sabbath played at the Grady Cole Center, which
back then was the Park Center. And Ken, Ken, you
were at the same show with Boomer apparently.

Speaker 22 (50:46):
Well it was a he said it was Deep Purple
and Urry Heap, which I've seen, but this show was
Wild Turkey and the original warm up band was White Witch.
Then Sabbath came on, and I believe they promoting the
Master of Reality album.

Speaker 8 (51:03):
Something tells me that we could have like ten different
people call and they give us ten different lineups.

Speaker 17 (51:07):
I just I also think that it's interesting that it's
Black Sabbath, White Witch, Deep Purple, like we have to
come up with names that don't include colors people.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
Hey can My takeaway was that you smelled a strong
smell of marijuana and Boomer was there, So I actually
want to get to the bottom of that astronomy.

Speaker 8 (51:22):
And no one can remember the lineup really, all right? Ken,
be good, Ken, thank you for calling in, and we'll
move right over here and talk to Boomer von Cannon,
who was at that nineteen seventy one show.

Speaker 11 (51:32):
At another Sunday in Charlotte. Yeh's aw what that thought?

Speaker 3 (51:35):
It was?

Speaker 8 (51:35):
You know, my dad saw James Brown there.

Speaker 11 (51:38):
Oh man, that place has some history.

Speaker 8 (51:40):
It does, which is why I believe that it's it's
still here all these years later. They keep, you know,
upgrading the stadium, and they have to upgrade Grady Cole
Center too, because you can't knock down a building with
that much history.

Speaker 11 (51:51):
You have to keep the Park Center.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
To practice there.

Speaker 8 (51:55):
That's right, Hornish practice the about practice, and I'm telling
you got to go. I went to one of those practices,
so I went there. There's a there's a common theme
there with something I saw at the park Center. So practice,
we're talking practice.

Speaker 11 (52:08):
That's right.

Speaker 13 (52:08):
Alonzo morning would hangover after practice and do more shooting
drills and for another couple of hours.

Speaker 11 (52:14):
I mean he lived there. Just about amazing place, amazing.

Speaker 8 (52:18):
Just walk right in, you know, sir, there's Boomer Valancana practice.
Not a game, not a game, not a game.

Speaker 9 (52:25):
Practice.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
This is Good Morning Beat with Bo Thompson and Beth
troud Man.

Speaker 9 (52:32):
Wait a second, isn't that a starts caravan?

Speaker 5 (52:38):
Hey?

Speaker 9 (52:39):
Hey, what do you think you're doing?

Speaker 3 (52:44):
Try like hell?

Speaker 8 (52:46):
You are final going down Wednesday morning, Good morning, Bet,
Bo Thompson, Beth Troutman, is off today. Time to bring
in our good buddy, Brett Winnable from The Brett Winnable
Show every afternoon three till six. Good morning, Good morning.

(53:07):
Oh yeah, man. Well, I want to get to Ozzie
in a second here, but I want to start with politics,
and I'm gonna cut straight to this. I think people
know that the two sort of dueling stories, or two
of them right now. But President Trump in the Oval
Office yesterday talking to reporters.

Speaker 23 (53:21):
Used the former Justice Department receiving an interview with Alan
as well the tour.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
The attorney generals.

Speaker 8 (53:27):
I don't know anything about it.

Speaker 11 (53:28):
They're gonna know what, meet her, They're.

Speaker 20 (53:30):
Gonna there's your deputy attorney general, reached out to the Dalai,
Nashville's attorney.

Speaker 24 (53:36):
Asking, Yeah, I don't know about it, but I think
it's something that would be sounds appropriate to.

Speaker 23 (53:41):
Do your deputy attorney general, as your former attorney with
p dot community given.

Speaker 24 (53:48):
No, I have no concern that he's very he's a
very talented person.

Speaker 9 (53:52):
He's very smart.

Speaker 8 (53:53):
I didn't know that they were going to do it.

Speaker 11 (53:55):
I don't really follow that too much.

Speaker 24 (53:56):
It's a it's a sort of a witch hunt, just
a continuation of the witch hunt. The witch hunt that
you should be talking about is they caught President Obama
absolutely cold, Chelsea Gabbert. What they did to this country
in twenty sixteen, starting in twenty sixteen, but going up
all the way going up to twenty twenty of the election.

(54:18):
They tried to rig the election and they got caught,
and there should be very severe consequences for that.

Speaker 8 (54:24):
So a bit of the back and forth yesterday, and
I mentioned the Obviously he's still getting Epstein questions, and
obviously he's still talking a lot about President Obama. Your
thoughts on where these two things are going.

Speaker 6 (54:37):
So I think this thing is not going to go away,
and by this thing, I mean both things are not
going to go away anytime soon. Obviously, Todd Blanche was
his lead attorney in private life and was very very
effective in fighting the different cases that were out there.
So I think it would be smart for President Trump.

(54:58):
And I think that's why he's not saying I've got
anything to do with this at all, because he can't
have his he can't have his thumb on the scale
if something comes to pass. Hypothetically, let's say she has evidence,
she has information, she has things like that and that
that may be exculpatory. And so the problem is he
can't do that. He can't put his thumb on the

(55:18):
scale there. Now, what he can do is put the
both hands on the scale when it comes to President
Obama and all the issues that took place with what
we're learning from from the DNI and everybody else about
about the chicanery in twenty sixteen up into twenty twenty.
So this is going to be a background sort of

(55:40):
story until we have flash points, and I think that's
how it's going to go.

Speaker 8 (55:44):
So I was on with you yesterday, yes sir, And
of course this was as we were learning the news
about the Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne passing away. So
we're talking about memories of Ozzy Osbourne, and we were
talking also about the Hunter Biden interview yesterday, and you
and I were just talking about how many F bombs

(56:04):
were in that, and I said, you know, I kind
of gave up on even editing a piece of audio
for that, because I know you said that Pete was
playing some of this. I started to and I was like, okay,
this is like it's going to take me forever.

Speaker 11 (56:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (56:16):
However, last night I had a moment sort of similar
to that when I sat down to edit another piece
of audio. And we've been talking this morning about what
was your what was your entry point with with Black Sabbath? Right, like,
what was the point? And it's generational because Ozzy is
a lot of different things to different people. Bernie here
with us, Bernie, how old are you? What's your thirty four?

(56:37):
In a couple of weeks? Okay, so Bernie's thirty four?
So so Brett, this will make sense here in a
second when I play this clip. This is the piece
of audio that I sat down to you know, get
my This took a while, but this is the audio
that most resonates with Bernie Bulls.

Speaker 13 (56:51):
Nothing to do with like the History channel and the
war channels, old stuff like that.

Speaker 25 (56:57):
Yes, whether it or enough guns two thousand degrees entirely.

Speaker 10 (57:04):
That's come on? Do you.

Speaker 8 (57:07):
Stuck on the weather channel.

Speaker 11 (57:12):
For this screen?

Speaker 8 (57:13):
You can control? Basically they're all house. So this is
Ozzie trying to figure out how to use his new
house home remote system. Crank that back up, burning stupid.

Speaker 26 (57:24):
We didn't give the owners any weekend instructions.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
We give them the remote controls and.

Speaker 27 (57:28):
Then the owners figured out by himself out to work it.

Speaker 8 (57:31):
So that's how easy it is. Weeks what that week signal?

Speaker 3 (57:44):
Can you get this?

Speaker 9 (57:45):
Give this television to work. I'm a very simple man.

Speaker 25 (57:49):
You gotta have a computer dollars to turn the TV on?
And no, they wanted kind of calling it a normal
I'm Presty's one button and talk to him.

Speaker 9 (58:04):
What is this?

Speaker 11 (58:05):
Where am I man? Spicers?

Speaker 25 (58:08):
The nightmare continues nightm Satellite.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
Sounds like at Home with Hunter Biden.

Speaker 8 (58:14):
That's exactly.

Speaker 23 (58:15):
So.

Speaker 8 (58:16):
Zokie just walked in and Brett and I were talking
about editing the piece of Hunter Biden videos. So then
I sat down with Ozzy last night and and really
really Brett the same experience.

Speaker 6 (58:26):
Yeah, I mean pretty much pretty much the same exact experience,
and I know no doubt about it. By the way,
I told a story yesterday at the end of the
first hour. Sherry had a very interesting interaction with Ozzy
when they were going out on tour Los Angeles, getting
ready to go out there, and he showed up in
her office at the at the rehearsal studio in LA

(58:48):
and he was playing Hacky Sack and he was talking
to Sherry and he was saying and Sherry's like, yeah,
that's right, it's really good. And he's hacky sacking it
right there back in the in the early nineties. So
everybody's got an azzie story. Remember when when his wife

(59:08):
hid all of his clothing in San Antonio, he put
a dress on and unfortunately pete at the Alamo, but
they forgave him and you can.

Speaker 3 (59:19):
Go and see it.

Speaker 6 (59:21):
He was in a blue dress because he had to
get out and pozzy it up and.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
They got a Pewee's bike. So much happens with the elephant.

Speaker 8 (59:28):
Sure, no basement.

Speaker 9 (59:31):
What you're saying, come on?

Speaker 8 (59:34):
And as Teresa Peyton pointed out, he spoke at the
two thousand and two White House Press uh dinner with
George W. Bush.

Speaker 2 (59:43):
So Reesa Payton had a story.

Speaker 8 (59:44):
What could this man not do? He does everything.

Speaker 11 (59:47):
He's azzy.

Speaker 8 (59:47):
He's the prints of Darkness. We'll talk to you this afternoon,
three o'clock on the Brett Winnerbill Show. Thanks man, thank you,
good morning.

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
Make a chrome throw thunderstruck on her.

Speaker 25 (01:00:09):
I'm pretty sure the rites for that song will cost
too much.

Speaker 8 (01:00:12):
No, I already own it.

Speaker 5 (01:00:13):
He sets in the car from news Talkie leven Ted
at ninety nine three DOUBLEBT. This is Good Morning Beat
with Bo Thompson at Beth Troutbit Transform.

Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
For the show.

Speaker 8 (01:00:35):
Eight oh seven on WBT, Wednesday, July twenty third. Bo Thompson,
Beth Troutman is off today. She will be back coming
up on Monday. We talked to her early in the show.
She's actually in Pennsylvania this week working on a documentary,
so she does this from time to time. We miss her,
but she'll be back and talking about a lot of

(01:00:56):
things this morning, including the opening of training camp for
the Carolina Panthers. Zoake was talking about it in just
a few hours. The Panthers will begin activities for July
and August ahead of the preseason, then of course into
the regular season. With a lot of buzz around this team.
And we were hearing earlier from Dan Morgan who talked yesterday,
and I imagine that we'll hear from a number of

(01:01:16):
other people today and in the next few days. But
you know, they're not ignoring the hype, they're not shying
away from it. They're heading into the season knowing that
people are talking about them, actually maybe making some noise
before it's all over z Ok.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
That's the plan, and I think you know, Dan Morgan
summarizes it best when he says things like, you know,
they're not putting like a numerical value on this season
in terms of wins and losses. They're just trying to
improve and get better all the time. And it is
interesting that you was from surface Lottogo a team that
was five and twelve last year. But there's a lot
of excitement and energy and optimism about coming off a

(01:01:49):
team that won two games a year before. And obviously
the way that Bryce Young played and the additions they've
made this offseason through the draft and free agency that
you know they can improve. And none of us knows
now as we vid of what the expectation is of
what that'll look like. You know, could they get into
the playoffs. Obviously we'll expect a higher win total than
five from last year. So I think people feel again.
I think there's kind of a renewed energy. It's been

(01:02:11):
seven years of losing seasons, so I think we're ready
to turn that corner. More than ready. As Matt will
will say, it's seven years be an overnight success. I
think we've arrived.

Speaker 8 (01:02:21):
Everybody's trying to do what Ron Rivera did ten years ago.
And oh, by the way, Ron Rivera back in town.
He was yesterday because we have the ACC kickoff media
days going on. And Ron Rivera is now the general
manager of the CAL program as in Cal from the
ACC now and Bernie, I'm pulling audible onto here, let

(01:02:43):
me have the Ron number one, because this is Nick
Carboni over at WCNC talking to Rivera yesterday, who was,
as I said, back in town. Oh, it's really cool.

Speaker 18 (01:02:52):
First of all, you know, my daughter lives here, so
coming out here for this is a little bit of
a treat. I'm staying with her.

Speaker 8 (01:02:58):
She's got a bedroom for me, which is really nice.

Speaker 18 (01:03:01):
It's it's it's a great community she's in, so coming
home is you know, I do refer to his home.
I mean I was here for nine years and we
had a lot of great memories, a lot of fun friendships.

Speaker 8 (01:03:10):
It's nice to be around it really is.

Speaker 28 (01:03:12):
I know you'll still be involved with the NFL. You
did the Panthers Cardinals game here last year, and I
remember you had a moment with Bryce Young and the
tunnel after the game. Do you think he can carry
over what he found at the end of last season
to this year and what is important to carry that over.

Speaker 8 (01:03:27):
I think he has.

Speaker 18 (01:03:28):
I think he understands what it takes now. I think
there was so much put on it his first year.
He took a lot of flak at one point, but
he stayed true to the process and kudos to him.
I think the most important thing is a continued relationship
that he has with coach Canalis. I think Dave Canalis
is a trivia young mind in in the NFL. He's

(01:03:49):
done a great job of trying to bring him along
and I think because he's done those things for Bryce
last year, and he did he did probably what I
thought it was one of the most courageous things that
was he he benched d Nunumber one pet. But it
was good because it gave Bryce a chance to step
back and watch a veteran quarterback, you know.

Speaker 8 (01:04:06):
I think Andy Dalton was terrific.

Speaker 18 (01:04:08):
Was perfect for him because he worked with Bryce and
then when Bryce got that opportunity, he grasped it with
both hands and he held on.

Speaker 8 (01:04:15):
So if he.

Speaker 18 (01:04:15):
Continues to do that, I think he has an opportunity
to go to another level as a young quarterback.

Speaker 8 (01:04:20):
In this coach Rivera, who knows a thing or two
about young quarterbacks and leading them to greatness in the NFL.
Of course the Cam Newton era from that ten years
ago team, but good to hear him high on what's
going on with Bryce.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
You know, Nick mentioned that, you know, Ron was in town.
I think he was doing national radio that day for
the Panthers Arizona game, and a lot of us talk
to him. I got to hang out in the broadcast
hallway area and talk to Ron for a while there.
And then after the game, you know, we do the
postgame show for a while, head out to the parking deck,
go to the car. It's like this sort of empty
parking deck because everyone's exited at that point late in

(01:04:54):
the season especially. He was, Ope, it's Ron Rivera. I'm
getting in my car. He's parked it with his daughter
in the car right next to me. Out of all
the cars in the parking deck, they're the car right
next to me. And we stood there. We took a
selfie to send a Mick to the goof with Mick,
and then the three of us went back and forth
for like two three days after that, just you know,
saying hi. And it was like near Christmas time and

(01:05:16):
all that stuff, so just kind of sharing hellos and
all this stuff. But Ron is such a great guy,
and you mentioned it's been ten years since Super Bowl
fifty and that great team that even with the Super
Bowl loss, went seventeen and two overall counting the postseason,
so it was an amazing run. And his point about
Andy Dalton real quick too. I heard Joe Flacco during
their mini caamp in Cleveland talk about, you know, he's
like forty years old, and is he a mentor to

(01:05:37):
these young quarterbacks like shde or Sanders up there? He said, no,
it's not my job. My job is to play well,
and if they want to ask me something or learn
by watching me through osmosis or the way I conduct myself,
that's how I'll mentor because I'm going to go. I'm
a competitor. I want to be the starting quarterback, whereas
Andy Dalton's the perfect guy who is competitive and we'll
start when called upon. But it understands the assignment that

(01:05:57):
this is Bryce's team as it was announced at the
end of last here, and that he's more than happy,
despite being a several time Pro Bowl player, to be
that asset to help truly mentor Bryce Young here.

Speaker 8 (01:06:07):
So he's the general manager. Rivera is now of the
California Golden Bears program now in the ACC. The ACC
annual kickoff event is going on again today, started yesterday
at the Hilton and uptown Charlotte. So a lot of
big ACC power players in town and cool to hear
Rivera talking about his new gig and especially his old one,

(01:06:28):
which they'll be celebrated.

Speaker 2 (01:06:29):
By the way. Frank Reich in town as well, really
head coach at Stamford. He's the interim one year head
coach at Stamford, so he was speaking yesterday too. So
we had Frank Reich and Ron Rivera, former Panthers head
coaches in town with Stamford and cal of the ACC.

Speaker 8 (01:06:43):
Now Nebraska needs to move the ACC and we'll have Matt.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
Ruhle right, No, no, not a lot of call for
that eight thirties in the George Sea. Yeahs onesday we
could live with them.

Speaker 8 (01:06:58):
Bring back Seaford and you know what we might need
to bring back. We've had a few people mentioned that,
including Boomer. While we have some time here, we might
need to have a cameo from Rivera and Mick on
the eating interview. Please do you think that is a
class Yeah? I think I might have to pull it
out here in a minute by a Man Riverboat.

Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
This is good Morning det with both Humpson and Beth
trout Man.

Speaker 29 (01:07:20):
So, Coach Rivera, when we talked to you prior to
the last preseason game against Pittsburgh, you said that game
might be diagnostic in some meaningful ways as you tried
to shape your roster and make these decisions. Now with
the visual acuity that hindsight provides, was it it was?

Speaker 18 (01:07:35):
You know, it really helped clarify some things for us.
We had Kaylin Clay on our on our roster, and
then we got a tremendous offer from Buffalo for Seymour,
so we went ahead and made the deal. But we
like Kayln and awful lot that he made our fifty three.
Originally it just became that the trade was for value
as far.

Speaker 8 (01:07:52):
As we were concerned.

Speaker 29 (01:07:53):
Coach Ryan Rivera tonight on Panther Talk, when did you
start working on the opening day opponent San Francisco.

Speaker 18 (01:07:58):
Oh, We've been working on since since we started with
with the first preseason games.

Speaker 8 (01:08:04):
Not a lot of tape on who San Francisco Is.

Speaker 18 (01:08:05):
We had an idea based on you know, where they're
coming from, you know, as far as being part of
the Atlantic coaching staff, having some roots all the way
back to Seattle in terms of the defense.

Speaker 8 (01:08:14):
So we started, you know, looking at those things.

Speaker 18 (01:08:16):
Now that more and more we've got to see, you know,
we feel, hey, we got to start looking at these
looking well, that really started in nearness once they played
their first preseason game.

Speaker 8 (01:08:24):
The other thing missing from this is like the clanking
of pots and pans and the and the silverware.

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
So for those who don't know, this is purposeful that
Ron Mick had this thing about people eating on air
or eating in the booth, or eating during panther talk,
and it was mostly generated towards the rest of us,
Like he just couldn't stand that chewy sound and all
that stuff. So I guess at some point he made
fun of Ron doing that during one of the interviews,

(01:08:50):
so that Ron tripled down by making sure he's like,
you know, Charleston chewes and saltwater tappy and everything he
could come up with it. One time he actually was
slurping soup, I believe while doing the interview with her.
So the funny thing is listening to that. You have
no idea in reality how much that bothers Mick and
the fact he's just doing a straight interview without him
even commenting on it. On the inside, his gears were

(01:09:11):
grinding so hard at that.

Speaker 8 (01:09:13):
So this is many years ago, but it always comes
up now and then on the show about and Beth
always talks about how she actually likes to watch people eat.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
It complete opposite you like.

Speaker 8 (01:09:21):
I mean, she likes to watch people eat and listen
to people eat, and she knows movie scenes by what
they're eating and how they're eating. We even did a
whole we did a contest about that one day because
she's so fanatical about it. But so it always brings
back the opposite which Zokie just mentioned, and every once
in a while, and Boomer loves it. Boomer thinks it's

(01:09:41):
funniest thing he's ever heard, as Jim said, And this
is what we can't see is how agitated Mick used
to become. But here's a moment from the show where
you get an idea of what I'm talking about.

Speaker 29 (01:09:52):
Other talk presented by McDonald's A good morning starts with
a good breakfast. You've got to fuel up and start
your morning with us scratch made big bacon.

Speaker 8 (01:10:00):
Hey, I sound salivated. I can't even read this.

Speaker 29 (01:10:02):
Bacon, egg and cheese, biscuit sandwich just a dollar sixty nine?

Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
Is that what you guys were eating during that interview?

Speaker 29 (01:10:09):
I wouldn't eat anything, but my buddy coach Ron Rivera.
I guess he just signed a deal with Bit of
Honey that he has to always have something one handy.

Speaker 3 (01:10:20):
It's hard.

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
That's hard to come by. Bit of Honey. That's almost
like mass General store, hard to find next thing.

Speaker 29 (01:10:28):
Years ago, while we're talking to him a broadcast round
table brought to you by.

Speaker 8 (01:10:33):
Chick, you can tell in his voice he's just like, yeah,
I have to do this because it's part of that.
But but he I mean, I didn't know until you
told me. And this is the beauty of having you
in here, because Soak is part of the broadcast team,
is that Ron would actually like it's not like coincidence,
Like he actually doubled down and started bringing things they
don't make the most most sound.

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
It was purposeful. It's probably the best word for that,
just to see how agitated he could Big Big So
we had Panther Talk every Monday. We had the Coach's
TV show with him every week back in the day,
and it was always just like this, this ham and egg,
this back and forth, this kind of fun playfulness. That's
why I said, when when Ron was here and we
got the three of us on a text exchange for

(01:11:13):
a couple of days, Boomer, you can imagine we're on
Such a good guy, just a great personality. And he
gets I mean before he became a coach again a coach,
I said, between being a player and a coach, he
did some TV in Chicago, stuff like that, so he
understands broadcasting. He understands the rules of broadcasting, all those
kind of things. But he was just so funny when
it was coming to getting under a mixed skin, any
opportunity that it could.

Speaker 11 (01:11:34):
Just for fun, and it really gotten under mixed skin
big time. Did I mean big time? You just hear him.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
No, it's real, it's real. You after Eugene, I will
to this day, we'll do Panther Talk and David Bow
knows our producer, David Langton, who's been there for all
thirty years, and David's got all these this candy drawer
and he's got these those mints, those you know round mints,
the winter greens and all that stuff, and Eugene loves him.
He'll grab a handful, so each one's individually wrapped or whatever.

(01:12:00):
I will send a picture sometimes to Mick while we're
doing panther talk into mixed retirement of this pile of
rappers sitting in front of Eugene that he's conquered while
doing panther talk on the years. And he's still mad
when I said it, as if it's still like three
years later. It still bothers him.

Speaker 8 (01:12:17):
And I've said this before.

Speaker 18 (01:12:18):
In my seven seasons, we've opened on the road six times,
so it would be nice to.

Speaker 8 (01:12:22):
Open at home just once in a while. Yeah, well,
we'll see.

Speaker 29 (01:12:25):
If we can't get a groundswell campaign going, maybe make
that happen next year. Coach, last thing, you're California Golden Bears,
come all the way across the country. Beat the tar
Heels opening day at Keenan Stadium. Does your schedule allow
you to keep in touch with the comings and goings
of your alma mater?

Speaker 8 (01:12:41):
I do to a degree.

Speaker 18 (01:12:42):
I mean, you know, Stephanie and I have built up
a scholarship fund. We have out there that we're working on,
you know, and I've been involved in some of the
things with some of the alumni events that they've had,
especially most recently. So it's been a lot of fun,
and you know, it's very exciting to see our guys
come out and.

Speaker 8 (01:12:59):
Scrape out the victory. It was a tough five game,
you know. Oh there you go back in the day
when Rivera each week would be eating something to annoy
annoying mis.

Speaker 2 (01:13:07):
Say, the commitment of the bit, I guess the commitment
to the bit of honey, yes is what he was
doing there.

Speaker 20 (01:13:12):
You know.

Speaker 8 (01:13:14):
I think about the days when when Ron was here,
and I think the first I got to know him
a little bit, partly because he was buddies with Pat McCrory,
so when I was doing the show with the Governor,
we would have him on a good number of times.
But I remember the first time that I met him,
and it was at John Hancock's Pancake Breakfast. And the
thing that I love about Rivera and Boomer, you know

(01:13:35):
this because he used to go to the Pancake Breakfast too,
and Zoke and everybody remembers those who was here at
that time, But Ron would never do a thing where
he would say he would you know, you didn't have
to call him and make John and Hancock and Rivera
knew each other. But it wasn't like John called Ron
and said can you come to this, and you had
to go through several layers of pr. Ron would just

(01:13:56):
show up. We'd be in there doing the pancake thing,
and Ron Rivera would walk in just like any average
joe off the street, and nobody with him just come in.

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
He listened to the show.

Speaker 8 (01:14:05):
Yeah, yeah, he listened to the show.

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
I would not often, but several times a year I'd
be sitting here and he would text me something during
the show and it might be something about the team
or whatever, or it might be you promoting Mick coming
out and go, Hey, ask Mick this. So it's like
he would and he would listen to Hancock show me
he was listening all day long to the programming years
that he was a huge fan of WBT.

Speaker 8 (01:14:28):
Yeah, the early days of me doing the morning show.
He called the screener one day, not to get on
the air, just to ask a question. He said, a
Ron Rivera just called out there listening doing this thing.
So I missed that about him he's, of course, as
we mentioned, working for the cal program, the Golden Bears
in the ACC and that's how we got onto talking
about him in the first place, as he was back

(01:14:48):
yesterday as part of the ACC media days that are
going on at the uptown Hilton so and anything that
brings Ron Rivera back here in town and he still
has family here is a good thing home, Riverboat. Welcome's right,
that's right. Hopefully this upcoming season is going to resemble
the season ten years ago when Ron Rivera led this
team to the Super Bowl against the Denver Broncos.

Speaker 11 (01:15:10):
We will see seven Sundays still kick off. There you go.

Speaker 8 (01:15:13):
But who's counting, Boomer?

Speaker 2 (01:15:16):
Boomer is counting.

Speaker 8 (01:15:17):
Hang on, hang on, Boomer. He knows how many days
still Christmas?

Speaker 12 (01:15:21):
No, I don't stay still Panthers football, Boomer.

Speaker 8 (01:15:26):
That's that's really great news. So good.

Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
This is good morning, Beaty.

Speaker 26 (01:15:40):
You've tapped into the hit zone known only as American
Top forty. I'm Shadow Stevens. Here's the Top forty debut
of a multi platinum heavy metal madman. This wild and
wicked metal veteran has sold millions of albums, but he's
never had a top forty hit until now. He debuts
at number thirty five, singing a duet with that ex

(01:16:01):
mistress of metal guitar, Lida Ford is Lida with Ozzy
Osbourne coming in at number thirty five with Close my
Eyes Forever.

Speaker 3 (01:16:11):
Gives a scare. The side don't really on stain.

Speaker 8 (01:16:17):
He's never call the mine.

Speaker 3 (01:16:26):
Isn't the problem my hair.

Speaker 20 (01:16:27):
And way I supposed to jog in tragedy, but Close my.

Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
Eyes pro.

Speaker 9 (01:16:49):
Remain on chairs.

Speaker 8 (01:16:52):
You know, when people talk about the Grateful Dead, they
always talk about touch of Gray Eyes, the only top
forty hit that they ever had. And this is as
Shadow Stevens just said, this was Ozzy's first ever top
forty hit with leed to Ford. Funny, I was watching
Bernie react to Shadow Stevens, a voiceman out there uncomfortable.

(01:17:15):
That's the guy that took over for Casey case And
when Casey left and started his own in the in
the late eighties.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
Like swarmy makes my skin crawl.

Speaker 11 (01:17:24):
He's not them.

Speaker 8 (01:17:25):
I got to use what's available to me. Guys here,
I'm Casey Keys. Yeah, he's no Casey case and that
is for sure. Now, Ozzy, uh, you know, we talked
about that early nineties era for Ozzy Osbourne, who passed
away at the age of seventy six yesterday. There was
that top forty song and then he had an album
in the early nineties. I know TJ was playing that
song No More Tears last night and that was from

(01:17:46):
the same album that Mama I'm Coming Home came from,
and that, of course, I think was his most mainstream
hit that he ever had, and then it ended up
being the song that he performed earlier this month. That
was on July fifth in Birmingham where he did that concert.
They had guns and roses there and a bunch of
luminaries and and Ozzie was in that chair. He's been
suffering from Parkinson's disease for many years now, but he

(01:18:08):
was in that chair sitting and singing.

Speaker 21 (01:18:12):
Chang Chine a strange He come by.

Speaker 3 (01:18:21):
Mama coming.

Speaker 8 (01:18:27):
By, seeks You're so At the end of the set
that he played, this is what he had to say, Well,
here real, you know what, I'll come believe them here myself.

Speaker 9 (01:18:55):
First, I gotting to make it the thankers out of
the way, because I'm not gonna boil you with the
long monologue. I'd like to think whoever voted me into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for my sorrow
worked a great thank you. Thank you, the bar really
thank you, thank you, thank you. And I'm Marcel my fans.

(01:19:21):
My fans have been so loyal to be over the ears.
I cannot thank them enough. I've been torturnate over the
years to play with some of the world greatest guitar players. Traumas,
passed players La Lah kill him are here tonight. But
I've got one to spend on one thing for the

(01:19:43):
guides by the name of Randy Rhodes, because if he had,
if I hadn't met Randy Rhodes, I don't think I'd
be sitting here now. I'm more solf and more than
my wife, Sharon saved my life and my bro baby.
I loved him home. So with all that, I'm gonna

(01:20:05):
go on with a show and hand it back to Jack.

Speaker 8 (01:20:08):
He was handing the microphone back to Jack Black and
I actually I swapped the soundbites. The one you just
heard was him in twenty twenty four at the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame. This was what Osie said
earlier this month in his final concert, And here we
go boom, hang on, Bernie, and I.

Speaker 9 (01:20:32):
Don't say it over laid over.

Speaker 3 (01:20:38):
So you've not knowing you.

Speaker 22 (01:20:50):
Thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:20:51):
I know that's hard to hear. It's kind of muffled.
He said, thank you for the bottom of my heart.
I can't believe this, and I wanted to play it
nonetheless though, because it was right after he performed that
set and ended up being his farewell to everyone. Because
as you've been seeing around the internet since this news
broke yesterday, that concert to footage has been available. But

(01:21:12):
watching it now, understanding that he is gone, you realize
that was his last sort of send off to his crowd.
He had the sendoff from the people there, and you know,
not many people of us get that opportunity to have
a sendoff. We talk a lot about John Hancock and
how he had his farewell sort of tour on the radio.
But when you are at the top of your game,

(01:21:33):
and Ozzy Osbourne was all the things that he did
in his career to be able to have a send
off like that, it's almost like seeing your funeral, you know,
which none of us can, but you sort of got
that feeling there and a lot of his fans from
all the different generations love to see that. Back on
July fifth, there at that special concert. So Ozzy Osbourne

(01:21:54):
passed away at the age of seventy six. Boomer von
Cannon saw him at the Park Center back in nineteen
seventy one. You've learned today so well we're all talking
thinking about the Prince of Darkness today.

Speaker 11 (01:22:05):
Loudest concert ever, I have no doubt the loudest. And
you were there well, and I think they call her
before me.

Speaker 13 (01:22:11):
He went to one of the shows before before I went.
So he beat me on that one in the seventy one.
But the groups he saw with him, we saw him
with you or a heap. They did make several return
performances in Charlotte during that time.

Speaker 8 (01:22:23):
Okay, The point is they were at the Park Center, right, Yeah,
they were a big time. They blew the doors off
that place. Bucket list stuff right there.

Speaker 11 (01:22:31):
That's right.

Speaker 14 (01:22:31):
I'm gonna call him and tell him you're coming.

Speaker 9 (01:22:33):
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Speaker 2 (01:22:56):
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Speaker 3 (01:23:00):
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Speaker 30 (01:23:02):
Tho, this baby hits hedy eight miles brow here I
see some serious sh.

Speaker 3 (01:23:10):
Ah.

Speaker 8 (01:23:10):
Yeah, I had to find that intro one of the classics. Well,
John Fogerty for my next guest, who is joining us
in studio for the final hour today. If you've listened
to the show for many years, then this name won't
be a foreign one to you. But it's been a
while since we had him here in the ty BOYD studio.
Welcome back Tom Blocker.

Speaker 12 (01:23:31):
Hello, Bo, good to be back.

Speaker 8 (01:23:32):
What's up man? How you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:23:34):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (01:23:34):
I'm doing great? Good and great.

Speaker 8 (01:23:36):
Tom is Well, we go back a long way here.
You and I hosted a show on the weekends. This
is back more than a decade now called Wheels with
Tom Blocker, where we would come in and talk cars
and everything going on in the automotive business. And we
had We did that for a couple of years and
had a good time doing that. I was basically just
the guy that was here to sort of direct traffic

(01:23:56):
and do the radio stuff, and you were the expert
with all the auto knowledge. But we struck up a
friendship in that process, and you have been a presence
on the show over the years, and we did weekly
segments for a while. And you know, I got a
text from you the other day and I said, we
need to get time back here in the studio because
people love them and we love talking to them. So
it's good to see your face. Man, It's great to

(01:24:17):
be back. And you if people don't know, forty plus
years in the auto business altogether, you worked for a
long time for Hendrick. Twenty five years with Hendrick, and
what did you do to the people who don't know,
what did you do for Hendrick?

Speaker 30 (01:24:30):
Well, I was one of the chief operating officers for
the Automotive Group. Great twenty five years. We grew dramatically
from twenty some odd dealerships to we had eighty seven
you know when I retired, seven b and an annual revenue.
I mean, grew into a really big company. So it
was a twenty five year sprint. You know, it was
really fun and it was interesting and thoroughly enjoyed it.

(01:24:53):
But you know, at sixty six, it was time for
me to take a hike.

Speaker 8 (01:24:57):
Well, and your biggest claim to fame, of course, is
that you were once neighbors with Jim Zochi.

Speaker 30 (01:25:02):
We were, and Jim abandoned our neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (01:25:05):
Well, here's the thing, here's the story. Tom's got a
lot of cars, and he was saying during the break,
you know, he doesn't have He's got a great house,
he's been in there for twenty five years, doesn't have
enough places to park all of his cars. So I thought,
let's create some room for Tom. We've got a couple
of garages, as you're a big garage door guy, bo
I know. Yeah, so I thought that'd be great for
job to have more places of parking cars. Somebody else

(01:25:25):
bought the house that he turned out.

Speaker 30 (01:25:26):
Yeah, yeah, I'm renting a lot of garage space in
various places.

Speaker 8 (01:25:30):
Yeah, Tom had to build a helipad. Well, and you're
the guy. I've said it over the years. I mean,
I love talking cars, but Tom's that guy. We all know,
that guy, right that has all the toys, that has
all the fun stuff and goes and does the fun things.
I mean, you have in recent years gone and ridden
your motorcycles in the Swiss Alps and.

Speaker 12 (01:25:50):
That was a fantastic trip last summer.

Speaker 8 (01:25:53):
You go race cars, I mean you, and you was
telling us before, well, I had to get rid of
this and this and to make room for this. You
up until well recently used to go water skiing down
at Lake Wiley all the time.

Speaker 30 (01:26:03):
Unfortunately I had to give up the ski but my
arthritic knees don't allow me to slalom ski anymore. And
in my dirt bike, my KTM had to go away.
So two of my favorite sports I just had to
finally say goodbye to because my knees just can't do it.
But still love riding my BMW motorcycle in the mountains.
Bought a new thirteen hundred gs. I'm having a ball

(01:26:24):
riding that. Just had my GT four RS Portia up
at Watkins Glen a few weeks ago with some other
guys and we had a great time two days. What
an exciting track, high speed, great great road course.

Speaker 8 (01:26:37):
Well we have this new text line now. I was
telling you about when we were talking about you coming
on and people like to call the show when you're
in here and ask car questions. Anything really under the
umbrella that is the world of automotive, So I'll throw
that out there as we're talking seven oh four five
seven oh eleven ten. We have this new text line,
Driven by Driven by Liberty Buick GMC, so it's an easier,

(01:27:00):
a more convenient way for some people to send questions.
So if you have a question for Tom, and this
can be in our next segment. I think we'll get
into some of the tariff tariff stories that have been
so much part of President Trump's second administration so far,
because you and I haven't really talked much about that
since that's a half subject, and I know that you're
you're you've done a deep dive into it, but you know,

(01:27:21):
it can be political, it can be automotive, it can
be racing. If you used to listen to the Old Show,
you know how this works. But if you would like
to ask Tom a question between now and ten am
seven oh four, five seven oh eleven ten, phone calls
and of course the text line is definitely open. And
I'm going to throw one more thing in here before
the hour is over, because we've been talking about Ozzy

(01:27:42):
Osbourne today because he passed away at the age of
seventy six yesterday, and we've been get in a lot
of texts and somebody said, you know, Larry Sprinkle's got
some some Ozzy Osbourne stories. Well, Larry's going to call
in at about nine thirty five for a few minutes
and join the conversation here.

Speaker 12 (01:27:55):
So that's really interesting.

Speaker 8 (01:27:56):
Always good to have the legendary Larry Sprinkle anytime he
wants to jump Ben. So, Tom, what's the most uh,
what's the what's the most Tom Blocker esque thing that
you've done since we last saw each other.

Speaker 30 (01:28:08):
Well, I guess, uh, just continuing to do track days.
You know, I'm enjoined join my GT four R s
at v R Road Atlanta Watkins Glen. Haven't been to
Barber yet this year, but Carolina Motorsports Park, and still
instructing with the Porscha Club and enjoying that. And you know,
still I'm still looking for a little more quicker lap time,

(01:28:29):
you know, and uh, it's fun when you kind of
improve your your lap time. I did actually ran my
best lap times down at Road Atlanta a couple of
months ago, and you know, for an old guy, that's
a that's a pretty big deal. So thoroughly enjoying the
car and thoroughly enjoying the camaraderie. And uh, it's a
it's a great sport.

Speaker 8 (01:28:47):
See these are life goals, Jim, you and I taking
notes here.

Speaker 2 (01:28:50):
It's like the need for speed, Tom Blocker.

Speaker 30 (01:28:53):
And I did buy a new motor side just bought
a new BMW. I rode I rode one the new
thirteen hundred over in Italy and Switzerland and really liked it.
So I bought a new one just recently and really
really been enjoying it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:05):
That's just what he has bo it's where he has it,
where the places he goes.

Speaker 8 (01:29:09):
Did you did you see the F one movie? Are
you interested in that?

Speaker 11 (01:29:12):
I did see that.

Speaker 30 (01:29:12):
Yeah, I follow F one big time and I thought
the movie was pretty well done. As matter of fact,
the drivers, the F one drivers got to preview it,
and most of them were real positive about it. Yeah,
they felt like Brad Pitt did a pretty good job
of really understanding the sport. And you know, all the
producers and of course Lewis Hamilton was involved, and Toto
Wolf was involved. You know, he's the manager of the

(01:29:35):
Mercedes team, so they got they had a lot of
good input and I think they did a pretty good
job with the movie.

Speaker 11 (01:29:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:29:41):
Well, if you've got questions for Tom, and if you
always wanted to ask him a question when you heard
him on the show, you can do that seven oh four, five,
seven eleven, ten, call or text nine thirteen traffic check.
Speaking of roads and wheels and that stuff, the cars,
trucks and buses. As Jerry Ve used to say, here's
Boomer von Kennah.

Speaker 13 (01:29:58):
It's great to have Tom back into It's great man,
it's great to hear you Tom. Hey boat, Can I
present a quick question to Tom?

Speaker 8 (01:30:04):
Yes, yes, of course.

Speaker 11 (01:30:05):
You know when our.

Speaker 13 (01:30:06):
Dashboard it gives us temperatures what we have outside, but
who will be the first to give us feels like
temperatures on the dashboard.

Speaker 11 (01:30:12):
That's a big trend right now. It's a big thing.

Speaker 8 (01:30:14):
That would be a race stagic.

Speaker 30 (01:30:17):
It feels like, Yeah, but that that number is usually
pretty high. It's you know, the sensors outside of the
cockpit and it's usually pretty uh, pretty pessimistic, you know
when you see that number, Yes, especially this week, my goodness.

Speaker 8 (01:30:31):
Well, and that's a that's a whole nother story. Is
you know how much your dashboard has now you buy
a new car. Now, it's basically it extends across the whole.

Speaker 30 (01:30:39):
Front of Oh yeah, the main things I look at,
you know, when I'm on the track, I basically have
two screens that I toggle between. One is my my
water tamp old tamp old pressure. I want to keep
an eye on those, and then my tire pressures is
another one. And that's real critical when you're running on
the track, and of course those pressures go way up,
you know, the harder you run. So I'll keep a

(01:31:00):
close eye on that and I'll toggle between those two
screens when I'm driving. That's all I want to look at,
you know, other than my laptimer.

Speaker 8 (01:31:06):
Boomer, We thank you for your phone call.

Speaker 11 (01:31:08):
That is great advice. Frequent listener.

Speaker 3 (01:31:12):
Good morning, hey man.

Speaker 1 (01:31:14):
He enjoy your show.

Speaker 8 (01:31:16):
Thank you.

Speaker 27 (01:31:16):
I love the show. Longtime listener over a decade. We
consider you guys for a family.

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
Oh oh, he says, you're very kind.

Speaker 27 (01:31:24):
Wow, there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:31:27):
This is good morning Bet.

Speaker 6 (01:31:37):
Nine.

Speaker 8 (01:31:38):
I WBT bo Thompson. Here Beth is off today joining
me in studio right now. It's been a while.

Speaker 12 (01:31:46):
You yes, you.

Speaker 8 (01:31:54):
Tom Blocker forty plus years in the auto business, many
of them working for Hendrick, and he's with us taking
phone calls today and catching up, and a lot has
been going on since you and I last talked. I'll
start off with a question here at seven oh four, five,
seven oh eleven, ten, and this can sort of send
us off in the direction that I know we want
to go. Here, says please ask Tom. Why has the

(01:32:14):
auto sales market been so out of control since twenty twenty?
New vehicles are completely unaffordable and people are asking a
fortune for their pre owned vehicles. When will the market
correct itself?

Speaker 30 (01:32:25):
Yeah, I don't know, and it has come down a
little bit. The average the average transaction price got up
around forty eight forty nine thousand, and I mean pre pandemic,
it was like thirty two thousand, thirty three thousand, So
it went way up because it was a shortage, you know,
for those two or three years during the pandemic. But

(01:32:45):
unfortunately inflation has caused you know, much higher prices. The
type of vehicles we're selling more SUVs now than cars,
and they're more expensive, you know than a car typically,
and the safety features on these cars make them more expensive.
But right now, the average transaction price for the first
half of the year is about forty six thousand, a

(01:33:08):
little over forty six thousand, so it's come down slightly,
but I don't see it getting back to thirty two.
I mean, I don't think that's going to happen. The
content of these vehicles is much greater now and I
don't think it's ever going to get down to that.
So what's happened is the financing has changed. Longer term
financing has come into play because of the more expensive vehicles.

(01:33:29):
There's more, you know, seventy two month and even eighty
four months seven year financing. Almost twenty percent of the
new vehicles that were financed this year were for eighty
four months, and you know, you're almost guaranteed to be
upside down in your vehicle, you know, in terms of
your value being less than what you owe on a

(01:33:49):
seven year contract. But people are having to do that
to afford the higher price.

Speaker 8 (01:33:54):
That's from Timmy Timmy g TIMG calling us or texting us.
Actually the text line driven by bu at GMC. We're
talking to Tom Blocker here all things cars and auto,
and you know one big he calls it the big
beautiful bill. Well, the big beautiful word. I think if
you ask President Trump so far in twenty twenty five

(01:34:14):
with his second term has been tariff.

Speaker 30 (01:34:17):
Yeah, and it's an extremely complex issue. So maybe I'll
just take an example to kind of give everybody an
idea how complex this issue is. So I'm going to
take a vehicle that's the most common vehicle and the
most highly sold vehicle in the US, the Ford F
series pickup truck. It has been the sales leader for
the last four decades. They've sold of eight and nine

(01:34:41):
hundred thousand a year of those, you know, in good years.
So it's a very well known, very American car. And
they are in fact all built in the US. They're
built in Dearborn, They're built in Kansas City, Louisville, Avon Lake, Ohio.
So those cars are those trucks are all assembled in
the US. But I think what would surprise most people.
I mean, this truck is about as American as you

(01:35:02):
can get, right, Well, it's only fifty one percent domestic content.
In other words, fifty one percent of the value of
that truck is derived from the US. The rest of
it comes from twenty four different countries. The parts and
components come from twenty four different countries. So to give
you an idea that the two biggest countries are Canada

(01:35:23):
and Mexico. So just to kind of give you an
idea where everything comes from. Canada supplies the half shafts
and the transmissions for that vehicle. Well, if you're going
to tear iff those parts, the transmission parts for that
come from three different countries. So you know it's going
to be a very complex issue to try to figure
out what to tariff and how to teariff. You know,

(01:35:44):
half the components for a Ford F series pickup truck,
and I'm not picking on this is fairly typical of
most vehicles.

Speaker 11 (01:35:52):
Mexico.

Speaker 30 (01:35:52):
The alternator in the wheels come from Mexico. The tires
are coming from Korea Handcook and Kumo or the two
main uh UH manufacturers of tires that are used on
this vehicle.

Speaker 11 (01:36:06):
Japan.

Speaker 3 (01:36:07):
N M. K.

Speaker 30 (01:36:07):
Spring supplies suspension components for the Ford pickup truck. Hungary
supplies the steering column for this truck.

Speaker 8 (01:36:16):
These are all you know, different places, they different.

Speaker 30 (01:36:19):
Places all over the world, but there they're components for
the Ford F series pickup truck. UH Poland surprised the
UH starter motors Valeo Electric in Poland surprised starter motor.
They're a huge supplier worldwide. Germany supplies the sun roofs
with best stowed roof and components. China Summit Plastics in China,

(01:36:41):
UH builds the instrument panel, you know for a Ford truck.
So a Ford pickup truck has Chinese parts in it.

Speaker 8 (01:36:47):
So so the one refrain you've heard from President Trump
so many times since he took office again is move
those plants into the United States and let it all
be built here. How realistic is that?

Speaker 11 (01:36:58):
Not very Sweden ought to live from.

Speaker 30 (01:37:01):
Sweden supplies the airbags and they're one of the biggest
airbag suppliers in the world. So parts are coming from
twenty four different countries for this vehicle. This is a
global supply chain. And this is typical. You know GM,
you know Stalantis their vehicle, similar situations with most vehicles.
Even the Japanese transplants you know, Honda, Toyota, Nissan that

(01:37:25):
are building cars over here, they still have a global
supply chain that they depend on.

Speaker 8 (01:37:30):
So when you hear President Trump say that, do you think, okay,
that's wishful thinking, It's it's not that easy, or can
most of the manufacturing move domestically or is that sort
of a piet.

Speaker 30 (01:37:40):
Some can, you know, some can, but uh, I don't
think we'll ever see a one hundred percent. You know,
in the forties, we did build everything here and that's
why with the arsenal of democracy was able to build
what we did, you know, for to to win World
War two. But we don't have that type of an
industrial base now and we depend on the world to come.

(01:38:02):
You know, there's eighty million vehicles a year sold internationally,
so that's it's a global supply chain and most companies
are plugged into that.

Speaker 8 (01:38:11):
Tom Blocker is with us. You remember that voice, a
familiar voice on this show in studio with us today
catching up talking cars seven oh four, five, seven oh eleven, ten,
or you can text us to same number if you've
got a question for Tom.

Speaker 2 (01:38:24):
I wanted to say hey and thoroughly enjoy the show.

Speaker 8 (01:38:26):
Thank you for taking the time to call in.

Speaker 3 (01:38:28):
Well, y'all keep it up, you'd worry done a great job.

Speaker 8 (01:38:31):
Thank you man, keep phone keeping on.

Speaker 3 (01:38:33):
This is Good Morning Beaty with Boo and Peth. Casey
time time.

Speaker 19 (01:38:39):
I'm Casey case I'm counting down the biggest hits in
the USA and rising two notches to twenty five as
a singer who got its started back in the sixties
in the British band Black Sabbath. Here's Ozzy Osbourne and
Mama I'm Coming Home, Times the.

Speaker 9 (01:38:53):
Chase and times the Strange Peter Come by Mama, ham Colevin.

Speaker 8 (01:39:04):
Well, we lost Ozzy Osbourne yesterday at the age of
seventy six, of course, the lead singer Black Sabbath and
then solo career and then MTV with the Osbourne's and
this was the song that he sang at its final
concert appearance earlier this month. Across the Pond on July fifth,

(01:39:25):
Tom Blockers in studio with me and any Ozzy Osbourne stories,
no not. I kind of figured now across the morning,
we've been talking about memories and people have been calling
and texting, and Boomer mentioned this, and a couple of
other people said, you know, Larry Sprinkle probably has some
Ozzy Osbourne memories, and well, you know, I know Larry's number,

(01:39:48):
and I don't use it a lot because I don't
want to bother him too much. But every once in
a while, when an iconic person like this in the
world of entertainment passes away. I got to get to
the thoughts of the legendary Larry Sprinkle himself, who is
on the WBT hotline. Good morning, mister Sprinkle, and now on.

Speaker 27 (01:40:06):
The Cats both this is Casey case A lot of
this is the dedication goes out to you for all
the things you do in the market. Thanks a lot,
and now ont of the Cats out. How you doing,
man morning?

Speaker 8 (01:40:19):
What's going on?

Speaker 27 (01:40:20):
All right?

Speaker 13 (01:40:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 27 (01:40:21):
Pretty?

Speaker 22 (01:40:22):
Uh.

Speaker 27 (01:40:22):
You know, here's a guy who had one amazing life.
I mean, I'm not sure if anybody, one person put
more into their life than Ozzy Osbourne.

Speaker 8 (01:40:32):
Well, you worked in radio back in the day at
Big Ways and w R o Q, and you know
Boomer was mentioning, uh that the fact that that Black
Sabbath played at the Park Center numerous times, because we've
had listeners that have vouched for that too. Did you
ever see Black Sabbath or Ozzy?

Speaker 27 (01:40:50):
Well, I mean, first of all, I mean the interesting
such irony that you talk about Ozzy, because there's an
amazing story about him. But first I'm I saw Ozzie.
I was in radio in Memphis WNPS in Memphis and
one of the shows I first MCED there was on
stage one big incredible show, Ted Nugent and the m

(01:41:13):
Boy Books, M Boy Dukes, Brownsville Station and Black Sabbath
with Ozzy Osbourne on one Crazy Night back in about
nineteen That was probably about nineteen seventy one in Memphis.

Speaker 8 (01:41:27):
Nineteen seventy one. And I think we had a call
earlier who said they saw the Park Center show back
in nineteen seventy one with some of those same people.
So now when you think of a guy like Ozzy Osbourne,
who had so many I mentioned this earlier, I think
you probably would concur right like, there are people like
John Madden who, depending on what generation you grew up in,

(01:41:49):
you have a different memory of him in his heyday.
Michael Jackson would fit that category. Several others. But you know,
you go from Black Sabbaths lead man to the solo
sort of. I bit the head off for a bet
at a concert in Iowa. Ozzy Osbourne too, Ozzy Osbourne
when he was with his family on MTV. I mean
it sort of. You know, it depends on when you
came in the mix to it as what you think

(01:42:11):
of immediately.

Speaker 27 (01:42:11):
Right, Well, now here's the craziest thing in nineteen eighty six.
I just I've been in TV for about a year.
But prior to that, when I was in radio here
in Charlotte, I had an agent here in JTA and
they got me a lot of auditions for a lot
of projects, several film projects. One of those was a

(01:42:35):
film that I did with Ozzy. He and I worked together.
It is a movie called Trick or Treat And if
you google that Trick or Treat nineteen eighty six, it's
a movie with Gene Simmons, Ozzy Osbourne, directed by actor
director Charles Martin Smith, who was known for The Untouchables

(01:42:58):
as an actor American Never Cried Wolf, great guy. He directed.
It was shot in Wilmington. Is called a high tech
horror film. It's a horror movie with no blood. It's
all high tech. It's become a cult classic. It's amazing.
Last year, one year ago, the Blu Ray edition was released. Uh,

(01:43:21):
and it's become something that there's a there's this group
out there that every Halloween that movie is brought back
and I run into people in different occasions who bring
a CD or a poster or the Blu Ray to
have it signed because they knew all and anybody else,
Larry who's had a small part in it. But I

(01:43:41):
mean it's on the other air yesterday today they played
clips of myself and Ozzie together. Now here's the craziest
thing in that movie. One part of it is understandable.
I played the part of Marv McCain, a TV talk
show host. Ozzie played out of evangelist who had a

(01:44:01):
campaign against rock and roll. Wow. And if you if
you google YouTube bad, you won't see Ozzy hair braided
as actually about the same style I have. I actually
in the movie, my hair is longer than his the

(01:44:22):
way they braided it down. But he is excellent in
the part and is so real, I mean so truthful.
It is hatred of rock and roll. It's a pretty
ironic situation. But he did a great job in it.
And I spent three days with Ozzy and got to
know him relatively well in that amount of time.

Speaker 8 (01:44:43):
And so what's your biggest takeaway about the real Ozzie
up close?

Speaker 27 (01:44:47):
Well that in nineteen eighty six, you think back to
the heyday of Black Sabbath seventies into the eighties. I mean,
he probably consumed anything man could get their hands on,
with it, enhance themselves, whatever it may be. In that
particular moment, he was sober, totally sober in fact, I

(01:45:09):
mean I had conversations where I asked him everything about
himself and his life, and he says, you know, Larry,
I'm right now, I even had drugs in several years.
I'm almost over alcohol. And he was here, ried, sober,
down to earth, nice guy. And he looked and looked
at himself in the mirror and saw the how his

(01:45:30):
hair was braided down so short, and he goes, you know,
if me mom saw me right now, she'd want me
to come back to England and be a truck driver again,
which he was when he was about seventeen years old.

Speaker 8 (01:45:41):
Well, see, I heard these stories that you had and
you have delivered, my friend, that is about the the
coolest story I've heard all morning.

Speaker 27 (01:45:50):
So it was what an experience and just have experienced
directly that part of this guy's life, because I mean,
he was monumental as historical character, beyond the character, and
we'll be missed because there's something that he added to
the world, something special that no one else has ever done.

(01:46:12):
Probably they never do again. There's only one Ozzie that
he surely made an imprint.

Speaker 8 (01:46:17):
There you go, Larry Sprinkle, who was in a movie
with Ozzy Osbourne. Not many people can say that today
as we're remembering a rock and roll icon among other
things too. You know, he was multifaceted, and so are you.

Speaker 2 (01:46:29):
Man.

Speaker 8 (01:46:29):
I really appreciate you calling in this morning.

Speaker 27 (01:46:31):
Thanks both, Thank you. You guys do a great job.
Always love listening.

Speaker 8 (01:46:34):
Thank you, Larry, love knowing that you're out there.

Speaker 4 (01:46:36):
Man.

Speaker 8 (01:46:36):
We'll stay in touch. That's Larry Sprinkle, Larry Legend, as
I like to call him. You know, people called Larry
Bird Larry Legend, but in broadcasting realms, he's my Larry Legend.
And Tom Blocker is my auto legend and he's with
us seven o four five seven oh eleven ten, Tom Blocker,
I've been on a member of the extended show family
here for many many years and will continue the conversation.

(01:46:57):
I had to get one more reference to a little
Ozzy Osbourne there, and when it's Larry Sprinkle on the
other end of the line, Boomer, you got to do
it right.

Speaker 13 (01:47:05):
He is the man still still to this day, you know,
I hope but one day and one day soon that
the city of Charlotte or the mclibery County government will
name a dog center or an animal shelter after.

Speaker 11 (01:47:16):
Larry Sprinkle for all that he is down over the years.

Speaker 8 (01:47:19):
Yeah, he is one of a kind. Your lips to
God's ears right there. I hope somebody heard that, and
we'll relay that because that's a great idea.

Speaker 12 (01:47:25):
Let's do it now while we can remember it and
enjoy it while we're still here.

Speaker 8 (01:47:30):
That's right.

Speaker 13 (01:47:30):
But name something after Larry, please. He has been doing
it for fifty years and still doing it strong.

Speaker 8 (01:47:35):
Hey, let's let's name multiple things after Larry. We'll call

(01:47:55):
this the Speed Round. As we wrap up the hour,
Tom Blocker, our longtime auto expert, forty plus years in
the auto business, many of those years with Hendrick and
a good friend of the show. Good to have you
in the studio, Great to be here both so seven
oh four, five, seven oh eleven ten, the text line
jamming here driven by a liberty view at GMC. Hey, Tom,

(01:48:16):
have you tried to drive the MX five? It's so
precious and I think it's fun to drive.

Speaker 11 (01:48:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 30 (01:48:22):
The Mazda Miata has been an iconic car since its inception,
and each generation has stayed true to form. You know,
it's still a very lightweight car. It hadn't hadn't gained
a lot of weight and size like so many cars have.
So the MX five is just, you know, the latest
iteration of the of the Miata, and it's a it's
a wonderful car, fantastic car, nimble, quick, and I see

(01:48:45):
a lot of them at the track, you know, and
it's a fantastic car for that doesn't have a lot
of power, but they handle incredibly well and fun car
in the mountains.

Speaker 8 (01:48:55):
We had ed call had to couldn't hang on the
ed was talking about the big Beauty. Bill says, has
an interest right off for seniors car loans.

Speaker 30 (01:49:04):
Yeah, and I think there is an interest on an
automobile loan. But there's a limit. There's an income limit
that qualifies you. And I can't remember what that was,
but there's some if you make over a certain amount,
you don't qualify for that.

Speaker 8 (01:49:20):
Let's see here. Texter says small small to mid size
suv recommendations. He's currently driving an Audi Q five that
he loves, but it's approaching one hundred thousand miles.

Speaker 12 (01:49:33):
And that's a really popular vehicle.

Speaker 8 (01:49:35):
You know, the.

Speaker 30 (01:49:38):
Compact SUVs have gotten bigger now, and two of the
most popular ones are the Toyota RAV four and the
Honda CRV. They're the third and fourth largest selling vehicles
in the market. For the first six months of the year,
the RAV four has sold two hundred and forty thousand,
almost half of those are hybrids. In the CRV sold

(01:50:00):
two hundred and twelve thousand, and half of those are hybrids.

Speaker 11 (01:50:03):
But in that more mid.

Speaker 30 (01:50:05):
Size, you know, there's always the Honda Pilot, the Kia
Tell You Ride, you know, has been well acclaimed. There
are a ton of good choices, a ton of great choices.
But the compact SUVs are quite a bit bigger than
they were, you know when they first came out, and
they're almost the size of that of that Q five.
So I'd take a look at those two.

Speaker 8 (01:50:26):
Seven oh four or five seven zero eleven ten. Mike
from Monroe says, I have a question about an old car.
I have a nineteen eighty one Transam. I'd like to
keep the original engine in the car. It's about three
oh one four point nine turbo. If it was yours,
would you keep the engine or would you keep of
the engine original.

Speaker 30 (01:50:45):
Well, it depends on if you've got somebody that can
work on that engine. You know, it's you'd need an expert,
and I'm not really a I'm not really an expert
on some of the vintage cars and muscle cars, but
I mean the three point fifty is the kind of
the veritable engine you know that most of those cars have,
and you can do a conversion to that pretty easily.

(01:51:06):
You can buy, you know, crate engines that are complete.
I don't know much about that engine specifically, so I
can't really tell you much about that.

Speaker 8 (01:51:16):
Let's see. Person says, This is Jay. Jay says, I'm
sitting on the beach in Surfside Beach listening to Tom
on your show this morning. Great to hear him again.
Let's see. I had the pleasure of sitting beside Tom
at a wine tasting at the Pump House six to
eight months ago and thoroughly enjoyed hearing his expertise on
vehicles in general, as well as his love of motorcycles

(01:51:37):
and track time. Bring on Tom regularly and keep on
keeping on love the show. This is Jay from New York,
South Carolina by way of the Sandy Beach at Ocean
Lakes Campground.

Speaker 30 (01:51:48):
Well, good to hear from you, Jay, And I remember
that that was a Robert Foley wine dinner, so we
drank some excellent wine. I had some good food that night,
and I've done a number of wine dinners since that,
so hopefully I'll see you at another one.

Speaker 8 (01:52:00):
I have been an MC at one of your wine
auctions for Heartbright and that is that was That was
an educational evening. It was a fun evening. It was
at there's a lot going on there.

Speaker 11 (01:52:08):
That was at the old Bonterra.

Speaker 8 (01:52:10):
Yeah, that was fun. So in our final moments here,
your wife, Claire founded the Heartbright Foundation, and I want
to make sure we get an update on how she's
doing and how that organization is doing.

Speaker 30 (01:52:20):
She's she's still ticking. And UH got a golf tournament
coming up and UH in August. It's going to be
at Valentine Country Club and then we do our soiree,
our dinner and UH and wine souare and our wine
auction the first Saturday in November, and it'll be out
at the Casey out on North Trine. Great venue. We

(01:52:41):
went there last year for the first time and really
nice venue. We'll be back there again.

Speaker 11 (01:52:46):
This year.

Speaker 8 (01:52:46):
The Casey is where Claire's Army had their gala last year. Uh,
and I believe they're back in the same place this year. Uh.
Just got a double check out. That's a great good venue,
really good. Thank you.

Speaker 19 (01:52:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:52:57):
Well, look you know how fast this goes. That was
the speed round. And I guarantee you when you get
off the air here, I'm gonna get more questions that
people are gonna pep me with, which is more reason
to get you back on on a regular basis. And
it's good to see you.

Speaker 12 (01:53:10):
Well you calling, I'll come run.

Speaker 8 (01:53:12):
Tom Blocker is one of the great guys and a
guy that I met early in the process did our
old wheel show and good to see your face today.
And if you have questions, I'll relay them to him,
So keep them coming here on WBT. And that'll wrap
it for a Wednesday morning. Beth Troutman will be back
on Monday. She's off for the next couple of days.
And in studio tomorrow, Eric Spanberg will join me on

(01:53:33):
the show.

Speaker 23 (01:53:35):
Big Oh Do Again, a big old Scott wheels on
far and I'll tell you what.

Speaker 8 (01:53:43):
You gotta horh.

Speaker 23 (01:53:47):
You got a long way take it to the you
gotta engineera learn you know the man. If you won't rout,
you won't wor.

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