Good Morning BT | R.I.P. to K&W | Highlighting GMBT Charities on Giving Tuesday - Good Morning BT with Bo Thompson & Beth Troutman

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

Speaker 2 (00:01):
How good morning?

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

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Sir? Good morning from News Talk eleven ten and ninety
nine three. W bet gosh, that's.

Speaker 4 (00:10):
Not a good thing.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Have you thought about moving?

Speaker 1 (00:12):
This is Good Morning Beauty with Bo Thompson and Beth Troutman.
I found you to my horseshoes again, my horseshoes.

Speaker 5 (00:21):
I'm gone me.

Speaker 6 (00:25):
The kid, you're no.

Speaker 5 (00:40):
Happy Halloween?

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Everybody stood Tuesday, December second rain coming down.

Speaker 6 (00:52):
You know, and it's one of those rains that's just
misty enough to make it almost impossible to see when
you're driving. Have you have you got experienced the I'm
getting older and it's hard to see when you drive
in the rain or at night. Yes, it's like the
worst feeling. I don't know when it happened.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Have you checked your wipeper blades. Yes, it could just
be your wiper blads, your old thanks.

Speaker 6 (01:15):
Staff, it's just that smear.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Is your air pressure? Are you're tired?

Speaker 7 (01:19):
Well?

Speaker 3 (01:19):
That part about Uh. I've gotten to the point where
you can't see dot dot dot like just in general
in general.

Speaker 6 (01:25):
And I've also also at the point where I turned
down my radio to see better.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
When you're parking or trying to find a parking.

Speaker 6 (01:33):
When I'm pulling out of my garage today because the
rain was coming down, I was like, man, that radio
needs to be down.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
That's not good for our bottom lines.

Speaker 8 (01:41):
Here.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Well, welcome to the show, everybody. Did you did you
go out and did you shop for Cyber Monday?

Speaker 6 (01:50):
Well you don't go out, you see?

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Well okay, let me you know what I mean. You
sit at your Did you go in and and shop
for cyber Monday? That's what it took his laptop to
his Starbucks city.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
That's right, Brown, exactly right.

Speaker 6 (02:02):
I went out with my laptop and shop.

Speaker 5 (02:04):
I actually I sat in the forest.

Speaker 6 (02:07):
I did partake yesterday in cyber Monday, and I was
not planning on it. But you know how you end
up getting email after email after email from places you've
shopped before, like you have ten minutes left for Cyber
Monday deals, so you're bullied into it. I kind of
got bullied into it. But I needed some and this
is the most boring thing in the possible world to
buy for a Cyber Monday. But I needed a new

(02:27):
set of bed sheets, you know, like a backup set.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Of your Christmas shop for yourself again.

Speaker 6 (02:33):
I did. I got pet sheets.

Speaker 9 (02:35):
Yesterday, breaking news Beth needs back up bed sheets.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Monday was coach for Beth and too.

Speaker 6 (02:44):
You know what's fun now that we're older in the
Troutman family, we don't do gift exchanges. We just get
together and hug and then we just get gifts for
the kids. And it's delightful because when you're adults, you
don't need anything. You just don't need anything, and if
you want something, then you know, just go. It's hugs,
hugs and family time is Christmas.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
I got you, bet you, I got you a hug.
And yet this is another example of before Beth was here,
none of us got gifts for each other, and now
Christmas and birthdays are like this huge thing on the show.

Speaker 6 (03:15):
And I did. Okay, so I got y'all the I
just I'm so excited about the gifts. I'm not gonna
spoil it. I'm not gonna spoil it.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Steve's gift.

Speaker 6 (03:25):
Do you remember? Do you guys remember two years ago?
But it was so dramatic because Yon Express was bringing
your gifts and they arrived legitimately, like with the last
segment of our last show before the end of the year.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
And we had an extra segment that day because we
filled in for Vents for an hour, so you got
like bonus time.

Speaker 6 (03:43):
I got bonus time, and so Yan Express. We were
imagining that this was a man on a bicycle, you know,
coming from the West coast. I got a I got
an email a day before yesterday to let me know
that y'all's gifts have shipped.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
And it's shipped.

Speaker 6 (03:58):
It's Yan again. So I'm highly concerned.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
That they aren't going to get here in time.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Shift means nothing on this show. That's gonna be Valentine's bill.

Speaker 6 (04:07):
You know, you might not get until past.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
Best appearance by Craig.

Speaker 6 (04:10):
Pulling exactly pull to the building and handing me the
hitting me the package.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
I will say with Cyber Monday, like I I. They
asked me that before we got on the airge you
Bonni thing yesterday, and I said, I almost did. And
the reason I didn't in a couple of different cases
is because I've I'm conditioned now to believe that the
deal is still going to be around the next day.
Like it's not Black Friday anymore, It's not really Cyber
Monday anymore. It's like cyber fall, and I.

Speaker 6 (04:35):
Saw the most appropriate meme on Instagram, you know, because
I'm no longer on Facebook. It said basically that unless
the item was fifteen hundred dollars and is now fifteen
ninety nine, I'm not buying it and I'm not believing
it's a deal.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
I mean, every little thing fifteen dollars in ninety nine.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah, that's why you got a team that's very expensive.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
That's how she rolls.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
This is good morning, bet hey, don't forget.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Friday is the thirty second annual WBT Hancock's Bikes for
Kids right here at one Julian Price Plas five to
nine pm, right out at the front horseshoe. We call
it loop around. Drop off a bike or even a truckload.
Eighteen wheelers pull up to this thing. Sometimes people pull
up in vans and trailers, and then sometimes people just

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bring one, and that is absolutely fine as well. Whatever
way we can get the most number of bikes and
the most number of kids hands for Christmas under the tree.
Because nothing says your childhood like a brand new bike.

Speaker 6 (05:41):
That's right. It's the first taste of independence that you
get as a child.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
And this of course benefits kids first of the Carolinas.
It's presented by a garage do or doctor this coming Friday,
December fifth. Now, the weather's going to be a little iffy.
That's never stopped us before. We'll keep an eye on
what's going on there and maybe in a raincoats out
there are are wormcoats and raincoats at the same time,
out in front of a one Julian Price Place. If

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you don't know where that is, just go to WBT
dot com. And you can also drop off your bikes
at Watson Insurance in Belmont. Watson Insurance is a bike
drop off location three to two East Catoba Street in Belmont,
and of course they will bring the bikes to WBT.

Speaker 6 (06:24):
So it's good a lovely alternative.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
We had a chance to shoot the breeze with US
Senator Tom Tillis, as we do from time to time.
Case this time he actually dropped by drop by One
Julian Price Place, just like you can on Friday night
for the bike drive. He came through here yesterday on
his way to the airport to head back to Washington, DC,
and lots of things to talk about with the Senator.
We started off the conversation really in two major stories,

(06:50):
one locally and that of course Arena's law went into
effect yesterday Arena Zarutzska stemming from the August stabbing of
that Ukrainian woman, and then of course the horrific story
of the two National guardsmen that were shot heading into
Thanksgiving weekend. Talk to a US Senator Tom tell Us
about both those stories.

Speaker 10 (07:10):
Well, first off, at the root of both of those
incidents were behavioral health, mental health challenges. We know about
the stabbing here of the Ukrainian Arena taught her family
members it's a horrible thing, and the same thing's true
up in d C. But again, this person who came
over on an SIV visa obviously had behavioral health problems.

(07:35):
I don't know if that occurred after he got here.
That just wasn't caught in screening horrible tragic events. One
thing I am concerned with, particularly with the event up
in well, actually both of them for different reasons. You
may not know that there are Ukrainians here that are
not getting work authorizations.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
They haven't been.

Speaker 10 (07:54):
Reauthorized for work in this administration, who were on special
visas victual immigrant visas that were used for interpreters. I
helped get interpreters out of Afghanistan. We've just got to
make sure that we don't have a knee jerk reaction
and cast everyone in the same lot. Otherwise we could
be putting people who deserve to be in this country
and deserved a protected status at risk.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
But it was a horrible loss.

Speaker 10 (08:18):
The twenty year old young lady who died, the gentleman
who's in critical condition. We pray for him and hope
that he improves, and pray for the families of the
lost soldier.

Speaker 11 (08:29):
Now.

Speaker 6 (08:29):
Secretary Nome was on the Sunday talk shows over the
weekend saying that she believed that this shooter was radicalized
once he arrived here in the United States. Have you
heard that discussion?

Speaker 3 (08:43):
No, I haven't.

Speaker 10 (08:43):
I mean, if she has data to back it up,
I could, I could accept that. But I think it's
also seems to be that the information coming in now
is he had a behavioral health problem, so it could
have been a combination of the two.

Speaker 6 (08:56):
One of the big questions that some people haven't it's
certainly the opponents of having the National Guard in cities
to begin with. In Washington, d C. Is of course
a different case than Chicago or even here in Charlotte.
But the opponents of having the National Guard in the
cities are suggesting that they are put in a position
where they can't really enforce anything that they are, that

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they're kind of put in a position where their hands
are tied behind their backs, and that maybe a better
resource would be more funding and more police officers than
actually putting the National Guard.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
I agree. I was at a judiciary committee hearing.

Speaker 10 (09:33):
We had a state centator from Tennessee coming in when
they were talking about sending the National Guard from another
state and the Memphis and I said, I was Speaker
of the House in North Carolina, and I would have
considered myself having been guilty of a personal failure if
I had to bring in the National Guard from other
states to protect my citizens in North Carolina. So I

(09:54):
think the fact of the matter is police are trained
differently the National guardsmen. National guardsmen recruited to go to
the Middle East, not Middle America. And if there's a
if there is a dire situation where a governor needs help,
I think that's the way to do it. I just
do not believe I think it's foundational to states' rights.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
If IF IF, IF.

Speaker 10 (10:15):
We've got a dangerous situation North Carolina. Vote the bums
out that made it dangerous. And the fact of the
matter is we did have a sanctuary but de facto
policy here in Mecklenburg County that I've had a problem
with for years. But hold them accountable and get a
new sheriff, get a new mayor. Do what you have
to do to protect your your your state, and your city.

(10:36):
But don't necessarily import people who were trained and best
prepared to take the fight overseas. Police officers are very
deod They're they're they're about community policing, They're about building relationships,
they're about de escalation.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
It's a very different.

Speaker 10 (10:50):
Discipline that we shouldn't expect the National Guardsmen to necessarily
have in their in their skill set.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
You mentioned the sheriff. I want to come back around
to him for a moment. I mentioned in the arena
Zerutzka Arena's law that goes in effect. The law restricts
judges and magistrates to a larger degree from releasing violent
and repeat offenders before trial. Mecklberg County Sheriff Gary McFadden
said he anticipates that the jail, which is at functional capacity.

(11:16):
He says, we'll see a large surge of inmates and
strain the jail's staff. What about this law going into
effect and what it may now entail. Well, I do
think that there should be increased attention options.

Speaker 10 (11:31):
If the jails not big enough to build a bigger
jail or identify other resources. There are other jurisdictions that
he could potentially work with. We know this, he's a
member of the Sheriff's Association. There's a way to actually.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
I think keep the community safer.

Speaker 10 (11:44):
One of the things we have to do, though, is
make sure that if people are in a behavioral health crisis,
that we send them to the right facility. Otherwise we're
not doing our community any favors by either releasing them
or putting them in a facility where we're warehousing.

Speaker 6 (11:59):
Is there, let's ggislation that needs to change in order
to get people the mental health that they need. Is
are their legislation changes that should happen on a state level?

Speaker 10 (12:09):
Well, I tell you one thing that I wish and
that I'll be working on in my remaining time in
the Senate. But after that, it's the full implementation of
the Safer Communities Act. It's a bill that I led
with John Cornyn Kerson, Cinema and Chris Murphy. That was
the single largest investment in behavioral health that the states
have to request and they have to implement. But it's

(12:33):
more brick and mortar behavioral health facilities, it's more resources
that the state can use to address the chronic problem
of behavioral There's just not enough resources, there's not enough capacity,
and it's one of the reasons why we have some
of these horrible outcome. I'm not excusing what the man
did murder Arena. What I'm saying is maybe there was

(12:53):
some intervention earlier that could have avoided that if we
were smarter on treating behavioral health challenges.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
Tom Tillis, US Senator Tom Tillis is in studio with
us here we talked about the National Guard. Another huge
story that has been focused on Charlotte over the last
several weeks has been this Operation Charlotte's Web with the
Border Patrol being here and and again, it depends on
who you talk to as to whether or not this

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is wrapped up or whether or not it's just at
a at a lull and is going to crank back
up again. But what are your thoughts on what you
saw with the Border Patrol apprehending people here in Charlotte.

Speaker 10 (13:30):
I want to I want to make sure that we
execute it properly and it was worth the investment. I'm
asking for detailed event reports for every encounter. What was
the encounter? Was the person? Was the person who they
thought they were? Were they legally present?

Speaker 3 (13:48):
Did you detain them?

Speaker 10 (13:49):
Did you you know, we've seen a couple of reports
where they busted out a window, or they obviously got
the wrong person.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
They should not be that person, should not have.

Speaker 10 (13:58):
To have a househole together, window replaced, or what they
were legally present. So I'm more about efficacy. Did you
go in and do what you said.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
You were going to do.

Speaker 10 (14:07):
Did the majority of the people that you arrest and
detain have criminal records? Which was the primary reason to
be here. And that's for two reasons. I just like
good execution number one. Number two, I don't like negative
light being cast on any North Carolina city unless there's
a good reason for there to be that. So you
know what they we're talking about bringing the National Guard

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down here. It would not have met with it would
not have I would not have met them with open arms.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
We don't have that kind of a problem in Charlotte.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
This is Good Morning Beat with both Hudson and.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
Beth Troutman, six thirty seven on WBT on a rainy
Tuesday morning. Be careful out there, Bloomers. Got the latest
on the streets coming up, Part two of our conversation
in studio with US Senator Tom Tillis.

Speaker 6 (14:59):
There's a lot ofscussion around this issue of immigration, the
fact that the people who were here illegally or breaking
the law, breaking immigration law, but there's never really any
real discussion about the citizens who are breaking the law
by hiring, which is also an immigration law that is
being broken but somehow excused.

Speaker 10 (15:18):
But even if we just separate that whole discussion from
the criminal element, I want to go after drug traffickers,
human traffickers.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
People with a criminal record.

Speaker 10 (15:28):
There are a lot of illegally present people here that
we need to apprehend and detain and deport or convict
of whatever other outstanding crimes they may have. I think
that we're not allocating our resources properly by going after
people if the only law they broke was crossing into
the country.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yes, at some point we need to deal with them.
But there are millions of them.

Speaker 10 (15:52):
Why don't we go after the hundreds of thousands of
hardened criminals and be very exquisite in our intelligence and
execution and leave the rest of the community alone until
we get to that that that should be the primary
goal of homeland security.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Secure our homeland.

Speaker 10 (16:08):
Go after the bad people, not necessarily people who left
their country because they were desperate.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
I get it. I'm not excusing the fact that they're
here illegally.

Speaker 10 (16:17):
But we've got a bigger and broader problem we have
to deal with on border patrol.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
Or border security and immigration reform. President Trump, as you know,
is prone to when he has any downtime, we'll start
firing off truth social messages. Never know which direction they're
going to go. The latest one, or one of the
latest involves voiding orders not directly signed by Joe Biden,
the auto pen that he likes to talk about so much.
There was a tweet or a truth social message over

(16:44):
the weekend that he's going to basically declare anything that
is found to be autopenned or not signed by Biden
as null and void.

Speaker 10 (16:53):
Well, I think you need to look through that. You
can't have a pick and choose policy. So if you
decide to do that on a blanket base, so you
better look for the unintended consequences.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
But the reality is, we have an auto pen.

Speaker 10 (17:05):
In our office they call it a frank to where
I have to have letters and other things signed the
normal course of business, allow my staff to do that.
I just think you need to be very surgical and
that also expect the same thing to happen in the
next administration.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
Against Donald Trump's orders. One of the other it's called
political physics, one of.

Speaker 6 (17:23):
The other truth social posts over the weekend that raised eyebrows.
He put out into the world that he thought all
airspace over Venezuela should be completely closed, including commercial traffic,
and that is raising eyebrows both in the European Union
but also in South America about what our intentions are
with Venezuela given all of the attacks that have happened

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on the alleged drug boats.

Speaker 10 (17:48):
Yeah, I think we need to be We need to
be careful with that. We need to be very careful
with the consideration of an incursion on land in Venezuela.
But I tell you the other thing we have to
do is just be consistent. We've got it a hun're
in president who has just went to prison last year
after being convicted in the United States, after being convicted
of trafficking four hundred million tons. It's a big number,

(18:13):
I know that. But the thing that we're going after
Madura for we're considering pardoning the Honduran president, is like, first,
let's be intellectually.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
Consistent number one.

Speaker 10 (18:24):
Number two, let's be methodical if we're about to wage
war on Venezuela, and let's leave the messaging to the
pros on the ground that know how best the message
that thing and.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
Hopefully avert a war.

Speaker 10 (18:36):
But this Honduran president, that will not make me happy
if they follow through with that. That is an absurd
thing for the United States of America to do. To
let somebody who's pumped millions of tons of cocaine into
the blood of American citizens let them go unacceptable.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
The Seal Team six strike of that alleged to vote
that we've heard the story of you've seen the footage
of it. And now in the last several days there's
this report from the Washington Post that the Secretary of
Defense or Secretary of War, Pete hegg Seth ordered Seal
Team six to strike it again and kill everybody aboard.

(19:16):
We've talked before, and you were somebody who was right
down to the wire in the confirmation process about Pete
Heggseth to begin with, so to this story specifically, and
then sort of pulling back about where we are with
that particular member of the president's cabinet several months in
What are your thoughts?

Speaker 10 (19:33):
I was reading this weekend that Oxford Dictionary word of
the year is rage bait. I'm trying to determine whether
or not this is rage bait. If it's if it's
proven to be true, then mister Hegseth is at least
he's violated a.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
Moral or ethical code, if not a law.

Speaker 10 (19:52):
If it proves to be true, so I'm still in
the is it rage bait or not?

Speaker 3 (19:57):
But if it proves to be true, it's very clear.

Speaker 10 (19:59):
Look, I'll like Norman, I have an obligation to help
a distress vote vote right and war. If you think
that you have neutralized the enemy, you have an obligation
to try and recover and return them. They did return too,
if you recall the semi submersible, so they did actually
apprehend return to They may not have had assets to

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save them, but blowing them out of the water if
they were defenseless is actually an ethical or legal violation,
and if.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
Someone did that knowingly, they need to be held accountable.

Speaker 6 (20:30):
How will this send an investigation into Pete Hegseth.

Speaker 10 (20:33):
Go, Well, I think we'll have to figure out. That
will probably be in a classified briefing or classified setting
because there are a lot of methods that they're using
there that need to be classified. But it'll be a
very detailed analysis. And I'm glad to see on a
bipartisan basey, we want to get to the facts because
we owe it to Secretary Hegseth if it's in fact
not true, to clear his name well.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
And also heg Seth, as it relates to your colleague
Mark Kelly from Airs on a calling for at least
threatening a court martial after this, you know that was
part of the response and along with the President to
this this video that was posted by those six lawmakers
basically saying that you know you don't have to follow

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illegal orders.

Speaker 10 (21:18):
But I tell you, I was in Halifax as a
security conference last weekend and I was sitting with two
I consider friends, Peter Welch and angus king on a panel.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
And that may be rage baiting too.

Speaker 10 (21:31):
Look, it should be intuitively obvious to anyone serving in
the military if they know that something is patently illegal
that they're being asked to do.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
Don't do it. They didn't need to do that video,
so I'm kind of wondering what the motivation was.

Speaker 10 (21:45):
I think that they were trying to bait Republicans into
into that sort of exchange.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
But that's a no brainer.

Speaker 10 (21:52):
Anybody who qualifies to be in the military smart enough
to know if they see something that's illegal, they don't
do it. They refuse to do it. Court martial system
will uphold their decision. So it could be rage baiting,
and I think in that case that they they now
the flip side. Let me back up, because I want
to cover the Kelly thing. I think Key Seth is

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waiting in the dangerous waters by saying call him back
in court martialing. He may get the same thing someday
because he is former military. Next administration may have the
same consideration. I think, let's move on, guys. I mean,
my gosh, we need a little bit of adults in
the room being a little bit more mature. Stop all
this back and forth. This sort of amateurish or childish behavior.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
At either end of the spectrum is not a vote tainer.
Are you very nice here that Pete calendar?

Speaker 5 (22:44):
Are you impressed?

Speaker 3 (22:45):
Are you optimistic or pessimistic about twenty twenty six?

Speaker 10 (22:48):
I think right now we've you know you're you're always
going to have a challenge in the in the year,
the congressional elections after a new president's in place. But
we've got to get about healthcare. We've got to get
We've got to just calm down. I want to be
the adults in the room. Let the Democrats continue to

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be the liberal fanatics that some of them can be.
But I'm watching the display up here earlier. I now
know how to pronounce Afton Bay and spell her name
because I was at Middle Tennessee all weekend and there's
ads running non stop. Republicans need to understand when you've

(23:29):
got a district that's in play or we may only
win by single digits. That Trump carried by twenty points.
Pay attention, folks, you can learn from that.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
Tom Jellius, US, Senator, joining us in studio as he
was heading back to Washington, d C. Six point fifty
three on WBT saw this story yesterday, thought to myself,
I have no idea the last time, not just K
and W, but any.

Speaker 5 (23:56):
Thing in this category.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
But abruptly on December first, so you can't go today
if there's one near you, And really that might be
the question, is there one near you? K and W
cafeterias announcing they're shutting it down after eighty eight years
of service? Boom now done? And I you know, like

(24:20):
I said, I can't remember the last time I ate
at a cafeteria. But I'm sad about this.

Speaker 6 (24:23):
I am overwhelmingly sad. Guys, I loved K and W.
I there's there, well, there was one in Concord, but
they have to shut their doors with all of the
other restaurants.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
But that's the question, though you know of it, when's
the last time you actually went to it.

Speaker 6 (24:42):
I took my nephew there. It was probably eight months ago,
maybe maybe maybe a year ago. We used to there.
So there used to be a K and W Guys
in Carolina Mall in Concord Sundays. We would go after church.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
My kind of all right there.

Speaker 6 (25:00):
That line would be out into the mall to get
into K and W. And there was always the same
woman serving chop with. I loved chop with, serve you brand.
It was the bread lady to serve you bread. I
loved going to KNW. Chop with was their little chop steak.

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You could get a six ounce or an eight ounce
chop steak, and chop with was had this like thin
gravy they would pour onto the plate and then they
would put one little pickle, just a lone pickle on
top of that thing. And as a kid, I mean
not even as a kid, as an adult when I
took my nephew, I still got the chop with. Guys,
their turnip greens. My favorite thing, their fried Okra. Loved

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it chop with their coconut. You already got the chop.

Speaker 5 (25:45):
With, Yeah, Steve sent that to me.

Speaker 6 (25:48):
They already got that'd be they already got. They used
to have a coconut like custard like and an egg
custard for dessert that were so good. And you would
just walk up to the little trace and get your vinegar.
They had the hot pepper vinegar, the Texas Peak hot
pepper vinegar that you'd put all over those turnip greens.
I loved K and W loved it, loved it?

Speaker 4 (26:11):
Which came first Golden Corral or KNW? Oh?

Speaker 6 (26:13):
Ky and W for sure. K and W has been
around for eighty eight years. I think that's longer than
Golden I was.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
Golden corell gone on longer than KNW.

Speaker 6 (26:21):
I don't know how K and W was leaving us.
I mean maybe the cafeteria thing, and I loved it.
The trays were always a little bit moist, you know,
they were always a little wet when you got it
because they had washed them. And it reminded me of.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
That everything you're saying is a whole segment as true.
But let me back up for just a second. Yes,
K and W posting this on its social media site yesterday.
It is with heavy hearts that we share this news.
After serving our communities for eighty eight years, K and
W cafeterias will be closing all doors, effective immediately. K
and W has always been more than a restaurant. It

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has been a gathering place, a home for Sunday traditions,
and a warm table for millions of families across generation.
We are deeply grateful it sound like you wrote this.
We are deeply grateful for every guest who walked through
our doors, shared a meal with us, and made us
part of their lives. We thank you for being part
of the K and W family. Your support, your stories,
and your loyalty over the decades have meant more to

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us than words can express. We are truly sorry to
bring this chapter to an end, but profoundly thankful for
the love you've shown us for nearly nine decades. From
our family to yours.

Speaker 5 (27:26):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
Now that's the end of the of the statement. We
have not been able to pin it down as to
what led to the closure is I mean, you talk
about it's one thing to close after eighty eight years,
it's another thing to say today.

Speaker 6 (27:38):
I'm just so sad. Is it that young people? Is
that the younger generations don't want the cafeteria experience?

Speaker 4 (27:44):
Oh yeah, kW one time.

Speaker 5 (27:46):
I don't know about that, because what's the Chinese joint
that's really a cafeteria linean express?

Speaker 3 (27:53):
Yeah that's true.

Speaker 6 (27:54):
Oh that's a good point.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
A lot of that.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
I mean, here's the reason, because I think about the
Mars cafeteria and the Barclay cafeteria back when South Park
Mall growing up had two cafeterias. I love and I
think the thing that drew me to cafeterias, and this
is probably this is probably this case for a lot
of people out there. Your your first experience as a
kid with a cafeteria is most likely school, Oh yes,

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and you get used to what you get there, and
then you go to a like a K and W
or or a back in the day Barkley or or
the South Park ones, and you're like, holy cow, this
is what it could be.

Speaker 6 (28:27):
Right, is amazing.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
But I mean, this is like the Pizza Hut conversation
once we have on the show every once in a while. Okay,
we're sad that K and W is gone, But when's
the last time you went to one? And where are they?
Where were they up until yesterday?

Speaker 5 (28:43):
I know there's some There was one, and we talked
about the one in Concord, But yeah, they got all
that bad publicity for roaches crawling all over the food.

Speaker 6 (28:52):
Remember that I said that in the commercial break. I
was like the one in Concord.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
I love it brought them down after eighty eight years.

Speaker 6 (28:58):
The dirty restaurant report.

Speaker 5 (29:00):
Yep. But I mean, where where do you go now?
After K and W is gone?

Speaker 3 (29:04):
Where do you go? I mean, I was I was
just thinking about. I mean, I've been to a college
cafeteria in recent years. That's about the closest thing I
can think of. Hospital cafeteria.

Speaker 5 (29:14):
Oh that's a good and that's a good one too,
Mark Boy, they've stepped up there have actually. Yeah, the
food at Presbyteria actually is pretty good.

Speaker 6 (29:23):
The food. I spent a ton of time with my
mom in the hospital in Concord, which is an Atrium
Health hospital. Now that cafeteria is magical. I mean I
spent a lot of mills there.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
Well, you know that's what they say about this show.

Speaker 5 (29:35):
It's all a clart.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
You can choose what you want to win.

Speaker 5 (29:38):
Magical.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
It's magical.

Speaker 4 (29:39):
Yes, and.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
The trays are moist.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
Good morning, son, isn't this great?

Speaker 12 (29:46):
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Speaker 4 (29:47):
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Speaker 1 (29:50):
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Speaker 10 (29:55):
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Speaker 1 (30:00):
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Speaker 6 (30:06):
Be you a lot to learn about this town?

Speaker 3 (30:07):
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Speaker 6 (30:17):
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Speaker 3 (30:18):
Bo only morning show in America that has this as
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Speaker 6 (30:22):
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Speaker 3 (30:24):
Today completely because of us. It is Tuesday, December second,
Be careful out there a lot of rain drops falling
across the Charlotte area. That's gonna be the story of
the first half of the day and definitely the commute.
So we were talking about eighty eight years of service
for K and W Cafeteria, and yesterday, out of really nowhere,

(30:46):
just abruptly, they said, hey, we're we're closing the doors everywhere.

Speaker 5 (30:49):
Can't go anymore.

Speaker 6 (30:50):
Done, no more, no more KNW. Ever, after almost nine decades,
I'm not gonna lie. This is devastating. I loved it,
loved K and wute my childhood.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
Though it's devastating the idea of it, but like like
it's not like the last time you ate at a
cafeteria was like.

Speaker 6 (31:11):
It was like it was within the last year. I
took my nephew to one time.

Speaker 4 (31:15):
You know what devastating means?

Speaker 6 (31:17):
Yes, yes, I would take my when they don't have
enough roast beef, take my mom to K and W.
It was a family thing on Sundays after church. Guys,
if I had known they were closing their doors, I
would have gone last week and gotten chopped with. I

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would have gotten chopped with and that little pickle and
I would have gotten turnip greens.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
I do think that if they had given America like
a week or two weeks, there'd be lines at these places,
because there are not many K and W's left. But
as we have been getting notes about, and I knew
we would, they're starting to talk about where ones still were.

Speaker 6 (31:56):
So if you could, I guess what we're Burtons is
in the South Park area used to be a big
K and W cafeteria. But here's the thing. If you
want the cafeteria experience, if you want.

Speaker 13 (32:10):
The who doesn't want the experience, a little plastic cups
with a.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
Yellow with vegetables.

Speaker 6 (32:17):
In chocolate milk, guys, the pudding, the vanilla pudding, and
they would put a little squirt of of of.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Of cool whip.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
Or you're not wrong that that's the only place I
ever wanted chocolate pudding. Is when they had it there,
like it made it look that much better.

Speaker 6 (32:34):
Oh, they would put just the chocolate pudding.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
The Harris Theater. You know you have the little canisters
of the yello.

Speaker 5 (32:41):
Yeah, yellow chocolate pud.

Speaker 6 (32:48):
They would just have it in those little balls. They
did not seve footing pops.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
I was I knew that was coming seven O four five,
seven eleven ten.

Speaker 5 (33:01):
Oh good glad.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
Bo just referenced Barclay's and Morrison that were at South
Park and uh.

Speaker 5 (33:09):
Yes, that was the name of it.

Speaker 6 (33:11):
I couldn't remember the name. Did you say it was Morrison?

Speaker 4 (33:13):
I did you know?

Speaker 6 (33:14):
If it was at South Park? I could remember it.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
Morrison.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
That was from K.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
Let's see, Randy says, when I was young, we called
K and W canes and Walker's cafeterias. That's not how
canes are spilled.

Speaker 6 (33:29):
So this is what this is what I was concerned about,
is it is it closing because their clientele is no longer?

Speaker 13 (33:39):
Oh we closed the door, the last one die.

Speaker 6 (33:46):
You're still here, man, I am still here. I'm concerned
that young people don't enjoy the cafeteria experience.

Speaker 13 (33:53):
That's what I'm here to take our kids to the
one in Pineville. So I think there was another generation
that if they hung on, that would have gone because
that was you still love because you get to pick
which thing you want out.

Speaker 6 (34:04):
Of the low always got a moist tray that was
a little bit damp, and they kind of stuck together.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
Because they had just come out of the white washer
and they just just I just put that together.

Speaker 6 (34:16):
But they had a big bucket of like napkins that
you could just grab one and wipe your tray down
because they were a little bit moist. And it made
me think of that Eddie Izzard stand up comedy routine
where he's like this one's wet and this one's wet.
He was eating in a cafeteria on the Death Star.
No it would Darth Vader was getting the big ZD.
No one's seen Eddie Izzards.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
Step grab Allan at seven four five seven eleven ten
text line driven by Liberty at GMC says Jackson's Cafeteria
in Gastonia still very popular.

Speaker 6 (34:46):
So we need to take So we were talking in
the commercial break about all the things that we still
need to do. We still need to go to Brooks,
we still need to there are road trips we need
to take, but we now need to do a cafeteria
road trip because the cafeteria experience, I just think is
a delight. You get to pick from all of these
wonderful options. They have like baked spaghetti loaded with that
government cheese, you know, the big piece of like not

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real cheese, but kind of yummy cheese.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
Well, every time this subject comes up, we wind our
way back around, Zook. You know where I'm gonna go here.
When we both first started working here, there was a
many cafeteria downstairs.

Speaker 6 (35:23):
Oh I'm so sad. I did not exist. I existed,
but I didn't exist in this building during that time.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
And by the way, Michael says, Beth needs to do
a whole segment in the cafeteria.

Speaker 5 (35:32):
Lady voice Oh yeah, which which.

Speaker 3 (35:34):
Reminds me of her name was was Mary Kelly. She
and her husband were the ones that ran the Pine
Terrace cafeteria downstairs. And she would always you go in line.
I would run down during commercial breaks when I first
started doing this to get breakfast, and you'd be sitting
in line and you'd say, like a roll and some
some beans and and and then then you pay. She

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had such a classic voice.

Speaker 13 (35:58):
They used her on one oh seven whatever they're called now,
the mix, which is the Lake as a It's called
her backstage Betty, and she would read concert announcements and
things like that. But in the cafeteria voice because that
was her natural voice.

Speaker 6 (36:09):
Well, so that's that was the lady. I can still
picture the lady's face at kan Wi the chop with.
I picture her face and I just want to She
was still there the last time that I went there.
So I'm sad for her today because she probably had
to retire from cathe.

Speaker 13 (36:26):
She's probably tired. Well, she probably probably worked there sixty years.

Speaker 6 (36:30):
Yeah, but I think she loved it or she wouldn't
have stayed that long. And she was always at the
chop with stand. She was always serving the chop with
and the fried chicken and the chop with. Yes.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
Well, you would get to the end of the line
with missus Kelly downstairs and you'd have like one of everything.

Speaker 5 (36:46):
Your your plate would be pile high with stuff.

Speaker 6 (36:49):
Did she would say judged?

Speaker 5 (36:50):
Would she No? She would say that'll be two dollars.

Speaker 4 (36:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (36:53):
It was like ridiculously praised. That's why they probably went away.
Sure they were losing money.

Speaker 5 (36:57):
On that and probably pay her as to take to
give you food.

Speaker 6 (37:01):
Oh, I want a cafeteria experience. This has made me nostalgic, KMW.
This is very sad.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
I got another text about Jackson's cafeteria in the gas House,
so we may have to go there.

Speaker 6 (37:12):
But there you're telling you, I mean, if I wonder,
if I wonder if they.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
Have I don't want to tell you why it's called
the gas Wait to Charlotte.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
Good morning, This is good morning beat.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
All right, Tuesday morning, December second, Tyboid Studio Strong here
Bo and Beth and the Zoke and Bernie and Steve.
So the wanniac is jumping into this.

Speaker 4 (37:39):
Now.

Speaker 6 (37:39):
The Wanniac has officially texted me a friend of his
who recently retired from K and W in Concorde.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
Well, of course he did, right, So we're gonna try
to call this guy.

Speaker 6 (37:51):
I feel like we should call it. It was kind of
like the day we called the guy from Waburger.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
That's exactly what I was thinking about. You know, there's
nothing like being surprised at the seven twenty on a
two day morning and then like thirty seconds later you're
on the air. Hey, do you want to be on
a red You don't know, but.

Speaker 13 (38:09):
You know why, because he's sleeping like regular people. You'll
call people at seven twenty in the morning.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
You don't know you but he uh, he said that
this friend worked for like retired, yes.

Speaker 6 (38:21):
Four K and W. The Wayne X says, call him
he's a friend of mine.

Speaker 13 (38:24):
You could use my name, I know people tell him
Wayne since a time employee of the month.

Speaker 5 (38:30):
Actually that that actually works.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
Well, anything connected with your dad, Like you call him
at seven twenty and it's kind of like why you
call me at seven twenty and he's like Winny actra,
Oh okay.

Speaker 6 (38:39):
Hi, oh this makes sense?

Speaker 3 (38:41):
Yes, right, that guy he owes me money. He's our
secret weapon.

Speaker 6 (38:45):
So we've also learned now that there is a place
in Bessemer City called Grandma Hoyts, which sounds like it
must be a cafeteria that's in the Bestmer City area. Also,
David David says, you gentlemen need to buy me a
dictionary to read during the holidays so that I will
not comment on things.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
No, if you buy bet the dictionary, she'll have more
words to you.

Speaker 6 (39:07):
That's what I wrote it back, And I said, David,
that would be a great idea collect dictionaries. But he
doesn't want me to talk, so I thought that'd be
a weird thing for me to do since I was
hired to talk.

Speaker 5 (39:18):
I want you to talk.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
I want you to get that dictionary and then read
it in the cafeteria line voice.

Speaker 6 (39:24):
Oh, wouldn't that be so much?

Speaker 3 (39:26):
That's what we need.

Speaker 6 (39:27):
I would love to get a dictionary for Christmas. There's
one that I've got my eye on.

Speaker 5 (39:31):
A dictionary.

Speaker 3 (39:32):
Yes, you walk into the bookstore and like you have
your eye on a specific dictionary.

Speaker 6 (39:38):
No, it's a dictionary at Gibson Mill in Concord. But
they have a whole bunch of like antique stuff.

Speaker 4 (39:43):
Love that place.

Speaker 6 (39:43):
Yes, and there's a dictionary.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
I've had my eye on words from days of your Yes.

Speaker 6 (39:48):
That's what I like to get old dictionaries for is
to go back and see what words have been removed. Yes,
what words they don't want us to know anymore? All right,
it's like a conspiracy.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
Although not two words. Sandy says, Hey, Beth, you had
me laughing out loud alone in my car, and when
you said moist trays.

Speaker 6 (40:07):
It was a thing.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
I had a different reaction, but it was a thing,
and they did.

Speaker 6 (40:11):
They had towels for you to wipe them down. So
that my dad would get in the front of the
line at KNW in front of the rest of us
and the family and he'd wipe down the tray and
hand us the tray so that we could get in
and have our stuff on the dry trays and get
our Sunday best messed up.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
So Mike is chiming in now. This is maybe the
fourth or fifth person that has mentioned Jackson's Cafeteria in Gastonia.
Mike also says, Grandma Hoyts is awesome too.

Speaker 5 (40:36):
So I should have mentioned that earlier, you said.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
I know, you said Hoyts already, I was saying. Another
person said, oh, yes, well you do have a history.

Speaker 4 (40:46):
I do, I do.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
I have to watch myself.

Speaker 6 (40:49):
David also is writing back now that I responded about
the dictionary. He said, devastated. You really devastated.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
Look it up in your new dictionary.

Speaker 6 (40:58):
Yeah, my new dictionary. I am, I am, I am sad.
But he said that they were oily overcooked vegetables and
cold entrees. I did not have, ever, not once a
cold entre at. Canw always had a hot entre at candable.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
Twell, part of the charm. Why do they like heat
up the cottage cheese too? Well?

Speaker 6 (41:16):
I didn't get cottage cheese would have been by side,
but they did. They did have jello salad, you know,
with the fruit and the.

Speaker 3 (41:23):
Jello salad scarred me as a young elementary school person.
For cafeteria is because the day, you know, Zochie and
I have already have enough trouble with peas by themselves,
but when you put peas in jello, it's like, that's
just not right.

Speaker 5 (41:36):
Why would you do that?

Speaker 6 (41:38):
Do you have an aspect?

Speaker 3 (41:41):
I think we've talked about this, yes, and aspic is
what it's called. Well, the aspect you don't need to
pick on the end of it.

Speaker 4 (41:49):
Oh spicy bow wow.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
I'm telling you, I remember, but I remember going through
the look. I remember going through the cafeteria line at
East Over Elementary School. Most of the time I liked
what they had in the cafeteria. I was a buyer,
not a lunch bringer. I was a buyer, you know,
to get the trade.

Speaker 5 (42:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
I loved buy a little humble brag there.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
I didn't carry my bag lunch. I was a buyer.

Speaker 13 (42:16):
It sounds like he went to like the wealthy side
of the cafeteria.

Speaker 6 (42:19):
The Cisco show rooms and picks the items.

Speaker 4 (42:21):
They gave me.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
Trouble because I never played this on myself, so I
will play it on myself right here and go.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
That was a good morning, bet humble breath.

Speaker 13 (42:30):
Fat you got their betha bagged lunch. I'm a buyer.
Someone else makes my food and hands it to me.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
But but but when you go through the line and
all of a sudden you see what you say, is
this aspect thing? To me, it's like that's jello with
peas in it.

Speaker 6 (42:43):
I can't believe they served an aspect at die Oh
you have never.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
Heard of peace in jeil. That's a nightmare, Yes, nightmare fuel.
It's bad enough.

Speaker 5 (42:52):
They put pairs and peaches.

Speaker 4 (42:53):
It sounds like prison food. Was in prison.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
I kind of was Bernie was true apped in that line,
and I didn't like what they had to serve.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
That's your aspect, I think, jellous.

Speaker 6 (43:05):
I just heard that. I think jello salad with fruit,
like seven layer salad that's made with jello and like
whoop cream and cream cheese and oranges and pineapples really good.

Speaker 5 (43:15):
Why yeah, you're right, Peth, No, No, no, you're not right.
That's not bad. That's what she just described as.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
Actually it's a seventh layer of burrito at Taco bell. No,
speaking of hey coming up in an hour dirty Restaurant Tuesday.

Speaker 5 (43:29):
I will pay a little tribute to our dearly departy
of friends at Cande.

Speaker 3 (43:34):
Up with a bad grain on the way out the door.

Speaker 6 (43:35):
It could be why they closed, guys.

Speaker 5 (43:37):
It's an All K and W edition.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
Seven thirty seven on WBT on this Tuesday, December second,
better known as Giving Tuesday. Had Black Friday and then
Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, and in recent years really
the rise of Giving Tuesday. And what a great idea, right, oh,
this is the best.

Speaker 6 (44:06):
This is the best day because giving, I promise you,
is going to make you feel better than anything you
do this season.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
We have great plans for Giving Tuesday. We're going to
talk next hour. We just confirm that our buddy Brandon
from dream On three will be MCing the dream monthly
dream On three Gala coming up in January.

Speaker 6 (44:26):
This is our third fourth is it our fourth year together?
My third year, third year together.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
Because you did it before me, but this is our
third year, the two of us doing it.

Speaker 6 (44:35):
I drag you into everything.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
Well, speaking of dragging you into things, I think you
know who Claire's army is. And Emily Ratliffe on the
line right now. Beth has emceed their gala, which is
every year in August. Claire's Army. You know Claire's Army.
I've been talking about Claire's Army for over a decade now.
Claire's Army strives to act as God's hands and feet
for families fighting childhood cancer by supporting their daily responsibilities,

(44:58):
allowing them to put time and focus on their child.
And Emily and Kevin Ratliffe know this very well because
that is what they experienced when their daughter Claire back
in twenty twelve, was in the hospital and Claire passed away.
But Claire's Legacy has become Claire's Army, and now Emily
and Kevin and the entire organization support other families that

(45:21):
are going through various issues with their children being in
the hospital for various reasons. Let's bring on Emily Ratliffe.
She's no stranger to this show. But on Giving Tuesday,
we got to talk to Emily and see what's going
on with Claire's Army.

Speaker 5 (45:33):
Hi, Emily, Hey, Bowie's back in the morning.

Speaker 6 (45:37):
Good morning, How are you.

Speaker 14 (45:40):
I'm good?

Speaker 15 (45:40):
How are you guys?

Speaker 3 (45:41):
I know you're good because you sent me a note
that you actually got to go to that Panthers game
on Sunday.

Speaker 5 (45:46):
What a game.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
That was your first game, you and your family's first game.
And I said, well you did that one right.

Speaker 16 (45:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (45:53):
I mean I was not let down and my voice
is still recovering because I would like to think that
I contributed to the noise well that was at Bank
of America's city in that day because it was really
just an unreal experience all around. So I kind of
set the bar high to start with my first experience
on a day like Sunday.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
Well, and you know the Panthers organization really well, you
know people like Jonathan Stewart and Luke Keikley. I mean
I could go on and on with people who have
contributed to the gala that happens every year in August,
and that is the biggest event that you all have
each year. And we talk about that and like I said,
MC it and all that great stuff that we can
do to support it. But it's not the only thing

(46:34):
that Claire's Army does. In fact, that gala sort of
fuels the whole year of the activities that go on
and so on. Giving Tuesday, I always like to a
touch base with you because people can find out more
about the organization on a day that spotlights organizations like this,
but you can give us a little idea as to
what needs you have right now in December and what
things might be going on that people can get involved in.

Speaker 15 (46:57):
So Number one, we are so grateful to ever have
a chance to speak of this radio family that is
continued to show up and just be so gracious to
Claire's Army. You know, we help families like right now today.
You know, we help raise money to help them tomorrow,
but the funds that we raise are helping someone in

(47:20):
the middle of what they're facing right now with childhood cancer.
And it might be their first time facing it, it
might be their second time, it might be their fourth
or fifth year that they've been in treatment. And so
that's probably the one thing I want to really drive
home for whether it's people who know about us or
just are learning, is that the things we do are
helping meet everyday needs for families while they're facing cancer

(47:43):
for their child right now. So that's helping with utility bills,
that's covering rent and mortgage, it's helping even you know,
as of late with so much that was going on
with food and security, that that's something we help with
all year long, but it really was amplified these last
couple of months. So whether it's with our meal program
serving dinners to families in the hospital, or even just

(48:07):
providing real time grocery gift cards so that families can
you know, shop for the groceries they need or even
buy the descriptions they need. So it's really helping families
in the moment right now, so they don't have to
wait on help when they need it.

Speaker 6 (48:23):
Well, as people are allocating their dollars and thinking about
giving today and they're hearing your voice right now, how
can they give to Claire's Army?

Speaker 15 (48:31):
So the easiest ways on our website Clairesarmy dot o RG.
You can give any amount. Every single amount helps. You
can become a monthly donor and give a little bit
every month, or make a one time gift and there
are several ways to give and every amount helps in
different ways. But you know, fifty dollars by the grocery

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gift card for someone who is really struggling to put
food on the table. And you know, just this past
month we covered over fourteen thousand dollars worth of just
you know, rent and utilities assistants on behalf of eight families,
and like I said, that's real time, and some of
those families might need to help again this month. So
you know, we're we're looking to raise close to fifteen

(49:14):
thousand dollars on this Giving Tuesday, in this Giving Tuesday
week that will help families right now this month as
they face chided cancer. Like you said, the Gala fuels
so much of what we do all year long, but
you know, we really have to ask for funds all
year long to make sure that families have the help
they need. Twenty four to seven three sixty five.

Speaker 3 (49:36):
Well, like you said, it's Giving Tuesday, and today is
an important day to not only raise money for organizations
like Claire's Army, but to put it on people's radar
to begin with. You know, that's the thing I like
about It's kind of a dual nature of today. Yes,
you want to give on Giving Tuesday, but awareness is
an important thing too, and so that's what we're trying
to do. And so, like Emily said, c L A

(49:58):
I R E. S R Army dot org, learn more
about the organization and what you can do every month
of the year, but especially today, Emily. Good to hear
your voice and thanks for calling in.

Speaker 4 (50:10):
Thank you, thank you, bet Good morning bow and beat.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
Hid the conversation this morning, I had to call it.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
This is good morning Beatty with Bowen.

Speaker 3 (50:19):
Peth this city, Charlotte City Council last night, cummings and goings,

(50:40):
new city council sworn in, and some of the names
that we've heard a lot from in recent years saying goodbye.

Speaker 5 (50:48):
Actually one guy who.

Speaker 3 (50:51):
Actually got here earlier this year because he was appointed,
Edwin Peacock, and then tried to parlay that into an
at large and unsuccessful obviously. Edmund Peacock a short stint
back on City Council last night, but had a short
and suite farewell message.

Speaker 8 (51:09):
I began my journey on May the twentieth of this year.
The significance of May twentieth was not beyond me. Our
country celebrates its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, but here
in the great State of Mecklenburg, we celebrate our independence
and independence I did participate in this democracy. I got

(51:29):
the opportunity to participate in, and to that I'm greatly honored.
I want to first thank my city Council colleagues, Madam Mayor,
mister Jones. I'd like to thank city staff as well.
I'd like to thank the citizens, my friends and supporters,
and perhaps most importantly, thank my family and especially my wife.

(51:52):
It has been an honor and it has been a privilege.
Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (51:59):
Interesting to see if this is the end of the
line for him with with you know, serving the city.
I would venture to guess that he didn't think he'd
be back in this particular round, but he was inspired
to get back in it when Tark McCarry left and
the council appointed someone. But he obviously thought he was
gonna I was hoping to get back on and as

(52:19):
an at large member and unsuccessful there, and it was
a pretty large gap between where he was and the
fourth highest vote getter or voteainer.

Speaker 6 (52:28):
I feel well done, but I feel oh, yeah, I feel.

Speaker 1 (52:32):
Like show that one to Pete.

Speaker 6 (52:33):
Yeah, make sure you play that for Pete. I feel
like he would have been an excellent addition to the
city council. And I really did believe. I had it
in my head that he was going to get elected,
that he would get elected to that at large seat.
So I'm sure this was a bittersweet moment for him
because getting back into the groove of serving and only
getting to do it for a few months and realizing

(52:55):
probably how much he missed being a voice at that table.
I'm sure that was a bittersweet moment for him. I'm
sure that he had a bit of a heavy heart
walking away knowing that he could and I think really
wanted to make a difference on the council.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
So District six is the term that he filled out
there talk McCary left for Washington, and of course Christap baccary,
his wife, tried to become the newest representative there and
lost to Kimberly Owens. Kimberly Owens, who is a not
a household name in Charlotte politics, had a small, very

(53:34):
very as she will talk about, very scrappy campaign, but
you know they did it basically on a kind of
a bare bones operation and she ended up winning and
beating Christap baccary. This is Kimberly Owens introducing herself last night.

Speaker 16 (53:49):
I want to manage expectations. I'm going to disappoint all
of you at times. I've had three decades of legal experience,
I've worked with dedicated nonprofits, in Shark But I've never
done this job before. I'm certain to frustrate you with
the decisions I make if I don't see the world
exactly as you do. But I also hope to educate

(54:10):
you about the city services, to guide you to useful resources,
and to raise the bar for local leadership. To District
six Republicans, you have not lost your voice. I offer
you a seat at the table for real collaboration. And
just trust me when I say that I likely will
disappoint Democrats, Republicans and independents alike. Not because I don't

(54:33):
believe in the promises and protections of a liberal democracy,
but because municipal government doesn't address many of the things
that feel so broken in our country right now. We
do roads, transit, public safety, economic development, and housing, and
those things we do I want to do efficiently without
unnecessary bureaucracy. Simply put, as I said on the trail,

(54:56):
I want to bore you, to bore you with of
governmental competence.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
That is Kimberly Owens last night first comments after being
elected as a Democrat in District six, and I hope.

Speaker 6 (55:09):
That those words make people feel a little bit better.
The Republicans who do feel like they've lost a voice
that she wants them to still be at the table
and part of the conversation. And she joined us on
the show the morning after she was elected, and we
got so many messages from people, I think Republicans, Democrats,

(55:30):
Independence alike who found her delightful and who probably had
the experience. She spent a lot of time going door
to door to campaign. That was the process for her,
and I think there were a lot of people who
met her who didn't mind her political party but really
appreciated her passion for the job itself. And so many
of those messages we got the morning that she was

(55:51):
on our show is that they said that she was
just a.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
Delight Kimberly Owens incoming out going, Let's go from District
six to District three, TiO Wanna Brown.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
Listen closely.

Speaker 11 (56:02):
I'm almost done here. I'm not stepping down. I'm stepping forward.
I'm stepping into my next assignment. I'm stepping deeper into
my community. I'm stepping into a higher purpose. I will
serve the District three community all the days of my
life because I've lived there for fifty four years.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
Look at me, I'm a.

Speaker 11 (56:23):
Black woman who survived hell to get here, a black
woman who made.

Speaker 1 (56:29):
History, a black woman who spoke to the.

Speaker 11 (56:32):
Power, a black woman who shook the chamber when it
needs to be shaken, and that's the most shaking that
needs to be done. A black woman who rolls and
will rise again. So when you think about me, remember
people over politics, purpose over pain. Still I rise, the
one and only till one of Brown Charlotte City Council

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District three.

Speaker 3 (56:53):
Thank you, Yeah coursa Joy Mayo now replaces her now
before we go to the top of the hour, My
favorite speech of the night actually came from the only
Republican left.

Speaker 17 (57:05):
My name is Ed Driggs. I am a Republican. Okay,
you don't see too many of these. I don't have
as long a list because I didn't have an opponent
this year. Thank you. I will continue to commit to
the people of d D seven, my district, to serve

(57:26):
all of them, whether they voted or not, whether they
voted for me or not, whether they wrote in or not.
And I regard that as a responsibility in order, among
other things, just to bring a perspective to these conversations
on our council. I don't approach the situation that I'm
in with any air of confrontation or hostility. I see collaboration.

(57:51):
But I think there are things that I can point
out to people based on a long history of being
a traditional conservative. I think deplored the current political landscape
as much as everyone does, but that is my commitment.
We have an exciting term ahead.

Speaker 3 (58:08):
Ed Driggs District seven, the only gop R left, and
it's like, you know, I am a Republican.

Speaker 5 (58:13):
It is possible to be here at this Dian.

Speaker 6 (58:15):
And duy Levet. He said, I deplore the political landscape
as much as everyone else does. I think we're all
finally getting on the same page. We're all getting onto
the same team. So maybe maybe we're all just going
to have a voice at the table.

Speaker 3 (58:28):
So the table has changed, and there's more from that
table last night, including the mayor coming up. It's almost
eight o'clock. Why are not at the time?

Speaker 1 (58:36):
Why You're not at the time?

Speaker 7 (58:39):
Now?

Speaker 1 (58:39):
From News Talk eleven, ten and ninety nine three w
BT HBO will show this feature only at night. This
is Good Morning Beat with both Thumbson and Beth Troutman
and now Sonic Men says back to poll and Beth Kim,
I posy.

Speaker 3 (59:00):
Eight minutes past eight o'clock on the second day of December,
rainy conditions out there.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
Kind of a raw day.

Speaker 3 (59:10):
I mean it is what it is, raw day, all day,
all day, not robbed off. You're going to the airport
raw day.

Speaker 4 (59:15):
That's right on the hardware.

Speaker 1 (59:17):
I regare that.

Speaker 6 (59:18):
We do deep cuts on this show. That people will
get that if they were listening yesterday. So this means
you have to listen every day because you don't know
when we're going to inside it.

Speaker 3 (59:26):
Well, I know I said that one, but lots of
times I don't get other ones that are set on
this show until I listened to the podcast later in
the day. They yep, I host the show sometimes I listen. Anyway,
Let's talk about what Zoke just mentioned. There a story
that was I'm sure a lot of Panthers fans heard
this yesterday and thought, huh, I wonder if I did.

(59:50):
Adam Theelen has been released by the Minnesota Vikings. Adam Theelen,
who used to play for the Carolina Panthers and then
left to go play for his original team, The Minute
sort of Vikings, seemingly to have kind of a Swan
song with a team that drafted him and he started
with However, he hasn't played. He's played played very very
little this season, and they they gave him his his exit.

(01:00:13):
And this was the coach of the Vikings yesterday on
the Monday press conference, Kevin O'Connell.

Speaker 18 (01:00:19):
Me, personally, I think Adam Thanea is a special person
and a special player that has meant a lot to
not only this organization but the career he's had. And
I just wish him nothing but the best, you know,
over these these final few weeks of the year, and
sounds like that, you know, might be the final few
weeks of his career. And and we wanted to make
sure that you know, after some dialogue and things that

(01:00:42):
we we accommodated that you know, Adam and I talk
a lot. There were zero you know, negativity to the conversations.
It was more so the competitor in him and he
wants to you know, finish this thing off the right way.
And and uh, you know, just figured between him and
his representation that they know, the conversations were had with

(01:01:02):
Quasi and his staff, and this was the outcome that
kind of came out of it.

Speaker 3 (01:01:07):
So he has said that he's going to retire at
the end of this season, but wants to latch on,
try to find a contender and finish out the season.
And so the immediate question I think is round here
at least could he return to the Panthers.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
They could.

Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
I think I know nothing. First of all, I have
no idea.

Speaker 13 (01:01:23):
Coach Dave Canalis was asked yesterday about it and he said, technically,
Adam Field is still on the Vikings roster, so I'm
not going to talk about him today. So they gave
him an out to talk about it or not talk
about it. But it makes all the sense in the world.
And the reason is he theland requested his release from
the Vikings so he could play somewhere else. I would
only do that if I thought I had a pretty
good idea I had a landing spot. Otherwise, you're forfeiting

(01:01:45):
a month of being paid because if he doesn't get
picked up. I mean, he's asked for his release from
his contract, so the Vikings are off the hook to
have to pay him. So I would think you would
like in your last year of football. I don't think
missus Theale would love giving up a month of NFL
salary at the end for the whole of landing somewhere else.
So do not know if it's here, could be somewhere else,
But I would just again spitball that this would be

(01:02:05):
a perfect place for him to come because you know,
now this team's seven and six, they're in the playoff.

Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
Hunt could be in the playoffs.

Speaker 13 (01:02:12):
He's plug and play because he played here obviously and
was the number one target of Bryce Young when he
was here, So that would be a great weapon. Half
and his replacement was Hunter Renfro who he's our Adam feeling.

Speaker 3 (01:02:24):
We don't use him.

Speaker 13 (01:02:24):
We a healthy scratch every week, and he's not an
active player on Sunday. So makes a lot of sense
in a lot of different ways. Whether or not it happens,
I do not know, but I like the concept if
it does happen.

Speaker 6 (01:02:33):
Did it kind of hurt your heart when you found
out about this? About the Bertie's given me a funny look.
It hurt my heart because I remember the conversation when
he left to go to the Vikings, how we were
all saying, well, there's something sweet about it, because he's
going home. This is he's going to retire at home,
and I wonder if he got there. You know how,
sometimes you make a choice in life and you get

(01:02:55):
to that choice and your gut tells you, man, this
wasn't it. This wasn't the right fight.

Speaker 3 (01:03:00):
Nothing in common with your high school friends, and.

Speaker 6 (01:03:01):
Right, you just don't fit in anymore. You do?

Speaker 13 (01:03:04):
So you're in packaging? Really you're in packaging? Do you
like packaging?

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
So now here he is in high school? Were you
always trying to be in packaging?

Speaker 6 (01:03:12):
So now here he is thinking I want to I
want to go back home, even though home used to
be Minnesota. You know how your heart grows you change,
home changed, and maybe he really wants to be back here.
Maybe the grass isn't always greener. So I kind of
my heart kind of hurts for him and for his
family who had to like pack up boxes and oh.

Speaker 13 (01:03:31):
No, no, I think were I think that's going to
be his home, and I think missus Theelan had a
lot to do with that. She's from there too, So
I think that's where they're going to raise their kids,
and that is is home to them. As far as
I think that just that the job part didn't work out,
But it's his last year anyway, and now we're talking
about the last month of his career.

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
So I think you do a.

Speaker 4 (01:03:48):
Joe Flacco type deal. Yeah, Barber yourself, come and hang out.

Speaker 13 (01:03:51):
Here in Charlotte, by the way, I did that in
San Antonio outstanding.

Speaker 1 (01:03:54):
I was there too.

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
The team had to fly back to Greenville.

Speaker 13 (01:03:57):
I had no flights that were available to leave a
week ago, not this past week, but a week before.
And I'm sitting at the hotel lobby bar. I was
I was going to go back to the Riverwalker, and
now I want to go out.

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
We lost that game.

Speaker 13 (01:04:08):
I sat at the Marriotte bar and there were some
other East cu folks dragglers from the game, and we
just had the grandest time just sitting there, just kind
of hanging out and eating cheese sticks. I was watching
college football. Is like, this is not I don't want
to do it all the time. I would want to
be like, that's my life. But for one night he
did not have to be anywhere and just sit at
the bar and eat snacks and watch college football.

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
It should be pointed out, but he did not say
it was a great time. He said it was a grand.

Speaker 4 (01:04:35):
Yeah, what a what a VIP experience for some ECU fans.
I'm telling you saying that with the voice of the
Pirates watching some college football.

Speaker 13 (01:04:42):
The guy, one of the guys that was there were like,
like owns the company that has the equipment trucks. I'm
sure he's doing a lot better in life than I
am as far as well. And one morning with that
one more thing on feeling like I I gotta believe
more more than a feeling hood.

Speaker 5 (01:04:55):
I got to believe that he thought, like he.

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
Probably won't say this, but if you Adam Thiel and
you're thinking, Okay, Minnesota, I like their chances this year.
Carolina is going to be better. Bryce is up and coming,
and they're gonna be up there. I think Carolina obviously
did better than he thought they would.

Speaker 6 (01:05:10):
Yeah, I love it. Maybe maybe he's gonna find a
career in packaging. Oh, now that he's back home.

Speaker 13 (01:05:17):
Somewhere in the great Great Minnesota area a second after
the Twin Cities of Minneapolis, Saint Paul. Yeah, I'm in
packaging in the Minneapolis, Saint Paul. Got a four state
region that I actually cover. I go into Iowa, the Dakota's.

Speaker 4 (01:05:31):
The Dakota's.

Speaker 3 (01:05:33):
Let me just trying it. Just got back from Bargo.

Speaker 13 (01:05:36):
We had a big convention and I had to speak
at that about the cardboard packaging industry.

Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
Hey, what's up?

Speaker 4 (01:05:43):
How are you doing?

Speaker 5 (01:05:43):
Fam Bam?

Speaker 3 (01:05:44):
I like that.

Speaker 5 (01:05:45):
I don't know what it means, but I like it.

Speaker 6 (01:05:46):
Hey, how are you hi?

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
We're great?

Speaker 19 (01:05:49):
You show is fun.

Speaker 1 (01:05:52):
This is Good Morning bet.

Speaker 3 (01:05:57):
A twenty on WBT, on this this second yesterday, with
Cyber Monday, today Giving Tuesday, and on this show we
try to spotlight organizations that are important to us. We
heard from Emily Ratliffe at Claire's Army last hour. David
Chadwick is going to join us with a big announcement
coming up at nine oh five. And right now I

(01:06:20):
want to welcome a guy that I've gotten to know
in recent years and Beth introduced me to and an
organization for that matter called Dream on three and Brandon
Lindsay is with us on the WBT hotline.

Speaker 6 (01:06:31):
Welcome back to the show, Brandon, and good morning. We
love that you are taking time to talk with us
this morning and to talk with our audience on a
day that reminds people how important is it is to
give this season and how great it will make your
heart feel to give. Let people know. If people are
just hearing about dream On three for the very first time,

(01:06:53):
tell people all about what your organization does.

Speaker 19 (01:06:58):
Thank you so much, and you know what, I'm all
all the amazing charities out there. It's an honor that
you guys have given us an opportunity to share about
our mission. Dreaming three is a dream graining organization. We
identified young kids and young adults that are living with
life altering conditions and we make their sports stream come true,

(01:07:21):
their ultimate sports stream, and we do it in a
way that provides hope, joy and love and their situations,
just reminding them that they are seeing, they are loved
and they've got a team around them that will make
sure that they can still live out their dreams no
matter what they're going through. And we've just hit our
thirteen year anniversary, so we've been at this for a

(01:07:41):
while and it's just been an amazing journey. We've been
blessed so many ways by the support from this community.

Speaker 6 (01:07:48):
Tell us tell us of some of the sports dreams
that you've already given to some of the young people,
so people get an idea of what you mean by
the sports dreams that you bring to people's lives.

Speaker 19 (01:08:00):
Yeah, so we have done We've done everything. But if
you can think of a team, we've likely worked with them.
We've worked with all the best athletes in the world.
You know, if the kid's dream is to go swim
with the Dolphins, that's not us.

Speaker 12 (01:08:13):
We don't do that.

Speaker 19 (01:08:14):
But if the kid wants to swim with the Miami Dolphins,
that's what we do. And matter of fact, we just
had a kid come back last weekend from a Miami
Dolphins dream that just happened. We had our second f
one dream at the Vegas Race here a couple of
weeks ago. We've had a kid that wanted to meet
Chuck Norris, Steph Curry, you know, smobiles. It's just it's

(01:08:40):
been all over the place. But we focus primarily on
sports dreams and we use those to encourage our dreamers
to keep moving forward through their challenges.

Speaker 4 (01:08:50):
Love it well.

Speaker 3 (01:08:50):
And one of the cool things that we meaning Beth
and we have had a chance to do in recent
years is MC along with fly Tie and Jacinda at
the Charlotte Convention Center. We've done the Dream on three
gala and this year's event is coming up on January
thirty first next month. I can't believe I'm saying next

(01:09:11):
month now, but here we are about to head into
a new year. But we have, actually, we've actually helped
make some of those dreams happen. I mean we've been
on stage and we had one a few years ago.
It was a Dallas Cowboys related dream that we helped
fulfill and we you know, this is the thing I live.
This is what I love about Brandon and all this
is his people at Dream one three.

Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
It's not can we do it?

Speaker 5 (01:09:36):
It's how are we gonna?

Speaker 7 (01:09:37):
How?

Speaker 6 (01:09:37):
How are we gonna make this happen?

Speaker 3 (01:09:39):
I mean, I know, part of part of what fuels
you is is you get the challenge and then you've
got to get your team together and make it happen.
And part of the joy of the process is obviously
is seeing the end, the the the end result, but
actually getting there is half the fun.

Speaker 19 (01:09:55):
Well, no, you're so right, and that's one of our
core values is waymaker. I don't even think it's we
made it up, but it is trying to find a
way when there's there.

Speaker 12 (01:10:04):
Seems to be no way.

Speaker 19 (01:10:05):
And this team gets told no all the time. We
get told no.

Speaker 12 (01:10:09):
But our dream kids get.

Speaker 19 (01:10:10):
Told no, and we just make it one of our
values that we're going to find a way. We're going
to find a way to make these things happen. And
I don't want to spoil it because I want you
to experience this in the moment. We're going to have
another Dreamer Bill at this year's gala, so you're going
to be a part of making another dream come true again.
January thirty first.

Speaker 6 (01:10:27):
Well, we feel so lucky that you'll let us be
a part of the gala every year. This will be
my fifth or sixth gala with you all. I have
just fallen in love with your entire team. I've fallen
in love with all of your dreamers, all of the children,
all of the young people that you have helped. How
can people give today and can they still today be

(01:10:48):
part of the gala. Come and meet us, Come and
meet you, Come and see all of that because you
always have the dreamers there too, so they can see
the young people that they are impacting as well. Can
people still come?

Speaker 12 (01:11:00):
Absolutely?

Speaker 19 (01:11:01):
Yes, We've got tickets available through our website. We would
love to have you come experience this event. If you
haven't come before, you've got to see it for no
other reason for our host, right, you can't incredible night
it is. I'm a little biased, but it's one of
the best events of the year. And the reason is

(01:11:21):
our Dreamers are there. It's all about our dream kids.
They're the celebrities, they're the VIP of the night.

Speaker 14 (01:11:27):
You know.

Speaker 19 (01:11:27):
One of the things I love about Giving Tuesday is
that it is a chance to come alongside of a charity,
a nonprofit organization that is out there just grinding it
out each and every day. And we've had the opportunity
to meet some incredible people that are doing great things.
There's so many wonderful charities out there, and today I

(01:11:48):
think people have an opportunity to just come alongside of It.
Doesn't have to be some incredible, monstrous gift, just a
note of encouragement, to share a post, share the mission online,
make a small gift, offer to volunteer your time. But
find a nonprofit that's out there making a difference and
come alongside of them today. And if you don't have

(01:12:10):
one that you're passionate about, we invite you to get
behind the mission of dream On three. This year's Dala
theme is your Move Matters, Our dream Kids and their
families make courageous moves through their situation every day, every
day they do, and we just get inspired by that,
and we want to tell everyone that your move matters.
That you know, no matter how small your gift is

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or what action you're willing to take, it matters.

Speaker 12 (01:12:33):
And it allows us to say yes more.

Speaker 3 (01:12:36):
You know, I got a note earlier today from a
listener who said, you know, why do people need a
special day to be charitable? And I agree, every day
you should be charitable. But one of the beauties of
this day, I mean, it's a great day to raise
money for various organizations, but I think it's equally important
to use the day to spotlight organizations that are out there,
because sometimes people don't know of organizations to give to.

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And so that's what we're trying to do on our
show is spotlight the places that are the organizations that
mean a lot to us and that we've been partners
with for years. And dream On three is a great
one and I'm very honored to now be part of
this along with Beth and Brandon Lindsay and all your
great staff that you have there. You guys work miracles
every year and we're excited for the January gala coming

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up and dream on three dot org is where you
want to go to learn more about the organization. But
we appreciate you coming on with us and we will
see you soon.

Speaker 19 (01:13:30):
We love you both. Thank you so much for the opportunity,
and get your sneakers ready. We'll see you on January thirty.

Speaker 12 (01:13:36):
First.

Speaker 6 (01:13:36):
Yes, that's a big thing for people to know, is
that this gala no matter if you're in an evening gown.
I wear them every year. I put on some sparkly
sneakers with McGown and it's awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:13:46):
I didn't tell Beth this, but I'm telling you Brandon,
and Beth's hearing it. I bought some new shoes specifically
for the gala coming up next month, so I got
a new pair right.

Speaker 1 (01:13:54):
There you go.

Speaker 6 (01:13:55):
I hope they have rhydstones on them.

Speaker 4 (01:13:57):
Oh, you know they do.

Speaker 1 (01:13:57):
I can't wait.

Speaker 3 (01:14:00):
Brandon, will talk to you soon. Take care, Thank you
so much.

Speaker 1 (01:14:03):
This is good morning, beauty. It's time for order up
Dirty Restaurant Tuesday.

Speaker 5 (01:14:09):
There's a fly in my so could you know something
about it?

Speaker 3 (01:14:12):
E uh huh. When Marco's and steps into the telephone
booth and comes out and here he is.

Speaker 5 (01:14:19):
Yes, sir, dirty restaurant man, super inspector. All right, so
I thought we'd start with a little tribute to K
and W Cafeteria.

Speaker 1 (01:14:30):
Oh sounds like a mess fall.

Speaker 5 (01:14:35):
kN W as you guys have been talking about the
entire chain closing for good immediately. The company, I mean,
they've been in decline, some locations getting bad publicity. For example,
you remember the kN W and Concord a couple of
years ago. Roaches crawling on the food line where they serve.

Speaker 1 (01:14:54):
I've never seen anything like this in a rest.

Speaker 7 (01:14:57):
It just ever.

Speaker 6 (01:14:58):
I mean there were roaches everywhere.

Speaker 5 (01:15:01):
That woman took pictures of all the roaches of the
food and put it online.

Speaker 3 (01:15:05):
That's been an hour talking about all her happy memories.

Speaker 5 (01:15:09):
And that's the one where she ate, don't speak all
of the debt. Don't speak all of the debt. Oh
there we go. kN W shut down. Yeah, after had
a seventy two of these years.

Speaker 3 (01:15:19):
Hey, Mark, you know Randy on our text line says,
when I was young, we called kN W canes and walkers.

Speaker 7 (01:15:28):
I like that.

Speaker 5 (01:15:29):
Yeah, all right, so dirty restaurants here. I have a
place called Hangry. Joe's not hungry but Angry Joe's on
the West Sugar Creek eighty eight point five. Nobody there
had any food safety training. Two employees had their personal
drinks on the prep table. Oh, this is a good.
Employee went from washing dishes to handling chicken without washing

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their hands. The manager al's food did not wash. Another
employee went from breading raw chicken to handling cooked chicken
without washing.

Speaker 6 (01:16:00):
That scares me.

Speaker 5 (01:16:01):
So employees, including the manager had to be educated on
when you wash your hands. Of course, they had pans
and the hand sinks, so it would be hard to
wash anyway. A lot of food not cold enough, coleslaw,
mac and cheese, and some other items in the cooler
too warm, and some coalslaw was five days out of date.

Speaker 6 (01:16:21):
Ooh ooh Mayo.

Speaker 5 (01:16:23):
Had to throw that out, other items with no date.
So that's Angry Joe's on West Sugar Creek and eighty
eight point five.

Speaker 13 (01:16:31):
I've always told those are suggestions, like if it says
it like expired five days ago, it's still good for
months and months.

Speaker 5 (01:16:36):
And no, not so much in restaurants. I'd got a
seven day, one day. It's a tough racket, all right.
Fort Mill mulligans and eighty five. If we had them before,
we may have mentioned them once before. Person in charge
had no food safety training. Hand sink wasn't working at all.
They had a home pesticide being used around on the

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ice machine, and the back door was open. Flies getting in.

Speaker 1 (01:17:04):
Watch your back door.

Speaker 5 (01:17:07):
And the floor, the floor around the friar needs cleaning.
It's way too greasy. All right, calm down. Bernie Mulligan's
in fort mill and eighty five.

Speaker 3 (01:17:19):
We should give him a Mulligan.

Speaker 5 (01:17:20):
Oh oh, we.

Speaker 6 (01:17:22):
Have had them because I said that same joke.

Speaker 5 (01:17:25):
Yes, that's what you.

Speaker 3 (01:17:26):
Get on the show.

Speaker 5 (01:17:26):
Stale humor reminded me that we did.

Speaker 6 (01:17:30):
They deserve a Mulley.

Speaker 3 (01:17:31):
I didn't know they stole your joke.

Speaker 4 (01:17:32):
I feel bad.

Speaker 5 (01:17:34):
Marco's Pizza and waxaw now they had a ninety one.
I don't need a place where the ninety one. And
when you start hearing the violations you'll see why. Person
in charge had no food safety training and could not
answer basic food safety questions.

Speaker 6 (01:17:51):
Isn't any one in a It is.

Speaker 5 (01:17:53):
But it's a low A How low can you go?
Employees not trained? They did not know, Hey, if you're sick,
don't come to work and also get ready, Beth for
this one. They did not have a written plan on
what to do if someone vomits or has diarrhea in.

Speaker 3 (01:18:10):
The restaurant, so you need to run a plan for them.

Speaker 5 (01:18:12):
You got to have a written plan on how to
clean it up if someone throws up or has the Hershey, square.

Speaker 4 (01:18:19):
Beth, I have a sound effect for you if you
don't want to.

Speaker 14 (01:18:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:18:26):
The person in charge did not wash their hands after
running the register before returning to work with prepping pizza.
Also did not wash after handling their phone. Employee handle
a customers sub bear handed they had, Yeah, they had.

Speaker 6 (01:18:45):
I'm still stuck on the diarrhea plan.

Speaker 5 (01:18:48):
Well, okay, they had to throw that sub away, wash
their hands, put on gloves, and make the customer another
one to cutter. And the scoops were dirty, had to
be washed, and all of these items were out of date.
Sausage bits, shredded montarellas bit, yeah, roasted pepper sausage bowls,

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two containers of sliced tomatoes, chicken sausage crumbles, feta cheese,
shredded cheddar sliced ham. All of it had to be
thrown out because it was out of date?

Speaker 6 (01:19:21):
How is this a ninety one?

Speaker 5 (01:19:23):
Well, you raised an interesting question, as I knew you would.
It's because some inspectors will cut you a break, maybe
give you only a half point off instead of two
points off for some of these vileys. You hand me
that subuffe, so in Ferry they should have had a
much lower score. The Marco's pizza and wax saw. That's
why I thought it was a good example a ninety one.

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You see a ninety one somewhere. You know they got
some problems here.

Speaker 6 (01:19:48):
So where should Okay, this is a serious question, Mark,
and I know, lean on me, babe, And I love it.
I love that you knew that I was going to
ask the question about how they get a ninety one?
Where should the cutoff be?

Speaker 16 (01:19:58):
For an A?

Speaker 1 (01:19:59):
Should I not?

Speaker 6 (01:20:00):
Should I shake? What should I? What should be looking for?

Speaker 5 (01:20:03):
I mean that's kind of a personal thing. Honestly. I
don't eat anywhere that doesn't have at least a ninety five.

Speaker 1 (01:20:09):
That's just me. That's just me.

Speaker 3 (01:20:11):
Question. Yeah, that's I have a question. Do we hear
in the building? Do we have a vomited diarrhea?

Speaker 5 (01:20:16):
Plan be willing to bet we don't.

Speaker 13 (01:20:18):
I haven't seen anything on the walls that specifies what
we should do in that situation.

Speaker 4 (01:20:21):
Why don't you put one in place? I should?

Speaker 5 (01:20:23):
You should shut my note to Katrina and hr and go, hey,
how what happens if we get the Hershey's again.

Speaker 4 (01:20:31):
We didn't have to turn the water off yesterday in
the building because we had a leak, so a couple
of hours.

Speaker 1 (01:20:35):
I'm pretty rough yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:20:37):
Yeah, how did that impact our diarrhea plan?

Speaker 5 (01:20:45):
So, Beth, in the last couple of weeks, you've told
us about places you went to eat that you like.
Do you have one today?

Speaker 19 (01:20:50):
Well?

Speaker 5 (01:20:50):
I do, but it's Kay and Double.

Speaker 6 (01:20:55):
It was K and W but they closed yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:20:57):
Are those pecans now they're moving?

Speaker 6 (01:21:00):
These folks were on our They brought sandwiches in on
our show, but I dragged Craig back there. Dave's cheese
steak over at the University area the next day. Yes,
their cheese steak Dave's way. I'm here to tell you.
With all the cheese, all the peppers, the onions, the mushrooms,
the banana peppers and French fries, I'm gonna tell you, guys,

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go and eat at the restaurant to get their French fries,
hot and crispy. Sit at the restaurant, come back. They
have an a like it's good stuff, it's good stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:21:33):
I bet they have written specify, and I bet they
have a written diarrhea plan.

Speaker 6 (01:21:37):
I ask, I did not ask.

Speaker 3 (01:21:40):
We shall keep on like in our wallet for like emergencies,
a written plan of what to do.

Speaker 6 (01:21:44):
I feel like you guys are going to start drawing
diagram pants.

Speaker 3 (01:21:49):
Here's your putting up chocolate, chocolate putting back?

Speaker 5 (01:21:53):
All right, thank you, oh my pleasure.

Speaker 3 (01:21:56):
Sure, all right, I'm gonna recover from this.

Speaker 1 (01:22:01):
Yeah, time for Brett Jensen.

Speaker 5 (01:22:04):
Actually the time for Boomer by Canon at our playoff.

Speaker 1 (01:22:09):
Yeah, this is good morning, bat.

Speaker 5 (01:22:33):
Yeah, Hey, let's go.

Speaker 4 (01:22:34):
I get it.

Speaker 3 (01:22:35):
We gotta get get to get moving here. He's got
lots of stuff to talk about. Brett Jensen is with
us on this Tuesday morning. Good morning, sir, Good morning.
I don't mean to cut off your instance music, but
it's it's cutting into you, so I gotta get straight
to it. You had a big breaking story yesterday that
you were following, and this was first on WBT with
Brett Jensen regarding the the CMPD chief that was sworn

(01:22:59):
in and and Chief Patterson has an interesting backstory we're
learning by some of the research that.

Speaker 4 (01:23:05):
You have done.

Speaker 7 (01:23:07):
Yeah, you know, they want They picked her early early
on in the process, talking about the city manager as
the likely favorite to come back to Charlotte, like you know,
and I had reported you know, you know, a long
time ago that you know, she was, she was the
one they wanted in the first place instead of Jennings,

(01:23:27):
and you know, things just didn't work out and she
wound up being in Raleigh and everything else. So you know,
they always wanted her, and so she came back from
Raleigh to hear. But in order to make that happen,
the city knew it would probably look bad if the
pending lawsuit that had been going on for seven years
with her husband against the City of Charlotte for discrimination

(01:23:50):
in racial retaliation and all of that, and you know,
his claims of violating his First Amendment rights, that if
that's so, even your lawsuit was still in existence, it
would look bad. So they said, all right, we want her,
but let's take care of this lawsuit. The city generally
doesn't fight lawsuits. They'd been fighting this for seven years,

(01:24:13):
and they said, all right, let's let's just let's just
wrap it up and get rid.

Speaker 4 (01:24:17):
Of it, make it go away.

Speaker 7 (01:24:19):
So they wound up writing a check for ninety ninety
nine dollars Marcus Jones. And they did this for one
very specific reason. Anything under one hundred thousand dollars, the
city manager does not have to get city council approval.
If you remember, famously, the city council had to get

(01:24:41):
approval to allow Johnny Jennings to get his paal because
it was over one hundred thousand dollars. And so this
was under one hundred thousand, and that's why the city
council was literally told about it almost actually a full
month later, the I believe Lance Patterson agreed, I believe

(01:25:03):
October fourteenth, I believe about a week later or so
Marcus Jones signed off on it, and then Stella Patterson
on October thirty first was named the new police chief,
and then the first week in November she had her
first press conference, and then November fourteenth, Dave Bullet, the
state auditor, asked to see the details of the settled lawsuit,

(01:25:24):
and then on November twenty six is when city council
was first given all the details of actually how everything
went down. And you know, I remember at a Stella
Patterson's press conference, a person high ranking member with the
city said, yeah, we can't give you the details of
the lawsuit because it's considered a personnel matter. And I said, well, well,

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I said, personnel matters have absolutely nothing to do with it.
This is literally a settled lawsuit that's not a personnel matter.
And they're like, yeah, that's just what the city attorney
tells me, and I have to go by the city attorney.
You know, Anthony Fox has been trying to skirt things
like that from the beginning, and maybe thankfully for the city,
his tenure comes to an end at the end of

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this month.

Speaker 6 (01:26:08):
Do you think this will impact anything? Will it have
any kind of impact.

Speaker 7 (01:26:13):
I don't know, I honestly don't. I mean, we've seen
a lot of secret payouts. And there was something somebody
told me, if they're doing this ninety nine nine ninety
nine dollars the absolute limit that you can go to,
that what other things have they been paying out that
nobody knows about? And as somebody else told me, it's

(01:26:38):
like this is part of the friends and Family network.
And you remember the old AT and T commercials from
the nineties and the early two thousands. This has been
the Friends and Family network, And so they're just taking
care of their friends and family. And like a lot
of people are upset by this, but they also know,
Beth that there's almost nothing they can do about it.

Speaker 5 (01:26:58):
Before we let you go, I'm going to change this
subject completely here.

Speaker 3 (01:27:01):
But listen, I think when I see a story like this,
I owe it to tell you that you're the first
person I thought of. It was announced earlier this week
according to a food website Love Food. Using reviews, awards
and accolades, and firsthand experience, they've declared the most expensive
restaurant in every state. The most expensive restaurant in North

(01:27:25):
Carolina is Delfrisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse in Charlotte. I know
of no person who's eaten at Delfrisco's more than Brett Jensen.

Speaker 6 (01:27:36):
Oh money bags.

Speaker 5 (01:27:39):
Well, I will tell you.

Speaker 7 (01:27:41):
That I think giving them a run for their money
is Stake forty eight.

Speaker 5 (01:27:44):
Oh yeah, we just went to Steak forty eight not
long ago.

Speaker 6 (01:27:49):
And here I am eating at can w Chopway.

Speaker 3 (01:27:52):
That's classic Jensen right there. Actually, I beg to differ
the other place I eat maybe more expensive.

Speaker 7 (01:27:58):
Well, I mean it's it was what five of us
and the bill was over a thousand.

Speaker 1 (01:28:04):
Whoa, whoa wow.

Speaker 4 (01:28:07):
Producer Nick also signs off on stake forty wanted to
throw that out there.

Speaker 5 (01:28:10):
And Baku across from the South Park News Bureau's money
good too, Brent, what is Baku?

Speaker 1 (01:28:18):
Oh yeah, yeah, Baku's yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:28:20):
I mean but yeah, but no, it's just but that's
what happens when you if you get a bottle of wine,
prices tend to go up.

Speaker 3 (01:28:26):
That's what happens when you roll with Jensen, with Brett
Brett money badge.

Speaker 1 (01:28:30):
Jens, all right, man, I mean.

Speaker 7 (01:28:31):
That, I mean the size the corn is thirty dollars,
So yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:28:35):
You can't hide money.

Speaker 3 (01:28:36):
Well, so the tar hide.

Speaker 5 (01:28:39):
The guitar. Hills play tonight, right, they do, yes.

Speaker 7 (01:28:42):
But I do have a I do have a show
because they don't play until like nine o'clock or nine thirty.

Speaker 3 (01:28:46):
And if you were paying attention there you go. All right,
So Jensen has a show tonight. After the show, maybe
Del friscoes all right, man, talk to you later. Thanks,
thanks guys. When we come back, David Chadwick joins us
big nownouncement on this Giving Tuesday, or if you're Jensen,
Getting Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (01:29:07):
All right, ladies, so gentle them on here from his
talkie leventd and ninety nine three double BT. Strange things
are a foot at the Circle case. This is good
morning Beat with bo Toobson at Beth Trout Bit.

Speaker 20 (01:29:21):
Watch me for the changes and try to keep up again.

Speaker 1 (01:29:25):
Right now, all.

Speaker 3 (01:29:29):
Right, seven minutes after nine o'clock on this Tuesday morning.
We normally talk to our next guest forty eight hours
from now, but we simply cannot wait this week. And
it's also the perfect thing to announce on Giving Tuesday,
a day where we try to spotlight organizations that deserve

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your attention, on a day where the world gathers together
to try to give a little bit of course, following
Black Friday and Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, but Giving Tuesday.
What a great development this has been over the last
five to ten years. And joining us on the WBT
hotline right now is one of our favorite people, David Chadwick,

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the senior pastor at Moments of Hope Church and the
longtime host of The David Chadwick Show. He is on
the hotline today but we have a big, big announcement
that we want to get to all of the fifty
thousand watt community behind here. David, good morning, my friend.

Speaker 12 (01:30:27):
Good morning, Bo, Good morning Beth. Great to be with
you again.

Speaker 6 (01:30:30):
Well, thank you so much for agreeing to join us
on Giving Tuesday, because as you do, you open your
heart and open your church and open up the hearts
of this community every year by inspiring people to give
to help those less fortunate.

Speaker 12 (01:30:47):
Yeah, we've been doing this since COVID hit the community.
And remember Bo, you, Pat McCrory and I were together
going we've got to do something. How could we use
that powerful fifty thousand watt microphone for good? So we
decided to have a matching gift through Moments of Hope
Church again the church I passor and use the microphone

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to match that gift, and we raised about two hundred
thousand dollars if I remember correctly, to give to hungry
children in our community to try to give them a
chance to eat well and then to educate their minds
well so that they can have a chance for upward
mobility in our community. And we decided to keep on
doing it after that, and it's amazing. I think I

(01:31:29):
calculated in my brain rightly that we have raised over
the last five plus years around one point three million
dollars that we have distributed to these needs of hunger,
to our children, especially in this community. But last year
was a special success. As you know, we looked at
western North Carolina instead of the children for a year
because of the devastation of the hurricane, and we were

(01:31:52):
able to raise around five hundred and twenty plus thousand
dollars to rebuild an entire community in western North Carolina
called Barnardsville, North Carolina. It's unincorporated, it does not have
county and state funds available to it. So we just said,
we've got to step into this place and help. We
can't do everything, we can do something. So the community

(01:32:12):
that you reach, Boe and Beth and the church that
I pastor combined together to really rebuild a community. And
if people want to know what happened there exactly, they
can go to CITYOFHOPECLT dot org. See a video there
that lasts about ten minutes that rebuilds that entire community
because of the efforts of WBT Radio and the church
I pastor. Moments of Hope church, so a huge success.

(01:32:35):
And here we are in December twenty twenty five and
we're going to refocus back on children now and during
this month try to raise another two hundred thousand dollars
one hundred thousand dollars matching gift from Moments Vote Church
again and another one hundred thousand, hopefully from your listeners,
and then they will go to six different communities in
our area that are helping children be able to just

(01:32:56):
simply eat well because the food shortages are really there.
And it also helped them with reading programs because a
bottom line statistic is if you can't read by the
end of your third grade, that's the greatest predictor for
going to prison. So it's reading and feeding that we
want to emphasize this year in vulnerable communities in Charlotte.

Speaker 3 (01:33:16):
And of course the most important thing to emphasize you
said it right there, and we will keep on emphasizing
City of Hope CLT dot RG. And the beautiful thing
about this as it has evolved since we started this
and you mentioned that, David, is that now with each
year you find a need within the community to sort
of focus and fine tune and give awareness to now

(01:33:39):
we should point out that on this show we obviously
will give you the day to day updates on how
much money has been raised and the matching gift, but
also we make a point and I think we've done
a good job of this over the years with all
of us sort of pulling together our resources of making
sure that once you make that donation, you understand where

(01:34:00):
that donation goes and you hear the stories of these
beneficiaries and how those I mean, the video for Barnesville
is one thing. Talking to Rusty Price over the years
that his ministry there, We've been doing this now long
enough that we have a lot of stories to tell
of the work that has been done already.

Speaker 12 (01:34:20):
David, Yes, and we will tell those stories regularly. I mean,
this next Sunday on my show is going to be
Victor Nicholson, who works with the Dream Center on the
West side of town. He associates with Jim Noble and
his ministry there. It's just a wonderful place to see
people get cared for and loved who are vulnerable and

(01:34:42):
actually hidden in our community, you know, Bowen Bet. The
truth is Charlotte is a new South shining city growing.
I've heard it's the second fastest growing city in all
of the country, maybe behind Phoenix or Austin, Texas. But
the truth is we have pockets of poverty and underserved
people all throughout our city. We just try to identify
those pockets and pour resources into them to do the

(01:35:05):
best we can to help as best we can. And yes,
we will share those stories regularly over this next month
and again people can go to CITYOFHOPECLT dot org. The
beginning of the giving is today, so go there and
we already have the matching gift up and anything anybody
gives immediately is double. The one dollar becomes two, the
five becomes ten. Last year, somebody gave us twenty five

(01:35:26):
thousand dollars, which was unbelievable. Anybody can give anything, just
know immediately it's doubled and it will go to help
hurting kids, particularly in our community.

Speaker 6 (01:35:35):
I love that we're using the fifty thousand watts today
and for the rest of the month to remind people
how important it is to care for their fellow man,
to show love and kindness and generosity. And as you
always say, when you give, especially this season, but when
you give anytime, you end up getting so much in return,
just with the love that you feel well.

Speaker 12 (01:35:57):
You know, Beth, I find it interesting that the words
miser and miserable come from the same etymological word source.
So you're never more miserable than when you're a miser
but it is more blessed to give than to receive,
and you're never happier than when you give. There's a
verse in the Bible that I think the Second Corinthians,
chapter nine, verse seven, that says God loves a cheerful giver,

(01:36:19):
and that word cheerful and the Greek is hilarios. So
that's the work in which we get hilarious. God loves
an hilarious, joyful giver. And you're right, Beth, you're never
happier than when you give.

Speaker 4 (01:36:31):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:36:31):
And the great thing is you can go to City
off Hope CLT dot org. The website is live, the
counter is there, and I know with the holiday season
each year now one of my favorite things is to
get those almost daily updates, sometimes several times a day,
updates from David with the latest totals, and that begins
today Giving Tuesday and City of Hope CLT dotorg. We'll

(01:36:57):
be talking about this a lot David, and we'll be
talking to you on Thursday like normal, but I wanted
to get ahead of this because today's the perfect day
to kick this all off and so let's do it again.

Speaker 12 (01:37:08):
Yeah, thank you, boeen bet. It's been a joint again.
One point three million dollars that we've raised over the
last five plus years. It's just astounding. And thanks to
the listeners because they're the ones who have made this happen.
But I can tell you that it has helped literally
hundreds of kids who are in our community be better,
read better, be healthier, and all of those good things.

Speaker 3 (01:37:30):
We will talk to you soon and thank you so
much for calling in.

Speaker 12 (01:37:34):
Thank you guys. I'll talk to you Thursday.

Speaker 3 (01:37:36):
Yes, sir, that's David Chadwick, the senior pastor at Moments
of Hope Church and of course his weekly program Sunday
mornings eight am the David Chadwick Show and joins us
once a week and he's one of our beacons of
hope around here for helping the less fortunate in the area.
As he points out community parts of the community that

(01:37:57):
you may not even realize have the need, and we
spotlight the need, and we also spotlight the aid And
that's an important part of it too, because when you
give this time of year, you want to give, You
want that spirit of giving, but you want to know
that your dollar is working for you and for the
person that you're intending for it to work for, right.

Speaker 6 (01:38:15):
And in this case, every dollar goes to our community
and goes to help people in our community, so you
can feel good about it.

Speaker 3 (01:38:23):
City of Hope, c LT dot org. I'm going to
sound like a broken record, but for a very good reason.

Speaker 15 (01:38:28):
Good morning, Hell are you guys?

Speaker 1 (01:38:30):
We're good now, so excited to talk to you. Guys,
have no idea bo We are like twin from another
mother kind of thing.

Speaker 15 (01:38:37):
The music that you'd like and everything you guys talk about.

Speaker 6 (01:38:40):
I absolutely adore Christine. Can you say do you say piano?

Speaker 10 (01:38:44):
No, I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:38:46):
Good morning beat with bow and Beth.

Speaker 5 (01:38:48):
Say Christine, you had your chance?

Speaker 3 (01:38:50):
Just yes, yes I do, yes, thank you, thank you,
thank you very much.

Speaker 6 (01:39:00):
You've got us feeling all right.

Speaker 3 (01:39:02):
I know it's raining out there, kind of a dreary day,
but hopefully we can bring some sunshine to you.

Speaker 6 (01:39:09):
Big smile to your face, little hope to your heart.

Speaker 5 (01:39:12):
Yeah, speaking of hope, you thought I was gonna forget.

Speaker 3 (01:39:19):
After thirteen weeks in the Good Morning Beat Fantasy football contest,
we have results.

Speaker 5 (01:39:29):
Are you ready?

Speaker 3 (01:39:30):
Are you ready?

Speaker 1 (01:39:32):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (01:39:32):
Just go ahead and play the humble brag sounder for yourself.

Speaker 5 (01:39:37):
I don't think it's a humble brag. It's not like
I just destroyed you.

Speaker 6 (01:39:42):
You didn't trounce on me. But I do have to
admit I did not go back to my page and
do anything to my team because I forgot because there
was Turkey Day.

Speaker 3 (01:39:51):
I just think we should point out that you are
now adept enough at this that you know what it
is to go and chang your team, Like you know
why you lost.

Speaker 6 (01:40:02):
I do know why I lost because I didn't go
change my team, and I realized it too late because
the games started.

Speaker 3 (01:40:08):
I think one thirteen to one hundred, So I beat
you by thirteen.

Speaker 6 (01:40:13):
Points when if I changed my team, I might have won.

Speaker 14 (01:40:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:40:15):
See, I was thinking about that yesterday. Now she's we've
gotten her from the point where she can't log in
to now she's like, oh, oh, well, if I would
have done this, I would have beat you.

Speaker 5 (01:40:23):
But I didn't.

Speaker 9 (01:40:24):
Yeah, if you would have, actually, if you would have
gone back to Chewba Hubbard instead of taking.

Speaker 3 (01:40:29):
Travis atn you you totally would have would have beaten him.

Speaker 6 (01:40:32):
And all I had. All I needed to do was
do that thing that you taught me to press that
weird but quick line up. If I had quick lined up, I'd.

Speaker 5 (01:40:38):
Have beaten him.

Speaker 3 (01:40:39):
Cool story, but you lost all right. Next up to
a infinity and beyond that would be Sir Stephen of Anthony.
I guess it would.

Speaker 9 (01:40:47):
And again, just like Beth last week, if you can
beat WBT sports director, I feel like that to.

Speaker 1 (01:40:54):
Win, no matter what your record is.

Speaker 3 (01:40:56):
Ninety eight to eighty one, Steve defeats jim Zo now
onto Bernie had to step out, but he's not here
to gloat on this one. But it's a this is
by the skin of his teeth, the Burns and the
Bees defeat Smashing Crash. That's Boomer von Cannon one o
three to one oh one ooh.

Speaker 5 (01:41:14):
It's not like losing by.

Speaker 3 (01:41:15):
A percentage point, but that kind of stings a little bit.
Maybe someday I'll find out what that's like.

Speaker 6 (01:41:22):
Next up, if I had changed, if I'd press that
one little button, if I had remembered bo I could
you could have known exactly what it felt like.

Speaker 3 (01:41:31):
Well, even though you didn't win, a member of your
family did.

Speaker 6 (01:41:35):
Oh the Wayneac one sixty.

Speaker 5 (01:41:39):
To ninety five.

Speaker 1 (01:41:40):
Yeah, your dad had a big week.

Speaker 20 (01:41:42):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:41:42):
It's one thing to beat Mark, We've all done it
once or twice. But Wayniac would have been anybody this week,
anybody this week.

Speaker 6 (01:41:49):
Oh, so he didn't lose, he won.

Speaker 3 (01:41:51):
I said the Wayniac would have beaten anybody with the
score of one sixty. Yeah, so Mark's Monstrous Team ninety
five Wayniac won sixty. So at the end of thirteen weeks,
Jason's Basement ten and three, Bernie Wayniac tied at eight
and five, Boomer and Steve are tied at seven and six.

(01:42:12):
Jim Zokie kind of reeling at this point. Five and
eight now, Beth Troutman now four and nine, four and nine,
and Mark's Monstrous Team three and ten.

Speaker 5 (01:42:25):
Mark sound like the Panthers.

Speaker 3 (01:42:26):
Mark have you was like, wait, I was playing, I
was involved in this. Have you have you still yet
to log in?

Speaker 19 (01:42:32):
Mark?

Speaker 5 (01:42:32):
I have still yet to log Okay, I'm just letting
Ai handle it yet. Three and ten, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:42:38):
So that's the that's the end of thirteen weeks.

Speaker 6 (01:42:40):
I'm so mad at myself for forgetting.

Speaker 3 (01:42:43):
I am well, you know whatever, whatever makes you feel
better about yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:42:49):
This is good morning, Bat.

Speaker 3 (01:42:56):
I'm thirty eight on WBT going Beth in the Tyboid studio.
You know, a lot's happened in this room over the years,
be around for one hundred and three years. Lots happened
in that government center room where the dioces yes and
a new city council sworn in last night. That means

(01:43:20):
you had the exit speeches for some and the introductions
for others, and the hey, remember me, I'm still here
for still others. But I want to get to a
few of these last night, namely another term for vyly isles.
And she did not make a long speech, but she
did have a few opening remarks as she begins the
next term.

Speaker 14 (01:43:41):
We're already working alongside CMPD and our transit partners to
make sure every person can move through our city with
confidence and peace of mind, confidence and peace of mine.
Charlotte is a city on the move, driven by innovation,

(01:44:02):
anchored by compassion, and strengthened by unity. Every new greenway,
every expanded bus route, every safe crosswalk brings us closer
to a city that moves with purpose and care. So
we begin this new term. I carry with me everything
I've seen, our progress, our pain, and our potential. And

(01:44:26):
I carry hope, hope for a Charlotte where every person
has a path forward, and hope for a city that
reflects the best of who we are and what we
can become. Let's keep moving safely, boldly together. When Charlotte
moves forward, every one of us moves forward. Thank you,

(01:44:49):
Queen City for your trusts, your energy, and your faith
and what we can build as one. Thank you very much,
Sir viye Lyles.

Speaker 3 (01:45:01):
Could that be her final speech of that fashion? We
keep wondering whether she's going to run again or whether
she's going to move on. I think most people believe
this is probably the last term.

Speaker 7 (01:45:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:45:12):
I think that the writing even on the wall is
there for her because I think she's ready to after this,
maybe just be a grandmother.

Speaker 3 (01:45:20):
She was also there last night to well, to preside
over the meeting for one thing, but she awarded Johnny
Jennings the Harvey Gant Award on behalf of the city,
and Johnny Jennings spoke last night his last I guess
it's his first speech as an ex chief because Patterson
took over yesterday. But some other exits, this.

Speaker 5 (01:45:43):
One right here.

Speaker 3 (01:45:43):
You knew that she would not leave quietly. District number
three Tijuana Brown her exit speech last night.

Speaker 1 (01:45:51):
Listen closely.

Speaker 11 (01:45:52):
I'm almost done here. I'm not stepping down. I'm stepping forward.
I'm stepping into my next assignment. I'm stepping deeper into
my community. I'm stepping into higher purpose. I will serve
the District three community all the days of my life
because I've lived there for fifty four years.

Speaker 1 (01:46:11):
Look at me.

Speaker 11 (01:46:13):
I'm a black woman who survived hell to get here,
a black woman who made history, a black woman who
spoke to the power, a black woman who shook the
chamber when it needs to be shaken, and that's the
most shaking that needs to be done. A black woman
who rolls and will rise again. So when you think
about me, remember people over politics, purpose over pain. Still

(01:46:39):
I rise, the one and only till one of Brown,
Charlotte City Council, District three.

Speaker 1 (01:46:43):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:46:46):
Okay, So she of course serves or did serve District
number three A turbulent term to say the least.

Speaker 6 (01:46:52):
Yes, quite a bit of controversy, especially toward the end
of this past term.

Speaker 3 (01:46:56):
Now you may wonder who takes over for Tijuana Brown.
Her name is Joy Mayo and she introduced herself last night.

Speaker 2 (01:47:03):
I am excited to represent District three. All the work
that we're going to be doing together really to put
my platform into action. So much of that is working
with our community leaders to create safe and inclusive communities,
having intentional investment to increase opportunities for everyone in District three.
Anyone who has heard me talk at any of the

(01:47:26):
forums and things during this run has heard me talk
about walkable ten minute neighborhoods. I think that is so
intentional that residents are able to easily live, work, and
play within a ten minute walk, bike, transit, ride, or drive.
I think that's what creates a really vibrant city and

(01:47:47):
I look forward to creating.

Speaker 1 (01:47:48):
That with my colleagues.

Speaker 3 (01:47:50):
That is Joy Mayo. So you have the outgoing Tijuana
Brown incoming Joy Mayo, and then another newcomer last night,
jd Arius, who becomes the first Gen Z generation member
to serve on council, Which, when you think about it,
you know time as we marching on here, Beth.

Speaker 6 (01:48:09):
And I'm here to say. I don't know if anybody
else has this in their brain, but you hear jd Arius.
Do y'all hear Joe d Arius, the name that is
synonymous with that story from the early two thousands. But
every time I hear his name jd Arius, that Joe
d Arius pops into my mind. I don't know that

(01:48:30):
that's a good thing.

Speaker 3 (01:48:31):
J d Arius last night, beginning his term.

Speaker 20 (01:48:34):
I grew up in East Charlotte.

Speaker 3 (01:48:35):
I'm a son of East Charlotte.

Speaker 20 (01:48:37):
I grew up hearing the languages of the world on
Central Avenue, eating in restaurants that hold entire nations in
their kitchens, watching families build dreams from scratch.

Speaker 1 (01:48:47):
For years, people have called this area up.

Speaker 20 (01:48:50):
And coming, as if our value is still on its way,
But anyone who has lived here knows the truth. East
Charlotte has been carrying this city for decades, and it's
time our policies and our budgets reflect that to my community.
Miku Munira, this responsibility is not lost on me. I'm

(01:49:11):
the first Latino, the first formally undocumented, and the first
gen z Or to sit on this council. So thank
you for believing in me, for giving me the voice
and the honor of representing you, and for reminding this
city that EA Charlotte's voice is powerful, necessary, and here
to say, I am ready to serve. I'm ready to
fight for a future worthy of our families. And now

(01:49:34):
that I finally know where the restrooms are, I'm officially
ready to begin.

Speaker 1 (01:49:38):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:49:42):
I like him.

Speaker 6 (01:49:43):
You can't help but like him. If you're hearing that speech,
you have to That was a really likable moment.

Speaker 3 (01:49:50):
Now, just to prove that, yes, there is such a
thing as a Republican in that room, here you go.

Speaker 17 (01:49:57):
My name is Ed Driggs.

Speaker 1 (01:49:59):
I am a Republican.

Speaker 17 (01:50:00):
Okay, you don't see too many of these. I don't
have as long a list because I didn't have an
opponent this year.

Speaker 4 (01:50:11):
Thank you.

Speaker 17 (01:50:12):
I will continue to commit to the people of D seven,
my district, to serve all of them, whether they voted
or not, whether they voted for me or not, whether
they wrote in or not. And I regard that as
a responsibility in order, among other things, just to bring
a perspective to these conversations on our council. I don't

(01:50:34):
approach the situation that I'm in with any air of
confrontation or hostility. I see collaboration, but I think there
are things that I can point out to people based
on a long history of being a traditional conservative. I
think I deplored the current political landscape as much as

(01:50:55):
everyone does. But that is my commitment. We have an
exciting term ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:51:00):
So there you go a bit of a cross section
of some of the comings and goings. Last night, Edwin Peacock,
of course, outgoing GOP interim councilman, set a very short
statement last night. Of course, Kimberly Owens, you've heard Mark
playing some of that audio of the woman who defeated
Christa Baccari and now has turned District six blue, which

(01:51:24):
is it's a feat these days, even though being a
Republican on any form of government mental stage is a feat.
But District six has been read for so long it
officially flipped blue last night.

Speaker 6 (01:51:38):
A big night right right here in Charlotte last night,
and it remains to be seen what this new council
ushers in for the next couple of years.

Speaker 1 (01:51:48):
Why did you get it so big? I wanted it
to be impressive.

Speaker 3 (01:51:52):
Biggest day of the year deserves the biggest tree of
the year.

Speaker 1 (01:51:54):
But what are we going to do with this hacked
off part.

Speaker 21 (01:51:57):
Well, that is a perfectly good mini tree, Kevin, and
we are going to sell that to charity. That's what
Christmas is all about. Presence are the best way to
show someone how much you care. It is like this
tangible thing that you can point to and say, hey, man,
I love you this many dollars worth that's from me.

Speaker 1 (01:52:18):
Great, where'd you get it?

Speaker 14 (01:52:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:52:22):
I was so long ago. She obviously forgot to get
me something.

Speaker 18 (01:52:26):
And then he went into his closet and dug out
this little number and then threw it in a bank.

Speaker 21 (01:52:31):
Yep, that's exactly what happened.

Speaker 5 (01:52:35):
We're in a giving mood today.

Speaker 6 (01:52:38):
It's Giving Tuesday, after all.

Speaker 3 (01:52:40):
It is Giving Tuesday, and we remind you that you
can give a bike to a kid on Friday here
on WBT by way of WBT one Julian Price Place.
It's Hancocks Bikes for Kids, thirty second annual, right here
at the station from five to nine. Bring a new
bike or bikes where a kid need this holiday season,

(01:53:01):
and we will get it to that kid. And there's
no better way to make a difference. That's Friday today
is Giving Tuesday. We've been mentioning opportunities for you to
learn about great organizations this holiday season. We talked to
Emily Ratliffe from Claire's Army that's c l A I
R E S dot org Claire's Army dot org to

(01:53:23):
help families in need. We talk to our buddy Brandon,
who of course is the founder of Dream on three.

Speaker 6 (01:53:31):
And you can go to dreamon three dot org and
it's dream on the Number three dot org. And not
only donate to help young people who have been given
a life altering diagnosis get a sports dream, you can
also buy tickets at the website for the gala. BO
and I will be hosting the gala. It's a huge night,

(01:53:53):
a really fun event, a really heartwarming moving event. January
thirty first, so come out and meet us and all.

Speaker 3 (01:54:00):
So we just announced on the show today the website
is live. They are ready for you. City of Hope
CLT dot org. It's our City of Hope campaign in
conjunction with Moments of Hope Church and of course David
Shadwick trying to raise money to help kids in need
in the Charlotte area.

Speaker 5 (01:54:17):
All of that online for.

Speaker 3 (01:54:19):
A big Giving Tuesday, but this is just the jumping
off point. It's the whole holiday season that we want
people to be in the spirit of giving. And again,
I can't say it enough, but this coming Friday, Hancocks
Bikes for Kids benefitings Kids first of the Carolines.

Speaker 6 (01:54:32):
Come out and join us, bring a bite, have a
lovely evening, and I promise you that your heart will
be filled by giving.

Speaker 3 (01:54:40):
You know why, Like pet Kellner says, we're givers.

Speaker 5 (01:54:44):
We're givers forgivers, and.

Speaker 3 (01:54:46):
In that vein, We'll be back tomorrow with a whole
new show.

Speaker 6 (01:54:49):
Giving you four more hours of awesome.

Speaker 5 (01:54:51):
Right now I give to you.

Speaker 1 (01:54:54):
Is that what it is?

Speaker 6 (01:54:55):
That is four hours awesome?

Speaker 1 (01:54:56):
Man?

Speaker 5 (01:54:56):
Oh God, I'm glad you cleared that up. Y'all have
a great Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (01:55:01):
Back tomorrow on WBT. Good Talk Beth, Good Talk Beth.

Speaker 6 (01:55:05):
You've been listening to Good Morning BT.

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