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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning son.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Isn't this great blue sky? Is fresh cut grass?

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Birds?

Speaker 3 (00:04):
Terminator?

Speaker 4 (00:05):
Yeah, first sight man Bohm.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
He's from News Talk eleven Ton and ninety nine three
w BT.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I know you could smoke on stage.

Speaker 5 (00:13):
You can't use no cigarettes.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
This is good morning Beatty with quote Thompson at Beth
Troutman Bob Ben's band's refrigeration.

Speaker 5 (00:22):
Do a lot to learn about this town, Sween.

Speaker 6 (00:40):
So you ran into my former fiance. You saw her
dancing last night in some cafe.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Gee, I haven't seen us since a.

Speaker 6 (00:58):
Year ago, and there are so many things I'm dying
to know. How did she look? Did she seem happy

(01:26):
while they would dancing? Did he whisper things in her ease?

Speaker 1 (01:41):
And tell me?

Speaker 4 (01:44):
Did she see.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
To welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:51):
His attention?

Speaker 4 (01:52):
Well, one thing is for sure. He didn't wake anybody
up to day in your house anybody else.

Speaker 7 (01:59):
He's making up song, this one.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
I was going to say, they used to play this
song on this station back in the day, but not
this version.

Speaker 5 (02:12):
Can you guess, Jim Zuchi who this might be?

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Who's singing?

Speaker 8 (02:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:19):
I don't know, give me a hand.

Speaker 5 (02:20):
Was this is Seth MacFarlane.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Being Crosby?

Speaker 9 (02:27):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well, I was.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
That's what that's where my mind would normally go. And
then we started looking at the songs.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
The was Smile upon.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Her same song but mel Tormae, which I'm almost positive
has played on this station before.

Speaker 5 (02:49):
So here's the deal with the Seth MacFarlane album. He
purchased the rights to a bunch of unreleased Frank Sinatra
music and then recorded those songs and made an album
that he released maybe maybe a month or two ago.
And the only reason I know about it is Pam mulvaney,
McK mulvaney's wife. She she sent me this information and.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Seth McFarlane singing how did she look?

Speaker 5 (03:20):
Doesn't it make you want to go to a big
band restaurant? I know they don't make them anymore, but
wouldn't that be delightful and wear like a a flowy
gown and eat some shrimp cocktail?

Speaker 4 (03:31):
Wait, Charlotte does have one. It's called is it called
the Triple C or something like that. I've been to
it before.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
What, yeah, Triple Brewery.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
Wait a minute, I'm off on the middle C. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:42):
Wait, there's a restaurant where I could dance and eat
shrimp cocktail and you're.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Gonna have a dance.

Speaker 5 (03:47):
I could have a little dance a young lady, you
want to have a dance, Eat shrimp cocktail, drink Martini's
and then like we're a flowy taffata, not tafada. What
am I thinking of? Chiffon chiffon dress?

Speaker 1 (03:59):
None of us were.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
I got on well in the middle SA Jazz Dynamic
jazz club offering eclectic cocktail menu and familiar desserts and
music like this, familiar desserts.

Speaker 5 (04:10):
What can you dance?

Speaker 10 (04:11):
Though?

Speaker 5 (04:11):
Is there a dance.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Floor for your dad's buck? Do you have a dance?

Speaker 4 (04:14):
I've been there one time, and I would say I
would assume. So, I mean somebody listening I know knows
the place better than me. You know who used to
perform there? You know? But if you listen to the station,
remember the guy Wayne Powers. Yeah, Wayne Powers used to
do fill in here and and we had Wayne on
the show within the last five years. Might have you
know what it might have been because Wayne was performing there.

(04:36):
If my memory it's it's fuzzy, but it's coming back
to me. But yeah, we have a we have a
place where you might hear big band music. It's it's
middle C jazz.

Speaker 5 (04:45):
Might see Duke Silver there, guys, this might be, this
might be worth a live show. Well from the jazz club.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
I don't think they do much at five of the morning.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
So the list is growing here, you know, except we
got the roof of the y MC a coming. And
then Nick mulvaney has an idea for.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
Us, right which we're definitely gonna do.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
And now and now, Yeah, it's not exactly a hopping
place this time in the morning.

Speaker 5 (05:09):
Well, we just have to get those little, those little
crooners up early and have them play in all of
our bumpers, wouldn't that be? Could I teach y'all how
to how to ballroom dance?

Speaker 9 (05:21):
No?

Speaker 8 (05:23):
I had to take ballroom dancing when I was growing up.
My stepmom. That was a request of her for her
birthday one year. Oh, the whole family had to take
ballroom dance.

Speaker 5 (05:30):
Lest that's lovely, was it? Yes?

Speaker 2 (05:34):
What's I'm sure? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (05:35):
I did the the teen katillion thing.

Speaker 5 (05:40):
I had to learn all the dances. I even had
to take clogging lessons I forgot. I knew how to clog.
You still I don't have the clogging shoes anymore. But
oh yeah, I still break it out every now and
again at a square dance, you know.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
Every now and again, every now and again.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
That's one does.

Speaker 5 (05:58):
Every now and again a square dance just breaks out.
You need to bring the clogging up.

Speaker 4 (06:02):
Well, look at you and your mel Tourmee and you're
Seth McFarland. We should, and Ben Steve, I think we
should add Melturmee and Seth MacFarland to the playlist.

Speaker 5 (06:10):
Oh so you get so the lucky listeners of this playlist,
we'll get two versions of this song.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
But don't you just kind of want mel Tourmee on there,
given that boy Crazy was just a few days ago?

Speaker 5 (06:20):
Yes, isn't it? But doesn't this song just hit you
in the heart, the idea of wondering about someone you
used to love who's possibly in love with someone else.

Speaker 9 (06:33):
You know.

Speaker 8 (06:34):
I can'tnot see Brian the Dog singing this song because
it's the same voice, his voice. It's Brian the Dog.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
Boy Jim missed the whole thing on Friday though, did
you wake up Dog?

Speaker 5 (06:49):
It was a song from this band.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
All right six thirteen on Newstalk eleven ten WBT. So
I need to also tell you that Beth came into
the studio today with several Starbucks beverages. If you were
with us yesterday, we had a story about how apparently
the cups are deceiving.

Speaker 5 (07:10):
It's a TikTok viral trend.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
When you order a Venti, are you really getting your
money's worth?

Speaker 5 (07:18):
People on TikTok say no. And I wanted to test
this out for myself because this broke my heart to
learn and I don't want it to be true. So
I have it here so that we can fact check
the TikTok.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
So you have I want to make sure the ice
stays icy.

Speaker 5 (07:33):
Yes, I have a cold beverage, a venty iced black Tea,
and I have a hot beverage, a Venti Americano.

Speaker 4 (07:41):
So let's pinpoint six thirty five because we have race
stage it coming up here in a moment, because we've
got we actually have a storm that has become a
tropical storm that could be the first hurricane of the season.
Erin ol erin e r i n is how they
spell at this time, as opposed to a r O
ny he possible hurricane Aaron is forming out there in

(08:04):
the in the Atlantic, and we're gonna get raised information
on that and also another day of rain, how about
that here in the month of August for twenty twenty five,
but then it's six thirty five. We gotta do the
We gotta do the Starbucks test.

Speaker 5 (08:16):
Here will a venty drink fit into a tall cup?
That is the question.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
That is the question.

Speaker 5 (08:21):
That is the question. TikTok says, Yes, I'm hoping no.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
You think no.

Speaker 5 (08:26):
I hope no because I want the world to be
better than this.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
Well, if it is, whatever the case is, we're doing
the homework for the people.

Speaker 5 (08:33):
Yes, I'm fact checking.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Save the money.

Speaker 5 (08:36):
That's right, you can save you money.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
News Talk eleven to ten WBT traffic check right now,
Boomer von Cannon, The.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Vent may not be a plenty.

Speaker 5 (08:43):
It may not be a plenty, according to TikTok Boomer,
they say that a venty will fit into a tall cup?

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Oh right, come on, now, come.

Speaker 5 (08:52):
On, don't you feel uncomfortable. I feel uncomfortable. Don't be
cheatings on our call, right, this is what TikTok says.
But I wanted to do this. I wanted us to
do this ourselves.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
This is we try before you buy the segment.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
You segment stand by It Investigations.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
This is good morning, beat.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
All right, Tuesday morning, August twelfth, both Thompson Beth Troutman
here in the ty Boyd studio. His rain is coming
down across the area yet another day here in the
early part of August where we're seeing a lot of rain,
and get used to it, because it's not done yet.
Hopefully we'll get back to a point where we see
some extended sunshine. But even on top of the rain

(09:41):
that we're getting here, an alert this morning. Not necessarily,
this is just one of those things. Keep it on
your proverbial radar because it could turn into something, and
it could turn into the first named hurricane of the season,
and you would spell it e r i in. It
would be aerin. It's a tropical storm. Now, let's bring
on Ray stage the Weather Channel. Ray, good morning to you,

(10:02):
good morning, good to have you on as always. And
so what does what should our concern level be about
tropical system Erin at this point?

Speaker 11 (10:10):
For now, I would say let's go moderate. So everybody
just got an eye it right and keep tune. You're
still seven days plus out. Even if it does make
a run at the East coast. Because I do think
that there will at least be some impact with a
storm that's forecast by late in the week or the
weekend to become a major hurricane that's a Cat three
or higher with one fifteen plus wins as it approaches

(10:34):
and goes maybe just north of the Windward and Leeward Island.
What that's going to mean as we get into next
week and it comes closer, maybe to the Bahamas, we
may start seeing some impacts along the coastline eventually later
next week or into next weekend. So that's what I
would say is right now. If somebody said you've got
to pick one, and you know, you go out this

(10:55):
far and you say you got to pick one, what
will most of the impacts be, I would say maybe
along the coast with dangerous rip currents, high surf. But hey,
as we'd mentioned, way too early to tell if it
is going to make a run towards the east coast
or not. Still's got some of the guidance that may
have shifted a little further west in the longer range.

(11:16):
But I'm always probably more conservative than anybody else. But
since the information's out there, do you want to mention
we can't completely obviously take our eyes off. It's still
well out over the Eastern Atlantic. It's still plenty of
days to go well.

Speaker 5 (11:29):
And where it is in the Eastern Atlantic is a
little bit concerning, right because it's in that place where
hurricanes do gain a lot of force, a lot of power.

Speaker 11 (11:40):
Yeah, it's in the main development region, the MDR. You
may see that term being thrown around on the interwebs,
and God's basically where, for lack of better term, conditions
are favorable during this part of hurricane season to look
in that part of the Atlantic. So a lot of
times there's low shear, not all the time, and a
lot of times there's obviously plenty of warm Atlantic water

(12:04):
to deal with. Two which we do have at or
slightly above average temperatures usually that thresholds about eighty degrees,
and the temperatures of the Atlantic out in that part
of the world are at or well above that in
some cases. So, although not looking very organized right now,
not much of a strength changed since it was named
eleven o'clock yesterday morning, I should move into a more

(12:24):
favorable environment and as you mentioned, bo probably becoming a hurricane,
if not tomorrow, certainly by a Thursday, and then a
major hurricane as we head toward the weekend, and then
it'll start rolling west and then maybe just north of west,
and then from that point as we get into early
next week and next week, at this time, we'll still
be talking about a storm that probably still going to

(12:46):
be out over open water at least the center anyway,
as it heads toward maybe north of as we mentioned,
the leeward windward island Haitian Dominican Republic. But again, any
track further south could change all that.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
And let's be honest, you're we're probably a little earlier
in the process on this one than we normally would be.
But then again, I just saw not too long ago
that they revised the number of named hurricanes that they
expect this year. The number has been reduced. And when
we started the hurricane season, we expected it to be
a pretty active season based on what we saw last year.

(13:19):
So you know, we haven't seen as much activity. So
you know, your radar, and I keep saying, you know,
proverbial radar here, metaphorical radar here is sort of up
more so because we just haven't seen as much activity.
So this is this is something out there.

Speaker 11 (13:33):
And That's a great talking point because what you just
said is the key to the entire way that we
should look at hurricane season, and that is, it seems
that if it hasn't been that active, and that is
because we haven't had impact or direct impact to the
US mainland. Now, climatologically, if you look into the books,

(13:54):
we typically don't get to the East storm until August
twenty ninth, So by the books, we're actually ahead of
schedule in the number of named storms. So that's why
bo Beth, when we talk about hurricane season, whether it's active,
above below average, above or below normal in terms of
number of dame storms, it's not always the entire story.

(14:17):
The entire story lies in what is the impact to
the US coastline and inland areas, and what out of
those number of name storms, whether it's above or below average,
how many of those storms have made impact, how many
of those storms are hurricanes major hurricanes, and what those
impacts were to the US mainland.

Speaker 5 (14:35):
Well, while we have you here, let's talk about what
is happening on the mainland here in the United States
really quickly. I mean, we're talking record heat in places
like Maine. We've seen flooding in Wisconsin. We've seen severe
storm storms in different parts of the country. We're having
rain here. It seems like daily a lot of weather
what feel like weather anomalies. I mean wildfires that are

(14:58):
still burning on the West coast or or were inland
right near the Grand Canyon, right.

Speaker 11 (15:03):
Yeah, Well, it goes back to when you get stuck.
You get kind of stuck in a pattern that really
gets you into where it's happening. In one place where
it's cool and damp, in another place it may be
warm and dry. And in the Northwest, in the western US,
that is the case where warm and dry, even places
like Washington and Oregon has been the rule, and you know,

(15:27):
wet and cool for us in the southeast, it's kind
of the opposite, right, is what we've been. We're running
about six degrees below normal for the average monthly temperature,
five inches above average so far or close to it
for rainfall. And that's just a point. At the airport
in Charlotte. I mean, I don't know if you guys
seen the video yesterday coming out of Charleston. I mean,
they are prone to flooding, but they had a ton

(15:49):
of rainfall in a short period of time yesterday, and
they had places underwater too. So where it's wet and
cool in one spot of the country, it's hot and
dry in other spots of the country. Sometimes that's just
how the atmosphere works.

Speaker 4 (16:01):
Yeah, and you bring up a great point about the hurricanes.
I mean, it's not the number of hurricanes, it's the
number of impactful hurricanes to the United States where we are.
So all right, great stuff is always ray. We'll keep
in touch with you as this gets closer, and thank
you so much.

Speaker 11 (16:16):
No problem.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
This is good morning, beauty.

Speaker 12 (16:20):
Real man Geans.

Speaker 13 (16:23):
Today we salute you, mister fancy coffee shop coffee.

Speaker 5 (16:27):
For mister Fenzi coffee shop coffee poo.

Speaker 13 (16:31):
What do you do with a master's degree in art history?
You get a nose ring and pour coffee for a living.

Speaker 14 (16:38):
It on.

Speaker 4 (16:38):
Now, why is it called a latte?

Speaker 13 (16:41):
Maybe because it costs a latte and it takes a
lot tape time to make someone ordered a cappuccino. Step aside,
Let the man who works the milk farmer take over.
Sure you charge five bucks for a cup of coffee.
It's putting that tip jar that takes real guts. So

(17:02):
crack open an ice cold bud Light Guru of the
ground Roast. It's not a caffeine that gives us the buzz.
It's you, mister coffee bud Light Beer at Isuppach, Saint Louis, Missouri.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
Okay, so it's time to do an experiment on live radio.
Yes and rith is yesterday you heard the the Instagram
video that we played where the mom and the daughter
were trying to see if it was true that you
could take a venty with ice and pour the liquid
into a tall cup from Starbucks and you had the

(17:39):
same amount once the ice is.

Speaker 5 (17:41):
Gone, cup.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
Through through the sifter.

Speaker 5 (17:45):
What is it called a strainer? Well, and then we
got a text on the WBT text line driven by
Liberty at GMC saying that it works with the hot
beverages too, that the hot venty will fit into the
hot tall cup. And I have been devastated over this
idea because I want the world to be better than that.
Like if I'm paying for a ventee, I want it

(18:06):
to be a venty.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
I want there to know now you stop over spending.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
Sure believes the children are future?

Speaker 5 (18:11):
Well, I just believe. I want to believe that people
are telling me the truth. So I have purchased two
venty drinks beverages. I have a hot beverage and an
iced tea, and then I have two empty Starbucks tall cups.

Speaker 4 (18:25):
Did they charge you for the empty cups?

Speaker 5 (18:26):
They did not. They did not, but I'm not gonna lie.
I felt like I was cheating on my Starbucks barista
by telling them I needed the empty cups because they
didn't know why I was using them.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
You think they would have they would have charged you
for this cup.

Speaker 5 (18:40):
So they know right that I was going to try this.
So I'm going to try the hot one first because
I think it's going to pour faster. So here it is.
It's completely Look, it still has the little thing in
the hole, so you know I haven't drunk any of it.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Its little.

Speaker 5 (18:56):
Oh, it's a stirs. It is all right. So I'm
gonna take the lid off of this and you can't
really hear that, and I am going to pour this.
See if you can hear this. I'm pouring the venty
hot coffee into the tall cup and it's a full
vent It is a full venty. I have not sipped
any of it all.

Speaker 4 (19:15):
What are you gonna do if you have excess.

Speaker 5 (19:17):
Here, I'm gonna pass it around the.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
Steve.

Speaker 5 (19:23):
Steve has already brought me as an entire paper paper towel.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
Roll.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
Here we get, okay, here we get.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Careful, I'm gonna put the microphone over here.

Speaker 4 (19:32):
McDonald's all right, it's pouring kind of fast.

Speaker 11 (19:36):
There.

Speaker 5 (19:37):
It didn't fit.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
Well, how much is left?

Speaker 5 (19:40):
So it didn't fit.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
So the tall is full, and how much is left?

Speaker 3 (19:44):
The tall is.

Speaker 5 (19:44):
Full, and there's like a quarter of liquid left in
the bottom of the venty.

Speaker 4 (19:49):
So this thing is a fraud.

Speaker 5 (19:50):
So the hot liquid does not fit into the tall cup. Guys,
I feel so much better. So it didn't work with
the hot coffee. So the hot okay, but now we're
going to try the cold because the cold has ice,
which changes the liquid. So this is going to take
a minute because I'm just pouring it out.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
Of the little poor hole through the shifter.

Speaker 5 (20:12):
The simple So here we go.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
Here we go, all right, round two into the tall cup.

Speaker 5 (20:17):
Empty iced into an empty tall cup.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
Okay, hard hitting stuff go along? Oh don't.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Oh, yeah, that's that's an accident.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
Wait, that's a lot of trust in that.

Speaker 4 (20:27):
Yeah, there's no way that's all fitting.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
In the oh well, all lie, wow, what did they do?

Speaker 1 (20:33):
This is to close?

Speaker 2 (20:34):
Or they knew exactly why you were coming in there?
Put the regular They gave you.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
A generous poor all right.

Speaker 7 (20:40):
So they're there's plenty of excess, excess, like half a cup.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
In the big one.

Speaker 4 (20:46):
So what do we need to do? We need to
post a follow up video to them and say you're
you're full of it.

Speaker 5 (20:50):
Well, I feel like we need to post this now
and say, look, I have plenty. I have plenty in
my venting. Plenty, plenty in my venting. Starbuck, You've been vindicated.
I want to hug you because I was so sad
yesterday when I saw this video and I thought that
this was true. But I wanted to verify this for myself.
I wanted to make sure that this was true. And

(21:11):
I have the I have the I have the evidence
here in front of me. I have two full tall
cups and I still have liquid in both of my
venty cups.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
This is wbt IT investigation.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
So what did we watch some kind of illusion yesterdays?

Speaker 3 (21:26):
Well?

Speaker 5 (21:26):
And it was it David Blaine, I don't know, because
it was it was a mother and a daughter that
had poured the the ice. But maybe so.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
They're the lie.

Speaker 5 (21:35):
Well they were trying something that they had seen on TikTok.
So I don't know what. Maybe I don't know. Maybe
maybe Starbucks is onto the viral trend and they changed
their cups. But either way, it's not true. So I
feel okay. So you know what, folks out there, if
you're wanting a big old venty coffee, you drive through
there and you get it because you're getting more coffee.

Speaker 4 (21:56):
Where As Jim Zekie would say, taste the value, the ba, you.

Speaker 5 (21:58):
Can taste the value any he want some of this?

Speaker 4 (22:00):
No, thess.

Speaker 5 (22:02):
This is a Venti. This is the Venti Americano.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
That's right, Well, your mother, Alex.

Speaker 4 (22:16):
Junior, Junior, it's time to go fight the battle.

Speaker 5 (22:20):
I feel so much better.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
Well, you have to drink all that otherwise, it wasn't
at the end of that movie Last Crusade where he's
like he drinks the the goblet thincause you have chosen wisely.

Speaker 5 (22:32):
Yes, there's also the yes, but they do a little
a little spin on that on How I Met Your Mother.
In the final season of How I Met Your Mother,
they have a You've chosen right, right right, it's the
little Well.

Speaker 4 (22:49):
You've chosen wisely because you haven't lost anything. You just
you just gained places to drink from.

Speaker 5 (22:53):
And guys, I I feel like my heart feels better
because now I know that they're they're telling me the
truth when I pay more for my name.

Speaker 8 (23:00):
Just a viral conspiracy out there against Starbucks. So you
feel better about that, Beth, Well.

Speaker 5 (23:04):
What I feel better about is that we have exposed
the truth, and truth is the truth will set you free.

Speaker 4 (23:11):
Unless you're practicing magic. Apparently, I still don't know how
they did what they did because we watched the video.

Speaker 5 (23:18):
I'm just so proud. I'm so proud of Starbucks. I
know that it's a huge corporation, but I'm proud of them.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Maybe it's all about your brista.

Speaker 5 (23:26):
Well, maybe maybe I did have a really nice barista
and she has written all my cup. Before I told
Bernie this, it was like the greatest. She's the nicest lady.
And she writes on my cup sometimes because my name
is Beth. Instead of just writing my name that you
guys know this, my name is Beth. Instead of just
writing Beth on the cup, she writes, have the Beth Day.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Ever, Oh maybe she says a lisp.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
Did she write anything on the empty cups?

Speaker 5 (23:48):
No, no, no, but she did give me a bag
to carry them in.

Speaker 11 (23:51):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
You got a lot of free stuff, lady.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
She doesn't she gets all this this incredible treatment. Special treatment.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
Is you guys, as you're gonna head out all right?

Speaker 4 (24:02):
Six and WBT Boomer, we got plenty of coffee and
tea and cups.

Speaker 5 (24:07):
Do you want a Cafe Americano? Boomer?

Speaker 12 (24:09):
I'll go for yes.

Speaker 5 (24:10):
Okay, I'm gonna pour it back into the vent cup
for you and bring it your way.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Thank you, I love you.

Speaker 12 (24:15):
We will consume in our room.

Speaker 5 (24:17):
I was so nervous while I was pouring this that
my hands were shaking because I wanted to I wanted
to find the truth.

Speaker 4 (24:22):
Because nothing's ever been poured on that that counter before.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
I never my hands were shaked.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
Don't get it into the computer that we'll get your trouble.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
Six point fifty four on WBT got some some feedback
on the text line from our experiment. Are live on
the radio experiment moments ago.

Speaker 5 (24:40):
I think one of my current favorites is Beth has
been vinicated spelled like the the venty cup.

Speaker 4 (24:50):
That was a very Grande segment.

Speaker 5 (24:52):
Thank you. It's a tall tale they were telling.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
Yeah, see, there you go. We got to did we
get a text from a guy named Tom who I'm
going to assume just because I want to, it's Tom Tillis.

Speaker 5 (25:05):
Well he did spell at th h o M, so
I feel like it is Senator Tillis.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
Who is baseball Tom Brennman.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
Yeah, I mean how many Toms do you know? I
mean Tillis, Brenneman and Thumb right Tom, thumb Tom Tom.

Speaker 5 (25:19):
Oh, yes, those are the three that I know.

Speaker 4 (25:24):
Oh. There is some more restaurant news while we're on
the subject, though, and Beth is fascinated with the fact
that I'm fascinated with.

Speaker 5 (25:29):
This, Well, I I I am very excited about this
this idea. Chick fil a guys has a brand new
fall menu that they are going to debut.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
I don't say the word pumpkin nationwide, cried pumpkin.

Speaker 5 (25:44):
Okay, can I tell you that this. I want to
hug Chick fil A for this, because no pumpkin is
involved in any of these these fall items. The first
one I kind of want Sherry Berry to be, you know,
our former commissioner of labor. I kind of want her
to be the spokesperson for this because the new drink
flavor is cherryberry. Yes, please, don't you think she could

(26:04):
do the commercials cherry berry cherry berry lifts you up?

Speaker 2 (26:08):
I would be fantastic. Only people in North Carolina would
really get that.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
There and tomorrow on the show, we'll see if that
fits an a Venti cup.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
So they have a new cherryberry flavored drink that you
can also add with sprite and make a cherry berry soda,
or it can be combined in their lemonade or their
frosted lemonade and sun joys. So that's the first item.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
But here's the one, not vodka.

Speaker 5 (26:30):
No, not at chicken filet.

Speaker 4 (26:31):
Yeah, that's what you do when you take it home.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
It's the Lord's chicken jin.

Speaker 9 (26:35):
Now.

Speaker 5 (26:35):
This this is what Bo Thompson is super excited about
and I'm fascinated by this. Following a successful trial in Raleigh,
North Carolina, they will now be launching the Pretzel Cheddar
Club Sandwich nationwide. It is a Chick fil a chicken
breast on a pretzel bun with cheddar, cheese, lettuce, tomato,

(26:58):
and a side of a creamy Dijon, mustard, sauce, gym.

Speaker 7 (27:03):
Oh, something for everybody, something for everybody in this room.

Speaker 5 (27:06):
You mustard, and they will have it. Not only in
the normal Chick fil A, uh breast, they have the
spicy chicken file a breast and the grilled breast. You
guys are twelve, it's a chicken.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
Just now learning that it's just a lot of breast.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yeah, pretzel buns are great.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
But so I say this, I say this, I say
this like I'm like, oh, you know, Chick fil A
has a new pretzel buns sandwich. And then this is
what bo Thompson says.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
What where you go.

Speaker 5 (27:41):
When I said that they had a new sandwich, we
were in the commercial break. You were like, oh, this
is fantastic. I'm currently obsessed with pretzel buns.

Speaker 4 (27:48):
You know why pretzel buns make burgers? Any kind of
burger anything better, put a pretzel bun on. It makes
it better. Bernie, you're not over here, right.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
I love a pretzel bun, and.

Speaker 5 (27:57):
It's a good pretzel buns. Sometimes they're too chewy.

Speaker 4 (27:59):
So I've started in the bakery sections like at Harris
Theater and Public and now the fresh Market. This past weekend,
testing out their pretzel buns. Was I just discovered that
they have?

Speaker 5 (28:09):
So But okay, so here's the question are currently obsessed with?
Are they in the containers where that men can reach
in with his grubby hands, and you have to be served.

Speaker 4 (28:19):
You have to know did they come in like four
or five packs?

Speaker 5 (28:21):
So it's not like serve you brand?

Speaker 4 (28:23):
No, no, But I'm gonna tell you this weekend the
fresh Market. I don't go the fresh Market that often,
every once in a while, but I went there this
weekend their pretzel buns.

Speaker 12 (28:40):
The gauntlet has been thrown.

Speaker 4 (28:44):
Hey, hey, you laugh now that somebody out there knows
what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Is your strike team assembled?

Speaker 15 (28:51):
My team's ready.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
I don't have a command crew for the.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
Shuttle count from these talk eleven and ninety nine three WBT.

Speaker 5 (28:59):
I understand how you feel this time.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
It's personal.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
This is Good Morning Beat with Bo Thompson and Beth Trouting.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Why I love what frouden our minds?

Speaker 4 (29:11):
All right, So this show is really an interesting study.
So right towards the top of the hour, I was
talking about my affinity for pretzel buns that come from
the fresh Market.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
I think obsession.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
They are superior I did.

Speaker 5 (29:29):
I think I did use such an obsession obsessed, obsessed
with pretzel buns.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
So at the end of last hour, I was comparing
the different pretzel buns that you can buy at these stores,
and I said, this weekend, I said, this weekend I
went to the fresh market and uh and and how
did I? What did I do? And I said, pretzel bun? There, Bernie,
what did I do? Okay, Okay, lay that one more time,

(29:53):
because it almost the way it was retold here in
the studio was like I said it, and it sounded
like this, And if you don't believe me, listen to
how it actually sounded on the air.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
The has been.

Speaker 4 (30:15):
Throwing what exactly is happening here?

Speaker 1 (30:20):
We just enhanced it a little bit.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Exactly how it sounded to me.

Speaker 7 (30:24):
It's like they played it back during the break. Birdie
had it we go. It wasn't quite as over Thomas,
but we also had.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
Like brons, I like, I like the bretzel buds.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Okay, exactly, we exaggerated.

Speaker 5 (30:44):
I don't think I have laughed that hard in quite
some time. Because we did. We all thought all thought
was like extra excited, but it turns out it was
just Birdie.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
And Jim.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Fairly audible.

Speaker 5 (31:00):
It's very well.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
I actually had to turn up the volumes.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Thought I thought our part was good.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
Yeah, not to take away from the superiority of the
pretzel buns at the fresh markets. We have somebody who
text us and said, well, did he really like the
ones at fresh market? Yes, that was Sheila.

Speaker 5 (31:17):
Sheila said, so tell us she goes to the fresh
market all the time. She wants to know if they
are worth it. Should she get the pretzel bun?

Speaker 4 (31:22):
Chila, you need to go try them and then come
back and tell me if I'm wrong.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Don't even get both started.

Speaker 5 (31:27):
You don't get both started on the pretzel baron you
know his obsession. Well, now we all have to try
the Chick fil A pretzel buns to see if they
live up to the fresh Market pretzel bun.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
That is exactly right. The penzel button.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
We shall do this.

Speaker 7 (31:40):
You are DJ at the RADIOJ the pretzel button.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
I think I'm gonna leave.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
That was hers, she said.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Ed Billick said, call it DJ.

Speaker 5 (31:54):
Today. We are just on it is it the rain
and we just like stir crazy.

Speaker 4 (31:59):
Maybe so we do have some panthers stuff to get
to because Zochie had an interview with one Xavier Leget yesterday.

Speaker 5 (32:07):
Wow, well, now I.

Speaker 7 (32:08):
Know your obsessions in the room with Xavier Lea Get
and hang on, Zckie wanted to get him on the ear.

Speaker 4 (32:13):
Xavier Lea Get, you get. So that's coming up at
seven twenty. But just to sort of set that up,
to set up what happened yesterday, we know that Excel
got into some extra curricular activities on Friday night, got
booted from the game, got ejected for the first time
in his career. And so Dave Canalis, of course, was

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asked yesterday about what's been the fallout since then, really
active back there.

Speaker 15 (32:40):
He'd like the way he bounced back from the incident
on Friday night.

Speaker 16 (32:45):
I mean, he's got fresh legs.

Speaker 10 (32:46):
You know.

Speaker 16 (32:46):
I think he only played you know, that drive and
so of all the guys, probably the freshest coming out there.
But you know, he bounced back quickly. We had a
great conversation afterwards. He knows, you know, he was He
wasn't defensive about it. He's like, I got to be better,
and you know, kind of just moved on and he
was ready to work today.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
Now I'm here to tell you that he was very
comfortable during Zochie's interview. I don't think you could say
the same thing necessarily for when XL was in front
of all of the media yesterday.

Speaker 15 (33:16):
He looked pretty active out there today. Coach was talking
about you had fresh legs, just feeling a little something
to prove after what happened on Friday night, or.

Speaker 17 (33:27):
I'm just trying to go out there and do my Joe.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
That'x What did coach talk to you about after the game?

Speaker 17 (33:33):
Might just keep the mind thying, the mindy thying, that'sked about.
I know I was supposed to do what I did.
I'm going to let that on the field.

Speaker 15 (33:41):
It's just a situation where your emotions got the best of.

Speaker 17 (33:45):
You something like that.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
What happened, Oh man, it was just.

Speaker 17 (33:56):
A little song that help man.

Speaker 12 (33:57):
That's how it was said in the moment after.

Speaker 5 (34:00):
I mean even in the locker room. I assume that's
where you were when you apologize to the fan base.

Speaker 10 (34:05):
What were those moments for you after you left the
game and you were just had a moment to think
about what happened.

Speaker 17 (34:10):
Oh man, it was just something that I shouldn't have
do and that ain't supposed to have him in a
football guy. So I felt like I owed the fans
of a padlogy.

Speaker 4 (34:19):
Have you ever been ejected before that?

Speaker 17 (34:22):
My first time?

Speaker 5 (34:24):
Was it kind of were you kind of disbelief that
it was even happening.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
In the moment.

Speaker 17 (34:27):
No, I wasn't in his relief.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
I knew what was going on.

Speaker 17 (34:30):
What, Hey, they ain't supposed to.

Speaker 18 (34:33):
Hell, I mean he obviously he thought across the line.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Physically he's saying anything across the line.

Speaker 17 (34:39):
He ain't say nothing. Oh, we ain't had no xchange
of words. It was just well, hell, it's.

Speaker 4 (34:45):
Like the firing squad of questions. I don't think he's
ever gonna get ejected again.

Speaker 5 (34:50):
No, it's it is still even listening to that interview,
it's still as surprising that he got ejected.

Speaker 9 (34:57):
You know.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
Even he's like, I knew what was going on. I
knew what was going on right then, but he's I
think he knows that it'll never happen again.

Speaker 7 (35:04):
And then later in the interview, they talked about the
fact that he and the off season for cardio and
training purposes, took boxing, and so I almost wonder, because
he threw four punches if that didn't happen because of
like the muscle memory of what he's been doing all
off season kicked in like it just like yeah, automatically
kicked in, like this is my reaction to things. Is
boxing now? So I don't He didn't. He said it

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wasn't by the way. He said that was not the case,
but also wondered in the back of his mind.

Speaker 5 (35:28):
What was the punch? Was it a hook? Was it
was like.

Speaker 7 (35:31):
A picture like rock' sock and robots, but they just
like upper couple. Yeah, it was like there was like
four quick ones like yeah. But again they're wearing helmets.
So it's not good because he was briefly wearing a
helmet because he's got ripped off his head.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
But so when we come back, you will hear a
more extended one on one interview with Jim Zochi and
Xavier Leget yesterday in the Panthers' locker room. Stay right
where you are.

Speaker 11 (35:54):
I love you guys.

Speaker 9 (35:55):
You guys make ball morning. I love dropping in. I
sometimes I take the back roads so I can go
a little bit longer. Tucking hear y'all more.

Speaker 5 (36:02):
Oh, that's the sweetest thing I've ever heard.

Speaker 4 (36:05):
Hey, boss, I've been driving all day.

Speaker 9 (36:09):
I'm sorry out.

Speaker 17 (36:09):
I'm sposed to be there at seven, but at eleven,
so I'm just gonna go ahead and break for lunch.

Speaker 4 (36:13):
Hey, look, just just blame Bow and Beth and we'll
fix it for.

Speaker 18 (36:17):
You, right and excuse can you all do that?

Speaker 3 (36:19):
Yeah? Oh?

Speaker 5 (36:19):
Absolutely?

Speaker 12 (36:20):
A slacker for the rest of your life.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
This is Good Morning Beat with Bo Hubson at Beth Trout.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
Bit seven one on WBT Panthers training camp preseason continues.
Got a joint practice coming up with the Houston Texans
in Houston and then the next game, preseason game number
two on Saturday at one o'clock. We're talking about Xavier
Legette talking to the media yesterday after his fisticuffs on

(36:50):
the field on Friday night, and then after he talked
to you know, the the media scrum. Then he had
a one on one with wbt's own Jim Zulkie.

Speaker 7 (37:01):
This year versus last year when you were a rookie,
Is it night and day as far as just your
knowledge and how you feel up to speed?

Speaker 10 (37:07):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (37:07):
Yeah, man, I think it's a whole lot different, just
by the way that I'm my mechanics and how moving
and everything in that sense.

Speaker 7 (37:15):
And you guys have such a great receiver room. What
has been are you somewhat helping someone like tedor Roy
McMillan going through rookie things as far as mentoring him,
is that more Adam feeling how to run?

Speaker 4 (37:25):
For?

Speaker 18 (37:25):
How does how does the room kind of associate with him?

Speaker 3 (37:27):
Mine?

Speaker 17 (37:28):
We all coming together as a whole, so everybody, we
all got examples of how you could have did something.
And even he even can voice his opinion of something
we do is whole.

Speaker 7 (37:38):
What kind of stuff does he say to you guys
as far as coming out of college game when he
kind of talks about his game and what would help
the unit overall?

Speaker 17 (37:45):
Man, just things and the way how like trying to
catch the ball on the Dele Fimble if we could
have did like a bump technique or a like a
little push all in a sense and there that's all
I do.

Speaker 7 (37:57):
And then Jalen Coker, you guys came up together last
year and the same thing.

Speaker 18 (38:00):
Where he's in his second year.

Speaker 7 (38:02):
You guys both look like you've progressed a lot from
where you were last year.

Speaker 17 (38:04):
Oh yeah, more definitely, man, jayln Cole, he's a great player.
I've been telling folks that since last year, and man,
ever since he's been here, he'd been putting it on those.

Speaker 7 (38:12):
We'll talk about the Joy practices, but working against your
own guys, working against Mike Jack JC when he's out there,
some of these other guys, uh even somebody.

Speaker 18 (38:20):
Like throwting out there. How good are they making you.

Speaker 7 (38:22):
Guys in practice working against that kind of secondary Oh?

Speaker 17 (38:25):
Man, I'm going against them, guy. I know they go
hard every day every day. It ain't no downfall sowhere
every day. We got to be on point with it
as well.

Speaker 7 (38:34):
Got the Joy practice session with Houston in the preseason
game coming up here too.

Speaker 18 (38:38):
Did you enjoy the Cleveland.

Speaker 7 (38:39):
Practice sessions last week as you getting ready for this
week's practice sessions.

Speaker 17 (38:42):
Oh yeah, for sure for show MICUs, the the Bronod.
They got some good corners over there, everybody that we're
gonna plug and they have some good some good competition
over there on the defensive set. So man, every day
we all have to come to walk.

Speaker 7 (38:54):
You and Coach covered the fact that you got kicked
out of the game with the scrum during the preseason game,
but he said you bounced back in this practice on Monday.
What does that mean to you as far as I'm
kind of recognizing that, you know, that's a teachable moment
and that's something that you move forward in a positive
way from.

Speaker 17 (39:08):
Oh Man, well, really, mind, I wouldn't even say it's
something that I'm coming back home because that's something I'm
supposed to come back in to work and maybe as
the main thing is football, so we'll have him on Friday,
I'm gonna leave out on the field. I mean, I
wasn't supposed to do it. Well, I just got a
good word about the fruiture.

Speaker 7 (39:24):
Did you ever everything like happened in a college setting
like that before?

Speaker 18 (39:27):
Is that the first time for you?

Speaker 17 (39:28):
That's the first time I.

Speaker 18 (39:31):
Finally just with you and Bryce.

Speaker 7 (39:33):
The chemistry we're seeing with all the receivers and him
having that full time quarterback, knowing who it is coming
in this season and that he's going to be in
that position for the long term.

Speaker 18 (39:41):
How does that settle that position for you guys?

Speaker 17 (39:43):
Oh Man, that's good for us mine because right now
while we encounter to still build and it's just going.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
Only get builble.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
Sounds good.

Speaker 18 (39:50):
Thank you, Xavier for pretty sure.

Speaker 4 (39:51):
There you go. Panthers wide receiver Xavier League att getting
set for the Houston Texans, And like I was saying,
there's some juice to this game too, even though it's
a preseason game, because you have this the first time
that the two or the guys that the Panthers had
to choose from Stroud and Bryce and Bryce Young they

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were I mean, the Panthers could very well have taken CJ. Stroud,
and you sort of wonder what the trajectory of this
team would have been if that would have happened. Obviously,
Stroud had had a great first season, but now now
you wonder in season number three if if you know,
the tables turn here.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
I mean c J.

Speaker 7 (40:29):
Stroud still played good last year, but not it's to
your point as well as he did the rookie season
with the injuries they had to that team. But Bryce
just keeps a scenting and getting better and better. And
the way even looked in that preseason touchdown drive on Friday,
you could just see like his it's like the matrix
watching him out there, the pockets breaking down, he just
rolls out to the right, he's moving the receiver with

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his left arm, throws a move to Coker, moves him
over to the left and throws a touchdown pass. I
mean that stuff is so next level that some guys
never get to that point never. I mean, so some
guys if the play breaks down, it gets all jumbled up.
You know, it's just the play is gonna be horrible.
And he just kind of almost thrives when it's like
time to add lib and freestyle and get out there.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
And make a play or run you know. I mean,
last year.

Speaker 7 (41:15):
Should running the ball little bit more decisively. So I
love the path that that Bryce is on right now.
And you've got look at Jayleen Cocher. There's gonna be
a lot of playing The coach talked about him yesterday.
Dalen Cocher is earning a lot of playing time. And
then you drafted hetero at McMillan, and then you still
have these veterans like Adam Thielen and now Hunter Renfro.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
I mean, the room is crowded.

Speaker 7 (41:35):
So he's got a lot of tough decisions at wide receiver,
and which is a great problem.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
They have a lot of options for Bryce.

Speaker 5 (41:40):
I just got cold chills listening to you talk about
him and talk about them that way. That that that
that's high praise coming from one Jim Zoki, and you're.

Speaker 4 (41:50):
Going back to a building where there are ghosts of
Panthers team success passed because Super Bowl thirty eight, if
I'm not mistaken, was in the building they're playing in
this weekend.

Speaker 7 (41:59):
That is exactly way back. Spent nine days in Houston.
Nobody needs nine days in Houston, especially suburban Houston. It's
a very big, sprawling city and hard to get to
other places from flat.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
It goes on forever. Texas is huge. Houston itself is
like a state.

Speaker 5 (42:14):
It's like half a Texas.

Speaker 7 (42:15):
I felt like everything we did in Houston took forty
five minutes to get to if we're going to the
stadium or a practice or press conferences or whatever, like, oh,
it's an hour and a half round trip to go
do this.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
And we stayed.

Speaker 7 (42:24):
In a suburb called green Point, which was locally known
as Gunpoint, and next door like the only restaurant right
there was a TGI Fridays. We ate a TGI Fridays
like five of the nine days we were there, because
there was like too much of a car ride. You know,
if we were in town, we would stay and eat,
but we just we became regulars at TGI Fridays for
about nine days.

Speaker 4 (42:43):
Well, and it's still that sort of weird situation where
the astrodome is right next to it sort of and
it goes off and on, whether it's dormant, whether they
do things with it, but it's still just there. One
time they called that, what like the ninth Wonder of.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
The World or whatever.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
It was the first, you know, a big dome like.

Speaker 4 (42:59):
That, and it's right there, next to next to the stadium.

Speaker 7 (43:02):
So the boat Jangles College sum here was kind of
a smaller Wonder of the World.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
It was kind of about it back in this day.
The structure was kind of unique and kind of new
in that design.

Speaker 5 (43:11):
It's still holding up well.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
I mean it's really got good bones.

Speaker 5 (43:14):
She's got good bones.

Speaker 4 (43:16):
She be's just a saturd that it's a she. His
name is bo Wait.

Speaker 19 (43:24):
Trying to say Jim.

Speaker 4 (43:34):
So. I think our most watched and listened to podcasts
since we started the seventeenth segment is far and away
the beach podcast Chaos on the Couch. So I had
the whole crew down at North Myrtle Beach earlier this
summer with the Waneiac And by the way, the eighth
episode of the seventeenth segment is out right now. I

(43:58):
don't know who has the we know who has the
record of the most listened to podcast in all of podcasting.

Speaker 5 (44:05):
Probably Joe Rogan, Yeah, Jogan.

Speaker 4 (44:08):
Definitely Rogan. For a while, America Pod Save America.

Speaker 5 (44:11):
Pod Save America SmartLess was up there for a while.

Speaker 4 (44:15):
I look, I don't have the list in front of me.
I think with pretty good confidence I could say that
after let's see, after Wednesday at seven pm, when we're
talking about next week, the most listened to podcast episode
of all time will likely be one that hasn't dropped yet,
because last night at twelve twelve am, a snippet from

(44:39):
the New Heights podcast with Jason and Travis Kelcey, Oh,
the Kelsey Brothers, their podcast which is out once a week,
and it's Wednesday seven pm is when the full episode
will drop. But the guest that they have on this
week's episode, I think will propel it to be the
most listened to podcast of all time, first because of

(45:00):
who the guest is, but then what the guest is
going to talk about. So this is at twelve twelve
last night. Actually, they released a little snippet of it first,
such a nice color on you.

Speaker 18 (45:09):
Yes, I know it's the color of your eyes, sweetie.
That's whybab we matched so well.

Speaker 4 (45:15):
Podcast all right, the voice of Taylor Swift, who's joining
her boyfriend on the podcast that Jason Travis Kelsey does
with his brother Jason. But at twelve twelve last night,
they released a clip that had the big news.

Speaker 5 (45:32):
So I wanted to show you something.

Speaker 12 (45:34):
Okay, what have we got?

Speaker 18 (45:35):
We got a briefcase.

Speaker 5 (45:39):
Yep, Mick Green on, Yep, this is my brand new album,
The Life of the Show.

Speaker 4 (45:46):
Yes, So on this week's podcast with the Kelsey Brothers,
Taylor Swift is the guest, and last night she she
had a picture of the album but the cover was out,
but she said that the new album will they'll have
information about it coming up on the podcast on Wednesday night,

(46:07):
and that they said that it's not Let's see, I
had the information in front of me here when it
was going to come out. The Life of a Showgirl
is the album and it will be due later this year,
and I guess she's going to talk about it in
detail coming up in a few nights. But I mean,
let's be honest, if she's on that podcast, it will
be listened to by more people, probably than any other

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podcast in history. Wouldn't you say?

Speaker 5 (46:31):
Oh? Absolutely, especially if she's giving any kind of hints
or Easter eggs. And if you about this new album,
if you go now to Taylorswift dot com, which I
just did, you can pre order the Life of a Showgirl.
But look at the page I'm going to describe it
to our listeners. It's basically an orange album with a
green cover, but the green cover right now only has

(46:53):
an orange padlock on it. So it's locked down. It's
locked down.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
It's just so exciting is that it's.

Speaker 17 (47:02):
Down.

Speaker 5 (47:03):
That's actually from the movie Hitch. Have you you've seen Hits?
Oh yeah, he says something like, I'm like the I'm
like a safe I'm locked down, like when he's high
on Benadrill. Oh yeah, yeah yeah, after you had the
other thing ergic reaction shrimp. Yeah. Anyway, So it's a
locked down, a locked down album. But you can pre

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order it without really knowing anything other than what she
said on the Travis Kelcey podcast.

Speaker 4 (47:29):
So the album because at the end of it you
heard you heard Jason just start yelling it's the Life
of a show Girl. As the name of the album,
and this is the first interview. I didn't realize this.
This is the first interview she's done since twenty twenty three,
when they interviewed her when she was Times Person of
the Year. And of course she had the concert that
the eras to her that she was doing that that's

(47:49):
finally wrapped up. So she's been kind of quiet for
a while, and so now she's an in look. They
drop hints on her on her social media feeds whenever
she gets close to him an album. And then yesterday
they started doing a countdown until twelve twelve am this morning,
which is when what I just played you dropped on
social media. And then on Wednesday night, seven o'clock the

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full podcast gets released, and I guess she'll talk in
detail about this stuff, but I have no doubt that
once it's released, I mean, look at what she did
for NFL games and interest from people who don't watch
NFL football, this will be probably the most listened to
episode of any podcast ever. So there you go, Swifties.
Will you new album coming out?

Speaker 5 (48:32):
It makes you wonder? I mean, she's great at writing.
She is a prolific songwriter. I mean, but she's great
at writing about whatever her current experience is all about.
So my guess is a lot of this album is
going to be about Travis kelce So I.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
Songs about football, songs about football.

Speaker 5 (48:52):
I feel like I feel like this album might have
a different tone to it, It might have a different,
more upbeat vibe, maybe because of what their relationship seems like.
I mean, she even talked when she won was it
a VMA or an MTV award or something about the
video that she directed and that how much joy Travis
Kelcey brought to her life and brought to the set

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that day with his I think she called it something
like infectious positivity, something along those lines. So it makes
you wonder how much of an impact his personality will
have on this album and if the vibe will be different,
because she's also the queen of changing her sound and
changing the way that her music. I mean, she went
from a country star as a young artist to you know,

(49:35):
this huge pop star, and we've watched her music kind
of go through a metamorphosis over that time.

Speaker 4 (49:42):
Well, and then back during the pandemic, she had that
album that was it was kind of folksy, it.

Speaker 5 (49:46):
Is well, Bona Air was on some of it with her.

Speaker 4 (49:50):
So and they said that the if you go to
her website, I guess the pre order date is not
necessarily the album drop date right out.

Speaker 5 (50:00):
I don't think you can pre order it, but I
don't think the album drops until sometime in October. Why
do I know this much.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
Because you are on Taylor Swift.

Speaker 7 (50:09):
Wonder if Kansas City Chiefs Nation is disappointed that it's
orange and not red. You think after all that time
going to Chiefs games, we'll see all these questions.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
She's the Brown Spans.

Speaker 4 (50:18):
It turns out all these questions that we have and
no doubt will be I mean, I'm assuming if she's
on the podcast, it's going to be, uh, you know,
a lengthy conversation.

Speaker 5 (50:25):
So, but how like, what a great get for that podcast.

Speaker 4 (50:28):
But how did you pull that one on?

Speaker 5 (50:30):
Exactly? You just like pulled her in for the other room.

Speaker 4 (50:32):
I mean really like a lot of people listened to
that podcast already, it's very popular, but this will put
it into a different stratosphere.

Speaker 5 (50:39):
Yeah, watch out all of the other podcasts out.

Speaker 4 (50:40):
There when we come back. We talked to Mick mulvaney
about what to expect Friday in Alaska, as President Trump
is going to meet with Vladimir Putin and maybe Vladimir Zelensky.
That's the question how this is all going to go
down as it relates to Russia and America and of
course Ukraine.

Speaker 3 (50:58):
This is Good Morning.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
Tuesday, August twelfth, Bo Thompson, Beth Troutman. President Trump has promised,
had a lengthy news conference at the Capitol Building yesterday.
Towards the end, got a question about what is coming
down the pike in just a few days in Alaska.

Speaker 14 (51:20):
Well, we're going to have a meeting with Vladimir Putin,
and at the end of that meeting, probably in the
first two minutes, I'll know exactly whether or not a
deal can be.

Speaker 12 (51:27):
A wait to know that, because that's what I do.
I'm making us.

Speaker 4 (51:33):
So we'll get into some of what President Trump said,
because he talked a lot about this pending meeting in
a bit, but we talked to former White House Chief
of Staff Mick mulvaney, who joins US weekly here on
Good Morning BT about what he expects as this meeting,
This high stakes meeting is coming up in just a
few days.

Speaker 14 (51:52):
Ukraine cannot defend itself, Okay, they would cease to exist
if but for American and you're in support.

Speaker 12 (52:00):
I get it, that's fine, it is what it is.

Speaker 14 (52:03):
But you don't get then to dictate terms of your
own negotiation if you aren't the one actually, you know,
providing the material for the for the battle. So they're
going to have a place at the table at some point.

Speaker 12 (52:13):
But I got news for you.

Speaker 14 (52:14):
If the Russians, the Americans, and the Europeans all agree,
you know what, here's what we're gonna do. Crimea is
going to become part of Russia. And we're going to
recognize that done Bass and don't ask. You're gonna become
part of Russia. We're all going to recognize that. There's
very little the Ukrainians are going to have to say
about it that if the war, if the war ends
on that and the Europeans, the Americans and the Russians
all agree, the war is going to end like that.
That's what happens when you lose the ability to defend

(52:36):
yourself by yourself, you don't get us Sape a seat
at the table. So yeah, he'll be involved in some
fashion because it just it looks wrong to do it
without it. But I don't blame Trump for starting at
the top. What's he gonna ask Lenski's Lensky, what do
you want to do? Okay, fine, you go sit in
the corner and you know the big boys.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
You're going to talk.

Speaker 5 (52:54):
Now, Why hasn't he been able to have more influence
with Putin? I think he even much. I'm talking about
Donald Trump, yes, because I think he even thought. He
said it often during the campaign that one phone call
could stop this war, and he hasn't been able to
do that. What's the difference now with the Putin that
maybe Trump thought he knew, versus the Putin that he's

(53:14):
up against with with this war in Ukraine.

Speaker 12 (53:17):
In all, I don't say this lightly.

Speaker 14 (53:19):
I think that's the most interesting question to ask about
the first two hundred days. I think everything else that
Trump has done, I can sort of say, Okay, this fits,
this fits.

Speaker 12 (53:28):
I didn't see this, but this fits. I absolutely saw
this coming, et cetera.

Speaker 14 (53:31):
The Russian situation has I got me and a bunch
of other stuff completely not flat footed. But I think
Trump we recognize that Trump has caught flat footed on this.
He thought coming into office that Zelenski was the primary
hurdle to peace, and that's why I think he thought
it would be relatively easy to make peace, because his
influence over Zelenski is almost complete and total, right, So

(53:53):
that didn't turn out to be the case. And I
think now in the last couple of months, he's recognized
that the real impediment here is Putin and he doesn't
know how to deal with that, and he's got to
go all the way back to scratch and figure out,
you know, how to see negotiate with with somebody who's
entirely different than Zelenski. And I don't know if he
knows the answer yet. I look at Friday mostly as
sort of a fact finding mission. I really don't expect
anything big, and if anything big is announced, my guess

(54:15):
it'll be one of those things with a very very
broad rush with very very few details to follow up, like, so, oh,
we've got it, We've cut a trade deal today.

Speaker 12 (54:22):
No, he didn't. We talked about in general principles about
having a trade deal.

Speaker 14 (54:26):
I'd be curious to see what comes out of this
thing on Friday, because I still think Trump is trying
to figure out how to.

Speaker 12 (54:30):
Deal with somebody who doesn't want the war to stop.

Speaker 5 (54:34):
And who doesn't necessarily keep his word. He's not necessarily
someone who can be trusted if he says sure, sure, sure,
I'll stop attacking and then in the next day bombs
of the hospital.

Speaker 12 (54:43):
Reagan knew it. I mean, what did Reagan say? Very famous?
Trust but verify.

Speaker 14 (54:47):
I mean, that's that's what that's where you are. And
I think this is this is this is the beginning
of the discussion. I think for the end of the war.
I don't think this is the end of the war.
On Friday, why is it in Alaska?

Speaker 12 (54:55):
I think it's in Alaska.

Speaker 14 (54:57):
You know, in the CNBC interview, they asked Heidi hi
Camp if it was you know, it was appropriate to
bring Putin into the United States, and she was, oh, no,
this is terrible. You can't extend that type of courtesy.
And I'm sitt thinking, you know what, the only reason
they're doing in Alaska's the easiest place to do it
on short notice.

Speaker 12 (55:12):
It's really really hard to move the president.

Speaker 14 (55:15):
And if you wanted to go to say hell Sinki, Finland,
that might take six weeks to.

Speaker 12 (55:19):
Do and Trump doesn't want to wait six weeks. He
wants to do it now. I'm not going to bring
him to Washington because that's too high profile.

Speaker 14 (55:24):
Alaska's close and you can see you know, what's your
name's house from there, Sarah Palo.

Speaker 12 (55:30):
Yeah, And it's easy to secure.

Speaker 14 (55:32):
There's a military base that's attached to the airport there,
or at least a military facility's attached to the airport
that is probably fairly easy for us to secure.

Speaker 12 (55:41):
It's where we held the first flights.

Speaker 14 (55:43):
People forget this when when the first evacuation flights from
Wuhan happened at the beginning of COVID, we had to
stop over there and we segregated those people so that
because we didn't know what was going on with the
disease at the time. So there's a place there that
is relatively easy to secure.

Speaker 12 (55:57):
And my guess is that's where they're going to go,
and that's why they're going. So it has nothing to
do with with prestige or you know, pr or whatever.
Just has to do with logistics.

Speaker 4 (56:06):
Is there any reason to believe or to be confident
that what we know President Trump wants, which is the
war to end that is imminent, could have what what
do you think is the best that he can hope for?
On Friday, I think the best he the answer your
first question other than the obvious, because the war's not
going to end, I don't think because Putin doesn't want
it to end yet. People don't cut a deal on

(56:30):
ceasing battle, on ending wars at a table until they
believe the deal they can get at the table is
better than the deal they can get in the field.
And I do not believe that Putin is there yet.
If he is there and then I just don't know it,
then I admit that I'm wrong. So I don't think
it's going to end. What's the best that Trump can
hope for to reestablish his credibility. I think he's got
a credibility problem now with Putin. Putin doesn't believe him.

Speaker 14 (56:52):
He's set back, and he's watched Trump on all of
these tariffs set a deadline and move them, you know,
set set all sorts of ultimatums on people, and then
move them, even on the Russians, and move them, you know.

Speaker 12 (57:04):
And I think Trump needs to.

Speaker 14 (57:06):
Sort of re establish his credibility, which is really really
hard to do. That being said, he's a good negotiator
and can do it. So my guess is he's having
this reason for this meeting for a reason, and he's
got an idea on how to re establish his credibility.

Speaker 5 (57:18):
So you think Trump realizes that he's lost his footing
with Putin.

Speaker 12 (57:21):
I don't know if I use that word.

Speaker 14 (57:24):
As much as he doesn't get him that they don't,
they're not He doesn't understand how to negotiate with this guy.
He thought the guy wanted peace. The guy doesn't want peace.
So now what does he How do we make him
want peace? That's the issue, and is that possible?

Speaker 5 (57:37):
I mean we're talking about a guy that was a
KGB operative. I mean, he's known for not doing the
right thing when people don't agree with him.

Speaker 14 (57:46):
Classic negotiation, right, there's different ways to get you to
want to do something, Carrots and sticks and incentives and
disincentives and all that type of thing. And I think
that's what Trump is trying to figure out, is I
need to look this guy in the eye. I need
to figure out what's going on and you figure out
what makes some tick and to figure out a way
out of this. Because even though Trump says it's not
his war, and I get that now, he says it's
not my.

Speaker 12 (58:05):
War, this is Biden's war. And I get that, but
now you're the president.

Speaker 14 (58:07):
So while getting into the war was not your fault,
and I absolutely agree that getting out of the war
is your responsibility.

Speaker 4 (58:13):
Well, and you've made it part of your campaign to
get back to the White House and that you're the
guy that can end it. Yes, but you're the guy
that can sit down with that guy and actually make
something happen.

Speaker 14 (58:23):
And look at all the other hotspots that he's been
able to help resolve in.

Speaker 12 (58:27):
The last ten or twelve or something.

Speaker 14 (58:29):
A lot of them don't get a lot of attention
because they're very small and very regional, but the Indian Pakistan.

Speaker 12 (58:33):
Thing, they played a role in that. Right.

Speaker 14 (58:34):
He's good at this and he likes doing because he
really really doesn't like war. He's as close to being
a pacifist as you can get without being a pacifist.

Speaker 12 (58:41):
He's not like that, but he really doesn't like war.

Speaker 14 (58:43):
So this is what he He doesn't like immigration, he
doesn't like people tagging on, you know, people of free
riding on American defense, and he doesn't like war. These
are some of his personal tenants and he really really
wants to stop this, but he's not been able to
do this. One, and I think that sticks with him.

Speaker 4 (58:58):
Well, you mentioned the cnb's interview that you did and
the talk about okay, so having Vladimir Putin appear on
American soil, what sort of what does that look like?
I looked at it from the reverse direction, thinking, Okay,
if if this is between two men trying to establish

(59:19):
who is the who has the higher ground, so to speak,
then wouldn't Vladimir Putin appearing on US soil be a
win for President Trump? Like you got to come to
my house?

Speaker 12 (59:27):
Look, I go back to that.

Speaker 14 (59:29):
Yeah, that's how I'm going to spin it as a
win for us that he has to come to our territory.

Speaker 12 (59:33):
They're going to spin it as a win.

Speaker 14 (59:34):
Because they get up, they get to go to our territory.
All that kind of stuff. That's just pr right. I
come back to the logistics. Make what you will. The
reason they're doing it here in Alaska is that they
can do it here in Alaska by Friday.

Speaker 4 (59:48):
Friday is the day a high stakes meeting between President
Trump and President Putin. And we'll see where's Lensky figures
into that. It's all on the way. Stay with WBT
for all the coverage as we get closer to the
date and we're almost at eight o'clock, cormitto.

Speaker 11 (01:00:04):
What if we drift out to sue?

Speaker 12 (01:00:07):
What if we never heard from my cat?

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
Listen, no thing's good to happen.

Speaker 4 (01:00:11):
This is just the opening credit from.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three w BT.

Speaker 7 (01:00:16):
How do you like it?

Speaker 20 (01:00:17):
Number?

Speaker 10 (01:00:19):
Welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
This is Good Morning BT with Bo Thompson and Beth Troutman.

Speaker 4 (01:00:24):
Thanks for the winners.

Speaker 1 (01:00:25):
I'm happy to be here.

Speaker 4 (01:00:27):
Not all the seven minutes past eight o'clock on WBT Tuesday,
August twelfth, and the historic Tyboid studio. Bo Thompson, Beth Troutman,
WBT Sports Director, Jim Zochi, Bernie Steve gangs all here.
So we were talking last week about all the movement

(01:00:51):
regarding streaming services, the fact that ESPN is getting set
to unveil its direct consumer offering for thirty bucks as
the NFL season gets going. They acquired the rights to
all these WWE events to sort of sweeten the deal
to make you sign up if you aren't already on board.

(01:01:12):
But then people who are on cable are trying to
do that, you know, crunch the numbers and say okay,
is this worth it to me? Might it be worth
it to me someday? But a lot of stuff is
still happening behind the scenes here. It's not just ESPN
that's getting in the mix.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
Here.

Speaker 4 (01:01:24):
You've got Hulu, which apparently is going to be eventually
sort of folded into ESPN and or Disney Plus. Disney's
the umbrella for all of this, but Hulu's eventually going
to sort of fold into Disney Plus. And you can
already get parts of ESPN on Disney Plus, and then
ESPN and Hulu and Disney Plus do a bundle thing
right now, if you're keeping score at home, some more

(01:01:47):
developments in the last twenty four hours. If you watch UFC,
you know this is the Dana White Ultimate Fighting Championships.
If you're a big UFC fan, you've been able to
watch a lot of those events on ES pay per
view and then they'll do I've honestly never watched a
UFC event all the way through, but I know that
ESPN does like prelim rounds on a Saturday night where

(01:02:09):
you can watch it free, and they try to get
you to pay, you know, to do the pay per
view to watch the big events.

Speaker 5 (01:02:14):
Is the USC is that the one in the cages,
the octagon. They're in the cage.

Speaker 18 (01:02:18):
YEA.

Speaker 4 (01:02:19):
So UFC is taking all of its offerings to Paramount
Plus and CBS in twenty twenty six. The company agreed
to a seven year, seven point seven billion dollar contract
with the company yesterday, and so this is a big deal.
And on the heels of that, now we know that Fox,

(01:02:39):
Fox and Disney have joined forces to bundle a new
ESPN and Fox one streaming service. So we weravy. Yeah,
So ESPN has its direct to consumer offering and now
it's called Fox One, and everything that you watch on
Fox as I understand it, including the regular Fox Network stuff,
and then also Fox News is going to be available

(01:03:01):
through this Fox one app and that's going to be
out there. So basically what I'm saying is is slowly
but surely here everything's going to an exclusive place and
maybe you'll be lucky enough to bundle stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:03:12):
So basically what is happening is all of these single
streaming services that we've all been paying nine ninety nine, four,
twelve ninety nine. Now, goodness gracious, I think Netflix is
like seventeen ninety nine. They're all bundling with each other
so that they can charge us twice as much, maybe
three times as much in some instances. But we're getting

(01:03:36):
all of those services under one little umbrella. So it's
eventually going to be that all of the streaming services.
One streaming service is going to gobble up all of
the other streaming services, and we're going to have something
that looks a lot like cable. It's the way that
it feels.

Speaker 4 (01:03:52):
Yeah, it's all eventually we're gonna go back to where
we started.

Speaker 5 (01:03:54):
Right that, it's all just gonna end up.

Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
I wouldn't hate that.

Speaker 7 (01:03:56):
It was just so much easier when everything was on
one thing.

Speaker 5 (01:04:00):
Do you all get scrolling fatigue? I can't find anything
anywhere unless somebody tells me something to watch. I very
rarely get or if it just falls on the landing page.
If I try to scroll, I start getting my throat
gets tight. I get through.

Speaker 7 (01:04:14):
We're staying at one of our kids houses. The floors
are being done in our place, so tomorrow we get
back on our house. But anyway, they were out of
the house and they had the remotes and we couldn't
figure out We didn't find the Roku remote till they
got home. But they had the regular Samsung TV remotes.
We went to Samsung TV. That's all we could figure
out to do, and it starts at channel one thousand
and went to like four thousand something, and I was like, going,

(01:04:34):
how do I find anything on here? It was like
a grid of like three thousand shows and they were
by you can tell they were in blocks. Here's like
the sports block and the news block and the kids block.

Speaker 1 (01:04:44):
And all that stuff. But I was like, going, and
now they had a Roku.

Speaker 7 (01:04:48):
We could have found they had YouTube TV, but we
didn't know when they weren't there was They're going, who
watches this Samsung TV with ten thousand choices and scrolls
through every little thing on there?

Speaker 4 (01:04:56):
Well, and you say scrolled, like you can't. We graduated
from I'm still a spectrum, but we uh converted from
the cable physical boxes about a year ago to the
app that you can use, which you can get on Roku.
But you can't surf anymore, like you can't you can't
channel surf. You have to go through the grid and
click on each individual thing. So the idea, you know

(01:05:19):
how we always say like if you if you come
across a movie, you got to stay with it, you know,
like you'd flip through like three, four, five, six seven.
Now you have to individually click on the grid. So
the whole thing where we grew up, like surfing channels,
that's gone unless you still have a cable box, and
they do exist, but they're phasing them out. It's obvious
and I don't know. I mean YouTube TV can you

(01:05:40):
can you flip like you could with an old channel
you or you have to go through the grid too.

Speaker 5 (01:05:44):
You have a grid, you have a menu. But here's
the thing that YouTube TV does because there's so many channels.
It's again it's like do you find it? It's it
gives me anxiety. But you can with YouTube TV, the
channels that you watch the most, you can change your
grid so that they're up at the top. Like I
watch a lot of the Game Show Network. I know,
I'm a goober, but I couldn't ever find the Game

(01:06:06):
Show Network. I had to go through the grid for
one hundred years to figure out where the Game Show Network.
I don't know why it wouldn't stick in my memory.
So you can arrange your grid for your top channels
that you watch, Like I watched the Early Today Show
in the morning, and I watched the Game Show Network
at night, and those are my top two channels, and
I just can go right to them now, so I
don't even have to scroll.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
You're an Apple TV.

Speaker 5 (01:06:27):
I do have one.

Speaker 4 (01:06:30):
Upstairs.

Speaker 5 (01:06:30):
She does in upstairs.

Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
I have a double decker house. That's insane.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
It's a double ranch.

Speaker 2 (01:06:39):
You have two houses on top of.

Speaker 7 (01:06:40):
The problem is when your kids come over to visit
for like a weekend or something, and all of a sudden,
the King of the Hill ridiculous modes.

Speaker 4 (01:06:47):
They still watch the Simpsons. Now I mentioned Fox one.
Fox one is is Fox's direct to consumer. The lineup
includes Fox News Channel, Fox Business, Fox Weather, Fox Sports,
FS one, Big Ten Network, and on down the list.
So this is an app that's going to get you
access to Fox's NFL coverage because.

Speaker 5 (01:07:07):
You and I both at like seven billion dollars.

Speaker 4 (01:07:09):
Well, I'm about to so so here's here's what we know.
Fox and ESPN are both having their directing consumer hubs
that will debut coming up in October. Let's see, I'm
pulling up the note. So for thirty nine to ninety
nine a month starting October second, you can bundle ESPN

(01:07:29):
and Fox together. They're they're joining. They're doing a joint
effort here to stream. So that right there, if you
didn't have cable, would be I think maybe attractive. But
if you look at paying these, you know, one for one.
So let's see both ESPN streaming service and Fox one
will be available individually beginning August twenty first, so this

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is just a few days away, and they're both trying
to get ahead of the NFL.

Speaker 5 (01:07:55):
Here's the question if you sign up for this, because
maybe you're thinking, Okay, I'm just going to sign up
up for football season, so I'm going to do it
for four or five months. I bet they get you
by saying you have to do a year contract to
get this. I mean, I don't know this for sure,
but I feel like that sounds sneaky. I feel like
that sounds like something you sign up for a year
to get the forty the thirty nine to ninety nine

(01:08:16):
dollars price tag, or you can do it month by month.
You know how gyms will do that to you, Like
you can do a month to month. You don't have
to sign a contract, but it's twenty dollars more a month.
You're going to save more if you sign the year contract.
I wonder if all of these bundle services are going
to start doing this, especially for the ones that are
very sports focused.

Speaker 4 (01:08:33):
Because they don't right now. Right now, the one thing
that you have the ability to do, and in many
many cases you can do the free trial, but then
you can cut it off whenever you want to. And
that you're exactly right, because I keep wondering they talk about, oh,
I want to see how many subscribers that we we
rack up when we start this in August. Well what
happens in January or February when the football season's over, right,

(01:08:53):
and then all of a sudden all these people jump off?
You know where are you?

Speaker 14 (01:08:55):
Then?

Speaker 5 (01:08:56):
Are they going to make them sign a contract so
that they can't jump off? Like you sign the year deal,
you know how? Or you do the free trial and
then it gets you in for a year. I just
did that with an app, and I was so mad
when I suddenly my credit card got charged and I
thought I just had I didn't think my seven day
trial was up yet, and I don't even like the app,
and now I've paid a whole boatload of money for it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:15):
Or what they do is they they give you a
deal but it's far enough out that you forget about it.
So then when it finally kicks into the regular price,
do you see that charge come across? And I've I've
been I've been successful at arguing that away, and then
I've been on the other end of them saying up, sorry,
you didn't look at the fine.

Speaker 7 (01:09:34):
I'd never taken any thing like you get ninety days
of free HBO Max or whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
No, I don't want it. I know what you're doing.
I know what you're doing.

Speaker 7 (01:09:40):
Ninety days you just start showing up at a bill
I don't see. So now I don't want your free stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:09:45):
You won't even You'll be called by a different name
by the time this is done.

Speaker 3 (01:09:48):
This is Good Morning Beatty with Bo Thompson and Beth
troud Bok.

Speaker 4 (01:10:00):
Taking a game just use your mind and then giving credits.

Speaker 21 (01:10:11):
So I was looking at this, this story out of Forbes,
Notath and I were talking about this in recent hours,
and I'm trying to decide whether is it is.

Speaker 4 (01:10:22):
It nine to nine six?

Speaker 5 (01:10:25):
It's not nine to six kind of like phone number.

Speaker 4 (01:10:29):
But isn't it played off of like you? Because I
thought about it as you work nine to five?

Speaker 5 (01:10:35):
Oh so it's like work in none none six. Is
that what you're.

Speaker 4 (01:10:38):
Thinking, Well, here's the headline. The nine dash nine dash
six work schedule could be coming to your workplace soon.

Speaker 5 (01:10:45):
Well you know how last week we talked about how
now companies are in their hardcore era, that it's no
longer about work life balance. It's now the hardcore area.
This is like hardcore times one hundred.

Speaker 4 (01:10:57):
This is like a work life balance.

Speaker 5 (01:11:00):
Be damned right, you have no life outside of work.
It's the nine nine six mode of work. And this
comes from basically how people are, according to Forbes work
in China. So what would the nine nine six work
week not just work day? What would that nine nine
six work week look like? It means that you work

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from nine am to nine pm, six days a week.

Speaker 4 (01:11:29):
So this is what I was saying. It's not nine
to nine to six, it's nine to.

Speaker 5 (01:11:32):
Nine six, right, So it's just nine nine to six.

Speaker 4 (01:11:35):
Or nine to nine times six right, six days a week.

Speaker 5 (01:11:38):
So nine am to nine pm, six days a.

Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
Week, so all our shifts six days a week.

Speaker 4 (01:11:43):
Yes, it needs to be nine dashed nine times six.
That's all they should write it. See, we're becoming coal
miner because nine to nine to six doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 5 (01:11:52):
Yeah, I just say nine nine to six. It's the
nine nine six work.

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
But I don't have that much to do.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
Yeah, how well I filled the time?

Speaker 5 (01:11:59):
Does any no one want? Would anyone want this show
for twelve hours? You know, like, do you want do
you want morning radio for We have done six? We
have definitely done so well.

Speaker 4 (01:12:10):
I say, AI startups are glorifying exhaustion for the sake
of productivity, implementing the nine to nine to six or
whatever however you say it, in an attempt to win
the AI race in a bid to outpace Chinese rivals.
Some AI startups are adopting that country's grueling nine to
nine six work schedule. But the future of work might
actually lie in working less, not more.

Speaker 5 (01:12:33):
Which that makes more sense to me that because you
know how they've done those studies in different European countries
where they've tried out I know that they did it
in England, they tried out the four day work week,
and you work like a ten hour day, but you
only do four days a week, so you have three
work you have a three weekend, three day weekend, and
people were more productive in that amount of time because

(01:12:56):
they had more recharge time. This is the exact opposite
of that. This is twelve hour days, six days a week,
with no recharge time. And what is the ultimate benefit
to the worker there? Really, I don't know that there
is other than you know, maybe making more money. But
would they still if you're a salaried worker and you
go from working an eight hour day to a twelve

(01:13:17):
hour day, you're not making any more money. You're just
working more.

Speaker 4 (01:13:21):
I mean six some people in this piece called a
six day culture corporate abuse week. But yeah, because you're
not losing. Like we've heard the discussion about longer days,
more weekend, this is less weekend. Longer days, yes.

Speaker 5 (01:13:37):
Let's you have one day off, so you would never
really have any recharge time. When I you know, back
in my early early twenties, worked on a cruise ship,
and because cruise ships are mostly registered in international waters,
you are paid in international waters, and they're not necessarily
adhering to you know, American work standards or anything like that.

(01:13:57):
So a lot of the workers who worked out in
the engine rooms and worked as even you know, in
the dining areas and stuff, and this is I'm not exaggerating, exaggerating,
This is exactly how it worked. They worked six hours on,
six hours off, perpetually, six hours on, six hours off, perpetually.
It just it just kept going six hours, six hours,

(01:14:19):
six hours. And it was seven days a week. I mean,
we worked seven days a week in the in the show,
we did our show four times a day. We did
it seven days a week. We only did it twice
on Sundays. But it was still it was there was
You just didn't have that recharge day ever. And but
I will say that some of the people who were
on the ship some of the happiest people I've ever
ever worked around. But it was a perpetual schedule. So

(01:14:41):
I always looked at those folks and thought, man, they
were so happy all the time. But I was thinking,
when are you sleeping? Because when do you have time
to wind down and.

Speaker 1 (01:14:50):
Sleep at a port.

Speaker 7 (01:14:51):
It's like you have to turn around, come back right
six hours start to finish this.

Speaker 4 (01:14:54):
I mean, zoke, you've been doing Panther football games for years.
I mean, you start that broadcast at ten am, and
you know you're done at around five o'clock in the afternoon,
you know, but you think about doing that and excess
of that for six straight days.

Speaker 5 (01:15:09):
All the time.

Speaker 1 (01:15:09):
I don't see any benefitness for me at all.

Speaker 4 (01:15:13):
I do panther games every day, every day.

Speaker 13 (01:15:15):
We love it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:16):
We're gonna play a doubleheader every day.

Speaker 4 (01:15:18):
That's right, all right, We head back to the news center,
and when we come back, remember the Remember the mom
and the daughter who were trying to decide whether or
not your VENTI can fit in a tall cup at
Starbucks yesterday.

Speaker 5 (01:15:30):
I was broken by it at about this time yesterday,
broken by this video because I didn't want this to
be true.

Speaker 4 (01:15:37):
When we come back, Beth has brought several items from
Starbucks on the way in today, and we're gonna try
to recreate this in our own tyboid studio. Don't try
this at home. We are professional.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
This is good morning, Beauty.

Speaker 4 (01:15:58):
He's talk eleven to tendt nine in front of nine.
And by the way, we just got a text on
the text line driven by Liberty Buick GMC, where is
dirty restaurant Tuesday? Mark is off today, So because of that,
we don't have a dirty Restaurant Tuesday. Because you may
not realize this, but the rest of us don't go
come restaurants for sanitation scores. That is clearly Mark's lane

(01:16:21):
and his jam, and.

Speaker 5 (01:16:22):
We know that we can't do it as well as Mark,
so we don't even try.

Speaker 4 (01:16:26):
Mark is the longtime, longtime expert on all things that way.
Now we got a guy on the line right now,
Brett Jensen, host of Breaking with Brett Jensen, of course
every weeknight at six o'clock here on the Great Colossus.
Brett Jensen, Good morning, Good morning. How are we we are?

Speaker 11 (01:16:43):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:16:43):
Good good? I understand you went to a pretty large
candidate gathering. Was it last night or how recent was it?

Speaker 10 (01:16:53):
Yeah, it was just over the weekend and it was
Friday night, and it was twenty three local candidates from
Ecklamore County were there and I went by there and
was invited to go, so I went, and it was
it was different because from all a lot of the

(01:17:13):
politicians that I've been covering since twenty eighteen and you know,
were I'm about less than a month away from having
my seven year anniversary at BT and but during that time,
you know, you go to political functions and you get
a sense that people understand that the task is daunting
and there's a very little chance. But the difference was

(01:17:34):
is that I don't know why. I honestly don't know why,
but there was a sense of enthusiasm, and even with
candidates that have very long odds, there was a sense
of you know, look, we know it's difficult, but we
think that it can get a ton you know, from
the old saying, So you're saying I.

Speaker 3 (01:17:54):
Have a chance.

Speaker 10 (01:17:55):
So you're saying there's a chance, and so that's.

Speaker 22 (01:17:57):
What it was.

Speaker 1 (01:17:58):
Just weird.

Speaker 10 (01:17:58):
I didn't expect that because I've been to a million
of these political functions, and a lot of times you
can get the sense of they understand what the ultimate
outcome is going to be. But this time it was
just it was just different, and I didn't I didn't
understand that.

Speaker 5 (01:18:13):
Meaning that they are are just excited about the process
of running. Is that kind of what the overall arching
feeling was that they just like the process of campaigning.

Speaker 22 (01:18:23):
Yeah, I was almost like these they had like the
yes to that point, Beth, but also to the point
of they thought that they would be rewarded for the
fruits of their labor, and meaning that they thought they
there was a real chance that tides were turning that
shifts that like even like I said, even people that.

Speaker 10 (01:18:41):
Were in districts that were extremely difficult that to win.
You know, it just felt like they had the sense
of we can do this. I can do this. It's
just going to take a lot of hard work and
a lot of effort because the tides are shifting somewhat
and I've never seen that, specially in Mecklinburg County, and

(01:19:01):
I just thought that was That's what stood out to
me more than anything. Not the candidates themselves. It was
just the overall widespread enthusiasm that I haven't seen before.

Speaker 5 (01:19:11):
I think it's a hope, right, they're hopeful.

Speaker 11 (01:19:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:19:13):
So this is a collection of about twenty local candidates. Now,
were these all of one party or this across the board?
And are these all different seats like city council, county commission,
what have you? Or what are we talking about?

Speaker 10 (01:19:26):
Yeah, so it was all it was a Republican gathering,
and but it was county wide Cornelius Matthew's mint Hill,
a city council the two people running against each other
in the city council district, the only Republican primary in
the county this November, you know, with Sari Chakra and Christophercari.

(01:19:46):
As a matter of fact, Seriy is going to be
on the show on Thursday. So it was just like so,
but it was every single basically candidate in every township
and there are places that you know, there's very little
chance of winning. But at the same point, they thought
they they're going into this thinking that there's a real,

(01:20:07):
a real possibility even if they don't win, there's a
real possibility that they can do some damage in terms
of instead of losing, you know, seventy thirty, maybe sixty forty,
and to them, that's a win.

Speaker 4 (01:20:19):
Well, we just talked yesterday. Edwin Peacock posted a video
over the weekend of him out canvassing with one of
his campaign assistants. They were out canvassing, I believe it
was Landsdown that neighborhood, that area. But he was talking
about how reluctant people are in this day and age
to answer their door when when people go door to
door to to try to you know, drum up political support,

(01:20:41):
and how things have changed because of ring cameras and technology,
and you know, he's out there doing what he did
back twenty years ago when he ran a last time around,
and it's it definitely is a different Not only is
it a different electorate, but the you know, the whole
makeup of neighborhoods because of technology, that's changed a lot.
As far as how how easy it is to get
somebody face to face.

Speaker 10 (01:21:02):
Well, and you're exactly right, I mean, and it's funny
how we've gone to that, you know, you know, and
Edwin was there and I had, you know, a nice
long talk with Edwin and his lovely wife for quite
a while there.

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
You know.

Speaker 10 (01:21:14):
And but to your point, bo you know, it's funny
they call it doxing.

Speaker 3 (01:21:18):
Now.

Speaker 10 (01:21:19):
Twenty years ago it was called the phone book. Yeah,
I mean everyone's address and telephone number was in one
simple phone book.

Speaker 5 (01:21:28):
And it was at the mall. It was hanging at
the mall. You could just go and look at it anywhere.

Speaker 10 (01:21:34):
Right right right, it was. It was in a phone
booth exactly. And so but now they call it doxing.
Back then it was called the phone book. And but
to your point, you know, people are people don't do that.
I mean, you know, whether it was Jehovah's witnesses that
were knocking on your door or you know, door to
door salesman selling you vacuum cleaners. My mom bought an
Electroluxe vacuum cleaner on from a door to door salesman.

(01:21:56):
I remember that vividly, but not anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:21:58):
Nothing don't happen anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:22:00):
Him on bought one. But I definitely remember the lady, yeah,
coming to the door.

Speaker 5 (01:22:03):
And there was a meat truck that came around and
sold steaks and like stremp and stuff.

Speaker 10 (01:22:09):
Yeah, and we actually had a milkman and the Charlie
How many people remember the Charlie chips Man.

Speaker 4 (01:22:15):
Oh yeah, I do. I remember that. Well, look, you've
got your show tonight six o'clock right here on DOUBBT.
What's coming up?

Speaker 3 (01:22:23):
Do you know?

Speaker 20 (01:22:24):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:22:25):
Tonight?

Speaker 10 (01:22:25):
Oh yes, Actually Mark Harris is going to be joining me.
I know he's with you guys every week, and he's
going to be on the show as I do my
congressional tuesdays, as I talked to various congressmen from around
North Carolina, and he's going to come on.

Speaker 4 (01:22:37):
Tonight, Breaking with Brett Jensen, six o'clock right here on WBT.
Thanks Brett, Thanks guys. News Talk eleven to ten WBT
nine o'clock hour coming up, and when we come back
we talked about a year ago on the show about
I can't remember exactly what you would call it, but essentially,
you're sending your kid away to college for the first
time and you're you know, in many of these cases

(01:23:00):
is the parent is far away from the kid at
the school.

Speaker 5 (01:23:03):
It was like paid for parenting where they come by
and run your errands for you and like wash your laundry.

Speaker 4 (01:23:07):
And set set up your dorm room.

Speaker 11 (01:23:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:23:10):
Well, now now there's an extension of that, an extension
of that. How much would you pay for friendship in college?
I'm not joking And this is pretty elaborate too. We'll
talk about it almost nine o'clock.

Speaker 14 (01:23:24):
What does it mean to slide into someone's DMS?

Speaker 12 (01:23:27):
That sounds like a lot of fluck.

Speaker 6 (01:23:28):
Okay, we're not ready for that.

Speaker 3 (01:23:29):
From He's Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three w BT.

Speaker 5 (01:23:33):
And then what does that have to do with anything?

Speaker 18 (01:23:35):
It has everything to do with anything.

Speaker 3 (01:23:37):
This is Good Morning Beauty with Kloe Thompson and Beth Trout.
That's all.

Speaker 23 (01:23:42):
With a second, we ride up the Troy's bucket.

Speaker 4 (01:24:04):
But isn't that part of college learning how to make friends,
finding your people? Going through that process I mean, I
know it's about academics, but you're exactly right, Beth, it's
equally about finding your people.

Speaker 5 (01:24:17):
And learning how to find your people on your own.

Speaker 4 (01:24:22):
At least that's the way I've always thought it should go.
But maybe not. How much would you pay for someone
to help you find your people? It's big business.

Speaker 5 (01:24:34):
Apparently I had no idea. I was yesterday years old
when I discovered that this was a business and that
people were shelling out a lot of cash to help
their young people, help their children gain friendships in college
through the sorority and fraternity process, the rush process.

Speaker 4 (01:24:57):
And what did ever happen to Jody Watley?

Speaker 5 (01:25:00):
What happened to Jody Watley?

Speaker 4 (01:25:03):
Maybe she found her friends well you know what, she
probably did, and maybe she paid for them. I don't
know anyway, Sorry, I don't mean.

Speaker 5 (01:25:09):
To I'd forgotten that that was Jody Watley.

Speaker 4 (01:25:12):
She had a bunch of hits in the eighties and
early nineties and then out there doing something else.

Speaker 5 (01:25:17):
Maybe she found her people and she just likes living
a comfy little life.

Speaker 4 (01:25:21):
Maybe that was the whole point. Use the music, find
your people happily ever after. Anyway, it really is a
thing because we talked about this about a year ago
and the phones went nuts. I'll never forget that day
because it was about this time when families are sending
their kids off to school, and in many cases sending
their freshmen for the first time. And you have families

(01:25:41):
where I don't know you live in, like Texas, and
you're going to a North Carolina school, Yeah, and you
can't make the trip or you can't be there for
every step of the way because parents will take their
kids up there that first year especially and get them
situated and make sure that they're comfortable.

Speaker 5 (01:25:55):
Right college drop off, it's a big day.

Speaker 11 (01:25:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:25:57):
But if you're you know, on the other side of
the country, there is quite a cottage industry of people
who will act as sort of like surrogate parents, and
you can pay them to be your kid's parents when
they're at that school, you know, way off on the
East coast while you're on the west.

Speaker 5 (01:26:15):
They can do things like cooked meals, bring snacks, grocery shop,
decorate dorm rooms, do laundry. All of those things. People
were hiring out in colleges, and we've heard the plenty
of stories about parents hiring coaches to help get act
and SAT scores up and to help fill out college
applications to guarantee acceptance. Things like that. We've heard those stories.

(01:26:39):
But according to New York Magazine, there is a new
were I don't think it's brand new, but a newer
industry that allows parents to hire a quote unquote expert
would you call them an expert to help your child
through the rush process of getting into a fraturn or sorority.

(01:27:01):
And this is especially for sororities in Southern schools, So
Southern sororities like I'm guessing you and C and NC
State and Georgia in the South where maybe sororities are bigger.
I don't know. I wasn't a sorority person.

Speaker 4 (01:27:16):
Private rush coaches are what they're called. Now. The last
time we talked about this, where you had like the
stand in parents that you could rent the phones went
nuts with people who actually do this, you do it. Yeah,
So I'm throwing that out there right now. Seven oh
four five, seven oho eleven ten. Well, maybe you know
of some parents, some friends of yours that do this
for their kids, or maybe you are a parent who's

(01:27:37):
doing this right now.

Speaker 5 (01:27:38):
Well, and let me read just a little bit of
this New York article to you. This New York magazine article.
It says some girls hire this coach during their junior
year of high school, before they even receive a college acceptance,
and two years ahead of the rush process. When this
person's parents and they're calling her Gracie to maintain her anonymity.

(01:28:00):
When Gracie's parents compared the fees for one expert against another,
they found her affordable at forty five one hundred dollars
to do this, and most of these expert coaches were
around fifty five hundred dollars, but hiring them two years
before they were ever even accepted into school. And what

(01:28:23):
they do is they up the social media game. They
up the process of making you recognizable and recognized on
the social media space.

Speaker 4 (01:28:34):
Let's get Jerry on here real quick on line one. Jerry,
you are on News Talk eleven to ten WBT. You
have daughters that are leaving for college soon, so.

Speaker 9 (01:28:43):
They're rising juniors in high school. Okay, I have prepared
them to be on their own. I was raised where
when I went off to college for the first day,
my parents helped me set up my room and they left. Yeah,
I didn't have a cell phone. I was on my own.
I had the resident of if I needed to it.
They prepared me to be an adult. All these people

(01:29:05):
that need to get their friends pay for you know,
pay for all this other stuff, they're not raising their
children correctly, you know. I I'm raising my kids so
that when they go off to college, they can be
on their own.

Speaker 5 (01:29:19):
So if your daughters came to eu Jerry and said, hey, Dad,
can you hire a coach for me to help me
get into the sorority that I really want? What would you.

Speaker 4 (01:29:28):
Say, Waitte? I know what he would say. He would say,
I've been coaching for years exactly.

Speaker 9 (01:29:35):
You know, I don't know if I'm one of the
only parents out there that thinks that raising kids to
be are self sufficient is good enough. No, I'll make
sure that they have everything that they need to succeed,
but I'm raising them to succeed on their own, not
rely on me.

Speaker 4 (01:29:55):
Well, and college is twofold, as Beth and I just said,
it's academic, but it's all also the experience of learning
these things, Like we give them the tools and then
you have to have a point in your life where
you go and sort of have the trial and error
and and experience what it's like to be, uh, you know, autonomous,
Because if you don't have those moments when sometimes you know,

(01:30:17):
you find out the hard way, then then how are
you going to learn on your own right?

Speaker 5 (01:30:20):
How do you how do you learn how to put
yourself up?

Speaker 9 (01:30:23):
You know, there's something to be said about failing. The
failing is just a learning experience that has nothing to
do with with how smart you are or what it
has to do with trying something new, and if you
fail at it, it's learning what you did wrong and
how to correct them.

Speaker 5 (01:30:43):
Well, said Jerry.

Speaker 4 (01:30:45):
Thanks Jerry, so I have a good one about you too.

Speaker 5 (01:30:49):
You know, I have to tell you quickly about the Waaniac.
Whenever I got to Carolina, so many of the girls
my freshman year were rushing for sororities, but I had
just gotten there. I didn't even know what the sororities were.
And the Wendyact was like, if you're doing a sorority,
you're paying for that yourself, because I'm not buying your friends.
He said this. He said that just about the cost
of the sorority itself. He wasn't going to pay for

(01:31:11):
the sorority itself.

Speaker 4 (01:31:12):
A man ahead of his time. Because look and again
seven oh four, five, seven oh eleven ten, that was
Jerry who called us. His kids are still a couple
of years away from going to college, but he's you know,
none of this. I'm going to pay for something after
you leave. That's what I'm preparing you for now.

Speaker 5 (01:31:28):
So that you can figure it out.

Speaker 4 (01:31:29):
Yeah, I mean, is the tuition not enough? And the
and the meal plan and the and the.

Speaker 5 (01:31:33):
Room and board well, and then sororities themselves, not to
mention paying this coach, The sororities and the fraternities have
a fee. You pay a fee to be in them, right,
I how you do?

Speaker 2 (01:31:44):
Yes, it's like a monthly thing too, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (01:31:46):
Yeah, And it's and it's all a bunch of it
extends out beyond that because they're the activities for the sorority.
And then there, I mean, it goes on and on.
I will tell you this, I'll tell you when we
get back, because I my daughter was in a sorority,
not a real huge active member, but she was in one.
And and the timeline for all of this is amazing.

(01:32:07):
I mean it begins well before school starts.

Speaker 5 (01:32:10):
See I feel exhausted for young people, just thinking, I mean,
there are too many processes for young people. Now may.

Speaker 4 (01:32:27):
Yay, the guys will have me fell she ain't my
love joy and how to be now you like the
rest unworthy of Monthesta baby. Well, we got a number

(01:32:48):
of people, including frequent caller Steve, who've been letting us
know what's going on with Jody Watley right now. Jody
Watley has a show on Sirius XM. Did not know
that way to go Jody. She released an album doesn't
say the year here though she tours still, so she's

(01:33:09):
still out there. Good for her, just.

Speaker 5 (01:33:11):
Kind of flying under the radar. I feel like that's
the best way to be successful. Was kind of under
the radar.

Speaker 4 (01:33:16):
Man late late eighties, early nineties. She had a string
of hits. I mean, she could do no wrong. It
was like Terrence Trent Dahr or b could he do
no wrong for a spell.

Speaker 5 (01:33:25):
Ye one album wish We Level Wishing Well got Right, And.

Speaker 4 (01:33:28):
He had another one from that same album and now
I can't remember.

Speaker 12 (01:33:31):
The name of it.

Speaker 5 (01:33:32):
He came out at about the same time as Millie
Vanilli and they all kind of had the same vibe.
So I got him confused. I thought that Terrence Trent
Darby was singing the Millie Vanilli songs.

Speaker 4 (01:33:44):
And Lenny Kravitz right about the same, so I had
the all kind of.

Speaker 5 (01:33:49):
Is that the same time too?

Speaker 4 (01:33:50):
Same same ish that same time. Anyway, enough about Jody Watley,
good luck to you. We had a lot of people
chiming in also about our subject here. I was talking
about rorities and fraternities, and I can tell you when
I was in college, I wasn't a fraternity. Actually, I
transferred into david'son my sophomore year, so I needed a
way to get to know people quickly. So I ended

(01:34:12):
up joining a fraternity. And it was great because I entered,
I got to know this group of guys, and it's
kind of served its purpose of sort of finding a
friend group. But then I got kind of bored with it,
and by the time I was done, I had decommissioned.

Speaker 5 (01:34:24):
You got bored with your friends, I got bored.

Speaker 4 (01:34:26):
With the whole way that it worked. I found. I
found out that I could I didn't need it to
find my friend group. Some of my friends ended up
being good friends from there, but other ones kind of
branched out you sort of like you get to a
place and you get acclimated and you figure out what
you need and what you don't need. It was fine
for what it was at the time. I know some
people that that's that's pretty much their entire college existence

(01:34:47):
is kind of wrapped up in that.

Speaker 3 (01:34:48):
Well.

Speaker 5 (01:34:48):
I remember getting to Carolina. I lived in Granville Towers
my first i WI my first two years, I lived
in Granville.

Speaker 4 (01:34:55):
The place to be, the place to be at U
n C.

Speaker 5 (01:34:58):
And everybody, all all the girls on my floor, the
majority of them were rushing a sorority.

Speaker 4 (01:35:04):
Okay, so stop for a second, but I did not
when you but had you at that point in time,
when would when would the rushing process have started?

Speaker 5 (01:35:13):
So it started that first for them, at least that
first week we were at school. As soon as we
got I feel like we moved in and all of
these we all met and kind of ate in the
cafeteria at Granville, and then all of these girls were like, well,
We've got to go to these rush events. And I
was like all right, and then went back to I

(01:35:34):
went back to my dorm room and then not, I'm
not I'm sure this does not surprise you at all
I read a book. No, I went and auditioned for
a musical.

Speaker 4 (01:35:42):
Oh, that was the second thing I was going to say.

Speaker 5 (01:35:44):
I auditioned for Into the Woods, and I got apart
and into the woods and I found my people. And
that's how I ended up finding out about the a
cappella group. And then I auditioned for the a cappella
group and I found my people. And guess what it was?
All free?

Speaker 4 (01:35:59):
It was free sororities. No, I'm in the.

Speaker 5 (01:36:01):
Woods was Cinderella's ugly stepsister.

Speaker 4 (01:36:05):
Now here's what I'll tell you so now versus then?
And look having kids who are in college. Uh, the
sorority rushing process at some schools it's delayed by a semester.

Speaker 5 (01:36:16):
Is it yes, So they don't allow you to know
to Russia as a fresh.

Speaker 4 (01:36:21):
You don't you don't join a sorority or Russia sorority.
I mean, I guess rush meaning they can sort of
like they can court you rushing.

Speaker 5 (01:36:27):
Are you running somewhere? Is it fast? What's happening?

Speaker 4 (01:36:30):
It's kind of like speed dating?

Speaker 5 (01:36:32):
Is that what it is? That's what it's called rush.
You're rushing through the friendship process.

Speaker 4 (01:36:35):
But they delay at some schools. It happens that way.
At Davidson I know because I went there, it happens
that way. It wait for us because I have kids
there and h and at North Carolina. It's like now
that social media is in the realm, it starts way
before you even get there. Like if you wait till
you get there and you want to join a sorority,
you're you're behind the You're way behind.

Speaker 5 (01:36:56):
So is it?

Speaker 3 (01:36:57):
Is it?

Speaker 10 (01:36:57):
So?

Speaker 5 (01:36:58):
I want to know from parents who have kids who
are doing this too, Is it that you if you're
way behind, does it mean you pick your sorority that
you're interested in and you start following them in messaging
with It.

Speaker 4 (01:37:10):
Just means that you're behind the process of getting to
know all the options. I mean, I guess if you
get there and start late, then then maybe maybe you
just don't have time to go through the whole process.
Or maybe maybe some of these sororities you know, have
cut off and deadlines for when you can actually be considered.

Speaker 5 (01:37:27):
And what is the dead I mean, is it deadline
you have to fill out something?

Speaker 4 (01:37:30):
Well, again, I don't. I don't especially like Chapel Hill.
This is where some of our listeners can help us.
But here's the bottom line of it all is that
if you're gonna, if you're gonna be in this mix,
this this, this is the part that blows my mind. Uh.
I have a I have a nephew who's in a fraternity,
And can you imagine, I mean, you didn't, you didn't

(01:37:52):
end up doing it, but I did. And I know
that during the process of pledging the fraternity. So rushing
is one thing, but pledging the fraternity you basically have
to be available to the brothers you know wants and
needs for a solid portion of a semester. I used
to have a I used to be really good at
Davidson when I was pledging. I used to be good

(01:38:12):
at hiding, like making myself, you know, inconspicuous.

Speaker 5 (01:38:15):
So they're available.

Speaker 4 (01:38:16):
They couldn't find me to do things they needed. Now
they have these kids on Life three sixty and they
can see where you are at all times. So unless
you've got academic work to do that's legit, you can't hide.
I can't imagine going through that process. Now. Davidson was
a small school. Doing it at a university the size
of North Carolina or any acc school that's just got

(01:38:39):
to be to me, having gone through it once at
a small school, imagining any big school that would that
would track you that way, I would say, it's not
worth the trouble.

Speaker 2 (01:38:50):
For the hazing process. That would be pretty rough.

Speaker 5 (01:38:53):
That sounds like my worst nightmare. And the fact that
you have to pay for this nightmare, and that now
this whole new thing is hiring professionals to send you
into this nightmare. It's making me feel claustrophobic thinking that
that's a thing that they that they are following you
around on Life three sixty. Is this real? Is this real?

(01:39:15):
This is real?

Speaker 4 (01:39:16):
Well, see here's the thing. Seven oh four, five, seven
oh eleven ten. We have the text line, we have
the call in line. Now we've had tons of texts.
I mean they're texting this from everything Jody Wattley texts.
But nobody has said I am doing this as a
parent or I know someone who is, which makes me
think around these parts, maybe it's not maybe it's not
happened in the way that it is in other places,

(01:39:36):
or maybe you're about to prove me wrong. I don't know,
but we'd love to hear from you, because this, this
to me, takes it to a level where it's it's
it's an excess.

Speaker 5 (01:39:45):
That is an excess.

Speaker 4 (01:39:48):
Excesh h, you're going to part This is a chesh.
This is a water cooler show.

Speaker 5 (01:39:54):
Oh, one hundred percent.

Speaker 4 (01:39:55):
It's the big audio water cooler on this show.

Speaker 5 (01:39:58):
We try to give you the fat. We don't want
to tell you what to think. We want to tell
you what to think about.

Speaker 4 (01:40:03):
But we asked that you remain in your seats until
the ride has come to a safe and complete stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:40:08):
Enjoy the rest of your day here at Good Morning
bet with Bo Thompson and Beth Trout.

Speaker 11 (01:40:13):
But it's the best group of people have breakfast with.

Speaker 18 (01:40:15):
Thank god, you guys are fun.

Speaker 4 (01:40:17):
Oh thank you, Thank you so much.

Speaker 20 (01:40:19):
Warton girls, Macturia, keep your hands on the handle mark
at all.

Speaker 4 (01:40:21):
Time, Society.

Speaker 12 (01:40:33):
And give good Morning so long.

Speaker 5 (01:40:38):
I've got to let you know I've got you aside.

Speaker 3 (01:40:44):
And give.

Speaker 18 (01:40:46):
I got left you know.

Speaker 19 (01:40:49):
I've got to let you know you want to make came.

Speaker 12 (01:40:53):
One of your kind.

Speaker 4 (01:40:54):
I want to bring them in to the sorority or fraternity.
I need a little more in.

Speaker 5 (01:41:01):
Excess A right, I thought I thought you were playing
in excess. Now I remember that we had said in
exshosh I thought I thought you were playing INXS because
we got a message on the WBT text line from
Angela suggesting that we take the Myers Briggs test and

(01:41:22):
you when you take the Meyers brig test, you become
like a You find out if you're an I NFP
or I am.

Speaker 4 (01:41:29):
At this stage of the game with me, don't you
know that I don't need an excuse to play INXS.

Speaker 5 (01:41:37):
Yeah, I don't need an excuse because.

Speaker 4 (01:41:40):
Anytime it is good for a little NXX, it's just good.
So the Myers Briggs test you just jogged a memory
for me. Yeah, Because the Myers Briggs test is a
thing where you take it's like a personality slash. What
vocation are you most ready for? Like I took it
in the ninth grade, I think the same thing.

Speaker 11 (01:42:01):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:42:02):
I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:42:03):
I don't know what you took in the ninth grade.
But it sounds kind of it sounds kind of like okay, wait,
it sounds kind of like it. But it's an extensive
do you take it? I've taken a couple of times
over the course of a professional career. There were certain places.

Speaker 4 (01:42:17):
That that wanted to take it before this job.

Speaker 5 (01:42:21):
But it basically it breaks you down into different categories
based on are you an extrovert or an introvert? Are
you a censor or are you an intuitor? Are you
a thinker or a feeler? Or are you a judger
or a perceiver? And then based on your answer to
tons and tons and tons of questions, it kind of
spits out what your communication style is, what your leadership

(01:42:46):
style is, what you're good at. I came out as
if I'm remembering it correctly, and I think so I
was an i NFP, meaning I was an introverted, intuitive
feeling perceiver, and I just looked this up online and
it means that I could be a mediator and that
I'm imaginative and compassionate.

Speaker 4 (01:43:10):
I'm just seen how long one keep the NXSS going.

Speaker 5 (01:43:12):
So that's that was what Myers Briggs told me. And
it'd be interesting now if you remembered what your foreign
initials were to see if we're compatible according to the
Myers Briggs test, I think we're compatible.

Speaker 4 (01:43:24):
Well, I would hope, so after all this time, actually
we hope that you listening think we're compatible.

Speaker 5 (01:43:30):
Yeah, that you hear some compatibility here, but it would
be interesting to see what yours is.

Speaker 4 (01:43:33):
Oh I stall, No you didn't. You led right up
to the You led us to the nxcess water to drink.

Speaker 5 (01:43:41):
But Angela's sent us a text message telling us that
this is what we should do to reflect on. But
we should also figure out what our year is in
the Chinese calendar and if we're compatible based on the
Chinese calendar. I think I'm the Year of the Snake
or something like that. But Russ probably as my favorite,
my favorite message of all about this idea of paying

(01:44:01):
a coach to help your child rush a fraternity O sorority.
Russ said, maybe you're not getting too many responses on
this rush coach thing because the typical GMBT listener is
slightly more mentally stable than the people signing up for this.

Speaker 4 (01:44:17):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (01:44:17):
Russ given compliments to all the listeners out there.

Speaker 4 (01:44:20):
There you go. I think the test that I took
in ninth grade must be different. It was much It
was like a scantron.

Speaker 5 (01:44:25):
But oh yeah no, but did it spit out initials? Dude?

Speaker 2 (01:44:30):
You a trailer out?

Speaker 5 (01:44:32):
Were you and I NFP? Did it know that?

Speaker 11 (01:44:35):
Like?

Speaker 4 (01:44:35):
I remember, gosh, what were they called? We had this
thing in high school that we used to because I
was in student government and as a fundraiser. We used
to think called data match.

Speaker 5 (01:44:45):
Do you remember that, like a dating search?

Speaker 4 (01:44:47):
Well, it was. It was like you would fill out
a survey and then it would it would it would
like it would take like a week for it to
come back from the from the mail, from the mail,
and it would give you like the top ten people
in the class, and they were like what three hundred
and four hundred.

Speaker 5 (01:45:03):
Of us, the top ten people based on one.

Speaker 4 (01:45:05):
That were compatible with you based on all these things
that you filled out. But that wasn't fun, that wasn't vocation.
That was like they used to do it around around
Valentine's Day and so it was a way you could find, okay,
well who are you compatible with?

Speaker 5 (01:45:15):
So it was like a dating thing, but I.

Speaker 4 (01:45:17):
Mean not like a not overtly like you're gonna if
you go find your match and you're automatically getting on
to go on a date, but it just sort of
like gave you, well similarities with people.

Speaker 5 (01:45:28):
You're actually you're actually onto something with this though, because
we're talking about people paying coaches to get their kids into.

Speaker 4 (01:45:35):
We're married for thirty years.

Speaker 3 (01:45:36):
How did you meet?

Speaker 4 (01:45:37):
Well, it was in high school at the Scantron test.

Speaker 5 (01:45:42):
But I mean think about before the actual apps, and
I remember the the app what's the what's the what's
the one that that is faith based? It was the original. No,
there was the original one, the original faith based when
it had the little old man that did the commercials.
What is it not Christian ming?

Speaker 2 (01:46:01):
You guys seem to farmers only.

Speaker 5 (01:46:11):
No, it was one word and it was harmony. Harmony,
harmony E Harmony was like the original faith based. It
was the original faith based one and you had to
feel it like a giant survey. But before all of
that was a thing they had people would pay professional

(01:46:31):
I mean it was like just it's called it's just
lunch or it's just dinner or something, and they would
pay people thousands of dollars to match them with other
professionals in the area.

Speaker 8 (01:46:41):
Righty matchmaker? Now too, it's like shows about this, But
am I wrong?

Speaker 5 (01:46:45):
Wasn't that a service? So I feel like it's kind
of the same thing.

Speaker 4 (01:46:49):
Let's see what Chris has to say about this. Chris
is online one, Chris, Welcome to Good Morning BT.

Speaker 20 (01:46:55):
Hey, good morning, Chris Man.

Speaker 4 (01:46:59):
We had heard from you in a while.

Speaker 1 (01:47:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:47:01):
No, it's been a rough summer lost with my mom,
so I had to kind of, you know, recover from that.

Speaker 4 (01:47:08):
But yes, your loss.

Speaker 5 (01:47:11):
Man, Yes, we love you and we're sending you a
big hug.

Speaker 20 (01:47:14):
Appreciate that, Appreciate that. Thank you all so much. But look,
let's just hopping in the car headed to the office.
I know you always talking about I guess the Myers
Bread Test.

Speaker 4 (01:47:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:47:25):
Yeah, I highly recommend that everyone takes one of those,
especially if you are in school, if you're kind of
in that mid career rug where kind of like, okay,
what am I really putting my efforts into. I took
the test several times. There's a free sight called sixteen
Personalities dot com, so you don't have to pay for anything,

(01:47:45):
but it will give you this almost the same results
and to give you that personality type as you mentioned,
it been those four acronyms based on your personality type.
And then also you can once you receive that information,
you can kind of browse the internet and it will
align you to different careers. It has been very, very
instrumental in my hard career shift that I am loving

(01:48:09):
what I do and I kind of think double's tests
to kind of putting my mind in a way to say, Okay,
this is what you're naturally good at, so go after
your strengths versus trying to, you know, confitulate to what
the world kind of wants you to do, what looks
doing on paper. Right, So yeah, I highly recommend that
everyone does that.

Speaker 4 (01:48:27):
And you did it at a much different time in
your life than we were talking about, because not that
you have to do it in high school or junior
highbrid that's sort of when you first think about it.

Speaker 5 (01:48:35):
But you're saying, hey, it's never too late, Yes, Chris,
I love your advice.

Speaker 20 (01:48:40):
Never too late, never too late.

Speaker 11 (01:48:42):
Can we look?

Speaker 20 (01:48:42):
As long as you have breathing your body, guy has
a purpose for you, so you may as well trying
to figure out what it is that's going to kind
of give you that joy to wake up and go
after it every day.

Speaker 5 (01:48:51):
There you go, Bettillian, chris Man, and you've had a
rough summer and you're still calling in with a hopeful
message and full of love. And I'm telling you that's
that's really really special, Chris.

Speaker 20 (01:49:00):
Look, it's a testimony, that's all it is. A guy's testimony.
And we got to and it just kind of, you know,
gives everybody an encouragement to say, hey, as long as
you woke up this morning, like David Chad would say,
long the sun comes up, there you still hope. So
you got to go out here and work for your purpose.

Speaker 4 (01:49:14):
There you go. Well, look, I'm so glad you called today.

Speaker 5 (01:49:17):
Yes, Chris, thank you and sending you so much love.

Speaker 20 (01:49:20):
Thanks somebody y'all, thank you all right, be.

Speaker 4 (01:49:22):
Good Bottillion clip Chris.

Speaker 5 (01:49:23):
I love Bottillion Chris. And just on that note of
taking the Myers Briggs, it was a while into my
professional career that I realized that I was an introvert,
and that learning that I still not realize that, but
learning that about myself changed things for me because I
kept beating myself up over the fact that I would

(01:49:46):
get so exhausted by constantly being energetic.

Speaker 4 (01:49:52):
That Boomer is such an introvert too.

Speaker 15 (01:49:55):
In front of me.

Speaker 4 (01:50:08):
Saxophone, wellow in that final stretch here. So we've gotten
a lot of texts. This always happens. It's the fight
in the finish.

Speaker 10 (01:50:24):
I know.

Speaker 5 (01:50:25):
We got some great texts because we started talking about
buying coaches for sororities, and fraternities, and we've ended up
on Myers Briggs as you would expect.

Speaker 4 (01:50:33):
As we were prone to do.

Speaker 5 (01:50:35):
And we just got the greatest message. And this person
didn't leave a name, but he or she said, as
an incoming freshman, our university is using the Myers Briggs
test to match us to our roommate for the dorms.

Speaker 4 (01:50:50):
How cool is That makes a lot of sense.

Speaker 5 (01:50:52):
It makes perfect sense. I kind of love that. And
then Donna said she wanted it's a.

Speaker 4 (01:50:56):
Lot better than pot luck. Let me tell you that.

Speaker 5 (01:50:58):
I pot let it looked it and I'm still friends
with my potluck roommate.

Speaker 4 (01:51:01):
Actually, my freshman year roommate. Pot Luck was great. But
I know people who've had disastrous experiences of that.

Speaker 5 (01:51:08):
I had a really positive experience. Donna really quickly said,
Beth Meyers Briggs is not supposed to be a compatibility test.
It's supposed to help you appreciate other strength that are
different from yours. And then this is my favorite part,
she said, with a little thought. You know Bo well
enough to figure his out, and you know what, She's right,

(01:51:29):
And we did it during the break. We figured it out.

Speaker 4 (01:51:32):
Do we have time?

Speaker 5 (01:51:33):
Yep? Really quickly. You are an is TJ, meaning you
are an introverted, sensing, thinking judger. And that sounds bad.
It's not bad, it sounds terrible. No, you are the inspector.
Is what you are called? The inspector. You were practical, logical, responsible,

(01:51:55):
and you value order and tradition.

Speaker 4 (01:51:57):
Inspector of the Arkshosh value order and tradition. That's true. Yeah,
what about you.

Speaker 5 (01:52:03):
I'm the i NFP. I'm the mediator. I am idealistic, imaginative, compassionate,
driven by values and a desire to help others.

Speaker 4 (01:52:14):
Yeah, it's pretty on point. So you take those two
and put them together, and you got a radio show.

Speaker 5 (01:52:18):
You mash them together.

Speaker 4 (01:52:21):
Don't say what you said yesterday. All right, good talk everybody,
Good talk world. Come on, I gotta ride out the nxcess.
It is against the lall not to hang till the end.

(01:52:41):
Hang on.

Speaker 5 (01:52:48):
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Speaker 4 (01:52:50):
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Speaker 5 (01:52:56):
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