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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Is the way.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
This is Good Morning Beatty with both Thompson and Beth Trouts.

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Speaker 7 (00:57):
It's smart.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
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Speaker 7 (01:10):
You must have seen.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Dancing him the same Good morning.

Speaker 6 (01:20):
Nasusing always weirdly.

Speaker 7 (01:27):
Tiny dancing in my head.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
I wish I could see this show today.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Jesus, we bring you into our batasy Football League, and
this is what you bring us.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
I know.

Speaker 7 (01:45):
And then you guys are weaving your phone flashlights like
you're at Alton.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
John Ship already had a tiny flashlight for his tidy
dancer turn.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
This song takes a long time to get there, doesn't it.

Speaker 7 (01:58):
It really does.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
It's a long like everyone knows that we can just
skip ahead.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, let's just do there you go, Good morning everybody.
We come to you, so you dance like we're had
a campfire.

Speaker 7 (02:18):
I don't even like this song.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Really second day in a row. We don't really have
full lighting in the studio.

Speaker 7 (02:26):
We like in the dark here and.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
It's all on me.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
It's like a mom's giant spot I almost had to
pick up Chuck Head like I come to park his
car outside the window, like Bager Bands just had some
light in here.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Where is it when we need him?

Speaker 7 (02:39):
It's great refence he leaves just when we need him.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Tidy pick Up Guy, another very eclectic song to add
to the growing Beth Troutman song. I woke up to
Spotify play loose.

Speaker 7 (02:54):
And if you have not downloaded or subscribes to, or
however you Spotify, I don't Spotify.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
You follow But for those who do follow up, those celebrate.

Speaker 7 (03:04):
For those who celebrate Spotify and don't.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Make this maybe like your workout playlist.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Wait a minute, wait a minute on a second.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Good morning, Wow tea humble Brad right.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
Out of the gate.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Find me on Spotify, But I don't Spotify.

Speaker 8 (03:20):
However you may consume your audio. It's uh not up
to me. Just find me somewhere.

Speaker 9 (03:28):
It seems to Spotify Spotify, but them there, let them there.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
What do you do? You said you have the songs
in your head already set outside sources.

Speaker 7 (03:37):
My head is a jukebox. Why would I pay for
a subscription?

Speaker 2 (03:40):
True, you don't need to see the movie because you
lived it.

Speaker 7 (03:46):
I had the weirdest thing. I told the guys this,
and I'm just gonna say it out loud anyway, the
weirdest thing into this song in my dream this morning.
I counted out loud in my dream three two one,
and my alarm went off. It's that weird.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
The power you have is amazing.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Well, I know, I know Jim's this way. Actually, no,
you you weren't often in the recording studio with him.
But for my entire life now, whenever anybody says three
two one, it has to be followed by Mark, because
that's what Al Gardner used to do. And all of
course back from the analog days where you were recording
something on a tape and you'd have to market so
you could go back and see where you your edit

(04:27):
point was. But three two one Marks they do.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
The Panthers Network, Mar three two one, Mar, who is
that person? I'm not it's not on air person who
that's their moment to be on the air.

Speaker 7 (04:43):
That was the thing that was always always funny about
television is it's they count you in when you're coming
out of commercial and they're like three two right, they
point at you.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
You know what the one on right on the air
Wayne's World, they go two one, uh.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
Huh huh camera one cabachin caby one Cambucchine.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
We've got Teresa Payton coming up as usual in her
usual six twenty spot. On Wednesday, we did conduct the
first ever Good Morning Bet Fantasy Football Draft offline off
air last night.

Speaker 7 (05:15):
What a time, What a time it was to be alive, guys.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
I was walking down the hall and I was at
the entrance door just as I was walking in, and
I heard all the way down the hall.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
I don't know what was going on.

Speaker 7 (05:26):
I don't know what I was looking at.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
That's what it was.

Speaker 7 (05:28):
I was texting. I was texting Burn and we had
a group chat going. I was like, guys, what am
I doing? I don't know what I'm looking at?

Speaker 1 (05:34):
What is this may go back?

Speaker 7 (05:37):
And I didn't know, and my husband made fun of me.
After I had got done with all of this, I
didn't know I was drafting my team for the whole year.
I thought this was like pe. I thought I got
to pick a team every week.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Oh yeah, we had a little there's a little message
board in there.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
You know when you do a draft.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
You can talk to each other and it's like, oh,
good pick, oh you got my pick, and it's like,
what is going on?

Speaker 4 (06:00):
Beth began by taking the entire Panthers roster, so she
took like offensive linemen.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
But I did.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
So here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
I don't know how early for a kicker there.

Speaker 7 (06:08):
I don't know how I only had Panthers up. I
don't know how it got.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
Now you're Gowdade's field. The ones you get, I don't know.

Speaker 7 (06:16):
I don't know what happened.

Speaker 8 (06:18):
Chat ended up being a bets like what's happening?

Speaker 7 (06:21):
What is this?

Speaker 4 (06:22):
And biber Bomber would have tried to do with a cobbit,
but he couldn't log in.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
So but the funniest thing and the whole thing was
at the beginning when Beth was trying to log on
and kept saying, Beth has left the conversation, Beth has
joined the draft, Beth has left the draft. I'm like,
this is just like the regular, you know, day of
existence where you go to the bathroom, I.

Speaker 7 (06:39):
Couldn't figure out where I was. I downloaded the wrong
app and then I was like, well, I would love
to do it on my computer, but I can't find it.
I can't find where I'm supposed to be.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
And none of our listening audience is surprised in the least.
I mean, this is pretty much how we thought this
would go. So we are going to tell you how
the draft went down. Not every single thing, but we're
going to go over, you know, just the starting line.

Speaker 7 (06:59):
We're not doing just to give you, just to give
you a visual everyone. When I when my husband got
home from work, I was already in the middle of
my first round of drafting. I didn't realize was on
realize I was on the clock. Craig walked in the door.
I was dying laughing, like loudly crying, laughing, and like
alone in the home.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
That was it, that crying noise from yesterday. We went.

Speaker 7 (07:23):
Came in, He's like, what are you doing? And I
was like, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
We will get to this, I promise later on. We
got to get to the traffic now because Teresa is
waiting in the wings. On a Wednesday morning, here's Boomer
von Cannon Hey guys, it.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
Man, I'm sorry I missed.

Speaker 8 (07:36):
I was hanging on to the phone trying to get through.
Couldn't get through the page. So, man, I really wanted
to be part of.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
That last It's okay. Your draft was an eightyatto draft.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Wait you weren't there at all?

Speaker 4 (07:47):
No, Him and Mark Garrison had the highest draft grades.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
I know Mark never joined, but I thought Boomer was
there for a little bit.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
Yeah, just for it.

Speaker 8 (07:53):
Was trying to sign in.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Said nope, sorry, the draft is already underway.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
I know that I'm trying to get in.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Well, unlike Beth, who tried sixteen more times. You know,
you realize this is not gonna work, and I'm just
gonna let it auto drift, right, So all right, we'll
get an update on how everybody came out a little
bit later, especially Beth. That's really the one you want
to know. Do you want to know? Best? Team Newstalk
eleven ten WBT on your Wednesday, August twenty seventh, bo Thompson,

(08:23):
Beth Troutman in the historic Tyboid studio, bringing on what
we always do, who we always bring on at this
time each week. Teresa Payton, founder of Forderless solutions, nationally
recognized and in demand for her cyber security acumen. No
telling what her schedule's looking like this week. It's always

(08:44):
interesting to find out if she's actually in Charlotte or
she's a you know, across the pond, or you know,
in space or somewhere like that. Teresa, good morning to you.

Speaker 10 (08:53):
Good morning. I'm a beautiful Charlotte this week. Next week
I'm headed to New York City.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
Well, you know, we we have so many weeks lately.
When we come on, we talk about some really depressing
headline about AI, right, artificial intelligence, how it's going to
gobble us up before it's all done. I want to
start with some se We actually have some good a

(09:21):
I mean, it's not Friday, because we have this new
feature on Friday, Teresa, we call us tell us something good,
you know, tell us good news hanging into the weekend.
But we're on you know, we're hump day. We had
the weekend in sight. So let's start this week with
some positive AI news. Actually several stories here, but the
first one I want to hit is something that the
First Lady of the United States, Milania Trump, is doing.

(09:42):
And we had Charlotte Mecklenburg schools. Starting a few days ago.
Most kids across the country are back in class and
this year, to start things off, K through twelve students
will be part of or can be part of the
First Lady's AI Challenge as I understand.

Speaker 10 (09:57):
It, Yes, so through twelve students and educators are invited
to participate. It's the Presidential AI Challenge, and First Lady
Milania Trump kicked it off yesterday. For those of you
with school age kids, you should be asking your principals,
your teachers if your school is going to participate. It

(10:18):
sounds like an incredible opportunity and everybody can check it
out at AI dot gov at the Initiative Presidential Challenge.

Speaker 7 (10:27):
Speaking of education in AI, I don't know if you
saw this headline, Teresa, but I was reading about this
this morning in the Washington Post AI in Schools. The
headline is for sixty five thousand dollars a year, a
teacherless AI private school comes to Virginia. Teresa's like, there

(10:51):
are a lot of problems I see here, so like
want wall.

Speaker 10 (10:55):
What's to go wrong there? What I love about the
opportunity with AI is you could create classes where you
have a teacher guiding each of the students, creating a
customized AI plan, going over a lesson for everybody, and
then letting everybody spend thirty minutes working on their own.

(11:17):
So for some kids, where they might be more advanced
in their thinking, they can go as far as they
can go with the AI, hold up their hand, ask
the teacher questions. As well as students who might be
struggling with a concept or topic, they can spend a
time a little bit deeper and have AI coaching them,
showing them how to solve the answer, teaching them how

(11:39):
to solve the answer, and encouraging them and sort of
be almost like that teaching assistant in the classroom. I
don't love the idea of students just interacting with AI
all day for their learning. I think you have to
have a human in the loop, I believe for the
best level of learning, as well as collaboration, students, socialization,

(12:02):
all the other great things that come from being in
person for school.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
So we started with students here, let's talk about adults
who may have These are some AI tools that may
be positive in your life. Something you may not have
heard of. Google's Gamma three two hundred and seventy m am,
I pronouncing that right.

Speaker 10 (12:20):
Yeah, So what's really cool about this This is basically,
you know, today, if you want to run kind of
your own AI chatbot that gets to know you and
has information you're uploading, you're kind of doing that out
in the wild, sort of in the public models. In
public domain. Google is going to allow you to download
it to your phone. So for those of you that

(12:43):
are concerned about sort of privacy and security, it's going
to be a very efficient open source AI model, but
it's all going to be resident and running on your smartphone.
So it's kind of a cool way to be able
to access your information, to serve your own phone, to
search other things, and to sort of have it right

(13:03):
there in your pocket.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
I just saw something that you sent me just before
we got on the air, and you must have been
listening to our earlier segment about the best's fantasy football
prowess last night?

Speaker 7 (13:14):
Are you last night?

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Well, so, according here's another Google tool that maybe at
your fingertips here. Google Gemini offers AI powered fantasy football
draft basically assistance, as I understand it, Teresa, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 10 (13:30):
So I heard your draft was fun and interesting and
We've got our draft coming up at our company, and
so we've actually told people you're allowed to have AI
generated team, but you must disclose whether or not you
picked your team, used AI in the building of your team,
or used AI and put it on autopilot. So I thought, well,

(13:53):
you know, since you had your draft last night, I
went to Google Gemini and asked it to recommend a
dedicated a I tooled an app. So they recommend Fantasy
Football Draft Wizard, Draft Punk, Draft Edge, and Walters Picks.
And this is AI learning to help those that might
be struggling with their draft and they just need, you know,

(14:14):
a little hell but little assistant coach to help them
with their their pick.

Speaker 7 (14:19):
I so needed this last night, Teresa. I bet AI,
you know, because it scrubs the entire world in order
to get information. I bet it's using my draft picks
to help.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
You know, assess you thought it was called Walter's Picks.
It's actually Best Picks.

Speaker 10 (14:32):
Hey, when we have our draft, I'm going to go
look for that.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Oh not best be sorry, Teresa. That is all the
time we have today. We appreciate you as always. People
can follow you and continue the discussion online if need
be sometimes on x at Tracker Peyton and she, of
course the founder of Forderless Solutions. Thank you so much
and have happy drafting.

Speaker 10 (14:55):
Yes, it's always great to be with you, Beth, and
both be safe out there.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
This is good morning, beat.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
So Bernie. You've been talking to Nick Craig about our
fantasy football draft.

Speaker 11 (15:09):
Yes, they asked for a screenshot of my team and
then I told him I was gonna draft t J.
Hawkinson tight end and Beth, Beth took him to pick
before me, and I said, you know, Beth took him
and he goes freaking megabath.

Speaker 4 (15:26):
It was PG.

Speaker 8 (15:26):
It was not the you know, expletive, here you go.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Nick, Nick, if you're listening, how about this one?

Speaker 7 (15:35):
Oh, that one's even better. But guys, guys, you're not
gonna be wanting to say that anymore. You're gonna have
to get somebody to be like Megapath because because my
team is.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
So bad, I gotta turn my microphone on. We will
next hour go through in the first few picks.

Speaker 8 (15:53):
For each of us. Craig just texted me and said, wow,
that's a great drop.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
You can have that for the Carolina Journal new if
you went through there Oh my gosh, he should use.

Speaker 8 (16:04):
That's right, just drop it in the middle of an interview.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Oh goodness, Crasis.

Speaker 7 (16:10):
You know what they needed. They needed some They needed
some sound drops and some megabeths in the yesterday's cabinet
meeting because it went on for so long, they needed
a couple of breaks, maybe some like audio breaks. It
was the longest cabinet meeting I think, maybe ever, and
certainly in Trump's two terms, because usually.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
The cabinet meetings are just, you know, just maybe an
hour or so, mag go bed, but then yesterday was
three hours and seventeen minutes. I mean, you get the idea.
This is a long one, the longest one. It was
actually the seventh cabinet meeting of his second term, but
it was by far the longest one of his term.

(16:46):
I wonder where it stacks up all told, I don't know,
it's got to be close three hours and seventeen minutes.
Some of the discussion, and really everything was discussed just
about but a lot of talk about Chicago, and you know,
the idea of sending the National Guard troops there. President Trump.
So the line is that I'm a dictator.

Speaker 12 (17:05):
But I stopped crying, so a lot of people say,
you know, if that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
But I'm not a dictator. I just had to stop crime.

Speaker 13 (17:13):
And you would think that Illinois would have such a
problem with crime, such a bad governor. He should be
calling me and he should be saying, could you send
over the troops.

Speaker 12 (17:26):
It's out of control?

Speaker 2 (17:28):
It's out of control. And he also was talking about JB. Pritzker,
because the governor of Illinois has been in the headlines recently.
A couple of days ago, we had that news conference
that he held in response to some of the things
that President Trump has said about sending troops to Chicago.
But I'm talk here about Pritzker, etc.

Speaker 12 (17:48):
I would have much more respect for Pritzker. If he
called me up and said, I have a problem, can
you help me fix it? I would be so happy
to do it. I don't love not that I don't
have the right to do anything I want to. I'm
the President of the United States. If I think our
country is in danger, and it is in danger in
these cities, I can do it no problem going in

(18:09):
and solving his difficulties. But it would be nice if
they'd call and they say would you do it, and
we do it in conjunction.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Now, we work very well.

Speaker 12 (18:18):
With the police because we naturally get along with the police.
So the police and us work really well together, whether
the mayor is opposed or whether I mean, you have
a really rotten mayor there to you. He's got a
six percent approval rating in Chicago. And I see black
women wearing a red Maga hat last night on television.
Please let the president come in. My son was attacked this.

(18:41):
You have a force of black women. Black women, they're like,
only Trump.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
Is this headed towards a Pritzker Trump summit? Is that
what we're heading towards.

Speaker 7 (18:55):
I don't know where this is going to end out,
but that's an excellent point, but it could end up.
Do they meet in Alaska? Does he roll out the
red carpet for pritzgurn Do they have a discussion about it.
Here's just with some statistics, and I know that there
are questions about how crime is reported. We talked with
We talked with Congressman Harris about this last week because

(19:16):
they're saying that crime is down in Washington, d C.
But there are still questions about how crime is reported.
But when you look at per capita the most dangerous
cities in the United States. I'm going to read off
some of the top ones. Memphis, Tennessee is number one, Oakland, California,
number two, Saint Louis, Missouri, number three, Baltimore four, Detroit five, Alexandria, Louisiana, six, Cleveland,

(19:39):
Ohio seven, New Orleans, Louisiana, eight, Monroe, Louisiana nine, and Pueblo,
California or Pueblo, Colorado is ten. So Chicago not even
in the top ten of those. This is according to
US News and World Report. So it makes you wonder
why we are not having more conversations about some of
these other cities as well, because there are Chicago doesn't

(20:03):
come in on this list from US. Chicago is behind
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, which.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Is you know, ah, how about North Myrtle Beach.

Speaker 7 (20:14):
North Birtle Beach has Wayne North Burtle Beach has the
wayneac and his arsenal of firearms. Everyone's scared now.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
I said, this was three hours and seventeen minutes. When
you have a cabinet meeting that long, there's bound to
be breaking news in the middle of that three hours, right,
I mean National world breaking news, and even that found
its way into the news conference.

Speaker 7 (20:38):
I would love to ask you a series question, but
I have to tell you the biggest pop culture news
of the.

Speaker 12 (20:43):
Year broke while we were in this cabinet meeting.

Speaker 14 (20:45):
Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift are engaged and the world wants.

Speaker 12 (20:48):
Your reactions are, well, I wish I'm a lot of love.
I think it's I think he said a great player.
I think he's a great guy, and I think that
she said terrific person. So I wish said a lot
a loud.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Okay, well that's that's not what he said last time
he tweeted about her. But anyway, that's even that found
its way into the cabinet meeting yesterday. So we will
talk more about this as the morning goes on. We've
got to Brett Winterble, who was in DC earlier this
week at the White House actually, and Scott Huffman from
wins Through University joins us on Wednesdays.

Speaker 7 (21:21):
We always love these conversations because we get all sides
of the conversation, and I think that that's the thing
that we are trying to do, especially when you're looking
at something that really is unprecedented when it comes to
you know how a president is thinking about fighting crime.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
You've got the time.

Speaker 7 (21:40):
We got.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
To when it's time to be lax. Who knew? It's
a throwback everything, Beth Troutman, Everything old is new again.

Speaker 7 (22:12):
If you have not experienced a Miller High Life, I
don't know where you've been, Actually, guys, I think it
is Yes, it is underrated. There is something delightful about
a Miller High Life, and some oysters there's.

Speaker 15 (22:25):
Still a last resort they call the cold wrench. Promise
yourself a taste of the high life and see if
you don't find new strength to get to Miller time.

Speaker 9 (22:37):
Ye did anybody notice while we were doing our draft
last night that after every one of your picks, there
was a little flash on the screen where it was like,
great pick, it's Miller time.

Speaker 16 (22:47):
Better reacquaint yourself with the high life, soldier, before someone
tries to take away your Miller Time.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
You Mill Time.

Speaker 7 (22:57):
I want to do voice servers for Miller High Life.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
You mean that sound like this? But Miller Highlife is
cool again.

Speaker 7 (23:07):
It's making a comeback, guys, Although according to Business Insider
it is a sign of a recession. But I think
that that's giving I don't think that's giving Miller High
Life enough credit. Now, every summer, you guys know this,
there's always like the cocktail of the summer, the drink
of the summer. You know, it's been like the Moscow
Mule and the Mohito and all of those kinds of

(23:29):
fancy pants kinds of things. Well, now there is a
new cocktail of the summer, also known as the NASCAR Sprints.
It is called a spaghette and it includes Miller High Life.
It is it is also known as the Hobo NEGRONI.
These are comments. These are not personal, These are not

(23:51):
things I am now.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
This is the Champagne of the Champagne of beers.

Speaker 7 (23:54):
I agree, No, I did not. This is from again,
this is from Business Insider. It is Miller High Life
topped up with a splash of apparol and maybe a
little splash of lemon juice. It's a way to fancy
up your drink without fancying up the price tag too much.
And the Spaghett's popularity has been on the rise as

(24:17):
more drinkers feel increasing pressure on their wallets, and some
are saying that this is a recession indicator because people
are choosing the spaghette over the Negroni or the aparol sprints.

Speaker 8 (24:30):
What is apparol corn?

Speaker 4 (24:33):
It's a apperteef.

Speaker 7 (24:34):
The core guys, Oh, I need to ah, have you
not had an apparol sprit?

Speaker 2 (24:39):
I want to just have a Miller High Life.

Speaker 7 (24:42):
Well, this is a Miller high Life with a just
a little hint of yummy.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Yes.

Speaker 9 (24:47):
So there's there's a standard beer to type or two types,
a rattler or and I'm blanking out now because it's
way too early in the morning for me to be
talking about beer.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
But basically, where you mixed, you're in soda, Steve, let
me help you out here.

Speaker 5 (25:01):
Some of you might not want to mingle the flavor
of fish with your beer, but to a high life matter,
that's just two great flavors for a man.

Speaker 7 (25:13):
See Miller Highlight and an oyster. Guys, y'all are missing out.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
You really are.

Speaker 8 (25:20):
How long have you had these? Did you just grab
a Well?

Speaker 2 (25:23):
So that was a great ad campaign, but the actual
best Miller High Life campaign of all time. Tell me
you guys, remember this fry since.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
They got it eight dollars eleven dollars for a can
of too.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
Now this price is like these that's keeping folks from
living the highlights delivery, thank.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
You, one of my favorite ad campaigns of all time.

Speaker 13 (25:45):
A good homess beer at a taste of price.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
That's what we stand for.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
Clean up on our common sense, that's.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
How we do it.

Speaker 17 (25:56):
Get in and that ball.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
You just lost your right to say a middle Highlight,
that's what you. And the guy goes around in the
country and takes people's high life beer because they're living
through hot Si TATSI.

Speaker 7 (26:05):
That's fantastic, and that's exactly what Business Insider is saying, like,
we are in a space where you need something yummy
and you need it for a quality price. Clean up
on our common sense, folks.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
The guy's name was Wendell Middlebrooks. He was an actor.
He's getting a couple of TV series of movies, but
his claim to fame was he was the Miller High
Life Delivery guy, and he would go around, go into
places and taking away their high life.

Speaker 7 (26:29):
I kind of want a Miller high Life now.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
And rest in peace. He passed away, but one of
the great, one of the great commercials of all time.
I think the winner of our league should get a
high Life.

Speaker 7 (26:40):
I think the loser should because I kind of want one.

Speaker 16 (26:42):
Better reacquaint yourself from the high life soldier before someone
tries to take away your miller.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
Time.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
It's time for a little high lights house keeper. This
is a play.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
Let's go from his talk eleven ten and ninety nine
three double common sense.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
This is your wake up cow. This is good morning
bet with boats, humpson and bed trout. But this place
is a mouth and of goodness or a mixed up.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Work Just talk eleven ten nine three WBT On your
hump day, we will unveil the starting lineups chosen last
night and the first ever GMBT Fantasy Football Draft, which

(27:27):
really is to say, we will unveil Beth's starting lineup
because that's what everybody wants to know.

Speaker 7 (27:33):
You're not gonna have to read it for me because
I can't find it.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
Just just google Panthers roster and so fun.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
That is coming up in just a few I want
to talk about real football. Sports Illustrated had had a
story yesterday goes like this, Carolina Panthers make confounding decision
on veteran wide receiver. The first paragraph Carolina Panthers just
made it one of the most docking decisions of the
entire offseason slash preseason. No, it wasn't to ignore edge

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in the first round of the draft, or to give
the offensive starters four series total in a crucial preseason game. Instead,
it was cutting Hunter Renfro yesterday, Panthers a wide receiver,
and so WBT sports director Jim Zokie here he's talking
about the cuts made to the final rosters yesterday. But
this is a move that was the talk of Panther's land,

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but also a lot of people around the NFL thought
this was a shocking move.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
Yeah, and we'll see, as I mentioned, practice squad happened
today and maybe they have a plan that is further
down the road, or maybe they thought maybe a trade
could change things. With the talk about Adam Thielen, but
I tell you coach Canalis loves him. From David Moore,
this is the third Gemi's HadAM one and the odd
man out would have been David Moore, we think another

(28:52):
veteran wide receiver if Hunter Renfro had made the team.
So it came down to again, both do special teams,
but I think they kind of value the special teams
and the way that David Moore played in the receiving
room for them last year, so it was tight. I
was not expecting that, to be honest with you. I
thought Hunter Renfro, based on what he had done and
the way they were talking about him, was going to
be that guy and maybe like the Adam Thielen replacement

(29:15):
at some point down the road. But we'll see. He
may not be the end of the story with that one,
but for now he's certainly off the roster.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Joe person tweeting yesterday shortly after this, the Panthers moving
on from Hunter Renfro would seem to suggest they are
keeping Adam Thieling, but things are always fluid this time
of year.

Speaker 4 (29:30):
So it duplicates. I mean, you want different skill sets.
I mean, you're not gonna see the field if you've
got Adam Thielen out there, as far as the number
of reps you're going to have and so forth. And
then they did keep seven receivers though. Beyond all that,
so it does take away from other position groups when
you carry that many receivers, but that's where special teams
factors in. I think that was kind of the final
decision maker with that.

Speaker 7 (29:48):
Does that mean Adam Thielend isn't going possibly going back
to Minnesota.

Speaker 4 (29:52):
Doesn't look like it, not right now anyway, Certainly, I
think they definitely talked about it. I don't think the
Vikings ever came up with something in return that the
Panthers were interested in compensation wise.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
Now, you did take Adam Thielen last night, didn't you?

Speaker 4 (30:04):
I did?

Speaker 2 (30:05):
Yeah? I think I took the Okay, Okay, I thought
Beth did kind of run Fro because here, well, here's
a tip for you, because we were sort of explaining
you how how this all works as we as we
went last night.

Speaker 7 (30:17):
Yeah, well you didn't really explain it to me until
I was in like round six.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
I had so many questions.

Speaker 7 (30:23):
Yeah, it was like that I had never done this,
Like what am I doing?

Speaker 4 (30:27):
So it's kind of hard to narrow down the focus.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
So they were rather broad, you know, like what does
this button do? What does it all mean?

Speaker 7 (30:35):
But I like, I like to answer the big questions.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Guys, had you drafted Feeling or Renfro, it would not
matter that you did. You would be able to use
him no matter what team he lands on.

Speaker 7 (30:46):
What if he didn't land anywhere?

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Then you'd be kind of kind of up.

Speaker 8 (30:50):
Ton't do that's right.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
So here's the thing that was the draft. You could
now once we opened the waiver wires, our commissioner a
lot to know. You can go in and pick other
players that weren't picked in the draft list night. If
you want to replace one of your picks you made
from last night, I.

Speaker 7 (31:00):
Don't even know what. I don't even know how I
picked the ones I got.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
So when we read your picks coming up here in
a few minutes, is it going to be as much
news to you as it is to everybody else?

Speaker 7 (31:10):
Yes, Because the first like three rounds I was asking.
I was like, is saying I'm on the clock? How
am I on the clock? And Steve, poor guy, was
trying to answer me. And then I was like, but
where do I go to find the players? And they
were like, click on the button that says draft. I
didn't realize that the only players I had on my
screen were panthers.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
I wish we had a copy of the group chat
we were doing while doing the draft, things like why
am I picking guys that are gonna be on the bench.

Speaker 7 (31:34):
And how do I get them off the bench?

Speaker 2 (31:35):
That was my biggest concern well, when we come back,
we'll take you behind the scenes of last night's draft,
because it was the first one ever for Beth. Mark
never showed up, Boomer never got in.

Speaker 4 (31:47):
They both had the highest draft cord.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Well, that's the thing. Everybody gets a draft score. So
as soon as we were done, Bernie said, everybody, send
me a screenshot of your draft, you know, because the
site we're on ESPN immediately will give you a draft eight.

Speaker 7 (32:00):
And as an a student in school, I had a
real hard time with.

Speaker 8 (32:04):
My report card after we repeat that class about time.
About time, Beth, Mary.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Mariah go back, like, don't Laia talking about fantasy football.
Come on, somebody out there.

Speaker 4 (32:27):
I got that.

Speaker 5 (32:39):
All right.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
As the time has come, the draft has happened. Last night,
we all gathered online, most of us at least actually
six of us. Six of us were there. Mark Garrison
never came. Beth tried to enter the draft room sixteen times.

Speaker 7 (33:01):
I didn't know where the room was.

Speaker 4 (33:03):
That was that Homer Simpson meeting where he walks in
and takes his hat off at that turns around, walks
up you.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
Finally you finally made it in.

Speaker 7 (33:11):
I couldn't figure out. I was like, is there are link, guys,
where And then Bertie said, go to the app? And
then I said, well, where's where's the app? And then
I realized I downloaded the wrong ESPN app? And so
I was just watching Steve Miller or Steve A. Stephen
A Smith Smith, Yes, stephen A Smith broadcast something on

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my app, and I was like, where's the room for
the draft?

Speaker 2 (33:34):
I was walking down the hall this morning, right right
past the entrance. There's this long walkway before you get
into the studio and sometimes the doors open, and today
is like, what am I looking at? And that was
Beth recreating last night to her experience as she had
she just got into the draft room, and that sort
of was the theme throughout most of them, wouldn't you say?

Speaker 7 (33:53):
Yes, guys? I I have heard people talk about fantasy football,
and it's kind of been one of those things is
where I hear somebody start talking about it and then
my eyes glaze over and I start thinking about something else.
So I never had ever really understood So I'd never
really understood exactly what fantasy football really was. And I

(34:15):
didn't realize until last night after the draft that this
isn't like pe class where you get to pick a
team every time you're in there.

Speaker 4 (34:23):
It was PE class where you all picked new teams
every week. I didn't understand that.

Speaker 7 (34:26):
Reference, like you know, like if you played kickball or
baseball or dodgeball in Pe, you would pick your team.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
You guys transferred to new students from different schools going.

Speaker 7 (34:35):
On, I would pick our teams in PE class. So
I didn't know that I was stuck with the team
that I picked last night. But I also didn't know
when my first when I first on the clock clock started,
I didn't realize that I only had Panthers up on
my roster, and I didn't know what the roster was,
and I didn't know how it was ranked or who
was there, and I didn't know how to draft. So

(34:57):
I just texted the guys. I was like, guys, I'm
just mashing buttons. I don't know what's picking.

Speaker 4 (35:01):
Greg Olsen was a bold move.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
Jeremy Shockey to Terry Bradshaw is going to ball out this.

Speaker 7 (35:06):
Season because so I ended up with two Panthers apparently
in my first two rounds.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
So let's do it. Let's go a little draft recap
of at least we'll do round one here just to
give you a flavor of who, who chose who? And
we'll tell you who what each person's name their team.
The number one changed your right, I did change.

Speaker 8 (35:25):
Friendly.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
The number one pick in the GMBT Fantasy Football Draft
belonged to Jim Zoki, the owner of the Radio Flyers,
who chose I'm gonna tell me you chose.

Speaker 4 (35:37):
With the first pick in the gmb Team Morning Show Draft,
the Radio Flyers select sa Quon Barkley Skwonkwon. Barkley pick
Phillelpi Eagles.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
The second pick belonged to Stephen of Anthony, whose team
name is to Infinity and Beyond.

Speaker 9 (35:57):
Second pick in the drafts Joseph Burrow of the Cincinnati
Bengals taking a quarterback.

Speaker 8 (36:04):
I didn't even catch that.

Speaker 4 (36:06):
I didn't catch that. He Oh no, sorry, First my
bad first pick was Jamar Chase.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Who are you, Beth? What are you doing here? Well,
it's my lineup is not this is all Bengals players.

Speaker 4 (36:18):
He was knows Miami.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
From third pick went to the Amity Fins. My that's
my team's name. Every league I've ever been in, that's
been my teams. And then Jim knows this because we've
been doing this for thirty years. The Amity Fins Round
three or number three pick, round one, Christian McCaffrey, ow.

Speaker 4 (36:34):
So took it in a panther. Oh never mind.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
The fourth pick in the draft, the Wayneyac's beach trolls
with the acromym on the helmet. WBT Wayne Troutman selects
Cede Lamb, wide receiver, Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
Wow, he went with the Cowboys. I was shocked by that.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
With the fourth pick, that was Wayneyact. The fifth pick,
Mark's monstrous team. This is Mark Garrison who's going to
be our experiment this year. And the real question is
will he access his team at all?

Speaker 8 (37:03):
Way generated name.

Speaker 4 (37:04):
Only was now with his draft automated, so was his
team name? He did not think of that name like
when I when I logged in mind, I said, Jim
scary team. They are fixing that. We should have all
kept those stupid names that gave.

Speaker 7 (37:18):
So wait, so Mark didn't do anything at all.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
Complete and he's right number one right now, fine complete
auto drafty I picked it. He's finding out about this
listening at home today, because I'm sure he's listening right now.
B John Robinson Atlanta Falcons running back oh, j Simpson,
there you go with the sixth pick. Is he listening
Smash and crash? Are you there?

Speaker 4 (37:42):
He's not?

Speaker 2 (37:42):
Boomer is in the traffic? Is okay? So Boomer with
the sixth pick. Do you know who you chose a receiver?
You did Minnesota Vikings Justin Jeffers Jefferson.

Speaker 4 (37:54):
There you go.

Speaker 8 (37:55):
Yeah, I think he played college ball l C. Sure, yeah,
you sure a good one.

Speaker 4 (38:00):
Good pick.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Boomer with the with the seventh pick, Burns and the Bees, The.

Speaker 8 (38:05):
Burns and the Bees.

Speaker 11 (38:06):
I chose Jam Gibbs Family Friendly from Yeah this family
friendly p G.

Speaker 8 (38:10):
This is a family show, Jim family show.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
We always feel with the eighth pick and the good
morning BT, I love it. First ever Fantasy football draft selects,
I didn't know.

Speaker 7 (38:25):
That I only had panthers up, and I didn't know
that I selected this person. But I love him heat.
I had to use the word love. Bryce Young. I
chose my quarterback Bryce Young.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Actually you did?

Speaker 8 (38:36):
You did?

Speaker 1 (38:36):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (38:36):
I did?

Speaker 4 (38:37):
That was your first You did the same thing I did.

Speaker 9 (38:39):
You brought up your roster instead of the actual draft
Boardba Hubbard.

Speaker 7 (38:44):
I picked Chuba Hubbard. Also, I didn't realize that I
had the Panthers play a little bit early, but a
good player reach.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
I did it.

Speaker 4 (38:52):
You did get Bryce ninth?

Speaker 8 (38:53):
I boyve right, you did right now?

Speaker 2 (38:55):
Right?

Speaker 4 (38:55):
We only have eight in our league. So the ninth
pick in our draft was Bryce.

Speaker 8 (38:58):
That was me where it was like nine.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
He's like the twentieth rated quarterback.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
So in the interesting time here, you all really want
to know who Megabeth chose. So I'm gonna read off
your team or do you have it in front of you?
Read it off? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (39:14):
Why'd you read it? Little lady?

Speaker 9 (39:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (39:17):
You go ahead.

Speaker 4 (39:20):
You don't know your name?

Speaker 2 (39:22):
What?

Speaker 7 (39:22):
Well?

Speaker 4 (39:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (39:23):
I changed her screen to the draft order, so she
knew what order she picked in, which brings up body.

Speaker 7 (39:28):
Change my screen. I don't understand when I'm looking.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
On everybody out there is they're waiting for this because
they want to emulate this, and they haven't done their
draft yet. At quarterback, Bryce Young at running back Chuba
hub Oh. I have my team up now at running
back also, David Montgomery.

Speaker 7 (39:45):
I'm glad you told me because all I have is
d d Montgomery.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Wide receiver, Teteroa McMillan. Hey, I like that Pican, you
like that pick. Let's see at tight end Travis Swift.

Speaker 7 (40:01):
Yeah, yeah, I found him by searching for him.

Speaker 4 (40:04):
You took rather high Did you also take Taylor Swift?

Speaker 2 (40:08):
The Packers d it's a pretty high pick. I think
it was like the fifth or sixth rounds. You took
a defense.

Speaker 4 (40:13):
I did got that other way early.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
YEA kicker is Jabase.

Speaker 7 (40:15):
Oh wait, I picked the entire Packers defense.

Speaker 8 (40:18):
Yeah, that's how it works.

Speaker 4 (40:19):
You get but we've explained that part of like number
of times.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
Wait, how did I get them?

Speaker 4 (40:25):
You picked a butt, you hit a button that was.

Speaker 5 (40:27):
You and left all right?

Speaker 2 (40:30):
A couple of other highlights from Beth's roster. This is
my favorite part. In addition to Travis Swift, one of
your bench players, which means he's an option to sub
in that wide receiver one Xavier Legett.

Speaker 7 (40:43):
I knew his name.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
Yeah, you also? Do you get any other the Panthers?
Didn't you get one? So she got Bryce Cuba t
mac legett, and I also got the whole Eagles defense.

Speaker 4 (40:59):
For the week. The Packers.

Speaker 7 (41:00):
How did I end up with them? I got brought Perdy.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
You did to back up Bryce Young or vice versa,
So that.

Speaker 7 (41:05):
Was probably a bad choice. No, No, I'm not bad.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
I'm just saying that's just one of your picks.

Speaker 7 (41:11):
I also got Jay Bates and it just made me
think of Jason Bateman, so I thought he might be good.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
Jason's basement. Yeah, that's that's where I'm going to be,
all right. So that is Beth's team.

Speaker 7 (41:22):
Well, who's t Hawkinson?

Speaker 8 (41:23):
Oh that's the one you want, the one you took
from me, Beth your tight end, he's.

Speaker 7 (41:27):
My tight end.

Speaker 10 (41:28):
And then.

Speaker 7 (41:30):
I didn't know who the wide receiver guy was, but
he seemed good.

Speaker 4 (41:33):
All right.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
So all of Charlotte is taking their notes. What am
I hearing? Somebody know what that is?

Speaker 3 (41:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
Maybe maybe it's about to be a storm.

Speaker 7 (41:41):
Good morning, Hey Mancy, enjoy your show.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
Thank you.

Speaker 17 (41:46):
I love the show. Long time listen over a decade.
Consider you guys family.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
He says, you're very kind.

Speaker 13 (41:55):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
This is good morning Beat.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
News Talk eleven ten WBT. So Jenny listens to the
show a lot. Just texted me what was Beth's team's name? Jenny, funny,
you should ask, would you really not hear me say
what BET's team name is?

Speaker 7 (42:20):
And we crowdsourced this. That was listener Chris who came
up with that, and then people basically responded to Chris's
Megabeth suggestion with such excitement that I really couldn't go
with any other name.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
Yeah. I mean there's excited and then there's excited.

Speaker 8 (42:38):
I love the lightning strike alternates.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
So there you go, Jenny, it's Megabeth versus all those
other guys. We get draft grades from ESPN dot com.
Bernie had us all send him his draft grades last night.
Who should we start with?

Speaker 15 (42:56):
Not me?

Speaker 7 (42:56):
We should start with probably Mark Garrison because he used
auto draft and he got an A right.

Speaker 4 (43:03):
Boomer he did not.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
So the two people that had the most difficulty joining
the draft i e. Mark never even bothered and Boomer
tried but couldn't get in. They both got a.

Speaker 4 (43:14):
Mark had the easiest draft amongst all of us. It
wasn't any It wasn't difficult.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
For Mark at all. Bernie, what was your draft grade? Uh?

Speaker 11 (43:20):
Well, it was about about how I did in high school?
Butt c C average. See right right, there's the average middleman.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
Uh, Sir Steven same I uh, And.

Speaker 9 (43:28):
And Bernie happens to be my Week one opponent too.
So this this is the battle of the average.

Speaker 4 (43:33):
So you guys will be the one o'clock game.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
Did we get Do we know what Wayney X grade was?

Speaker 4 (43:38):
I don't know that you got an A? I think
did he?

Speaker 2 (43:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (43:40):
I believe he got an A.

Speaker 7 (43:41):
He self drafted and got an A.

Speaker 4 (43:43):
Yes, he had the best human draft.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
Wow, wow, Wayney act should have called him. I didn't
realize he got an A. All right, so zoke, what
was your grade? I gotta B, gotta B I got
to be as well. That leaves one person Beth Trout
or excuse me for Jinny out there.

Speaker 7 (44:06):
I got a mega F.

Speaker 8 (44:08):
I was never gonna get old.

Speaker 4 (44:09):
They never, they never know these computers.

Speaker 7 (44:11):
I got an F, guys, a full on fail. I
had no idea where to find my grade, and Steve
had to text me and tell me that they were
going to email it. And I took a screenshot and
I sent it out and it was so sad. I
got an F, A full on F.

Speaker 4 (44:27):
Did you watch the movie Draft Day with Kevin Costner
to prepare for the draft?

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Lesson?

Speaker 7 (44:30):
I should have, because then maybe I would have realized.
You know that my husband actually brought that up because
I was, you know, dying laughing. And then I didn't
realize that I could only draft the team for the
whole season. I have to be I'm stuck with this team.

Speaker 8 (44:41):
You couldn't take both count And he said.

Speaker 7 (44:43):
Beth, you watched a draft day. There aren't drafts every week.
There's one draft draft day.

Speaker 9 (44:49):
He's right, Well, my favorite part is at the bottom
of Beth's draft report card. It says, Ouch, don't let
the grade discourage you. You could still win it all.
Everyone likes an underdog. We're rooting for.

Speaker 8 (45:00):
That makes you feel better about it. They're rooting for you.

Speaker 4 (45:04):
Yeah, everybody at ESPN is is it?

Speaker 7 (45:06):
Stephen A.

Speaker 4 (45:07):
Smith?

Speaker 7 (45:08):
He's reading for me? What's the other guy's name?

Speaker 4 (45:10):
That?

Speaker 7 (45:11):
Dettmore Sleeves Pat McAfee, Pat McAfee, Sleaveless.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
The Week one schedule, the Radio Flyers of Jim Zochi
taking on the monstrous team of Mark Garrison.

Speaker 4 (45:21):
A Pete say.

Speaker 8 (45:23):
Pete's not in this league.

Speaker 4 (45:24):
Yeah, that'd be a good name for his team, though.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
These are the one o'clock games, Smash and Crash, Boomer
von Cannon taking on yours truly the Amity Finns.

Speaker 11 (45:33):
He wanted to be Boomer's fender Benders. Apparently they would
not let him put that in ESPN because of language.

Speaker 8 (45:40):
Oh don't see any wrong with that?

Speaker 4 (45:41):
Wow, it's a traffic tart, dirty language.

Speaker 8 (45:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
The four o'clock Fox game Burns and the Bees, that's
Bernie Bowles against Sir Stephen of Anthony to Finn, how
do you say it? To infinity and beyond?

Speaker 4 (45:54):
That's definitely I want to call it, dude.

Speaker 2 (45:56):
Yeah. And in the Sunday night game on NBC Game
of the Week Week one, the wayneyax Beach trolls of
Wayne Troutman taking on you guessed it?

Speaker 4 (46:12):
How weird is that this is the week one rivalry
game daddy daughter duo That's never happened in the NFL.

Speaker 7 (46:18):
Before, a daddy daughter duo.

Speaker 4 (46:20):
Definitely not that's I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
Mike Rico Chris Collinsworth on the call for that game.

Speaker 4 (46:26):
At last moment, here's a guy.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
Now he's actually Bernie.

Speaker 7 (46:31):
HiT's a girl.

Speaker 4 (46:33):
So there it is.

Speaker 7 (46:35):
How did that happen?

Speaker 2 (46:36):
Like?

Speaker 7 (46:36):
How did I get Is it because I have an
F and he has an A and they just put
those two together.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
Has your dad figured out that he's playing you?

Speaker 4 (46:43):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Okay, good?

Speaker 4 (46:44):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (46:44):
Because he he texted me this morning he said, good morning.
I can't believe that we played each other the first week,
and I read it out loud to you guys, because
I said, what does that mean? I didn't know that
our teams play each other. I thought it was just
like willy nilly, there's a whole bunch of points that
are scored that is based on your willy nilly people
that you chose. I didn't know that we played each other.

(47:05):
I thought we all played each other at the same time.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
And for our listener, Jenny, again, it's seven on WBT.
We'll keep tabs on this throughout the season and they
keep track of everybody's progress and see if the team
in the basement Jason's basement the f can turn into
an a I'm good.

Speaker 8 (47:23):
What needs to be Jason's base?

Speaker 7 (47:25):
Well? I chose Jason Bates because he sounded like Jason.

Speaker 8 (47:29):
You can't change your team names, mega bet.

Speaker 7 (47:32):
I chose him for my team for that reason.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
I've never not been the amity Fens, but this season,
maybe I should be the Jason's base. I'm the one
who said it. Boy, all right, Boomer, they wouldn't let
me enter into the team named fender Benders.

Speaker 8 (47:46):
Yeah, yeah, some reason ESPN went.

Speaker 4 (47:51):
New and people are taking their kids to school.

Speaker 8 (47:53):
Boomer a family show.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
Yeah we love you, Boomer.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
This is good Morning Bets with Boat Thompson and Math
troud Man.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
I have a radical idea and the door swings both ways.
We could reverse the particle clow through the game.

Speaker 8 (48:08):
How we'll cross the streets.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
He is welcome, Brett Twitterble.

Speaker 2 (48:19):
We know each other. He's a friend from work. Yeah,
traveling friend this week. Spent the early part of the
week in Washington, d C. At the White House on Monday.
And here he is on Wednesday morning in his usual spot,
crossing the streams with Brett Winterble, host of The Brett
Winnable Show every afternoon starting at three here on WBT.

(48:41):
Good morning, my friend, Hey, good morning. It's good to
be with you. So tell us about Monday. How did
it all go down? Who'd you get to talk to?
And I know people can hear some of this on
your show this week, but we haven't talked to you
on this show since then. How was it? And you've
been to the White House many times. This just happens
to be the latest time.

Speaker 4 (48:59):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 14 (49:00):
It was incredible and they are huge fans of WBT.
We got to talk to Ron Vittello, who's the Customs
and Border Patrol senior advisor. We got to spend time
with Joe Lavorgnia, who was the he's the advisor to
Scott Bessant, he's sort of the counselor to him.

Speaker 4 (49:19):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Mike Banks, Mike Banks, who.

Speaker 14 (49:21):
Is the boss of the Border Patrol, like he's he's
the guy that's out there on the front of the line.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
And then we got doctor Oz and Judge Janine and uh.
It was. It was brilliant day. It was wonderful.

Speaker 14 (49:34):
And to cap it all off, as as we were
walking out of the uh the the radio row, we
had to stop for a moment because right there was
the South Korean president and they're all like hold up,
and we're like.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
Why and we look and we go, oh, that's that's
that's that's the South Korean president. That's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
Uh it was.

Speaker 14 (49:55):
It was really great, lots of uh information gathered and
and they're just they're really all about.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
Putting the messaging out.

Speaker 14 (50:05):
And I was glad I didn't go Tuesday because we
would have missed out on all the cabinet secretaries and
all that sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
So it was really it was really a good day.

Speaker 4 (50:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (50:14):
I mean that was a marathon session of a cabinet meeting,
three hours, seventeen minutes. But before we get to that,
what was the most fascinating or eye opening or interesting
or shocking thing that you learned in your conversations while
you were there?

Speaker 14 (50:31):
Okay, two things. One one of the things that I
learned when it deals with the border, was a Mike
Banks and he said, you know, all these people are
attacking border patrol people and the people that are doing
the front lines, and he said, sixty percent plus are
people who are working in the border patrol business, first

(50:55):
generation Americans, And he was saying, you know, listen, these
are people that don't need to get attacked. They don't
need to get targeted. What they need to do is
do the job of protecting the United States of America.
The most fascinating one, I mean, I loved talking to
Janine Piro.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
She's so incredible.

Speaker 14 (51:16):
She's just like an energizer bunny, just going through all
the stuff that she's working on. And she certainly is
taking very seriously the crime crime stuff going on in DC,
and she's trying to advise to the president what should
happen in other cities. But I gotta tell you, doctor Oz.
Doctor Oz is magnificent. And I asked him one of

(51:36):
the questions was how do you interface with RFK Junior?
And he said, listen, we're in the business of solutions.
We talk all the time. We spend a lot of
time together, and he is just really, really a great
advocate in what he was able to talk about.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
Oz is amazing and he was very happy to be
on the show. You mentioned that you're glad he didn't
go Tuesday because the cabinet meeting yesterday was three hours
and seventeen minutes. That's the longest of the Trump second term.
I don't know where it stacks up all told. I mean,
it's got to be up there somewhere. But let me
hit one portion of this. I mean, it's tough to

(52:18):
take one thing out of three hours. But there's been
a lot of talk recently about Chicago and of course
Jbie Pritzker, and he seems to be the adversary of
the moment for President Trump.

Speaker 12 (52:27):
I would have much more respect for Pritsker if he'd
call me up and say, I have a problem, can
you help me? Fix it.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
I would be so happy to do it.

Speaker 12 (52:33):
I don't love not that I don't have the right
to do anything I want to do. I'm the president
of the United States. If I think our country is
in danger, and it is in danger in these cities,
I can do it no problem going in and solving
you know, his difficulties. But it would be nice if
they'd call and they'll say, would you do it?

Speaker 2 (52:53):
And we do it in conjunction.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
Now we work.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
So I'm going to blad the whole thing there. But
you know, he Pritzker had his new conference a few
days ago. President Trump was talking about it to begin
the week, and now here we are. But what did
you make of that moment or was there a moment
that from the from the three hours that that was
bigger for you?

Speaker 14 (53:12):
No, I think this is a very important thing, right,
safety and security is paramount. We are in a federalist
system where where the states do get to call the tune.
And when you look at Pritzker, he's doing he's just
defending his own states rights right in the same way
that Wes Moore is doing it and Gavin Newsom's doing
it and all that sort of stuff. But the federal payroll,

(53:34):
and the federal money is not going to come swinging through.
And that's where you can actually get that position. You
can say, listen, we're going to hold back money unless
you can show us that you can do it on
your own. And if you can't do it on your own,
and people are being devastated by violence like we've just
seen this week, we've got to we've got to get

(53:54):
serious about this.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
Brett Winterble Brett Winterable Show starts at three o'clock today.
What's on the dock coming up?

Speaker 14 (54:00):
Okay, so we're gonna take a big deep look into
what's happening with India. India has not yet consummated the
deal for trade. Everybody was like, oh yeah, it's so awesome.
No no, no, no no, they have not got it
done yet and they're starting to talk about trading and
rupees that and everything else between now and then.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
All right, man, it's good to talk to you. Thanks
to being with you. Thanks so much, yes sir, and
again more on the cabinet meeting yesterday. Scott Huffman will
join us next hour, and of course Brett Winnable every
day three till six right here on WB and your tea.

Speaker 4 (54:36):
I'm as human as anyone.

Speaker 13 (54:38):
I'd wake up every morning and despite not knowing what
to do, I put one foot in front of the other,
and I try to make the best pouches night.

Speaker 3 (54:44):
Man from Me's Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three
double ept.

Speaker 4 (54:48):
I screw up all the time, but that is being human,
and that's my greatest strength.

Speaker 3 (54:53):
This is good morning, bet with both Thompson and Beth
troutfore so.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
Come on, come on, all right. Hump Day in effect.
August twenty seventh, Bowen, Beth and the Zoke and Bernie
and Steve in the Tyboid Studio loves to tell you about.
Of course, the Panthers trimmed down the roster yesterday. We
did roster trimming of our own fantasy football draft. Last

(55:21):
night we could we cut well.

Speaker 8 (55:24):
Beth.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
Beth was learning about who to cut and who to
add and how this all works. During the actual draft, I.

Speaker 7 (55:30):
Had no idea that I had drafted half the people.
I was just mashing buttons.

Speaker 2 (55:35):
Juba Hubbard, Rice Young those were her first two picks.
Panthers in real life decided to part ways with Hunter Renfro.
That's been a surprise to a lot of people around
the league. Zoch, you said earlier you were surprised by
that move, thought he was there and he could figure
back in before it's all over. But for right now
he is off the roster and Adam Thielen still is

(55:58):
on the roster. There's still question about the Minnesota Vikings
and whether they can work a deal. And now we know,
according to several sources, that thelan apparently wants to go
back to Minnesota if it can be worked out. I
don't think he would say at a bad time in Carolina,
but he's on he's at the end of his career
and that's where he started things, both not just.

Speaker 4 (56:15):
Played there, grew up there and played at Minnesota State.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
You know another story that's been floating around and I
see this and I sort of ignore it because I
kind of think it's never going to happen here. But
Rob Manfred, who's the Commissioner of Baseball, made some comments
a few days ago on how might Major League Baseball
realign geographically if they had expansion teams added, which this'd

(56:39):
be the first time in a long time that they've
added any teams. But there's this scenario and now people
are sort of speculating how would realignment go. For example,
one of these suggestions here, this is from Fox Sports,
is basically saying that in the National League, Okay, listen
up here, Braves fans the National League, they would actually
go and pick teams from the other leagues and realign

(57:02):
the Braves to be and what would be the American
League Southeast the Atlanta Braves, the Miami Marlins, the Tampa
Bay Rays. And as I'm just making sure I'm seeing
this correctly, it says Charlotte team. Now I've seen the
same thing recently for Nashville team. I've seen the same
thing for Raleigh team. But the teams that keep getting

(57:23):
mentioned are those three cities plus Portland, Oregon, which would
be so they think it's going to be Portland and
a Southern team. Now Nashville would make sense to me
for a variety of reasons. But honestly, we're doing this
show from Charlotte, North Carolina. But I've always thought that
if if North Carolina got a major League baseball team.

(57:44):
Unfortunately for Charlotte baseball fans, Raleigh to me makes more
sense and is a more probable one than we would be.

Speaker 4 (57:51):
No, and working harder at it. Yeah, I figure there's
a lot more support and effort being put into RALEYG
Durham area landing a potential Major League Baseball team down
the road. I'm not hearing a ton about Charlotte. I
don't know. Having added all the soccer teams we have, Beth,
we have lots of soccer teams, there's room for all
that to go with football and basketball, and I think
Roley Durham, if it happens in the Carolinas, would be there.

(58:14):
I agree with you. I think Nashville is ahead of
any of those in the Southeast, and Portland's been talked
about for a long time. It was Vegas, but the
A's are eventually going to move there once they build
their stadium, playing in Sacramento right now. So I would
think that that's a long shot for Charlotte less they
go four somehow, which I don't think they're going to
go that many. But if they do two, I think
it's going to be Nashville and probably Portland.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
But this scenario, and this again from Foxsports dot Com,
would see an al Northeast which includes would include the Yankees,
the Mets, the Red Sox, and the Phillies. They'd have
an A, an AL mid Atlantic, and AL Great Lakes,
an AL Southeast, and the AL Southeast is where the
Braves and the Marlins and the Rays and a Charlotte team.

(58:57):
According to this sort of mock up would would have
things fall. Then you'd have NL Midwest, inn L Central,
in L Southwest, inn L Northwest. The Northwest would include
the Mariners, the A's, the Giants, and a team from Portland.
This is getting way ahead of things, but again I
think it's worth mentioning because again it's maybe the third

(59:18):
or fourth time and the last week I've seen something
where it talks about a re alignment scenario and teams
from either Nashville, Charlotte or Raleigh figuring into the mix.

Speaker 11 (59:28):
Hey, Bo, have you thought about moving the Knights to
the professionals and then they would be the Charlotte Bernie.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
That's crap.

Speaker 4 (59:37):
They're doing their own side show ten Am, Vince Cope,
the show, tod In for the Bow and Bernie Show.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
Sometimes we're two inside.

Speaker 4 (59:45):
Where did that come from?

Speaker 2 (59:46):
Thanks for making us your choice for news.

Speaker 4 (59:49):
I think I would love personally, I would love to
see major League baseball here in Charlotte. I just don't
see it. Back to the topic that actually happening, Roy
Durham is again they're working on it a lot more consistently.
I think they would be, you know, right there with
the chance in that area, so things would have the
ability to drive shorter than I drive to Atlanta. Just
seed major League Baseball. I don't like the idea of
the Brave suddenly in the American League though. That just

(01:00:10):
sounds too foreign to me.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
Yeah, I mean, realignment is one thing. This is like upheaval,
you know, just changing up everything.

Speaker 4 (01:00:17):
What was that Northeast with like the Phillies and the
Mets and the Al Northeast.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
This is Fox sports dot Com floating this possibility after
Rob Manfred's sort of gotten everybody talking. The Ale Northeast
would be the Yankees, the Mets, the Red Sox and
the Phillies.

Speaker 4 (01:00:32):
Brutal, I mean, like, and then you got the Great
Midwest with like all the team's ten games under five
hundred with it Guardians and the Twins and.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Where are the So the Guardians would be the Al
mid Atlantic. They'll be like Orioles, the Nationals, the Pirates
and the Guardians.

Speaker 4 (01:00:47):
And they're literally on a great lake. So they're not
in the Great Even then they get it wrong. It
literally sits on Lake Erie, one of the Five Great Lakes,
and the Guardians of Cleveland, who literally the stadium like
looked out over the lake, would not be in that division.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
This the Mball's dumb, The NL Central, the Rockies, the Royals,
the Tech, the Arrangers, and Houston.

Speaker 4 (01:01:08):
Which Houston is it?

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
It's Idaho, Houston, Texas.

Speaker 7 (01:01:12):
Houston, Idaho of the the big MLB team there the planet.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
Houston has a great baseball team. So anyway, just food
for thought. You know, I'm not saying this is ever
going to happen, but I do think it's interesting because
it's not just like you know, people with.

Speaker 4 (01:01:25):
Somebody's blog from their basement right an actual network that
carries baseball exactly.

Speaker 7 (01:01:29):
He might be in Charlotte maybe, and he's just you know,
hoping for a team. Timmy g just sent us a
text on the text line seven oh four or five,
seven oh eleven ten. As a lifetime Braves fan, I
don't want a team in the North Carolina area because
the Braves would be blacked out and I'd have to
purchase the MLB ticket to watch them.

Speaker 8 (01:01:45):
That's a great point, Timmy G.

Speaker 7 (01:01:47):
Does that mean wouldn't be able to watch oh TV Blackdown?

Speaker 4 (01:01:50):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
I'm actually with Timmy, Timmy tim tim.

Speaker 8 (01:01:53):
Big Time Timmy, Timmy, Timmy G, Timmy G.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
I'm with Timmy, and I guess it's because I grew
up a Braves fan. Like I'm okay, like the Brains
are my team.

Speaker 5 (01:02:00):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
I don't need a team in Charlotte. I like what
Charlotte has. I don't want a team in Raleig because
then Raley's gonna think they're better than Charlotte.

Speaker 8 (01:02:06):
That's right. Charott's got a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:02:07):
Yeah, and they better roads than us.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
Now, if you brought a team to Charlotte and you
named it, then maybe we'd have something traffic check right now,
Boomer von Candle.

Speaker 7 (01:02:19):
Would players want to play for that team?

Speaker 9 (01:02:22):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:02:23):
Phenomenal?

Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
Yeah, the jerseys.

Speaker 8 (01:02:25):
I got the costumes today.

Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
Boys, you measure.

Speaker 4 (01:02:27):
Uniforms if we use the logo that was designed.

Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
Wait a minute, they wouldn't be uniforms. They would be
Kits apparel.

Speaker 4 (01:02:37):
You could be the PA announcer.

Speaker 7 (01:02:39):
It could be the P anouncer for the Mega.

Speaker 3 (01:02:40):
Yeah why not?

Speaker 4 (01:02:41):
No, that's perfect, Hey, guys, that guy just leaning the
dirt towards something and you could do your thing like
Vicky Bruce Tuberbird.

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
No, it would right, it would sound like this, It
would sound like.

Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
See.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
Oh absolutely, I've changed my mind.

Speaker 7 (01:03:03):
Hey guys, our first home game next Saturday to.

Speaker 4 (01:03:06):
The megabeth scent the assent.

Speaker 8 (01:03:09):
Although with that Charlotte Mega beets.

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
Wow, that was really good.

Speaker 4 (01:03:18):
I'm glad we didn't pick that other name as much
as we're playing.

Speaker 8 (01:03:23):
Definitely not family not everybody in the.

Speaker 4 (01:03:25):
Text line would appreciate that not family value name of.

Speaker 8 (01:03:27):
That merga Bet, can you take the heat?

Speaker 7 (01:03:30):
Do you let the ladies play ice hockey with you?
I want to play ice hockey.

Speaker 18 (01:03:33):
There are a few girls that come out.

Speaker 7 (01:03:35):
Yeah, that would be so much fun.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
Think you just got a new one. Yes, after the show,
Beth goes out in the streets, just gone what for what?

Speaker 1 (01:03:44):
I'm going wild?

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
Speaking of cars check, we're playing hockey, we're doing traffic reports,
we're multitasking, which is what we do on the show.

Speaker 7 (01:03:54):
And we stay young by just you know, having fun conversations.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
And why do we do all these things because we
have short attentions fans.

Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
This is good Morning DT.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
News Talk eleven to ten WBT Scott Huffman will join
us Political Headlines coming up at eight thirty five. This
one just came across the wire, and I'm already worried
about the notion of this.

Speaker 7 (01:04:23):
Oh, I'm not worried. Just listen to that theme music
has given me chills.

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
Well, the reason that I'm worried about it is because
I like this how it was. The thing that's interesting
about it is the creators of Cobra Kai, who were
very very successful at taking the Karate Kid franchise, namely
because they had members of the original Karate Kid franchise

(01:04:48):
meshed with new people and they made it into something
that was old and new at the same time. The
Cobra Kai creators, according to whether the Hollywood Reporter, are
going to tackle Night Writer a movie out Night Writer
for Universal. Now, what I want to know is are
you going to involve David Hasselhoff. Are you gonna take

(01:05:09):
William Daniel's voice as Kit and have that still be
the voice? Because they've tried this before at least once,
where they did a whole new night Writer show didn't
have David Hasselhoff, didn't have the same voice as Kit,
and it wasn't the same thing.

Speaker 7 (01:05:22):
It's kind of like Magnum p I without Yes, Katsey
batess O, Magnum p I without.

Speaker 4 (01:05:30):
Favorite that poster I walk by every day in the hallway.
It's like, that's not matt Lock.

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
But you know what, though, Like that show has done
really well, has it? The Mattlock Show with Kathy Bates
is coming back for another season. I haven't watched a
single episode, and when they started, I'm thinking, all right,
Andy Griffith to Kathy Baits, how's this going to work?
But that show has done well. They did a night
Writer reboot and and it didn't go anywhere. And then
they did the Magnum p I thing, and I think

(01:05:55):
that show actually did okay.

Speaker 7 (01:05:57):
Yeah, I think it lasted maybe three or four seasons.
News name am I trying to think there are seasons? Mustache,
Tom Selleck, thank you, thank you, to say Tom Jelli.

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
No.

Speaker 7 (01:06:06):
I never got it. I couldn't get it out of
my brain, and there was.

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
A radio show going on in my head.

Speaker 8 (01:06:09):
You did.

Speaker 4 (01:06:12):
Mustache, But you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
Like the the Cobra Kai series was great because it
had Ralph Macchio, because it had William Zabkaz that's Johnny
Johnny Lawrence and it had enough of the original people
with a new idea. David Hasselhoff, I don't know what
he's doing these days, but I'm sure he's available. I'm
not saying make him be the same guy that he was,
make him.

Speaker 18 (01:06:32):
Be in it.

Speaker 7 (01:06:33):
It could be his son. It could be his son
is the new night Rider.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
And William Daniels is like ninety nine. Like I saw
a picture of him the other day. He's still living,
but he's he's very, very obviously frail.

Speaker 7 (01:06:44):
Maybe they could give his maybe he could give permission
to use AI to create his voice as the night Writer,
the kit car voice, because it kind of sounds AI anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
Yeah, but I'll tell you it's very distinctive voice, and
I mean, it's mister Feenie. Come on. But if you
do it that way, then I would be I would
be all in if you do it with people who
all knew people, and I could care less. I'm just
telling you, I don't mean the poor poor hot water
on this but or cold water.

Speaker 4 (01:07:10):
I heard Kathy Bates is getting back up? Is whyan
she qushed love Katy Babes?

Speaker 16 (01:07:16):
Right?

Speaker 8 (01:07:18):
What do the stunt double Ryan.

Speaker 2 (01:07:19):
Has anybody watched the Kathy Bad Show.

Speaker 7 (01:07:22):
No, but every she I think got nominated for some
Emmys for it, and this it has reignited her career
and she has gone on talk shows to talk about
the fact that it has reignited her career.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
Do they do this at the commercial? Please tell me
they do it.

Speaker 7 (01:07:38):
I loved the original Mattlock. We should all watch it.
We should all watch an episode and see see if
it's if it holds up and maybe it holds up
well and does well because she is such a difference
from Andy Griffith. You know that she because they have
a woman. And I don't know, is she supposed to
be the other Mattlock's like daughter.

Speaker 4 (01:07:57):
One minute of it?

Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
I have not either. All I know is every day
when I walk in, I'm greeted by Jim Nantz, Tracy Wolfson,
Tony Romo, and Kathy Bates.

Speaker 4 (01:08:05):
They're on the wall.

Speaker 7 (01:08:06):
There are two posters on our wall and they had.

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
To take down Norm McDonald because you know, it's like,
you know, wbtv's a CBS affiliate.

Speaker 4 (01:08:14):
Is Kathy Bates actually anchoring the evening news?

Speaker 2 (01:08:17):
Let's do it all that's right, But there's a random
like CBS has like what probably like fifteen shows, and
it's it's It's it's CBS, NFL football and Mattlock. Yeah
there's two, and not this Mattlock.

Speaker 4 (01:08:34):
Who wins a fight between the original Mattlock and Barnaby Jones.

Speaker 7 (01:08:38):
Guys, Sandy just texted on the.

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
Text line, I don't care.

Speaker 4 (01:08:45):
Best.

Speaker 7 (01:08:45):
Let me go to the text line, let me move
let me move on from that. Sandy says that the
new Matlock is very good. She says it starts off
slow but ends with a really good cliffhanger.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
Is it does she get a hammer and break his ankles?
Can over misery?

Speaker 4 (01:09:00):
That's why I think it's the whole James Cohn. I
just can't get past that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
Hi, Paul, wasn't that his name?

Speaker 4 (01:09:06):
I'm your biggest fan.

Speaker 8 (01:09:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:09:08):
Is it Paul that that movie ruined me?

Speaker 4 (01:09:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:09:11):
It did.

Speaker 7 (01:09:11):
It really did ruin.

Speaker 4 (01:09:12):
Try to be likable. Now I've seen what you can do.
So there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
Cobra Kai creators Like, I'm at least intrigued because I
like Cobra Kai.

Speaker 7 (01:09:21):
Use the same car too, gentlemen. I mean, I don't
care that it's from nineteen eighty eight. Bring that car back,
have the little red line. Go find it. I'll help
you write the script. Go find it in an old
garage under a tarp. It's covered in dust. And then
he's like, oh man, my batterer's dad. And then you know,
and they wake him back up.

Speaker 2 (01:09:38):
Not that voice that wasn't quite the voice I was expressed, No,
you want the car to sound like this.

Speaker 7 (01:09:44):
I was trying to sound like that the actual car.
I was trying to do British. Did that not come across.

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
I'm want to send them audio of that voice that used.
This should be the car. It'll be a massive success.

Speaker 4 (01:09:59):
We've given permission to use this as the voice.

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
Say that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
This is Good Morning Beat with both Hudson and Beth Troutman, eight.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
On News Talk eleven to ten WBT, Wednesday, August twenty seventh.
Bowen Beth here in the Tyboid studio and time to
welcome on the WBT Hotline from Winthrop University. Professor of
political science joins us weekly. It is Scott Huffman. Doctor Huffman,
thanks for being with us.

Speaker 4 (01:10:28):
As always, I'm happy to be with you.

Speaker 17 (01:10:31):
Good morning.

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
So did you sit through the entire three hour and
seventeen minute cabinet meeting yesterday.

Speaker 17 (01:10:37):
Oh you know, I was sitting there with bated breath,
absolutely waiting for every next revelation. I'm just glad they
interrupted it to ask about Taylor swift engagement. Of course,
that that needed to interrupt a marathon cabinet meeting.

Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
Well, for people who are listening, I may think that
where this didn't really happen, this really happened. I would
love to ask me a.

Speaker 14 (01:11:03):
Serious question, but I have to tell you the biggest
pop culture news of the year for while we were
in this cabinet meeting, Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift are
engaged in the world.

Speaker 4 (01:11:12):
Wants your reactions hurt?

Speaker 12 (01:11:14):
Well, I wish him a lot alone. Yeah, I think
it's I think he said a great player. I think
he's a great guy, and I think that she's a
terrific person. So I wish him a lot aloud.

Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
I guarantee you we will get a text within the
next five minutes and someone will say stop talking about
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. We've literally talked maybe forty
five seconds about them today. All told, Yeah, all told.
But anyway, you're right, that did interrupt a three hour
and seventeen minute cabinet meeting, although I guess you could say,
if it's three hours and seventeen minutes, what didn't they
talk about, doctor Huffman.

Speaker 17 (01:11:49):
Right, And again, you know, frankly, most of these things
are covered and should be covered in the daily briefings.
You know, the cabinet meetings have become more and more
for show over the years. They basically should be an
update for coordination of how you know, you're aiming at

(01:12:10):
the big policies. But he gets a briefing. Every president
gets a briefing every day on key issues. So cabinet
meetings have become over the past you know, decade, more
theater than anything. And I think nothing proved that more
than the fact that the room was utterly crowded with
media that as opposed to you know, sixty years ago,

(01:12:34):
it would be okay, this is top secret whatever we're
talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:12:37):
Well, I'm glad you said that, because I think sometimes,
you know, we have a sort of recency bias about
how things go versus how they did go. Now, look,
during the two Trump presidencies, he is very very much
about you know, seeing everything possible on camera, have it
be there Q and as, and I actually think that
that's People will say lots of things about Donald J. Trump,

(01:12:59):
but he is never shied away from answering questions just
about everything he does, especially in this second term, he
offers reporters the chance to ask questions. Now, you could
make the argument that he doesn't let all the people
in the room anymore, but he does give their the
you know, give the option to ask questions just about
every everything he does throughout the day. But you mentioned

(01:13:20):
how it's how it's been, you know, in in the
ten years or so before before the Trump administration. When
we look back at the Obama administration and the George W.
Bush administration, what do you remember about the cabinet meetings
during those particular years.

Speaker 17 (01:13:37):
Well, especially during the George W. Bush they were not
always as open as they would sometimes they could be.
But remember we were in the midst of two wars
at the time, and of course during the Obama administration,
they were still on the hunt for Isis or Isel.

(01:13:58):
They hated being called Isole even more so Obama made
sure to call him that whenever he could, and the
hunt for Osama bin Laden. So there are you know,
a whole lot of things that needed to be coordinated
that weren't necessarily for public years. But every president also
needs to make a show occasionally of his leadership. So

(01:14:21):
again not quite as frequent, but it's not like it's
never happened before.

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
Yeah, And then you know, you think about Biden and
Biden's administration and and and you know, you look back
on the number of the few number of times he
actually faced cameras for a news conference. But you also
can say the same thing about Ronald Reagan's two terms.
He very very rarely did news conferences because he did
not like, uh, the sort of unscripted moment. So he
was he was very very good in some in some

(01:14:48):
of those venues, but did not like that that that
sort of fire away with questions the way President Trump
does a lot of people.

Speaker 17 (01:14:55):
Yeah, I mean, he was a movie actor. Of course,
he loved a good script. And as he got into
the end of his second term, you saw some of
the same issues that Biden had during his term. Is
not cognitively as flexible. And of course Ronald Reagan angered
the entire you know, press conference issue all the media

(01:15:17):
about trying to start out by selecting them via picking
jelly beans from a jar instead of calling directly on him.
And I don't think he ever recovered from that and
wanted to do them very often after that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:32):
This is Good Morning Beat.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
Nine in front of nine o'clock on WBT Wednesday morning.
Bowen Beth and we're continuing the conversation with Scott Huffman
from Winthrop University, longtime political science professor there and a
lot of headlines to talk about.

Speaker 7 (01:15:51):
And before the break we were talking about this three hour,
seventeen minute marathon cabinet session. One of the conversations that
President Trump had with the media was about what's going
on in Washington, d C. With the National Guard, and
certainly his extended conversation about Chicago and the back and
forth that's going on with Governor Pritzker there, who was

(01:16:12):
the governor of Illinois.

Speaker 12 (01:16:13):
I would have much more respect for Pritsker. If he'd
call me up and said, I have a problem, can
you help me fix it? I would be so happy
to do it. I don't love not that I don't
have the right to do anything I want to do.
I'm the President of the United States. If I think
our country's in danger, and it is in danger in
these cities. I can do it no problem going in

(01:16:33):
and solving his difficulties. But it would be nice if
they'd call and they say, would you do it, and
we do it in conjunction. Now, we work very well
with the police because we naturally get along with the police.
So the police and us work really well together, whether
the mayor is opposed or whether I mean, you have
a really rotten mayor there to he's got a six
percent approval rating.

Speaker 7 (01:16:54):
Again, now with this conversation that the President was having
about Governor Pritzker and about what's happening in Washington, d c.
And about whether or not the National Guard could go
into Chicago. You are a political science professor. I know
one of the things that might stand in the way here. Washington,
d C. Is a different kind of city than Chicago is.
For example, when it comes to utilizing or deploying the

(01:17:16):
National Guard. What role does the posse coma tatis act
play in how President Trump approaches other cities? And you
know why the focus on Chicago.

Speaker 17 (01:17:29):
Well, the focus on Chicago again is because it's a
very blue city. It's you know, kind of a way
to intimidate a blue city, so that you know, that's
the thing that can can turn the state blue. You know,
there are places certainly worse than Washington, DC, worse than
Chicago when it comes to violent crime and murder. But

(01:17:49):
this sends a message. And the Posse Commatatis Act prevents
the military, which the National Guard is, from being allowed
to use police powers to on American soil. And that's
something you know in the vein of what our founders
were concerned with. But if you are literally in a war,

(01:18:13):
has been invaded, then the military may be able to
do this. And that's why Donald Trump is using phrases
like invasion and crisis so that he can make a
justification for doing this, because he's wrong. He doesn't have
the power to do anything he wants unless these conditions

(01:18:34):
are met, and he's trying to make sure these conditions
are met. So again, it's about sending a message. If
he can convince people that there is a crisis, he'll
try and give police powers. But right now it's far
more about intimidation and making a show of strength because

(01:18:55):
unlike Washington, d C, where the federal government can do
almost anything at once because it's federally owned, going into
a state because we do still have states rights because
we have a federalists system. That's a very different bear
of monkeys.

Speaker 2 (01:19:14):
Another thing that happened this week, it was an executive
order that President Trump signed on Monday. Quote, my administration
will act to restore respect and sanctity to the American
Flag and prosecute those who incite violence or otherwise violate
our laws while desecrating this symbol of our country to
the fullest extent permissible under any available authority, describing flag

(01:19:38):
burning as uniquely offensive and provocative. What about this executive.

Speaker 17 (01:19:43):
Order, Well, you know, it is provocative and offensive to
many of us. That said, it was declared to be
a First Amendment expression of you know, your First Amendment rights.
That was in nineteen eighty nine Texas, the Johnson What
people forget though that now just assume, hey, this is

(01:20:04):
freedom of expression. That was a five to four case,
So this current Supreme Court could overturn that. But I
think there's a political reason behind this. If you can
get footage of people standing in front of the military
of the National Guard, you know, yelling and screaming and
protesting and burning flags, then you've got a lot of

(01:20:28):
imagery going into the midterms in twenty twenty six. That's
going to make people really angry and much more likely
to support the Republican Party. So he's doing what he
can to help his party. It's very symbolic, and I
think it is mostly politically driven. Although many of us

(01:20:49):
are offended when we see a flag burning, most of
us have accepted, you know what, even offensive speech, as
long as it doesn't incite violence, is protected speech. This
could begin to turn that around.

Speaker 7 (01:21:03):
We got a message on our text line, a question
for you from Tuck, and we only have a few
about forty five seconds left, but here's the question. Please
ask the professor, to the extent that Trump has been
attempting to consolidate power to the executive branch, minimizing the
idea of three coequal branches, would you view this as
a threat to democracy? And again that's from our listener

(01:21:26):
Tuck on our WBT text line.

Speaker 17 (01:21:29):
Well, it's actually a misconception that our founders wanted three
coequal branches of government. They deliberately made the legislative branch
the most powerful branch. You can see that in Article one,
Section one, you know, and the entirety of Article one.
So the interesting thing is. We've come to believe that

(01:21:49):
coequal branches is the expectation, and we see the building
of power in the executive branch that is actually not
what our founders explicitly won it. So to the degree
that the executive branch accumulates power, it's going to change
the way that things work in America, including possibly elections,

(01:22:12):
if the federal government can get more power over how
they're executed. Right now, they're completely executed by state rules.

Speaker 2 (01:22:21):
Doctor Huffin, we got to stop it there. We're out
of time. We appreciate your time, professor of political science
at Winthrop and also the director and founder of the
Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research. We'll talk to
you again next week.

Speaker 17 (01:22:34):
All right, looking forward to it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:35):
Thank you, And we are on the heels of the
nine o'clock hour here right on the ledge. I can
see it from here. It's going to be great.

Speaker 3 (01:22:47):
From me's talk eleven ten and ninety nine three w BZ.

Speaker 8 (01:22:51):
Yeah, the energy in this place is just amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:22:54):
Pure energy.

Speaker 1 (01:22:55):
This is Good Morning Beat with Bo Thompson at Beth
Trout with what I'm about it the pulse of the collection,
a little percussion.

Speaker 2 (01:23:05):
Or how about no percussion. Let me try that again,
manters percussion. Our system went offline for a moment. You
heard that at the top of the hour. I was ready, Bernie,
I was ready.

Speaker 8 (01:23:25):
I was too. I'm sorry, we're back.

Speaker 7 (01:23:28):
Did y'all like my sound effect?

Speaker 2 (01:23:30):
I just yeah, podcast, I was ready to do that
sound effect. WT Charlotte, WTF Chester, WTL Oh I can't.
I tried it, WT Charlotte, w bt F M Chester,
w l N k H D two Charlotte. I tried
to do it too fast?

Speaker 7 (01:23:46):
Well done? Yeah, you like the microom machines.

Speaker 2 (01:23:48):
Guy, there was a guy I used to listen to.
Gosh what it was when ninety five point one was
called Gorilla Radio. Oh, anyone remember that?

Speaker 7 (01:23:56):
Remember Guerrilla Radio?

Speaker 2 (01:23:57):
Yeah, ninety five point one w ZZ And there's a
guy that came on. His name was Billy Boom Boom Cannon.
And he would, you know, he might maybe he's related
to Boom Boomer, Billy Boom Boom Cannon, and he would
come out and do the top of the hour g
and go www and you say it so so fast
and he goes wwww ZZGFM.

Speaker 7 (01:24:15):
Charlotte, kind of like Jeff Atkinson saying w BT yeah,
really fast.

Speaker 8 (01:24:19):
Yeah, but any press or Jim's OK today when you
said WT sport.

Speaker 7 (01:24:23):
Yeah, always impressed, always impressed with the gentleman around here.

Speaker 2 (01:24:27):
I haven't thought about Billy Boom Boom Cannon in a
long time. I never met him. I just used to
listen to him. And it was that strange desert when
ninety five point one had been w r o Q
ninety five Q, and then it changed its name and
then it became if I'm remember incorrect, Kiss, No, this
was before Kiss. So it went to r o q ZZG,

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which was a gorilla radio. Then it was an oldies
station called Cool ninety five point one. Then it was
then it was the all new ninety five point one,
The Edge, the Edge, I remember the EDG and actually,
wait a minute, wait a minute, I'm forgetting ninety five
double Q. So wait it was it was ninety five Q,
and then it was Guerrilla Radio, and then it was

(01:25:09):
Cool ninety five point one. Then it was ninety five
double Q, which is w a QQ.

Speaker 7 (01:25:15):
I feel like you're talking in Morse code.

Speaker 2 (01:25:17):
And then it was the Edge, which was w E
d J, and then it was what it is now.
I think it was nineteen ninety seven when it converted
to Kiss ninety five point one, and old school Charlotte
guys were like, wait, what happened to Kiss one O two?

Speaker 7 (01:25:33):
Kiss one O two?

Speaker 2 (01:25:34):
Way mean Jem and Gen? Me mean Jem and Gene?
What is his name? And our old buddy Max Sweeton.
Max used to work with them kiss one O two.
He used to work here in the hall because he
used to work with Bob and Shery still does. But
when Bob and Sherry's team was in the building, I

(01:25:54):
would always see Max in the hall and I go
triple the music Kiss one O two. Bo just went
down a radio rabbit hole, folks. Let's get us back
to the here and now, why don't we Bernie?

Speaker 7 (01:26:10):
The wbtwo text line has been going nuts a little bit,
and I say this because I think Bo Thompson instigated it,
and I love our listeners for this. When we were
talking to Professor Scott Huffman from Winthrop University last hour,
Bo brought up the fact, actually, actually Professor Huffman brought
up the fact that, of course, you know, a cabinet
meeting was introduced or interrupted. I should say, with the

(01:26:31):
news that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey are engaged.

Speaker 2 (01:26:35):
I saw this news yesterday and I thought, oh boy,
because I mean, look, whether you like Taylor Swift or
Travis Kelcey or not, this is the biggest pop culture
story to happen in the last ten years. I mean,
Michael Jackson dying in what two thousand and nine, that
was a huge pop culture moment. We can think of
other ones, but I mean, this is a big deal.

(01:26:57):
And I know people are going, oh, don't talk about
Daylor Swift and Travis Kelcey, And actually today I think
maybe we've collectively over four hours, given a minute and
a half to it.

Speaker 7 (01:27:10):
Not even that. The only reason we've we've mentioned it
is because I drafted Travis Kelcey by accident in the
in my NFL fantasy draft, and it's because I searched
for He's a tight end, right, is he a tight end?
I searched for tight ends and he came up and
I accidentally drafted him, and then you could I couldn't undraft,
so I was like, well, I got Travis kelce but
you called him Travis Swift, and that's kind of how

(01:27:33):
the That's the only mention that we've had of it
until Professor Huffman mentioned that a cabinet meeting was interrupted
with the news and bo off handedly said, I know
that people are going to say stop talking about Taylor Swift,
and we immediately on the WBT text line seven oh four, five,
seven oh eleven ten got a message from Kirk that
said stop talking about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey. But

(01:27:54):
then they kept coming Mary. I liked Mary's idea. Mary
said stop with like forty seven exclamation points. She has
the Beth exclamation points, which makes me love Mary even more.
But she said you should feature local engaged couples instead.
And I wonder how many people here in Charlotte maybe
got engaged in the last couple of days.

Speaker 2 (01:28:15):
I'm married, so yeah, yeah, yeah, but like how many
me have you ever been engaged?

Speaker 7 (01:28:20):
I would love to feature a local engaged couple. And
if you posted on Instagram recently that you just got engaged,
I'd love to hear your engagement story. I will say
that I did like that that Taylor Swift announced it
by saying, your English teacher and your gym teacher are engaged.
I thought that was kind of cute, But like, if
there's a real English teacher and Jim teacher out there
that got engaged. I'd love to hear that story.

Speaker 2 (01:28:42):
Care for what you to ask for here, Beth? I
love stories where we're going.

Speaker 7 (01:28:46):
But that's what Mary said, and I thought Mary. I
thought Mary made a great point. I'd be more than
thrilled to say, Hey, give you some show, some local
engaged couples, some love.

Speaker 2 (01:28:55):
I do wonder this. I wonder are they going to
do the whole? I mean, is this going to be
like a televised and there for all to see? This
is gonna be like Charles and Dye getting married and
what was in nineteen eighty one when they I mean,
is this going to be a made for television event?
Or or I was talking to my wife last night
and she had said to me, you know, maybe they'll

(01:29:15):
just go get married somewhere secretly and come back and say, yeah,
we're married.

Speaker 8 (01:29:19):
But if they go to North Middle Beach and get married,
and they'd be crazy. Oh is Wayne is he ordained?

Speaker 2 (01:29:25):
He is?

Speaker 7 (01:29:26):
He is? He has married several couples and could technically.

Speaker 8 (01:29:31):
Technical I'm actually also ordained.

Speaker 7 (01:29:32):
But Travis and Taylor, let's make that happen. I think
that this is why I love your wife. And yes, Antoinette,
I used the word love again the the because I
think she's I think she's right. I think that they
have gotten so much collective attention during the course of
this relationship. I think that that that you're right. I

(01:29:53):
think that Scott, he's right. I think that they will
just go and get married, like on a cliff in
Ireland or like a beach in Italy, and then come
back and it'll have just been a couple of the
sprinkling of their friends and they'll say we're married, and
they'll share the photos.

Speaker 2 (01:30:04):
I wish they'd do that, Yeah, because you know what
the other reverse of it's going to be. It's gonna
be the pretty biggest spectacle you've ever seen.

Speaker 7 (01:30:10):
Yeah, and it's gonna be Remember when Madonna and Sean
Penn got married and they were so upset because the
helicopter noise was so loud that it ruined the wedding.

Speaker 8 (01:30:17):
No And I'm glad I don't remember that you weren't
born yet.

Speaker 2 (01:30:20):
Yeah, Well that's good Madonna and Sean Penn.

Speaker 7 (01:30:23):
Like why I compared it to Madonna and Sean Pen.
I know, I mean, but there were two superstars at
the time, who would they get married.

Speaker 2 (01:30:29):
Who would be the female artist comparable to Taylor Swift
in the eighties, It would be Madonna, right, I mean
maybe Whitney Houston and Whitney Houston and you know Bobby Brown.

Speaker 7 (01:30:39):
Yeah, I remember her hat in her wedding. Oh she
had like a head dress, like a hat thing.

Speaker 2 (01:30:45):
I so want to remember that too.

Speaker 7 (01:30:47):
Yeah, it's weird. And if Taylor Swift does have a
big wedding that that wedding dress will be the most
copied dress, you know, for the next decade.

Speaker 2 (01:30:54):
Probably, No, I won't get to text later today. Bo
and Beth talked about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey the
whole four hours, and.

Speaker 7 (01:31:02):
We did not but we would like to talk about
the other engaged couples around the Charlotte area. You let
us know.

Speaker 2 (01:31:07):
That's right. I wanted to say hey and thoroughly enjoy
the show.

Speaker 7 (01:31:10):
Thank you for taking the time to call in.

Speaker 17 (01:31:12):
Well, y'all keep doing a great job.

Speaker 2 (01:31:15):
Thank you man, keep on keeping on.

Speaker 1 (01:31:17):
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Speaker 7 (01:31:28):
Last house.

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Speaker 4 (01:31:40):
W ZZGFM Charlotte is Gorilla Radio Z ninety five point one.

Speaker 11 (01:31:45):
This is the Jammer Coast to coast on the open
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Speaker 2 (01:31:52):
Said, yeah, I just got a note from the fact Alita,
one of our incredible salespeople. She says, I used to
work with Billy Boom Boom Cannon. I must.

Speaker 4 (01:32:06):
See.

Speaker 2 (01:32:08):
You never know what you find in the box of
toys here. But yeah, Gorilla Radio Z ninety five point one.

Speaker 7 (01:32:14):
I needed more Bell BIV Devo in my life today.

Speaker 2 (01:32:16):
We all do, don't we, right, So lots of odds
and ends here and yes, I continue. We continue to
get texts about talking about Taylor Swift.

Speaker 7 (01:32:26):
Yes, mostly positive though I would like to say people
are saying, you know what, the Betty said that they
are a spectacle, that their wedding is going to be
a spectacle. The attention is not ever going to go away.

Speaker 2 (01:32:37):
Look, I'll tell you this, It's gonna be everywhere unless
they go and do the thing they did, which even
if they elope, it'll be the most publicized covered eloping
of the history of man.

Speaker 3 (01:32:49):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:32:50):
I don't know what they're gonna do. I don't know
how big it's gonna be. It's gonna infiltrate the NFL
season now because Travis Kelcey is now playing in what
could be his final season for the Kansas City Chiefs,
there hunting another title again, and now he has a fiance,
So now will his fiance be at the games? And
it's going to continue until if people thought that they
were going to break up and it was going to

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go away, guess what it's not.

Speaker 7 (01:33:12):
It's just getting bigger and bigger. And I will say,
and somebody pointed this out to us on the text
line too, if he drops a pass or causes the
game to be for the Chiefs to lose the game
or something like that, that all of the blame is
going to go on his romantic life.

Speaker 2 (01:33:24):
It's true. So one more thing we haven't gotten to today.
And I saw this story. I sent it to you yesterday.
It's actually something that I'm surprised we have not heard
of before in the world of real estate.

Speaker 7 (01:33:36):
Okay, I want to preface this by saying I have
been saying this for years, and I've been saying that
this should be a thing for years. Maybe it's been private.
I'm not sure if I've ever said it on the air,
but I can't remember what's on the air and what's
off the air. Anymore because it all sounds the same.

Speaker 2 (01:33:52):
You don't even know you have a microphone.

Speaker 7 (01:33:53):
That's true. But here's the thing, and I want to
know if anybody else has ever thought of this more.
Home buyers are pushed for sleepovers before buying a property.
Quote try it before you buy it. You can test
drive a car, you can go to Costco and taste
tests some chips before you buy them. You can you

(01:34:16):
can try on clothes before you buy them. But a
home is your biggest purchase in your lifetime and you
basically do a fifteen minute walk through. I don't know
about the water pressure. I don't know what the air
conditioning sounds like at night. Is the upstairs way hotter
than the downstairs? Does the floor creak when you go
up and down the stairs and wake up your partner?

(01:34:37):
If you sleep at different times? What are the things
that you end up having to that you end up
learning about a house?

Speaker 11 (01:34:44):
Once you're talking two stories here that's kind of nice,
or or no ranch for Beth, just a it's modest
two story, maybe three story that was.

Speaker 1 (01:34:56):
A good morning et humble breath.

Speaker 2 (01:34:58):
Skip right to the two stories that might be the
first ever hypothetical humble brag.

Speaker 11 (01:35:02):
Hypothetically speaking, everybody's looking at two stories, right.

Speaker 7 (01:35:06):
I just thinking of examples, just thinking of examples.

Speaker 9 (01:35:13):
I have been having this exact thought for the past
four and a half years that I.

Speaker 2 (01:35:18):
Have been living in my apartment, that you don't have
enough stories.

Speaker 9 (01:35:21):
No, that I wish before I had signed the lease, which,
of course then you're locked into and you have to
pay so much to move, and rents are always going up,
et cetera, et cetera. Of I wish I knew how
loud my neighbors were. I wish I knew how ridiculously
loud the kid's playground was, even though it's not next
to my building, that I can still hear it. All

(01:35:41):
of the things about my apartment that I dislike. Had
I had twenty four hours or forty eight hours, you know,
water pressure, like you said, another thing.

Speaker 2 (01:35:50):
All not great, but it's too late.

Speaker 9 (01:35:53):
I like children, hate that sound well, screaming, well, yelling,
screaming joy right when I'm trying to go to bed
to work on a morning show. It's a little rough,
especially when I've chose an apartment away from the playground,
that that sound still travels across the complex.

Speaker 8 (01:36:10):
Well they're kids.

Speaker 2 (01:36:12):
So apparently, according to the New York Post, this is
something that's happening more and more often. Now, my first
thought was, who do you know that's done this? And
maybe you're listening and you've done it, or you have
wanted to do it, but if you pay an extra fee. Now,
there are some situations, and I'm sure this is one
of those cases where you've got a home that's not selling,
you can't quite get somebody to pull the trigger on it,

(01:36:36):
and maybe the thing that would put them over the
top is try before you buy.

Speaker 7 (01:36:40):
Now, look, we're not talking about sleepovers with the current homeowners.
We're talking about the homeowner, the current homeowner allowing you
to and in this case, according to the New Yorker,
in this case lease the home. So you pay in
some cases maybe a month's lease or a two month
lease to try out the home, live in the home,

(01:37:02):
not even just a twenty four hour type thing.

Speaker 2 (01:37:04):
So it's not a twenty four hour but there are
different can do it.

Speaker 7 (01:37:07):
For long, Yes, there are different scaled versions and options
that people are coming up with. But some homeowners are saying,
I will lease this to you for a month and
let you live here. That way, you get to know
the neighbors. You get to know the neighbor's habits. That's
their lawn, their lawnmowing habits.

Speaker 2 (01:37:23):
I do feel like because Steve was talking about all
those sort of nuances of the not only the house,
but the neighborhood, and I don't think you can do
that in one night. I think you're going to have
to be there if you really really wanted to learn
all these things, for sure, you'd have to stay for
at least a week or two. Yeah, right now, Buddy
is on the line. I hope Buddy can hang on

(01:37:43):
because Buddy actually has done this.

Speaker 7 (01:37:46):
Buddy, I want to talk to you.

Speaker 2 (01:37:47):
Okay, So, and if you've done this before, or heard
of someone doing it, or like the idea of it,
maybe you can think back to a situation where maybe
it would have helped you sell the house if you
actually gave somebody a chance to live in said house
before they bought said house.

Speaker 7 (01:38:02):
And if you've bought a house, if you had had
this option, would you have maybe not bought it? Now
that you have it, where you're like, man, there's some
terrible water pressure in this hallways loud.

Speaker 2 (01:38:13):
Somebody's gonna call and say, bo have you heard of
extended stays?

Speaker 7 (01:38:17):
And you know this about us? But Boeh and I
were open books.

Speaker 2 (01:38:19):
Actually, the way you should have said that that is
Beth is an open book and bo just reads it
out loud. Mister bo Thompson, you're a straight shoot.

Speaker 1 (01:38:27):
Good morning, going back.

Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
Good morning to my favorite people.

Speaker 7 (01:38:30):
What's up?

Speaker 1 (01:38:31):
What's up?

Speaker 7 (01:38:31):
We're so excited to hear from you.

Speaker 2 (01:38:33):
We love you and thank you for calling.

Speaker 1 (01:38:35):
Oh I love y'all too.

Speaker 10 (01:38:36):
Thank you so much for every day you make my
morning absolute perfect.

Speaker 3 (01:38:40):
This is good morning, beauty, good Borrow, borrow, borrow with
Boe Thompson, Beth Trubman, Jim Zoki, Sir Stephen of Anthony
and featuring Bernie Bowie Bowles Yeah, and also featuring cast

(01:39:00):
of thousands here at all one Julian Price Place. You
know what if somebody was going to buy this building
and they said, I want to try it out for
a few days before I buy it.

Speaker 8 (01:39:13):
Show up twenty hours of ten and eleven, no one's
in the studio.

Speaker 2 (01:39:17):
You need like ten years to try out this building.

Speaker 7 (01:39:20):
Yes, it would take a while, but if you're thinking
about purchasing a home, I mean all of us have
test driven a car, right, We've all tried on clothes
at a TJ Max or a Nordstrom whatever before we
buy the clothes. You don't just willy nilly, you know,
just buy. I mean you can, but oftentimes if you
do that, you might have will You.

Speaker 2 (01:39:41):
Might willy nilly at a TJ.

Speaker 8 (01:39:42):
Max, but not a norm.

Speaker 7 (01:39:43):
Strum, at a Nordstrum. But your home. So many people
make a home purchase, which is the biggest purchase of
your life, after a fifteen to twenty minute just walk through.
And the home is it's like an Instagram. You date
somebody off of off an online dating app and there's
a you know, you see the picture and it's all

(01:40:04):
filtered and it's their their very best version of themselves.
That's kind of the way the house is. When you
have a showing, it's all staged and you don't see
the carpet spots or the rotten hardwoods under the plant.
You know, you don't see all of that stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:40:17):
Yeah, you're right, I mean, even if you combine all
of the time, like if you're gonna buy a house,
you usually walk. You go to it originally, you see
that you like it, you probably go do the walkthrough,
you know, two or three times. But if you if
you add all that time up, it's still not a
lot of time.

Speaker 8 (01:40:33):
Imagine going on an online date and being like, yeah,
you got good bones.

Speaker 7 (01:40:37):
Looks like you got good bones, like the little Sidney
sweety ad. Yeah you got good gene.

Speaker 8 (01:40:42):
Goo good bones on a nice foundation.

Speaker 2 (01:40:44):
Let's all go to the cracker barrel.

Speaker 18 (01:40:45):
Now.

Speaker 7 (01:40:47):
But in the housing market the way that it was,
you know, two or three years ago, people didn't necessarily
even get two or three walkthroughs because they'd get in
bidding wars and people would all be you know, haggling
for a house at the same time, and you may
have to they have to give you deadlines. You have
to give your best offer by four pm.

Speaker 2 (01:41:08):
So the New York Post is a shedding light or
shining light, I should say, shining light on the fact
that now more and more people are allowing perspective buyers
to live in the house for a few days, maybe
even a few weeks before you buy it. The sea
if you actually like it as much as you think
you do, and you learn things like what am my

(01:41:30):
neighbors like or what are the real issues with the bones?
If you will of the house buddies online. One Buddy's
been patiently waiting and we so appreciate it. At seven
oh four five, sevenh eleven ten, Buddy, you know somebody
or maybe you have done this.

Speaker 7 (01:41:45):
I have done this.

Speaker 18 (01:41:48):
So this was the people that owned the place. It
was a town home here in Charlotte, and I knew them.
They were customers of mine at the bar I worked at.
And he ended up passing away. So she, the wife,
moved to the beach and she had this townhome sitting.
So I went to look at it, and I ended
up staying there a couple of nights before I made

(01:42:08):
the decision, and I'm glad I did so. Every night
that I stayed there, my dog sat facing the door
of the house to the bedroom and growled all night
long every night, so I kind of decided that the
place might be haunted. I probably shouldn't shouldn't stay there.

Speaker 7 (01:42:31):
Oh my gosh, So you didn't buy the town.

Speaker 1 (01:42:34):
Home, buddy, I did not.

Speaker 18 (01:42:35):
I stayed there probably two or three nights, but my
dog did not like the house. He was on edge
the whole time we were there, and I kind of
took his lead and trusted his judgment, and.

Speaker 2 (01:42:47):
It wasn't a thing where your dog did that at
your other house. He just did it here, just did
it there.

Speaker 18 (01:42:53):
And I know my friend had passed in the house,
so I kind of feel like he was still hanging around.

Speaker 7 (01:43:00):
Oh, buddy, this is such a fantastic call. I had,
you know what, I lived in an apartment briefly in
Concord in my chihuahua. I had a little Chihuahua named
Paco at the time. He would not go inside the house.
As soon as I let him inside the apartment, he
would sit with his nose pressed against the door to
the outside. He would not go any further in. It

(01:43:21):
was so bizarre.

Speaker 18 (01:43:23):
You gotta trust your dog's judgment.

Speaker 7 (01:43:24):
Now, Yeah, try before you buy with a pet with.

Speaker 1 (01:43:28):
A pet, right, that's right?

Speaker 2 (01:43:31):
Hey.

Speaker 18 (01:43:31):
But while I got you on the phone, I wanted
to touch on something last week texted about the Oxford Comma.

Speaker 7 (01:43:36):
Oh that was you, buddy, That was me.

Speaker 18 (01:43:39):
So y'all were talking about actually going in for interviews.
The strangest thing I've ever been asked on an interview
was I had someone ask me what my thoughts were
about the Oxford Comma, and which was strange because I'm
a big proponent of the Oxford comma.

Speaker 1 (01:43:54):
Yes, and I just looked up.

Speaker 2 (01:43:56):
You know.

Speaker 18 (01:43:56):
There was a big battle about getting rid of it. Yeah,
and there was actually court ruling saying that it was
a valid punctuation. And these people and somewhere up north
where their duties were delineated by commas, and they didn't
use an Oxford Comma on the last so they were
grouped together. They ended up getting a few million dollar

(01:44:17):
settlement because of that, because of unpaid wages for the
two that were grouped together. So the judge ruled the
Oxford Comma was a relevant punctuation.

Speaker 4 (01:44:27):
Mart I love it.

Speaker 7 (01:44:29):
You just gave me a little bit of an etymology
lesson on the Oxford comma, which I am also a
big fan of.

Speaker 2 (01:44:34):
Buddy.

Speaker 18 (01:44:35):
I figured you get a little nerdy about that, like
I do.

Speaker 2 (01:44:38):
You know what the best part of all of this
has been. I love see, we love our listeners, and
I feel like we're all kind of family. Now Buddy
calls in about something else and he says to us, well,
I've got you on the line.

Speaker 7 (01:44:53):
It's the greatest call the day.

Speaker 4 (01:44:55):
Buddy.

Speaker 18 (01:44:56):
Thanks, you'all have a great morning, And I love listening
to you.

Speaker 2 (01:44:58):
Thank you, thank you. Hey buddy, we love listening to
you too, Yes, we do you so you do a
great voice.

Speaker 18 (01:45:04):
Thank you. I'll try and call him once at least
once a week.

Speaker 2 (01:45:07):
You should, all right, all right, I will. He's like,
he's like, you tell me, I will, Beth.

Speaker 7 (01:45:13):
It's gonna be good morning, Bet and Buddy.

Speaker 2 (01:45:15):
That's right, it's gonna be good morning BT. Buddy, Yes,
with a comma, that's right, or of course, good morning BT. Comma.
It's like it's like Buddy's dog. He's always kind of
creeping there.

Speaker 7 (01:45:29):
I love that he test drove. He tried it before
you buy it, bite it, No, we'll go before he
bought it. And and and he trusted his dog's instinct
and did not buy the house. That's a cool story.

Speaker 2 (01:45:42):
Yeah, good morning, BT, try us before you buy us.
Good news, we're.

Speaker 1 (01:45:46):
Free, good morning. This is good morning Bet.

Speaker 2 (01:45:57):
He's talk eleven to ten WBT separate ways. Indeed, we
have some breaking news.

Speaker 1 (01:46:06):
He's just in from the Bernie.

Speaker 2 (01:46:08):
News for.

Speaker 8 (01:46:10):
Oh my gosh, hit me right on the spot here.

Speaker 2 (01:46:13):
You have the news right there afresh off of the teletype.
I do.

Speaker 11 (01:46:17):
I have the news here, Bo and it seems that
the Panthers have traded Adam Feelin back to the Minnesota Vikings.

Speaker 7 (01:46:22):
And they just got rid of the renfro Fellas.

Speaker 11 (01:46:24):
I have a feeling they'll probably be calling Hunter Renfro
back and you know, he'll come hang out with us
and maybe he'll be our new Adam Feeling a few
years younger.

Speaker 7 (01:46:31):
But they had to have known that Adam Thielen was
going to get traded and they got rid of Harry
renfro Hunter.

Speaker 8 (01:46:39):
Yeah, I'm assuming what I think happened is, here's my jake.

Speaker 11 (01:46:44):
I think they waited till after cut day to see
what kind of was out there, and they might see
someone out there on the waiver wire that they really like,
felt more comfortable trading Adam away so they could pick
someone up. And this also gives them, you know, the
freedom to bring Hunter Renfro back, and I think Adam
probably into the office and it was like, look, you know,
I definitely wouldn't mind going home.

Speaker 8 (01:47:02):
I can't blame him for that.

Speaker 11 (01:47:04):
And I feel like the Panther's kind of dome a
solid because the compensation is not anything that's kind of
stand out that says.

Speaker 8 (01:47:09):
Oh yeah, I would have had to make that deal.
So I feel like I feel like it was kind
of a mutual.

Speaker 7 (01:47:14):
Thing, personal thing.

Speaker 2 (01:47:15):
So the Vikings finalizing a trade for two time Pro
Bowl wide receiver Adam Thielen that brings him home to Minnesota.
He's a Minnesota native, as Zoki was pointing out earlier,
not just for the Vikings, but he played college ball there.
This according to The rap Sheet and Tom Pellisero, Theling
and Justin Jefferson were teammates from twenty twenty to twenty

(01:47:36):
twenty two. Now they're reunited. Carolina gets a twenty twenty
six fifth and a twenty twenty seventh twenty twenty seven
to fourth round pick. Minnesota gets feeling and a conditional
twenty twenty six seventh and a twenty twenty seven to
fifth rounder. So that's the particulars of a deal that
we've sort of seen percolating over the last four or

(01:47:56):
five days. And now it's official. And look, the Panthers
have a they keep seven wide receivers or something like that.

Speaker 8 (01:48:03):
Yeah, seven, now they have, they're back down to six.

Speaker 7 (01:48:05):
Yeah okay, so but even with Renfrogne, that's five.

Speaker 8 (01:48:09):
No, with Rent for gone, they were at seven they were.
So they're back down to six.

Speaker 7 (01:48:12):
Oh they're back down to six. Okay, this is all.

Speaker 2 (01:48:17):
I know.

Speaker 7 (01:48:17):
I know that's what this is. I know what was coming.
I know that we thought that it was going to come.
But it doesn't seem like we got a great deal
out of it either. It just kind of seems kind.

Speaker 8 (01:48:25):
Of like a solid is what I feel like.

Speaker 7 (01:48:29):
Yeah, because like a wet noodle of a deal for us,
but we were probably doing it to be kind to him.

Speaker 2 (01:48:34):
A wet noodle of a deal if some of these
other wide receiver projects don't work out. I mean, the
Panthers have a there their wide receiver. Their wide receiver
benches deep. So we'll see how it all plays out.
But I agree, I think Thelon's a good guy, has
been a good guy here. I think if Bryce ends
up continuing his success this season, I think you'll be

(01:48:56):
able to point back to Adam Thelen in part to
being a voice, a positive voice in his head in
the locker room when things were kind of down last season.
And we'll see a couple of texts on the text
line driven by Liberty Buick gms C.

Speaker 7 (01:49:12):
Yeah, before we get to that really quickly though, just
I'm worried about the locker room. I'm really worried about
the I'm really worried about the Panthers locker room because
Hunter Renfro, I know I called him Harry, but Hunter
Renfro and Adam thielnd big positive forces in the locker
room along with Bryce Young and I want the locker
room to be a good fraternity.

Speaker 8 (01:49:34):
We got a solid locker room.

Speaker 11 (01:49:35):
I think if you have one player that you lean
on for the entire locker room, I think.

Speaker 7 (01:49:40):
See there's always a leader that rises to the time.

Speaker 8 (01:49:43):
Probably Bryce Andy Dalton.

Speaker 2 (01:49:44):
Andy Dalton's huge been a huge factor in Bryce, I think,
steadying the ship and riding the ship, and like, you know,
I agree with you. He's a guy that you hate
to lose, but you like him and you like to
see him end the way he wants to end. I
feel like he came here and kind of did what
he what we needed him to do for a few seasons.
And he even may pay dividends after he's gone if

(01:50:05):
Bryce can continue the pace that he started at the
end of last season. So Adam Thielen's gone. Couple of
texts left over from our discussion about trying it before
you buy it. New New York Post article about people
in the world of real estate not buying homes until
they're allowed to actually sleep and spend time in those

(01:50:25):
homes for sometimes weeks before they buy.

Speaker 7 (01:50:28):
Or we're leasing for even a month at a time
before you buy.

Speaker 2 (01:50:31):
Does this person have a name? Looks like it doesn't.
I don't know about the sleepover, but I would try
the new commute out. Go to the house early and
start the commute to the job from there. Might as
well get the evening commute assessed. Also, I've done this,
he or she says, And that's a good point. The
commute is a big deal. I mean, that's not the deal,
but it's one of them. It's a important one that

(01:50:53):
sometime gets overlooked.

Speaker 8 (01:50:55):
Yes, I couldn't agree more.

Speaker 1 (01:50:58):
Affirm me.

Speaker 4 (01:51:01):
Yes.

Speaker 7 (01:51:02):
We also got a text, and this one they didn't
send their name either, But he or she says, Beth.
Before I bought my home, I met the owner for
the second time to view it, and he said, would
you like to spend the night, And again, this is
not about spending the night with the owner. Awkward and
since I drove from out of town Concord, North Carolina
does Lockhart, South Carolina? Of course, I said, yes. The

(01:51:25):
home is close to Highway nine and Highway forty nine,
so I could hear the big tractor trailers on the
road and it sounded so very loud. But now that
I'm living here full time, I absolutely do not hear
the traffic. And I'm so glad that I bought the
house and the homeowner was a true blessing. Would I
would be more apt. I'm more likely to buy home

(01:51:46):
from a really sweet homeowner and from somebody who said, hey,
do you want to stay here? I've got no secrets.
I have no rotten floorboards to hide from you. I
have no holes in the wall the bugs come through,
or I have water pressure that's not just a trickle.

Speaker 8 (01:51:59):
You don't have to convince me. Yeah, I believe you.

Speaker 2 (01:52:00):
Yeah, tell me your problems without telling me you have
any problems. I think we just uh it struck a nerve.
Tell Vince to hang on, We're gonna stay on for
another hour.

Speaker 15 (01:52:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:52:13):
I did take that really seriously.

Speaker 2 (01:52:15):
Didn't I? Yes, you did. Thanks to the Zoke and
the Jeff Ackinson and for Mark Garrison today and the
great Boomer von Cannon Bernie and Steve as always good talk, Megabeth, good.

Speaker 7 (01:52:30):
Talk U Minnibow.

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Oh wow wow, I'm still here.

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I'm staying hear that, New York.

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I'm staying here.

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