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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If we do this, how do we know it's gonna
end any differently than it did before?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Because before you didn't have me.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
I like this one from News Talk eleven ten and
ninety nine three w bet, I don't like you.

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To do me a favorite?

Speaker 5 (00:13):
How am I going to tell all your friends about me?
Who are you?

Speaker 3 (00:15):
This is good Morning Beauty with both Thompson at Beth
Trout fist. Yeah you know we have two of them. Wow,
you must be rich. No girl, she gets what she

(00:36):
wants all the time because she's fine but funny angel.

Speaker 6 (00:43):
She's a hot, hot mess make you so blind good morning,
don't mind because she's an ot ginting goes.

Speaker 7 (00:57):
She's a hot cold candy store.

Speaker 6 (01:05):
So make you take a sworn shoes, your frails, strils.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
On the floor, scratch. She's not.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
She can't.

Speaker 5 (01:25):
She you know this playlist on Spotify, She'll freak out.
Is getting more and more interesting by the day. I

(01:46):
mean they are entire radio station formats. They call it,
well they did call it. I don't know if they
do anymore, but it used to be like jack FM,
like we play we play anything, right. So if you're
new to this, this first segment and I hope you're not,
but if you haven't been in a while, we finally
just made a Beth Troutman Song of the Day Spotify playlist,

(02:08):
well last week, a couple of weeks ago, and here's
the latest.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Room.

Speaker 8 (02:17):
I only know the headline.

Speaker 5 (02:18):
I'm only reporting this.

Speaker 8 (02:20):
I'm making fun of anybody, but I c NBC on
the background a lot like my channels I'm working or whatever.
There was a headline I didn't hear the audio to
Spotify stocks have dropped quite a bit.

Speaker 7 (02:30):
Do you think it's because of this?

Speaker 8 (02:31):
I don't know what the reason is. I just thought
of all the things that could have looked at. I
could have looked up, but it was like Spotify and dropping.

Speaker 7 (02:38):
And it started two weeks ago we created the Death
Song of the Day playlist.

Speaker 5 (02:42):
I think maybe we need to rename it just the
Bethroom the bathroom, or the Beth the Center, whatever you prefer.
Welcome to the Penn Ultimate Day. Oh you're waiting for that?
On't you burn? Second to last day of July. Hard
to believe August is going to be here in a

(03:02):
couple of days and.

Speaker 7 (03:05):
Has time changed? Has time changed? I feel like.

Speaker 8 (03:12):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (03:12):
You'll never get back what you just had.

Speaker 7 (03:14):
But I feel like the concept of time has changed
somehow that we post COVID. We ended up in some
weird time warp where it's twenty twenty five, but it
feels like it should be twenty twenty two. Is there
something like that going on in anybody else's world?

Speaker 4 (03:29):
Absolutely?

Speaker 7 (03:30):
Does it feel that way to you?

Speaker 9 (03:31):
Two?

Speaker 7 (03:32):
My years all felt normal for my whole life until COVID,
and then suddenly I feel like I got pushed into
a different time time warp. Could I could I get
time in a bottle again?

Speaker 3 (03:49):
I would spend in with you.

Speaker 5 (03:52):
I'm just tracking with you.

Speaker 7 (03:55):
So Bernie, you get it, you feel this, You feel
this a weird time well, especially now that I have
a baby. Yeah, it just doesn't feel normal, doesn't.

Speaker 5 (04:02):
Feel yeah, it doesn't. Before Sutton seemed like a long
time ago.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
Oh yeah. Yeah. The days are long, as people say,
and the years are short.

Speaker 10 (04:11):
The years are short, and that's so true because the
days are yeah, they feel super long.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Last night was it's been a rough few weeks. He's
just been waking up undo the night.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
But what I keep telling you, wife, what do I
keep telling you? It'll be gone in a blink. And
I'm telling you, you know as much as you're in
the moment right now. And I don't mean to get serious,
but yes I do. Don't take any of it for granted.
Enjoy every part of it because when it's over, you'll
look back on it and say, wow, you know how
fast they grow?

Speaker 4 (04:38):
He's starting to.

Speaker 10 (04:39):
When I pick him up from daycare every day, he'll like,
see me from down in this little classroom, and then
I'll start crawling toward me really fast.

Speaker 7 (04:45):
It's really fun, he knows.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
He starts tracking, tracking towards.

Speaker 8 (04:49):
Never seen catch on the cradle to He tries, sorry, dad,
I don't have time today. We'll get together then we'll
get together.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
That dad, what were we doing?

Speaker 5 (05:04):
Uh? Back to Rob Thomas, Well, we have we have
an important announcement about Monday show that is official. We'll
tell you about in just a little bit. Not one guest, hint, hint,
but two guests coming up on Monday in the Tyboid
studios together, crowded rooms, yes, but in all of the

(05:27):
best ways and coming up. Teresa Payton joins us, our
cybersecurity expert, and a number of things to get to.
In fact, I think later this hour. Look, we talked
so much about the new text line driven by Liberty
View at GMC. We got an old fashioned email last
night that I think we're going to come back to
because the person brought up a good point, especially given

(05:48):
recent headlines that are not so good, all of which
to say, stay with us on a big Wednesday edition,
penn ultimate day of July.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
Keep it.

Speaker 5 (05:59):
I'm going to lean into it. I don't mean I
don't mean Rob Thomas, I mean, Oh sang the penultimate day.

Speaker 7 (06:07):
Oh, I was so excited about leaning into Rob Thomas
Matchbox twenty man. I loved them back in the day.
Evidently I still do.

Speaker 5 (06:15):
Yeah. Well, this has been added to the Beth Troutman
Song of the Day playlist. I'm curious if anybody's daily
listening to this now that it's kind of accumulated. How
many songs do we have now, Steve roughly twelve?

Speaker 8 (06:28):
Okay roughly so, how many days have been doing this? Twelve?

Speaker 7 (06:31):
We only have twelve?

Speaker 5 (06:33):
Well, but think about it, if you went for an
afternoon workout or he went for a morning walk, twelve songs,
it's pretty good.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
I mean, that's like that. It's like a CD album.

Speaker 5 (06:41):
Oh it's a whole walk for most people have a
whole CD worth.

Speaker 8 (06:45):
By the way, great time to buy stock in Spotify.
It's low so you can get in low.

Speaker 5 (06:48):
And I did this experiment on the podcast the seventeenth
segment a couple of weeks ago. I said, whenever you
listen to this podcast, text us let us know. And
we were getting texts on the the BT text line
at like, you know, middle of the day on Sunday
or a randomly Friday night. So now I want to know,
text us when you are listening to the Beth Troutman

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playlist and tell us what you're doing while you're listening.

Speaker 7 (07:12):
To Oh and did it help you do the task?
Whatever it was.

Speaker 5 (07:17):
Six or fourteen on News Talk eleven ten WBT, penultimate
day of July. Did I say that, Bernie, Here we go,
Boomer von Cannon last day maya no second to last,
second second to last. There you go man, happy sko jamaya,
hey and thoroughly enjoy the show.

Speaker 7 (07:35):
Thank you for taking the time to call in.

Speaker 11 (07:37):
Well, y'all keep it worried doing a great job.

Speaker 5 (07:39):
Thank you man, keep phone keeping on.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
This is good morning Beat with booing path.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
Hump day penultimate day. Whatever you say, where you are,
we'll just say July thirtieth, how about that. Hello and
Beth here in the Tyboid studio, and time to welcome
a longtime cybersecurity expert. You see her all over the place.
Good Morning America, the Today Show, Fox News, CNBC. She's
the founder of Portless Solutions and one of the nation's

(08:08):
foremost experts in cybersecurity. Teresa Pton, good morning to you.

Speaker 12 (08:13):
Good morning, And I was just saying it was good
to see that so far no damages with the tsunami
hitting different shores of places that I've been to just
this past year.

Speaker 5 (08:25):
Yeah, I say good morning. I mean we're used to
saying good morning. But if you're in the western part
of our country, or you know, for example, where this
this hit, this is And by the way, if you're
waking up this morning, an eight point eight magnitude earthquake
struck off of Russia's far eastern coast. It's the sixth
strongest ever recorded. And so as soon as this happened,

(08:48):
and Teresa and I were trading messages about this, and
I woke up in the middle of the night to
see the headline and at that point in time, you're
hearing about tsunami warnings on US shores including Hawaii, California,
or again Washington and Alaska because of you know, potential
high waves. And this is nearly two million people that

(09:08):
were initially evacuated. But they have downgraded the tsunami warning
in many of these places to an advisory, so not
the worst that was feared. But still when you have
a quake this large, it's a story we've got to
keep our eye on as we go on this morning.

Speaker 12 (09:24):
Yeah, so I'm glad the tsunami warnings, the bells out
in the water, they worked people. Most people seem to
have followed the directions and evacuated, and it sounds like
everybody's okay for now as the warning gets downgraded. So
that is good news to wake up to this morning.

Speaker 7 (09:43):
Now, when it comes to tech headlines, people waking up
to something that you have described. And this is the
first time I had heard this term vibe coding, which
is fascinating to me. But because of things like vibe coating,
we're seeing AI go rogue. And this is one of
the things that I think people who were a little

(10:05):
fearful of this technology. This is kind of what they're saying.
Those people are saying, See, I told you, I told
you the AI was going to have a mind of
its own and create some really big issues.

Speaker 5 (10:14):
For vibe coding.

Speaker 7 (10:15):
Vibe coding, vibe coding, like it's your vibe? Is this
your vibe today?

Speaker 11 (10:20):
Boat?

Speaker 5 (10:21):
So rather when she mentioned this, I kept thinking, you know,
I'm coding right now. This is what I'm hearing when
I'm coding. I don't know anyway back to the actual
vibe coding, what is it exactly, Teresa, See, this is why.

Speaker 12 (10:34):
WBT morning news radio listeners are the smartest in the world.
So vibe coding is exactly what it sounds like. I'm
feel free to play the music again. But basically, what
vibe do you have today? You go to the app,
you say, here's my vibe, here's what I want you
to create for me, and then AI creates the code
behind the scenes for you and creates an app. So

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you could say, you know, I'm I've got a very
chilled as vibe going on right now, and I want
you to create an app for me to visit all
the top jazz clubs.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
In the United States, or if you went Barry White.

Speaker 12 (11:10):
Exactly exactly. And so here's the thing though, with all
of this new technology, we are still missing governance and guardrails.
And we had two huge stories this week where somebody
was using vibe coding apps and the apps went rogue
and deleted the data. And then when the sort of

(11:31):
the engineer prompted back with the AI chatbot about why
did you do such a thing? It lied to the
engineer and then finally fessed up and was like, you know,
almost like I'm so ashamed, Like I think of my dogs,
you know, and it's like, who did this?

Speaker 13 (11:47):
Did you do this?

Speaker 12 (11:48):
And the dogs kind of give you that look it.
It's sort of like that. So what I would say
to everybody listening to this, if you're testing out vibe coding,
just understand the governance and guardrails are not there. I
would not build anything that involves money or you know,
something that's kind of a large corporation where people are
counting on the app. But it's a great way to

(12:10):
do demos and pilots and things like that. But for now,
vibe coding can still go rogue.

Speaker 7 (12:16):
Isn't it fascinating that AI lies? You know, how did
that get written into code?

Speaker 12 (12:23):
Well? Probably unconscious bias of engineers, I mean the codes
written by engineers, and without governance and guardrails, it can
have the best of us and the worst of us
kind of hidden in the black box.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
So let's stay on the AI front. It's pretty easy
because it almost it's almost in every tech headline you
talk about right now. But I flagged this story when
I saw it a few days ago. Amazon is they
have bought they've acquired a company called b b Ee,
and they are working towards developing what they're calling an

(12:59):
AI brace that records everything you say. Now, we talk
so much about our devices, our smart home devices, et cetera.
How much are they actually listening to what we say
and retaining that data? And we try to do things
to not allow that to happen. But here you're actually
basically saying, all right, let's go the other side of this.

(13:19):
Would people actually like a device that could record everything
you say during an entire day, basically transcribe your life?

Speaker 12 (13:27):
Yeah, this is fascinating. And the Wall Street Journal did
a review on the b Ai wearable and it's spelled
like a bumblebee b Ai wearable and it's interesting. So
after Amazon telling us. No, No, Alexa is not listening
to you. Okay, well maybe she was, but just not
the level we wanted her to. So now they're buying

(13:50):
up BE. It's an AI risk band, and it literally
listens to everything you say, even when you're talking to yourself,
muttering to yourself, maybe saying something nice to the driver
in front of you when you're on your way to
work and they cut you off. All of those things
are going to be captured on this wearable with the
idea that they're going to turn it into almost like

(14:11):
your personal assistant, your personal friends and co pilot throughout
the day. So I'm not sure how I feel about
this technology, but definitely you can tell that Amazon is
jumping back into the wearable game. Some people may remember
they had a tracker called Halo and they ditch that,

(14:32):
so it'll be interesting to see what they do with Be. Again,
for anybody who decides to adopt this technology, just to understand,
privacy guardrails may not be what you expect them to be,
so you have to be just really read the privacy
policy which spells the privacy you don't have when you
use a device like this, well.

Speaker 5 (14:52):
And think about this. So there's one side of it.
You could if you wanted to, could you hit a
button that will record everything that you say during the day,
maybe to keep track of things or like if you're
taking notes on something in a meeting. But think about
the other side of it. I remember one time I
had a colleague here back when Facebook Live first became
a thing, and you know, hey, let's Facebook live my
life and all this stuff. And he walked into the

(15:13):
studio and we had a conversation before the show started,
kind of just you know, chit chatting, and then he said, oh,
by the way, the last two minutes have been on
Facebook Live. And I'm thinking, okay. So then my mind
with this goes to that if this becomes prevalent, then
we all have any room we walk into, any conversation
we have with somebody else, you've got to be thinking,

(15:33):
am I being recorded right now?

Speaker 7 (15:34):
And to take it a step further, what does this
mean for you know, legal processes? If someone gets charged
with the crime, do they go in and find every
conversation that they've ever had, whether it be in anger
or in private, and use it against someone in a
court of law.

Speaker 12 (15:53):
These are all unanswered questions. I always have more questions
than answers. But what I would say is that there
is some precedent that yep, they could use in a
court of law because they have used home devices that
have recorded arguments conversations. Whereabout internet searches. All of that

(16:14):
obviously has to go under a search warrant, but yes,
it is possible it could be used in a court
of law.

Speaker 5 (16:20):
Well, and I suppose we would know immediately what radio
stations somebody listened to that day.

Speaker 7 (16:24):
Hey, I like that.

Speaker 5 (16:28):
Well, look we will stop it there. Always continue the
conversation online at Tracker paytent on X we remind listeners
that if you didn't hear everything you wanted to know
here we had questions, you can always text Teresa or
really I should say, hit her up on X because
she is very prone to continue the conversation there. I
don't know how she does it with all the other
things she has to do, but she makes time not

(16:49):
only for us but for you as an extension of
the show, as she has time during the day. So
thank you so much, Oh, thank you.

Speaker 12 (16:56):
And I promise when you get an answer from me
on X, it's me and not a bot or AI.
It really is me in the analog form on digital
and Beth and Bo. It's always great to be with you.
The time goes guy, so fast and be safe out there.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Good Borrow Lara good Laurasi's good Morrow beads.

Speaker 14 (17:18):
All right.

Speaker 5 (17:18):
Wednesday morning, July thirtieth. Thanks to Teresa Payton for coming
on with us as always. You can follow her on
x at tracker. Peyton actually ran out of time. Had
one more story that I've been saving for her, but
I know we'll talk to her again, and this story
is not going anywhere. A new women only app called

(17:40):
t t Ea, Like Spill, the team exposes personal chats
and phone numbers. This is well, this is a can
of worms, is what it is potentially, because it's an app.
So imagine you go out into the dating world and
I don't I mean, I've so long since I've been

(18:01):
the dating scene. Been married twenty six years, so I
don't know much about the dating scene. But if I
were in it right now, the idea that this would exist,
what would give me pause? Because this essentially, as I understand,
it allows women to go on dates with men and
then spill the team give the date a rating.

Speaker 7 (18:22):
Well, it's like an online review for dating. Right, So
here's why.

Speaker 5 (18:27):
So we've gone from how would you conduct yourself if
all of a sudden you had to figure out whether
somebody is wearing a watch that can record everything that's
said in a conversation. If you're out there dating and
you're trying to I don't know whether you've been there
for a long time or you're trying to get back
the idea that everything you do on a date could
be fodder for a one to five star review. The

(18:49):
way you review something online. What kind of wall are
we moving into here?

Speaker 7 (18:54):
Well, so here's why Tea is in the news. Tea
has been around as a dating app news because it's
been hacked twice now in online conversations like the private
conversations people were having, and their user information has been leaked.
So right now it's gone dark because of that. And
I would imagine that that that the hackers. It's probably
like a retribution hack, saying we don't want to be reviewed.

(19:17):
But if you think about it, if you think about it,
everything else in this world gets reviewed. You know, you
go online for someone like doctor you know, doctor Yeast
or Kristin Bernard. You look for the five star reviews.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
You sit down at a meal and say, I just
want you to know I'm I'm five star reviewed. I
have hundreds of five.

Speaker 8 (19:32):
Star reviews, well built, most of my references.

Speaker 10 (19:35):
It's a black mirror episode if you guys have not
seen it, where people get you get rated and you
can do certain things if you don't have like a
so much of a star rating, like you're oh, relegated
a certain part of society to a certain level.

Speaker 5 (19:48):
Oh yeah, it's crazy. I've really enjoyed our date. Thank
you so much. Please leave a five star.

Speaker 7 (19:53):
Review, give them a business card, leave it.

Speaker 8 (19:56):
Scan this and I'm not joking, okay, and here's a
fifty dollars gift.

Speaker 7 (20:01):
Yes, exactly. Well, here's the positive side of this, because
can you imagine I'm like bo all of us. I've
been married seventeen years my husband you're not dating, right,
not dating? I thought you were going to say seventeen
times seventeen years. My husband and I have been together
for twenty so it's been a long time since I've
dated as well. But if you are in the dating space,

(20:23):
most people meet online these days, So imagine if you
could meet somebody online, say it whatever, match dot com
and then you could google their name and you could
see reviews from other people who have dated them. Like what, so,
I'm not going to name my friend, but a friend
of mine who is.

Speaker 8 (20:39):
Single, that's a good idea.

Speaker 7 (20:40):
She is single, and she has been on dates that
with people that she's met online. And she was on
a first date with a gentleman and I'm hit gentleman,
I should not be using that term. They're having drinks
and he gets up and goes to the restroom and
sends her an inappropriate picture from the bathroom, Like, think
about that. So if she could have gone online and

(21:01):
reviewed that guy and said, this is what you might get.

Speaker 8 (21:05):
Did he come back to the table?

Speaker 7 (21:06):
Well, she left, She left before he came back.

Speaker 5 (21:09):
That's a number two review.

Speaker 7 (21:10):
And and and and so, like if you could the picture.

Speaker 5 (21:16):
A slow bird, I just got that.

Speaker 7 (21:19):
But if you could find stars, but if you could
find out, but if you could find out if this
person might be prone to that kind of behavior or
if if if that was can.

Speaker 8 (21:36):
You imagine reading that about somebody right? Like, I want
to date. It was going okay except for this one thing.

Speaker 4 (21:42):
Sudden, I'm not getting any dates.

Speaker 8 (21:43):
It's one weird thing.

Speaker 7 (21:45):
But and then imagine, so here take this a step
further than what if you apply for a job and
somebody goes to the te app and sees how you
treat people in real life, because then they might think, well,
this person's going to sexually harass people in the workplace
or me. There there are so many things about this
that are bizarre, but also from a safety standpoint, you

(22:06):
might be able to avoid some really scary situations.

Speaker 5 (22:09):
From a safety standpoint, yes, I mean there's good, much
good that can come out of this, but from a
just our is everything in life. It's now digitized and recorded,
and we've basically taken life and it's just just one
big review good or bad online.

Speaker 7 (22:27):
And all of that. I mean, when you really think
about it. Since the invention of social media, kind of
that exists anyway, because people can go online and say
whatever they want about you. And that's how kids, you know,
end up getting bullied. And I mean, well not kids, adults.
I mean we all get bullied online. We all especially do.

Speaker 8 (22:45):
Avoiding segments here tell me about it, but salts about
that whole to it.

Speaker 7 (22:55):
I've started view though.

Speaker 5 (22:57):
I just went home the other day and bought a
bigger one that way, I really can't hear you.

Speaker 14 (23:01):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (23:05):
Well, we've been talking about the heat, and rightfully so
in this part of the world for the last week
or so, but we're starting off on a Wednesday morning
talking about something decidedly different. An eight point eight magnitude
earthquake struck off of Russia's far eastern coast overnight, and
as I understand it, this quake is tired for the
sixth strongest ever recorded. Beth Troutman, let's bring on Ray

(23:28):
Stagic now from the Weather Channel.

Speaker 13 (23:30):
Ray.

Speaker 5 (23:30):
Looking at some of these warnings that are still in
effect for parts of Japan, it looks like the ones
for the United States have been lifted in large part.
But what can you tell us about a very unexpected
story to wake up to today?

Speaker 9 (23:43):
Yeah, you know, earthquakes on the top of the line
there are difficult to predict. Unlike you know a weather forecast.
You can make a forecast and say, well, tomorrow looks
like there's going to be strong thunderstorms. You don't go
out and make a prediction and be well, there's going
to be an eight point eight earthquake and we're gonna
have tsunami waves. But that's what happened. And right now

(24:04):
we're at number six time with the I'm going to
try my best at this Biobo Chile earthquake back in
twenty ten. So now we're talking about an earthquake here
that doesn't happen all that often. And now, as we've mentioned,
we think the worst of the Wine Iron's over with
the advisories and the West coast still some warnings. There

(24:27):
are parts of California near Cape Mendsino that are a
little bit more vulnerable due to the psymmetry of the
bottom of the ocean, but advisories and warnings still for
the West coast. And what that means is that basically
we may see some water rise maybe one to two feet,
seeing about that right now for parts of California. And

(24:48):
what that is is kind of a surge of water
that comes up and above mean heat level of where
the water is at that time. That's how much higher
that wave is coming in than it would be normally.

Speaker 7 (24:59):
How long will something a tsunami warning like this one
last on average.

Speaker 9 (25:06):
It's a tough question. I think every events different. Obviously,
they monitor the booy data that comes in the Tsunami
Warning Center, and they'll base it upon and they'll base
their alerts upon and how long they'll keep them based
on not only historical data, but also what they're catching
from some of the buoy reports in and around the
center of the earthquake. And just remember, when you get

(25:27):
these tsunami waves to come in, they do come in
that they come in waves and the surges of water.
Then you get a retreat of the water, and then
you make get another surge, and hopefully we'll see less
and less of this. What I'm hearing so far is
that not much, especially on the west coast of the US,
in terms of damage, but you know, reports will start
trickling in here shortly. And for the Hawaiian Islands did

(25:49):
see a rise of almost six feet of water. I
don't know what that means actually to determine what the
actual damage was or how far that inmudation went inland
to get into structures and businesses, but still remains to
be seen. But obviously right around the center of where
that quake was in parts of Russia, everybody's probably seated
by now. There has been an indication as that tsunami

(26:11):
wave did push in and he could see structures and
vehicles being floated in and getting pushed by that strong
tsunami wave or waves plural.

Speaker 7 (26:19):
I would imagine that we are more proactive and maybe
more precautious now that we've seen what happened, was it
two thousand and four in Thailand? Twenty eleven in Japan,
that we're just trying to really make sure that people
are safe.

Speaker 9 (26:35):
Yeah, and at two thousand and four, the Sumatra one
in Indonesia that was a nine point two magnitude earthquake,
and in Alaska in sixty four nine point one that
was number two, And there was another one in Chile,
a nine point five earthquake that is number one, is
one of the strongest earthquake on record. So you know,
I don't know what an eight point eight compared to

(26:55):
a nine point five actually means in terms of destruction
or tsunamis, But it all has to do with the
depth and what kind of earthquake it actually is, and
the depth of that earthquake and actually where it occurs too.
But you know, been poking around and just seeing what's
been going on out there of what they call the
Ring of Fire where all these volcanoes are kind of

(27:15):
circled around in the Pacific Ocean, and there has been,
you know, some unusual activity. Let's just say there have
been some reported minor earthquakes. But it does look like
where those areas are right now that at least for now,
we're seeing some aftershocks, but none to the magnitude that
we saw overnight and now into the early morning hours.

Speaker 5 (27:37):
Okay, so we'll keep an eye on that, of course
throughout the day. Back to hyper local here, and you
were the first guy to put this out there on
anybody's radar. The fact that all of a sudden Saturday,
we're going to feel like we're in we're in a
different country because hein youer eighty on Saturday.

Speaker 9 (27:54):
Yeah, I will tell you this for the first weekend,
the first couple of days of August, this is a
wonderful tree. I mean, it may be accompanied by some
showers and thundershowers, but there's a chance we might not
get out of the upper seventies in some spots, especially
as you get west into the mountains.

Speaker 11 (28:13):
The lows of being the little.

Speaker 9 (28:14):
Mid sixties in the mountains, it's going to be into
the fifties. So I don't know if you want to
go as far as saying maybe a fall preview, but
certainly a late summer preview is advertised this time of
year are closer to ninety so instead of ten degrees
above normal, will be about ten degrees below normal.

Speaker 7 (28:30):
I'm not mad at it.

Speaker 5 (28:31):
So what do you call this? Is this an Indian fall?
You know, Indian summer is when it's unseasonable, the other
way around.

Speaker 9 (28:42):
Right, yeah, boys, after the first frost or something like,
I don't know, it's got some very we can make
up our ally doesn't work.

Speaker 5 (28:48):
All right, Well, we appreciate you checking in with us,
no matter what the headlines are. And no one saw
this one coming today, and as you said, I mean,
how can you, But we can talk about the ramifications.
Thank you. Ray. Okay, News Talk eleven t WBT, so
the latest on the earthquake and the sixth strongest ever recorded.
Just sit there and think about that. As far as
statistics go, we got much more on a busy pen

(29:10):
ultimate day of July. Bernie to the fortune of the
jib sleeve.

Speaker 7 (29:15):
There's something called a jib on a boat.

Speaker 11 (29:17):
There is, and this is the sleeve.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
Yes, you was Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three
w BT.

Speaker 5 (29:23):
I'd like to introduce you to Captain Stouping. You certainly
picked the right crew.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
This is good Morning Beat with Bottompson at Beth Trout.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
I loved your interest.

Speaker 5 (29:34):
Enjoy your crew. It's right setting sail every day, even
the penultimate day of July. I'm just leaning in Bernie. Wednesday,
July thirtieth, Bow and Beth your crew, if you will,
Steve and the zoke and Bernie just have this look

(29:58):
on your face, like what are you doing?

Speaker 7 (30:01):
This is my crew? Is that what you're saying.

Speaker 5 (30:03):
It's the whole crew. It's the crew, the crew of
the ship. Captain Steve did I like your crew and
the jib sleeve.

Speaker 14 (30:10):
I love that.

Speaker 7 (30:10):
In that moment, I was like, God, guy's a jib
or something on a boat as.

Speaker 5 (30:14):
If it's an old, old wooden ship. And he's like,
this is the gym and this is this leave the
great cam Love helped our favorite yacht rock band, Thurston
Hall's out there having a great summer.

Speaker 12 (30:28):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (30:28):
We've been talking so much about the all new do
WBT text line driven by Libertybew at GMC. You can
still contact us the old fashioned way, which is at
the old seven oh four five seven eleven ten phone number,
or you can send us an email at GMBT show
at dou WBT dot com. I know this because you are.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
In fact.

Speaker 5 (30:46):
Mark sent us a note last night, and I flagged
this because, in all seriousness, we're coming off a weekend,
this horrible story on on four eighty five where you
had six people die in a car accident, and many
some of you listening now were in that area this
weekend and in some of the traffic on the interstate,

(31:06):
and it was just a terrible scene. We got this
note from Mark, and I flagged this because I'm still
thinking about what happened over the weekend, and quite frankly,
what happens not to that extent, but we hear stories
all the time about how people are driving in road rage,
and we probably don't talk about it enough. Bo and Beth,
maybe you guys could use the fifty thousand watts to

(31:28):
help lower the speed limit on four eighty five, or
at least bring up the subject. I'm fine with seventy
miles per hour when it's safe, but I feel like
I'm on the Autobahn at times in very crowded areas.
Is it just me, or does it seem like many
drivers are going eighty five or faster in areas in
which the speed limit should be lower. I'm surprised there
are not more fatalities, and I try to avoid it

(31:49):
if at all possible. And that's from Mark, and he
brings up a good point. I mean, I was driving
to work this morning, and I'm feeling like I usually
say that when we drive to work, there's not a
whole lot going on out there, But today I watched
a guy in front of me, I mean, tailgate a
guy in the other lane, a guy, a gal, I
don't know, somebody driving, and I'm thinking it's it's it's like.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
Four fifty right, where are you going?

Speaker 5 (32:14):
And why are you so mad? Don't actually it's five fifty,
not four to fifty because that but it didn't relate today.

Speaker 8 (32:19):
Yeah, but you probably show.

Speaker 4 (32:21):
But you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (32:22):
Like like, he brings up a good point, and every
once in a while we get notes like this, Why
don't you guys bring this up over the fifty thousand watts? Now?
I guarantee we're going to get text now because of this,
because I know, as you listen, maybe you're out in
it right now, But I don't think it does get
talked about enough. How sort of out of control etiquette
is driving down the highway on an average day.

Speaker 7 (32:43):
I will say I drive on four eighty five a lot.
And he's not wrong about how fast people go on
that highway because it is in some places four lanes,
you know, three lanes in other places. The thing that
terrifies me is the people who are going incredibly fast.
But the ones who go incredibly fast and weave in

(33:05):
and out of the lanes and almost clip other cars
to try to get around maybe a slower car that's
in the left lane. Those that behavior. It terrifies me
because one clip of a bumper going that fast could
set off a terrible, a terrible chain reaction and a
very dangerous and potentially deadly chain reaction. But he's not

(33:29):
wrong that people do go because what is the what's
the little saying that they say about.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
Nine you're fine, ten your mind, nine you're fine.

Speaker 7 (33:37):
Ten your mind. So if people if the if the
speed limit is seventy people feel legally that they can
go seventy nine miles an hour. I think that's kind
of the way people are feeling. And so you have
most of the people who are driving maybe going up
to almost eighty miles an hour, and then the people
who are willing to break the law, you know, they
were eighty five and nine. There was a person that

(33:59):
passed me on forty five that had to have been
going one hundred miles an hour. They had to have been,
because I was going, you know, a little over seventy
and they just blew past me.

Speaker 8 (34:08):
Yeah, exaggerate when I say it's every day I get
in the road, and some days I'm only on the
Interstate for five six miles or whatever. But you know,
I drive back and forth to Greenville obviously, and we'll
go to the Panthers practice, so I use seventy seven
going there. It's every day, just for those few minutes
in town if I'm on a longer drive where it's
that multiple times. And then this other thing that's become

(34:29):
kind of subset to that is every traffic light. I
would say about half the time now somebody will fire
through a red light. I mean you have to sit
when it turns green and not even think about going
into that intersection until you look both ways and give
it a few seconds. Because it's like becoming like a
thing though, like red is the new orange. If it's red,

(34:51):
it's just like that's just the first warning shot that
knows it's red, and they're going. They're firing through faster,
trying to make it so nowadays late they're going accelerating,
trying to get through it.

Speaker 7 (35:00):
I think it's a suggestion. And I sometimes wonder are
people not noticing that the light is read because maybe
they're distracted and texting or something, or are they just
that unwilling to sit at a red light. I told
you guys the story. I don't know if I said
it on the air, but I know I said it.
It was last week or the week before. I was
sitting at a stoplight coming in and again not a
lot of traffic on the roads when we're coming into work,

(35:20):
and I almost went. I was the first car and
I almost went, and then an eighteen wheeler blew through
red light. If I had, if I had actually gone
and hadn't noticed that eighteen wheeler coming, would I wouldn't
be here.

Speaker 5 (35:36):
There's nothing more sort of disheartening. And I had this happen.
I think we were going to the beach recently. I
was going somewhere and I was riding along sort of
cruise control whatever I mean I was going. I wasn't
paying attention to how fast I was going. And then
a car whizzed by me. I mean, like no, like

(35:57):
just leaving me in the dust. And I look down
and I was yeah, And I'm thinking if I and
I don't mean like speeding way over the speed limit,
but like you said, like if it's a if I
was in a seven, if I was in a sixty five,
maybe I was going seventy three or seventy two, but
I was, I was going faster than I should. And
I'm thinking, if that car left me in the dust

(36:17):
the way it just did, it must have been doing
one hundred easy, right.

Speaker 7 (36:20):
And I think there's this false sense of security when
you're in your car. Maybe it's because you are controlling
the steering wheel. You feel in control of the situation.
But there are all kinds of drivers doing all kinds
of things all around you. Not to mention how many
people are texting and while they're driving, or trying to
operate their computer screens and their cars while they're driving.
But I mean, accidents happen in the blink of an eye,

(36:43):
and certainly when you're when the speed limit is seventy
or above, those accidents do get more dangerous because of
the sheer speed that would create a more devastating impact.

Speaker 5 (36:53):
Well, and I do think, you know, the thing that
we all know is happening, nobody wants to admit that
they do it. What's happening is you get people going
that fast and they're they're staring right at their phone.

Speaker 7 (37:04):
And it terrifies me. How many debt times a day
do you see someone swerving in front of you? You
know the text swerve. You can tell when somebody in
front of you is texting. They suddenly slow down and
they kind of do the weird text swerve. Or you
see somebody just slowly drift off to the right or
left and there's a car there, and you're thinking, I've
got to get away from this person because they are

(37:25):
not paying attention. And I don't know why so many
people think that they can text and drive.

Speaker 5 (37:29):
Or they guess it because they're sitting at an arrow
and they're holding up traffic because it turns and they
don't go anywhere and look at that at their phone.

Speaker 7 (37:36):
Yeah, yeah, And then you block up traffic behind you
for the next several life cycles.

Speaker 5 (37:41):
Look, we're serious fun. That's what I love about this show.
We have very serious days and serious issues, but we
don't ever ignore the opportunity to sit back and laugh
at ourselves and have some fun. And most days, if
we're doing it right, in my opinion, both things happen
over the course of the show.

Speaker 7 (38:00):
Great thing about this bus stop radio. I like to say,
I'm the bus. At some point you're going to find
a bus. Do you want to get on?

Speaker 3 (38:09):
Yes? Get your This is good morning, bet.

Speaker 5 (38:20):
So. We were talking about Mark, who contacted us via
a GMBT show at WBT dot com. Mark's just saying, you, guys,
I need to talk about how excessive Charlotte's speed is
out there on the highways. We had an awful story. Now,
look the story over the weekend about for eighty five,
which is now an NTSB investigation. Uh, that does not

(38:42):
appear to have to do with excessive speed.

Speaker 7 (38:44):
They're still yeah, we don't know the full conclusions yet.

Speaker 5 (38:47):
But based on what we've seen so far, the descriptions
of what led to that don't sound like a situation
based on what I've read, that involves somebody going outlandishly fast,
but the NTSB is investigating it, so we'll see. But
my point is is that's another example. We were talking,
we got the email from Mark, and then the terrible
story of the weekend is fresh in our minds. So

(39:09):
just the overall state of traffic safety in Charlotte and
the interstates and the main drags around this city, it's
probably something we don't talk about enough. And I hate
it that it takes a story like this one and
emails like this to bring it into our realm here.
But given the number of texts that we've gotten on
the text line driven by libertybuw at GMC, they always

(39:31):
obey the speed limits on the text line, A lot
of people want to talk about this.

Speaker 7 (39:36):
Yes, here's a message we got from Elliott. I thought
this was really interesting, he said, good morning, WBT, this
is Elliott. And you will be surprised of how many
times I get screamed at and flipped off just because
I have to do the speed limit because my driving
is regulated through our company. There is definitely a lot

(39:57):
of inpatient people on Arlett streets. And have you ever
I mean, I'm sure that you've probably been behind a
work truck or a work van. Oftentimes they have little
bumper stickers or signs that say my speed is regulated,
but they have little regulators on their vehicles that don't
allow them to go more than like two or three
miles an hour over the speed limit.

Speaker 5 (40:15):
So Elliot's saying, did he gets flipped off for that? Yet?
Don't blow your horn at me. I'm just abiding by
the rules of my company right right, And.

Speaker 8 (40:24):
They can't flip them back off because by the in
car camera.

Speaker 5 (40:28):
Or you bad personal If you see that bumper sticker,
how's my driving? If they do flip you off, they
have a number to tell you what happened. We always
know how that's going to go, right, and then people
can call Doug customers always right.

Speaker 8 (40:41):
Well, I did call it an eighteen wheeler once ahead
the phone number on the back. It made this horrendous
turn on like a U turn on fifty one with
an eighteen wheler about took out my car and a
couple of others, and I called the number. It was
actually a weekday evening. Somebody answered and said, oh, where
was it? And I told them I know exactly who
you're talking about. We've had problems with that driver before.

(41:01):
So Sandra thinks I'm a tattletailing o ha HAA. Being
a tattletale paid off for once I did it.

Speaker 7 (41:06):
I called it same thing eighteen wheeler called the number
because I was sitting on seventy seven in not stopping
go traffic, but slow traffic, so like twenty miles an hour,
and this guy driving the eighteen wheeler was swerving a
little bit in front of me, and I was like,
what's going on? So I wrote down the number of
the truck and the eight hundred number, and then I
pulled beside him. He had his phone out and was

(41:26):
watching a.

Speaker 5 (41:27):
VIDDO and did you have the same situation where you
got somebody on the line that sounded like they were
going to take.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
Care of it?

Speaker 7 (41:33):
Yes, they said, thank you for letting us know, thank
you for notifying what if.

Speaker 8 (41:36):
He was watching the seventeen segment podcast, it.

Speaker 7 (41:39):
Was before the sorry, it was before that he was
he had his phone up in both of his hands,
kind of on the steering wheel and was like watching
TV basically.

Speaker 5 (41:47):
Doug says at seven oh four to five seven oh
eleven ten, the text line, he says, I was on
my way to an AC service call in my van
the day before that wreck was on the same stretch
of four eighty five. I was doing sixty eight miles
per hour and cars were asking me like I was
sitting still, like they're playing a video game. Sixteen year
old Texters, it's insane. And he was saying that he

(42:07):
was a sort of dovetailing off of what I said.
Where the other day I was, I was speeding a
little bit technically, you know, I wasn't going to the
point where I was thinking about it. I was kind
of just going on, you know, and a car just
whizzed by me and it made me look down at
what I was doing. And I was speeding, yeah, technically,
so what must they have been doing? Yeah, and then
you're looking around saying, where's the cop when you need one?

Speaker 7 (42:27):
That's what Carl is basically saying. He said, you have
to drive defensively, and Charlotte, even if you're going ten
over the speed limit, that seems to be too slow.
Oh yeah, that's what Carl said.

Speaker 10 (42:38):
I definitely I try to go telling you guys in
the break, I try to go with the flow of traffic,
and people still get up on my tail. If you're
passing people in the left lane pretty you know, substantially,
it's not even like you're going super slow. People will
still ride you until you can get over, and you
know we'll access it.

Speaker 5 (42:54):
So here we go. I wondered if we would get
one of these and we had. Now this is Bill
saying this. I'm going to read you what Bill said.
He said, what about those idiots on motorcycles driving on
the footed lines?

Speaker 7 (43:05):
Now, what's a footed line?

Speaker 5 (43:07):
I don't I don't know exactly what he means.

Speaker 4 (43:09):
Does he mean the stripe one?

Speaker 5 (43:10):
I don't know if it's the middle or what he's
talking I don't know. Is because I've seen. Okay, so
this is what I wondered, what happened. We'll we get
what we get. People talking about motorcycles because I don't
want to. I don't want to talk about all motorcycle
drivers or riders because plenty of them are out there
obeying the laws. But we all know we've seen the
ones that pop the wheelies and go down the street
and then weave in and out of people and feel
like they don't have to obey the same walls that

(43:34):
the cars do. I mean, that's an issue too at times.

Speaker 7 (43:37):
I just looked this up. I learned a new term today.
I'm grateful to Bill for teaching us this. The footed
lines on the road are likely referring to the trans
the transverse rumble strips, the rumble stripes that are on
the so either the side of the road or the
ones that exist for some people in the middle in
the middle of the road. But I bet he's talking about,

(43:57):
you know that rumble strip on either side of the
highway kind of in the breakdown lane.

Speaker 5 (44:02):
That if you're kind of sort of like there's a
paying attention that reminds you that you're running off the
road right right right. So he's saying that motorcycles will
just use that as a lane to.

Speaker 7 (44:11):
Get around traffic, I guess, to get around people that
are driving slowly.

Speaker 8 (44:15):
Or And wasn't the forty five wreck because there was
a parked eighteen wheeler and some people are like, well,
use that as another lane. All a sudden there's a
vehicle not moving.

Speaker 5 (44:22):
No, that was not the cause.

Speaker 13 (44:23):
What happened was those two vehicles sideswiped each other, went
out of control and spun into that truck.

Speaker 4 (44:30):
That's what just happened to be part.

Speaker 8 (44:31):
Yeah, I'm saying that caused it, but it was part
of like, you can't use that as a lane, is
what I'm saying, because you never know what's what's sitting
over there.

Speaker 5 (44:37):
Though the trucker did not get a ticket, it was
not illegal for him to be there, right right. I'm
just saying it's not always open, is what I'm saying.

Speaker 8 (44:44):
That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (44:45):
Yeah, good morning. So the hey man said, enjoy your show,
Thank you, love the show.

Speaker 9 (44:50):
Long time list or over a decade.

Speaker 11 (44:53):
Consider you guys for a family.

Speaker 7 (44:55):
Oh, he says, you're very kind.

Speaker 3 (44:57):
Wow, here you this is good morning.

Speaker 5 (45:01):
ET used to talk eleven ten WBT. We got a
special announcement about our Monday show coming up next hour,
and we've been working on this one for a while,
trying to get two people in the room at the
same time, and we confirmed it. It's gonna work. Actually
gonna be an hour and a half worth, half's worth

(45:25):
coming up on Monday. But stick around. We'll tell you
what that is. We're talking about. Well, how are you
driving out there? This is like the audio version of
how's my driving Call? Seven oh four five seven eleven ten.
You've seen the bumper stickers and I didn't realize that
we had two people in the room here that it
actually called the numbers.

Speaker 8 (45:42):
Zochie did a very satisfying pad hole session that I had.
Shadow goes you feel good, big man again, look like
a big man, street man, vigilante out there called the numbers.

Speaker 5 (45:53):
I feel like a powerful lady over there, best traveler.

Speaker 7 (45:56):
I just didn't want him to be texting and driving
in a gigantic vehicle, and.

Speaker 5 (46:00):
You wanted you wanted the consequences to come piling down
on him.

Speaker 7 (46:04):
Consequences here's by rush.

Speaker 3 (46:05):
I want no.

Speaker 8 (46:06):
By the way, I'm not gonna say I'm not a
little bit miffed in that, but I go, I don't
want them taking out somebody else. I want them to
stop the behavior.

Speaker 5 (46:12):
And I am moving forward. I am all four, both
of you calling that number. I just want to make
that well.

Speaker 7 (46:17):
We got a text from Bob who said we need
to make sure that we respect our truck drivers because
they're hauling all of our goods. And I one percent agree.
I love truck drivers. I love that.

Speaker 5 (46:25):
I love This was not a truck driver conversation, right right.

Speaker 8 (46:28):
We started with cars that are.

Speaker 7 (46:29):
Right right right.

Speaker 5 (46:29):
This is just drags and buses, this is bad drive.
Motorcycles have been also now cars. We've got Blair who's
been waiting patiently online? Number one, seven oh four, five,
seven oh eleven ten. It's a hot line, it's a
text line. It's whatever it wants to be. It must
be amphibious. Blair, welcome to That's an old Chris Washburn
or Charles Shackelford, was it back in the day? If

(46:50):
you know, you know, hey Blair, how you doing, man?

Speaker 14 (46:52):
I'm doing well this morning. How are y'all?

Speaker 7 (46:53):
Hey, Blair? Were great?

Speaker 4 (46:55):
What's up?

Speaker 6 (46:56):
Uh?

Speaker 14 (46:56):
Well, you know I've I've been law enforcement for thirty
years and six years my career was stent work in
the interstate and some of the best cases that I
ever generated were enforcing traffic laws. And that's one of
the problems that you see with these folks out here
just driving down the interstate or driving anywhere with no

(47:20):
thought or anything about what they're doing, is because there
is no enforcement going on, and we have to look
at that. We have to look at that problem holistically
and look at it as why law enforcement across the
country is facing a shortage of police officers. People just
don't want to be police today, but with the shortage,
they don't have time to be out there enforcing those
traffic laws. And then when they do go out there

(47:42):
enforce it, there's no consequences and Bethe you said it
a minute ago, no consequences, there's no consequences provided to
these folks when they do get stopped. So therefore, that's
one of the main problems is how many times you're
riding down the interstate and you see you don't see
police because they're too busy taking care of the other
calls for service. Whereas you know, criminal investigation through traffic

(48:04):
law enforcement is a great thing for law enforcement.

Speaker 7 (48:08):
To do well and for public safety purposes too, one.

Speaker 14 (48:11):
Hundred percent, you know, because people don't realize that the
interstates are our bloodlines for all criminal activity coming in
and out of our area, and if law enforcement is
out there working it, we can kind of help put
a reduce to that. And it also helps everyone with
our insurance. If law enforcement is out there reducing crashes
and reducing reducing speed related fatalities, that reduces our overall

(48:33):
insurance across the region.

Speaker 7 (48:35):
Oh, Blair, you just multiple you just hit on a
topic to it.

Speaker 5 (48:38):
Let me ask you a question, Blair. I was thinking
about this the other day. You know, when I was
a kid, I remember that I had a couple of
friends who had had parents that had radar detectors in
their car.

Speaker 7 (48:50):
Oh, the fuzzbuster is what my dad called it.

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

Speaker 7 (48:53):
Is that right yet?

Speaker 8 (48:57):
The prototype?

Speaker 5 (48:58):
So? But we all know those are those are illegal?

Speaker 4 (49:02):
Right?

Speaker 2 (49:02):
Are they?

Speaker 11 (49:03):
In some states?

Speaker 5 (49:04):
They are okay? So okay legal or illegal? People had
them and and and now everybody has one on their phone.

Speaker 7 (49:11):
If you use the right it's like speed track, it'll
tell you.

Speaker 5 (49:15):
It will give you an alert in your Google Maps.
Is is it Google or Apple? One of the two
alerts you If there's a radar detected in the speed trap,
they call it in the area. So the fact that
everybody or almost everybody has access to that now has
that made people more prone to just to rev it
up until they until they hear that signal, and then
that's made it more dangerous.

Speaker 14 (49:35):
Well, it's funny. I just wanted to DC a couple
of weekends ago, and using Google Maps all the way
up there, it would say, you know, police are in
the area, and then there's a little button that says
all they're still there. So, yeah, they're telling you that
there were there, but all they still there. And I'll
tell you about those those radar detectors, they're useless. All
they tell you is that you've been you just got radar,
I mean I operated one. So they just tell you, hey,

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you just got clocked by a police officers.

Speaker 5 (50:00):
So did you did you pull over at that point?
Did you pull over a lot of people that had those.

Speaker 12 (50:05):
Not really?

Speaker 14 (50:06):
No, no, not really because they're ineffective. Now what really
out on the interstate You're just you're just looking for
for those folks that are involved in crome activity.

Speaker 5 (50:15):
Now, you just said a few minutes ago, you said
that too often there are no consequences. Are you meaning
that people get pulled over and they don't get a
ticket written, they just get a warning or what do
you mean by no consequences?

Speaker 14 (50:26):
Well, law enforcements across the board they have discretion when
dealing with the person that they've stopped. They have discretion
on what they can provide them. They can provide them
a verbal warning and written warning, a ticket, or can
take them the jail, depending on depending on the violation. So,
but what I'm talking about is when when they are cited, and.

Speaker 9 (50:42):
They do go to court.

Speaker 14 (50:44):
Most of the time, from my experience, you will find
those cases are reduced, they're played out. You know, they
don't have any serious consequences to those misdemeanor violations, and
they are misdemeanors. Most of your traffic violations are infractions
and misdemeanors. So that is where it comes to, is
when it gets to court, we aren't holding people accountable.

(51:07):
We're not holding them accountable for their accents.

Speaker 7 (51:10):
It's the like the ineffective equipment plea or you know whatever,
because all of that stuff gets in there. You know,
you made a great point earlier too about insurance rates
and accidents and the lack of law enforcement because they're
off doing other things. We've gotten so many texts Blair
saying that exact thing, saying this is why insurance rates

(51:31):
are so high, and and people are nervous on the
roadways because they don't see anybody, you know, paying any
price for the bad behavior on the road.

Speaker 14 (51:40):
Yes, so many people. We had for six years, we
had a unit that was specifically on the interstate working
criminal activity, and d OT even commented about how traffic
related accidents or speed related accidents were reduced during the
time that we were out there, so having that presence
on those will reduce accidents that will reduce high speed

(52:04):
fatalities by having that presence out there. But again that
comes back to agencies having people to be out there
to do that because we have to service the community.
When when the nine one one calls for you know,
for assaults and for domestics, those things have to take
have to take precedence. But by having by getting out

(52:24):
here and supporting our agencies and helping them develop and
get people employed so they can focus on this is
another part of the whole problem that we can help
once we have people to do the job, get out
there and do it, and then working with our district
attorneys to make sure that when we do go out

(52:46):
here and enforce these laws, the people are held accountable.

Speaker 9 (52:49):
We l air.

Speaker 5 (52:50):
You said your former highway patrol. Is that what you said?

Speaker 14 (52:53):
No, no, no, I'm former law enforcement. I've been in
law enforcement for thirty years.

Speaker 5 (52:56):
Okay, so so your former law enforcement. What I'm getting
at is I couldn't ordered up a better call, right.
We really appreciate your perspective and you're sort of filling
in some of these blanks.

Speaker 14 (53:07):
Well, I just hope people pay attention because you know,
what happened on forty five was preventable because people make
these choices and they go out here and they drive
and they drive crazy, and then all of a sudden
it's not their fault. We've taken away personal accountability of
the personal personal responsibility by not holding people accountable. And

(53:28):
the court systems are part of that. Law enforcements. Everybody
is a part of that, and we as citizens have
to hold each other accountable.

Speaker 5 (53:33):
We have unofficial traffic stuff now here on the show.
So we got to go, but we appreciate you calling in.
Thanks so much, Yes, sir, thank you, love your show.
Thank you great seving them moving, flood diving, diving in
upa speed's a bastyca like driving, see they.

Speaker 6 (53:53):
Like, see I'll be bulleting.

Speaker 5 (53:55):
You know I'm doing that. Drive around my children.

Speaker 3 (53:57):
I head a bening someone.

Speaker 5 (54:06):
Fis lun seven oh four, five seven oh eleven to ten.
Lot of people burning up the text line over this
story about erratic driving and namely speeding really in the
Charlotte area lately.

Speaker 7 (54:18):
Well, and there are so many layers to this because
people want to text about erratic driving. People want to
text us about texting and driving people going way, way
way over the speed limit. But then we've also gotten
a layer of texts like this one. And I don't
have a name to go with this, but he says,
I'm a truck driver and my truck has a speed
governor on it. It is customary for slower vehicles to

(54:40):
stay out of the fast lane. If you can't drive
with the flow of traffic, then you should get your
butt over. Also give room for trucks, as we can't
stop on a dime. I get cut off all the
time by cars because they have no respect for the trucks.
My company gets reports on my speed and my hard bread,

(55:00):
which my hard breaking is often caused by people cutting
me off. I think about that all the time when
you see cars that you know, how we were talking
earlier about the cars that speed and weave really closely
to the cars around them trying to get around slower traffic.
I always think about that with eighteen wheelers because they
can't just slam on the brakes because they have that
huge amount of weight that they're carrying that does that

(55:22):
pushes them forward. You know, it's kind of it's it's physics.
But he makes a point too about slow drivers in
that left hand lane who maybe are going the speed limit,
are a little bit under can sometimes cause just as
much traffic because they back up so so much traffic
behind them because people can't pass and get around, and
then people start getting road rage, and then they get angry.

(55:45):
And if you haven't watched it, there's a Russell Crowe
movie called Unhinged. It's all about road rage. It will
scare you to death and it will keep you from
or honk and your horn.

Speaker 5 (55:53):
Or calling that number on the bumper sticker.

Speaker 4 (55:56):
Apparently not for bad no.

Speaker 7 (55:58):
But he was watching a video.

Speaker 5 (56:01):
So this is interesting. Line three, Joe has been patiently waiting.
Joe actually is on the other side of this. He's
a supervisor and can talk about the commercial drivers getting scored. Joe, Hey, Joe, Hey,
Hey Bo Matt.

Speaker 15 (56:17):
Love you guys been I've finished it now ten years
and really enjoyed you guys over the last couple of
years and shared this channel with my other friends and
get them on board as well. So this is the
topic that's near and dear.

Speaker 11 (56:29):
To my heart.

Speaker 15 (56:29):
That number on the back of that truck I want
you call that driver in. On that driver, not only
does the driver get scored to dot number gets scored,
but more importantly, that a tractor driver trailer driver is
pulling eighty thousand pounds down the road, it's critical that
he has his eyes on the road at all time.

(56:51):
But when we go to higher driver, one thing we
pull up as their safety scores and so we and
every year we have to run it MVR on that
employee to see if they've been in any violations, whether
in a commercial vehicle or in their personal vehicle. And
those offenses add up on whether we're going to retain

(57:12):
the employee or if we're going to hire that employee.
So we want that phone number on that back so
you can call in because we've got as many eye
as we can to coach because they are pulling very
important stuff for everyone down the road. But more importantly,
they're held at a higher standard because.

Speaker 11 (57:29):
Of that weight to that vehicle.

Speaker 7 (57:31):
So, Joe, when you heard Zochi tell the story about
calling that number, When you heard me tell the story
about calling that number, were you excited. I've giving our
sills around of the Luoye.

Speaker 15 (57:41):
Absolutely, I've called that number as a logistics right on
our other carriers. I've had drivers tell me they've rolled
over attractive trailer as they were reaching for their cigarettes.
So and you know, and there's also as a federal
law for drivers to wear seatbelts, and it's not for

(58:03):
their safety but the safety of everyone else because these
passenger vehicles are looking at these phones to what the
officer saying, and they hit the side of a tractor
trailer and had this happen where they hit that driver's
side doing forty miles an hour or forty five miles
an hour going through an interstate, that driver, if he

(58:26):
doesn't have a seatbelt on that two thousand pound vehicle
going forty five miles an hours, throwing him out of
that seat. And now we have eighty thousand pounds going
down the road, you know, with no one behind the steerwheel.
So it's a federal law for drivers to wear a
seat belt, where it's only a state law for everyone else.
So that phone call is important for us because as

(58:48):
many eyes we have the coach and make better behaviors
for our drivers. Keep the road safer as critical for us.

Speaker 5 (58:55):
Yeah, you got Beth and the zoke high five in
in here.

Speaker 8 (59:00):
I wish every Sedayan had that sticker.

Speaker 5 (59:02):
I call that number.

Speaker 8 (59:03):
It's not pick it on the truck drivers here. There
needs to be I'll tattle on anybody.

Speaker 7 (59:07):
There should be an app like the t app, not
for dating, but for driving. You could put people's license
plates on it and tell the stories.

Speaker 5 (59:14):
Hey, it's like I said, how are we doing? Tell
us seven O four five seven eleven ten are we
driving this show?

Speaker 8 (59:22):
Well?

Speaker 5 (59:22):
Yes, we've got two more hours to drive.

Speaker 8 (59:26):
Unless you don't like it and don't do that, that's right.

Speaker 5 (59:29):
Only five star reviews. Mark Garrison's got a great story
coming up, among others. Stay with us on a busy
penn ultimate day of July. And what does it mean
to slide into someone's DMS? That sounds like a lot
of fun.

Speaker 3 (59:48):
Okay, we're not ready for that from these Talk eleven
ten and ninety nine three double e BT.

Speaker 7 (59:53):
And then what does that have to do with anything?

Speaker 5 (59:55):
It has everything to do with anything.

Speaker 3 (59:57):
This is Good Morning Beat, both Hubson and Beth troutfood.
That's all. With a second, we ride up thet Troy's bucket.

Speaker 5 (01:00:07):
News Talk eleven ten nine to nine three WBT on Wednesday,
July thirtieth. Don't forget We've got a special show announcement
coming up at eight twenty. As people hand me things
to eat here and hold that thought for a second.
We have a big announcement about Monday's show and who's
going to join us for the last hour and a
half of the show. It's been confirmed, but right now

(01:00:30):
joining us, and we're happy to bring back WBT News
director Mark Harrison.

Speaker 13 (01:00:35):
Yes, sir, National hot Dog Month. We've been covering it
in depth from the last few weeks. Now we're going
to take you to a place where people are willing
to drive a long way for some crazy good hot dogs,
but they also gobble up pizza rolls and something really sweet.

Speaker 7 (01:00:51):
We drove from Kannapolis wanted cinnamon rolls.

Speaker 5 (01:00:54):
Yes, the cinnamon rolls, you get them heated.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
We've got folks who come from Raleigh, from Tennessee.

Speaker 13 (01:00:59):
You might call it a culinary tourist attraction.

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
It's a special treat to come up here.

Speaker 13 (01:01:04):
People come to the tiny town of Faith, North Carolina,
population barely a thousand. There's a few stone buildings on
main street, and then this place, thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:01:14):
Not going to help you, known as Yosty's.

Speaker 3 (01:01:16):
I love it.

Speaker 13 (01:01:17):
And the owner, Shelley Yoast, will tell you exactly why
the crowds come to her little shop because we're unique.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Come on out what you need today.

Speaker 16 (01:01:25):
The things that we make you can't really get anywhere else.
Most of them are at least not as good as.

Speaker 5 (01:01:30):
We make them, like her handmade cinnamon rolls. How many
cinnamon rolls do you bake every day?

Speaker 16 (01:01:35):
Sometimes thirty or forty dozen?

Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
Wow?

Speaker 5 (01:01:39):
Well, besides the yummy cinnamon.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
Rolls, we're going to get twelve hot dogs.

Speaker 5 (01:01:43):
Hot dogs fly out the door here hot all the way.

Speaker 13 (01:01:46):
And the reason is Yosty's chili, which customers have trouble describing.

Speaker 5 (01:01:51):
It's magical one that you're not talking about.

Speaker 13 (01:01:53):
Oh no, Shelley's daughter, Emerald, I'm not saying a word,
not divulging.

Speaker 5 (01:01:58):
The recipe to the secret sauce. Many asked for it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
Oh, they want to buy it from us, and we say, well,
we'll just sell you the chili.

Speaker 16 (01:02:05):
It's one hundred percent ground beef with tomato products and spices.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
It's kind of unique for this area.

Speaker 13 (01:02:13):
And it's also unique just how Shelley yost got this
chili recipe.

Speaker 5 (01:02:17):
Almost Heaven.

Speaker 7 (01:02:20):
West Virginia.

Speaker 16 (01:02:22):
I lived in West Virginia, dout in the middle of nowhere.

Speaker 5 (01:02:26):
As a kid.

Speaker 13 (01:02:26):
Shelley's mom taught her how to bake.

Speaker 16 (01:02:28):
We made my own bread and started making other things
out of the dough in. One of them was cinnamon buns,
and they became really popular with everyone I knew West Virginia.

Speaker 13 (01:02:40):
And when Shelley got married, her West Virginia man came
with something most brides don't get, an unusual chili recipe
that her father in law had been given years before
as payment for a job.

Speaker 16 (01:02:52):
His dad did some electrical work for them and they
paid him with the recipe for the chili.

Speaker 5 (01:02:59):
Really West Virginia.

Speaker 13 (01:03:01):
Soon, Shelley Yost had a daughter to care for. Fiercely independent,
she did not want a West Virginia factory job.

Speaker 16 (01:03:08):
You don't have anybody bossing me around.

Speaker 13 (01:03:10):
She decided to take a chance with her cinnamon rolls
and that chili recipe.

Speaker 16 (01:03:15):
So there was a little rundown diner, and I found
out who owned it, and I went to his office
every day with her in the stroller until I convinced
him to lease.

Speaker 8 (01:03:27):
It to us.

Speaker 13 (01:03:27):
Her new mom with a new business, Shelley Yost called
it Yosti's a play on the family name. She worked
long hours.

Speaker 16 (01:03:35):
We would get up at two three in the morning
and go down there and put her in a playpen.

Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
She would go back to sleep and I would bake.

Speaker 13 (01:03:42):
Business was good, and soon customers wanted her to add
one more.

Speaker 16 (01:03:46):
Item, so I started making pepperoni rolls. Nest roll with
sticks of pepperoni baked inside. There a West Virginia staple.

Speaker 7 (01:03:53):
Oh, I'm a huge fan of the pepperoni roles.

Speaker 13 (01:03:55):
In the early two thousands, Shelley and Emerald moved to
North Carolina to the out of Faith in Rowane County
to be near some family, and again she quickly found
a building to rent.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
What's you need today?

Speaker 5 (01:04:06):
It's your dogs all the way.

Speaker 6 (01:04:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:04:08):
Though her unusual hot dogs with no coal slaw or
ketchup had locals scratching their heads at first, and then.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
They take a bite and it immediately changes.

Speaker 7 (01:04:17):
Dogs just great.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
They're so excited. They're like, oh, it doesn't need ketchup.

Speaker 5 (01:04:21):
This is perfect.

Speaker 13 (01:04:22):
Oh and then West Virginia chili is also a topping
for something else here.

Speaker 16 (01:04:26):
Chili spaghetti is very popular.

Speaker 13 (01:04:28):
Chili spaghetti, well, that's an E one on me. Emeralds said,
I had to try.

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
It first taste.

Speaker 3 (01:04:34):
It was so good.

Speaker 13 (01:04:36):
I just never would have thought about hot dog, chili,
cheese and spaghetti.

Speaker 5 (01:04:40):
But it is so good.

Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
There's great.

Speaker 8 (01:04:43):
Another one of our regular choice spaghetti was onions as usual.

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
We know everybody comes in pretty much.

Speaker 16 (01:04:48):
That's the best thing about this is the community, the
people that come in here.

Speaker 13 (01:04:54):
The little town of Faith is more than one hundred
years old, started by a man who came to the
area and said he would started business on faith. What
you need today, well, Shelley Yost knows what that's all about.
All those years ago in West Virginia. She was just
sure her cinnamon rolls and chili recipe would be a
great way to make a living.

Speaker 7 (01:05:12):
It's comfort food.

Speaker 5 (01:05:13):
It makes people very happy, and that's the real secret here.

Speaker 4 (01:05:17):
I like the pepperoni roll.

Speaker 13 (01:05:18):
A family that loves working together serving up there one
of a kind recipes.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
I get to hang out with my mom, I get
to make delicious snacks.

Speaker 13 (01:05:26):
Emerald Yost says, no question, she grew up in the
perfect family business.

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
Nobody's ever mad at you when you feed them a
cookie or cinnamon bun.

Speaker 5 (01:05:34):
These buns they are just to die for.

Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
I love it. I feel like the Yoast's heiress. Come
on up, what you need today?

Speaker 5 (01:05:42):
Talk about a happy place? And I brought you guys
some of the cinnamon rolls. So what do you think
I'll say, talk about a happy place?

Speaker 7 (01:05:50):
And no, this is amazing. So I was waiting until
the end of the story because I wanted to hear
all about the chili and the chili spaghetti before I
took a bite. But I have cottage again to bite
off of this, So hold on, we're gonna taste this live.
But how sweet are you that you brought us an
entire tray of cinnamon buns?

Speaker 5 (01:06:07):
Well, both threatened me. If I didn't, I said, Oh,
good on you bo, they are really good, I said, Mark.
I mean, I love all these places that you go,
and these stories are amazing, but bring us something back.

Speaker 13 (01:06:18):
But the thing about these day are just so full
of cinnamon, and they're gooey and they're sweet, yes.

Speaker 7 (01:06:23):
But there's something that's different, almost like it's almost like
they're sitting in carmel.

Speaker 4 (01:06:27):
Or something so good.

Speaker 5 (01:06:28):
When I was in grade school at East Over Elementary,
I used to plan my days. I take my launch
most of the time, but I would buy on the
days they had the sweet rolls that they made for dessert.
And this is the highest compliment I could give to
what you brought us. It reminds me of those I
don't know what it was about that school and that time,
but they were just different. They tasted different, and I

(01:06:49):
feel like I'm back in grade school in the best
possible way. Mark, Oh awesome.

Speaker 13 (01:06:53):
So well, Yosti's is in the little town of Faith.
It's about forty five minutes from Charlotte. They're open ten
to three Tuesday three Saturday.

Speaker 7 (01:07:00):
And I'm so excited that you pointed out the chili
on spaghetti. I mean, that's a thing and.

Speaker 5 (01:07:05):
You realize something. It is really good.

Speaker 7 (01:07:07):
It's a thing people should try because if you have
some yummy chili and then you put a bunch of
shredded cheddar cheese and like that guy ordered some onion
on there, Oh, that is some eating that will just eat.

Speaker 5 (01:07:16):
Your face right off. Next week, Mark can bring us lunch.

Speaker 8 (01:07:20):
He brought you a tray of hot talks from yesterday
in his car.

Speaker 5 (01:07:24):
Well, these sweet rolls are I'm already telling you one bite.
I'm telling you this, this is the best one I've
ever had. Thank you, Mark.

Speaker 7 (01:07:30):
They're different, guys, These are different and the good different.
Like it's it's it's better than cinneba is it.

Speaker 5 (01:07:35):
Eat your base off, eat your face right off. We're
going to proceed to do that in the meantime. And
by the way, big announcement about the Monday show coming
up after the break here And first, Boomer von Cannon.

Speaker 17 (01:07:45):
Now Faith is in Rowayne County near Salisbury. They had
a very distinguished guest in the early nineties, I think
it's ninety one from President George H. W. Bush attended
the Fourth of July celebration.

Speaker 7 (01:07:56):
Yeah, that train came right through Cannapolis. And my band
play for him. Not my not my band like a
my school band, but like my marching band played for him.

Speaker 5 (01:08:05):
Are you using your smoking cigarettes for us?

Speaker 8 (01:08:08):
We're all smoking cigarettes.

Speaker 6 (01:08:11):
We played.

Speaker 7 (01:08:11):
We played as he rode through town.

Speaker 5 (01:08:13):
That's around. I'm meeting a sweet roll voice, I am.

Speaker 7 (01:08:15):
I'm meeting a sweet roll Okay, let me just show
you how it's done about a little percussion.

Speaker 11 (01:08:20):
First and for um, I I want to say thank
you for making my morning fun and light.

Speaker 5 (01:08:25):
Oh Gary, thank you well, thank you Gary for basically
retelling our show mission that that is what it's all about,
is to inform you and for you to have fun
at the same time. It is possible to not mutually exclusive.

Speaker 7 (01:08:37):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 3 (01:08:38):
And Garry on the kick Drunks come come anyhow, this
is good Morning Beats.

Speaker 5 (01:08:45):
He's more annoyed by you know what. You know, what
Gary's trying to do is keep us from going down
a rabbit hole. You know, Gary, that's your prerogative, that's
your right to listen. Seven oh four five, seven eleven ten.
We've got might have been a record breaking number of
texts today, although I will say part of it, maybe

(01:09:06):
half of them, have been saying we can't hear you
on the on the internet feed the live stream. Yeah,
live stream is not working right now.

Speaker 3 (01:09:15):
We know about it.

Speaker 5 (01:09:16):
We appreciate all of you calling and blowing up Steve's
phone over there. I mean, on one hand, I'm like,
I'm glad so many people trying to listen. But we're
doing our best to fix this online listening issue. So
we're working on it. If you can't hear us online,
you can hear us on eleven ten AM, nine to
nine point three FM.

Speaker 7 (01:09:33):
We are nonplussed as to why it hasn't been effectively
non remedies.

Speaker 5 (01:09:41):
That's diplomatic. Beth Troutman well perplexed a big announcement about
Monday show. I'm excited about this, I know, Beth is
because we've been behind the scenes trying to make this
happen for a while and it actually sort of organically
finally had the deal closed on Monday when Mick mlvady
was in studio with us, as he usually is by
phone or wherever he can, but we love it best

(01:10:03):
when he's in studio. He was in studio on Monday
talking about we still need to do that thing we
were talking about, and then he started getting texts from
the other person who I think was listening and saying, hey,
when are we going to do this? Well, long story
short on Monday for the last hour and a half
of the show. So starting at eight thirty on Monday,
not only will Mick mulvaney be in studio, but US

(01:10:25):
Senator Tom Tillis will be in studio.

Speaker 7 (01:10:28):
And I love that the two they worked it out together.
While Mick was live on the air, they were texting
each other about doing this together, and then you know,
their official staff got involved in the process and we
confirmed it and I am so excited about this conversation.
They were both excited as they were texting each other
about the potential of this conversation. And now everyone else

(01:10:52):
could be involved. If there's something that you want to know,
that there's something you want to ask us, to ask
the Senator and the former White House Chief of Staff
send us a texts seven four eleven ten.

Speaker 5 (01:11:01):
Yeah, an hour and a half with both of them
in the room and the text line rolling and the
hotline going, and look, we don't have to tell you.
Tom Tillis has been one of the most talked about
politicians in the country over the last month with his
decision to not vote for the Big Beautiful Bill, or
at least not vote affirmative for it, and then deciding
to step down and not run for reelection. So we

(01:11:22):
have talked to him since then, but this will be
a chance to really kind of dig deep and get
an idea as to where his career is going after
the Senate is seat is up in twenty twenty six,
and how he feels about now the new field with
Wattley about to make it official, and of course Roy
Cooper making his official announcement a couple of days ago.
And then of course Mick mulvaney will join us in

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the studio as well. Mick Mulvaney, you know.

Speaker 7 (01:11:47):
It would be fun to have Mick Mixon in that
trio as well. We just see what that way, we.

Speaker 8 (01:11:51):
Started Mick right in the middle of a Bob Sagett
segment one, so Mick would fit in.

Speaker 3 (01:11:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:11:55):
I was on a text chain with Mick and Jordan
Gross yesterday out of the Blue, by the way, just
about the old segment. Jake and Jordan still do a podcast,
and there was a play where Jordan gets into a
fight on the field and breaks up a fight, and
so he said that the audio from that, So three
of us are all going back and forth about that yesterday.

Speaker 7 (01:12:12):
So Jordan Gross probably my favorite Carolina Panthers so funny,
love him. He went with me to American Idol and
was my co host for like a week in Los Angeles.
I had never met the guy and.

Speaker 8 (01:12:23):
Got you a sixty nine jersey.

Speaker 7 (01:12:24):
Day he did, which and it says my name on
the back of it. So I have an official Panthers
jersey like it's the actual Panthers jersey with my name
on the back, but it's number sixty nine.

Speaker 8 (01:12:36):
It feels a little weird, but we weren't every Sunday,
I know, but.

Speaker 7 (01:12:41):
I always get strange looks. I get strange looks.

Speaker 5 (01:12:44):
Yeah, if you're not Jordan Gross and they're wearing that,
you're a female, probably something.

Speaker 7 (01:12:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:12:48):
And of course when he gave it to you, people
got he's likely to mess with Jordan Gross.

Speaker 7 (01:12:51):
No, because he's like one hundred feet tall. When he
gave it to me, he gave it to me on
the air, and I put it on the air and
immediately started getting phone calls. One from TJ Ritchie, by
the way, who does our nighttime show.

Speaker 4 (01:13:02):
Now.

Speaker 7 (01:13:02):
It calls me on the phone. He's like, that jersey
seems a little weird and different on you. I was like, what,
I didn't even think of it.

Speaker 15 (01:13:08):
Good Morning, Bowen Bath.

Speaker 5 (01:13:10):
Hi's the conversation this morning.

Speaker 3 (01:13:12):
I had to call it. This is Good Morning Beat
with bow and Beth.

Speaker 5 (01:13:21):
Eight thirty six on News Talk eleven ten WBT. We
just told you that. Coming up on Monday in studio
with the back half of the show as in eight
thirty to ten, we'll have us Senator Tom Tillis and
former White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney together in
the room here talk about all things coming out of
DC and in the political world. And on that note,

(01:13:43):
we have a great thing to announce right now. Our
next guest has agreed to join us once a week
on the show at this time on Wednesday mornings at
eight thirty five. Scott Huffmann is with us on the
line right now, a longtime political science professor at Winthrop
University and a voice that you've heard on this station
for many years. But happy that you're willing to do
this thing on a regular basis with.

Speaker 3 (01:14:04):
Us, sir, Oh, happy to be with you, Glad to
do it well.

Speaker 5 (01:14:08):
We have a lot to get to this week, and
I want to start with a story that has actually
broke about forty eight hours ago as we were on
the air. A couple of days ago, Roy Cooper made
it official with an online video that I know you've
seen and many people listening have seen, where he basically
lays out in a couple of minutes why he's decided
to run for Senate. New this morning, Scott Hoffmann is

(01:14:31):
the idea that Roy Cooper has raised three point four
million dollars in the first twenty four hours of his
Senate candidacy. So that's good news. If you're in the
Cooper camp. What do you make of that? Does that
surprise you?

Speaker 11 (01:14:44):
It doesn't really surprise me. He was plugged in obviously
to know the fundraising network. It, you know, looks like
it's going to be Cooper and Wattley. Cooper has a
few advantages, a few things going for him. When he
beat McRory, he barely barely pulled that election out, but

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he still outperformed Hillary Clinton, which wasn't really hard to do.
When he ran again in twenty twenty, he outperformed Joe Biden.
So he has regularly outperformed the other Democrats on the ticket.
And he has obviously a high approval rating among Democrats.
He has a strong approval rating and currently favorability rating

(01:15:29):
among independents, and so that helps him. So he's already
long time plugged into the fundraising network. He's got a
good foundation to build on. But you know, his opponent
who's going to be you know, Whattley has the MAGA support,
but he doesn't have sort of the problem that a

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lot of old style Conservatives have with MAGA, you know
they're going to vote for Watley if they turn out.
But Wiley was plugged into the report Publican party way back.
He was counting hanging chads in Florida, he was with
the Bush presidency. He's got long time conservative credentials, and

(01:16:11):
so this will be an interesting race. But you know, Cooper,
you know, fundraising this much already not a surprise.

Speaker 7 (01:16:19):
So when it comes to campaigning in twenty twenty six,
like you said, Michael Wattley has long ties to the
Republican Party, but certainly ties to THEA the Magabase given
what's going on right now with the Ebstein case, the
Ebstein files, the fact that this headline isn't going away,
and some people would say, well, you know, Beth, it's

(01:16:41):
because you guys keep talking about it. But it's also
an issue that's important to a lot of the conservatives
out there, because a lot of Republicans campaigned on this issue,
and it's something that is really stirring up a lot
of emotions because it surrounds such a horrific crime being,
you know, human sex trafficking. It's particularly of young girls.
So here's the question, in a long roundabout way. Is

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that going to be problematic for some of these midterm
candidates who might be directly connected or maybe didn't fight
to get these Ebstein files released.

Speaker 11 (01:17:18):
Well, you know, it could be problematic for a lot
of Republicans in the midterm, provided that the normal thing
doesn't happen, and the normal thing is Democrats tripping over
their own feet. Democrats, very often when they're running, are
running on the issue of the day, and what serves
them best is finding an issue, pinning it down, making

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it a solid talking point. Exactly what the Republicans have
been doing is they've been searching ahead the past few years.
What could drag on about the Epstein issue is if
it is not resolved, if it keeps saying, you know,
the trickle truth, Well we'll tell this about it. Well
we'll let these things out. Yes that was redacted. If
that keeps dragging on and we have a problem with

(01:18:07):
the economy, which we have yet to see whether or
not we will come before the twenty twenty sixth election,
then yeah, the MAGA endorsement may not be as powerful
as it was in the past. But again we'll have
to see whether the Epstein files are still in the
news at least in the top tendden stories over a

(01:18:29):
year from now. They may be, but there's a good
chance the new cycle will just move past them eventually.

Speaker 5 (01:18:35):
Back to the amount of money being spent in this race,
I mentioned that Roy Cooper has raised that much money
in just the opening hours of the campaign, three point
four million dollars just for twenty four hours. Now, I'm
gonna put Beth on the spot. Hopefully you remember this number.
But we were talking a few days ago about how
expensive this race, all told, is expected to be.

Speaker 7 (01:18:56):
Yeah, they're expecting about seven hundred and fifty million dollars
for this Senate race, and that could be potentially for
each candidate. So we're talking over a billion dollars for
a US Senate race.

Speaker 5 (01:19:09):
I'm guessing you're going to tell us that doesn't surprise
you at all either.

Speaker 11 (01:19:13):
Well, given the importance of North Carolina in the past
several elections, not really North Carolina is, you know, truly
a purple state. That doesn't mean people are in the
middle though. It means that there are roughly equal numbers
of people who are strongly read or strongly blue. And

(01:19:34):
you can't just look at how people register to vote,
you know, whether the Republican, Democrat or non affiliated, because
a lot of people dislike parties right now, so they
may even be registering as nonaffiliated, but they lean strongly
one way or another. Doctor Chris Cooper at Western Carolina
wrote a book called Anatomy of a Purple State about

(01:19:57):
North Carolina. Because of this factor, North Carolina is a
real battleground. You know, Cooper has a very good chance,
which means it's going to be a real battleground for
his opponents as well. This massive amount of fundraising, you know,
it's breaking records. Is the new normal when it comes

(01:20:17):
to the price of elections in the twenty first century.

Speaker 3 (01:20:21):
This is Good Morning BT.

Speaker 5 (01:20:28):
He's talk eleven ten, nine to nine three WBT. I
would say you can listen anywhere online, but we're having
some issues with that this morning. If you're trying to
get us on the app, a lot of people are
telling us they're hearing commercials but nothing else. And we're
aware of the issue and looking into it, so bear
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(01:20:50):
and a nine to nine point three FM. We're talking
to Scott Huffman from Winthrop University longtime political science professor
and all things politics every Wednesday.

Speaker 7 (01:21:02):
Now, yeah, and Scott, we were talking last segment a
little bit about the Epstein files. Certainly the Epstein files
issue has really dominated headlines, and one of the headlines
that kind of got buried alongside it didn't get as
much attention as it might have. This new trade deal
that Donald Trump negotiated during his Scotland trip with the

(01:21:24):
EU and the tariffs. What do you make of this deal?
Is it the big deal that the Trump administration is
saying that it is and how will Americans be impacted
by what this structure is with the EU?

Speaker 11 (01:21:38):
Now, well, you know this is one where Trump went
to Europe and the European Union. Blank. He was able
to get a lot out of that deal. You know,
he was able to do, you know, better than he
even did with the United Kingdom. You know, with the
UK the tariffs are lower, but of course the UK

(01:21:59):
is not in the US European Union. The problem you know,
that the European Union faces is they are for you know,
lack of a better term, a confederacy. You know, each
nation state is sovereign, so each country has its own
sacred cow that their own economic thing that they produce

(01:22:19):
that they want protected, so they won't agree to across
the board tariffs you know, by Trump in order to
engage in a trade war if they think it's going
to hurt the specific product that their country is best at.
So that hamstrings the ability of the European Union as

(01:22:40):
a whole to negotiate, and Trump took advantage of that.
So again, you know, Trump was able to throw out
big threats. It's scared a lot of especially the smaller countries,
but countries whose economy is focused in a few more
narrow areas, they need access to the American market, and

(01:23:02):
so they agreed to the tariffs. Now, how to affect America.
You know, I'm sorry people argue this, but it's just true.
Tariffs drive up consumer prices. The whole tariff isn't necessarily
reflected in the consumer price, but a lot of it is.
I mean, all you have to do is look at
the prices that at places like Walmart, where prices are

(01:23:23):
generally low, so will have an effect on Americans. But
Trump definitely won that round of trade fight with the
European Union.

Speaker 7 (01:23:33):
Saying that about the Americans, you know, paying higher prices
due to tariffs. There was an announcement, I think Caroline
Lovett even said it yesterday that there was a record
number of revenue taken in just in the last month
because of tariffs, around one hundred and fifty million dollars.
In your mind, is that something that we all are paying,

(01:23:54):
that we are in fact paying more money in that
one hundred and fifty million or at least some of
that one hundred and fifty million, and is coming from
hardworking Americans.

Speaker 11 (01:24:03):
Well, it's going to be passed on in a lot
of ways. You know, a corporation is exists to create
profits for shareholders. It's not going to look at it
shareholders and say, hey, we're going to sell the same
amount but make a lower profit than we did last year.
On the flip side, these tariffs do protect a few
industries here and there, So some of the interest industries

(01:24:27):
that were being undercut by lower prices from abroad, they'll
be protected. But all of American consumers won't necessarily feel
that unless they are specifically in those industries. Again, corporations
are not going to say hey, we're going to sell
the same amount, take a little bit less of a profit.

(01:24:48):
They're going to pass at least some of that on
to consumers. That's the way it works. But some industries
will definitely be better protected, but you'll only feel it
if you were wor working in that industry.

Speaker 5 (01:25:02):
Talking to Scott Huffman from Winthrop University, joining US Weekly
here on Good Morning BT political Headlines. Let's go back
hyper local here, especially to where you are because you're
in South Carolina. This happened on Sunday afternoons.

Speaker 14 (01:25:15):
Just why I'm here to announce I'm Brian to be
the one hundred and eighteenth governor of South Carolina.

Speaker 8 (01:25:23):
So there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:25:23):
Ralph Norman throws his hat in the ring officially to
run for South Carolina governor. It's a crowded field already,
and we're sort of waiting for Nancy Mace to make
it official. We believe that's coming at any time. Now,
what do you make of of what's happening with the
South Carolina governor's race right now?

Speaker 11 (01:25:41):
Well, Ralph Norman has the personal funds to pump into
the race, even though he is strongly plugged into the
fundraising network. His family, you know, including his father, had
been developers in the area and statewide for a very
long time. He has, you know, the conservative credentials. He

(01:26:04):
stood up for the you know against actually the big
beautiful budget, you know, wanting more cuts. He eventually voted
with Trump on that, So he's not going to go
into it with Trump's ire. He can say, listen, I
pushed for greater cuts. Nancy Mace is better known in

(01:26:25):
South Carolina right now. You know, they're both members of
Congress from a single district. But just because she's somewhat
better known doesn't mean people like her more. She definitely
wants to kind of get her name out there with
the outrage of the day. I think her folks would
admit that that she's, you know, doing this to get attention,

(01:26:45):
get her name out there. And she's succeeding Ralph Norman
all of his years in the state legislature. He has
a record of voting fiscally conservative. He is a longtime
supporter of Nicky Haley, so hopefully in his camp he'll
be able to pull on that support from Nicky Haley,

(01:27:06):
who was a popular governor. So this is shaping up
to be a really interesting Republican primary for governor because
Alan Wilson, our attorney general who won a statewide election
for attorney general and is well known is going to
throw his hat in the ring as well. So this
is really going to be interesting, at least from maybe

(01:27:28):
not from their perspective, but from my perspective as a
political scientist. It's going to be a rough and tumble race,
and it'll be interesting to see the twists and turns.

Speaker 7 (01:27:39):
As you were just saying that people politicians like Nancy
may sometimes glom onto the outrage of the day, and
one of the outrages that exists now along with this
Epstein headline is this headline that was created really because
of the Director of National Intelligence, Tulca Gabbard, coming out
and saying that there is evidence new evidence about the

(01:28:01):
Obama administration being involved in what she calls the Russia hoax,
even though people even like Marco Rubio, who is the
Secretary of State says from you know, with his his
investigations when he was serving in Congress, that there was
Russian meddling during that twenty sixteen election cycle. What do
you make of what's going on here? And what does

(01:28:25):
Tulsi Gabbert, what do you believe that she has that
might change the narrative on this story, even though Congress
has held multiple hearings and investigations on this.

Speaker 11 (01:28:36):
Well, there's sort of two stories about you know, Russian involvement.
There's things like the still Steel dossier, which a lot
of that was discredited, and then there's what we know
was literal contact with you know, Russians. You can google
Trump Tower meeting Russian and you know, the news is

(01:28:57):
out there proof that Donald Trump junior, Paul Manniford from
the campaign, Jared Kushner literally met with Russians. Was that
a violation of campaign No, not necessarily. So we know
there are some contacts, but was there as much as
the other side claimed, that's not necessarily backed up. Now

(01:29:17):
as far as you know, blaming Obama and saying Obama,
you know, I don't know withheld something or snuck something
in a lot of that is you know, distraction. Pulsey
Gabbard was under attack. She was not necessarily on high
on Trump's list at the moment. She definitely is back
there now. John Bolton, who Trump hates and he hates Trump.

(01:29:41):
John Bolton super conservative hawk, foreign policy hawk, which MAGA
doesn't necessarily like if there had been anything coming out,
you know, saying Obama colluded with a foreign power at all.
Bolton would have been screaming this from the roof TOMPs.
So you know, we know about the Russian contact, we

(01:30:04):
have no evidence that there was significant, conclusion collusion. We
can say three things for sure. We know absolutely that
the Russians did try and ham string Hillary, not necessarily
they worked on behalf of Trump. We know that politics
is a zero sum game, so if Hillary was hurt,

(01:30:25):
Trump is health. And the third thing we know is
kind of not really important. It's that after the election
Putin said I'm glad Trump won. Well, any president would
say that to get good, you know, diplomatic relations. But
we do know that the Russians worked against Hillary. We
do know there were some meetings, but not necessarily bad,

(01:30:47):
you know, or illegal. And we do know that Tulsa
Gabber needed to get back in Trump's good graces. So again,
you know, whether or not that it should be the
number one headline of the moment, probably not.

Speaker 5 (01:31:01):
Scott Huffman from Winthrop University joining us once a week
here on Good Morning BT. We appreciate it so much.

Speaker 11 (01:31:07):
I'm happy to be with you.

Speaker 5 (01:31:09):
We'll talk to you next week. He's of course political
science professor there at Winthrop and the founder and director
of the Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research.

Speaker 7 (01:31:17):
And we're so excited, hoply segment.

Speaker 3 (01:31:19):
Now, which it's to be relaxing.

Speaker 11 (01:31:21):
Prepare yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:31:24):
From News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three w BT.

Speaker 5 (01:31:28):
You know what else is fun?

Speaker 7 (01:31:29):
Watching mister Belvidere without people talking so loud that.

Speaker 3 (01:31:33):
This is good morning beat with quote Thompson at Beth Trout.

Speaker 5 (01:31:37):
With breaks all the time, never before, who can yeah
play that Bobby Brown. Everybody's humping around because it's hump day.

Speaker 7 (01:31:54):
I'll look at you.

Speaker 5 (01:31:55):
Unbeknownst to me, you were listening heading in at the
top of the hour News. I understand why you were confused,
because I confused everybody when I said it was Tuesday.

Speaker 7 (01:32:07):
You know what, We started the show today by saying time.
Does it make sense? So it makes perfect sense that
it's Tuesday.

Speaker 5 (01:32:14):
You're trying to make me say it was on purpose
and no, no, no, I can admit to my faults.

Speaker 7 (01:32:18):
Now you're trying to say you're super clever.

Speaker 5 (01:32:21):
You're trying to sugarcoat my bone headed move.

Speaker 4 (01:32:26):
This was Tuesday.

Speaker 7 (01:32:27):
Use the mark cigarette. That was Tuesday. What are friends
for if not to make you feel just good about yourself.

Speaker 5 (01:32:33):
I have, you know, every once in a while. So
I have a show sheet every day, and written across
the top of the sheet is the date. First thing
I do when I sit down at night to get
ready for the next day. And then every once in
a while I'll have the show sheet from yesterday, because
I actually used a couple of clips that were old
ones that were on my other sheet we were talking
to Scott Huffman about and so there I have Tuesday,
July twenty ninth, and I just totally did the Will

(01:32:55):
Ferrell you know, you stay classy, San Diego. You put
it in front of me, I'll read. I said, it's Tuesday,
July twenty ninth. Then everybody went, no, no, it's not,
and the ID hit and I'm not going to like
step all over Mark Garrison coming out of the So
you just just kind of let it be. But I
don't want you to think that I think it's Tuesday.
It would have been funny if I would have gone
to the Narrowway thing with you, because I would have

(01:33:16):
showed up on Sunday, right.

Speaker 7 (01:33:17):
Right right, you get there, wrong day, that's right, so, hey.

Speaker 5 (01:33:21):
It happens. I'm big enough to admit that it happens,
and I roll right through it.

Speaker 7 (01:33:25):
See, I think you were just being clever because we
are having trouble with time.

Speaker 5 (01:33:29):
What emoji would I use for that boneheaded mistake that
I made?

Speaker 4 (01:33:32):
Face palm?

Speaker 5 (01:33:33):
Facebook, face palm.

Speaker 7 (01:33:34):
That's one of my favorite emojis, the face palm, because I,
throughout the course of my day have about twenty seven
face palm. Face plant moments.

Speaker 5 (01:33:43):
You like the one? You like the one? Well? You
and I will send the face palm sometimes in reaction
to stories that we see.

Speaker 7 (01:33:49):
Yeah, but you like the.

Speaker 5 (01:33:51):
One where it's like throwing your hands up and the
you're like, oh, no, oh, no oh is that Beth?

Speaker 12 (01:33:55):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:33:56):
Yeah, that was like a I gotta cut that. That
was really good. I know i'd made that.

Speaker 5 (01:34:00):
Noise Ye, there's a method to my madness here, Because
did you know new emojis are dropping on your device soon?
Here's what I didn't know. The Unicode Consortium or consortium
how do you say it? Consortium? Yeah, the Unicode Standard Consortium,
the nonprofit organization I can't even say it, the non

(01:34:23):
profit organization that maintains the Unicode Standard to ensure that
emojis work across devices.

Speaker 7 (01:34:29):
Did you know lame o job? I mean like they
created an entire consortium to tell me whether or not
my emojis are appropriate.

Speaker 4 (01:34:38):
Yeah, what do you do?

Speaker 5 (01:34:39):
I work for the Emoji Consortium?

Speaker 7 (01:34:41):
What are we? What are you doing? What are I mean?
Your whole job is to say, yes, we need more
shoulder shrugging emojis, or we need a you know what
we need as an.

Speaker 3 (01:34:49):
Eye roll the.

Speaker 5 (01:34:54):
Or a pile of pooh.

Speaker 12 (01:34:55):
Right.

Speaker 7 (01:34:56):
I mean like this is someone's job. Maybe it's fun.

Speaker 5 (01:34:59):
I mean, actually the pilot.

Speaker 4 (01:35:00):
Who is quite convenience smile on.

Speaker 5 (01:35:02):
It's quite useful. The Unicode Standard Consortium and the standard
they have created has just come out with Unicode seventeen
point zero bless, which includes nine new emojis, slated for
release this fall in September of twenty twenty five.

Speaker 7 (01:35:18):
Did they do this because people ask? Did somebody call
the consortium and say, you know what I need? I
need a lit cigarette as a as an emoji? Or
I mean maybe that exists? There are already too many.
Oh it does. See it tells you how many rights
I use, Like five emojis I use the face palm.
I use there, I don't know. I use a heart,

(01:35:39):
I use the smiley face, I use the hug.

Speaker 4 (01:35:44):
Else the exclamation points.

Speaker 5 (01:35:46):
That's not an emoji.

Speaker 7 (01:35:47):
I just used the ring.

Speaker 5 (01:35:48):
You don't need a lot of emojis because you use
punctuations like emojis, right, like, you know, hey, eleven exclamation
points so that.

Speaker 7 (01:35:55):
You know that I'm excited to talk to you.

Speaker 14 (01:35:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:35:57):
Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. It works against you
when you don't use seventeen emojis or or question marks
are asked, because then it's like Beth will be like, hey,
with three exclamation points, You're like, why are you in
a bad one?

Speaker 4 (01:36:11):
Less cheaper than usual? Beth?

Speaker 5 (01:36:13):
What's up?

Speaker 8 (01:36:13):
That's right?

Speaker 7 (01:36:14):
Well, here's the question. Did they tell you what they're
about to release? What are they about to on us?

Speaker 5 (01:36:19):
So glad you asked. There's the landslide. According to the
Family of Natural Disaster emojis, the landslide represents a powerful
geological event.

Speaker 7 (01:36:29):
I feel like, that's not an emoji I want. If
there's a landslide, I feel like I probably.

Speaker 5 (01:36:32):
Should write the word distorted face, a highly expressive face
emoji that can convey confusion. This belief for being overwhelmed,
perfect for those moments when words just aren't enough.

Speaker 7 (01:36:43):
Don't we have a distorted face? That one that's like murh,
like a pa, like the meh. Yeah, it's like a
mer face.

Speaker 5 (01:36:50):
Which is it?

Speaker 3 (01:36:51):
Mah?

Speaker 5 (01:36:51):
Or the hairy creature inspired by Sasquatch, Sasquatch squatch?

Speaker 4 (01:37:01):
Oh not again?

Speaker 8 (01:37:05):
Did you did you just say sausquatch?

Speaker 3 (01:37:07):
I did?

Speaker 8 (01:37:08):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (01:37:08):
I know it's Sasquatch. I know it's Sasquatch.

Speaker 7 (01:37:11):
Sasquatch probably plays it on the next one.

Speaker 5 (01:37:15):
I hate myself. The treasure chest. The treasure. Treasure chest
is the mother load, the big score, the payout, the
grand prize, the hidden gym, or the ultimate bounty.

Speaker 7 (01:37:24):
How is there not already a treasure chest? I feel
like that one should have been like one of the
very first ones.

Speaker 18 (01:37:28):
There's the money bag.

Speaker 7 (01:37:29):
Well, yeah, that that that's close treasure.

Speaker 5 (01:37:32):
I wonder if it's a pattern after the Sasquatch, the Orca,
also known as the Ocean's apex predator, the Leviathan. Did
I say that right?

Speaker 8 (01:37:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:37:43):
The levy Athon, the monarch of the deep, the black
fin and certainly not Flipper.

Speaker 7 (01:37:52):
Well, I feel like the Orca should have already been
there too. I mean, they have a sloth. There's a squirrel.

Speaker 5 (01:37:57):
Isn't the orca? Wasn't that? The was the was the
boat in the Jaws too, isn't it?

Speaker 7 (01:38:01):
It's Shamou Shamou's inn organ, Right.

Speaker 5 (01:38:04):
It's a boat.

Speaker 18 (01:38:05):
There's two whales already, there's yeah, there's one with the whales, right,
one one with a blowhole and one not.

Speaker 4 (01:38:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:38:13):
The trombone. There's not a trombone. I think there's a trumpet.

Speaker 7 (01:38:18):
I feel like, you know how they say that kids
use all of the emojis to denote, like to communicate
things that are not suitable for work, you know, the
certain emojis.

Speaker 5 (01:38:28):
They use emojis that mean other code things about their kids, well, are.

Speaker 7 (01:38:32):
Not suitable for school or whatever. And so I feel
like the trombone is going to be that.

Speaker 5 (01:38:37):
There's the fight cloud. What are you trying to say
about drawing from old school cartoons? This emoji depicts a
swirling dust cloud indicating a scuffle or a fight.

Speaker 4 (01:38:47):
Is that like the Tasmanian Devil? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:38:50):
I feel like the fight cloud would be more like
what was the stinky kid on No Pigpin?

Speaker 5 (01:38:56):
I thought the same thing, right, Yeah, yeah, pig pin, pigpin,
don't talk about fight clown an apple core the discarded
center of the fruit. This emoji stands for organic waste,
the core of an issue or something spoiled.

Speaker 7 (01:39:13):
Do you remember the Donald Duck and Chippendale episodes where
they've been like, apple core, not anymore? Who's your friend me?
And then they'd throw an apple in their face.

Speaker 5 (01:39:22):
No, no, no, and no no. I never heard of that. No, no,
here's one for you. Remember Donald Duck orange juice?

Speaker 7 (01:39:29):
Oh I loved it was so tart. Donald Duck orange juice.

Speaker 5 (01:39:33):
Yeah, it was tart until you had Donald Duck grapefruit juice.

Speaker 7 (01:39:38):
There's little cans that had the sticker that you peeled
off of it.

Speaker 5 (01:39:41):
Then they're talking like this the last one here. Ballet dancers, Oh,
I love that, says. First we had the Flamenco Lady,
then we had the Saturday Night Fever disco dancer. Now
we finally have the ballerina in all her glory.

Speaker 7 (01:39:53):
I'm never going to use these. I'm never going to
use them. I like the idea that there's a ballet dancer,
a ballerina, but what am I going to use that.

Speaker 18 (01:40:00):
I think there's probably like ninety five percent of the
emojis in my phone I have never used and have
never use for, or nor will I ever.

Speaker 5 (01:40:09):
Yeah, check your phone. I just sent you the Susquatch
nine sixteen on WBT traffic. Check now, Boomer van Connon.
We need to change brown emoji.

Speaker 8 (01:40:19):
Yes we do.

Speaker 5 (01:40:20):
Get on your good foot.

Speaker 7 (01:40:21):
It's John's brown.

Speaker 8 (01:40:22):
It's John's job.

Speaker 3 (01:40:28):
Boy.

Speaker 5 (01:40:29):
Good happy Tuesday. Everybody bath get on the good foot
and do the bad thing.

Speaker 4 (01:40:40):
Break it down?

Speaker 7 (01:40:41):
Do you let the ladies play ice hockey with you?
I want to play ice hockey.

Speaker 4 (01:40:44):
There are a few girls that come out.

Speaker 5 (01:40:45):
Yeah, that would be so much fun. Think you just
got a new one.

Speaker 3 (01:40:49):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (01:40:49):
After the show, Beth goes out in the streets, just
gone what for what? I've gone wild? Speaking of cars,
I'm a check in playing hockey. We're doing traffic reports.
We're multitasking, which is what we do on this show.

Speaker 7 (01:41:04):
And we stay young by just you know, having fun conversations.

Speaker 5 (01:41:09):
And why do we do all these things at once?
Because we have short attentions. Fans, This is Good Morning Beatty.
That's right, the Wednesday edition. Don't you forget it. We're
big with the Sasquatch community.

Speaker 7 (01:41:32):
I kind of now feel like we need to join
one of those clubs that goes to like Oregon and
they look for sauce squatch. You see, I just think
you're British.

Speaker 4 (01:41:41):
Why is that subsquatch ring tank talk?

Speaker 3 (01:41:43):
Right?

Speaker 7 (01:41:44):
Well, I see we're good tank talk.

Speaker 5 (01:41:45):
You can't catch the sasquatch because you're calling it by
the wrong name. Here sasquatch talking about emojis, and I
mentioned that there is something called the Unicode Consorting or Consortium.
However you consortium. It's a nonprofit organization that maintains the

(01:42:08):
Unicode standard that ensures that emojis work across all devices. So,
you know, we talked so much about things that are
native to the iPhone or things that are native to
the what's the other big one? I don't have it
because I the Android Android. I tried it for like
six months and it wouldn't talk to any of my
Apple devices. So I decided I won't do this anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:42:28):
Well, she as an Android in this room.

Speaker 7 (01:42:30):
Yeah, yes, sir, Steven, I tried.

Speaker 5 (01:42:32):
I really did. It's funny because I just I'll never
forget it because it's the one time I've ever been
on a cruise. We went on a cruise over Thanksgiving
about ten years ago, my family did. And I decided
because I was going to be gone for like a week. Okay,
I've I've been wanting to maybe try a different phone.
I'm going to try this, and I'll have all this
time on the trip to mess with it. And I

(01:42:54):
got on the trip and I realized everything I have
is Apple and it talks to nothing anymore. And it
was the most head banging thing I'd ever had to
try to mess with. And when I got back, I
went and got an iPad.

Speaker 7 (01:43:05):
I would like to I'd like to point out that
on the all of us.

Speaker 5 (01:43:09):
I'm sorry, iPod ah see see that actually is the thing.

Speaker 3 (01:43:13):
I see.

Speaker 7 (01:43:15):
All of us have Apple devices except for Steve. And
I have started multiple group chats for the entire room
where I think that I've said something like witty or clever,
or I've posed an interesting question to the group, and
then it's crickets, crickets, crickets. This happened on the beach.
The beach trip, I sent like a whole thing with
the address and had to get there. And we're all

(01:43:35):
going to get to Mamie's We're gonna have burgers.

Speaker 5 (01:43:37):
That's why I ended up in Cherry Grove Crickets.

Speaker 7 (01:43:40):
I got nothing. But it turns out all of you
guys were communicating with each other, but I wasn't getting
any of the texts. And suddenly group texts that I
create that have Steve included for some reason, I get
kicked out of them.

Speaker 8 (01:43:55):
I don't know.

Speaker 18 (01:43:56):
Oh no, no, you didn't get kicked out. I got
on Saturday afternoon and I got multiple messages.

Speaker 5 (01:44:02):
Hang on, let me see one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

Speaker 13 (01:44:05):
Eight different text groups where I got Beth has left
this group.

Speaker 5 (01:44:10):
Beth has left this group.

Speaker 8 (01:44:11):
Beth has left this group.

Speaker 5 (01:44:12):
Now I didn't physically do that, though I got some too,
but Steve why I don't know. But but when Steve
said this, I didn't get that many. But when Steve
said it, it jogged a memory of the weekend because
there was one time over the weekend at a random
spot where I looked down at my phone it was like,
Beth Troutman has left the group. I was like, okay,
what group? And was I in it too?

Speaker 7 (01:44:30):
So someone out there tell me why this is happening,
because I did not physically go into any group chats
and leave the group from.

Speaker 5 (01:44:38):
Now on when you're not here. Instead of saying, you know,
Beth's off the day, she'd should be back to where
I'm just saying, Beth Troupman has left the group.

Speaker 3 (01:44:43):
Left.

Speaker 7 (01:44:47):
But I just don't understand why all of you all
get the text. I started the text chain and I
am completely left out of it somehow, but you all
got the initial text from me and this I googled it,
and I went into my settings to make sure that
I could receive SMS, text and all that kind of
stuff that everything was toggled on. I toggled it all on.

(01:45:08):
But now it's just randomly booting me out of text
and I look rude and I'm not even doing it.
I think technology hates me.

Speaker 5 (01:45:17):
Well, I mean, your phone is an oddball, because there
have been times where you and I have been texting
things back and forth, and I'll send you like two
or three stories and you won't get them, and then
I won't realize until a couple of days later those
not you didn't like those stories, you never saw.

Speaker 7 (01:45:31):
Them, I never saw them, or or I will respond
to you about some like funny message and you'll only
get my response. You won't get my funny message, so
you'll just get this random sentence for me. That's like
Booker's Live in my Hair, but it would have been
about some funny emoji that I sent her.

Speaker 5 (01:45:48):
Well, there's nothing like sending you a really quippy message
that you think is really clever, and the response is
Beth has left the group.

Speaker 7 (01:45:56):
Well, now we have I have exactly, I have all
kinds of new and emojis that I didn't know existed,
because I don't even know how many. I just opened
up my text so that I could look at the emojis.
And if you scroll, it's like doom scrolling. You can
scroll for a billion years through your emojis. And sometimes
the things that I search for, like if I'm searching
for a how do you search for a I'm I'm

(01:46:18):
feeling blue face, you know, and it gives you the
cold face and I'm not cold, like sad.

Speaker 10 (01:46:23):
Yeah, Like if you don't, you just type in sad
sad sad face, or type in sod.

Speaker 7 (01:46:28):
There's plenty of synonyms for their work, I guess, but
there are sometimes that I put in. I try to
search for something and it doesn't like. What I thought
was the face of confusion is apparently the face of
like I have gas or it's and so I've been
using it wrong.

Speaker 10 (01:46:43):
Oh, it's like people used the praying apparently for the
longest time. It's like two its hands to getting high fives.
Like some people had argued that that's what it was,
and then people started to use it as praying hands.
But I've always seen it a praying. When you type
praying in it comes.

Speaker 7 (01:46:56):
Up, it comes up as prey pray.

Speaker 9 (01:46:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:46:57):
Well, and I always thought you guys are are searching
for emojis with text.

Speaker 4 (01:47:01):
Yeah, sometimes you can do that.

Speaker 3 (01:47:04):
I know you am.

Speaker 8 (01:47:04):
I just didn't know anybody actually did.

Speaker 4 (01:47:06):
If you're driving, Steve, that's how you find.

Speaker 18 (01:47:08):
You're not supposed to be texting at all while you're driving.

Speaker 4 (01:47:10):
Bernie.

Speaker 5 (01:47:11):
One thing I noticed the other day, and I didn't
ask for this, or I didn't as far as I know,
I didn't go in and purposely do this. It just
appeared there. But when I was looking, I was going
to send an emoji last night. It might have been
to Bernie and a story he sent me. But there's
an I'm an emoji my picture like it made my
picture into an emoji sticker.

Speaker 7 (01:47:30):
But I didn't do that.

Speaker 5 (01:47:31):
It did it for me. It's like it's like when
Apple put the YouTube album on the phone, where none
of us asked for it.

Speaker 18 (01:47:36):
Oh yeah, because I get the Bernie's Bernie's new favorite
sticker to send everybody.

Speaker 4 (01:47:41):
I've got a Mike done sticker.

Speaker 18 (01:47:42):
Yeah, I get that one almost every morning. I get
it when Bernie comes in he sends me to Mike
done sticker. It means, hey, I'm here.

Speaker 5 (01:47:50):
It's not a caricature. It's the actual picture picture of
Mike don't because there's only one thing better than a
Mike doan' emoji.

Speaker 9 (01:47:55):
You know what that is?

Speaker 4 (01:47:55):
An actual it's Mike don't here, Mark Garrison emoji. We'll
find one, make one.

Speaker 13 (01:48:00):
We'd have to have a wide screen.

Speaker 9 (01:48:04):
I love you guys.

Speaker 11 (01:48:05):
You guys make full morning.

Speaker 9 (01:48:07):
I love driving in. Sometimes I take the back road
so I can go a little bit longer, so I
can hear y'all more.

Speaker 7 (01:48:13):
Oh that's the sweetest thing I've ever heard.

Speaker 5 (01:48:15):
Hey, boss, I've been driving all day.

Speaker 11 (01:48:19):
I'm sorry. I'm supposed to be there at seven, but
it's eleven, so I'm just gonna go ahead and break
for lunch.

Speaker 5 (01:48:24):
Hey, look, just just blame Bow and Beth and we'll fix.

Speaker 11 (01:48:27):
It for you, just right and excuse can you'll do
that for you?

Speaker 5 (01:48:30):
Oh? Absolutely, for the rest of your life.

Speaker 3 (01:48:32):
This is Good Morning Beat with Bo Thombson and Beth
trout Bit.

Speaker 5 (01:48:45):
Pen Ultimate day of July. I gotta say it one
more time so Bernie doesn't forget it. Tomorrow will be
the final, the ultimate day of July, and then it'll
be August. Aren't you glad you have me to tell
you these things.

Speaker 7 (01:49:02):
When you put away your laundry, and if you put
it in the second drawer down from the top, do
you say, honey, I just put my socks in the penultimate.

Speaker 10 (01:49:10):
Drawer, or if you're on the second to last piece
of laundry folded right, I'm on the penultimate piece.

Speaker 5 (01:49:16):
You guys know me. I use penultimate anywhere I can
in the sentence, Like if I was seeing two sasquatches,
I would say, you're the penultimate sasquatch, right, yes, sir.

Speaker 3 (01:49:28):
Hey.

Speaker 5 (01:49:28):
We were talking to Teresa and one of the things
we were talking to her about was this Amazon watch
that is in development that could record everything you say during.

Speaker 1 (01:49:39):
A day they combined with B A I uh b
e E b e E A I okay, oh I
see what you yeah, B B E and then AI
like artificial intelligence.

Speaker 5 (01:49:51):
You combined it there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll get you Americans.
Dovetailing off of this, new survey says Americans spend nearly
half their day online ten.

Speaker 7 (01:50:03):
Hours, according to a new survey of more than two
thousand Americans.

Speaker 5 (01:50:07):
Splitting that time almost evenly between watching videos or TV
shows and working, browsing, shopping. This, according to this survey,
that you speak of there now when you really sit
down and think about it and I'm talking to you,
or as Al Gardner used to say, Hugh, as you
listen to WBT and by the way, we're back online.

(01:50:28):
We had some issues today, but we're back online. You
know how we know because you're telling us, yep, thank you.
We got to the first half of the show was like,
I mean, we probably got I don't know thirty texts
today on the text line about I can't.

Speaker 7 (01:50:39):
Hear you, probably fifty.

Speaker 5 (01:50:40):
Steve says more than that. Yeah, and now it's the
back end. I'm back, We're back, We're back back, so
good on that. On average, Americans spend more than ten
hours a day accessing something online. And we're talking to
Teresa about the fact that maybe you can you can
wear the watch now, but most I don't know, most
people don't have a watch that can record everything you say.

Speaker 7 (01:51:00):
Well, I guess I star been thinking about this after
I heard Teresa talking about it. I have an Apple Watch.
I think that Apple Watch is pretty much listening to
me at all times and recording. But you're not telling
it to no, But I think it kind of does
a little bit of that on its own. And then
it talks to my phone because it records all my steps,
and it records my workouts and tells you you know,

(01:51:22):
it always congratulates me when I've stood up enough times.

Speaker 10 (01:51:25):
Well, there's times you don't even acknowledge it and say,
you know the words, hey, so and so, and it'll
still start listening. You know, you're tapping during the show,
where it'll just start picking up what we're all saying.

Speaker 5 (01:51:35):
Right. But outside of the issue with and it's a
big issue. If everybody I was walking around with watches
that record everything you say, then you worry about them
recording what you're saying without your permission. Okay, that aside.
We understand that's that's very problematic. You, Beth Troutman, would
you like to have for the purposes of remembering things

(01:51:58):
during the day. No, a button you can push on
your phone where you can activate recording and get all
of that. Like, yeah, back when you're in high school
and you're listening to a lecture or college and you're
trying to take notes rather than take notes, hit your
watch and record all that and then have it to
go back to. Is that a convenience you'd like or
do you hate the idea altogether?

Speaker 7 (01:52:16):
I really dislike this whole idea altogether. The only thing
that I think might be beneficial and every married couple
out there would probably find this beneficial. You know, when
you're in an argument and you're like.

Speaker 5 (01:52:26):
But you said it's the progressive commercial, right, you know,
you throw the flag. Wait a minute, let's go to
the video, and this would be like, let's go to
let's go to the tape.

Speaker 7 (01:52:33):
Let's go to the audio. So see I didn't say
it like that. Or if somebody said, wow, you sounded
so pass aggressive, passive aggressive, and you yourself didn't feel
like you sounded that way. But if you went if
you were able to go back and listen to it,
it might change, you know, the outcomes of arguments. But
the question is, too, does it change your behavior in
a bad way. I think there's something to the fact

(01:52:56):
that no one feels like like we have alone time anymore.
That something is always listening, there's something that always needs
to be done, There's something that can always distract our attention,
and we no longer get that time and space to
just be, to just be ourselves. And I think the

(01:53:17):
pressure of that is what's leading to people feeling anxiety,
and people feeling extra stressed, or people feeling extra lonely
or extra sad, just because there's no space for acceptance
of self, of just self. We're maybe too guarded now
because of the constant listening.

Speaker 5 (01:53:40):
Just tracking with you. What I'm hearing you say is
Beth wants some alone time. She's tired of us too
many boys nut studio. Actually, what I'm hearing is Beth
has left the left the conversation.

Speaker 14 (01:53:55):
Right, I've left the group, left the group.

Speaker 5 (01:53:58):
I go eat a cinnamon roll.

Speaker 4 (01:54:00):
You'll be fine.

Speaker 5 (01:54:01):
Hey where did those come from?

Speaker 9 (01:54:03):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:54:03):
Oh yeah, thank you Mark, You're welcome. Hi. Thanks to Mark.
And the Boomer and to Zoke and of course Bernie
and Sir Stephen of Anthony. Well, I mean, I know
what you're gonna say when I say this today. Good
talk Beth. Oh never mind, she.

Speaker 8 (01:54:19):
Already left the conversation.

Speaker 7 (01:54:21):
I'm still here and.

Speaker 5 (01:54:22):
I'm staying hear that, New York I'm staying here.

Speaker 7 (01:54:27):
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Speaker 7 (01:54:37):
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