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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, son, isn't this great blue sky?

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Fresh cut grass birds? Turbine site Man pom Easy.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
From News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three w BT.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
You know, I know you could smoke on stage.

Speaker 4 (00:13):
You can't use cigarette.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
This is Good Morning Beat with Bo Thompson and Beth
Trout about BNS Band's refrigeration.

Speaker 5 (00:21):
It's about you.

Speaker 6 (00:22):
A lot to learn about this town.

Speaker 7 (00:23):
Sweeten, anymore, walk your conners out the.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Good morning.

Speaker 7 (00:34):
I do my.

Speaker 6 (00:36):
Check my nail, bebby, check your nail, Bebby?

Speaker 4 (00:42):
How you do, mabbe? How you feeling?

Speaker 5 (00:50):
Girl?

Speaker 4 (00:51):
Need to kick off your shoes. Gotta take a deep breath.
Time to focus on you on the back fights long,
nice Batch.

Speaker 8 (00:56):
I'm the only one that's all that's cloud of saving.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Please DJ walk past the window. Yeah, talking about not
TJ Ritchie. He's not still here. I'm talking about TJ,
who produces the show next to us. He just heard
the Lizzo playing. Probably thought he was at his own station.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
He probably thought he was missing a cue which door
to walk in.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
But he was dancing as he walked down there. That's
what I want. Walk past to our show.

Speaker 7 (01:21):
See.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
I think I might have influenced this one, oh one
hundred percent, you did, we influenced Lizzo.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Well, we had a conversation Beth and I did yesterday
about something we're gonna I think we're gonna launch on
the show a little bit later, but this would feed
right into that.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Oh one hundred percent. And I got so excited when
bo came up with the title four said segment that
we are going to introduce today, and I fat fingered
my text, which normally auto corrects to thank god, it did.
It did not correct to something dirty, but it auto
corrected to something weird. So it was like an OMG

(02:00):
with a ton of exclamation point, a ton of exclamation points,
and it was supposed to say yes, but it said OMG.

Speaker 9 (02:08):
The.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
So now whenever I get excited about anything, I'm just
gonna say OMG.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
The In fact, I already already used it.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
You didn't used it last night.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
For anything happening build up? Yeah, Well, and I have
to give the assist really to Boomer. And you'll understand
why I say that when we get there. But we
had one of those epiphanies yesterday. We need to do this,
we need to and so this song maybe this could
be one of the theme songs for for all I know.
But anyway, maybe I actually influenced it.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Today you have incepted my brain took me this long
four years, four years later, four years.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Welcome to Friday, August fifteenth, here on Good Morning BT
and News Talk eleven ten WBT. Congressman Mark Harris returns today.
Hancock returns today, David Chad yesterday. Everybody's returning this week.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
It's it's almost like back to school, it is.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Except you and meeting and get to go on summer vacation.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
We didn't have summer break.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
You went to Burtle Beach for one day one day.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
We did for one whole day.

Speaker 10 (03:13):
Guys, the staycation you stayed.

Speaker 7 (03:16):
At work.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Or we took our work to your dad's house.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Hey, you know what summertime vacation at Mamie's. Mamie's was
worth it. Mamie's Burgers. It was like a week's worth
of vacation right here.

Speaker 10 (03:27):
You guy should just take the month of December off, like,
oh yeah, four weeks of vacation.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Got using just pots show for December.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
We are still getting people that are telling us that
they're going to Mamie's and then the people at Mami's
tell them, because it was about what two or three
weeks ago that we got a note from somebody who said, yeah,
we went to Mamie's and they said three people had
told them about you. And we're like, oh, that's great.
And she said today, just today, this is like a
month out so people.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Podcast has powering.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Uh, so we have lots to do today and coming
up a little bit later, We're going to do something
today because we won't be here tomorrow.

Speaker 7 (04:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
See all these all these little hints about things that
are coming up today.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
And I went into the sports corner with Jim early
this morning to explain everything that we had prepared for
the day that is going to be celebrated tomorrow. And
Jim looked at me and he said, I don't understand
any of the words you just said.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, what's the sports corner.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
That's what I was doing. The sports corner?

Speaker 1 (04:24):
You know. Was it like the traffic closet? Yeah, sports
corners corner. None of us have any room.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
This reminds me, This reminds me from your corner. I
haven't thought about this since it's a stool, since I
was in elementary school. So you know in elementary school
when when they would have a film day, like film
strip day, or they would have movie day, they bring
in the old projector back then, yeah, build a reel, yeah,
and and we would have I don't know, two of

(04:49):
three that day because it was only like the first
or second grade when it was and there was a
specific day where we would watch movies.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
I feel like there, I feel like that should be
like a humble brag. You went to a school where
you got like.

Speaker 11 (04:59):
Two or three movies day, it's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Wait, they weren't long movies. Those movies are like fifteen
minutes long. I don't know, I'll play it with it.

Speaker 7 (05:08):
That was a good morning beat, humble brad.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
But went to one of those schwanky schools.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
But here's what I'm getting at. I haven't thought about
this since I was seven eight years old. There was
a movie about in your Home. You know, if you
want to claim a space in your home, you can
make it your corner. You can make it your corner.
And so it was all these elaborate things about you
choose a corner in your house and then you like
decorate it and you put furniture there, and and so

(05:36):
it it's your corner. And when Zokie said that you
would you said you went to the sports corner. And
I'm thinking about Jim back in the room that's already small,
you know, has decorated his corner and it's got like
panther stuff and hornet stuff.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
And what kind of school was this?

Speaker 2 (05:49):
My elementary school?

Speaker 4 (05:50):
No, you should decorate it.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
That's the imaginary school whatever.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
All right, six twelve on News Talk eleven ten WBT
Traffic check right now, Boomer von Kah. Here's what's going on, Boomer.
There's a music Bloomer. It must be rough out there.

Speaker 12 (06:07):
There's a musical.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Cars, do you see, Boomer? All roads lead to Mamies.
That's right, man, that's exactly right.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Let's go to Maybes.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Now, no rain today, Boomer.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
Let me just say quickly about Mami's.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
You go to Mami's.

Speaker 13 (06:20):
Tried the fried Oakley.

Speaker 14 (06:23):
It's freshly grown locally and fried selling stuff hand battered.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Let me we're doing three different morning shows at the
same time. We're doing their own morning show.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
There's a speaking of Corners Bow, there's a musical called Pippin,
and there's a.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Bloomer that traffic must be rough there's a.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
Song in it called corner of the sky.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
More you know, back to that corner, O m G.

Speaker 10 (06:50):
The the how's the corner of the more headed freedom?

Speaker 13 (06:53):
Looking at this morning.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
To go down to that day, that day when Bow
try to talk about corners.

Speaker 5 (07:08):
I've got to be where my spirit can run free.

Speaker 10 (07:14):
Gotta find my corner, Scott.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
I see now, y'all get it.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
So many men see destined to settle for something.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Small toys would do a corner Till I know.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Where this is from? Hippin Oh, this is your sorry
coming his film strip.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Well, I mean it may have it sounds like the
music from back in those days. Well it's a Scottie pipp.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
This was the seventies.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Ish.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
Yeah, it's about right.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
I love it. I said, someone will come to my defense. Well,
someone texted us, but it was about Mamie's.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yeah, no one has talked to us about the film
about making your corner.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Finding your own corner, decorating your corner. Well, anyway, Jim
has a sports corner back in the newsroom, and that's
all I need to know. I'll just make a visit.
I'll come visit anyway. We have a lot to get
to today. In fact, I'll go ahead and tell you
what I think we're going to Earmark for seven fifty
today because we were talking last night and a lot
going on in the world. I don't have to tell

(08:25):
you as you listen every morning that there are a
lot of headlines that kind of put you in a
depressing mood.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
Yeah, and there are a lot of shows out there,
whether it be TV whatever, that try to make you
feel angry or bitter, or they tell you all of
the awful things that are going on in the world
and the bad things that are going on in community.
This is one of the reasons that I kind of
walked away from television news is because I knew that

(08:51):
just the bad stories, that's not all that's happening out there.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
And look, some days it's just like it's exhausting, Like
we talk about a lot of stuff. But I think
you get to Fridays and here we are on a Friday,
and you get to Friday sometimes and you're just like, Wow,
what just happened? And I know we're doing this show.
By the time I get six o'clock on Fridays, unless
I take a nap, I'm out. I'm just down for
the count from exhaustion. But we were talking last night,
and you know, I'm actually I'm gonna channel Boomer. Actually,

(09:17):
I'll go backwards here because Beth will tell you the
idea that she had, and then I'll tell you how
I responded to it. And we kind of had the
light bulb moment.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
Well, I saw a just one of the BuzzFeed lists
that are out there, and the BuzzFeed list itself actually
let me I should have been better prepared for that,
and pull it up. The BuzzFeed list had the title
talk amongst yourselves, gentlemen. Just briefly as here it is.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
I have to decorate my corner, says.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
This is what the BuzzFeed article said, Twenty positive things
that are actually happening in America that you need to
read right now if you are in need of and
it just disappeared. If you are in need of a
mood booster.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
I want some music as an interlude.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
Thank you, There you go. I'll read it again. Twenty
positive things that are actually happening in America that you
need right now if you're in need of a mood boost.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
I'll say we'll get to four now. Now.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
See that's the good news for you. Zoke is we're
not going to read their list, We're going to generate
our own.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
Yes, Because I I texted bo after this and I
said that this is such the perfect music for it.
I said, I think we could do something really cool
with this and ask people to tell us.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
We're not going to play this music under it every time.
Just telling you that is what we're doing. Wasn't part
of the deal from here on.

Speaker 10 (10:36):
It's idea.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
It's hard to say that.

Speaker 4 (10:41):
But I said, we could ask people to tell us
something good that has happened, something that we can celebrate,
because we want to celebrate your positive things. And look
this list from BuzzFeed was I mean things as simple
as I rescued a cat from you know, like the
side of the road and now we've found a home
for the cat. Just simple everyday things, or like my

(11:04):
my daughter got an a on a math test that
she was super nervous about the little things that actually
are huge moments in our personal lives that need to
be celebrated.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
So coming up at seven fifty, we're gonna we're gonna
try this for the first time today on Friday. But
I want I want to hat tip Boomer von Cannon
because that says, what should we call this? And I
just immediately said Frye because that's what I call it.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
Boomer.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, well, Boomer says Frye all the time.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
He says Frye.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
And when you say that around here, you think Boomer.
And if you want a channel Boomer, that's basically what
we're doing is channel positivity. But seven fifty today our
first edition of a Good Morning BT. Frya or you
call us and you can tell us anything that you want.
You can text us to seven oh four five seven
oh eleven ten. But I want to put that out there.
I want to put the positive energy out there so

(11:51):
we can, you know, make our way towards this at
seven fifty and you're ready to go when we are.
But just tell us something good that happened to you
this week. Tell me something good.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
It doesn't have to be huge. We love it on
the text line seven oh four five seven oh eleven ten.
But we also want to hear from you call us
seven o four five seven oh eleven ten, so that
we can celebrate these, these the little good moments that
remind us how incredible our communities are, how incredible our
neighbors are our families. Just the good moments need to

(12:20):
be celebrated and need more attention.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
I'm just turning this up so we can just make
sure we get it done here because I'm I'm not
going to do this at seven fifty.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
Oh come on, everybody has their corner of the sky
bo unless.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
You say this is the best thing that happened to
me today we played this song. We got my own
corner of this Kay today, gotta be.

Speaker 4 (12:39):
Where you're spirit. You canna run free.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Now, We're not going to do this until seven fifty,
So next segment. We have something planned next segment. But
at seven fifty this morning, we have Hancock back today
and like I said, Mark harrisil join us as well.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
Oh look a hi.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
It really does sound like it would have been the
soundtrack to one of those they roll in the little
scooter or the little uh you know, the thing, not
the scooter, but it has wheels on carts.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
The cart.

Speaker 13 (13:06):
Yeah, rascals.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
I don't know what school Bow went to, but the
film projector was on a scooter.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Everybody had rascals. And I went to East Over Elementary
and I know there are a few people out there
because I hear from them every once in a while
that listen to this show. They know what I'm talking about.
We had film day. One day they bring in two
or three. Back then it was in the little you know,
round cases. It was a real, real film.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
Yeah, and that you would watch your teacher kind of
load the real reel. That's how we watched Free to
Be You and Me.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
With the hardy bars and the mushy mills with no This.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
Was the puppets that you know, we talked you're a boy,
You're a girl, and they were like looking at each
other's and ribs, cribs, they were cribs, they were babies.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
But we did this one day. We did this one day,
so you watched that movie. And there was another movie
that I we found them, but you're right, those were
the ones that they bring in in the little cases
and then years later came rolling in the TV. But
this is the days of rolling in the projector. And
they and that's what I mean. They bring in like
three or four of them because they were all like
fifteen minutes long.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
We had a teacher, a substitute teacher. I guess he
just wasn't quite sure what to do this might have
been seventh or eighth grade at Concord Middle School, and
he rolled in that VCR. At that point, we had
gotten cool by that pointment a VCR on the car
and he played the original Michael Keaton.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
I got that, Wow, good morning, we had a VCR.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
We were that cool.

Speaker 4 (14:27):
We were that cool, we were that updated. But he
played Batman, the Michael Keaton Batman in our class, and
then he didn't get to come back anymore.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Oh, there's a lot going on on this show so
far today.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah, that was a long class. If you watched the
whole Batman movie.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
Yeah, we just watched the first part of it. But
then well he never came back again.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
And again I talk about graduating to videos and VCRs.
We had the movies, but then there was the era
before that where he had film strips. Bernie Aird of
a film strip, Oh sure, no, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
No he has.

Speaker 4 (14:59):
Did you ever have to make your owners?

Speaker 7 (15:01):
No?

Speaker 1 (15:01):
I have not. I have not heard of the film.

Speaker 4 (15:02):
We had to make our own film strips with magic markers,
and you drew on the clear film strips and then
they put it in the reel to reel and you
animated your own film strip.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
That sounds fun.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
I absolutely did that. And do you remember the way
that you had to clear the film They gave you
old films and you had to soak it in bleach.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
Yes, you had to soak it in bleach and clear
out all this stuff and then you draw on them.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
And here's the best part. Like when you watch the
film strips that were professionally made, they'd have like a
tone to change the film change. It's like basically like
watching a slide. But when you made your own, you
had to do it yourself and you'd be like I did.
I did one on trains in Japan, like japan Japanese supertrains.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
Did you draw the Jephney super Trains?

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yes, and I said, here is the train going down
the track beep. I'm not kidding you.

Speaker 11 (15:49):
So I got to do stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
I know now. I got a call and John hang
on the education was real. Yeah, absolutely so he.

Speaker 4 (15:57):
Still remembers all the all the knowledge out Japanese trains.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
You and I just had a moment when we bleached
film strips together.

Speaker 4 (16:04):
See it sounds like we were trying to hide evidence.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
It never fails. Six on Newstalk eleven ten WBT, John
hang on, Please hang on because I want to hear
what you have to say. It's about east Over Elementary.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
This is good Morning DT with both Thompson and Beth
trout Man.

Speaker 5 (16:23):
I've gotten to be where my spirit can run free.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
Got a fine line corner.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
All right? Seven oh four or five seven oh eleven ten?
John has been waiting patiently here John, welcome to Good
morning BT.

Speaker 15 (16:39):
Good morning Bow and Beth. How are you this morning?

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (16:42):
John? We're awesome.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
What's up?

Speaker 15 (16:45):
Bo I too? Am a proud graduate of Eastover Elementary.
There you go, and I have some great memories of
that place. Field day across the street was always fun.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Now, John, who was the pe teacher and you were there?

Speaker 15 (17:02):
I do not remember. That was a long time ago, both.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Okay, I remember, And you tell me if you remember
now when I say missus Merrill, No, sorry, we might
have missed each other a little bit. Okay, back to
your memories.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
John's pretty old.

Speaker 15 (17:18):
Phil Day was one. Movie day was another one, but
about the best. There was ACC tournament week, that's right,
and every teacher was more than willing to put off
their whatever their agenda was for the day if there
was a game on during ACC tournament week.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Now, hang on a second, like, like I remember that?

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Now?

Speaker 2 (17:41):
Were you watching on a black and white TV?

Speaker 16 (17:44):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Okay, Okay, they.

Speaker 15 (17:45):
Pulled the TV in on the cart.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Because because everybody when I got when I was there,
all the classes had black and white TVs. But then
the color TV is like sort of when you when
you got the TV, the color TV was on a
roller so it would go from classroom to classroom because
they didn't have one for everybody. So when you got
the color TV rolled into your room, you you were doing.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
Something really big deal. Well, John, here's the big question
for you. Did you watch the film about decorating your
own corner?

Speaker 16 (18:12):
I did not?

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Okay, John, have a great weekend. Thanks for calling you.

Speaker 10 (18:17):
Did you didn't have the same Jim coach? I mean,
are you sure you weren't the same school?

Speaker 15 (18:23):
I was there, I was there.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
I think you went there. I wonder I Bow doesn't
remember where he went to? Hang on?

Speaker 2 (18:28):
What street was it on?

Speaker 7 (18:29):
John?

Speaker 1 (18:31):
There you go?

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Okay, we were there. We were there.

Speaker 15 (18:34):
It was Cherokee, and there was a great bookstore right
down the road called Forest.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yes, across from seven eleven across from seven eleven?

Speaker 13 (18:43):
Uh huh?

Speaker 2 (18:44):
I remember the Black Forest. Yeah, that was.

Speaker 15 (18:47):
A great little store.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
They had great little taking my call whirst John.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
John wants to go.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
John wants to go with you today.

Speaker 17 (18:56):
Man, you know, just for that it's not your birthday.
But here, listen to this. Sean wants to go. He's
put him out of his misery.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Probably all right, Tomorrow, ladies and gentlemen, is a big day.
It's a big day all across the land in our
motherland because it is the birthday of one Sir Stephen
of Anthony. So it's birthday Eve for Steve Anthony. So we,
of course, because we won't be here tomorrow, we'll celebrate today.
So I got even. This is the Steve's current favorite

(19:39):
song that he sent me by Nine Inch Nails from
the Oh did we.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
Test this to see if the lyrics are okay?

Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yes, okay, from the the upcoming Tron movie. Right, all right,
so happy birthday to you. Do we want to do
a gift giving Yeah here, we need to do a
little gift giving exchange.

Speaker 4 (19:57):
Come over here, Sir Stephen of Anthony.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
This music is perfect, makes me feel walk up song.
This really is all right? So Steve, he's got a
bag that says happy birthday to you.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
I came in singing this morning, like, happy birthday to
you tomorrow, hope tom.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Tomorrow, pulling up to the mic.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
Here, all right, I think we're good.

Speaker 7 (20:23):
All right, your.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Birthday is tomorrow, but today is goodmorrow because it's your tomorrow,
all right. So he's got a bag here and go
right to do on.

Speaker 7 (20:34):
That I wrote.

Speaker 18 (20:35):
Oddly enough, it does say happy birthday for and my
card is is addressed to frequent listeners Steve, which of
course I can very much appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (20:46):
That's a joke that goes back to the first month
that Steve worked here.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
You would email us stories and that's like, who's Steve.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
It's like we have a very active listener. I kept
saying who's Steve, and Bertie say, bab, it's the new guy.

Speaker 18 (21:01):
The guy in the corner, this guy right here over
here works here, Fraser hat the car.

Speaker 13 (21:07):
Okay, okay.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Opening the card first for you to read what I wrote.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
So she looked it.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
Well, how's he going to close it?

Speaker 1 (21:15):
It's a great card.

Speaker 18 (21:16):
This is a phenomenal card. The front of the card
is has one word on it, moist. That's the entire front.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Of the car birthday mood.

Speaker 18 (21:27):
Uh oh fandango gift certificates? Is this is this bo
reminding me that I need to go and see you.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
And I had a conversation the other day and I
was talking about the Superman is great in Jurassic World
and all this stuff, Fantastic four, and Steve said, I
just haven't been able to get to the movies. Movies,
And I said, I thought. I told Beth last night.
I said, this is perfect. We talked the other day.
So now this weekend you can go catch up on
all the movies.

Speaker 10 (21:50):
You works make enough money to go to movies, so
this will help make that happen.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
We're pitching in.

Speaker 18 (21:56):
We're pitching in, so hang on, Oh nice, nice, Okay,
so sorry, I was looking at everybody else's everybody's things here.
So yeah, front of the card, moist inside. Now your
birthday can only get better from here. You're welcome.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
It's very true.

Speaker 4 (22:09):
We had a whole conversation about this word. Everyone in
this room hates that word. I love the word.

Speaker 8 (22:14):
Hang on.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Here we go, all right, Steve, We're not done yet.
You get a bag there to dig into it.

Speaker 18 (22:22):
There is I just I appreciate some of the just
really quickly. Some of the messages that are written in
the card, like, for example, Happy Birthday Bernie from Steve.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Oh, you're welcome.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
I mean I could have written that one.

Speaker 4 (22:36):
Yeah, you could have written.

Speaker 18 (22:37):
And then of course there's happy birthday Steve, I mean
Bernie from al conflict.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
So we had to walk down the hall to get
that one.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
That was that's so we had to give him a
gift card.

Speaker 18 (22:50):
All right, So inside of the bag, hang on, hang on,
Oh wow, okay, I can already see just from the
top of it what it might be.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yes, I yes, I do. Oh, it's heavy. It is
a ceramic chartist.

Speaker 18 (23:05):
And I know everybody that is not a doctor who
fan out out in the Charlotte area is like the
what a targets? Yes, it is the the time travel
device that the doctor uses.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
I was in the television show Doctor Who.

Speaker 4 (23:19):
I said all of this to Mark and to Jim
when I went to Jim's sports corner and I was like,
so I got it.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
Were they looking at you like threads?

Speaker 4 (23:26):
He said, I don't understand it. Get the just pull
it from the.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
Time bonus kifs.

Speaker 4 (23:35):
Ah.

Speaker 18 (23:37):
So it is a cookie jar full of what a
cookie jar should be full of which are?

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Which are? That's absolutely phenomenal chocolate cookies.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
They probably still warm my bath, Yeah so and that
maybe sweating inside there now it's a Tartist cookie jar.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
Thank you all so much. I have I have. I
don't know if I should admit this on the air
or not.

Speaker 18 (24:00):
I have a couple of doctor who shelves amongst my
my decorations in my house. So this will this will
now join one of my.

Speaker 10 (24:08):
Many other weight at his corner with the artists with
doctor who's Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Well, thank you all so very much. Birthday to thank you,
Happy birthday Steve, Sir Steven of Anthony, much appreciated.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
You can get a movie and take your cookie jar
with you.

Speaker 18 (24:23):
Just just walk into with my ceramic Tartist under my arm.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
I don't see why not.

Speaker 4 (24:27):
Yeah, I could carry a purse. Why can't you care
a cookie.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Jaray, that'll pay for half of one movie. Trust me,
there's a little too expensive these days. But anyway, happy
birthday to you. And uh do you want to say
a happy birthday to Sir Steven of Anthony seven O
four five seven oh eleven ten on the on the
on the text line driven by liberty at GMC. All right,
mercifully if you're Jim Zokie, here's Boomer van Cant. Happy birthday, Steve.

Speaker 18 (24:54):
Thank you, Boomer, I appreciate that, brother man.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Way to go, my mind, you man.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
Another one is on the way, hopefully fingers crossed. I
heard you guys talking during the break. I'm with you.
I've never seen the show any form of it, and
I know it's a there's the old TV show and
there's a reboot of it, right am I?

Speaker 7 (25:13):
Right?

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Steve? Are you guys trying to make me cry on
my birthday? And I truly.

Speaker 18 (25:19):
Believe nobody in the room has seen it, And I
even Beth and I have had the conversations because she's
in the you know, sci fi and time travel stuff,
and I was.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Like, so doctor who right, She's like, I never know, Sorry.

Speaker 4 (25:30):
I've never seen it. I knew of it. I know
of the show, but I because I do love time
travel shows Quantum Leap is ma Jam and I also
loved the show Limitless that was only owned for th.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
This is weird, no, I said, It's just weird that
she likes that random show.

Speaker 4 (25:48):
Scott Bacula, He's my, my, my, girlhood crush, Scott Bacula.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
The show for me has always been Doctor Who. No,
but I know of it. I just never watched it.
I'll go back to your corner, your birthday corner. Hey,
there's big business news today. Did you guys know that
I don't know that I realized that Bojangles was not
in New York City.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
Oh, I knew that it wasn't. I mean, it's it's
only been really a Southeast thing because when I used
to live in places like Phoenix or even Florida, Los Angeles,
when I came to when I came to visit and
I would come through with the Charlotte Airport, the first
thing I would do is go to the B terminal
and go through Bojngles to get a Cajun chicken biscuit

(26:31):
because it was such a regional thing, and I would
miss Bojangles whilst living in other places that were not Charlotte.
But now the folks north of us, north of the
Mason diction line, they are getting some Boss Sugarrette. Now
they're getting some Bojangles. They're getting some bow Love. And
I love this so much because the story that opened

(26:54):
the announcement of Bojngles says Boh my god.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Bo mg the for the first time in four decades.
So I was right about this. It's not their first foray,
it's just the first time in forty years, for the
first time in forty decades. According to the New York Post,
a new location for Bojangles will happen in Brooklyn. According
to the company, and Bojangles will be opening eighty five
locations throughout New York and New Jersey over the next

(27:22):
ten years.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
They don't know what's about to hit them in New
York and New Jersey. I cannot wait for them to
have bo Jingles, biscuits, the bow Berry biscuit, the biscuits
and gravy.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
The bow Rito is now available bo.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
Rito with the yummy bow rounds on it and the gravy.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
And the cheese hot sauce.

Speaker 4 (27:42):
I'm telling you, I'm telling you New York and New Jersey,
I don't know that they're ready for it.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
It's the biscuit New York.

Speaker 4 (27:47):
I don't know if they're ready for it.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Value. So New York is getting Bojangles and the northern
regions up there, but down here South Park Mall adding
nine more stores, nine stores, including uh and the one
they're they're seemed to be excited about here when I
say they the Charlotte Observer Johnny O. Anybody where Johnny
O stuff? Johnny O? I know what it is because

(28:11):
they always sell Johnny O stuff at the golf tournament and.

Speaker 10 (28:15):
So real quick we live over that way. We were said,
don't want to go to Creighton Barrel. You can imagine
why we go to Creighton Barrel's not there anymore. They're
building something called our House or whatever. They knew we
did over to Colony, but we saw Johnny O's driving
by we last night.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
You said, there's the Johnny O's anyway.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
It sounds like it should be a pancake house to me.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
I know, Well, Creighton Barrel is where Borders was. That's
over at Marcroft. That that spot you know, we talked.
We've done had discussions here about uh. When when a
store that is very very unique and has a very
unique shape leaves, you know, not anything can just go
and be where that was. That Border's location over at
Marcroft was so huge, I mean it was it was

(28:54):
two levels and it just you go inside and you
could spend like a week there and it's just so big.
So uh Creighton Bear Carl and I just drove past
it the other day. It's in that shopping center at
Marcroft where the taj Man Teeter Harris Teeter is, Yes,
and the Joseph Bank and all those stores. Joseph a Bank.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yes, So we put it in the phone. Look for
what happened to?

Speaker 4 (29:12):
Where did it go? They moved in. They had a
close out sale too, by the way, at the where
you could buy their floor models for like fifty percent
off or something like that. But they did. They moved
so that they have a bigger like both said, it's
kind of a gigantic location, and they moved from that
smaller area that's over near the Cowfish Place. They moved
from that little space.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
So other stores coming to South Park in the in
the coming months. Bowling Branch home goods company based in Summit,
New Jersey. Also something called camp. You heard of that
camp at the c camp all Capital.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
I bet it's a camping store, a.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Family experienced company. Let's see New Balance, a New Balance
store Zara.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
Okay, now that's the one I've told you guys about that.
I'm so excited they've They've got one whole wing of
the mall that it has been under construction to open Zara,
and Zara has like designer looking clothes at not designer prices.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Oh I thought those as soccer player for Charlotte f'c.

Speaker 19 (30:08):
No.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
Zara is really really cool. They're also opening else they're
opening a Dulce and Gabana kind of its own standalone store.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Oh, we should have.

Speaker 10 (30:17):
But Bret Jenson special report on all this. It's like
this is his neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Yeah, well that whole you're right, is a whole wing
because it took out like the Gap and Taylor j Crew.
It's all gone. I don't know if it's relocating like
Creighton Beryl did. But also Suit Supply, Reformation, Mizzen, and
Maine Us. See that's all of them. Yeah, that's all
the stores. In addition to Johnny O coming to South Park.
And then like we said, Bojangles is exporting to the

(30:43):
North New York City first time in forty years. So
you got choices whether you're here or there.

Speaker 4 (30:48):
I hope that I hope that New York is so
blown away by Bojangles that they're just like it becomes
their new food instead of new York Pizza, Boja Bagelsgel Bagels.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
You're gonna get a bow Jingles biscuit almost seven o'clock.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
I see you had to drop fine.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Good morning, Echo Base.

Speaker 7 (31:06):
This is rope too. I found them repeat, I've found.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
Them from US Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three
double BT.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
I love it when a plan comes together.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
This is Good Morning Beat with bo Thompson at Beth Trout.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
With I was listening to the magic Voice just coming
out of this strange modern invention seven minutes past seven
o'clock on WBTS Friday morning, actually today, and we'll see
going forward. Fry yay. That's when I stole from Boomer

(31:43):
von Cannon, but it fits right. We're gonna try something
at seven point fifty today. A lot of a lot
of crazy headlines in the world, sometimes things that maybe
depress you, make you fill with anxiety. We're gonna do
something to offset that today seven today, seven o four five,
seven oh eleven ten. Tell us why it's fry ye.

(32:04):
Tell us something good that happened to you this week
or happened to somebody something good about this week.

Speaker 4 (32:10):
Big or small. We want to celebrate the little wins,
the big wins. Just the things that made you feel good,
made you smile, made you feel celebratory. We want to
celebrate with you. It's fry yay, tell me something.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Good seven four, five, seven, oh eleven ten. We'll do
that coming up just before the top of the hour
right now, Carolina Panthers. Hopefully we'll be doing something good tomorrow.
As they head I'll call you guys tomorrow, le you know,
well done. The Zochs Calleth headed to Houston. Carolina Panthers

(32:45):
is going to take on the Houston Texans and this
you know, they had the joint practice yesterday. First of all,
what are we thinking about the joint practice? Similar things
as what we were hearing coming out of the last
joint practice. All good things.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
Yeah, Canalis, I heard him talk.

Speaker 10 (33:01):
I didn't to coach Demical Ryans, but I think he
said that it was clean. It wasn't like a lot
of you know, extracurricular stuff that happened. Sometimes we put
two teams on the football field together and it's the top.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Two picks in the draft who are friends. As we
talked about yesterday with c. J.

Speaker 10 (33:17):
Stroud and Bryce Young and and Dave Canals, they're all
cot In Coach Canals all southern California dudes. He looked
at their college tape coming out. Obviously they had to
make a decision here prior to Coach Canals about who
the quarterback would be. But he was looking at it
when he was with Tampa and a big fan of
both of as as mentioned yesterday. Just two really quality
human beings on top of being two really good young quarterbacks.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
So I think their two careers.

Speaker 10 (33:41):
Are going to be always intertwined as far as how
people look at them and how they play.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Yeah, I mean, they could have very easily been in
the reverse places that came down to who the Carolina
Panthers decided to pick, But you knew that both of
them were going to be asked about this yesterday. We'll
start with Bryce Young, you.

Speaker 20 (33:57):
Know, I think, of course, obviously we've both gotten more experience,
both gotten more familiarity, more comfortability and.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Where we're at.

Speaker 20 (34:04):
And it's it's cool to be able to have conversations
in the off season from oh wow, you're one is
surprised this happened year two?

Speaker 7 (34:11):
Oh this is oh.

Speaker 20 (34:12):
Wow, this happened to you, this happened to me, This
is what I see. So it's cool again to to
have someone that I'm so so close with and been
friends for a while, to kind of be able to
to traverse things at a similar timetable. It is definitely
a blessing.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
And you know, we remember leading up to that draft.
I mean you really they were at the combine. You're
kind of watching like body language and who's talking to
who and who. It seemed like the Panthers coaches like
the most because we we had the number one pick,
so we you know, it was ours to ours to
make that decision.

Speaker 4 (34:43):
And I think a lot of people thought it was
going to be c J. Stroud because of his height,
because of his success at Ohio State.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
Am I ranking correct?

Speaker 4 (34:50):
The videoga? Here's my question.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
Here, it's o MG, the Ohio State, Ohio State.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
How if you're really good friends with the quarterback of
the opposing team, if you guys are bros, how do
you get into the fighting mindset? How do you get
into that I'm going to take this god down that
you need to be in in order to play NFL.

Speaker 9 (35:12):
Jist fight all the time. After the show, we're best friends.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
Yeah, and that's what that's what best friends do.

Speaker 9 (35:17):
It just kind of got to get into that frame
of mind where you get your compartmentalize.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
Do you where do you find it?

Speaker 10 (35:22):
But the good thing is for them, like they're not
actually obviously they're both not on the field at the
same time, however, but I think you're they're fans of
each other, and they both threw each other along and
they both have had you know, CJ was the offensive
rookie of the year, so you got off to a
little bit faster start than what happened with Bryce. So
then last year Bryce started playing better and is at
least kind of to me close to being on a

(35:43):
par with CJ. But again, it's it's a long term
play with these guys. It's not like who's going to
be the best rookie or whatever. So I think they
they're definitely again because they're good people and they're humble.
I think they're their fans of each other and they
don't really have that mindset, I don't think.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
So Bryce talked about CJ, and of course CJ talked
about Bryce.

Speaker 21 (36:01):
I would say very similar. You know, he's very even killed,
very to himself, and I think for him, I think
I've seen a dog come out of him that he
has that a lot of people haven't seen, you know,
but you know, I know he dealt with some frustrations,
and I think, you know, the guy we serve, you know,
I think it's good that we go through these ups
and downs to like refocus you back on what's important.

(36:22):
And I think he had that and I had that
last year as well. And I think he bounced back
like you know he should and and we all know
he can. He's a He's a heck of a player,
one of the best quarter I've ever seen in my life.
And I just think, you know, he needs some help
around him too, you know. So, but I'm just really
proud of that guy. And just the same way he
said about me through every ups and down, every valley

(36:43):
and peak, like he stayed the same guy, stay loyal,
and stayed the friend and the brother. So I'm very
appreciative of him.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
I like I like the thing about the dog coming
out because because CJ knows knows Bryce very well.

Speaker 4 (36:55):
He said he's one of the best quarterbacks he's ever seen.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
Takes a dog to know a dog.

Speaker 7 (36:59):
So there you go, dog.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
See if that ends up coming to Fruition with a
little Edgier Edgier side of Bryce this.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
Season, Edgi Brice would be saying, but I when I heard.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
Him say that yesterday, you know, some people say, oh,
I've seen I've seen another side of Bryce. I've seen
him kind of have an edge to him.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
But C. J.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Stroud knows Bryce young. You grew up with him, played
you played basketball with him, not just football, and so
now for him to say that, I think that, I
think that is something.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
So we'll see, that's actually a huge compliment. I think
Edgy okay, So I was trying to think of this,
why Edgy Bryce, we could call him young Gun.

Speaker 10 (37:32):
I love the toughness in the way you said that,
very pro Second Amendment too, that we'll call him young gun.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
We'll come him young good, We'll call him you.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
All right. Seven thirteen on WBT, we are just hours
away from the Trump Putin summit happening in Alaska, and
there are four hours behind us, so it'll actually be
happening later on this afternoon around three o'clock. We'll talk
to Congressman Mark Harris, who is back with us like
always on Friday mornings, get his thoughts on how this
might go and what he's expecting out of it.

Speaker 7 (38:02):
This is Good Morning BT.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
Seven on News Talk eleven ten nine to nine three WBT.
Big day for the president. President Trump scheduled to meet
with Vladimir Putin in Alaska. It'll be Alaska time eleven
thirty am, which means three thirty pm Eastern time this afternoon,
before we bring on our next guest, United States Congressman

(38:29):
Mark Harris, who I know has plenty of thoughts about this.
Let's catch you up on what we expect here in
the next several hours. Fox's Jackie Heinrich.

Speaker 10 (38:36):
Well, I want to do is set the table for
the next meeting, which should happen shortly, maybe in Alaska
where we just stay because it's.

Speaker 7 (38:42):
So much easier.

Speaker 22 (38:43):
President Trump says he has three locations in mind for
a possible second summit, which would include Ukrainian President Zelenski.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
If things go well with Putin.

Speaker 19 (38:51):
That's going to be a meeting where they make a deal.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
And I don't want to use the word divvy things up,
but you know, to a certain extent it's not a
bad term.

Speaker 10 (39:00):
But there will be a give and take as to boundaries,
lands et cetera, et ce.

Speaker 22 (39:04):
President Trump reportedly told Zelensky and European leaders. He would
not discuss territorial divisions in his one on one with Putin.

Speaker 4 (39:11):
The president also told reporters an immediate.

Speaker 22 (39:13):
Ceasefire is likely not a realistic result, and he kept
tight lipped about incentives he might offer to get Putin.

Speaker 4 (39:20):
To end the war.

Speaker 7 (39:21):
Well, I'd rather than not say, because I don't want
to play my hand in public.

Speaker 22 (39:25):
Putin appears to be angling for arms controls in a
video released by the Kremlin wrapped in a compliment for Trump.

Speaker 18 (39:31):
The current American administration, which everyone knows, is making, in
my opinion, quite energetic and sincere efforts to stop the hostilities.

Speaker 22 (39:40):
Putin dangling the prospect of long term peace quote if
we reach agreements in the area of control over strategic
offensive weapons at the next stage. One source familiar with
the talks says that's new, and Russia has not previously
voiced any request for strategic weapons reductions. Meantime, Reuter's reports
ahead of the meeting, Putin's been preparing to test russia

(40:00):
new nuclear armed, nuclear powered cruise missile. Trump told reporters
he hasn't considered reducing military presence in Europe to get
Russia to agree to a peace deal.

Speaker 10 (40:09):
That hasn't been put before me, and I'll think about
that for later, but it has not been put before me.

Speaker 22 (40:14):
The White House is planning a joint news conference, meaning
that reporters will have an opportunity to put questions to
both President Trump and President Putin. But President Trump didn't
rule out the possibility of calling that off and taking
questions solo if his meeting with Putin does not go well.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
That's Fox's Jackie Heinrich and we go to the WBT
hotline right now and welcome back to the show. He
joins us every Friday unless he has a schedule conflict,
and he was not here last week, and he went
on a trip we're going to talk about in just
a few moments, but I want to talk about the
trip that President Trump is taking today because it's a
very very monumental one when you think about what it

(40:50):
could mean long term. Congressman Mark Harris, welcome back to
the show.

Speaker 16 (40:55):
Well Bowen Beth, it's great to be back with you
on this Friday morning.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
Thank you for having me, Yes, Sir, an honor to
have you on with us.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
Now.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
They're going to meet at joint Base Elmandorf, Richardson and Anchorage,
Alaska later on this afternoon, about three thirty our time.
As you have been watching this play out, what are
you anticipating happening later today?

Speaker 16 (41:16):
Well, I'll have to tell you. It seems to me
that this is probably one of those meetings that all
of us are going to have to just kind of
watch and see how it unfolds, because the predictability of
this is not real, real high, simply because of the
players involved. I mean, when you've got President Putin being

(41:38):
the kind of leader that he is, and kind of
the fact that he has been really all over the
table at one moment saying that he's ready for peace,
in the very next moment, he is firing rockets in
the Kiev. This is something that is going to be
interesting to see unfold. And then, of course you have
President Trump that is wanting a piece deal. He's wanting

(41:59):
to see fire. He has seen hundreds of thousands of
men and women that have just died been injured needlessly,
many of them innocent civilians, and he wants the killing
to stop. He's made that clear every step of the way.
And so, but he's also the master negotiator and I
think this is going to be an opportunity for us

(42:20):
to see how he handles it. Will he get up
and walk out of the room. There have been comparisons
made to meetings that took place between Reagan and Gorbachev
years ago, and so I think it's going to be
very fascinating to unfold. I do believe it's some of
the conversations and comments that are coming out in the
last hours indicate that there's some confidence. It's building that

(42:43):
there's going to be a phone call made immediately after
and Zelensky's going to be brought to the table to
try to work through some things. But I just think
the President felt he needed to sit down I to
eye with Putin and find out and he is. Earlier
in the week, you know, he said that within minutes
he feels like he'll be able to surmise that this

(43:05):
man really is willing to come to a piece agreement.

Speaker 4 (43:09):
We were talking about what the mood, what the tone
might be in this meeting. We were talking about this
during the break a few minutes ago. And you know
when when Trump met with Putin back during his first term,
those conversations seemed much more friendly. They seemed kind of
a mutual respect between these two men. But I feel

(43:31):
like Trump probably has a different perspective of Vladimir Putin now,
just based on the fact that he has not been
able to negotiate a peace agreement with Putin and with Zelensky.
And I wonder how much different this relationship, how it's
going to look different compared to what face to face
meetings have looked like before between Putin and Trump.

Speaker 16 (43:55):
One hundred percent agree, Beth, I think that really and
Trump has been so disappointed, And I think he went
in to this second term feeling like that he had
had a decent relationship with Putin, felt like that he
was going to be able to quickly get to a

(44:15):
piece deal understanding the situation. But Putin so many times
came to the edge, brought Trump to the edge, and then,
like I said, the very next day, he's firing rockets
back in the Kievs and was not serious about it.
So the president has been disappointed. I think he definitely
has a different view going into this with Putin because

(44:37):
of those actions of him. But also have noticed in
the last twenty four hours, even the report, I think
that Mark did a little bit earlier talked about Putin
saying some positive things about President Trump and the energy
and wanting to see this happen. So I think that's

(44:57):
certainly a positive thing that they are speaking in that
direction as they come to the table.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
President Trump, as we speak, is about to board Air
Force one and leave. The trip to get to where
he's going takes about six or seven hours. But you know,
you're talking about the fact that, I mean, this could
be the kind of thing that fifteen minutes end, it
ends because it doesn't go well, or it could go
so well that they're planning for the possibility of having
a joint news conference after it's over. So the just

(45:25):
the look and the sound of a joint news conference
with Trump and Putin in front of the press later today,
that would be pretty remarkable if it ends up happening.

Speaker 7 (45:35):
This is Good Morning Beat.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
Seven thirty seven on WBT on your Friday morning, August fifteenth.
Congressman Mark Harris is back with us after being away
last week, and we can talk about where he was
last week now and Congressman Harris I talked about President
Trump making an important trip as he's about to do
right this moment. You had a very important one. In

(46:00):
the last several days.

Speaker 16 (46:03):
Yes, Sir, we had the privilege of being a part
of a delegation that went over to the Middle East
and specifically to Israel, and we're a part of really
about an eight day trip of just hearing a number
of policy people that were able to share information. We

(46:25):
made our way to Gaza, to the Gaza border, if
you will, and actually stood in the vary kibbutzes that
we had all seen or talked about and seen through
video of what happened on October seventh of twenty twenty three.
And I have to tell you, I've been to Israel
a number of times as a pastor, leading church groups

(46:48):
to go over there and tour the holy sites and
be a part of those and they've always very meaningful trips,
very reflection oriented, very meaningful. But I have to say
this was probably one of the most emotional and powerful
trips that I've ever taken. Things that we had seen,
heard about, imagined, and then to actually stand and walk

(47:13):
on on what is that hallowed ground through many of
those folks there in Israel right now was just amazing.

Speaker 4 (47:21):
I'm glad that you that you said that. Can you
expand on that a little bit of what the overall
feeling was there, not just for you and for the
delegation who was there, but from the people who are
living there, who are experiencing all of this. What was
that feeling for that eight day period that you were
in the region.

Speaker 16 (47:42):
Well, this is a country that is still at war.
And in fact we arrived there, we left on Sunday,
and so it was Monday afternoon Israel time when we
actually ended up there, and that very first night, actually
we didn't learn about it until the next day. The
next morning, but the UTIs had fired a rocket into Israel,

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and in parts of the country the alarms had gone off.
We did have an opportunity to see their defense mechanism.
We had an opportunity to be briefed and to learn
about David's sling, to learn about the Iron Dome, to
learn about arrow just their incredible ability to take out
these rockets in the air. So I think there was

(48:30):
a mixture of emotion beath quite honestly, a feeling among
the people. They're grateful that they have had the success
that they've had. They're still a country that's at war,
and to be honest, when you walk through those kibbutzas,
not a thing has changed. I mean they are left
the very same way they were on October seventh. And

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that's for a reason. Israel is incredibly gifted at reminding
people that they must never forget. They want to remember
what they've been through. And I have to tell you
that the last stop we made on our last day
was we visited the National Cemetery, which would be the

(49:12):
equivalent of going to Arlington and walking through and hearing
those stories. And I know we don't have time now
to do it, but I actually heard some of the
eulogies and actually have a copy of one of the
letters that one of these young men had sent home.
Every soldier is a report to the base. Are required

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to write a letter that has kept so that if
something happens, it's given to their family. And the courage,
the strength, the patriotism, the sense of just national unity,
it's there. I mean, we met with Prime Minister at
in Yahoo, we met with the opposition party there in Israel.

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It's just it was amazing the sense of unity they have.
When you go to that National Cemetery and they have
just the numerical age of each person and you just
saw twenty one year old, twenty three year old, twenty
two year old, nineteen year old, all of these that
have laid down their lives for their country in this battle.

(50:16):
It just was extremely moving and I sought clarity. One
thing I wanted on this trip and it prayed for,
was give me clarity to see the situation as it
really is. And I have to tell you, I'm most
grateful and you'll probably hear more about it in the
days to come. This Gaza Humanitarian Fund initiative, that's another
whole show and another whole segment. But the Gaza Humanitarian

(50:39):
Fund initiative is how they're getting food to help folks
in Gaza. But there's a distinct difference in how this
is being done. President Trump played a key role in
launching this nonprofit. They've already delivered one hundred and ten
million meals, they secure their own supply chain, they've had
zero percent of aid diverted, and a number of groups

(51:04):
in the US are helping with this and it's making
a difference, and it's actually getting food to help the
people there in Gaza, and very different than how the
UN's operation has been operating. But anyway, I'll stop there.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
Well, you were there, and that's just fascinating to hear
the first hand account of that. So we appreciate you
coming on with this like you always do, but especially
recounting all of that. So thank you so much. Lots
of information to look back on, but a lot to
look forward to this afternoon as we wait to see
this President Trump. President putin meet up and Anchorage. Congressman,

(51:43):
Glad you're back safe in the United States, and thanks
for coming on.

Speaker 16 (51:47):
Thank you so much for having me. Y'all have a
great weekend.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
Hey, what's up? How you doing? Sam Bam?

Speaker 3 (51:52):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
I don't know what it means, but I like it.

Speaker 4 (51:54):
Hey, how are you hi?

Speaker 15 (51:56):
We're great your news show that is fun to listen.

Speaker 7 (52:00):
This is Good Morning BET.

Speaker 13 (52:02):
All right?

Speaker 2 (52:02):
You ready to blast off here?

Speaker 4 (52:03):
I am so ready.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
Bought on a Friday. Yes, it's our new experiment here
seven four, five, seven eleven ten. We bring you all
the headlines and we have to report the bad ones sometimes,
but we can also use the fifty thousand watch to
put some good ones out there. Let's go to Dana

(52:26):
online one. Dana. Welcome to Good Morning BT.

Speaker 23 (52:30):
Good morning, How are you hi?

Speaker 7 (52:32):
Good now?

Speaker 4 (52:32):
We are good. Tell us something good.

Speaker 23 (52:36):
Well, I have some great news. I'm Johnson and Wales
University in Charlotte, which is a sister campus to our
home campus in Providence, Rhode Island, who started a nursing
program last year, and we are graduating our first program
here in Charlotte today. There you go, day ceremony today.

Speaker 4 (53:00):
That's really good news.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
Well, congratulations, excited for them.

Speaker 23 (53:05):
They've been diligently working for the last sixteen months to
get through this program. It's an accelerated BSM program, so
they already had a bachelor's degree and now they're coming
through and they're going to be nurses.

Speaker 4 (53:17):
Wow, they're going to be saving lives and helping take
care of people and putting love out into the world. Dana,
you just changed hundreds and hundreds of lives with that.

Speaker 23 (53:28):
We're so excited. They all have jobs already, so they
just have their last hurdle, which is to pass their
national boards. So we think they're ready to go.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
Well, we're gonna put some good feeling out there for
them to do well in those tests. And thank you, Dana,
we really appreciate it. Let's go to line too and
welcome Michael Michael, give us some good news on a Friday.

Speaker 16 (53:49):
I just wanted to say, today is the first day
of the rest of our lives. And a quote from
Doctor Seuss, you have brains in your head beating your shoes.
You can see yourself in any directing new Oh that's.

Speaker 4 (54:01):
So true, Michael, And that was the whole I'm so
glad you called to say that, because it was the
whole point of this segment is that if we changed
hearts and minds with positivity, if you go out into
the world starting your day with positivity, there's no telling
how people might choose to steer their day.

Speaker 7 (54:18):
That's that.

Speaker 16 (54:19):
Yeah, thank you, y'all have a great day.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
I think this could be a thing, Beth, this could
be a thing. Look at the phone lines and the
text line. We haven't gotten to the text yet. Let's
go to pop. Pop goes the weasel, because the weasel
goes Pop.

Speaker 24 (54:30):
On line three, Hi Pop, Hey Pop, Hey, good morning.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
What's up?

Speaker 24 (54:35):
Yes, I had a fifty year old mystery solve this week.
I found a stone in a falling field many many
years ago, and I had it identified. Oh it was
an Indian relic, so oh, no way, Pop, that's amazing.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 24 (54:56):
Yeah, yes, I knew it was something special about that rock.
You know, rather roll will feel rock sir. Uh Yeah,
So you got it fisty doing that for all these years,
laying in the drawers.

Speaker 5 (55:08):
Look at that.

Speaker 4 (55:08):
Look at that. See the stories you would never know otherwise.
And Pop, you have an Indian relic because you noticed
something just laying out there in the ground.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
All right, see it all right, man, Pop, have a
great weekend. Let's go to Rob online.

Speaker 5 (55:22):
Four.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
Rob, welcome to Good Morning BT. Good morning. What's up?

Speaker 4 (55:28):
Good morro.

Speaker 15 (55:29):
Well, the good news is that I quit drinking on Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
Well, congratulate.

Speaker 4 (55:34):
That's wonderful. That's a big deal, Rob, Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
I'll start again tonight. See see, I love this.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
Kind of thing too.

Speaker 4 (55:45):
Well, we'll celebrate that win for you too, Rob.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
All right, Rob, Yeah, take care buddy. All right, we
got more phone calls coming in. We got some text
line stuff too. Seven oh four, five, seven oh eleven ten.
Tell us something good good heading into the weekend. It
can be anything.

Speaker 4 (56:03):
I mean, we have gotten so many texts. I'm trying
to get to so many of them. This is from Jack.
Jack says some good news in my week. I had
the opportunity to spend three hours on Wednesday learning about
old Charlotte from my grandfather John. It was really awesome,
and I'm so thankful to have had the chance to

(56:24):
take time out of my work week to spend time
with him. How great is that?

Speaker 1 (56:29):
One?

Speaker 7 (56:30):
That is?

Speaker 4 (56:30):
That's awesome learning about Old Charlotte from Grandpa John.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
Let's go to Willie online number one. Willie, Welcome to
good morning beats. Hey, Willy, I'm laughing if I'm not
quite where this one's gonna Good morning?

Speaker 1 (56:43):
What's up?

Speaker 24 (56:43):
Hey?

Speaker 15 (56:44):
My divorce? Was Twilight?

Speaker 4 (56:48):
Really?

Speaker 7 (56:49):
Really?

Speaker 4 (56:50):
Willie? Well, congrats my friend. If this is good news
for you, then way to go.

Speaker 7 (56:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (56:55):
Yeah, my three girlfriends are happy about that.

Speaker 4 (57:00):
Wait? Is this really the weeniac?

Speaker 15 (57:06):
I wanted to tell Boomer?

Speaker 2 (57:08):
I love you to death?

Speaker 15 (57:10):
Guys, I'm starting a new dating app which my friend
to tell would you like Gene know what it's called?

Speaker 4 (57:16):
Yes?

Speaker 15 (57:17):
Connected Dot, I'm a great day.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
Let's see see this is great because you know I
want stuff that makes you laugh too, Yes.

Speaker 4 (57:25):
Because all of this is good. Right, Laughter on a
Friday morning is good?

Speaker 2 (57:31):
All right? From the text line seven oh four five
seven oh eleven ten. Let's see this doesn't have a
name on it. I don't think uh. Last night was
over the top for me. I, along with my adult
son and my sixteen year old grandson, attended the Christopher
Cross minute work in Toto concert.

Speaker 4 (57:46):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
They both have the same love of music that I have.
We clapped and sang, bringing back so many memories of
my youth. On the way home, we turned the radio
radio up loud and continued to sing and have some fun.
My evening was over the moon.

Speaker 7 (58:01):
It's cool.

Speaker 4 (58:01):
That is cool, some fun time between father and son.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
Let's make your morning over the moon or over the sun.

Speaker 4 (58:09):
We also got a great message from Page see you
look at that? I hit the post. Paige said, I
work at an elementary school year round. Summers are a
great time to get to get last year and next
year's work done without interruptions. But it's so quiet. I
missed the students. Last night. I was leaving a restaurant
walking to my car, and a car came rushing up

(58:32):
to me with one of my precious students in the
back seat. She was so excited to see me, and
she is so excited to come back to school. This
absolutely filled my heart with love and joy. Kids are
just so full of love. What a beautiful message page.
That must have made her feel so good to see
a student super excited to see her in the parking

(58:53):
lot of a restaurant.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
I'm just thinking about that Christopher Crossing Toto concert.

Speaker 4 (58:58):
Oh you're still still thinking about Toto.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
I'm vicariously living through him. See that's good too. We're
in the middle of tell me something good seven four, five,
seven oh, eleven ten, one of our ideas on a
Friday morning. We've channeled Boomer. It's called Friday and I
just want to know stuff that was good that happened
to you this week. Here's one from Jeff. I survived

(59:21):
the first week of one hour drop off lines for
the for the Indian Land schools to start back up.
Hopefully it'll be better by next week. Well, you know,
reminds me of a mister mom. You know you're doing
it wrong, Jack. All our new mommies do it this way.

Speaker 4 (59:38):
To that end, Paul in York, South Carolina said, my
twin boys started kindergarten this week, and that's my happy
win for the week. So twin boys in kindergarten. I
wonder if Paul, if I wonder if Paul can write
us back, I'd love to know. Were they excited, did
they cry? Were they scared? Because it's so it's such
a big deal. Kindergarten I remember to this day, kindergarten

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drop off.

Speaker 9 (01:00:02):
We got a message from Red Truck Media and they're
a real place. They said, let me tell you something good.
We're gonna give you a free digital billboard in Lake
Norman to use for your favorite charity.

Speaker 7 (01:00:11):
What for us?

Speaker 11 (01:00:13):
Yeah, for us, I would assume they texted the show, so.

Speaker 4 (01:00:16):
Oh gosh, that would be the coolest thing in the
whole brainstory.

Speaker 9 (01:00:19):
Yeah, Rainstorm, that's it's what we got. I looked him up.
It's a legit it's a legit company, So.

Speaker 18 (01:00:24):
So real quick, can I just draw attention Bow and
Beth to Chris's text, the most recent one from Chris
that just came in because he also included a photo
with it, and I don't have the text in front
of me right now, but he did include a photo
with it, and it looked like a cool little photo
in the you know, in the thumbnail you'll notice in

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that photo, and of course, you know this is theater
of the mind. In his arcade garage with all of
these like retro arcade machines all lined up.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
That's one guy's garage. You see that back.

Speaker 25 (01:00:54):
Door of the of the garage there boat at that
That is a Tartis door. Oh my god, that garage.
I just wanted to draw that too. So I am
not the only doctor who guy in Charlotte. Apparently Chris
and I have a game room. Yes, some shared passions.

Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
That is a happy birthday to Steve. Please do not
let my wife see that. Chris. I want to be
a part of that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
Margaritea Chris, we can all come hang out man.

Speaker 4 (01:01:21):
Yeah, Chris is the message that goes with this picture.
As he said, my good news of the day is
it is Margarita Friday. Two fridays out of the month.
My friends and I get together for Mexican food and
Margarita's and then we go back to my house to
play in this garage arcade.

Speaker 18 (01:01:36):
And it is one of the coolest looking garage arcades,
the only garage arcade.

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
But I mean, I what a cool Yeah. I need
to I need to sit down and just study that
so I can put it to memory, so I can
recreate it in mind, because you know I have a
garage door.

Speaker 4 (01:01:53):
Take a screenshot, bow, you could model yours after this.

Speaker 2 (01:01:56):
All right, well that was pretty successful. Tell me something
good on a Friday.

Speaker 4 (01:02:00):
I think we have enough messages. Bo we can technically
keep it going for a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
That's great news, Beth seven oh four, five seven oh
eleven ten, rolling on.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
I'm as human as anyone.

Speaker 26 (01:02:15):
I wake up every morning and despite not knowing what
to do, I put one foot in front of the
other and I try to make the best boss I can.

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
From News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three double bet.

Speaker 26 (01:02:25):
I screw up all the time, but that is being human,
and that's my greatest strength.

Speaker 3 (01:02:30):
This is good Morning Beat with both Thompson and Beth
Trout with.

Speaker 24 (01:02:35):
This lace is the mouth of goodness.

Speaker 7 (01:02:37):
Is a mixed up work.

Speaker 2 (01:02:46):
Good morning rit you better believe it. We got a
thing going on here. Seven oh four or five seven
oh eleven ten. Had a feeling this might have legs.

(01:03:09):
Tell us something good on a fry yay morning. As
Boomer von Canna would say.

Speaker 4 (01:03:14):
My heart is so full because there are so many
great stories out there, and I think these are the
ones that need to be celebrated. And I am so
thrilled that so many of you are sharing your personal stories,
your personal winds, your big winds, your small winds with
us on a fry day. This message from Kathy just
got me a little bit choked up. Kathy says, we

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used to live in Charlotte and moved to Atlanta twelve
years ago. Our friends in Charlotte have triplet girls, and
I have made their birthday cakes every year since their
first birthday. Each year we come back to Charlotte to
bring their cakes, and we are traveling today with their
cake for their sixteenth birthday. And we're super excited for

(01:03:57):
this birthday for these wonderful girls. How cool is that
they've carried the tradition on sixteen years for their friends triplets.

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
That's exactly what I wanted people to do. And the
text line is jamming as well. We got seven oh four, five,
seven oh eleven ten. If you want to chime in here,
let's see. This is Russ who says, tell me something
good is almost as good as a surprised, unsolicited, awkwardly
long Beth hug.

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
That's like somebody knows, yeah, Russ.

Speaker 4 (01:04:29):
Russ has apparently gotten one of theirs.

Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
She you don't remember your hug with Russ?

Speaker 2 (01:04:35):
I do remember you?

Speaker 4 (01:04:36):
Do you remember that big hug with Russ, My big, long,
awkwardly long Bet?

Speaker 10 (01:04:39):
It was twenty seconds. I'm well, that's how much the standard, right.

Speaker 4 (01:04:42):
That's how long you need to increase immune health and
to release the endorphins in someone's.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
Bring seven four five, seven oh eleven ten. On the
text line driven by Liberty Buick GMC, Lisa says started
a new job or a starting new job? Oh, she
started a job on Monday. Sorry, I'm leading reading these
in real time. Sometimes started a new job on Monday
after losing my six year job. It's a great Friday
from Texas.

Speaker 4 (01:05:08):
Oh, started a new job today. That's a really huge win.
Liz sent us an awesome picture of what looks like
some barstools at a counter for a restaurant, kind of
from the days of yore, and lizs good morning, Bo
and Beth. This made me smile this week, a reminder
of simpler times and a happy pause in the middle

(01:05:28):
of a work day. This was at a restaurant on
Highway seventy four.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
Oh, that was Bo's old sort of shop mate.

Speaker 2 (01:05:35):
You know, it's interesting what she says, there about simpler
times we say that, like they used to do this
kind of thing. Look, we're still here, fifty thousand wats
one hundred and three years old. There's no reason why
we can't devote part of our show on Fridays to
good news. We got the power to do it, So
that's what we're doing. Paul at seven oh four to

(01:05:55):
five seven oh eleven ten says Paul from York. My
twin boys started kindergarten this week. That is my happy
win for the week. We listened to the morning show
every day on the way to school and this week,
this week, it makes my spirit super high. They are
loving it well.

Speaker 4 (01:06:11):
I had asked Paul to write back and tell us
how his twins were doing in school. Did they love
their first week of kindergarten? And he did right back
and said they are in super high spirits. They're loving kindergarten.
And that thrills me because don't you guys remember going
to kindergarten.

Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
Do you remember I've told the start before.

Speaker 10 (01:06:29):
In the afternoon they would come in with a little
wooden cart with little wood wheels when we would get
whole milk and crackers.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
I still remember that.

Speaker 4 (01:06:36):
I still remember it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
I hate milk.

Speaker 2 (01:06:39):
Did I just do it again? Did I'd read one
that's already been read?

Speaker 7 (01:06:41):
You did?

Speaker 4 (01:06:42):
But it's good. But it's okay.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
But wait, wait, wait a minute, wait bitute. You said
that you responded to it.

Speaker 4 (01:06:47):
No, I responded on the air.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
Oh that's even worse though.

Speaker 4 (01:06:51):
No, but it's okay because I wanted to know. I
wanted to go back to Paul, because he did tell
us that his kids are loving His twin boys are
loving kid.

Speaker 10 (01:07:00):
Did you guys know about you don't need a rooster form.

Speaker 4 (01:07:04):
Arlene said that she feels blessed today and favored and
loved so much because she is healthy and eighty years
old as an ex smoker. And I'm telling you, Arlene,
that's a great reason to celebrate eighty years old and
feeling happy and healthier and loved.

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
There you go, Arlene. And it's Steve's birthday too. There's
some positive news. And don't forget if I want to
add a little more positive news to this. The ninth
Danuel Claire's Army Gala is tomorrow night at the Casey
on North Tryon Street, eighteen thirty seven. I'll be m
seeing that for a ninth consecutive year, and we had
Emily on the show, Emily Ratliff, who's the founder. So

(01:07:44):
that's some good news that that is happening. And they
are sold out for another year.

Speaker 4 (01:07:47):
See, that's really good news going into the weekend. Liz,
you know that I said, she's sent a picture of barstools.
She actually said, sorry, Beth, zoom in. It's a McDonald's
and there's a horsey. There's a horsey with a rider
in the back. That's what she was wanting to pull.

Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
The horse is pulling up the real quick. Before you
get to boom Or, Paul from York, South Carolina says,
my twin boys started kindergarten this week.

Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kid.

Speaker 10 (01:08:12):
We were gonna let you read the whole pap before
we told.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
You seven four, five, seven eleven ten the Friday on
Good Morning BT, and we're asking you very simply tell

(01:08:36):
us something good that happened to you this week. Tony, Tony,
Tony has done it again.

Speaker 1 (01:08:45):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
Ken's online number one. Ken, Welcome to Good Morning BT.
What you got that's good.

Speaker 19 (01:08:51):
Morning, boom Bath.

Speaker 24 (01:08:51):
Good to talk to you.

Speaker 7 (01:08:52):
Again.

Speaker 19 (01:08:53):
Hey Ken, Uh, this happened a couple of days ago. Uh.
Looking through all my baseballa I found the two buttons
that went to the Mickey Mantle blue jeans I used
to have what And yeah, they made Mickey Mantle blue
jeans back in the fifties. And the buttons at the

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top of the zipper have a baseball and Nicky Mantle's
signature across them. And I found those buttons this week
and I knew I had them, but uh, you know,
I'm just thrilled to have them. My grandson helped me
find them.

Speaker 1 (01:09:27):
Oh, just a backstory.

Speaker 9 (01:09:28):
Ken has dropped off boxes of memorabilia, Charlotte memorabilia.

Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
Bo uh huh oh.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
This is that kid?

Speaker 12 (01:09:34):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
Okay?

Speaker 10 (01:09:34):
I got all these Carolina Cougars programs and David.

Speaker 4 (01:09:38):
Ken, this is fantastic that you found those buttons because
I bet those things are worth something. But it sounds
like they mean a lot to you too.

Speaker 19 (01:09:45):
Well they do, and I've got some more stuff coming
to you guys.

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
So anyway, yeah, give us the Mickey Mantle stuff. Let's
that go for aby.

Speaker 19 (01:09:54):
I never couldn't tell you there are the brass buttons
at the top of the zipper and they're really hard
to find. I bought him about thirty five years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
Very cool, Ken. Ken took me back because Ken had
like mint condition magazines that I remember there were programs
from the old old coliseum when the Hornets played there.
It was called Hoop magazine, and he had He has
like all this stuff and it's it's not only is
it in mint condition, but it's like taking me back
because I remember when I bought it myself. And of
course long time gone as a kid. But Ken, you're

(01:10:27):
a good guy man. We appreciate you calling day. Yes, sir,
some good news that Ken called.

Speaker 4 (01:10:32):
Oh, that's our good news for the day.

Speaker 10 (01:10:34):
We got a chat with beady Mickey Mantle's jeans. I
thought it was like a flasking there or something. Vicky
was known to have a good time.

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
Jerry v would have freaked out over that mean whitey
four nicky mantles jeans. Kidding me, what's the jelly?

Speaker 7 (01:10:49):
What's the gym?

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
Seven? Four, five, seven, oh eleven ten? Tell us something good?
Off the text line Beth.

Speaker 4 (01:10:54):
Oh, there are so many texts that are absolutely flooding us.
This one really really got me choked up. This is
from Lynn. She said, inspired by Beth's career story one
year ago this month, I left my job of twenty
years and I now run a jiu jitsu gym in
Gastonia with my husband, and I do personal training on

(01:11:17):
the rooftop guys at the dowd YMCA, So we might
have to include her in our rooftop show. She says.
I'm living my best second life at fifty seven, inspired
by you, and I.

Speaker 2 (01:11:29):
Can't believe that all and more importantly inspired by you
coming here day and now I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:11:35):
Going to get to see meet her doing jiu jitsu
on the dowd Wy rooftop.

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
And if you have not heard that good news yet,
you remember the day we were talking about the dowd
Why and the rooftop and all that. They invited us
to come broadcast from there, and we're gonna do it.
We didn't want to do it in the middle of
the sweltering one hundred degree week, but we're gonna do it,
you know, probably Mabay sometime in September. So we've been
invited and we've accepted. So we're going to do the
show from the roof of the dowed Wise.

Speaker 4 (01:12:01):
And we might get to meet Jiu Jitsu. Lynn, y'all
listen to this story. Zokie, You're gonna love this one.
This is from Brian. He says, last Friday evening at
the Panthers game, Nicole and Dave Tepper came over to
speak to my niece and they gave her a Bryce
Young jersey and some other Panthers swag. Coincidentally, she starts

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at east Over Elementary School on the twenty fifth.

Speaker 2 (01:12:26):
Bell there you go, and he's.

Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
Sent the decorator sports corner with that jersey.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
She said, she starts at east Over.

Speaker 4 (01:12:33):
Yeah, she starts at east Over on the twenty fifth.

Speaker 2 (01:12:35):
I'd tell her how the kindergarten building is, but they
demolished it. I don't mean the current one. I mean
I just told the story the other day that I
took my kids one time down Parrien Place to show
them this is where dad went to kindergarten, and I
built it all up and we got to where it
was when the building was gone. So I don't know
what it looks like today, but I know east Over

(01:12:56):
still looks like east Over from the front on Cherokee Road.
So there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:13:00):
Well, bo, you're gonna love this one and sent us
a text that said, this made me laugh out loud.
I was cleaning out an old box and I immediately
thought of BO, and it is a picture of a
Blockbuster card.

Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
There you go. Yeah, three evening rentals. You realize that
I'm not reading texts?

Speaker 4 (01:13:20):
Is it because you're scared?

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
I'm afraid I'm going to read the same one again?

Speaker 1 (01:13:24):
Are you not playing attention to the one she's reading.

Speaker 7 (01:13:26):
See?

Speaker 9 (01:13:27):
Look what happens is when you click on this, it
doesn't populate on the other screen, so you can easily
end up reading a text that you don't know someone's read.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
I'm hoping y'all back me up on this, like like
I during the break sometimes I'm I'm multitasking, Oh yeah,
and I lose my place and then I go back
down and I start reading something. Then I realized this,
you know.

Speaker 4 (01:13:45):
But it's okay, Bo. Because we needed to get back
to Paul because he had he had responded about how
excited his his twins were to be in kindergarten, Adam
sent us a message and said, Hey, it's Adam, guys.
I dropped my daughter off at NC State on Monday
and helped her set up her apartment to start her
sophomore year. And I will be taking her twin brother

(01:14:06):
to Davidson next week to start his sophomore year. What
a blessing. We are empty nesters again, not a bad thing.

Speaker 10 (01:14:14):
You know that each and every one of our listeners
have twins or triplets.

Speaker 1 (01:14:18):
That's about the fourth And.

Speaker 4 (01:14:22):
Guys, if I had started this job earlier, I might
be a mom. I probably could have had like quadruplets.
I think there's something about we make people fertile. I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
I was trying to tie it all together in my
head of it. Now I'm gonna let you do that.
Good morning people use this as at a very white
music man.

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
Oh my gosh, that was good.

Speaker 4 (01:14:51):
Bill Billson is a text and said this week I
found a set of Bluetooth headphones that I had lost
weeks ago. I thought they were long gone. And you
cannot describe the joy of laying eyes on something you
thought we're lost.

Speaker 2 (01:15:05):
See that's that's what I meant. Like, this can be
anything I just want. I just want stuff that's happened
that's been good. It can be sort of monumental, or
it can be you know, personal.

Speaker 4 (01:15:13):
And we want to celebrate those wins with you, because yeah,
when you find something that was lost and that you
thought maybe was gone forever, that is one of the
best feelings. I sometimes I think that the aliens follow
you around to like take things and then bring them
back just to just me with you.

Speaker 10 (01:15:30):
Yeah, just a mess with I love that aliens have
that kind of sense of humor, so I'm not even
mad about it.

Speaker 4 (01:15:35):
Or angels or angels you know, just to mess with
you or giants make you, make you laugh and make
you giggle.

Speaker 2 (01:15:42):
Well, this has been uh, this has been successful.

Speaker 4 (01:15:46):
I just want to say that love you guys all
for sharing so many good stories with us. And I
want to say just to share the a really good
story for the for the week from us. I want
Lynne to know that her message changing her career, that
that is a huge win, one of the high points
of my entire week, maybe my entire year so far.

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Like that's a huge, huge, huge thing.

Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
So thank you, Lynn, and thanks to everybody. We wondered
if this was going to work. We sort of talked
last night said it could be fry yea because you
know that's I mean, Boomer's mister positive. And I bet
people would call for this and what do you know
they did seven oh four five, seven oh eleven ten.

Speaker 1 (01:16:30):
Somebody's having twins.

Speaker 4 (01:16:31):
Well, speaking of that, Sean just messaged us and he
said that he is celebrating his fortieth anniversary with his
beautiful pride.

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
See that's what it has a circle of life. Because
this thing lasts as long as we hope it will,
then maybe we'll have stories to tell some days.

Speaker 9 (01:16:55):
Coincidence that I didn't have a baby until I started
on this show, oh waite saying.

Speaker 4 (01:16:58):
I just started here. Too old, guys, I was too
old when I got.

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
Here the show. It's a mood maker, all right. Oh yeah,
it's the lead up. This is all just the lead
up to then.

Speaker 1 (01:17:13):
I mean it's worked there forever.

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
It's true, just the lead up to the Friday News Quiz,
which is right around the bend. Yes, sir, did Mark
Garrison choose to accept the challenge? Oh yeah, I have
the questions? Oh right, here here we go.

Speaker 3 (01:17:26):
This is Good Morning Beatty with bo Thompson and Beth
troud Man.

Speaker 1 (01:17:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:17:31):
I know it's Friday a but Boomer lost last week
I know to some young man named bo.

Speaker 1 (01:17:37):
I'm right, Oh, boy's right.

Speaker 2 (01:17:39):
I wasn't here, so time to defend my crown.

Speaker 1 (01:17:41):
Are you saying bow only one? Because you weren't here,
I'd say he won. In addition to the fact I
wasn't here.

Speaker 2 (01:17:46):
That instead of fire and ladies and gentlemen, it's the
Friday News quiz with Mark Garrison.

Speaker 8 (01:17:51):
Indeed, and did you know that today is National lemon
meringue Pie Day.

Speaker 13 (01:17:56):
Well, it's my favorite pie.

Speaker 2 (01:18:00):
I hear it, all right? True or false? True or false?

Speaker 8 (01:18:05):
Based on Instacart sales, lemon meringue pie does not even
rank in the top ten for PI sale true.

Speaker 13 (01:18:12):
True, Wow, everybody says Drew.

Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
I will say true on it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:16):
With that many people out of the gate, I'm gonna
say false.

Speaker 4 (01:18:18):
I'm gonna say false too, just because of everybody being
so true.

Speaker 2 (01:18:21):
What do you say, Boom? I'll go with the true thing,
and it is.

Speaker 13 (01:18:26):
False.

Speaker 8 (01:18:27):
It is the fifth most popular pie after apple, pumpkin, pecan,
and cherry.

Speaker 4 (01:18:35):
All right, so surprise pumpkin is on there?

Speaker 13 (01:18:37):
Yeah, me too?

Speaker 1 (01:18:38):
So gross?

Speaker 13 (01:18:39):
Also gross?

Speaker 8 (01:18:42):
What famous southern restaurant chain first started with a popular
lemon merangue pie, Chick fil A, the dwarf House or
the waffle House?

Speaker 1 (01:18:55):
Is that a real place.

Speaker 10 (01:18:56):
I don't even care I'm saying the words dwarf go,
Warf House.

Speaker 2 (01:19:01):
I think it's Chick fil A.

Speaker 1 (01:19:03):
I'll go waffle House.

Speaker 4 (01:19:05):
I'm with bo. I think Chick fil A had a
lemon meringue slice there for a little while, is.

Speaker 8 (01:19:12):
Everybody, Yeah, that's I think that's how the Chick fil
A started. I didn't hear Steve's Golden Tones Dwarf House, Okay, and.

Speaker 2 (01:19:20):
It is the Dwarf House.

Speaker 8 (01:19:22):
Yes, that's because that was true at Kathy's first restaurant
before he started Chick fil A and the Dwarf House.
The Dwarf House is still in Hot Atlanta and you
can still get some lemon marange pop.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
Call me one more time.

Speaker 1 (01:19:38):
I didn't catch out a barber chain name house. They
have smaller portions there here.

Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
No, no, I'm just I'm just.

Speaker 7 (01:19:51):
Soaking in the vine under the Dwarf House.

Speaker 21 (01:19:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:19:54):
So what new attraction opened at the Bronx Zoo of
Virtual Reality Safari An interactive penguin pool or a baby
giraffe exhibit all.

Speaker 2 (01:20:05):
Of those things, so it's delightful.

Speaker 18 (01:20:07):
A penguin pool, a giraffe, giraffe.

Speaker 1 (01:20:14):
I will go with the first one was Safari has.

Speaker 8 (01:20:17):
Bow spoken giraffe, Maybe giraffe correct es.

Speaker 7 (01:20:22):
Yay.

Speaker 4 (01:20:24):
I do think it would be so cool to have
an interactive penguin pool. Wouldn't that be so great?

Speaker 1 (01:20:30):
What does that mean? You jump in with him?

Speaker 2 (01:20:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:20:31):
I don't know what that quite means. How do I
interact with the little Guess it could be allowed to You.

Speaker 4 (01:20:36):
Remember the scene from Mary Poppins, you know, when they
were with the cartoon penguins and they did the tap dance.
I kind of feel like it would.

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
Be like that, like a happy feet but in real life. Yeah, okay,
cool story, Grandma.

Speaker 8 (01:20:52):
You guys may have talked about this earlier in the week.
I do not know, but who has teamed up for
a new food this year at Super Bowl? Beer chick
from KFC and Budweiser, tequila chicken from Popeyes and Don
Julio tequila coffee bacon burger from Wendy's in Starbucks or
none of the above.

Speaker 9 (01:21:11):
Oh, I feel like we would have talked about this,
So I'm gonna go none of the above.

Speaker 1 (01:21:17):
Yeah, I'm gonna agree none of the above.

Speaker 9 (01:21:20):
Yeah, the beer chicken sounds none of the above.

Speaker 4 (01:21:22):
I want it to be Budweiser and KFC though, so
I'm gonna go with that one.

Speaker 13 (01:21:26):
And you're all alone.

Speaker 8 (01:21:27):
Tequila chicken from Popeyes and Don Julio to Wow, that was.

Speaker 1 (01:21:32):
My waft one. I would have THI yeah, because it
just doesn't sound any good.

Speaker 13 (01:21:36):
It really does.

Speaker 1 (01:21:37):
Tequila chicken, I don't know that's gross.

Speaker 13 (01:21:40):
I'd rather have a lemon pie.

Speaker 1 (01:21:41):
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:21:43):
And Indiana man set a record with the world's tallest sunflower.
How tall wasn't twenty one feet thirty feet or forty
two feet tall?

Speaker 13 (01:21:53):
Gosh, tell one thirty or forty two.

Speaker 1 (01:21:56):
I'm gonna go forty two.

Speaker 4 (01:21:57):
I'm gonna go twenty one, twenty thirty one, thirty feet
thirty said everybody.

Speaker 13 (01:22:02):
It's thirty it is, indeed.

Speaker 9 (01:22:04):
I think I'm going for a windless like. I don't
think I've gotten one question.

Speaker 1 (01:22:07):
I don't want to play. Yeah, that's all right, I'm
not gotten one. I got the dwarf house, I think
it was. It was even trying on that one.

Speaker 13 (01:22:17):
Let's see here.

Speaker 8 (01:22:17):
Oh well, we had a protester arrested this week, as
you know, for throwing a sandwich at one of the
officers in d C. Where did the sandwich come from Jersey,
Mike's Jimmy Johns or subway.

Speaker 1 (01:22:31):
It's a eat fresh subway. Subway. It was because you
wouldn't throw the other suit.

Speaker 2 (01:22:35):
But subway I went, should have been a knuckle sandwich
went he went to Jaredy subway.

Speaker 13 (01:22:42):
Yeah, so that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:22:44):
That was their new foot long felon.

Speaker 8 (01:22:49):
But the real reason he threw the sandwich is because
he was a subversive.

Speaker 4 (01:22:53):
Hey wow, wow, you had a couple of singers.

Speaker 2 (01:22:58):
Holy, come right, just a bit awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:23:04):
One off the rails. All right.

Speaker 8 (01:23:06):
The president's in the air as we speak, headed for
baked to Alaska. One reason Alaska was chosen for today's summit,
true or false, is the travel time for Putin and
Trump is about the same.

Speaker 13 (01:23:20):
True or false.

Speaker 18 (01:23:22):
I thought it was because because Sarah Palin could see
Russia from her home.

Speaker 1 (01:23:25):
I'm gonna go I'll go true. I'm saying true, true, true, true, true, yes, yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:23:31):
Nine hours for rooting too and Putin and eight hours
for Donald Trump.

Speaker 4 (01:23:35):
You're you're on here today.

Speaker 1 (01:23:38):
Renaming it America not Alaska.

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
Blood. Can Mark just win?

Speaker 4 (01:23:42):
I know you've won the news quiz and you're not
even playing.

Speaker 2 (01:23:45):
I know he.

Speaker 1 (01:23:46):
Knows all the answers.

Speaker 2 (01:23:47):
He's gonna be the Newton. It'd be putin and rooting Newton.

Speaker 1 (01:23:51):
What that's a lot. That's a lot.

Speaker 13 (01:23:53):
I gotta think about that one.

Speaker 8 (01:23:57):
Kraft Heine says it will now eliminate all chemical dyes
from its foods. Which one of these is not produced
by Kraft times Jello, Eminem's or kool Aid?

Speaker 2 (01:24:13):
Say Eminem's.

Speaker 11 (01:24:14):
I'll go Eminems as well, copy cat. I'm gonna lose tails.

Speaker 4 (01:24:20):
Bernie, I'm gonna go Jello.

Speaker 1 (01:24:23):
I was I think I do think it's Eminems. What
do you think I'm gonna go a kool Aid?

Speaker 8 (01:24:28):
It is Eminem's way to go bow like three of
us got it that we got both then rode boats
coot tails.

Speaker 1 (01:24:38):
I call it the Jimm and Bernie Show.

Speaker 9 (01:24:39):
No one says that when I answer first and get
it right. Jim and Bernie, thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:24:45):
Which animal was named cutest pet of the year and
a viral pet competition?

Speaker 13 (01:24:52):
Was it a scale board?

Speaker 8 (01:24:53):
It was a viral pet competition, not petting a pet competition.
Just clarifying there for those minds in the room. Was
it a skateboarding bulldog? A small little pig in a
two two or a loud singing parrot twitch one was
named cutest pet.

Speaker 7 (01:25:11):
Of the Year.

Speaker 1 (01:25:12):
I would pick the skateboard one.

Speaker 9 (01:25:14):
That sounds pretty cool. I gut skateboard what I want.

Speaker 2 (01:25:16):
I just want to ride, That's what I want to see.
But I think it's a pig in a two too.
I think it's the parrot.

Speaker 4 (01:25:21):
I think it's the pig and the two.

Speaker 1 (01:25:22):
Two both hid to parent.

Speaker 2 (01:25:26):
Well, it is the skateboarding bulldog.

Speaker 1 (01:25:29):
That's what I'm saying. That's what people want to see.
The dog was named Rocket.

Speaker 11 (01:25:32):
You go, dog?

Speaker 2 (01:25:35):
Do we have a winner of this little ring? Dang do? Unfortunately? Oh,
look at the same music again. Looks super only one
way to stop this music. I think you all know
how to do that, but you can't.

Speaker 13 (01:25:50):
Later go bo.

Speaker 2 (01:25:51):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 10 (01:25:54):
Steve's birthday and everything, and yeah, well that was a
couple of hours ago.

Speaker 2 (01:25:59):
We've moved on now some more important things. Don't you
get a free point for my birthday? Shut up? I'm
just kidding.

Speaker 1 (01:26:14):
We had too much Friday segments.

Speaker 2 (01:26:18):
What good happened to you on Friday?

Speaker 7 (01:26:20):
I lost the news quiz.

Speaker 2 (01:26:21):
It's told to Steve to shut up on the radio.

Speaker 7 (01:26:24):
Thank you Mark, sir, this is good morning. Beat all right, nine.

Speaker 2 (01:26:32):
Minutes away from nine o'clock here on WBT, we can
confirm there has been a touchdown of the Air Force Hancock.
Oh yes, the plane has landed. He is back.

Speaker 4 (01:26:45):
He is back from his very long fifty six hundred
mile journey.

Speaker 1 (01:26:49):
Okay, hang on here, got hey, I was back with
the garrison.

Speaker 2 (01:26:53):
Uh huh. Do you know what the least favorite pie is?

Speaker 4 (01:26:56):
Do?

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
I want to know? Cow? Wow, that's probably not wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:27:04):
Yeah, probably probably not wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:27:06):
So Hancock's personal jet has touched down, and hopefully there
will be plenty of Panthers touchdowns tomorrow in Houston, as
the the Panthers and the Texans.

Speaker 10 (01:27:16):
I do too, because it's only fun to call games
when not reading nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:27:20):
Zochie on the call. We know who the two quarterbacks
are going to be, at least to start the game.
One's gonna be c J. Stroud. The other will be
Bryce Young and Bryce of course knows a lot about
c J.

Speaker 20 (01:27:29):
Stroud, you know, I think, of course, obviously we've both
gotten more experienced, both gotten more familiarity, more comfortability, and
where we're at, and it's it's cooler to be able
to have conversations in the offseason from oh wow, you're
one is surprised this happened here. Two, Oh this is
oh wow, this happened to have this happened to me,
this is what I see. So it's cool again to
have someone that I'm so so close with and I've

(01:27:53):
been friends for a while to kind of be able
to to traverse things at a similar timetable is definitely.

Speaker 2 (01:28:00):
You know, you can think back over a sports history.
You know, players that are always aligned together because of
how they came into the league, and these guys were
aligned long before they came into the league. They knew
each other, c J. Stroud and Bryce Young. But as
we all know, the Panthers had to pick and they
could have taken c J. Stroud, So a lot of
Panthers fans will be like, what if what would it
have been like? And that was a discussion that you

(01:28:21):
heard a lot their first season because CJ came out
of the gate so well. But then you know, Bryce,
you know, comes around late last year and c J.
Stroud's second year wasn't quite as good as his first,
and so now year three is going to be really telling.
But you got the two guys matching up this weekend,
and this is C. J. Stroud talking about how Bryce
is progressing so far.

Speaker 21 (01:28:41):
I would say very similar. You know, he's very even
q very to himself, and I think for him, I
think I've seen a dog come out of him that
he has that a lot of people haven't seen, you know.
But you know, I know he dealt with some frustrations
and I think, you know, the guy we served, you know,
I think it's good that we go through these ups
and downs so like focus you back on what's important.

(01:29:01):
And I think he had that. I had that last
year as well, and I think he bounced back like
you know he should, and we all know he can.
He's a He's a heck of a player, one of
the best court if I've ever seen in my life.
And I just think, you know, he needs some help
around him too, you know. So, but I'm just really
proud of that guy. In just the same way he
said about me, through every ups and down, every valley

(01:29:22):
in peak, he stayed the same guy, stayed loyal and
stayed a frand and a brother. So I'm very appreciative
of him.

Speaker 2 (01:29:27):
That's how I praised Jim Zoki.

Speaker 10 (01:29:28):
Yeah, it is I mean, this is a future thirty
for thirty in the making because they both grew up
in southern California. They played AAU basketball against each other,
they played middle school and high school football against each other,
and then they end up at two major universities, Alabama
and Ohio State, competing for national championships.

Speaker 1 (01:29:47):
They go one two in the draft.

Speaker 10 (01:29:48):
And they're both incredibly likable, successful now quarterbacks in this league.
And we're just kind of catching the first two years
to this point to evaluate that, but you would you
could kind of forecast where will this be in eight
ten years when you look back at when the ripe
old age of thirty one or something like that, what
their lives have been like. So it's been a fun story.
And both said their careers are always going to be

(01:30:08):
kind of compared in intertwined. But the last two that
care about that are them. They're both rooting for each other,
and I think they're both going to continue to have
great success.

Speaker 4 (01:30:16):
I hadn't really thought about it, but you're right, it
is a perfect thirty for thirty that they did grow
up together. What are the odds, I mean, what's in
the water in southern California that you have the first
two picks as quarterback in the draft who were buds.
You know, that's that is such a fun story to
see and to see how that fork in the road
ends up going for both of them, because, like you said, CJ.

(01:30:37):
Stroud had an amazing first year and Bryce Young has
been more of a slow burn, which sometimes the slow
burn is better.

Speaker 2 (01:30:46):
Agreed, Jim Zoki on the call. Zoke will be on
the call in Houston tomorrow on the Panthers Radio network.
And this goes back to the sense, you know what
you should have said, O MG, the Ohio State University,

(01:31:06):
c J.

Speaker 1 (01:31:07):
Strout.

Speaker 2 (01:31:09):
But you're back in a stadium where some pretty pretty
amazing things have happened for the Panthers in the past.
I didn't win Super Bowl thirty eight, but just to
be there in that same stadium playing super Bowl thirty eight,
when you walk back in there as a guy who's
been calling these games since day one, you know that's
got to have memories come flooding back for you.

Speaker 1 (01:31:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:31:26):
No, we spent like I said, nine days in Houston
super Bowl thirty eight and didn't win the game, but
it was a great experience and that was the famous
halftime show.

Speaker 1 (01:31:34):
You remember which one that was.

Speaker 4 (01:31:35):
Yeah, I was in Vegas watching that that Super Bowl
and on a big screen in like the Belagia or something.
I don't remember where we were, and I saw.

Speaker 2 (01:31:44):
It definitely large, it was, Yeah, it was.

Speaker 4 (01:31:47):
It was the board Drobe malfunction.

Speaker 1 (01:31:49):
Yea, Begas is a good place to see. That fits
right in.

Speaker 2 (01:31:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:31:52):
I saw a lot of those while I was in Vaga.

Speaker 2 (01:31:55):
Won't see that in Narroway. Oh my goodness. And that's
a great place. That's a great way to end it.
That's your send off to Houston.

Speaker 10 (01:32:07):
There's that was a slow burned bow.

Speaker 1 (01:32:10):
Yeah, I was.

Speaker 2 (01:32:12):
All right, man, safe travels.

Speaker 1 (01:32:14):
What you guys, We'll see you on Monday. I'll be back,
I think.

Speaker 4 (01:32:18):
Let's I'm speechless over here. I have I have no
more words.

Speaker 1 (01:32:23):
Well you know what, sement killer.

Speaker 2 (01:32:28):
What if I told you that John Hancock was back, Yeah,
back in the house. He's been traveling as well. He's
got stories to tell. Oh he saw Sacramento, Oh coming up,
he did say, Sacramento coming up next hour here on
Good Morning BT. Let's go back to Houston for memories
of Jim's okie right here and boom oh, Okay, what

(01:32:57):
is this?

Speaker 13 (01:32:57):
Jim at a strip club?

Speaker 1 (01:32:59):
Oh wow, it was a football game but it turned
into one. It's probably good Mark missed that first time.

Speaker 2 (01:33:03):
Invite j all right, we're almost at nine o'clock, got
the news coming up, and then Hancock on the other
side on a fry yay on WBT.

Speaker 8 (01:33:33):
What does it mean to slide into someone's DMS?

Speaker 4 (01:33:36):
That sounds like a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (01:33:38):
Okay, we're not ready for that from News Talk eleven
ten and ninety nine three double g BT.

Speaker 4 (01:33:43):
And then what does that have to do with anything?

Speaker 2 (01:33:45):
It has everything to do with anything.

Speaker 3 (01:33:46):
This is Good Morning Beat with Clote Thompson at Beth Trout.

Speaker 7 (01:33:51):
That's all.

Speaker 27 (01:33:52):
With a second, we ride up in Troy's bucket.

Speaker 23 (01:34:03):
Y'all.

Speaker 2 (01:34:08):
It's one of those bumps I used to pull out
a Hancock seed drawler back in the day. Is that
is that drawer still there? Don't think so?

Speaker 12 (01:34:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:34:18):
I bet you.

Speaker 2 (01:34:19):
Bob and Sherry stole it. Welcome back, man, How are
you Weston? Is? How are you?

Speaker 12 (01:34:26):
My biological clock is so out of whack right now.
I can't hardly stand it.

Speaker 4 (01:34:30):
We missed you last week, but you traveled for some
really special meetings and traveled all the way across the
entire nation to get there.

Speaker 12 (01:34:40):
Well, you probably saw the headline elderly handicapped old man
goes to what walks gets to West Coast and Beck
apparently can't find that where he lives.

Speaker 2 (01:34:51):
He Forest loomp. I thought you were going to Anchorage.
You're not going to Anchorage today.

Speaker 1 (01:34:57):
I went.

Speaker 12 (01:34:58):
I went to Sacramento and had dinner with our old
program director, Bill Whyne, and my best my all time
best friend, best best friend all my life from est Spark,
Colorado and so on and so forth. Diagnosed with cancer
and so he's been fighting that and he's found through
kim Chemo, and they made him wait forty five days

(01:35:19):
and they opened him up and they closed him right
back up again and said you maybe got a year.
And so I just I just wanted to go see him.

Speaker 4 (01:35:28):
See, that's what's so special about you, the fact that
you did that, You took the time, and you.

Speaker 12 (01:35:33):
Well, he and he tires noon one o'clock. He apparently
his wife told me that he's good in the morning.
So I would get there at like nine o'clock and
I'd hang out with him until noon or one o'clock.
And then I'd get out of there and and let
him go take his next you know, eight hour nap
and stuff like that. But I don't know it was
it was just it was good. I haven't been Sacramento

(01:35:54):
in forty years, so and I wasn't there for long then,
so but Sacramento is an interesting city. And like I say,
Bill White took me out to dinner, and so I
enjoyed that. And then stupid idiot that I am thinking
that the only airline in the world is American Airlines
because you live in a hub city like this and

(01:36:15):
you're booking a trip and you just kind of stay
on America and forget that there's other airlines. John, But
to get from Sacramento to Denver, because I figured, as
long as I'm going to California, I might as well
stop in Denver on the way home instead of taking
the whole five and a half hour flight, So I
tried to I book it on American more on, which

(01:36:39):
means that I have to either stop in Los Angeles
or I have to stop in Phoenix, which another airline
would have taken me straight to Denver. But anyway, so
we flew through La what is it sci Fi stations
of stadium so.

Speaker 7 (01:36:55):
So Fi.

Speaker 12 (01:36:56):
Yeah, I flew right over the top of it. Speaking
of on the trip to Sacramento, we flew over the
Grand Canyon. Yeah, and it is unbelievable from thirty three
thousand feet.

Speaker 4 (01:37:09):
Well, could you see the damage from the fires? Was
that evident?

Speaker 2 (01:37:12):
Was it?

Speaker 12 (01:37:13):
And I flew into Los Angeles, I saw the burnt canyons. Yeah,
and you're high enough up that you can't quite see
the ruins the houses or the you know, the so
and so over it's just these.

Speaker 2 (01:37:24):
Canyons that are just solid black. So that was interesting.

Speaker 12 (01:37:30):
I kept on looking for smoke. That's why I knew
it was the Grand Canyon. Was I was sitting on
the wrong side of the airplane, but I'm looking down
at this thing and I'm thinking, oh, my goodness. And
I finally asked the guy sitting across from me. I said,
can I look out your windows for a second, because
I wanted.

Speaker 2 (01:37:47):
I was on the south side and I knew the
fire was.

Speaker 12 (01:37:50):
On the north rim, and so I looked out his
window and you could see the smoke.

Speaker 4 (01:37:55):
Wow.

Speaker 12 (01:37:56):
So that's why I knew it was the Grand Canyon.
But I'll tell you what flying out well is just
some kind of experience because of the mountains and because
of the ranges, and you know, have parts of Utah.
And I think we flew over Arizona on the way
from Los Angeles to Denver, and I can remember I've
flown into Seattle a few times and I saw by

(01:38:18):
Mount Saint Helens.

Speaker 2 (01:38:20):
Before and after the blast.

Speaker 12 (01:38:23):
But just flying into us to Seattle, You've just got
mountains every you know, really unbelievable peaks, and flying out
west is great. Got flying back yesterday and you know,
are we still.

Speaker 2 (01:38:38):
In Kansas because it's you just it's just flat land,
you know. But anyway, I had a good time.

Speaker 12 (01:38:45):
I ended up spending a day in Estes Park, which
is my hometown, and spent a day in Boulder, and
jumped on the plane yesterday and came home about fifty
eight hundred miles total.

Speaker 4 (01:38:56):
Wow, are you just exhausted this morning?

Speaker 1 (01:38:59):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:38:59):
Not.

Speaker 12 (01:39:00):
I got slept pretty good last night. My wife is
taking care of my kid's dog. So I haven't seen
my wife yet. And that's kind of weird to be
gone for a week and then come home and there's
nobody there. Yeah, so I'll see her tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:39:16):
Sometime.

Speaker 2 (01:39:17):
So the friend that you went to visit, when's the
last time you had seen him before this?

Speaker 12 (01:39:22):
At my fifty year class reunion, which would have been
a few years ago. But you know, and I don't
know if this is a small town thing or something,
but he and I have always referred to We've just
always if you ever asked me in my lifetime almost
who's your best friend, I'd say Kenny.

Speaker 2 (01:39:40):
But we went thirty years without seeing each other.

Speaker 12 (01:39:43):
It's just we spent such a important, formidable time of
our lives as best friends that it's just always is
that way and is.

Speaker 2 (01:39:54):
Going to be that way. When you say that you
went thirty years without seeing him, Did you go thirty
years without communication? Or did you talk? Now?

Speaker 1 (01:40:01):
We did?

Speaker 12 (01:40:01):
You know, as communication we'd call back in the day, yeah,
or we you know, lately we'd text or something like that,
but not on a real regular basis, so to speak.
And I think to some extent that kind of proves
to me the friendship because it doesn't matter after thirty years.
We sat down at a table and had a couple

(01:40:22):
of beers together, and it was like we had just
gotten together ten days ago.

Speaker 2 (01:40:26):
Had I had a moment about almost a year ago,
not quite as on Christmas time. And we were talking
on the show one day about something random, and I
told a sort of anecdotal little story about something that
happened in high school, and one of my best friends
in high school happened to be listening, and he reached

(01:40:47):
out to me and said, hey, I was listening to that.
I know what you were talking about and who you
were talking about. And we ended up going to lunch
and we hadn't seen each other. He lives in Charlotte,
We hadn't seen each other in a long time. Went
to lunch right here at Nobles and it was like,
you say, well, we sat for like two and a
half hours and it was like we had seen each
other yesterday. And it kind of goes to what you're

(01:41:07):
saying he was. I would say he was my best
friend in high school, and you pick up where you
left off.

Speaker 12 (01:41:14):
We sat in the living room with his wife, and
there were certain stories we couldn't share.

Speaker 1 (01:41:19):
With him, but.

Speaker 12 (01:41:23):
We got to talking about stuff that we had done.
And we should have been in jail at some point
or another.

Speaker 1 (01:41:30):
We weren't. I don't know.

Speaker 12 (01:41:32):
There was just stuff that we did that was just
probably illegal.

Speaker 7 (01:41:37):
And aren't you.

Speaker 4 (01:41:37):
Glad there weren't smartphones and video cameras everywhere that you
have the memory and that's it, you too share it.
That's it. There's no video evidence.

Speaker 1 (01:41:45):
He did.

Speaker 12 (01:41:45):
He reminded me. He said, do you remember getting stopped
by the cops downtown? And I said, oh, yeah. And
what had happened was I had stopped at a red
light in downtown Estas Park, which during the winter, which
it was, I grew really small and a we were,
you know, a car full of people and were all
screwing around and laughing andcoholing. A car pulls up behind me,

(01:42:08):
and I don't think anything about it, and all of
a sudden, I see the light's gonna turn green, and
I put it in first gear and I dumped the
clutch and I just spin.

Speaker 1 (01:42:16):
I mean, you know, it's by smoke coming out of
the tires.

Speaker 2 (01:42:19):
It couldn't have been three seconds before the blue lights
went on. Oh the cop. And the cop the car
that had pulled in behind me was a cop.

Speaker 4 (01:42:28):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (01:42:29):
And he knows me, I mean, you know, he walks
up to the window.

Speaker 12 (01:42:31):
He goes, Hancock, buddy, you idiot, You moron. I can't
give you a warning. I mean, you can't be that
stupid in front of a cop and get a warning.
I gotta give, I gotta cite you.

Speaker 7 (01:42:45):
This is Good Morning Beat.

Speaker 2 (01:42:51):
Nine twenty two on WBT, Friday morning, August fifteenth, O Thompson,
Beth Troutman, John Hancock, who is back after a week
of traveling out west. And we are monitoring a big
traveling entourage right now that's in the air on its
way to Anchorage.

Speaker 4 (01:43:08):
Alaska, traveling out west.

Speaker 2 (01:43:10):
That's exactly right, a little to the north and to
the west r This is actually at a place called
Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. The base has
about thirty thousand service members, family members, civilian employees, approximately
seven hundred miles from the border with Russia. And this

(01:43:30):
is where President Trump and Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia,
are going to have a meeting today. They're four hours
behind us, so about eleven eleven thirty or eleven ish there,
and it's about three o'clock this afternoon. Between three and
three thirty is when we think that this meeting is
going to happen. But it's going to be fascinating because

(01:43:52):
no one really knows what to expect here. You can
imagine a scenario where and President Trump said as much
earlier this week that he's going to know in the
first you know, a few minutes whether or not this
is going to be anything of substance, and so if
it's not, it may be over really quick. If it
does go well, then the current plan that we're hearing
is that they're going to have a joint news conference,

(01:44:14):
you know, both presidents and take questions from the media,
as I understand it, and if that happens, that will
be fascinating, just given all of the build up to
where we are now.

Speaker 12 (01:44:23):
They're also saying though that if it doesn't go well,
Trump will probably walk out alone. And that's maybe a
telltale sign to watch for if you're watching this, and
I'll be watching it just because I think it's going
to be fascinating.

Speaker 2 (01:44:36):
What does your gut tell you about what's going to happen?

Speaker 1 (01:44:39):
What do you think is going to happen.

Speaker 12 (01:44:43):
I think that Trump's going to probably and Putin are
going to come to some sort of agreement where Russia
gets to keep a part of the land that they've
taken and then that will not be taken well. And
I don't know, I I I know a lot of

(01:45:05):
you are going to hate me for this because you
are behind Trump no matter what he does. I think
putin intimidates Donald Trump. But at first conference news conference
they had in his first term, I just have always
thought that. But you know, this is also a different

(01:45:26):
Donald Trump this time, and so maybe, uh, maybe I'll
be exactly wrong. Maybe I bet. I have no idea
what's going to happen. But I think they're going to
agree to some extent that some of the land that
Russia has seized during this war.

Speaker 2 (01:45:43):
They'll be able to keep.

Speaker 12 (01:45:44):
And I don't think Ukraine's going to go for that
at all, and I don't know how Ukraane could.

Speaker 4 (01:45:49):
I don't think the European Union would would be thrilled
about that either. And you know, he just had that
conference call with some of the leaders from the EU
and with Selinsky, and I think that communicated as much.
And I have been fascinated by this too, to see
what Donald Trump's body language is going into this meeting,
what it is coming out. If he does come out

(01:46:11):
and they do do a joint press conference, how much
different that press conference looks from the one that you're
mentioning from his first term when they came out and
they were very complimentary of each other. They were almost
like friends. And I want to see what that relationship
looks like now, because I know that Donald Trump is

(01:46:31):
frustrated with the fact that he has not been able
to end this.

Speaker 2 (01:46:35):
War, and his credit has stated as much.

Speaker 12 (01:46:39):
I mean, he hasn't been he hasn't been intimidated by
the words he's said about Putin. So you know, I'm
always fascinated that, I mean, just normal people, when you
have a meeting like this, you'd be up all night
long worrying about it. And you know, Trump goes to

(01:47:02):
the meetings that are unbelievable, and you just think, I
wonder how intimate. I wonder how it's scared. I don't
know what the word would be, but he's apparently not.
I mean, you know, he goes face to face, and
so I don't know, I'm fascinating. It fascinated that a

(01:47:23):
lot of these meetings take place, or face to face
meetings take place, because normal people, you know, their hands
would shake or something while they were doing that, and
so it's a high stakes business that he's in. And
this is a president that apparently he's got three and
a half more ears. I don't think he's afraid of

(01:47:46):
anything at this point.

Speaker 2 (01:47:48):
Well, I mean, this is so much as Beth says
about optics. I mean, it's about substance, but it's about
optics before you get to substance, or optics will tell
you whether they were able to get down that road.
And I think, you know, it's interesting because President Trump
needs needs to come through on the campaign promise of
being able to resolve this somehow. But we also saw

(01:48:11):
what happened with Zelenski several months ago, and I think
you know, President Trump going into this wants to appear
to have the upper hand, and when you have negotiations
with someone like Putin like this, sometimes in order to
gain the upper hand, you have to sort of play
the game a little bit. And whether or not he
is of the mindset to to do that or to

(01:48:32):
at least, you know, maybe adjust his expectations in order
to get to the the ending that he wants. You
got two You've got two alpha alpha personalities here that
are going to clash. I mean, you know, we always
joke about it. You know, Rocky versus Drago, This is
really Russia versus the United States right here, you know,
Trump versus Putin, And I just I don't know what

(01:48:55):
to expect out of this today because I can imagine
two things happening equally as much, you know, So I
don't know what to what to expect, because we know
what he said going into being elected, I can I'll
handle this in one day, and he knows he hasn't
done that, so he wants to be able to prove
that he can at least bring this to a closure.
But then, like Hancock says, you have Zelenski out there

(01:49:18):
who is going to be hanging on every word of
this too. And even if they come to an agreement
Putin and Trump, Zelensky is also gonna not that he's
going to have final say, but he's going to be
very vocal, as he always is.

Speaker 4 (01:49:30):
Well a press conference yesterday, Trump hinted at the fact
that after this meeting today, he's planning on a meeting
with all three of them being present.

Speaker 2 (01:49:38):
But you realize, you realize. He's also said that this
thing about a second meeting is relatively new, So that's
sort of saying, okay, don't expect the world out of
this first meeting. It's the first of hopefully several.

Speaker 12 (01:49:51):
Now and the big question earlier in the week and
again leading up to this was whether Zelenski would be
a part of the meeting or not, and that probably
would have been I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:49:59):
Know, better or worse.

Speaker 12 (01:50:00):
What do you think?

Speaker 4 (01:50:03):
Yeah, yeah, it's hard. It's hard to say. When you're
thinking about a deal being made between two countries over
a third country, with a third country involved, you would
think both sides would be there. But when you're dealing
with Putin, it's just a different scenario. And I think
Donald Trump wants to get Putin to finally back down,

(01:50:26):
because he said he would multiple times and he just
hasn't done it. And I think Donald Trump wanted to
get in and try to intimidate him.

Speaker 12 (01:50:34):
Of course, worst case scenario would be that Putin says,
we're rescinding the deal for Alaska.

Speaker 2 (01:50:41):
Well, they're on their way to Alaska. President Trump is
and Putin as well. And we'll cover that for you
all day long right here on News Talk eleven to
ten WBT. Around three o'clock this afternoon, between three and
three thirty is when this is expected to begin.

Speaker 3 (01:50:55):
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Speaker 2 (01:51:01):
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Speaker 5 (01:51:04):
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Speaker 12 (01:52:42):
Charlotte Sanuel Pride Festival in Parade is this weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:52:46):
This is interesting.

Speaker 14 (01:52:47):
Before the Charlotte FC Real Salt Lake game tomorrow night
at seven point thirty, they're doing a mixer, a pregame mixer.

Speaker 2 (01:52:57):
So you can go out and see if you can
find your perfect match.

Speaker 12 (01:53:03):
It starts at like four or five o'clock in the
afternoon something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:53:06):
I think it's at five you're going feast.

Speaker 12 (01:53:11):
All you can eat blue crabs going on and cold
beers at the Letty Boy Brewing while you listen to music.

Speaker 2 (01:53:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 12 (01:53:19):
All the crab you can eat sounds like a pretty
good deal to me.

Speaker 1 (01:53:21):
Thank you.

Speaker 12 (01:53:23):
Friday night plans nights are in town tonight, ack there
in town all weekend long and then not back again
until September the second.

Speaker 2 (01:53:32):
So that's good stuff going on this weekend.

Speaker 5 (01:53:36):
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Speaker 1 (01:53:56):
Yeah, and there you go.

Speaker 12 (01:54:06):
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Gourmand Chugs Diner. They're taking over custom shop, Okay. I
just wanted to see if I could actually say.

Speaker 4 (01:54:37):
That I am never mad at a yummy Cuban sandwich.
I don't know if you guys love them, but they're amazing.

Speaker 12 (01:54:44):
I went to a place that I actually saw on
diners drive ins and dive in a boulder called Rincon
Argentineo and it's an impanada place. Oh and they do
Cuban sandwiches and stuff too, but they're impinadasw it was unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (01:55:03):
There's a good impanada. It's like a little pocket of heaven.
And if you have like a good salsa or some
kind of dip to dip that little impanada in, it
is a pillow of loveliness.

Speaker 12 (01:55:16):
Well, and their dip is was a green salsa that
kind of got a little bite into it. And there's
another place in Denver called Maria's Uh Impanadas and it's uh,
it's just legendary. But it's interesting when you get out west,
you see more Mexican Cuban options than you do in

(01:55:37):
this part of the country.

Speaker 4 (01:55:38):
Well, you know, I lived in Phoenix for a while
and because it's a border state, you know, with Mexico,
there was a huge influence on the cuisine there and
man Ooman one of my favorite places was called Anchiladas
and they had the greatest like empanadas and anchiladas and
they would serve these margarita's and these gigantic. I don't
know why, I just said it like that, gigantic glasses

(01:55:58):
and they put a whole coron upside down in the
in the margarita called a beer garita, and you would
just as you drank the margarita, the beer would slowly
flood into the cup. It was kind of fun.

Speaker 12 (01:56:11):
There's a place and an Estes called Eddie's. It's called
Eddie's Mexican Restaurant. It's been there forever. And my son
Phil and I were sitting at the bar having a margarita,
and a guy walked up to the bar and said,
let me have an avocado margarito.

Speaker 2 (01:56:28):
And I'd never heard of one before.

Speaker 12 (01:56:31):
And she cuts an avocado in half and throws it
in a blender and then puts all the alcohol in there,
hits the button and then pours it over ice.

Speaker 1 (01:56:41):
And it was.

Speaker 2 (01:56:43):
An avocado margarito with real avocado.

Speaker 4 (01:56:47):
And I bet it was creamy and delicious.

Speaker 12 (01:56:49):
Well, she she heard Phil and I talking about it,
and there was enough left from that mix that she
poured two little glasses and didn't put it in front.

Speaker 1 (01:56:56):
Of us so we could taste it.

Speaker 2 (01:56:58):
Excesh and I walked back.

Speaker 12 (01:57:00):
I asked it the other day and wanted one so
bad I couldn't see straight because it's it was unbelievable.
But I was driving a rent car that was, you know,
that had been altered so it would be left foot drive.
I figured maybe that was not the time for me
to get just a little gipsy.

Speaker 4 (01:57:15):
Maybe you shouldn't have that second margarita.

Speaker 13 (01:57:17):
Yeah, maybe not.

Speaker 2 (01:57:18):
If you wonder why I'm being so quiet during this segment,
is impanada? I've never heard of that.

Speaker 4 (01:57:24):
Oh okay, it's a never even heard of it.

Speaker 2 (01:57:27):
I know, what are you from, white boy, enchilada, margarita, Avocado.
I don't know all these things, but I don't know
what avocado.

Speaker 4 (01:57:36):
I'm so glad you know what avocados are. And im
panada is like I just love to saying Panada.

Speaker 2 (01:57:42):
It's a dope pocket filled with stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:57:44):
Stuff. They haven't met Sabor the place that they have
little impat They have a black bean and panada that
you have like a salsa crema that you dip it
in that I think is delightful.

Speaker 11 (01:57:56):
Very popular in the Italian community.

Speaker 5 (01:57:58):
BO.

Speaker 2 (01:57:59):
Yeah, catch up on it right.

Speaker 7 (01:58:03):
Good in the morning, DT. This is Good Morning.

Speaker 2 (01:58:06):
BET News Talk eleven ten, nine to nine three WBT
ten before ten. Stay with WBT throughout the day for
the latest on the Trump Putin summit, which is imminent.
Now both leaders are on their way to Anchorage, Alaska,

(01:58:29):
where they will meet around three point thirty this afternoon.
That's about eleven thirty Anchorage time, but well into the afternoon,
and of course this will go well, It may go
into the evening. We don't know. It could go very short,
short because things don't work out, and it may actually
be a long drawn out process, and they may have

(01:58:50):
a news conference after it's so for but the best
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the day Brett Jensen and of course TJ.

Speaker 1 (01:59:05):
Ritchie.

Speaker 2 (01:59:06):
So we'll keep you in the know. I said, I
didn't know what an impenada was until just now. I
also didn't know a phrase that hancocks that during the
break until now.

Speaker 12 (01:59:15):
Well, I didn't either until I read this article last
night in USA Today Meno divorce.

Speaker 1 (01:59:24):
And more and more.

Speaker 12 (01:59:26):
First place, divorce rate for people fifty plus is going up,
and they talked about a lot of women get to menopause,
and there was this one thing that said, do I
divorce this or is this menopause? But there are more
and more women that are you know, that's a question
that resonates with women in midlife when hormones are changing,

(01:59:51):
as there are stresses increasing, the kids have moved out,
the parents have kind of moved on from each other,
and they just finally decide. They had a quote from
one woman that I just thought was hilarious, and she
just finally said, you.

Speaker 2 (02:00:04):
Know what, I just I hate the way you choose food.
I hate the way he comes when he walks in
the door.

Speaker 1 (02:00:12):
At the end of the day.

Speaker 2 (02:00:13):
I just think, oh god, good, the good part of my.

Speaker 1 (02:00:16):
Day is over.

Speaker 2 (02:00:17):
Doesn't know what impanadas are?

Speaker 1 (02:00:19):
She hadn't know what.

Speaker 12 (02:00:20):
Anyways, you should And so more and more women are
are getting divorced at fifty plus. But you've got to
go read the article because there's quotes in there that
are so funny, and I guess they're not, but I
mean they're interesting to read.

Speaker 1 (02:00:36):
You've heard of.

Speaker 4 (02:00:36):
It, Oh, oh, I have heard of. There is a
woman who used to be a news anchor in New
York City. Her name is Tamsen Fidal. I was lucky
enough to get to work with her on a project once,
but she had kind of this menopause moment on the air.
She left the world of broadcasting and spent time researching,
shot a documentary about menopause, and has written a book

(02:00:58):
called how to Menopause and one of the I follow
her on Instagram. She talks about this concept of relationships
often fail in the menopause phase, and ladies, if you're
in it, I want to hug you right now. I
want to hold your hand because I know not I'm
not talking about the menopause divorce, but I know all

(02:01:18):
about menopause. I am available to hug you. I am
available now. I'm available to talk to you about this.
And there is a woman on Instagram who started something
called that We Do Not Care Club. Her name is Melanie.
I think it's it's just Melanie. I've sent it to you, Bernie.

Speaker 2 (02:01:36):
It's hilarious.

Speaker 4 (02:01:36):
It's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (02:01:37):
It's hilarious.

Speaker 4 (02:01:38):
She reads out minutes every day. She's like, come and
join me. This is for a club. That we do
not care Club for Women in menopause and perimenopause, and
she just leads off, reads off all the things we
don't care about anymore. And there is something to this.
I've been researching this, John Hancock. I did not read
this USA Today article, but it all makes sense to
me because with menopause, because of the changing hormone. I know, guys,

(02:02:01):
you were looking at me like I'm crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:02:02):
I love it. How it's not we don't care, it's
we do not care, we do not care. We do
not care.

Speaker 4 (02:02:06):
As that we do not care club. There's an increased
emotional sensitivity with the severe change in hormones, where suddenly
things will annoy you that never have annoyed you ever before,
and you find yourself shocked by how annoyed you are
at these things. And that's the woman laughing saying that

(02:02:26):
she can't stand the way her husband choose. Suddenly I'm
hearing chewing, and I don't even know that I'd ever
even heard someone you know, chow oddly before. It is
a bizarre time in life, but it also opens your
mind to self reflection and some kind like clarity. But
there are days I had one with these days on
Monday where I told the guys, I was like, I'm

(02:02:47):
feeling all menopause little day and I don't even know why.
But luckily it was at the end of the show
and the guy said that they couldn't tell, so that
made me happy.

Speaker 12 (02:02:55):
And if you're too embarrassed to use the text line
just to send a note that says yo Beth dot com.

Speaker 4 (02:03:02):
Please yo Beth, yo Beth me all day. If you
are someone who is going through this whole thing, I
get it. I get it because it doesn't feel normal.
It doesn't it doesn't make a whole heck of a
lot of sense. And there are weird things that happen.
Frozen shoulder. I did not know that this was a
thing that goes along with menopause, and I am currently

(02:03:23):
currently dealing with frozen shoulder in my left arm, and
it is there are these strange things that no one
ever talked to us about as women, our moms, I
guess suffered in silence. But suddenly there's a new culture
and it's a multi billion dollar industry. Now, this kind
of move toward understanding all of the things that go
along with men.

Speaker 2 (02:03:42):
I think guys understand men and pause at all.

Speaker 4 (02:03:45):
No, you don't have the same kind shoulder. I have
a frozen my left shoulder. I can't lift it past here.
I can do it to a like basically a ninety
degree angel. Yeah, and when I go kickbox and I
try to do push ups like, I'm gonna have like
one big old ripped right arm because I can't do
anything with my left arm right now.

Speaker 2 (02:04:02):
I don't think you can do radio anymore.

Speaker 12 (02:04:05):
So maybe I have had menopauseit to do men lose feet.

Speaker 4 (02:04:10):
Oh well, wow, that took a turn. Maybe that was.

Speaker 2 (02:04:17):
Maybe that's what happened.

Speaker 1 (02:04:19):
I had no idea.

Speaker 2 (02:04:20):
Better a frozen shoulder than no shoulder.

Speaker 7 (02:04:22):
Right.

Speaker 12 (02:04:22):
But divorce rates going up fifty plus, I mean I
find that kind of interesting. Divorce rates overall are dropping,
but fifty plus they're increasing. And I told you this
is not in the article, but to some extent, and
I know this, I don't from a you would think
of how can I do it?

Speaker 2 (02:04:41):
Can I do this?

Speaker 26 (02:04:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (02:04:42):
Well, if you if you divorce the guy and you're
going to get at least a fair settlement out of
the deal, and you add that to social security, then
from a financial standpoint, you can probably afford to do it.

Speaker 4 (02:04:56):
Well, and so many women are choosing to to start
little like tiny house communities with their friends, with their
other girlfriends, and it's a Golden Girl type scenarios where
they're deciding to live with other women, not in any
kind of romantic way, but just as roommates and just
taking on life together and enjoying.

Speaker 12 (02:05:15):
The they're not golfing together because they've all got this
frozen shoulder thing.

Speaker 4 (02:05:19):
Well, I have the most random symptoms. I'll have to
if you ever see me standing in front of the
freezer section at Public's, just come by and hug me
because I'm having a hot flash.

Speaker 2 (02:05:30):
Man, a lot has happened in a short amount of
time here. Sorry, guys on our tell us something good Friday, right.

Speaker 8 (02:05:37):
So tell us why you're going to be at public spath. Yeah, Well,
are there are guys who will line up, ready to go,
ready to hug.

Speaker 4 (02:05:43):
Me in front of the freezer.

Speaker 12 (02:05:44):
Yeah, so that's why there's a meat cooler here in
the studio.

Speaker 4 (02:05:48):
I'm going to find a grocery store with one of
those beer beer caves.

Speaker 2 (02:05:52):
Well, welcome back, Hancock, thank you. It's great to be back,
great to be here with you. Thanks to Zoke and
to of course Boomer von Cannon and Mark Garrison, Steve
and Happy birthday Steve Tomorrow, Happy birthday Brother and Bernie Bowls,
Good Talk Beath, Great Talk Path.

Speaker 6 (02:06:09):
Hello and welcome to all We Do Not Care Club members.
This club is specifically for women going through piramenopause and
minnopause who truly do not care about much.

Speaker 4 (02:06:20):
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Speaker 2 (02:06:22):
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Speaker 4 (02:06:28):
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