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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do you want to be good or do you want
to be somebody who changes the world? Can I be both?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
From News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three w PT.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
I have been around a long time.

Speaker 4 (00:12):
This has the makings of a team that can bring
light from the dark.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is Good Morning Beatty with both Thompson and Beth Troutman.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
That can't be on the weekies.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Fuck but all.

Speaker 5 (00:59):
Believing, King of the Good and sure no I was wrong?
You finished no sound sum shots in rest.

Speaker 6 (01:38):
I'm not mad at this. He either never heard it before,
but I like it.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
You've not heard keen.

Speaker 6 (01:45):
I don't think I have heard this, but I'm enjoying
it now. It's got a Friday feel to it again.

Speaker 7 (01:54):
It's very nice.

Speaker 6 (01:56):
Are y'all looking at me because you've heard of it
and I haven't. Yuste was just about to go to
the charity. He's like, oh, no, no, are we gonna
tell me the chart history?

Speaker 8 (02:03):
No, no, I was.

Speaker 6 (02:04):
I was gonna.

Speaker 9 (02:05):
Uh, I was gonna dad joke it for you be like,
oh you're not you're are You're keen on this one?

Speaker 6 (02:12):
Yeah? It's Friday. I'm allowed it is.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
It's Friday. Waking up to a jammer. I know, I
took the cool right out of everything.

Speaker 6 (02:23):
I said, it was an old song.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
I think this is from their second album, so maybe
early mid two thousands.

Speaker 6 (02:32):
So you have all the albums.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
It is a keen deep cut, all right, Dale. It
was let's keep this one in the h is their
sixth albums, stupid oh six oh O six. It came
out O six. That was right right mid mid two thousands.

Speaker 6 (02:49):
Now once again we make the the most eclectic playlist
on Spotify. More eclectic, bro this one in the hopper.
Everyday Bet wakes up with a song in her head
and we put it on Spotify as a playlist, which.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
If you have trouble finding it on Spotify, you can
text us on the text line and Steve will send
you a link. But we got a message yesterday from
Nathan on the text line seven oh four to five
seven oho eleven ten driven by a Liberty view at GMC,
and he said, there's no way, there's no way that
Beth wakes up to a different song every day. Is
this real or is this just a bit? And I
written back and I was like, dude, I promised you

(03:26):
this has been happening most of my life, if not
all of my life. Dude, dude, come on, come on, dude, really, no,
I said it. I said it in a fun way.
I said it in a fun way.

Speaker 6 (03:34):
I've been in radio on my life and you know,
bits or bits. But the thing about this show that
is is different than any other show that I've ever
been on is you know, very little things are bits,
but a lot of things sound like bits.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Right, it's all real. But yes, that's the perfect way
to say it. Kind of sounds like a bit, but
it's it's real. I uh, because we couldn't make this
stuff up. I wish I could control the songs that
I weigh up to, but it's just music. Must just
live in my brain. Sometimes they come out of my dreams.

Speaker 6 (04:06):
We have a big show today on your Friday. Yay,
August twenty second, we got the Well, the Carolina Panthers
are zero to three in the preseason. I don't know
what that means. I don't know if anybody should be
worried at all. I mean, you don't want to be
winless anywhere, right, but I guess if you have to be,
you do it in the preseason. Will Pologic, who you
just heard is going to join us coming up at
the top of the hour, get his thoughts on last night,

(04:28):
Zochie was working late because he was calling the game,
so he is off today. We also will continue to
remember Humpy Wheeler. That news broke right towards the end
of our show yesterday. He passed away, of course, the
mastermind of so many things at Charlotte Motor Speedway and
really the innovator, the great innovator of NASCAR. And he's
born and raised in Belmont, So we'll have another Belmont

(04:53):
not a native, but a resident, one of Belmont's most
famous right now, in fact, Belmont's most beloved. Yes, John
Hancock joins us in the final hour today, as he
always does on Friday. And you know what, you know what,
I know he's standing by. Actually he might not be
because I'm like coming to him on time, but he
is the speaking of innovator. You know, we bring Boomer

(05:16):
von Cannon to the show, and you and I tried
for a long time to bring him to the show
and we finally got him here. And then last week
we basically started something inspired by him because he's the guy.
He always says Frye Fright.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
We named it after you Boomer von CANNONI yay, thank you.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
It is what it is. Thank you.

Speaker 6 (05:35):
So one week ago we started an experiment because Beth
and I concocted this one the night before that. Hey,
wouldn't it be great? You know, let's just do a
segment or two about people calling in on Friday yea
and telling us something good that happened to you this week.
And this took off like wildfire last week, and so
it's a staple now.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yes, the little things in life. Were the big things
in life that are good, that are happening in your
neighborhood and your community and your family, because we need
to celebrate those a little bit more.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
So you can call neighborhood. What's that something good in
the neighborhood does?

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Even if it's Applebee's, that's right.

Speaker 6 (06:12):
Yeah, see, no restrictions. It can be Applebe's, it can
be whatever you want it to be. But it's gonna
be every Friday at seven fifty. We'll launch it at
seven fifty if we need to carry it beyond to
eighth five because there's just too much good stuff to
talk about. We have that flexibility. But we're going to
do it again this week because you told us last
week that you liked it. And everybody needs a little

(06:33):
good on a Friday.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Right, thank you?

Speaker 6 (06:36):
Or a Friday yay, As Boomer von Cannon would say, Hey.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
I found something good yesterday. Guys. What's that? There's a
new cheese it out.

Speaker 6 (06:43):
A new cheese it cheese it snack?

Speaker 3 (06:45):
What kind Wendy's Baconator?

Speaker 6 (06:48):
No way, Now, this is this is a true story,
true story. Kids. Every Friday, after I get off the air,
I hit Harris Theater and by at least one box
use it's for the weekend.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
Are you serious? Are you getting sious baconator?

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (07:04):
Well I didn't know this until Boomer just told me
because I always get the extra toasty.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
That's all my good when you turned me on to
the extra tasty.

Speaker 6 (07:11):
But now I'm gonna be looking for that at Harris
Theater today, Boomer. And if I don't see it, I'm
gonna go to the customer service and say Boomer told
me that these.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
Would be here. They'll be there. They're promoting a big
time over the water, hot and spicy cheeses.

Speaker 10 (07:22):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (07:22):
Yeah, Wendy's bacon.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Eated Wendy's Baconator. Cheese It I can't.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Decide how I feel about it. Did they taste good?

Speaker 3 (07:28):
You know what?

Speaker 6 (07:29):
I've got the bucks ized.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
I could crack it like Boo and crack it after
the show, will fodo?

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Okay, nice little beer.

Speaker 6 (07:34):
So you actually gone and you've gotten them there there
on the shelves. Oh okay, yes, Oh, my Friday just
got better. That's my that's my Friday right there? Are
you even have to wait till seven fifty? That's mine?

Speaker 11 (07:45):
Ironically, football cranks up about this time of the year too,
bringing home babies, bacon cheeses.

Speaker 6 (07:53):
All right, so that's coming up at seven fifty. But
that was the that was the tease.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
It was the teas there. We we got something good
already from boober Vine Cannon.

Speaker 12 (08:01):
Hi guy, I thought y'all doing this morning.

Speaker 6 (08:02):
We're talking about a pretty serious subject here. What's going
on with you?

Speaker 12 (08:06):
First of all, I love why all you guys mashed together.
It's a great show.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Oh thank you Tommy much.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Good morning.

Speaker 7 (08:12):
I just wanted to say, first of all, I think
you and Beth.

Speaker 13 (08:15):
Of doing what you're doing.

Speaker 7 (08:16):
You're really therapist.

Speaker 6 (08:18):
Hundreds of people Monscowzo, You.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
And I are lucky enough that we get to connect
with all kinds of people, over all kinds of reasons.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
This is Good Morning Beat.

Speaker 6 (08:30):
Coming up on six twenty news, Doctor Levinson WBT on
your Friday, August twenty second. Heavy hearts across the NASCAR
community yesterday and beyond. As we learned just before the
show was ending, that legendary NASCAR figure Humpy Wheeler passed

(08:50):
away at the age of eighty six. And so many
people have so many stories about this guy.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
He touched so many lives, not just through what he
created at the speedway, but he was a people person
and he loved helping people.

Speaker 6 (09:05):
We had the opportunity to talk with Doug Rice, who
is a longtime friend of the show and the founder
and longtime voice of PRN Performance Racing Network. He recently retired,
but upon getting this news, we said, well, who else
you going to talk to? But Doug Rice bo, thank.

Speaker 13 (09:22):
You so much, and I'm honored to come on and
talk about Humpy. His greatness can't really be measured in words,
but thanks for asking me to be on.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Oh, we're certainly honored that you are spending some time
with us this morning as you got the news. First
of all, just where where are your thoughts? Where is
your heart right now? Because I'm sure this was a
shock to you the way it was to all of
us this morning learning the news.

Speaker 13 (09:48):
Well knew Humpy had been in declining health, but yeah,
it's still the reality since in when you hear that
somebody you've admired passed so much. Beth, I can tell
you just from my personal aspect, my career is almost
one hundred percent due to Humphy Wheeler encouraging me, giving
me direction, telling me that I could go on and

(10:10):
do things that I didn't think I could do. And
he took a chance on me, a guy from a
small market radio station, and kept massaging me as he
did so many other people. And I think that's what
folks are going to find out in the upcoming days,
all of the people that Humpy helped. Yeah, they remember
him for the great pre race shows and the stunts

(10:33):
and all the big things he did, But the fact
that he was such an awesome humanitarian helping people he
didn't know, people that he did know, that is a
legacy that I hope gets told about this man, because
he was always giving Well.

Speaker 6 (10:49):
You know, Doug growing up in this area and Beth
did too. Right near the in race country. You think
about Humpy Wheeler, you can't talk about humpy and not
use the word vision. This is a that had big ideas.
But not only did he have big ideas, he figured
out ways to make those things into reality.

Speaker 13 (11:07):
Oh, he absolutely did. And he was paired up with
the right guy in Bruton Smith. I mean when they
were teamed up together, that was a powerful duo. But
you look back at the condominiums at Charletta the speedway,
and people called those a falling until they tripled their
value in the first year. And the Speedway Club here again,
that's a joint vision. Lighting the speedway that was huge.

(11:31):
People told us over and over again that couldn't be done.
But Humphy went out and found a way to do it.
He tracked down a lighting company from Iowa, from Muscatine,
Iowa must go lighting, and they came in and did that.
And that's all attributed to his vision and his ability
to see what was the next thing. He, I think,

(11:53):
more than any other person, and I don't want to
short anybody, brought NASCAR from its rural day of we're
kind of a backwater sport into the next century with
what he thought fans needed and the experience that they wanted.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
You know, we're going to hear over the next few days. Well,
we'll certainly read a lot about his resume and like
you're saying, all that he did for the motorsports industry,
but like you mentioned, he was a helper. He liked
people and he liked to help move people forward. Is
there a story that you that comes to the top
of your mind about your relationship with him? Something you remember,

(12:33):
a funny story, you know, a serious story, or something
that you learned from him, or a time that he
gave you a talking to you know, any of those,
any of those things from your personal life.

Speaker 13 (12:43):
Yeah, I got a couple of those talking to you
and you pretty much shut up and listened because he
had a way of getting your attention.

Speaker 10 (12:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (12:51):
I got called into his office one time and you
you all were at attention. I mean that's pretty close
to the principal's office, and I thought, I don't have
anything that should be on his desk right now. And
he called me in and he talked to me and
he told me two things. He goes Doug. He said,
you know what people like in North Carolina, and I'm
going t Robans I don't know, and he goes, they

(13:14):
like he said, they like Mayberry. He said more than that,
they liked the idea of Mayberry. And I thought on
that a while. He goes, they want that comfort, they
want what comes from living in a town like Mayberry
where everything works, and I thought, why are you telling
me this? But then it kind of dawned on me

(13:36):
that that was part of what he wanted people to have,
a comfort level and a familiarity with people. And then
he gave me a book to read that had nothing
to do with Maybury that same day called Pillars of
the Earth. Oh yeah, and it was kind of an
odd book and I read it and then I realized, Okay,
there was a purpose that he gave me this book
to read because it was about building things that last

(13:59):
from the ground up, and those two things I will
I don't know that I'll never forget that moment because
I felt like that was aimed just for me. So
that meant a lot.

Speaker 6 (14:10):
If you want to know how big a deal Humpy
Wheeler was when that movie for Disney, and my kids
were right at the age when this movie came out,
so we saw it in the theaters. But when cars
first came out, you know what, fifteen years ago or so.
You know, they had Richard Petty and they had big
names in that movie that were voices for this animated
Disney deal. Humpy Wheeler was in the movie. He was

(14:33):
a character. I think his name was Tex if I
remember correctly, I have to find the clip. But that
tells you all you need to know, right that Humphrey
Wheeler was big enough to be in that Disney movie
when they wanted the Who's Who to create that sort
of stock car racing feel.

Speaker 13 (14:47):
No, you're right, bo, I mean that's a promoter that
made the cut. Yeah, to get into a major Disney release.
I will say this, he was original. There are no
more like him, and that's kind of sad and his
big saying that he said it. I don't know how
many meetings I was in. He goes, we bring technicolor

(15:08):
to people's black and white lives, and I thought, Okay,
that's all I need to know. Let's go and NASCAR's
not where it is. If we don't have a Humphy Wheeler,
I'll just leave it at that.

Speaker 6 (15:18):
Yeah, Amen, thank you so much.

Speaker 14 (15:20):
Talk Hey, Lighting, how about coming over here and talking
to me a minute.

Speaker 11 (15:26):
Son.

Speaker 14 (15:26):
That was some real racing out there. How'd you like
to become the new face of Dinah Cooke? But I
didn't win lightning. There's a whole lot more to racing
than just winning.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
He was so rusky when he drove down the street.

Speaker 15 (15:48):
Thank you, mister Textbook. But these rusties guys over there
gave me my big break stick with them.

Speaker 14 (15:57):
Well, I sure canry that still. You know, if there's
ever anything I can do for you, just let me know.

Speaker 11 (16:06):
I sure appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (16:08):
Humpy Wheeler as texts and the movie Cars, I mean,
like I said, that really just tells you all you
need to know.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yeah, I mean think about that. And the character that
he played and the moment that he was in that
movie was so humpy. It was just so his personality.
They wrote it thinking, well, we're just going to showcase
who this guy is.

Speaker 6 (16:27):
And Disney said, who do we need in this movie
to make a movie about Nascar? And they said so
and so and so and so and like Richard Petty obviously,
but Humpy Wheeler, Humpy Wheeler, and he did touch a
good job he did.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
He was a great voice actor.

Speaker 6 (16:38):
Yeah, absolutely, Well, we'd be talking about Humpy Wheeler throughout
the morning. And by the way, Scott Paget, former mayor
of Concord, is going to join us at eight oh
five or no, I'm sorry eight twenty this morning to
talk about Humpy Wheeler. I'm sure he has some stories.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Oh, I know that he has.

Speaker 6 (16:53):
Plenty six point thirty seven on News Talk eleven ten WBT.
Thanks to Doug Rice for coming on with this and
talking about a guy he knew very well, Humpy Wheeler,
who passed away yesterday at the age of eighty six.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
You know, as the story broke yesterday that we lost
Humpy Wheeler, one of the other beautiful things that happened,
you just heard Doug Rice talking about the fact that
not only was Humpy this great business man, this visionary
when it came to the P. T. Barnum really of
NASCAR as many people called him, but he also mentioned
if you were listening to that interview, he mentioned what

(17:35):
a humanitarian he was, what a good guy he was,
and how important he liked to make other people feel.
And our text line started blowing up with people just
sharing their stories of their memories from Humpy Wheeler. I
got a few texts from one of our listeners named
Sean again our text line seven oh four five seven
oh eleven ten. Sean said, when I was growing up,

(17:56):
our bus stop for school was in front of Hump's house,
and he would come out and scrape a credit card
across our cheeks to check and see if we had shaved,
like a popular commercial at that time. Always had time
to talk with us and joke with the kids every
single morning. And then he texted again and said another
Humpy story. I had some kind of teen beef with

(18:20):
his son Trip, and it looked like we were going
to have a fight. Humpy got wind of it and
had us settle it with boxing gloves in his basement.
Any problems I had with Trip were over right after that.
He was a great man. That's great, isn't that a
hilarious stories like, yeah, kids, come on, I'm going to
supervise this. Here's some boxing gloves. We're going down to

(18:42):
the basement.

Speaker 6 (18:43):
Seven oh four, five seven oh eleven ten. Some reaction.
Notable reaction yesterday to add to what Beth said. Marcus Smith,
who of course is the head of Charlotte Motor Speedway
now and a succeeded Humpy Wheeler back in the day
Marcus Smith posting on X what an amazing I called
him Uncle Humpy. For most of my life he was
a mentor, a life coach, a boss, and an inspiration

(19:06):
to me and so many others. He was the promoter
of promoters, always ready for the big deal, a new
big deal. He was also a great fisherman, a dedicated Christian,
a deeply interested He was deeply interested in making the
world a better place. Humpy made a huge impact on
my life that I will never forget. Love you, Humpy.
That's from Marcus Smith. And this is from Tom Sorens

(19:27):
and the longtime Charlotte Observer columnist over there on the
left hand side of the sports page. Anytime anything happened,
you had to wait until Tom sounded off about it.
And it's why I do it judicially, because I want
to bother him all the time. But Tom will come
on this show from time to time and sort of
give us the audio version of what he might say

(19:47):
in a column if he was still doing that. But
last night on Facebook, on his Facebook page, he posted this,
It's a long you know, it's a long dedication to
Humpy Wheeler. I don't have time to read all of it,
and I'll point you there if you want to read
the whole thing, but I'm going to read the back
end of it.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Here.

Speaker 6 (20:04):
It says the best way to describe Humpy as this,
most of us limit ourselves when we look at how
things are done, how things have always been done, and
the braver among us tiptoe carefully onto new turf. Humpy
saw no limitations, he saw possibilities. That's Tom Sorenson weighing
in and a guy he knew really well, Humpy Wheeler.
So we'll continue the remembrances throughout the morning. We have

(20:26):
coming up at eight twenty the former mayor of Concord,
Scott Paget. If you used to listen to the Pat
McCrory show, Scott used to call in all the time.
And Beth goes way back with Scott, so a lot
of Scott connections. But he is always fun to talk to.
But you know he has stories.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
Oh, he definitely has stories, especially given that the Charlotte
Midter Speedway is actually in Concord and that's where he
served as mayor for so many years. But going back
to saying that, for Tom Soreson to Sorenson, to say
that about Humpy Wheeler that he didn't see obstacles, only
saw possibilities. Isn't that how we would all love to

(21:03):
be remembered. What beautiful words to be said after you
pass away, that you didn't see obstacles in life, you
just saw possibilities. But he also saw opportunities for just
pure kindness. We got another text of a memory from
Humpy Wheeler, just people remembering him out at the track.
Michael said, I remember him coming out and handing out

(21:26):
watermelon at a race at the dirt track because it
was a hot night. Just decided on his own to
come out and say, hey, you know what, these people
are probably sweating to death, let's give him some nice, cool,
refreshing watermelon. That he was just that kind of person.
He saw possibilities even in helping people, because I think,
isn't that the greatest way to think about possibility, The

(21:47):
possibility of making someone else's life better, that someone else
isn't an obstacle, isn't a problem, That people are possibilities.

Speaker 6 (21:55):
Well, and you hear the phrase fan service and fan
appreciation that gets thrown around a lot, I think, but
he was the personification of that in the role that
he was in, he was always thinking fans first, how
can we make the fan experience at Charlotte Motor Speedway
a second to none in the NASCAR world. And he
did that, and throughout the NASCAR world as it got bigger,

(22:16):
you know, people in other towns would emulate the ideas
that he had. And it's why I was saying that,
you know, races at Charlotte Motor Speedway even to this day,
they're not just races. Their weekends and week long celebrations
and it's an event. And every time we talked to
Scott Cooper up there, you know they have the latest,
latest and greatest big experiment, concoction whatever, and that's all

(22:37):
that all traces back to Humpy yeah one.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
Like we were saying the P. T. Barnum of Nascar,
that he saw opportunities to bring joy and playfulness and
to bring families together. And I was fortunate enough to
get to interview him multiple times when I worked in television,
and the way that I would describe him in all
of those scenarios is jolly. He just approached every conversation.

(23:01):
He was just this jolly guy. So the two of
us together had so much fun having a conversation. Even
he would come out at the RV shows when they
would have the RVs parked in the middle of the track,
and he would come out and just you know, marvel
over the RV's that were out there, and was just jolly.
And he didn't necessarily have to be all the time.
He was a powerful guy, but he just wanted, I think,

(23:24):
to make people feel good and make people feel welcomed
and make people feel like they could come together for something.

Speaker 6 (23:32):
Had some great conversations with many personalities on this station.
One of them was Keith Larson, and Keith I saw
a posted on Facebook yesterday a couple of links to
some old and some video from times that Humpy came
into the studio and visited with his show. And we
got Handcock coming in the final hour today. And I
know Hancock has some Humpy stories. I think Humpy would

(23:52):
like what we're going to do at seven fifty. This
sounds like a Humpy Wheeler type of thing right here.
It is seven oh four, five eleven ten at seven
fifty this morning. We started this last week, but I
want to make sure you're thinking about it, kind of
make it part of your your fry Ye staple. But
at seven fifty we want you to text. We want
you to call and tell us something good that happened

(24:14):
to you or you heard about this week. No more
parameters than that. We just want to fill the fry
Ya atmosphere with the good vibes as we head into
the weekend. So keep those texts coming in at seven
oh four, five, seven oh eleven ten. We'll read some
of them at seven fifty, and we'll also take your
phone calls like we did last week.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yep, and we love talking to you.

Speaker 6 (24:34):
News Talk eleven ten, WBT at six forty four cibercheck
traffic now, Boomer von Cannon, you're waiting to hear it.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
Too, bathroom Yes there wait, hey, sharing the goodness that's
so right.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
I mean, think about how much of an impact that
could have, Yes.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
Big time. It could change a lot of things, man.

Speaker 6 (24:50):
And you know if nobody calls, we just talked to Boomer, right, So,
I mean it's a win win either way.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
You can tell us about Jesus, you can tell us
about your favorite can of Coors Light, whatever it is.

Speaker 6 (24:59):
Yeah, so if you just joined us, Boomer, put the
first one on the board, The first tell me something
good he discovered, and he has a box of him
to enjoy this weekend. That now there's a Wendy's Baconator
flavor of cheese.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
It's cheese. It Wendy's Baconator. Holy cap.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
And I gotta tell you, Boomer, you've inspired listeners already.
They're sending us pictures from the grocery store. Oh there
you go of the Baconator cheese.

Speaker 6 (25:21):
Its Gavenger hunk.

Speaker 11 (25:22):
I love it.

Speaker 6 (25:24):
I'm going right now scanoes. So McDonald Lands, I remember
the cookies. Mostly McDonald Land is back at McDonald's.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
Did you know this?

Speaker 6 (25:46):
It's it's here.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
McDonald come kept the new Mountain.

Speaker 11 (25:52):
McDonaldland shaky when you order the McDonald n mules.

Speaker 6 (25:55):
We actually had a lot of McDonald's news today. It's
really all McDonald's business news here.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
I don't know why I was so obsessed with McDonald yesterday.
I just kept sending McDonald's story after McDonald's story. This
first one not necessarily just McDonald's, but it has a
Beth tie to McDonald's. Here's the headline, Oh the Macbeth.
Here's the headline. Hold the entree past the nuggets. Why

(26:21):
adults are ordering from the Kid's menu. It's not just nostalgia,
portion sizes, or cost. There's more to it than that.
People are deciding that they want to go to McDonald's
Wendy's Burger King and get the Kid's mill rather than
I don't know, the gigantic whopper or the.

Speaker 6 (26:42):
Bibil quarter pound cheese.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yes, yes, and it is uh, it is cost more
than anything. But also for some people the nostalgia and
the portion size. And I'm not gonna lie when I
read this, I related one hundred percent. If I'm ever
in a situation like a road trip or some thing,
we're fast food becomes one of the only options, or
the most convenient option or the quickest option. I love

(27:08):
ordering the Kids Menu or the Kid's Meal, and sometimes
especially the Happy Meal. At McDonald's. They'll ask you like,
do you want a toy for a girl or a boy?
And I'll say like a boy, so that they think
that I have like a kid, that I'm taking the
Happy Meal too, as if the person at McDonald's is
judging me for some reason or another, they're not.

Speaker 6 (27:26):
What you never want to say, is I want the
adult toy.

Speaker 16 (27:29):
Oh, now, they don't serve those at McDonald's speaking of
adults because he is an adult.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
I don't know how I miss this and how this
wasn't a bigger story. But I just played you that ad,
the McDonald Land ad. It has Ronald in it. It
has Ronald McDonald at the very end. He parachutes down
at the end. I'm like, wait a minute, Like I
knew Grimace was there and the Hamburglar and that stuff,
because you know, for a while there, McDonald's didn't do
any of those characters that they had when we were kids.
And then slowly but surely they've brought him back. But

(27:58):
Ronald the clown was the guy that they just sort
of uh, you know, they'd stayed away from him for decades,
and now he's back. I saw him in a commercial
last night, and I'm like, next thing, I know it's
gonna be the ice skating commercial where he comes and
picks up the kid and swings around and you know,
everybody remembers that.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Right, I do remember that, and that it was a
creepy commercial.

Speaker 6 (28:14):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
If they're gonna bring back Ronald McDonald, here's what I
want McDonald's to do.

Speaker 6 (28:20):
I do know, Beth, they have bought brought him back
here out here.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
So if they're bringing him back, okay, So here's what
I want. I hope McDonald's is listening. Bring back Grimace,
bring back the hamburger Burglar, bring back the fry. Guys
have them all, you know, making their weird noises running
around McDonald Bertie the Birdie. But bring back the way
McDonald's used to look and feel. Bring back the bright colors.

(28:43):
And that looks like somebody just vomited crayons all over
the place. They all look like little sterile coffee houses. Now,
bring back the fun McDonald's way.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
Place.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Yeah, where you have birthday parties?

Speaker 6 (28:53):
No kidding, Look that's a that's something that today's kids
would be like. What that you had a birthday party
at McDonald's or Burger King multiple Burger King, Well I had,
I know I had one at both places, but Burger
King specifically, because if if you went in there and
had a birthday, they gave you the crown.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
They gave you the paper cardboark crown thing. And you
guys know this. I have to wear kids hats. So
even as a kid, I had a tiny little head,
so they would put the little crown and they'd have
to tape it smaller than the little inserts would let
it folder. It would just fall around my neck and
I'd have to wear it like a necklace.

Speaker 6 (29:24):
Does that seem like the strangest thing ever? Burnie to
you to have a birthday party at McDonald's.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
No, no, no, I think that sounds pretty cool.

Speaker 6 (29:31):
But have you had you ever seen or been to one?
Like I mean, I remember that very early. Tell you
something when you're a kid and you go to McDonald's
back in the day, the kind of McDonald's Beth is
talking about, and they rope off a section just for you.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Oh, you felt important.

Speaker 6 (29:44):
You're king of the world. Yeah, king of the world,
and you have you know, you get a special prize,
not just the happy meal prize. You get a birthday prize.
Until creepy Ronalds.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
Shows that wait, wait, they're bringing him back. He's back.

Speaker 6 (29:55):
Mark, Oh, I know he's back. And I'm kind of
surprised that this is not getting talked about more the
fact that he's back, because they just kind of ain't
kind of parachuted in and like the no big press release.
Ronald's back. He's just like he was always here.

Speaker 17 (30:07):
He got out of jail, I just thought he finally
beat the pedophile round.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Ok, what if we drift out to sue? What if
we never heard from my cat?

Speaker 3 (30:21):
Listen, nohing's gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
This is just the oldening credit from News Talk eleven
ten and ninety nine three w BT.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
How do you like it that far?

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Well, this is Good Morning Beat with Bo Thompson and
Beth trout but thinks the winner.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
Happy to be here now, all the.

Speaker 6 (30:44):
Seven eight on WBT on your fry Yay morning, August
twenty second. Bo Thompson, Beth Troutman in the Tye Boyd studio.
Jim Zokie off today. He was working late last night,
burning that midnight oil at Bank of America Stadium as
the Carolina pan There's finished up their preseason with a
loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers nineteen to ten, oh to three.

(31:07):
On the preseason. Here's Dave Canalis.

Speaker 18 (31:09):
All right, just proud of this group, Proud of the
camp that we threw together. You know, the effort every day.
It was a great group to coach. We know we
have a lot of hard decisions to make, you know,
coming in the morning, and you know, I just I
just wanted to say that first and foremost, I think
just the energy, the excitement, you know, the culture that
we're building here, the brand of football that we're learning

(31:30):
to piece together and play with. Just really proud of.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
The way the guys battled.

Speaker 18 (31:35):
We have fifty five guys up. I mean, guys are
out there, you know, on every special teams unit you
can think of, playing offense, defense, and so I'm just
really proud of the way the guys stepped up today
and got it done.

Speaker 6 (31:45):
All right. So two weeks from Sunday is opening day
for the Panthers at Jacksonville. We bring on the WBT
hotline and for Zoke today it is will pe Logic
from WFNZ and of course Charlotte f C. How you
doing Will, Good morning Bug, Good morning Beth.

Speaker 12 (32:01):
But very is doing our own on this.

Speaker 19 (32:03):
Fraye.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
Oh look at you using Frye.

Speaker 6 (32:05):
Look at him. He's on brand.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
He is on brand. Are you feeling fry yea ish?
After last night's game, I.

Speaker 19 (32:14):
Will say I'm happy for the real football to start.
Put it that way. The preseason has taken on a
bit of a different lens. I think over the last
couple of years, and it's not just a Panthers. I
think a lot of teams are trying to figure out
just what is beneficial and how much is enough when
it comes to using starters. We've seen a couple of,

(32:34):
you know, major injuries during the preseason, thankfully not for Carolina,
but across the league, and I think teams are trying
to figure out, Okay, how can we get through this
with the right amount of work, but also not mortgage
people who we feel like are going to be key contributors.
So a lot of that stuff now happens, you know,
in the joint practices, and fortunately for Carolina it's been
behind closed doors, so people like the media are the

(32:57):
only ones have been able to see things like that.
I was making a oak to Kyle Bailey on our
area yesterday. It almost feels like with these joint practices,
we've turned them into the old FDR fireside chats, where
you know, let me tell you about Bryce Young's joint
practice against the New York Jets last year, or the
Cleveland Browns this year, or let me tell you how
they played against the Houston Texans in a joint practice

(33:19):
that did not resemble anything like the preseason game that
was last weekend which we all I know, would rather forget.
So I think again, there's intriguing positional battles and also
it's intriguing storylines. But I think the best part about
it is they got out of the August portion of
the training camp situation somewhat healthy going into the first

(33:40):
game of the regular season two weeks from Sunday.

Speaker 6 (33:42):
So the roster deadline of fifty three is four pm
on Tuesday. What's the most burning question you have about
what's going to happen there?

Speaker 19 (33:52):
How many wide receivers did the Carolina Panthers carry? And
I think that's kind of been the question for the
beginning of camp, all the way till now and before
the game. The intriguing part about this was kind of
who did not play, because it gave you a sense
of Okay, who do you think is safe and who
do you think isn't safe. The three receivers that I
think did play that have a lot of people questioning

(34:13):
David Moore, Hunter renfro and Jimmy Horn Junior, the rookie
out of Colorado. Many people believe that the final roster
spot from the wide receiver position could come between those three,
depending on how many they carry. If they carry six,
only one of those dudes makes the roster. If they
carry seven, two of those three could. But the biggest
I think, what I would call ace in the hole,

(34:36):
is Bryson Tremaine, who had really kind of been a
big riser. And one of the things Dave can Allison
said was, if you're gonna play on this team at
the down part of the roster, you're gonna have to
play on special teams. And Bryson Tremaine has become a
very good special teams player. He's also caught a lot
of passes when some of the twos and threes are
in there, so you feel like he could be somebody
who was actually pretty safe as a post to somebody

(34:57):
who they might have tried to sneak on the practice squad.
There is conventional wisdom that they might try to do
the same thing there with Jimmy Horn, trying to sneak
him on the practice squad on a kind of back
end deal. But at the same point in time, you
don't usually do that to players that you draft, more
so the undrafted guys.

Speaker 12 (35:13):
That's an intriguing spot.

Speaker 19 (35:14):
I do also wonder how they might add to the
defense with other teams cut down players because of a
couple of positions that are definitely lacking some depth, particularly
linebacker and secondary. Would not be shocked to see the
Panthers very active on the Louis wire. And the other
big question too is whether or not Adam Thielen gets traded.
There has been a lot of rumors over the course
the last couple of days, particularly involving his former team

(35:37):
in Minnesota, who is in need of some wide receiver
help and a lot of people up they are very
interested in the feeling reunion. Panthers might look for a
pick or potentially some defensive help in that route as well,
but still nothing doing yet on that front.

Speaker 6 (35:50):
And one final thing, we'll switch gears for a minute
and go to Sunday night because the Charlotte FC is
in action at Bank of America Stadium against New York
on Sunday night, and you, of course are the voice
of Charlotte FC, and what's going on on that front
that we should know.

Speaker 19 (36:05):
Very intriguing contest, both just based on the fact that
Charlott f C is still in a playoff hunt despite
a six game season long win streak club history long
and also the longest of any team in the league
this year, but they're playing a Red Bulls team. They've
had a lot of trouble, with just one win in
their history against Red Bulls. Very very pesky team, high pressing,

(36:25):
very aerial. So we'll see whether or not Charlo enough
c can stay up to the physicality. It's always a
blood back when you play Red Bulls. So very very
hotly contested contest. Charlotte's got four of their finals seven
games at home. They need this one in order to
keep pace with the rest of the playoff hopefuls and
also to keep themselves out of a very very tight
Eastern Conference. There is as much positional depth between third

(36:50):
and tenth as opposed to where Charlotte is in seventh
to the top of the Eastern Conference. That's how tightly
wound it is. So there's a lot of moving and
shaking that could happen here over the next month or
so before we get the decision day October of the eighteenth.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
Hey, and sticking with soccer, the Carolina Ascent has their
opening match on the sixth, two weeks from Stay.

Speaker 19 (37:10):
Excited, very very excited for them. You know, a real tough,
heartbreaking and of their season.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
It was a bad call. It was a bad call,
it was off sides.

Speaker 7 (37:21):
I'm with you.

Speaker 19 (37:22):
I wasn't there in person because we had a con well,
Beth was. I know Beth was, and many people who
I knew were there because again, you know, it didn't
necessarily look like it on the TV copy, but I
know people who were there, like you and others who
have told me, yeah, the looks were very deceiving and
unfortunate for the assent. But some bring infusion for them

(37:43):
this year, and very much looking forward to seeing what
they can do for you two.

Speaker 6 (37:46):
I love bringing Will on the show and then sitting
back and just hearing Will and Beth talk Soccer's the
best part.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
Of my day.

Speaker 6 (37:53):
Hey man, We appreciate it, and thanks for the update,
and we'll be listening to you on wfn Z on
Sunday night for the Charlotte FC game. Will po Logic.
Have a great weekend.

Speaker 7 (38:03):
You guys.

Speaker 19 (38:03):
Those with a spile on my face, thank you.

Speaker 6 (38:05):
Take care, buddy.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
This is Good Morning Beat.

Speaker 6 (38:12):
Seven twenty one on WBT on your Friday morning. Don't
forget coming up at seven fifty. Tell us something good,
seven oh four five, sevenh eleven ten. Text line is
open for you. Tell us something good that happened to
you or you heard about this week. Just kind of
putting the Friday vibes into the weekend, and this was
had a tremendous response last week. We can call the

(38:34):
show too. We love getting phone calls. Seven point fifty.
We will do this right now. Let's go to the
WBT hotline and welcome back to the show. Congressman Mark Harris,
who joins us once a week, a US congressman from
District number eight, and Congressman, hope you're doing okay.

Speaker 8 (38:50):
Well, I'm doing great, bow and bet it's great to
be with you this morning.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
Tell us something good, Congressman Harris.

Speaker 8 (38:57):
Man that, first of all, congratulations on that segment. That
is an awesome segment. And I was thinking about that
this morning as I was listening a little earlier. I've
just seen all kinds of great things this week. We're
still in district, as you know, throughout the month of August,
and it has given me some great opportunities. And even
Monday night, I was part of a group of actually

(39:19):
attended an event for North Carolina Baptist on Mission out
at Hopewell church in Union County and learned there that
just all the work that's continuing to go on in
western North Carolina following the flood, and they reported I
think four hundred and sixty five families that have been

(39:39):
able to get back in their home from the work
that's been going on just in twenty twenty five so far.
So they're working around the clock. They're going to extend
it out for several more years, the work they're doing,
and that was just that was exciting to hear and
see the work from disaster recovery that's going on. So

(40:02):
that was great news to me.

Speaker 6 (40:04):
So there it is. Congressman Harris has started the segment
a little bit early here, nothing wrong with that, but
he has thrown the first one out there, so we're
expecting everybody else to follow suit. Now, let's find out
how much good you thought was done this week at
the White House. We have not talked to you since
President Trump, of course, we actually haven't talked to you
since the summit on Friday afternoon a week ago. But

(40:26):
then Monday, of course, Vladimir Zelenski, the President of Ukraine
and a contingent of other European leaders meeting there was,
what's your takeaway on what you saw play out there
and where it goes from here.

Speaker 8 (40:41):
Well, I have to say from everything that started a
week ago, as you said, from the talks that happened
there in Alaska, to the fact that the President was
able to just rapidly, within about seventy two hours put
together a meeting that we watched on Monday. That was
fascinating to see how just the mere logistics that that

(41:03):
kind of meeting was put together, and the way that
meeting was handled, seeing all those European leaders that were
coming there to the White House, the phone calls that
were going back and forth with Putin. I ended Monday
greatly encouraged that we were headed in the right direction.

(41:24):
I wish I could say I was as encouraged today
as I was on Monday. But obviously Putin is continuing
to carry on this war at a rapid rate, and
I think President Trump and everybody that is watching this,
observing this is beginning to question seriously whether or not

(41:48):
Putin has any interest in ending this war. And I
think that, you know, President Trump saw an opportunity, I
felt like after last Friday in Alaska, and he saw
that opportunity maybe to get to peace and pulled everything
together quickly for Monday. I thought President Zelensky handled himself well.

(42:09):
I thought everybody it was just a great, great event
on Monday. But then with the things that have happened,
I think there's a lot of questions if we're going
to have to move to the more severe consequences that
President Trump has said would result if Russia did not
come to the table.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
Yeah, I think you're right about Putin is now. I mean,
he really has quite often shown his true colors. But
I think the fact that he's had multiple attacks this week,
even on the same day as the meeting with Zelensky,
but yesterday it felt targeted. And I don't know if
it felt this way to you that the attack on

(42:52):
Ukraine hit an American factory. Does that feel targeted? Does
it feel like a sign that he's or something that
he's sending to the United States for trying to broker peace.
I'm frustrated with him as well.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
Well.

Speaker 8 (43:07):
I think you're raising a great question, Beth, and I
think that all of us that certainly heightened the concern
level when he went to that extent of targeting what
appeared to be a target of a US entity, and
I think it has raised eyebrows and I think that
again people are in the administration are having those conversations

(43:33):
even now of what might need to be the next move.

Speaker 6 (43:37):
Yeah, the next move is going to be fascinating, because,
like you say, after Monday, President Trump came out of
that and got pretty high marks with just the very
feet of having all those people assembled at the same time.
And basically we were talking to Mick mlveaghy about this.
I think one of the words of the day was
measured across the board with these discussions. But with each

(43:59):
day that good that goes on here and we see
what's happening continues to happen in Russia between the Russians
and the Ukrainians, you start to wonder, Okay, well, at
some point here President Trump's got to make the next
chess move and what's that going to be?

Speaker 8 (44:16):
Yeah, And I really don't know exactly what it will
ultimately be. But I immediately harken back to the point
that he made when all this started, that there would
be consequences on Russia. And I mean, we all know
that Russian economy is shaky at best, and we also
know that President Trump has not been afraid to use

(44:39):
the economic power of the United States and using his
leverage with other countries that would work. I mean, he's
certainly dealt with India with a tariff because of their
continue trade with Russia. And there's just some things that
I think that he's got that he's going to be
able to use the phrase holy the Cards. I think

(45:01):
that there are some economic cards that the President definitely
holds that he is not wanting to have to play,
but is willing to play should that come to pass.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
This is Good Morning.

Speaker 6 (45:13):
BET seven six on WBT Friday, August twenty second. We
are talking to US Congressman Mark Harris as we always
do to close out the week political headlines in DC
and beyond. And I know right now it's it's a
constituent months. It as some might call it, it's you know,

(45:35):
Congress is not in session, so Congressman Harris is back
home for most of this month. But I want to
talk about something that's happening in Washington, and you know
you're you're there for a lot of the year, Congressman Harris.
President Trump recently, of course, has been focusing a lot
of his attention on cleaning up crime in d C
and then perhaps extending that out to other places other
cities in the country. He posted on truth Social within

(45:59):
the last few hours. He says, Washington, d C is
safe again. The crowds are coming back, the spirit is high,
and our DC National Guard and police are doing a
fantastic job. They are out in force and not playing games.
As bad as it sounds to say, there were no
murders this week for the first time in memory. Mayor
Muriel Bowser most immediately stopped giving false and highly inaccurate

(46:21):
crime figures or bad things will happen, including a complete
and total federal takeover of the city. Washington, d C
will soon be great again, having you know, being someone
who who spends, like I said, a lot of your
year there. What are your thoughts on what he's focusing
on here?

Speaker 8 (46:38):
Well, I think the president certainly saw the need. I mean,
I had shared with some folks this week that when
I think about my first eight months being in Washington
and just the things that we have witnessed from May
of last year of this year, we were having an
all nighter and suddenly heard all these sirens going and

(46:59):
would later find out that two young people from the
Israeli embassy at a gathering just about a mile from
the capitol had been mowed down in cold blood. And
then the next month, one of my colleagues had an
intern that was in an area that was considered relatively
safe and he found himself in the wrong place at

(47:20):
the wrong time and hit by crossfire, and his parents
received the call that he had been killed just in
a bad, bad situation, bad incident. And then of course
we all watched the news as the young man that
had worked for Doge was trying to prevent a carjacking
just a couple of weeks ago and got beaten to
a pulp. I think the President saw all these things
and said, enough is enough, and if there's anywhere that

(47:44):
we're going to clean up or need to clean up,
it needs to be our nation's capital.

Speaker 7 (47:49):
And they've done just that.

Speaker 8 (47:51):
And one of the things had or seen some statistics
just yesterday since they'd been there, over the last week
and a half or whatever. The robberies are down forty
six percent, carjackings are down eighty three percent. Violent crime
overall is down twenty two percent. Just since these different
national guard from various states have shown up and others

(48:14):
to really help the police. And you even had the
president of the union, if you will, of the police
department there in Washington that I've heard on numerous occasions
talking about that they welcomed the help and they needed
the help and has had to take place. So I
certainly think that it's moving in the right direction, and

(48:38):
people do want to feel safe. I had that when
I'm out in the district that you know, I want
to come to Washington, but is it really safe or
how have you felt in your time up there. I
think that folks are going to get some more confidence
and listen, President Trump said he was going to be
a law and order president and that he was going
to support the police. He was going to help them

(48:59):
get done what they need to get done. And I
think if you talked to law enforcement, from my end
of it, they are welcoming this kind of support, in
this kind of encouragement.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
In that post on truth Social President Trump mentioned that
the crime statistics that are out there that people have
been talking about with Washington DC are wrong. I think
one of the statistics that's been often used is that
when the National Guard was sent in, that crime was
already down at thirty percent. Why do you believe that
those numbers are wrong? And are the numbers wrong about

(49:33):
the other cities across the United States? For example, right now,
according to statistics, Memphis, Tennessee, has the highest per capita
crime rate in the nation. And do you think that
the National Guard will be sent to Memphis to deal
with crime?

Speaker 8 (49:50):
I don't know that they're going to be sent into
other places at this point that I can't really speak to.
I don't have knowledge of that here that very man
touched on earlier, that is kind of the head of
the police union did talk about the fact that the
way there had been a concerted effort, it appeared to

(50:13):
how crimes were being reported and it might have actually
been a shooting that took place, and then when they
went to write the report on it, they were instructed
to classify it in a different way and report it
in a different way, and that does begin to skew
your statistics and you don't get a true picture of

(50:35):
what's actually happening. And so, oh my goodness, I mean,
it just reminds us that corruption at every level is
something that has got to be taken seriously, even down
to the reporting of various crimes. How we get our
statistics is extremely important, So that's how I understand those

(50:55):
numbers have been manipulated in the past. If there's a
police department that somehow wanted to improve their appearances are getting.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
Are we getting accurate statistics now with the introduction of
the National Guard? How are we getting the reporting now
with the new statistics of crime and carjackings being down, Well.

Speaker 8 (51:16):
That's a great question as well. I'm not sure how
they are presenting these particular statistics. But since this started,
the statistics that I quoted earlier of robberies being down
forty six percent, carjackings, he can't really change a carjacking figure,
I guess, or a way that that's reported, and violent

(51:37):
crimes overall down twenty two percent. It's a great question
how those things are being reported and are they being
done at face value.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
Right in cities around you and reported as the crime
are across the nation. Are they being reported accurately? I
think that's probably a question on everybody's minds right.

Speaker 8 (51:55):
Exactly exactly, and I think those questions need to be
asked of your local EF. I mean, at the end
of the day, whether it's Memphis or wherever. I think
people have got to get the message that we've got
municipal elections that are coming up right here in November.
People have got to ask themselves about the people that
they're electing to these offices. It's been these soft on

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crime leadership teams that have been taking office in our
cities across this country that have really brought us this
situation that we're in. And I think, listen, it's been
said many times before, it's going to be true again.
Elections do matter, and the people you put in leadership
in your city make a difference, and they've got to

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We've got to get away from these soft on crime
approaches and get more serious about enforcement.

Speaker 6 (52:47):
Congressman Mark Harris joins us every Friday here on WBT,
sometimes in Charlotte, sometimes in DC, depending on whether Congress
is in session. We appreciate your time and hope you
have a great weekend.

Speaker 8 (52:59):
Hey tell you this real quick before we go. Everywhere
I'm going now people are telling me I hear you
on Bowen Beth on Friday morning, they love you. I
was out in Unionville last night at a concert. Here's
the village of Green Band, and I had people come
up to me last night and they said, are you
going to be on in the morning. I said, as
far as I know, I'm going to be on it

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in the morning. So we listen every week. So when
you're looking at good news, you guys are bringing the
good news to this area.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
Ah, that thrills our hearts. Congressman, thank you, sir.

Speaker 6 (53:30):
We'll talk to you later.

Speaker 20 (53:32):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
WBT breaking news.

Speaker 6 (53:34):
The FBI is searching the Maryland home of former Trump
administration national security advisor John Bolton an investigation into the
handling of classified documents. We're getting this information. We're seeing
some video from the scene right now. We don't have
a whole lot more than that, but stay with WBT
throughout the day and moments away. We have the news

(53:56):
coming up at the top of the hour. We'll tell
you what we know as we get it. But again,
the FBI searching the home of former Trump administration national
security advisor John Bolton.

Speaker 1 (54:06):
It's a familiar scene. Suddenly, in the past few years,
we saw the FBI do this at President Donald Trump's
residence at mar A Lago. We saw this happen with
President Biden's residents and classified documents seems to be the
part of the conversation that's similar.

Speaker 6 (54:23):
More coming up at the top of the hour with
Mark Garrison now at seven fifty two. My request from
our friend Chuck, Wow, it's time to find out what
good happened to you this week? What do you want
the world to know? Over the fifty thousand watts as
we head into what's hopefully going to be a great weekend, give.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
Us a call seven O four five seven oho eleven ten.
We want to chat with you, but you've already been
texting us on our text line also seven oh four
five seven oh eleven ten driven by Liberty Buick GMC Ashton.
Ashton has already texted this morning and said it's my
son's eighth birthday today. He didn't send his son's name,
but happy eighth birthday, Ashton Son. He did send a

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picture though, of Ashton and what a qutie Patuti. He's
wearing a Krispy Kream hat, yes, with a box of
donuts in front of him and a happy birthday.

Speaker 6 (55:15):
Sign behind the reason do I want to do this
to ask?

Speaker 3 (55:19):
Yes?

Speaker 21 (55:20):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (55:20):
You thinks play your dad's birthday?

Speaker 6 (55:22):
This is for you, Ah. The only way to celebrate
a birthday on this show. I have to be careful
here because as we read texts, you know what happens
to me all the time.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
Well, here, while you're looking, I'm.

Speaker 6 (55:40):
Just reinforcing your texts.

Speaker 3 (55:42):
Beth.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
Do you want to read Ashton's his son's having an
eighth birthday?

Speaker 8 (55:45):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (55:45):
Really, you're kidding me.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
No, I'm just kidding all right, as you were.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
Bill, Bill, this is one of my favorite texts that
we've gotten this morning too. Although I'm very happy for
Ashton's son's eighth birthday, but Bill, Bill said, good news.
I am returning to work after my second cataract eye surgery,
and I am seeing the world through thirty year old eyes.
What a beautiful city we live in. How great is

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it that?

Speaker 3 (56:12):
Bill?

Speaker 6 (56:13):
That's awesome? Congratulations Bill, so Scott says my grass is
green in mid August for the first time in twenty years.
Hashtag rain. It's true.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
Hey, look, find the positive side of all the rain
we've been getting.

Speaker 6 (56:26):
Let's go to the phone line here seven oh four, five,
seven oh eleven, ten as people are calling to tell
us something good on a Friday. Brian online too, Brian,
You're on WBT.

Speaker 12 (56:38):
HI, good morning. How's everybody, Hey, good man, we're great.
How are you doing great? Doing great? Want to give
a shout out to my parents. This is a great thing.
My parents, as of today have been married for seventy
one years.

Speaker 22 (56:55):
Hard to even imagine.

Speaker 12 (56:56):
So shout out to RL and Patsy Ingold.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
Oh, RL and Patsy Ingold. Call us and tell us
your secret seventy one years.

Speaker 12 (57:06):
Hey, I think the secret is stubbornness. I mean, but
you know, to get a front row seat to see that.
I mean, there's there's not that many people this day
and age that are going to be able to lay
claim to that, you know. So I'm proud of my
parents for sticking it out and.

Speaker 16 (57:23):
For doing the deal.

Speaker 12 (57:25):
You know, it's quite a nice thing.

Speaker 1 (57:27):
To see doing the deal, doing the deed getting you here.

Speaker 6 (57:31):
Yeah, the carric right, it's the gift that keeps on
giving for seven decades. All right, Brian, thanks man, love it.
Good call we have, Craig says, A good thing. I
just happened to notice again for the millionth time, that
I'm married to a beautiful woman that's from Craig and Belmonte.

Speaker 1 (57:50):
You know what I'm telling you. The men in Belmont
are just Cohen and Craig talking about their beautiful wives.
I love the men in Belmont, we love all of you.

Speaker 6 (57:58):
On a Friday, as Boomer would say, tell us something good,
let's go to Rob online number one at seven four, five,
seven eleven ten. Hey Rob, how you doing man?

Speaker 20 (58:11):
Good morning bo and Beth. So I've got three of them,
but two of them are quick and one to follow up. Okay,
So the two new ones are.

Speaker 19 (58:19):
That my daughter Reagan, she started nursing school.

Speaker 20 (58:22):
Last Monday, and my son Gavin, who is twenty one
and a half years old, just get closed on his
first house on Monday. So nice, So proud of both
of those kids. And then the follow up is from
from me. So last week I caught in. I said
that I quit drinking on Wednesday, and then I was
titting on starting to get on Friday. After some soul

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searching and some internal debate, I want to report that
I successfully defeated my inner quitter and had a blast
Friday night. And anyone, anyone who is a fan of
u uh Blazing Saddles can jump in here if you
want to.

Speaker 12 (59:04):
Because dare I say, come on now? There there?

Speaker 20 (59:10):
I ended up being a winner.

Speaker 16 (59:12):
Okay, okay, I say, oh, you should have jumped.

Speaker 6 (59:16):
In here any anytime. Somebody precedes it by saying blazing saddles.
I have to be careful.

Speaker 3 (59:21):
You know this, right?

Speaker 2 (59:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (59:23):
All right, Rob, thank you man. We appreciate it. Bernie
doesn't know this. But we have a special way. We're
gonna end. Tell me something good.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
Do you know what it is?

Speaker 6 (59:32):
Uh huh, it's this. I gotta say it.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
What'sn't there?

Speaker 12 (59:39):
You go?

Speaker 6 (59:39):
We'll keep peppering him in seven oh four five, seven
eleven ten. Throughout the morning, news is coming up. We've
got Scott Paget coming up next hour on Humpy Wheeler,
Charlotte's most Beloved John Hancock news Quiz coming up next hour,
as well as we roll on on a Friday Yay
on WBT.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
I'm a shoe? Is anyone?

Speaker 15 (01:00:01):
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 posses I can.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
From News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three double bet.

Speaker 19 (01:00:11):
I screw up all the time, but that is being human,
and that's my greatest strength.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
This is good morning beat with both Thompson and Beth
Trout with this place is a mouth of business and
a mixed up work.

Speaker 6 (01:00:26):
Ah, yes, Jeff. Text of the Day, Jeff is speaking
my language, playing this right here.

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
A rare conditions this day and eight to reading good.
It's on the newsday book. Good morning, dovin condition of
the grand design some people see is even harder than that.
Well in there must be some magic clue.

Speaker 6 (01:00:51):
We're all marveling in here that I answered. Another text
on the text line, it's all a.

Speaker 23 (01:00:56):
Suit, it's a towel and dreams, real love still after they.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
Happen.

Speaker 6 (01:01:10):
You know, this is low key. That's what maybe maybe
the greatest theme song of any TV show ever. You know,
step by Step is also a good one. I mean,
Erkle is great and all, but the theme song is
what carried this show for me, and it's so on
point with what we're doing right now.

Speaker 14 (01:01:31):
It's the bat love damn.

Speaker 6 (01:01:35):
That's right, Jeff.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
Way to go, man.

Speaker 6 (01:01:38):
Text of the day. That's what we're doing, talking about
good things happening in your life heading into the weekend
on a Friday. Yay, as Boomer von Cannon would say,
and Jeff, just a few minutes ago, just texted, texted this.
It's a rare condition in this day and age to
read any good news on the newspaper.

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
Although it's from a theme song, it is a true thing.
So we're gonna change that. You may not be seeing
good news on the front page at your newspaper today,
but we're giving you some good news on our front page.

Speaker 6 (01:02:13):
Let's go to seven oh four, five, seven eleven ten,
the hot line. The text and the hot line open
to you for this each week, which we have made
a thing because you have decided it's a thing. Hey,
Mike on line three, he's been holding what's going on?

Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
Mike?

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
Good morning, Bonn back, Good morning Mike.

Speaker 12 (01:02:33):
So woke up in Monroe this morning.

Speaker 20 (01:02:38):
I was head to Wilmington to help a friend and uh,
I got up late. My wife was snoring, the.

Speaker 7 (01:02:49):
Dogs were in the bed with me.

Speaker 16 (01:02:50):
I slept like a prestol, got up out of bed,
got dressed, Thret's on the road, found out it's rain
and had to drive the Huntersville because my daughter.

Speaker 7 (01:03:00):
Is away and I have to come up here and
see her dogs for her this morning. And the one
dog gobbled his food down and I'm still waiting for
the other dog to.

Speaker 6 (01:03:11):
Mike.

Speaker 13 (01:03:12):
I supposed to be in.

Speaker 6 (01:03:12):
Wilmington by like nine or tens Mike till noon, Mike.
Mike is a clam Mike. We love you, Mike. But
the segment is not tell us everything you did for
the day. It's tell us something good, Mike d.

Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
Mike said he's happy as a clan.

Speaker 12 (01:03:30):
I was waiting on the phone for a long time.

Speaker 6 (01:03:34):
So what you're saying is the amount of time that
you wait is how much time you actually get on
the air.

Speaker 7 (01:03:38):
Is that right?

Speaker 8 (01:03:39):
Well?

Speaker 7 (01:03:39):
I thought a more stuffect.

Speaker 6 (01:03:43):
I'm just messing with you, Mike.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
It's because we love you talked me in a while.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (01:03:47):
Lots happened.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
Since everything's good.

Speaker 12 (01:03:50):
I woke up this morning and I'm breathing and smiling.

Speaker 7 (01:03:53):
Then I'm going to see the ocean sometimes.

Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
Oh there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
That's a good day, Mike.

Speaker 6 (01:03:58):
Well tell the ocean. We said, hell hello.

Speaker 7 (01:04:01):
I will often take a big sniff and smell that
ocean air, and you know, then head back to good
old Charlotte.

Speaker 6 (01:04:10):
All right, Mike, Well, we appreciate you calling in. We
appreciate you being out there. He's left something.

Speaker 12 (01:04:21):
Time.

Speaker 6 (01:04:23):
What else you got over there?

Speaker 1 (01:04:24):
Beth Well, Liz send us an awesome picture and this
text to our WBT text line seven oh four or
five seven oh eleven ten. She said, good morning. The
highlight of our families week with celebrating my parents' fiftieth
wedding anniversary. You might notice that they are dressed alike
this time. It's because we did a coordinated family portrait

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based on their wedding colors. But the interesting note is
that they always have dressed alike when they are going
to church or going to an event. With extremely rare exception,
they have done this every time they have gone somewhere
together their entired married life. And I bet you a
million bucks that's one of the reasons why they have

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made it fifty years. That's awesome.

Speaker 6 (01:05:08):
Liz tell us something good on a Friday.

Speaker 1 (01:05:15):
Adam, Adam Will the text are flying into us. Adam says,
good morning, Bo and Beth. My good news of the
day is that high school football starts today. It's the
best time of year.

Speaker 6 (01:05:29):
Go Burns, there you go, got the kickoff Classic at
Bank of America Stadium. Thank you, yes, go Burns.

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
Here we go.

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
All right, Oh, we've got billions more. I'll give you
one more. Gary says it's payday. Oh, it's a great
reason to celebrate Gary.

Speaker 6 (01:05:44):
Seven four five seven eleven ten. Fuck jeez, We'll continue
to sprinkle it in throughout the morning. We got to
Scott Padget going to join us coming up at eight
twenty here on Friday. Yay, I gotta say it was
a good Dame thirteen on WBT keeps.

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
Looking at me like, are you gonna read more? We
did just get a cool one bear really quickly. Jim
said that it's a really good day. He's trying to
get away from me. I love these so much.

Speaker 6 (01:06:12):
No, I was trying to get away from Mike.

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
Jen said something good. Even though I'm in northern Michigan,
I can still listen to Bo and Beth every morning
thanks to WBT dot com.

Speaker 6 (01:06:24):
There you go dedication seven O four five seven oh
eleven ten. Boomer von Cannon got to say it was
a good day.

Speaker 3 (01:06:32):
Yest Chock and con would saying tell me like you
like it.

Speaker 6 (01:06:36):
That's Chuck saying, I said you should play that song.
Can find it?

Speaker 3 (01:06:41):
Tell me something good? I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:45):
I love it, love stealth Bo. It's like it's just
the greatest way.

Speaker 6 (01:06:50):
Come on Mike knows I love him. Mike comes to
our events and we talk.

Speaker 3 (01:06:53):
We love Mike. I'm just messing with me. Somebody's going
to punch the needle.

Speaker 6 (01:06:56):
But I mean, come on you, it's not called tell
me everything that happened in your day.

Speaker 1 (01:07:02):
Hey, if everything's good, we want to hear it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:04):
Though.

Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
This is good morning, bet Son.

Speaker 14 (01:07:09):
That was some real racing out there. How'd you like
to become the new face.

Speaker 3 (01:07:13):
Of Dinah Coo.

Speaker 6 (01:07:17):
I can't stop playing this clip.

Speaker 14 (01:07:19):
But I didn't win lightning. There's a whole lot more
to racing than just winning.

Speaker 1 (01:07:24):
He was so rusty when he drove down the street
the buzzers.

Speaker 15 (01:07:31):
Thank you, mister Textbook. But these rusties guys over there
gave me my big break. I'm gonna stick with them.

Speaker 14 (01:07:40):
Well, I sure can't respect that still. You know, if
there's ever anything I can do for you, just let
me know.

Speaker 11 (01:07:49):
I sure appreciate that.

Speaker 7 (01:07:50):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:07:53):
Take twenty on WBT. That's the clip from the movie Cars.
All those years go Disney and Pixar, and they found
the spot for Texts aka Humpy Wheeler. Because no doubt
when they said who needs to be in this movie?

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They said Humpy Wheeler does because Humpy Wheeler is that
big a deal. And he is, and it says one
of the many ways people are paying tribute to him.
He passed away at the age of eighty six yesterday,
and we talked to Doug Rice on the show yesterday
as we were getting the news and as Beth and
I were talking about, I'll go, okay, how can we
further pay tribute to Humpy Wheeler? And who can we

(01:08:36):
talk to that could give us more perspective on the
man that he was. How about the former mayor of Concord,
good friend of the show, Scott Paget, is back with
us today and kind enough to come on and share
some remembrances. Good morning, sir, How are you today?

Speaker 7 (01:08:51):
I am great? How about y'all?

Speaker 3 (01:08:52):
We're great.

Speaker 6 (01:08:53):
We appreciate you being on and thinking about Humpy Wheeler today.

Speaker 7 (01:08:58):
I've had a lot of thoughts of Hunphy. We kept
calling each other, maybe every a few months, and I
had been probably six months since he called me in
and he told me when he had moved from Mountain
Allen Island Lake to his new home and Pat felt

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more comfortable there.

Speaker 24 (01:09:23):
He is.

Speaker 7 (01:09:23):
You know, I don't use this phrase about many people,
but when you say Elvis, we don't have to say Presley. Well,
that's the same.

Speaker 3 (01:09:33):
Thing about Hunting.

Speaker 7 (01:09:34):
Just He was known not just around here but in
the whole NASCAR world as probably, I think, undisputedly the
best promoter in the business. He thought of ideas. That
one he pulled right when I got elected, and I

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didn't know it was a prank. He had a car
out at Concord Mills Mall hanging on a wire from
a wrecord and it was a race car. Well, people
were slowing down, caused a terrible traffic jam, and uh,

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we were getting complaints and it was really out of
compliance with Arizona ordinance which he ordered. Knew that he didn't.
He just thought that would be a good idea too,
and it got a lot of publicity. Why is that
race car hanging on the back of the wrecker out there?
And I called him. He said, well, we're going to
get it down. You know, we're going to get it down.

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So what you need to get it down quicker? I'm
getting complaints about the traffic. Yeah, we're going to get
it down. So he waited at the last possible minute.
But the talk that that generated was just amazing. In
the pre race shows. My wife and I with Jay
Howard invented that thing along with up his idea that

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we're going to make uh the speedway, Uh, the show
here better than the rest of the races. So he
came up with the pre race show and one was
a circus and he always said, well the whole things
at circus would have a real circus. So there were
people walking on high wires over the crowd, and meanwhile

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in the midway there people were doing stunts. But the
drama of the you have to forgive me, I can't
think of words. You want to walking on the wire tightrope.

Speaker 3 (01:11:40):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:40):
Thank you, bet, thanks to thanks to you and your wife.

Speaker 7 (01:11:47):
My wife, my wife.

Speaker 8 (01:11:49):
But it was great.

Speaker 19 (01:11:53):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (01:11:54):
I've got a picture of uh when he decided to retire,
of my wife and Humpy and me.

Speaker 13 (01:12:04):
After the six.

Speaker 7 (01:12:06):
Hundred race, Daryl Walter won that and they have a
special event in there in the Speedway Club. We were
in suites and he said, well, come on in, and
I got to see the inside of what they do
after a race, all that celebration. He was also a
very well read person. He shared a book because most

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of us in the South in this area or scotch Irish.
And he had a great book written by a former senator,
can't remember his name, about the whole scotch Irish deal
and how we came down from Pennsylvania to the Carolinas.
And in two thousand and four we decided that we

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wanted to be an all American city. And that's a
stiff competition. You're compared to cities all over the United
States in the South. And it was a lot of work.
I bet you would know some of the people that
helped us on that. But we needed money because the
whole the thing was in Atlanta, and so we went

(01:13:13):
around asking banks and others for money. And I went
to Sea Humpy Dane and Honeycutt, and I went to
Sea Huppey in told me what it was about, and
he pledged a good amount of money that helped us.
And that shows that he realized that although it's named

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Charlotte Motor Speedway, it's in Concord, and he needed to
pay homage to us. And he was a part of
the community. He was over here speaking the Rotary Club
and other groups regularly, and you could always know we're
going to have the best attendance of the year. We
got Humpey wheel there because he had so many fans.

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Not quite like Elvis, but well he.

Speaker 1 (01:14:05):
Was our Elvis. He was NASCAR's Elvis in a way.
I described him Scott earlier. Every time that I interviewed
him or was around him at the speedway, and even
you know we we were there with him together at moments,
I described him as jolly. He was jolly in the
times that I that I had conversations with him, always
laughing and smiling and just easy, easy to talk to.

Speaker 7 (01:14:28):
That's well, said Beth. You got to get on radio,
you'd be could Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:14:32):
She laughed when she saw him in spite of herself.

Speaker 7 (01:14:38):
He was jolly.

Speaker 6 (01:14:42):
Well, listen, we got about I hate to cut this short.
We've got about thirty seconds, but I want to end
it by if you if you you knew him very well,
and a lot of people said a lot of things
about him. How do you think Humpy Wheeler would want
to be remembered. I mean, I think I think he
would love for us to be telling all these stories
because that's what he was about.

Speaker 3 (01:15:04):
He would he would Uh.

Speaker 7 (01:15:06):
There was a business side to the whole thing that
was very important. But he kept that in perspective and
he knew at the end of the day it was
all about entertainment and whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:15:19):
He could do.

Speaker 7 (01:15:20):
You know, he started pre ratios. He had bands, great
bands there, uh and well part of it, and of
course the military things were just outstanding.

Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (01:15:33):
He was the whole package.

Speaker 12 (01:15:35):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (01:15:36):
There'll never be another Humpy. And he was a local guy,
grew up in Belmont, so he understand understood racing from
the beginning to the end.

Speaker 6 (01:15:46):
Well you said it. I mean, the ability to think
beyond most anybody, these big ideas, but never forgot where
he came from.

Speaker 7 (01:15:54):
No, you know, he didn't know. He didn't.

Speaker 6 (01:15:57):
Well, look, we appreciate you calling in and I hope
you're doing well and uh hope to talk to you
again soon.

Speaker 7 (01:16:03):
Well I'll bet everybody that's anybody will be at his
funeral at that.

Speaker 6 (01:16:08):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 (01:16:09):
Life well lived.

Speaker 6 (01:16:11):
Well, thank you, Scott, We appreciate it, sir.

Speaker 7 (01:16:13):
Y'all have a nice weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:16:16):
This is good morning, beauty, all right, can't be wrong yet.
There you go.

Speaker 6 (01:16:25):
Friday news quiz. But it seems like so so long
ago that Boomer had that four game winning streak. I
know some young fellow one last week who.

Speaker 1 (01:16:34):
Was actually actually markets two in a rowbo Is it really?

Speaker 14 (01:16:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:16:39):
Whoa boomer? Yes, all right, you got to bring it
this morning. Boomers like, hey, I'm here, right right here,
all right, Well here we go today? Is national two
fairy days? True or faults?

Speaker 17 (01:16:58):
In ancient cultures, if a child lost his or her teeth,
your parents would burn them to ward off evil spirits.

Speaker 3 (01:17:05):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (01:17:05):
True or false?

Speaker 3 (01:17:06):
That escalated?

Speaker 6 (01:17:07):
I did not expect burn. Uh sure, I'm gonna go false.

Speaker 1 (01:17:11):
I'm gonna go true.

Speaker 6 (01:17:12):
I'm gonna go true too, Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:17:14):
True? Yes?

Speaker 6 (01:17:15):
Is that everybody?

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
False?

Speaker 6 (01:17:17):
It is true?

Speaker 13 (01:17:18):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:17:19):
Sorry?

Speaker 6 (01:17:19):
Both Bernie burn those two first burn? My name is
Bernie's now.

Speaker 17 (01:17:24):
According to the Dental Care Alliance, which state pays kids
the most from the tooth fairy Hawaii, Delaware are North Carolina.

Speaker 6 (01:17:38):
It's got to be Delaware, right.

Speaker 1 (01:17:41):
Hey, we're in Delaware.

Speaker 6 (01:17:43):
There's nothing better to do there. Pay your kids for
losing to some money?

Speaker 3 (01:17:47):
Will Delaware?

Speaker 6 (01:17:48):
I think it's North Carolina. I'm gonna go with n
C two.

Speaker 3 (01:17:50):
I got North Carolina.

Speaker 1 (01:17:51):
Yes, sir, let's say North Carolina. I think we've got
some great teeth in this state.

Speaker 3 (01:17:56):
Yeah, it depends.

Speaker 6 (01:17:57):
I feel a commercial coming on teeth. Did Steve wan
on this y?

Speaker 3 (01:18:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:18:03):
Delaware.

Speaker 17 (01:18:03):
The answer is Delaware eight dollars and ninety one cents
on average.

Speaker 6 (01:18:09):
Now.

Speaker 17 (01:18:09):
North Carolina is number twenty on the list with a
payout of five bucks. South Carolina is number seventeen with
paying the kids five dollars and fourteen.

Speaker 1 (01:18:17):
Cents eight dollars for a tooth. My pears gave me
a quarter.

Speaker 6 (01:18:20):
That's what I got. I always got a quarter.

Speaker 1 (01:18:21):
Quarter or fifty cent piece if I was good.

Speaker 3 (01:18:23):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 6 (01:18:25):
So my dad said, good job, son.

Speaker 1 (01:18:28):
The way to lose that too, let's put it in
a jar.

Speaker 17 (01:18:33):
A couple of questions here about our friend Humpy Wheeler,
who died yesterday considered the pet barnum of Nascar. What
business did Humpy start in nineteen forty nine when he
was thirteen years old recruiting paper boys for the Charlotte Observer,
a bicycle repair shop or patching car tires for a dollar.

Speaker 6 (01:18:57):
I'll go with see, I'm thinking by repair. I think
it's the paper boy one, hey, piper boy.

Speaker 17 (01:19:03):
I think it's bike repair that everybody, Yeah, it's bike repair.
Bicycle repair shop and Belmont. Not only that, he also
organized team bicycle races that paid prize money.

Speaker 6 (01:19:20):
How fun isn't that cool?

Speaker 2 (01:19:21):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:19:23):
All right?

Speaker 6 (01:19:23):
True or false?

Speaker 17 (01:19:24):
Humpy once said that the four most useless words in
racing are gentlemen, start your engines.

Speaker 6 (01:19:32):
True or false. It's got to be false.

Speaker 9 (01:19:36):
I mean, if it were true, it makes sense. I mean,
you're going to have to start your engines. I'm going true.

Speaker 1 (01:19:44):
I'm gonna say true as well it is false.

Speaker 6 (01:19:51):
All right, we got one more here.

Speaker 17 (01:19:53):
Right after Dale Earnhardt died by crashing into the wall
in Daytona, Humpy Wheeler created a protect device called the
Humpy Bumper, Humpy wall protector, or the Humpy harness, which
one go with the harness.

Speaker 1 (01:20:10):
Harness, the humpy harnesses.

Speaker 6 (01:20:12):
Yep, harness, sure, because everybody else has and you're all wrong.
It was the bumper was the humpy bumper.

Speaker 2 (01:20:20):
It was high.

Speaker 17 (01:20:22):
It was a high impact bumper. I actually covered the
demonstration he put together on it out at the speedway.

Speaker 6 (01:20:28):
It was amazing. But you know NASCAR never picked it up.
Wow wow, all.

Speaker 17 (01:20:36):
Right, let's see now, you know that's right McDonald's. You
guys were talking about that earlier and the creepy clown.
But they're also planning to lower prices for their low
quality of food.

Speaker 6 (01:20:49):
Which one of these? Which one of these?

Speaker 17 (01:20:52):
Are they actually considering a big Mac and McNugget combo
for eight bucks, two egg mcmuffins with hash bread and
espresso for six or buy one big breakfast, get another
one free.

Speaker 3 (01:21:06):
Which one?

Speaker 6 (01:21:06):
I think it's a bogo breakfast. I kind of do too.

Speaker 1 (01:21:09):
I think it's a big Mac and nuggets, because man,
that's that's that's their.

Speaker 6 (01:21:13):
Thing, Big macan niggets.

Speaker 1 (01:21:15):
My mustard I turned really southern sometimes.

Speaker 3 (01:21:21):
So I'll go with the pancakes.

Speaker 6 (01:21:22):
The bogo alright, is that everybody? Well, Sugar Beth is correct.

Speaker 17 (01:21:26):
It's a big Mac and McNugget combo for eight bucks
they're thinking about doing.

Speaker 6 (01:21:30):
It's a Beth and Steve face off. Was this hoober?
What was your guests on the McNuggets.

Speaker 3 (01:21:37):
Nuggets?

Speaker 6 (01:21:37):
So he got that, Oh, okay, don't cheat the speak
up there, don't.

Speaker 1 (01:21:41):
Cheat the boom Oh I thought it was okay, we
turn this up.

Speaker 3 (01:21:44):
Let's see why that.

Speaker 17 (01:21:46):
While we're on the food, a lot of news about
Cracker Barrel changing their logo, but What caused the chain
to lose five million dollars this year. Was it a
salmonella outbreak, menu changes, droppings, several favorites, or Donald Trump's tariffs.

Speaker 6 (01:22:04):
I'm gonna go with the menu changes.

Speaker 1 (01:22:06):
I'm gonna go with menu changes as well, because they
got rid of my chicken and rice. They have nuggets,
they have tenders.

Speaker 6 (01:22:14):
I'll go with the menu change, menu change. We're yeah,
we're all sticking together on this one. I guess you're
all wrong. No Trump tariffs.

Speaker 17 (01:22:23):
The tariffs cost Cracker Barrel five million dollars because the
trinkets in their gift shop are all from overseas.

Speaker 3 (01:22:29):
All the gifts Crystal, I.

Speaker 1 (01:22:32):
Was not thinking about the gift shop. It will snow globes.

Speaker 6 (01:22:37):
They have snow globes.

Speaker 1 (01:22:38):
They do Oh, they do it Christmas time. They have
beautiful snow globes.

Speaker 6 (01:22:42):
Every day of the year you can buy one of these.

Speaker 1 (01:22:43):
They light up play music.

Speaker 17 (01:22:48):
The TSA has been changed has been changing some security
rules at the airport. So which one of these is
not allowed on a plane live lobster, sharp, cowboy spurs
or cordless curling iron.

Speaker 6 (01:23:04):
Which one is not allowed with the cowboy spurs it's
gotta be the curling irons. Yeah, I think the curling iron.

Speaker 1 (01:23:11):
Buttane gas cordless curling iron.

Speaker 6 (01:23:15):
Have we heard from everybody?

Speaker 3 (01:23:16):
Yes?

Speaker 17 (01:23:17):
Oh okay, cordless curling irons. Yeah, because they've got the
gas cartridges with.

Speaker 1 (01:23:22):
Him buttane buttane gas mark.

Speaker 3 (01:23:25):
Oh okay?

Speaker 1 (01:23:26):
Is that crazy?

Speaker 6 (01:23:27):
Or you cook your nuggets? I used to cook cook
your hair.

Speaker 1 (01:23:31):
I used to cook my hair with one, that's for sure,
all right.

Speaker 17 (01:23:35):
In Croatia, a diver set a new world's record for
holding his breath in the sea. How long did he
hold it for? Fourteen minutes? Twenty one minutes or twenty
nine minutes?

Speaker 2 (01:23:47):
Googling movily Great, Googleing, movely, Google the movable.

Speaker 1 (01:23:51):
I'm gonna have to say fourteen because I feel like
you can't go longer than that.

Speaker 6 (01:23:57):
I think it's twenty nine. I think it's twenty one.

Speaker 3 (01:24:01):
I'm gonna lose anyway. I'm go go fourteen with Beth.

Speaker 6 (01:24:04):
Is that everybody?

Speaker 3 (01:24:04):
I'll go fourteen years?

Speaker 6 (01:24:06):
It's twenty nine?

Speaker 1 (01:24:07):
Now?

Speaker 5 (01:24:08):
How how?

Speaker 16 (01:24:11):
How I think he had a secret sark ventilating for Yes,
he did a lot of breathing of pure oxygen for
a couple of hours before he did the stump, but
that's the only tip they gave about how he may
have done it.

Speaker 6 (01:24:24):
Wow, it's twenty nine minutes. Can you believe that?

Speaker 1 (01:24:27):
No, No, I really can't.

Speaker 6 (01:24:29):
It's trust me.

Speaker 3 (01:24:30):
I never make that.

Speaker 1 (01:24:31):
I do trust you. You're the most trustworthy newsman in
the business.

Speaker 6 (01:24:34):
Well, I don't know about that, but anyway, let's see.

Speaker 17 (01:24:36):
Uh TikTok, a woman has gotten millions of views with
her twelve step program.

Speaker 6 (01:24:43):
What is she teaching?

Speaker 17 (01:24:45):
A plan to stop drinking, a plan to apply makeup,
or a plan to sell products online?

Speaker 2 (01:24:54):
Wow?

Speaker 9 (01:24:56):
TikTok makes me want to say a makeup, But I
think it's products.

Speaker 6 (01:25:00):
It's products too.

Speaker 3 (01:25:02):
I'll go with the makeup.

Speaker 1 (01:25:03):
I'm going with Boomer and saying makeup because the Lord
Almighty if it took twelve steps, oh, he never seen
me with that face?

Speaker 6 (01:25:12):
Nuggets nuggets burn?

Speaker 3 (01:25:18):
Did you weigh in?

Speaker 22 (01:25:19):
I'm gonna lose anyways, Mark, I'm just gonna pick a.
But even I was, I was searched for this audience.
Gonna pick a answers.

Speaker 6 (01:25:25):
Makeup.

Speaker 17 (01:25:27):
It is called and it's really weird. It's called tired
girl makeup. It's supposed to make you look sleepy and cute.

Speaker 1 (01:25:33):
Why would I want I already look sleepy. I could
do that with no steps at all.

Speaker 3 (01:25:38):
Yeah, I hear you.

Speaker 6 (01:25:39):
I have no idea. Who's who's gonna win this? No?
MEI Boomer? What was your guests on the last one?

Speaker 1 (01:25:45):
He said? Makeup?

Speaker 6 (01:25:45):
He said, all right, we'll do one more question and
then see if we're going to win her here? True
or false?

Speaker 17 (01:25:50):
As you know, Russia attacked an American factory in Ukraine
this week. The plant is known for making coffee machines.
Is that true or false?

Speaker 3 (01:25:59):
True? True? True, true, true? True?

Speaker 17 (01:26:02):
It is true, Dad, So that's where our coffee maker
came from. Huh, all right, do we have a winner?

Speaker 6 (01:26:09):
We have a tie? Oh you got a tie breaker there, Marty?
I think so, yes, I have a yes, I do.

Speaker 9 (01:26:17):
Okay, this will be between Beth Troutman and Boomer Volcano.

Speaker 1 (01:26:24):
Hey, good luck, buddy.

Speaker 6 (01:26:25):
Oh she didn't mean it, so she was dripping within sincerity.

Speaker 3 (01:26:31):
Step over here for a second.

Speaker 17 (01:26:34):
All right, Well, Wednesday, Wednesday of this week was World
Mosquito Day. India launched a campaign to combat which disease
from mosquitoes, malaria, dingay virus or chicken gunya.

Speaker 1 (01:26:51):
Nuggets. That's not me saying it is a replaying because.

Speaker 6 (01:26:56):
You sound like nuggets. We'll with malaria.

Speaker 1 (01:26:59):
I want to go with malaria too, but since you
said malaria, to make it different, I'll say the chicken
dungun gunya gunya.

Speaker 6 (01:27:09):
O time malaria.

Speaker 1 (01:27:13):
So Boomer won again again.

Speaker 6 (01:27:15):
All right, Boomer, he's back on top. Ladies and gentlemen,
Lady hook, way to go, Boomer. Congratulations here luck bro Yeah,
go get you some chicken gunya at McDonald's.

Speaker 1 (01:27:34):
We're getting niggets and hot mustard.

Speaker 3 (01:27:36):
Thank you.

Speaker 14 (01:27:37):
Mark.

Speaker 2 (01:27:37):
Yes, sir, this is good morning, Beatty.

Speaker 6 (01:27:44):
You know not enough time to be fair with another caller,
but we do have enough time to a couple more. Friday,
Frida yea, excuse me? Tell us something good, Beth.

Speaker 1 (01:27:57):
Frye good news. I wanted to share this text from Chris.
Chris said, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor in December.
On the seventh, I had my surgery, and on January
the eighth, I had the tumor taken out. It was
about the size of a tennis ball. I've had several
MRIs and visits, and I got a clean bill of
health from my doctor on Wednesday. They are going to

(01:28:20):
wean me off of my medicine and I do not
have to go back to the doctor for another year.
There you go, that is some good news on a Friday, Chris,
We're celebrating with you.

Speaker 6 (01:28:33):
Seven oh four, five, seven oh eleven ten. Here's a
one more bit of good news time, Charlotte. Most we
love of John Hancock in the House next hour, and
we have some breaking news regarding John Bolton.

Speaker 12 (01:28:47):
Mark.

Speaker 6 (01:28:47):
We'll have more momentarily, and then Nick Mulvaney's going to
join us for just a few right out of the
gate in the nine o'clock hours. Stay with us on WBT.

Speaker 19 (01:28:56):
Times.

Speaker 2 (01:28:58):
This is continuing co Rich on News Talk ele ninety
nine three WPT breaking news.

Speaker 6 (01:29:05):
That breaking news. Within the last hour. The FBI is
searching the Maryland home and Washington office of John Bolton,
who served in President Donald Trump's first administration as National
Security Advisor. This is part of an investigation into the
handling of classified information. According to sources familiar at the scene.
We're going to go to the WBT hotline right now

(01:29:27):
and bring on Mick mulvaney as he is watching this
story unfold. Former White House Chief of staff joins us
on Mondays, but every once in a while a Friday
cameo and we have some breaking news. Good morning, mister mulvaney, Mary,
mister Thompson, It's good to hear your voice. You're watching
this story play out, you know, John Bolton. Well, well,
what's your take on this?

Speaker 24 (01:29:47):
Yeah, some quick background by the way, just to sort
of set the context. John worked for me in the
White House when I was chief of Staff. I don't
care for him at all. Didn't care for m vandal
care form now, but I'll try and put that aside.
He's also a common to at NewsNation with me. We
don't do television together for obvious reasons, but we do
have those interconnections. Here's what I think is happening. When

(01:30:08):
Bolton left in twenty nineteen from the White House when
Trump dismissed him, he left with a tremendous amount of material,
boxes and boxes of yellow pads. John was a meticulous
note taker. I imagine he probably still is used to
take notes during meetings, after meetings, et cetera. And he
left with a huge amount of information and is the

(01:30:30):
chief of staff.

Speaker 19 (01:30:31):
This was relevant to me.

Speaker 24 (01:30:33):
I remember calling down to the White House Council's office saying, hey,
you know, is John allowed to take all of that stuff?
And we went back and forth several times, and the
White House Council ultimately said yet generally he is. I'm
not sure if that sat well with the President at
the time. It certainly didn't sit well with me, but
we put it aside, right, and we moved on. Now Bolton,

(01:30:56):
after we left the White House, Bolton wrote his book
than the Room where it happens. I guess he went
to go see Hamilton or something like that. And my understanding,
bo is how these books work is if you're going
to write anything, if you've been in a position like
that in the White House, and you're gonna write anything
that could even come close to being sensitive material material,

(01:31:16):
you have to run it by the n Essay, the
National Security Administration before you publish. So my guess is
it's an educated guess that John had to show that
to the Biden NSSA. And you heard at the top
of the hour some suggestion that this investigation actually began
during the Biden administration, that was put on hiatus per

(01:31:39):
Cash Hotel for political reasons and so forth. So my
guess is that's what this is about. It's about the
material that he would have taken with him when he
left the White House. A lot of the stuff you're
allowed to take, but some stuff you're not and includes
classified information. My guess is that's what this is about
this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:31:55):
So I'm as you can imagine, this story is already
getting politicized. If you know, FBI Director Cash Ptel said,
nobody is above the law. But then we're seeing talking
heads on, you know, different stations across different networks. A
former advisor to Joe Biden said that she believes this
is pure revenge and a poor use of the FBI resources.

(01:32:16):
Roger Stone posted on social media, who also worked for
President Trump. He said, good morning, John Bolton, how does
it feel to have your home rated at six o'clock
in the morning. And then, of course the conversations also
moving to the fact that Joe Biden was he documents
were found in his home that were classified. President Trump's

(01:32:40):
documents were found in his home when the FBI rated
his home rated mar A Lago a few years ago.
So I'm sure there are going to be a lot
of conversations surrounding other people who have had similar things
found in their homes and what ended up happening to them.

Speaker 24 (01:32:58):
Sure, it's going to be a fantastic litmus test for
anybody it'd be listening to this. You know, if you
if you're curious about this, if you're if you're if
you follow politics, ask yourself this. Were you okay with
a mar A Lago raid?

Speaker 8 (01:33:09):
Okay?

Speaker 24 (01:33:10):
If you were, you should probably be okay with this.
If you thought mar A Lago was politically motivated, you
might think this is politically motivated, but it really is
a wonderful example of equal application of the law. And
you have to decide for yourself whether or not you
have trust in the institutions or whether or not you
think everything is politically motivated. I don't think you can
have it both ways. I don't think you can say, well,

(01:33:31):
it was okay when it happened to Trump, but it's
not okay when it happens to Bolton, those types of things. Oh,
it was it's revenge now, but it wasn't revenge when
Trump got his got his home rated at mar A Lago.
Keep in mind John Bolton and I actually posted some
of this on Twitter this morning, some of the more
neutral stuff, but my guess is during the course of
the day, it's I can't already reach dots some news

(01:33:52):
nation to start pulling this. You're going to find that
dozens of times that John Bolton defended the FBI raid
on mar A Lago, and you know, it's sort of
hard to defend the FBI ran of Marlago and did
not defend this. So I think it's a fascinating sort
of opportunity for people to sort of sit back, do
some introspection and see how they feel about it, and
do they feel the same about mar Lago or even

(01:34:14):
about Joe Biden's garage as they do this, because it
looks like, objectively speaking, a very even application of the law.
So it's a great way to sort of learn something
about yourself and how you feel about politics.

Speaker 6 (01:34:29):
John Bolton, who served in President Trump's first administration, and
this guy as well, his chief of staff, former chief
of staff Mick mulvaney weighing in this morning as we're
learning this. You know, this is the early part of this.
We'll know a lot more, I'm sure by Monday, but Mick,
we appreciate you calling in on short notice.

Speaker 24 (01:34:45):
Dot you guys Monday.

Speaker 6 (01:34:46):
There he is Mick mulvaney and again after the search
of Bolton's home started. He was spotted earlier this morning
standing in the lobby of the Washington Building where he
has an office, and he was talking to two people
with FBI on their vests. Left a few minutes later
and apparently went upstairs. And obviously this is sort of
kind of kind of broken with much speed, yes, since

(01:35:10):
this all started, so so Bernie, with that in mind,
let's roll this, John.

Speaker 21 (01:35:20):
Keeping you in touch, all right, We got the breaking
news out of the way and in for a Friday,
as he always is as Charlotte's most beloved John Hancock
in the House.

Speaker 3 (01:35:31):
Although my question is more general.

Speaker 11 (01:35:34):
When you get fired or you quit a radio station,
they make you go through the indignity now of someone
following you down to your desk and make sure that
they don't you don't take anything that may be regarding
the business of the radio station or the ownership group,

(01:35:56):
or anyway that you take only what is yours.

Speaker 6 (01:36:00):
Why are government officials.

Speaker 11 (01:36:03):
Allowed to take sensitive I know it's as difficult within
the oriage of thumb drives and computers and so on
and so forth, but why are they allowed to take
sensitive information with them when they are no longer in office.

Speaker 1 (01:36:18):
I was just having that text conversation with one of
our listeners, Tom, who we were talking about the fact,
you know that Biden they found documents in Biden's home,
they found documents in Trump's home, And I said that,
I was like, it seems like they need a better
system of maintaining and hanging on to documents.

Speaker 11 (01:36:35):
Yeah, at this point, if I were to break into
Biden or Trump's house, I'd be looking for sensitive documents
before i'd be looking for money.

Speaker 3 (01:36:44):
Your jewels, they'd be worth more.

Speaker 11 (01:36:48):
So I don't know, to some extent, I don't understand
why you're advanced the courtesy to take things that are
considered to be top secret or whatever the classification would
be and have them in your home in the first place,
if you are no longer well, not even if you
are no longer regardless, why is this stuff in your residence?

Speaker 2 (01:37:12):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:37:13):
And how fascinating to just have that conversation with mcmlvaney,
who was chief of staff as Bolton was leaving, saying like, look,
should he be taking these notepads? And that he went
back and forth. He just said, you know, with the
White house counsel saying is it okay for him to
take some of this information with him? And I guess
it was even questionable maybe at the time.

Speaker 11 (01:37:32):
When this shows over today, I'm going to go over
and rifle Mulvaney's.

Speaker 3 (01:37:36):
House and see what he is.

Speaker 2 (01:37:38):
This is Good Morning, Betty with Bo Thompson and Beth Troudman,
News Talk eleven, ten, nine to nine three, WBT nine
twenty on your Friday Morning with Hancock and Beth and Bo.

Speaker 6 (01:37:55):
We'll keep tabs on the John Bolton story, bring you
any details we learn between now and ten am, of
course throughout the day here on WBT. But the big
breaking story yesterday at about this time, we were just
going into the bottom of the hour news and we
learned about the passing of Humpy Wheeler at the age
of eighty six. And we were lucky enough to talk

(01:38:16):
to Doug Rice, and we've talked to former Concord mayor
Scott Paget today and you've heard a lot of remembrances
in the last twenty four hours and you knew this
would be the case. I mean, Humpy Wheeler touched a
lot of people. I saw Keith Larson posted a couple
of old clips from his show last night, because I
know Humpy used to come in and studio with Keith

(01:38:36):
during his heyday here, and I know you have some
memories of Humpy over the years, because that's a guy
that you had to know when you came to Charlotte.

Speaker 11 (01:38:45):
Well, he's one of the first people that called me
when I first got to town and was controversial and
so Runch come out to Speedway. I didn't know him
as well as Keith did. Keith and Humpy had some
outstanding shows, and Keith gave him the time and the
space to do what he did best, and that was
tell stories. And so you know, I was shocked by

(01:39:10):
the news yesterday because Humpy is one of those guys
that you just never thought about dying. He just he
just always was too inventive, had too much going on.
He was I just never thought of it.

Speaker 3 (01:39:24):
That was a battery that was never going to run low.

Speaker 11 (01:39:28):
So Charlotte Motor Speedway, ohs hell, Nascar, ohs Humpy Wheeler.
He was the one I think that you know, country
music was always associated with NASCAR, But I'm not so
sure Humpy's not responsible for making the Armed services such

(01:39:49):
a big part of NASCAR because of the shows that
he would put on at CMS. But I also knew
his daughter Tracy when she was with the Charlotte Hornets,
and and she's a class act in her own right.
So my regrets to the Wheeler family. Because I heard

(01:40:09):
somebody ask, I guess on this program earlier today, how
do you think he would want to be remembered?

Speaker 6 (01:40:15):
Yeah, that was me talking to Scott Pageant.

Speaker 11 (01:40:18):
I had my girlfriend from high school died of cancer
a few years ago, and one of the conversations that
she and I had had was she had told me
she said, I'm just afraid people will forget about me.
And I said, well, I'll make sure. I promise you
at least I won't. I said, you won't be forgotten.

(01:40:41):
There's too many people are class is too close, so
you affected too many people. When I hear somebody ask
that question of how do you think Humpy would want
to be remembered? I don't think his ego was so bad,
but I do think everybody in their own right wants
to be remembered, at least in a fond way by
somebody somewhere. And boy, this is a guy that will

(01:41:05):
be hard to forget.

Speaker 6 (01:41:07):
Mark Thomas used to be one of Keith Larson's producers.
I was the other producer in the early days of
Keith's show, and so I remember some of those days
when Humpy came in. But Mark still listens to the
show in the station, and he sent me a note
earlier today says or to the show says good morning. Yes,
Humpy was a master showman, but he was also a

(01:41:27):
technical genius. He was instrumental in the nineteen sixties in
the development of an effective rain tire for Formula one.
When he spoke at the local Sports Car Club of
America chapter's annual banquet, our grandson, who was about ten, said, Hey,
that's the guy from Cars. Godspeed Humpy. You brought joy
and happiness into countless lives. That's from Mark, who used

(01:41:49):
to work here. And I played the clip yesterday shortly
after we learned about this from Cars, and you talk
about how do you want to be remembered, Well, you know,
he's basically I mean, he's captured forever in a Disney
Pixar movie. And I keep coming back to this. You know,
when Disney came in and said, who do we need

(01:42:10):
to be in this movie. To make it representative of
the stock car racing world, the NASCAR world, you had
to put Humpy in there. And he was a promoter.
He wasn't a driver, he was a promoter. And that
tells you how legendary he was. And I would have
loved to have been in the conversation where they decided
they were going to put him in the movie as
the car named text. But you know one other thing, John,

(01:42:34):
when you talk about how do you hope to be remembered?
I do think it's important to carry on his legacy.
And when you have when you do a show like
this and you have new people moving into to the
area every day, you know, Beth and I know that
we're talking to some people that say, of course I
know who Humpy Wheeler is. I've been here all my life.
But then you have people who don't understand that these
things that we do we associate with every race weekend,

(01:42:57):
like the carnivals, and like the concerts, like the not
the just the race, but the weekend, and.

Speaker 1 (01:43:02):
The speed scary celebrations, the fly I mean, all of that.

Speaker 6 (01:43:06):
The further you get away from it, you know, people
will say that's just what they do. But the people
need to know that the reason it was there in
the first place, back in the day was because most
likely it was the brainchild of Humpy Wheeler.

Speaker 11 (01:43:16):
He'll never be forgotten in Belmont, North Carolina, because that's
where he was from. So the plafs I now live,
I'm as sure as in mourning for a Humpy Wheeler.
But if you want to wrap him up, I don't
know who it was that originally said this, but he
was referred to as the PT. Barnum of motorsports, and
that's that's that's pretty darn accurate.

Speaker 1 (01:43:39):
I've been saying all morning too. One of the things
that I just remember the most about him in the
times that I had conversations or did interviews with him,
or was around him at the speedway is he was
just so such a jolly person, was just so happy
to be out and about with people and having conversations
with people. And there was something about him that you
just realized that he cared about people's experiences, and that's

(01:44:03):
why he was the PT. Barnum of NASCAR. But it's
also why he was so helpful, Like Scott Paget was
telling us in getting Concord recognized as an all American city.
It's why he was so helpful with people just behind
closed doors, you know, getting jobs with the speedway or
jobs within motorsports around the country. He was just one
of those people that if you called him and asked

(01:44:24):
for help, he wanted to help. He didn't look at
it as an obligation or as something that was bothersome.
He was just a helper.

Speaker 11 (01:44:31):
He understood, he understood what it was about. And yes,
it is about the bottom line, just like radio is,
but it's about entertainment first. Tom sorens and longtime Charlotte
Observer columnist. He's retired now, but he posted on Facebook
last night. I'll read you the last paragraph of what
he posted.

Speaker 6 (01:44:47):
He said, the best way to describe Humpy is this,
most of us limit ourselves. We look at how things
are done, how things have always been done, and the
braver among us tiptoe carefully onto new turf. Humpy saw
no limitations, he saw possibilities.

Speaker 11 (01:45:02):
That whole article, if you've got a chance to read
it from Tom Sorenson, is excellent and Tommy Tomlinson too,
I might add, wrote about him, which is posted up
on my Facebook page, and his article is excellent as well,
but your subject matter is pretty dark.

Speaker 3 (01:45:20):
Good to begin with.

Speaker 12 (01:45:21):
I wanted to say hey and thoroughly enjoy the show.

Speaker 1 (01:45:24):
Thank you for taking the time to call in.

Speaker 7 (01:45:26):
Well, y'all keep great job.

Speaker 6 (01:45:29):
Thank you man, keep on keeping on.

Speaker 2 (01:45:31):
This is Good Morning Beauty with Bowen Peth.

Speaker 11 (01:45:35):
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Speaker 23 (01:45:39):
Some friends that I know living in this town enough
come far to see them, gonna travel down.

Speaker 10 (01:45:49):
They live in a great how white and brown tip
were the braid and I pracked up my guitar, drop
my keel.

Speaker 14 (01:46:04):
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Hard, then I look up with up later it go
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Speaker 1 (01:46:18):
I need a big week, me.

Speaker 12 (01:46:24):
Drotter does.

Speaker 2 (01:46:28):
Got big week?

Speaker 3 (01:46:33):
Hit you down?

Speaker 10 (01:46:34):
Run you guys?

Speaker 23 (01:46:39):
Well, I may shake your hand, but I won't know
your name. The joke in your language don't come out
with the same.

Speaker 10 (01:46:49):
There's times when I'm down and there's nothing to blame.
I need to be.

Speaker 24 (01:47:14):
Down.

Speaker 11 (01:47:16):
So Charlotte FC takes on the New York Red Bulls
Sunday seven o'clock Bank of America Stadium, Jason Aldeen in
his full throttle tour at PMC tonight, beginning at six
point thirty twenty twenty five. Keep Pounding High School Classic
is at Bank of America Stadium Tonight starts at four
o'clock with Huff at South Point and that'll be followed
by the Grimsly Whirlies against the West Charlotte And the

(01:47:41):
eleventh annual Sickle Cell Walk Run is tomorrow at eight
am and that will take place at Pearl Street Park.

Speaker 23 (01:48:00):
I get, we're back in travel, sleep and eatin across
every boarder with nevituty Glen.

Speaker 10 (01:48:11):
You can look back big. It's best not to stay.

Speaker 2 (01:48:20):
How did a big week? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:48:31):
Big week?

Speaker 10 (01:48:35):
You know and you rust.

Speaker 8 (01:48:40):
And now you go.

Speaker 11 (01:48:41):
Big Weekend presented by Watson Insurance Agency, protecting What's important
Since nineteen thirty four, Boom shacka laca, y'all that High
School Classic at Bank of America Stadium, Huff Huskies at
South Point, that's the rock Kill version of South Point

(01:49:02):
Stallions and the Grimsly Whirlies at West Charlotte.

Speaker 3 (01:49:06):
Lyons.

Speaker 1 (01:49:07):
What's a WHIRLI I was wondering. So when you first
said the whirlies, I thought that was when you stuck
someone's head in a toilet. But but Bernie said, that's
a swirly. It's a swirly, not a whirlly. So I'm guessing,
is it is it?

Speaker 12 (01:49:20):
Is it?

Speaker 6 (01:49:21):
Is it a well?

Speaker 1 (01:49:22):
Is it a tornado? That's the word I was looking for.
Is it a tornado?

Speaker 6 (01:49:27):
Yeah, I have no idea.

Speaker 11 (01:49:28):
I saw Whirlies and I thought, I like that and
don't understand it at all. But it's you know, it
breaks from a tradition. Have you ever heard of a
band I have no idea what their genre is called
falling in reverse?

Speaker 6 (01:49:44):
No? No?

Speaker 11 (01:49:45):
Oh good, because I hadn't either, and I just thought, yeah, no,
keep trying, old Man. PNC Music Pavilion tomorrow night and
Taco's and Tapis Festival at Symphony Park, South Park, marl
uh So that's going on this weekend as well.

Speaker 1 (01:50:04):
I could get some tacos and tapas.

Speaker 22 (01:50:06):
I have an answer for you guys on the Whorlies. Yes,
apparently it's a shortened version of the Whirlwinds. The whirlwind
which that was their original mascot was the Purple Whirlwinds. Okay, surlieses.

Speaker 3 (01:50:17):
I think it's it's different.

Speaker 1 (01:50:19):
It's fun, it sounds very upbeat.

Speaker 11 (01:50:22):
And next week in Matthews a live festival in North
Carolina Apple Festival and in downtown Hendersonville. So we're getting
to those some of those fall events. For those of
you who I don't know, can you not take the
heat anymore?

Speaker 3 (01:50:35):
Are you tired of the rain?

Speaker 6 (01:50:38):
We should also mention, I know you talked about the
high school kickoff tonight at Bank of America Stadium. At
Memorial Stadium. Tomorrow night, you've got two more games. You've
got Myers Park and jam Robinson and Olympic versus Butler,
two games for ten bucks at Memorial Stadium. So this
trend of playing high school games and big venues around
town continues.

Speaker 11 (01:50:58):
I was going to mention that, but nobody cares Myers Park.

Speaker 6 (01:51:02):
Well, actually, John, I had to make sure that it
had not been mentioned, because several times in recent weeks
I have read texts for a second time that Beth
already read in the same segment.

Speaker 1 (01:51:12):
Sometimes, well, I just took it as an exclamation point,
you know. He just thought the text was so good
he wanted to read it again as an exclamation point,
just to underline. It's like a highlighting something.

Speaker 8 (01:51:22):
She said.

Speaker 11 (01:51:23):
One of the people that I met with as an
old radio buddy of mine when I went out to
California in Colorado and a friend of mine named Richard
that I used to work with at KBCO, and we
were talking about Howard Stern and the fact that he
had gone to what he started as to being probably
the best interviewer in the business.

Speaker 3 (01:51:44):
And he asked me. My friend asked me.

Speaker 6 (01:51:48):
He said.

Speaker 11 (01:51:50):
That he had talked to a news talk guy and
he said that the news talk guy said that his
biggest weakness was he didn't listen to the answers to
the questions that he asked because he was too busy
thinking about the next question that he was going to ask.
And I thought that was so observant, because you do

(01:52:12):
a lot of times while the person's answering the question
that you've asked, and you may have been really even
proud of the question that you asked, you are thinking
more about the next answer. And it's not until you
get some seasoning that you start to be able to
listen and think at the same time.

Speaker 6 (01:52:30):
Well, you're bailing me out a little bit, because what
does happen to me on this show is we have
so many moving parts that I'm kind of like the
facto traffic director over here. In many cases, and so
there are times when I'm asking a question and then
the person starts answering the question, and that I'm thinking about, Okay,
what time is it, how many more questions do we have?
Which one do we want to? Who's gonna you know?

(01:52:51):
So there is some of that, But in Howard's case,
you know, he's unseerious, where you don't have those parameters anymore.
So he has he has more real estate, and he
would if he were still working at one of the
terrestrial radio stations.

Speaker 11 (01:53:04):
He first of all, he gets people in and keeps
them on for two and a half hours or something
like that. But the other thing about that, my friend
and I were talking about this, Howard's in a position
where very where I would say ninety nine percent of
the time, when he's interviewing somebody, he's a bigger name
than the person that they're interviewing. I think that makes

(01:53:27):
a big difference when the questions you can ask and
he does, he can ask anything. I listened to him
talk to the three girls from friends one day, which
wouldn't normally, but for two and a half hours they
just had the most interesting conversation, and he asked questions
that you would no more think of asking than.

Speaker 6 (01:53:47):
But that's the deal with Howard.

Speaker 11 (01:53:49):
He's usually a bigger celebrity than the celebrities he's interviewing,
so he can get away with it. If you're sitting
in a room and Frank Sinatra's talking to you, he
can say anything or ask anything about you.

Speaker 6 (01:54:01):
That's so true.

Speaker 1 (01:54:01):
Excellent point.

Speaker 6 (01:54:02):
He really, you are so right that a lot of
these big stars, he's a bigger star than now and
because yeah, now, occasionally he'll get a Paul McCartney in
there or somebody like that. But I agree with you
by the way that I think I've said to people before.
You know, when you go out places, how'd you get

(01:54:23):
your start or what are your influences? And for the
longest time in my career, I didn't pay much attention
to Howard Stern because I always thought Howard Stern was
kind of the shock jock guy. I remember back in college.
I remember the guy. A guy was in one of
my college classes and walked in and had the Private
Parts book, and I remember thinking, that's the guy that
talks about craft stuff all the time. That's just kind
of not my scene. And then I actually bought a

(01:54:46):
car that had one of those serious trials. You know,
you buy the car and you get access to serious
and some people may say, well, you're talking about serious
in your own terrestrial radio, but look, you know, they're
all different ways to get audio these days, we know
that it comes from all places. But I started listening
to Howard because we had the free trial and realized

(01:55:07):
exactly what you say is that when he sits down
and interviews people, he's one of the best that's ever been.
And it's because he can tap into things. He can
get things out of people that most people can't, and
so I gained a new respect for him. I do
sort of wish that they'd do a channel that was
just Howard interviews, because you know, there's a lot of the.

Speaker 11 (01:55:27):
Howard is still in the gutter, and I get self
conscious listening to that with my wife in the car
or something.

Speaker 6 (01:55:35):
That's what would happened to me is I would have
it on that show and I'd leave it there and
my wife would get in my car to move it
or something, and they'd be talking about, you know, adult diapers.

Speaker 3 (01:55:45):
Or worse.

Speaker 6 (01:55:47):
So it's like anyway, but you're exactly right, he's one
of the greatest greatest interviewers that's ever lived.

Speaker 11 (01:55:54):
But he cultivated that, and that's where experience and radio
comes from. And I've told you all before, it took
me a long long time to learn that you could
ask somebody a question and then shut up. And even
if there's dead air, because it's human inclination, all of
a sudden, you've put the ball in their court. They

(01:56:17):
have to say something, and that's usually when they really
honestly answer a question or hang themselves. And I didn't
learn that for twenty five years. So there, kids, there'll
be a test on this next Friday.

Speaker 1 (01:56:33):
Did you see that? Bo and I both just did it.

Speaker 6 (01:56:35):
We were listening.

Speaker 1 (01:56:37):
We both just listened and just left the dead air.
Now I forced you to fill it.

Speaker 6 (01:56:41):
I will say this, I know we're late to break.
This has happened to me on a few occasions over
the years doing this show. Every once in a while,
we'll get somebody in studio who's either a big enough
name that you're sort of sort of in all of
or it's a big enough story that you know it's
a huge interview, and I'll start listening to the person talk.
And there have been times where I've forgotten that I'm
supposed to be asking questions like I like listening like

(01:57:02):
a like a show, like I'm a member of the audience.

Speaker 1 (01:57:05):
Cause you're so entertained. Yeah, yes, yeah, And I.

Speaker 6 (01:57:07):
Guess you know you dream of those segments because that's
what you want. But I've been like, oh yeah, oh yeah,
next question, yeah, final stretch here on a Friday morning.
Thanks to Mick mulvaney for joining us earlier and Scott Paget,

(01:57:31):
former mayor of Concord, and all those who've chimed in
this morning about the legacy of Humpy Wheeler. We're following
the breaking news as a former National security advisor, John Bolton,
had his office and his home broke, you know, rated
by the FBI today. Of course, there's be much more
on that throughout the day, and we'll bring you what

(01:57:52):
we have each hour, every hour on WBT. Charlotte's most
beloved John Hancock for just a few more minutes here
on a Friday morning, and we were talking. I got
some some notes about Howard Stern. There's a lot of
speculation about whether Howard Stern's going to retire or not
because he has been off the air for the summer,
like he always is. But he's coming back on September second.

(01:58:14):
But there's that story that broke a few weeks ago
about that he'd been you know, serious and canceled, and
they've actually run promos on the on the Stern Show Network,
sort of building the speculation as to what's going to
happen when he comes back on September second. I would
not be surprised if he retired, because his contract is
coming up. But as I heard somebody say yesterday, it's

(01:58:35):
not because somebody canceled him. It's going to because he
decides to leave.

Speaker 11 (01:58:38):
I think Inside Radio said yesterday the contract has already
been signed.

Speaker 6 (01:58:42):
Signed to as a renewal. Yeah, okay, well.

Speaker 11 (01:58:45):
Yeah, I don't know if that's set in stone or not,
but you are right September second. They've marketed this beautifully
because he'll have an audience. It's huge on the second
of September, just because.

Speaker 1 (01:59:00):
Curiosity to hear that show that is back on the air.

Speaker 11 (01:59:04):
People slowing down during a car director see what's going on.

Speaker 6 (01:59:07):
Actually, because the day it came out, we never got
around to what it sounds like. But this is what
they're running on the Howard Network right now. The downfall
of Howard Stern. The shot jock just got his walking
papers from serious accent.

Speaker 12 (01:59:18):
The guillotine's coming for Howard Stern.

Speaker 4 (01:59:20):
The tabloids have spoken, Howard Sterred fired, canceled? Is it
really by by Booie? Chaos is swirling at the Howard
Stern Show. Did staffers talk to the press on writers
with holding their best jokes? Nobody knows what's going on
or who to trust. Now we can reveal. All the

(01:59:42):
questions will be answered, all the truths will be told
by the one man truly on the inside. Howard Stirred
will speak Tuesday, September second, Howard one hundred see like
a like.

Speaker 6 (01:59:57):
A true radio guy. They're milking this for all that's worth,
and it's brilliant.

Speaker 11 (02:00:03):
Well, but some of those actualities are so stupid, you know,
calling him names. I'm saying he's just been asked. Yeah,
after his five hundred and seventy eight million dollar contract
ran out, I think Howard's proved his point.

Speaker 6 (02:00:19):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. The possibility that he would retire.
Totally could see it happening, totally could see it not happening.
But what I can't see happening is them canceling him.
He's the reason that Sirious is even still around. You know,
when he joined them, he legitimized them, and now you've
got a lot of other stars on Sirious. But if
not for Howard Stern, I don't think Serious would have

(02:00:40):
turned into what it's turned into.

Speaker 11 (02:00:42):
He kind of saved satellite radio the way Rush Limbaugh
saved a radio.

Speaker 6 (02:00:47):
As we say, all this on terrestrial radio and of
course the WBT mobile app and all the ways that
you get us. We know that that's different for different people.
We also know that some of you listen to us
in the afternoon or the evening on the podcas Yes
that Bernie puts together every day based on our show.
We know some of you listen to the seventeenth segment
that Steve puts together. That's the one thing that's the

(02:01:08):
biggest mistake anybody in radio could make today is to
assume that right now is the only way you're being consumed.
It's you got to be where the people are, and
so we try to meet everybody in all those spots.

Speaker 1 (02:01:17):
What's happening now is happening now? What happened to then?

Speaker 11 (02:01:22):
I read a thing about Conan O'Brien this week, who
said that late night TV will disappear because of the
COLDT cancelation.

Speaker 3 (02:01:29):
And so on and so forth.

Speaker 11 (02:01:30):
But he had a quote that said, for those of
you under forty, late night television was a service designed
to distract college students until science could perfect the Internet
and online pornography.

Speaker 6 (02:01:45):
That'll wrap it on a busy week. Thanks to everybody.
Good talk Beth, good talk bout, Thanks Hancott.

Speaker 3 (02:01:51):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (02:01:52):
In fact, never play this again.

Speaker 2 (02:01:55):
Everything that happens now is happening now.

Speaker 5 (02:01:57):
What happened then?

Speaker 3 (02:01:58):
Pass it just now?

Speaker 6 (02:02:00):
Wear it now? Now go back to then?

Speaker 5 (02:02:02):
When no, no, no, I can't.

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Speaker 1 (02:02:05):
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