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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And what does it mean to slide into someone's DMS?

Speaker 2 (00:03):
That sounds like a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (00:04):
Okay, we're not ready for that.

Speaker 4 (00:05):
Forms talk eleven ten and ninety nine three.

Speaker 5 (00:08):
W BT and then what does that have to do
with anything?

Speaker 6 (00:11):
It has everything to do with anything.

Speaker 4 (00:13):
This is good morning Beatty with quote Thompson and Beth Trout.

Speaker 7 (00:17):
That's all over the second we ride a few choice bucket.

Speaker 8 (00:22):
With WHOA.

Speaker 5 (00:31):
Is good, duzle, We're good to fall, cropsacles, cop sinking, feeling, spin.

Speaker 6 (01:00):
Around and.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Is cold?

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Okay, is the whole song like this?

Speaker 1 (01:20):
No, it's about to get to the part that was
on the loop in the.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Bree Here it comes, it's the slow burn.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
The beginning is more like a spoken word poem with
the robot effect. This has a name, I mean the song,
but the oh here it comes name of the song
hide and.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Seek much different. Yeah, it's a lot better. This is
telling the same things. We are dangerously close, Beth, you
know what's you know what's waiting on the leg.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
You have to get to the hook, though, bo, which
is how.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Many years do I have to wait? Yeah, it's a
it's a slow bills Bernie, Bernie, Why do you know
this so well.

Speaker 9 (02:01):
This was big when I was coming up in like
high school and stuff, and it was on an SNL
sketch that all my friends would quote all the time
with Lonely Island.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
They berg we are halfway through the song. Yeah, oh yeah,
that thing's changed.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
It takes it takes a second.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
This technology has a has a term too, for it
modifies your voice and gives you almost a harmony. And
it's a very difficult thing to do singing and listening to.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
It's difficult listening. It's difficult. I don't like this whatever.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
That's pretty sure.

Speaker 9 (02:32):
She created the person who created this song created these
gloves that you're able to use, but basically with your hands.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
I'm on the ledge the puppets.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
It's really cool.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Okay, it's.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Believe it's coming. The hook.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
No, it's not.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
But I didn't wake up to any of this part.
It's just the hook.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
He gave it a chance.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
It's coming.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's almost time for traffic. Here it comes.

Speaker 6 (03:11):
It is.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, the great song math was worth the way.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
So the hook is ooh what you say?

Speaker 4 (03:21):
Ooh what.

Speaker 5 (03:32):
Oh holley man.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
You could have started with that.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
I told you.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
That's when I woke up, sir.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
That's all fun, Okay, I'm putting it out of it's
over modulated.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Oh God, I love y'all so much. And can I
tell you this is the best day in the whole
entire world because I have an iced tea from Chicken
Salad Chick again, guys, And this one was not for me, sir,
Steven brought it in.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh, you can use that one for the rest of
the week. Fantastic.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
That was that was the goal. I figured, if she
has it on right, Yeah, but you're leaving out the
best part. He got it yesterday and then brought it
to you.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Today, which is what you.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
But when I met what I mean is he didn't
go get it today on his way to work. He
got it yesterday, put it in the fridge last night. Yeah,
just like Beth Dah, like two weeks ago when you guys.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Were all like, wait a minute, you were ripping on me.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
You had this from yesterday. So yesterday I met Chicken
Salad Chick and I went, that's how we do it,
and this show my need to grab an iced tea
for Beth.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
For tomorrow morning. You create content right here.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
I'm so happy me too. Now that this is playing.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Oh what's you.

Speaker 10 (04:39):
Say, guys, which Steve would brought us sandwiches or something?

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, well the morning is young. Welcome to Wednesday, December third.
Teresa Peyton is coming up in just a few minutes.
I watched Jimmy Fallon for the first time in a
long time last night. You know, I was on Jimmy
Fallon last night. Con Canipple was on. Was on Jimmy
Fallon the Tonight Show last night and he was great.

(05:06):
Oh he's actual guest.

Speaker 11 (05:07):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Did they do anything with his name?

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yes, I'm sure that's why the premise was and they
did something. We got a little more detail on his
field trip to his house or his parents hosted dinner
for the whole team.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Oh, I forgot that. That was.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
All there, so we will if you miss that, and
you likely did. It was on late last night, right,
the Hornet's playing at the Knicks tonight. Uh huh oh.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
God, New York.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh, so this is all making sense now.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
He was uh, you know, they had three guests last night.
He was number three, I mean, which is understandable because
not many people know him as much as I think.
What's the girl's name, Amanda I'm gonna say her name wrong.
I think it's I don't even try any she was
the George Seffert, George George seffer But anyway, I've got
all the audio. You must hear it. It is great. Conka Nipple,

(05:57):
the legend grows im. Stay up and watch this. So
you watched it, watched this one. But I knew it
was coming. So I was the first thing I did
this morning was get up and watch the tape. That's
how I do sn L. Let's all do anything late
at night.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
He tapes everything. He has a he has a VHS player.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
VHS we know, uh huh, yeah, you know my favorite
thing to listen to on my tapes right here.

Speaker 10 (06:20):
Yeah, I don't have a want to hear that song.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
I think we're gonna we're going to officially retire that
song today. The first and last song will the first
time you'll ever hear it heard on w.

Speaker 10 (06:32):
But He's like, but for broding it it formed his
teenage years, I've never heard the song.

Speaker 9 (06:36):
Yeah, it's not like a song. And I'm like, oh yeah,
I like to jam out to that song. But it
it brought me back to a time when that was
song was big.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
It was big.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
It got he loved that song, tons of video. It
totally slept through.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
That year, got stampled a lot.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
It was bigger in this song. This is Jason Derulo.
But you're a WBT listener, you knew that.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
And I do love producing the audience to brand new songs.
I will say that our Jags and Walker's this song
forced our text line to blow up. We've gotten so
many texts about the Yes, they said, this is my
final text.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
I'm out.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
They said, this is the horrible Everyone is saying, Beth,
what is going on?

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Beth, Beth, Hey, Beth, what's going on?

Speaker 4 (07:22):
This is Good Morning Beat.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Wednesday Morning, December third, Bo Thompson, Beth Troutman in the
historic Tyboid Studio. Time to bring on our cybersecurity expert,
longtime analysts for US, the founder of Forderless Solutions. Follow
her on X at Tracker Peyton. It is Teresa Payton
and appropriate that I mentioned X because we actually were
tagged last night. I was kind of going about my

(07:49):
evening activities and all of a sudden I realized I
had been tagged on on X by Teresa. And this
is like one of those rabbit hole stories. You've got
to kind of go down the thread. Joe Bruno had
report here from Channel nine about a Charlotte State senator.
But I'm getting ahead of myself here. I should go
back and say, good morning Teresa.

Speaker 12 (08:08):
Good morning Bough and that's how are you.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Very very well? Glad to have you a board here.
But in the interest of time here, there's a lot
to get to and a lot that you were following
last night. What about this story that you tied us on,
because I knew the reason you did that is because
you wanted to talk about it today. This is a
this is something that is pretty wild to follow. But
then it's something that you saw coming actually a long
time ago.

Speaker 12 (08:31):
Yeah, I mean, but we actually talked about this in studio.
I said digital forensic anthropology was going to be a
necessary job in the future, and at the time I said,
by twenty twenty, here we are. I was a little
ahead of my time. But basically, this woman says this
commercial that was created of me and one an award,

(08:53):
it looks like me, it sounds like me.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
It's not me.

Speaker 12 (08:56):
It must be a deep fake of me using a
video from something else I was doing. It's a crazy story.
I mean, how do you get this far down the
road where commercial is made. It wins an award and
she's like, it's not me. And the way she found
out about it was a reporter I guess figured out
it was her and called her to ask her how

(09:17):
she felt about the award.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, and so the Charlotte State Senator DeAndrea Salvador and
Joe Bruno posted something on this from Channel nine. She
says an ad agency manipulated her twenty eighteen TED talk
to make it look like she was behind all this,
and then he said, it gets weirder. The ad ended
up winning a prestigious award, the Grand Prix and the

(09:39):
Creative Data category at the can Lyons International Festival of Creativity.

Speaker 12 (09:45):
So creative all right, yeah from her.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
But I mean, like you said, we've been talking for
years about predictions, and we're going to have the annual
show coming up when you do your predictions. But we
have spotlighted up over the years when you've been right
about so many things. And here's another thing that you
put the red flag up well before most people were
looking for it.

Speaker 12 (10:07):
Yeah, and here's the thing. So she says, it's not me,
and you want to believe her, and it would be
great if we could turn to an authoritius as well.
I'm a digital forensic anthropologist and I've looked at it,
and she's right, it's not her. Like it would be
great to have somebody who's specifically trained and looking at this,
just like you have a missing piece of art that's

(10:27):
found and somebody says, oh, this is a missing you know,
this is a missing Picasso or or a Monet, and
so he goes, no, this is his nephew who went
to his art school. It's not him, it's but it's
it looks a lot like his work.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
What in the world are we going to do moving
forward in the future, because we're seeing this happen to
corporate CEOs or CFOs, people who are saying, hey, these
videos were created, this isn't me. I wasn't part of this.
And for people who have been posting content for years
on social media not knowing that this technology was coming,

(11:03):
or you know, Bo has been on the radio for
two decades. I was in television. People could take all
of those images and suddenly use our voice, our likenesses
and create ads or create videos. And now there's a
whole new story that young people are dealing with apps
and sites that create pornography using images.

Speaker 12 (11:23):
Yeah, that's thanks for bringing this story to my attention,
because it's a haunting story in The Guardian, and what
was I think what was really sad about this story
was not only these apps allowing young people to create
deep bake pornography of their fellow classmates or anything they

(11:45):
want to, but they're finding that the people that are
creating these images, when they're questioned about it, they don't
understand why there's something wrong with what they're doing. And
this is a very scary, flippery slow that we find
ourselves on right now because of the lack of governance
and guardrails, because of the lack of holding technology companies

(12:07):
accountable for safety. And you know, so it's not just
about privacy and security, it's also about safety that we
find ourselves in this spot. And so this is where
we've all got to kind of band together. There's not
a technology solution, there's not laws governing this, so we
all have to help each other navigate you kind of

(12:28):
this wild west that we find ourselves in.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
And then now you linked to another X story that
I was trying to get into last night, and I
couldn't get into it. And the reason I couldn't get
into it is because it was taken down misinformation from
an imposter account about a legitimate account. This is different
than the first story I started off with. But what's

(12:52):
going on here?

Speaker 12 (12:53):
Just it was interesting. I had people warning me, sending
me text don't forget this Carolina law is in a
fact and it's got all these penalties and whatever. I
was like, well, it's a good law because the law
is hands free, Like you know, you can't have I
think the way the law is going to be is
you can't have like earbuds in your ears while you're driving,

(13:15):
and you can't be holding onto your phone. You can't
have your phone in your hand to do texting, et cetera,
et cetera. And what was interesting is is, for some reason,
this imposter account that looks like an official North Carolina account,
they kind of went into overdrive saying it's already in place,
and it like made up misinformation about the law being
passed and what the penalties were, and then it got

(13:37):
picked up by legitimate accounts who were then posting it.
Then everybody realized, wait, the law hasn't passed yet, Like
somebody actually went to the North Carolina Legislature to look
at the law and it wasn't there, and it says
it's still in committee, and so people had to go
back and delete all these posts warning people, and so
something so innocent is I think a great reminder for

(13:59):
all of us of even if it looks like it's
an official account, you have to go back to the source.
And somebody at some point did and they're like, oh, I,
this can't be right because the law hasn't been passed yet.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
There's a lot going on.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
I just and the whole problem here too is all
of the effort that it takes to find the truth.
I mean, if it hadn't been for the person who
went to the North Carolina Legislature to see that the
law was still in committee, I mean, and how many
people saw and we've seen this since my goodness, the

(14:36):
last ten years probably, but how many people see the
misinformation and then never see the correction.

Speaker 12 (14:43):
Exactly. And so this is where we've been saying this
for years, but really, especially now, you have to get
your news from trusted, vetted news sources, and looking at
your social media feed is not it the clips and
the snippets and the comments that you're seeing, you have
to write it off as these are just ordinary everyday

(15:06):
people who have an opinion. If you want the real news,
you've got to go back to like WBT radio. You
have to go back to the trust e vtted news sources,
people who have gone to school, who have journalistic ethics
and a process that they follow for vetting the news,
and when they get it wrong, they retract it. So

(15:27):
that's what people need to take away from this is
social media, even if it looks like an official account,
that is not the news. You need to actually go
to the authoritative source.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
And again, Ellen Mashburn is the particular feed that or
a file that I was looking for last night, former
Lieutenant governor's candidate in North Carolina, North Carolina Republican delegate
over the years, But he posted this apology about the
Hands Free NC Act. It's Senate Bill two five twenty six. Rather,

(15:57):
if you want to read more on this, every one
of these sories that we've talked about today, you could
spend you know, the whole morning going down a rabbit
hole of of of information, and some of it had
to be retracted. So Teresa Peyton much much going on today,
Thank you so much.

Speaker 12 (16:13):
Yeah, Beth and bow it sounds like everybody survived Black Friday,
Cyber Monday, Thanksgiving, and I just hope that everybody has
a great, safe and secure rest of the week and
be safe out there, Marty.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
So, I got a text from Beth Troutman yesterday said
I just deleted WhatsApp. Can I read the rest of it?
I am freeing myself from these horrible creations of horrible people.
She goes on to say, I also leaded threads, not
that I ever Why am I like yelling your text?

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Because it probably seemed because I probably put seventy five true.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
And I'm trying to rise a boat. She's talking from
a well, trying to talk Overphill Collins here. Also, I'm
in the bottom of a well. I also deleted threads,
not that I ever used it. It feels so liberating.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
I'm cleaning up my phone. I am done. I'm done,
have y'all. I mean, there's no privacy anymore. These companies
are are encroaching and encroaching and encroaching more and more
and more upon our privacy. I had a phone conversation. Yesterday,
I had to to talk with this scientist.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
I had to talk with your scientists. Oh my god,
what a day.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
Come on, that was.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
A good morning, humble bride in my own business.

Speaker 10 (17:47):
Next thing, I have to talk to a scientist.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
It's a day in the life, you know.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
So I deleted by WhatsApp. I'm doing an an interview
next week.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
And I guess he was near with another scientist.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
For a television shoot and he I guess it was
nervous and wanted to do like a pre meet call
kind of thing, but they're.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Going to televise this.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
He talked for a full hour about like brain waves
and all of this stuff.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
Bill one of the.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
Stuff that I didn't know or understand.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
And then I never get through anything.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
That says one thing.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
So then when I went back into my Instagram feed
later in the day, all of the weird stuff that
he was talking to me about was suddenly in my feed.
And I don't enjoy this anymore. I don't enjoy that
I'm having a conversation with my husband about, you know,
needing a new neck pillow or something when I sleep,
and suddenly I've got as.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
Now all of us are gonna have that our feeds.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
And everyone who's listening right now in their cars, they're
probably going to get it in their feeds too, And
I'm really tired of that. So I deleted WhatsApp because
I had WhatsApp for international travel, a.

Speaker 10 (19:11):
Great dealsh meeting with global scientists.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
When I'm on archaeological digs.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Where do you know?

Speaker 1 (19:26):
I actually did want to be an archaeologist when I
was really young because I was fascinated clastrophobics.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
So you can't go in the tunnel.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Did I realized to go in there? Yeah, snakes, But
I just didn't want it anymore.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
I didn't have to be snakes.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
I didn't want any of that, and I never used threads.
And you can't run from it.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
You still have a phone, so you've apps you want.
It's still tracking you, I know.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
But it's troubling me on more and more levels, especially
after we have all of these conversations with Teresa Payton
about how little privacy we have now and how hard
it is to work to find true to find accuracy
online and to find a way to I mean, get
away from your phone if you're having any kind of
personal or private conversation. And now there are studies. There

(20:12):
are studies that have been done.

Speaker 10 (20:14):
By DJs, studies, studies that I have commissioned, no guys,
by scientists.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
This is why I was talking to sciences yesterday.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
So you're in your forties and you are shedding social
media app.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, I deleted Facebook, completely deleted my account on Facebook,
completely deleted what you got lately? Well, I really really
want to get rid of Twitter, but it is it
is such a source for the work that we do
that it's difficult.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
But I really really want to get rid of it.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
And well, that's true. I'd like to get rid of
at all. I'd like to get rid of all of
it and just just communicate with people through texts and
through our WBT text line because it's personal. Most of
them do go really well you talk? Well, was that
your impresonation of David? Yeah, not knowing.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
What he sounds like?

Speaker 3 (21:07):
Luke Bran too.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Why don't you read the dictionary? Why the boys talk?
Oh well, wasn't that a text kind of kind of
David and I became science?

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Was that not supposed to say that on the air?

Speaker 1 (21:21):
David and I became good friends via text? Yesterday because
after that, when he was like, why do you talk
so much? Did? We texted back and forth and we
became best friends?

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Kind of my job.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
I don't have any words for the dictionary.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
Did we get to what we were saying?

Speaker 2 (21:36):
There's more to this, I promise.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
I never got to the full study.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
We had best laid plans giants coming out of this.
But then Beth has to start talking to our science buddies.
All right, six forty four on WBT. Yeah, traffic check
now Boomer Vaughan can't watch thinking of the same thing. Yes,
sorry that you worked with a scientist. I'm like, what's happened?

(22:07):
She's good tote us? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (22:09):
Is there any way to delete these guys?

Speaker 13 (22:10):
I agree?

Speaker 10 (22:12):
My dictionary and privacy don't interfere with science.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
I cannot stop laughing this morning.

Speaker 14 (22:22):
I'm a man who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
Tower out of metal and brawn.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
That's what kind of man I am.

Speaker 14 (22:29):
You're just a woman with a small brain, with a
brain a third the side of us.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
It's science. I'm ranger Rick. So we were we got
down the road of talking about social media and getting

(22:57):
rid of it, like.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
You have well, and there is actual science behind this.
You've probably heard different doctors say that young people should
not be on smartphones and on social media, and up
until recently it was really just kind of a conjecture,
but now science has actually been this has been studied,
and there is empirical evidence that backs up this idea

(23:19):
that kids, especially under the age of twelve, should not
have smartphones, because these studies now show that kids at
younger ages who do get early access to smartphones are
more likely to have obesity, be depressed, and not get
enough sleep. And this was a study of more than
ten thousand twelve year olds.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
Meanwhile, in Australia on December tenth, so in about a
week in Australia, sites that meet the Australians government definition
of an age restricted social media platform will need to
show that they're doing enough to eject or block children
under sixteen or face fines of up to forty nine
point five million Australian dollars that quate so about thirty

(24:02):
two million American dollars. But the point here is coming
up in about a week. If you're under sixteen and
you're in Australia, you are not supposed to use social media.
So an under sixteen ban in Australia, and that includes snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, kick, Reddit, threads, TikTok,
twitch x and YouTube Wow. Government says it's protecting children

(24:25):
from potentially harmful content. The site say they're already building
safer systems. So we've talked about this off and on
on this show. Should there be an age limit to use? Maybe?

Speaker 3 (24:37):
I mean you could.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
I guess you could go in and sort of pick
and choose which one should be on the list. But
Australia is basically by virtue of the ones I just read,
doing a clean sweep for kids under sixteen not supposed
to have access. Now, I say not supposed to because
we all know they'll find loopholes. But the idea just
on its face of kids under sixteen not being ready

(24:59):
for so social media content.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
I kind of love this idea. I mean, we all
were lucky enough that we were raised without any access
to any of this. I mean, we didn't have access
to the Internet because it didn't exist when we were kids.
And I think there's something to be said on how
you develop your social skills, how you develop your confidence.
All of those things I think come from that time

(25:23):
in your life when you are forced to learn how
to interact with other people, and when you do it
only on social media, I would imagine that it has
an even more profound impact on self esteem. And we
all know that comparison is the thief of joy. And
when you're young, you don't know or understand that these

(25:44):
people are putting just their best versions, you know, the
best versions of themselves online, not the truth. I mean,
as a forty it was one of the As the
almost fifty year old, it was one of the reasons
I got off of Facebook, because the more you're on it,
you do realize that Can Harrison is the thief of joy.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
Now, truth be told, you got off Facebook like earlier
this week?

Speaker 3 (26:06):
Yeah, it's still very new for you.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Well, I didn't wednesday. I didn't access it hardly at all,
and then I realized that it just shouldn't exist. It
doesn't need to be there.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Well, we have a lot of parents who listened to
this show, and we've had this conversation before. Would you
if you could go back and prevent your kids from
ever getting on social media? Maybe you're an outlier and
your parents that have actually managed to keep them off
I'd love to know how that actually even happens in
this day and age, with just how ubiquitous it all is.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Seven four five seven eleven ten. We'll get to some
of your calls as we go forward. On a Wednesday
here on Good Morning BT. Let me take a while.

Speaker 15 (26:46):
Guest, you're not calling to wish for me a good
morning morning?

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Well, no, it's not exactly a good morning.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
You have kind of a situation down here, the squawk,
the signal, it's gone all.

Speaker 4 (26:53):
Walking from these talk eleven ten and ninety nine threept.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
You didn't get the turbocharger.

Speaker 6 (26:59):
No, I'm also giving up, pretty hug.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
This is Good Morning Beat with bo Thompson and Beth Trout.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
Bit is your.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Receiver in any way connection to the flex capacitor? Hey,
seven minutes after seven o'clock, Good morning BT, Boe and Beth,
Zoe and Bernie and Steve and you. Seven o four
five seven eleven ten. Told you guys that the latest

(27:29):
star of the Tonight Show con Canipple Charlotte Hornet. It
was the first hornet ever to be on the Tonight Show.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
No time, that sounds right, I don't know. Maybe Lamello, Larry.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Johnson, maybe Meggsy, maybe Hersey Hawkins, Richard Anderson. That's always
our go to is right now?

Speaker 5 (27:51):
Bill?

Speaker 2 (27:51):
He also goes by Rudy. Rudy always comes back to
Rudy Keys con Canipple, who is on his way to
possibly being the NBA Rookie of the Year. I mean
we don't know that yet. You've got Cooper Flag of
course in Dallas. But Kanka Nipple has had quite a month,
quite a stretch so far, starting off his young NBA career.
So the Hornets, you know, in town. And he was

(28:12):
on the Tonight Show last night. Of course that means
he taped it yesterday afternoon. But Kanka Nipple with Jimmy
Fallon and I.

Speaker 16 (28:18):
Know, you just took the team back to your hometown.
Where'd you grow up?

Speaker 2 (28:23):
I'm from Milwaukee.

Speaker 16 (28:24):
Yeah, so look, you had the whole team, your mom.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Had everybody over it.

Speaker 16 (28:30):
Did your mom know that team was coming over?

Speaker 2 (28:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (28:32):
So my buddies or my teammates know that I'm from
from Milwaukee. So they're like, con where are we going?
Where we're going to eat?

Speaker 3 (28:38):
And I'm like, well, I'm going home.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yeah, yeah, actually where you got go?

Speaker 17 (28:41):
See my family and They're like, well, I guess we're
going to CON's house.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
And like, hey, mom and.

Speaker 17 (28:48):
My parents were like, you know, invite anybody over, and
I was like, I think I'm gonna invite the whole
team over. Where are you going? So mom was ready
twenty five pounds of chicken fihetas no way.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Yeah, so he's ready.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
That's a good mom.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
I met your mom.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
She's gorgeous, by the way.

Speaker 16 (29:02):
That's a good mom right there. Did you feel did
it feel fun to go back to your hometown with
the whole Charlotte Hornets?

Speaker 11 (29:08):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (29:08):
Yeah, it was great. It was great.

Speaker 17 (29:10):
You know, always good to go home and you know,
to do it and play play in front of the
play the Bucks. That's the team you grew up rooting for,
and you know, playing in front of a bunch of
family of friends. It was great.

Speaker 16 (29:17):
How did you get did everyone? Did you take the
team bus there?

Speaker 17 (29:21):
Yeah, we took the team bush. Yeah that's a that's
a trip. Turning onto your street and seeing all the
neighbors and stuff coming down in this big old coach bus.

Speaker 8 (29:32):
And you're like, look at me, that's up, God, hi neighbors.

Speaker 18 (29:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
I used to shrovele your driveway.

Speaker 8 (29:37):
Yeah, I heard that basketball wasn't originally in the cards
for you.

Speaker 16 (29:41):
We're like, I'm not sure if I'm in love with this.

Speaker 17 (29:43):
Yeah, I didn't love it at first. My parents were worried.
They were telling relatives like, oh man, he doesn't really
like it. That was that was that was worrisome for them.
They both played, both your parents, both my parents playing
in college.

Speaker 16 (29:56):
Yeah, that's wild, so.

Speaker 10 (29:57):
That would be.

Speaker 16 (29:57):
Yeah, they're like, he has to do it.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Yeah, they're they're they're pretty worried.

Speaker 17 (30:01):
But you know, I started uh playing nbah, what else
did you have done? I don't know, I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Yeah, glad it worked out.

Speaker 16 (30:09):
Yeah, yeah, I think I'm glad it worked out.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
You imagine on your home street, the big bus and
the entire NBA team pulling on to the whatever street
he lived on and pulling up in the driveway, I mean.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
Like Oak courts, just pulling in and you know, parking
in front of the house. You know how hoas get
mad if if cars park on the road or if
there are too many cars parked on the road in
front of.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Houses, We're gonna have a sleepover.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yeah, what do they say about a coach bus? In
a neighborhood. I think it's adorable.

Speaker 5 (30:41):
Was it?

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Did it? Did anybody else pick up on Jimmy Fallon?

Speaker 10 (30:43):
Be like your mom's gorgeous, Okay at home, Jimmy, I've
met him.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
Man, she's gorgeous.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
But what a cute what a He did a great job.
He was fun and entertaining and interesting. Yay, we've got
Cannipple in our house, I mean in our city.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
They play the Knicks tonight at Madison Square Garden, so
that's the reason he was in town. And then there's
a more to it. I don't have time to play
the whole thing, but as the show goes on, because
he asked him about the pronunciation of his name.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
And why it's it should be Canople. It should be
like Nonople who looks like Noople, Noople, nobok.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Should be silent. It should be just Noople there, not Nipple.
So that's pretty cool on the tonight show. I don't know,
like we said, maybe a hornet's been on before, but
I don't think so jould be chased. Well.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
I wonder why Jimmy Fallon's bookers decided to book him,
or if somebody from Cannipple's team not not his team,
the Hornets, but meaning his like management team and his agents,
if they were just thinking, hey, he has a chance
to be the the rookie of the year. Let's see
if we can get him on Jimmy You What to Duke.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Which is basically a subsidiary New Jersey, New York. Anyway, Well,
and he's on a pace. He's on pace to really
have a historic season if he keeps doing what he's doing.
And you know, he's got that story about his mom
cooking dinner for the team that went viral, and I'm
sure that you know, like I said, he wasn't the
first guest that came out. You know, if you watch
those shows, they have sometimes two, sometimes three guests. He

(32:13):
wasn't out there very long. But he's in town and
that's cool story. So I can see how it happened.
But then then you know, you got to hope that
the guy that the kid is good, right and he
and he I thought he did a really nice job.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Yeah, he was very charismatic and funny and interesting. And
I wish that they had done how Jimmy Fallon sometimes
with the Roots does the they'll sing a song and
they'll play baby instruments, you know that kid instruments like
xylophones and plastic horns. It would have been so great
if they had done that with what's that song you
always played that the Hornets do like it's a great
day in the city.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
Oh that's Bernie. Bernie just did it.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
I don't know, but.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
Wouldn't it be great if they had done that on
the kid's instruments.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
And the other reason why I think they did it
is because the NBA is back on NBC and they're
trying to play up opportunities.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
See you, look at you, you brilliant Marketer. We figured
it all out.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
If you listen to the second part of the interview,
you'll hear the end that it kind of makes sense
because at the end of the interview he did something
which we'll get to. He presented Jimmy with something. I'm
sure you can't guess what that would have been. But
it was a cool night for the Charlotte Hornets and
hopefully they'll be they'll they'll get a big win at
the at the world's most famous arena today.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
Was it a Bobcats shirt that he gave him?

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Not a Bobcats That would have been funny though if
it was a Bobcats.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
Should have been really good.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
If a new Flower collection or not.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
The Birds of Flower Collection Flower Show.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Seven twenty one on WBT Wednesday, December third. Brett winterbol
joins us coming up at seven point fifty Scott Huffman
next hour. I want to ask you a question, though
you'd never know it by listening to this show, because
we're still trying to find the answer, right, what age

(33:59):
does one become an adult?

Speaker 5 (34:03):
Now?

Speaker 2 (34:04):
I'm not talking about, you know, by legal standards like
some people would say, well, when you're when you're of
age to vote, that means you're an adult, or when
you can drink that means you're an adult. But and
then people will say when your your brain fully forms.
What a lot of people say is what twenty five?

Speaker 1 (34:19):
That has been the oft repeated term, that it's twenty five.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
Because you can rent a car when you're twenty five
you can.

Speaker 9 (34:26):
No, I did not know that that was a thing
until I was twenty four and needing to rent a
car and I had to wait for someone.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
It's weird to get driver's license.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
Yeah, I was like, I have been driving, sir.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
I'm right right, I have money.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Well, according to researchers at the University of Cambridge who
scanned the brains of around four thousand people between the
ages of zero and ninety, the brain stays in its
adolescent phase up until dot dot dot.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
And it's not twenty five, gentleman's it.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
Higher your early thirties, early thirties, thirty year Just no,
you're a man, You're thirty a man, I'm thirty four,
says we're not adults until we're approximately thirty two. Good
news for all of those people who don't have things
figured out at twenty eight. You have a little time.

Speaker 10 (35:12):
I think that means most pro athletes aren't men in
women until it's true.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
That means some congressmen and women aren't fully developed senators.
Because you can be twenty five and be in Congress.
You can be thirty and be a senator, and by
according to this scientific study, according to science of some
of our legislators aren't fully delil.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
Wow, this is why we have to have presidents that
are always like eighty. When I started the show, If
this is right, when I started this show, I was
five years into adulthood.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
I mean, when you start putting it like that, this
is like thirty two.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
I've been in adult now for two years and I started.

Speaker 10 (35:52):
Working out ten years before I was an adult because
I was like twenty two when I started.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
Wow, that is way against child labor laws.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
Jim, Well, and think about think about.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
All actually brought a lunch to work, little lunchbok. I'm
just trying to miss.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
My lunchable, sir.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
So, So by that logic.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
You got married when you weren't an adult yet, bo,
because you were in your early twenties were.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Yeah, I mean all these things that I did when
I was a kid. Yeah, so thirty two years old.
Now do you agree with that notion? I do thirty two.
But it's interesting because when you think back on it, like, yes,
I know we could do a drive cars and vote
and drink and all that stuff. But you think about
what you learned about life. I mean, it was not

(36:33):
until I was in my thirties that I sort of
had my bearings about life and just the big picture.
I mean, I was that's when we had kids, and
that's when I sort of learned how to manage a household.
And I mean the twenties.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
Are a real sort of experience.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
I mean you're all over the place in your twenties.
I mean, weren't you.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
Yes, Well, the twenties are kind of this beautiful window
into adulthood because you have responsibilities, You have some semblance
of being an adult, but you don't have all of
the responsibilities yet. You know, you haven't gotten into the
full weight of life. You haven't. You haven't gotten into
all of the responsibilities maybe of marriage and of childhood

(37:15):
or child rearing, but some people do. I mean, think
about it. My parents got married. My mom got married
six days after her nineteenth birthday, you know, think about it.
My dad was twenty when they got married. So the
generation before hours bo, they were doing so much more
adulting before the brain officially developed. I mean, my mom

(37:39):
had had all of us, that all three of us
by the time she, by this study, was an adult.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
Well, and people who get married early and I did.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
And you did, and not really I was thirty one,
but you weren't an adult yet, technically not an adult.
My husband was. My husband was an adult, so he
made a good decision.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
So when I I think about this a lot. When
I got married early, not not like in my teens,
but I got married fairly early, and I think back
to you know who your friend group is when at
that time in your life, and what you think is
going to happen, And like, I would invite a lot
of the same people to a wedding if I had
gotten married twenty years later. But you think about your

(38:19):
relationships are so different at that point in your life
than they are when you get to know your thirties, forties, fifties,
and so I think back on like when you look
through your wedding album, you see a lot of familiar faces,
but there's so many people that have become important figures
in your life that you didn't meet till years later
that you wish would have been part of that kind
of an event, right, yeah, Yeah, And it goes the

(38:41):
other way too.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Us.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Of course, there are going to be some common common
people in both places, but there are also going to
be people that you were really good friends with or
they were huge parts of your life then and then
you grow apart, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
It's like they say bo that friends are friends for
a reason, a season or a lifetime.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Or friends are friends forever. Get the Lord's the lord above.

Speaker 9 (39:04):
Efs for friends who do stuff together, use for you
and me any other, and it's for anywhere at anytime
at all.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
And what book are you all reading out of it?

Speaker 3 (39:11):
That's SpongeBob.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
Yes, the answer bath is yes, there's one more. What's
the hornets flower?

Speaker 1 (39:21):
Birds of Paradise? The bird of Paradise?

Speaker 2 (39:22):
So you finds you like got birds of Paradise flower.
So that's the question for you is seven oh four, five,
seven oh eleven ten Do you buy into that that
you're not at an adult until you're thirty two? I
would have said like late twenties. I feel like that's
pushing it, like I feel like thirty.

Speaker 10 (39:35):
I feel like like twenty eight, twenty seven, twenty eight.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
The scientists are saying that this is just the ones
that you talk to yes, on a daily basis, guys,
these are the ones. They're saying that this is based
on brain scan and full brain development. And so after
thirty two, we all just start it's just entrepet.

Speaker 10 (39:54):
So it's like one great day and then you all
downhill from here with it down the other side of.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
It, you start losing brain masks.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
Did Son mark, Yes, sir, what age did you turned
it into an adult? Do you think nineteen that's when
I got married.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Oh, we'll see, that's what I'll say. My mom it
was six days after her nineteenth birthday she got married.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
I can think of some people who became adults when
they were like six. You know that person who's like,
you know, six going on forty. I mean it goes
both ways.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
Yeah, they used to say that about me because my
parents used to say, she's five going on forty.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
Like that baby in the e trade commercial, and then
they head you.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
Out working six days a week. She was slinging barbecue
when she was eight. Then people listen to this show
and say, are they ever going to grow up?

Speaker 11 (40:39):
Right?

Speaker 1 (40:39):
Will we ever? And who wants to That's.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
Right, that's the real question.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
Who wants to grow?

Speaker 1 (40:43):
Who wants to?

Speaker 4 (40:44):
Good?

Speaker 2 (40:44):
Borrow?

Speaker 4 (40:45):
Borrow, good borrow? He's goodlorrow beats F.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Seven thirty eight on wbt WO. Yeah, well, not forever,
but a lot longer than most people thought. Thirty two
years old is how old. The Cambridge study says that
you have to be to be considered an adult.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
According to brain scans of people between the ages of
zero and ninety that after scanning all of these brains,
scientists have determined.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
That it has fully developed that brain of yours, scientists
that Ben just talked to.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
All right, talk to this guy yesterday.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
Michael is online one. Welcome to good morning BT.

Speaker 15 (41:39):
Well, good morning everybody. B. First, I want to congratulate
you on your Michael W. Smith beat cut reference there
to friends or friends forever. I that's that's admirable. And
I remember that because growing up in the Bible Belt South,
my sister that was her, that was her dreamy boy

(41:59):
was Michael. So I listened to a lot of that.
But I feel like this whole idea of being an
adult as being a scientific phenomenon, I don't know. I'd
like to know if it's a sociological thing, right, is
being an adult a is that? Is that really a

(42:20):
medical diagnosis you can make you're an adult now? Or
is it something that's a byproduct of the generation you
grow up? And so the Greatest generation i'd say they
were adults pretty early. The Boomers, i'd say, is maybe
a little bit different. And I just wonder if if
being an adult is a byproduct of what society demands
of you at the time. I mean, I was like you,

(42:41):
bo I got married at twenty two and by thirty,
had three kids, and I think WBT actually contributed a
lot to me growing up because I started listening to
WBT right after I graduated undergrad and it taught me
a lot. So, yeah, maybe your brain's not developed fully,
but maybe it's good that it's not developed fully because

(43:01):
you can still absorb and adapt to things in your
twenties that helped shape the next fifty years.

Speaker 13 (43:08):
Of your life.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
I love that point, Michael. I think that that's so
spot on that because sociological differences impact our I think
the same way you do, it impact our brains in
different ways. Because neuroplasticity is a thing and how you
utilize your brain and how you're challenged and your word
for it, how your mar just having this conversations. But

(43:33):
I think you're right because there are certain challenges that
different generations face, and you know, like Mark Garrison was saying,
he was married at nineteen, Michael, you were married at
twenty two, and those kinds of relationships and the challenges
that come along with parenthood. I think that probably would
challenge your brain to develop in more complex ways because

(43:54):
you have to utilize your brain in multiple ways.

Speaker 15 (43:59):
Yeah, Well, neuroplasticity that's the word for the day. So
appreciate you educated as well. I feel more like an
adult now because I've heard that word.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
Hey, Michael, Michael, I got one more thing for it.
You know what's coming, don't you? You know what's coming. Yeah,
you know what's coming. Beautiful, Thanks you for coming, man, dear
said tears. Oh, cheers, cheers, cheers, Bowers. Do you remember

(44:34):
that's a sad cheer.

Speaker 18 (44:37):
Tears?

Speaker 10 (44:38):
I know if you gave that long answer about neuroplasticity. Anyway, Yep,
I gotta go. I'll have all day for this.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
Do you remember the episode of of Oh my Gosh,
the Tiffany was great Sure Stay by the Bell, Stay
by the Bell when they were in the girl group
Hot Sunday and they sang a song called Friends Forever.
You know that was that I'm so excited episode where
she got hooked on Cappy Hill Jesse Spanot. But this

(45:12):
song that they sang, his hot song? What is called friends?

Speaker 2 (45:15):
For having Jesse say to him I'm so but she
said something else so scared. Yes, that's what it was.
I'm so scared. Oh my goodness. This is this is
this is why we do the show.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
This is why We're friends forever bo.

Speaker 2 (45:33):
Nine times friend, Michael W. Smith Deep cut. That's what
I'm here for, folks, nine times. You're on New Life w.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
B two to.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Listen to the piano right here. Hell yeah, my brother
just emailed me or textive me and said, Zack attack.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
Remember the Zach attack. Oh, I love your brother. Which
brother is this? My people?

Speaker 2 (46:05):
Brother? This is uh, this is my brother Bennett.

Speaker 3 (46:06):
Who Bennett?

Speaker 2 (46:07):
You people sends me a nuggets like that at the
at the perfect time.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
We're gonna find this. We're gonna find this Deep.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
Cut seven forty three on WBT, Boomer Von Cannon. You
there there, my fault, choke up, that's my fault, Hey Boomer, Yes, sir,
tears tears, cheers for fears.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
That's gonna be what we say from here on out.
Cheers I too, that would be better.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, we laughed, we cried.

Speaker 12 (46:39):
Hey, what's up?

Speaker 1 (46:39):
How are you doing?

Speaker 2 (46:40):
Fam bam?

Speaker 5 (46:41):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
I don't know what it means, but I like it.

Speaker 1 (46:43):
Hey, how are you?

Speaker 5 (46:44):
Hi?

Speaker 1 (46:45):
We're great?

Speaker 5 (46:46):
Your new show is fun.

Speaker 4 (46:49):
This is good morning.

Speaker 6 (46:50):
Bet.

Speaker 14 (46:51):
I have a radical idea. The door swings both ways.
We could reverse the particle flow through the game. How
we'll cross the streets. He's welcome, Brett Winterble.

Speaker 3 (47:08):
We know each other.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
He's a friend from work. All right, seven fifty on WBT, Wednesday,
December third, time to cross the streams. Bring in our
good buddy, Brett Winterble from the Brett Winterboll Show every
afternoon three till six here on the Great Colossus. Hope
you're doing well today, Good morning. Got a question for you, yes, sir, so,

(47:31):
last night this was a special election going on in Tennessee.
Matt Van Epps. This was you know, I mean, every
time you have a special election that's out of the
regular news cycle, it becomes a magnified thing, right of
people watching it much more closely than they would if
it was one of many races out there. But because
this happens now in Tennessee, Matt Van Epps was the

(47:55):
candidate that was endorsed heavily by President Trump. Here's what
he said after last night.

Speaker 7 (48:00):
As we look forward, I say this to my friends
in the liberal media and to the professional panickers and
my own party. Tonight we showed running from Trump is
how you lose. Running with Trump is how you win.

(48:23):
Our victory was powered by supporters of President Trump turning
out to vote. The president built the largest most diverse
coalition to ever elect a Republican, and we leaned in
on that. President Trump was all in with us, and
it made the difference in Congress.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
I'll be all in with him, thank you. So a
big win for Republicans last night. Now, of course, the
analysis and what do I getting that is you know,
it'll get scrutinized way more than it normally would because
it's the only race to talk about, and of course
things are are going on in the country that made
me slightly different with the news cycle than during the
normal election. But you look at this and Republicans are

(49:05):
going to be very happy. President Trump will be very happy.
There are other people that may say, Okay, the margin
of victory here is less than what Trump did in
that same area back in the twenty twenty four so
different ways to sort of slice this. But I want
to get your take on this as he wins this
a special election in the seventh District of Tennessee last night.

Speaker 19 (49:25):
Yeah, look, I think this is a bell Weather sort
of a thing that you're able to retain this position,
retain this seat. Green was a really larger than life
sort of person who is you would expect that to
be what's going to happen. But I think at this
stage of the game, what they've got to do, the
Republicans have got to do is they've got to, you know,

(49:47):
take a deep breath, and they've got to get this
stuff done that needs to get done in the Congress,
right that includes the budgeted budgeting and the Medicare and
Medicaid and all that sort of stuff stuff done. But
what really has to happen is they've got to get
a strategy that's going to be effective. Donald Trump is

(50:08):
Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is not ever going to
stand on a on a podium again as the president
of the United States. This is his one second term,
and so they've got to come up with some better strategies.
They're winning where they should win Tennessee, but let's see
them expand the map, and let's see them expand a
couple of other things like that. I do think that

(50:30):
while people do care about the money issue and and
about affordability and all that sort of stuff, it is
a catchphrase that doesn't seem to have anything underneath it
to tell you what that means. Once you are championing affordability.
So that's a that's a that's a problem for both
of the sides here, for the Democrats and the Republicans.

(50:53):
It hasn't been defined yet, and so that's the sort
of stuff that I think people need to focus on
the on the craft, and then go out in twenty
twenty six and try to win. But there's a lot
of road between here and the twenty twenty six elections
in November.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
They do have a long time to put this thing together.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
What did you think about that moment? In a speech,
he said that there are Republican panickers on the Republican
side who were concerned because, as both pointed out, the
margin of error or the margin of victory was different.
I mean, Trump won by twenty two percent and Van
Epps won by nine percent. And then some Republicans, I guess,

(51:33):
talked to outlets like Politico on the condition of anonymity,
saying that, look, we're going to be in a mess
of trouble in twenty twenty six, as you were just saying,
if messaging doesn't really really gel together and they figure
out what affordability means, what these issues are that really
matter to the American voter.

Speaker 19 (51:52):
Yeah, well, look, the panickers are people who have been
on this radio station recently. The panickers are also people
who are typically coastals, you know, the people that are
on the coast up up in New York. Mike Lawler
comes to mind. You look at the people in Pennsylvania.
You look at the people that are still I think
they're still alive in California, just a couple of them. Uh,

(52:14):
those are the people that are panicking in those regards.
In the Rock Ribbed, you know, neighborhoods that are that
are a lock right the Deep South and in many
other places, affordability is an issue. But they're still riding
with Trump. And that's that's the challenge. This this Tennessee seat,
well this is Tennessee seven. This this seat, he won

(52:39):
it by ten and Trump didn't even really go in there.
He did a telephone rally for him, and there were people.
It was weird because there were people who were telling
AOC's got to come into this race and all this.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
Sort of stuff.

Speaker 19 (52:52):
I think you got to know the difference between somebody
who's going to help you and somebody who's gonna hurt you.
And they have to be very, very careful with the
way they tread. You have to have different messages for
different constituencies. This is not a presidential election. There are
people who care about things in Florida that are different
than Minnesota, and so that's that's kind of way I

(53:13):
look at it.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
Let me switch up the message here for just a moment,
because we have on Friday night, five pm here at
one Julian Price Place. I got the schedule yesterday and
I have it on good authority that the three of
us will kick off the thirty second annual Hancocks Bikes
for Kids at One Julian Price Place. And I want
to say this. People are looking at the forecast right

(53:36):
and you're seeing what could possibly happen on Friday night.
We know that we're not shying away from that. If
you look, if you come out on Friday night, you
need to know that you don't even have to get
out of your car. It's the volunteers will handle everything.
You need to come out. You need to make a donation.
It's years where we have bad weather that this is
more important than ever, right because there's going to be
some people that are discouraged from coming. Just that that's

(53:57):
how it works. With weather. But we're telling you we're
going to be here. Brett's gonna be here, Beth, myself
and the whole team coming up on Friday night. That's
the truth.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
And we're gonna have some fun together, all three of us.

Speaker 18 (54:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (54:08):
Once in a it's a once in a lifetime opportunity, right,
the only time in your life in twenty twenty five
this will be able to happen, right.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
Take those pictures. That's turn on the flash. Oh yeah,
this afternoon three o'clock Brett Winterble Show. What's coming up today?
To be continued?

Speaker 1 (54:28):
Oh I like it.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
That means he's not sure what he's doing yet. Darn
tooting all right, so much to go for. What he
was trying to say is this Stay tuned for scenes
from our next episode. How are you doing?

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I'm thinking, well, thank me up a cup of coffee
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From News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three w BT.

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But let's go back to that California garage for it
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good morning, always be.

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Yeah, friend, it's all coming back to me now.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
And your brother Bennett was right. This was Zack Attack,
not Hot Sunday.

Speaker 2 (55:54):
How do I know this? Keep listening, Beth, keep listening.
It gets better, right, that was the best thing.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
You ever wrote, Zach.

Speaker 6 (56:10):
Right, Yeah, I like the title friends Forever. It's pretty cool.
But we haven't known each other forever. We're seeing that
will be living a lie.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
As you can see, Screech was the same even then.

Speaker 6 (56:23):
Screech for doing a song. Why no one's gonna want
to hear it but us.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
Little did they know that Fate was running by their door.

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looking for a new group. The beach buddies aren't buddies anymore?

Speaker 1 (56:46):
Are you really interested in this?

Speaker 6 (56:48):
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Speaker 2 (56:49):
Zits Kasey Gayson was on the episode. I completely forgot
about that sort of understory.

Speaker 1 (56:57):
I forgot about Zach Attack. I remembered Hot Sunday was
the girl group of Jesse, Kelly and Lisa Turtle, but
Zach Attack was a later version they also had at
one point. Remember when Zach and Kelly broke up at
the school dance and Jesse and Slater sag saying, how

(57:18):
am I supposed to live without you?

Speaker 2 (57:20):
This was the stuff of legend when we were we
were coming up.

Speaker 1 (57:23):
I G, it's so funny that we all watched this show.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
Steve got this look on his face like you have
to listen to it now, like now, And I was
trying to figure out why. Then I heard Casey k
something like yep, that's that's what it's forty. So there
you go, bringing it full circle.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
We brought everything full circle.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
She was even old then. I hope Michael was listening
to that. Yeah, yeah, because I got you. Michael W.
Smith was what he was pointing out. But that was
actually Zak Attack right there. See that's what you get
on this show. You never know what you need, but
we'll give it to you. A long distance dedication that
a couple of sports items here. We're going to get
to the rest of Conka Nipple in a few minutes.
But we were talking yesterday about Adam Thielen being released

(58:00):
by the Minnesota Vikings, wondering maybe could he land in Charlotte.
The answer is no, He's landed in Pittsburgh, and now
Aaron Rodgers gets to add him to his arsenal there,
so zoke. Adam Thelen wasn't on the market for long,
gets picked up by a team that does have a shot.
You know, that's why they have Aaron Rodgers in the
first place. I mean, not a sure shot by any means,

(58:20):
but they you know, they're having an okay season. What
do you think about a Thelon as a Steeler? I say,
Panthers actually have a better record. They're seven and six.

Speaker 10 (58:28):
The Steelers are six and six, but they're in a
division tied with Baltimore at six and six. Apparently Thelan
and Aaron Rodgers at some point struck up a friendship.
Maybe in a cave somewhere.

Speaker 1 (58:37):
Or somewhere, but Ayahuasca, Yeah, down in the the Waska Valley.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
It was four days in the dark.

Speaker 10 (58:44):
But he now is teamed up with him for what
will be maybe only four games of the regular season.
Like both said, their kind of fightings for the playoffs.
It's funny because Mike Tomlin's been the coach there for
nineteen years and all you hear for the talking heads
is it's time to fire Mike Tomlin. So I thought
it was interesting he chose the team where it's like
in disarray because they're not really having that great of
a season, but the division's not great. The other one

(59:05):
was Buffalo had been talked about a couple other places.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
We're mentioned there, but.

Speaker 10 (59:08):
I said, when he left to ask for your release
and to walk away from contract money, he must have
had a plan. So clearly, just being on waivers, the
Steelers must have reached out in some way and said, look,
if you've become available, no that we'll grab you off
waivers and there you go.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
Other Charlotte Sports story Elden Campbell passes away. Found out
that last night Elden Campbell played for the Hornets. I
mean he actually played for what I think is the
best Hornets team ever. That gets forgotten because it was
one of the last few teams before they left for
New Orleans. But if you go back to the two

(59:44):
two thousand and one season. That's the deepest the Hornets
ever went in the playoffs and they were a game
away from the Eastern Conference Finals. They went seven games
with Milwaukee that season. And that was Jamal Mashburn and
Elden Campbell and Baron Davis. Again not the most famous
Hornets team, but I think on paper the best and
most successful one. And Elden Campbell, who had played for

(01:00:06):
what Clemson before he played in the NBA, was a
big part of that. A late you know, late in
his career played for the Hornets and sad to hear
that news.

Speaker 10 (01:00:14):
I mean, he played fifteen years in the NBA, was
drafted by the Lakers, played there for a long time,
and then I believe he won an NBA championship with
the Pistons. So he was as you said, that group
with Jamal Mashburn and Baron Davis. People go back to
the Alonzo Larry early days. I mean, that was a
great collection. David West talent man. Yeah, PJ Brown remember him, Yeah,
j Heson was.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
It was really sort of like it was a weird
time in Charlotte because so many Charlotte Hornets fans were
disgruntled with the shin era and that we know how
that ended, and they took the team. Woldridge and Shinn
took the team to New Orleans and so kind of
a bad taste in your mouth about those later years.
But the team despite sort of the acrimony that was

(01:00:58):
the remember the head bands and they went through the
playoffs and they were in those head bands. And and
remember Jamal Mashburn got Vertigo. I was I did some
some side work for the team back then, so I
was really plugged in. I remember thinking, this is like
the best team we've ever had, and no one cares.

Speaker 10 (01:01:14):
It's funny you said that, because funny, like it's something
spurs of memory. So he set out the playoffs with
vertict the playoffs with Vertigo, and uh, I met living
in Valentine at that time, and I'm at the post office.
It's like the next day and he's in the post.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
Office there with me.

Speaker 10 (01:01:27):
Oh, but you're okay to go to the post office.
You can't play in an NBA playoff game. It was
just funny saying Jamal Mashburn walk into the post office.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
You think he'd have other things to do or have
someone to his mail. For him.

Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
I missed a whole decade of Hornet's doom because once
I went to Chapel Hill, I wasn't watching the Hornets,
and then I moved out West and I wasn't. I
wasn't watching the.

Speaker 3 (01:01:47):
Horn You paid attention, and you even lived here.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
Bell, Well, she had showtime, she was in La Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
That's rue I did. I did go to Clippers and
Lakers games every now and again.

Speaker 2 (01:01:56):
It was the name of the show that she hosted,
Jim Oh, you got to see this. Yeah, you gotta
see this famous network show. You gotta see this.

Speaker 10 (01:02:04):
Still at my outside favorite times doing the show. I
had to wrap up by Ellden Campbell though no cause
of death, fifty seven years old, So I don't know
what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
Lot of Hornets fans, if you said on the street, hey,
did they have the Hornets ever gone seven games in
a second round series, You'd say no, because a lot
of people forgot about that. But seven games they took
me Milwaukee, seven games they beat They swept the Miami
Heat in the opening round that year. And again, I
think Elden Campbell was on the best Hornets team pound
for pound that ever was or has been so far,

(01:02:35):
so rest in peace. Sorry to see that last night
and gone way too soon. News Talk eleven to ten WBT.
Now we'll go from Elden Campbell to a current Charlotte
Hornet coming up. Who was on the Tonight Show last night?
Conk Nipple was on the tonight Show because the Hornets
are playing the Knicks at MSG tonight and Knipple was

(01:02:56):
he gave Jimmy Fallon a gift on behalf of the city.

Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
Good morning DT, this is good morning Betsy.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
Well. Conk Nipple was not born here and raised here,
but now we've adopted.

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
Him, right, Yeah, he's ours.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Conk Nipple the rookie of the month in the NBA.
Great start for the Charlotte Hornets. Course played at Duke.
Why are we talking about con k Nipple? Well plays
at the MSG Madison Square Garden tonight against the Knicks,
and just so happened to be in New York. So
as one does you go shoot the breeze with Jimmy Fallon.

Speaker 1 (01:03:45):
Wouldn't that be so fun? Do you think if we
went to New York that Jimmy Fallon would let us
be on his show?

Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
Nope, No, So we're gonna have to vicariously live through
Conk Nipple Charlotte Hornet, and we were just talking about
Elden Campbell and Hornet's history. I don't know this, but
I feel pretty confident that he's the first Hornet ever
to be on the Tonight Show. Like like like hornet
that we drafted, Like maybe there have been Hornets that
were stars other places that came here, like like, I

(01:04:11):
don't know Robert Parrish ever make an appearance on the
Night Show. If he did, he was a Hornet late
in his career.

Speaker 3 (01:04:16):
Walker somebody I don't think Kim has.

Speaker 1 (01:04:18):
Been on flight. Couldn't we call him? He probably wasn't
a Hornet but he was drafted by the Hornets and
then went to the Lakers. He was I bet Kbe
was on.

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
See, I don't count him. That's the reverse of what
I said. But you're right, So that's what I'm saying.
It is like somebody who like is like Alonso Morning
or Larry Johnson or Muggsy, one of those would be
the ones you would think that would wind up on
a late show.

Speaker 10 (01:04:41):
Larry Johnson might have been on one of those shows.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
Yeah, I guess he was a Nick Steve will tell
us very soon, right, Jeeves Steve. Steve's so con Kinnipple
last night in Manhattan on The Tonight Show with Jimmy
Fallon conn.

Speaker 16 (01:04:56):
It's a tricky name. People must mispronounce it all the time.

Speaker 6 (01:05:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:05:00):
I was actually just watching my brothers. Three of my
brothers on the same high school team, and they were
in a big tournament in Illinois, and they're these announcers
where we're talking about the game, and they're like, you know,
these three kids are brothers of Charlotte Hornet, Khan Kniebel. Yeah,
we can't, we can't get this right. But actually, my
grandpa he called me a grandchild of the Year last

(01:05:22):
year on the Christmas card.

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
No, no big deal, better.

Speaker 17 (01:05:26):
Than anything else. Grandchild of the year because more people
not to pronounced canipple than ever.

Speaker 8 (01:05:31):
Yeah, finally, finally they know how to pronounce your name.
Your Your roommate in college was h Cooper.

Speaker 3 (01:05:39):
Flag all right there.

Speaker 16 (01:05:42):
That must be a very talented dorm room.

Speaker 11 (01:05:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
Pretty.

Speaker 17 (01:05:45):
He just texted me because we both just won Rookie
of the Month.

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
No way and for the NBA. Amazing, but yeah, thank you.

Speaker 17 (01:05:53):
He texted me today like we were two roommates.

Speaker 16 (01:05:57):
Is it tough to play against him.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
Well, yeah, he was awesome. He's a great player.

Speaker 17 (01:06:00):
He's good on both ends, you know, offense, defense, Does
it all just a better, better guy?

Speaker 8 (01:06:06):
Do you pinch yourself though, when you're out in the
court and you see legends that you kind of grew
up and you're like, oh my gosh, because you're only
twenty years old.

Speaker 16 (01:06:13):
Some older guys out there.

Speaker 17 (01:06:14):
Yeah, in a week we played Giannie in the Bucks,
we played Luca and the Lakers, and then Shay and
the Thunder.

Speaker 16 (01:06:22):
Before the game, not before the game, too nervous.

Speaker 8 (01:06:26):
Yeah, yeah, but you have to show a little intimidation,
like I guess I.

Speaker 16 (01:06:29):
Know who you are. Yeah, yeah, like I'm gonna shoot
on you. Do you get excited when you see your
name on the jersey NBA jersey?

Speaker 17 (01:06:36):
Yeah, it's special, you know, you know what, You're gonna
have that feeling a little.

Speaker 5 (01:06:41):
Bit right here.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
Oh but come on, you don't have to do that,
which is awesome. So he hot's twenty, But that's what
I'm talking about. He gave Jimmy Fallon a Hornets jersey,
says Follon on the back of it, number twenty five,
And so there you go. You know he's representing on
the on the biggest stage.

Speaker 1 (01:07:02):
How great. I hope Jimmy Fallon, where's the hornets jersey?
For something? For some appearance, concert or just anything where
he gets photographed.

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
Yeah, stars are obviously he's not if he started singing, yes,
if he had a cut Jimmy Fallon, I like how
he like dog like he was surprised. Way, I just said, jersey,
you presented a jersey. We didn't talk about this before.
I feel like Jimmy Fallon, Uh, it's like it's like
he's doing when he interviews people.

Speaker 5 (01:07:29):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
A lot of times it's like the Chris Farley skit
where he's like, hey, remember that time you were you
shut the ball and it went in. That's great, that's
really cool.

Speaker 1 (01:07:37):
But have you ever seen And if you haven't, go
google it and watch it because you will be highly entertained.
The interview that Jimmy Fallon did with Nicole Kidman where
he realized that he had been set up on a
date with Nicole Kidman but didn't know it at the time,
and so he just sat there and played video games.
It is the most fantastically awkward, brilliantly hilarious interview because

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it's just so uncomfortable before where she married Keith Herban, yes,
and had a crush on Jimmy.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
Let's hope did not remember that he had a.

Speaker 1 (01:08:06):
Well he he remembered the event of getting together with
Nicole Kidman, but he didn't realize that it was a date,
and so it just was this really awkward thing where
he found out from Nicole Kidman that she had a
crush on him years later on.

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
His show, on his show, and he's connecting the dots
in real time.

Speaker 1 (01:08:23):
Yes, it connects the dots in real time. If you've
never watched it, it is highly entertaining because it is
so uncomfortably awkward.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
Well, congratulations you well cons I'm gonna do it during
the newscast. So that's why, that's why I never know
the answers to the news quiz because I do things
like that during the news.

Speaker 1 (01:08:42):
This is how I talk basketball.

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
Well, kN Kinnepple was on the Tonight Show last night,
so you can if you didn't hear the whole thing,
it's out there now. And you know, representing the Queen City,
I still say they should have a night where they'd
give away rings.

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
Oh, my gosh, what a promotion, right, Mark for kind
of bubblehead there, Mark, It could be rings for your finger.
It would be funny.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
Yeah, there you go. See Yeah, okay, making Mike feel better? Yeah,
not just me, Mark salvage that well. When it happens,
you need to make sure that you say you heard
it here first, or or.

Speaker 1 (01:09:22):
A session stand. They should sell onion rings called.

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
Oh wow like that. See, that's the gift that keeps
on giving the whole season long.

Speaker 4 (01:09:34):
This is Good Morning Beat with both Hudson and Beth Troutman.

Speaker 2 (01:09:43):
A thirty eight on WBT Wednesday, December third. Boe and
Beth here and time to head to the dou WBT
hotline as we do once a week and link up
with doctor Scott Huffman from Winthrop University, political science professor.
Good morning to you, sir.

Speaker 13 (01:10:00):
Good morning, hope, y'all, orwell, we are.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
Doing very well and I had an eye on the
state of Tennessee last night.

Speaker 7 (01:10:07):
As we look forward, I say this to my friends
in the liberal media and to the professional panickers and
my own party. Tonight we showed running from Trump is
how you lose. Running with Trump is how you win.

(01:10:31):
Our victory was powered by supporters of President Trump turning
out to vote. The president built the largest most diverse
coalition to ever elect a Republican, and we leaned in
on that. President Trump was all in with us, and
it made the difference in Congress. I'll be all in
with him, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
That is Congressman elect now assuming these numbers that get certified,
and the number suggest that he has won their Republican
Matt Van Epps a narrow win over Democrat or Representative
of Afton Bain last night in the seventh Congressional District
special election in Tennessee. What are your thoughts on this
outcome last night?

Speaker 13 (01:11:15):
Well, you know, let's in context. Yes, it was a
big win nine points. However, it was in a district
that Trump won by twenty two points, so he only
got forty percent as much as the vote. And that
is something that the Democrats are looking at saying, you know,

(01:11:36):
this guy's claiming a massive victory, he is losing support
in his district compared to Trump, the person whose wagon
he's attaching himself to. Now, the problem for Democrats is
they see something like this, say, you know, with our
the other elections that we had in November where showed winnings,

(01:12:00):
and with this election where we showed out better, we
can do great in twenty twenty six. Well, you know, nationally,
the Democrats tend to follow what I call the laser
pointer of loss. They're like cats looking at a laser port. So, oh,
I can lose that way. Oh no, I can lose
that way. They find a way to go off message repeatedly.

(01:12:25):
They have found a message that is working against Trump.
It worked in these twenty twenty five elections, it worked
in this special election in a super Trump district. Can
they hang on to that momentum for a solid year.
If they can, it would be you know, the first
time in a couple of decades. But it is entirely possible.

(01:12:48):
So this is something the Republicans, despite Van Epps claiming
a massive victory, this is something the Republicans need to
keep in their rear view mirror and want as it's approaching.

Speaker 1 (01:13:01):
One of the issues that Republicans really ran on in
the twenty twenty four election, especially the president immigration one
of the top issues. Yesterday, President Trump held a cabinet
meeting and one of the things that ended up being
discussed is a pause in all immigration applications from nineteen
different non European countries. And in that list, Afghanistan is

(01:13:24):
one of the countries, Cuba is one of the countries,
Venezuela one of the countries. And if you remember from
the and I know you remember this from the twenty
twenty four election, Southern Florida turned out in large numbers
for President Trump. And that's a huge Cuban population. What
do you think things like this kind of legislation, how

(01:13:45):
might this impact a midterm election?

Speaker 13 (01:13:48):
Well, you know, every time there's a new, you know,
kind of limitation on immigration, my mind instantly goes to
the poem the new Colossus, which is at the Statue
of Liberty. Give me you're tired, you're poor, your huddled
masses yearning to be free, you know, the wretched refuge
of your stores, the homeless. You know, we don't do

(01:14:09):
that anymore. We you know, we are very selective over
who we're letting in. Cubans in Florida are absolutely adamant that.
You know, listen, these these new folks should not be
coming in. We fled the Castro regime, we fled communism.
But they're getting smaller and smaller as a proportion of

(01:14:30):
the vote. A lot of Trump supporters are looking at
this list of countries and going, yeah, that's exactly who
we don't want in America.

Speaker 5 (01:14:40):
Uh.

Speaker 13 (01:14:40):
You know, poll after poll is showing that especially conservatives
are maga. Conservatives most especially are saying we're we're losing
what makes America America. They think America is losing its
culture and uniqueness, even though in the past we have

(01:15:01):
held pride in the fact that, you know, we bring
all cultures together and once they're blended, that's American, just
like Pex mex But now it's okay, We're about to
be overwhelmed. And that's the attitude of a lot of
folks who are looking at this and saying, yes, that
is what we want. And other folks are looking at

(01:15:21):
specifically the countries that are listed and saying, is this
a symbol of some other issues.

Speaker 4 (01:15:29):
This is Good Morning Betty with Bo Hudson and Peth Troudman.

Speaker 2 (01:15:36):
We continue with Scott Huffman from Winthrop University, political science
professor there talking all things politics, and this is a
story that's gotten a lot of attention and continues to
and this involves that double tap strike on an alleged
drug smuggling boat back in September, which reportedly killed two

(01:15:57):
survivors from the first strike, and they're questions back and
forth to President Trump, and President Trump has deferred to
his Secretary of War Pete Hegsath, and Pete Hegsath over
the last several days is what depends on which day
you talk to him. The story seems to be evolving
a bit. Here's what Hegsath said in the cabinet gathering

(01:16:19):
yesterday when this question came up.

Speaker 11 (01:16:22):
Now, the first couple of strikes, as you would, as
any leader would want, you want to own that responsibility.
So I said, I'm going to be the one to
make the call after getting all the information and make sure.

Speaker 6 (01:16:31):
It's the right strike. That was September second.

Speaker 11 (01:16:34):
There's a lot of intelligence that goes into that building
that case and understanding that a lot of people providing information.
I watched that first strike life, as you can imagine,
at the Department of War, we got a lot of
things to do, so I didn't stick around for.

Speaker 6 (01:16:47):
The hour and two hours whatever where all.

Speaker 11 (01:16:49):
The sensitive side exploitation digitally occurs.

Speaker 6 (01:16:52):
So I'm moved one to my next meeting.

Speaker 11 (01:16:53):
A couple of hours later, I learned that that commander
had made which he had the complete authority to do.
By the way, Edward Bradley made the correct decision to
ultimately sink the.

Speaker 6 (01:17:04):
Boat and eliminate the threat.

Speaker 11 (01:17:05):
He sunk the boat, sunk the boat and eliminated the threat,
and he was the right call. We have his back,
and the American people are safer because narco terrorists. No,
you can't bring drugs through the water and eventually on
land if necessary, to the American people.

Speaker 6 (01:17:24):
We will eliminate that threat, and we're proud to do it.
So you didn't see any survivors.

Speaker 11 (01:17:28):
To be clear, after that first rule, I did not
personally see survivors, but I stand because the thing was
on fire.

Speaker 6 (01:17:36):
I was exploded in fire smoke. You can't see anything.
You got digital'. This is called the fog of war.
This is what you and the press don't understand.

Speaker 11 (01:17:44):
You sit in your conditioned offices or up on Capitol
Hill and you knit pick and you plant fake stories
in the Washington Post about kill everybody, phrases on anonymous sources,
not based in anything, not based in any truth at all,
and then you want to throw up really irresponsible to
about American heroes, about the judgment that they made. I
wrote a whole book on this topic because of what

(01:18:06):
politicians and the press does to war fighters. President Trump
has empowered commanders, commanders to do what is necessary, which
is dark and difficult things in the dead of night
on behalf of the American people.

Speaker 6 (01:18:18):
We support them and will stop the poisoning of the
American people.

Speaker 14 (01:18:21):
And as a secretary on the second strike, and you
said it happened more than an hour after the first
that I hear, you're any.

Speaker 2 (01:18:27):
Exact amount of time, all right, Pete Hegsath the Secretary
of War yesterday in the cabinet meeting. Now Hegsath is
connected to several stories that are making a lot of
headlines lately. And the other one connects to Mark Kelly
and those those lawmakers that signed that put that video together.
And of course President Trump's reaction and Pete Hegseth's by

(01:18:48):
way of him talking about a possible court martial for
Mark Kelly, the senator who is retired military. All of
there's a winding way to say. But I wanted to
wanted people to hear the audio, you know, not taking
out of context as it happened yesterday. But what's going
on with Pete Hegsath right now? What do you think
is standing is do you think President Trump is as

(01:19:11):
happy with him as he outwardly projects, or what's going
on behind the scenes do you think, doctor Huffman.

Speaker 13 (01:19:17):
Well, we could take every five seconds of that cliff
and spend an hour talking about it. You know, we
all know the phrase the buck stops here. It apparently
doesn't stop on Pete Heegsath's desk according to him, you know,
behind the scenes. To the degree that Trump believes that
it's making his administration look bad, he'll be upset. As

(01:19:39):
far as the Democrat saying you shouldn't follow illegal order,
that actually is literally written in the Uniform Military Code
of Justice, so they were literally just quoting the book
on the military. As far as who was responsible for
killing the two survive of the first attack, you know,

(01:20:04):
the admiral who ordered it's being tossed under the bus,
whether or not he was acting on what he believed
he Hegsas orders were verbally that may come out in
a hearing. We do know that if there are survivors
of an attack, according to the Geneva Convention, they are
no longer combatants. We also know the idea of a

(01:20:27):
danger of a small boat after it's been destroyed, being
a danger in the wide open sea, to say, a
shipping container which is four and a third football fields long.
It's not going to be sunk by a few planks
and a floating kilo of cocaine. So there's a whole
narrative being brought together here. And as far as hegsss

(01:20:49):
standing with Trump, you know, it goes with the winds
of the day. If Trump thinks that it's making his
administration look bad, he will be angry about it. We
have seen him turn on a dime on people he's
just been supporting, and then turn back and support people
he's just been excoriating. So we really can't say what

(01:21:12):
it'll do with Hegseet's tenure as Secretary of Defense, but
we do know that there's likely more to be coming
out about this, and so everything is shifting. I mean
one Admiral Halsey. Halsey actually stepped down earlier this year

(01:21:33):
because he refused to do this to civilian votes even
though they were drug runner boats. So this controversy isn't
going anywhere.

Speaker 1 (01:21:43):
Part of The argument about the attacks on these boats
is about the war on drugs. And yet the President
just pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former president of Honduras,
who has now been released from prison, but was convicted
here in United States court of law for drug trafficking

(01:22:04):
for a tremendous amount of cocaine being brought into the
United States. Does this pardon does it change the narrative
about Trump's commitment to the war on drugs? Does it
muddy the waters?

Speaker 13 (01:22:19):
Well, you know, I think there's no way to get around.
You know, we want to keep drugs from coming in America,
and I'm going to pardon this guy who brought tons
and tons of drugs in America. No matter how much
you say, oh, it was an unfair convicted, he was
fairly convicted in the court of law. So it is
an inconsistent message. The other is the label narco terrorists.

(01:22:41):
I mean, the nine to eleven attackers were terrorists. They
brought something we didn't want. We Americans are customers of
an illegal substance. They are bringing cocaine in to sell
because Americans are buying it. That's a little different than
bringing a bomb in to try and blow up the
World Trades and which happened before the nine to eleven

(01:23:02):
attack and then the second attacks on the World Trade Center,
So that designation is difficult on its own, and to
argue that you want to designate them terrorists because bringing
drugs in is so dangerous and killing Americans. But I'm
going to pardon this guy who did it. There's politics
behind the scenes, and it is not showing the clear,

(01:23:25):
consistent message that we would usually expect. But just Trump's
just not your usual politician.

Speaker 2 (01:23:32):
Yeah, and look, we could do a whole segment on
Laura Lumer and her influence and what you think of her,
But I will say this Loomer saying yesterday that the
Secretary of the Army's office is plotting a coup at
the Pentagon to remove Pete Hegsath and replace him with
the Secretary of the Army, Dan Driscoll. So look, I

(01:23:54):
don't know Laura Lumer is, like I said, a whole
other topic, but that story's out there as it relates
to Hegseth, and that perhaps bears watching to see if
that plays out in any way the way she's saying
it might, We're gonna have to stop it.

Speaker 6 (01:24:08):
There.

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
We always appreciate you coming on with us on Wednesdays.
Always plenty to talk about. Doctor Scott Huffman, Winthrop University
Political Science professor, hope you have a great rest of
your week Gall as well. Thanks, yes, sir, take care
and we will be back with much next hour, including
Teresa Payton, our cybersecurity expert who was tagging us on
X last night with her own sort of in real

(01:24:30):
time investigation, a story you need to know about, and
also in the spirit of it's not Giving Tuesday anymore,
but we're going to carry it over into Giving Wednesday
with a guests we have coming up at nine thirty five.

Speaker 1 (01:24:41):
And this time of year is synonymous with this organization
because you see them. You see them everywhere with their bells.

Speaker 2 (01:24:46):
You hear that Pete callaner Beth me. We're givers, we give, give,
give gifts. I don't mean to mess up your week clock.
You're w ee k clock. Not that your clock is weak,
but your weak clock, because if you listen to this show,

(01:25:08):
and you have for the last several months, you might
think this is Friday because we're we're playing this song
and we're we're talking about our new favorite segment, tell
us something good? Right right, I was looking back. You'll
understand where I'm going here in a minute. I was
looking back at when we started that. It was August fifteenth,
the first time we did that.

Speaker 1 (01:25:26):
Have we been doing it that long?

Speaker 4 (01:25:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:25:28):
So wow, longer than I thought. Yeah, so let's go
back to I don't know, August fifteenth.

Speaker 9 (01:25:33):
Got a message from Red Truck Media and they're a
real place.

Speaker 3 (01:25:37):
They said, let me tell you something good.

Speaker 9 (01:25:38):
We're gonna give you a free digital billboard in Lick
Norman to use for your favorite charity.

Speaker 1 (01:25:43):
What for us?

Speaker 3 (01:25:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:25:45):
For us?

Speaker 3 (01:25:45):
I would assume they texted the show, so.

Speaker 1 (01:25:47):
Oh, really cool, Gosh, that would be the coolest thing
in the whole world.

Speaker 3 (01:25:50):
Rain Story, Yeah, Rainstorm, it's what we got. I looked
them up. It's a legit it's a legit company.

Speaker 2 (01:25:55):
So so really Okay, So that's Bernie talking about a
note we got during that first show. And again, if
you're new to the show or you haven't listened in
a while, we have since August have been doing this
thing on Friday mornings at seven fifty. Tell us something good.
And it's that simple call in text, in email, tell
us something good. That you're excited about something that happened
to you, a member of your family. Let's put some

(01:26:15):
good out there over the fifty thousand watts every Friday,
and it's caught on like wildfire because people love this,
love the opportunity to get it out there. We'll do
it again this coming Friday, like we always do. By
the way, presented by Cars for Kids.

Speaker 1 (01:26:30):
And may I say that that segment that you just played,
Mark Dobbs, Mark from Red Truck Media, has been helping
us through this process and we in fact, and I
am sitting here, I'm gonna get choked up. I'm sitting
here looking at a picture of the billboard right now.
It is up and running. The folks at Red Truck

(01:26:51):
Media put up a billboard for dream On three. We
talked to them yesterday on Giving Tuesday. It's an organization
that Bo and I both we MC their gala every year.
The gala is happening on January thirty first. And I
am looking now at the picture of the billboard. It
is right near you. If you're familiar with I seventy seven,

(01:27:13):
which you're probably if you're on it right now, you're
sitting probably still.

Speaker 2 (01:27:17):
It's getting a really good look at this sign.

Speaker 1 (01:27:21):
It's the digital billboard near Exit thirty one, which is
the lang Tree exit off of I seventy seven. There's
a digital billboard there now and the dream on three
team created some images that they thought would be fun
for a billboard. And now that billboard is up and
running and it says be her biggest fan, and it
has a picture of one of their dream kids getting

(01:27:42):
a dream fulfilled and I can't my heart is so full,
I can't even stand it. Because this was just something
that Bo and I wanted to do because we do
feel like so many people are are feeling anxiety and
feeling anger and stressed because so much of the information
that comes out into the world, whether it be social media,
whether it be the news, that there's so much about

(01:28:04):
the negative things that are going on in the world.
We wanted to spend just a little bit of time
talking about the positive things. And because of Mark at
Red Truck Media and because of that random decision that
we made both to talk about some good things. Now
there's this beautiful billboard with this beautiful young girl on
it promoting an organization that does lovely, lovely things for

(01:28:26):
young people. In need, young people with debilitating and devastating diagnoses,
And I can't the fact that this all came full
circle and it exists in the real world now is
just one of the greatest gifts. I have not been
able to stop smiling talking about I keep talking about
it in the commercial breaks. I haven't taken the picture down.
I keep staring at this picture of this billboard.

Speaker 2 (01:28:48):
Now, you say, Brandon from Dreamlind three knows about this.
He knows it's up.

Speaker 1 (01:28:51):
Yes, Brandon knows it's up. I just texted with Brandon,
and I do want to say that one of the
greatest phone calls that I have possibly ever gotten to
make when this all happened, and I called Brandon at
Dream on three to tell him about this opportunity that
was just given to us by the amazing people at
Red Truck Media. Brandon cried, He got choked up because

(01:29:14):
it was a dream of his to have a Dream
on three billboard. But he didn't want to spend the
money on a billboard because he wants all of that
money to go to the kids. He wants all of
the money to go to the organization. And so through
all of this, just in the way that the beautiful
way that the world works and the beautiful way that
human beings work when we all work together. This all
has happened now, and what a remarkable gift the folks

(01:29:37):
at Red Truck Media have given, not only to dream
On three, but really given to us.

Speaker 2 (01:29:43):
This is our new segment tell Us Something Good that
came from tell Me something Good, right, I mean that's
what it was, right. So hopefully this is the first
of many stories like this. But tell Me Something Good
is a segment we do every Friday, seven fifty presented
by Cars for Kids who remind you to donate before
the end of the year.

Speaker 4 (01:30:01):
This is Good Morning BET.

Speaker 2 (01:30:05):
Nine thirty six on News Talk eleven to ten WBT.
Bowen Beth here final stretch on a Wednesday morning. Yesterday
was Giving Tuesday on this show. You know what we
call today Giving Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (01:30:18):
Because it's always a good time to.

Speaker 2 (01:30:20):
Give, and we're going to give right now by going
to the WBT hotline and welcome a very special.

Speaker 1 (01:30:25):
Guest, Yes from the Salvation Army. We're excited to welcome
Major Vic Tidman to our show. Welcome, thank you so
much for joining us.

Speaker 18 (01:30:34):
I'm so glad I could be here, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:30:36):
One of the things that we wanted to talk with
you about around this time of year. So many of
us are familiar with the Salvation Army, the buckets and
the folks who are out there with the big smiles
on their faces and the bells and donating this time
of year. But I think a lot of people don't
realize all of the work that you do, and most
of it comes from the donations that happen this time

(01:30:57):
of year.

Speaker 18 (01:30:58):
That's right. As a matter of fact, here in Gastonia,
we probably do almost sixty five to seventy percent of
our annual budget happens between September and January, So it's
a very critical time of the year for us to
be able to do our work.

Speaker 1 (01:31:14):
And tell us for folks who don't realize all of
the work that the Salvation Army does, what exactly you
all do for our communities, Well.

Speaker 18 (01:31:24):
There's a whole pluff for there's a whole almost limited list,
but let me just give you two or three of
the big programs that we do here. We provide food
boxes for people that are in need for food assistance.
We provide rent and utility mostly utility assistance for people

(01:31:44):
that are in cutoff situations are about to lose their power.
We run here in Gastonia a large senior citizens a
living facility. It's a low cost living facility for those
you know that are have economic issues. So that's just
three of the things they do. But we do programs

(01:32:06):
all year long.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
Now we all can think of the bell ringing outside
of the supermarket this time of year. But you just
sort of illuminated some of it right there. But if
you mentioned some of the things that the Salvation Army
does that people may not realize. But what about ways
to give there? You can drop you some money into
the into the bowl there, which you can also give

(01:32:28):
in other ways. And that's one of the things we're
trying to do this week is illuminate opportunities to give
that people may not even know are there. What can
you tell us about ways to UH to to to
donate to the Salvation Army that may not be obvious.

Speaker 18 (01:32:42):
Well, of course, the the one of the easiest ways
to do that is to is just to give online.
They would just have to enter in UH the Salvation
Army Gastonia. And there's there's two or three different opportunities
that can pop up where they can give online and
they want need to worry about that because those sounds
go to the local community. As a matter of fact,

(01:33:04):
they're tied to the person's zip code when they make
a donation, so you can actually even if you're visiting here,
you can give to your army anywhere in the United States,
but you you can do that from that web page.
So that's one way to give. And then of course
there's always our office is here on Union Road in Gastonia,

(01:33:25):
fifteen oh six Union Road, and we can take donations there.
But you're right, you're completely accurate on it this time.
You're probably the easiest way to give is to put
a donation in the kettles and that is of course
our largest fundraiser at this time of the year, and
people send us donations in the mail.

Speaker 1 (01:33:47):
I've always loved the kettles. I've always loved the folks
who are outside of the shopping malls. Are there ways
that people can volunteer, that they can volunteer not only
to work with the Salvation Army, but to be one
of the the people who has the bell and has
the big smile.

Speaker 18 (01:34:04):
Absolutely, as a matter of fact, we're desperate right now
for volunteers. We've got more sites that we'd like to
get out that we haven't been able to do because
we just we just haven't had the volunteers.

Speaker 4 (01:34:13):
To do it.

Speaker 18 (01:34:14):
And if they if they call our office here uh
and and uh, we would be we would be glad
to set them up to volunteer, uh to ring at
one of our side.

Speaker 2 (01:34:24):
So that's a and that's a you're telling us things
that we didn't know about the process that everybody always sees.
Like if you have always wanted to go ring the bell,
you know, how long are those shifts? Can people say
I have like two hours and just do two hours?
I mean, how does that work? How you schedule this?

Speaker 11 (01:34:42):
We can?

Speaker 18 (01:34:43):
We can do two hours. We'd like to do for
what we what we would like to do is is
for you know, like maybe a family to alternate off
an hour each or we especially like for groups to volunteer,
you know, and then they can come in like two
people at the time, can can ring at the kettle,
and they can shift out every hour and it's not
too onerous. If it's just an individual that wants to

(01:35:05):
do it, We'll try to facilidate a two hour shift
getting much shorter than that. You get into logistics issues
as far as making sure people have what they need
in the timely manner at different places all over town.
But yes, we can make that work.

Speaker 3 (01:35:22):
Well, there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:35:23):
There's a need we didn't realize was as dire as
it is or as you know, extreme as you say,
trying to schedule all that, and I didn't. I had
no idea about the zip code giving. That's that makes
it more convenient if you're not in town to still
give to your local community Salvation Army, and.

Speaker 1 (01:35:41):
Really quickly is their training involved? If you do volunteer
to be a bell ringer, do you have a day
of training or any kind of training that's involved, or
do you just hand them a bell and say, hey,
we want you to go outside the target.

Speaker 18 (01:35:53):
We do a little bit of both. We actually have
a video that they can watch if they get it
far far enough in advance that we can do it.
But as you probably have already guessed, it's not a
complicated job. They just have to smile and care about
people and and ring that they all and tell them
happy Holidays or Merry Christmas, or we even like an

(01:36:15):
occasional God bless you.

Speaker 1 (01:36:16):
Oh I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:36:17):
Well, Major Vic. We really really appreciate you coming on
and hope you let us know if you have anything else.
We need to relay over the fifty thousand watch because
this is the time of year where we can create awareness.
And like I said yesterday, you know, sometimes people just
have they have resources, but they don't know where to
allocate those necessarily, and we're trying to give them their

(01:36:39):
their options out there for opportunities.

Speaker 18 (01:36:43):
Thank you so much. In the Salvation Army is so committed.
You were talking about the zip code to keeping donations
in the areas where they're, where they're given and where
they belong. The kettle's average average gift of the kettle
is listen, eighty cents a person, but we raise a
tremendous amount of money on one donor at a time
through that program, and we really appreciate what everybody does.

Speaker 2 (01:37:05):
Now, one last thing while we're talking about the kettles,
because we live in a society right now where it's
getting less and less filled with cash. Like someplaces don't
even take cash anymore. Do you take checks? What all
forms of things do you take? Or is it only cash?
I don't know.

Speaker 18 (01:37:20):
No, they can put a check in the kettle. And
as a matter of fact, we've got on our signs
I'm forgetting with their call.

Speaker 1 (01:37:28):
But one of these the QR code.

Speaker 18 (01:37:31):
The QR code, Yes, that's what it is, and they
can just take their phone right there where they are
and where you get that and make a donation that way.

Speaker 2 (01:37:39):
That's perfect. See, you could be ringing the bell and
nothing's in the kettle, but actually there's a lot in
the kettle. You just can't see it because it was
digitally given.

Speaker 1 (01:37:47):
And I don't know that I would have noticed the
QR code if someone hadn't told me. So, folks look
for the QR code.

Speaker 18 (01:37:52):
Yeah, that's a great way to give.

Speaker 2 (01:37:54):
Well, we appreciate you coming on with us, and happy
holidays to you. Thank you for what you always do.

Speaker 18 (01:38:00):
Thank you, this was such a blessing. I appreciate you guys.

Speaker 2 (01:38:03):
Yes, sir, thank you. It's Major Vic tidman of the
Salvation Army talking about something we all see and we
all pass the bell being rung by the kettle. There.
But some questions you made, you know. Al Gardner used
to say, the only stupid question is the one you
don't ask and I.

Speaker 1 (01:38:19):
Love that they encourage everybody after they give money. Is
God bless you that.

Speaker 2 (01:38:22):
Bo Thompson is full of stupid questions. Don't keep asking
him though, right, Boomer?

Speaker 5 (01:38:27):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
Why not?

Speaker 16 (01:38:28):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
Somebody's got to do nobody's got to do it. You
look like a great guy to do it. I mean
me not you fit right there.

Speaker 10 (01:38:36):
Pardon me, but we do have a strict policy concerning
the handling of the instruments, and employee of Raised Music
Exchange must be president.

Speaker 1 (01:38:44):
Let's frolic and play the Eskimo way.

Speaker 10 (01:38:49):
We do now, now, you come on, I don't think
there's anything wrong with the action on this piano.

Speaker 2 (01:38:59):
Or piano well, however you do the English language.

Speaker 15 (01:39:06):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:39:06):
I'm not gonna lie though. When I'm just talking in
general conversation and that word comes up, I have now
started saying yano in dramatic fashion.

Speaker 2 (01:39:15):
We'll bring you all around eventually. I'm hoping to bring
you all all around to one Julian Price Place Friday
night for the thirty second annual Hancocks Bikes four Kids.
I don't know if it's going to be a winter wonderland,
but it could be wintry mix.

Speaker 1 (01:39:33):
It could be a winter weather land.

Speaker 2 (01:39:34):
Yeah, And I don't want that to deter you, because
if you have been around this radio station for as
long as some of us have, you know that there
have been years where the weather did not cooperate. I
can think of was it two or three years ago
where it was pouring down rain the whole time. It
doesn't matter. We still are there. We have a tent there.

(01:39:55):
We make it work. Now, when you hear about there
being a nasty weather on front ay, you may say, oh,
they're probably not going to do this. Don't make that mistake.
We will make it as easy as possible for you
to drive up. You don't even have to get out
of your car. It's like a drive through if you
want it to be that way. It's also a get
out of your car and come say hello, because our
whole team's going to be here. And by that I

(01:40:16):
mean Santa Boomer will be here, yes, and by that
I mean Charlotte's most beloved Hancock will be here, and
then all the rest of us. We're going to be
doing the radio show. So if you have not been
to this before, you can actually be on the radio too.
I am very apt to walk up and stick a
microphone in your face.

Speaker 1 (01:40:31):
Oh, I always always do. This is one of my
favorite things to do, is just bounce between cars and
talk with families, watch people donate. I especially love it
when families bring their young kids and you get to
see generations learn the importance of giving. There's just so
much beautiful that happens at this event, and I hope

(01:40:55):
that you can come be part of the beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:40:56):
You and the two of us will be on the
air at five pm to kick things off with Brett
Winterble on the broadcast, and then we will be back
for the final hour, the countdown to the big announcement
of how many bikes we collect. But again, please don't
make other plans because you see the weather. That's all.

(01:41:16):
With the weather being what it is, that's all the
more reason to tell everybody you know about Hancock's Bikes
for Kids and bring a bike. And you can also
drop off your bike at Watson Insurance in Belmont and
they will deliver those bikes to the station, so you
have that option there too. But I'm telling you we've
been doing this in one form or another for decades

(01:41:37):
here at the station, and the bike drive is always
just it's the time of year where we get to
see listeners and we get to talk to you and
get a bike from you, and hopefully you will make
Friday night what it always is. But the weather is
not the best we've seen. Hancock was in here the
other day said, you know it's right on Q. It
just gets really cold that night. And I am fully

(01:41:58):
prepared for the last thirty minutes of that to have
my lips frozen.

Speaker 9 (01:42:02):
And if you're bringing coats for Beth, you can just
wear it until you get there, right, no worries.

Speaker 2 (01:42:07):
But he no excuses, Charlotte. We gotta, we gotta, we gotta,
we gotta come out for this the way we always do,
no matter the weather.

Speaker 4 (01:42:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:42:13):
And Hancock always he's he's the loveliest human. He always
says that he's nervous every year that people aren't going
to come and donate, and our listeners never ever disappoint
They always come.

Speaker 2 (01:42:24):
And I know he's he's a little nervous this year
because of the weather.

Speaker 1 (01:42:26):
Yeah, And we don't want him to be and we
want to make sure that you give him every reason
to not be well. So Billock Billock.

Speaker 2 (01:42:35):
The night of the year that ed Billick becomes a superhero.

Speaker 3 (01:42:39):
Is oh man, he's a superhero every.

Speaker 1 (01:42:41):
Day and all kinds of He always brings chips. They're
always chips.

Speaker 3 (01:42:47):
Yeah, always chip Man.

Speaker 2 (01:42:48):
Because he used to be an executive.

Speaker 1 (01:42:51):
And they hand out bags of chips.

Speaker 3 (01:42:53):
Guys, you are right.

Speaker 2 (01:42:54):
It's the one night of the year where he becomes
more of a superhero. That's what I should have said. Yeah,
all right, thanks Bill. I'm all thank at in advance
because I know what he's gonna do on Friday night.
But WBT dot com all the details about Hancocks, bikes
for kids, rain or shine. We will be there. I
hope you will be too. Thanks for being here today.
Thanks to Mark Garrison and Jim Zochi and Boomer von

(01:43:15):
Cannon and Steve and Bernie and good talk Beeth.

Speaker 1 (01:43:17):
Okay, talk to bye bye, by a fun storming to Castle,
can awake?

Speaker 15 (01:43:22):
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Speaker 1 (01:43:25):
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Speaker 2 (01:43:27):
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Speaker 1 (01:43:33):
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