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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Why not at the time?

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Are you not at the time?

Speaker 3 (00:04):
From News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three w
BT HBO will show this feature only at night. This
is Good Morning Beatty with both Thompson and bed Troutman.

Speaker 4 (00:16):
And now Sonic Man says back to Foe and Bath,
can I POxy?

Speaker 5 (00:41):
You can't be said it's turn o'clock before, say, baby,
I can never turn How do you sleep?

Speaker 3 (00:53):
So you telling me.

Speaker 6 (00:58):
To go to bed before the.

Speaker 7 (00:59):
Day, but then you wake up for the sun. You
know you don't go pertune. They didn't know. Then you
just want no talka bott names. If you're going, I

(01:21):
think it's great, But while in the swirl, I think
CONTI scar.

Speaker 6 (01:30):
Not coming back, and you're too sweet for me.

Speaker 8 (01:38):
You are too sweet for.

Speaker 6 (01:45):
As much as I love the song, I got to
change the song. I'm sorry, I agree, I have to.

Speaker 9 (01:53):
Change the song.

Speaker 6 (01:57):
Set I mean, come on, am I wrong?

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (02:00):
If I could have made this happen for you, Bernie,
I would have.

Speaker 9 (02:04):
It's happy birthday, Bernie, Happy birthday, Bernie on.

Speaker 6 (02:21):
Your twenty ninth birthday.

Speaker 11 (02:22):
That's a great birthday.

Speaker 6 (02:23):
I'm sorry, I have to change the song again.

Speaker 11 (02:26):
Oh yes, that's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 6 (02:32):
Now, it's your birthday, It's Bernie Day.

Speaker 11 (02:36):
Thank you guys so much.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
We love you.

Speaker 12 (02:38):
So Yesterday bo and I were texting and I was like,
we were trying to do the math and figure out
exactly how old you are today, but we settled on
twenty nine, although we know that's not true.

Speaker 11 (02:48):
Not quite a man yet. I'm close six years away.

Speaker 10 (02:50):
To start growing chin hair.

Speaker 8 (02:52):
We decided we're going to cut you it half and
count the rings.

Speaker 6 (02:54):
There you go, just like a tree street, and you'll
still have more than the Panthers and the Hornets, a.

Speaker 8 (03:03):
Podcast than even the Yankees, like a mean podcast.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Now in school there see speak Ski school.

Speaker 6 (03:15):
I'm not gonna have to go back to Hosier, am I.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Not at all?

Speaker 12 (03:18):
Or Hosier whatever his name is.

Speaker 13 (03:23):
Wait?

Speaker 6 (03:23):
Did I just do it? Is it really Hoser?

Speaker 12 (03:26):
No, we had this whole I've always said Hosier, but
I think somebody said it's Hosiery.

Speaker 6 (03:31):
But I said Hosier.

Speaker 10 (03:32):
That's well, I say Hosier too, That's what I said,
But you.

Speaker 6 (03:34):
Kind of sounded like I messed it up.

Speaker 8 (03:36):
Oh no, okay, I always go with whatever Boo.

Speaker 12 (03:40):
Because he's pretty dead on most of the time most
of the time. So we learned yesterday Bertie, you were
here for it that he says basil.

Speaker 11 (03:47):
Oh, instead of basle.

Speaker 9 (03:49):
That's so I was thinking the Austin Powers version Basil, Hello,
Basil or Basil. She was saying off the air, this
is great because now we make in front of my pronunciations.

Speaker 6 (03:59):
Wherever was that off the air?

Speaker 10 (04:01):
Yes, that was not on the ah No, never mind,
he doesn't say that in.

Speaker 6 (04:05):
The middle of the breaks, I said, Basil. She said,
what emis on? Huh is that is that bad?

Speaker 11 (04:11):
Basil?

Speaker 6 (04:11):
Basil?

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Basil?

Speaker 11 (04:13):
I call it basil like a Z almost almost like
a z.

Speaker 8 (04:15):
Bernie, you say it, correct you and everybody else says basil.

Speaker 11 (04:19):
You say it how it's it's spelled bough.

Speaker 12 (04:21):
But no, I feel bad. For some reason, I thought
that was on the air. I thought we were talking
about crackers on the air.

Speaker 6 (04:25):
It is now good morning, everybody, mission to accomplished tweet.

Speaker 12 (04:30):
Thems have delicious tomato basil crackers.

Speaker 6 (04:34):
That's that's what it came out of.

Speaker 12 (04:35):
Yeah, that's that's what it came out of. We were
talking about we were talking about ritz crackers.

Speaker 9 (04:40):
Wait a minute, maybe it did happen on the air,
and I think it didn't. Somebody out there can tell us.

Speaker 12 (04:44):
Oh, Steve just said it was definitely not author Okay,
thank you, thank you.

Speaker 10 (04:47):
See this is the this is the hard.

Speaker 8 (04:49):
Gooding he does America's Now it's been both off and
non air, happened both ways.

Speaker 12 (04:52):
But this is this goes to show you that we
are not different people off the air, because now we
can't even.

Speaker 8 (04:58):
Know when we're on witch conversation.

Speaker 6 (05:00):
What were we doing?

Speaker 8 (05:01):
Oh yeah, back to the topic, Bernie.

Speaker 6 (05:04):
Yes, back to Bernie.

Speaker 9 (05:07):
Bernie bowls and I do want to say this, Bernie
is the glue that holds this show together.

Speaker 10 (05:12):
It's blue guy one hundred percent.

Speaker 9 (05:15):
To borrow and old Bill Razinski phrase, He's the straw
that stirs the drink.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (05:19):
Oh and that drink, of course, is vanilla diet.

Speaker 11 (05:22):
You got to say in Bill's voice.

Speaker 9 (05:24):
Though, Bernie here, like David Langton, the straw that stirs
the drink.

Speaker 6 (05:30):
Oh great, happy to go to Borio.

Speaker 9 (05:36):
So yeah, in all seriousness, what will we do without Bernie?

Speaker 10 (05:39):
What would we do without you? We're so glad you
were born.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
Bernie.

Speaker 14 (05:42):
Thank you, guys.

Speaker 11 (05:42):
I'm happy to good job, buddy, Just happy to be
happy to be here and be a part of this.
And it's just it's fun every day. I mean, how
many people love going to I mean I told him
I want to work on my birthday. She's like, why
don't you take a birthday off? And I was like, no,
I like being at work on my birthday. Oh And
I don't know if I felt that ever in any place.
Like I like being you know with all my friends,
you know you guys and afternoon folks and everybody through

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throughout the station.

Speaker 12 (06:06):
That's the greatest compliment in the world that you want
to be here on your birthday.

Speaker 11 (06:10):
No, I do. It's and I'm much much less tired
than when I'm home.

Speaker 8 (06:13):
You know, what's your birthday was like at nine am
instead at five am?

Speaker 11 (06:17):
I think I was born at like eight something in
the morning. So hothsober.

Speaker 9 (06:19):
Yeah, well, you know what they say, it's Bernie's birthday somewhere.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Good morning, all.

Speaker 12 (06:38):
Right, hey, sorry, sorry, the text line is already lighting
up with birthday messages. Aaron has already sent you some
candles in a happy birthday.

Speaker 11 (06:45):
Very nice. Thank you guys.

Speaker 9 (06:46):
Well, and we got you more than compliments for your birthday.
We have something for you, but we're gonna save that.

Speaker 11 (06:50):
For a little bit later in the middle Teresa segment.

Speaker 6 (06:53):
Right, Teresa. That's a good tease. Yeah, we're gonna right
in the middle of Teresa.

Speaker 15 (06:57):
Teresa.

Speaker 6 (06:57):
Thanks, We're done. Time for more, Bernie.

Speaker 10 (07:00):
That is your birthday present, Bernie, Teresa.

Speaker 8 (07:02):
Great, first birthday guest has arrived.

Speaker 9 (07:05):
What a gift traffic check right now, speaking of gifts
to Charlotte every day.

Speaker 6 (07:11):
Yes, a return Boomer Vodkas.

Speaker 15 (07:15):
Thanks Bow and Beth.

Speaker 6 (07:16):
Hey, Bernie, Hey, your man?

Speaker 15 (07:18):
What day is it?

Speaker 3 (07:19):
My man?

Speaker 11 (07:19):
Other than oh it's Humpy that day? Hey, it's that day,
all right? Happy birthday, thanks Boomer. I appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
This is good morning Betty with both Thompson and.

Speaker 9 (07:30):
Beth trout Man, Wednesday, August sixth Boe and Beth in
the Ty Boyd Studio, or actually today it's.

Speaker 6 (07:41):
The Bernie Bowls Studio. Ty would be okay with that too.
I would say happy birthday, Bernie.

Speaker 10 (07:47):
Ty would love you. Bernie loved here.

Speaker 11 (07:49):
I'm excited.

Speaker 9 (07:51):
Well, you know what else, it's the Bernie Bulls Tie
Boyd Studio. It's the Teresa Peyton cybersecurity segment that we
do at least one a week. Last week it was
two because we had sort of an alert on Friday
with the FBI.

Speaker 6 (08:06):
Warning about the scared spider.

Speaker 9 (08:08):
And by the way, maybe we should start their news
talk eleven to ten WBT welcoming the great Teresa Payton
back to the show.

Speaker 6 (08:14):
Hi Teresa, Hi, good morning.

Speaker 16 (08:16):
How are you?

Speaker 6 (08:17):
We're very very well today.

Speaker 9 (08:19):
So we talked to you on Friday special cameo appearance
by Teresa about the scared spider warning from the FBI.
Anything new on that front today?

Speaker 16 (08:30):
They just continue to basically all businesses need to continue
to be on high alert. I know that cyberliability insurance
companies are kind of just checking in with their clients
making sure they're doing everything they can to be safe.
But they are still out and about and they're really

(08:53):
creating challenges for information Technology helped us because that is
a big part of how they're getting into companies. Right now,
now as we all lock that down, they're just going
to come back with the new scheme. But their current
most popular used scheme is either tricking you, Beth and
Boone to thinking your help desk is calling you, or

(09:13):
trying to trick your help desk into thinking it's Beth
or Bo who needs to get their password reset.

Speaker 12 (09:18):
You know, Teresa there, I was part of or I
got a scam email, I should say. And I wanted
to tell you and everybody else about this because I
researched it, because I've talked to you so much that
I know exactly what to do. But there is a
scam that comes from an email that looks like it
is legitimate. It looks like it's from someone that you
potentially know, and it's a PayPal invoice saying that you

(09:41):
have purchased Ethereum, I guess what is that? Some kind
of like website or some kind of internet access and
you get what did you say, Steve, it's crypto. Oh
so I'm nowhere close crypto. So I got this invoice.
And here's the thing that the dog. Here's the thing
that troubled me is if you go through emails and

(10:03):
you see an email and you open it on your iPhone,
for example, sometimes iPhone will download a link on its own,
you know it. Just as soon as you open the email,
it starts downloading whatever that link is, and then the
invoice popped up, which is how I even saw the invoice.
And then I got freaked out thinking, oh my gosh,
this has now infected my phone, and I immediately did
the Teresa thing where.

Speaker 10 (10:23):
I just cut my phone off, just shut it down.

Speaker 12 (10:27):
But there's this kind of new scam out there that
the invoice itself is asking you to call an eight
hundred number if you didn't purchase this crypto purchase. And
it's all through PayPal, and suddenly, for some reason, now
I can't even get into my PayPal account.

Speaker 11 (10:42):
Oh that's a problem.

Speaker 9 (10:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (10:43):
So and it could just be it's just like a
moment of panic or somebody might have been trying to
get into your PayPal account and that's why it's locked up,
you know, out of safety because it's too many password resets.
So maybe just sit tight. But you did the right thing,
which was okay, wait, this all feels really really wrong.
I'm gonna go to search. I'm going to look it up. Okay,

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this is definitely a scam. Now what do I do next?
You reset your phone. That's usually a good thing to do.
Some of the other things that people can think about
doing is actually fording or reporting the phishing attempt to
Report fraud dot FTC, dot gov. There is also the
IC three dot gov, which is the FBI's Internet Crime

(11:27):
Complaint Center. And then the other thing you can do
is report phishing or report spam, depending on who your
email provider is inside the email, and what they'll end
up doing is sort of taking what you reported. They
will scrub it out of your inbox, your outbox, and
they will take a look at it and then they
will block it from hitting everybody else's in basket. So

(11:50):
that can be a really helpful thing to do as well.

Speaker 9 (11:52):
I just realized that Teresa was being very polite and
not correcting me a minute ago.

Speaker 6 (11:56):
But it's Scattered Spider. It's not Scared Spider.

Speaker 9 (12:00):
Well, they scared us, they should, but Scattered Spider is
what you need to be looking out for. And like
she says, if if you get a prompt to change
your password, when usually we say change your passwords and
keep them, you know, keep the scamster's guessing. This is
not one of those cases. Scattered Spider, he said.

Speaker 12 (12:21):
You know, she was being polite with you with Scattered
Spider and with me saying Etheroryum was a website, not cryptos.

Speaker 6 (12:28):
She's just rolling along with us exactly.

Speaker 9 (12:30):
But here's something that I do want to get your
take on and Beth and I've been talking about we
had a story a few weeks ago about the the
jobs that are in most danger of AI taking over,
and unfortunately, you know, broadcaster was in the top ten
of that list. Now you can sort of parse that
out as to what exactly you mean by a broadcaster
is at a talk radio person or is at a

(12:51):
newscast or whatever. But at any rate, I want to
go the other direction because there's a story out this
morning that says one of the most AI proof jobs,
Kristen Bernard is going to like this a realtor.

Speaker 6 (13:03):
That's pretty interesting.

Speaker 16 (13:06):
It is interesting because you know, there was this move
for a while there of like do you really need
the real estate agent? We could do everything on the internet,
and then we realized that that that a lot could
go wrong there not having a trained professional, license professional
helping us with these transactions. This gets back to we

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really are craving the human personal touch on many transactions.
And you know, for many people, buying a home is
something you do maybe once in your lifetime. You know,
it is a huge dream of so many Americans. And
I think what Americans are saying is I don't want

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to buy a home from a bot, you know, I
want to work with somebody who hears what my personal
or my family's requirements are, thinks about us, can visualize us,
you know, where we want to be. And I want
people very much in this transaction. So I thought that
was very interesting as well though, that that is going
to be one of the occupations potentially predicted to be

(14:13):
leased at.

Speaker 12 (14:13):
Risk and really really quickly sticking with AI, the President
has launched an AI Challenge to schools.

Speaker 10 (14:21):
Tell us about that.

Speaker 16 (14:23):
Yes, and so everybody, you know, this is the time
to talk to your principles about this. This is really
really important. So student teams around the United States will
be able to complete a project that involves either the study, development,
or use of an AI method to address community challenges.
So you know, the quote from the presidential challenge website

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is this program seeks to inspire young people and educators
to create AI based innovation solutions to community challenges while
fostering AI interest and competency. So they want this to
be a project that makes the world a better place.
And this is something that has to be educator driven.

(15:08):
So that means the principal the administrative staff, the faculty,
they have to work with the students sponsor the projects.
That these projects will be due by January twentieth of
twenty twenty six. There will be a nationwide competition and
there's more information at the Presidential AI Challenge site.

Speaker 6 (15:32):
Teresa Payton.

Speaker 9 (15:33):
You can follow her on Twitter or to most of
us now x, but you can follow her Teresa or
at track or paytent It's or handle And a lot
of times we run out of time to talk about
certain subjects here or elaborate on them in Teresa. A
lot of times we'll answer your follow up questions online
if you go that route. We appreciate your expertise as always,
and hope you have a great rest of the week.

Speaker 16 (15:54):
Yes, Beth and bo the time does go by so fast,
and be safe out there.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
This is good morning, Beaty.

Speaker 9 (16:13):
So I saw him passing yesterday that we are about
six months away from the Winter Olympics, but we're creeping
up on the twenty twenty eight Summer Olympics in La too.
And yesterday at the White House, President Trump held a
news conference to announce a task force to oversee the

(16:33):
American Olympics coming.

Speaker 17 (16:34):
Up Today I'll sign an executive order establishing the White
House Task Course on the twenty twenty eight Summer Olympics,
mobilizing the entire federal government to ensure the games are safe, seamless,
and historically successful.

Speaker 18 (16:49):
It's going to be amazing. I think it's going to
be amazing.

Speaker 17 (16:52):
America is a nation of champions, and in July twenty
twenty eight will show the world what America does best.
And that's when we're winning like we have never won before.
You see that all the time. A year ago we
were not a country that was doing well. And now
with the hottest country anywhere in the world.

Speaker 9 (17:09):
So twenty twenty eighth, that summer, you think about it,
that will be I mean, that'll be a huge event.
It will be in the closing days of his second presidency.
By the time we get there, will be in the
beginning of the middle of an election summer, and so
it's going to be a completely different time and a
busy time for this country right there. And then of
course next summer you're going to have the two hundred

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and fiftieth anniversary of our country and that celebration, so
two huge sort of tent pole American celebrations. Twenty twenty
six is the two hundred and fiftieth and then twenty
twenty eight the the Summer Olympics in LA So there's
a lot coming up in this second Trump administration. It's
going to be interesting to see how this all plays

(17:52):
out well.

Speaker 12 (17:53):
And just think how much has happened in the first
seven months of this his second administration. Think how much
is going to happen between now and the twenty twenty
eight Olympics in Los Angeles. And think about how those candidates,
whoever ends up being the two candidates who are running
against each other for president of the United States in

(18:13):
twenty twenty eight, think about how they're going to use
the Olympics to be, you know, campaign stops.

Speaker 9 (18:19):
I'm glad you mentioned that because it naturally flows into
the next comment from President Trump yesterday, Peter Doocey from Fox. So,
President Trump goes and has a news conference about the
Olympic Task Force, but then, as he is prone to do,
opens up the room for questions. A lot of different questions,
but this one sort of connects right to what you
were alluding to.

Speaker 6 (18:40):
This weekend.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Secretary of State Rubio said that he thought JD. Vance
would be a great nominee. You could clear the entire
Republican field right now. Do you agree that the heir
apparent to Maga is Jade Vance?

Speaker 18 (18:54):
Well, I think most likely, in all fairness, he's the
vice president.

Speaker 17 (18:57):
I think Marco is also somebody that maybe would get
together with JD.

Speaker 18 (19:02):
In some form.

Speaker 17 (19:03):
I also think we have incredible people, some of the
people in the stage right here. So it's too early
obviously to talk about it, but certainly he's doing a
great job and he would be probably favorite.

Speaker 18 (19:14):
At this point.

Speaker 9 (19:15):
We have Scott Hoffman on for our weekly hit coming
up at eight thirty five. He's, of course a political
science professor at Winthrop, but I want to ask him
about this because you're starting to hear some whispers about
Vance and Rubio, and some people are saying, like Trump
sort of alluded to there maybe Vance Rubio ticket, but

(19:36):
you wonder on the way to it, and it could
be this. It could be that they are separate candidates
and then they know one of them obviously gets the
upper hand and they joined together. But you know, you
could you could imagine a Rubio Vance ticket. You could
also imagine a Rubio versus vance primary.

Speaker 12 (19:53):
Yes, I in my mind, I feel like that is
the likely scenario because we already know Mark Kribio has
run for president before. We saw him throw his hat
in the ring before, and it's something that we know
that he's interested in, and I think is probably one
of the reasons he was incredibly interested in being Secretary
of State.

Speaker 9 (20:12):
So other things discussed yesterday, you might expect what's going
on in Texas. That's a huge story with the possible redistricting,
and you have members of government there that are leaving
the state. And President Trump was asked about this yesterday Texas.

Speaker 19 (20:29):
Senator John Cornyn. Texas Senator John Cornyn is asking for
your help to force Democrats back to the state and
hold them accountable. Do you want the federal government and
the FBI to help locate and arrest these Texas Democrats
who have left the state.

Speaker 18 (20:43):
Well, I think they've abandoned the state.

Speaker 17 (20:45):
Nobody's seen anything like it, even though they've done it
twice before, and in a certain way, it almost looks
like they've abandoned the state.

Speaker 11 (20:52):
Looks very bad.

Speaker 18 (20:53):
Yeah, go ahead, PLEASEI get involved.

Speaker 10 (20:55):
Should the FBI get involved, Well.

Speaker 18 (20:56):
They may have to. They may have to No.

Speaker 6 (20:58):
I know they want them back.

Speaker 17 (20:59):
Not only the attorney general, the governor wants them back.
If you look, I mean the governor of Texas is
demanding they come back. So a lot of people are
demanding they come back. You can't just sit it out.
You have to go back. You have to fight it out.
That's what elections are all about.

Speaker 9 (21:15):
I was talking to winter Will yesterday in the afternoon
about this story, and the fascinating part of it is
not just Texas, but it's what sort of precedent Texas
may set and what other states may do in reaction
to this.

Speaker 12 (21:27):
Yeah, I think we're all going to be impacted by
this story because you're seeing other states, almost in retaliation,
take on their own redistricting measures so that they can
fight this idea that Texas is redistricting in order to
keep a Republican majority.

Speaker 6 (21:43):
In the House.

Speaker 9 (21:44):
In twenty twenty six, second straight morning, that rain is
coming down, likely where you are as you're on your
way to work. How much of a factor is it
going to be today? Is it going to be a
repeat of yesterday? We'll see coming up a race Stagic
from the Weather Channel will join us. So as you
plan your Wednesday morning. Weather is a major concern across

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the Charlotte area for a second straight day, and this
is quite a difference of a week. We knew this
was coming. In fact, this is the guy that put
it on our radar first. Race Stagic said, once we
get done with these sweltering temperatures, get ready because we're
going to go back in the other direction, kind of
like a like like correcting where we were. Race Stagic
joined us right now on Good morning, BT, Good morning.

Speaker 13 (22:27):
Ray, Hey Bo, good morning.

Speaker 9 (22:29):
So we have rain coming down for a second straight day.
The Panthers, actually Carolina Panthers and the Cleveland Browns have
a joint practice later on today. But their coach was
saying yesterday, Hey, you know, we're going to have to
play in the element. So we'll get out there and
we'll get after it. But they're expecting rain again. I
guess the question is people drive in this morning. Is
is it going to be the soaker that yesterday was?

Speaker 13 (22:50):
Kyle, It's tough to compete was what we had yesterday.
Let's just cut Mecklenburg County in half by about forty
five degrees south west to northeast and to the west
northwest of that line, it was about a half an
inch to up to an inch and a half to
just over two inches of rain at the airport. Then
you go west to that where some of the worst

(23:10):
of the flooding was, and just west over four inches
of rain. Alexander Middle School four point three six had
three inches, at Bain Elementary, over at Matthews just over
three inches. And now we got that three or four
inches of rainfall. That's where we've seen some of the
worst of the flooding. But now today the focus of
the rain is basically west northwest of Interstate eighty five,

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and that's where some of the heavier rains coming through
up through York County and right on through a line
through western Mecklenburg County heading on up toward the north
and west of that. So moderate to even heavy rainfall.
But the problem is it's not going to take much
to get additional ponding of the water on the roadways
that may already be occurring and additional flooding. The interesting
part about it is that the floodwatches for Eastern County, Stanley,

(23:58):
Anson Counties and points east of that where the rain
was heavier yesterday. So this batch kind of gets into
an area that didn't see the heaviest of the rain
but still got heavy rain yesterday. But some of that
rain is going to extend over Interstate eighty five and
go on off toward the east just a little bit
here over the next several hours, coming in from the

(24:18):
south and the southwest, and another probably prolonged period here
of rain this morning. But for the Panthers, if that's
this afternoon with the Browns, we actually trend towards some
dryer weather coming in with maybe just some leftover rain or.

Speaker 9 (24:31):
Showers actually kind of mid morning. So it sounds like
they'll get a little bit but not like they got yesterday.

Speaker 10 (24:37):
They'll have a soppy field.

Speaker 13 (24:39):
Yeah yeah, But Megan, as they said, well these days
they play in the elements. Yeah. I guess in the
NFL they do. But I was, yeah, okay, yeah, there'll
be some rain this morning. I don't want to get
into that discussion.

Speaker 12 (24:52):
We got a text from one of our listeners who said, FYI,
this is from Bob. Bob says, FYI, team. As of
yesterday afternoon, my rain engage was at six and three
quarters inches of rain between York and McConnell's and then
he was saying it's raining again right now, and of
course that ground is already saturated.

Speaker 13 (25:12):
Yeah, absolutely, And yes, there were totals that did exceed
six eight inches of rainfall. Once again, you know, whether
it's a backyard rain gage or whatever it is, some
of the estimated rainfall totals from Doppler radar did exceed
six to eight inches. Thus we ended up where we
were yesterday. So officially the report from a Bank of

(25:33):
America stadium. As I was stalling there five point three
seven inches, I knew it was in here somewhere, and
I was able to dig it out. So now starting
to see more rain. Looks like it's just getting into
that area right now, and heavier rain to the southwest.
So yeah, very wet morning. And all I can say
about when we get a flood thread and we get

(25:55):
advisories and or flash flood warnings, please do not cross
water covered roadways. We saw it yesterday. We seen it
every time we get flash flooding, not just here but
anywhere across the US. You see cars floating, You see
cars that get covered in water even up to the
wheel wells that is high enough to take your car away.
You don't want to end up being stuck in flash flooding.

(26:16):
It is very dangerous. And this is dangerous because of
the rain we had yesterday and this additional rain, things
could happen quickly here this morning. So I'd rather air
on the side of caution rather than just say, you know,
maybe not widespread flooding, because I don't know how the
ground's going to react to the rain coming today because
of what happened yesterday.

Speaker 9 (26:37):
Ray Stagic from the Weather Channel. We'll stay in touch
with you and your colleagues throughout the day. We appreciate
the time. All right, guys, News Talk eleven ten WBT.
Before we hit the top of the hour, he was
talking about some of these spots yesterday that got just
a lot more rain than others. I mean, I was
looking at some of the if you're going like a
micro local here Collins would five point one to three inches,

(26:58):
Freedom Park four point four to four inches. Down at
Camp Thunderbird, my old stomping grounds five inches are actually
five point oh two, so just over five. And then
you get in places like let's Thompson Road four point
sixty nine, Hidden Valley three three and a quarter. I
mean these are like Ray said, McAlpine Creek four point

(27:19):
oh five. If you're in those areas today and you get,
you get, you know, a dousing on top of that.
That's what you gotta be careful about, because how much
more can the soil take?

Speaker 8 (27:29):
Right?

Speaker 12 (27:29):
The ground is saturated and like you said, do not
cross standing water.

Speaker 11 (27:33):
There was that.

Speaker 12 (27:33):
Do you remember the PSA that was like, turn around,
don't drown. Your car is not a boat.

Speaker 10 (27:39):
Yes, that's what you need to remember.

Speaker 6 (27:41):
I remember it, just like that's the way you're saying it.
Your car is not a boat. It's not. It's almost
seven o'clock.

Speaker 13 (27:49):
Are you doing? I'm thinking, well, thank me up a
cup of coffee and chocolate donut with some of those.

Speaker 11 (27:53):
Little sprinkles on top. Where you're doing? You're thinking?

Speaker 3 (27:56):
From News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three w.

Speaker 11 (27:59):
BT Hey Sam Practicing gratitude, manifesting abundance.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
This is good morning beat with boats hubs it at
bed and trout bit.

Speaker 9 (28:10):
Job.

Speaker 6 (28:11):
How straight this whole thing out?

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Mill of time?

Speaker 9 (28:17):
As see got the Bernie bumpers on his birthday. Got
a bit more to say about Bernie turning twenty nine?
Coming up, in just a little bit. But the Carolina Panthers,
in honor of Bernie's birthday, are going to have a
joint practice with the Cleveland Browns in the rain.

Speaker 8 (28:36):
They planned this for the special today, So that's.

Speaker 6 (28:38):
Right, that's right, coming up at ten am. Rain or shine.

Speaker 9 (28:42):
In fact, Dave Canalis yesterday, I actually loved the rain
because you know, got to play in some rain.

Speaker 6 (28:49):
This is Dave Canalis.

Speaker 20 (28:51):
We're just gonna practice. The field was great, so the
turf itself, there wasn't a lot of slipping. Our grounds
crew have done an amazing job just making sure that
you know, it's draining properly and all that. So we'll
go out there, we'll practice, you know, and and I
think Kevin kind of expects that. He texted me this morning,
he said, looks like rain for the next thirty seven days,

(29:12):
you know. So, but it'll be uh, it'll be good.
The energy will be good, you know, the competitive environment
will bring they won't even be thinking about the water,
I promise you it'll be It'll be about this opportunity
to go against other pros. So we're excited about that.

Speaker 6 (29:26):
Now, he was He was more subdued there.

Speaker 9 (29:28):
Bernie actually go back and give me the first one
the Panthers one clip because he comes into the news
conference yesterday after all this rain. Everybody's kind of having
kind of a you know, it's kind of a gray
day out there, kind of melancholy. Who I've gone into
Bob Ross, But you know what the opposite of Bob
Ross is Dave Canalis.

Speaker 6 (29:46):
What a gift.

Speaker 20 (29:49):
I mean, just to get the experience of it that
could happen, that could happen to us early in the season,
you know here with just some of the storms I've
been rolling through. So I think the passing was a
little sloppy. There were kind of some what would normally
be like some obvious catches for guys that went through
hands on both sides. Really some interceptions that we kind

(30:10):
of missed opportunities. But you know, the challenge to the
team was coming off the day off was you know,
I think the last rack we had, we came off
a break and kind of stumbled our way into practice
and found our energy by the end. But I saw
JC and Derek and a Sean grabbed the defense together

(30:30):
before the first drill and really, like I can tell
they were challenging each other.

Speaker 11 (30:34):
We got to go.

Speaker 20 (30:35):
Now the offense kind of had the same mentality, and
from snap one to the end of the practice, you know,
the energy was great.

Speaker 6 (30:42):
So here we go.

Speaker 9 (30:44):
Race Digic just told us it's going to be rain
off and on today, and so playing in the elements,
you got to practice in the elements if you're going
to play right in the elements, right Zoke Cleveland used
to playing.

Speaker 8 (30:53):
In snow and ice, so for them this is kind
of a break from that weather. And Dave Canalis is,
like we talked about, Bryce Young comes out a lot time,
so like quiz the reporters and it kind of asked
what's going on with them? Dave has has embraced the
fact that he is overly positive at all times. So
he's begun many of these press conferences now by just
over the top greetings like that. So every day is
the greatest day, and it's and I think he means

(31:14):
it by the way he does mean it, and I
think he just embraces it now and just plays it
up even more.

Speaker 10 (31:18):
I could not love that more.

Speaker 6 (31:22):
I want to hear Beth Troutman interview Dave Canalis. Doesn't
the world need.

Speaker 10 (31:27):
That try to one up each other?

Speaker 6 (31:28):
With positivity, world might implode.

Speaker 8 (31:30):
I think it might just expert Maybe it's how it
was created in the first place, theory that's it.

Speaker 9 (31:37):
Now a huge story, and this broke late yesterday is
the fact that Shador Sanders is now number one on
the depth chart for the QBS for the Cleveland Browns. Now,
we've talked on this show, and it's been talked about
a lot out there about how many quarterbacks they actually have.
But with all the stuff that happened on Draft Day
and Shador now this game on Friday night, and I

(31:58):
saw that the NFL network is also carrying this. So
there's some national interest beyond just Charlotte, because everybody wants
to know what's going to happen the first time Shador
goes on the field as a pro, and it's going
to be at MENK of America Stadium.

Speaker 8 (32:09):
And he's he's number one for this game. They have
some injuries with Kenny Pickett and Dylan Gabriel. They've got
Joe Flacco, and they brought in Tyler Hunting, say right
out of quarterbacks because they're getting hurt. So but this
is beyond all that. It's an open competition to see
who will eventually be the starting quarterback in Cleveland, and
this is the one people want to see. I think
people want to see Dion's kid, and he played so
great at Colorado. It was a big story that he

(32:31):
dropped from maybe being what many thought he top five
pick in the draft to a fifth round draft pick overall.
But now you get the ball in your hands and
you have an opportunity to show what you can do.
So it'll be interesting to see what he does with that.
So I think it does take on a little bit
more weight, you know, Cleveland especially, but Nashally, I think
people are excited to see what he could do.

Speaker 6 (32:49):
Who was right?

Speaker 8 (32:50):
Is he a fifth round pick who would just be
a career backup? Does he have star abilities? So I
think a lot of folks will be interested from that,
And for us, I think we're excited about seeing the
Panther starters play these first two preseas games because they
didn't do that last year till a third preseason game,
and now I think they kind of learned that lesson
that they need to get all the work in that
they can heading into the regular season.

Speaker 9 (33:07):
So you know, you want to see if Bryce is
carrying over the momentum. I know it's preseason, but it's
still he's on the field and this is football, a
preseason football. And then Shador actually spoke to reporters in
Cleveland on Monday.

Speaker 21 (33:20):
I think every rep I get in general is valuable.
You know, we definitely take it things up on knots,
I would say, with everything. So every rep, you know,
anytime I step on the field, I take it, you know,
like it could be my last, because you don't know,
it's players that we was just practicing with last week
that's not here no more. So, like I said, it's

(33:41):
more about a bond. It's more about going all out.
It's more about you know, how you'll be remembered, you know.

Speaker 9 (33:48):
All Right, So Panthers and the Browns will be on
the practice field at ten am this morning. It's the
first of two joint practices with teams, this time the
Browns and then next week the Houston Texans.

Speaker 8 (34:00):
Yeah, and the players look forward to it. I mean
it gives them a chance to again kind of have
a practice that is more involved and they get to
really do more football things than kind of the drills
and so forth. And you're competing against another team instead
of your own teammates is a little bit of an unknown
as far as what they present from these matchups and
these challenges, and for the players, I think, you know,
the coaching staff loves these because they could kind of

(34:20):
orchestrate what the practice looks like, you know, scenarios and situations,
whereas preseason game is whatever the game turns out to be.
If you fumble the ball and now you can't look
at your offense for a while, or you do a
three and out, you don't get to look at them
very long. This way, you can do ripes over and
over again, and both teams get to really focus on
some of the things they're working on.

Speaker 9 (34:36):
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rainy yesterday too, so Boomer von Cannon.

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Right, Boom?

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Speaker 12 (34:50):
You're so excited, Boomer is counting, you know what? Boomeran
Dean sent us a text message. He's excited about the rain,
but he wanted to remind people to turn on their headlights.

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Oh yes, absolutely, you look it out for all of
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Bo Thompson, Beth Trumpman, Jim Zoki is Sir Stephen of
Anthony and featuring Bernie Bowles.

Speaker 6 (35:49):
You better believe it today it's his birthday. Nice to
be featured Bernie Day. One thing we've all done.

Speaker 9 (35:58):
I think all the fellas in the room can admit
we've all upped our birthday games since the arrival of
Beth Troutman's that.

Speaker 8 (36:06):
My fault as in recognizing and acknowledging that was a starter.

Speaker 9 (36:10):
Boy, I mean you know Facebook and Beth Troutman have
done just wonders for birthdays in America and across the world.
I mean really like without Facebook, Like who wouldn't know
anyone's birthday?

Speaker 8 (36:26):
Sad was always shouting across the house to be it's
party's birthday tomorrow.

Speaker 9 (36:31):
I mean, and now it's like if Facebook weren't here,
like no one would know when the other was born.
Uh and and and in Beth, since she she got here,
I mean before you were here. It's not just birthdays,
like we didn't talk before.

Speaker 6 (36:42):
You got it.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
We didn't.

Speaker 8 (36:44):
It's like Christmas like nothing. We didn't acknowledge any holidays
or oh.

Speaker 12 (36:48):
Y'all now annoyed, you're like, oh man, I got to
buy another press.

Speaker 6 (36:51):
It was simpler, it was.

Speaker 8 (36:54):
It was a simpler time.

Speaker 12 (36:55):
I love birthdays because birthdays are it's it's your day,
you know, day you were birth Yes, it's not the
it's not the hallmark holiday that you know somebody created
so that you could go out and buy flowers or car.

Speaker 10 (37:09):
It's your birthday.

Speaker 11 (37:10):
Shots to people born on Valentine's Day.

Speaker 10 (37:12):
You valid or Groundhog Day or.

Speaker 11 (37:15):
For those people, Beth, you hate people that were born
on holidays.

Speaker 12 (37:18):
I love people born on holidays, but it would be
harder because you don't get to just have your own birthday.

Speaker 6 (37:22):
Oh yeah, I always felt bad.

Speaker 9 (37:24):
I mean, being born on holidays is one thing, but
even just in close proximity like me, like, well, yeah,
you're on the other side of Christmas. And then I
had an uncle growing up that his was the twenty third,
and I had a friend who was like the week
before Christmas, and it's like, you never quite get.

Speaker 8 (37:38):
The that half birthday things. A buch of bs two
birthday in June.

Speaker 11 (37:43):
My grandpa was a Christmas baby.

Speaker 10 (37:44):
My grandmother is a Christmas baby.

Speaker 9 (37:47):
I remember very very very distinctly one year when I
was a kid at the beach and I discovered that
it was my half birthday, and I just tried.

Speaker 6 (37:54):
To make my family celebrate my half birthday.

Speaker 11 (37:57):
Stop trying to make it Happen're gonna.

Speaker 6 (37:59):
Have never really, But anyway, that was a half birthday.

Speaker 9 (38:01):
This is your full birthday. And we did get a
little something something for for Bernie.

Speaker 6 (38:06):
Let's little something something.

Speaker 10 (38:09):
We did not get that I'm married.

Speaker 11 (38:12):
That's not what I meant.

Speaker 6 (38:13):
Let me put it.

Speaker 8 (38:14):
Bernie's answer to everything. By the ways, I'm married, Bertie,
and I'm married.

Speaker 15 (38:18):
I can't.

Speaker 9 (38:18):
Sorry, You're right, I should have got a little something
for the effort, right, Yes, So here's your here's your fun.

Speaker 8 (38:24):
You make Bertie walk all the way across the room.

Speaker 10 (38:28):
So there are two cards in there.

Speaker 12 (38:30):
There are two cards in there, and the one in
the white envelopes for me just because it made me
laugh out loud when I saw it. The cards, well,
this one you can open because people will know. The
white one, people will make it will make complete sense
as to why I bought it for.

Speaker 6 (38:43):
There's a card from us and then a card from Beth.

Speaker 8 (38:46):
The other one is darker.

Speaker 11 (38:47):
If I should read it, Oh, big Bang theory. Oh
my god, that's the one.

Speaker 6 (38:54):
That's the card from Beth.

Speaker 10 (38:55):
Yes, it has Sheldon on.

Speaker 11 (38:56):
The front of it. That's actually really funny card.

Speaker 10 (38:59):
Bernie hates the Bang theory.

Speaker 11 (39:00):
It's terrible.

Speaker 10 (39:01):
But I saw Sheldon. I was like, oh, he hates this.
I'm getting it.

Speaker 8 (39:05):
Nothing says birthday more than things you hate.

Speaker 6 (39:07):
Hey, you hate that, right. So there's another card.

Speaker 8 (39:09):
You got your Tar Hills shirt too.

Speaker 6 (39:11):
So the other card has something inside the card.

Speaker 12 (39:14):
I tried to find a Tar Hills baby shirt. For
Sudden because I just thought it would be fantastic burn
it be.

Speaker 11 (39:22):
Nice for winter time, Oh my gosh. And at chipotleg gift.

Speaker 6 (39:26):
Card you go, yes see we said it right, we
know you well. And then in the in the bag.

Speaker 9 (39:32):
Now I'm going to tell you I haven't actually seen
this one because I'm not the one who actually did
the purchasing.

Speaker 10 (39:39):
Well see if you like them, Bernie.

Speaker 11 (39:41):
Dude, these are awesome. Yeah, absolutely I do. And their
snapbacks too.

Speaker 12 (39:46):
So the one the Panthers hat is the is the
the hat that was just released last week for practice.

Speaker 11 (39:51):
Oh I love it. I love the material. Panthers MATEO
feel this? Have you felt this yet?

Speaker 6 (39:55):
Velvet field?

Speaker 11 (39:56):
It feel the panther.

Speaker 6 (39:57):
It's like a rubber.

Speaker 8 (39:59):
It's like silicone for those you can see bo is
feeling Bernie's that's.

Speaker 6 (40:03):
On my head right, it's a little something something they're Bernie.

Speaker 12 (40:06):
Get the hornets had I loved because it's not hornets colors,
And that's not why I love it.

Speaker 10 (40:10):
But it's just cool.

Speaker 6 (40:12):
It's like a brown's brown.

Speaker 10 (40:13):
It's brown. I like it, but I feel like it's
kind of gold.

Speaker 12 (40:16):
So this year is gonna be like the Gold Stand
or Hornet's year and that's gonna be your good luck
term and the hornet brown again, they're gonna do well.

Speaker 11 (40:24):
We could we could put this up online and people
could argue if it's gold or blue.

Speaker 6 (40:28):
Oh that's a good dress, like that dress, Well maybe
it's blue.

Speaker 10 (40:30):
Is it blue?

Speaker 11 (40:31):
No, it's definitely not blue. Okay, that's definitely not blue.

Speaker 9 (40:33):
So we we we wanted to get you something hornets
or panthers, and I'm gonna tell you what we tried
to find, but we were unsuccessful.

Speaker 6 (40:39):
I don't even know.

Speaker 9 (40:41):
I don't know if they exist, but like if they,
if this does exist, Bernie has to have it. But
somewhere there's got to be a shirt that says Summer
League Champions.

Speaker 10 (40:50):
We wanted to start hornet Summer League Champions.

Speaker 11 (40:53):
Okay, well, we'll find lines around the blocks whenever they
have them in store.

Speaker 12 (40:57):
We tried to find one for you because we thought
that would be whole hilarious to have the Summer Championship.

Speaker 11 (41:01):
Would I'd wear it all the time.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (41:03):
We went searching, I mean like scrounging across the internet
to try to see if we could find Summer League
Champion shirts. I found one, but it was definitely not authentic.
It was definitely a bootleg.

Speaker 10 (41:14):
And I'm like, yeah, I don't think it was a medium.

Speaker 11 (41:18):
I mean, I still wear my twenty fifteen playoff free
T shirt that they gave everybody when they went to
the playoff game. So I would happily wear a Summer
League champion. I don't think I have. I have Final
four is the biggest thing I have for inc State.
I don't have a super Bowl or a champion or anything.

Speaker 6 (41:32):
So well, it actually works.

Speaker 9 (41:34):
Well, we'll find you that sh medium because we know
it's out there, and we'll give it to you on
your half birthday.

Speaker 8 (41:38):
On your half birthday, we'll head up to lose fifty
pounds before.

Speaker 9 (41:45):
In the meantime, Bernie, and you.

Speaker 12 (41:49):
Know, you know what, Bernie, if if you were a
Carolina fan, you could have all kinds of championships stuff.

Speaker 11 (41:54):
That's true. But I didn't want to sell my soul.

Speaker 6 (41:56):
With well played, Bernie, Bernie. I had the choice.

Speaker 11 (42:01):
My stepmam went to Carolina, my mom went to State.
So I was like, no, I can't get it.

Speaker 9 (42:06):
Sorry, Like State, Well, happy birthday, Pat, we appreciate you,
Like I said, the glue that holds this thing together
day in and day out, you and Steve doing all
kinds of things behind the scenes.

Speaker 8 (42:16):
Happy Birthday, Steve, Steve, were going to change that one times.

Speaker 11 (42:21):
It's easy.

Speaker 6 (42:21):
He's like a week and a half away.

Speaker 10 (42:23):
It's coming on.

Speaker 8 (42:24):
It's like their twin brothers, Like, it's your birthday to Steeves.

Speaker 6 (42:42):
Happy birthday to Bernie.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
Thanks you.

Speaker 6 (42:45):
This one comes from our WBT super fan Will. Tim's
out there. Yes, good idea.

Speaker 14 (42:51):
Will.

Speaker 10 (42:51):
This is his birthday present you wonderful, Thank you Will.

Speaker 8 (42:55):
It's funny because he also watch your job, so it's perfect.

Speaker 9 (43:02):
You know, Steve, Steve and Bernie the glue that holds
the show together.

Speaker 6 (43:06):
And Steve is always very good about putting stories on
our radar.

Speaker 9 (43:13):
I've always wondered what category like when you're watching on
your streaming service, whatever it is.

Speaker 6 (43:19):
I have Roku? Does anybody else have Roku? Roku? And
you don't have Roku?

Speaker 9 (43:24):
No?

Speaker 6 (43:25):
I know WHATU is?

Speaker 3 (43:26):
I do?

Speaker 10 (43:26):
I have a I have a fire stick.

Speaker 12 (43:27):
I have the Amazon fire Stick, and then that's in
our living room and then upstairs it's the Apple TV.

Speaker 11 (43:35):
Kind of fancy be an Apple TV.

Speaker 6 (43:37):
I think it qualifies first one of the.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
Day was a good morning BT.

Speaker 9 (43:43):
Humble bread, everything Apple brand is just steal a spotlight
on Bernie's birthday.

Speaker 13 (43:51):
Hat.

Speaker 6 (43:54):
I have my Apple TV.

Speaker 11 (43:56):
I can't afford this.

Speaker 6 (43:58):
I have one streaming service in one wing.

Speaker 11 (44:00):
Of the home, and.

Speaker 6 (44:03):
So Roku, I don't even understand.

Speaker 9 (44:06):
Roku is launching an ad free subscription streaming service called Hattie,
which I'm sorry.

Speaker 12 (44:14):
I would absolutely get Roku just so I could have.

Speaker 6 (44:18):
Howdy, Yeah, what'd you watch that on last night?

Speaker 8 (44:20):
Hattie, especially what I named to call things.

Speaker 6 (44:26):
It says Howdy.

Speaker 9 (44:28):
Hattie joins Roku's joins the company's the company's Roku channel.
There is a Roku channel which offers you kind of
like free movies and stuff if you Some people don't
even know it's there, but it is.

Speaker 6 (44:40):
It's it's one of those sort of grandfathered in choices.

Speaker 12 (44:43):
Roku is like a firestick, right, you plug it into
the HDMI thingy and then it just plays some things.

Speaker 9 (44:48):
I mean, I don't know this because I don't have
the stats in front of me, but I wouldn't be
surprised if Roku has taken over the firestick as the
most ubiquitous sort.

Speaker 11 (44:57):
Of Yeah, they're one and two or they're pretty close.

Speaker 9 (45:00):
Yeah really, but so so. Hattie joins the company's Roku channel.
It's ad free supported fast streaming service now, it says.
A recent report found that the Roku channel is the
most popular fast service. Did you know that tub and
Pluto TV were called fast services? Because, I mean we
talked about Pluto. I watched The Love Boat on Pluto,

(45:21):
I mean, as most people do, or Family Ties or
nine O two one zero. I mean, it's a plethora
of choices. It's it's Pluto.

Speaker 10 (45:28):
It sound like, wait, that's called fast.

Speaker 6 (45:30):
Not a mad well that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 9 (45:32):
Hashtag now as it's not fast, it says, but it says,
it says like I didn't know this was a category,
like like, but you think about it, two B and
Pluto TV, all those ones out there that have they
have free stuff, and it's all it's like the movies
you didn't know you wanted to watch right now, but
they're there as opposed to like you know, for example,
like on Apple TV plus last Night and also on

(45:54):
I guess on Amazon, like Jurassic World Rebirth that came
out right around the fourth of July is already on
digital as of yesterday, but you got to pay thirty.

Speaker 6 (46:02):
Bucks to watch it right now?

Speaker 9 (46:03):
Yeah, you take That's that's one extreme and the other
end of the spectrum is what's called I didn't know
fast services, and that's more and more of these two
B and Pluto TV and now Hattie has come.

Speaker 11 (46:15):
In with an exclamation point no, but I put it there.

Speaker 22 (46:18):
And so just fyi, fast is free ads supported television.

Speaker 10 (46:24):
So it's not meaning that it's like fast.

Speaker 22 (46:26):
So like to B and all, they're free services, but
they do run ads.

Speaker 6 (46:30):
So the free ads supported television. That's fast. Y'all need
to get yourself a Steve.

Speaker 11 (46:35):
This really could have been like he because.

Speaker 9 (46:37):
This is what Steve does you know? I say fast services.
Don't you know it's a it's got an acronym because.

Speaker 12 (46:42):
I'm over hearing, like plus not fast, And he's like,
well it is.

Speaker 10 (46:46):
It's free ad spooted.

Speaker 8 (46:48):
TV sons, my son's cut the grass.

Speaker 22 (46:52):
I said it three times and Jim says that everybody's
just like it's a great comment.

Speaker 8 (46:55):
Jim, I wasn't even thinking.

Speaker 9 (46:57):
So Roku says subscribers will be able to watch titles
like Mad Max, Fury Road, and The blind Side Kids,
in the hall.

Speaker 6 (47:06):
Well, I have been jones in two very different.

Speaker 10 (47:09):
Movies to watch those.

Speaker 21 (47:10):
Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 9 (47:11):
Like these services now that now that I know that,
they're called the Fast Services, which again is.

Speaker 6 (47:16):
Free ad supported television.

Speaker 9 (47:18):
Basically, it's the digital version of the part of the
Blockbuster that nobody went to.

Speaker 10 (47:23):
It's the digital version of antenna TV.

Speaker 12 (47:27):
It's it's basically the basic Remember when you would go
to I don't know if you guys ever did this
when TV was going in between the phase of are
you gonna do online? Are you going to do the
streaming stuff, or are you gonna do analog? And I
was just like the cord that's put an ant.

Speaker 6 (47:45):
As one says like that, No, no, as a rooster say.

Speaker 12 (47:49):
I just put the antenna on the on the TV
and you could only get like seven channels. But they
had those weird like in between channels called like Me TV,
and they played random movies at any given time.

Speaker 9 (48:00):
They play the section of the Blockbusters store that nobody
ever went to, like you go to the new release
section and like the video game section, and then they're
like three rows that are collecting dust because no one
wants to watch teen Wolf two.

Speaker 10 (48:12):
And they were the dollar rentals.

Speaker 12 (48:14):
I will tell you what young people don't understand, and
and it's sad that they don't have this experience of
going to a video store and looking for the title
you were hoping to rent, and then pulling out the
cover of the of the vhs, hoping that there were
copies behind it, and then realizing that the entire section

(48:34):
was sold out and you had to go to your
b choice.

Speaker 9 (48:37):
Movie teen Wolf. And remember it's t ool too, because
no one else realizes I'm here.

Speaker 10 (48:45):
Jason Bateman.

Speaker 6 (48:47):
Yeah, well before Jason Basement entered his you know, good good.

Speaker 12 (48:51):
Basement, Jason base The Underground.

Speaker 6 (48:55):
That's the Underground, Jason Bateman.

Speaker 10 (48:57):
That was early Jason Bateman.

Speaker 6 (49:00):
That's back when he worked for Drive Pro.

Speaker 8 (49:03):
Jason Basement.

Speaker 9 (49:07):
Oh gosh, I hate y'all seven on WBT Boomer. That'd
be a great name for an underground radio show, you know,
Jason Basement.

Speaker 6 (49:16):
Jason Basement.

Speaker 8 (49:18):
Jason Basel has already taken us.

Speaker 6 (49:22):
Jason, say it again, I hate y'all.

Speaker 8 (49:24):
Happy birthday, Brian.

Speaker 3 (49:25):
This is Good Morning Beat with both Hudson and Beth Trout.

Speaker 6 (49:29):
Bit Now hang on a second.

Speaker 9 (49:33):
I just got a note from my friend Amy, who
says you just pulled a Pat McCrory with the Jason
basement comment.

Speaker 6 (49:41):
Oh no, I didn't mean to say basement. That's what
you're telling yourself.

Speaker 9 (49:47):
Yeah, there's a difference, Okay, I know I live that.

Speaker 23 (49:52):
I have a radical idea. The door swings both ways.
We could reverse the particle plow through the game. How
we'll cross the streams. He's welcome, Brett Twitterble.

Speaker 11 (50:09):
We know each other.

Speaker 6 (50:11):
He's a friend from work. That's right, Wednesday morning.

Speaker 9 (50:16):
Time to cross the streams with our good friend Brett
Winterble from the Brett Winterboll Show every afternoon. A member
of the Talker's Heavy hundred list for another year and
well deserved three to six Brett Winterable, what's going on.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
My friend?

Speaker 6 (50:30):
Hey, it's good to be with you, guys.

Speaker 9 (50:31):
Always good to talk to you. I got a couple
of moments from President Trump. President Trump had a day yesterday.
He was up on the roof of the White House.
Did you guys see this?

Speaker 24 (50:40):
Just?

Speaker 6 (50:40):
I mean, what other president in American history would do that?

Speaker 12 (50:43):
I don't think I've ever seen that, because I had
to do a double take when I saw that image.

Speaker 9 (50:48):
And it was you know, that's the maybe the most
Trump Trump thing I've ever seen, and going up on
the White House roof because you can.

Speaker 11 (50:54):
Yeah, right.

Speaker 9 (50:56):
But later in the day he held a news conference
and the reason for the new conference was to announce
the establishing of an Olympics Task Force for the twenty
twenty eight Summer Games that are coming up in LA.
But of course, as usual, as is usual with this president,
and I think this is one of the great things
about President Trump actually is no matter where he is
and what he does, he opens up the floor for questions.

(51:17):
You cannot say that President Trump is not accessible in
that way. And so as they got away from the
Olympics talk, of course, there was talk about other big things.
This one here though, Brett, I'm curious as to your take,
because Peter Doocey, Fox News reporter, asked a question about
how things are going to go post twenty twenty eight
this weekend.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
Secretary of State Rubio said that he thought JD Vance
would be a great nominee. You could clear the entire
Republican field right now. Do you agree that the heir
apparent to Maga is Jade Vance?

Speaker 18 (51:50):
Well, I think most likely in all fairness, he's the
vice president.

Speaker 17 (51:53):
I think Marco is also somebody that maybe would get
together with JD in some form. I also think we
have incredible people, some of the people in the stage
right here. So it's too early, obviously to talk about it,
but certainly he's doing a great job and he would
be probably favorite at this point.

Speaker 9 (52:11):
So it's getting interesting, you know. I mean, twenty twenty
eight is a long ways away, but then again it's not.
I mean in political terms, you know, everybody's talking about
the next election as soon as the current one's over.
But you know you're hearing whispers and talk about how
much favor that Rubio has gained in the inner Trump world.
And of course Vance is his VP. But you know,

(52:31):
Beth and I were talking earlier. I could see I
could see Vance Advance in Rubio ticket. I could see
Vance versus Rubio in the primary. I mean, it's you
could imagine a lot of different scenarios here.

Speaker 6 (52:43):
Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 25 (52:44):
The one thing he doesn't want to do is he
doesn't want to coordinate somebody in JD. Vance's you know,
just just saying, by okay, Jady Vance is going to
be the next guy. What you want to have is
you know a little bit of a jostling going on here,
so you've got who I mean, Rubio has been absolutely fantastic.
I think Marco Rubio in many ways could win a

(53:09):
Nobel Prize because of the stuff that he does in
terms of the diplomacy. And he's not bombastic, and he
is somebody who understands a lot of the different challenges
that are being faced. But that's not to say anything
bad about jd Vance. Jd Vance is a young guy,
He's got a lot of energy. He's a smart a
really smart guy. He's also tapped into parts of the

(53:31):
communities around this country that are you know, have been
forgotten in many ways. So I think we're going to
see this. You've not ever heard Donald Trump do a
curse word to jd Vance or to Marco Rubio, and
I think that's that's some rarefied air and it's going
to be very interesting to see how this plays out well.

Speaker 12 (53:52):
And we have a long way really to twenty twenty eight,
because we have to think about the twenty twenty six primaries.
But I know that the Democrats too are already thinking
who in the world is going to be the person
or the people who run in a primary against the
Marco Rubios, against the JD. Vanceys, And I was wondering,
as this whole entire the situation that's going on in

(54:13):
Texas with the Democrats who have fled the states.

Speaker 3 (54:17):
JB.

Speaker 12 (54:17):
Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, I feel like he's stepping
up and kind of taking that spotlight that maybe Gavin
Newsome really has has maintained over the last little bit
as a Democrat.

Speaker 25 (54:31):
Yeah, he's definitely trying to audition for that job. It's
going to be a difficult poll because for so long
people have used the idea of a very wealthy people
should not run.

Speaker 10 (54:44):
For us, right right, He's a billionaire.

Speaker 25 (54:46):
He's a billionaire's part of the Hyatt family. And so
when you look at all that sort of stuff that's
going on right now, if I were pointing out somebody
who I think will be the nominee for the Democratic
Party this early, I mean ridiculs lessly early, I do
think it's going to be Josh Sapiro. I think at
some point people are going to understand that you've got

(55:07):
to have a governorble person there in the office, and
you've also got to be somebody who's able to work
across the aisle. I would put my money on Josh
Shapiro before JB. Pritzker Brett Winterble Show at three o'clock today.
What's coming up on today's show, Well, we're going to
be breaking down all the new stuff that's coming out, especially.

Speaker 6 (55:29):
The D banking.

Speaker 25 (55:30):
The D banking is a very interesting fight that can
be unifying for the Republican Party, and we'll be we'll
be looking at that plus everything else that's moving between
now and then. And happy birthday to you, Bernie.

Speaker 11 (55:43):
Thanks Brett. I appreciate it. Man, You're a great American.

Speaker 6 (55:45):
Guys are all great Americans, you know.

Speaker 9 (55:47):
And we don't talk enough about the Steves and the
Bernie's and the Isaacs and the Lonnies and the Knicks.
I mean, we got we got a great team that Nicks.
The Knicks, they almost they almost won the tie. Let
me say talking about the New York Laser checks. That's
kind of an inside guy.

Speaker 6 (56:04):
That's kind of an inside but here at one Julian
Price Place. But thank you, Brett. We'll talk to you soon, man.

Speaker 11 (56:09):
Thank you.

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Wow, what is happening?

Speaker 15 (57:02):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (57:03):
The other radio right now? Like, what's happening?

Speaker 6 (57:06):
This is some breaking sports business news.

Speaker 9 (57:09):
We talked yesterday about the big deal that ESPN had
going on with the NFL network, and it was solidified
yesterday the fact that NFL network is going to be
absorbed by ESPN and Red Zone is going to ESPN
and some other NFL games and basically all the assets
of the NFL network now going to the worldwide Leader

(57:31):
in sports says they call it ESPN. But then there's
more today, as in the last half hour. World Wrestling
Entertainment WWE has reportedly struck a deal, a billion dollar
deal with ESPN to air its most watched events. So
the biggest they used to call them pay per views,
now they call them plees, is what the WWE calls

(57:54):
them premium live events. But this is includes WrestleMania, SummerSlam
which was last weekend, the Royal Rumble Survivor Series, and
some of the other big ones. So now all of
the big events for the World Wrestling Entertainment are going
to ESPN. And I'm assuming we've been wondering, Okay, this

(58:16):
idea of the direct to consumer ESPN standalone app that
you're already seeing the commercials where you see the throwbacks
and say, the next big thing is coming to ESPN.
This is what they're talking about when you see those
sort of ominous promos when you're watching the channel they're
getting ready to launch for the first time. You know,
you pay pay thirty or so bucks per month and

(58:37):
get ESPN standalone.

Speaker 12 (58:39):
Still thirty dollars a month. I mean, I thought Netflix this.

Speaker 8 (58:43):
Was new thirty for thirty.

Speaker 10 (58:45):
Oh, I bet that's why they came up with the thirty.

Speaker 8 (58:48):
Thirty dollars for thirty for thirty.

Speaker 9 (58:50):
But see, we were talking the other day, Okay, what
could you add to an ESPN standalone subscription that would.

Speaker 6 (58:56):
Make people jump much?

Speaker 9 (58:59):
And now with in the last two days, you've added
the NFL Network and namely Red Zone and NFL Games
for that matter, but now you're adding like WrestleMania. If
you're a wrestling fan, this is where you see right now.
Peacock is the is the streaming service that has all
of the world wrestling entertainment stuff, and now they just
sent raw over to Netflix at the start of the year.

(59:20):
But everybody's been wondering, Okay, what's ESPN going to do
to sweeten the deal here? And if you're a wrestling fan,
which I wouldn't say I'm locked in like I was
when I was younger, but I watched the Big Ones.
And so the fact that all of their major inventory
is going to ESPN. I haven't seen this officially yet,
but I'd be shocked if part of what they're going

(59:41):
to package to try to attract somebody to play to
pay thirty something bucks a month is not only access
to Red Zone, but access to WrestleMania and some of
these other big WWE events.

Speaker 12 (59:54):
Well, isn't so, ABC, Disney, and ESPN are all the
same company, right, They're all under the same budgeting.

Speaker 6 (01:00:03):
So now actually Hulu too, Yeah, and Hulu.

Speaker 10 (01:00:07):
But now doesn't that mean that ABC and ESPN own.

Speaker 21 (01:00:11):
All of them?

Speaker 10 (01:00:12):
They have all of the sports? Now they have all
of them? Do they have all of them?

Speaker 9 (01:00:15):
No, they have they have lots of them because they
have the NBA now peacock.

Speaker 12 (01:00:21):
But I wonder if that's going to go away. I
wonder if ESPN is on the hunt to scoop up
all of the sports.

Speaker 9 (01:00:27):
When you say all of them, you mean they all
of the sports have a presence.

Speaker 6 (01:00:31):
Yes, yes, under that umbrella.

Speaker 12 (01:00:33):
Yes, yes, yeah, that is true, and so they that's
a that's a big selling point. But is do you
think that they're on on they're trying now to say
like we're going to be the place because if they
have this, is that what they're talking?

Speaker 3 (01:00:48):
Yes?

Speaker 12 (01:00:50):
But I mean to have all of them and to
literally get to a point where they offer no sports
to any other networks.

Speaker 10 (01:00:56):
And will it make a de c Will it? Will
it make?

Speaker 8 (01:01:00):
How are they affording all this? I know you base
premises of we'll make this much money back through advertising,
but it doesn't always pan out that it's the amount
of money that you're going to get your return that's
ROI for your business people out there, and return on
investment on that. But can they put Steven A. Smith
on this new premium channel so we don't have to
buy it? Don't see?

Speaker 9 (01:01:18):
That's the now, that's the dark side of all of this,
as we joke. But is the red Zone now going
to become stephen A Smith and Pat McAfee instead of
the Scott Hanson.

Speaker 8 (01:01:27):
Got god Hanson did confirm he is back.

Speaker 9 (01:01:29):
Okay, good, because that's a big deal because I like,
we kind of laugh at the ha ha the stephen A.

Speaker 6 (01:01:33):
Smith.

Speaker 9 (01:01:34):
But I'm sorry stephen A. Smith and their coverage. There's
a reason why they had to import Charles Barkley and
Kenny Smith and company because they can't they can't figure
out how to cover the NBA in a way that
draws viewers. So ESPN is basically becoming the place that
what you were getting at at Beth is do they
have a little bit of everything?

Speaker 1 (01:01:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:01:55):
And and yes, and in many cases they have a
lot of everything.

Speaker 12 (01:01:58):
Exactly, they have a lot of everything and now you
might get Stephen A. Smith hosting wrestling.

Speaker 8 (01:02:04):
I would love to see him like oh in the ring.

Speaker 9 (01:02:06):
But see, there there are a few things like Andy Kaufman.
There are a few things that ESPN does not have.
ESPN doesn't have March Madness. ESPN doesn't have the Olympics.
That's one of the that's the probably the biggest carrot
that NBC can say, hey, this yet, because that's why
NBC pays all that money to be the the Olympic Network.
And in that case, nobody has the the the Olympics

(01:02:28):
except NBC and NBC owned entities. So it's it's getting
it's becoming a more crowded field.

Speaker 6 (01:02:34):
But two days, what's.

Speaker 8 (01:02:35):
Going to be on the NFL network now? Because they're
giving away a lot of their programming.

Speaker 10 (01:02:38):
Yeah, I feel like it's going to be one whole.

Speaker 8 (01:02:40):
They just do that morning show for eight hours a
day like they're doing now. So I used to like
that Good Morning Football, but they're running like till one
in the afternoon.

Speaker 11 (01:02:46):
But now I'll run it.

Speaker 9 (01:02:47):
But it wasn't a Peter Schrager who just went over
to ESPN. He came from that show. And now now
they own that again, so maybe they'll maybe they'll launch
that show again. The Get Up Show with Mike Greenberg is.

Speaker 12 (01:02:58):
Wasn'tre one called cold Pizza or something that was really popular?

Speaker 8 (01:03:00):
That was one of the first ones. That's I think
there was, like the ESPN two launch was trying to
draw people over.

Speaker 11 (01:03:05):
With ski bays. Was it on cold Pizza?

Speaker 13 (01:03:07):
Why?

Speaker 6 (01:03:08):
Might have been a one point you look at me
a sports show.

Speaker 8 (01:03:11):
Actually college friend of my Jay Crawford was the main host.

Speaker 11 (01:03:13):
Long time Your Friends with Jake Crawford.

Speaker 3 (01:03:15):
How was that?

Speaker 10 (01:03:15):
Out of humble Brad Apple?

Speaker 8 (01:03:18):
Chew it up?

Speaker 6 (01:03:19):
Dude, put it on the board. Oh wait, it's not working.
What's going on on the board? Okay, here we go.

Speaker 3 (01:03:24):
That was a good morning bet humble Brad.

Speaker 11 (01:03:28):
He's well now.

Speaker 8 (01:03:29):
Can't believe it took me eight fifteen to get a wow.

Speaker 11 (01:03:31):
I had no idea.

Speaker 6 (01:03:32):
Now the real question is do they have Jason Basement
Jake Crawfish. Well he's not And that was on the
other day, Bold move Cotton.

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You know it's August when THEO is on? All right
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Hook that's actually your name for the podcast, you guys
go down in the Basement. That could be Jason Basement,
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Oh, we'll talk about our favorite Now, let's talk about
our favorite Silver Spoons episodes.

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You know how this is the Tye Bloid Studio. That
could be the Jason Basement.

Speaker 9 (01:04:11):
Wait a minute, it just became the seventeenth segment Live
from Jason's Basement, Live from the Jason Basement, or just Jason.

Speaker 6 (01:04:19):
I just said that special guests. Jason. I just said that.
She just took the idea said.

Speaker 8 (01:04:24):
It became I've got I've got a great idea.

Speaker 6 (01:04:30):
I hate you up.

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This is Good Morning Beat.

Speaker 6 (01:04:36):
Say twenty two on WBT.

Speaker 9 (01:04:39):
Rain again today, although Race Stagic says not as heavy
or you know, sustained as it was yesterday, but it's
still gonna put a dent possibly in activities around the area,
including possibly at least the front end of Carolina Panthers
joint practice with the Cleveland Browns. Dave Canalis he's actually

(01:05:00):
happy about the ring.

Speaker 20 (01:05:01):
What a gift, I mean, just to get the experience
of it, that could happen, that could happen to us
early in the season, you know here with just some
of the storms that've been rolling through, so I think
the passing was a little sloppy. There were kind of
some what would normally be like some obvious catches for
guys that went through hands on both sides. Really some

(01:05:23):
interceptions that we kind of missed opportunities. But you know,
the challenge to the team was coming off the day
off was you know, I think the last rack we had,
we came off a break and kind of stumbled our
way into practice and found our energy by the end.
But I saw JC and Derek and a Sean grabbed

(01:05:43):
the defense together before the first drill and really, like
I can tell they were challenging each other.

Speaker 13 (01:05:49):
We got to go.

Speaker 20 (01:05:50):
Now the offense kind of had the same mentality, and
from snap one to the end of the practice, you know,
the energy was great.

Speaker 9 (01:05:57):
So that's Dave Canal is after practicing in the rain yesterday,
a steady rain in Charlotte. Right now, the Browns are
in town to practice with the Panthers. That starts at
ten am, So you know, rain or shine, it's gonna happen.
But a lot of intrigue in this and Shadoor Sanders
late yesterday it was announced that he is going to
start for the Cleveland Browns in the Friday night preseason game,

(01:06:20):
which of course that's the reason the Browns are in town,
because they're here a couple days early before they actually
play the game on Friday night.

Speaker 8 (01:06:26):
You know's gonna be talking about it ESPN because it's
it's Diana shoulder. Shadour, by the way is like vocally
said and Dion said it before, like they're not barely communicating, right.
He wants to Shadur to focus on his job, and
of course Diana coming through the cancer battle, is busy
with his team. But it's it's still going to be
a national story that the Browns quarterback situation, as much

(01:06:48):
of a jumbled mess as it is, involves should do
or Sanders what he may do here for the Panthers, though,
this is great work today to get on the joint
practice field and do the thing with another team, and
then Houston next week helps get you go for the
regular season and then have the preseason opener coming up
on Friday. It's kind of nice because you know, we
were that team the last couple of years trying to
figure out quarterback. It doesn't feel like it was like

(01:07:08):
yesterday we had you know, Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield
walking down the hill in Spartanburg and neither one ends up,
you know, basically finishing the season with him. But now
we've got Bryce where he needs to be, and now
we've got that building block of him the offensive line,
receivers and running backs, where like people are like going,
this team suddenly, in like two years has gone from

(01:07:30):
being like the worst to being like, this could be
like a really explosive offense. If the defense can come
around with the additions they've made this offseason, and they
were decimated by injuries last year, this could be really
an interesting season for this team. So I think there's
a lot of excitement about this one.

Speaker 12 (01:07:42):
I love hearing about all the optimism. I mean, I
know that Canalis is optimistic, but I like hearing.

Speaker 8 (01:07:46):
The loves rain. I mean, there's nothing.

Speaker 6 (01:07:49):
Hey, look if you Corn and Corn MAXs whiskey.

Speaker 8 (01:07:53):
Yeah, I look at the bright side, whiskey, look out
the window.

Speaker 12 (01:07:57):
But if you surrender to the rain, like you just
acknowledge that it's there, And once you surrender to it
and you just start getting wet, then it just starts
getting fun.

Speaker 8 (01:08:05):
You know that James Kelly did it years ago.

Speaker 10 (01:08:07):
Yes, just singing it, just singing it, singing that rain right.

Speaker 9 (01:08:11):
Should Dor Sanders like we said, gonna start on Friday
night and has been saying all the right things in
training camp so far.

Speaker 10 (01:08:18):
He should do or has.

Speaker 6 (01:08:21):
Just just roll it, Bernie.

Speaker 21 (01:08:23):
It's not Mentally I go out there, I'm like, oh,
you know, these are the ones. I'm gonna get nervous
like it don't got anything to do with that. And truthfully,
I don't care what Olana go out there with. It
could be ones, twos, threes, whatever the situation is. And
I know Friday when the game is, if I'm with
twos of them with threes, it don't matter to me.
I'm just ready to get down.

Speaker 8 (01:08:41):
And get to you know, doing what I could do.

Speaker 9 (01:08:44):
I needed that clip just to play so I could
recover from what That's it you should Ere did?

Speaker 11 (01:08:50):
That was brutal.

Speaker 6 (01:08:53):
You gotta one.

Speaker 9 (01:08:54):
He makes corny, corn makes whisky, and should Dor Sanders
plays well, I'm not going to.

Speaker 10 (01:09:01):
Say, actually, I'm kind of excited to see what he does.

Speaker 8 (01:09:04):
I mean, it would be so frisky.

Speaker 10 (01:09:06):
It would be so awesome.

Speaker 12 (01:09:07):
Since he did fall to the fifth round that he
gets up and just shows them what it is.

Speaker 10 (01:09:13):
I think that would be just such a good sime.

Speaker 8 (01:09:14):
You ever heard the story about Tom Brady being in
the sixth round number one ninety?

Speaker 10 (01:09:18):
I have heard that one.

Speaker 8 (01:09:18):
Everyone compares every situation to that.

Speaker 9 (01:09:22):
Corn.

Speaker 8 (01:09:23):
This segment really got bad.

Speaker 6 (01:09:24):
This skim makes my bathing given me excuse Jim, why
did you do this? I wouldn't know this song.

Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
If not for you.

Speaker 8 (01:09:34):
You know, I hate Rascal Flaps.

Speaker 6 (01:09:39):
I just want to hear washing is a good thing.

Speaker 13 (01:09:44):
Chill zab.

Speaker 8 (01:09:47):
Love Gomar Pyle sounds like Kenny Smith singer.

Speaker 1 (01:09:50):
Oh that was Mark.

Speaker 6 (01:09:53):
Derrison from mark Way Downtown with Dark Harrison.

Speaker 9 (01:09:57):
Oh my goodness. All right, So the Panthers and the
brown playing in the rain today. We think they have
a joint practice rainershein coming up at We.

Speaker 8 (01:10:04):
Covered a lot of sports in that segment.

Speaker 9 (01:10:06):
There a talk there, we we schadure, did we did,
We talked to Gene Kelly, the references.

Speaker 26 (01:10:15):
We're all over the place.

Speaker 6 (01:10:16):
So yeah, we're gonna.

Speaker 9 (01:10:18):
Check some news while we go worsh up during the break,
and we'll be back on the other side with Scott
Huffman from Winthrop University who joins us each week at
eight thirty five on Wednesday.

Speaker 3 (01:10:28):
This is Good Morning BT.

Speaker 9 (01:10:34):
Eight seven on WBT Bowen Beth on a rainy Wednesday
morning on the WBT hotline. Right now, it's that time
of the week where we are happy to welcome to
the show the director of the Center for Public Opinion
and Policy Research, also political science professor longtime at Winthrop
University at Scott Huffman back on theu WBT Hotline.

Speaker 6 (01:10:56):
Hi, Scott, Hey, I hope you all are well.

Speaker 13 (01:11:00):
We are.

Speaker 9 (01:11:00):
We've got lots of things to talk about today. Of
course we're in North Carolina. I want to start with Texas,
and I know that that's not a surprise to you
because you've been watching what's happening to our west with
President Trump. But President Trump held a news conference yesterday
and I want to roll a clip from that.

Speaker 19 (01:11:15):
Texas Senator John Cornyn, Texas Senator John Cornyn is asking
for your help to force democrats back to the state
and hold them accountable. Do you want the federal government
and the FBI to help locate and arrest these Texas
Democrats who have left the state.

Speaker 18 (01:11:29):
Well, I think they've abandoned the state.

Speaker 17 (01:11:31):
Nobody's seen anything like it, even though they've done it
twice before, and in a certain way, it almost looks
like they've abandoned the state.

Speaker 18 (01:11:38):
It looks very bad. Yeah, go ahead, PLEASEI get involved.

Speaker 10 (01:11:41):
Should the FBI get involved, Well.

Speaker 17 (01:11:42):
They may have to, they may have to. No, I
know they want them back. Not only the attorney general,
the governor wants them back. If you look, I mean,
the governor of Texas is demanding they come back. So
a lot of people are demanding they come back.

Speaker 6 (01:11:57):
You can't just sit it out.

Speaker 15 (01:11:58):
You have to go back.

Speaker 6 (01:11:58):
You have to fight it out. That's what elections are
all about.

Speaker 9 (01:12:01):
Been very curious about your perspective on this because here
in North Carolina, you know, redrawing congressional districts. This is
nothing new to us. We've seen this play out at
various times over the years. But now in Texas you
have a situation where it's going to be fascinating to
see what happens here because you're searing other states, you know,
threatening to do similar things or things in retaliation. What

(01:12:23):
do you make of what's happening in Texas right now?

Speaker 14 (01:12:26):
Well, you know, to quickly gloss over the fact that
it's very questionable that the federal government has the authority
to hunt those folks down. That's more of a state's issue.
The issues over jerry mandering. Jerry mendering is redrawing district
lines really to help out one party or another. It
comes from eighteen twelve Massachusetts Governor Elbert Jerry. There was

(01:12:50):
a redrawing at district lines and one of them in
Boston supposedly look like a salamander, and so it became
called the jerry mander. Nine states the legislature redraws their
own districts, sort of like the fox drawing the security
system for the hen House bomb. Texas is one of those.

(01:13:10):
North Carolina is one of those, so is South Carolina.
So that Texas wants to redraw the district lines, which
they can do at any time between one census and
the other, as long as it remains roughly the same
number of people, which right now is roughly seven hundred
and sixty five thousand people per district. Now, the interesting
thing is about California talking about retaliation California, and I'm

(01:13:34):
sorry that this hurts people's feelings. California has a more
fair process where they have a non partisan independent commission
draw the districts. Now, what Gavin Newsom wants to do
is circumvent that by putting it up for a vote,
which they can do. We don't vote on laws here.
Put it up for a vote to redraw the districts

(01:13:55):
to help the Democrats, but that would really get hung
up in the courts anyway. But that's sort of the
back and forth over this. You know, one another little
history fact. The Constitution says one representative for every thirty
thousand people. If we still followed that, we would have
over eleven thousand members of the House are representatives. So

(01:14:17):
in nineteen twenty nine they said it at four hundred
and thirty five. Also, Alaska, Vermont, Wyoming don't actually even
deserve a representative. They have fewer than seven hundred and
sixty five thousand people. But again the Constitution gives one
to everybody.

Speaker 12 (01:14:33):
So what kind of precedent do you think this is
going to end up setting? With the Democrats leaving Texas
so that this gerrymandering vote can't take place, and then
the governor saying, hey, we're going to bring these folks back.
We may even try to arrest these folks, but there
really is no legal precedent for that. But how does
this particular story end up changing the way that we

(01:14:55):
think about elections or certainly the way that we think
about the majority. Already in the US House of Representatives.

Speaker 14 (01:15:03):
There actually is precedent for members of a state legislature
leaving a state to avoid the you know, an issue
being voted on, and in those cases there was also
the threat of using state marshals. In this case it
probably the Texas Rangers, of going and forcing them bringing

(01:15:25):
them back. It's never gotten to that position, but there
have been the threats of that, so this actually has
happened before wholly actually doing it, actually arresting them. Certainly
a federal you know, law enforcement is used, that would
be unprecedented. But you know, fighting about redistricting absolutely at

(01:15:47):
the request of the president in order to you know,
give one party an advantage, that's unprecedented, even though every
redistricting is about giving one party an advantage in states
where the legislature draws it.

Speaker 3 (01:16:04):
This is Good Morning BT.

Speaker 9 (01:16:09):
News Talk eleven ten, nine to nine to three WBT
rain coming down across the Charlotte area. Bowen Beth continuing
with Scott Huffman, from Winthrop University political science professor. We
talked to him every Wednesday and always a lot of
headlines in the queue to talk about.

Speaker 6 (01:16:26):
Here is one again.

Speaker 9 (01:16:28):
Yesterday President Trump held a news conference and the purpose
of it was to talk about a task force that
was being established to oversee the twenty twenty eight Olympic Games.
But as is the case, President Trump took questions about
everything at the end of this and another question was
about what's happening right now with the Epstein saga.

Speaker 27 (01:16:47):
Did you were you aware of and did you personally
approve the prison transfer for Gallaine Maxwell that your Justice Department.

Speaker 18 (01:16:53):
I didn't know her about it at all.

Speaker 15 (01:16:55):
No, I read about it just like you did.

Speaker 18 (01:16:56):
And do you believe that she is not a very
uncommon thing?

Speaker 3 (01:16:59):
Do you believe that.

Speaker 27 (01:17:00):
She's credible to be listening to your deputy Attorney journal
sat down with her recently.

Speaker 17 (01:17:05):
Well, he's let me tell you, he's a very talented man.
His name is Todd Blanche. He's a very legitimate person,
very high I just a very highly thought of person,
respected by everybody. And I didn't talk to him about it,
but I will tell you that whatever he asked would
be totally appropriate, and it's not an uncommon thing to

(01:17:26):
do that, and I think he probably wants to make
sure that, you know, people that should not be involved
or aren't involved, or not hurt by something that would
be very very unfortunate, very unfair to a lot of people.
But I will say this, Todd Blanche is one of
the most highly respected people you'll ever meet.

Speaker 8 (01:17:43):
So I know this.

Speaker 17 (01:17:44):
I didn't discuss it with him, but anything he talked
about with her, or the fact that he did that
not unusual. Number one, and most importantly, is something that
would be totally above board.

Speaker 9 (01:17:56):
So President Trump saying yesterday that he did not know
about the transfer of Glenn Maxwell. And here's another thing
before I get your take on all of this, Doctor Huffman,
CNN this morning is reporting that tonight the Vice President JD.
Vance is going to host a strategy talk session with
members of the Trump administration about the Epstein story tonight

(01:18:17):
at his residence. So that's interesting to note as we
talk on a Wednesday morning, where what are your thoughts
on this story as it is right now a few
weeks into this, Well, you know.

Speaker 14 (01:18:28):
The story obviously is not going away, even though you
know there's a lot of things happening where, you know,
the administration and others are hoping it's going to stay
it away. The fact is even a lot of Trump
supporters really wanted to hear about this story. And one
of the reasons is why there's a lot of Democrats
on that list to Bill Clinton's on that list. We

(01:18:49):
know the flight manifest, and we know Donald Trump was
on some of the flights. We know Bill Clinton was
on some of the flights. We know Bill Gates was
on some of the flights. So you know, we know
things like the flight manifest. The folks want to know
a little more now. Moving Maxwell to a lower security

(01:19:09):
prison where she'll have more rights, that again raises more
questions than it answers. And the fact that the Vice
president is going to be talking to a task force
about this shows that this is not going away anytime soon.
It may fade, it may not seem like as important

(01:19:31):
to some of Trump's supporters than it was during the election,
when you know it was the fiery issue, but it's
not going away anytime soon.

Speaker 12 (01:19:42):
Does this Do you think that this moves any of
Trump's supporters away from him? Just the sheer move of
changing locations for Gallaine Maxwell to a lower security prison
because we know that she was found guilty of being
involved in this horrific.

Speaker 10 (01:20:00):
Process of human trafficking.

Speaker 12 (01:20:02):
Of of bringing in young girls, of all of the
pedophilia involved, that she has involvement with this, and that
she's you know, being treated or getting better treatment. Now,
do you think this ends up causing a problem just
this one particular move.

Speaker 14 (01:20:23):
Well, in short, yes, you know she's getting preferential treatment.
They talk to her before they talk to victims. You
know what it's going to do among Trump supporters. It
might lower his approval ratings. In fact, it likely will,
but that doesn't mean that they're not going to support
his policies over democratic policies. So even if they say,

(01:20:46):
you know, I don't approve of Trump, when they are
asked do you approve of how Trump's handling immigration? Do
you approve of how Trump is handling trade? They actually
do approve. So yes, it'll have a negative impact by
its followers on his overall approval rating, but it will

(01:21:07):
not have an impact on his agenda. And again, it's
not going anywhere right now, but we don't know how
long this is going to be a key issue, and
especially whether or not it's going to still be an
issue when we get to the twenty twenty six midterm
congressional elections.

Speaker 12 (01:21:25):
Now there's another legal headline that Trump supporters definitely want
to talk about, but Attorney General Pam Bondi is seeking
a grand jury review of the origins of the Trump
Russia investigation. Now, this certainly brings up a lot of
powerful political names and a story that has stuck with
with President Trump since the twenty sixteen election.

Speaker 10 (01:21:46):
What do you make of this moving forward?

Speaker 12 (01:21:48):
This discussion really made headlines when Tulsea Gabbard came forward
saying that there's new evidence.

Speaker 14 (01:21:56):
Right, and this is primarily Trump retaliates in which he
said he was going to do during his campaign's he said,
I'll be your retribution talking to folks. You know, Trump
always said Robert Mueller's investigation was a witch hunt and
the Steele dossier about the russianclusion was discredited. Now, we

(01:22:18):
do know there was Russian interference in the election. We
do know they worked against Hillary. We do know Paul
Mennifort from the Trump campaign gave Russian's internal polling stuff.
But that doesn't mean there was collusion. Now here's what
the deal is with Gabbard's current statements. The problem is
John Durham was a special counsel appointed by Trump and

(01:22:43):
in short his own Trump's own investigator determined that the
emails that supposedly showed the Clinton administration colluding to make
Trump look bad with this you know, Russia hoax, those
emails that are the evidence from an investigator found were
not credible. And these are what Tulsey Gabbert's bringing up.

(01:23:04):
So you know, the Russia issued Trump was not proven
to be colluding with Russia. There was contact with Russia,
Russia was involved, but the evidence that Hillary was pushing
the agenda those emails are found not credible by Trump's
own investigators. So this is this is a really muddled

(01:23:27):
issue at this point.

Speaker 9 (01:23:29):
So final thing here will localize it a bit and
at least to South Carolina as it relates to where
we're broadcasting from. Nancy Mace made it official a couple
of days ago that she is running for governor in
South Carolina. Not a surprise, but just like you know,
the week before we saw Ralph Norman officially make his announcement.

(01:23:50):
There is there are some polling numbers that show Nancy
Mace in early The early numbers are that she is
leading the pack.

Speaker 24 (01:23:58):
Now.

Speaker 9 (01:23:58):
I don't know how much you make any kind of
poll at this point in the game right now, but
the poll that we were talking about yesterday shrews Nancy
Mace out in front and Ralph Norman, if you believe
these numbers, is kind of an also ran at the moment.
And of course there are other people in this mix.
But what do you make of Nancy Mace as a
gubernatorial candidate in South Carolina?

Speaker 14 (01:24:20):
Well, right now, Nancy Mays is in the lead for
name recognition. More people know her name than any other
name really, even including the Attorney General who is elected statewide,
Alan Wilson. But she is lobbing grenade after grenade at
Alan Wilson, and that's going to begin to define the

(01:24:41):
gubernatorial race someone like Ralph Norman or Pam Everett. But
I really think Ralph Norman is going to be able
to come in, build on his name recognition in the
fifth district, get known statewide. And here's the thing. He
doesn't need to be known by all the people in
the state, just the really fateful Republicans who are going

(01:25:03):
to vote in the Republican primary for governor. And he
can do that by traveling around the state. Man's a
millionaire by traveling around the state and talking to the parties.
And right now these folks are saying, well, Nancy Mace
or Alan Wilson, and you know, they know Nancy Mace
from her culture war issues. But he can slide in

(01:25:24):
between the two of them as sort of a more
calming influence than Pam Everett could. Could you know, attempt
this as well, she's a lieutenant governor. But I would
not count Ralph Norman as and also ran certainly not
at this point. Early polling at this point really is
more about name recognition than it is about vote choice.

Speaker 6 (01:25:46):
Yeah, don't sleep on District five.

Speaker 9 (01:25:48):
We know this. I mean his predecessor became the chief
of staff in the White House, Nick mlvney, of course,
so you know that.

Speaker 14 (01:25:55):
Malvanian and McK mulvaney turned out John Spratt, who was
the long, long, long, long time Democrat who represents the
fifth district. So Mick mulvaney flipped it. Ralph Norman is
now the sort of rock solid, very safe congressman that
he's obviously giving up that seat to run for governor.

(01:26:16):
But yeah, he can translate that into statewide recognition among Republicans.

Speaker 9 (01:26:23):
We appreciate your analysis as always. Scott Huffman from Winthrop University,
also the director and founder of the Center for Public
Opinion and Policy Research.

Speaker 6 (01:26:34):
Hope you have a great week.

Speaker 14 (01:26:36):
Thank you y'all too.

Speaker 9 (01:26:37):
There he goes, and here we go, almost the top
of the hour on a rainy Wednesday morning. It's almost
time for news. Bowen Beth back for final hour.

Speaker 3 (01:26:45):
Next from News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three WBT.
This is Good Morning BT with Bo Thompson and Beth Troublick.

Speaker 9 (01:26:56):
News Talker eleven ten WBT. Seven minutes past nine o'clock.
Teresa Payton coming up later in this hour. I want
to bring Mark Garrison back in here for a few
moments because today and actually within the last hour, is
when chimes traditionally ring out across the Japanese city of
Hiroshima at eight fifteen, the solemn ritual marking the precise

(01:27:19):
moment back in nineteen forty five August sixth, nineteen forty five,
when the US bomber dropped the world's first atomic bomb
over Hiroshima, killing about seventy thousand people instantly Mark.

Speaker 26 (01:27:33):
Harrison, Yeah, it's an amazing day in history, and you've
no doubt seen the video of the giant mushroom cloud,
as well as some still pictures. Well, this is the
remarkable part of that story. It turns out that old
footage was shot entirely by accident by a North Carolina man,
John mcglullin of Ashborough. He was in the sky over

(01:27:55):
Japan and just happened to capture the blast on film,
though he had no idea what he had captured or
even what he had just witnessed.

Speaker 28 (01:28:04):
On the day of the sixth, when every other airplane
in the Pacific Theater that could possibly have been around
Japan was grounded, his plane wasn't.

Speaker 26 (01:28:13):
That is Bob mcglowan, John's son, and Bob tells a
remarkable story of the atomic bomb photo that his father
snapped by accident.

Speaker 28 (01:28:24):
Their initial mission was to fly to a city north
of Hiroshima that had been bombed and to take reconnaissance
photos of the damage. So when they got to their target,
the weather was so bad that they couldn't see the ground,
so standard operating procedure was he flew to the next
largest target area. So it just happened that Hiroshima was it.

Speaker 8 (01:28:48):
So think of that.

Speaker 26 (01:28:48):
John mclowan and the crew on his plane headed to
Hiroshima to see if they could just get some usable
pictures of possible targets, having no idea the city was
about to be obliterated by an American atomic bomb.

Speaker 28 (01:29:05):
And as they were coming into Hiroshima, the bomb went
off right under them. A couple of them commented the
fact that they couldn't see real well for a few seconds.
Dad was his station was in the centered airplane. He
didn't have any ports to look out. All his ports
were covered with cameras well. As soon as that happened,
he turned his cameras on and he started filming.

Speaker 26 (01:29:26):
The crew had no idea what they were seeing.

Speaker 28 (01:29:29):
I mean, they knew it was a big explosion, but
they flew on back to their base.

Speaker 26 (01:29:33):
And back at the base, John mcgloan went straight to
the dark room to develop the remarkable pictures of the
massive mushroom cloud and the explosion at Hiroshima.

Speaker 28 (01:29:44):
Developing that film and making prints and hanging them up
to dry, he asked somebody else, He said, what is that?
And the guy he asked said that's an atomic bomb.

Speaker 26 (01:29:52):
Then things got a little crazy. Security came into the.

Speaker 28 (01:29:56):
Dark room, they grabbed his film, said with us, and
they went to the briefing area and stuff. And he
walks in and all the rest of his crew standing
at attention, looking real scared. He leaned to the guy
next to him, He said, what's going on? And the
guy said, I don't know what they say. Will be
dead in the morning from the radiation, from the radiation.

Speaker 3 (01:30:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 28 (01:30:18):
The fortunate thing is is that, as far as I know,
none of them ever suffered from radiation poisoning. They all
lived to be pretty ripe old ages. And when Dad
died he was ninety six.

Speaker 26 (01:30:30):
So this classic picture of the bomb going off and
the mushroom cloud.

Speaker 6 (01:30:35):
Was an accident.

Speaker 14 (01:30:36):
That's correct. That's correct.

Speaker 13 (01:30:38):
Wow.

Speaker 26 (01:30:39):
It is a remarkable story that John mcgloughan loved talking
about with his son Bob through the years, the story
of an airman just doing his duty and he stumbled
into history.

Speaker 28 (01:30:52):
He didn't mean to be there. Certainly, he didn't know
anything about an atomic bomb. Nobody did, you know, so
even when they saw it, they had no idea what
it was.

Speaker 14 (01:31:00):
As they were seeing.

Speaker 26 (01:31:01):
Wow, I was looking back on YouTube at some of
the film because he got both film, because his plane
was covered in cameras, both still cameras and film, and
so he was just he just triggered them all and
didn't even know what he had until he got back.
Is that just not remarkable?

Speaker 12 (01:31:18):
It is remarkable and that we all know the image
now because of that, And I can't imagine at the time,
because we didn't. All of us know the story now
of Oppenheimer. We know the story of the Manhattan Project,
but at the time this was just something that ended
the war. But I'm sure was horrifying for people to discover, like,

(01:31:40):
wait a minute, we have what this is, what this
technology did?

Speaker 6 (01:31:44):
What exactly?

Speaker 11 (01:31:46):
Now?

Speaker 26 (01:31:46):
John mcglollan came back to Ashborough, served as the fire
chief there for many years and from what I understand,
was pretty modest and didn't tell a whole lot of
people about his brush with history.

Speaker 6 (01:31:58):
Eighty years ago. Today. That's remarkable, that's a great story.
Thank you so much.

Speaker 9 (01:32:03):
Mark.

Speaker 3 (01:32:03):
Sure, Hey, what's up?

Speaker 13 (01:32:04):
How are you doing?

Speaker 6 (01:32:05):
Fam bam?

Speaker 9 (01:32:06):
I like that.

Speaker 6 (01:32:06):
I don't know what it means, but I like it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:08):
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Speaker 3 (01:32:10):
We're great, You're a news show.

Speaker 15 (01:32:12):
It is fun.

Speaker 3 (01:32:14):
This is good morning, beat.

Speaker 9 (01:32:21):
All right, final stretch on a busy Wednesday morning rain,
still figuring into most of your day here, but eventually
it'll start tapering off.

Speaker 11 (01:32:32):
We haven't.

Speaker 9 (01:32:35):
Done much with the text line today seven four, five,
seven eleven ten, driven by Liberty View at GMC.

Speaker 6 (01:32:41):
I mean, people text all during the show.

Speaker 9 (01:32:43):
It just sometimes we get into a text heavy segments
and then we get other times we're doing other things
and I look down and they're like fifty, Yeah, fifty
texts that I've missed and missed. But we've talked about
a lot of stuff today. This is from Allen. He says,
good morning, y'all. Regarding the NFL Red Zone ESPN relationship,
from what I had read, it looks like the NFL

(01:33:06):
will still control the Red Zone Channel. ESPN will be
in charge of distribution to traditional cable and satellite outlets.
The NFL will control digital distribution and the channel itself.

Speaker 6 (01:33:17):
That remains to be seen.

Speaker 9 (01:33:19):
We're talking about the fact that we mentioned this yesterday,
that ESPN has acquired NFL Media, which includes the Red
Zone Channel. It includes a lot of the NFL network programming.
It includes several games, the inventory, the extra Games that
you used to see on the NFL network. A lot

(01:33:39):
of that's going to be absorbed by ESPN. But there
have been a number of reactions and when Steve sent
to me, you know, memes of okay, does this mean
that it's going to be Stephen A. Smith and Pat
McAfee hosting NFL Red Zone, And then you know, imagine
conversations about what that's going to be.

Speaker 6 (01:33:56):
I don't think it's going to be that.

Speaker 9 (01:33:58):
In fact, they did announce yesterday that Scott Hansen, who's
been the longtime host of seven hours of commercial free football,
he's still going to be around this season and hopefully
for many more seasons. But I can imagine that that
it's going to be exactly like it was. It's gonna
have it's gonna be ESPN eyed in one way or

(01:34:19):
the other.

Speaker 10 (01:34:19):
They'll put their fingerprint on it some way. Yeah, in
some way, shape or form.

Speaker 9 (01:34:23):
The other big news today and so alan it's going
to be interesting to watch it play out. I mean,
I I would imagine in five years the NFL network,
maybe not even that long. I would imagine NFL network
as you know, it will either the channel will be
ESPN three or four or the OHO, but all of

(01:34:43):
that will be absorbed into the ESPN mothership with the
logo and all that stuff, which in some ways is good,
some ways is not so good.

Speaker 6 (01:34:52):
NFL call me, call me Disney.

Speaker 9 (01:35:00):
Now, there's a huge, a lot of sports business deals
going on this week today while the show was on,
Big big story with the ESPN, ESPN has acquired the
rights to the WWE what they call p L e
pl E catalog, which is they you know, this is

(01:35:21):
what they used to call pay per view events, but
it's WrestleMania, it's Royal Rumble, it's a Survivor series. All
the big WWE wrestling pay per views are now going
to be on ESPN, which they've been on Peacock in
recent years. And a lot of people don't realize this bit,
but the very one of the very first, if not

(01:35:41):
the first person to go and establish a streaming service
for their product was the World Wrestling Entertainment Group. Vince
McMahon started what was called WWE Network and it was
a standalone thing for several years, and then then they
NBC Universal cut a deal and absorbed that into Peacock

(01:36:05):
and that's where everything except for Raw on Netflix is
but once upon a time, Vince McMahon was the guy,
one of the first to go out there and establish
his own streaming service hub for his product.

Speaker 10 (01:36:19):
So it could be it could be WWEESPPNFL, that's thanks
to Steve.

Speaker 6 (01:36:30):
That wasn't that was Steve Well.

Speaker 10 (01:36:32):
I added the NFL at.

Speaker 6 (01:36:33):
The end just made it all one just big who
said that that was Steve w w E, S P
S journey it should do or was.

Speaker 12 (01:36:46):
So what you're saying is that the WWE was on
the forefront of the streaming idea.

Speaker 10 (01:36:52):
Here's where you put Steven A. Smith and Pat McAfee.

Speaker 12 (01:36:54):
You put them on the sidelines of a double or
beside the ring at a WWE match like his, Like
Pat McAfee's little sleeveless shirt and stuff picks like it fits.

Speaker 10 (01:37:04):
His personality fits right.

Speaker 6 (01:37:05):
So Pat McAfee has already been a WWE.

Speaker 10 (01:37:08):
He has, and I knew that.

Speaker 9 (01:37:10):
That's why he's actually on hiatus right now and they
don't know if he's going to come back.

Speaker 6 (01:37:15):
He does WWE, Yeah, he did for a while.

Speaker 9 (01:37:17):
And then what around early summer or maybe it was
a few months whenever, shortly after WrestleMania, he took a
break because he's.

Speaker 10 (01:37:25):
See I see it, I see it. It fits.

Speaker 9 (01:37:27):
He said that he's just doing too much. Of course,
you got College Game Day coming up, and he's got
his regular show. I don't know if he comes back.
I'm sure he'll come back to WWE at some point,
but he's not doing it right now. And he had
been doing Monday Night rall since Netflix had picked it up,
so it's like one big happy family.

Speaker 10 (01:37:44):
It's kind of he's like the Ryan Seacrest of sports.

Speaker 6 (01:37:47):
He's becoming that.

Speaker 9 (01:37:48):
You're not wrong about that, Yeah, And I think he's
got to be careful because Ryan Seacrest is in too
many places. Ryan Seacrest doesn't need to.

Speaker 6 (01:37:55):
Be on wheel of fortune.

Speaker 11 (01:37:58):
I mean, come on, just trying to grow his audience.

Speaker 9 (01:38:01):
I mean, look, I'm always going to have a bone
to pick because he took over American Top forty. And
I'm not that somebody had to after Casey Caseum. But
it's not that he took over, it's that what he
did with it once he took over, he he dismantled it.
Now it's just another Ryan Seacrest thing. Whereas when I
was growing up, American Top forty was.

Speaker 6 (01:38:19):
An institution had an edge. I wouldn't. I wouldn't say that.

Speaker 13 (01:38:25):
Edge.

Speaker 6 (01:38:25):
Casey case had an hill, a little edge to him.

Speaker 9 (01:38:28):
Now, if you've ever heard some of the Casey Caseum outtakes,
there's some edgine there.

Speaker 6 (01:38:32):
He did have some edge.

Speaker 12 (01:38:34):
I kind of secretly love those outtakes because of how
you picture Casey Casem in your mind and what we know,
and then you hear the outtakes and it's just it's
quite delightful.

Speaker 6 (01:38:44):
Reach for the stars and talk dirty.

Speaker 10 (01:38:47):
That's him, he said, he said, some funny mark.

Speaker 9 (01:38:51):
Have you ever heard the the the Dog Dedication? No,
I don't know if I am okay, so it is,
I cannot play it. I can't were any exactly any
part of that?

Speaker 6 (01:39:00):
Oh wow, you know.

Speaker 9 (01:39:01):
But but there are some there's some big time voices.
I mentioned Ernie Anderson the other day. He used to
be the voice of ABC and the voice of like
Kiss FM and Z one hundred. His outtakes are legendary.
With I mean, you go on YouTube, there are just
there are tons and tons and miles of outtakes. Casey
Casem has one famous outtake that is not safe for radio.

Speaker 10 (01:39:22):
But I wonder if any of our outtakes ever end
up anywhere.

Speaker 6 (01:39:26):
They're on their way to the sewage treatment plan road.

Speaker 10 (01:39:31):
Actually, our outtakes end up on the air just daily.

Speaker 6 (01:39:35):
I was about to say, then that's true, we just
do them right here.

Speaker 10 (01:39:37):
Yeah, it just happens naturally.

Speaker 9 (01:39:39):
The eighteenth segment coming your way soon with all of
the outtakes from the seventeenth segment and then the actual
regular show.

Speaker 6 (01:39:46):
What just happened there?

Speaker 26 (01:39:47):
It was a music, it was an outtake.

Speaker 9 (01:39:48):
That's see, this is what I wanted right here there
we go. Thank you Boway Bathrore demonstrating how to make
an out take all right.

Speaker 25 (01:39:57):
Happy birthday to Bernie Bowlie.

Speaker 6 (01:40:00):
Thank you guys, and thank you for the cookies back.

Speaker 9 (01:40:02):
You're very welcome, and thanks to everybody else who puts
this outtake machine together on a daily basis.

Speaker 6 (01:40:09):
Good talk, best, great talk bro.

Speaker 24 (01:40:12):
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A great boss will say, hey, it's my birthday. Celebrate
yourselves because you are the ones who.

Speaker 6 (01:40:22):
Made me great.

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