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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's your strike team assembled. My team's ready.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
I don't have a command crew for the shuttle.

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

Speaker 4 (00:11):
I understand how you feel this time.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
It's personal.

Speaker 4 (00:15):
This is good Morning Beatty with Bo Thompson and Beth Trout.

Speaker 5 (00:20):
Why I laughed, but broaden our mine all right?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
I have a picture.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
And my wall.

Speaker 6 (00:50):
An image me and with laughing, with laughing, it all.

Speaker 7 (01:00):
God life now an Thowso fighting July.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
And Tis and we cry until dawn.

Speaker 8 (01:18):
Now you say I'm a dreamer, no relation.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
We're too of a kind, both of us. Such got
you an h awl you know where?

Speaker 6 (01:48):
Now a fun little conversation and having grade school though.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
You know this guy's sdream. It's such an usual last name.

Speaker 6 (01:55):
Yeah yeah, Bar waking up in the eighties today, huh apparently.

Speaker 7 (02:01):
And I didn't even know. I came in. I was like, guys,
I don't even know what this song is. And I
started singing the chorus.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
I'm studdy, what seven point nine?

Speaker 7 (02:09):
But I think I think I just got it. I think,
as I'm listening to this, the actual song song, I
think I know why this is in my head. This
could be a mash up with Taylor Swift's new song
Oprah Light, Oprah Light.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
I see, I see all of a sudden, the wheels
start turning, and BOE's like, oh, challenge accepting it. I
feel early for this. I feel like.

Speaker 7 (02:32):
I'm having one of those mornings. I told the guys
that I came in. I came in hot again. Like, guys, guys, what.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
You know, you're right here you go. She stole it
right home me No Jompson.

Speaker 7 (02:53):
Twist, Yeah, home much.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
She's gonna get suit.

Speaker 6 (02:56):
It's gonna be like a different key, but it's gonna
be like Ray Parker, Junr Huey Lewis.

Speaker 7 (03:01):
But do you hear it? I started hearing it when
you actually started playing the song, and that's probably why
it's in my head.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
You couldn't understand.

Speaker 6 (03:09):
Yeah, let's see here, let's go back to this guy is,
let's move it back.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
Good much old my heart.

Speaker 7 (03:21):
Yeah, it's just it's a different key. We'd have to
change the key of the of the Thompson Twins. But
it's the it's the chord depression.

Speaker 6 (03:28):
And the underlying rhythm to a degree is the matches
sounds a little sped up, but it's still the same right,
same zip code. So that what she's been doing all
these years, ripping off Tops and Twins songs and making
them our own.

Speaker 7 (03:41):
Since I've it started right here, you did it, you
would be hold me now.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
I got said, this is gonna you sound like the
Thompson Twins.

Speaker 7 (03:51):
Thank you. We are the Thompson Twins.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Go back to the eighties.

Speaker 7 (03:53):
We have basically morphed into one human at this point.
But driving in I came in hot because I driving
in my my water bottle lid was not on tightly,
and so it spilled into my seat, which my seat.
It didn't soak into my seat because the seats in
my car are lad there, so it's just a puddle
that my leg then soaked up. So I'm soaking wet
this morning.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
And you did not wet yourself.

Speaker 7 (04:15):
I did not wet my seat.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
You're actually coming in cold. Yeah, she's coming in damp, right.

Speaker 7 (04:20):
My right pant leg is completely so just.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
So coming up in a little bit.

Speaker 6 (04:25):
We need to Sometimes things happened during the show, like yesterday,
for example, something happened Beth randomly started eating something and
I said, we got to talk about this. We don't
have time at the moment because we had we had
guest log jam yesterday. But we're going to get to
the bag of chips, and not just any bag of chips,
but a bag of chips you pulled out yesterday.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
I went, wait a.

Speaker 7 (04:47):
Minute, I have a bag of them today.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
I get out.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Was this the nine o'clock I always get to occurder?

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Was I wasn't in the room before?

Speaker 7 (04:54):
It probably was. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
It was late in the show because you're during politics
or the nine o'clock.

Speaker 7 (05:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I was trying to get myself
prepared for a kickboxing class.

Speaker 6 (05:05):
Well, you know, this is right in line with that,
but we'll talk about that coming up in just a bit.
On the show yesterday we had a very interesting guest
late in the show, a guy named Major General John Meyer,
talking about working as the chief of Army Public Affairs.
And this is come into play now because of this

(05:26):
exodus from the Pentagon and every network including Fox other
than except foran which is One America News is away
to the far right. They are the only, as it
looks like this morning, the only network that has agreed
to the Pentagon's rules to cover all things going on there,
and so it's going to be interesting to see what

(05:46):
the fallout of this is. But as of right now,
they're the only ones. The rest of them basically took
their toys and went home.

Speaker 7 (05:51):
Yeah, what's fascinating is CNN, ABC, NBCCBS, Fox News, they
all released a joint statement about this. And the general
that we spoke with. We actually connected through our war correspondent,
John Falconberry, who made this connection for us, and just
a really lovely just man who was willing to give

(06:13):
us a great deal of his time.

Speaker 6 (06:15):
President Trump is going to welcome Vladimir's Lensky back to
the White House on Friday. The government shutdown continues with
no end in sight. And like we said, the impasse
at the Pentagon between the Press and the Secretary of War,
it's all coming up this hour, and much more about
all that in Beth's Bag of Chips coming up this hour.

Speaker 7 (06:37):
That was really well done, y'all. Joe used to say
that is just hear all that in a bag of chips.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
I've heard people say it. I've never been in the
room while someone actually said that.

Speaker 6 (06:44):
Oh well, And like we said, more specifically, all that
and Beth's Bag of chips.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
I've been there, done that. Got the T shirt?

Speaker 7 (06:50):
Yeah, right, right, right right?

Speaker 6 (06:51):
Hey, did you get your T shirt? They brought us
T shirts yesterday. No, I just said that out of
the blue we got T shirts.

Speaker 7 (06:56):
We did from me.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
He didn't bring one for Jim because Jim's not here
in the nine o'clock house.

Speaker 7 (07:01):
Seventieth anniversary of the coliseum.

Speaker 6 (07:03):
Yeah, Charlotte Coliseum. And by the way, Spectrum Center reopens
this weekend. So we got so much feedback yesterday about
you know, your first not to mention the seven o'clock hour.
We were talking about Dumbo and you and me at the circus.
But but later in the show some memories. And now
Spectrum Center is going to open up again after a

(07:24):
big refurbishment.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
So much to talk about today. It is big Thursday.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
This is good morning, Beaty.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
White.

Speaker 6 (07:48):
People are loving your song today. Little Thompson Twins, Now
this was not it, but staying in the same ballpark,
same family.

Speaker 7 (07:57):
I don't know that I know this song to the
Thompson Twins have a lot of hits. No, and were
they twins? Were they actually twins?

Speaker 6 (08:04):
Being a Thompson I should know that, but I don't
now It's interesting because we're getting all kinds of feedback
on the text line about, oh man, thank you Beth
for choosing a decent song today, thanks for going to
the eighties. And then you get Matthew who says, here's
another Taylor Swift one for you.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Check out the similarities in Wood and her new.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Album and the song I Want You.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
Back by the Jackson Five.

Speaker 7 (08:27):
Yes, and that's actually true too. Matthew is absolutely spot.

Speaker 6 (08:31):
On the real story. Here is what Matthew's trying to
get me to do on the air. And I'm sorry,
I'm not going to I'm not gonna do a mashup
of Wood in the Texon five.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
I'm not going to play that song. I can't play
that song well.

Speaker 7 (08:44):
Her mom apparently, according to an interview, her mother still
believes that it's about being superstitious. Superstitious like knocking.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
On wood, you like, just knocking on It's nice that
her mama is willing to, you know, just put aside
her common sense. By the way, Thompson Twins based on
two bubbling detectives Thompson and Thompson in the English language
version of the Adventures of Tintin. So none of the
people in the band are related or name Thompson named Thompson.

Speaker 7 (09:15):
So it's a reference to the ten Tin books.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (09:19):
All right, so there you.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Go all these years in grade school. Hey, you related
to those guys?

Speaker 9 (09:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Maybe you know, it could be.

Speaker 7 (09:26):
And there's no one in the band actually named Thompson.
You need to go and you know, do a little
re a little you could do a cover band of
the Thompson Twins.

Speaker 6 (09:34):
Well, I do have two brothers and we used to,
you know, do karaoke at family parties called Thompson Thompson brothers.

Speaker 7 (09:41):
Well, you could be the Thompson triplets.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
But we're not triplets.

Speaker 7 (09:44):
Well neither were the Thompson.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
We're not twins.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
We're not triplets. We're just brothers.

Speaker 7 (09:49):
Well there are three of you, so you could just
you know, it's right, play with it.

Speaker 6 (09:52):
So we mentioned that the government shutdown continues today. That's
in you know, two week territory. Now it's day number
one of the shutdown of the media at the Pentagon,
and we'll see how long this goes.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Maybe it goes maybe it goes on for a while.
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (10:10):
I mean, we had a guy on yesterday, a very
interesting discussion here. And he's not the only person who
has former workings at the Pentagon who's talked like this,
but Major General John Myers, the former Chief of Army
Public Affairs. We had a chance to talk to him
late in the show yesterday, his thoughts about what has
happened here, this impasse between the traditional media outlets that

(10:34):
have covered the Pentagon for years and Secretary of warpete Hegseth.

Speaker 7 (10:40):
Because you worked as the chief of Public Affairs for
the United States Army when you were working with the press,
what was the access you know, how how did the
process work, and how is the story that's now being
told about you know, press access, How does it differ
from what you experienced.

Speaker 10 (11:00):
The media in the Pentagon is being portrayed as running
rapid with no restrictions. That's just not true. They have
to be approved to receive a badge to get into
the Pentagon and work in the Pentagon. They cannot have
access to any classified information, and there's certain rules and
regulations they have to follow, and those rules in regulation

(11:22):
have been in place for decades across multiple administrations and
both parties. The media just doesn't walk in the hall
and walk into your door, and after nine to eleven
doors are not open, all the doors are shut, all
the doors are locked, and you have to press a
button to get in. So what bothers me is the

(11:45):
media is being portrayed in an erroneous manner in my judgment.

Speaker 6 (11:49):
So General Meyer, if I mean it appears that only
one outlet, It'sam, has agreed to this, all the rest
of them, including Fox, said no. So what do you
think happens now if this goes forward as it is?
I mean, I assume they're going to have some sort
of negotiation. But if they're all locked out and they

(12:10):
remain locked out, then what sort of scenario do you
think that presents?

Speaker 10 (12:14):
Not a good scenario because the media is still going
to cover the Pentagon, so they're now going to have
to get their information from sources. The Secretary of Defense
may not prefer this is in my judgment, this is
going to cause more leaks to occur, and as a

(12:35):
senior leader in the department, you don't like leaks. But
the whole thing is this, You, as the Secretary of Defense,
want to get out the most favorable story about your
organization as you can. So if you don't tell your
side of the story. If you don't give journalists the
opportunity to research and talk to people, they don't have

(12:59):
an obligation to print your side of the story. So
this is just going to make it more difficult. He's
going to get more frustrated. And what they should be
doing is they should be doing developing a relationship with
the military with the media where they can have access
and you can have restrictions on the kind of access.

(13:20):
And I don't support the supposition that generals are walking
around with journalists hanging all over them and they don't
know what they're doing. When I was Chief of Ripublic Affairs,
I got the Army leadership to agree to put every
new general through a three hour media training course where
we had set them down and had different kind of

(13:42):
interviews and talk to them about how to develop a
relationship with the media and train them how to get
the story out, how to handle an adversarial story. So,
in my judgment, his policy is going to cause more
problems than they have before.

Speaker 7 (13:58):
Were you surprised that this was a policy that Pete
Hagseth himself came up with, given that he used to
be a member of the media.

Speaker 10 (14:07):
Not really because in late January his office removed four
news outlets from their Pentagon workspace and they replace them
with outlets more favorable, with more favorable coverage to the
Trump administration. In May, secretary has restricted journalists from most
hallways of the Pentagon without an escort. He hasn't given

(14:30):
a Pentagon press briefing in four months, and his secretary
that handles his press work has not conducted a briefing
in two months. On the other hand, his boss, President Trump,
does a media event almost every day on any subject.
So you have two extremes there. I think the President

(14:53):
does too many interviews and his message order gets lost
because it's so frequent, and the secretary gives way too few.
There's a balance in between there that has worked in
the past very effectively in my judgment.

Speaker 6 (15:09):
That is former Chief of Army Public Affairs, Major General
John Meyer joining us here on WBT. You can hear
that entire interview at WBT dot com and wherever you
get your podcasts. But interesting thoughts from someone who knows
the Pentagon well on the new playing field or at
least parameters for media coverage of Pete Hegseth's.

Speaker 7 (15:28):
Pentagon and It'll be interesting to see how this does
play out if he's accurate, because, like he said, the
press will continue covering the Pentagon, it's just the way
that they source their material is now going to probably,
as he said, cause more frustration to Pete Hegseth. So
we'll see if the general is correct as the weeks
play out.

Speaker 6 (15:49):
Hello Cohen, welcome to Good Morning, VT.

Speaker 11 (15:51):
And Christmas Day. We will have been married fifty seven years.
Oh m'sis Oman in town and Steel he is, Yes,
did some people marry you? I'm married? Way the hell
of it?

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Well, Cohen, you have a great day. I feel like
we're just in the show now.

Speaker 12 (16:14):
I know.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Call of the Day, all right, the Call of the year.

Speaker 4 (16:17):
This is good morning beaty.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Wow, what just happened?

Speaker 6 (16:25):
From the category of who knew? So we've been talking
about bo Jingles Colisseum got into that conversation yesterday about
the history of the what was originally the Charlotte Colosseum
celebrating seventy years this year, and we talked to Sean
Flynn from the CRVA yesterday. Great conversation in the final hour.

(16:49):
A lot of you participated in that. But then we
get a note from Cohen this.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Morning, y'all.

Speaker 7 (16:54):
I did not think this man could get any cooler.
You just heard the phone call that made Cohen a
legend on show, and we love Cohen. So Cohen in
Belmont just sends this message to us. As we were
talking about our memories from the Charlotte Coliseum, he said,
good morning, y'all. My best memory of the old Charlotte
Coliseum was in the late sixties when my garage band,

(17:17):
The Vestman, opened a concert for Hermit's Hermits and the Hollys.
The Hollies were playing. We did three songs, Satisfaction, Louis
Louie and Little Black Egg. My girlfriend who I married
later and her best friend were in the audience, so
the woman he married was there for the concert. He

(17:39):
was in a band, y'all, and opened for Herman's Hermits.

Speaker 6 (17:42):
Cohen, I created this for one person, and I thought
one person only, But today Cohen is going to get
this one too.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
That was a good morning bet humble breath that one
calls for something more. That was a good morning beat chime, enormous,
nothing humble about it.

Speaker 11 (18:07):
Brack.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
That's impressive, ladies and gentlemen. You think Cohen is the
world's most interesting man.

Speaker 6 (18:14):
I do I do believe that like dus Eki's created
the character based on Cohen.

Speaker 7 (18:21):
Yeah, they must have known Cohen. I was just saying
in the commercial break, I really want to just go
have liver mush sandwiches with Cohen. I just want to
go sit in a cafe, drink some coffee, ea a
liver mush sandwich with Cohen.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Start saying, my friends, let him tell stories.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
I don't text to WBT often, but when I.

Speaker 6 (18:36):
Do, and that's true, he doesn't like it. It's not
every day, no, every once in a while, but when
he does, it is well worth reading the text, especially
in this case on the Earth.

Speaker 7 (18:47):
Can you imagine being able to say that you opened
for the Herman's hermit for the there's not there for
Herman's Hermits.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
I've got a great idea for october Fest. Instead of
us sitting up are talking, we bring up the most
interesting listeners. Yes, and they talk about the station. It's
a double thing. We get to learn more about them.
They're interesting stories and we do less. So it's a
win win.

Speaker 7 (19:10):
Wouldn't that be fun? Actually to have Cohen on the
stage at News and Bruise and just ask him questions.

Speaker 6 (19:16):
Well, I think it would be fun to one day
do a do a show and have like a panel
of our all time listeners, like most famous listeners, like
the All Star Listening Group or so.

Speaker 13 (19:28):
So we can do it.

Speaker 6 (19:28):
We could do it at News and Bruise. Hey, we
could do it in the nine o'clock hour one day.

Speaker 7 (19:31):
Oh, that would be so fun. We could have we
could have Cohen in, we could have Mike and Monroe,
we could have Kin, we could have the Oakhurst pharmacyl.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
BET's rattling off all these names.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
It's like it's like little kids making our birthday party list.

Speaker 6 (19:48):
Well, and we would dedicate it to Barry from rock
Hill and dedicate it.

Speaker 7 (19:51):
To Barry from rock Hill. I just repeated exactly what
you said.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Hold on, you said it with hangout. Yes, yes, wouldn't
that be fun though? But if we did it News,
but they could meet each other and be like, oh yeah,
like what was George North They all get to finally
meet each other.

Speaker 6 (20:07):
I mean, to your point, we would have very little
to do. We just sit back and watch it all.
I always going to say that part a lot, but
that's the benefit of the side in addition to the
more important part of the listeners, and we get to
see them and hear their stories.

Speaker 7 (20:18):
Yeah, because I I want to put faces with names,
don't you?

Speaker 6 (20:22):
So maybe we should put it out to the listeners
as well. We had so much fun with all the
stories from bo Jangles Coliseum yesterday. Who would you nominate
to be part of that panel from this show? Callers
to this show?

Speaker 1 (20:35):
And I want to meet the Sun's guy too.

Speaker 7 (20:37):
Oh yes, the guy that called us and tripped us
up telling us that he had created his own lawnmower.

Speaker 6 (20:42):
And see if he gets us again seven oh four
or five, seven oh eleven ten. This can be a
you know, this can be a rolling thing as we
continue through the week. But we need nominations. We have
our own, of course, but I'd like to know what
some of the listeners think. You know, this is like
crowdsourcing you or Hugh as you listen, as Al Gardner
would say, but if you have somebody you would nominate
to be on the GMBT All Star Listener panel.

Speaker 7 (21:04):
Yeah, your favorite callers. I have to say Richie too,
who called into the contest last.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Week, and a huge George Michael fan, our.

Speaker 7 (21:11):
Huge George Michael Fan and caught us all off guard.
And we have to put in there just a roll
tide Roland, Yah, our roll tied Roland.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
I thought the lady that calls in and criticizes your contests.

Speaker 6 (21:21):
Mary Lee noe.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Why don't you even get the names right of the
people in this room.

Speaker 7 (21:29):
We know we need to have Mary Lee, the grumpiest
texture we have. We need Mary Lee because I feel
like she's really delightful in real life.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Maybe if she's not o make it that much, but.

Speaker 7 (21:39):
Would make it that much more fun to have Mary
Lee and Cohen in the same room.

Speaker 6 (21:42):
At least once a month, we get an email about
someone who's leaving and I never met them.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
Thank you. I saw that one too, who'd been her
for eleven months, and we're all going to miss him,
and we all know who that is, and we don't.

Speaker 6 (21:57):
Jim and I have to take Beth with us when
we go on to other departments in the building because
otherwise we don't know anybody is.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
They've been here for a year and we're gonna sure
miss them.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
Good luck, buddy in your future endeavor. And we've been
here since the eighties.

Speaker 7 (22:13):
To introduce you guys to employees.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Other days they're leaving.

Speaker 7 (22:17):
He was the He was the fella who was always
dressed really really nice. He always had like glasses on
that were really cool that matched his sweater vest.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
That's why I called him fella.

Speaker 6 (22:25):
Yeah, it's like a little mouse, something a mouse would wear.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Both the cartoons.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
He's been here since twenty twenty one.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yeah, he wears a sweater vest.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Bo that guy.

Speaker 7 (22:39):
He always had cute pants on too.

Speaker 6 (22:41):
Oh that that nailed it right, and every down again
a sport coat, the cute pants.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
No.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah, six Board literally have no clue.

Speaker 6 (22:47):
None of this is helping six forty five on WBT. Well,
you know, safe travels, happ betrayals.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
Come to news and Bruce hang out, tellus about yourself
before you leave. He probably sold it.

Speaker 6 (22:59):
I've always been wanting to me that Boomer guy. I
just heard about him, but never never seen the cross
paths with him.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
Is he cool guy?

Speaker 1 (23:05):
He's legit boomer A. Yeah, I thought, like a jackalope.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
Are you real? That's hey already?

Speaker 14 (23:14):
Cohen played in the band and opened for Herman's Hermit.

Speaker 7 (23:17):
Yes, were you at that concert?

Speaker 14 (23:18):
He probably what Herman's Herman? I know he may be
a part of history here big time because Herman's Hermit's
the first British Invasion group play live in the Carolinas.
That happened that what is now the Grady Cole Center
at the Park Center and Memorial Stadium over there.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Well, holy moment.

Speaker 14 (23:32):
He may be on stage the first British Invasion concert
and the Carolinas.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
See I want to, I want to.

Speaker 6 (23:39):
I want to hear a conversation between Cohen and Boom
and Boomer together. It's called Chris Beasley, doctor Beachley, Chris Beachley.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
There's a source, Chris Beachley.

Speaker 6 (23:49):
Yeah, he used to, uh used to fill in for
Rock and Ray on the Sunday Night Hall of Fame man.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
He's an encyclopedia man and.

Speaker 6 (23:56):
He owned the Wax Museum, right, sir, yes, sir, doctor Beasley.
All right, well someday we should do traffic I guess.

Speaker 14 (24:02):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
So there's that famous scene from the Graduate.

Speaker 6 (24:14):
Race has been just one word, one word ben plastics, but.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Actually I might amend that for twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
Just one word, Beth, just one word protein.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (24:29):
You remember back in the nineties when everybody was on
the low fat craze, and they had like the snack wells,
like the low fat cookies and the low fat mayonnaise
and fat free everything. Fat free.

Speaker 6 (24:39):
You should never do that boice definitely, don't say mayonnaise.

Speaker 7 (24:45):
It's but it's definitely when we the quote unquote health
culture impacted everybody, and it turns out we ended up
consuming way too many like carbs and sugars and processed foods,
and it set us down a really bad path. Well,
now the new kraze is protein. And I don't know
if you saw this report in USA today. Recently, it's

(25:06):
kind of been everywhere but protein powders that people often
put in their coffees and in their morning you know,
shakes and that kind of thing. Turns out that a
lot of those protein powders are riddled with high levels
of lead, according to consumer reports.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
That seems like an easy one to have known that's
bad to put into it.

Speaker 7 (25:23):
Yeah, for the manufacturer, don't put the lead in there.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
Okay, what if we put lead in the protein?

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (25:27):
Because because protein, I mean everywhere you look. I mean,
there's a story in the New York Post about pop
tarts now having protein in them. Peanut butter has protein.
Cheerios have protein in them.

Speaker 7 (25:37):
And protein added.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yeah, yesterday, yesterday.

Speaker 6 (25:40):
I'm sitting here doing the show like it normally would,
and Beth reaches over to get a bag of chips. Okay,
every once in a while we snacked during the show.
Chips are kind of loud, but you know, I don't.

Speaker 7 (25:50):
Do it while we're in the middle of a segment.

Speaker 6 (25:53):
It's okay, But you reach for your bag of chips
and they're not just chips, their protein infused chips.

Speaker 7 (25:59):
Well, they're just protein chips with no carbs and instead
chips of protein, they're just chips of protein.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
They farm the protein fresh out of the.

Speaker 6 (26:08):
Well that's what I said infuse, but you're saying that
that's that's more than just infuse.

Speaker 7 (26:12):
Their tortilla's style protein chips. And the funny thing is
is this is a loaded taco flavor and there's a
picture of a taco on the front and then in
small print it says for illustration only, like somebody was
going to open this bag and think there was a
taco little.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
Baby, How coold have like little baby tacola tacos?

Speaker 7 (26:29):
Okay, So here's the deal, guys, we've talked about this,
like perry menopause is real. If you're married and you're
of a certain age, gentleman, you know that your wife
is probably dealing with some of this. Ladies, you know
what I'm talking about. One of the things that they
say is to really really up your protein intake in

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order to deal with some of the side effects and
the symptoms of of of pery menopause. But it's also
a big part of the PhD weight loss and nutrition program.
They had a like snack time around you know, eight
thirty nine in the morning. This is the schedule that
they put me on because I eat breakfast at five am. AnyWho,
if I don't do the random snack around that time,

(27:11):
if I go kickbox, I am gassed. By the end
of the class, I fall over it like I feel.
So the protein snack is a really good thing. Although
most protein like the protein cereals and stuff, they're all
sweet and sometimes I just need savory. I bought I
bought quest protein chips that it's loaded, Like I said,
it's loaded taco flavor. I'm gonna go ahead and tell
you if you ever buy these, it kind of tastes

(27:33):
like the gelatinous lettuce on a day old taco.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
So I thought that'd be a good chip to.

Speaker 7 (27:40):
The flavor wise.

Speaker 6 (27:41):
Flavor wise, I'm sure thousands of listeners are gonna go
pick this up today based on that. Sounds suggest Yet
your marketing skills are lacking the great taste of yesterday's lettuce.
That's one thing about Beth though, Whenever she talks about
how something tastes, it's very descriptive, Like remember the time
you talked about tasting like burnt hair.

Speaker 7 (28:01):
Yes, but it tastes like burnt hair smells, and then
if you go back and taste whatever that was we're
talking about, I know that sometimes iced tea.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
I rushed out and bought it.

Speaker 7 (28:08):
When you said, well, apparently the Quest protein chips they
have a chili lime flavor that's supposed to be delightful
with my hair is teeter didn't have that flavor. So
I thought, oh, letter taco is probably pretty good. It tastes,
it does taste like lettuce, like old lettuce. Has anybody
the taco thing going?

Speaker 6 (28:26):
Has anybody had anything good that's had protein added?

Speaker 4 (28:30):
Well?

Speaker 7 (28:31):
Okay, So Catalina crunch cereal has is a protein cereal
with very few carbs. And they have a blueberry muffin
flavor that has dried blueberries in it, and I dig
that one. But I have a I have a bad
reaction to artificial sweeteners. So if anything has like sucralose
or a aspartame, if I get too much of the
artificial sweetener in my body, I break out in hives

(28:51):
for some reason.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Oh, I know nothing about aspartame.

Speaker 7 (28:53):
I know your your blood is actually aspartase.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yes for extra asprotato.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Right, I don't need protein.

Speaker 6 (29:01):
It's more aspartain used with aspartain. Now I'm gonna get
a text from somebody Bill, you know that's not good
for you.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Well it's probably from Beth, but well you will get one.

Speaker 7 (29:10):
For me for sure. But I feel like now protein
is going to be the new thing, especially now that
we're seeing that that protein drink powder has lead in it,
that it's going to be the new thing, like the
snack weells cookies or whatever.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Like the low fat will find out years later that
wasn't a good idea. Those were bad for you, all
those chemicals.

Speaker 7 (29:24):
Yes, then it's like bad for our kidneys and our liveries.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Well, also here you should eat things that you can pronounce,
like if you eat a bunch of chemicals, your body
doesn't know what to do with it, right, And so
even if that's like low fat, more protein.

Speaker 6 (29:36):
Proteins, if it's not natural, it's probably not that good.

Speaker 7 (29:39):
If it tastes like day old lettuce, it's probably not
good for you.

Speaker 6 (29:42):
It's half full, half empty, half empty. It has aspartain
in it, well, it could have lead.

Speaker 15 (29:48):
How are you doing, I'm thinking, well, take me up
a cup of coffee and chocolate donut with some of
those little sprinkles on top.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
What you're doing you're.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
Thinking from these talk eleven ten and ninety nine three
w bet hate.

Speaker 6 (29:59):
Fat, Practicing gratitude, manifesting abundance.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
This is Good Morning Beat with Bo Thompson and Beth trout.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
I'm run a good job.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
I'll trade his whole thing out.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
Mill the time.

Speaker 6 (30:17):
Thursday October sixteenth, Tyboid Studio, Bo Thompson, Beth Troutman the Zoke,
Sir Stephen. George is in for Bernie today. Good to
have George in the house.

Speaker 7 (30:28):
And guess what George has in his bag. He has
Quest protein chips, loaded taco flavor. He has a bag
of these same chips in his bag.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Of course he does. He's a renaissance man, right.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
You hate the taste of them too. He's a lettuce fan.

Speaker 7 (30:43):
He hasn't tried him, ya, he's never but he's excited
to taste, like the bag is.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Probably not that good.

Speaker 6 (30:49):
Hey, George, you know what, Zokie, I always say, taste
the value.

Speaker 7 (30:54):
Although the intensive, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Taste the expense.

Speaker 6 (30:59):
So we've got, as Zokie said, ECU playing tonight. That'll
be on WFNZ tonight, so you'll be this will be
a home game in Greenville, yesep, yep, and then tomorrow
night on WBT. This will be a late one. This
is a ten to thirty kickoff, so nine to thirty
on the Tar Hills Sports Network. The Tar Heels finally
play again at cal at on the West Coast. So

(31:21):
Jones Angel will join us in the final hour of
the show today, as he does on Thursdays. This will
be the first time we've talked to Jones since the
all the hoopla surrounding Bill Belichick last week, and Belichick
a couple of days ago and his press conference said
all of this has been highly exaggerated. I'm paraphrasing but
he's basically saying.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Nothing to see here.

Speaker 6 (31:41):
So we'll talk to Jones David Shadwick in the house
later on today. Panthers playing this weekend, and yesterday was
interview day. You heard from the coach, you heard from
various members of the team, and both running backs yesterday,
because you know, we have this situation where it could
be a two headed running formation going into the weekend,

(32:03):
now that you have Cuba Hubbard coming back. And I
was asking Zochi on Monday, so is there a quids
there at running back controversy and you pointed out, hey,
you know there have been times over the years where
we've had not one, but two very good running backs,
D'Angelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart ring one bell there, but
Dave Canalis yesterday on now the challenge of many healthy

(32:23):
running backs.

Speaker 16 (32:24):
I think it's a fair statement for all running backs.
They like to get a lather, they like to have
rhythm set runs up on the front side, see what
they're doing. You get to the sideline in between series,
you get to look at the pictures and see where
the voids are at. Are the overplaying to the front side,
are they hanging back too much, you know, and there's
this cat and mouse game that happens with backs. That

(32:44):
being said, every single carried like it's your last, every
single one with the intensity the violence that we're looking for.

Speaker 12 (32:51):
It affects the whole group.

Speaker 16 (32:53):
So regardless of when those guys go in there, we
expect Cuba and Rico and Trevor when he gets his chances,
to go out there and empty the tank on every
single run.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
So all the.

Speaker 6 (33:01):
Reporters now are trying to get, you know, the coach
or or Cuba or or Rico to say something about
this is a competition, and of course no one will,
but you have something you're gonna say.

Speaker 7 (33:13):
I have a question actually, and maybe everyone knows the
answer to this one, but I have not played football ever.
I mean, if you're playing that, well, I played flag football.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Fantasy football. You're a PA announcer for soccer.

Speaker 7 (33:25):
Yeah, I played foot ball.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
Yes.

Speaker 7 (33:28):
Can you have both running backs on the field at
the same time.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Yeah, And that's a great question that I've been asked about.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
What are we gonna do.

Speaker 6 (33:36):
You could put both out there at the same time,
then we don't know who gets the ball and it
could be neither would be like focused on both.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
There's all kinds, that's why.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
So you're like, right before the play when like the
eleven guys get together in a circle, the huddle huddle. Yeah,
it's like that's when they talk about the secret play
they're about to run and then they come out. The
other team doesn't know what they're going to do. This
is what the Panthers have at their disposal. People make
it like it's like this I was actual, She asked
in this terminology yesterday, Jim, are you concerned about the
Are you concerned about the fact that both chub Yes,

(34:06):
I'm concerned. We have too many talented football players. This
is my biggest concern.

Speaker 7 (34:10):
So why are people's panties in a wad over this?

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Then like we got another great football term.

Speaker 17 (34:14):
But if they could put them both on the field
at the same time and it could be magic sauce.

Speaker 6 (34:25):
That reminds me of the name Nick Mixon use the
word cycle in a conversation with us way, but.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Just to clarify, so, no, that's great, that's a great point.
You could put both out there and they would know
not only which ones we get the ball, but are
you going to pass or run? Because they both can
catch the ball.

Speaker 7 (34:43):
Well, hey, this seems like brilliant strategy.

Speaker 18 (34:45):
You want.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
We've had this D'Angelo Williams, Jonathan Stuart combinations before. This
is what you want. You want to have your mind
absolutely blown back.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
There's also a formation they refer to as the wildcat,
where the quarterback never even touches the ball. They just
hike the ball directly to a running backer and they'll.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Give it out there like the running back is the quarterback.
It gives you an extra blocker because you don't have
a quarterback.

Speaker 7 (35:05):
Well that's fun, guys, I have Rico and Cuba on
my team.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Oh you do have a Now you do have a dilemma.

Speaker 6 (35:12):
Okay, so Cuba I can't put him because they probably
won't have the bigger stats because you have two players bogs.
Cuba was asked in the locker room yesterday about his return.

Speaker 15 (35:23):
I mean, I can't say what it's going to look like,
exactly how it's going to be. I'm not the coach,
but obviously two great too great backs. Anytime you getting
put us on the field, like I said, I mean,
let's do it. Obviously we have some young guys as
well that are doing great job.

Speaker 4 (35:39):
Trevor.

Speaker 15 (35:39):
So, I think we joke about it sometimes, saying have
a three back set or something like that. But stuff
like that would be fun, no doubt.

Speaker 13 (35:46):
So you would mind being out there together with him as.

Speaker 15 (35:48):
A fam No, I mean, I think that would be
very lethal. That's something I'd hope for.

Speaker 6 (35:53):
See's exactly what Zokie said and what Beth said, then
put him out there together.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
She also said boogers, but I draw more attention to that.

Speaker 6 (36:00):
Rico suave, I mean Rico Dwdele said this yesterday about
his situation.

Speaker 19 (36:05):
Now, you know, all that stuff is a left up
to the coach, and then the only thing we can
control of is going out there and producing at a
high level. And that's how we really control from the
running back and we're all pretty close and there's no
hard feelings either the way I go.

Speaker 6 (36:17):
So I guess it's official when they trot out there
for the first play on offense, all running backs, no quarterback,
no tight end, just all running backs and some.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Blockers, yeah, some big offensive lineman. But yeah, I think
it's it'll be. And again, we just saw Chewba Hubbard
miss two games and the last couple of games when
Rico has been running for like about two hundred yards
of a game. He's been cramping up and drinking pickle juice.
You can't sustain that for seventeen games. Like you will
wear your running backs out, just like your tires on
your car. You're gonna wear them out. So it's good
to have too, because that way you get to the

(36:46):
fourth quarter and they're not just sucking for air out
there because their legs are crapping up and they're they're
just gassed. Hey, like you without your protein chips that kickboxing, I.

Speaker 7 (36:54):
Will tell you though. Pickle juice. Mmmm, give me some
of that all day long? Pickle pickle popsicles. You pour
some pickle juice into ice trays.

Speaker 4 (37:04):
Oh so good?

Speaker 6 (37:05):
Not so they serve it to the practices for the
for your team. Hey, he look, Panthers have an embarrassment
of riches. That's a good place to be when it
comes to the running back situation.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
This is Good Morning Bet with Boat Thompson and Beth Troutbite.

Speaker 6 (37:23):
On WBT Thursday, October sixteenth.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
You know what, I think it's time for.

Speaker 6 (37:30):
I think it's time for I think it's time.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (37:52):
Every once in a while, we dig into the BuzzFeed
file thirty one things people pretend to enjoy but secretly hate.

Speaker 7 (38:00):
It's a survey put together about older people, people, the
gen xers, maybe the millennials, the folks who have been
pretending for far too long to like some of these
things that people consider socially acceptable or maybe socially necessary.
But I'm here for some of them.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
I'm putting the over under. It's seven for this. Just
by the way, for getting into this, we.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
Got we got like a good seven eight minutes ago.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
We got thirty one, right go, yeah, seven, I'm calling it.
The gauntlet has been thrown.

Speaker 7 (38:28):
So here's what I want to know. Here's what I
want to know. You can text a seven and four five,
seven oh eleven ten on our text line driven by
Liberty Buick GMC. Give us a call, tell us if
any of these resonate with you, because there are some
things that happen all the time that you're just kind
of like, hm, I wish this wouldn't happen. Here is
number one on the list from BuzzFeed. Again, this is
millennials in sure.

Speaker 6 (38:49):
These wranked by like the lack of popular no random way, yeah.

Speaker 7 (38:53):
Busfy just kind of throws them out. Willy Nilly number
one on this list. Though a group of people singing
happy birthday to you, you have to smile and listen
to the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
Nobody wants to be the recipient. Nobody.

Speaker 7 (39:08):
I think this is especially true when you're.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Okay, that's not I think this.

Speaker 7 (39:17):
Is especially true, you know if you, especially at this age,
when you maybe go out to dinner with a group
of friends for your birthday and then like the waiters
come out with their drum or their bell or their
horn and they all sing to you and bring you up.

Speaker 6 (39:30):
Well, I don't go to restaurants anymore, so real quick,
I don't try to get through a long list. A
couple of years ago, we're at a restaurant and my
brother's turning fifty eight at that time.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
He's now sixty sixty one, I guess. But anyways, we
just told the hey, it's my brother's sixtieth birthday. Could
we get like it's just like a little cake or whatever,
and they bring it out, and not only bring the
cake out, but the whole restaurant starts singing around us,
and so I go, can you book?

Speaker 2 (39:52):
Does he look sixty to you?

Speaker 6 (39:54):
Can you believe he's sixty he's turning fifty eight, and
he's just like giving me the middle finger across the table.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
It is great things people pretend to enjoy but actually hate.
Here is I like this one? This is very twenty
twenty five.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
LinkedIn?

Speaker 6 (40:11):
Yeah, like LinkedIn just it feels like that social media
site that's kind of like a yeah, you have.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
To do it. It's like a Rollodex, but on your computer.

Speaker 7 (40:19):
Yeah, isn't it weird too? That LinkedIn is the one
site that tells you who has been looking at your page,
so that if you do go look at someone's LinkedIn profile,
it notifies them that you're stalking them online.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
Well, sometimes somebody in the broadcast industry, like they have
these like generic ones there which like it's not the
actual person. Is there's somebody in broadcasting they're trying a recruiter.

Speaker 7 (40:41):
They're trying to get you to pay for LinkedIn premium
if you if you buy a premium, will tell you
their names.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
I did it once.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
I couldn't get out of fashion up, but they still
charge me like three more months just getting out of it.
What does it do you if you pay for premium?

Speaker 6 (40:52):
Is it like he lives at such and such road,
and he has blonde hair, and I mean really.

Speaker 7 (40:58):
Yes, they will start giving you all of private information
of all of the people who are cyberstalking you.

Speaker 6 (41:03):
Things people pretend to enjoy but actually hate.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
Beer.

Speaker 6 (41:07):
Oh now I actually blas But see, you know, I
think it depends on the kind of beer, because there
are certain certain beers that I think taste like trash
and some beers that I like.

Speaker 8 (41:19):
So yeah, I think this.

Speaker 6 (41:20):
I mean, you can go in a lot of different
directions there. But I do remember when when I first
became of age to have a beer, which was of
course twenty one, I remember.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
Thinking, first time you ever tasted it? Huh yeah, first time?

Speaker 6 (41:31):
I remember thinking, what is it about this that everybody
loves so much? It is the it is an acquired
taste kind of thing.

Speaker 7 (41:36):
One percent agreed. The first time that I tried beer,
I was like, what, why is everybody so excited about this?

Speaker 6 (41:43):
Because it doesn't taste anything. It's carbonated, but it taste
didn't taste anything like a like a coke.

Speaker 10 (41:48):
You know.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
I literally remember my first beer. I was thirteen years old.
My sisters what listen, my sister's four years older. She's
doing the classic habit a house party. The parents are
out of town, and I'm the little brother. Hey, hey, Ghibby,
do you remember the I don't know if they still
sell the steven ounce like Miller High Life, like they
still have a little steven seven ounce with I sat there.
It took me like three hours to drink that, and
I goes like, oh, this is gross.

Speaker 6 (42:09):
That just like my go like, I love it because
it's a beer, and I'm having my beer, my first beer,
and I just I hated it.

Speaker 7 (42:15):
I will tell you my dad, now, wait, I have some.

Speaker 6 (42:17):
This is audio of Jim trying his first beer.

Speaker 10 (42:19):
Better reacquaint yourself a High Life soldier before someone tries
to take away your Miller time.

Speaker 7 (42:27):
My dad was a cores Light guy. He always had
cores Light.

Speaker 6 (42:31):
Now, your dad seems like the Cores regular. The banquet
beer I would have thought like low and brown. So
you know, it's so funny, low and brow first beer
I ever had, really advertising works. I'm telling me that
like it was like the greatest, like the most expensive beer.
It's like the Budweiser of Germany, Low and broo. Yeah,

(42:52):
because my dad used to he was worked in textiles,
and they had a lot of dealings with German companies
and so he had he had German uh business, uh
you know, contemporaries that would come visit us and they
would bring Low and Brow with them all the time.

Speaker 7 (43:07):
So they'd bring the cheap German beer for your.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
Dad, but you just glossed over. They brought beer for
the kids. Here's the stuff that we won't even drink,
so you take it.

Speaker 7 (43:15):
Well, it's true.

Speaker 1 (43:16):
Beer holes all go back a thousand yards. Here's some
low and Bar.

Speaker 7 (43:19):
But in Europe, I mean I get they're really beer
is kind of everywhere. You could get beer at McDonald's.
I mean, at least that was, And.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
The drinking age there is sixteen.

Speaker 7 (43:28):
Yeah, it's way, way, way, way way younger. Because when
I went on a trip with my.

Speaker 6 (43:32):
High school beer buddies.

Speaker 7 (43:35):
Honors History Cluss, she.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
She caught herself.

Speaker 7 (43:41):
When we went to Europe, we were all surprised by
how accessible alcohol was for young people, and it was
like completely legal, and it was at McDonald's and so.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
They don't really have cars, so it's just like, yeah, everybody's.

Speaker 7 (43:53):
Just walking around. Okay, here's one that I want to know.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
By the way, we've gotten to three. No, I got
count on the side.

Speaker 7 (44:01):
I want to hear from especially the ladies on this one,
because I agree with this one. Opening gifts in public.
There is nothing I like less than a baby shower
or a bridal shower, like all of the like being
the bride or being a guest at one of them
where you have to you have to watch somebody open

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presence and everybody oohs and ohs, and it's weird and awkward.

Speaker 6 (44:24):
I didn't exactly what we do. Every time somebody has
a birthday. All people find the most amazing out of
the box embarrassing, like Huey Lewis socks.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
So you kind of thrive on finding the oddest gifts
even though you hate opening of yourself.

Speaker 7 (44:42):
I don't like opening them in public myself. That's so funny,
Like it's that is actually true. I force you guys
to do it. Do y'all hate it?

Speaker 6 (44:49):
Not only do you force us to do it, we
didn't know how to do it before you came here.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
It gets back to being sung happy birthday. I think
most most people don't want to be the center of
a check have attention. Yeah, there's probably something that do,
but most. I think most people do not want to
get the song and the the gifts and all that.
What did we get through?

Speaker 11 (45:11):
Four?

Speaker 20 (45:12):
Four?

Speaker 3 (45:12):
The work?

Speaker 6 (45:13):
Yeah, everybody, turn the water on, wash your hands. Yeah,
get a good ladder, keep watching. See most of the
people in the restaurant reports that Mark gives us don't
don't make it this far.

Speaker 5 (45:25):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
We got through I think four.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
Yeah, we got through four.

Speaker 7 (45:28):
You were you? Yeah, I was.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
I overestimated with seven out of the thirty one that
were on the list.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
It's a long show. Steve let our shide stories are
so much more interesting the list.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
Solving the world's problem.

Speaker 4 (45:41):
Dal all right, I think, okay, gang.

Speaker 13 (45:45):
Appreciate that I'm getting into a little heavier traffic here,
but I appreciate you guys. You make my morning better
every day. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
Well, thank you very much, Al, thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (45:56):
You can call us bow and death. This is good morning. Beatsy.

Speaker 6 (46:02):
I think about him because, you know, one of the
trivia questions over the one hundred and three years we've
been around, there was a show for about six months
after Charlotte's Morning News called Charlotte's Morning Buzz, and that
theme song that I play is left over because we
don't really have much use.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
For it anymore. Oh what does the downfall of the
morning buzz that only lasted six months?

Speaker 9 (46:28):
I think?

Speaker 1 (46:28):
Was it just not well received? What occurred to make
it short?

Speaker 7 (46:33):
What happened there?

Speaker 6 (46:34):
I really don't the same people just like you guys
doing the morning show, but then you're nine o'clock hour
wasn't as popular for some reason, Like it's.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
The same people, Hello meet doctor Laura.

Speaker 6 (46:44):
I mean it lasted for about six months and then
they just stopped, and they didn't back in those days.
They didn't tell me why. I just followed orders right because.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
It seems very secretive us, so I figured I might
as well use it somewhere.

Speaker 6 (46:59):
That's so every once in a while we dig into
the BuzzFeed file things people pretend to enjoy but actually hate.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
We've gotten through about three of thirty one.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
Yeah, four oh four. I'm sorry, I three to half.

Speaker 6 (47:14):
I short changed us. But one of the ones we
left off with was beer. A lot of people say
that beer is an acquired taste, and Jim and I
were reminiscing about Lowenbroth, so.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
We start to talking about our first beer.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
I don't know why we don't get through through lists.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
Offer Let's talk about our first beer, which has nothing
to do with the topic.

Speaker 6 (47:33):
And you know, Julie says, I grew up taking SIPs
of my dad's beer Old Milwaukee. Oh God, Bless your
heart tastes as great as its name.

Speaker 4 (47:40):
Well.

Speaker 7 (47:40):
One of the other things that I said that people
don't like but pretend to enjoy his opening presence in public.
And I was saying, like baby showers and wedding showers.
And Michelle wrote us on the text line seven O
four five seven oh eleven ten. She said, very awkward
to open a gift in front of people, or at
a restaurant or anything like that where somebody can see
your facial express especially if you don't even want it

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or it is something you don't like.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 7 (48:06):
This is great pretending to like, Wow.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
A candle neat I will definitely use this. Does anybody
want a candle?

Speaker 7 (48:18):
Is that what you guys are doing when I give
you the awkward, weird presence? Are you like like the.

Speaker 2 (48:22):
Baby blanket for the last Christmas?

Speaker 7 (48:24):
Many sucks?

Speaker 1 (48:25):
You know my love for mustard, so you always you
know you can't go wrong with mustard.

Speaker 6 (48:28):
With mustard, right, right, right, I mean if I didn't
know you, I would have no T shirts.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
Or baby socks.

Speaker 6 (48:36):
Hey, George, George Michael says, michaels holiday season. Wait, George,
Michael says what George was saying off the air, he
can't stand He wishes he could wake up at the
end of the holiday season. Right, So George saying that
the things people pretend to enjoy but actually hate the
holiday season. Michael on the text line says can't stand
it either.

Speaker 7 (48:56):
So and George was all in on that humble.

Speaker 6 (48:58):
Yeah, which makes no sense because you look like Santa,
like you have a Santa Claus beer.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
It looks like Bad Santo though.

Speaker 21 (49:07):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
He has less like Santa since he got on the.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
PhD weight loss program.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
I got to be honest, right, Scott Calvin before he
fell off the roof? What's the Bad Santa's real name?

Speaker 1 (49:17):
The actor, He's actually started to look like Billy Bob Thornton,
like they're the same weight now him with George and
he is bad. He has Bad Santo.

Speaker 6 (49:25):
He's much more in line with that character, just his personality. Yeah,
we love George in the fight with a short guy.

Speaker 7 (49:31):
Well, George, I think I think that you would probably
like this one as well. This one seems like something
you would have said if BuzzFeed surveyed you. Fifty percent
of the people around them they pretend to like.

Speaker 9 (49:45):
That.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
Wow, fifty percent. That's pretty high for you.

Speaker 7 (49:48):
Fifty percent of the people around them they pretend to like.
And also this one, I think we all can agree
on this because we've had conversations, We've actually done topics
on this show of random things. You can talk about
it parties. When you have to force small talk and
this people genuinely hate pretending to like this forced small
talk and team building exercises at work.

Speaker 6 (50:10):
Yeah, I would think that'd be one hundred percent negative.
Oh I love superbuilding. I love number twenty two. Oh wait,
but they will put me at odds with both you
and my wife. I think dark chocolate, dark chocolate ninety percent?

Speaker 1 (50:23):
Is it?

Speaker 9 (50:23):
What is it?

Speaker 13 (50:24):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (50:25):
No pronounce that I'm not even trying to cocow.

Speaker 6 (50:29):
That's what I thought it was, cowca co cow. You
see what has come to with me on the show.
Before I even say the words here you.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
Here, you reading, I'm not saying that you do it?

Speaker 7 (50:39):
So you don't like dark chocolate.

Speaker 6 (50:40):
No, oh, I love Well here's the thing. I like
dark chocolate in one place. It's on those cookies that
in your mouth.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
Maybe maybe you's been doing it wrong.

Speaker 7 (50:56):
Where else have you been putting it? That's why you
don't like it?

Speaker 6 (50:59):
But I love it when I walk smack in the face.
Let's move on here. Oh, here's here's one for George.
This is kind of for me too.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
Things that people pretend to enjoy but actually secretly.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Visitors.

Speaker 7 (51:19):
That's actually true too, Like do you does anybody show
up unannounced at homes anymore? Or when you do have
company and people stay too long?

Speaker 1 (51:29):
M No, I agree.

Speaker 6 (51:32):
I mean I just finished saying, you know, Kelly Poplin
will never arrive at your house unannounced. It's interesting because
now that there are dor you know, doorbell cameras. Everybody's
got them now, so it's like everybody vets you before
you have any clue that they even know you're there.

Speaker 7 (51:48):
My husband was out of town a couple of weeks
ago when somebody was ringing the doorbell, and I haven't
taken the time. I haven't taken the time to download
the app. But of course, like my husband gets a
notification he's out of town, and he's like, who's not
the door. No, it's true, And then he sends me
a picture of the man.

Speaker 1 (52:04):
He's like very suspicious.

Speaker 7 (52:05):
Yeah, he's very suspicious of people at the door. So
he's sending me pictures of the person. Do you know
this man?

Speaker 2 (52:10):
It's it's awkward for us.

Speaker 1 (52:11):
I tell you, we have a new glass front door
as opposed to, like, you know, a solid door, and
that makes it awkward. But I don't go answer it.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
When people are standing there ringing, I'm just looking at them.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
They could see you staring at them.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
I don't hear. I don't see you don't I'm walk
over here now.

Speaker 6 (52:26):
I can't tell you how many times someone's come to
our door and I've watched them come to the door
on the app and then I just watched them leave.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
I don't go to the door.

Speaker 7 (52:34):
Well yeah, I mean I think that's look.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
They're selling gutters.

Speaker 7 (52:38):
That's so true. The people in our neighborhood has a
sign when you drive in that visibly says no solicitors,
And daily I feel like there's somebody trying to sell
me mult or like the pest service. And I always
have to tell him I'm already I'm endorsing.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
All the products you're offering him now. I mean, Beth
walks around with a face that says I need mulch.

Speaker 4 (53:00):
This is good morning, bet.

Speaker 6 (53:04):
All right, ten before eight o'clock here on News Talk
eleven ten WBT your Thursday, October sixteenth, bo Thompson, Beth
Troutman here in the historic Tyboid studio. We've gotten a
couple of notes in the last few minutes on the
text line, and Boomer's checking into this as is Mark
about a school bus crash near Lake Wilie. This person says,

(53:26):
front end hit by a big truck.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
That's all we know at the moment.

Speaker 6 (53:30):
But of course, anytime we get any kind of information
about something like this, we want to put it on
your radar, and we'll certainly let you know as soon
as we know anymore, or perhaps you may know if
you're in the area, You're welcome to call seven oh
four five eleven ten. But we are looking into this
right now as you are making your way in for

(53:51):
your commute today. Now, some political headlines to get to
this morning. President Trump announcing yesterday that Vladimir Zelenski is
going to visit the White House tomorrow. Of course, we
had the big momentous signing of the peace deal earlier this.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
Week in the Middle East.

Speaker 6 (54:10):
A lot of people have said, that's great news, It's
fantastic news. Okay, Now what about Russia, because that's still
the big one that is sort of looming, that needs
to be mediated and resolved. And those two, i mean,
the crisis in the Middle East and the Ukraine Russia
war have been the two dominant conflicts since President Trump

(54:31):
took office.

Speaker 7 (54:31):
Well, and the war between Russia and Ukraine has been
going on for I mean, it will be what coming
on four years? Is it four years in February?

Speaker 1 (54:38):
I think that is right. That sounds right. I'll double
check that.

Speaker 6 (54:41):
But it's been going on for a while, and we
know that Zelenski and President Trump seemed to have buried
the hatchet to a degree in recent days, especially that
last time where you had the leaders visiting the White House.
Here's President Trump yesterday talking about what is on the
books for Friday.

Speaker 7 (54:58):
Shy, are you considering other options?

Speaker 22 (55:02):
Say, will you speak with flatterers?

Speaker 23 (55:04):
No, we're looking at other options.

Speaker 11 (55:06):
We are.

Speaker 23 (55:07):
President Zelensky's coming in. I'm not a fan of the war.
I'm not a fan of the way it started. It
should have never happened. It wouldn't have started if I
were president. The election was rigged and because of that,
we lost a lot of lives have been lost because
of that.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
We're not American lives.

Speaker 23 (55:24):
But if I can save a lot of lives, that's
why I'm in it. I want to save lives. I've
had eight wars. The Prime Minister of Pakistan got up
the other day said so beautifully, says, you saved millions
of lives. He told that to a group of people
right in this office. He said, the President saved millions
of lives. And I think what he's referring to is
the fact that that would have been with India nuclear

(55:46):
war that was getting very close.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
You know, seven planes.

Speaker 23 (55:49):
They don't talk about it, but seven aircraft were shot.
In fact, we have the new ambassador to India right here.
They're well represented. You better represent us, not them. But
Sergio is going to do a great job. He's going
to do a great job. But no, we'll be talking
about the war with him, and we'll be talking about

(56:09):
I mean, they want to go offensive. I'll make a
determination on that, but they would like to go offense,
if you know that, and we'll have to make a determination.

Speaker 6 (56:19):
So that's a little insight on what's happening at the
White House tomorrow. Zelenski, the of course, President of Ukraine
headed to Washington before we get to the shutdown, I
can tell you I mentioned at the top of this
segment that we had gotten worded about a bus, a
school bus crash in Lake Wiley. Mark Irrison and Boomer

(56:41):
have now confirmed to us that no students were on
that bus, and again I don't have a pinpoint location yet.
I think you'll hear about that more coming up, But
no students on the bus and apparently all is okay there.
So that is great news to tell you about kind
of in real time during this segment. But anytime we
get a word of anything remotely like that, you know,

(57:01):
people fear the worst, and I'm glad to tell you
that that's not the case.

Speaker 7 (57:04):
Well, and that's why we are really glad to have
this text line again driven by Liberty View at GMC,
because listeners like you can alert us to things that
you're seeing when you're out there on the road, so
that we can get the most accurate information, and we
appreciate the fact that drivers out there alerted us to
this bus crash.

Speaker 6 (57:22):
Now, the government shutdown, which continues as we speak right now,
is there an end in sight? A very interesting conversation.
This is Forbes magazine talking to John Kennedy, the Senator
from Louisiana, who's very outspoken. You know, John Kennedy, a
longtime Republican senator. But I thought this exchange was very
telling to me.

Speaker 20 (57:43):
The whole thing's broken, and I would like to see
the Congress of Senates sitting down and say, subsidies are
no subsidies. What can we do since this has costing
people so much money to try to fix it. You're
not going to do that over weekend. You're not going
to do that over a week. It's gonna take a while.

(58:06):
And uh that's why if if my Democratic friends stick
to their guns and say we're not going to open
up government until you, uh, you tell us your plan
and we want and we want to make sure it
works for fixing the health care delivery system, they're gonna
be waiting. We're gonna be shut.

Speaker 11 (58:25):
Down a long time.

Speaker 4 (58:27):
Right now.

Speaker 20 (58:29):
I think this will be the longest shut down in
the history of ever. And I don't say that happily.
I don't say that proudly. I'm just saying that realistically.

Speaker 4 (58:39):
Thanksgiving I do.

Speaker 20 (58:40):
I do. I just don't see what's gon gonna get
us out of it.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
Longest shut down in the history of ever.

Speaker 7 (58:48):
And he thinks that it will go past the Thanksgiving holiday,
which I mean, really, if you think about that, think
about all of these workers, particularly air traffic control workers,
people who are necessary but are having to go potentially
without paychecks. And by saying the longest in history ever,
that would be going beyond thirty five days, which was

(59:11):
the shutdown during President Trump's first term.

Speaker 6 (59:15):
Yeah, I mean, we're not even Halloween yet and he's
talking about going on beyond Thanksgiving.

Speaker 7 (59:20):
So and I think that's telling of a broken system.
I think we've descended into tribalism when it comes to politics,
that you represent your party and nothing else. And compromise
has become somehow a bad word, that people who compromise
get labeled or get named or get given bad nicknames.

(59:43):
And I think the whole point of government is supposed
to be compromised. That's why we have the system of
checks and balances, that we have because it forces conversation
and compromised and he's right that that's not working right now.

Speaker 6 (59:56):
Speaking of government, we'll talk to Congressman Mark Harris tomorrow
on the show. He joins us every Friday oftentimes from DC.
Get his take from his perspective as a congressman as
to whether he agrees with his colleague in the other chamber.
John Kennedy from Louisiana. It's almost eight o'clock now on WBT.

Speaker 4 (01:00:15):
It's time for a little high lightshouse.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
Teacher, this is a place, let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
From his talk eleven ten at ninety nine three double
BT Common Sense. This is your wake up. Colis your bud.

Speaker 4 (01:00:26):
This is good morning Bet with Boat Humpson and Beth Trout.
This place is a mountain of goodness and a mixed
up work.

Speaker 6 (01:00:40):
Eight o six on WBT, Thursday, October sixteenth, The Zoke
and Beth, the Beth, the Bow and the Steve. The
Bernie is off today. The George is in for Bernie.
We got David Chadwick coming up at nine oh five.
Jones Angel our heel Sports Network coming up at nine

(01:01:01):
thirty five today in North Carolina on WBT Tomorrow, night,
ten thirty kickoff from the West Coast that are playing
at Cal.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
See if Bill.

Speaker 6 (01:01:10):
Belichick can start putting the pieces back together. That's well,
is what it is right now.

Speaker 7 (01:01:16):
You know, I was having a conversation with a gentleman
yesterday whose son plays high school football, and you still
love the idea of going to Carolina to play football,
and now is thinking that place is a hot mess.
And how quickly that happened, Because when he first got
signed as the coach, people are thinking, oh, that's a
great recruiting tool, and now it's having the exact opposite effect.

(01:01:38):
And how long are we into this, like eight months
of his seven months of him maybe but being employed, yeah,
being employed by Carolina, and we've already turned. It's like
a one hundred and eighty degree turn.

Speaker 6 (01:01:50):
Well, we talked to Matt Doherty last week, and that
was a few days after all this blew up, with
that Wral story and the accusations about to unrest in
the program and even rumors of him looking at the
possibility of an exit plan. Then you had Monday, Belichick
spoke to reporters for the first time since all of

(01:02:10):
this and basically said, nothing to see here. It's all overblown.
Matt Doherty was on with Brett Winnable yesterday and was
asked about his thoughts on where things are now a
week later.

Speaker 11 (01:02:22):
Well, listen, the dudes whatever.

Speaker 18 (01:02:24):
I hate to do the ages and thing, but.

Speaker 9 (01:02:27):
Just do the math.

Speaker 21 (01:02:28):
At seventy two, he's not long for yeah, you know,
probably not long for the job. However, however, listen, he's
a victim of his own success. So the hype was
over the top, right. A coach cannot step on the

(01:02:49):
flit field and throw the ball, catch the ball, make
the tackle, right, And to his credit, he has not
thrown his team under the bus. They are like seventy
new players.

Speaker 18 (01:03:00):
And when he got involved late.

Speaker 21 (01:03:02):
In the recruiting process. You know, he's recruiting you know,
secondary level players, five star players. So he doesn't have
great players. All right, I can say that. He can't
say that. He shouldn't say that, right, all right, he's
talking about the process. Yes, listen, mac Brown in his
first two years the first time around, went one in ten,

(01:03:25):
one in ten, and then he got the team into
the top ten in the country and a year or
two later. It takes time, and people want a microwave success. Now,
you can't do that when you're building large organizations, which
a football team is a large organization.

Speaker 6 (01:03:44):
Matt Doherty, who used to be a Tar Heel coach
for the basketball team and of course played for Dean Smith,
his perspective on where this is going.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
I mean, they've been off for a while.

Speaker 6 (01:03:54):
All this stuff has happened since they got blown out
by Clemson at home a few weeks ago, and now
they go out on the coast and try to make
things right against Cal tomorrow night.

Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
It's going to be interesting. And I hear all of
that that that that's one hundred percent correct on everything
he said there. But I would add into additional news
there that they have the highest paid general manager in
college football, Mike Lombardi. This is their seventy new players.
This is their talent that they brought in. It was
like he was handed you know, this bag of stuff.

(01:04:23):
I mean, this is he brought his buddy to be
the general manager. And their whole premise was we're going
to build NFL prospects. You know, come play for us.
I'm going to make you a New England Patriot. Well,
anybody by a Patriot has a Patriots. I'll make you
one of the other thirty one NFL team prospects. And
then on top of that, we don't know about Bill
Belichick the college coach, because we've seen Urban Meyer the

(01:04:44):
college coach, win national championships, be a tremendous flop at
the pro level because he hadn't done anything at that level,
so vice versa and many other examples of that. So
it's a successful pro football coach doing college and it's
a different game. It's like the same game, but different
because you're dealing with nineteen year olds and they come
and they leave and they don't stick around. You don't

(01:05:05):
have them on five year contracts and things like that,
so it's a different thing and you got to go
to parents' houses and be engaging and recruit, and I
just don't know that he's the right bit. Whereas mac
Brown was successful at Tulane, he had been a college coach,
you know, that was his career. When he came to
North Carolina, he knew how to build a college program.
I don't know that Bill Belichick and Michael Marty know

(01:05:25):
how to build a college program.

Speaker 7 (01:05:27):
That's an excellent point. I mean, when we talked with
coach Doherty last week, he said something that I thought
was really interesting, and this kind of goes to your point, Jim,
that Bill Belichick is not a transformational coach. He's a
transactional coach, which you have to be, especially when dealing
with college students. You have to be more transformational because
you are dealing with a younger group of people who

(01:05:47):
need I don't know if role model is the correct word,
but who need that kind of guidance and connection and
relationship to style coaching. And Bill Belichick is very standoff,
right he is.

Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
I mean, he's not known for being the warm, you know,
grandfatherly kind of a.

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
Guy, except to his girl.

Speaker 1 (01:06:06):
Yes, I want my filter. Actually stopped me, but I'm
glad you did it for me on that one. But
I will say this too. He's right again. Matt Dorty's right.
You want to give time and you can't microwave it.
But the setup of college football is microwave. It is
kids come for six months and league a lot of time.
They'll take the biggest paycheck they're going to get. You
don't necessarily have three years to build a relationship and

(01:06:29):
a program. And that's why Nick Saban has left and
why in basketball Roy Williams and Mike Ryzewski left probably
a few years earlier. Some of the greatest coaches. They
don't want to live in that world where they.

Speaker 7 (01:06:39):
Can't because they can't be transformational.

Speaker 1 (01:06:41):
No Tony bettet up at Virginia basketball. They can't build
the program. They can't do, you know, let it marinate.

Speaker 6 (01:06:48):
They have to microwave it because that's the setup, and
everyone's dealing with that. But the days are just like
bringing in a freshman and they sit behind somebody and
become starters.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
Like those are gone. People will leave and they'll play
for four colleges in four years. So you never know.

Speaker 6 (01:07:01):
So you go off to the West Coast and you
play tomorrow night late against against California, and then you
come back home against Virginia, who is ranked eighteenth in
the country.

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
So if you look at these these big home games.

Speaker 6 (01:07:14):
The September first game against TCU, that's about as hyped
as I've ever seen Chapel Hill.

Speaker 1 (01:07:19):
I mean, that was through the roof.

Speaker 6 (01:07:21):
And then and then you had October fourth, you had
the Clemson game where it was kind of like, okay,
kind of a rocky start, but we can make it
right by winning tonight and then they get one hung
on them thirty eight to ten. So you know, you
have this game Friday night, and then coming back to
Chapel Hill. It's I wonder what the crowd's going to
be like there because the Clemson game, everybody left at halftime,

(01:07:41):
and I don't think you're going to get that. Each
each home game now is going to be diminishing returns
unless they can somehow give people reason to think that
this is turned back in the right direction.

Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
As you all know, and Beth knows, my wife is
atar Hill just like Beth is. And the first time
we ever went to a tar Hill game together was
when Bobby Bout and Florida State were really good, like
National champion ship good. And at halftime, the tar Hills
are like losing, like thirty eight to nothing, and she goes,
let's go, and I'm just like at a game, I'm going,
what do you mean, let's go? She goes, what we
do at halftime? We leave when we go out to
he's not here. Yeah, we go out he's not We

(01:08:12):
literally went to he's not here, and we just get
out there and we just we will leave with everybody else.
She we wait for basketball season, so I feel like
they don't. They don't stick around, Like if it's not
good football, they're not going to stick around. There will
be empty seats there, and I know they told out
the season tickets. Yeah, but they will leave at halftime
and some will not be using their tickets because it's

(01:08:33):
not fun to watch your team get their head beating.

Speaker 6 (01:08:35):
Well, you still have Virginia at home, you have Stanford
at home, you have Duke at home, and then you
finish the regular season at NC State. So that's not
all the games, but those are some of them. And
we'll see. Like I said, next hour, we'll have the
voice of the Tar Hills, Jones Angel, joining us at
nine thirty five. Like you Rough, it just can't get enough.

Speaker 15 (01:09:03):
It's just always so puff.

Speaker 6 (01:09:05):
We had a very interesting, spirited conversation yesterday that was
capped by the appearance of our friend Sean Flynn at
the end of the show. Because bo Jangles Coliseum and
the Ovens Auditorium Complex, the Boplex there is celebrating seventy
years in Charlotte, and it was one of those things
where we got messages throughout the day. We even got

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one by someone who called either the program director or
the general manager's voicemail left a message and then it
got emailed to us and said about your topics, like,
how did that get there?

Speaker 2 (01:09:38):
I loved it.

Speaker 7 (01:09:39):
We had a little topical voicemail we did.

Speaker 6 (01:09:42):
And that's like old school voice to text basically, you know,
you send a message and it gets sent via an
email to us. Point being a lot of people came
out of the hoodwork yesterday to chime in on this
on the various channels, whether it's social media, whether it's
text line, whether it's calling, or whether it's a you know,
good old fashioned landline call to the general manager.

Speaker 9 (01:10:01):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:10:02):
To that point, I would like to say that it
was yesterday I read one of the texts about a
gentleman like meeting his wife at the old Coliseum, and
I said, he didn't leave his name, and he wrote
me a long email and said, hey, my name is
actually Jack. You mentioned my text on the air. I
didn't leave my name, and he said, the reason I

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did not leave my name and why the text seems
so terse is that I have a non smartphone the
kind that takes it hit the key four times for
the letter s, and so he actually texted us that way,
and he was like, it would have taken too long
to actually text my name too, but sent me a long,
lovely email.

Speaker 2 (01:10:39):
Too, probably took the whole show.

Speaker 7 (01:10:41):
I just love him for doing that, So Jack, you
are my people.

Speaker 2 (01:10:44):
Well thank you, Jack.

Speaker 6 (01:10:45):
We appreciate you responding to that and so many other people.
Now I played the Billie Eilish coming back there. Because
the Spectrum Center has been closed for a while because
of renovations, it officially opens back up this weekend and
Billie Eilish is the first show and then the Hornets
play the beginning of their regular season next week. By
the way, we have Hornets tickets to the opener to

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give away coming up starting on Monday, so we'll have
more details on that. But so the Hornets are back
next week, and this was all, you know. We knew
this was gonna be the deal. The renovation was going
to take a while, but it would be it would
be ready for the beginning of the NBA season. And
right before the NBA season, Billie Eilish has a concert
that we understand this sold help pretty quickly at the

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Spectrum Center this weekend, and as part of this, the
Charlotte Observer has a peace out call where they have
ranked the twenty biggest things, the biggest most memorable moments
since the twenty year old Spectrum Center opened. Now, you
know Bojangles Coliseum's seventy, but I mean Spectrum Center twenty years.

Speaker 1 (01:11:46):
Does it seem like it's been that long to you?

Speaker 7 (01:11:48):
No, not at all. And if you remember, if you
were here when do you, guys? I mean, there was
a whole controversy with the story because we've the voters
voted down the idea of building the Spectrum Center in
Uptown and then it got built anyway, and it thanks
for your input, Yeah, thanks for your input. We're gonna
build it anyway.

Speaker 6 (01:12:06):
Well, and if you remember, there were two ownership groups
that wanted to bring the team, and of course, by
bringing the team have control.

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
Of the building.

Speaker 6 (01:12:14):
It was Larry Bird and Steve Belkin and Lynn Wheeler
spearheaded a lot of this back in the day when
she was with US and member of city council, and
you remember Bob Johnson. This group ended up winning the
rights to bring the team here. And I don't think
many people during that arena discussion thought that that's the
way it would go because you had Larry Bird, and

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you had you know, a very influential member of city
Council at the time, Lynn Wheeler, and Steve Belkin with
the funds or some of them or most of them.
And in the end it's Bob Johnson and all of a
sudden boom, the Bobcats are here and we have a
new building and you will like it.

Speaker 7 (01:12:49):
And it was state of the art. I remember I
was at Fox when this opened and I got it
like a tour of the Spectrum Center. I did a
whole kind of like story and got to taste the
food and all that kind of stuff beforehanded. I remember
the conversations about how state of the art it was
and how it was designed, you know, with the fans
in mind. And here we are twenty years later with
renovations that were that we're already talking about. And this

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what was it called? When it was it the Time Warner.

Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
Cable's called Bobcats Arena originally.

Speaker 7 (01:13:17):
When then was it the Time Warner Cable Arena, and
then became the Spectrum Is that what it was?

Speaker 6 (01:13:21):
Yes, it was it was it was Bobcats Arena, then
it became Time Warner Cable Arena, and now Spectrum Center.

Speaker 1 (01:13:27):
The Spectrum became Spectrum.

Speaker 7 (01:13:29):
Yes, since it became Spectrum, and I do y'all remember,
did y'all go to the Bobcats game? The first thing
that I ever saw. This was my first memory of
the Spectrum Center. And I went after doing the story
with the fella who helped design the I went. He
gave me tickets, I think, and went to see the
Blue Man Group. I saw the Blue Man.

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
Such a great that is so white.

Speaker 1 (01:13:52):
That you were in Vegas? You sure it was here.

Speaker 7 (01:13:54):
I'm one hundred percent positive was here and I was
in the And you know, when you're young, you know,
you know, do you remember being young? Do you remember
when you just aren't aware enough to be grateful enough?
Do you know that feeling when you look back at
things that happened to you when you were young, You're like, man,
I don't think I was nearly grateful enough.

Speaker 10 (01:14:14):
Group.

Speaker 7 (01:14:14):
Yes, where that the guy gave me tickets, And so
if he's out there listening, thank you. It was such
a lovely night a.

Speaker 1 (01:14:20):
Blue Man Group, what a great performance.

Speaker 7 (01:14:22):
I think it's right, but it was just such a
lovely night. And I think back about things that I
feel like I should have been more great.

Speaker 1 (01:14:28):
Should reach out now and say hey, member, thanks.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
I know he'll be like, who are you?

Speaker 7 (01:14:33):
But do you remember East Coast Entertainment. I think there's
still a thing. The folks from East Coast Entertainment were there,
and I should have sent like gift baskets to people.
I was broke at the time. I didn't have enough
money to send a gift basket, but in my mind,
I probably should have sent a gift basket to say
thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:14:48):
Highest attended NBA game at the Spectrum Center.

Speaker 1 (01:14:51):
Of carrying a lot of baggage over that.

Speaker 7 (01:14:53):
Event, I'm carrying the weight of it on my shoulders.

Speaker 6 (01:14:56):
The highest attended NBA game was the Hornets and Lakers
in December of twenty eighteen. The artist with the most
performances at the Spectrum Center for the first two decades
the Eagles Jeff Dunham, the comedian. And that's the one
that has the puppet controls. Yes, yeah, I'll never forget
that that he was in with Al Gardner. Al started
talking to the puppet and he said, I'm I'm a puppet, Al,

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I'm a puppet.

Speaker 1 (01:15:21):
Was Al stunned to hear that?

Speaker 9 (01:15:23):
One? That was.

Speaker 6 (01:15:26):
I think he said, good morning, just kept on going.
Uh And here is one you may be surprised at.
Six times the New Kids on the Block have played
at Spectrum Center there the club six times.

Speaker 7 (01:15:39):
I was there for the last well six of them,
no two performances ago. I was there for their mixtape
tour with never going to Gag of you guy Rick
Astley and the like Salt and Peppa. I mean, guys,
that was a show. I am telling you. I was
horse for like two days. I think you can still go.

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And my Instagram page, I think I posted all kinds
of ridiculous videos from that night.

Speaker 6 (01:16:03):
The Touring Family show with the most visits seventeen. I
probably went to eight or nine of these, The Touring Family,
the touring Family type show, like oh, you know.

Speaker 7 (01:16:13):
Like the Touring Family.

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
Is that up with people? That's the Troutman's It's Departures Family.

Speaker 6 (01:16:24):
Monster Jam has been there seventeen times. Oh, Monster Jam,
and my son was all about Monster Jam. We saw
that one so many times. It's I will say that
having gone to the one at the Dirt Track where
they have a lot more open real estate outside, I
was always like it was always kind of cramped at
Spectrum doing the Monster Jam thing, because I mean, you
think about it's not that big a place, and then
you get to all those trucks and the mud and

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all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:16:46):
But I probably saw Monster.

Speaker 6 (01:16:48):
Jam there more than anything else over twenty years, probably
even more than Hornet's Game.

Speaker 7 (01:16:52):
Can I tell you what My favorite favorite thing at
the Spectrum Center that I went to that I bought
tickets to was the Barbershop Quartet Championship a couple of
years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:17:00):
Why does that as exactly?

Speaker 9 (01:17:02):
Mark?

Speaker 1 (01:17:02):
Color me shocked too.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
It was so much fun and the Blue Man? Was
that the Blue Man thing?

Speaker 7 (01:17:08):
No, that's different, Okay, completely different. Well, but thank you
to everyone who's ever given me a ticket for anything
they've ranked.

Speaker 9 (01:17:14):
Welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:17:14):
They've ranked the twenty most memorable moments of the Spectrum
Center in twenty years.

Speaker 7 (01:17:19):
Was it the Barbershop quart Hat Championship?

Speaker 1 (01:17:21):
Stay tuned to find out after the break.

Speaker 6 (01:17:25):
Look, we're serious fun. That's what I love about this show.
We have very serious days and serious issues, but we
don't ever ignore the opportunity to sit back and laugh
at ourselves and have some fun. And most days, if
we're doing it right, in my opinion, both things happen
over the course of the show.

Speaker 7 (01:17:43):
Yeah. The great thing about this bus stop radio, I
like to say, I'm the.

Speaker 4 (01:17:48):
Discuss.

Speaker 7 (01:17:50):
At some point you're going to find a bus you
want to.

Speaker 24 (01:17:52):
Get on, Yes, and get your sore. This is good
morning beat. A nice email from Rusty Rusty.

Speaker 6 (01:18:06):
Hey, y'all, case you didn't know, I think Beth might
have been in an a cappella group in college.

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
You should ask her.

Speaker 2 (01:18:15):
Thanks a lot, Lusty.

Speaker 7 (01:18:18):
Good that that text absolutely made my.

Speaker 1 (01:18:23):
Dancy to line. So you saw New Kids at least twice, you.

Speaker 7 (01:18:31):
Think, Oh, okay, So I saw the New Kids for
the first time at the new coliseum on Taivola that
no longer.

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
Exists, the one by the Farmer's Market, one.

Speaker 7 (01:18:40):
By the Farmer's Market. I saw them when I lived
in Phoenix at whatever the arena there is, and then
I saw them at the Spectrum Center a couple of
years ago when they came on their mixtape tour.

Speaker 6 (01:18:51):
Here you think, some kids, young kids and Charlotte are
starting to think that the new Coliseum is just a myth.

Speaker 2 (01:18:58):
Oh it never happened, Like it didn't.

Speaker 7 (01:19:01):
How long did it make it?

Speaker 4 (01:19:03):
Twenty years?

Speaker 13 (01:19:03):
Poor guys?

Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
Nineteen eighty eight. Let's see two thousand and six, right,
so eighteen years.

Speaker 7 (01:19:08):
How sad the Spectrum Center has been up and about
longer than the new Colisseum was in existence. And the
new Colisseum was the jam back in the day. I
mean we saw that all the concerts. I saw def
Leopard there, the new kids on the block, Poison.

Speaker 1 (01:19:22):
I saw tons of conci. I saw a thousand Hornet games.
Guy used to work every Hornets game, so I lived there.
The reversible lanes where else did Charlotte You have reversible
lanes like that?

Speaker 7 (01:19:31):
And those freaked me out whenever I first turned sixteen,
and like my friends and I would go to a
concert there. I think we went to see Babyface and
Boys to Men and did the this is for the
cooling you the reversible lanes. I thought I was going
to get it wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:19:49):
About cracks himself up.

Speaker 2 (01:19:51):
It's the best.

Speaker 6 (01:19:54):
The top ten live nonsports events and attendance for the
Spectrum Center, which is twenty years years old and reopening
this weekend after big time renovations. You two was the
biggest concert ever there back in and I forgot they
played two thousand and five, So you two, then Billy
Joel and Elton John and nine Justin Timberlake twenty nineteen,

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Dave Chappelle in twenty twenty three, Drake twenty twenty two,
and then it goes Kevin Hart, Jonas Brothers, Bad Bunny,
Drake and bon Jovi too.

Speaker 7 (01:20:27):
Drake's So Drake made the top twenty twice.

Speaker 10 (01:20:30):
He did.

Speaker 1 (01:20:30):
I've been to a lot of concerts there and I
know non sporting events and Nate Bergazzi last year. Like
none of the things I went to were in the
top ten. I didn't go to one of the time.

Speaker 6 (01:20:41):
Now here's the thing about Drake. Drake did it in
the same weekend. He is the two shows. So the
Drake show, this number five was September twenty third of
twenty two, and then the number nine was September twenty second.

Speaker 2 (01:20:53):
So these are based on attendance, not necessarily like fan
appreciation going like that was one of the best shows here.

Speaker 6 (01:20:59):
So I'm glad you said that. Because The Observer has
a piece ahead of the reopening of the Charlotte of
the Spectrum Center the twenty most Memorable Moments. Now this
is more subjective. Obviously, Number twenty Alcaaz and Tiafo played
tennis there in twenty twenty four. I think I went
to see Connors and McEnroe there about fifteen years ago

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at the Spectrum Center if I'm remembering that right. It
may have been on the Tavola one, but I saw that.

Speaker 1 (01:21:25):
Would I would much rather say about Listener to Night
with Tim McGraw. Did that make the top ten?

Speaker 7 (01:21:31):
Jim and I did that together.

Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
I would listeners. That was the saddest thing about with them.

Speaker 7 (01:21:38):
I walked around trying to find them. I walked around
the Spectrum Center trying to find them.

Speaker 6 (01:21:44):
Nineteen Number nineteen was Caitlin Clark in twenty twenty three.
Then you have Phil Collins his goodbye concert there. Oprah
Winfrey spends all day trying to inspire back in twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (01:21:55):
Did you know Oprah came?

Speaker 7 (01:21:56):
I do remember the Oprah Tour.

Speaker 6 (01:22:00):
Is back in twenty nineteen when Zion, Williamson and Duke
won the a SEC Tournament against North Carolina. Let's see
twenty and number fifteen is the NBA All Star Game
finally being here after being canceled the first time in
twenty seventeen. Fourteen is Keimva setting the scoring mark the
Hornet's loss though in twenty eighteen, number thirteen, March Madness

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in twenty eighteen. Let's see the Purple Shirt guy, remember
that in twenty sixteen when the hornesipit?

Speaker 1 (01:22:28):
Is that just a memorable moment or it was that
a good moment?

Speaker 2 (01:22:30):
A moment he had a memorable moment.

Speaker 1 (01:22:32):
He cost us that playoff series against Miami.

Speaker 6 (01:22:34):
Purple Shirt guy back in Oh No, and I don't
mean I don't mean Prince, I mean the Purple shirt guy.

Speaker 7 (01:22:41):
He has no memory of this story.

Speaker 1 (01:22:43):
Really, there was a shirt man. He was from Greensboro
and he was he taughting Dwayne Wade or something like that,
but whatever was it, Dwayne Wade on fire and they
won the series after we looked like we were going
to win the series. He's kind of like our Steve Bartman.

Speaker 7 (01:22:54):
Okay, so I remember Steve Bartman that was the Cubs, dude.

Speaker 1 (01:22:57):
This was our version of Steve Bartman on w BT.

Speaker 6 (01:23:00):
I'll give you the rest, uh in just a moment,
because some of them are ones. Like I said, I'd
completely forgotten about one of them. I was, I was,
I was doing a show there from back in twenty twelve. Hint, hint, oh,
traffic check right now. Boomer von Cannon.

Speaker 22 (01:23:15):
Dray Bocelli played there one night too.

Speaker 1 (01:23:17):
Did you see him there?

Speaker 24 (01:23:18):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:23:18):
I was just talking about what he was there?

Speaker 11 (01:23:21):
He was that one.

Speaker 1 (01:23:23):
Yeah, I worked with Jet broadcast live from Theelli Show.
He said a duet.

Speaker 2 (01:23:29):
Yeah, Bow and Bolly touring. That's right. I think he
got the bow.

Speaker 1 (01:23:38):
Good borrow, borrow, good borrow.

Speaker 4 (01:23:42):
He's good Morrow beats.

Speaker 7 (01:23:49):
I just can't leave the bunch, so.

Speaker 2 (01:23:55):
Yeah, hang on, here goes. That's Joey right, Oh it is.
I'm actually slightly ashamed to say that I did have
this on cassette.

Speaker 7 (01:24:10):
Oh man, this whole album.

Speaker 1 (01:24:12):
But did you have it on K single?

Speaker 13 (01:24:16):
I did.

Speaker 7 (01:24:16):
This was one of the first CDs that I ever
bought when I got my first CD player about this
and Paula Abdul's straight up. I can't remember that. It
was the third one I gay.

Speaker 6 (01:24:25):
The album was called Forever Your Girl, Ever Your Girl, Yes,
get it right, for Ever your Girl.

Speaker 1 (01:24:30):
How let's go to challenge, Casey, Casey Junior, we're here, all.

Speaker 2 (01:24:34):
Right, Let's go to uh no, let's go to Jeane
online too. Jean.

Speaker 1 (01:24:38):
Welcome to Good Morning BT.

Speaker 18 (01:24:40):
Oh, good morning, guys, Good morning Hello, Jean and so,
and it's Dean and oh Dean, it's.

Speaker 7 (01:24:50):
This Gene on our screen. Hey Dean with a D.

Speaker 25 (01:24:53):
It's all good, it's all George is fun enough to
be hired as the manager of the cleaning team during
live events.

Speaker 18 (01:25:02):
So I was like there for the first two or
three months and it was getting maddening and I had
to move on to other things. But that place opened
up with the Rolling Stones. The first big event was
the Rolling Stone. I can't believe that wasn't even on
the list.

Speaker 7 (01:25:19):
Oh my gosh. So the opening concert for the Spectrum Center,
the Rolling Stones, and you worked it.

Speaker 18 (01:25:26):
Yes, I was there live. There were two things. So
what was funny during that event? I mean, you had
what fifteen seventeen thousand people there for that concert.

Speaker 25 (01:25:37):
We were there new construction, the sewer system backed up
in the drain types and everybody flushing on the first
floor backed up the dreams to the second floor and
it was coming up out of the floor.

Speaker 18 (01:25:51):
Dreams went out into the hallway on the second deck.
So what that was a nightmare.

Speaker 1 (01:25:58):
I don't know why you left your clinning.

Speaker 6 (01:26:02):
A story, so Gene, So, Gene, we were talking about
the twenty most Dean. Oh, yeah, right, well, hey i'm reading,
I'm reading what the screen says, ron Berg Dean.

Speaker 9 (01:26:16):
No, it's all good.

Speaker 18 (01:26:18):
So something personal to all you guys over there. There
were two events that happened prior to the Rolling Stones.
One of them was called the black Ball Event, and
it was a black tie event to the upper crust
of Charlotte to come in, have a really exquisite meal
and be shown where they might like to buy their
season tickets for.

Speaker 9 (01:26:38):
Basketball or whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:26:40):
Just don't blush the toilet.

Speaker 9 (01:26:42):
I had to rush a team member up to one
of the sweets to clean something up. Got into one
of the sweet elevators and Mayor Pat and a certain
Latin no Mercedes Benz dealership owner got into the elevator,
and I had wanted to do it dig on the

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mayor because he basically overrode all the people voting and
said no, don't move it, and he made it happen anyway,
and I wanted to dig him and say, hey, do
you think the people are going to buy the tickets?
And they really didn't. For years they were given away
tickets for basketball games and all that kind.

Speaker 13 (01:27:21):
Of stuff, but just the behind the scenes.

Speaker 18 (01:27:23):
Look, the Stones opened that place.

Speaker 7 (01:27:24):
Up and the toilet's overflowed.

Speaker 18 (01:27:26):
Yes, yes, they did well.

Speaker 2 (01:27:29):
So Jane, Jane, we were I was working with Dean.

Speaker 11 (01:27:33):
Dean.

Speaker 6 (01:27:33):
Wait, hey on, George, George, will you fix that on
the screen. So I didn't keep saying Gene yet. By
the way, you stay classy, Santiago, Dean, We'll call you.
How about Dean, let's just go we just call you, Gene.

Speaker 2 (01:27:52):
What I was going to say.

Speaker 6 (01:27:53):
What I was going to say is we were working
our way up the list of the memorable moments from
the Charlotte Observer. Number one in two thousand and five,
the Rolling Stones.

Speaker 1 (01:28:00):
So there you go.

Speaker 6 (01:28:01):
You were there, and you were behind the scenes, and
you were in the bathrooms.

Speaker 7 (01:28:04):
Oh I having to clean up that mass.

Speaker 6 (01:28:06):
They were The Stones were number one and you were
number two. Hey, Dean, thanks for calling the show. Now, Geen,
thank you for calling the show.

Speaker 7 (01:28:15):
How he fixed it?

Speaker 4 (01:28:16):
Now?

Speaker 6 (01:28:17):
Now he fixed it is we're saying goodbye, oh man, Irene.
You just got to know him, Irene, thank you for
calling the show real quick. Number two twenty, two thousand
and six was the CIAA Tournament, debuting in Charlotte at
the Spectrum Center two thousand and six, Kobe goes for
fifty eight in a Hornet's Loss. Jim, this is one
I was saying that you might have been at I
think you were. Number four two thousand and seven, David

(01:28:38):
Lee Roth returns with Van.

Speaker 1 (01:28:40):
Was I was, and I was disappointed at David Lee Roth.
He was not very good.

Speaker 6 (01:28:44):
Yeah, he has not maintained the pipes. Number five two
thousand and nine Elton John and Billy Joel. Twy eleven
was number six. Prince comes to Charlotte and let's see
seven was American Idol looking for a winner.

Speaker 7 (01:28:57):
All the American Idol tour I recall, and.

Speaker 6 (01:29:00):
Here's the one I was at twenty twelve, the Democratic
National Convention. So we did the show there all week.
That's one of the first on assignment things I had
when I came back.

Speaker 4 (01:29:11):
Here.

Speaker 6 (01:29:12):
Nine is Miley Cyrus calls in sick.

Speaker 1 (01:29:14):
One time she canceled her show. Do you remember that anyway?

Speaker 6 (01:29:17):
Twenty nineteen and then number ten, a twenty four point comeback,
underlines the return of the Hornet's name back in twenty fourteen,
So the a big moment.

Speaker 1 (01:29:26):
It was a good move getting the Horne's name back.

Speaker 7 (01:29:28):
Isn't it kind of crazy? I mean, it feels like
the Spectrum Center is brand new, it's twenty years old
and has already gone undergone a renovation. Where is a
time doesn't make sense?

Speaker 1 (01:29:38):
They tore down the new coliseum.

Speaker 7 (01:29:40):
So time isn't real any more.

Speaker 6 (01:29:42):
The history of buildings in Charlotte, you know, Arenas, is
an interesting one. I want to thank Jean for calling again.
I really appreciate it called Jeane, Thank you so much.
David Chadwick coming up next and next hour Jones Angel.
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Speaker 2 (01:30:18):
Shut North Shut.

Speaker 6 (01:30:25):
It's that time of the week, Thursday morning, Bo Thompson,
Beth Troutman, and we welcome in the long time host
of the David Chadwick Show on Sunday mornings eight am
and the senior pastor at Moments of Hope Church, David Chadwick.

Speaker 12 (01:30:40):
Well, good morning, Bo, Beth. How are you guys today.

Speaker 7 (01:30:42):
We're so glad to see you. It's wonderful to have
you back in here. We missed you last week.

Speaker 4 (01:30:46):
Well, thank you.

Speaker 12 (01:30:46):
It was good to be off a little bit. It's
great to be back again with you.

Speaker 6 (01:30:50):
Well, you know, nothing happened while you were gone. Just
peace in the Middle East and at least the framework
for it, And I think we probably should start there.
And I know that you talk about that song on
your show this week, but this is pretty monumental. I mean,
the release of the hostages, on one hand, is just
an unbelievably great thing to have happened. But then the

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framework for peace long term, which we hope holds together.
And now, as President Trump said, comes in phases. We
now await what happens next in this and these developments.

Speaker 12 (01:31:26):
Yes, it's a remarkable accomplishment by a guy who is
known for the art of the deal. He made a deal,
and nobody else has been able to make that deal,
and I'm thankful that he did so. I mean, the
question is going to be will it hold? You know,
Iran is re arming all of its nuclear weaponry, supposedly,
what's going to happen there? You also still have Hamas

(01:31:49):
executing people they thought were traders during the two plus
years of the war in the middle of the streets
over the last several days with a piece of cord
that just doesn't seem to make any sense. So there's
still evil, hurt, hatred in the human heart, and that's
what's got to be addressed. At some point or another.
Will the two states solution work. I don't know if
one of the states wants to complete eradication of the

(01:32:10):
other off the face of the earth. So we'll see,
but at least it's an effort to on paper half
piece and prayerfully it will stand.

Speaker 6 (01:32:20):
I was watching the coverage of this and the day,
the day that he the President Trump earlier this week
went to sign the agreement and appeared with all of
the world leaders and just the fact that they were
all together in the same place.

Speaker 2 (01:32:36):
Yeah, the visual of that was amazing.

Speaker 6 (01:32:39):
And of course when that happens, everybody pays attention to
body language, and they pay attention to just all the optics,
and none of us will ever know all the things
that happened behind the scenes. But you know, Jared Kushner
and Ivanka Trump have sort of come back into the Forefront.

Speaker 12 (01:32:54):
And she had converted to Judaism, which is absolutely amazing
as well.

Speaker 6 (01:32:59):
So I mean when you when you watch it all
play out, I mean I think everybody watches it with
a hopeful, hopeful thoughts because but you also watch it thinking, wow,
can this really be true? Because it's just I mean,
this conflict, and as President Trump has pointed out every
time we've talked about it, this goes well before me.
This goes just years and years and years and years,

(01:33:21):
and you know the biblical aspect of this and this,
you know, peace in the Middle East. I mean, when you,
from your standpoint doing what you do day day after day,
what was your initial response.

Speaker 12 (01:33:33):
Well, my initial response was Thanksgiving and for the hostages
to be released. I put on my parent hat at
that point and imagine my child being in captivity for
two plus years. My wife, Marilyn, whom you all know
is just a wonderful human being, but she set her
alarm every day at eleven fifty nine and when it
went off on her phone, it reminded her to pray,

(01:33:55):
and she got tears in her eyes as she watched
the hostages being released and going home and again just
placing your self in the position of the parents seeing
your child come home, that must have been a great relief.
But then still the sadness for the twenty eight bodies
that are still there, and parents wondering is my child
one of those? And well, I even get my body
back of my child so that I can bury that
child properly. I mean, it's just a lot of mixed

(01:34:17):
emotions going on, I'm sure. But again, we pray is
God for peace in the Mideast. Psalm one twenty two,
verse six says pray for the peace of Jerusalem. That's
a command in the Bible, So we're to do that,
we're to hope for that. We also know that there
is something in the Bible that talks about a peace
accord that's going to happen before war breaks out again.
And I hope that's not the case here, but maybe

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it is. And so you try to look at this
situation as a theologian through the lenses of a biblical worldview,
and there are some interesting factors that happen as you
try to look at the alignment of biblical prophecy.

Speaker 7 (01:34:49):
Have you had a lot of your congregation members ask
you about that, just in terms of what this means
for biblical prophecy. I would imagine probably church members are
wondering and think about this in terms of prophecy.

Speaker 12 (01:35:02):
Now they are bath you know, we were talking right
before we went on air. One out of every four
verses in the Bible has to do with prophecy, either
about the coming of Jesus or the second coming of Jesus.
So you can't read the Bible without understanding biblical prophecy.
And that makes absolutely the Bible come more real to people.
But they're asking, they're trying to wonder what's going on,
especially as in the Bible, the central focal point of

(01:35:25):
the Bible is a slice of land right next to
the Mediterranean Sea, and it's been that way for thousands
of years. And here we are in twenty and twenty
five and we're reading the Bible and looking at the
Mid East and going the hot spot of the world
is that area called Israel, and particularly that city called
Jerusalem that Israel took back over in nineteen sixty seven

(01:35:45):
in the war. But East Jerusalem is where the Dome
of the Rock is on the Temple Mount, and the
Jews still have a great hope to rebuild the Third
Temple on that Temple Mount, and that's going to be
another tension point, a place of conflagration that we should
pay attention about in the years to come.

Speaker 6 (01:36:02):
And speaking of tension points, so we were talking about
this earlier. Just as it appears that perhaps there's at
least the framework for peace in the Middle East, you
still have the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. And you're
going to have President Zelensky at the White House tomorrow
to meet with President Trump again. If he can somehow

(01:36:22):
find peace there, that would be quite a turn of events.
But we will see now when we come back. I
know the larger portion of your show this week is
dedicated to someone you know very well. We talked about
the passing of Doug Lebda a couple of days ago
when we got the news, and I played some audio
of when he appeared on Pat McCrory's show back in

(01:36:44):
twenty nineteen. But the founder of Lending Tree passed away
in an ATV accident in western North Carolina a few
days ago. And you know him well. In fact, you're
going to be part of his You're gonna be doing
his funeral this week.

Speaker 12 (01:36:59):
His funeral be Sunday at two point thirty at Founders
Hall Uptown, expecting obviously a large crowd because Doug was
a person bigger than life. He was a force of
nature and has done so much that is remarkably successful.
The family asked me to do the funeral on Sunday,
and I will.

Speaker 4 (01:37:17):
Do so well.

Speaker 6 (01:37:18):
And on that note, I want to talk to you
about Doug, and you know you knew him much better
than the two of us did, and I met him
through Pat McCrory, but that was very brief and so
just a tower in the tech industry here in Charlotte
and business community, and it is just a tremendous loss.
And we'll talk more about the legacy of Doug Lebda

(01:37:38):
coming up in a few minutes with David Chadwick.

Speaker 3 (01:37:40):
This is Good Morning GT with both Thompson and Beth Troutman.

Speaker 2 (01:37:47):
Nine nineteen.

Speaker 6 (01:37:48):
I'm WBT Fot Thompson, Beth Troutman, David Chadwick joining us.
We mentioned a few days ago upon getting the news
about the passing of Doug Lebda, he was in studio
with us here on the Pat McCrory show back in
twenty nineteen.

Speaker 26 (01:38:03):
So the idea for lending Tree came from me getting
a mortgage on a fifty five thousand dollars condo in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
went to two banks, got the run around, and decided
to make banks compete.

Speaker 1 (01:38:15):
How old were you at the time.

Speaker 26 (01:38:16):
I was twenty four when I got the mortgage, twenty
six when I started the company, And.

Speaker 6 (01:38:21):
Where were And that was an amazing conversation because you
talk about somebody who has really really had an impact
on the Charlotte business community and the tech community fintech.
I mean Doug lebt is at the top of that list,
and a young guy his early fifties. He was when
he passed away an ATV accident on the farm that

(01:38:43):
he had just started working on in western North Carolina
on your try on and I think all of us
are still just.

Speaker 2 (01:38:51):
Stunned by the news, David, But you.

Speaker 1 (01:38:54):
Knew Doug pretty well.

Speaker 6 (01:38:55):
And like you said before, he went to the break,
are going to be doing the funeral well over the
weekend at Founders.

Speaker 12 (01:39:01):
Hall, Yeah, two thirty on Sunday. And I'm privileged to
be able to honor Doug. And a lot of people
knew that he had a deep faith because he loved
to talk about it. But the particular part of his
faith he really enjoyed was what's called apologetics. He loved
to defend the faith. He loved to get in arguments
with people and be able to bring facts and reality
to why he believed what he believed. And he would

(01:39:24):
text me regularly about questions of the faith and we
would engage in those debates back and forth. Just a
really brilliant guy. And I was driving in this morning
and looked over to the left off Morehead and there's
this huge building with Lending Tree on the side of it.
It was Doug's baby, and a lot of people don't
know that. After several years he was basically fired and

(01:39:45):
asked to leave. And then Lending Tree started going downhill
and they invited him back, and he of course came
back in and it began to surge again. He was
a force of nature, Just a brilliant man. And I
was over at the family's house last night trying to
help them prepare for the SURVI and deal with their grief,
and interestingly, he was planning another launch of another Hugh
high tech industry that had to do with AI And

(01:40:08):
I couldn't explain it if you forced me. To but
it was something that he had already planned out and
mapped out and was getting ready to launch before this
tragic accident occurred.

Speaker 7 (01:40:16):
And I know his family must be stunned in their
grief because, like you said, he I only got to
spend time with him once. But he did have that charisma,
that thing that just it made you want to listen,
It made you want to engage. He made you want
to understand, you know, what he was talking about. And

(01:40:36):
I would imagine the shock of this loss is so hard,
not only for the financial community and the lending Tree community,
but for that family at Beth.

Speaker 12 (01:40:45):
It was so sudden. He was up in his farm.
He loved this farm that though you addressed, and loved
to spend time up there, and was up there for
the purpose of driving around on his ATV, trying to
find a place that he could build his dream house
with him and Megan and they could enjoy for the
remaining years that they could live together. And he was
going up a hill and it flipped back upon him
and evidently his head hit a rock or a log,

(01:41:07):
and you know that blunt force trauma that caused intantaneous death.
His dog was with him and One of the real
wonderful parts of this story, if there is something that's wonderful,
is the dog was his best friend, his his loyal friend,
and the dog just stayed next to him. The family
couldn't get in touch with him. They finally rushed up
there and then found him lying dead and the dog

(01:41:27):
was right there next to him, and then they had
to deal with again the sudden aspect of grief, and
grief is just so hard because you don't know how
to deal with it. Initially, God gives you, i think,
the anesthetization to deal with grief for the moment, but
then it comes and it goes, and the family and
all friends are just in the process of grieving because

(01:41:47):
it happened so suddenly and there was no notice to
it whatsoever.

Speaker 7 (01:41:51):
And how do you plan. Just the responsibility for you
as a human being to plan for his service, you know,
because there will be so many people, imagine from the
community who were there to honor his life, and then
you are tasked with the responsibility of speaking to that
loss and trying to help the process of grief.

Speaker 2 (01:42:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:42:11):
I will spend a lot of time on Saturday in
prayer just putting that message together on what needs to
be said. I'll not be the only one speaking. His
daughters are going to speak. Pat McCrory's going to speak.
Another deep friend of his, Brent Beeson, is going to speak,
So there'll be several of us who will be able
to address what's going on in the room. But I'll
just try to give people hope. I mean, that's what

(01:42:32):
I do. And Megan, his beloved that he really cared
for so much, is going through this trauma as well,
and I'll just try to keep her focused on the
fact that, you know, in Doug's faith, I think he's alive.
I don't think Doug leb has ever been more alive
than he is right now. And I really believe that
Heaven's so wonderful. He wouldn't come back to this mess
even if he could, but he is waiting for all

(01:42:53):
of us to go be with him, which is our
eternal home.

Speaker 2 (01:42:56):
Well, I mean, it is true, you never never know.
I mean, you don't and and.

Speaker 12 (01:43:04):
Sudden trauma, as you well know, it's just so hard
to deal with. It's just so hard, and you got
to keep moving forward in life. Life doesn't stop.

Speaker 6 (01:43:11):
It magnifies, it magnifies, for those of us who are
still here what really should be the focus of the
main focuses of our lives?

Speaker 13 (01:43:20):
Right?

Speaker 6 (01:43:20):
I mean, you get so lost in the tedium of
the day and then something like that, like you said,
I unfortunately know something or two about it. You suddenly
pull back and look at everything you're doing and it
looks different.

Speaker 12 (01:43:35):
Yeah, and you know, but we've talked about it a lot.
That take every moment of this time you have right
now to love those whom you love the most. Make
sure you spend time with them, make sure you tell
them how much you love them, hug them a lot,
and enjoy it to the full, because you just don't
know when something might intervene and cause a tragedy where

(01:43:55):
you no longer have them present in your life.

Speaker 6 (01:43:58):
So that is coming up this week and the service
for Doug Lebda. Your show will primarily focus on Doug
and an interview that you did back in twenty seventeen,
did you say.

Speaker 12 (01:44:07):
December twenty seventeen. I did a full long format interview
with him and we got into in depth his entrepreneurial
leadership style, how he got to be the leader that
he is today, his family, his relationship with Megan, his
love for her, but a lot of his faith. He
talked very openly about it, and what I remember most
is him saying, I'm just so glad there's a resurrection,

(01:44:29):
because he said, I believe in that resurrection is my resurrection,
and I will live forever. And you're sitting here today
eight years later, going, man, I'm glad he believed that.
And you know what, all of us should believe that,
because if this world is all there is and everything
stops at the end of our deaths, then there's no hope.
We really can't live with hope. And if you can't
believe there's love on the other side of death. You

(01:44:49):
know that we'll see our loved ones again, both that
we'll see my mom and dad, and your beautiful daughter,
we'll see them again. And if that is true, that
should give all of us hope to keep living every
day to the full and do what Jesus told us
to do two things, love God and love your neighbor.
If you do those two things, you have a lifetime's
worth of work to do.

Speaker 2 (01:45:07):
And we'll add best Mom to that list too.

Speaker 6 (01:45:09):
So look, we implore everybody to listen Sunday morning at
eight am and I always appreciate you being here and
Moy you never know yet try to make sense of
the world. That's why we love having you here on Thursdays.

Speaker 12 (01:45:23):
Well, I do the best I can, but we look
through a mirror dimly, as Jesus said in the scripture,
and one day we'll see face to face. One day
we'll understand. And that's why I believe the most often
spoken word in heaven is going to be oh, as
God reveals to us why He allowed to happen what happened,
and we'll go oh oh, and it'll make more sense

(01:45:44):
to us as we move into our eternal home.

Speaker 6 (01:45:48):
Now, what about your faith in the future of the
Tar Hill football program?

Speaker 12 (01:45:53):
That needs to be built, that needs to have more
bricks laid onto it. So my foundation is firmer.

Speaker 7 (01:46:01):
I think that program needs more love and hugs.

Speaker 12 (01:46:05):
Beth Troutman as head coach.

Speaker 6 (01:46:07):
When we come back, the Voice of the Tar Hills,
Jones Angel, will join us ahead of the tar Heels
playing tomorrow night, a late one right here on WBT,
and it's on the West Coast at cal So. The
next step of the Bill Belichick Tour continues. We'll talk
to Jones after the news panted.

Speaker 1 (01:46:23):
To hey and thoroughly enjoy the show.

Speaker 7 (01:46:25):
Thank you for taking the time to call in.

Speaker 6 (01:46:28):
Well, y'all keep it a great Yeah, thank you, man,
Keep on keeping on.

Speaker 4 (01:46:32):
This is good morning beating with booing path.

Speaker 27 (01:46:35):
All right, So I'll just start with, uh, you know,
right off about like just the some of the reports
out last week about am I looking for a buyout
and trying to leave here and all that. It's just
categorically false. It's zero truth to any of that.

Speaker 1 (01:46:51):
Uh gad, I'm here.

Speaker 27 (01:46:53):
We're working towards being our goals, and the process had
great support from uh you know, Chancellor Rob, It's Kinnam, Bubbo,
Steve and so forth, you know, Michael Bari. It's been
you know, those people have all been great and I
appreciate all their help and everything. And you know, we
just believe very much in the process. I think Bill Walls,

(01:47:15):
you know, the squirrel take care of himself, and I've
always believed that you just got to keep working and
grinding away, and that's that's exactly what we're doing.

Speaker 6 (01:47:22):
That was Bill Belichick earlier this week, speaking to the
media ahead of a Friday night ten thirty kickoff on
the West Coast. Last time we talked to our next guest,
he said it's gonna be a while before we talk again,
and he was right. It seems like it's been like
six months since the Tar Hills played a football game,
all the way back against Clemson at Keenan Stadium. But

(01:47:44):
back with us on the WBT Hotline is the voice
of the Tar Heels, Jones. Angel Jones, Welcome back to
the show.

Speaker 13 (01:47:51):
And you know, honestly, guys, I think that's part of
kind of the issue here for cam. I mean, the
number one issue is Carolina has played very poorly on
the field, no question about that. The second issue is
that they just haven't played very much, and so I
do think they've kind of been sitting in these poor
performances without an opportunity to go back out there and

(01:48:14):
try to get a little bit better. Now. Of course
they've been practicing and working there, but I think it
would behoove everyone to see some hopeful improvement on the
actual field of play. And for Carolina, you know that
starts now, guys, with seven straight weeks, the games starting
tomorrow night. As you mentioned, it's a late one, ten
thirty Eastern time out in California, Carolina and the Golden Bear,

(01:48:37):
so looking forward to getting back at it now.

Speaker 7 (01:48:39):
A lot of people there have been there have been
a lot of discussions about Bill Belichick, his success at Carolina,
how long he might be at Carolina. We've had conversations
both with our sports director here, Jim Zochi, and with
former basketball coach Matt Doherty, who reminded us that that
Mac Brown his first two seasons was one in ten
and then came back to create a really, really stellar

(01:49:01):
football program that maybe we're we're too quick to judge
Bill Belichick.

Speaker 4 (01:49:06):
Maybe well.

Speaker 13 (01:49:08):
I think the expectations versus what you've seen on the
field is obviously part of the reason for why everybody
is so frustrated right now around Carolina Football and within
the fan base. And so I don't think it's unrealistic
or or inaccurate in some way to expect Carolina be

(01:49:31):
better than it is at the moment. And even more
importantly than that, I think it's to show improvement. And
I think that's where the issue has really been, is
that Carolina has not looked very different in the three
games that it's played against power conference competition. That being
TCU u c S and then Clemson.

Speaker 9 (01:49:51):
You know, the.

Speaker 13 (01:49:51):
Tarios have been outclassed in those three games, and so
I do think that it is it is unreal listic
to assume that you can just step in and turn
a program around immediately.

Speaker 4 (01:50:04):
Can it happen?

Speaker 13 (01:50:06):
Yes? Is it fair to expect it, that's a different question.
But I think it's definitely fair to expect improvement from
what we've seen from Carolina so far.

Speaker 6 (01:50:15):
So, Jones, you've had a season now to get used
to this West Coast detour. You know, all the a
SEC teams are having to get used to this. But
now that you've been through it, now you're about to
head out to the team's about to head out to
California tomorrow night. You know what does that do to
a program? You know, getting adjusted to the time and
doing the cross country travel. I mean, in the old days,

(01:50:36):
this was not something you had to worry about, but
now much much more mirroring, mirroring pro sports. Now you've
got these long trips and for a college student in
the middle of the tell me about what goes into
the preparation for this now, Yeah, you.

Speaker 13 (01:50:51):
Know, Bo, it's interesting. This is actually the first time
that Carolina football or men's basketball has made this trip
with cal Stanford or SMU being members of the ACC.
So this will be the first time that Carolina has
gone to any of those three institutions. Now basketball is
going to go to all three as well this upcoming season,

(01:51:12):
so they're gonna get plenty of opportunity. But it is
the first time that they've done this. Now, it's not
the first time that Carolina has played out West, of course,
you know, this will be the sixth time that the
Heels have been in the state of California. Most recently
was twenty twenty two in the Bowl game, the Holiday
Bowl against Oregon. So what I do think it does,
Like you may hear, I am getting out of my

(01:51:32):
car and walking up to Keenan Football Center right now.
Carolina is leaving here in just a little bit to
head to California, and so they're going out earlier. They're
staying on Friday night after the game and coming back
Saturday morning, as opposed to trying to fly overnight and
essentially a red eye there on Friday night. Hydration, of course,

(01:51:52):
is really important in this instance. Trying to get your
body clock adjusted is important in this instance, now, Bill
Belichick has done this plenty of times. He and his
staff have a good idea how to do this. But
I do think it's not the biggest factor, but it
is a factor. It is something you have to think
about when you're making this long trip.

Speaker 7 (01:52:11):
So how do you think we're gonna do?

Speaker 4 (01:52:15):
That's the million dollar question, right It's a great question best.

Speaker 13 (01:52:17):
I feel like, most importantly for Carolina, you've just got
to see better play. That doesn't mean winning every single
game the rest of the season, although that would certainly
be a welcome event if that occurred. But for Carolina,
it's about playing better right now. And so Cal's good.
You know, they're four and two. They have some nice wins.
They've defeated Boston College on the road, they won against Minnesota,

(01:52:39):
they have a win at Oregon State as well.

Speaker 9 (01:52:42):
So this is a.

Speaker 13 (01:52:42):
Competent and solid football team. For Carolina, it's about playing
better football. And so if that happens, they're going to
give them themselves a chance to win, and if it doesn't,
then it's gonna be another frustrating day.

Speaker 6 (01:52:53):
Well, I'd be remiss if I didn't ask you before
we let you go. We got the game the football
game coming up and the resumption of the football season.
But basketball, the Blue White Scrimmage just happened since the
last time we talked to you. The we're about to
get up into a crazy season for Jones where he's
got these early season basketball games and he got football
games going on at the same time.

Speaker 2 (01:53:14):
How you feeling.

Speaker 6 (01:53:15):
How is Tarhill Nation feeling about that the basketball squad
so far?

Speaker 13 (01:53:19):
Yeah, you know, the preseason polls came out, Carolina was
twenty five and they were picked third I think in
the ACC and I'm excited to see Carolina play. I
just feel like this is going to be pretty exciting team.
You know, the Tarrios have some good size, They a
lot of new pieces. But man, I just tell you

(01:53:39):
about I like the pieces that they have, So I
know that's not like a definitive answer for you, but
I'm just excited to see the Tarrioles play. I think
they're being undervalued a little bit, and it's a team
that has a lot of good pieces to work with.
So if that all comes together, we'll have to wait
and see. But man, I think they've got some nice
pieces that they can make it.

Speaker 6 (01:54:00):
Make it happen, all right, ten thirty kickoff tomorrow night
on a Friday night out west at cal on the
Tar Hill Sports Network and of course on WBT here
in the Charlotte area. Jones, Safe travels, and we'll talk
to you next week.

Speaker 13 (01:54:13):
Thanks so much, look forward to talking with y'all.

Speaker 6 (01:54:15):
See all right, off, he goes, and we are about
to head off to traffic. I have to tell you,
I thought they played some of the West Coast teams
last season, and I guess I guess they did not,
So my apologies on that, but my schedule, my memory
of the schedule was incorrect.

Speaker 7 (01:54:30):
Well, I think it's because we've been talking about the
fact that these West Coast teams have been added to
the ACC for so long that it feels like we've
been playing them for a while.

Speaker 6 (01:54:40):
Well, I mean, and some teams did last year. I mean,
Wake Forrest played Stanford in basketball. I went to the game.
So the realignment with the new teams is not new
this year. But I'm looking at the tar Hills schedule
last year, and He's right, they didn't. They didn't go
out west. The tar Hills did not. So again ninety
three on WBT Traffic check now, Boomer von.

Speaker 14 (01:54:59):
Can ended out to Berkeley tomorrow and night.

Speaker 1 (01:55:01):
That's right.

Speaker 14 (01:55:02):
Another side note, you know, to California Football team general
manager and one and only Ron Rivera.

Speaker 2 (01:55:08):
That's right, Riverboat Row, that's right.

Speaker 6 (01:55:10):
He's the GM of the program out there.

Speaker 14 (01:55:12):
He loved his time here in Carolina.

Speaker 15 (01:55:14):
I know.

Speaker 7 (01:55:14):
I loved that guy.

Speaker 22 (01:55:15):
Oh he's a super dude. Man, he is a super dude.
That whole family there incredible where they are so little
side note for tomorrow night's Carolina game, Riverboat will be
on the scene.

Speaker 1 (01:55:25):
That was That was the boomer equivalent of.

Speaker 21 (01:55:32):
Hey, look up, how are you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:55:33):
Famam?

Speaker 11 (01:55:34):
I like this.

Speaker 2 (01:55:35):
I don't know what it means, but I like it.

Speaker 11 (01:55:36):
Hey, how are you?

Speaker 20 (01:55:37):
Hi?

Speaker 4 (01:55:38):
Were great your news show that this is good morning beat.

Speaker 9 (01:55:46):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:55:47):
See, this was bugging me.

Speaker 6 (01:55:49):
I had to look it up, so I went through
the Tar Heels football some falls schedule.

Speaker 7 (01:55:55):
Lest This is one of my favorite qualities and you
is when you you think some and then you realize
that you had remembered it incorrectly. You will go down
a rabbit hole of research Like no other person I
have ever met, well, no, one of my favorite things
about you.

Speaker 6 (01:56:10):
I was worried that nobody in the acc played West
Coast football games last year, and that's not the case now.
I went back over North Carolina schedule and they did
not play any of the West Coast teams last year
on the road. In fact, on their schedule, they didn't
play any of them period. I don't know why that is,
but I know that I remember wake Forest because my

(01:56:33):
son goes there. I know I remember wake Forest going
out west and playing these new teams cal and Stanford,
for example. And so I went back on their football
schedule last year and they did.

Speaker 9 (01:56:46):
So.

Speaker 6 (01:56:46):
What I was trying to say a moment ago was
I know last season some of the teams started playing
those new teams on the road. Carolina, for whatever reason,
last year did not. I didn't realize that. And so
when Jones said that, I'm like, wait a minute, Like
they played they played Stanford and Callen SMU. They were
in the conference.

Speaker 7 (01:57:04):
Last year and they were so but they played at home.

Speaker 2 (01:57:06):
Yes, I feel better now.

Speaker 6 (01:57:08):
I just didn't want to be ignorant, and I wasn't
totally ignorant. I was about Carolina's football scheduling.

Speaker 7 (01:57:13):
Well, the fact that you don't have it memorized, I
think people will give you a pass. I don't think
you should. Yeah, I don't think you should have people's
or different teams, you know, entire schedules memorized.

Speaker 2 (01:57:23):
Okay, well if you say so, Yeah, I think I
think you'll be fine. All right, moving on, Hey guys,
you gotta.

Speaker 1 (01:57:29):
Get back in there and finish the dance.

Speaker 14 (01:57:31):
Hey man, look at Marvin's hand.

Speaker 2 (01:57:32):
He can't play with his hand like that, and we
can't play with all that.

Speaker 5 (01:57:35):
Yeah, we'll look at.

Speaker 12 (01:57:35):
Marn you gotta play.

Speaker 2 (01:57:37):
See, that's where they kiss for the first time on
the dance floor.

Speaker 4 (01:57:39):
And if there's no music.

Speaker 2 (01:57:40):
They can't dance. If they can't dance, they can't kiss.
If they can't kiss, they can't fall in love.

Speaker 8 (01:57:44):
And I'm history.

Speaker 15 (01:57:45):
Hey man, the dance is over unless so you know
somebody else that can play the guitar?

Speaker 9 (01:57:51):
Ay?

Speaker 2 (01:57:52):
Yes, did you know?

Speaker 6 (01:57:56):
There's a new book called Future Boy out there. Future
a new memoir from Michael J. Fox, exclusively about his
experience making the movie Back to the Future. New in
bookstores and wherever you get books this week.

Speaker 2 (01:58:13):
I did new I did, as I've read it already.

Speaker 7 (01:58:16):
I have not read it. But if there's Bonner pre
order list, yeah, if there's books that would be.

Speaker 2 (01:58:21):
That would be the most best thing ever to say.

Speaker 1 (01:58:22):
I've already read it.

Speaker 2 (01:58:23):
I had an advanced copy actually yesterday.

Speaker 6 (01:58:26):
Not because I'm back in the future, not because I'm
a Back to the Future family, because I'm an avid reader.

Speaker 7 (01:58:31):
But if there's book news, I tend to get it.
I tend to I tend to find it. It ends
up in my newsfeed, or I get emails about it
from Barnes and Noble. Oh yeah, I'm on their email list. Yeah,
I love those guys.

Speaker 1 (01:58:42):
She knows, mister Noble.

Speaker 7 (01:58:45):
So I did know this, and I watched and I
can't remember which streaming service did the the documentary on
on Michael J. Fox a few years ago. My mind
is blanking Menopau's brain. But that's what.

Speaker 6 (01:58:58):
Happens when you forget who Carolina laid last year in football.

Speaker 7 (01:59:01):
Because of that documentary and the conversations he had about
what it was like to try to film Back to
the Future while also being on family ties, it was
the most fascinating thing for me to think about this
human being not basically sleeping for weeks and weeks and
weeks on end, doing these two things together that in

(01:59:22):
and of itself is enough to make me want to
purchase this book and read it, and not to mention
the fact that I'm just a fan of Michael J.

Speaker 21 (01:59:29):
Fox.

Speaker 1 (01:59:29):
I might read this book before you do?

Speaker 7 (01:59:32):
You wait, would you read a whole book or would
you do like the audio books.

Speaker 1 (01:59:36):
I'm just about to say, if Michael J.

Speaker 2 (01:59:37):
Fox is reading the audiobook, I would actually probably prefer
to you that kind of like we talked about with
the Matthew McConaughey lights with green lights, Like, yeah, yeah,
I'd like to read the book, but I'd much prefer
Matthew McConaughey read it to me.

Speaker 7 (01:59:51):
It is so good.

Speaker 6 (01:59:52):
I might go home today and buy this book and
I might sit down and read it, and that is
not a common occurrence for me.

Speaker 7 (01:59:59):
You do, I would like a full book report, like,
I would actually like a book report, and I would
like that. I'd like a report of what it was
like for you to read it, and how it kept
your attention, and how long did it take you to
get into a rhythm of reading said book.

Speaker 6 (02:00:14):
How long did it take him to read the book.
I'll have your book report in March of next year.
The book is called Future Boy, released on Tuesday of
this week.

Speaker 2 (02:00:23):
Michael J.

Speaker 6 (02:00:24):
Fox breaks the narrative at multiple points to sing the
praises of the film's enduringly loyal fans. But there are
a couple of places and he makes reference to this,
and that's why I played that clip just now, the
iconic scene where Fox is time traveling teenager Marty McFly
fills in for the injured guitarist in the nineteen fifty

(02:00:44):
five prom band and launches into this Johnny be Good
channeling Chuck Berry.

Speaker 1 (02:00:50):
Of course, that was Marvin Berry in that movie.

Speaker 5 (02:00:54):
Means way back, reads Cabinder, We're living a comfy boy
name of Johnny.

Speaker 6 (02:01:03):
So to play Johnny be Good, Marty borrowed Marvin Verri's
Gibson ES three forty five, a guitar first introduced in
nineteen fifty eight, three years after the nineteen fifty five
scene in the movie, and a.

Speaker 7 (02:01:16):
Lot of guitar aficionados. Aficionados called him out, called folks
out on that inconsistency, the fact that that guitar did
not exist in the said time line that Marty McFly
was supposed to actually be in. It's kind of like
when the Who's the astrophysicist.

Speaker 1 (02:01:35):
Stephen Hawking, Neil de Gras Tyson.

Speaker 7 (02:01:36):
Neil Degrass Tyson. It's kind of like when Neil Degrass
Tyson went back to James Cameron and said, the stars
are wrong over Titanic, the stars are not correct, and
James Cameron went back and corrected how the stars would
actually have looked on that specific night. This is that
kind of thing.

Speaker 6 (02:01:52):
Yeah, and there are all kinds of places you could go,
not just the first movie, but then you know the
second movie, which I think gets kind of lost, like
it's not. Part two was the tedious one. Part three
was sort of the feel good wrapping things up. They
go out West and you know, Mad Dog Tanning and
all that stuff, and Mary Steam Virgin was.

Speaker 7 (02:02:13):
In it, Mary Steam Virgin.

Speaker 1 (02:02:14):
But the first one is the classic.

Speaker 6 (02:02:16):
The second one is the one where they work so
hard to try to do the timelines at the same
time and they try to make because they didn't they
didn't know what they were going to do Part two.

Speaker 1 (02:02:25):
In part three when they made Part one, I think.

Speaker 7 (02:02:27):
They they had an inkling because they did.

Speaker 4 (02:02:29):
Rhodes where we're going, they don't need roads.

Speaker 6 (02:02:31):
But I think it's like George Lucas, like, I think
in his head it existed, but I think in their
head there was no reason to believe that in nineteen
You remember nineteen, nineteen eighty nine and nineteen ninety those movies.
Part two was that Christmas, and Part three was in
the summer of nineteen ninety. And as elaborate as those became,
maybe the creators said, okay, we have a blueprinting.

Speaker 1 (02:02:54):
Plan for a part two and a part three.

Speaker 6 (02:02:56):
But I mean, how could you have known. Back to
the Future, Like Michael J. Fox was Michael J. Fox
when that movie hit. That movie made him and I
know Family Ties was already going on, but he was
a sitcom star then.

Speaker 2 (02:03:07):
He was not a big movie star.

Speaker 1 (02:03:08):
And it wasn't super common back then that every movie.

Speaker 2 (02:03:11):
Was going to have a sequel or a threequel or
rose lines like, it wasn't a given that when you
when you made a movie, you would definitely be planning
on you know, part two, three, four or five. And
by the way, I did just look it up Future Boy,
Back to the Future and My Journey through the Space
Time Continuum narrated by Michael J.

Speaker 9 (02:03:29):
Fox.

Speaker 7 (02:03:29):
Wow, so you can listen to it.

Speaker 1 (02:03:30):
Bough so wait, what was the full title again?

Speaker 2 (02:03:33):
There Back to the Future and my journey through the
space time Continuum.

Speaker 1 (02:03:37):
I might read a book this weekend.

Speaker 7 (02:03:38):
I will be so excited if you come in on
Monday morning and tell me that you read a book,
I will be thrilled to no end. And you were
right about this film. Get a personal making and get
a personal pain pizza making Michael J. Fox, because right
after that then he had like, the secret of my
success at teen Wolf teen Wolf Doc Hollywood, which is
an underrated rating. Jim A Jim, a little gem of

(02:03:59):
a movie.

Speaker 6 (02:04:00):
I agree, Doc Hollywood. A lot of people forgot about
that movie. Now teen Wolf.

Speaker 2 (02:04:05):
Two, and I mean too was Jason's basement Jason's basement? Yes, okay,
we should end this way, shouldn't we. I bet we've
been together for a million ye.

Speaker 1 (02:04:16):
How the show feels right?

Speaker 7 (02:04:18):
And I bet we together for a million more.

Speaker 6 (02:04:25):
I love it when she's like, oh, we're staying with that.
Don't be worried, Steve, forget what I said earlier. Let's
end with this all together now in Unison. Do you
know Beth used to be in an a cappella?

Speaker 7 (02:04:46):
Just ask our listener Rusty right here, right here, all.

Speaker 6 (02:04:50):
Right, everybody, have a great day. Good talk math, good TALKBO.
You know what we're building too. Here we go three
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