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Speaker 1 (00:00):
But I checked out the track and I loved it,
and I wrote you this big sexy hook.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
I think you're gonna really dig. Oh wow, that's great.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
So should we just lay it down?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Let's get to it.

Speaker 4 (00:08):
From News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three w
bet I don't know they were jammies and yodas on them.
This is Good Morning Beatty with Bo Thompson and Beth Troutcot.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Naked and prop day Mate, what's it him?

Speaker 5 (00:35):
My stu man, ma's got me in shoveling. I said,
so much again to the day. You don't if it's
turn yesterday? And I could see she was a fander.
She said, well anyway, just died her subject. James, it's

(01:00):
another social cash or scene school moful man, I fucking
my mama said, think you cost me a game?

Speaker 6 (01:14):
No fen time.

Speaker 7 (01:16):
I don't want somepoty tune.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
I guess is that a fine one?

Speaker 7 (01:22):
Soon we bit our lips.

Speaker 8 (01:34):
She looks out the window.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Nothing like a little John Mayer in pouring rain. I
played a quick start off your Thursday.

Speaker 9 (01:43):
Not that I alternate times where we walk here and
say today I'm gonna drive into work. I'm not gonna
say anything. Stupid and we have a zero percent success
rate between the two of us.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
Having said that, so this.

Speaker 10 (01:53):
Is a bit of a theme song for us.

Speaker 11 (01:57):
Fact that's our line. Thanks for playing try again, Okay,
Tod the.

Speaker 10 (02:10):
Wet Crocket tickets.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
You know back to that from yesterday that that whole
segment about Toad the wet Sprocket completely was Bernie saying,
who is Toad the wet Sprocket? And and we had
no idea that our program director had sent an email
telling us we had towed the wet Sprocket tickets to
give away.

Speaker 11 (02:28):
Yeah, we became surprised on the air at.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
The end of the segment, like, oh, that's why you
said that I broke the news you did.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
What's happening right now?

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Bernie News Network had an expletive on the beginning of
who is Toad the Wetsprocket? Who is Andre the Giant?

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Who is this?

Speaker 2 (02:44):
So we have a Toad the wet Sprocket tickets and
here we.

Speaker 11 (02:47):
Go, This isn't what I thought it was. Oh it is?
What is this starting now? And then it stops? Yes,
that's one more thing, great hard.

Speaker 10 (02:55):
He says, they got to talk again. But he does
like we.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Do one moment.

Speaker 8 (03:03):
I do like that.

Speaker 11 (03:04):
This should be our theme song, Jim Zack. We every
every day we do we say to each other. Like
I came in today, Jim, I was telling myself, was
giving myself a pep talk. I'm not going to say anything, damn.

Speaker 10 (03:15):
So you have normal conversations.

Speaker 11 (03:16):
Normal, I'm going to be normal. Never happens, I think,
because this is our normal. What would be the fun
toad the wet sprocket normal.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
So if you're driving in today, you're gonna notice. I
was telling Mark Harrison as I stopped in, I said,
you know, there have been days when we had hurricanes
coming and we were all bracing for really bad weather.
That's the hardest I've ever seen it rain as I
was coming in. Now we all come in in different directions,
so you didn't get it. I don't think quite as
badly as I did, but I know Zoap was talking

(03:50):
about it.

Speaker 10 (03:51):
It was really bad.

Speaker 9 (03:52):
I mean it was like what those things like, oh
it was raining again today, and like both said as
he was driving from a different part of times, I'm
driving up from South Park area.

Speaker 10 (04:00):
This is like maybe the hardest rain of our hess.

Speaker 9 (04:02):
I walked into Mark and boomer that in the newsroom,
and then five minutes later Bult walks in.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
That was the hardest rate I ever.

Speaker 9 (04:07):
It was just like the amount in a short period
of time. I think probably because we've had so much
rain recently that the ground just can't hold it.

Speaker 10 (04:13):
It's like it's flooding. Well, so yeah, seriously, be careful.
There's a lot of flooding areas.

Speaker 9 (04:17):
Yes, of course, people drive the way they drive and
you know who you are out there, like you acted
like this's a sunny day in eighty degrees out there.

Speaker 11 (04:23):
Well, there were I mean so much standing water, so
much standing water on the roadways. But I will tell
you that I got on to seventy seven and people
were driving thirty I think I was going at the
fastest thirty eight miles an hour. And there is something
that feels a little frustrating about that, because you start
to feel like that's starting to get dangerous because people

(04:44):
are coming up behind you going fifty five miles an hour,
and then they're suddenly do.

Speaker 9 (04:48):
You mean white pickup truck guy? It's always white pickup
truck guy. Dude drives just like it's Daytona beach and
it's seventy five degrees out and his tires are just
so big. You're just in his way right because he
has not be tied, and he splashes.

Speaker 10 (05:01):
You as he drives by, and you can't see even more.

Speaker 11 (05:02):
Well, that what scares me the most. And this is this,
This is kind of like old lady drive with white
knuckle bath. This is that's this version of me. Trucks,
not not just pick up trucks, but eighteen wheelers blowing
all of their their their their rain on you off
of their truck. I get so scared. I can't see,

(05:23):
so I have to try to and then you get
caught in their wind, you know, and so you're like
blowing around and and and their back flow what is
it called their back draft?

Speaker 4 (05:32):
Well?

Speaker 2 (05:32):
And and at what point do you And is it
is it okay to turn on your hazard lights during that?

Speaker 11 (05:38):
They say, no, that's what I alway.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
That's what I think of. But I'll tell you today,
every single car I passed was was doing the hazard
light thing. And and and again, like I said, I
don't ever remember it raining that hard when I was
coming in. Now as you listen, uh, it may let
up in certain areas. But the whole the bottom line
is is even if it stops raining for the next
little bit, uh, the ponding water around this around the

(06:00):
city is going to be pretty serious. So and and
and as Beth was saying, as she and look, we've
already reached out to Ray stage. He's going to join
us in our next segment because there's a lot at
work with the weather right now. There's the saturation of
the ground because August has been a river.

Speaker 11 (06:13):
Yeah, it's just soupy. My backyard can't handle anymore. My
poor little chihuahua. She was like swimming out into the
backyard today to tinkle.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
If you had taken your chihuahua out like on Fourth
Street down near down near the hospital, uh me swimming
be swimming, Yeah, which would be weird for you to
take her all the way down there. Just hypothetic. And
here's the other thing. What is going to be Hurricane Aaron.
I heard Nick talking about this a little bit earlier,
and we're still waiting to see. Uh it's a wait

(06:44):
and see thing about how close it gets to the
North Carolina coast. It does not look like it's going
to be a huge factor. But then again, we're at
that point where you still can't say for sure, so
we'll tell you what we know. Or Ray will coming
up in just a few minutes. So all the weather
information to start your Thursday mornings.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
This is good morning, beauty.

Speaker 7 (07:11):
Well. I love the rainy night. I love the rain.
I love to use the mound, watch the lighting when
it lights up.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
This guy just lean into it, you know, I mean
at this point, got to right.

Speaker 12 (07:26):
I love the rain in night.

Speaker 7 (07:30):
I love to feel rain on my face, past.

Speaker 13 (07:33):
The rain on Monday.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
What this really is is in my waiting song well
race stage. It calls right now, shallows washed.

Speaker 7 (07:42):
All night, chest wave.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
I'll wake up to it.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Shun it because I love just like magic.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
Yeah, I love the bat signal.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
It is the bat signal. And I know it's technically morning,
but work with me here. Let's go to the WBT
hotline right now and welcome in meteorologist Ray Stagic. Good morning, Ray,
good morning. I think well I have to tell you
I was telling the folks here. You know, there have

(08:15):
been mornings when we've been knowing that we'd be talking
about a hurricane all day, when you know, maybe a
hurricane was coming inland we've had big time weather warnings
and you know, today maybe the hardest I've ever seen
it rain on my commute in now. My commute is
not the same as everybody in this room or everybody listening,
but hey, in parts of the Charlotte listening area, man,

(08:37):
it is it is coming down again.

Speaker 14 (08:40):
Yeah, coming down hard. Let's go most of central east,
central Mecklenburg County and pushing out off toward the east
and southeast and the Union County are raining hard around
Unionville right now and also into that so yeah, luckily
it's moving. The problem is is that there's more modern
to eavy rain showers back in through York and Union

(09:01):
Counties to our southwest too, so more rain to go
here this morning. And you know, it's been a little
bit different. So maybe that's why, you know, bo, everybody's thinking, like, well,
in the summertime, normally you get this stuff in the afternoon,
but the past few mornings this week, it's been like
we've had these morning things too. We're just kind of
stuck in that pattern where we get this shot in

(09:24):
the morning, we get some heavy rain. There's even been
some advisories, no advisors right now for flooding, but we
may have some ponding of the water on the roadways
and obviously some slow travel. But you know, usually this
is what we see in the second part of the day.
But we've been seeing, as I mentioned, the rain in
the morning and you get a little bit of a break,
and then you de stabilize again and you get it
in the afternoon. It's just been kind of one of

(09:45):
those rides that we've been on, just kind of latherage
repeat each day.

Speaker 11 (09:48):
Now, Ray, here's one of the things that I was
talking about when I came in. Because we have seen
so much rain, we are seeing a ton of puddling
because the ground is just so saturated from all of this,
and on top of it, this is what I was
nervous about, and one of the reasons I was excited
really to talk to you this morning, is this hurricane
that's off the coast. We've got aaron making its way

(10:11):
toward the East coast. Certainly, we're days away from knowing
whether or not it's going to have an impact on
the East Coast itself, but if it does, if it
changes directions, we are in a scenario where we have
so much ground saturation it could be a really problematic thing.

Speaker 14 (10:28):
Yeah, and you know, luckily, I bet that's least likely scenario, right,
but we certainly don't want to rule it out. At
this point, all the guidance has taken it off the
east coast at least most of the impact. European is
the closest to the coast, where in the worst case scenario,
maybe the outer banks and some of the coastal areas
get brushed by maybe some of the outer rain bands.

(10:51):
But I mean, that's pure what I would say guessing
right now, because even by Tuesday of next week, we're
just north of twenty five North Ladder, which basically is
east of South Florida. So there's still the ways to
go and a lot of forecasting, a lot of guide
and still look at them. We had another trend last
night from the European model, did jog it further toward

(11:13):
the west, but still doesn't even bring the center anywhere
close to coming on shore on the East coast. So
that's a long way of saying best that looks like
the least likely scenario. But speaking of the rain that
we've had so far, remember this is just a point
at the airport over six inches, so far this month,
four inches above the average is how we're running, but

(11:33):
believe it or not, for the year, still a deficit
of zero point eighty five inches. So we've gotten it
all at once, and a lot of it's coming so
far in the first fourteen or thirteen plus days of
this month.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
And then the rain, you know, dissipates. But it's muggy
as I'll get out. I mean, and I saw a
couple of reports earlier this week that maybe in this
part of the country the muggiest it's ever been this
time of year.

Speaker 14 (11:57):
Is that the on target, you know, I think that's
really more perception. I feel the same way. You know.
I don't know how we track due point data or
the mugginess, but I felt the same way. I'm like,
you know what, I felt humidity before, But this just
seems to be different. I mean, there's just been a
different kind of feel to it. So you might have

(12:18):
a good point there. This has probably been, if not
the muggiest that we've been, and it's certainly in terms
of the number of days or the amount of days
we've had this summer where it's just been like it
just seems it just seems a little odd.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
So is there any relief in sight for that cycle?
You said, you know, lather rents repeat. Are we about
to repeat again tomorrow or even later today?

Speaker 14 (12:42):
Yeah, I think we will. They're going to be very humid.
If there are what I'm gonna call noticeable changes coming,
I think it's longer range. End of next week maybe
and into that following week. I mean, but we're starting
to get toward now the end of August and into September,
where you would probably expect that. But you know, a
bunch of relief this week. I really don't see days

(13:03):
and days of dry weather. I think after today tomorrow
we may see a little bit less and more more
afternoon kind of pop up stuff start coming into the weekend,
which is good news for the weekend. But we will
certainly keep an eye on next week what Aaron's going
to be doing, certainly intentifying and becoming a major hurricane.
So I will still be talking about it, probably even

(13:23):
next week at this time, which it may finally be
at our latitude, which is well off to the east
of us, thank goodness, but certainly could be some coastal impacts,
you know.

Speaker 11 (13:32):
One of the positivest we're gonna talk some positives. One
of the positives of all of this humidity. My skin
is like plump and juicy. It's like full of moisture hair.
Their hair looks awful.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
That is so not what I thought you were going
to say. I thought you were going to say. You know,
many years you get to this point in the summer
and everybody's yard looks like a dust bowl. I tell
you one thing. Everybody's got green grass right now.

Speaker 11 (13:54):
Everybody has green grass. Everyone's skin is highly saturated and moisturized.
So people in their forties, in fifties, sixties, who deal
with dry skin, they're loving this weather.

Speaker 14 (14:03):
Yeah, it's I hate there's something for everybody. Right, But
it's too hot, too humid, people like it, people don't.
If it's too cold, people like it, people don't like
I said, just very humid. And you know you're dealing
with it. I'm getting tired of cutting the grass every
two days, and like button, that's what you gotta do.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
I want to see now. I know what Beth was
thinking when you said, rinse, lather, repeat. You know, it's
it's a you know, a skin regimen.

Speaker 15 (14:26):
My face, it's my face washing, all right, Ray, Thank you, sir,
we appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (14:40):
You see you feel so empty.

Speaker 7 (14:45):
House just enough.

Speaker 8 (14:52):
And no as.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
They'll perform this song when they go.

Speaker 11 (14:57):
Oh, dear God, I hope.

Speaker 10 (14:59):
So it's the news quays already.

Speaker 11 (15:02):
This is this is a preemptive predictions.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
So kiss, hang on, what k.

Speaker 7 (15:14):
What can.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
The band kiss? Whereas Mike Tyson says, kiss, Oh, are's
going to be that tackleed Beth nominees or inductees?

Speaker 10 (15:27):
I said that to read the work.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
He said that multiple times.

Speaker 11 (15:30):
Oh I know, I know, I just wouldn't when you
started on the air. It really tickled.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
There's the T shirt is the best? Yeah, if you
if you don't know, look up Mike Tyson and kiss
the band anyway? Kiss one of the do we call
them inductees nominees? I don't know, but there that's the word.
Honorees for the Kennedy Center honors President Trump making the

(15:55):
announcement yesterday.

Speaker 16 (15:56):
I've been asked to host. I'm the President of the
United States. Are you fools asking me to do that? Sir,
you'll get much higher ratings. I said, I don't care.
I'm President of the United said I won't do it.
They said please, and then Susie.

Speaker 17 (16:14):
Well said to me, start rock at our house. I said, Okay, Susie,
I'll do it. That's the power she's got. But I
just so, I have agreed to host. Do you believe
what I have to do? And I didn't want to
do it. Okay, they're going to say who insisted? I
did not insist. But I think it will be quite successful. Actually,
it's been a long time. I used to host the

(16:35):
Apprentice finales and we did rather well with that.

Speaker 16 (16:38):
So I think we're going to do very well because
we have some great honorees, some really great ones. Since
nineteen seventy eight, the Kennedy Center Honors have been among
the most prestigious awards in the performing arts.

Speaker 8 (16:50):
I wanted one.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
I was never able to get one this year. It's true.

Speaker 16 (16:54):
Actually I would have taken it if they would have
called me. I waited and waited and waited, and I said,
I'll become chairman. I'll give myself an honor. Maybe I'm
gonna honor next year, will honor Trump?

Speaker 2 (17:06):
Okay, this year they're gonna honor, Yes, Gloria Gaynor, Kiss,
George Strait, Sylvester Stallone, and Michael Crawford.

Speaker 13 (17:21):
I love.

Speaker 11 (17:22):
I don't know if you guys watch the Kennedy Center
Honors when they do this one of my favorites, one
of my favorite performances. When they honor the people who
are getting the award, they have other artists come out
and perform some of their greatest hits. When Cher received
her Kennedy Center Honor, Adam Lambert came out and saying, believe,

(17:44):
holy moly, was it spectacular. So to that end, I
wonder who's going to come out and perform kiss for
kiss and will they paint their faces?

Speaker 2 (17:56):
That's a hard one to do, right, I mean, I
guess uh.

Speaker 11 (18:02):
Do you know what I would love is if John
Mayer came out and sang Beth.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
What if it's just and then from then on that
would be the song that you wake up to every day.

Speaker 7 (18:12):
Every day.

Speaker 11 (18:12):
I would wake up to John Mayer's version of Beth.
That would be spectacle. John Mayor or or hoo's your
singing your death?

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Who's a George Straight and who.

Speaker 11 (18:28):
Can do like? Who's gonna cover and honor George Straight?
Maybe maybe Blake Shelton, Maybe Blake Shelton Brown.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
I feel like George Strait's a lot easier than kiss.
This is just so just there's only one kiss.

Speaker 11 (18:43):
It's hard to it's hard to imitate. Paul Stanley and
Gene Simmons. Yeah, like they're they're their own thing.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Michael Crawford, did you know who that was? Until yesterday?

Speaker 11 (18:56):
I'm not sure that I did.

Speaker 10 (18:57):
It was exactly what I knew who that was? Who
is Michael Craft?

Speaker 2 (19:00):
I'm gonna read you. I can't believe Beth doesn't know, it,
says Michael Crawford, professionally known as Michael Crawford.

Speaker 11 (19:07):
Wait, was he in Fan of the Opera?

Speaker 2 (19:09):
It says he's an English actor, comedian, and singer, best
known for playing the hapless Frank Spencer in the sitcom
Some Mothers Do Avam and Hello Dolly. Oh, Well, of
course I love it.

Speaker 11 (19:20):
But it was like I'm surprised but doesn't know that.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
But it sounds like a bit of a big deal
in the in the.

Speaker 11 (19:27):
In the world, the Hello Dolly World. I've never seen
the show Hello Dolly. Isn't that one of the show
that I have not have not seen?

Speaker 2 (19:37):
So none of us will challenge you on what's in it.

Speaker 11 (19:40):
I just know the song, well, Hello Dolly. The the
other one that's I think it'd be fun to watch
is how they honor Sylvester Sallone, you know with the
because when you think about Rocky I don't know why,
but I think of Rocky three, and you know, you
think about the American flag shorts, and I would imagine
I mean Donald Trump. In his announcement yesterday, he is

(20:00):
that he appointed himself as the chairman of the board
of the Kennedy Center. And he said in that announcement
yesterday when they named the honorees, that he had ninety
eight percent of the choices went through him, So he
had he had a hand in everyone who was chosen
to receive one of these honors.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
I'm glad you said that.

Speaker 18 (20:18):
What how involved were you in the selection process of
these honorees.

Speaker 16 (20:23):
I would say I was about ninety eight percent involved.

Speaker 8 (20:28):
No, they all went through me.

Speaker 10 (20:29):
They came over Rick and Sergio and everybody.

Speaker 8 (20:32):
They said, I.

Speaker 16 (20:33):
Turned down plenty I took. I had a couple of wolsters. No,
we have great people. This is very different than it
used to be, very different. These are great people. And
I don't have any idea the Republic accause they want
people that the Kennedy Center has everything. Look at the

(20:56):
Academy Awards against lousy ratings down there.

Speaker 14 (20:58):
You know.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
So he had about ninety eight percent involvement, which means
all of it.

Speaker 9 (21:03):
If you told me that was the guy from Saturday
Night Live, I would have said, that's him, Like, is
he like actually doing some of this stuff because Trump
doesn't have time? That guy making the rounds is like,
he'll stand in.

Speaker 11 (21:16):
He showed up and do an impersonation of Trumpet at
Trump evince. This is going to be a fascinating show.
I love watching the Kennedy Honors and now for the
first time, a president will be the MC of the
Center of the Kennedy Center Honors. I mean presidents are
usually there, they're in a.

Speaker 9 (21:34):
Seat in about He's going to be there at this point,
and he's he's gonna he's probably picked the menu.

Speaker 11 (21:39):
Yeah, he's he's very involved everything.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Bring in Drago and they can recreate you know, the
training montage and yes, Russia versus America. I mean it
kind of fits in with the other storyline going on
right now.

Speaker 9 (21:53):
If he dies, he dies, bringing clubber Lang.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
You will lose.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
They can do that. Mister T still around, can't bring
in thunderlips. Obviously I paid a tool.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
I think that's what they should do. And then you know,
get Trump on the mountaintop and you know, recreate, recreate
the scene and maybe kiss and do the background vocals.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
And it'll.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
It'll sound like this.

Speaker 6 (22:17):
Well, Frank, you're still going to be honored, or uncle
PAULI here it is?

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Where you any.

Speaker 17 (22:58):
There?

Speaker 7 (22:58):
You go?

Speaker 11 (23:00):
Doesn't it just hit you in all the right places?

Speaker 17 (23:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (23:04):
We'll right here. This is so amazing. Chaer was crying.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Adam Lambert at the Kennedy Center honors a few years
ago when they what can I be honored? I keep
wanting to say induct or nominate, but this is basically
you just get selected.

Speaker 11 (23:28):
Yeah, and you get that the medal with the rainbow,
the rainbow neck.

Speaker 8 (23:34):
What is it?

Speaker 11 (23:34):
What is it that goes around? It's a metal But
the new.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Is our new segment called we can't figure out what
we're talking about? What's that word?

Speaker 7 (23:44):
Five?

Speaker 8 (23:44):
I love it? Ted?

Speaker 10 (23:45):
What are we trying to say?

Speaker 2 (23:46):
So? Something happened. I observed something over the weekend that
I'm curious, how long has it been since you guys
saw this happen out in the wild?

Speaker 11 (23:55):
Oh goodness, Oh, I'm scared.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
I was at a grocery store. The line was line.
I wasn't in a hurry, so it was no big deal.
But if I had been in a hurry, I'm sure
it would have gotten me more heated. But I'm waiting
in line, and there's like two people ahead of me,
and they're checking out. And this is at a place
that doesn't have the self checkout kiosk. Otherwise this wouldn't
have happened. But it's at a place that doesn't have this.
I'm not gonna say where it was, but were.

Speaker 11 (24:17):
You getting pretzel buns?

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Actually?

Speaker 11 (24:19):
Yes, I have an idea about where you were.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
I actually was, and I just get you just gave
me away. Wow, okay, fine, I was at the fresh market. Knows,
I did it totally.

Speaker 11 (24:29):
Just I just.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
Called my bluff. But it's not that's not that's not
the important important. Actually, I wondered as it was happening,
do other places even allow this anymore? But the lady
in front of me checking out stop to write a
check for her groceries.

Speaker 11 (24:44):
I haven't seen that in so long.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
And she stopped, and there's that little thing beside the
the you know the little table, the Kia ill table
and table, and that's what that's still for. Yeah, And
so she gets out and not only does she get
out her checkbook, she writes the whole check like the
day and and all that stuff and fills it all in.
And then after she hands the guy that did the check,
and he looked at it. The guy who was the

(25:07):
cashier kind of looked at it like it was a
strange artifact.

Speaker 11 (25:09):
He probably had no idea what it was.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Well, there was obviously a protocol, but he hadn't done
it in so long that he had to sort of
remind himself how to hang on a second, let me
make sure I chronicle this and and whatever. But then
then she pulled out her register and she had to
enter it in her register and then roll right there
before she was willing to leave and let the next
person go. And I thought to myself, this is the

(25:31):
way everyone used to do it, Yes, and and it's
such a relic now it's it's now as odd as
it would be. Just and this happens every once in
a while. If you go to like a gas station
and you go inside to the to the counter and
their eight that their card system is down, so that
they pulled had to pull out the little carbon thing
because they still have those like the worst case scenario.

(25:53):
They can they can, but a lot of cards don't
have the imprint anymore. So that's kind of moot.

Speaker 11 (25:57):
Right they That has not happened to me in a
long long time, that they brought out the carbon thing.
But when that used to happen at grocery stores, the
checks my mom. I loved going to the grocery store
with my mom and she would stand there with a
little check book on the table and write the check.
I feel like, and maybe it's just me, I feel
like all of the registers were open as well, so
you didn't have long lines because there were so many

(26:19):
cashiers to help. And before I used to when I
was a kid, I used to play grocery store cashier
because I thought our cashier at our food Life of
food Town, actually back in the day, it was before
they had scanners and they would have to each each
cashier would have to manually type in the number that

(26:39):
went along with whatever the scan because there were no
scan codes. It was just like a number that went
along with the price. And I was mesmerized by our
cashier because she typed so fast, and she didn't have
to look at anything. She knew if I had a candilope,
she knew what the number was for cantilope, or she
knew what the number was for chocolate tip cookies, or
she knew what milk was. And she typed so fast

(27:00):
with her little right hand while she was putting stuff
in the bag with her left hand. I thought she
was the coolest human in the entire world. And then
my mom would stand there and write her little check
and the whole process probably faster than what it is
now with the scanning, because half the time the number
doesn't scan or it doesn't do something right.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
Or I'm telling you, this lady was like I said,
She filled out the check and then she proceeded to
enter it into her register and all of that, and
she balanced her check pretty much.

Speaker 11 (27:29):
Man I loved doing that. Do you remember back in
the day when you got your first check book, when
you were first on your own, And I would balance
the checkbook and put everything in the register and do
the math and then make sure that it and then
I'd call the bank and see what the balance was
and see if it matched. Man, I loved it.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
The greatest thing ever was when first of all, the
debit card came along, and then the online checks, and
every once in a while I'll on my phone, you know,
I'll check online to see make sure everything is showing
up the way it's supposed to. But this idea, I mean,
it was like there was a everybody in line was
watching a museum exhibit because everybody was.

Speaker 11 (28:02):
Like, what it's like, performance hurts?

Speaker 2 (28:04):
People still do this?

Speaker 3 (28:05):
So did you end up getting your pretzel buns?

Speaker 2 (28:07):
I did, but I did not pay by check. Well
did they finally take the check?

Speaker 4 (28:10):
They did?

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Oh, okay, yeah, they took the check. But as I
was saying, you weren't with us yet, but they kind
of the person the cashier looked at it like not
like it was a foreign object, but like it's been
so long since I did this, I've got to make
sure I do this right. And they put.

Speaker 11 (28:24):
A stamp on the back of it, right, They stamp it,
and then the cashier signs it. I loved that whole process.
I missed the I missed the back.

Speaker 14 (28:32):
In the day.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
Do you still write checks, Beth.

Speaker 11 (28:34):
I do every now and again, I don't use them
as much I don't do it at stores, but I
will sometimes mail a bill with a check.

Speaker 10 (28:41):
I don't even think I have any check.

Speaker 9 (28:43):
We have certain bills that, like South Carolina taxes far
our place down there, they will only take a check,
which is weird as a state. You think they'd have
more advanced technology. And our contractor who's doing our housework
only takes checks. So like, there's a thousand different digital
forms of doing this, but we have to go find
a checkbook.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
We find the checkbook, and somewhere in Charlotte right now,
there's a kid going, mom, what's a checkbook? What is that?
That's why we're here solving the world's problem.

Speaker 13 (29:08):
Dal all right, I think okay, gang appreciate it. I'm
getting into a little heavier traffic here, but I appreciate
you guys. You make my morning better every day.

Speaker 8 (29:19):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Thank you very much, Al, thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (29:22):
You can call us bow and Dad. This is good
morning beat.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
We just had somebody on the text line seven oh
four five seven eleven ten, driven by Liberty View at
GMC says, hey, that was great, the share and the
Adam Lambert, but there's something else that you need to
know about from the former Kennedy Center Honors, so I
think I can oblige here.

Speaker 11 (29:45):
This is for you, Sean.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
This is Alison Kraus, Sean Colvin and Jerry Douglas tribute
to Paul Simon playing the Boxer.

Speaker 11 (30:11):
The Boxer. It's a bluegrass version of the Boxer.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
Wonderful though.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
So there you go Kennedy Center Honors. We mentioned last
hour that George Strait, Sylvester Stallone, Gloria Gaynor, and Michael
Crawford and Kiss all going to be honored at the
President Trump version upcoming and he's going to host the
whole thing.

Speaker 11 (30:59):
And we did learn Michael Crawford is, in fact he was,
in fact in Phantom of the Opera on Broadway. So
I hope when they do his tribute, would it be
cool to have a rock band come out and sing
the theme song, the Phantom of the Opera song.

Speaker 10 (31:13):
That'd be cool, the bluegrass version of it.

Speaker 11 (31:15):
We're blue cross version of it.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
I want to get back to something here and talk
a little bit further. We're talking about all the rain
coming down today, and it has been a heavy rain
kind of morning and still coming down in much of
the area. So be careful out there. It's one thing
to go out and be in the elements. It's another
thing to wake up and be told you can't drink
the water, which is the story Mark Harrison has been covering,

(31:36):
not in Charlotte, but very close to Charlotte.

Speaker 19 (31:39):
Mark, Yeah, the city of Monroe because they found a
little bit of E. Coli they're calling it a trace
amount of E. Coali and a small section of the
water system near the Monroe Fire Department on Old Charlotte Highway.
They flushed it out, notified the state, but as a precaution,
they're telling everybody who lives in the city limits of Monroe, Hey,

(31:59):
you got to boil your water before you brush or
drink it or give it to your pets. And they
also we got a press release just after midnight that
said the restaurants in the city of Monroe would have
to close this morning. Well, I don't know that that's happening.
In our newscast, we talked to Jud's restaurant just a
few minutes ago and they were like, we haven't heard

(32:20):
from the health department.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Zon until we do, we're open. And when something like
this happens, what do you do? You can't drink the
water at home, so you go out and try to
find a place where you can drink the water. Yeah, exactly,
if the restaurants are being compromised, that's and not only that,
you're seeing waterfall all around you, but you can't drink it.

Speaker 19 (32:37):
That's exactly right. So, I mean this kind of thing
happens from time to time. The city is downplaying it
as just a very small section and they don't think
there's a big deal. But it's precaution to boil your water.
I mean, certainly you don't want an E. Coli infection,
And they're hoping, I suppose to get this cleared up
by mid morning, but so far the town's not talking

(32:58):
to us. We've left a bunch of me. One other
thing that is interesting is the schools in Union County.
Teachers have started setting up their classrooms. They were told
stay home today because of the water situation until we
hear back from you. So that's throwing the school teachers
a little behind and getting ready for going back to school.

Speaker 11 (33:19):
Because if you think about the drinking water, you could
you certainly don't want to drink the water, so you
could go to bottled water, But think about washing your hands.
You don't want to wash your hands with E coli.

Speaker 19 (33:27):
That's exactly right. So it's a little bit of a
tricky situation. And of course boiling the water. I don't
know if you've been through boil water orders before. It's
kind of a pain, but you boil it for sixty
seconds and then you let it cool down and then
you brush your teeth.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Don't brush your teeth with boiling water. Just word of
the wires. It's rather painful. Yeah, yeah, but I mean
bottled water at a premium today, at least for a
little stretch here in Monroe. So again not in Greater Charlotte,
but close to us in Monroe A. You can't drink
the water this morning as you're waking up in many
parts of that area. So we'll have more as the

(34:01):
morning goes along. But that is one of those stories
that broke late yesterday. And thank you Mark, Yes, sir, Hey, thanks.

Speaker 14 (34:07):
Thinking my call, and you have a great show. Boom
be thank good morning Beating Squared.

Speaker 4 (34:11):
Hey.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
I was going to ask you, do you think we
do a good job after you've drink or before you drink?

Speaker 20 (34:15):
Well, I actually think you'll do a good job before
you drive.

Speaker 11 (34:19):
Before we drink.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
You have done a good job.

Speaker 20 (34:24):
I love listening to you guys, and I love eleven Tea,
and I think it's a great state.

Speaker 7 (34:29):
Keep up the great work.

Speaker 14 (34:30):
Go elevent ten.

Speaker 4 (34:31):
Had ninety nine three wt this mill of time. This
is good morning. Beat Well.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
Speaking of drinking, interesting numbers just release. Americans self reported
drinking down to fifty four percent after consecutive declines. The
percentage of US adults who say they consume alcohol has
fallen to fifty four percent, the lowest by one percentage

(35:03):
point in gallops ninety year history.

Speaker 11 (35:07):
Ninety years the lowest.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
I have not helped that number, but the numbers here.
Brief belief that moderate drinking is bad for your health
has contributed to this. Drinkers report drinking less and less frequently,
so even people who are not just cutting it off
cold turkey are reporting a decline here.

Speaker 11 (35:30):
Yeah, the average now is about two point eight drinks
per week, which is way down. And like bo was saying,
it's because people have this overall, and this is the
first time in Gallup's history that the majority view is
that alcohol, even moderate alcohol consumption, is bad for your
overall health, and that contributes a great deal to this

(35:55):
huge decline that we're seeing. And the decline is high
among young people as well. This younger generation not drinking
as much as young generation young generations were previously.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
And is it just me or are there more? Like
you know, for a while, like every soft drink or
sports drink had to have a zero.

Speaker 11 (36:13):
Version, you know, like any of the zero versions.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
See I drink them all the time. I'm drinking one
right now. But I mean, it's obviously a huge, huge industry,
the zero I mean I even saw one the other day.
It's like a Hershey bar zero. How can that be
any good?

Speaker 11 (36:28):
Okay, there's a zero bar. There's a zero I.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
Know, but that's like that's old.

Speaker 10 (36:34):
That's just a name though, right.

Speaker 11 (36:35):
Right, But it's not a zero sugar. I don't know
why it's called. I think it was like sub zero
because it's white. It's white chocolate, so it kind of
looks like an iceberg maybe.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
But that's not like those have been around for years?

Speaker 11 (36:43):
Yeah, did they still make them? I used to love
those as that was my guests.

Speaker 10 (36:47):
Next to the zag nuts.

Speaker 11 (36:50):
The expiration Dave is like nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
Because no one's brought them right under the bit of honey.

Speaker 11 (36:55):
Now the zero versions of like Doctor Pepper and of PEPSI,
those are okay. The zero versions of like Gator Ray.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
See I like the GATORA. I really like the Gatoray.
But what I was getting at is is the zero
thing became such a big industry and now I feel
like every beer has a non alcoholic version. Get Us
even has one now yeah, and some of them are
called zero, like I saw one the other day's Budweiser

(37:22):
or michel over some of the zero so now that
stands for no alcohol And I feel like when when
we were coming up, I remember when Cores came out
with one called Corus Cutter because I remember the ads,
and then what was it o'doule's was famously the non alcoholic.
But now like every one of them, and I'm thinking,
just just as you saw the rise of the zero

(37:44):
drinks and then came all of the hard seltzers, because
every brand has one of those, now it's like a
whole section of that they've had to add. But now
it's you see more and more beers that are non alcoholic,
and I feel like, uh, this maybe goes in life
with what these stats say. Because if this is true,
and this many people are cutting back or maybe even

(38:07):
quitting it all together, then that makes sense.

Speaker 11 (38:09):
Well, an alcohol consumption changes how you feel as you age.
Remember when you were young, you could have a couple
of beers and then still get up the next morning
and go take a test or something. You know, once
you reach drinking age, and now in my late forties,
I might have one cocktail and I'll still feel it
three days later. My body doesn't process at the same

(38:31):
and so I would imagine a lot of the people
surveyed might be older and are now thinking like, look,
it's just not worth it. It's not worth feeling bad
to me. But here's the other thing on the rise.
As people are deciding well, yes, but as people are
deciding not to drink alcohol, there are all of these
new kind of adaptogens that they're putting into these different

(38:52):
There's a whole website called Curious Elixirs, and it's a
kind of a play on different cocktails, like an old
Fashion or a gin and tonic even but it doesn't
have any alcohol, but it has adaptagens in it, which
like adaptogenic mushrooms, and they say that it'll make you
feel calm or not as socially anxious, the way that

(39:13):
a lot of people drink socially because they have social anxiety.
At least that's what a lot of people claim. And
they say that these curious elixirs or these adaptogenic type
drinks are the new thing. And we had a story
just the other day right here on this show about
a drink that you can get at a gas station
called the Feel Free Tonic, and it has adaptogens in it.

(39:34):
It has something called noble kava root and leaf kreatom,
and it's creating an addiction similar to what but it
has a it has an impact on your brain. And
they're saying that people are getting addicted to these things
in the same ways that they are to drugs and alcohol.

(39:55):
So people are coming up with different ways to drink
not alcohol, but we're not necessarily doing a good job of.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
It makes me wonder if in ten years, drinking will
be the way smoking is now, because you think about
when we were coming up smoking, they had ashtrays in
every they had smoked smoking sections, cars trays and every
airplane cars came with ashtrays in them in lighters. And
now you think about the way people treat smoking, not

(40:24):
that people don't do it, but it's an outlier now
and in a way that in the in the eighties
you would never have seen coming. And I wonder if
if a casual drinking will I tend to say no
because I still think that they're well, I gotta shut
down bars. But I do wonder if this is gonna
in ten years, how will we look.

Speaker 11 (40:43):
Well, if you look at most menus at restaurants now,
every most restaurants have a mocktail section on their menu.
So it's not just you get a coke or a sprite.
There are mocktails that are designed to taste like your
face cocktail but without any alcohol.

Speaker 3 (41:02):
And still the same price.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
And there's a section of those menus that has not
one non alcoholic beer, but you have a choice.

Speaker 11 (41:08):
Yeah, you have five of them.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
Yeah, so that's that was not the case a decade ago.
Get the water, it's free. Yeah, but drinking is expensive.

Speaker 9 (41:17):
You go to a restaurant, I mean we all know
they probably at least double the price of a glass
of wine or a cocktail, and what it would be
in the store.

Speaker 10 (41:24):
Like you, I always joke like it.

Speaker 9 (41:26):
You buy a glass of wine at certain restaurants. You
could buy a whole bottle of that same wine at
a grocery store or it's a wine shop or something like that.

Speaker 11 (41:33):
And isn't it funny when you see wine menus and
you're like, oh, this glass is only ten dollars, and
then you're really thinking about it, and you could go
get a bottle of cupcake for eight ninety nine. And
I just got a glass for ten dollars, and for
whatever reason, they've trained me to think that that's reasonable.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
I could get hammered for ten dollars. Guys, what is this?

Speaker 2 (41:52):
But again you talk about go have some water. Then
on the flip side, the industry of hard selt or
water is just massive right now.

Speaker 4 (42:02):
Yah.

Speaker 11 (42:02):
When you can get sparkling water at most restaurants now,
they'll they'll come to your table and they say, do
you want still or sparkling?

Speaker 2 (42:09):
I'll have the water fountain?

Speaker 11 (42:10):
And I was like could I'm I bought my own.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
Shine seven thirty seven on WBT, as I expected, the
text line is hopping driven by a liberty view at GMC.
Gary says thank you. I was reading our response to Gary.

Speaker 11 (42:37):
Gary says, Gary says, thank you for connecting.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
With what a well written. Yes, that's my writing, Gary says,
love the show. I listened every day. I have cut
back on my drinking as well. I now only drink
on days that end.

Speaker 3 (42:49):
And why.

Speaker 11 (42:52):
This is in response to the new Gallup poll that
says that drinking alcoholic beverages has hit a ninety year low,
that only fifty four percent of Americans who were pulled
actually drink alcoholic beverages. And like Bo said, it is
just absolutely blowing up our text line. This is from
Christine she in fact she I love this. Christine always
says it's piano. Christine, she said, I firmly believe that

(43:15):
alcohol reduction is partly because of the use of, more
use and more availability of things that are naturally calming,
things like weed, gummies, vapes. Vaping is a huge gin
alpha thing, is it. I guess I do see a
lot of vaping.

Speaker 10 (43:31):
Oh yeah, oh vaping, Yeah yeah.

Speaker 11 (43:34):
Well, and I feel like CBD that's not THHC, it's
the it's the thing that's taken from the marijuana plant
that doesn't have THHC in it, but it has like
calling effects. I feel like CBD dispensaries are everywhere now
I feel like I see them everywhere. I feel like
I online, I see commercials for CBD gummies pop up

(43:55):
a lot. One of those dispensaries. I do not. I
do not.

Speaker 10 (44:00):
They have the drinks, the Delta whatever drinks and on.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
Oh yeahs they have like actual THC drinks. Uh huh,
uh huh. We have Greg online one. Why did I
just turn into the guy from Coming to America Taste
of Stool, pleasant to spunk.

Speaker 4 (44:18):
Velvet.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
But I was saying, I was saying, uh huh, because
you're talking about the CBD and questions that you have.
And look who it is. It's our friend Greg from Oakhurst,
who can comment on on on the HEMP thing. As
he says, Hi, Greg.

Speaker 20 (44:32):
Good more than everyone tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
How are you yes tomorrow?

Speaker 14 (44:37):
Hey?

Speaker 20 (44:37):
So yeah, I started, uh, I started selling CBD. You know,
I opened six years ago, and then I didn't move
into the THC piece, mostly gummies at the time.

Speaker 8 (44:45):
And but I.

Speaker 20 (44:46):
Tell you, in the last two years, and you were
talking about the alcohol consumption, you know, flattening out or
maybe even decreasing a little bit. In the last two years,
we've had a huge number of people that have.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Made the decision.

Speaker 20 (44:57):
Mostly young, not not in necessarily my age. Mostly who
have you know, are making actively making the decision to
switch from alcohol to THHD drinks. Not so much the
CBD drinks, because you're right, best CBD is just calming,
it's relaxing. They both come sort of from the same place.
But you know, the extraction process gives CBD, you know,

(45:18):
no no psychotropic effects. He gives THHC definitely some psychotropic effects.
And even though you know, marijuana is not legal in
North Carolina medicinally or recreationally, small amounts of THHC is
are is legal, and we sell a ton of the
drinks and more and more people come in. If you
think about it, I mean you said earlier, you know,

(45:39):
you drink two or three two or three beers and
you're kind of bloated, you're kind of bly, you've got
all you've got calories and all that mess. And if
you switch to THHC drinks and we sell tons of them,
tell I'm hot, so them cold, so on both ways there.
Some of them have no sugar, little or no carbs,
and you can, in reality drink one can of a

(46:02):
THHC drink and probably have the same feel or maybe
even a better feel than the alcohol and all the
less of the byproducts that you don't really want in
no hangover the next day.

Speaker 14 (46:16):
If you drink several be.

Speaker 6 (46:20):
Well.

Speaker 11 (46:20):
No, but this is I had no idea that THC
drinks were a thing, but maybe I just haven't been looking.
But the idea.

Speaker 20 (46:27):
There's high Rise, there's only, there's Rebel Rabbit, There's there's Delta.
I think one of you guys mentioned Delta on the
Minute Go. There's there's probably a dozen of them, all
different names, but in the end, some are just THC drinks.

Speaker 14 (46:40):
Now, what you'll.

Speaker 20 (46:41):
Find is is every state has its own laws around THHC,
CBD or whatever. So some drinks have just THC. Others
have a combination of CBD and THHC. Because the manufacturer
realizes that some states won't let you just sail plane THCHC.
You have to have a ratio of THHC to the
non psychotropic CB, CBDP part. I've got some that actually

(47:03):
have a little bit of Lion's main, which is a
mushroom minute. So you know, the alcohol industry is getting
challenged a little bit from the THHC side as far
as giving you the ability to feel good but not
have all the other things that you may not necessarily
love about alcohol.

Speaker 11 (47:19):
So here's a here's a health question, because we all
have heard the stories that the alcohol is really tough
on your liver. Is this How is THHC broken down
by the liver? Is it similar?

Speaker 20 (47:30):
You know THC obviously has been around for one thousands
of years, and but you know, the internal piece of it,
not the smoking piece, but you know, taking internally is
fairly new now. It does not have obviously the effects
that alcohol has on liver and stomach both. You know
a lot of people talk about the liver for alcohol,
and that's definitely true sorosis, but at the same token,
also very tough on your stomach. People, People can actually

(47:51):
have horrible effects as well as even possible death if
they drink too much. Alcohol eats the line of your stomach,
you start internal bleeding, you don't get that treated. Can
also cause a lot of problems. So you know, alcohol
is really not good for you, and very few facets
is are good for you than just something you drink
because there's cold and it feels good to stand out
by the panther game and do it. So CBD and

(48:11):
delta A. Yeah, you gotta have that does not you know,
they don't have those side effects, they don't very And
now you know it's still new to market, so you
know you have to think.

Speaker 14 (48:22):
Well, in twenty years.

Speaker 20 (48:23):
What will what will test show by taking it internally?
But I mean it's great for sleep, and it's great
for relaxation, and it doesn't have all the other mess
in it.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
Like holy moly.

Speaker 11 (48:34):
Now I had heard about like the mushroom coffee and
stuff with the Lion's main mushrooms that were supposed to
be better for you than regular coffee. And the adaptogens
are supposed to be good for tiger's blood, be good
for like mental clear really muscle milk.

Speaker 20 (48:48):
That's a clear inflammation. So you know, I think, you know,
if you think about it. And again I'm not a
I'm not a guess. Alcohol mean, I went the panther
game the other day and you know it didn't have
a problem with it.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
But let me try this.

Speaker 20 (49:03):
They got hammers, that's not bad, th C, CBD, hemp, mushrooms.
They're all more, they're more they're more natural, they're more holistic. Now, yeah,
they're still taking to the lab and they're still mixed
up and they're still put in drinks and stuff, but
it's it's it's naturally based, and people are leaning towards
that because of, you know, the desire to have all

(49:24):
the less preservers and stuff that we read about every day.
And I mean, I id right before I called you,
I looked at my own fridge. I'm in the car now.

Speaker 14 (49:30):
I looked at my own.

Speaker 20 (49:31):
Fridge because I have to sit in CD drink D drinks.
So the first one I picked up at zero car,
zero sugar, zero fat, zero everything except for I had
the THHC. And I know that if I don't think
I can drink a whole one, because they come in
different shrinks. They come in five milligram, ten milligram, twenty
five millig fifty milligram. I mean, all all Greg needs
is like a five or ten milligram to make him reliable.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Let me tell you something about Greg. Three and a
half years we've been doing this show, and Greg calls
every once in a while, but there has never been
a call from Greg that we got where we weren't smarter.

Speaker 11 (50:00):
After it was over, I know, I feel so much smarter.
I had no idea about all of this. Brian texted
us Greg and said that this is this new thing
is called California Sober.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
Exactly using the THC. And what are you doing?

Speaker 11 (50:16):
What do you do?

Speaker 10 (50:18):
You take the highway one?

Speaker 4 (50:19):
I'm sober?

Speaker 2 (50:21):
Look Greg, every time I'm over on Monroe and I
go over to that Jersey Mike's a lot, and then
I also go to that VP because that's one of
those Harris Teeter you can fill up and the gas points.
And I look across the street on Monroe and I
see Okhurst Pharmacy and I think I need to go
in and say hello to Greg, and I'm going to
do that next time. But you do a great job
over there, and you've always been a loyal listener to us,
so we appreciate you man.

Speaker 14 (50:43):
You guys have a great day. Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
There is that's Greg, Greg from Oakhurst Pharmacy over there
off Monroe Road. Go see him seven on WBT. Rain
still an issue this morning, and what the rain left behind?
Boomer von Cannon, Well, it sounds like Greg knows how
to work a Panthers games.

Speaker 11 (50:58):
It sounds like he knows how to how to have fun.

Speaker 8 (51:00):
Yeah, stand in cheers, for the pastors.

Speaker 10 (51:03):
Thank you, good get it responsibly.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Good borrow Flora brows.

Speaker 4 (51:10):
He's good Morrow Bet.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Thursday morning, August fourteenth, Bowen Beth. Here in the historic
Tyboid studio a lot of people wanting to talk about
this and weigh in. We were mentioning the fact that
the numbers for alcohol consumption have gone.

Speaker 11 (51:28):
Down to the lowest point in ninety years. Only fifty
four percent of respondents say that they consume alcohol, and
even the number of drinks consumed by adults has gone down,
and it's only around two point eight per week at
this point.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
So Chris on the text line brought to you by
or driven I should say, by Liberty Bwick GMC says,
I listened to your conversation about THHC drinks and I
thought I was one of the few who drank them
until recently. I've tried several kinds. I love the idea
of the Seltzers, but it was kind of hit or miss.
But I found one that's actually locally produced that I
swear by called loyal Oils.

Speaker 11 (52:06):
That's a good name, Loyal Oil.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
Yeah, that's really good. It's the only one that I
found that actually tastes amazing more of a cocktail than
a seltzer. They also infuse in coconut oil, which I
was told was one of the reasons why it seems
so much smoother and feels different than the others. Great discussion,
by the way, love your show. Chris from Charlotte.

Speaker 11 (52:24):
Well this whole teach see drink. This was new to
me and I haven't even seen them, but I haven't
been on the lookout for them. But now I'm probably
going to see them everywhere because my brain has been
alerted to it.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
THHC them Now.

Speaker 11 (52:39):
I give THHC them. Jamie said that she works next
door to a vape smoke shop. She said the items
they sell must be very addictive because we witness the
same people coming and going sometimes two or three times
a day, whether they're buying vape cartridges or gummies or
CBD drinks. I don't know if it's necessarily if it's addictive,

(53:00):
or people that are just loving the idea of these
more than like It's kind of like Greg from Oakirk
Oakhurst Pharmacy was saying in our segment when he called
in that people are liking the alternative because it's natural.
It is what he said, and there are no side
effects like no hangover, and all of this stuff is
new to me. Like where do I just like live

(53:22):
under a rock? Steve says yes, Steve is nodding, Yes,
I must live under a rock. I just this is
all new stuff to me. I knew about CBD. I
had known about CBD for a while, but this whole
line of THHC items that's new to me.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
Good morning, BT, removing the rock from Beth's luck.

Speaker 11 (53:42):
I think I just kind of live in La La land.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
Jamie, we do, but we like you there, Jamie says,
good morning. I work next to a vape slash smoke shop.
The items they sell and they're in there.

Speaker 3 (53:53):
Must just read on what that? She just read that one?

Speaker 8 (53:56):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (53:56):
She did from Jamie?

Speaker 19 (53:57):
Yeah, I just one, Yeah, that's the one.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
You just read them.

Speaker 11 (54:03):
No, And then I read one right after the same.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
The same time, people coming and going, same people coming going.

Speaker 13 (54:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
Yeah, you don't know how this was going to end?

Speaker 11 (54:10):
Burning it.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
She's a true workwife. No, you're not even listening to her.

Speaker 7 (54:18):
Wow, Okay, how about this one?

Speaker 14 (54:20):
Then?

Speaker 2 (54:21):
How about this one from Kenny? Loyal oil may may
lead to smashing the flesh.

Speaker 4 (54:30):
From News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three DOUBLET.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
Yeah, the energy in this place is just amazing.

Speaker 8 (54:37):
Trure energy.

Speaker 4 (54:38):
This is Good Morning Beat with Bo Thompson and Beth Trout.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
With what I'm talking about is the pulse of the collection.

Speaker 4 (54:45):
Come a little.

Speaker 3 (54:45):
Percussion, all right?

Speaker 2 (54:49):
Thursday morning, August fourteenth, in the Tyboid Studio. What's that
look on your face about?

Speaker 11 (54:55):
Oh, you had mentioned that you needed to vindicate. You
need it to vindicate, You needed to vindicate yourself.

Speaker 2 (55:02):
I don't think vindication is really going to be the
word here, but explanation maybe.

Speaker 11 (55:07):
Oh oh oh.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
So we have the new text line, relatively new, driven
by Liberty Buick GMC, and it's a great thing. It's
a great tool, brings us lots more interactive responses from
people that are listening.

Speaker 11 (55:19):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
You can't always pick up the phone where you are,
but it's easy to text. So we get going on
things like we did the last thirty minutes, and we
just get I mean I can look down at my
phone and then look away and then look back two
minutes later and we've gotten forty texts.

Speaker 11 (55:34):
Yeah, we've gotten at least forty, probably more.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
I'm still trying. I'm learning how to best manipulate this
process because sometimes it's like a needle in a haystack.
I look down and then I and so I have
it on my phone now, and what I'll do is
I'll screen capture posts and that I want to read it,
you know.

Speaker 11 (55:52):
So you do it on the phone. I have my
computer app.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
The computer works okay, but it's my workflow over here.
I can't believe I'm using that word. But but but
my whole process over here, that's been a thing I've
had to add to it. And so the best thing
for me, the easiest thing is the screenshot things. And
so let'st tower. I screenshoted a few and I'm kind
of going bouncing from one thing the other. And Beth
reads a text and then I look down at my
phone and I start reading another text, and then I

(56:16):
realized it's the same text that you read. I'm just
telling you how this happens. There's a lot of there's
a lot of stuff chaotic going on in this room
when we do a show like this.

Speaker 11 (56:25):
I think that Mark Garrison's comment was the best. That
he was like, she has officially become your work wife
because you are not listening to.

Speaker 2 (56:33):
But you guys know how I am. Sometimes I'm like five,
I'm like five minutes ahead of where we are.

Speaker 11 (56:37):
Well, that's exactly right. It never offends me. I was
just gonna let you keep reading it.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
Oh yeah it was. It was a great little bit.
But I just want to tell you, I'm not going
nuts over here.

Speaker 11 (56:44):
You had you had, you had a different inflection. So
I think the I think the message of the text
was read differently because it was your inflection and not mine.
So I think it just handle a little bit more.
It hit differently.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
No, but I can feel it. I can feel it
in this room when i'm reading something and I'm not
looking at y'all, but I can tell when you're looking
at me. And I started reading it and everybody, it's
like the walls were closing in. I'm like, what what's
going on.

Speaker 11 (57:06):
Bernie looked at me and he was like, he said
that my mouth was wide open. I didn't even realize
that it was wide open. But Bernie's like, oh, oh bo,
she just read it.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Well, Bernie, it was for accentuation. I'm so sorry trying.
I was trying to drive it home.

Speaker 8 (57:18):
I killed it.

Speaker 11 (57:20):
I think it just makes me so happy. It's kind
of like the day that we spent like an hour
talking about chickens and I mentioned that, you know, you
didn't need the rooster for a chicken for the hen
to lay the eggs, and I said it a few
times and then Mark came in. He was like, you know,
you don't need a rooster, and BO was like, what
you don't need?

Speaker 2 (57:38):
But this one was next level because you read it
like seconds before I did. But I'm looking down it
at my phone and I started reading it. Then I realized, okay,
this is not this the same one she read. But
you and I don't. You and I can't communicate with
which ones we're going to read, right because it's real
time radio.

Speaker 11 (57:52):
Well and they're popping up as we're reading them, and
so sometimes something will pop up and it'll it'll push
you out of what it is that you're reading, and
then suddenly you're reading someone else's text, but you've assigned
it to a different name. So yes, we are learning
this process of the of the text line. But I
love it so much because I'm also getting text about
chow chow. By the way, Sean learning about chow chow

(58:13):
and Tracy. Tracy went to Lady and Sons. That's Paula
Dean's restaurant down in or Savannah that just recently closed.
She went down there asked for chowchow and they didn't
know what it is. So Tracy is her hypothesis? Is
it hypothesis? Her guess is that she that they closed
because they didn't know what chowchow was.

Speaker 2 (58:32):
I agree, well, I didn't know the power of chow
chow choo. I didn't either until this show, Like about
two years ago. We started talking about chowchow one day
and the discussion was like ours, but.

Speaker 9 (58:45):
In classic forum. I remember us talking about it, but
I forgot what it was.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
Yeah, well, at least you didn't forget the text that
was read sixteen seconds earlier.

Speaker 11 (58:51):
Now, what it is a pickled like a pickled vegetable
relish that alten often has a sweet and tangy flavor.

Speaker 10 (58:58):
That's why I forgot. I remember, I don't like that
sometimes spicy, so it didn't mean anything to me.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
I do want to get to the Carolina Panthers who
are practicing in Houston today. This will be against the Texans,
of course, this will be ahead of the Saturday game
that Zoke will be calling at one o'clock in Texas.
But this is Dimico Ryans, Texans head coach, talking about
practicing against the Panthers yesterday.

Speaker 18 (59:22):
When you have a joint practice, the main protocol is
just keeping each other safe, understanding that we're here to
work together to make each other better. We're not here
to get in shoving contests or fights or anything like
that's unproductive. So and my message to Dave and his
ten is is we want to come out and get
good work in and make sure we're getting productive work,

(59:44):
making sure we're standing up just like we practiced.

Speaker 8 (59:47):
So and I think when.

Speaker 18 (59:48):
We got teams and coaches that are that have a
similar mindset and you can get productive work. We've done
it for the past two years with the Dolphins, with
the Rams, and I thought we got really productive work out,
so I expected to be the same.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
And that's coming up in just a few hours. And
the like we've been saying c J. Stroud and Bryce Young,
the two guys that came into the league same year
and could have been one two two one, and we
really didn't know who it was going to be until
right towards the end, but now they'll be on the field,
same game and same practice today.

Speaker 9 (01:00:17):
Yeah, I'll I'll dress that. Also want to dress Jamiico Ryance.
They all sounds every year like school teachers on the
first day of school. We're not to have a Shenanigans
in this classroom. I mean it's like they're talking to children.
We're we're gonna be productive. We're not going to have
these little fights and shoving and pushing and name calling and.

Speaker 10 (01:00:33):
All this kind of stuff.

Speaker 9 (01:00:34):
And it happens every time to some degree, not always
a fight, but there's always at least some grabbing and
pushing and shoving in these practices. But I think it'll
be fun watching the careers of Bryce and CJ moving forward.
They're great friends. I mean they're really close friends and
both really humble, kind of cut from the same cloth
as far as the kind of human beings. They are
successful obviously coming from big programs Ohio State and Alabama,

(01:00:56):
So it's gonna be fun watching probably both of them.
I mean CJ off a little bit faster start, but
Bryce is catching up now. So it'll be fun to
watch year three and moving forward what these two quarterbacks
can be. When we look back maybe in ten years
or something like that.

Speaker 11 (01:01:10):
Will they bro hug it out when they get to rehearsal,
they're crack up bro.

Speaker 10 (01:01:13):
Hug They'll be bro hugged. The'll been fisticuffs or shenanigans
or hijinks.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
It'll be a Goodisticuffs lead to skirmishes, which lead to fracases.

Speaker 10 (01:01:21):
And then they've tried at breuha.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
And then pandemonium.

Speaker 10 (01:01:26):
We're not gonna have any of that.

Speaker 9 (01:01:27):
We're not pulling hair, we're not throwing spit wads.

Speaker 10 (01:01:32):
It's like the grown men talking about other girls. It
just sounds funny. Other workplaces, they're all grown human beings
and stuff like that.

Speaker 11 (01:01:41):
Does that happen in women's sports? Do the coaches come
out at the beginning of the year and say, we're
not gonna fight.

Speaker 10 (01:01:45):
I didn't read the story, but there was some w
NBA game last night. They had some fractus or something
going on with that fighting.

Speaker 4 (01:01:50):
I well, there might be more.

Speaker 11 (01:01:52):
Actually, there was some off color stuff happening at a.

Speaker 10 (01:01:55):
Yeah, stuff being thrown on the floor.

Speaker 11 (01:01:56):
Yes, that's awful.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
There's some WNB game where there's a fracas.

Speaker 4 (01:02:01):
This is Good Morning bet.

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
News Talk eleven ten, nine to nine three WBT, just
days away, hours away from the ninth annual Claire's Army Gala,
presented by Troy Meek's mortgage team. That's coming up. And
I knew at one point I was going to do this,
and Emily's just going to love this. Hopefully she wasn't listening.
But a few minutes I said, ago, I said it
was at the Revelry. No, no, no, no, that's that's

(01:02:27):
the Nary Awards that I do in November. I confuse
the two of them. It is very much popular. You're
getting things confused. No, I only do two, just two.
The Casey, The Casey North Tryon Street, eighteen thirty seven
try On North Tryon Street is where the gala is
going to be on Saturday night. So I don't want
everybody showing up to the wrong place.

Speaker 12 (01:02:48):
Emily, That's right, They're going to know where to go.
They will.

Speaker 11 (01:02:52):
And it's such a really cool event. You had the
event there last year. It is just a lovely, lovely setting.

Speaker 14 (01:02:59):
It is.

Speaker 12 (01:03:00):
It's a lovely setting, and the team there has done
an exceptional job just working with us to make sure
that the experience our guests have and ultimately the money
that we raised for our patients that they can help
just maximize that because they know they're a vessel for it.
So they've done an incredible job and it's been a
pleasure working with them.

Speaker 2 (01:03:19):
So Saturday night is the big event, and this is
Claire's Army. If you don't know about Claire's Army, I
implore you to go to Claire's Army dot org. That's
c l a I r e. S Army dot org
serving families, loving kids and fighting cancer. And this all
stems back from the personal experience that Emily and Kevin

(01:03:39):
Ratliffe had with their daughter Claire back in twenty twelve.
And Claire passed away, but her legacy lives on in
this organization that really does what Emily and Kevin experienced
in the hospital back then, where families and people they
didn't even know, just a group of people that rallied
around them in the hospital and made sure they had

(01:04:00):
what they needed while they were fighting and going through
this worst of all imaginable experiences. And so all these
years later, nine years now, we've been doing this and
so the idea on Saturday night is to have fun,
to celebrate the way Claire would and to raise money
and help the organization do all the things that you
all do throughout the year. And Emily, we talked about

(01:04:23):
tickets and briefly about the online auction last week, but
now things are really cranked up. I've been watching the
social media channels for Claire's Army. What do we need
to know now that we're just a couple of days away.

Speaker 12 (01:04:35):
So we sold out of tickets. There's unfortunately there's no
more space to join the party. But you can text
the word Claire in all caps C L A I
R to the number seven nine two three zero and
that will prompt you to enter and just look into
this silent auction. It's free to register, but you can

(01:04:58):
this week. You can see what items we have and
you do not have to be present to win, So
if you're the highest bidder, we will absolutely get your
winning item to you, whether you're attending the gala or
not Saturday night. But it's I really encourage you because
there are so many local businesses and individuals who have
given so graciously to make this auction possible. There's one

(01:05:18):
hundred and twenty one silent auction items. It's I mean,
it's close to sixty seventy thousand dollars worth of items
in there, and we've got the live auction items that
will be happening on Saturday, but we do preview them
so that for some reason you see something in live
auction and you're not going to be there, you better
send someone or find out who's going to bid for you.

(01:05:39):
So Silent Auction easyly to participate and always you know,
just on our website donate and for the radio listeners,
we love knowing when it just comes in from you,
and so we'd love for you to notify us either
you know, if you put a check in the mail
or when you gift give online, let us know that
you heard about us from from Bo and Beth and

(01:05:59):
W's because it makes us so happy to share those
updates with with Bo and Best and the radio family
about how you guys give.

Speaker 11 (01:06:08):
Oh, it thrills us to know that you are impacting
so many families and that people are hearing about you
through our show. It really does our heart's good. But
I know that you do the hearts of so many families.
You do them so so so many good things for people,
And I want to say it again so that people
know you text Claire c l A I R E

(01:06:29):
to seven nine two three zero. Is that right?

Speaker 12 (01:06:32):
That's right?

Speaker 11 (01:06:33):
So text Claire to seven nine two three zero, folks,
and you can take part in that silent auction and
preview those live auction items so that you can participate
in this the silent auction, but also go to Clare'sarmy
dot org and just donate. And like she said, let
let us know, let her know that you found out
about Claire's Army through Bow, through us, through Good Morning BT.

Speaker 12 (01:06:57):
That's right, absolutely, Emily.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
What are you what was excited about for Saturday night?
Is there an auction item? Is there something that's happening
that people need to know about? What are you excited about?

Speaker 5 (01:07:07):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (01:07:08):
I mean, I'm just I'm always excited to see who's
there and see the neat connections that are made beforehand
and the people that don't realize they're both part of
the army but they know each other from other circles.
That's I always love that. But some new things we
have for this year. One of our areas we really
want to connect the donors and the guests with our mission,

(01:07:29):
and so we have this a neat, interactive, very simple
way for them to let let us know, you know,
their why and their inspirations for coming to the gala
and supporting us. So there's going to be a neat
kind of interactive piece at the visual to see how
the army has grown. And then also, I know you
know this though, but we've we've worked a little bit

(01:07:50):
on trying to introduce a few more people to who
Claire was. There's not a lot of videos of her
and there's not a lot of people that have seen
her kind of in action in her short life, and
so we've taken a number of those clips and we're
going to be able to show this to people. And
truly it's about celebrating her. It's not about being you know,
sad about what we see is seeing the joy on

(01:08:12):
her face and these videos and that she is our
why and she is our why that we want to
give as many of those moments to other families as
possible to really be with their child why while they're
going to do something hard, and so just you know,
having a chance to meet Claire get more involved in
our mission. And you know, always the food. I think

(01:08:33):
the food is so great, but what's so special about
it is the catering team played perfect in fs, their
headschefs come to the event, their entire team just blows
it out of the water when it comes to the
food that displays their delivery. And they're the same people
who are making meals for our families all year long
through our meal programs, So that is super special and

(01:08:55):
I love to see them there and for our guests
to know who they are.

Speaker 2 (01:08:59):
We're on the same way. Because you said that, and
I had this ready to go. A few years ago.
I was standing with Emily and we were talking about
Claire and we were mentioning the fact that enough years
had passed that a lot of people, you know, didn't
know Claire personally. It didn't even had not seen a
video of Claire. And Emily had this video on her

(01:09:20):
phone of Claire in the hospital dancing to this song
by Beyonce, and I said to her. We started talking,
I said, people need to see this. We need to
play this at the gala. And now we do play
that every year. And like you said, it's a fun night,
it's a lot going on, it's busy. It's like what

(01:09:41):
Claire would want, I think at age sixteen, because she
loved a party, but you think you need to stop
and pause for a second. I think I even said
this last year when I was doing the MC thing,
I said, we need to stop and think about the why.
This is the reason why we're all here. And there's
that video only less than a minute, it seems like,
but it just really rings home what this is all about. Emily.

Speaker 12 (01:10:02):
Absolutely, you're so right, bo and that's that's the whole
reason why we do it. She's our inspiration. But what
we're trying to do is just give that as much
as we possibly can back to these families that you know,
we Kevin, I had moments clear that a lot of
families don't get to have because they had to choose
between going to work or make choices so that they

(01:10:24):
had to have someone else watch their child where they
are in treatment. And we just really want to make
sure that they have as many moments as possible.

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
And the one text I want to read to you
that Emily sent me after we talked on the air
last week, she said, Hey, enjoyed talking to you today.
Had to share that one of our recent donations from
the mail let us know that she heard about us
on the radio and had donated twenty five hundred dollars.

Speaker 11 (01:10:48):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
So you know, we talk about the power of the
WBT signal here and using it for the good for
all the various things over the years, and that's what
I always tell Emily. I said, we may have people
that don't get to come to the to the gala,
and I hope we have sent a lot of people there,
but people listening hear the story and want to help.
So we always say in any day of the year,
you can go to Claire's Army dot org and find

(01:11:11):
out about the mission and learn how to donate. But
I thought that was a really cool thing and that
was my favorite text I got that day.

Speaker 12 (01:11:17):
I hope so well, we are so grateful for you
guys and the radio family. I mean, it stretches far
and wide, and that's how we've grown us. How we
serve more families is getting the word out and every
single gift matters. It really does make a different, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:11:30):
The Casey the case he said, that's right, the Ksey
on Saturday night, it's the ninth Annuel, can't believe nine
years and I will see you on Saturday night. I'll
be back, honor to be back, m seeing again for
a ninth time, and we'll do what we always do,
raise as much money as we can and hopefully have
all kinds of awesome numbers to talk about on Monday.

Speaker 12 (01:11:52):
That's right, Thank you Bo, Thank you Beth, Thanks.

Speaker 2 (01:11:54):
To Emilie you.

Speaker 4 (01:12:06):
This is good Morning Beat with both Thompson and Beth
troud Man.

Speaker 2 (01:12:14):
Yeah, that text line driven by Liberty Bwick GMC. Remember
that time that Beth read this really cool text and
then I read the same one.

Speaker 11 (01:12:25):
It's my favorite day.

Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
Just means I really liked it too.

Speaker 11 (01:12:28):
Yeah, it's just a really good text from Jamie.

Speaker 2 (01:12:32):
Really good text from Jamie.

Speaker 11 (01:12:35):
Wait did I just say that I don't I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:12:38):
Wait, dude, just say that I know you are? But
what am I? Nine before nine o'clock, David Shadwick returns
after six week hiatus. Coming up in a few minutes,
he has a special guest with him. We'll talk and
catch up with David. Catching up on world headlines here.
We mentioned earlier about President Trump making the Kennedy Center

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Honors announcement yesterday that George Strait, Sylvester Stallone, Gloria Gaynor,
Michael Crawford, and Kiss are going to be the honorees
coming up next time around. He made that announcement yesterday,
and of course, as Trump is prone to do, the
President will take questions about anything and everything after he's
talking about the reason that he's there and with the well,

(01:13:21):
several things at work here. You had Zelensky, President Zelenski
of Ukraine, on a conference call with President Trump yesterday.
That has now happened. Bernie, I'm actually going to go
out of order here. I've got one called VZ one.
I need that one first, because Vladimir Zelensky did talk
about his correspondence with President Trump yesterday, and then we'll

(01:13:44):
get to what's coming on Friday Maya.

Speaker 21 (01:13:47):
Everything about Ukraine will be discussed.

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
With Ukraine.

Speaker 21 (01:13:50):
We have to get prepared for a three sided format
of the conversation. There should be a ceasefire first, then
security guarantees, real security guarantees, and by the way, President
Trump expressed his support to that. Also among those principles,
Russia cannot have a veto as to European or NATO
perspectives against Ukraine. We have to combine the negotiations with

(01:14:13):
Pressia against Russia. Sanctions should be strengthened. If Russia will
not agree to a ceasefire in Alaska. Of Britain is
bluffing that sanctions do nothing and they don't work. In fact,
sanctions are hitting Russia's war economy hard. Britain definitely does
not want peace. He wants to occupy Ukraine. And we
all understand that Putin cannot form anyone.

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
So that's Zelensky. After the conference call yesterday, the video.

Speaker 11 (01:14:39):
Call, and we know that the European that European leaders
were on that call as well. And now it remains
to be seen what happens in the discussion tomorrow in
Alaska with Putin between Trump and Putin.

Speaker 2 (01:14:53):
So, like I said, the Kennedy Center Honors press conference happened.
Then at the end, President Trump got questions of Russia.

Speaker 3 (01:15:00):
How were your calls this morning with European leaders?

Speaker 6 (01:15:03):
And was it your call not to invite President Zelenski
to your meeting with Putin?

Speaker 16 (01:15:08):
No, just the opposite. No, No, we had a very
good call. He was on the call, President Zelenski was
on the call. I would rate it at ten, you know,
very very friendly. I know the leaders because I was
at NATO, as you know, I took it from two
percent to five percent two percent that wasn't paid, five
percent that is paid, which is two millions of dollars

(01:15:30):
in defense capability. No, it was always going to be
I was going to meet with President Putin, and then
after that, I'm going to call the leaders and presidents Olenski,
I'm going to call President Zelenski, and then I'll call
probably in that order of the leaders.

Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
There's a very good.

Speaker 16 (01:15:47):
Chance that we're going to have a second meeting, which
will be more productive than the first, because the first
is I'm going to find out where we are and
what we're doing. Again, this is Biden's work. This isn't
my world. He got us into this thing, and they
should have never happened. This war would have never happened
if I were president. But it is what it is,
and I'm here to fix it, and I'm here to
stop six thousand, seven thousand people last week. Two hundred

(01:16:10):
and thirteen people last week were killed, mostly soldiers, but
missiles being lobbed into towns don't exactly help either, But
mostly soldiers and Ukrainian and Russian, the non American soldiers.
But you know, if we can save a lot of lives,
it would be a great thing.

Speaker 2 (01:16:26):
I've done.

Speaker 16 (01:16:27):
I've done five I've stopped five wars in the last
six months. We're going to meet with I would say
the second meeting. If the first one goes okay, we'll
have a quick second one. I would like to do
it almost immediately, and we'll have a quick second meeting
between President Putin and President Zelensky and myself if they'd

(01:16:49):
like to have me there, and that would be a
meeting where maybe it could be absolutely worked but the
first meeting will not work that out. Certain great things
can be gained in the first It's going to be
a very important meeting, but it's setting the table for
the second meeting.

Speaker 2 (01:17:03):
I think the second meeting. If the second.

Speaker 16 (01:17:05):
Meeting takes place now, that may be no second meeting
because I I feel that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:11):
It's not appropriate to have.

Speaker 16 (01:17:13):
It, because I didn't get the answers that we have
to have. Then we're not going to have a second meeting.

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
So this is coming up tomorrow in Alaska. The coverage
for this, I've seen some of the map outs for
some of the networks, and I'm curious as to how
it's going to be covered because I haven't heard exactly
whether or not is this going to be behind closed doors.
That's what I would assume. I assume that we're going
to hear from both of them before and after they

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go inside. But the coverage for this tomorrow is going
to be pretty massive from what I understand across the networks.
And this reminds me. I mean, we had moments during
the first administration where Trump met with Putin, but it
also reminds me of when he went to North Korea.
There's a lot of body language watching in these things.

Speaker 11 (01:17:57):
Yes, And I think the body language is going to
be quite different from the first administration that the Trump
meetings with Putin, where those meetings seemed friendly. He often
had complimentary things to say about Putin. I think that
his tone and I think his body language is going
to be incredibly different. I think Putin's will too this
time around, because he is frustrated and I think angry

(01:18:23):
about how this situation has unfolded, because during his campaign
he said he could end the war with one phone
call and has not been able to do that. And
I think now he blames Putin for that.

Speaker 2 (01:18:35):
Yeah, and you know the way he describes it, And
I guess you would expect by this point President Trump
will know pretty quickly as to how this is going
to go, with the mood of it's going to be,
if it's going to be productive, and will there be
further talks.

Speaker 11 (01:18:48):
And I don't think flattery from Putin is going to
work on Trump this time around.

Speaker 2 (01:18:53):
And then there's Zelenski who again said, quote everything concerning
Ukraine must be discussed exclusively with Ukraine. We must prepare
a trilateral format for the talks. There must be a
ceasefire unquote. So tomorrow is going to be a very
interesting day. One thing I can tell you, stay with
WBT throughout the day and you'll know every aspect of it,

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because of course we'll be covering it from every angle.
We continue, We reunite for the first time in six
weeks with David Chadwick coming up after the news.

Speaker 22 (01:19:22):
All right, ladies, so get them along here in turnment
from News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three double
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Speaker 7 (01:19:28):
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Speaker 4 (01:19:31):
This is good morning BET with Bo Thompson at Beth
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Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
Watch week for the changes and try to keep up
okay right now, well, action for the first time in
six weeks in this ty Boyd Studio, happy to welcome
back on this Thursday morning, August fourteenth. I have to
remember what you look like.

Speaker 11 (01:19:56):
Well, you look like a teenager. You look so well rested.

Speaker 4 (01:19:59):
Oh, I got great rest.

Speaker 8 (01:20:00):
You know.

Speaker 23 (01:20:00):
The leaders of my church gave me a month off
and said just get out of here, go rest and
do what you need to do. And you know, church
work can be kind of daunting sometimes and I enjoyed
every day of my sabbatical.

Speaker 2 (01:20:13):
So it's good to be home. It was good to
get away. And of course is the voice of David Chadwick.
David Chadwick Show one of our longest running local shows
here and every Sunday morning at eight am, that's where
you hear him. And you've been hearing him because his
show has gone on while he's gone. And you know,
David taped some of those shows like we do on
the weekend. But here you are back live in studio

(01:20:35):
and you're not alone. Yeah, I have with us today.

Speaker 23 (01:20:37):
Noah Manyik. Noah's been a friend for many years. He's
a stalwart in his community. Helped found Brookstone School, which
is a wonderful school basically to help inner city kids
be able to be all that they are created to be.
He's also been a pastor and just has many different
gifts that he has used. I asked him to be
on my show this Sunday because he's just released a

(01:20:58):
book entitled Deeming Sundar, which is all about how the
faith community should use AI in a positive way. So
I thought that'd be a great topic and it was.
And Noah, excuse me, is in studio with us today.

Speaker 8 (01:21:12):
Oh, thank you for having me.

Speaker 11 (01:21:14):
I'm so glad you're here, Noah.

Speaker 2 (01:21:16):
I was telling Noah as we were getting to know
each other before the show started and the microphones turned
on that if we had to pick Beth that the
most dominant recurring topic maybe for the year twenty twenty
five just comes in and out of things every single day,
it probably would be AI.

Speaker 11 (01:21:33):
Absolutely, we talk about it with our tech expert every
week and AI headline comes across the airwaves that I
think it's one of those things that has made people nervous,
made people a little scared about the future. It's also
been a tool that has been incredibly helpful. But I
love that you have written a book about how to
use it in a positive way, because that may take

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some of the fear out of people's hearts and minds.

Speaker 24 (01:21:59):
Yeah, I think one of the biggest problems. And thank
you so much for having me. It's an honor to
be on your show. Happy to have you, David, Thank
you for inviting me. But I think there's somebody who
said one of the best strategy in life is not
hiding your head in the sand. And I think a
lot of the anxiety that we're feeling about AI is

(01:22:19):
because we haven't been watching. In fact, you know, you
know that the term AI was not created in the
year twenty twenty five. Oh no, no, it's fifty years
or something like that old. You know, so these things
have been progressively happening. The reason why AI has become
like right now we talk about the age of AI
simply because of chat GPT. Chat GPT has brought AI

(01:22:42):
into our daily life. But let's be honest, you know,
these things have been listening to us, learning from us,
kind of figuring out our preferences. And doesn't make you
nervous that sometimes you or you look at your phone
and it suggests something that you were talking about with
your friend.

Speaker 8 (01:23:02):
Right, so listen.

Speaker 24 (01:23:05):
AI have been working on the AI for a very
very long time, and some of us have not been
paying attention. And my book is really to encourage the
faith community not to just continue kind of like doing faith,
but not at this speed of life and not understanding
that some of these tools really are tools. And I
love what you were saying earlier on Beth. We're not

(01:23:27):
talking about humanizing these tools. We're talking about really optimizing
the decisions that we make, you know, our best interests.

Speaker 2 (01:23:34):
Well, when I talked to David and he said you
were coming in today and we were going to talk
about how AI fits into the spiritual world, the first
thing I think of is, you know, when you the
daily operations of a church, a lot of because because AI,
it's not all bad. I mean people people tend to
gravitate towards the negative headlines AI. And the reason why

(01:23:56):
you find it sort of infiltrating our daily lives in
so many areas and mainly you know, businesses. AI in
many cases can do tasks that used to take a
lot longer, and they can, you know, help organizations that
don't have the manpower that maybe other bigger churches do.
So I assume that AI figures into that part of

(01:24:17):
the ministry But then I think where it probably gets
a lot more of a gray area is when you
start talking about you know, you know, spreading the gospel right. Well,
that's not always right.

Speaker 23 (01:24:29):
And that's one thing Noah pointed out on my show,
is that it's not always right, and you've got to
have some discernment there. It can be advanta be advantageous
in the church if you say, for example, hey, Grok,
write me a letter to the communicants who just graduated
and say how much we appreciate them, and it does
it in ten seconds something that would take you normally
maybe three hours to do. And that's good. But on

(01:24:51):
the other hand, you have a temptation now for pastors
to say, hey, groc write me a sermon on Mark
eleven twenty three through thirty five, and now the pastor
isn't doing the work that's necessary anymore. And actually, again,
AI might not be accurate. And I've experienced that a
couple of times. I've said, you know, Grock, what does
you know Mark eleven twenty two mean? And He'll give

(01:25:12):
me a verse and an explanation of the verse, and
I'll say, well.

Speaker 2 (01:25:15):
That's not right.

Speaker 23 (01:25:16):
And you know, so you've got to have that discernment
as well. So it offers some real helps to the church,
but it offers some real challenges as well, just like
kids can use it to write a term paper and
it can be plagiaristic, and we've got to be careful
about that as well.

Speaker 7 (01:25:29):
Well.

Speaker 11 (01:25:29):
To that point, if the faith community is more involved
in the technological process, you might have the AI be
more likely to be accurate when it comes to Bible
versus or Biblical in concepts because you have people with
that knowledge supplying more information to the places that AI

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scrubs to get the information to begin with.

Speaker 8 (01:25:51):
Exactly.

Speaker 24 (01:25:52):
And I think it's unfortunate that we'll always reactive, and
we react out of fear. That's simply because we haven't
been involved. And if we are involved, then we're going
to be part of the process of erecting guardrails, but
also of making sure that it is learning the right thing.

Speaker 8 (01:26:09):
I mean, these things learn from.

Speaker 24 (01:26:11):
The large language models, and you're putting data so that
the tool can actually know what to do.

Speaker 11 (01:26:18):
I love that you say guardrails and then your beautiful
accident sounds like God is also a great terms there.

Speaker 24 (01:26:27):
Exactly, And I say to David earlier on. You know,
we we have encountered as pastors this situation where there
are all these versions of the Bible that come out,
and you read a version of the Bible and like
there's something.

Speaker 8 (01:26:41):
Wrong with this version.

Speaker 24 (01:26:43):
What Ai is simply done has made the responsibility for
us to check much much higher. You know, that raised
the bar as far as that is concerned. And I
think that ultimately the pastors who do that and ask
Ai to write their samons, they'll be found out, you know,
because I love what you said, Elio and Beth, the
whole idea of it's not human. And if you are

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also basing your semons on something that is absolutely not human,
your semons will be soulless, and ultimately people will know,
people will know.

Speaker 22 (01:27:18):
This is Good Morning BT nine eighteen on WBT Good
Morning BT Bowen Beth here along with David Chadwick and
our new friend Noah Menyika, who is.

Speaker 2 (01:27:32):
On David Show coming up on Sunday eight am. David
Chadwick back in the saddle after several weeks off and
looking tanned and rested and ready.

Speaker 4 (01:27:40):
I'm ready to go.

Speaker 23 (01:27:41):
You know, the good things about vacation mostly should be
that they renew your heart to get going again, and
that's what happened with me.

Speaker 2 (01:27:49):
So tell us about for people who may be just
joining us. Noah is going to be with you to
talk about a variety of things on Sunday.

Speaker 23 (01:27:56):
Yeah, Noah Manyika is my guest. Noah has been pillar
in this community for years. Help start the Brookstone School,
which has been a great school. Hundreds of kids graduated
from there, many gone on to graduate degrees, great members
of our society. Now to give kids in the lower
grades a chance to get the good education they need
to make it in college and know again. Was one
of the founders of Brookstone School. He's also a pastor.

(01:28:18):
He's written numerous books. He's got, you know, a master's
degree from Georgetown. The most recent book is entitled Redeeming
Soundar and it's how to help the faith community, the
spiritual community know how to use AI in a positive way.
So we're talking about that this Sunday on my show
at eight am.

Speaker 2 (01:28:35):
You know, we were talking earlier about how AI figures
into the church community and there you could go different
ways with this, but no as you were talking about AI,
you held up your phone and you know, AI is
one thing, but the phone. The phone and all that
it does has changed the forms of communication. And you know,
when you talk about kids going to school. Another recurring

(01:28:57):
subject with bethanmy over the last especially is is how
schools are going about educating kids in an era where
all these kids have this little mini computer that they carry.

Speaker 24 (01:29:07):
Around, right, And I think, whether it's just parenting or church,
we have to pay attention to how things are changing
and prepare before the change arrives how we're going to
do it. I think the reason why people are having
all these issues now with the phones and them taking
care of our kids instead of us taking care of

(01:29:29):
the kids, is.

Speaker 8 (01:29:30):
Because we were not prepared for it.

Speaker 24 (01:29:32):
You know it the iPhone suddenly happened to us, you know,
the tablet suddenly happened to us.

Speaker 8 (01:29:40):
We were not engaged.

Speaker 24 (01:29:41):
And I think this is one of the biggest problems,
particularly with the faith community. It's just being engaged and
knowing what's going on, what's coming next, and and even
right now, we are wasting a lot of time in
fear instead of actual purposeful engagement so we can know
and build these Gudrailsbeth.

Speaker 23 (01:30:02):
Well, you know this summer when you're away and you
do have time, you get to do what you want
to do. And I read about seven books I Love You.
One of them that was the most interesting was on anxiety,
kind of the seminal work over the last several years,
and why we live in such an anxious generation, and
it pointed to primarily the smartphone for kids causing their

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anxiety and causing isolation as the major reason for that anxiety.
And I found it very interesting that this author, who
is one of the experts in this area, recommended that
kids don't have an iPhone in his opinion, before the
eighth grade. He just thinks they should not have them.
They developed the brain too much, and particularly for boys
whose brains don't develop until fully twenty five years old.

(01:30:43):
They're now saying that it is causing enormous problems. So
parents need to be really on the cutting edge of
not letting their kids be first of all, accessible to
iPhones and then secondly have them dominate their lives.

Speaker 24 (01:30:56):
But I also think, David, the other issue is and
you create time in the world in which we're leaving
to pay attention to your kids. One of our team
members on a project that we're working on is in Bosnia,
and he just sent me a video yesterday of him
and these kids camping next to a river, and they're
out there in the wild, and he creates these opportunities

(01:31:19):
for his kids to do stuff.

Speaker 8 (01:31:21):
Outside of the house.

Speaker 24 (01:31:24):
And I think there's a related problem to that, if
we could actually intentionally create time for kids. A lot
of times, the reason why iPhones are raising our kids
is because.

Speaker 8 (01:31:37):
We don't want to raise the kids that we're too busy.
We're too busy.

Speaker 23 (01:31:40):
And know, I've said for years that kids spell love
t I M. That's what I'm paying david isms. I
say all the time. And it is true that R
plus R minus our equals are rules and regulations minus
a relationship with your kids equals rebellion. They want time
with you.

Speaker 2 (01:31:56):
That's their greatest desire, exactly exactly.

Speaker 11 (01:31:58):
I think about technology now too in the terms of faith.
You know, if you think about the idea of idolatry
in the Bible and this kind of soulless entity, which
is what we are supposed to avoid as Christians, and
if we look to technology as that thing to worship

(01:32:20):
rather than that thing that is just a tool to
help increase maybe our knowledge or increase productivity in some way,
shape or form. But forget that it's a soulless entity.
Then we've found ourselves in a dangerous spot.

Speaker 23 (01:32:34):
Exact and Beth. We talk a lot about fasting for
the body. Intermittent fasting is a big thing for health reasons.
We need to fast from social media. There are times
we needed to say nope, and if you can't do that,
you need that phone so desperately. That is an idol.
Anything that takes that desire of your heart away from
God himself is an idol. And it is spelled idol,
and it's Old Testament, New Testament. It is present day

(01:32:57):
if it's taken the place of God.

Speaker 24 (01:32:58):
And let me add another dimension to that, David. Apart
from it being an idol, it's an addiction. I think
that's one of the biggest problems that we have right now.
Sometimes it's easier to fast from food if you're not
addicted to it. It's just as difficult to fast from
the phone if you're addicted to it. And I think
that's the biggest problem that there is. You know, it

(01:33:20):
has become an addiction. We can't do without it. We
wake up in the middle of the we can't turn
it off. I started saying to myself, I can't turn
my phone off because I have two daughters and the sun,
so I need to be reachable all the time.

Speaker 8 (01:33:37):
Well, you're really the reason, right, you know? Or I
just can't do without my phone.

Speaker 24 (01:33:44):
And I think so to a certain extent, Beth, I
think this is how you end up now interacting with
this soul est thing called AI because you're just addicted
to it. And when you listen to I love what
you said earlier, When you listen to something that is
an AI, say voice Ova.

Speaker 8 (01:34:00):
For instance, you can tell it's AI.

Speaker 24 (01:34:02):
You can tell it soulless as you say, But but
why do you keep listening to it? You know, you know,
because you there's something in you that is demanding that
synthetic drug.

Speaker 11 (01:34:12):
It's and they technology creators, who, you know, whatever their
intention was, created these systems to you know, create dopamine reactions,
and those things can become addictive in our bodies in
the same ways that things like drugs can. Because you
get addicted to that dopamine, that feeling of getting alike

(01:34:33):
or some attention, and then it can spiral in so
many bad ways.

Speaker 2 (01:34:37):
Well, and then we talk about the phone so much,
but at the end of the day, the phone is
the conduit. The phone is the thing, the physical thing
that you hold that the information is transmitted through. But
we've had a story this week about, you know, some
states that are scrutinizing at least and in some cases banning,
what they call AI therapy. Now, think about that AI

(01:34:58):
like it's an AI therapy person. Think about all the
issues that could cause. And then I sort of extrapolate
that into when you're talking about therapy, or at least
you know, you know someone who's in the spiritual vein
of things trying to offer counsel to somebody, And then
then you got to worry about, Okay, is this really
a person, right?

Speaker 8 (01:35:19):
Right? Right? Yeah?

Speaker 24 (01:35:20):
And I think in this whole process, what I would
say is we must never lose our humanity in interacting
with any tool.

Speaker 8 (01:35:29):
And the moment that we lose our.

Speaker 24 (01:35:31):
Humanity in interacting with any tool, we are in trouble.
The moment we humanize a tool, the moment it becomes
not a tool but a substitute for something that human beings.

Speaker 8 (01:35:44):
Were created to do, we are in real trouble.

Speaker 24 (01:35:47):
And I really believe, and I'll say this very critically
of the faith community. I don't think that we're doing
enough in the faith community to prepare people to actually
continue being human, you know, to accept their responsibilit as
human beings. What did God charge us to do? God
charged us to raise and train up our children in
the way that they should go, so that when they're old,

(01:36:08):
they will not depart from it. That was not given
to Drowk, that was not given to Elons, that was
not given to the phone, was given to us. We
are supposed to if we are the ones who are
supposed to train, we are supposed to be the experts
on what our children are supposed to ingest and so on,
is to become better people.

Speaker 2 (01:36:26):
Well, and Beth said earlier this half hour, she said,
when you listen to and we listen to that AI
generated disc jockey in Seattle, you know, you can tell
that that that entity doesn't have a soul, You can
tell right now. But my thought always with AI is, Okay,
I see what it can do right now. What's it
going to be able to do in ten years?

Speaker 8 (01:36:45):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:36:46):
You know, how good is it going to be then?
And then you know, we say that we can tell,
but maybe someday comes along where we we can't. And
that's when I think it really gets dangerous.

Speaker 11 (01:36:54):
And I think that's that's the faith community reminding us
and teaching us how to recognize the soul.

Speaker 23 (01:36:59):
Well aai's moving toward transhumanism, which is another whole new
subject that people are saying, Oh, I can now live forever.

Speaker 2 (01:37:08):
The Singularity brain.

Speaker 23 (01:37:09):
Can be put into some kind of AI module and
I'll live forever.

Speaker 10 (01:37:13):
And it's the fear of death.

Speaker 23 (01:37:14):
Death, and the fear of death is the basic fear
that most people have. All other fears are rooted into
the fear of death. And of course people in the
faith community like no and I as pastors, we have
the best news possible that if you really trust in
the Lord, you'll never die, and that takes care of
the issue of the fear of death. But we're going
to see that I think, only increase and exacerbate in
the years to come.

Speaker 2 (01:37:34):
Right, right, Well, look, obviously there's a lot there's a
lot more we could do with this conversation, and a
lot more of it will be on Sunday morning, eight
am on The David Chadwick Show. Noah, it's been fantastic
to meet you, sir.

Speaker 11 (01:37:46):
We love you and you're welcome back anytime.

Speaker 24 (01:37:48):
Oh, thank you so much. It's been an honor to
be here. It's really good to be here.

Speaker 2 (01:37:52):
Thank you, and good to see you after six weeks.

Speaker 10 (01:37:54):
Thank you, guys.

Speaker 23 (01:37:55):
It's great to be home and great to have all
of you as a part of my life again.

Speaker 2 (01:37:59):
David Chadwan Show Sunday morning at eight, and of course
David Chadwick, the senior pastor at Moments of Hope Church,
and I haven't heard it in a few weeks, but
I know what you're about to tell me.

Speaker 23 (01:38:07):
Well, if the sun comes up in the morning, there's
always hope. Been a bit rainy, but.

Speaker 2 (01:38:12):
They came up. It's somewhere behind all those clowns.

Speaker 23 (01:38:15):
But there's always hope, dear friends, there's always hope.

Speaker 2 (01:38:18):
Thank you, gentlemen, good to see Thank you. Is this
who I think it is? Is this Barry online one?

Speaker 22 (01:38:23):
Barry?

Speaker 4 (01:38:24):
You got that right?

Speaker 2 (01:38:25):
What's going on?

Speaker 19 (01:38:26):
Barry?

Speaker 2 (01:38:29):
I'm telling you now, I've been a hole for dirting
there and you haven't stopped me laugh in the whole time. Well,
wait a minute, there's other ways of listening to the show. Oh, no,
I didn't have anything to do with the show, and
you jute it, easiot. Wait a minute, idiots.

Speaker 14 (01:38:50):
You're idiot.

Speaker 2 (01:38:51):
They're a very very good what cool cool, the good
kind of idiots.

Speaker 22 (01:38:55):
Yeah, this is Good Morning Beaty with Boot with God
and Bethany.

Speaker 2 (01:39:04):
You know, I told that story that Barry's wife a
few months ago when we did the George Norri event
at the Booth Playhouse. And for those of you who
don't know that, that caller was Barry from rock Hill
who passed away last year, and he was just one
of our favorite callers. Not only did this show, but
also to George norriy on Coast to coast before us,

(01:39:27):
and we got to know Barry. And then Barry passed away,
and Barry was a huge fan of George Norri and
so I had the opportunity with Pete Callender to introduce
Nori at the Booth Playhouse for the George Norri Live event.
And unbeknownst to me, I was greeting listeners out in
front and Pete and I were, you know, saying hello
to people, and a lady walked up and her shirt
said Barry from rock Hill's wife, And so I got

(01:39:50):
to meet Barry. Barry's wife who's just a lovely lady.
And I got to tell her that story about when
he called, when he called it and said, we were
we were the we were the idiots, but we were
a good kind of.

Speaker 11 (01:40:01):
We were a good kind of idiots. We loved when when
Barry from rock Kill called, like just made our day.
It was like sunshine through a telephone.

Speaker 2 (01:40:09):
You know, we've been doing this almost three and a
half years, or four three and a half years, almost
four almost four years bo, but you know, Barry comes
to mind. We have callers like Cohen, who's out there
who let me tell you that Cohen is a Texter.

Speaker 11 (01:40:22):
Yes, and I'm loving that Cohen is texting because he
calls now, he text you know who we haven't heard
from in a while, and I want to I want
to hear from him again. Is Chris from Shelby. Maybe
tomorrow Chris and Shelby. We need it exactly, We need
we need a Chris from Shelby Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:40:35):
Call Chris, you have your marching orders, my friend, because
it's Friday Eve right now, it's right And you know
I was thinking about that with Greg from from Oakhurst
pharmacy earlier. You know, he's a caller who's called us
for years and years, and like I said earlier, it's
always about something we're talking about that's up his alley,
and I'm always that much smarter after he calls. But

(01:40:56):
almost four years, and can I just tell you, I
love the fact that we have our know in this room,
but we also have kind of an extended family of
people that have been with this and you know what,
they get it, They get what we're doing, and we
appreciate all of you preach it absolutely.

Speaker 3 (01:41:12):
Special shout out to Kevin Warren and Ken Hudson.

Speaker 2 (01:41:14):
Oh gosh, Yes, Kevin's funny because Kevin, Kevin Warren is
he's one of He's another one of our our lifers
here who's been listening to the show from since day
one and even dating back when I just first started
on the air here. But Kevin, Kevin is is mounting
his own one, one person brigade against the text line.

(01:41:37):
Like you said, someone's going to use email, Someone's still
going to use email, and that's going to.

Speaker 11 (01:41:40):
Be me and and he's doing it, and he does
it daily, and we love him.

Speaker 2 (01:41:43):
GMBT Show at WBT dot com So that's where Kevin
still hangs out and you can too if you want to,
or you can use the text line. But to each
their own. We have all these options now.

Speaker 11 (01:41:54):
I know that means we can have more connections with
all of you.

Speaker 2 (01:41:56):
I'm going to play something for you and uh, we'll
talk more about this when we come back. But I
saw this yesterday and I'm kind of surprised that it's
taken this long for this to happen. Yeah, because before
I was doing this job, I worked in TV for
three years and I produced a late night show that
was kind of a news quasi news entertainment. It morphed

(01:42:19):
the two and this story, this and the Tiger Woods story.
When the Tiger Wood scandal happened. I mean, every night
for what seemed like two years, we had either Tiger
Woods or this guy. And now, all these years later,
Netflix is having him sit down and tell his story.
How do I present this with any class?

Speaker 8 (01:42:44):
I think we're pasting that, Charlie.

Speaker 14 (01:42:45):
We're past that.

Speaker 1 (01:42:46):
Yeah, when you got a lot of shame about a
lot of stuff, shame, shame is suffocating. I lit the fuse,
you know, and my life turns into everything.

Speaker 7 (01:42:56):
It wasn't supposed to be going speed.

Speaker 3 (01:43:04):
You wanted to like.

Speaker 2 (01:43:04):
Him because he was lovable, brilliant, had so charming and smart.
Charlie's career really took off and the whole world goes
He's the fun guy. Imagine what that did to my head.

Speaker 11 (01:43:17):
He was the highest paid TV star of all time.

Speaker 1 (01:43:20):
Everything was fine for a while. Nobody got hurt, nobody
got arrested.

Speaker 4 (01:43:27):
For a while, and he started experimenting with everything.

Speaker 2 (01:43:33):
When it started to change, it was quick keep captain
saying no, no, no, I'm in the hospital now, but next
week I'll be ready for the show.

Speaker 24 (01:43:41):
When Charlie said that he was smoking seven Graham rocks,
he was he was smoking seven gram rocks because he's dying.

Speaker 2 (01:43:47):
He testified against me and I went to jail.

Speaker 1 (01:43:49):
I was aware things were coming on glued when I
can't imagine being my dad could have really hurt the
people I love.

Speaker 2 (01:43:57):
You can't really have a relationship with someone going through
a Now, Charlie Schobert, He's going to tell you the truth,
the stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:44:04):
That I plan on sharing. I had made a sacred
vow to only reveal to a therapist.

Speaker 14 (01:44:09):
Is there going to be anything called limits?

Speaker 19 (01:44:15):
Now because he's going.

Speaker 2 (01:44:17):
September tenth on Netflix a two part documentary aka Charlie
Sheen is what it's called. And like I said, I'm
surprised it's taken him this long, and I guess it
just has to do with it's taking him this long
to be ready to sit down and tell all. But

(01:44:37):
that was one of the and like I said, when
I was working in TV, it came right at the
same time or thereabouts as the Tiger Woods saga. But
Charlie Sheen and Tiger Woods for about you know, a
year and a half or so, that was all. I mean,
that was everywhere. And this is a guy that I
grew up you know, watching in like Major League, and
then I didn't so much watch the TV show as

(01:45:01):
what's the Men?

Speaker 17 (01:45:02):
Men?

Speaker 11 (01:45:02):
Men should two and a half Men?

Speaker 2 (01:45:03):
Two and a half Men? But then you think about
Charlie Sheen's father, who is Martin Sheen, who you know,
I mean you knew him personally.

Speaker 11 (01:45:10):
Well again and worked with them on a daily basis,
And by the way, is someone who has a very
very deep faith and is a practicing Catholic and is
very very committed to his faith and very kind and
conscientious and very giving and very loving. And that line

(01:45:31):
hit really hard when he said, when you hear heard
Charlie Sheen's voice and that trailer, say, imagine imagine being
my dad. And I know that it had to of
watching this kind of public, very public meltdown. I know
it had to have broken not only his dad's heart,
but his mom, his brothers.

Speaker 2 (01:45:47):
Anybody who knew him.

Speaker 11 (01:45:48):
Essentially because Chuck Lorie, who had created the show Two
and a Half Men and who made him the highest
paid the TV actor, ended up having to like write
him out of the show and kill him off the
show as this meltdown was happening.

Speaker 2 (01:46:02):
I mean, like I said, I was writing this TV
show and every night there was a different headline and
winning and Tiger's blood and I mean, it just it
never stopped. I finally did. But now, you know, we've
seen these Netflix documentaries. I was watching the one about
Vince McMahon the other night, you know, with I had
seen it when it started, but I watched a couple

(01:46:23):
of other episodes again that they did on Vince McMahon,
And of course after Hulk Cogan died, it sort of
brought that back into the forefront but these Netflix documentaries,
once they get these people to sit down, you know,
they dig deep and.

Speaker 11 (01:46:36):
So well done.

Speaker 2 (01:46:37):
There's a lot of material.

Speaker 11 (01:46:38):
Here well, and this will be one that I will have.
I'll have Netflix set the reminder for and I will
have my popcorn ready. Because life stories to me are fascinating,
you know, whether whether I'm really into whoever that person
is or not. I love understanding people's struggles. It was
why I was so drawn to the Billy Joel documentary.
You know, we got a text on the text line

(01:46:58):
that said, you know, he was not a great do
that he wasn't good to his band, and all of
those things may be true. But watching the story of
someone's life, and particularly someone who's had to deal with
fame and success and a meltdown as public, is this
one to find out their perspective and maybe what they've
learned from it. I mean, we can all hopefully learn
from something like that Two.

Speaker 2 (01:47:18):
And a half Men Platoon, Wall Street, Spin City I mentioned.

Speaker 11 (01:47:22):
Don't forget hot shots and hot shots part due.

Speaker 2 (01:47:26):
You're the best of the best tapper and of course
he's he's Rick Vaughan from from Major League.

Speaker 11 (01:47:32):
He was also in the Wraith does anyone remember the
Wraith the movie where he was like the ghost annunciation.

Speaker 2 (01:47:42):
On that the Wrath, the Wraith, Wraith w r A
I t h.

Speaker 11 (01:47:46):
I think it's how it was spelled with the Wraith.

Speaker 2 (01:47:48):
I remember men at work.

Speaker 3 (01:47:49):
That was always my ghost.

Speaker 2 (01:47:50):
That's another one. And wasn't he the He didn't have
a huge part of it, But isn't he the one
towards the end of Ferris Bueller the guy in the
in the jail, he was the guy in the jail. Yeah,
kiss with the words with his sister. Jennifer Grey.

Speaker 11 (01:48:02):
Jennifer Gray prens.

Speaker 2 (01:48:04):
Yeah, I believe you. The Rath, the Wraith.

Speaker 11 (01:48:07):
It's a very not great movie.

Speaker 19 (01:48:09):
But was this we're most like late eighties early nineties
sci fi films?

Speaker 2 (01:48:14):
Was that after the meltdown? The Wraith? All right, traffic
check now, Boomer Vancana, you.

Speaker 3 (01:48:21):
Say it was pre news job for Jennifer.

Speaker 11 (01:48:25):
Gray, for Jennifer Ray, Yeah, because do you remember when
she got the nose job and it was so purple. Yeah,
this looked like herself.

Speaker 2 (01:48:32):
This was the dirty dancing era. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
love it.

Speaker 8 (01:48:36):
Beth right on it.

Speaker 11 (01:48:37):
Man, was that a weird comment?

Speaker 8 (01:48:41):
Stood I loved it.

Speaker 2 (01:48:42):
Oh no, I mean it's almost like she had the
nose job and then you never saw her anywhere again.

Speaker 11 (01:48:46):
She didn't look like herself anywhere.

Speaker 8 (01:48:48):
What happened.

Speaker 2 (01:48:49):
Don't mess with mother nature, that's true.

Speaker 4 (01:48:52):
Charlotte's talking about Bo Thompson and Ben trout Man this morning,
So thank you so much, well and Beth like, hey,
ice to meet you.

Speaker 1 (01:49:02):
Good morning, mister Thompson and miss Trumman.

Speaker 21 (01:49:04):
Thank you for having me on your show.

Speaker 14 (01:49:05):
I appreciate you. Guys are doing a wonderful job.

Speaker 2 (01:49:07):
Every morning, my brother and I listen on the way
to school.

Speaker 25 (01:49:09):
Good morning, good morning, this is good morning, Beaty.

Speaker 3 (01:49:21):
See.

Speaker 2 (01:49:21):
For a long long time, the only person that I
thought of when I heard this was Rocky Balboa.

Speaker 7 (01:49:27):
Yeah, but Dan.

Speaker 2 (01:49:32):
Started thinking about Tiger's Blood. So now when I hear
this song, I think it's Charlie Sheen too.

Speaker 11 (01:49:39):
And isn't it a strange thing that we all know.
We all know winning and we all know the Tiger's
Blood thing. We all I don't know why we all
saw it. I mean it's because of our smartphones on
the internet, but we all saw it.

Speaker 2 (01:49:54):
Well because he was so many different characters and many
of them likable, oh so like and funny. I mean,
you know, think about hot Shots.

Speaker 11 (01:50:03):
Yeah, and part Do and heart Shots, Part Do.

Speaker 2 (01:50:05):
Topper Harley, You're the best of the best, Topper.

Speaker 11 (01:50:08):
Well and the wild thing in Major Lee.

Speaker 2 (01:50:11):
Yeah, Ricky Vaughan. And so when you saw this guy
go through this, it was almost like it was a
it was a show.

Speaker 11 (01:50:17):
Well, and it felt almost painful for those of us
who grew up with him as those you know, really
likable characters. It felt it felt personal or something. I
don't know how to describe that, but it felt like
we knew him so well that we were disappointed in
him or hurt by it. There were all of these

(01:50:39):
emotions that surrounded it.

Speaker 2 (01:50:40):
Well, and we sort of grew up with him, so
to watch it happen just seemed surreal. And then there
came a point, like you see people sometimes that spiral
and I mentioned Tiger Woods because it happened around the
same time, and we were.

Speaker 11 (01:50:53):
So disappointed there too, because he was such a golden
child in our.

Speaker 2 (01:50:57):
Minds, and the way the spiral happened, and like the
spiral starts happening and you're kind of like, oh, this
is a this is unusual and then it sort of
hits a point where its spirals out of control. And
with both of them, I mean right, I think both
of them were sort of in that category where it
was you couldn't look away from it, but at some
point you're going, Okay, somebody's got to get through to

(01:51:18):
this guy because they're throwing everything away. And and look,
Tiger's was in many ways different than than Charlie Sheen's.
But but in some ways they were alike. But Charlie
Sheen's just got bizarre.

Speaker 11 (01:51:29):
Well, it was addiction really for both of them. Tiger
Woods was just addicted to a different kind of of
of drug and that he was addicted to.

Speaker 3 (01:51:40):
It was painkillers. And I believe you was drinking a lot.

Speaker 11 (01:51:42):
Well and to women, Yeah, to women really.

Speaker 2 (01:51:47):
So, like I said, very similar Tiger Woods. The more
I think about.

Speaker 11 (01:51:52):
This, yeah, but it just it was painful to watch because,
like you said, you wanted somebody to go and hug
them and to help them because you saw how much
they were throwing away. But don't we see a lot
of these kinds of struggles whenever you watch documentary shows
about people, So many people who battle who deal with

(01:52:13):
fame also battle these kind of personal demons because I
think fame is a strange thing that humans really aren't
supposed to experience on this kind of level, on this scale.

Speaker 2 (01:52:24):
Well, like I said, the netflixes doesn't pull any punches.
These things are usually pretty raw, and I had to
clean up the trailer I played as you might expect. Well, yeah,
I take a few parts out of it. So if
you want to see the edited version that's out.

Speaker 11 (01:52:36):
There, I think it's going to be fascinating.

Speaker 2 (01:52:39):
September tenth is when aka Charlie Sheen two part Netflix
documentary will hit. We didn't talk about it, but the
Jason Kelsey, Travis Kelsey, Taylor Swift thing broke all kinds
of records last night.

Speaker 11 (01:52:53):
You predicted it, bo you said yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:52:54):
That it would That was a tough one to predict,
but you were right. I was a lone guy who
said some might watch this.

Speaker 11 (01:53:01):
No, but you were right, And I like to give
you props when props are due.

Speaker 2 (01:53:06):
Thank you. It's a great way to end the show, right.
We get the big Friday edition coming up tomorrow. Thanks
to everybody who makes this show possible. You can't tell
we have fun doing it. Oh Nandy, We have fun.
Like I'm telling you to name me a show that
has more fun doing the show than us. And you
know why, because all of you take the ride with us.
We're not as crazy as Charlie Sheen.

Speaker 11 (01:53:28):
No, no strap in because it's good, pure fun.

Speaker 2 (01:53:33):
Ken is only Thursday, It's Friday Eve. Thanks to Bernie
and Steve, thanks to Garrison, and of course the Zoke
and Boomer von Cannon. Good talk, Beth, good talk.

Speaker 17 (01:53:43):
Though, good match.

Speaker 4 (01:53:45):
Why did you get so crazy on me out there?

Speaker 3 (01:53:48):
That's the name of the game.

Speaker 4 (01:53:50):
Well, listen while you're still coming. We get that pull
right together.

Speaker 10 (01:53:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:53:53):
Sure, you've been listening to Good Morning bet here us
live weekday mornings six to ten on WBT AM eleven ten,
nine to nine point three.

Speaker 11 (01:54:02):
You can listen to us anytime right here at WBT
dot com

Speaker 2 (01:54:05):
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