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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, I checked out the track and I loved it,
and I wrote you this big sexy hook. I think
you're gonna really dig.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
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.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
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Speaker 4 (00:16):
This is Good Morning Beat with Bo Thompson and Beth Troutman.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
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Speaker 5 (00:25):
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Speaker 3 (00:38):
That's hey bet he bet he.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Funny. You know, you know, radio is such a great thing,
theater of the mine, because we're all sort of trying
to imagine what this looks like in your household. When
you get up with this in your head, the dogs
just start bobbing.

Speaker 6 (01:08):
Actually, sorry, you have our car. This was her a
walk up music in the building to Day out of
the Bullpen.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
I'm gonna I'm not gonna let it play much longer
because even though even though it's the quote unquote clean version,
edited version, sometimes that's different things to different people.

Speaker 7 (01:25):
Yes, you know, yes, yes, clean Okay, that was fun.

Speaker 6 (01:31):
Clean and green, all clean and green.

Speaker 7 (01:35):
If you want to hear the entire song. It is
now on our Spotify playlist.

Speaker 8 (01:38):
Clean version.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Does that have a little next to it?

Speaker 2 (01:41):
No, we we it's not explicit.

Speaker 9 (01:43):
Steve.

Speaker 10 (01:44):
Yeah, the clean edited version.

Speaker 6 (01:46):
I'm that exciting what we all talk about for exciting, Yes,
for extraordinary.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
I do have my bumper version which has no words,
so we can we can roll with that about.

Speaker 10 (01:55):
You know, I woke up to it's the horns. There
you go, the horns.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Great, well, then here you go, bab nothing if not
prepared for you. You know what?

Speaker 7 (02:02):
I should start using this as my walk up music
on the Brett Winterble Show.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
No, no, I like I like the D Light the Day,
the D Light. I always get D Light and Dayla
Soul next up, I know it's d Light the Light.
There are one hit wonders that they were Now I
want to hear.

Speaker 10 (02:19):
That groove is in the heart baby talk amongst yourself.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Okay, it sounds like the production album version.

Speaker 10 (02:25):
Of right, it's like the music version.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
It takes all this steme out of it.

Speaker 8 (02:31):
This is a song right now.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
This is Beth.

Speaker 10 (02:34):
Yeah, this is Beck.

Speaker 7 (02:39):
Every time I joined Brett Winterble, he always introduces me
right after the guy says dig.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Well, good morning, everybody. It is August first. Can you
believe it?

Speaker 7 (02:50):
No, I've said this already this week, but I'm going
to say it again. I don't understand time anymore.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Say rabbit, rabbit, rabbits, Oh, rabbit, rabbit, have it too?

Speaker 2 (03:01):
What don't you understand about time?

Speaker 7 (03:03):
It doesn't operate in the normal fashion that I am
accustomed to.

Speaker 10 (03:07):
It feels like it should be February.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Have you been outside right?

Speaker 7 (03:13):
It feels uncomfortably February, like an uncomfortable February.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Well, I'm glad you say that, because it's not going
to be that drastic. But starting tomorrow we're actually gonna
feel at least like like early fall because to the
next the temperatures over the next several days are going
to be a sharp contrast from what they've been. We've
got one more day today where we're still feeling humid,
still feeling summary, But for a few days it's gonna
feel good. D lightful, d Lightful said, I did there,

(03:43):
uh huh, no NFL football back. Last night I watched
a good bit of this. I watched more of the
Hall of Fame game than I have in years. I
don't know why. I just think we just we just
needed some football.

Speaker 6 (03:55):
Did you like the automated or whatever it's called, the
digital measuring for the first down?

Speaker 2 (03:58):
It's weird, just like you know, as a tennis guy
watching the matches now where they don't have linesmen anymore.
They as of Wimbledon, and I believe the French Open
now it's it's a I or it's computerized.

Speaker 10 (04:09):
So does that mean they didn't have a little guy
with that little what weird?

Speaker 6 (04:13):
Do they make constructions star to show up for work though,
like they're still there, I guess in case the technology
fails or something.

Speaker 10 (04:18):
But they didn't get to carry as little maid.

Speaker 6 (04:20):
Like they're there but they have no role except to
be like emergency situations.

Speaker 7 (04:24):
I've always thought that it looked like the when they're
carrying those out and measuring it with the little chain.
I've always thought it looked like the guys and road
construction crews that are like doing the stop slow sign.

Speaker 10 (04:32):
That's what they remind me.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
I had to do that one summer.

Speaker 6 (04:34):
Oh really, I worked on the county road crew between
my last year of high school and the first year
of college. And you want to talk about it like
we did different things every day, but the days where
we had to do that just stand there, Oh my god,
just standing there for seven eight hours and not being
able to leave and do something else is like mind numbing.

Speaker 7 (04:54):
I feel like it would be the most stressful job
because you're kind of backing up traffic and people are
getting mad at.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
You, and the the road there was like there was nobody. Possums.

Speaker 7 (05:02):
They're always like, you know, wanting to if you don't
do it right, if you get your coordination wrong with
the guy at the other end of the construction.

Speaker 8 (05:09):
I just want to have walkie talkies now, I know.

Speaker 10 (05:11):
But I get nervous for him.

Speaker 7 (05:12):
I feel like I always will roll down my window
and I want to be like, thank you.

Speaker 8 (05:16):
I always try to give him a wave when I
go by it, thank or whatever I try.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
I try to do that in the hallway here, and
sometimes it's not received.

Speaker 8 (05:24):
No, Yeah, don't you hate people.

Speaker 7 (05:26):
Some of the TV people speaking of I walked in
with some TV folks today and they're having something called
Potato Palooza today. I saw that and they're all making
potato dish dishes.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, I bet I know who you walked in with.

Speaker 7 (05:38):
Yes, Yeah, And he made a manwich a manwitch potato
tot or tato tot casserole.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Wow, Manwitch.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
It takes me back to seven.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
I got one more song before we get out of here.
Just let's just let's own it because it's a thing. Unfortunately,
here we go a.

Speaker 11 (05:56):
Little nice's a magic three days, Yes, it is that
we've called on the air and we are not streaming
apparently don't.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
I don't know why. And this doesn't help anybody that
can't stream us right now, but if you're listening to
us on the eleven ten, nine to nine three and
you have friends who stream us, we're working on it.
I don't know what's going on, but it's three days
now and we've had issues coming out of the gate
each day, so we're working on it.

Speaker 10 (06:25):
I blame Nick Craig.

Speaker 8 (06:26):
Yeah, Nickle blamed me. So it kind of rolls downhill
at this point.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
I love you, Nick. I'm kidding Nick. Nick didn't hear you.
He's working at the transmitter, so he's over there right
now trying to fix it.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
This is Good Morning bet.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Newstalk eleven ten WBT Boe and Beth on a Friday morning. Yeah,
it's Friday. It's not Wednesday, but we are going to
bring on a Wednesday staple on a Friday to make
a cameo because this happens every once in a while.
Well that we need her. What she's here to talk
about doesn't happen every once in a while, which is
exactly why we need her. The FBI is putting an

(07:09):
alert out there this morning, the Federal Bureau of Investigation
and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency updating a joint
cybersecurity advisory about passwords. A critical new warning. Don't reset
your passwords.

Speaker 7 (07:24):
Don't reset your password is the thing I've never heard.
I always here reset your password if there's an issue,
But this is a brand new thing, and it's because
of a cybersecurity I guess hacking that they're calling scattered spider.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Now, you weren't here last time I talked to Teresa
about this, but we have talked about scattered spider, and
scattered spider is something that Teresa put on people's radar.
I don't know that we knew it would come back
around like this this quickly. Teresa, good morning, good morning.

Speaker 12 (07:54):
It's great to be with you both. But why is
it always bad news?

Speaker 7 (08:00):
It seems with tech headlines these days, all of us
are so worried about our personal information and our security
and our safety, and it just seems to get harder
and harder and harder to know what to do.

Speaker 12 (08:12):
Yeah, it does. And first of all, kudos to the
Public Service Announcement Office at the FBI because they got
everybody's attention on this by saying don't reset your passwords,
and everybody's like, wait, why would they say that after
a decade of saying reset your passwords? And so it's
great because it makes everybody's stop and say why would
they say that. Here's why Scattered Spider, which has been

(08:35):
around and you write boat. They actually arrested the ringleader
of Scattered Spider, Tyler Buchanan, in twenty twenty four. But
the group is back. They might have some loose affiliation
with Russia, but this group's a little different. It's actually
young people from the US and UK teens and twenty somethings.

(08:56):
And here's what they're doing. They're either pretending to be
your IT help desk and calling you Beth and bo
and saying I need you to reset your password, and
then they might say something like you're going to get
a code, Tell me what the code is, because I
want to make sure everything went through. And they're really
slick about it because a lot of people say, well,
I would know that's not them. But remember these are

(09:18):
UK and English, so the accent is going to be
a certain way they're going to understand culture. They've done
all their homework on social media and so they're very,
very convincing. Also the reverse, they might look up everything
they can find about Death and Bo and call the
WBT help desk and say, hey, this is Beth. I'm

(09:38):
locked out of my account. Please help me. I've got
a radio show coming up and I got to get
to my notes. And because we're all wired to be
helpful people, someone might get tricked into doing it. And
it's happening to airlines, it's happening all over the place.
So this is why the FBI had this headline of
don't reset your passwords, because they just want people to pause,

(10:00):
take a moment and saying can say hey, look, if
I'm initiating the password reset, absolutely go ahead.

Speaker 13 (10:05):
And do it.

Speaker 12 (10:06):
Beth and Bo and for people listening out there, But
if you're getting a text, you're getting a call, you're
getting an email saying reset your password. Don't do it
because it's most likely scattered spider.

Speaker 7 (10:18):
So and maybe this is a simple question, but what
what ultimately is the goal of hackers that are creating
something like this. Is it literally just selling personal information
on the dark web? Is it or is it credit
card fraud? Is it, you know, accessing bank records?

Speaker 10 (10:37):
Is it all of the above?

Speaker 12 (10:39):
It looks like it's all of the above if you
basically it's like, we'll take whatever we can get, but
it's it's more sinister for companies. So for example, they've
been taking people's frequent fire numbers, they're frequent hotel you know,
and I guess going on vacation or reselling it or
whatever they're doing with it. So that's kind of like
at the lower level the identity theft, taking over your miles,

(11:01):
the taking over getting free plane tickets and.

Speaker 7 (11:03):
Things like that.

Speaker 12 (11:04):
But at the higher level, they're actually getting into companies
and tricking their way in so they you know, if
they get in as somebody who's in to givement resources,
now they can look at the personnel records. There's an
identity theft play, but then there's a well, now I
have an HR account. Now I can reach out to
all the employees there and tell them I've got bonus information.
Now I'm inside, you know, sort of the security walls

(11:27):
of the outside, and people think I'm in HR because
I've hijacked their account. Now they're clicking on my links.
Now I'm infecting more systems, and now I'm taking over
more accounts until I can get to the system and
actually do a ransomware campaign. So we've actually seen it
go as small as identity theft and stealing people's frequent

(11:49):
airline points, and believe me, that's big in our personal lives,
but all the way from that end, which is tragic
and hard to deal with, all the way to ransomware.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
We've entered the era, unfortunately, of scams or security breaches
that are triggered under the guise of security. Yeah. Right,
because there's this example about changing your passwords. I saw
one the other day that was related to, hey, your
account has been accessed by an unknown user. Or you know,

(12:22):
like when you're logging in, for example, to a streaming service,
or you're logging into, you know, an Apple site and
you get a note that says, hey, this site was
just accessed by an unknown computer or a computer that's
not known to your inner circle, Like I feel like
that might be the next sort of area that they
go after. But we're now in that place where people

(12:44):
are reeling you in and getting you because they're making
you think that you're actually making your security tighter.

Speaker 12 (12:52):
Yeah. The one thing that I tell people to do,
because I got a really convincing one to attend a
weapon on the webinar was going to be on topics
that would matter to me. It looked like a legitimate company,
and I'm looking at it and it just, I don't know,
it felt a little off to me. So before I

(13:12):
hovered on the email domain, which is what gave it
away that it was a complete scam and they were
trying to probably get me to click on a link
to infect my email. I took the body of the
email and I cut and pasted it into a search
engine and then I put comma, is this a scam?
And then all these different people had reported, like on Reddit,

(13:35):
in different places like don't click on the link to
this webinar, it's going to infect your computer, et cetera,
et cetera. So there's some things that we can all do,
you know, so if something feels a little off, you
can do that. You can go to the free toolvirustotal
dot com. Another thing to watch out for too bo
like let's say that convinced you to click on a link,
because sometimes those are legit and you do have to

(13:57):
do something to protect your account. Let's say it did
convince to click on a link, but now all of
a sudden, you're in this like weird do loop for
your multi factor authentication where it's like, no, try this code, no,
try that code, No, that didn't work. That is a
red flag. And I always tell people one of the
best things you can do is to break the cycle
is just shut down all of your devices and come

(14:20):
back in, come back and clean, maybe go to another
device and log into everything very slowly, methodically, breathe, think,
and you're most likely going to be okay because you
broke that link between you and the attacker trying to
figure out how to get into your account.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
So again, just to wrap up here, the FBI warning
regarding passwords is that if you get solicited to change
your password and it doesn't seem like it fits, like
you didn't start it, or it's not anywhere near something
that you started the process on then you need to
be leery of that and don't it's not and we're
not saying don't ever change your password. Of course, change

(14:57):
your password, like Teresa has already always told us, but
don't be very suspicious if you get a prompt that
that comes out.

Speaker 10 (15:06):
Of nowhere, and really quickly.

Speaker 7 (15:07):
Teresa, we just got a text message to our text
line from Roland who said, good morning. I got that
email saying it was from HR about bonus pay.

Speaker 10 (15:16):
I clicked it. It looked official.

Speaker 7 (15:18):
They sent an email to all of my contacts saying
it was from me and to pay an invoice, and
from there they got to his personal information and then
hacked into a credit card. So he said, be careful
people out there, because for him it looked like it
was from the HR department from his company.

Speaker 12 (15:35):
Oh my gosh, yeps. So these are the red flags
and I appreciate him sharing. That's anarrea that happened to him,
and gosh, our time together goes by so fast.

Speaker 4 (15:44):
I know you guys have.

Speaker 12 (15:45):
Other topics to cover. Thanks for having me on, and
everybody be safe out there.

Speaker 4 (15:50):
This is good Morning DT with both Thompson and Beth
trout Man.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Sean O'Connell is not with us today, but that does
not mean we're not talking about a movie that opens
up today, and this is I think this one is
an under the radar, could be a smash, but by
the time it's all over. I mean, we've been talking
about these huge movies like Fantastic Four and Jurassic World

(16:22):
and of course Superman. But today maybe the movie that
you didn't know you needed. Did you know that you
needed Liam Neeson as Frank Drebn.

Speaker 7 (16:33):
When this was announced that this movie was going to
be a thing about this time last year, probably I
think everybody was like, what Liam Neeson the.

Speaker 10 (16:41):
I have a particular set of skills.

Speaker 8 (16:42):
Guy Pam Anderson too.

Speaker 10 (16:44):
I didn't know she's in the film.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
She's she's the female in the movie. She's the So
you think that if it's hard for you to imagine
Frank Drevin, is anybody other than Leslie Nielsen? All Right,
so listen to this. I'm out for revenge.

Speaker 8 (17:01):
There's no going back.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
A voice in your head saying over and over.

Speaker 8 (17:08):
That was awesome?

Speaker 4 (17:13):
Who are you Dreven?

Speaker 8 (17:15):
Detective Frank Dreven?

Speaker 9 (17:17):
Thanks at least what has always been the elite of
the elite.

Speaker 8 (17:23):
I'll find them.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
This is what I do, says, you serve twenty years
for man's laughter.

Speaker 8 (17:29):
You mean manslaughter must have been quite a joke.

Speaker 4 (17:33):
They're going to shut down Police Quad if you do
not solve this case.

Speaker 10 (17:37):
Do this by the book?

Speaker 3 (17:40):
Why who's going to arrest me?

Speaker 2 (17:43):
Other cops?

Speaker 4 (17:44):
Yes, she's serious?

Speaker 14 (17:46):
Is he serious?

Speaker 4 (17:47):
Is no?

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Today? Today is The Naked Gun in theaters. Now. I'm
actually going to see Fantastic Four with my son this afternoon,
but part of me kind of wants to go in
the that has this movie because I remember when I
first saw The Naked Gun all those years ago. Now,
at that point in time, I had never seen the
old Police Squad show. Yeah, I hadn't either, Leslie Nielsen.
I think the first time I ever saw him was

(18:12):
an airplane and then so I knew who he was.
And then The Naked Gun came out and we went
to see it, and I had no expectation going in,
like I didn't even know anything about it, but I said, Okay,
we'll go. And it was one of the funniest movies
I've ever.

Speaker 7 (18:25):
Seen, and in just like ridiculous funny, but it also
came out at a time shortly after Airplane and Airplane two,
where these kind of slapstick weird You know.

Speaker 10 (18:36):
Surely you can't be serious. I am serious, and stop
calling me Shirley. You know when those.

Speaker 7 (18:40):
Movies were really popular. We haven't seen a movie with
that kind of humor.

Speaker 10 (18:44):
In a while. But I think I think Bo's right.

Speaker 7 (18:47):
I think this is going to be an under the
radar smash hit because people, I think are kind of
exhausted and they're kind of tired of seeing the violent
movies and all the fighting and the kind of the
same storyline over and over again. And I think people
want to laugh. I think people want to feel good,
and I kind of feel like this is going to
be that movie that people go to see because they

(19:09):
feel like it might be a chance to have a
just deep breath.

Speaker 6 (19:13):
I hate that I know that that man's laughter line existed.
I would love to cut that cold. That is so
funny Wright.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
How have we not rest of her man's laughter?

Speaker 2 (19:23):
So Police Squad the show was nineteen eighty two, and
then they made it into a movie in nineteen eighty eight.
But I'm sure there were people like me that in
eighty eight didn't realize that it came from the TV show,
But that ended up they had three movies in the
Naked Gun when it went to the theaters, and I
know that drove a lot of people back to Police
Squad the TV show. The cool thing was is when

(19:43):
you went back and watched the TV show, it was
the same. It was the same thing. They just for
some reason waited all those years to make it into
a movie, So you had a gap of people who
kind of knew what it was then.

Speaker 7 (19:53):
And we're so excited, I'm sure to see the movie happened.
But also around that time, do you remember that Charlie
Sheen movie came out Hot and then Hot Shots Part.

Speaker 10 (20:03):
Which was also like the top.

Speaker 7 (20:04):
Gun version of these kind of slapstick parody movies, and
you know, they were incredibly popular, so maybe they were
just reviving that kind of strange humor.

Speaker 15 (20:18):
I don't even know.

Speaker 10 (20:18):
How do you describe the humor of those films.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
I think it's Naked Gun humor.

Speaker 10 (20:22):
Just naked gun humor. Airplane humor.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yeah, yeah, well airplane, But we have to remember the
Police Squad became before Airplane, did it not?

Speaker 4 (20:30):
Or no?

Speaker 10 (20:30):
I don't even actually know.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Airplane. I think now that I think about it, Airplane
was like like nineteen eighty maybe, well, Police Squad was
eighty two, and then you had the Naked Gun movies
in the late nineties or the late eighties, early nineties.
And now we're back and it's Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson.
Pam Anderson our film, as I would say, the same tone.

Speaker 8 (20:54):
It's the Rigsonals.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Hopefully a lot of giggles for.

Speaker 14 (20:57):
The audience, some funny stuff, situations that the characters find
themselves in.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah, a lot of giggles.

Speaker 13 (21:10):
I think it definitely honors the old and having Akiva direct,
I mean it is comedy. I know people say comedy
is hard, but comedy is timing. It's there's so much
that goes into it that I mean, it's definitely the
inspiration comes from the original Naked Gun, but he definitely

(21:31):
put his own twist on it.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
See she's had quite a year sort of under the
radar because she was in a movie that got Oscar attention.
You know, it didn't win anything, but got discussed and
you're thinking, Pamela Anderson and then now she's in this
movie and I haven't seen it yet. Obviously, but the
footage that I've seen, she's really funny.

Speaker 7 (21:51):
Well, and she did a documentary within the last year
or two kind of about her life and her experience
and what life was like post that tape that was
released of her and or that was stolen really from
her and from when she was married to Tommy Lee.
And then there was that entire series, was it Netflix
or Hulu that was Sebastian stand as Tommy Lee and

(22:13):
it was about that whole experience, which he, you know,
got praised for that tape and she kind of lost
a career and lost a lot of opportunities and she
got berated by the public. And it's the same tape
and both of them as a married couple, but you know,
because she was a woman and she talks very openly
about it, and now she's having this strange kind of

(22:34):
resurgence and rebirth and there's something really quite remarkable about it.
And to have been this bombshell, you know, Baywatch she.

Speaker 10 (22:44):
Was Was she in Playboy too? Probably all the.

Speaker 15 (22:47):
Guys like, yeah, I've heard that, yeah, but I still
have She's doing this whole entire like no makeup thing.

Speaker 7 (22:59):
You know, she was on the Red carpet without makeup,
and there's something really cool and freeing. I think about
it as as a woman, and I think she's probably
in her fifties now just saying I'm myself and I'm
accepting myself and I'm not going to adhere to these
standards that I was kind of all. She was part
of it, you know, early on, she was the standard
that you gentlemen, you know, read the articles about I'm right.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
You read all the article hearsay Beth. Now the other
guy that has a connection to this, and it's a
very loose one, but it's the most important one. It
was sort of his idea to get the ball rolling.
He didn't direct it, but he's produced it is Seth McFarland.

Speaker 16 (23:35):
I was a huge fan of the Zucker Brothers growing up.
I loved Airplan, I love the Naked Gun. I loved
Police Squad. The first time I saw a Naked Gun,
I had already seen Airplan, was already a huge fan.
And I tracked down the six episodes of Police Squad
and found that they were just as funny as the movie,

(23:56):
and so that that variety of humor that the Zucker Brothers.
Melbourne books became My part of this was really just
having the thought a while back that Liam Neeson would
be really funny in a Naked Gun reboot, and that
was kind of That's really the extent of my contribution

(24:18):
to this iteration.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
So Liam Neeson as Frank Dreben in the reboot of
the Nicked Gun starts today in theaters. And I was
looking at the timeline, So airplane was nineteen eighty Police Squad,
the TV series was nineteen eighty two, and then you
wait all the way until what nineteen eighty eight until
the first Leslie Nielsen Nicaked Gun movie.

Speaker 10 (24:41):
Isn't it cool that it's Leslie.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Nielsen Nicked Gun, naked, naked, naked, nicked naked. I didn't
say naked guns, Oh, nicked.

Speaker 10 (24:49):
We'll check the table, Yeah, it just now, but naked.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
How many times can we say naked?

Speaker 10 (24:56):
Liam Neeson and Leslie Nielsen, they have the same initials.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Coincidence point, Priscilla Presley, Well there's a p. Yeah, there's
not an m aman erson orn traffic check.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Right, you solved the mystery.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yes, Steve brought this one to our attention, reminded us
first day of August forty three years ago MTV was born. Now,
what's the memes say that he sent us? Because this is.

Speaker 7 (25:41):
True, This is so true. MTV turns forty three this year.
Music Television, thanks for fourteen years of music.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
I have no idea what you get when you turn
on MTV these days. Every year. The Video Music Awards
happened in the early part of September, so I sort
of glanmance that that because every once in a while
something happens of consequence or interest that we may talk
about the next day. But that's the only time that
I ever see what else is on MTV, and it's
always anything but the music that they're talking.

Speaker 8 (26:12):
About, psychically ridiculousness.

Speaker 7 (26:13):
Yeah, well, and how how is it still like MTV
because the m for like.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
Mah, yeah, yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 10 (26:21):
It should be math TV.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
I mean it's still it's still around, so somebody's watching it.
But it's just it's it's kind of sad when you
see it because it's but again, we live in a
different era. Kids don't watch music videos on TV anymore.
They watch them on their phone, so you understand why
it's not what it used to be. But I still
think it would be cool if because we talked a
few months ago about Kurt Loder turning eighty yeah, And

(26:43):
we talked not too long ago about them shutting down
MTV News. Like MTV News as a gathering operation lasted
a lot longer than the actual videos on the channel.
You may not know that, but but it did. Technically.

Speaker 7 (26:54):
It was brilliant on their part back when we were kids,
because that's how we got our news. Like we watched
it Billy Joel video and then suddenly found out, you
know about the the Iran contra affair?

Speaker 2 (27:04):
How about this? Though along the lines of MTV news
what iron just me?

Speaker 7 (27:10):
Was I the only one that was worried about the
Iran contra? A fair in the eighties?

Speaker 2 (27:14):
First down, let's go again?

Speaker 8 (27:17):
It was only quite the segue.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
So MTV News went away a few years ago. E
exclamation point or if you're Beth Troutman and you watch it,
E with sixteen exclamation points. But remember the E News channel.
It still exists. But apparently E News will have its
final TV broadcast on September twenty fifth. And again, I
know a lot of people are going, I had no
idea it was still around. But just the same way,

(27:41):
there was technically an MTV News. There was an E
News which covered like celebrity gossip type stuff if that's
your thing.

Speaker 10 (27:47):
And I guess TMZ probably took over for.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
That day, so E News And I don't know how
much longer the E channel will stay around, but both
MTV and E are still a thing. But somebody's watching it.
I don't know who, because I mean, when's the last
time you heard about anything either one of those channels
other than the MTV Movie Awards I don't know, or
Video Awards.

Speaker 7 (28:07):
I don't even know where E is on the on
the channel guide anywhere. What does E stand for now?
Because it used to be entertainment?

Speaker 17 (28:12):
Now?

Speaker 10 (28:12):
Is it just like you?

Speaker 2 (28:17):
We've got you? But just in case you're keeping score
at home, September twenty fifth is the the mark. Did
you know they're shutting down the E News network news department?

Speaker 1 (28:29):
No?

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Ohne all that.

Speaker 18 (28:33):
I don't think I even knew they had a news department,
that's right.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
I haven't used that since MTV actually played videos.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
That's where Joe Lespie went.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
Ah, okay, let me do it, joke.

Speaker 8 (28:46):
Son, isn't this great blue sky?

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Is fresh cut grass? Birds? Turnin phone he's.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
He's from News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three WBT. No,
I know you could smoke on stage.

Speaker 10 (28:58):
You can't use them, moll cigarette out.

Speaker 4 (29:01):
This is Good Morning Beat with Quote Thompson at Beth
Troutman Bob bens Ban's refrigeration.

Speaker 10 (29:07):
Do a lot to learn about this town.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Sweeten Ah boy, six minutes past seven o'clock on the
first day of August.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
You like a meme machine a birthday to me.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
That was what a may.

Speaker 8 (29:29):
That was awesome.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
That May was for Bernie, but really it was for everybody.
We built it together. We have a lot to get to.
Congressman Mark harrisil join us coming up as he always does.
At seven twenty. We just got a note from somebody
on the text line driven by Liberty bu York GMC
about the MTV conversation we were having because I said,

(29:51):
forty three years ago today MTV was born. I was
saying that MTV shut down their news operation not too
long ago, and we were talking about what exactly is
on MTV.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Now.

Speaker 10 (30:01):
Yeah, we were.

Speaker 7 (30:02):
Saying that MTV, thank you for fourteen years of music
and now I said it was just meth TV. But
John sent us a message and said, hey, BT, MTV
has a huge production company. Every episode of Yellowstone has
the original MTV logo and music credit at the very beginning.
So apparently MTV does mad TV, but they do productions

(30:26):
of other for shows that aren't on MTV and movies.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Well, that's cool, and I said, I said that that.
I know they must do something otherwise why would they exist?
But it doesn't make sense either. Why would you take
the MTV logo and brand that spent all those years
making it into something and then just put it on
something like Yellowstone. That doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 10 (30:48):
It's all about financing.

Speaker 7 (30:49):
It's all about financing films and TV shows that make money.
And maybe maybe music videos just weren't making the kind
of money. I really, I really don't know what happened.

Speaker 6 (31:01):
Radio killed the video start radio dish Here we still
are exactly right.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
It's come back around, that's exactly right.

Speaker 10 (31:09):
Everything old is new again.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Well, and we're talking about branding and thinking of new
ways to look at old things. How about this tomorrow night,
here we go the twenty twenty five MLB Speedway Classic
at Bristol Motor Speedway. The Atlanta Braves and the Cincinnati
Reds are going to play a baseball game at a
NASCAR track.

Speaker 7 (31:29):
I still say, I still say they should put the
bases at the corner turns and make them run the
whole track.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
For hours just to get a single.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
I mean, zoke. You pointed this out when we first
talked about this being a thing. You were saying, well,
they've done the race inside the LA Coliseum, they have
the Roval Race here in Charlotte. They're trying in Chicago, Yeah,
streets of Chicago. They're trying to do innovative things. I mean,
they've played college basketball games on aircraft carriers. I actually
like this kind of thinking, because how else are you

(31:59):
gonna make a Brave Red's game in August exciting? Especially
this year when the Braves are just not good. They're
just kind of meh.

Speaker 10 (32:07):
They should air this on MTV. That would be the
perfect thing, would be amazing.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
But I haven't good enough to be med this year.

Speaker 6 (32:12):
But I think it's cool because you know, Bristol, first
of all, gets it's a great fan base for the
NASCAR races there, so it's built in. It's not that
far from Cincinnati. They played in Cincinnati last night. So
I think they'll get a lot of reds carry over
from there too, and not only the first major League
baseball game at a racetrack, first major League baseball game
in the state of Tennessee, and Nashville has been one
of those like Charlotte and probably more so Raleigh area

(32:34):
that they're trying to in the future maybe get an
expansion Major League Baseball team. So I think for Tennessee,
they love this attention because you know, they would love
to get the next Major League round of teams be
Nashville as one of those.

Speaker 10 (32:44):
That's actually really cool.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
You know.

Speaker 7 (32:45):
What they should do to get more eyeballs on the
actual game itself, I think they should combine the two.
They should have the baseball going on in the infield
and then have a NASCAR race going on around the track,
so you tune in, you get something for every.

Speaker 6 (32:58):
Time you hit the ball, you hop in your car
and drive your first base or or.

Speaker 10 (33:02):
That or that and and all of the bases. If
there's a wreck, well you you you put up a fence.

Speaker 8 (33:10):
I don't sure.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
I don't know they do, now that I think about it,
You're not wrong. That would be very interesting. If there
was a race and a baseball game at the same time.

Speaker 7 (33:18):
So you could you're never you know, when there's a
caution flag or something you watch the baseball game.

Speaker 6 (33:22):
I've always said there should be a NASCAR at every track,
a second track inside the track, so when there's a wreck,
it's like how they mark off traffic when there's an
accident on an interstate or whatever.

Speaker 10 (33:33):
Tool.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
You go to the.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Second one while they clean up the first wreck, and
then that way they can keep on racing on the
on the second lap.

Speaker 8 (33:39):
What if they just do it like the second track
the halftime in football games, they had the peewee football
teams come out, so you have the.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
Kids, you can have kids driving in the oh kids.

Speaker 8 (33:47):
Yeah, it'd be really fun.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
That'd be the tricycles.

Speaker 6 (33:51):
I can remember the great ideas, and none of these
have taken off.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Right if you're going to the game, and maybe people listening,
you know, this is close enough, so maybe some people
making the trip this weekend to Bristol to see the
baseball game. First one ever, as Zochie said in Tennessee,
the Interactive Fan Zone. They have all kinds of things
like live performances by country music stars. They have one
hundred and ten foot ferris wheel. They have pitching tunnels

(34:18):
and batting cages, and of course Fox is going to
be there doing the big broadcast. This has become you know,
in recent years they've done things like the baseball game
at the field in Iowa where Field of Dreams was
filmed at. So this is August, and I guess it
makes sense because this is kind of maybe the lull
of the season where you're kind of like, all right,
not yet, not the Pennant race yet, but you're done

(34:40):
with the All Star games, so it's kind of like,
let's let's get something to excite people.

Speaker 7 (34:44):
I kind of do have a logistics question though, because
you know, when you're at a baseball game, you're pretty
darn close to the field. Are the people going to
be sitting in the stands that where you would sit
to watch a race, and if so, you're kind of
far away from the game happening at infield because you
have a whole track.

Speaker 6 (34:58):
And I don't know exactly the answer, but this is,
you know, one of the smaller tracks. It's not as
big as our speedway start of track, so should be
a little bit more of a bowl where you should
be able to see in a tighter think dovers that
way a couple of different tracks.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
So yeah, I've seen a couple of diagrams of it.
And now that I say that, I'm trying to pull
it up and I can't do it fair now here
it is. Yeah, so the track, the track is the
baseball field is completely in the infield of the of
the track, so the track still goes all the way
around it. It's always interesting to look at this because
same thing when you know they have these Bowl games
at baseball stadiums, and and you know a lot of

(35:31):
kids don't realize that a lot of NFL teams back
in the day, Atlanta Oakland to come to mind, I
had baseball and football in the same stadium. But they
have to have to redo the seating in some of
those cases to fit it. But if you look at
the diagram of the of the Bristol setup, it's the
it's it's encapsulated in the infield. It's tight, but it's there.

Speaker 7 (35:51):
Isn't that kind of crazy that you can fit a
regulation baseball field in the infield of a NASCAR track.

Speaker 10 (35:57):
That's kind of cool.

Speaker 8 (35:57):
Every time I drive by Charlotte Motor Speedway. It's kind
of I forget how huge it is. I mean it's massive.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
Yeah, they could host a Panthers game up there.

Speaker 8 (36:05):
Oh yeah, i'd be really motor speed.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 7 (36:07):
They should do a Panthers game and a NASCAR race
at the same.

Speaker 6 (36:10):
Time, and a baseball game at a Ferris Wheel and
corn Dogs.

Speaker 19 (36:15):
Seven thirteen on WBT and showing music videos on the
big screen.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
Well that hit, it's a big screen. Pretend it's MTV
forty three years ago. Traffic check right now, Boomer von
Cannon Speedway Baseball. Hey, let's go for the trifecta.

Speaker 4 (36:29):
What do you think we put in WWE.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Ah, that's the only thing we didn't say, SummerSlam, sir.
That's this weekend too, see Boomer.

Speaker 4 (36:37):
See we put it.

Speaker 20 (36:38):
On one end of the infield and then baseball on
the other end and have a race going on the same.

Speaker 10 (36:42):
It's amazing that we're not all millionaires with these like killer.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
Ideas because there's no crossover in NASCAR and WWE fans.
Oh not at all. No, that'd be a lot of
sale products there.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
Probably we keep giving these ideas away for free.

Speaker 10 (36:54):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
That's hey, we talked about the the the playing hockey,
playing playing hockey over at the BBNT Ballpark, which is
what it was back in the day, and now it's
truest field. We said that first and then now it's
a thing.

Speaker 10 (37:06):
Did we get royalties for that?

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Still?

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Wait?

Speaker 10 (37:09):
Is it called the bow Beth and jim uh I
Ice Rink.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Beth and bow Plex bow Plex? It's the Beth the
center too, Hey, and thoroughly enjoy the show.

Speaker 10 (37:23):
Thank you for taking the time to call in.

Speaker 21 (37:25):
Well, y'all, keep it done a great job.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
Thank you man. Keep phone keeping on.

Speaker 4 (37:29):
This is Good Morning Beat with Bow and.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Paths, Friday morning in the Tiboid Studio seven eighteen. As
you make your way from point A to point B
on the WBT hotline. As he is at this time
every week, even when Congress is in recess, US Congressman
Mark Harris is with us right now. Good morning, Congressman.

Speaker 4 (37:55):
Is he there?

Speaker 2 (37:57):
Are you there, sir?

Speaker 10 (37:58):
Congressman harrols, Yeah, the good morning Congressman.

Speaker 21 (38:02):
Hey, good morning, how are you.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
We're doing well and how are things in your world?

Speaker 21 (38:08):
Well, they're going very well. It's been a busy time
back in the district and active and involved in various things,
and so we've been taking meetings and doing things here
the district of North Carolina. But it's going very well.
Thank you. I hope you all are doing super.

Speaker 7 (38:27):
We are doing super. And let's let's jump right into
some political headlines. Of course, this morning, the big talking
point on really everyone's mind the tariffs. Here are just
some headlines. Here's Trump announces historic new US tariffs across
the globe. The New York Times says Switzerland is stunned
by thirty nine percent US tariff, among the highest in

(38:49):
the world. Trump has conversation with Mexico. Tariffs now deferred.
What do you make of what's going on with the
current tariff situation? What you see happening? And right now
we're waking up to some The Dow futures right now
down four hundred and fifty eight, the S and P
future is down almost seventy. What do you see happening

(39:10):
in the next week, the next ninety days if you're Mexico.

Speaker 21 (39:14):
Well, again, I think it's interesting as we're seeing all
of these different headlines come out. July has been a really,
I guess, strong month when you think about the trade
deals that we've been seeing that have been hitting. You know,
this week, there were several of course, starting the week
with the European one, which was a huge win that

(39:36):
I think everybody recognized, everybody except Europe. I think they
felt like that at the end of the day, they
got the best deal that they could. But I think
when you look at the overall picture, that it really
is the President is just negotiating each one of these
step by step, and of course he set August first

(39:59):
as a a deadline that he wanted everybody to hit.
And so these countries are obviously waking up to that
this morning, and I think you're going to just begin
to see more and more of them start to settle
out where you've got the higher tariffs right now. I
think it's a matter of them taking him seriously. The

(40:20):
President has seemed to say what he means and mean
what he says, and I think that all of these
countries are coming to recognize that, and I think that
we're just going to see where again it lands. I
mean a lot of the economists and people that were
just very, very negative when all of this started back
in April are having to recognize that this leveling of

(40:46):
the playing field in the trade. He's taken trade so
much more seriously, it seems, than any other president in decades,
and has put a lot of time, a lot of
attention to these ds, and so we're just going to
have to continue to see how they unfold. An economists
or are tending to come around and having to admit

(41:07):
that it's been a good thing for the United States.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
One of the headlines from yesterday, as Beth was pointing out,
with the tariffs as it relates to Mexico, a ninety
day extension, but extension in one area. Earlier this week,
we learned about a decrease in the timeline, the deadline
shrunk as it relates to Russia, and we're not talking

(41:30):
about tariffs. We're talking about for Russia to come together
with an agreement on the Russia Ukraine war that President
Trump's been talking about. And we've seen the relationship with
President Putin get worse in recent days. President Trump seems
pretty exasperated by all of this. What are your thoughts
on what's happening on the war front there.

Speaker 21 (41:52):
Well, President is exactly as you said, Bo, he's very
frustrated with Putin. He's made it clear that Putin can
say the right things, and then within twenty four hours
he's bombing Kiev. And I think that has created just
a huge amount of angst and frustration with the White

(42:14):
House and trying to come to terms the fact that
he is shrunk the number of days, going from fifty
days to less than two weeks before these sanctions are
going to kick in. I think is just again the
President's way of using the economic pressure, using the strength
of the United States in our economic situation, in order

(42:37):
to put pressure on these countries to come to the
table and let's bring an end to these these senseless wars.
And I think that he's just using it as a
major negotiating tool.

Speaker 7 (42:49):
Speaking of wars, the situation that's going on between Israel
and Gaza, and certainly what's happening what they're calling a
humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. Trump's special on Boy
Steve Whitcoff and the Israel Ambassador Mike Huckaby are headed
to Gaza to assess the situation. We heard Donald Trump
this week in an interview talk about the images that

(43:10):
he's seen of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip dealing
with things like malnutrition and concerned about aid going into
that area. What do you think is going to be
on the docket for the day with Steve Whitcoff, with
Mike Huckaby, and what do you think the results might be.

Speaker 21 (43:28):
Well, I think they want to see firsthand exactly what
is taking place there. You know, there's so much propaganda
that gets utilized in things. You know, earlier this week
there was the New York Times had had a picture
of a starving child, as I understand it, and had

(43:48):
run that and just again trying to put an immense
amount of blame and pressure on Israel that somehow they
were starving all of these children over there. And then
the New York Times had to come back and say
that that particular child they had run this picture of
really had a pre existing condition that was not related

(44:10):
to the food shortage or those kind of things, but
actually had a medical condition that was eating the muscle
away and really should not have been used as a picture. Again,
there's that kind of propaganda that has been utilized. I
think that Huckabee and Whitcough want to really talk with

(44:30):
the people and see Presidents talked about putting some food
centers up there to try to help with that crisis.
It is definitely a humanitarian crisis. But at the same time,
we've got to Israel's got to be able to finish
what has started there. And so much of the food
is being taken by Hamas, so much of it is

(44:52):
being held as I mean, for ransom if you will,
and sold in other ways to create money for getting
arms or somehow trying to get the moss resurrected again
to be able to fight. And so you can't lose
sight of the fact that there are still, from our understanding,

(45:12):
twenty living hostages. Outside my office, I have the pictures
of three of the young men that again we're told
through intelligence that those three are three of the twenty
that are still alive, and we're wanting them back. And
I think that as that negotiation goes on, that's a
huge part of it. And we can't forget the hostages

(45:32):
that are being held. We can't begin to forget these
families that are being impacted, and those are the alive hostage.
I think there's more than fifty hostages, some of them dead,
that the families are just waiting for their bodies to
be returned. So a lot of factors that are happening.
There a lot of moving pieces, and I think it's

(45:53):
important for us to get to the facts.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
Talking to Congressman Mark Harris District number eight, of course
here on Friday morning, as we always do, big story
in North Carolina this week, the US Senate race is
sizing up here. You had Roy Cooper announced that he's
running as a Democrat earlier this week and then yesterday
in Gastonia.

Speaker 22 (46:11):
As we head into the twenty twenty six midterms, there
is no doubt that once again the consequences will be significant.
Americans will be choosing whether to return to the failed
policies of Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer,
or are we going to continue the great gags that

(46:32):
we have seen with President Trump at a Republican House
and a Republican Senate.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
That is Michael Watley just moments before he made it
official he is running for US Senate. Now now that
we have the race, I mentioned that he was close
to it last week. Now we know that those two
Cooper and Harris, I mean Cooper, Harris, Cooper and of
course Michael Wattley are running. You've run for US Senate
before you know what's ahead of Michael Wattley. He's now

(46:58):
going from being a guy working behind the scenes to
be in on the front line. What do you make
of this matchup?

Speaker 21 (47:05):
Well, I think it's going to be a fascinating matchup.
And as I have told people that it's going to
be important for this to be a national election even
though it's focused here in North Carolina, and that is that.
I really think when you get down to it, we're
going to make it a referendum on the America First

(47:26):
Trump policies. And I think that's important because I think
that that's where overall North Carolina is. They have voted
for President Trump three times, he's won this state. And
I think that in those words that you just played
that Michael Wattley put out there, this is key and
that is that in order for the Trump presidency to

(47:48):
be able to continue to move these policies like the
one Big, Beautiful bill that kept everybody's taxes down instead
of allowing the brackets to increase, that would have just
cost American an enormous amount of money, you know, four
trillion dollars. The federal government would have reached back in
to American taxpayers pockets in order to keep those policies

(48:11):
moving forward. If America first, we're going to have to
keep the majority in the Senate and maintain our majorities
in the House. And we've seen this playbook before of
the left, and if they managed to get control of
one of those bodies, we can't hardly go anywhere. And
if they get control of the House, they tended to

(48:31):
just turn to impeachment and then it's going to be
one thing after another. So there's a lot of stake
in the midterms. North Carolina Senate race is front and
center and making sure we maintain our majority in the
US Senate, and I think everybody is going to be
looking at that over the course of the next year.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
And of course there are others in the primary. Don
Brown's been on the show twice in the last three weeks,
and the primary comes before the general, but we know
who the front runners are because their backgrounds and endorsements.
I understand you're going to be traveling next week on
a delegation trip, so we won't talk to you next week,
but we appreciate you coming on today.

Speaker 21 (49:10):
Well, it's always an honor to be with you all,
and hopefully I'll be able to break some news with
you when I get back. I can't talk a whole
lot about the trip before we leave this Sunday, but
when I get back, I'll be able to share some
things I've seen from a very important part of the
world and some things that are happening. And I look

(49:31):
forward to being back with you at our regular time
and just two weeks.

Speaker 4 (49:35):
This is Good Morning Beat with both Hudson and Beth
trout Back.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
News Talk eleven ten ninet of nine three WBT. Happy
August to all of you who celebrate.

Speaker 7 (49:53):
Hey, it's a birthday month for two of our fellas
in here. That's exactly we do celebrate August.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
That would be Bernie and Steve, right.

Speaker 10 (50:02):
That would be Steve.

Speaker 8 (50:03):
Correct, Steve, you're with the sixteenth sixteenth, I'm the sixteen right.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
Well, you know how we do. We celebrate every day
of the month. We have some other political headlines to
get to here. Thanks to Congressman Marc Harris for joining
us right there. I asked him about Michael Wattley making
it official yesterday, and I had time to play some
of the clip, but not all of the clip.

Speaker 22 (50:22):
I know that North Carolina wants to see our economy
do better, more jobs created, safer communities, and a stronger military,
and so do I, which is why I am very
proud today to announce that, with a complete and total

(50:42):
endorsement of President Donald Trump, I am running to be
the next Senator from the Great State.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
So that's how it sounded in Gastonia yesterday late yesterday afternoon,
as it got to be interesting for Watley to hear
the crowd chanting his name. Now when he's been the
guy out there chanting for all these other candidates, right, He's.

Speaker 10 (51:09):
Been kind of a background maneuverer, and now suddenly taking
the stage, I would imagine it probably is unsettling in
probably good and bad ways.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
So he was on WBT last night as well, because
our own Brett Jensen was there and gas doing you're
covering the story talking to the now official nominee about
some of the aspects of running, for example, against former governor.

Speaker 23 (51:34):
Okay, so if I say the name Woy Cooper, what
comes to mind?

Speaker 22 (51:38):
You know, somebody who has fought against the values of
North Carolina consistently as a legislator, as an attorney general,
and as a governor. And I think that he is
a radical he is an extremist, and I think that
nobody has really taken the time and effort to kind
of call him out on that, and we're going to
have that conversation over the next fifteen months.

Speaker 23 (51:58):
People are talking about this being the most expensive center
race in US history. Do you think that's an accurate assessment?
And what do you think it's going to cost?

Speaker 22 (52:06):
You know, I think it's going to be the most
expensive centate race in history. I do think that we're
looking at probably five six hundred million dollars that would
be spent all in. We are certainly going to make
sure that we hit our marks in terms of the
money we need to raise into the campaign.

Speaker 3 (52:21):
So we're excited, though.

Speaker 22 (52:22):
I think every single day we're going to see opportunities
to gather support and see where it comes from around
the country and around North Carolina.

Speaker 23 (52:30):
We've done a lot of interviews over the last several years.
But who's Michael Waltley?

Speaker 22 (52:33):
You know, Michael Wadley is a kid that grew up
in Blowing Rock. I am a middle class son of
an accountant and a lawyer, and I'm a kid who
has always worked. I put myself through college. I have
been able to live the American dream, you know, through
hard work and opportunities. I'm a guy who's helped a
lot of people win a lot of elections over the years,
the North Carolina Party chair and is the R and

(52:55):
C chair, and I am somebody who is absolutely committed
to North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
Michael talking to Brett Jensen here on WBT last night. Now,
like I mentioned before, the primary still has to come
and go. You got people like Don Brown out there,
who we've talked to multiple times in the last few weeks,
who is still mounting a challenge. But you have the
two candidates here that I think most people would say
are the frontrunners, the former governor Roy Cooper and now

(53:20):
the Trump backed former GOP head Michael Wattley, and a
lot of money being infused into both of those campaigns.
I mean, you saw the newly minted signs yesterday, the
Michael Wattley signs, and you saw two campaigns this week
that you know are going to be run by people
who have run campaigns many times in their careers. You've

(53:42):
seen the rollout, and the rollout on both sides in
the beginning has been impressive.

Speaker 24 (53:47):
Well.

Speaker 7 (53:47):
And Roy Cooper in the first twenty four hours broke
fund raising records with how much money he was able
to raise. And you just heard Michael Wattley saying there
that it will probably be the most expensive race in
Senate race that is in US history, around five or
six hundred million dollars. But Michael Wattley also knows how
to raise money effectively because he ran the Republican Party

(54:09):
here in North Carolina and because he ran the RNC.

Speaker 10 (54:12):
I think the challenge for him will be having.

Speaker 7 (54:14):
To answer to a campaign manager, you know, having to
have a staff that's kind of being what he was
to other candidates in the in the past. But maybe
it'll work in his favor because he knows how to effectively.
He's effectively chosen, as he pointed out, candidates who have

(54:35):
been successful across the country, and if he understands what
it means to be a successful candidate, maybe that will
translate to his way of campaigning when it's for himself.
But I would imagine it also has to be intimidating
to suddenly be in the spotlight.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
Yeah, a lot's been made of the fact that he's
not been the guy before, but you should also go
to the other side of that argument and say, well,
if there is a guy out there that has seen
the good and the bad of more campaigns than anybody
else and should have been taking notes about what to
do and not to do, this is the guy. So
the headline this week in North Carolina has been about

(55:12):
who is running California. This week big henline about who's
not running for governor there, and that would be Kamala Harris.
Although Kamala Harris is out and about last night she
was on with Stephen Colbert. We'll get to that in
a moment, but she earlier in the day released a
video to social media announcing what she's doing in place
of running right now.

Speaker 25 (55:34):
Just over a year ago, I launched my campaign for
President of the United States, one hundred and seven days,
traveling the country, fighting for our future, the shortest presidential
campaign in modern history. It was intense, high stakes, and
deeply personal for me and for so many of you.

(55:55):
Since leaving office, I've spent a lot of time reflecting
on those days, talking with my team, my family, my friends,
and pulling my thoughts together, in essence, writing a journal
that is this book. One hundred and seven days with
candor and reflection, I've written a behind the scenes account

(56:16):
of that journey. I believe there's value in sharing what
I saw, what I learned, and what I know it
will take to move forward. In writing this book, one
truth kept coming back to me. Sometimes the fight takes
a while.

Speaker 2 (56:33):
So that was the announcement about her new book. And
when you have a new book, what do you do?

Speaker 10 (56:38):
You go on a book tour and you make sure
that everybody knows the book is there.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
Last night on Stephen Colbert, Kamala Harris talking about why
she is not running in California.

Speaker 25 (56:47):
You know, when I was a young in my career,
I had to defend my decision to become a prosecutor
with my family. And one of the points that I
made is, why is it then, when we think we
want to prove a system or change it, that we're
always on the outside on ben dednee or trying to
break down the door. Shouldn't we also be inside the system?

(57:10):
And that has been my career, And recently I made
the decision that I just for now, I don't want
to go back in the system. I think it's broken.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
So the question becomes, she's not running for governor, she's
on a book tour right now? What about twenty twenty eight?
You know, is she's still thinking about getting back in
that mix, and that's of course possible. Last night Colbert
asked her, who is in charge of your party right now?
Who's leading the Democratic Party? I'm just curious.

Speaker 25 (57:41):
There are lots of leaders, and it was generally.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
A leader of the Democratic Party, you know, like, oh,
that's the leader Donator party.

Speaker 10 (57:47):
Who comes to mind?

Speaker 25 (57:49):
I think there are a lot of I'm not going
to go through names because then I'm going to leave
somebody out and then I'm going to hear about it.
But let me just let me say this. I think
it is a mistake for us who want to figure
out how to get out and through this and get
out of it, to put it on the shoulders of

(58:10):
any one person. It's really on all of our shoulders,
it really is.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
So there you go. She has re emerged and is
making the media rounds for her new book, and it
remains to be seen what the next chapter No pun Intended,
Well Done will be for her when it comes to
her political career.

Speaker 7 (58:27):
And I would imagine that both Republicans and Democrats will
be interested in this book and what she has to
say mostly about how she became the nominee, you know
that one hundred and seven days, what led up to
that one hundred and seven days, And I'm I'm sure
she'll cover it at least in part in that book.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
Yeah, I mean, this is her version of that time period.
I think you could get a book out of every
one of the candidates that we're living through that. Yeah,
you know, at President Trump. At some day, I assume
we'll do some sort of memoir about last summer with
the you know, Biden leaving the race and then the
attempted assassination and then then running against Kamala Harris. I mean,
it was twenty twenty four. We'll go down as one

(59:07):
of the most interesting political years of all time.

Speaker 4 (59:10):
This is Good Morning Beat.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
You know, it's too bad we never talked politics on
this show. Seven fifty two on WBT. We have Tim
Boyam Spectrum News Capital Tonight, going to join us at
eight oh five this morning, get his.

Speaker 7 (59:28):
Take talk politics, I know, to talk about what's going
on in this country.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
He'll join us at eight oh five talk about Cooper
and of course Michael Whitley Yesterday Washington Politics Yesterday, President
Trump making an announcement about something that well, I know
two of the four of us in this room did
this the Presidential Fitness Test.

Speaker 10 (59:50):
Loved every second of it. My coach, Coach flem and
he called me onion head. He would make us.

Speaker 7 (59:56):
Do it one more time about onion here, that's what
he would say, Coach Fliming. Why it was just kind
of his like nickname for if you were doing, if
you weren't living up to the goals whatever on your head,
or or when I was like trying to run them out.

Speaker 3 (01:00:12):
He'd be like, pick it up, get it taught.

Speaker 10 (01:00:15):
It was so great. I loved Coach Fleming so much.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
I understand maybe where the debutante came from. But onion head,
that's like g rated, but it cuts very right.

Speaker 10 (01:00:24):
It's so great. He was fantastic.

Speaker 7 (01:00:26):
But he was the one who administered the Presidential Fitness
like a.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
Good like a good pe teacher would exactly right. Mine
was Missus Merrill and called.

Speaker 10 (01:00:35):
You Missus Merrill.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
Her name was Missus Merrill.

Speaker 19 (01:00:38):
I thought you were saying like you're doing, but I
absolutely remember what Missus Merrill used to do.

Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
And we would do this thing where we would all
run around and be crazy and she'd go praise, praise,
and you have to freeze, like in place. That was
part of her like opening exercise.

Speaker 7 (01:00:52):
Isn't that great that we both have memories of the
voices of our pe coach.

Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
But it wasn't freeze, it was fresh exactly. It's like, yeah,
so we're gonna combine the two of them firs on
your head.

Speaker 10 (01:01:04):
Oh my gosh, you sounded just like them real quick.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
President Trump yesterday at the White House, we're.

Speaker 17 (01:01:10):
Officially restoring the Presidential Fitness Test and the Presidential Fitness Award,
and it's going to be a.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
Very big thing.

Speaker 17 (01:01:17):
From the late nineteen fifties until the twenty thirteen, graduate
scholars all across our country competed against each other in
the Presidential Fitness Tests and it was a big deal.
This was a wonderful tradition, and we're bringing it back.
I think Bryson and everybody here wanted to see if
we could bring that back, and it's turned out to

(01:01:38):
be very, very popular to do. My administration's also pressing
forward with the important reforms and sports and athletics, and
the group behind me and the others that I mentioned
and others that I've asked to join.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
We have many great athletes have.

Speaker 17 (01:01:53):
Asked to join the council, and we're going to let
some of them come in, but they're going to also
be working on college footballs.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
Of what happened.

Speaker 3 (01:02:02):
It's a mess.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
What happened.

Speaker 26 (01:02:05):
That's what they're doing with college football, and the fans
are upset about it, and players are being taken from
team after team being traded around like playing cards.

Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
So he mentioned some of the people standing behind him.
He had Bryson Deshambeau. He had Anika Sorenstein, the female
golfer from back in the day. He had Paul Levesk,
who is known to most people as Triple H from
the WWE. Who else did he have Lawrence Taylor, the
NFL Hall of Famer Harrison Marker, Yes, yes, Harrison Bucker.

(01:02:39):
Lawrence Taylor, the lt of NFL Fame was there as well.

Speaker 14 (01:02:43):
I'm just proud to be on this on this team.
I don't know why, I don't know what we're supposed
to be doing, but I'm here to serve and I'm
here to serve you, Okay, So I'm gonna do the
best tech can for as long as I can.

Speaker 1 (01:03:01):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 8 (01:03:03):
Like him.

Speaker 7 (01:03:04):
Can you imagine showing up at the White House and
taking the putty and be like, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
Why I want here.

Speaker 8 (01:03:08):
It's like the Ricky Bobby. I don't know what to
do with my hand.

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
There's right, just told me to show up at the
White House. There, I am here.

Speaker 7 (01:03:13):
I am I'm here to serve. I'll do whatever you
tell me, But I can't figure out why I'm here.
But if it's here to promote the idea that we're
all going to be doing, I kind of, as an adult,
I want an adult version of the not adult like adult,
but adult like, a grown up version of the presidential
fifes test. Wouldn't it be so fun if you went
to your gym and they're like, all right, in order

(01:03:35):
to have a gym membership, you've got to be able
to do thirty push ups and thirty sit ups, and
you got to do four pull ups and climb the
rope and climb the rope in twenty box jump and.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
Ring the bell at that wait a little little cow
bell at the top of the rope that you would
ring more cow bell o.

Speaker 10 (01:03:49):
You need some more cowbell onion head, you love it?

Speaker 4 (01:03:55):
Just talk e and ninety nine three double.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
Everything that happens now is happening now?

Speaker 4 (01:04:01):
What happened to?

Speaker 9 (01:04:01):
Then?

Speaker 4 (01:04:02):
This is Good Morning BET with Boat Hudson at Beth Troutbach.

Speaker 8 (01:04:07):
Day Yeah, two, twenty two, twenty one, whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
It takes as the countdown rolls on.

Speaker 9 (01:04:13):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
It is the first day of August. Welcome to August,
Welcome to Friday. Welcome to Good Morning BT. And we
are going to bring on the WBT hotline right now. Guy,
you here all across the state on Spectrum News on
Capital tonight, the longtime anchor is with us. Tim Boyam,
Good morning.

Speaker 4 (01:04:31):
Tim, Good morning friend.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
How are you good to hear your voice, my friend?
And we have a lot to talk about, and you're
right there in the heart of it all in Raleigh.
And here we go with what could be the most
expensive race for US Senate in history. I mean, Roy
Cooper raised three point four million dollars in the first
twenty four hours of his Senate candidacy earlier this week.

(01:04:53):
And then you had Michael Watley making things official in
Gastonia yesterday. So let's start with the rollout for Roy
Cooper earlier this week. Neither of these were surprises. Obviously,
but what did you make of what you've seen from
the former governor in the first few days as a
Senate candidate.

Speaker 9 (01:05:09):
Yeah, it was no surprise how the rollout happened. You know,
we are early on in this race, and you know
Roy Cooper's team is they've they've had numerous candidates over
the year. They've been with Roy Cooper for a long time.
And so to roll out with a video, not do
a lot of interviews, and then put his head down
and go raise a ton of money. As you mentioned,
this race could easily go well north of five hundred

(01:05:31):
million dollars and set new records for the most expensive
race in US history. And so I thought it was
very very Roy Cooper like. A couple things to note
about the video that came out. He didn't mention Trump
at all, very focused on you know, buzzwords like middle class,
you know, looking at the economy and Medicaid expansion and
talk of that, and so all in all, I thought

(01:05:53):
it was very Ry Cooper like. And I think they're
trying to show Democrats how to try to win elections
in the Trump era, because Roy Cooper has been successful
at that.

Speaker 7 (01:06:04):
Well, and we saw, you know, Michael Wattley make his
official announcement as the Republican candidate and did mention Donald
Trump's name, you know, came out and said I have
his full endorsement and spoke very, very highly of the president.
So you have one candidate who's like, I'm not going
to bring him up, you know, Democrats shouldn't be talking
about Trump, and then Republican candidate saying, we're only you know,

(01:06:26):
we're really going to.

Speaker 10 (01:06:26):
Talk about Trump.

Speaker 7 (01:06:27):
We're going to focus on Trump at a time when
people maybe are unsure about what the future holds with
the future because of the Big Beautiful Bill, because of
what's happening still with the Ebstein files. Is it a
smart thing to to not talk about Trump or to
talk about Trump?

Speaker 9 (01:06:44):
Yeah, you know, let's just be honest about this next
year as it is historically, by the way, this is
not just Donald Trump. This is largely going to be
a referendum on this Trump administration. It almost always is,
no matter who's in the White House. Well, in this instance,
obviously Donald Trump is a lightning rod, and so it
will be a referendum on Donald Trump. I think Democrats

(01:07:05):
are just going to try to take away the focus
on Trump himself and put it on the policies. So
the big beautiful bill, Medicaid expansion, all that stuff is
going to come out. And I think that's what Democrats
look back at twenty twenty four now and think we
focused on him too much and not kitchen table issues.
Michael Watley's in a little bit of a situation. He's
really only in this race because of his affiliation and

(01:07:28):
the endorsement with Donald Trump, and he has never run
for office before. Most people outside of our world in
the news business and political business have no idea who
Michael Waltley is. And so he needs the money and
the endorsement and the discussion from Donald Trump to raise
his profile and to raise a ton of money. And he,

(01:07:50):
frankly is it's a little uncertain in the grassroots about
the support for Michael waltlet at this point, and so
he needs to bring those folks back out. I think
one of the big stories of twenty twenty six and
twenty twenty eight is going to be the fact that
Donald Trump's name will not be on a ballot, and
he brought out millions of people across the country that
had never voted before or had that voted in a
very long time and will they come back out to

(01:08:12):
the polls to vote for someone that is not Donald Trump?
And that is Michael Watley's focus from today moving forward.

Speaker 7 (01:08:18):
Well, and also you mentioned it grassroots fundraising and fundraising
in general. Like you said, a lot of people in
political circles know Michael Wattley's name, but maybe other folks don't.

Speaker 10 (01:08:26):
Do you see?

Speaker 7 (01:08:27):
You know how so many billionaires, so many wealthy people
and wealthy companies with super PACs and that kind of
thing came out to really support candidates in twenty twenty four.
Do you think any of that support is going to
switch sides as a referendum or do you think it's
going to dry up even.

Speaker 9 (01:08:48):
I you know, I think a lot of people are
going to sit back and wait. Frankly, there's so much
to be played out between now and a year from November.
You know, look at it. Look at it in the
premise here of tariffs, right, there was a liberation Day
and the markets went crazy, and then they're kept being

(01:09:08):
announcements about potential announcements to tariffs and markets react, and
then the markets eventually just stayed out of it because
they weren't sure what was going to happen. I think
we're going to see that with some of these big
donors that are just not sure what to do. And
I do think the business world, which let's just be
honest with these big donors are the ones that own
the big businesses. I think they're going to pull back
a little bit because there's been a lot of backlash

(01:09:29):
about taking two far stances with candidates or issues frankly
since COVID times, and so I do think there's going
to be a little bit more of a sit back
and wait approach. The main donors, the billionaires you know
that always are clearly one sided. They'll get in for sure.
The question is to me, just below those major major

(01:09:50):
ones that we know were going to be what do
they decided to do? Do they sit out or they
get in or do they wait till the last minute?

Speaker 7 (01:09:55):
When Elon Musk will be interesting. Will he get involved
in North Carolina politics?

Speaker 9 (01:10:00):
Yeah, he was going to start that third party, which
that's kind of kind of fizzled out, But he's got
a ton of money that's available to be used, and
so does he get involved? I think I think that's
a huge question. And in North Carolina. Look, we are
going to be the number one Senate race in the country,
and so if Elon Mosk wants to irritate Donald Trump,
there's a back candidate here in North Carolina that's gonna
be in the high profile race, and so yeah, that'll

(01:10:20):
be something to watch.

Speaker 2 (01:10:21):
You know, when you talk about presidential legacy, one of
the things that you point most towards is Supreme Supreme
Court nominees. You know, because the Supreme Court nominees lifetime
appointments are around a lot longer than the presidents that
appoint them in many cases. But I was thinking about
the Trump legacy. He's got three years left in his
second term. But when you think about what could potentially

(01:10:42):
happen here, you obviously have Ted budd who was a
candidate made by Trump, anointed by Trump, and became a
front runner because of Trump, and his whole campaign was
about Trump. Essentially, if Watley were to get elected here,
you've got another guy who really was a not a
Trump creation, but a Trump sort of. Trump was the

(01:11:03):
rocket that lit under him and sort of sent him
into the stratosphere in political realms, So you could end
up long after Trump is gone, having his fingerprint on
North Carolina maybe more so than any other state if
it ends up being Whatley and Bud.

Speaker 9 (01:11:18):
Yeah, and so you know, it's interesting on that legacy front.
It's kind of playing throughout all of this. I actually
think that's why Laura Trump did not run. I mean,
I don't think she necessarily wanted to run anyways, particularly
North Carolina. They live in Florida, they still have young kids.
But if you think about it, if Lara Trump ran,
one of the last things that happened was that she
lost in her home state. With Trump on the ballot,
that would have been a fascinating legacy piece to look at.

(01:11:40):
But also you got to think about Roy Cooper's legacy here,
he's been in public office. This is the first time
he's not been in public office the last six months
since like nineteen eighty six, I believe. And if he's
never lost an election, Michael Walla's never run for one,
Roy Cooper's never lost for one. So if he loses
what would likely be his last election, how does that
AROI cooper legacy as well, So the fingerprints of legacy

(01:12:04):
are all over this race and fascinating about the future
of North Carolina and it's politics. This could be a
turning of the page in some ways for the for
the how North Carolina politics are going to move toward
the future too. You know, we used to be very
different than the rest of the country and how we
did elections. We really focused on issues like education and
statewide issues. Used to drive national consultants nuts. But now

(01:12:26):
you know, we're sitting here and it's completely nationalized. And
does that continue in the future. So legacy is going
to be a big part.

Speaker 21 (01:12:32):
Of this, no question.

Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
Yeah. North Carolina is going to be right in the
center of everything, which it has been and will continue
to be. Tim boym Capital Tonight, seven o'clock every weeknight
on Spectrum News all across North Carolina. Thanks for joining
us on a Friday.

Speaker 9 (01:12:46):
Yeah, good to see you.

Speaker 22 (01:12:47):
Thank you.

Speaker 19 (01:12:57):
Eighty on WBT programming note Monday.

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
For not just one hour, but an hour and a
half eight thirty five. US Senator Tom Tillis will be
in the Tyboyds studio along with Mick mulvaney, former White
House Chief of Staff. We'll have them together looking forward
to this when trying to work it out for a while,
and truth be told, the thing that closed the deal

(01:13:23):
was Mick mulvaney was in here with us last Monday
and started texting with Tom Tillis and that sort of
brought it to the finish line.

Speaker 10 (01:13:30):
It's set the stage.

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
So that is coming up on Monday, very much looking
forward to that. And we got John Hancock coming up
of course in the next hour, next half hour. Friday
News quiz where Boomer is a three time champ?

Speaker 4 (01:13:42):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
Three times in a row?

Speaker 4 (01:13:44):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (01:13:44):
Is it two out of it's three?

Speaker 10 (01:13:46):
It's three in a row. I was I wasn't here
last Friday either.

Speaker 19 (01:13:50):
And look at me asking the two people that weren't
here last Friday if Boomer won last week.

Speaker 7 (01:13:55):
Well, one of our listeners, Michael Brown, sent me a
message while I was in New Jersey via t or
via X and said, you'll never believe it, Boo were
one three weeks in a row.

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
Well, he did, and he will be trying to make
it four coming up in just a few minutes. Now, Netflix,
if you have Netflix, what we're about to talk about
is a show called Hunting Wives. Now, I want to
put the disclaimer out there. This is not this is
not family viewing.

Speaker 10 (01:14:22):
Oh no, no, please please please, So I read this book.

Speaker 7 (01:14:26):
I'm in a Book of the Month club. I know
you think that that's surprising, and this was one of
the books of the Month selection.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
You guy's only read one book the whole month?

Speaker 10 (01:14:34):
Well from them, yes, and then I choose another one.

Speaker 7 (01:14:38):
But The Hunting Wives was a book that I read
several years ago, and I actually did not like the book.

Speaker 10 (01:14:44):
I was just kind of met on the book. I
was kind of lukewarm on the story.

Speaker 7 (01:14:48):
But then I saw this pop up on Netflix, and
because I'd read the book, I was like, Oh, I
watched this. Holy moly, is it not family viewing? Holy moly,
is there a lot going on? And I don't remember
any of it from the book. I don't know if
they took liberties or if I'm just not remembering the.

Speaker 4 (01:15:02):
Book, but.

Speaker 7 (01:15:04):
Don't don't you know, I don't even know that. I
would be kind of embarrassed to watch this with Craig Well.

Speaker 2 (01:15:11):
It's the number one most viewed show on Netflix. And
so I heard about the controversy which we're about to
tell you about, which has nothing to do with the
salacious stuff. But so I found out about this, and
then in the article that I read, it said, Okay,
the controversial moment comes at this point and episode two.
So I have Netflix, so I said, okay, well i'll

(01:15:32):
see if I get the audio so if we're going
to talk about this, and I started going through. I
haven't watched any of this at all, so I had
no idea what it was. And I go through episode
two and start scrolling along to get to the point,
and some of the stuff that I saw on the
way to getting to the point, I'm just saying.

Speaker 8 (01:15:49):
I'm surprise, Freese frames caught you all.

Speaker 2 (01:15:51):
Be careful if you're if you're going to to find
what we're talking about here, be careful what you might
encounter on the way.

Speaker 7 (01:15:59):
Yes, I know that as soon as you heard me say, oh,
I'm watching it, you probably were shocked, weren't you, Because
I didn't know either.

Speaker 2 (01:16:05):
Guys, I'm saying, kids, this ain't for you.

Speaker 10 (01:16:07):
I was shocked. I was shocked by some of it.

Speaker 7 (01:16:10):
But I will tell you you, guys know lived in
Mooresville forever and ever, and I'm not quite sure that
I realized that this was shot in Morrisville. The book
and the story itself is supposed to be set in Texas.
They shot they filmed this in Mooresville in Ayerdell County.
And that's how that's why I've kept watching it, because
I'm dead serious. This is why I have kept watching

(01:16:30):
it because I wanted to see all of the landmarks
like downtown Mooresville. But it's this one controversy that's in
episode two.

Speaker 10 (01:16:39):
You'll know you'll know it. You'll know it when you see.

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
It, and you'll know it when you hear it. I think,
roll it there.

Speaker 7 (01:16:44):
Bernie Pattie now sided Bravy with a large drink too,
oh for Easter change.

Speaker 4 (01:16:50):
It'll be out in the moment.

Speaker 2 (01:16:53):
They're miss thanks, What can I get for you?

Speaker 13 (01:16:56):
It's miss Colson now Jed Banks is in the rare view.

Speaker 4 (01:17:00):
Nothing for me. Thanks, Double waburger and fries for the boys, right.

Speaker 9 (01:17:03):
And I'm probably doing it right out.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
You both must be pretty hungry after all that basketball, right, Huh?

Speaker 4 (01:17:08):
What honey?

Speaker 13 (01:17:11):
These boys haven't touched a basketball in their lives fifteen
oh two.

Speaker 2 (01:17:19):
Okay, So if you were listening there, she said, what
a burger.

Speaker 7 (01:17:22):
Double waburger for the boys with fries and and I
just want you to know because I frequent this Waterburger
in Mooresville and it's the what Dash a Dash Burger
and they use visibly the outside of this waterburger. That's
how I figured out that it was shot in Morsville.
I rewound it when I saw that, and I was like, Oh,
that's my Morrisville, that's my Waterburger. But then here's the controversy.

(01:17:46):
Bow Then they show the outside of the Wa Dash
a Dash Burger, the drive in it's been there forever.
There's one in Cannapolis too, by the way, I said
there was one conquered, there's also one Cannapolist.

Speaker 10 (01:17:55):
But they go inside and.

Speaker 7 (01:17:58):
They're wearing the Whataburger all one word uniforms, which now
we all know that that's a chain that started in Texas.
This show is supposed to be set in Texas, but
it's kind of not cool that they showed the outside
of the What dash a Dash Burger and inside they
have the Whataburger.

Speaker 10 (01:18:18):
It's the orange like shirt and.

Speaker 7 (01:18:20):
The black cap, the black hat that is the uniform
for Whataburger, the Texas chain.

Speaker 10 (01:18:26):
So I don't know if they.

Speaker 7 (01:18:27):
Chose Moresville as their location because of what Aburger, not
realizing that those of us who are What Dash a
Dashburger fans would be kind of upset about the going
inside the Whataburger and having a different Whataburger uniform.

Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
Well, and this has been a big point of contention, Yeah,
between the people in North Carolina and the people in
Texas and in other places where you know, the Waterburger,
the one, the chain, the mass chain, and now this
show is just at a convenience trying that they're confusing
it and they're crossing a line that they get maybe
better be careful here.

Speaker 7 (01:19:01):
Well, and you have to wonder what this is going
to mean. But you also have to know that that
the what Dashet Dust Burger had to have given the
location permission. You know that there are location scouts who
are responsible for choosing locations for shooting in movies and
TV shows, and they had to have scouted out Waburger

(01:19:21):
in Mooreesville, and then somebody somewhere along the way had
to sign some kind of contract because they pay these
locations to film in them because they're having to shut
down for the day, so they have to pay them
a fee to rent, plus you know, lost profit that
they would have gotten that day.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
So yeah, I mean it's it's really it's knowing the
backstory of this and the contentiousness that we've seen, the
way they just kind of nonchalantly show the out outer
structure of the one in North Carolina with the dashes
the Moorsville went, and then all of a sudden they
go inside and she's got the waaburger, the Whataburger logo
from Texas on our shirts. Yes, that's just like you

(01:20:00):
just you think North Carolinians are just gonna breeze right past.

Speaker 10 (01:20:02):
That, And no we have not.

Speaker 7 (01:20:04):
I didn't either caught my attention this second that I saw,
But I will say that if you watch the show,
if you want to fast forward through the saucy parts,
you will. North Carolina does look beautiful. Downtown Moorsville looks fantastic.
They use Lake Norman pretty frequently, different homes that are

(01:20:25):
that are in this area as settings that are in
the Moorsville area. The city of Moorsville photographs beautifully.

Speaker 2 (01:20:32):
So if you want to know exactly where it is
or thereabouts, it's about three fourths of the way through
the second episode.

Speaker 10 (01:20:39):
Yes, is where you see the water burger.

Speaker 2 (01:20:42):
Be careful what you might trip on on the way
to getting too that though you're.

Speaker 7 (01:20:44):
Gonna trip on a lot of stuff and I'm gonna
go ahead and tell you if you keep watching, there's
even more.

Speaker 2 (01:20:53):
Oh, I thought you were gonna like I thought you're
gonna pass judgment on everyone you keep watching. That's on you.

Speaker 7 (01:20:59):
I've been watching it. I'm not I'm not gonna lie.
It's kind of like Bridgerton. If you watched the first
season of Bridgerton, it was one of those things that
you kind of didn't want to admit that you watched.

Speaker 10 (01:21:09):
This is kind of that. This is kind of that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:11):
Basically, what we're trying to say is this new show
Hunting Wives.

Speaker 10 (01:21:16):
Awful, awful, behavior awful.

Speaker 2 (01:21:21):
Now, see that was that was serendipitous right there to
play that promo because the three time defending champion is
Boomer von Cannon bringing the boom to the news quiz.

Speaker 10 (01:21:33):
Good morning man, booo.

Speaker 3 (01:21:39):
Shouting boom Boomer.

Speaker 2 (01:21:40):
That many pressure here. The pressure is on Boomer for
the Friday news quizz. Sir, we're all chasing.

Speaker 3 (01:21:50):
You BoNT the tal guests. Here we go.

Speaker 18 (01:21:52):
Well, we'll start with a question that really uh write
up sugar bath sounding sugar bath. Today is National Girlfriends Day.
To a girlfriend to it? Yeah, I told you, yeah
for it supposed supposed to encourage women to have bonds
with other women.

Speaker 2 (01:22:11):
So true or false?

Speaker 18 (01:22:12):
A survey in the UK found that a survey of
women found that more than fifty percent of them like
hanging out with female friends more than their boyfriend or husband.

Speaker 2 (01:22:22):
Is that true or false?

Speaker 7 (01:22:24):
I'm gonna say true, Yeah to go true.

Speaker 3 (01:22:29):
True, I've assume she's right.

Speaker 2 (01:22:30):
True. I'm sure I'm going to be the defector just
for the heck of it.

Speaker 4 (01:22:33):
False.

Speaker 2 (01:22:35):
Is that everybody true? It is true?

Speaker 10 (01:22:40):
I'm so sorry, guys, don't look at me.

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
I wasn't part of the survey where they girlfriend.

Speaker 10 (01:22:44):
Oh thank you boomer.

Speaker 18 (01:22:49):
Another question about that, what percentage of women feel more
beautiful after being around supportive female friends twenty four percent,
forty nine percent or seventy two percent?

Speaker 7 (01:23:01):
Guys, I'm going I have two of the most supportive
best friends in the world. I'm going seventy two percent,
because man, do I feel good looking whenever I leave?

Speaker 10 (01:23:09):
They say the sweetest thing.

Speaker 8 (01:23:11):
I'll go forty nine.

Speaker 3 (01:23:12):
I'm thinking Beth is an expert. I'd stick it with
seventy two.

Speaker 2 (01:23:15):
I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say be.

Speaker 3 (01:23:17):
Yeah, I'm gonna stick with the woman in the room.

Speaker 2 (01:23:19):
Seventy two is that everybody, Well, it is seventy two.

Speaker 18 (01:23:23):
You girls just make girls feel good.

Speaker 3 (01:23:26):
I just go follow me around this whole quition.

Speaker 7 (01:23:28):
It's like that it is the greatest thing to have
supportive girlfriends, because man, you just you do.

Speaker 10 (01:23:33):
You feel great.

Speaker 18 (01:23:35):
On the other hand, according to another survey by the
University of Oxford, men can also benefit if they have
how many nights out each week with the boys one night,
two night, or at least a night whenever the mood
strikes to get out of the house.

Speaker 8 (01:23:52):
I'll go with the I'll go with the last one
to see.

Speaker 3 (01:23:55):
I'm gonna go on one strike one because I would
get in trouble if I was going, yeah, yeah, I'll
go one.

Speaker 7 (01:24:00):
Hey, I'm gonna say whenever the mood strikes, I'm going
to and two is the right answer.

Speaker 3 (01:24:08):
That's kind of surprised the answer. He held it to
the we all.

Speaker 18 (01:24:11):
I answered, all right, let's see here you got tariff
question says a lot of tariff stuff in the news.
What is the new tariff rate the US will be
charging Japan? Fifty percent, fifteen percent or ten percent? That's Japan, Japan.

Speaker 4 (01:24:28):
Japan, Japan Japan, Japan.

Speaker 2 (01:24:31):
Tariffs, mister Japan, fifteen fifteen, yeah, fifteen yep, fifteen fifteen.

Speaker 18 (01:24:36):
Yeah, it is fifteen percent, I'd say when you had
to answer, that's true in the rule book. Well, Michael
Whatley making a lot of headlines and else he's running
for Senate. Where did he get his college degree? In history?
You and see Charlotte un C, Chapel Hill or Wake Forest?

Speaker 8 (01:25:00):
Mm hmm, history. I'll go I'll go with Chapel Hill.

Speaker 4 (01:25:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:25:05):
I was thinking the same.

Speaker 19 (01:25:07):
I'm gonna go with you and Charlotte, Charlotte, Charlotte.

Speaker 18 (01:25:11):
It is U and Charlotte. Indeed, But true or false?
Whatley has two master's degrees in religion? Is that true
or false?

Speaker 4 (01:25:23):
True?

Speaker 2 (01:25:25):
Bernie?

Speaker 3 (01:25:26):
I want just say fall I got?

Speaker 2 (01:25:30):
Is that Everybnyeah? Yeah, it's true.

Speaker 8 (01:25:34):
Can it come back?

Speaker 2 (01:25:35):
One from Wake Forest the other from Notre Dame?

Speaker 8 (01:25:37):
Amazing?

Speaker 3 (01:25:38):
You knew that.

Speaker 8 (01:25:38):
That's amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:25:39):
It is the intelligent, the Irish.

Speaker 18 (01:25:45):
The Trump administration is cutting off millions to Duke University
hospitals and med school. Why not enough spent on research?
Too much favoritism of minorities? Are not enough spent for
health care? In rural parts of the state.

Speaker 8 (01:26:03):
I will go with THEE.

Speaker 19 (01:26:04):
I'm going with B as well, Ye, b as in boats.

Speaker 18 (01:26:11):
Boom or Bernie Well, b as in is correct?

Speaker 3 (01:26:17):
As you be right?

Speaker 2 (01:26:18):
Yeah, you be right?

Speaker 8 (01:26:20):
Women be shopping.

Speaker 2 (01:26:26):
You need a night out?

Speaker 3 (01:26:27):
Girls, that's wry. Girls like to hang out with other
girls bring.

Speaker 18 (01:26:30):
Comments like that? What was a secret service agent? What
was a secret service agent caught doing this week? Fooling
around with a woman on Air Force one, trying to
sneak his wife on one of Trump's trips, are twirling
his handgun while eating McDonald's on Air Force one.

Speaker 6 (01:26:49):
Cannot be that last I taking it.

Speaker 4 (01:26:53):
I'm running with B.

Speaker 2 (01:26:55):
I'm gonna go with B.

Speaker 4 (01:26:56):
It's B.

Speaker 2 (01:26:58):
What do you think?

Speaker 4 (01:26:58):
Boom?

Speaker 2 (01:26:58):
Danny?

Speaker 3 (01:26:59):
I want to go with the last one?

Speaker 18 (01:27:03):
It is B. He tried to sneak the little woman
on one of Trump's trips and that didn't work, which.

Speaker 10 (01:27:07):
Means Mark came up with C on his op got
that right?

Speaker 3 (01:27:10):
What isn't that brain?

Speaker 2 (01:27:11):
You came up with it? Yeah, but it got you,
didn't they know?

Speaker 3 (01:27:15):
I wanted it to be true? Neighbors, Roy Rogers, nobody
touches this big back.

Speaker 18 (01:27:23):
Let's see, South Carolina has a sales tax holiday this
weekend for school supplies and such. Which one of these
is not tax free? A laptop, a laptop purchased on layaway,
or laptops made in China, which one is not tax free?

Speaker 4 (01:27:44):
I think he's laptops on the layoway.

Speaker 8 (01:27:45):
I'm gonna go with the China laptops.

Speaker 10 (01:27:47):
China, China.

Speaker 2 (01:27:50):
I'm gonna stick with Boomer on that layoway too.

Speaker 10 (01:27:53):
B I'm just gonna go with laptops in general. A.

Speaker 2 (01:27:56):
Well, that would be wrong, Beth.

Speaker 18 (01:27:57):
But a laptop purchased on away is not tax free.

Speaker 3 (01:28:06):
When you buy it. I'm sure they probably take the
tax off South Carolina. They do that.

Speaker 8 (01:28:12):
I'm not paying the taxans.

Speaker 2 (01:28:13):
Very common, all right, So do we have a winner
of this little ring? Dang, dude, we do? We do?
Would you? Would you like the rundown? Mark? Absolutely?

Speaker 27 (01:28:21):
Bo Jim and Bernie with five points, Beth and Steve
with six points. And for the fourth week in a row,
that's a whole month. Boomer Boomer, Boomer boom boo.

Speaker 2 (01:28:38):
Shoot you run down.

Speaker 6 (01:28:41):
Well, his traffic follows the news every time, so he
hears all this news and he writes it down.

Speaker 2 (01:28:49):
We have a daily log. You know he's in a
different room, which is a lot closer to Mark than us.

Speaker 10 (01:28:57):
Are you cheating?

Speaker 4 (01:28:59):
Boom boom, boom boom.

Speaker 19 (01:29:02):
I know Boomer is the model of integrity. He's a
four time winner. We celebrate him today.

Speaker 6 (01:29:08):
Boomer, you're gonna have an NC double investigation that just
to see sanction illegal recruiting going on.

Speaker 2 (01:29:15):
Congratulations, Boomer, quod Whims, thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:29:17):
There you goes caught the Boomer quizz for no right.

Speaker 2 (01:29:21):
We host the show Boomer listens.

Speaker 3 (01:29:23):
But we do know we've never had a four type champion.

Speaker 18 (01:29:25):
But we do know Beth feels prettier after hanging out
with the girl.

Speaker 10 (01:29:29):
Yeah, yeah, even if I like a.

Speaker 19 (01:29:31):
Burger that mass dripping down her chin. Girl, This is
history though, right, no one has ever won four in
a row.

Speaker 2 (01:29:42):
I think you're right.

Speaker 3 (01:29:43):
I'm not sure what ever won three in a row.

Speaker 2 (01:29:45):
I don't know if I've ever won four period.

Speaker 3 (01:29:48):
I'm not even gonna play anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:29:50):
He's here about waterburger. That's what did That's right? Thank you, Mark, sir.
What does it mean to slide into someone's d MS?

Speaker 3 (01:29:56):
It sounds like a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (01:29:58):
Okay, we're not ready for that talk.

Speaker 4 (01:30:00):
Eleven ten and ninety nine three double bet.

Speaker 10 (01:30:03):
And then what does that have to do with anything?

Speaker 2 (01:30:05):
It has everything to do with anything.

Speaker 4 (01:30:07):
This is good Morning Beatty with quotes Thompson at Beth Trout,
that's all.

Speaker 2 (01:30:12):
With a second, we ride up Troy's bucket.

Speaker 4 (01:30:37):
Every Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:30:39):
Hey, they're high there, Ho there. Charlotte's most beloved in
the house as usual, and we're always so thankful for that.
The Hall of Famer himself, John Hancott.

Speaker 1 (01:30:50):
The most amazing thing happened bo last week.

Speaker 8 (01:30:53):
I got home at ten thirty.

Speaker 1 (01:30:56):
No hug.

Speaker 10 (01:30:57):
You didn't have to wait through one of my hugs.

Speaker 2 (01:31:00):
Yeah, goes. We hold him up when that happens. To
get homes at ten thirty five.

Speaker 3 (01:31:03):
Usually it's no niche.

Speaker 1 (01:31:06):
But here I came walking in the door at ten
thirty last week, and then Susan immediately said, oh, is
Beth gone?

Speaker 2 (01:31:16):
And she was And She's back and Hancock's back, and
you know, I was thinking about you because we spent
a lot of time on the show today talking about politics,
and this has been a big week for North Carolina
politics because the former governor Roy Cooper announced he was
running for US Senate, and then yesterday in Gastonia, Michael
Wattley announces he's running for US Senate. You have other

(01:31:36):
ones out there, don Brown in the mix, and you know,
the primary comes and then of course the general. But
the two big names that everybody knows so well because
of what they just finished doing are Cooper and Wattley.
And you in this studio have sat in here behind
this microphone for many a US Senate campaign, and here
we go again, and this could end up being the

(01:31:58):
most expensive one that we've ever seen. And I know
you sat in here and said at the time, whatever
one you were talking about, whether it was Liddy Dole
or whether it was John Edwards or whether it was
you name him, you know, until US came along most
expensive Senate races, it all seems to come back to
North Carolina.

Speaker 1 (01:32:16):
And has for a good long while. We're an interesting
state in that we are blue cities and red rural
and so you don't know how well you do, I guess,
but you don't really know how that has changed or
broken down. Hard to believe that Cooper would lose an election.
He never has here in North Carolina. But I don't

(01:32:43):
really know how the rural areas are. They still as
red as they have always been. I talked about my
little trip up to the Lake Loure and Chimney Rock
the other a few weeks ago and me taking the
back roads to Boone, and I saw an awful lot

(01:33:04):
of Trump plags as I was driving through the countryside. Yeah,
I don't get out to Ashborough or in that area
per se necessarily a lot. So I don't really have
a gauge for that. But it'll be an interesting election because,
as I said here right now today, it's a matter

(01:33:25):
of I mean, you're talking about a state, talking about
a city. I think. Don't we get like one hundred
and thirty seven new people a day in Charlotte if
that's what that says about the state. But are these
New York Democrats that are moving here that would change?

(01:33:46):
I know Charlotte's blue has been for a long time.

Speaker 2 (01:33:50):
If you're right about that. Good morning, Hello, welcome to WBT.

Speaker 10 (01:33:54):
Nice to meet you.

Speaker 2 (01:33:55):
I'm John, I mean I'm Bo. I'm Bo. He's John,
and that's Beth. I'll be John. You can call me John.
That's a compliment. John Stamus. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:34:05):
So, I don't know North Carolina has been a focus
target city or target state for a long long time.

Speaker 2 (01:34:13):
Well, it's going to be interesting because I brought this
up with Tim Boyam last hour, but I keep thinking
about it. If Watley gets elected, here you have Bud
and you have Watley, two candidates maybe more so than
any other candidates in the country that really sort of oh,
they're placing the Senate to Trump. Now. Now, Watley has

(01:34:35):
been the NCGOP chair, so I'm not taking that away
from him. And actually he was the chief of staff
for Elizabeth Dill back in two thousand and four. So
Watley knows a thing or two about Senate races, and
he's been the guy that's sort of been behind the
scenes watching all these different races. But we all know
that President Trump took a liking to Michael Wattley and

(01:34:57):
sort of set him on the trajectory to where he
is now. He is one of the he's in the
inner circle of President Trump. So if he gets elected,
you know, and you have Ted Budd here, the Trump,
the Trump legacy, the Trump fingerprint is going to be
on North Carolina for many many years after potentially Trump
is gone.

Speaker 1 (01:35:14):
This potentially could come down to where his popularity level
is in a year and a half or whatever it is.
You know, you know right now he's not necessarily flourishing
in the polls. It doesn't mean that he's not still popular,
especially with his base, but there has been erosion on

(01:35:36):
so you know, another year from now, is his base
still as strong as he has appeared to be. I
don't know.

Speaker 7 (01:35:44):
Well, here in North Carolina, we have so many unaffiliated
voters registered unaffiliated voters that you just don't know. Are
they going to lean left? Are they going to lean
right when it comes to election cycle? Obviously we know
in twenty twenty four a lot of them went for
President Trump. But are those same people now being affected
by tariffs or will they be impacted by the or

(01:36:07):
do they believe they'll be impacted by the big beautiful bill,
or or is the Epstein scandal enough to chip away
at some of that?

Speaker 1 (01:36:17):
Well, the Epstein cha deal is fascinating to me because
all of us want to know, all of us want
to see if Prince Charles is on that list and
who else. But apparently there is no list. And I
suppose if I was Epstein, I wouldn't keep a list either.

(01:36:41):
And so you know, Giselle's going to end up trying
to figure a way to a meander, a way out
of incarceration, to tell what she knows. But I don't know.
It's a fact. That's a fascinating story. But that was
not a very positive thing for for Trump whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (01:37:00):
What about the notion of Trump pardoning her the Gallen
Maxwell right, Well, I don't I'm not so sure that
would do wonders for his popularity either, but I certainly wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (01:37:14):
You know, it depends on what she reveals and how
cooperative she is that he can do that and have
it be accepted. I don't think anybody necessarily thinks she
is the catalyst for what happened in the Epstein Empire,
but she was a part of it, So I don't know.

(01:37:37):
That's just an interesting story and an interesting balance, and
he wants it to go away, obviously, but it's not
going to go away, or maybe it will. We are
a society with a fast food mentality. We want a
seven course meal delivered through the window within two and
a half minutes. And we take on absolutely horrific situations

(01:38:05):
and stories and tragedies and we move on from them
pretty fast. So a year from now, are we still
talking about the Epstein case, or have we just decided
that that was an abration and we've moved on.

Speaker 7 (01:38:18):
For me, I think the fascinating thing about it is
that we have been talking about it at least since
he was arrested in twenty nineteen and then you know,
died wild incarceration in twenty nineteen, and that people have
been fascinated by it, for better or for worse. And
so many people did make it part of their campaign

(01:38:38):
process that they wanted all of this information out there.
And I think a lot of people now are concerned
that they are far more powerful people on there than
maybe they realized.

Speaker 1 (01:38:52):
Well, when you all of a sudden it's said that
there is no list, and there is no this, and
there is no that, and then all this sudden you
have people in the Department of Justice and some of
the other finer organizations of law that are organized in
this country, and they seem to be going along with
some of that. Then it makes you really wonder about

(01:39:14):
the corruption stories that you may have written off as
just being political bs and now you're saying to yourself.

Speaker 8 (01:39:22):
Wow, it's running deep.

Speaker 1 (01:39:25):
Is this really? You know, this really could be the
most corrupt nation ever, well, not ever.

Speaker 4 (01:39:35):
This is Good Morning Beating.

Speaker 2 (01:39:39):
Friday Morning Tyboid Studio BO and Beth here with Charlotte's
most beloved John Hancock. You got big weekend coming up
at nine thirty five. I've seen this list making the rounds.
We actually were talking a few weeks ago about how
to prepare yourself for the oncoming takeover of AI. In
other words, whatever is you're doing your job, your vocation,

(01:40:03):
are you preparing for what AI may do to that
job position in the years to come? Most vulnerable AI
jobs out there? And Hancock to make sure that you
and I knew number ten on that list broadcast announcers.

Speaker 1 (01:40:19):
Which shouldn't surprise anybody in this business at all. As
soon as ownership could take had the technology to take
one person and have them do mid days in Birmingham, Nashville,
El Cerrito, Sacramento, and they took advantage of it. It's

(01:40:44):
all about the bottom line, has nothing to do with
about So I find it sad because as somebody who
grew up listening at radio in the sixties and the seventies,
it was magic. That's what got me into radio. It
was a different theater of the mind than when everybody
used to crawl around the phil co and listen to

(01:41:09):
old time radio. But the old jocks of the sixties
in the early seventies were unbelievably talented and came up
with their own characters which were them and then interplayed
back and forth with themselves on tape, and so on
and so forth. Phil Henry is an interesting guy, and

(01:41:29):
that he was all of his phone callers. But I
just if you make the medium vanilla and a lot
of stations have, you can drive across the country right
now and I think you're listening to the same radio
station because they're all playing the same music, following the

(01:41:51):
same format.

Speaker 2 (01:41:52):
Well, you talk about AI now. The adage has always
been when it comes to mass production of radio content,
that you can do that with music radio what they
call voice tracking. I mean most of music radio that
you listen to right now, if you listen to terrestrial radio,
is not coming from that market. It's basically on a

(01:42:16):
lot of stations. It's Ryan Seacrest all day. But you
can mass produce a jock introing a song. What you
can't mass produce is a radio talk personality talking about Charlotte, right.
So there's always been a little bit of this sort
of cushion for people who do what we do and
that you can't mass produce local talk. Now you can

(01:42:38):
mass produce national talk. I mean that's been done for
years with syndication like Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity or
fill in the blank with any of the very successful
national talk shows. But the idea that you can mass
produce local that's sort of what's kept our format going
because music stations it's very rare. Now correct me if

(01:43:01):
I'm wrong, Hancock, but it's very rare for you to
be listening to somebody introing a song that A is
in that market and B is live.

Speaker 1 (01:43:11):
Well, my answer to what you just said was yet.

Speaker 2 (01:43:14):
Well, yeah, I mean we show.

Speaker 1 (01:43:17):
The more they develop it, the more they'll be able
to zero in on an AI generated personality that knows
more about Charlotte than you do, that can take keywords
out of a conversation of a phone call and interact back,

(01:43:39):
that can understand what the format is. I want us
to be a conservative leaning right radio station and can
be programmed accordingly. And can you know That's why I say, Yet,

(01:43:59):
I have no idea what its capabilities are yet but
I can't imagine that you couldn't program it to be
controversial and community oriented.

Speaker 2 (01:44:10):
Well, the scary thing is, and we talked about this
just yesterday because somebody said Robin Williams should be the
voice of AI across the board, every version of it,
and what is possible now? And we did a show
about two years ago about a disc jockey and I
think it was Seattle. They took her voice. AI took

(01:44:30):
her voice, and you know, she submitted an example of
her saying four or five sentences, and they took that
recording and then took the vocal stems from it and
then rebuilt the AI version of her and it sounded
just like her. So it's one thing to say AI
is going to replace you. AI may replace you with

(01:44:51):
you without needing the real you.

Speaker 7 (01:44:56):
But maybe there, maybe maybe you could still make a
living at that someone else doing your voice well every single.

Speaker 1 (01:45:03):
Day, somebody will be able to make a living out
of it. But that one person could be responsible for
one hundred and fifty radio stations across the country and
be paid the equivalent of two hundred thousand dollars a year.

Speaker 2 (01:45:18):
Or thumb tack this, they may be able to take
old recordings of you, John Hancock, and then have a
John Hancock show thirty years after you're gone. And how
would you feel about that?

Speaker 1 (01:45:32):
This is Good Morning Beaty Big Weekend presented by Watson Insurance.

Speaker 24 (01:45:38):
The friends that I know living in this town and.

Speaker 28 (01:45:44):
Up come far to see them, gonna travel down.

Speaker 24 (01:45:49):
They live in a reputed white and.

Speaker 28 (01:45:54):
Brown tip the maid and I cracked up my guitar,
drop my key.

Speaker 24 (01:46:04):
On the county, reading hard that I look up with
up later and do hit the bar.

Speaker 4 (01:46:18):
I need a big week and drop the dove.

Speaker 24 (01:46:28):
Yet big week, hitty down, run your guns.

Speaker 28 (01:46:39):
Well, I may shake your hand, but I won't know
your name.

Speaker 18 (01:46:44):
The joke in your.

Speaker 28 (01:46:46):
Language don't come out with the same. Which times when
I'm down and there's nothing.

Speaker 4 (01:46:54):
To blame, I need a big.

Speaker 1 (01:47:16):
Charlotte Knights are at home all weekend long Tonight seven
o four against the Rochester Red Wings. Thomas Rhett Country
Artist at PNC Music Pavilion tonight at seven thirty. Whitewater
Center's River Gym is tonight free live music at seven pm.
Panther fan Fest is back tomorrow at six thirty, followed

(01:47:36):
by fireworks in a laser show. Monster truck racing, stunts,
rides inflatables, all that stuff at the Cookout Monster Truck
Bash at Charlotte Motor Speedway five o'clock tomorrow and Charlotte
FC in the League's Cup action at Bank of America
Stadium on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:47:53):
Versus c DA Guadalajara.

Speaker 1 (01:47:55):
That's tomorrow or that Sunday at six thirty pm.

Speaker 4 (01:48:00):
I get.

Speaker 24 (01:48:01):
We're back in travel sleep and e across every board
in Levitudy Glare.

Speaker 25 (01:48:11):
You can look back.

Speaker 24 (01:48:14):
It's best not to stay.

Speaker 4 (01:48:20):
How did you big?

Speaker 9 (01:48:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:48:31):
Big?

Speaker 24 (01:48:35):
You know Russ.

Speaker 10 (01:48:40):
And are you go big?

Speaker 9 (01:48:42):
We can?

Speaker 1 (01:48:43):
Presented by Watson Insurance Agency, protecting what's important since nineteen
thirty four, Boom shacka Laca, y'all.

Speaker 29 (01:48:51):
I don't know if anybody remembers the all arts market
that they used to hold out at NODA, but they
are trying to kind of recreate that, and so the
No DA Bizarre will be held.

Speaker 1 (01:49:03):
Tomorrow, August the second. This will be in the thirty
twenty five North Davidson area from noon until eight o'clock.
Open air market and local vendors and live music and
raffles and all of that kind of stuff. But I
guess trying to bring back a little bit of the
original life that no Da had developed before the.

Speaker 2 (01:49:23):
Developers, before the developers developed came in.

Speaker 1 (01:49:27):
Yeah, I can remember, for some reason other the guy
who originated the coffee shop and no Da and this
would have been fifteen twenty years ago, passed away and
I've just always remembered him because it was kind of
the end of and I say that, and then I

(01:49:48):
started thinking about the evening mews and places that have
kept their character and kept their.

Speaker 10 (01:49:54):
But Cabo Fish Taco.

Speaker 1 (01:49:56):
It's ay, Cabo Fish Taco's another one. Yeah, but we
went Cabo Fish Taco and Ballantine a couple of weeks ago.
So that's I don't mean that as a negative, but
all of a sudden, it's not just that little place
that didn't and no doubt anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:50:13):
It's you know, it's it's a chain.

Speaker 1 (01:50:16):
Well, yeah, if you call to a chain, but I
don't know. It's a plasmabidwods another place that is changing
by the day, and they keep on talking about trying
to hold on and keep its character and uh, and
they may or may not have a certain degree of
success to it, but you can't you can't build big
shiny buildings and bring in uh chains and occupy the

(01:50:42):
bottom floors and uh and still say that you've maintained uh,
the earthiness of what it would be, what it began as.
And that's that's the way of the world. That's that's
what happens progress.

Speaker 10 (01:50:54):
I think I got that. That whole area changed to
me when the Penguin. Yeah, Office Central, you'll remember the Penguin.

Speaker 2 (01:51:03):
M absolutely And you brought back some memories when you
mentioned the Monster Truck Bash at the Dirt Track at
Charlotte Motor Speedway this weekend, because my son grew up
loving the Monster Jam trucks, and our gateway to it
was going to see it at Spectrum Center. But what
you'll realize if you ever go see a Monster Jam

(01:51:24):
show at Spectrum Center, there's not a whole lot of
room for all those trucks. Yeah, I mean, it's it's cool,
but it's like there's just not much room to breathe.
And then I got wind of the Dirt Track show,
which is not Monster Jam sanctioned. It uses some of
the trucks, but I don't know what umbrella it's over
under technically, but the dirt Track Monster trucks when they

(01:51:46):
have all that that open space. It's a cool thing.
If you have young kids that like the that like
the monster jam trucks, I highly recommend it. My son
and I went probably five straight years, and we keep
saying now he's in college now that we need to
go back, and we're going to We can't tomorrow, but
it's a I highly recommend it. The as you mentioned,
the cookout Monster Truck Bash at Charlotte Motor Speedway tomorrow

(01:52:08):
five pm. So good stuff. Horsepower, horse power, yes, and
then some traffic check right now, horse power.

Speaker 8 (01:52:17):
Oh Man Blumer.

Speaker 20 (01:52:19):
Used to go to those monster jams. They had him
out at the hive at the Charlotte Coliseum.

Speaker 2 (01:52:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:52:23):
Yeah, oh man, it was loud.

Speaker 20 (01:52:24):
I'll be talk about that because all the noise was
held in Man, it was incredible.

Speaker 2 (01:52:29):
Here Musk Bigfoot, grave Digger.

Speaker 4 (01:52:33):
Grave Digger.

Speaker 2 (01:52:35):
Oh gosh, it was awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:52:37):
Mohawk Warrior.

Speaker 2 (01:52:39):
What's that place you used to ride down to the beach.
It was set off to the right.

Speaker 20 (01:52:42):
They made one of those monster trucks.

Speaker 4 (01:52:44):
Oh yeah, gosh.

Speaker 20 (01:52:47):
You see it was in Nanson County somewhere like that.

Speaker 2 (01:52:49):
Well, you know, Gravedigger has a house down in the
Outer Banks and the house looks like Grave Digger. Yeah, yeah,
that's cool.

Speaker 4 (01:52:58):
I love it.

Speaker 8 (01:52:58):
That's great.

Speaker 20 (01:52:59):
We need those monster trucks. Put him out in the
parking lot here one fraud, that's right.

Speaker 4 (01:53:03):
Come on.

Speaker 7 (01:53:04):
I've always kind of wanted to get in one because
I just want to see if I could get in there.

Speaker 2 (01:53:08):
I want to see you drive one.

Speaker 9 (01:53:10):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:53:10):
You know, if I if I had a monster truck,
I would name it Boomer von Canada.

Speaker 10 (01:53:16):
That would be such a good monster truck name.

Speaker 2 (01:53:19):
Think about it. I mean Grave Digger versus Boomer von Canon.

Speaker 10 (01:53:22):
Who's gonna win that?

Speaker 4 (01:53:24):
This is Good Morning Beat with bo Thompson and Beth
trout name.

Speaker 2 (01:53:36):
Every time I hear this, I think Brad and Britt,
We're about to come back after the news. I used
to love this song. It's not Brad and Britt. It's
Boe and Beth and Charlotte's most beloved John Hancock. But
it's the cold Play story that won't I won't go away,
the kiss cam cold Play story. New developments this week, Well,

(01:53:59):
he the busted that's right is suing cold Play in the.

Speaker 1 (01:54:03):
Event organizers for technically invasion of privacy But Beth and
I were just talking about that. You're in an auditorium
filled with forty thousand people or whatever it is. Who's
to say that her best friend doesn't turn around and
say didn't that? Or that somebody sees them and says,

(01:54:25):
I mean they also had to walk in together and
walk out together, so they're in a crowd setting. But
the other part of that is nobody's guilty of anything.
It's everything is somebody else's fault.

Speaker 7 (01:54:36):
Great personal responsibility. How can you have any expectation of
privacy in a concert with forty thousand people?

Speaker 10 (01:54:43):
Yeah, like I don't.

Speaker 7 (01:54:46):
And if that's the case, like you said, maybe they
don't end up on the kiss cam. But their next
door neighbor is at the concert with their friend and
they see them and then tell the wife. Are they
going to suddenly sue the best friend for invasion of
obviously because they saw them at a concert and out
of them. You know, where do we draw the line?

(01:55:07):
And you know, quite frankly, I know that. But who
are the lawyers that are taking the case and saying
I can fight this.

Speaker 1 (01:55:11):
You know, somebody will. Somebody will make money out of this.
Take an inflatable mattress and throw it out on the
fifty yard line at at the Bank of America Stadium
and then sue David Depper that's he's got the money.

Speaker 2 (01:55:28):
We have a couple of people on the actually more
than a couple, a number of people seven oh four
to five, seven oh eleven, ten. On the text line,
we were talking about AI jobs that are in danger
or jobs that are in danger of being taken over
by AI, and Hancock was saying, number ten on that
list is radio announcers. What's the what are the other
highlights of that list? Well, I number six.

Speaker 1 (01:55:49):
It's interesting to me because it says customer service representatives.
But I'll be darned if I can get a customer
service representative now that doesn't have a foreign accent. So
in essence it's it's not AI. But they've pretty much
already done that. Interpreters and translators are the most vulnerable,
followed by historians, passenger attendants, sales reps, writers, and authors.

(01:56:14):
We certainly have seen that in local media, customer service reps,
computer numerical control telephone operators. I didn't even know they
had those anymore, ticket agents and travel clerks, and broadcast
announcers and radio gee's, those are those are the most
vulnerable jobs that are open to AI. So the radio

(01:56:38):
announcer thing didn't surprise me at.

Speaker 2 (01:56:40):
All, Brian says on the text line Driven by Liberty,
Buick GMC says, what you guys are talking about is
AGI or artificial general intelligence. We are decades, if not
a century, away from that being perfected to be able
to take away certain roles.

Speaker 10 (01:56:57):
I wrote Brian back and said, oh, you're making me
feel better. Thank you.

Speaker 7 (01:57:01):
The thing that I keep going back to, and John,
you and I were talking about this off the air.
I mean, we have AI now at fast food restaurants,
when you order, you have you do have some interaction
with AI pretty much on a daily basis right now.
But when I have heard, like the person on the
West Coast who had an AI generated version of her

(01:57:24):
voice that he was a radio DJ, there's something about
the human experience that I felt. I felt that she
wasn't real. I felt the absence of the soul. And
I wonder if that is going to be an instinct
that goes away with time, because if we have more

(01:57:45):
and more and more interactions with these kind of soulless
they're not being with soulless intelligence. Are we going to
lose that ability to not recognize humanity? That's what I'm
fearful of, because there.

Speaker 10 (01:57:57):
Is something there.

Speaker 7 (01:57:58):
There is a feeling. Even when you see computer generated
humans in films, you recognize, just by even the motion
of their bodies and their mouths and their eye movement
that they're not real. You recognize the lack of humanity there,
and I could feel it in the lack of humanity
in the voice. But will that be trained out of us?

Speaker 1 (01:58:18):
So many radio stations, probably the majority of them, not
news talk necessarily, but so many radio stations now have
already taken that out of there. You may have real people,
but they're reading liner cards. They're being told what song
to play next from a computer print out sheet, and
they're told that if they go longer than fourteen seconds

(01:58:42):
in between songs, they're fired.

Speaker 2 (01:58:44):
Connie says, next great career AI copyright libel slander, voice
print litigation.

Speaker 10 (01:58:50):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:58:52):
The thing is is that I can't answer that because
I grew up in the sixties and seventies, and you
did feel an identity with these guys because they were
so brilliant and I know that there are people that
file feel an identity with the people that are on
this radio station. But that's because it's it's real. But

(01:59:14):
it's solely. But surely through generations or through time, you
can delete or or you can start to water that
down to the point that it's not an expectation any longer.

Speaker 2 (01:59:30):
Alan says he's in Gastonia. I think the voice of
AI should be Sophia Vergara.

Speaker 4 (01:59:37):
Do that.

Speaker 2 (01:59:37):
That's great idea. What is this Robin Williams stuff?

Speaker 19 (01:59:40):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:59:41):
If they're going to use a foreign accent, I wish
they'd use her on the on the sales representative.

Speaker 2 (01:59:48):
All right.

Speaker 19 (01:59:48):
Thanks to everybody, Mark and Boomer, the four time Champ,
Boomer Zochie of course, Steven Burninge and Hancock.

Speaker 2 (01:59:55):
Always great to see you. Thank you, Good talk Beth,
Good talk Beth.

Speaker 4 (02:00:00):
That's true. Donlow next place.

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