Paul Schadt Joins The Show To Talk NASCAR + A Massive Announcement Is Made

*** Prerecorded on 1/10/26 *** Paul Schadt joins the show to talk NASCAR. Hudson Westbrook is going to be the performer at this year's Kat Jam! It's Dolly's birthday.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ninety six point nine The cat.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm excited to have my dear friend, mister Paul Chad
on this morning.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Charlie.

Speaker 4 (00:08):
I'm sitting, I'm laying in my hammock. I'm looking at
the beautiful water of Lake Tillery and then you call.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Listen. I'm trying to get some retirement napping and what
are you doing.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
I'm trying to just come hang out with you at
lake Tillery? You left me here.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
Well, I've been listening and I think you're doing a
great job.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Well, thank you. I'm trying to make you proud. How's
Baby Ali doing?

Speaker 4 (00:32):
Baby Ali is terrific. That's the way I stay in
shape because all he wants to do is have me
chase him, and I.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Chase him, and I chased him and I chase.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
Him, and little baby Liam is now starting to smile
and giggle a little bit. So that's fun.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
I love when you send me videos of you chasing
baby Ali because he is super fast and he is
a great fisherman already, yeah.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
Cause his first catfish not too long ago. He loves
to go fishing, and Killery is a beautiful place for that.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
So things are good.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
How are you doing.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
I'm doing good.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
I can't believe how big your guys are getting.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
The Holy Cow. Bear looks like he's twenty years old.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
He's an old man in a little boy's body.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
I see sometimes sometimes the three of you.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
Do videos and it looks like Bear's like just going
along to make mommy happy.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
He hates it.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
He's like, get the gamera off my face. Well, I'm
excited to have you on because NASCAR season is kicking
off and you are the king of all things Nascar.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, and I understand that you were able to come
up with some tickets to a very cool NASCAR race
and we got a chance to talk about that next.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Let's do it.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Ninety six point nine The Cat. Ninety six point nine
The Cat. We are kicking off NASCAR season, and nobody
knows Nascar better than my pal Paul Shad.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
Well, I don't know about that, but I'm excited. You've
got tickets all this week seven thirty Cat by to
the Cookout Class. And that is such a cool race,
and where they're doing it is such a cool place.
They call it the Madhouse because it's like the tiniest
little track. It's a quarter mile, so they're going to
run fifty miles. That's the entire race, fifty miles. It's

(02:14):
two hundred laps, and everybody wants it doesn't count for points,
it doesn't count for anything. It's more that these guys
want bragging rights and they want to start the season
on the right foot.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
It's a cool place, and Winston Salem, I know, we've
got a lot of folks that listen up in Winston Salem.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
You've got that race, and that's on February first, the
unofficial kickoff. And in this Friday night, we've got the
NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte's Kurt Busch. You've got
one of the pioneer guys, Ray Hendrick, you got Charlott
Motor Speedways, Humpy Wheeler, you got handsome Harry Gant. Let
me tell you a little bit about Harry, because Harry
listens every morning up in Taylorsville, North Carolina. And a

(02:52):
lot of people, especially in sports, you peak when maybe
you're in your twenties or thirties. Harry peaked at the
age of fifty one where and he won four NASCAR
races back to back, back.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
To back, And you know what that means.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
It's never too late to pursue your dreams.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 4 (03:08):
If you're thinking, oh, I'm too old to go get
that degree, or too old to go back to school
or whatever, You're never too old.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
And if you ever want to come out of retirement
and just go back to work.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
You can always do that too.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
I'm too old for that.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Nope, never too old.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
We'll fall through.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
It's so good to hear your voice.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
If I ever do come back, you just keep a
seat warm for me up in the studios. Listen.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
I'm doing it right now. I don't leave this.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
I sleep here now. I just sleep through the night,
wake up and do the show again.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
Well, keep doing what you're doing, because you're sounding great,
and I love to listen to you.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Say well, thank you. I miss you.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Please, sim I love to Kathy and Chewy and the
whole family.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
I will do it.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
You tell your gang Kings Mountain. I say, hey, you
got it.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Now, let's give away these clash tickets. If you want
to go to the race, you can win right now.
Just open up the free iheartright, tap the red talk
bat mike in the upper right hand corner. Tell us
your name where you're at and that you want to
go to the glass.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
It's ninety six point nine.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
The Cat Brandley Gilbert Our Carolina. Guys like Scotty McCreary
and Cameron Marlow got their star at cat Jam up
on the cast stage at Kyote Joe's and cat Jam
is back this year performing up on that cat stage.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
Na.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
It's just for Amty ows really my.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Head rested Hudson Westbrook. You do not want to miss
cat Jam this year March third at Coyote Joe's. Cat
Jam is supporting Thompson and it's all presented by Scott
Clark Toyota. My husband bought me a gym membership along
with a personal trainer for my Christmas president see Cares.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
About My Health ninety six point nine. The Cat. I'm
Zarah Lee.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
I am a dickt to cosmic brownies.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
You know by a little Debbie. I know they're not
good for me.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
And why in the world did I just open up
the computer and see that little Debbie is now making
cosmic brownie ice cream sandwiches. Look Away, look Away, Happy
birthday to you.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Happy Birthday.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Today is Dolly Parton's eighty of the birthday and she
is a legend, so of course we have to wish
the Queen a happy birthday.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Ninety six point nine The Gap