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Speaker 5:I was just in the middle of a dream Get up, we gotta go to work. What. But I can't feel it and I guess I just won't get paid?
Speaker 4:Why do people work? Do any of you people do any actual work? These are the days when you wish your bed was already made, broadcasting live from high atop Alabama's beautiful Sand Mountain. I don't like Mondays. Tell me why I don't like Mondays.
Speaker 5:Tell me why. No, you don't understand how radio works Monday, Monday.
Speaker 4:So good to me Doesn't normally seem like work, does it? It sure is Monday hitting it now, except for Monday. Let's get to me, doesn't?
Speaker 2:normally seem like work, does it? It sure is Monday hitting it now, Except for Monday let's get to work.
Speaker 4:Please welcome your hosts.
Speaker 5:Just another manic Monday.
Speaker 4:Mary and Holly Wish it was.
Speaker 1:Sunday. Good morning, it's 6.09,. It's a Monday, beautiful Monday.
Speaker 5:It is Monday.
Speaker 1:But you're back again.
Speaker 5:Yeah, so are you. We made it back. We made it is Monday, but you're back again. Yeah, so are you. We made it back. We made it through the weekend, you're exhausted Friday from toting dog food around. Toting.
Speaker 1:Carrying.
Speaker 5:Toting. Let me tell you something Our listeners showed up and showed out on Friday. Is that not awesome? That is awesome.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And we got about 200 pounds collected through the weekend yeah over the and we got about 200 pounds collected through the weekend, so that was great. What's our total up to? It's officially 4,245 pounds of dog food and second-hand shelter.
Speaker 5:This came at the right time, because you know it's like it was meant to be. They called me Friday and Teresa told me Holly, we're out of dog food, can we come get some? And I said yes, absolutely. But they were out. Yeah, we're out of dog food. Yeah, can we come get some?
Speaker 1:And I said yes, absolutely.
Speaker 5:That's why it's helpful. But they were out. Yeah, they were out.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 5:And that's scary to be out.
Speaker 1:See, it's like it came at the perfect timing.
Speaker 5:Mm-hmm, it's meant to be.
Speaker 1:We started with stock at the same time, when they don't have to, at least for a few weeks, yeah, and if we can, uh, keep on collecting dog food like this. A few years ago they didn't have to collect or didn't have to buy any dog food to like september oh, that's amazing yes, that means the june, july, august and september.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's like three months and they could use the money that was donated to them to go do other repairs and improvements at the second chance shelter. That's why we're doing this to give them a chance to not have to buy dog food and then they can use the money that they have because they rely on donations.
Speaker 5:Well, yeah, and you've got to think about all the things that they use the money for. They have to spay and neuter all of these animals.
Speaker 1:They pay for that.
Speaker 5:They pay for that. They have to feed all of these animals. They pay for that. They pay for that. They have to feed all of these animals. They have to get all. Imagine all the cleaning supplies that you would need and all of the oh big, dirty work.
Speaker 1:Well, doug will be coming in. Doug McGee will be joining us, coming up this morning after eight. So if you want to find out more about Second Chance Shelter Doug and Wanda they're the two ones who started this. He'll give you more details on this. And again, 4,245 pounds of dog food in just a couple of days. We're doing this all the way to the end of June. In case you're curious about the tie-dye T-shirts, there's a few left.
Speaker 5:Yeah, there's a few left, and I had a message on Friday that said hey, I can't get by there today. Is it okay if I bring it monday? Guys, we're doing this all through the month of june, so anytime during the month of june that you can drop off dog food at the station, we'll get it.
Speaker 1:second chance yep, and 30 pounds or more gets you a wolf stock t-shirt, either tie down, or there's also, uh, dark blue, flat blue, and black, and purple and purple. And I, to me, to me, I like the dark blue, oh yeah the logo really just jumps off of that T-shirt.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I like that dark blue. I like that black too, yeah.
Speaker 1:So thank you to, by the way, dixie Designs and Boaz. They designed these, they printed them and they're donating them. So thank you to Dixie Designs and Boaz. Yeah, these are sharp-looking T. And today's a big day, because now it's officially started our Father's Day contest. Father Mows Best. You can now upload your photo of Dad or Dad. If you want to upload a photo of yourself, you can do that. You can do this. You can go to our website, wqsbcom. Upload the photo. The only requirement is there must be a lawnmower of some type in the photo with you. Yes, some type.
Speaker 5:Well, and if you don't have one, just improvise. Use the kid's lawnmower, sure, use the broom, use a rake. Just tell us in the comments that you don't have a lawnmower.
Speaker 2:That's a good idea, but preferably.
Speaker 5:We want to see a lawnmower and we want to upgrade you.
Speaker 1:Yes, and coming up the Thursday before Father's Day which you have like a week and a half to upload your photo and be sure to include the name of the person in the photo, dad's name and where he's from We'll have a random drawing and one lucky dad's going to win a brand-new Toro Time Cutter Max 50-inch Riding Mower, valued at $3,700, courtesy of our good friends at Bonds Appliance Lawn and Garden Inn Guntersville. Wow, and they have a great selection of beautiful lawnmowers.
Speaker 5:Yeah, they do. I drove by the other day and saw this lawnmower that were given away. I was surprised and amazed at how good of a quality I'm like we're giving this away.
Speaker 1:We're just giving this. Yes, Wow, One thing we need to do. We need to have a talk with Jamie Jamie Sinners.
Speaker 5:Went by the other day and he was riding one around the parking lot with the shirt off.
Speaker 1:Oh, no, Jamie With the shirt off.
Speaker 5:Shirt off.
Speaker 1:Oh no, jamie, there were cars skidding, sliding, two turned over, I think, and it was unbelievable.
Speaker 5:Oh well, that's Jamie Sinner's story, yeah it's just the normal day for Jamie. I'm kidding.
Speaker 1:I love Jamie. I love them being a part of this, so upload the photos. We'll go over some of the photos. There's already pictures coming in.
Speaker 5:Yes, and we've got a really busy week this week. It's going to be a jam-packed, fun week. Let me tell you something else.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 5:We've got something else to give away. What?
Speaker 1:else.
Speaker 5:On Friday, listener of the week is going to win something extra special. Yeah, you want to tell yeah, you want to tell yeah, go ahead. Okay, it is a whole day trip to Chattanooga for the Aquarium, the IMAX Theater and the Discovery Museum and we're going to be giving that away to one of our daily qualifiers, so we're doing a little something special this week. Everybody listener of the week is going to get a t-shirt this week, right and then so we already have one. Our listener of the day is Brittany Kirkland.
Speaker 1:Brittany, congratulations. Thank you for listening. You are the listener of the day. We're going to be saluting you all morning and you get a QSB Morning Show t-shirt and your name is in the drawing. Now for listener of the week to win that four-ticket Sue Chattanooga, that's right, a listener of the day each day this week. It's simple to be a listener of the day or to qualify Just go to our Facebook page or wherever you find podcasts, listen to our morning show podcast. When the show is over, make a comment on something you heard and you're automatically qualified. Then tomorrow morning, we'll announce the new listener of the day.
Speaker 5:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:So if you need more details on any of that, you can always call us here at WQSV. How do you know Things you need to know? Can you believe we're already in June? No, third day of June already. Things you need to know and think about today. What is going on?
Speaker 5:Today is National Egg Day.
Speaker 1:I love eggs.
Speaker 5:I love eggs. Yeah, when you had to buy my lunch, when I won that bet do you? Remember.
Speaker 1:Sure.
Speaker 5:We went to Huddle House. They were still serving breakfast. That was my order. I got two eggs scrambled. You cannot beat the Huddle House. Two eggs scrambled.
Speaker 1:Love their omelets, love it.
Speaker 5:This is a fun fact Harriet, who is a hen from United Kingdom, laid the world's largest egg in 2010. Whoa, Her egg measured nine inches in diameter.
Speaker 1:Okay now picture a nine-inch egg. So we're talking regular, regular chicken, right. Yeah, what's the normal diameter? I don't have any idea. So we're talking regular, regular chicken, right.
Speaker 5:Yeah, what's the normal diameter I?
Speaker 1:don't have any idea. What would you think?
Speaker 5:Hey Siri, what's the diameter of an egg? The diameter of a human egg is approximately 0.1 millimeter. Okay, and so hers is not.
Speaker 2:I think we actually have some audio of the chicken laying the egg here it is.
Speaker 1:That was a chicken when the egg came out. Harriet, are you okay? Poor Harriet in 2010.
Speaker 5:Poor Harriet the chicken Sheesh.
Speaker 1:Never heard a chicken scream before.
Speaker 5:I'd never want to lay another egg in my life. No, no, poor Harriet. Well, disney is not slowing down on the live-action remakes of classic animated films, although I wish they would.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you don't like them, mm-mm. So what do you think of them?
Speaker 5:I think they're terrible yeah. And I'm going to get in trouble.
Speaker 1:I don't want to get in trouble Because you saw I have not seen Little Mermaid, but you did not like that.
Speaker 5:No, I didn't, I don't, but there's not a single live remake that they've done, that I've liked.
Speaker 1:But Disney sources say that they're focusing on live adaptations of Hercules, Aristocats and the Sword in the Stone. Aristocats will be tough, because if you're going to do it, I guess we'll have computer-generated cats Everybody wants to be a cat?
Speaker 5:Yeah. And then the Lion King hits theaters on December 20, 2024.
Speaker 1:I thought they already did that one. That's Mufasa the Lion King. Oh yeah, Mufasa, it's from his side of the story, which is not going to be any different because he's just evil.
Speaker 5:I know.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, Scar is evil. I'm sorry I got it wrong. I was about to say Mufasa was the good guy, Star was the bad guy.
Speaker 5:Mufasa's, the one that got trampled today. Do you not remember?
Speaker 1:I remember now that was traumatic in my childhood. It's important.
Speaker 5:You remember that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I have a sound of that too, I know. Yeah, hold on, here's the. There you go.
Speaker 5:Snow White's going to come out on March 21st 2025. And a live action Take a Moana premieres July 10th 2026.
Speaker 1:You know that's confusing. There's two Moanas. There's Moana 2 coming out in a few months, then there's the live action Moana coming out next year or two years.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's confusing. How many do we need? I don't know. I like the first one. Stick with it.
Speaker 5:I loved it. I don't understand why we don't leave these things alone.
Speaker 1:I agree.
Speaker 5:They're not good. When you remake them into live action, it looks weird and cheesy.
Speaker 1:You know what? It tells me what? They don't have a lot of new Disney ideas. They're going to go back and just steal from the old stuff and just redo it a little bit.
Speaker 5:Yep.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 5:And then here's something to think about. I was sitting with my mom yesterday and she said getting older is a lot like being in a haunted house. And I was like Mom. What do you mean that's?
Speaker 1:weird.
Speaker 5:I know she said there's smells and sounds that cannot be explained.
Speaker 1:That's what it's like Hope you moved over a little bit yeah it's 619.
Speaker 4:Wqsb Mornings with Barry and Holly.
Speaker 1:Slight chance of a shower, maybe a thunderstorm later. High near 85 this morning, it looks good 68 here at QSB Big weekend. Holly, you were saying that you've been around a lot of animals, so you have a pet turtle now.
Speaker 5:I do. I do have a pet turtle. He's about the size of a silver dollar.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 5:His name is Myrtle.
Speaker 1:Now, where did you find Myrtle?
Speaker 5:Myrtle was in my parents' swimming pool when we were getting the pool opened up. Yeah, and there was about six frogs and one little turtle. How does a little turtle get out in the middle of nowhere?
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 5:And just find their way in the swimming pool With six frogs. Yeah, they just wanted to party. They did. It was a big party, yeah, and they have a gated. It's gated Like not where it has holes. It's like you can't see through the gate. It's wooden boards Right, it got through there and it made its way into the pool and now it's living in my parents' house in a sour cream container.
Speaker 1:Sour cream container.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You're telling me it escaped over the weekend.
Speaker 5:It did. It got out of it and my mom had to find a big tub for it to go into. Dad found it in the pots and pans.
Speaker 1:In the sink.
Speaker 5:Yeah, they were freaking out because they couldn't find Myrtle the turtle. Myrtle the turtle so they were looking all over the place and Myrtle was just hanging out in the pots and pans. Okay, Just Myrtle-ing around.
Speaker 1:Well, since you're so used to animals, how would you have handled this? Are you familiar with her? Her name?
Speaker 5:is Taylor Momsen. Yeah, yes, she was in Gossip Girl.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 5:She was in how the Grinch Stole Christmas. I did not.
Speaker 1:So she was Cindy Lou who, mm-hmm. I saw a picture of her. I didn't recognize the face, I just didn't. She's one of those tortured child stars.
Speaker 5:She's one of those started childhood too early or stardom too early in my childhood and then went like all black eyeliner. Black on black on black.
Speaker 1:Okay, so now she's the lead singer of a group called the Pretty Reckless. Okay, and the story is they were performing in spain over the weekend, opening for acdc, so I'm taking it. She plays hard rock, yeah, and here's what happened. Was now taylor, who's 30 years old now it's hard to believe that cindy lou, who's 30 now, but while she was on stage it's an outdoor show a bat, a bat in, landed on her leg around the calf area and bit her.
Speaker 1:No on the thigh, on the thigh, yeah, yeah, and it was just hanging there and she had to stop the show and say very calmly hey. Would someone? She said there's a blanking flying bat on my right leg. Now Can someone help me please?
Speaker 5:And was so calm.
Speaker 1:But she wasn't panicking. I would be flailing and swinging and swaying yes, and kicking how would you think you've been on stage doing stuff, so how would you have handled a bat flying and landing on your leg?
Speaker 5:I also would have said blankety, blanks. I'm probably, I just out of.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, pure scaredness it's not every day a bat lands on your leg she could have followed in Ozzie's footsteps. She could have grabbed it and bit its head off.
Speaker 5:Bit the head off, then she would have been fine. Then there is no bat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, now she's going to have to have like two weeks of rabies shots. Oh, no. Aren't those the ones that give you in the stomach? Oh is it?
Speaker 5:Look this up, I'm thinking somebody told me once maybe it was maybe they lied to me that rabies shots asked hey, siri, where are rabies shots administered? So what? She says uh given in the deltoid in the arm oh, in the arm.
Speaker 1:Well, maybe they change it then seem like no that's the vaccine, that's vaccine the vaccine.
Speaker 5:the vaccine goes in the arm.
Speaker 1:Rabies- yeah, look this up. Can you imagine having to have that for two weeks?
Speaker 5:No, I cannot. Rabies shots have not been given in the stomach since the 1980s. They changed it.
Speaker 1:I know you used to. When I was little, my mom always said if you ever get bit by something, it's going to give you shots in the stomach.
Speaker 5:That scared me. Oh, your mama scared you. She would always say don't pick up.
Speaker 1:You know, if you see a raccoon or you see something in the woods, just don't pick it up and play with it. You had to be told that had to be told don't you, Because we would always look for stuff. Oh yeah, liz, for the bat, and she was so calm about this. She did go on to say that the bat was fine. They removed it from her leg. He's going to be my new friend.
Speaker 1:And she's calling herself Bat Girl. Now, oh, that's funny Because she had a guitar. I would have taken my guitar and beat my own leg with it.
Speaker 5:I would have thrown myself off the stage. I would Just yeeted myself yes, bad at all. Fly. Yeeted myself yes, bad at all. Fly across the stage Like I can't imagine being so calm. Like she stopped the show and was just like hey, there's a blanking bat on my leg. Can somebody help me?
Speaker 1:get it off. Yeah, and they did. I'm going to lose my mind. Whose job is that? Is it the guitar tech's job? Whose job?
Speaker 5:It's the back getter's job.
Speaker 1:I think the drummer should have walked over there and started beating it with his drumsticks.
Speaker 5:Beating it with his drumsticks.
Speaker 1:That would have been a good way to go, yeah.
Speaker 5:Like the poor man yeah, back goes into heaven. How'd you go out, man? You're not going to believe it?
Speaker 1:Well, I bet. Taylor Monson, you know how the Grinch sold Christmas? Yeah, I'll send you the who. All of a sudden, her drummer comes out of nowhere, Freaking nowhere, and begins to beat me with his drumsticks Like thank God, no, here I am.
Speaker 5:In bad heaven. Bad heaven yeah 631.
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Speaker 1:Thank you for sending these and some very creative photos already.
Speaker 5:I know and this is such a good idea, so I told Barry, I told people to go out in the yard with a broom. But, they one-upped me and were so much smarter than me. If you don't have a lawnmower, just clip art. Just use a clip art lawnmower, and that's what somebody. What was this?
Speaker 1:jared presley of sardis just in his photo it's him and his family and you. Even he says we don't have a lawnmower so we have to pay to have our yard mowed and by the amount of kids you see in the photo, one is missing. We could definitely use the extra money we save. Lol.
Speaker 5:And it's shared in the family like a family photo with a lawnmower inserted in front of it, and that's all you need to do.
Speaker 1:Great idea.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it's a great idea.
Speaker 1:Because all we require is to have at least a lawnmower in the picture in some form.
Speaker 5:Yeah. Riding push toy, whatever Look. Saki probably got this one off of google and just placed it over top of their family photo, which is totally acceptable here's one from roberto robles, and in his photo it looks like he's uh riding with maybe daughter.
Speaker 3:A beautiful photo we'll see a lot of these I love when they ride with their children or grandchildren.
Speaker 1:Here's one from james hatmaker, so the from atala, uh. So upload your riding lawnmower, or rather your lawnmower photo, with dad today. You have until a week from thursday. We'll announce the winner the friday before father's day and some lucky dad's gonna win our father most best contest. It's a brand new toro time cutter max, 50 inch riding more around 3 700 from bonds, appliance loan and garden and gunnersville and it is a good one, it's beautiful, yes, so get those photos in.
Speaker 1:Go to our website to upload these at WQSBcom. Speaking of stuff, money, things like that, this shows how people People just don't think. In Russia, a Russian supermarket, a big chain of supermarkets they had a problem with some eggs, some food poisoning, and they linked back some of their eggs and 18 people were sick, food poisoning. And then the Russian supermarket owner has promised 1 million rubles to customers who suffered from food poisoning. How many rubles, 1 million?
Speaker 5:1 million rubles.
Speaker 1:I don't know what that turns into our money, I have no idea, but one million to anybody who suffered food poisoning from their products. So he posted this, found out 18 people were sick. But then here's what happened Days later, more people began coming in saying that they were sick of their stomach because they had, and he found out they were licking the eggs, they were taking the eggs buying some from the supermarket, going home and licking them hoping to get sick so they could get part of the compensation from the food poisoning compensation.
Speaker 1:Y'all thought me eating grapes at the grocery store was bad. At least I'm not out there licking eggs.
Speaker 5:Licking eggs, you egg licker. I know Son of a leg egg. They were hoping to get food poisoning.
Speaker 1:I've had food poisoning one time in my life and I never want it again.
Speaker 5:You can't pay me a million rubles for food poisoning. No, I will not take any rubles for food poisoning. No, no, I don't care if it paid a whole month of bills. I'm not doing it. Have you had it more than once or just once? I've only had it one time. But I'm going to tell you, barry, I had to literally have a bucket beside me and the floor and just lean over and bat.
Speaker 5:That's awful. That ain't like that. It's awful. It was horrible. It never stopped. No, both ends. Wow, it happens all the time. It's so bad, nobody needs that.
Speaker 1:Thank you for the information this morning.
Speaker 1:You're welcome. Yeah, but then people were trying to get sick on purpose, hoping to get some compensation. So the owner had to come back and say stop doing this, because we've already found out. We've got rid of all the contaminated eggs. You're coming in here wasting your time. There are no more eggs, we don't think, and you're not going to get sick and you're not going to get part of the money, so stop buying your eggs and licking them and trying to make yourself sick hey, do you hear about those eggs at the grocery store?
Speaker 5:you can go down there and lick them.
Speaker 1:They'll give you some money yeah, because people are getting sick eating eggs, go get you some.
Speaker 5:If you get sick, you get one million rubles oh, somebody just sent us a message that said it's eleven thousand two hundred dollars in us dollars.
Speaker 1:Okay, and that's how much you would get if you have the food poisoning.
Speaker 5:That is not worth food poisoning no One million rubles.
Speaker 4:It's like the sound you make when you're throwing.
Speaker 1:Rubles, rubles, rubles that's what it comes up. But people are so evil, they're evil. They were trying to get sick on purpose.
Speaker 5:Yeah, well, they wanted their ruble money.
Speaker 1:I don't know Ruble money yeah, $6.44.
Speaker 4:Barry and Holly on Alabama's Country, Giant WQSB.
Speaker 1:WQSB. One bad habit it's Tim McGraw 710. Barry and Holly on kind of a cloudy Monday morning. It's going to stay about like this Partly sunny, slight chance of rain later. High of 85. Good weekend, Busy weekend, a lot of stuff going on over the weekend. Boy, I hated it that Albertville's Maid on the Mountain was canceled due to the weather.
Speaker 5:I know Because it was nasty Saturday. Yeah, they made a good call.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but at least June Jam got in rain and all yeah. So some things went on. It's just a. It's crazy, I'm telling you, because this coming weekend, at the moment it's going to be a perfect weekend. I know why. Couldn't that weather have been this past weekend?
Speaker 5:I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't know, it's just a roll of the dice whenever you schedule outdoor events. You just never know and unfortunately, uh, the rain came in. It really wasn't supposed to rain that much saturday, but then it did. Yeah, and the forecast changed like on Friday and it was kind of messy off and on.
Speaker 5:We stayed inside all day Saturday with the windows drawn and the blinds and curtains closed.
Speaker 1:You hunkered down, didn't?
Speaker 5:you. I hunkered down and I rested. My girls called me lazy. Oh, I know, they told me I was being lazy. Oh, my goodness, but I was. Oh, I know they told me I was being lazy, oh my goodness, but I was, yeah, but I was tired this weekend.
Speaker 1:Well, it's so hard when you get up at 3, 4 o'clock in the morning. You need to rest. Yeah, I know you need to rest, they don't get it. No.
Speaker 5:I'm like y'all sleep in until 9, 10 o'clock, yeah, and then they. I wonder if any other moms are called lazy over the summer. You know what I mean. I'm sure I'm going to put up a post. It happens. How are your kids during the summer? Yeah, are they nice to you? What do you problem with? How do you function as a parent? During the summer.
Speaker 1:Exactly, it's hard, barry. It is tough, I can imagine.
Speaker 5:Because I'm going to tell you you when they're in school. They're at school until 2 30, yeah, okay, and so you've got kind of some time to run some errands, but I think that that's not enough time. I think they should extend the school to 3 30. Give me one more hour to get stuff done, just make it till midnight, just let them go all the time.
Speaker 4:The whole day, and we'll get them on weekends.
Speaker 5:There you go. Wow, yeah, no, but for real.
Speaker 1:We had a great. I hope you fully recovered.
Speaker 5:I did. I feel so rested. Today. We're good yeah.
Speaker 1:Hey got to say congratulations to Brittany Kirkland, our listener of the day. Yay, brittany. Thank you, brittany, for listening, listening, and we're going to give you a qsp morning show t-shirt and you're now qualified to win the family pack of four tickets to chattanooga which all of our listeners of the day this week will go into a drawing on friday. One of you will win four tickets to the tennessee aquarium, to the discovery museum, also to the imax theater.
Speaker 1:Yes, so it's like a like a day full of fun in chattanooga. So if you want to be a listener of the day, just go to our Facebook page. You can comment on their podcast we'll put up later today. You could be the next listener of the day. Yeah, and have that pet of the week. Yes, blue the dog, blue Blue.
Speaker 5:He's so cute. He has one brown eye and one blue eye. He's beautiful. I don't know what kind of dog he is Not sure JC Murdoch is the owner. Jc would know, but maybe she'll comment.
Speaker 1:Blue is a beautiful, beautiful dog and you can see Blue's photo on her Facebook page and on the big billboard A billboard on Highway 431 down from the station. And Blue and JC now win a $20 gift card from Food City in Albertville and Gadsden plus a Pet of the Week t-shirt from Dixon Designs in Boaz. We're also donating a $20 Food City gift card to Second Chance Shelter in Boaz. We'll do that again coming up next Monday. And how about the Chopster? The Chopster you ever heard of this? No, never heard of this. There's a picture of it on their Facebook page. But you know, years ago they came up with the turducken. That's where they combined like a stuffed chicken with a turkey chicken turducken. It's a turkey and a chicken.
Speaker 1:They put the chicken inside. Now there's a restaurant in New York City. They've created the Golden Chopster. It's a trendy restaurant. They take a whole roasted chicken and they stuff it with the head of a Maine lobster $250 for this meal. To make the dish, they flambe a lobster head in a cognac glaze, then they insert it into the cavity of a whole sasso chicken, a French breed prized for its deeper flavor. The stuffed chicken think of it as a high class turducken is roasted in the oven while the remaining lobster parts are poached and shelled. And before the lobster emerges from the kitchen it gets dressed up. They put a brass lobster head on the front of it, tail and claws. You get to keep that and then they put all of the stuff inside of that.
Speaker 5:Are they made of 14 karat gold?
Speaker 1:No, no, it's just brass.
Speaker 5:It's $250.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 5:For what?
Speaker 1:You get to keep the brass, the head and the claws, but all the meat is inside the chicken.
Speaker 5:It's $250 for rotisserie chicken stuff with what?
Speaker 1:Pieces of lobster? Basically Pieces of lobster, okay, Basically.
Speaker 5:Yeah, nope, nope on the chopster. Yeah, and we're not trying it on our 10 out of 10. I can't afford it.
Speaker 1:No this looks nasty.
Speaker 5:Can't even go halves, no, that's expensive?
Speaker 1:I would say absolutely not. It's not that big of a chicken either.
Speaker 5:Oh, do you want to go downtown and get some chopster tonight?
Speaker 1:Oh, you're the sweetest thing. I think I'll marry you.
Speaker 5:Yeah that's how you get somebody right there and take them out and eat chopster. Hey, baby, I'm going to give you some chopster.
Speaker 1:Oh, I thought you'd never ask yeah, but this is no. This looks disgusting.
Speaker 5:It does. It's a chicken stuffed with lobster. I can't imagine those being good together. I mean, there's some people screaming at their radio. I want it now, but the picture it looks weird. You've got to see it. It's on our Facebook. It's just weird.
Speaker 1:Okay, they say they have to step the lobster into the cavity of the chicken. Just looking at the picture I'm picturing like a funny race between a chicken and a lobster. Also, the chicken stops up front, the lobster can't stop. It is right through the rear end and out of its mouth it goes. And that's how they got this picture the chicken they put on a blinker and the lobster goes right through it?
Speaker 5:Yep, that's what it looks like. I mean, that's basically what it looks like.
Speaker 1:That surprised look on his face like I didn't see it stop. Yeah, if you, I didn't see it stop yeah. Yeah, if you want to see it, check it out. It's a New York restaurant that's selling these for $250. Not going to happen 7-16.
Speaker 4:Mornings with Barry and Holly here on Alabama's country giant WQSB. Come on, man.
Speaker 1:Mornings, come on man Story. Do you like the Olympics when they come on?
Speaker 5:Oh yeah, you like summer games or winter games better? I like the gymnastics. Summer games, I like summer.
Speaker 1:I'm with you, I'm excited. I think it's going to be a good Olympics. It comes up very soon. Well, they're going to be in Paris and there's a problem. Okay, some of the citizens are not happy with what the government's doing, the trying to clean the river to make it better, because they have a lot of summer games in the river, like, I guess, kayaking, you know, uh, canoeing, things like that. So they're they're spending a lot of money cleaning the river and people are mad saying that money could be spent in other ways to help us, the citizens. But you're spending all this money on the olympic games what do they want?
Speaker 1:what they're going to do is they're going to have a mass protest on June 23rd. June 23rd, they're urging everybody to join them at the what is it? The Seine River, the famous river where a lot of the games will be held. And here's how they're going to protest they're all going to gather at the river and they're going to use the bathroom in the river at the same time. No, they're going to poop in the river together. No, they're going to poop in the river together. Yeah, as a group. How do you do that? It's a poop flash mob, basically. Wow.
Speaker 5:Why.
Speaker 1:Because they're going to just make it even harder for them, to, I guess, give them even more to clean up. I guess, I don't know. I don't know what this proves.
Speaker 5:Oh my gosh, how nasty is that. Yes, why don't you just so? It's not just the number one, it's the number two.
Speaker 1:They're going for the two.
Speaker 5:They're going for the two. Okay, why don't you just carry?
Speaker 1:a sign you know, or yeah, just yell them, yell. Hold up the sign and say boo, yeah, put your war paint on. Don't say poo.
Speaker 5:Yeah, don't poo.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just say boo. Okay, if you're going to go to the protest, you have to be able to.
Speaker 5:Yeah, you got to take a dulcolax or something you have to be able to perform. Yeah I know. Wouldn't you be embarrassed if you were the leader and like come on, guys, we're going to do this.
Speaker 1:Drop your pants, Everybody go. One, two, three, Okay, one more time. One, two three.
Speaker 5:What if you couldn't push anything out? Would you be considered a?
Speaker 1:betrayal. Is it a betrayal? I would push him in the river.
Speaker 5:In the scene. You know how that makes you so mad when you're on vacation and a kid poops in the pool at the hotel. They have to shut it down for like 24 hours. So I don't know.
Speaker 1:I guess they're trying to shut down the river, I guess, but they're mad because they're spending more money on cleaning the river than they are on other things that people in Paris need.
Speaker 5:Like what do they want? I don't know what they need.
Speaker 1:I don't know what the need is.
Speaker 5:They've got to probably clean the river anyway.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because they want to make it look good for the other countries coming in for all the games, that's what you do when you're hosting the Olympics.
Speaker 5:You make it look nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you get ready and you make millions off the people coming in spending money in your town. Absolutely, Now you're going to go in from flying into Paris and standing by the river looking at the kayakers Number twosers Wow, that stinks, smells like poop.
Speaker 5:That is not beaver poop, no.
Speaker 1:It's not. All right 739. Wqsb.
Speaker 4:Mornings with Barry and Holly.
Speaker 1:Topper Hollies, Knowledge Nuggets. These are things you need to know, whether you know it or not. Three things to take with you during the day and share with others, like what you got today.
Speaker 5:Yeah, put this one in your back pocket and share with others what you got today. Yeah, put this one in your back pocket. More than 30% of Americans say they would rather give up their daily bath or shower before they would give up their coffee.
Speaker 1:Oh, now you're the coffee drinker here. Yeah, is that true to you? I?
Speaker 5:got to bathe. Really I got to bathe, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 5:I have to I would give up the coffee. There's been many times where I don't have time to I've got to choose, make a decision. This is very real. Do I hurry up and skip the bath and go get the coffee, or do I bathe and skip the coffee?
Speaker 1:It's one or the other. There's been many I run into they have skipped a bath many days.
Speaker 5:And they love their coffee a whole lot, because you can tell Coffee connoisseurs.
Speaker 1:You can smell them all Across the Starbucks.
Speaker 5:And then you rub some of that coffee bean on them.
Speaker 1:Put some coffee bean under the armpit, it wouldn't hurt you, buddy.
Speaker 5:There was some coffee bean on it.
Speaker 1:Some dry roasted coffee beans in there, yeah, so what else?
Speaker 5:On average, 1 1700 americans a year go to the emergency room after entering an eye with a toothbrush. Toothbrush, yes. How, I don't know how. Yeah, in your eye have you ever hit your gums brushing your teeth? Well, y'all.
Speaker 1:Oh, and the pain that's understandable I guess you just how do you hurt your eye when you're brushing your teeth?
Speaker 5:You're just going too hard.
Speaker 1:You've got to settle down buddy. Yeah, slow down, yeah.
Speaker 5:Slow down the brushing, but that's $1,700 a year, just go to the emergency room.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so there's those who hurt their eye but don't go to the emergency room. I'd hate to have to go in there and say how did you do this, sir? I was brushing my teeth. Things got out of control. Next thing I know I've got crest in my eyeball.
Speaker 5:You think that's what sends them to the rat, probably.
Speaker 1:I can't even picture how they could do that.
Speaker 5:I love this one. A server who draws a smiley face on the check will increase their tip by about 18%.
Speaker 1:Okay, now you've worked in the restaurant business for 10 years. Do you think that's true?
Speaker 5:absolutely yeah I think people appreciate any kind of hey, they're taking care of me or they're really paying attention to me. I think if you go above and beyond, you're going to get tipped above and beyond. Now you've got some tippers that are not going to tip more than two dollars and that's their max. But you've got some tippers that are not going to tip more than $2 and that's their max. But you've got some people out there that are coming in and you don't know. They could tip you $10, they could tip you $2. But I always would write thank you on the checks and draw a heart or a smiley face.
Speaker 1:I'll agree with you completely, yeah. Many times when I see the check and I see something like that I think she took, or he took, some extra time, yep and wrote on this and I appreciate that. Yeah, because I might be having a bad day, but seeing that smiley face or seeing the person's name saying thank you for coming in, that means something.
Speaker 5:It does, it really does. So if you are a server, write that on your tip today and see if you get more money.
Speaker 1:It may not be automatically, but over time I bet you will see a little increase. Yeah, I bet you do. Gotcha, I increase, I bet you do. I agree. Good stuff. $7.54.
Speaker 4:Mornings with Barry and Holly here on Alabama's Country Giant WQSB.
Speaker 1:Barry and Holly Rachel's in the room. Good morning Rachel.
Speaker 5:Good morning Barry and Holly hey Ray.
Speaker 1:She's your expert taste tester. I love food.
Speaker 5:She's like.
Speaker 1:Mikey from the old commercial Give it to Rachel, she'll eat anything.
Speaker 5:That's beyond my years.
Speaker 1:I'll have to show you this commercial. I've never heard of this. There's a little boy named Mikey and it was like what was the commercial? He wouldn't eat anything, I don't know. But anyway, rachel, she's in here.
Speaker 5:Well, barry has been hung up on the name of these chips. How would you say that um? Is that a, g? Yeah, yeah go to jane.
Speaker 1:Yes, whoa, she nailed it first try. Yeah, we had to look it up.
Speaker 5:We had to call siri yeah, we did, oh yeah, coco chain siri had to call alexa.
Speaker 1:They didn't have to go, I'm not sure.
Speaker 5:Conference call yeah, I'm not sure about that name for chips. Well, siri and alex Alexa on a conference call.
Speaker 1:You've got to follow closely here.
Speaker 5:Okay, follow the mouth of the mouth. I'm following. I'm following. But, this is a spice, correct? It is a red chili paste with sweet, savory and spicy, fermented Ooh, fermented, fermented, yes, condiment. It's popular in Korean cooking. It's made from gochugaru rice, meju powder and salt.
Speaker 1:And this is on the chip. Can I back out? No, can I back out, please? No, you're committed now. You're in it, and this is on the new kettle chips.
Speaker 5:These are on the kettle chips.
Speaker 1:Is it the kettle brand, the kettle brand? Yes, the kettle brand, the Kettle Brand. And where?
Speaker 5:did we get these?
Speaker 1:At Food City. I think we got these at Food City and they're a limited edition. A limited edition. That must mean they're either good or really bad. Nope, I'm out. I'm going to say they're not really good. This is one of their top spices.
Speaker 5:This is awful. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:This is not good. Okay, this is Korea's one of their top spices.
Speaker 5:Yeah, but it's nice why?
Speaker 1:don't we send them some sweet baby rays or something from over here and tell them oh my gosh, they don't know what good is, do they no? They need some sweet baby rays. They do. They need something, just anything.
Speaker 5:These chips go to the community snack room.
Speaker 1:And they're hot too.
Speaker 5:They're not hot Mine's spices kicked in now. They're kind of like real hot, like a child could eat them, yeah, but they're spicy.
Speaker 1:There's a weird taste. It's weird, it's weird. Well, you nailed it when you said If you had dirty socks as a flavor, it would be dirty sock.
Speaker 5:It'd be dirty sock flavor. That's what it tastes like. Yeah, I see that. How do you know what dirty socks taste like?
Speaker 1:Bobby, I don't know, but I'm saying, if you ever had tasted one, this is probably what it would taste like.
Speaker 5:I licked one one time. Oh, Got food poisoning oh no, you didn't, You're lying From licking sock, so this is go-to-chang yeah.
Speaker 1:Go-to-chang, more like go-poop pants. That's not good.
Speaker 5:You're about to be sent to commercials. Oh, you don't agree? No, I agree.
Speaker 1:What would you give out of 10?
Speaker 5:I'm giving it a big old zero.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I give it a big old zero yeah.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I'd give it a zero. Yep, make it three zeros. Three zeros, it's a no for us.
Speaker 1:Hey, give them to Mrs C when she comes in for the meeting. Hey, no, fine, all right, it's 8-11.
Speaker 4:And Holly On Alabama's.
Speaker 1:Country Giant WQSB. Wqsb, country Music News. Well, morgan Wallen's bar is finally going to open. They announced what was it last week. It was supposed to open and they canceled last minute.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 1:There you go, see if you can reach that.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, they said there was like an inspection or two that didn't come in like they were supposed to. So that's what they claimed. I don't know. I guess he threw all the chairs out in the street and they had to go get them. I don't know why they didn't open, but now we have a date it's going to be coming up. Actually, it's actually open now. So in case you missed the official opening, it opened up on Saturday. It was about a week late, but it's now officially open. And the name? I just don't have a good ring to it.
Speaker 5:I don't like this bar.
Speaker 1:That's the official name this Bar and Tennessee Kitchen. Yeah, that's the official name.
Speaker 5:We talked about it before a lot. Where are you at Make me at this bar? Yeah, where at this bar. But where are you? Yeah, this bar.
Speaker 1:Well, the location is. It's right next to the Ryman Auditor to seat approximately what's 30,000 square feet, Features three live music stages stages, six bars and an open-air rooftop, and I think I'd mix that because we know what he does when he gets on top of the rooftops.
Speaker 5:Things go flying.
Speaker 1:Chairs get tossed.
Speaker 5:Yes they do.
Speaker 1:But it's now officially open in Nashville so you can check it out.
Speaker 5:Oh, that's neat. Morgan Wallen's bar is going to be popular. Yeah Well, the Archives Nashville specializes in storing and archiving musicians' wardrobes which is so neat and during the CMA Fest from June 6th to 9th, the company will host the first-ever artist tag sale at Fanfare in Nashville's Music City Center. Clothing items from Jason Aldean, luke Combs, miranda Lambert, ashley McBride and Jelly Roll and more will be available.
Speaker 1:Isn't that neat? Wouldn't that be fun to go to?
Speaker 5:Yeah, that would be fun to just see.
Speaker 1:You're bidding on items they actually wore on stage in concert.
Speaker 5:It gives fans an opportunity to shop directly from the artist's closet, which is so neat, and a portion of the proceeds support the CMA Foundation.
Speaker 1:You'd love to go to the taylor swift wardrobe auction would, I would go broke.
Speaker 5:I couldn't afford anything. No, they would, but I would go broke.
Speaker 1:That would be cool, yeah all right, it's 8 14 coming up. We'll talk to doug with second chance shelter on wolfstock. That's coming up here's keith urban on qsv sb keith urban and messed up is me. It's 8 17 with with Barry and Holly, and he's always been a part of the show every June. Doug is back with us. Hello, doug, how you doing Good morning, doing fantastic Well, thanks for taking the time to join us. I know we were talking it's been a few weeks ago about excited about Wolfstock 2024. She was down just a little but we still had a good year, over 15,000 pounds last year. But I tell you, after the start we had Friday and this weekend, I think we can easily blow the 15,000 pounds out of the water. What do you think?
Speaker 6:Absolutely. I mean, when I got here this morning and pulled up, I looked as I was getting out of my truck, I saw a lady carrying a bag of dog food in and I don't know. It just made me feel fantastic, it's got to.
Speaker 1:yeah, got her shirt she was seemed happy and it just. It sets the mood for a great day.
Speaker 6:We're up to uh, officially 4,300 pounds this morning wow see, it's third day of the month and we're already a third of the way to the goal of at least what we did last year, so that's wonderful so let's talk about, uh, second chance shelter, and all the dog food we collect will go to second chance shelter.
Speaker 1:Now for those who may be their new listening we a lot of new listeners that have joined us over the past few months. Let's talk about Second Chance Shelter Now. How long have you been around, doug? We?
Speaker 6:opened in May of 2008,. So we're starting our 17th year right now, so it seems like a lifetime and I guess it is a generation anyway.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I don't remember Second Chance not being around.
Speaker 1:I can't hardly remember that I know. So what led you to say I know I've heard the story, but tell those who haven't how you thought about we need to do something for dogs um well, it really started as just a no plan um idea.
Speaker 6:I was working at the police department in alberville and one day I walked in and dispatcher was busy and the second line was ringing. I picked, picked it up and somebody said hey, can you send animal control to my house? Somebody dropped off six puppies and animal control works for the police department and I knew that if animal control picked up the puppies back then that they would not survive the day. So I picked up the phone, called Wanda and said hey, there's some puppies that we're putting down. Do you think we can find them a home? And she said, yeah, bring them on.
Speaker 6:So I went out in my patrol car and picked up those six puppies and that started. That was it. We got them to the house and we actually went down to Collinsville Trade Day and gave some of them. We had no clue and I started talking to Animal Control about it of the fence, a good dog, and I'm going to have to take him up there and have him put down. Do you think you could take him? And we did. And then, as more, we talked to Animal Control when he had a good dog what he deemed a good dog he would call me and of course we took him and then we started putting kennels up and it just absorbed us and that's what we do now.
Speaker 1:So what was your dream? When you first started you? You never dreamed you'd have this many dogs. I wouldn't think.
Speaker 6:No, my dream really was so naive I thought oh, we'll take, we'll help all the dogs and we'll just be. I had a mary poppins kind of outlook when we started and everything we learned was school of hard knock stuff, and our goal is to stop the killing of healthy animals in this area. It's a necessary thing that we do right now because there's so many dogs, but that's what our mission is is to try to get them out of harm's way at the pounds when they're getting ready to be put down, or get them off the street and find a home for them, and the number one reason we can't do that is there's just too many dogs. So population control is now the number one goal. How many dogs?
Speaker 1:do you have there right now?
Speaker 6:I think it's 278. I actually took some dogs to Wisconsin over the weekend and I think 278, 279. We may have taken in a couple over the weekend and that's a little below average. We normally average around 300 dogs at the shelter at any time.
Speaker 1:And roughly how many do you adopt out in a month, would you say?
Speaker 6:It's real close to a thousand a year. So last month was a little low. So it's just somewhere around 60, 70, 80 dogs a month. It might go over 100 a few months out of the year.
Speaker 1:That just amazes me that you adopt that many but still they keep coming in. They do. Is it from people who just get tired of their dogs, or what happens?
Speaker 6:They do. And of course, the economy always affects and people move. That's one of the number one causes is I'm moving into an apartment or I've got a landlord who won't let me have a dog, and people hate to give their dogs up. Sometimes, sure, but sometimes life puts me in a position there's nothing, no alternative. And also the fact that a lot of people still don't spay and neuter, so unwanted litters of puppies just keep. Keep the things moving. We hear that a lot of my dog had puppies and you know it's just one of those. Proper spaying and neutering is so important to what we're trying to do.
Speaker 1:Is that something that Sega Chance does when a dog comes in?
Speaker 6:We do. They do not leave our shelter unless they have been spayed or neutered. Of course that's a costly endeavor. They're just trying to get them fixed. But at least when they leave us we know they're not going to regenerate puppies. We had two pit bulls that came in and they were pregnant and those two pit bulls had a total of 23 puppies, two dogs, 23 puppies, and they're all living in Maine now. We transported the pregnant females to Maine and they had their puppies up there.
Speaker 6:So, when a dog comes into the shelter, you immediately have them spayed or neutered. Well, we have what we call a stray hold after seven days and we're legally allowed and we take them then and get them fixed and um, it's just a problem. And then they don't leave. We won't if they're not fixed. We won't let them leave the shelter because once again, you don't want to put an unneutered, unspayed dog out there and let it have more puppies and when somebody comes in to adopt one, what is the?
Speaker 1:what do they pay the?
Speaker 6:adoption fee is 60 and the dog is paid, neutered, microchipped, up to date on their shots. We do have an overload of dogs a year and older and bigger dogs. You know, most people nowadays want smaller dogs and we've got a whole whole lot of big dogs that are sitting out there waiting.
Speaker 1:So if you can up the size of what you'd allow on a dog, because we've got them, because you were telling me what some of the you allow on a dog, because we've got them, Because you were telling me once some of the best dogs that people adopt are the older dogs who have been there a while and they go home and they make just the best pets you've ever had.
Speaker 6:They do, you know, especially for an older person. You know an older dog is mellow, they're normally not hyper jumping on you and all that. I love older dogs. The dogs we have at our house now are all older and most of them were older when we got them. I mean, to me an old dog is just relaxed and calm and the old big dog is kind of lazy. You know, just like my lifestyle.
Speaker 1:I guess I wish my lifestyle would be like that, so you rely on donations to keep Second Chance going right.
Speaker 6:We do. You know there is no real government funding for animal shelters. There are grants available through companies, but everybody's competing against them. So, yeah, and 90 percent of our support comes from right here local people, and that is one good thing about this area we have. There are a lot of people who are kind of with us in our in the mindset of trying to make things better. There are a lot of good people here who like animals as much as we do and want to make things better so we talked.
Speaker 1:It's been, I guess three, four years ago. We talked about doing something for you and you said it'd be great to do a dog food drive. In june would be a great month, and that's where wolfstock came to be. So the thing about this was, if we can get enough dog food to you, it saves you from having to spend money to buy dog food, at least for a month or two that's right.
Speaker 6:On thursday before this, this past thursday, we had to buy dog food and we just bought 10 bags because we knew that wool stock was coming up and it was almost 300 for the and that's enough to get through thursday, and then by friday, of course, we had dog food coming in here. I mean, 300 pounds a day is what we're going to need to go through and we have to go through. You know, we've got to feed the dogs out there and we got a water and we can afford water. I don't need to have a water drop right yet. You know, maybe someday, but right now, uh, food is yet. It's one of our biggest expenses. In a good month, if we had to buy it all, we'd probably spend real close to five thousand dollars just for food. So, but if we can get enough to last a few months, hey, that's a burden we don't have to deal with.
Speaker 1:One of the first years.
Speaker 6:it was, like you lasted until almost September, I think that's right, oh, into October I think, and that allowed you to use whatever money you would have spent to do other things at the shelter, that's right when we don't have to buy dog food, that money can go to pay vet bills, can go to pay whatever needs come pop up and that's wonderful. So we always in the summertime you ask about donations and adoptions. They go down and donations generally go down in the summertime only because people were distracted vacations or whatever. So yeah, we normally see what's called summer slumps. This. This lifts us up through the summer slump so the weekend we had 4,300 roughly.
Speaker 6:We'll feed them for about two weeks two weeks, yeah, maybe a little bit more than that. So, yeah, that's so we. I don't have to even I don't have to hear Wanda or anybody say, oh, we've got to go get dog food. I don't have to hear that for the next few weeks because I know we've got it.
Speaker 1:So thank you. Anybody who dropped dog food off. Now you have until the end of June, but they can drop dog food off any time to you, but they want to be part of Woodstock. Anybody who brings 30 pounds or more of dry dog food gets a wolf stock t-shirt and thank you to dixon designs and boas for providing these again this year.
Speaker 6:Yeah, they have done a great. Every year the t-shirts have been amazing and this year they're amazing. And, um, yeah, I can't say thank you enough to dixie designs for putting the. I mean, they really are people. Look for those teachers we get all year long. I want to get my new t-shirt. I'm right when?
Speaker 1:when y'all gonna do Woodstock, so yeah, Does it amaze you, the people from not just in this area, but you said you were in Huntsville and ran into somebody who heard about it and we get calls from. I think somebody from Georgia brought dog food over last year because they had got a pet from you, a dog from you a couple of years, drove all the way from Georgia and donated dog food.
Speaker 6:Yeah, it really is. Me and Wanda were in Huntsville last year and we were at Sam's Club in Huntsville and a guy she had a regular Second Chance T-shirt and a man came up we never had seen him in our life. He said, oh, you associate with Second Chance. And he was there and he brought us two bags of dog food because it was during Wolfstock. And that's just because he knew second chance, that he heard about the radio, on the wolf radio, about wolfstock. So, um, I don't know if we got him his t-shirt. He may not. He said he may not have all wanted a t-shirt, but we anyways. But that's what word went. Huntsville, that's you know, 50 miles away, for 60 miles away from here. And of course, last year, I think a man from louisiana wasn't he coming, driving through, heard on the radio and came up here and brought some dog food. He was a pilot or something from Louisiana, small world.
Speaker 1:Great stories and people have until the end of June. A lot of people from out of college got some friends who want to pay. Instead of sending dog food, they want to send money. Now, that's great too, so you can turn that money into buying dog food.
Speaker 6:That's right. You can donate through PayPal. If you do make a donation through an electronic means, we will need your. If you want a t-shirt, we'll need your address and a way to contact you and your size and things like that, so that we can make sure you get it. Some people send something through PayPal and we don't know it's for Wolfstock, we think maybe just a donation, and then we don't have an address. So it kind of complicates things, but we will definitely accept that. Or you can call the shelter and Teresa can take payments through credit cards. Once again, we'll need to get the information to get you your shirt.
Speaker 5:What's that email address for PayPal?
Speaker 6:The email address is 2NDCHANCESHELTER2008. It's actually the abbreviation for the word second, but the number 2ND chance shelter 2008 at gmail. Um, and if you remember we started in 2008, maybe that'll help. Or if you're, just write it down to nd chance shelter 2008 at gmail.
Speaker 1:Yeah all right, let's put you on the spot here, doug. We don't have a goal for this year yet, and holly asked. I said well, as long as we collect more than last year, I'll be happy. So have you got a feeling, a gut feeling, of how much you think we would love to collect this year? How many pounds?
Speaker 6:The first year was a record year and things were flowing well. I'd at least like to get to 22.5. Okay, 22.5.
Speaker 1:It was the first year, 15 last year.
Speaker 6:So we'll split the difference and go to 22.5. I think that would be a good goal. Of course, if we go over that, I will never complain.
Speaker 1:Well, Holly, it's up to you now.
Speaker 5:I think we can smash that goal 22 to 5.
Speaker 1:One more thing about the dog food you really love to have. Purina is your suggested brand of dog food.
Speaker 6:That's what we normally fall back to, because it's consistent and there are digestive troubles if we get off-brand dog foods. Purina is just a brand that we farm back. So, yes, if you can get at least that level of food, we would greatly appreciate it, because it's a mess if you don't all right, that's doug.
Speaker 1:With second chance shelter in boas we're collecting dog food to the end of the month you've got time to. If you want to bring about your location, in case you're in boas instead of driving to albertville, they can drop it off at your place. Then you can let us know. Then we'll get them a t-shirt.
Speaker 6:That's right, if you will love. Yeah, we're at the shelter, or come by here at the radio station. It was nice walking into the lobby and seeing a lobby full of dog food.
Speaker 6:Oh yeah, I like to see it in one pile. It just kind of I told Holly two years ago it was amazing and we've got a silo that holds 6 000 pounds so we can get it and put in our silo and that does help. So bring it on, we need all that. We need to make this a really good year with it I think it's going to be a good year.
Speaker 1:Well, doug's always great to see you and thank you for what you and the wanda and the gang do at second chin shelter. Thank y'all we couldn't.
Speaker 6:Couldn't do it without people like y'all all right, 831.
Speaker 1:Hey, before we move on to the quote of the day, I saw this. This is an amazing story. Back in late 1965, john Lennon from the Beatles, of course he gave one of his guitars to Gordon Waller. Now Gordon Waller is Gordon of Peter and Gordon, a famous duo back from the 60s. Now follow me here. He gave it to him as a gift because they'd been playing some songs together. He said here, here's one of my guitars, one that he actually used on stage and in some of the videos that they shot. Waller gave it to a road manager, didn't think much about it. The road manager took the guitar home, threw it in his attic and forgot about it. Decades went by, julian's Auctions auctioned this off because somebody bought the house. The guitar was in it.
Speaker 1:It's a famous 12-string Hootenanny acoustic guitar. Thought to be lost for more than 50 years, Nobody could find this famous guitar. The owners of the home. They bought the home not knowing what was in the attic. They found the guitar $2.9 million.
Speaker 5:They got the money back on their house. 2.9 million is what they made off the guitar would you take the money or would you keep john lennon's guitar? Give me the money really yeah I might take the guitar would you I might, yeah, I think I might keep it yeah that's a tough choice. It's a tough choice, yeah, but man $2.9 million.
Speaker 1:That's a lot of rubles. The manager left the guitar behind, just threw it in the attic and forgot about it.
Speaker 5:Okay, but in the 60s they were banging, they were popular. So who in the world would be like? Oh's just john lennon's guitar.
Speaker 1:put it in the corner right there didn't think a thing about it, forgot about it.
Speaker 5:The new owners got it, sold it 2.9 million if you walked up in your attic and was like, what is this guitar from? Would you know?
Speaker 1:nope, I mean I wouldn't. I mean I'm sure they took it to some, probably record store. Some collection said what do you? What is this? And they? That is the guitar no one can find, famous John Lennon guitar that's missing.
Speaker 5:That's such a neat story. I'm glad you shared that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm so. All right Time for the words of wisdom quote of the day what you got today.
Speaker 5:So this is from Brene Brown, and she says sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up. That is so true. It's just show up.
Speaker 1:That is so true.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it is. Sometimes it's hard to do much more than that. Like you said, there's days I battle depression so bad that I don't even shower. I'm just going to be vulnerable.
Speaker 1:You just want to not talk to anybody. You want to stay in the house, stay in the bed. I've been there, done that. It's a tough battle, but sometimes you've just got to. If you can just get up and get moving, yep, get moving, get outside.
Speaker 5:And sometimes it's even like going to work. It's our normal routine things, but sometimes you just got to show up. Just go to work, keep doing it, keep pushing forward. Yep, you can do it and we're right there with you.
Speaker 1:That's a good one, all right.
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