What happens when a simple morning show turns into a heartfelt mission to save a beloved goose? Join us as we share our amusing thoughts on summer heat, the joys of soup and snow peas, and a plea for help for Waddles the Goose, who has a mysterious growth or debris on its foot. We aim to bring the community together to assist this poor bird near Lake Guntersville, highlighting the caring side of our show along with our usual banter and weather updates.
Ever wondered why no shoes on the furniture was such a big deal growing up? We take a nostalgic trip down memory lane to explore household rules from our childhoods and share some enlightening statistics about family dynamics and technology use. Don't miss our celebration of the 50th podcast episode with a special giveaway for our loyal listeners. Plus, get a glimpse into Holli's pizza-making adventure at Alabama Pizza Company, adding a delicious twist to our episode.
Rest isn't just for the weary; it's crucial for avoiding burnout and keeping passion alive in your work. Discover the importance of balancing work and rest, and hear about the fascinating capabilities of African giant pouched rats trained for search and rescue missions. Wrapping up, we revisit Waddles' plight, hoping our listeners might have the resources to help. Tune in for a delightful mix of humor, heartfelt stories, and valuable insights, ensuring there's something for everyone in this episode.
What happens when a simple morning show turns into a heartfelt mission to save a beloved goose? Join us as we share our amusing thoughts on summer heat, the joys of soup and snow peas, and a plea for help for Waddles the Goose, who has a mysterious growth or debris on its foot. We aim to bring the community together to assist this poor bird near Lake Guntersville, highlighting the caring side of our show along with our usual banter and weather updates.
Ever wondered why no shoes on the furniture was such a big deal growing up? We take a nostalgic trip down memory lane to explore household rules from our childhoods and share some enlightening statistics about family dynamics and technology use. Don't miss our celebration of the 50th podcast episode with a special giveaway for our loyal listeners. Plus, get a glimpse into Holli's pizza-making adventure at Alabama Pizza Company, adding a delicious twist to our episode.
Rest isn't just for the weary; it's crucial for avoiding burnout and keeping passion alive in your work. Discover the importance of balancing work and rest, and hear about the fascinating capabilities of African giant pouched rats trained for search and rescue missions. Wrapping up, we revisit Waddles' plight, hoping our listeners might have the resources to help. Tune in for a delightful mix of humor, heartfelt stories, and valuable insights, ensuring there's something for everyone in this episode.
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Speaker 4:Oh man, it's time to rise and shine and get your morning started with Alabama's award-winning morning show. My God, what a glorious day. Looks like we might have a hit Broadcasting live from high atop Alabama's beautiful Sand Mountain. I love the morning show. Thanks, guys. My mama said we're crazy. Please welcome your hosts, Barry. Do you believe in ghosts?
Speaker 1:I do. But more importantly, I think they need to believe in themselves. And, holly, we both have so much in common. We both love soup, we love snow peas Folks we came in a laugh, didn't we? Love those snow peas. Oh yeah, Good morning it's 6.08, halfway through the work week. It's been a good weather day the last 24 hours.
Speaker 5:Yesterday wasn't bad at all I think we were doing pretty good on the cannonball forecast.
Speaker 1:You gave it what three? I gave it a three Because it wasn't hot.
Speaker 5:It wasn't no.
Speaker 1:Not a lot of sunshine.
Speaker 5:But you still need sunscreen. Sure do, still got a hydrate, yeah.
Speaker 1:Today will be similar to it. It's going to be another windy day. I think the wind was the key. Yeah, it made things, I guess, doable yesterday. Yet I'd sat without just suffocating.
Speaker 5:Well, we were, yeah, like on Sunday. There was no way I could have walked.
Speaker 1:No. You know, I thought about it and tried. I thought no, it's not worth it, because it was barely a breeze and it was so humid. Today is going to be the same Partly sunny. It's going to be windy again 87 to high. Now the weekend is going to be another hot, humid weekend Not as hot as the last weekend, but still a hot weekend. And they've added a decent chance of rain Sunday. Now there's a 40% chance of rain. We need that, hey, before we go any further.
Speaker 5:We need some help. We need some help, we need some help, guys.
Speaker 1:We really do this being totally serious for a few minutes, which is rare for us. Yeah, for real, not joking but they were being serious with this. It was about a week ago. Uh, we try our best to to walk, staying healthy and late get around the lake and gunnersville is a place to go with all the the geese. They're everywhere. I think they're fun to look at and they're just, and they're just amazing how many. Well, we noticed one about a week ago that has something on one of its feet.
Speaker 5:It was limping.
Speaker 1:It was.
Speaker 5:That's the car tension. It was limping.
Speaker 1:So as we got closer it looks like it's like a giant, almost like a sponge yeah, A growth around its entire foot.
Speaker 5:Yes, and it's making it hard for it to walk.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 5:And we watched it try to get in the water and he just waddled his way all in there.
Speaker 1:We thought, okay, maybe it'll work its way off and it'll be fine. So yesterday we were back there again, saw the same goose With the same problem, and you can tell it's miserable. Yes, it's walking, it can walk, but it's got something on its foot. I don't know what it is, I don't know where it came from, what it is. So if anybody out there knows of somebody who I don't know, is there a person?
Speaker 5:I know we don't know who to call. That's the problem, guys.
Speaker 1:Who's in charge to help with the geese around Lake Donnersville? Is there animal control?
Speaker 5:Geese patrol.
Speaker 1:Do the police help or who helps? I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 5:I don't either.
Speaker 1:We need to know somebody to contact because we have a video. You're about to put the video up.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I'm about to put the video up and ask for help. And here's the thing we tried to get close to the duck to see exactly what it was, because I said what if it got caught in fishing line you? What if it got caught in fishing line you know, like what if it's tangled up in something like that? But it won't. Let us get close enough to it.
Speaker 1:It walks off and walked into the water and I thought it's probably so happy to be able to get in the water because you don't have to walk. I know it's got to feel so good.
Speaker 5:And we don't want to stress it out, so we're not going to chase it, but we don't know what to do with it. We can't just sit by and not do anything.
Speaker 1:no, when you see the video, you'll understand, you'll see we have a mission, and the mission is to help this thing, and you even named the poor goose it's waddles waddles because it does it, but waddles more than the usual because it's it's gonna be miserable somebody's gotta help us help Waddles the Duck. Yeah, Goose. Oh, such a bad habit. I know, I know.
Speaker 5:I have called it a duck all morning.
Speaker 1:It is used to it, but it needs help, though it does. It's bothered us and we have a mission that we want to find a way to help this thing.
Speaker 5:Yes, and it looks like something that needs an operation. It does, I mean. It looks very attached.
Speaker 1:It looks like it's not going to fall off on its own. It's been over a week and it's still there. Yes, it's about as big as I don't know about as big as a baseball softball wrapped around the bottom of its foot. Yeah, it's huge.
Speaker 5:And he has to walk on this growth or whatever it is, to get to the water and you know that's got to be painful, it's got to be Because he's on the gravel. Anyway, we need help.
Speaker 1:So you put the video up.
Speaker 5:Well, I'm putting it up I don't know what to put as the caption.
Speaker 1:I don't know. Just please help the goose. We need help. Yeah, so we'll look at the video and you'll see what we're talking about. It's going to be on the waddles the goose. Yeah, and we need to make a donation to help this thing.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and if you have information that we could use to help.
Speaker 1:You can message or call us.
Speaker 5:Message or call us yeah 878-8000, or message us on Facebook and we will.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll call yeah, we'll find some help, because we've already reached out to the person we know as Doug McGee with Second Chance Shelter, which I know he deals with dogs, but we're going to see if maybe he knows somebody who deals with the geese.
Speaker 5:Yeah, we're getting messages and phone calls, so maybe somebody can help us.
Speaker 1:We want to help them so we want to help this thing, so let's make it a mission. So, anyway, check out the video and if you know of, you can message or you can call and we'll see what we can do. All right, oh, here Seth says call, okay.
Speaker 5:Who does it say?
Speaker 1:I don't know if I should read the name on there, but he says okay, it's a game warden, Okay.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:That's a good idea, okay. So I know there's somebody out there that helps in situations like this. So we're going to try to fix this thing, because I can't imagine if it was me. It would be horrible.
Speaker 5:No, and, like I said, it's about the size of a baseball. Yeah, it needs help. We've got to help Waddles the Duck.
Speaker 1:Yeah, goose, oh Okay, say goose ten times Goose, goose, goose, goose, goose, goose. And you're still going to say duck Goose, yeah, you're still going to say the same thing. How do you know? I just know. How do you know Wednesday, june the 19th, things you need to know other than waddles the goose and to think about today, what have you got?
Speaker 5:All right, today is National International Box Day. As in a box, as in the first cardboard box. The first cardboard box was made in 1890. Cardboard box, eh why?
Speaker 1:We need them because they're so helpful, and they're helpful probably. I like the. You told me the two most popular uses for a cardboard box. And it's not to store stuff, it's for something else.
Speaker 5:The two most popular uses. Oh, okay, yes, yes, the two most popular uses for a box are for kids, and if you had to guess, would you guess this one.
Speaker 1:Cats, you're exactly right.
Speaker 5:It's kids and cats.
Speaker 1:When the kids are younger, you give them this beautiful, great, expensive present. They don't care what's inside of it, they want the box, they want to get in it, they want to play in the box. Yes, that's the best toy you can give a kid when they're little box I'll tell you this.
Speaker 5:When my girls were little, I ordered a subscription of diapers and it used to come with the in the box was a play box. Every single box that they sent was a play box, like a fairy tale or a wildlife or ocean thing, it was so cool.
Speaker 1:It was so neat.
Speaker 5:Anyway. Okay, PBS and CNN have 4th of July musical broadcast planned for the holiday. Cnn's the 4th in America special will air at 6 pm and it's going to feature fireworks displays from all over the country, along with music by Bebe Rexha, the Killers, Goo Goo Dolls, Kane Brown, Keith Urban and REO Speedwagon.
Speaker 3:That'd be a good special.
Speaker 5:That's a good lineup. It is, yes, it's going to take place on the West Lawn of the US Capitol.
Speaker 1:No, the other one will. Pbs will have the other one.
Speaker 5:Oh, I thought it was the same thing.
Speaker 1:No, there's two of them. Cnn has one and PBS has one.
Speaker 5:PBS has one. Thank you, Barry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's why it says it on the slide. I know you're so worried about the duck, as you call it. Yeah, I'm here to help. Don't get me in trouble today. I'm here to help.
Speaker 5:PBS the Capitol 4, takes place on the West Lawn of the US Capitol and it's going to feature performances by Smokey Robinson and Fantasia. Who's that?
Speaker 1:That was on American Idol.
Speaker 5:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Years ago.
Speaker 5:Oh, Alfonso Ribeiro will host the event. Love him.
Speaker 1:I'll watch the other one on CNN because they've got Kane Brown and Keith Urban, I know I'll watch that one.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that'll be good. All right, I got something you need to think about. Okay, what's that? While everyone, everyone in the world, may not speak the same language? Barry?
Speaker 1:True, true.
Speaker 5:We all know what time McDonald's stops serving breakfast.
Speaker 1:You know that's true, no matter where you are in the world. You know, 1030 is when McDonald's and most other fast food places stop at 1030.
Speaker 5:They flip that sign over and you are not getting a biscuit.
Speaker 1:Nope, I don't know why. If you get there at 1035, I'm sorry, but we've already changed the menu I thought no, yeah, but you got some sausage right over there.
Speaker 5:Right next to you. Yeah, I can see it.
Speaker 1:I see the biscuit that I need right there beside you, because you're about to throw those away. Yes, give me one of those. I know you got them with you, did you?
Speaker 5:ever. That's not the name of it. Yeah, hold on, I'll think of it. Anyway, he has a kid and he's trying everything he can do to get the kid to McDonald's and the kid's slowing him down. And when he gets there he said I need pancakes or whatever. And he says we stopped serving breakfast at 10.30. He said it used to be 11. But it did used to be 11, but it did used to be 11.
Speaker 1:Then they cut it back to 1030.
Speaker 5:I know, are they going to cut it again.
Speaker 1:I've got to get to that dinner menu or lunch menu. Got to move on. Got to move on. Yep, it's 617.
Speaker 4:Mornings with Barry and Hall here on Alabama's country giant WQSB.
Speaker 1:QSB Chris Jansen. What you see is what you get 648. Hey, a lot of great comments concerning Waddles, the Goose that we found on Lake Guntersville. Yeah, offering a lot of tips. Today being a holiday it makes it tougher to contact some people, but we get a lot of mentions here of calling some of the local vets see if they might can help. There's all kinds of comments, let's see. Here's one that says try Dr Adams' office. They found a massive bird once it was injured and they sent someone who specializes in birds to get it. Let's see.
Speaker 5:Call Sue at Tigers for tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, melissa says getting ducks to end their help is an act of Congress. That's what we're afraid of, because we don't know who exactly, but the game warden is the best bet and we're going to try to contact them when it opens up later this morning, probably in the next hour or so.
Speaker 5:If they open.
Speaker 1:If they open today which I don't know, may not, but we'll leave a message, if nothing else, because the poor goose. You can see the video on our Facebook page. We're just trying to find somebody who might go down there and catch it and help it.
Speaker 5:It's got something attached to its right foot and it looks absolutely miserable. Yeah, it can barely walk around and this looks it's sad and we have to help it. Yeah, it was one thing to see it about two, one or two weeks ago and we thought, maybe you know it'll fall off whatever it is but it's not. It's getting worse, it seems, and it's limping.
Speaker 1:It's pitiful you can tell it just does not feel good the way it's walking around soon, if you know if something about it can help help. It's around the Farmer's Market area in Guntersville, around the lake, that's where, around the walking track. That's where we've seen it twice in that same area over the past weeks. Yeah, check out the video on our Facebook page and maybe you can think of some way to help out. In the meantime, holly's pile of stories, things going on. I don't know if you ever watched the Lethal Weapon movies. I loved. That's when Mel Gibson was one of the hottest actors that was his prom.
Speaker 1:Those were good movies.
Speaker 5:Yes, and I got some news for you. Mel Gibson confirmed that Lethal Weapon 5 is in the works and that he will be taking over directing duties.
Speaker 1:I like the old ones. Those were good movies.
Speaker 5:Yeah, those were good ones, I hope they do another one. Mm-hmm. And then Kevin Hart's talk show Heart to Heart returns for season four on Peacock, featuring interviews with Ben Affleck, george Lopez, andy Simber I try to keep saying Addy and Nisi Nash. That's going to be drama.
Speaker 1:I've seen some of these now. I saw the one with him and Will Ferrell Were they good, are they funny it? Is they're just talking about because they've done movies together. Okay, and these are. Kevin Hart is a funny guy.
Speaker 5:He is. He's a funny guy.
Speaker 1:He's a good interviewer, so, yeah, I'll watch some of these. These are good and this is an interesting story.
Speaker 5:Yeah, netflix is set to launch Netflix House Venues in Pennsylvania, in Pennsylvania, dallas and Texas or Dallas Texas, offering immersive experiences related to popular shows like Bridgerton, stranger Things and Squid Game.
Speaker 1:This is going to be something I would want to go to.
Speaker 5:Let me explain it to you. It's really neat. So these locations will feature shops and interactive activities that provide fans with opportunities to engage with Netflix Beyond Scenes. So it's going to be so cool. They can expect dancing on a bridgerton set, they can have challenges on the squid game, and then they have themed restaurants and merchandise stores a lot of the sets will be set up like like stranger things, like the upside down.
Speaker 1:Uh, they're going to be set up like when you're walking through it it's like you're in one of the scenes of the show.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it's called Netflix how?
Speaker 1:This is a good idea and it says that from time to time some of the stars from some of these shows will appear, make appearances Really. So you would think, with Stranger Things filming now and getting set for the final season when it opens, you may have some of their stars show up. That'd be so cool. That would be fun to go to.
Speaker 5:Yep that's in Pennsylvania and Dallas, Texas, All right 652,.
Speaker 1:Birthdays are next.
Speaker 4:Mornings with Barry and Holly here on Alabama's country giant WQSB. Crazy but true, Crazy but true.
Speaker 1:Crazy but true, crazy but true. Found this website. They're giving me all kinds of interesting facts which I didn't know. This, according to this, back in 1952, when Kell know this according to this, back in 1952, when kellogg's was coming up with frosted flakes, they were looking for a mascot uh, like a mascot that they use in commercials and advertising, and they were kicking around different types of animals, and tony the tiger was not their first choice. Really, here, this is serious the ones they were looking at, one of them was a kangaroo, and they were going to call it katie the kangaroo, but they didn't think the kangaroo and they were going to call it Katie the Kangaroo, but they didn't think the kangaroo would make a sound that would. Okay. First of all, a tiger doesn't go. Let me find, first of all, a tiger doesn't do this.
Speaker 5:They're great.
Speaker 1:It does in the commercial.
Speaker 4:Yeah, in the commercial it does.
Speaker 1:I've never once seen a tiger on TV saying they're great, oh man. So I don't see why they're worried about what would a kangaroo say? Who cares, you can make it say anything, it's a cartoon.
Speaker 5:But it says didn't you say that they sound like they're coughing?
Speaker 1:Yeah, they make kind of a coughing sound when they actually do make a noise, okay. So Katie the Kangaroo Tiggeroo was one of those. Okay, then they also kicked around. Elmo the elephant was another choice. They can't do. Elmo, elmo's taken. No, elmo the elephant, then Newt, is it Gnu G-N-U?
Speaker 5:I think it's Gnu, but online it says New Gnu Gnu it looks like it's a wildebeest.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's ugly. Why would you even consider that as your serial spokesperson?
Speaker 5:It person it could be worse.
Speaker 1:What would be some of the worst choices they could have made? Give me some other animals. That would have been the worst choice if they had chosen these as a mascot.
Speaker 5:A slug, a cicada.
Speaker 1:A slug.
Speaker 5:Imagine a cicada with red eyes on the box.
Speaker 1:That would make me not want to eat the cereal.
Speaker 5:And they only release the cereal every 17 years.
Speaker 2:You better get it while you can.
Speaker 1:But, a slug. Those are the slimy, creepy little things.
Speaker 5:What if it had, like a big old shrimp, like one of those big ones?
Speaker 1:It's a shrimp.
Speaker 5:Just like a big shrimp.
Speaker 1:Sally the Shrimp is a spokesperson for Frosted Flakes.
Speaker 5:A blobfish. Have you ever seen one of those A blobfish? Have you ever seen one?
Speaker 1:Yes, they A blobfish.
Speaker 5:Have you ever seen one of those, a blobfish? Have you ever seen one? Yes, they are so ugly. Yes, imagine that being on a cereal box?
Speaker 1:What if they use a shark? A shark, yeah, sharks don't have a good reputation because they hurt and kill.
Speaker 5:Yeah, they don't have I think they're being canceled.
Speaker 1:Yeah, mm-hmm, yeah. So what about squirrel Nutty the squirrel?
Speaker 5:You told me yesterday what, that you ran over a squirrel. No, I said I. You said you ran over it.
Speaker 1:It ran into the road and I tried to center it to where the squirrel would live and I think it did.
Speaker 4:No.
Speaker 1:So you were traumatized, telling me that you weren't even there. You don't know.
Speaker 5:You said you felt a bump.
Speaker 1:I think it jumped up and hit its head and it was dazed and confused and it wandered off and waddled off into the weeds.
Speaker 5:I think that you are trying to not make me feel bad or make you look like the bad guy, but I think you hit a squirrel.
Speaker 1:No, I didn't.
Speaker 5:I think you did.
Speaker 1:Okay, if I did. There's millions of them.
Speaker 5:Oh, come on now, but I would not do this on purpose.
Speaker 1:But, going back to the story, yeah okay, those were the three. They kicked around. Then they finally settled on a tiger. Yeah, and they named it Tony. So I think whoever came up with that idea was genius.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it's working out. It's a great campaign.
Speaker 1:Because of them, we have this. They're great, I like it. I like it. There you have it. Cannonball, all right, going to be outside today hitting the pool. It's time for the cannonball pool party forecast. What to expect? How many cannonballs do you suggest today? From one to five, one being a bad cannonball day, five being the best. What kind of weather we got today.
Speaker 5:We're landing right in the middle of today. We're landing with three cannonballs. I'd probably go with three and a quarter.
Speaker 1:How do you get three? What are you going with three? What's your reasoning for this? It's going to be cloudy A little bit of sun every now and then.
Speaker 5:A little bit of sun, every now and then A little windy. Yes, the temperatures have dropped and there's a little windy. It's and there's a little windy, it's a little chilly, so not as hot as it was over the weekend Not as hot as it was over the weekend and, to be clear, we talked about this yesterday.
Speaker 1:Sunday was the perfect five cannonball day Because it was a scorcher. Yes, you needed to be in the water if you were outside.
Speaker 5:Yes, and when we're in here giving you weather alerts, that is a zero cannonball day. Yeah, so that's the cannonball chart, very good.
Speaker 1:All right, top of the quote of the day are words of wisdom. I like this one, and we were talking about it off the air and you were questioning why is this quote for you?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It is for a lot of people.
Speaker 5:A lot of people. They work like-stop seven days a week. Yeah, yeah, this quote. It says you can't do a good job if your job is all you do and you're asking what do you mean by that?
Speaker 1:well, yeah what I mean is like you have to have a break at some point. You have to rest, like sundays. I mean. That's why, you know, on the seventh the guy gave us a day of rest.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 1:If you work nonstop, you're eventually going to burn yourself out, and I don't think you can continue doing a great job if you work nonstop. If you like, never take a break.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean we all take a break.
Speaker 5:It's so hard to stop though.
Speaker 1:I mean we don't work 24 hours. That's not what I mean. I mean, but still, if you work every single day and you go into work, say 8, 10, 12-hour shifts, you're not going to give it your best. If you have a break and you can kind of re-energize, then you can go in and give it, I think, a better performance the next day if you have at least a day off.
Speaker 5:Yes, if you can provide any kind of self-care for yourself to relax.
Speaker 1:So to be good at a job, yes, you have to work hard and continue trying to do better, and you can only do better by doing your job and practicing and getting better at it. But you still have to take a rest. That's right, yeah, take a little breather. Just take some time off for yourself.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I like that quote.
Speaker 1:It's better for you and everybody around. It's better for all of them, yeah clock out. Yeah, you got to sometimes.
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Speaker 1:Come on, man. Well, what about rats, mice? You know you don't think of them being smart, but they really are when you look at how they can get into your house. They can do all kinds of stuff, damage, and they're hard to catch sometimes. Would you ever think that they're using rats now to help rescue people? What Rescue rats?
Speaker 5:No.
Speaker 1:There's a training center in the Tanzanian town of is it Morogoro? I have no idea. They've been doing this for the past 25 years. They've been training these African giant pounced rats because they have an acute sense of smell, and they have used them to help sniff out landmines. And now they're becoming search and rescue specialists too. Wow, yeah, and the search and rescue operations every minute counts, of course, but canine units sometimes can't get into, like, say, there's been a bombing and the building's collapsed. Sometimes the area is not it's, you know, dogs can't fit in there. So they've been using these rats and they say that the rats can penetrate to an extent and can go where they need them to go. I don't get it. I know animals are smart, but I never would have thought you could train a rat to go help somebody how do they report back?
Speaker 1:how do they be like hey, there's two kids in there I I don't know, it's they they be are using these rats to go in and use their sense of smell to find whatever the. How do you tell them what?
Speaker 5:to find I don't understand. Yeah, and also, how big are these?
Speaker 1:some of these are up to three feet long three feet so picture that it. It's like a cat.
Speaker 5:Oh my God, how much do they weigh.
Speaker 1:Up to nine to 15 pounds. 15 pounds. Yeah.
Speaker 5:That's how much my dog weighs my gosh.
Speaker 1:They say they have the stamina to search over wide areas without becoming fatigued and they can put little tiny cameras on them also, so they can actually look and see what the rats are seeing.
Speaker 5:Okay, so that's how they find little Timmy stuck in the closet. They do With the camera.
Speaker 1:How do you tell it to go? We're looking for I don't understand a rat.
Speaker 5:I don't know, because with dogs, don't you give them like a?
Speaker 1:scent, and then they go find it yeah.
Speaker 5:With rats?
Speaker 1:I don't know. You'd think they'd be looking for food. They'd be looking for something to eat, something to poop on. That's all they do.
Speaker 5:A 15-pound 3-foot rat. I don't want that coming to save me. That'd be scary You're laying there. It'd be scary to death.
Speaker 1:You've been in some kind of accident. You're in this building. You're in this building. You look over and there's a three-foot rat coming at you with a camera on its head. I thought I am, I've already died, I'm gone, I'm dead. I'm in a hill or city seeing a three-foot rat wearing a camera on its head.
Speaker 5:I'm going to be honest and have like a blonde moment here. I didn't know that rats could get to be three feet long. I didn't either. Is this unheard of or is this average?
Speaker 1:I guess in this part of the world.
Speaker 5:Where was it again?
Speaker 1:It's in the Tanzanian town of Morogoro or something like that.
Speaker 5:Oh, yeah, okay. I have no idea that makes sense, because if you were going to tell me that they were in, like Geraldine, I was going to be like no, we're going to see this we're having rat races this weekend. Yeah, we are Get your bets in. Get them in quick.
Speaker 1:Cheesehead over there. Ten bucks on Cheesehead to win.
Speaker 5:I got ten on cheddar.
Speaker 1:Cheddar. I'd like to watch one of those, though. Yeah, I'd watch a three-foot rat run.
Speaker 5:I would watch a three-foot rat run. How much would you pay to watch the three-foot right run? Like entry fee $10.
Speaker 1:Are you paying for it? I don't know. The best part would be how are you going to find a jockey to ride it?
Speaker 5:That's what I want to say. You could just put a little Ken doll on top of it.
Speaker 1:A little GI Joe and Barbie on it 741.
Speaker 4:Mornings with Barry and Holly here on Alabama's country giant WQSB Time for Holly's Knowledge Nuggets.
Speaker 1:These are things you need to know, whether you know it or not. What have you got for us today?
Speaker 5:Did you know? When researchers asked what is the number one rule in your house, the number one answer was no shoes on the furniture. Do you agree with that? Growing up, yeah, because of all the stuff that you walk over. It's so gross.
Speaker 1:It is.
Speaker 5:But I think my number one rule is put your glass in the sink.
Speaker 1:True.
Speaker 5:Please put your glass in the sink.
Speaker 1:Don't leave it out. If you're eating something, say, on the couch, don't just when you finish lay it on the end table or something wrapper or package or whatever. Throw it away.
Speaker 5:Is that your number one rule that?
Speaker 1:is when the kids are there. They would always eat something. They would leave it just laying there like okay, yep, like we have a maid, no, we don't have a maid Pick it up Like I go to sit down and I sit on crunching, exactly, yeah, no, that's my biggest rule, yeah. But no shoes on the furniture. I get that. Oh yeah, there's some houses we used to visit friends and they would want you to take your shoes off at the door.
Speaker 5:Which that was fine.
Speaker 1:Yes, I've got across that I completely understand, yeah.
Speaker 5:It is better Now I'll say my kids are pretty good about.
Speaker 1:I have raised them to not put their feet on the furniture. But I look over the other day and Harlow has her dirty play shoes on the couch and I'm like what? It's my couch.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it's where we sit, it's where we are, no, what else 82% of parents don't allow their kids to use technology at the dinner table.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I feel a little spanked. Yeah, because you use it. So mama even uses it, I do, I did.
Speaker 5:This goes back to the quote of the day. Like I never clock out, I always I'm. I'm always checking stuff, answering stuff. You know sure that's a bad habit too.
Speaker 1:You need family time because you're there with the family yes put it down for a few minutes and talk to each other absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 5:And also, the average woman will wear shoes that don't fit, sometimes over 500 times, barry, yeah, over the course of her life, just because they look good have.
Speaker 1:Have you done that?
Speaker 5:No, okay, I have done it, but I will never do it 500 times. So, I have done it a few times.
Speaker 1:That's a lot, five over 500.
Speaker 5:When we went to the Abby Awards, I wore six inch heels, yeah, and they hurt.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, my feet, and we sat for most of it, but you wore them because you said they looked good.
Speaker 5:They looked good with my pants.
Speaker 1:Gotcha, even though they didn't fit.
Speaker 5:No, they didn't fit good, they didn't feel good. None of it was good, but we got an award.
Speaker 1:Well for guys. One time for me if I put on a pair of tennis shoes and say I go walking, I'm not wearing those. Again. If I get a blister or something I said, I'll wear something else if I get a blister, oh yeah you just don't wear them. No, not again, not to go walking in maybe, if I'm gonna go this way wearing for the living, but no, no, no, but 500 times no, that's a little much I think so all right time to give away some tickets and a special announcement this morning, today's an anniversary.
Speaker 5:Yes, today is our 50th episode. That's crazy, I have to tell you. 1% of podcasters last over 10 episodes.
Speaker 1:That's it.
Speaker 5:That's it.
Speaker 1:Whoa.
Speaker 5:That's it, so we're in the 1%.
Speaker 1:So the fact we've had this today, when you hear the podcast later this morning, when we put it up, or you put it up it Today, when you hear the podcast later this morning, when we put it up or you put it up, it'll be number 50.
Speaker 5:It will. It'll be number 50. And because of that we're giving an Easter egg. This won't be in the recording, so you'll have or it will be in the recording, You'll have to go to the podcast to listen to it Right. And then you will comment on our regular everyday posts where we send the link.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 5:And then we want you to wish us a happy 50th episode. Yeah, happy anniversary, yeah happy 50th anniversary.
Speaker 1:So that will help qualify you to win a prize.
Speaker 5:Yeah, you're going to win a station t-shirt, which is a WQSB t-shirt, and a morning show t-shirt. Gotcha, yeah, two.
Speaker 1:Now you'll find the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts, and if you don't listen to them, you should, because what our podcast is, it's not us going into a room and just talking about stuff. It's what we're talking about, like right now. Yeah, every other morning show Just cut down. You cut down the commercials and you cut out the music which, legally, we have to, then it's just the. It's about 45 minutes to an hour, yeah, and you can hear all the stuff we talked about.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I know, somebody told me yesterday. I was at Chick-fil-A and she said hey, can you finish that story about such and such? I didn't get a chance to hear it, I had to go to work. I was like we got a podcast for that.
Speaker 1:So now you can hear the finish of it. Yeah, you can hear us talking about earlier Waddles the Goose. Yes, waddles is a big story, yes, which we need to find people. Today's a tough day to get somebody to help Waddles because it's a holiday and people are talking about why don't you contact the game warden, contact all these different government offices, and we can't today.
Speaker 1:We can't today, but we need to, because there's a goose around Lake Guntersville, near the Farmer's Market area, around the walking trail that's got something attached to its foot and it's about as big size of a softball. It looks like a giant sponge, but it looks like it's harder than that. We saw it a week ago and thought, well, whatever it is, it's going to fall off, it'll be okay. Then we saw it again yesterday Same goose, same problem. And it's barely able to walk and it looks miserable. It does look miserable and we want somebody out there to help us find somebody who can help this goose. And people were commenting on our Facebook page and some of them said, ah, it's just a goose, it's just the way it goes.
Speaker 5:No, it's not the way it goes.
Speaker 1:We can't do that. No, because if it, I mean I understand, animals are animals. They have, you know, a circle of life, but this time it's apparently got caught in some kind of man-made something.
Speaker 1:yes, and it's on its foot and it can't even function he needs some help he does, and when we see help and a need, we're gonna find it so if you can reach out to somebody, if you know of who to reach out to, please do, and it's gonna be easy to find. But we don't want to go down there and catch it because we don't want to scare it, I don't know what to do with it, I guess I know I don't know what to do with it.
Speaker 1:I don't know what veterinarian office would accept it and help it, I don't know. So you can comment on our Facebook page and give us some phone. We have a lot of phone numbers on there. We're going to try to contact and get a hold of somebody who can help this goose and you've named it Waddles, so this needs help.
Speaker 5:Yeah, they're saying Gaymen game warden.
Speaker 1:but it's a 1-800 number.
Speaker 5:They're in Montgomery and it's going to be so hard. It's just going to be hard for somebody to help the duck.
Speaker 1:It is.
Speaker 5:So we need one of our local vets probably to help, step up and help him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, do something good. I mean, do a good thing, a good deed.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and we'll be like yay, We'll brag about you and tell the world For a whole year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because it's a good thing, because it's sad to see this thing walking around and can't even function.
Speaker 5:Yeah, you can see the video on our Facebook page if you haven't seen it yet. It is so sad.
Speaker 1:And share the video and just find somebody who can help out. Yeah, that'd be great, all right, it's 8.13.
Speaker 4:Country Music next WQSB mornings with Barry and Holly morning scribe store.
Speaker 1:We had a kerfuffle over the weekend. You know, I've never heard this word before Barry.
Speaker 5:I asked you not to say that word.
Speaker 1:It's in the news. It's awful word.
Speaker 5:It's not an ugly word, no it's not dirty, but it's just awful.
Speaker 1:I've got a new scrabble word now. I have a bunch of F's. There's three F's you can use.
Speaker 5:No, I don't, don't use that word.
Speaker 1:Okay, it's kerfuffle. No, a kerfuffle is a commotion or fuss, especially one caused by conflicting views. Tell the story. Okay, and the story is. It's in Florida, happened over the weekend, florida. They're calling it the honey bun kerfuffle. No, it's a dispute. The guy's name is Andre Andre and his 39-year-old victim, which the victim was. She wasn't killed, but she got smacked in the face, which is horrible. During the honey bun kerfuffle dispute, he allegedly smacked the victim in the face, causing minor redness. Here's where it gets weird. The reason why he did this was he was mad because they had a honey bun in the car and the honey bun was. He thought he was going to be able to enjoy his honey bun. Looked over, honey bun was gone there's the wrapper and she had eaten his honey bun and he was mad.
Speaker 5:I know exactly what happened, yeah, what happened. He was high. I know exactly what happened, yeah, what happened. He was high, he had smoked some of the green and he wanted his own honey bun. And he got mad when she ate it.
Speaker 1:Is it because it happened at 4 am?
Speaker 5:At 4, I mean 4, 20, you know Not a lot happens this good. Why are you up at 4 am?
Speaker 1:I'm only up because I go to work.
Speaker 5:I'm up at 4 am too. Sometimes you might be getting off work, but this time you're with somebody.
Speaker 1:So that means you're out doing something at 4 am.
Speaker 5:I'm not going to be having a kerfuffle at 4 am over a honey bun no.
Speaker 1:What is wrong with people? I don't know.
Speaker 5:But now they're calling it the honey bun kerfuffle dispute, and he got arrested as he should have. I mean you could get hit with worse. Yeah, imagine a egg mcmuffin from mcdonald's or ding dong.
Speaker 1:Nobody's gonna go down with a ding dong no, not at 4 am, or any time for that matter. That's when a big kerfuffle breaks out. The ding dong bandits on the loose. Be on the lookout. He's armed and dangerous. He's got a ding-dong and he's not afraid to use it. So be careful. So be on the lookout.
Speaker 5:You've got to be careful on those overcast days. I have heard I don't know if this is true or false, so this may be a myth, so don't take me seriously but I have heard that clouds magnify UV rays. It does. Have you ever heard that before?
Speaker 1:I have you have it also, when you're outside, you don't feel it doesn't feel as hot. Yeah, you think, oh, it's a cloudy day, I'm not going to have to worry about sunscreen. Yeah, always put sunscreen on if you're going to be outside, because sometimes you can blister, especially when the wind's blowing. You don't even realize how much you've blistered until you get home and you jump in the shower. Then it's going to hit you.
Speaker 5:Yeah, when you get ready to lay down, then that's when you know that you've been blistered.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, okay, hey, check out this video. We talked about the moose earlier for our animal story. The homeowners in Alaskaaska a family. They didn't see this happen when they got home. There's going. They're going through their their rain camera, notice that something went off and somebody was in their backyard. It wasn't somebody, it was a moose. And the moose had walked up and they found some wind chimes. I guess it heard the wind chimes and was curious and it walked over to it and there's a video. It begins, uh, bumping its head against the wind chimes because it likes the noise.
Speaker 1:And it stands there for a few minutes and just making the sound go off. That's so sweet.
Speaker 5:That is sweet. He likes the music.
Speaker 1:Likes the music. The music Gotcha.
Speaker 5:That's so cute. I love that, though. He really is enjoying himself playing with these wind chimes. It is, it's cute. It's so cute.
Speaker 1:Check that out, and it is. It's cute, it's so cute. So check that out. And be sure to look at the other two videos we put up. One from yesterday is you when we're at Alabama Pizza Company, when you were actually making a pizza. There's a video up there. It was posted roughly after 9 o'clock, so scroll down just a bit. You can see Holly in action throwing the pizza dough in the air, taught by the great Andre the pizza guy.
Speaker 5:Yeah, from Alabama Pizza Co in Rainbow City. They are open today and we highly recommend their.
Speaker 1:New York style pizza. And people are loving your video. So check that video out and then scroll to the top and if you can help us out with Waddles the Goose, we'd appreciate your help. We found this goose. We didn't find it's there. We've had some calls. People say, yeah, we've seen this and it loves Chick-fil-A french fries.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it has something wrong with its right foot and it's something like attached to it. We don't think it's like a growth, we think it's something that's happened, man-made, and it can't get it off.
Speaker 5:Yeah, we can't figure it out. We can't get close enough to figure it out.
Speaker 1:It's about as big as a softball and it's trying to walk and barely can walk. You can see the video of the goose walking. It's around the Farmer's Market area at Lake Guntersville.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That area on the walking trail and that's where we've seen it twice in the past week. Yeah, it just needs help.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it needs help.
Speaker 1:So with some We've tried to reach out to him, unfortunately being a Juneteenth.
Speaker 5:Some of the offices are closed.
Speaker 1:So if you know of somebody that might can help out, please contact them and tell them it's around the farmer's market area and it needs some help, because this guy looks miserable. He can barely even walk.
Speaker 5:I know he just waddles and that's his name he does Waddles the goose. We've just called him Waddles.
Speaker 4:So if you know of somebody you'll you do a good deed today and find somebody who can help out this goose, it'll be great.
Speaker 1:All right, it's 8 41. Mary and holly, on alabama's country, giant wqsb morning's words of wisdom, the quote of the day and this one deals with like here. You may think well, you work from, uh say, 5, 30 to 9. Y'all don't work, y'all have an easy day. No, that's not true. We get off the air at 9, but there's other stuff that we do and sometimes it lasts most of the day, like your digital director yeah, and that doesn't end at 9 o'clock it never ends.
Speaker 1:If there's something that needs to be posted, put up on your social media, you take care of it, no matter what time of the day it is absolutely, and that's how social media works.
Speaker 5:And it says the quote is you can't do a good job if your job is all you do. I like that. I I'm thinking about this a little bit deeper, barry. It says if your job is all you do, I think you should put more into your job than just doing your job, clocking in getting it done. I think if people had passion for their jobs, that they would put a lot more into it and you can do even better.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, I think you need to. You can burn yourself out. No matter how much you love a job, you can still burn yourself out, but if you don't take a break from time to time, yeah. Just maybe get away from work for a day, like the weekend. If you're like you know, if you don't work on weekends in this, refresh your, recharge yourself. That way when you go in you can do, I think, a better job when you feel refreshed and you've got a new little bit of energy.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, sometimes you need a break.
Speaker 1:You do, even if it's just for a few hours sometimes, or a couple of days, but you just need a break.
Speaker 5:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:There you go, it's a 53.
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