Episode 114

Is peanut butter better crunchy or smooth? Join Barry and Holly as they hilariously debate this timeless question and set the stage for a taste test showdown of popular brands. You'll also hear about our latest student athletes of the week and get a heartwarming update on our Friday tradition of celebrating senior citizens in our community. Plus, find out the surprising rankings of America's favorite pudding flavors on National Butterscotch Pudding Day.

Craving some snack talk? We've got you covered with a lively discussion about America's top munchies, from Sweet Heat Barbecue chips to the staggering number of Oreos devoured annually. We also take a nostalgic trip through Saturday Night Live's legacy, sharing our thoughts on its current lineup and the excitement around the show's upcoming 50th season. And don't miss our exclusive scoop on the highly anticipated sequel to "The Passion of the Christ," set to start filming in 2025 under the direction of Mel Gibson.

In the final segment, we warm your hearts with stories of comfort food like biscuits and gravy and reveal the latest breakfast wraps hitting McDonald's in Canada. We also chat about Coca-Cola's new ventures with Jack Daniels and Bacardi. Need a laugh? A hilarious tale of a train canceled by two mischievous squirrels is sure to do the trick. Lastly, we bring you an important story on the misuse of grant funds by New York City public school employees, shedding light on a scandal that deprived homeless children of a dream trip to Disney World. Tune in for all this and so much more!

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Speaker 3 1:05

What a glorious day. It's time to rise and shine and get your morning started with Alabama's award-winning morning show.

Speaker 1 1:12

I got this feeling inside my bones.

Speaker 3 1:16

Broadcasting live from high atop Alabama's beautiful Sand Mountain. How do you crazy nuts you Off of my city, off to my home? Please welcome your hosts. Barry and I like it, I like it, we like it. He's seriously crazy, he not? You pooped in the refrigerator and you ate the whole wheel of cheese. Actually, I'm not even mad, it's amazing. I got that sunshine in my pocket, got that good soul in my feet and Holland Peanut butter. I'm not even mad, it's amazing. And Holly.

Speaker 1 1:46

Peanut butter. You want to know something weird I do with peanut butter. I like to put it with two pieces of bread and jelly. That's not weird, but I put the bread in the middle. Good morning at 606. Just came to stop the feeling.

Speaker 2 2:08

You know that's not how I eat peanut butter and jelly, that's what I heard. I eat Uncrustables. I eat them the easy way.

Speaker 1 2:16

Yeah, and they're supposed to have a new flavor in a few weeks.

Speaker 2 2:19

What is it?

Speaker 1 2:19

Is it raspberry?

Speaker 2 2:20

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, raspberry, you had a peanut butter and jelly.

Speaker 1 2:24

Yesterday I sure did. I had to go with some fresh peanut butter and they had Peter Pan on sale. Oh, is there really a big difference in peanut butter taste really?

Speaker 2 2:34

Um yes, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 2:36

You can tell the difference.

Speaker 2 2:37

Yeah.

Speaker 1 2:38

We'll do a blind taste test this morning. We'll challenge your taste buds.

Speaker 2 2:41

Have you ever had natural peanut butter?

Speaker 1 2:43

No.

Speaker 2 2:43

It has like oil in it. Oh, it's weird, I don't know.

Speaker 1 2:50

Well, anyway, it's a beautiful morning, feels good. This morning it says 60 in Fort Payne. That's a cool spot, warming up to 87. It's going to be a little hotter today, a little hotter than it has been the last few days, and then the weekend, perfect, maybe 90, low 90s, with a little bit hotter but dry. So a big change from last week when we had the hurricane rain coming through. So no rain for high school football tonight or tomorrow night. We'll also run down the high school football pole Brand new pole, a lot of area teams in it, a couple of teams from the area Number one in the state. We'll tell you about that. And 7-10, we're announcing our latest student athletes of the week. A young man, young lady will be honored with a beautiful trophy and we'll be putting your pictures up on our Facebook page, on our billboard on Highway 431. So that's coming up. Plus, we're playing NASCAR math.

Speaker 1 3:34

A lot of things going on, and we'll be giving you more details on how you can be. Oh, we need to mention this. Tomorrow is always a special day on Fridays, when we salute our seniors around the area. So if you are 70 or older, know someone who is. We need you to send us a picture and we'll be picking out five. We do it every Friday. Then Holly takes the picture and she digitally places these on a bottle of BG's chicken finger dipping sauce. Then we put these on our Facebook page, post them and we put them where you can maybe like them and share them. So if you want to do this, be sure just to include the picture Headshots preferable Mainly looking at the camera, not laying on the couch sideways or something, but it makes it a little tough.

Speaker 2 4:16

I can make it work, though, you can make it work.

Speaker 1 4:19

Plus the name of the person, how old they are and where they're from. Yep, so we'll do that. You can do this by going to our website, wqsbcom, click on it, upload the photo. We'll have five coming up tomorrow morning. It's their senior birthday club right here on wqsb. How do you know things going on today, thursday september, the 19th pudding. You said this is a pudding day. Yeah, it's a pudding day.

Speaker 2 4:41

Yeah, it's a weird day.

Speaker 1 4:42

Yeah.

Speaker 2 4:43

Today is National Butterscotch Pudding Day. Who sat down and thought, ooh, we need a butterscotch pudding day, and why?

Speaker 1 4:51

butterscotch of all the puddings, because it's not even the most popular pudding in the world.

Speaker 2 4:55

No, it's ranked at number six in America's favorite pudding flavors.

Speaker 1 4:58

I don't know that I've ever had it.

Speaker 2 4:59

Butterscotch. Oh yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 5:00

I've had candy, but never the pudding Candy, butterscotch candy, yeah yeah, I thought you meant candy pudding, no, but never the pudding, oh I know.

Speaker 2 5:07

And then the number three most popular is vanilla.

Speaker 1 5:10

Yep, I've had that.

Speaker 2 5:10

Ew, I cannot stand vanilla pudding, I know. Ugh Number two, surprisingly, is banana cream pudding.

Speaker 1 5:18

I don't think I've ever had that.

Speaker 2 5:19

The number one most popular flavor is chocolate pudding.

Speaker 1 5:22

Had that many times. I like chocolate pudding yeah, it used to be in my lunchbox going to school about every day. That or Jell-O, one or the other.

Speaker 2 5:29

Yeah, ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, get the little snack packs.

Speaker 1 5:32

Yeah.

Speaker 2 5:37

Batman will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on September 26th, making him the first superhero to get the honor celebrating Batman's enduring symbol of determination and justice over his 85 year history.

Speaker 1 5:50

Let me ask you the question. Maybe many people ask you. She may want to put it up who do you like better, batman or superman? Batman batman yeah, what's the reason?

Speaker 2 5:57

he's cooler he's got cooler gadgets and he, he's more realistic. Like I say realistic, but like Superman can fly and does all these things.

Speaker 1 6:08

Superman does it all, yeah, with his body.

Speaker 2 6:10

But Batman talks like this Okay, let me show you.

Speaker 1 6:13

Here's Batman. You'll be in a better cell forever.

Speaker 3 6:15

This city just showed you that it's full of people ready to believe in good.

Speaker 2 6:22

He's got a talk like this. He's got a talk like this.

Speaker 1 6:25

He's got a.

Speaker 2 6:25

That's a butterscotch pudding.

Speaker 1 6:28

Why did? Did you say butterscotch pudding? Give me some Batman butterscotch pudding. So why did Batman talk like that in all the movies?

Speaker 3 6:40

Happy National Butterscotch Pudding.

Speaker 2 6:42

Day You're a joker. Fuck on this, oh Lord.

Speaker 3 6:43

But why did he Happy?

Speaker 1 6:44

National Butterscotch Pudding Day. Okay, I call it that, oh Lord. But why did he? I don't know? Because they thought that, okay, you've got Bruce Wayne, who's normal, then you've got a guy in a costume, so they wouldn't recognize Bruce Wayne's voice.

Speaker 2 6:57

I heard my throat.

Speaker 1 6:58

I know, did it hurt yours? They said that. All the actors who played in the movie said they actually had throat problems after they finished filming the movie. Yeah, because they had to train. That was like, I guess, christian Bale. Yeah, but all the Batman talk like that. But go back to Batman versus Superman. Yeah, they had the movie years ago, batman and Superman, which the always argument was Superman has all these powers in his body. Batman has to rely on his gadgets. He can fight, sure he can fight.

Speaker 2 7:27

That's why I like him, though, because the gadgets are so cool and. Alfred makes them.

Speaker 1 7:30

Yeah, don't he? Yeah, somebody does down in the Batcave.

Speaker 2 7:33

Yeah, somebody.

Speaker 1 7:34

One of my favorite lines from the Batman movies was this one.

Speaker 2 7:47

Why so serious was a joker. I love heath ledger as a joker. I love it. And do you think he would have been so popular as a joker if?

Speaker 1 7:51

he hadn't have passed away. I do. I think the role was that good I think it was that good yeah because didn't he the movie came up first or did they?

Speaker 1 7:57

did they die before the movie? I don't know. I don't remember, but I remember it's probably the best acting performance I've ever seen of anybody that I was just mesmerized watching him because they said that he got so into the Joker. He didn't take a bath or shower or wash his hair during the filming of it because he wanted the people in the scenes with him to smell what they would smell and sense what they would sense if the Joker was real.

Speaker 2 8:19

Yeah, so when you're seeing his greasy hair on film, that's really his greasy hair.

Speaker 1 8:23

Why do you look at me like that?

Speaker 2 8:24

Why so serious? His greasy hair on film? That's really his greasy hair. Why do you look at me like that? Oh, like that. Why so serious? Wow, it's like I didn't do anything. The number one most popular Batman is Michael Keaton. Number two is. Christian Bale, and that's the one with Heath Ledger. I love that one. And number three this would be number 50 to me, but Ben Affleck.

Speaker 1 8:43

Didn't much care for him.

Speaker 2 8:43

He did not do a good job, no.

Speaker 1 8:45

And they left out. In the top three, Val Kilmer and George Clooney were two that left out.

Speaker 2 8:50

Yep.

Speaker 1 8:50

Yep, so who was your?

Speaker 2 8:51

favorite, I'm with you. I like Christian Bale because it has Heath Ledger in it, yeah, but I think Michael Keaton overall made the best Batman.

Speaker 1 9:00

I agree.

Speaker 2 9:05

Yeah, I agree, he was a good bad man. He was a good bad man and here's something to think about. Okay, when you start thinking of names for your baby, it's very important to try out the middle name in an angry voice, like, hmm, mayor. I kind of like the name Avery, mayor, avery.

Speaker 1 9:20

It's got to sound like you're mad.

Speaker 2 9:23

You can't have a name that doesn't sound mad when you say it Holly Ray, it'd be different if it was Holly Sunshine.

Speaker 1 9:31

Holly Sunshine. Yeah, was that ever a possibility?

Speaker 2 9:34

No, almost Heather, I was almost.

Speaker 1 9:36

Heather. Barry Butterscotch get over here, so that wouldn't have had a ringtone, barry.

Speaker 2 9:40

Butterscotch Gosh.

Speaker 1 9:41

Batman calls me that. Oh yeah, I've had a ringtone. Barry Butterscotch Gosh. Batman calls me that. Oh yeah, Then I'd say, well, what are you talking about here? Why so?

Speaker 3 9:48

serious.

Speaker 1 9:51

Yeah, but I agree with you yeah, it's 614.

Speaker 2 10:16

Mornings with Barry and Holly here on Alabama's country giant WQSB. Since you've been gone, all the big ones. Okay, there's the Barbie icon, the 1959 original Barbie 60s twist and turn, barbie. Barbie 70s Superstar, barbie's 80s Dynamite, barbie's 80s Rocker, barbie's 80s Peaches and Cream and Barbie 80s Western Kim.

Speaker 1 10:39

I'm looking at all the pictures. I'll be honest If I the one in the middle, I guess the pink one, that's the icon, that's my favorite one. That's the only one I can really tell Okay, that's a Barbie tumbler, because it says Barbie on it.

Speaker 3 10:50

Yeah.

Speaker 1 10:51

The other ones have designs and stuff like that. One of them has a pair of Barbie sunglasses and that's about it. Yeah, I wouldn't be able to tell. The other ones are Barbie anything. I know, I don't know, I don't know, and prices from $60 to $80 for these.

Speaker 2 11:04

Whoa? No, thank you, I do just fine with my knockoff, yeah, your knockoff.

Speaker 1 11:09

Mm-hmm. Yep, so you can get these. I believe I read you have to go to the Stanley website to order these. Yeah okay, so they're coming out soon.

Speaker 2 11:18

I'm sure they'll be in just in time for Christmas.

Favorite Snacks and TV Lineup

Speaker 1 11:20

I'm sure.

Speaker 2 11:21

A study has determined America's favorite snacks. What's your favorite snack?

Speaker 1 11:25

It'd be some kind of chip First chips I would say probably the Sweet Heat Barbecue. I love those.

Speaker 2 11:29

The off-brand. Like the Golden Flake. I like the Golden Flake.

Speaker 1 11:33

I like that one, I like the Mesquite flavored and I love Funyuns. Mostly a chip-related item, I like candy bars. I'd rather have chips. What about you?

Speaker 2 11:41

Popcorners have you ever heard of them?

Speaker 1 11:43

Yes, those are good. I love them. I like the jalapeno flavor, yeah.

Speaker 2 11:47

I love popcorn. That's just my favorite snack. But America's favorite snack is the Oreo.

Speaker 1 11:53

I believe that Yep.

Speaker 2 11:54

Americans consume 20 billion Oreo cookies every year. Wow, just in America. Yeah 20 billion.

Speaker 1 12:01

That's a lot, and there's a lot of different flavors too. Mm-hmm, I think they have too many flavors, but then that's just me. Well, that's just you. But I would not recommend the Oreo, the Coke-flavored Oreo Coke-flavored no, don't do it. Those were not good.

Speaker 2 12:12

Don't do it no. Don't go down that path. Just say Number two is Kit Kats. I love Kit Kats, I like Kit Kats. Number three is Snickers. Okay, number four Doritos.

Speaker 1 12:26

I'd put Doritos higher on my list, yeah.

Speaker 2 12:29

I know you would. Number five is Hershey's. Does that mean like the Hershey's bar?

Speaker 1 12:32

I guess. So Just a regular plain, the Hershey's that you make s'mores with.

Speaker 2 12:36

Yeah, yeah. Number six is Ben like $2.

Speaker 1 12:43

I've just never had the Ben and Jerry's. I go for the cheap ice cream. Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 2 12:47

Number seven is Reese's yes.

Speaker 1 12:48

I know you love Reese's. I've seen the pumpkin flavored pumpkin designs.

Speaker 2 12:52

Did you know they got sued last year.

Speaker 1 12:54

Why.

Speaker 2 12:54

Because the pumpkin that they put on the wrapper is not the same pumpkin that is inside, because it pumpkin that is inside because it shows a pumpkin carp cutout face on the wrapper and it's just a plain piece of chocolate inside.

Speaker 1 13:10

Didn't the lady say it's more like poop than it did a pumpkin yeah, wasn't that last year? I think it was. I think it was, yeah, please number eight is pringles.

Speaker 2 13:16

You love pringles.

Speaker 1 13:17

Number nine is lays yep, any kind of lays and number 10 is cheetos, love, cheetos, love, cheetos. That's a good top ten at 628.

Speaker 3 13:23

Mary and Holly on Alabama's Country, giant WQSB.

Speaker 1 13:29

Dr Holly's pile of stories. And I'll tell you Saturday Night Live. I don't watch a lot of it now. I like the news segment with Michael Che and Colin Jost and that's really about it and the musical guests are good. But I think because we were watching one. We talked about it a few weeks ago back during the, I guess before the season ended. Yeah, and it just wasn't that funny, nope.

Speaker 2 13:54

It was not that funny.

Speaker 1 13:55

They don't have the to me. They don't have the characters or the comedians that they once did. Man, there have been some great people come from that show, I know that they once did. Man, that would have been. Some great people come from that show, I know.

Speaker 2 14:05

I know, like Will Ferrell.

Speaker 1 14:06

Yes, go back in time. Eddie Murphy, chevy Chase, bill Murray, dan Aykroyd Yep yep, then you get into. Jason Sudeikis came from there. Yes, they've had so many good ones, but then the ones on there now.

Speaker 2 14:20

I know, don't know who they are. I don't know who they are and they're not that funny, but Saturday Night Live has unveiled its lineup to celebrate its upcoming 50th season. That's hard to believe. Do you know that they're making a movie about this?

Speaker 1 14:32

I saw a trailer. It looks very good. It does look good yeah.

Speaker 2 14:36

It kicks off on September 28th on premiere night with Jean Smart I don't know who that is.

Speaker 1 14:41

I like her. She's in Designing Women. She just won an Emmy a few nights ago for Best Actress in Hacks, I believe it is oh, you'll like this.

Speaker 2 14:48

She's going to be accompanied by musical guest.

Speaker 1 14:50

Jelly Roll. Yes, jelly said he's so excited. He said it's an honor to go from where he was a few years ago basically in jail Illusory as he called himself to now being on SNL as a musical guest.

Speaker 2 15:01

Yeah, and then he's going to be followed by Nate Bergazzi on October 5th with Coldplay.

Speaker 1 15:06

He's funny. I like them.

Speaker 2 15:08

Ariana Grande will return as host on October 12th with Stevie Nicks.

Speaker 1 15:12

Oh, I have to watch that one. I'm all in on that one, and she has new music coming out too.

Speaker 2 15:16

Yes, Michael Keaton and Billie Eilish is going to be on October 5th, october 19th.

Speaker 1 15:21

They have some good artists coming up. Yeah, Billie Eilish is really good.

Speaker 2 15:25

And John Mulaney will host on November 2nd, joined by Chapel Rome.

Speaker 1 15:29

Don't know, chapel Rome, yeah, no.

Speaker 2 15:31

Well, you wouldn't. Okay, I'll tell you why. Oh, okay, yeah. The Passion of the Christ sequel is set to begin filming in 2025 with Mel Gibson directing, and.

Speaker 1 15:44

Jim, I guess it's Jim Cavizio. We've heard it many ways.

Speaker 2 15:47

Yeah.

Speaker 1 15:47

He was known from the original Passion of the Christ and Sound of Freedom from a couple of years ago. Cavizio. Now let me ask you this new one is called Passion of the Christ, resurrection. Ooh, but the first one dealt with the Slaying of Christ.

Speaker 2 16:02

Yeah.

Speaker 1 16:03

Back in the time. They not no english language, but they based it on the dialogue where it should be. Yeah, they gave the sub paddles, but I tell you when it came out and watching it it's one of the most brutal movies. But they wanted to be realistic of what jesus went through and I know I've already, I've read the bible. You hear about the crucifixion many times. You think that's horrible, but does, when you actually see it, what he went through. Oh, my goodness, it changes your mind thinking he did that for us and that's wow.

Speaker 2 16:33

Yeah, I know, I went to Salt Lake City a few years ago and there is this 10-foot Jesus statue. Jesus, beautiful, beautiful statue, and in the hands and the feet there's holes where they put the nails. I don't know why, but that always sticks out in my mind To think about how not only did they whip him and torture him and beat him and put a crown of thorns on him, they humiliated him and then they just nailed him. Imagine your. And then they just nailed him. Imagine your whole body weight just nailed up there.

Speaker 1 17:08

I can't imagine that. But the original movie, mel Gibson, has had his faults. He's done things, but I think he did a great job on the original movie and I like the movie because it shows you the story. It's kind of like why I like the Chosen.

Speaker 2 17:20

Yeah, the Chosen.

Speaker 1 17:20

TV show. I love the Chosen, one of my favorite shows, because it puts it in more terms that we can listen to and follow and understand better of what the apostles went through. But anyway, I look forward to seeing the sequel to the Passion of the Christ.

Speaker 2 17:34

Yeah, Resurrection.

Speaker 1 17:36

I'd love to see what happens after. Yeah, I want to see what they put in it.

Speaker 2 17:38

And Fisher-Price has introduced a collectible figurine set featuring Britney Spears and four iconic outfits from her music videos and performances.

Speaker 1 17:48

Britney.

Speaker 2 17:48

Spears, I think I did it again, yeah that one.

Speaker 1 17:53

Are you a Britney Spears fan?

Speaker 2 17:54

Yeah, how about one more? Okay, baby, one more time. There's so many conspiracies about Britney Spears right now.

Speaker 3 18:03

Have you heard?

Speaker 2 18:03

them all. I think I did it again. I think I did it again. Oh God, she's doing it so many times.

Speaker 1 18:09

So they're coming out with little toy, little dolls.

Speaker 2 18:11

Yeah, they're coming out with little dolls. They're little Fisher-Price figurine sets you can pre-order. They're $25 on Targetcom. They release on December 8th, in addition to her schoolgirl outfit from Baby One More Time. So there's a Baby One More Time. Okay, there's the red jumpsuit from Oops. I Did it Again.

Speaker 1 18:31

Remember that one.

Speaker 2 18:31

And the stewardess from the Toxic video. Yeah, and then there's one with the snake from the 2001 MTV VMAs.

Speaker 1 18:38

I remember that one. And there's even a snake hanging around her neck on the little toy doll. It's cute. If they want to make it more realistic, they should have made clothing optional. She does weird stuff now.

Speaker 2 18:52

Listen. Have you watched her recently? Some of her weird videos.

Speaker 1 18:56

Yeah, she has bizarre videos, like dancing with knives. Yes.

Speaker 2 19:01

You know, once they got rid of her conservatorship everybody was so happy. But I'm not so sure she might not need somebody helping her.

Speaker 1 19:07

I agree, I don't know, man. So you're going to buy the Britney Spears dolls? No, no, but $25 is not a bad price it might be worth it grabbing them and hanging on to them and don't open them.

Speaker 2 19:18

It might be, yeah, it might be worth something one day it's $ 6.54.

Speaker 3 19:22

Mornings with Barry and Holly here on Alabama's country giant WQSB.

Speaker 1 19:28

Ready to find your dream home? With Anna Weathers-Smith at Main Street Realty, your home search just got easier.

Speaker 2 19:33

Whether you're buying or selling, Anna offers expert advice and personalized service to help you make the best move.

Speaker 1 19:43

Discover the difference a dedicated realtor can make. Call Anna Weathers-Smith at Main Street Realty today at 256-302-0110, or visit AnnaWeathersSmithcom. Your perfect home is just a call away.

Speaker 2 19:54

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Speaker 1 20:05

Whether it's home, auto or life insurance, miguel's team provides personalized service to fit your needs. With Allstate, you're in good hands.

Speaker 2 20:13

Join the Miguel Corona Allstate Insurance family today. Call us at 256-840-9422 or visit us on Facebook. Your community, your coverage, your peace of mind.

Speaker 1 20:28

Yeah, it's time again. Knock knock jokes. You tell a different variety of jokes because she has a team of joke writers.

Speaker 2 20:36

No, it's all me.

Speaker 1 20:37

What's you and Doug?

Speaker 2 20:38

Oh, yeah, me and.

Speaker 1 20:38

Doug, doug the dog, that's true. So that's the team, yeah, which you put together these and you said, okay, I got some great new knock-knock jokes. It's going to knock you out of your socks.

Speaker 2 20:48

Yeah.

Speaker 1 20:48

It's going to knock you out. It's going to just knock you out which you did threaten me earlier, a few minutes ago. You said you're about to knock me out if I don't hush. Well, you're getting on. So one more time. Okay, Got to get you ready. Okay, so you got three of them.

Speaker 2 21:09

Yeah, I got three of them.

Speaker 1 21:10

Feel free to use these. They're just a small charge. You can take these to school, kid. You'll need to drop Holly off. At least a dollar, oh a dollar. Yeah, at least All free, they're on the house. Okay, give us your first one.

Speaker 2 21:22

Knock knock.

Speaker 1 21:23

Who's there?

Speaker 2 21:24

Tank.

Speaker 1 21:25

Tank, who You're welcome, thank you, oh, thank you. Thank you, I hope they get better. Do they get better?

Speaker 2 21:34

Yeah, they get better. Okay, give us number two, this is the best one. Knock knock.

Speaker 1 21:37

Okay, who's there?

Speaker 2 21:39

Mustache.

Speaker 1 21:40

Must Mustache who.

Speaker 2 21:41

Mustache you a question, but I'll shave it for later.

Speaker 1 21:46

Mustache. Oh, I'll shave it for later. I'll shave it for later. All right, the final one, the third and final knock-knock joke. Knock-knock, who's there? Shore, shore, who.

Speaker 2 21:58

Shore, hope you like bad jokes.

Speaker 1 22:02

Those were pretty bad yeah they were, but feel free to use them Now. These have become very popular, the quotes of the day. We try to find some, whether they're lighthearted, they're funny or very serious, to make you think about, hopefully something that maybe can inspire you and help you a little bit. Yeah, like what's today.

Speaker 2 22:21

Today is do you know why God didn't allow our pets to speak? It's to teach us that love and loyalty are demonstrated by actions and not words.

Speaker 1 22:31

Ooh, that is so true. Yeah, Because I'm glad that animals can't talk. Really. Yeah, I know they're telling what the cats would say.

Speaker 2 22:38

Oh, cats would be such a gossip.

Speaker 1 22:40

They'd be just cussing all the time.

Speaker 2 22:41

They'd gossip everywhere. They would they, would, they would. They'd be like Yep, did you see who he had at his house last?

Speaker 1 22:49

night and the dogs would say why so serious? Yeah, but that is good, because you're right, dogs are so loyal, not that cats aren't, but dogs are pleased. Cats are on their own, they're independent. Yeah they are. But the dogs, yes, and they don't have to say a word to know you can. You can just tell how much they love you when you walk in the door and they're just jumping so happy to see you yeah, we talked about it before this week when we talked about dogs being synced to us.

Speaker 2 23:14

I think they just know our emotions and the love and loyalty are demonstrated by actions and not words completely right.

Speaker 3 23:21

Good one at 7, 18 barry and Holly on Alabama's Country, Giant WQSB.

Speaker 1 23:29

A couple of food stories. On this morning you had some biscuit and gravy. To me that's like a comfort food?

Speaker 2 23:34

It is, yeah.

Speaker 1 23:35

Love some good gravy. There's some new breakfast wraps at McDonald's, but not here. They're only in Canada. Now, if they came, see if you'll try these, one is the spicy egg and hash brown breakfast wrap. It's a freshly cracked egg, processed cheddar cheese, spicy habanero sauce, shredded lettuce, tomato and a hash brown wrapped in a soft flour tortilla.

Speaker 2 23:58

I might try that one. I might try it. Yeah, yeah, I'd give it a go.

Speaker 1 24:02

Then there's a chicken breakfast wrap. This is mainly like a chicken tender, maybe a chicken strip, and then the usual wrap stuff and there's a sausage, bacon and egg breakfast wrap. So these are all new in Canada. If they go over well there, they say we may see these in the US in 2025.

Speaker 2 24:23

I don't like them because they all have one of those big fat hash browns in them.

Speaker 1 24:25

Yeah, I don't know. You're right, hold the hash brown.

Speaker 4 24:27

Hold the hash brown.

Speaker 1 24:28

Hold the hash. Mm-hmm, what the hash man. Okay, so what else?

Speaker 2 24:37

Coca-Cola is not messing around. This week, they are expanding their Jack Daniels collab and adding a new Bacardi ready-to-drink cocktail starting in 2025. Yeah, are you so serious? The Jack and Coke ready-to-drink cans have been out for a while now, but you can get them in Coke and Coke Zero. They're adding cherry and vanilla options that are headed to stores now, and in 2025, coca-cola is adding a Bacardi rum mix can. So it's Bacardi and Coke. Ah.

Speaker 1 25:09

I can see those doing well, because many times when you're like at CRS and stuff and somebody may order something, a mixed drink. You hear them say either Jack and Coke or rum and Coke. That's like a mixture people go for.

Speaker 2 25:22

Yeah, this is not something that I would buy, or?

Speaker 1 25:25

be interested in? No, probably not.

Speaker 2 25:27

But I think it's neat. So you got Jack and Coke, vanilla, jack and Coke, jack and Coke, cherry, and then Bacardi and Coke.

Speaker 1 25:36

I think these will do well. Yeah, I think they will too, you can read more about this on our Facebook at 726.

Speaker 3 25:41

WQSB Mornings with Barry and Holly. Wqsb Mornings with Barry and Holly.

Speaker 1 25:44

Come on man Mornings. Come on man story. Imagine this You're going to take a train somewhere and you find out they've canceled the trip because there are two squirrels loose on the train. Oh, and they can't get them off.

Speaker 2 25:57

Oh no.

Speaker 1 25:58

Yeah, in England a train headed from Reading to Gatwick during London's rush hour was canceled because squirrels refused to vacate the train. The passenger car looks like they. When they had stopped and um, onboarded and got ready for the next trip, somehow two squirrels jumped on the train. I guess they just wanted to go somewhere why cancel?

Speaker 2 26:20

I mean, why not get them out? Safety, well, safety, they didn't know, I know. But like remove the squirrels. Oh, they said they tried.

Speaker 1 26:25

Oh, okay, okay, they brought in the squirrel experts, okay, I guess Okay, the passengers first attempted to help them, lure the animals off with snacks and then push them off with brooms.

Speaker 2 26:38

I'd love to see that.

Speaker 1 26:39

I'm sure that went well, yeah, here's the official statement. We can confirm that the 0854 reading to Gatwick was terminated after a couple of squirrels boarded the train without tickets, breaching railway rules. According to the official spokesperson, nobody gets a free ride. You'd think if you were to call and say hey, mom, I'm supposed to be there tonight about 6, but my train, it's been canceled my trip, because there are two squirrels loose on the train. Yeah, you think she said Holly, you're lying. No, she'd say Holly Ray.

Speaker 2 27:13

You're lying With the middle name. You are lying now.

Speaker 1 27:15

There's no way a squirrel has canceled. Because what if you're sitting on there? Yeah, you're on the train, you're just relaxing, looking at all the stuff out the window. Then you feel something crawling up your leg. Oh Lord, look down there. There's like a bushy tail hanging out from your pants. It's a squirrel.

Speaker 2 27:30

Nobody ever wants that.

Speaker 1 27:34

No, well, I'm not saying nobody, but some might.

Speaker 2 27:36

Some might, yeah, some might. Whatever you're into, I don't think I would.

Speaker 1 27:39

You don't know how it's going to end.

Speaker 2 27:40

What kind of jokes do squirrels like?

Speaker 1 27:43

I don't know what kind.

Speaker 2 27:51

Acorny ones how do you get a squirrel to like you?

Speaker 1 27:54

I don't know.

Speaker 2 27:59

Like a nut. That's better. You have one more for the road. Okay, okay, okay. You feeling squirrely, I am feeling squirrely. How do you stop squirrels playing football in the garden?

Speaker 1 28:09

I didn't know they did, but I don't know how to stop them. They do.

Speaker 2 28:12

You got to hide the ball. It drives them nuts.

Speaker 1 28:17

All right 740.

Speaker 3 28:18

Mornings with Barry and Holly here on Alabama's country giant WQSB. Joining Alabama's country giant WQSB.

Speaker 1 28:23

Joining us in the room. Will's in the room. Hello Will, Good morning. How are you Doing? Well? How are y'all doing this morning Good, so you've got a busy day today.

Speaker 4 28:30

Yes, yes, I'm going to be going to Asheville for the team of the week and then Seth and I are going to be in the Boaz Homecoming Parade, so y'all go to that and wave, we'll throw some candy at you.

Speaker 2 28:41

And the station vehicle.

Speaker 4 28:43

Station vehicle. All right, cranking out the tunes.

Speaker 2 28:45

You going to turn the lights on.

Speaker 4 28:47

Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, you know I get a text from Tyler any time we're in that thing. He's like, hey, turn the lights on.

Speaker 2 28:52

Uh-huh. So it's a lot of homecomings this week I've noticed. Yeah, it's homecoming season-October mid-October. Well, hey, I have a secret. In the Pathfinder there are seat warmers. Turn Seth's on.

Speaker 4 29:10

Okay.

Speaker 2 29:11

He will never know.

Speaker 1 29:12

He'll be sweating throwing out candy.

Speaker 2 29:14

It's so hot. It's so hot in here, you'll think I'm throwing candy out too fast.

Speaker 1 29:18

I'm sweating here.

Speaker 2 29:18

Yeah, just turn his seat warmer on.

Speaker 3 29:20

He'll love it. Well, it's time for.

Speaker 1 29:22

Knowledge Nuggets. We brought Will in here to participate Holly's Knowledge Nuggets Three things you need to think about and you need to know, in case you don't know.

Speaker 2 29:32

Yep. So what do we got? In case you don't know, asparagus is the number one food we hated as kids, but we love now. Nope, really.

Speaker 4 29:40

Still hate it.

Speaker 1 29:41

Really Still hate it Both of you. That wasn't my number one food I hated. Number one was your list says broccoli was two.

Speaker 2 29:46

Yeah broccoli was number two. That was my number one, really.

Speaker 1 29:49

And liver.

Speaker 2 29:50

But you don't like ew Mine is cauliflower.

Speaker 4 29:53

I don't like cauliflower.

Speaker 2 29:55

See, mine was Brussels sprouts. I hated them when I was little. But you put them on the grill with some cracked pepper and, oh my gosh, yes.

Speaker 1 30:03

It don't matter what you put on them, oh man, it still tastes like dog crap.

Speaker 2 30:06

No, it tastes like heaven. I love it. It does so what I'm going to be eating in heaven is bowls full of Brussels sprouts.

Speaker 1 30:13

I thought there won't be any there.

Speaker 2 30:14

Yes, there will.

Speaker 1 30:15

No, I don't think so.

Speaker 2 30:17

Oh, whatever. Back in 2000, when we talked on the phone, it was an average of eight times a day. Now it's about two times a day.

Speaker 1 30:28

You're probably right. I don't know that I get a phone call unless it's somebody from work Occasionally. Reagan will call.

Speaker 2 30:34

Yeah.

Speaker 1 30:35

But not really. It's usually text. It's usually a text or an email.

Speaker 2 30:38

Yeah, what about for you?

Speaker 4 30:40

Or you just don't want to hear other people's crap, I just ignore them.

Speaker 1 30:43

Or half of it is the radio robocalls it's like ooh, I agree with that. I don't talk on the phone much anymore.

Speaker 2 30:54

I talk to my mama every day, but if it wasn't for her, I probably wouldn't talk on the phone at all.

Speaker 1 31:04

So you go back 25 years ago roughly and that's yeah, I thought we talked more.

Speaker 4 31:07

Yeah, 25 cents. Yeah, payphone yeah.

Speaker 1 31:11

That's a good one.

Speaker 2 31:12

Yeah, but I text constantly.

Speaker 1 31:14

Yes.

Speaker 2 31:14

Friends, family, whatever I'm sending out text messages, getting text messages or even like Facebook Messenger, I'll get messages.

Speaker 4 31:21

I wonder if it's just like a regular phone call or like a Zoom call.

Speaker 1 31:25

If those numbers are True, true that phone call or like a zoom call.

Speaker 2 31:30

If those numbers are true, that's a good point. Good point, yeah, but anyway. A survey asked what do you wish you could write off on your tax return, and the number one answer was starbucks coffee I bet you would I would love to be able to write off starbucks coffee because I can't afford it, but if I could get a tax break on it I'd be more likely to go get it you ever thought of how much you spend on just Starbucks in a year? No.

Speaker 1 31:51

Yeah, that would be scary.

Speaker 2 31:52

Hard. No, and I don't want you to know either. I don't want anybody to know. No, I would try to get my pet as a tax write-off.

Speaker 1 32:02

Like dog food.

Speaker 2 32:03

Dog food, treats, shampoo, grooming oh no.

Speaker 4 32:08

So I just run in numbers. So if you get a $5 coffee for five times a week, it's $7. $7.

Speaker 1 32:16

Oh my goodness, $7.

Speaker 2 32:18

Yeah, $7 and some change.

Speaker 1 32:21

You could feed a family in Ethiopia for a week.

Speaker 4 32:23

So that's about $1,800 that you would spend a year just on a cup of coffee.

Speaker 2 32:28

Oh, that would be a good tax draw to haul.

Speaker 1 32:30

You could pay the entire family in Ethiopia for what you drink at Starbucks For $1,800 a year.

Speaker 4 32:39

Or tell Sarah McLachlan you got it covered.

Speaker 1 32:40

So what about you? What would you write off?

Speaker 4 32:42

I would probably write off gas for my vehicle which I know people do it anyways Like, hey, that's our office, we're driving down the road. Normally people like myself, you know, writing off gas or anything associated with the vehicle, your tires, oil change windshield wipers Windshield wiper prices are ridiculous.

Speaker 2 33:00

So are oil change prices. I mean, what do they do down there? Do they fill it with gold?

Speaker 1 33:06

I think they put a whole new motor in.

Speaker 2 33:08

Oh, I had no idea. I think I had no idea.

Speaker 1 33:11

I think they do Swap out the motor.

Speaker 2 33:12

But I will say I got my oil changed to Alperville Discount Tire this week. They did a great job. Yes, Great job, fair price, Yep they're a good culture.

Speaker 1 33:22

But what would you write off my Dr Peppers or Mountain Dews when I have one a day?

Speaker 2 33:25

Do you drink that?

Speaker 1 33:26

many, usually one a day. That's my caffeine. I don't drink coffee, but that's my caffeine?

Speaker 4 33:31

I don't either. I'm not a coffee drinker, never been Love to smell it, but I don't like to drink it.

Speaker 2 33:36

I think I'm the only person here in the morning that drinks coffee.

Speaker 1 33:40

You are, and that likes asparagus.

Speaker 2 33:42

And that likes You're the only one, I don't well you know?

Speaker 4 33:45

Taste test asparagus flavored coffee Ooh yeah.

Speaker 1 33:49

Brussels sprout coffee Ooh, that's a good way to get your off of it, yeah it would. All right, thanks Will.

Speaker 3 33:55

Thanks. 7.56. Barry and Holly On Alabama's Country, Giant WQSB.

Speaker 1 34:01

And I didn't know this Aerosmith. You a fan of Aerosmith.

Speaker 2 34:04

Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 34:05

Remember this song Walk this Way? Oh yeah, I was curious, looked it up and found out I did not know this on how they wrote the song. Actually, the name of the song Walk this Way was inspired by the Mel Brooks movie Young Frankenstein.

Speaker 2 34:22

What.

Speaker 1 34:22

Little known fact. I didn't know. Did you know this? I didn't know this.

Speaker 2 34:25

No, I never heard of this.

Speaker 1 34:26

The story goes that back in 75, they were recording a new album and they were looking for one or two more songs and they had kind of an idea with some guitar and some lyrics that didn't have a title for a song. So they all took a break. So, steven Tyler and the band, they went down the street and watched the Young Frankenstein movie. It had just come out back in 70. Well, they watched this in 75, and they came back to the studio and they were all laughing about some of the lines they heard. And there was a line in the movie when Gene Wilder, who was the doctor Young Frankenstein and I forget the guy's name his assistant there, but they were at the train station, and this line was said Walk this way.

Speaker 1 35:06

They were at the train station and this line was said Walk this way when he turned this way and told him to walk this way. Oh, and they were laughing about it when they got back to the studio, and so I said that would be a good name for a song.

Speaker 2 35:19

Walk this way.

Speaker 1 35:22

That's where the song comes from. Walk this way came. The title came from that the lyrics. That's interesting that they saw a movie and the line come from it.

Speaker 2 35:31

Where did you find this?

Speaker 1 35:32

I was looking it up online. Look it up, it's true. It's true, sure, wow, I verified it to be sure. But Marty Feldman, that's the guy. Marty Feldman was playing the character. It was like his helper.

Speaker 2 35:42

Yeah.

Speaker 1 35:42

And that's where it come from.

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Speaker 2 35:44

That's cool. I like that. A little info it's 816.

Speaker 1 35:47

Country News is coming up WQSB.

Speaker 3 35:49

Mornings with Barry and Holly but first morning's crime story.

Speaker 1 35:54

No crime yet, but they're investigating them. There probably will be some charges filed, and it should be. This has all kinds of wrong written all over it. Headline says school employees accused of taking Disney trips meant for homeless kids.

Speaker 2 36:06

Oh no.

Speaker 1 36:07

Yep. A report released earlier this month accuses New York City public school employees families of taking Disney trips that were meant for homeless children. Now they got a grant that told the school that there's kids in the area that you can help honor, treat to a. Give them a Disney World trip or Disneyland mainly Disney World, but instead, according to the report, regional manager Linda Wilson took her children on trips using the grant money and encouraged other employees to do the same. They didn't give the money to the kids who were supposed to go. They used it for themselves and took their own kids to Disney World Instead of kids. That would have been a trip of a lifetime.

Speaker 2 36:51

Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 36:52

So now they're being investigated and probably charges will be filed soon.

Speaker 2 36:56

Six of them.

Speaker 1 36:57

Yeah.

Speaker 2 36:57

God, come on man.

Speaker 1 36:59

Yes, that is awful, awful, this money that was a grant.

Speaker 2 37:03

Yeah.

Speaker 1 37:04

It was going to be used to take kids who are homeless for the trip of a lifetime. Instead, nope, they used the money for themselves and took their own kids to Disney World.

Speaker 2 37:14

Oh, that makes my blood boil, oh that is awful.

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