WQSB Morning Show with Barry and Holli
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WQSB Morning Show with Barry and Holli
Episode 116
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What happens when a heatwave crashes the first full day of fall? Barry and Holli share their weekend escapades, from customer appreciation events to Ragan's pumpkin spice birthday celebration. Ever had a cat disapprove of your scent choices? Barry has a hilarious tale about that. We also brace ourselves for the impending tropical storm and its potential impact on local events, including the Northeast Alabama Marching Invitational Band Festival.
Honoring National Apple Cider Vinegar Day, we explore its myriad uses, from health hacks to household tricks. Ever tried using it to eliminate an ant bed? Barry did, and it didn’t quite go as planned. We also navigate the tricky waters of family gatherings, offering tips on avoiding heated discussions with in-laws, especially when politics are on the table.
Finally, we touch on everything from the endearing qualities of bees to the surprising comeback of DVD rental stores in Britain. Reminisce with us about the nostalgic days of Blockbuster and get the latest fast-food updates, from Taco Bell to Popeyes. We wrap up with a quirky crime story from Florida and preview a spooky visit to Cry Baby Holler, along with exciting New Year’s Eve plans in Nashville. Plus, don't forget to nominate your healthcare heroes and stay tuned for our Teacher of the Week announcement!
Morning Show Updates and Sponsor Announcements
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Speaker 3It's time to rise and shine and get your morning started with Alabama's award-winning morning show.
Speaker 4Six o'clock already, I was just in the middle of a dream Get up, we gotta go to work, what? But I can't get laid. So then I guess I just won't get paid.
Speaker 3Why 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.
Speaker 4Tell me why I don't like.
Speaker 2Mondays. Tell me why oh, you don't understand how radio works. Tell me what oh, you don't understand how radio works Monday.
Speaker 3Monday so good to me Doesn't really seem like work, does it? It sure is.
Speaker 4Monday hitting it now, Except for Monday let's get to work.
Speaker 3Please welcome your hosts Just another manic. Monday Mary and Holly.
Speaker 1Wish it was Sunday. Good morning, it's 6.07. Yes, back to school, back to work. Today, boy, it's been a hot weekend. I blistered.
Speaker 2Yeah, that was way too hot.
Speaker 1Yeah, who's in charge of this?
Speaker 2I don't know. It's supposed to be fall. It's fall. Hey, it's officially fall.
Speaker 1Today is the first full day of fall. You are correct, Nice, but it felt more like the middle of summer over the weekend of fall. You are correct, but it felt more like the middle of summer over the weekend Outside. Saturday had a great time at the WholesaleCarscom Remote Customer Appreciation Day. The winner had their vehicle paid. All things were around $6,700. Wouldn't that be cool. You owe that much on your vehicle and say, oh, by the way, we got that.
Speaker 2I'd take it.
Speaker 1Then being outside later in the day with Reagan celebrating her birthday. Yep, 21st day of September. We don't get many chances to play this, so we might as well. I know it's what's the 20th.
Speaker 2It don't matter, it's for Reagan.
Speaker 1And, by the way, there was some confusion, I think, on the podcast. They were thinking it was one of your daughter's birthdays.
Speaker 2Yeah, no, not mine. It was one of your daughter's birthdays. No, not mine.
Speaker 1It was Barry's daughter. It was Reagan, my daughter. So happy birthday. So a late birthday. We celebrated on Friday and Saturday Big weekend celebration. What'd you do? No, nothing, okay. No, we went out to eat Friday. We had lunch and then went down Saturday and saw her and took her shopping buying some stuff. Did she get much Bath and Body Works? She's happy. You buy her Bath and Body Works and she's in heaven.
Speaker 2Yeah, she loves it. Did she get the fall scent?
Speaker 1I was disappointed.
Speaker 2Why.
Speaker 1We'd have a father-daughter talk because she wanted a bunch of pumpkin spice stuff.
Speaker 2You let her have that pumpkin spice stuff.
Speaker 1I know I'm a bad dad.
Speaker 2It's her birthday. I know but it's still. You're not even going to be in there.
Speaker 1When I do, even the poor cat she has goes.
Speaker 2No, they do not. They do not. Apple, not apple cider, I've never seen that, but apple. What am I trying to say?
Speaker 1I don't know, pumpkin spice.
Speaker 2Pumpkin spice. Pumpkin spice is loud in scents, Not scents money like scents as in smell.
Speaker 1It's like the big thing, but I've never seen. I've shared these plug-ins with the. I've never seen a cat before raise its leg to pee On. It did not. It did. I swear I should have got a video, you swear. Okay, maybe I was seeing things, but in my mind that cat is about to attack me, you did not even see the cat, the cat walked over and was sniffing it like what's that?
Speaker 2No, Speaking of cats, Reagan's got a really fat cat.
Speaker 1Yeah, one weighs 12 pounds and I think one weighs 14. So no chance of them ending up like Mama Kitty.
Speaker 2They couldn't lift a leg on the air freshener.
Speaker 1They are no. No chance they'll ever look like Mama Kitty.
Speaker 2Poor Mama Kitty.
Speaker 1No, but anyway she had a good weekend. Good, but it was so hot and we're watching this system closely. We're not, I mean, the weather guys are, we're just telling you what they say. But there is a chance which of all the weekends we don't need a tropical storm hurricane to come through the area? There's a lot of stuff, including the Northeast Alabama Marching Invitational Band Festival at Albertville Saturday. We don't need that stuff this weekend, no, but that stuff this weekend no, but it is forming and therefore almost positive, is going to form into a hurricane helene. Uh, fast too, like probably tomorrow. Then hopefully their get their hope is it's going to move through the gulf quickly and come ashore, maybe even by, I say, wednesday that's fast, that is fast.
Speaker 1So if you're heading down to the beach this week, you may get wet this week and it may be through here. Hopefully by saturday morning it'll be out of here, we hope yeah, but anyway, it's just too early to tell.
Apple Cider Vinegar Uses and Surprises
Speaker 1We know we'll know more about that soon. But other things going on. We got a lot of winners we'll announce today. We're going to be announcing our health care hero, our teacher of the week at 7 10. Our pet of the week we'll be announcing coming up in a few minutes. So a lot of things going on. And we'll play nascar math, giving you a chance to qualify to win tickets to Talladega coming up later on this morning. How do you know Things you need to know? Today, the 23rd day of September, it's a Monday. What's going on?
Speaker 2I don't know who invented this day, but it's weird. Today is National Apple Cider Vinegar Day.
Speaker 1That may be one of the worst tasting things I've ever had. That and NyQuil run neck and neck.
Speaker 2So I had an ant bed at my house and you told me to pour apple cider vinegar. I can't say it without stumbling. It's my dyslexia Apple cider vinegar. You told me to pour it on the ant bed and it killed it, but it also killed my senses for like 24 hours.
Speaker 1It was so strong I could smell it inside the house you said it killed the grass and it caused a sinkhole to form.
Speaker 2And yeah, yes, yes it was. It was crazy. I'll never. I probably won't ever do that again. I'll probably just get some ant killer. But I'm gonna tell you it did kill the ants, yeah, but in the grass.
Speaker 1my grandmother swore by this and my mother swore about if you ever got sick, you know there going to get you some apple cider vinegar and I'll be honest, it does help, Like when I get a sore throat or laryngitis. I don't get many sore throats, but laryngitis that is one of the few things that actually helps.
Speaker 2I would rather drink Domitap, and that's the worst taste of medicine in the world.
Speaker 1But the weird thing is there's so many uses for apple cider vinegar. You have to wonder okay, if I'm drinking this, how?
Speaker 2is it also good to like clean pots and pans well, okay, so it ranges from being an weight loss aid because it helps with the bacteria in your gut. Yeah, I believe it too you're on the commode for like two days it helps treat the common cold because it has disinfectant parts to it, yeah, and then you can use it as a dandruff treatment so for shampoo for shampoo don't show your head's gonna stink um, yeah, it's gonna smell terrible, nobody's
Speaker 2gonna want to be around you. Yeah, it also cures the need for unwanted friends in your house. And you can also this is weird clean pots and pans with it. So think about that for a second. You're drinking this. It goes into your stomach, but you can also. This is weird clean pots and pans with it.
Speaker 1So think about that for a second. You're drinking this and it goes into your stomach, but you're also using it to clean pots and pans with like stains you can't get out. It'll make them shiny, yeah. What does it do into your stomach and the rest of your body?
Speaker 2Well, it says, when it goes into the stomach, you're supposed to dilute it a little bit with water. Oh gotcha, yeah, you're not supposed to just drink it straight up, but it raises stomach acid levels. Yeah, and it's a good. If you have heartburn, it's good for reflux. I don't know who made who was like you know what? September 23rd that needs to be apple cider vinegar day.
Speaker 1Let's get their week off to a horrible start. Everybody raise a glass of apple cider vinegar and let's toast and not go to work, because you can't, don't do it. Yeah, it's nasty, but it works.
Speaker 2Yeah, it does. The average American argues with their in-laws about once a month, according to a survey. What about you? That sounds I don't have. I mean when you were oh yeah. Yeah, at least oh yeah, 31% say that they have arguments over politics.
Speaker 1Don't ever talk politics no, never, especially Thanksgiving, Christmas.
Speaker 2No, if you want to have a fight.
Speaker 1That's the one way to do it. Bring up politics or religion, one of the two.
Parenting Conflicts and Plastic Bag Ban
Speaker 2Don't do it. And then 22% argued over lifestyle choices.
Speaker 4I wonder, what that would be.
Speaker 1What does that mean I? Don't know, maybe they didn't like them Giving their kids apple cider vinegar.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's what I was about to say.
Speaker 1See yeah Red your mind.
Speaker 2Yeah, or like I don't know what other things it could be, but anyway, probably like going out and the grandparents having to keep the kids or something.
Speaker 1I don't know what things the kids do? You let them go to the movies seeing R-rated movies or whatever. Yeah, yeah, Well, there are only.
Speaker 2But that number seems low. 22% argued over that. And then money and parenting issues were also common sources of conflict.
Speaker 1I can see that. Oh yeah, Tell them how to raise your kids.
Speaker 2Yeah, you can't do it.
Speaker 1No, you can't do it, just zip it.
Speaker 2And here's something to think about. Okay. So I was on my back porch, yeah, and I saw a bee this weekend and I realized that we can really learn a lot from bees. I watched them work, I watched them pollinate, I watched them fly around.
Speaker 1They were amazing.
Speaker 2They are. They've got organization, productivity, community sacrifice.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah. And they sting those people that annoy us. So we could do the same.
Speaker 2We could do the same, yeah, I wish we had a stinger. Oh, I wish. But don't bees like once they sting, they die that.
Speaker 1I don't know.
Speaker 2Or was that wasps, I don't know, maybe it's wasps.
Speaker 1But if some wasps could only sting one time, I think, I don't know.
Speaker 2I would have already used my stinger.
Speaker 1I would have been stung out by now I'd have no stinger left.
Speaker 3Instead of strung out, I'd be yeah. 6-16.
Speaker 1Mornings with Barry and Holly here on Alabama's country giant WQSB, since you've been gone. A lot of people were bored, I mean the Alabama fans. They had no football, auburn fans wishing they hadn't played. They lost. That was tough. So Bama and Georgia coming up Saturday.
Speaker 2But what else has been going on since you've been gone. So we talked about this a little bit already, but a tropical storm is likely to develop in the next day or so and enter the Gulf of Mexico, so we should see some rainfall from this, possibly Thursday. Impacts could linger in parts of the south and southeast coast into Friday.
Speaker 1The hope is it will form quickly, move through quickly and be out of here by Friday night and, for sure, saturday. That's the hope. If it does form, which it's going to, it'll be known as Helene, helene, hurricane Helene. That's what we're waiting on now. They should know more by 24 hours now what's going to happen.
Speaker 2The Chicago White Sox lost their 120th game Sunday.
Speaker 1They play 162 games every year all the baseball teams. They've already lost 120, with still six games left.
Speaker 2Dang White Sox.
Speaker 1And they may break the record of the worst team ever in one season.
Speaker 2Yeah, their 4-2 defeat to the San Diego Padres equaled the 62 Mets for most losses in a single season. So now the White Sox are 36 and 120.
Speaker 1That's awful, that's awful. They've only won 36 games and they play six more games. If they can lose one more, they'll be the worst team of all time.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's horrible. That's not a record you want to keep. No, that's awful. And then teens flocks to British DVD stores because, well, this is not what I expected. I was expecting something else. Snips Movies is one of Britain's last rental stores. It was kind of like our Blockbusters.
Speaker 1Right right.
Speaker 2And when Gen Z's are flocking there for the taste of nostalgia. Owner Dave Wayne says business is booming thanks to young adults, including younger millennials, looking to recreate the experience of physically selecting a movie. I wonder what they're playing this on, If they're playing it on DVD or what, and like what do you play DVD on?
Speaker 1anymore. I've read both. Here's what I've read on this story. It's DVD and they even have some of VCRs that you can rent those while you're in the store. And they like the teens. Well, the Gen Zers and Millennials said they like the feeling of walking into a store and hand-selecting one movie or get another one and knowing that since you took the time to go get this, you're definitely going to watch it. They said the difference is when you sit at home and you're watching Netflix and you start streaming one. You may lose interest, you may get up in chains, you may walk around, but this time they feel committed and they're going to finish it.
Speaker 2I wish we still had a Blockbuster. When I was little, my dad would take me to Blockbuster every Friday and we would rent a game from my PlayStation from Friday to Sunday and he would take it back Monday morning and it was like the highlight of my childhood. I loved it so much, especially Lara Croft, tomb Raider.
Speaker 1Oh, you were good at that.
Speaker 2And Earthworm Jim.
Speaker 1Oh.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, that's a game you don't know about.
Speaker 1No, I don't know about that.
Speaker 2Yeah, you don't know about Earthworm Jim. No, but you're right.
Speaker 1It's fun because I would take Reed and Reagan and sometimes and say, let's go pick it. Rent a movie, yeah, and I knew what they wanted it to. And then to watch it again and again until we had to take it back yeah, did you rewind it before you? Take it back to the store.
Speaker 2Yeah, I did you gotta be be kind rewind yeah because sometimes I'd rent one in the person before me.
Speaker 1They didn't, so I had to look them up and go find them what a shame. Yeah, but life has changed.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's 6 29 mary and holly on alabama's country, giant wqsb did yesterday.
Speaker 1they were been talking about it. It might happen. It's officially happened. The governor, Gavin Newsom, signed into law yesterday. I'm not sure why he's working on a Sunday. But paper or plastic, it's now no longer plastic.
Speaker 4Oh.
Speaker 1They have. You no longer have a choice. They've signed a law that bans all plastic shopping bags in the state of California. Oh so imagine when you go to a grocery store Walmart, wherever and they hand you the plastic bag with your stuff in it Not in California.
Speaker 2Man, I know it's good for the environment. Yes, but me carrying out armfuls of paper with milk in a plastic or a paper? Bag is not a good idea for me.
Speaker 1Oh man, well, I guess you could carry your own bags, but those are expensive, yeah, but what are we going to do now for the little garbage cans in the bathroom?
Speaker 2What am I going to pick up the dog poop with? Where am I going to store the dog poop.
Speaker 1That's a good point. It's like when you're walking your dog all these parks. They have these little plastic bags where you scoop and drop the poop in the bag. What are they going to use now?
Speaker 2What am I going to use for snacks when we go to the pool?
Speaker 1Oh.
Speaker 2I don't know.
Speaker 1See all these possibilities of plastic gone. That means, it says, at grocery store. I'm guessing it means everywhere.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm like you, though. What would we use for garbage bags, for the little garbage cans I know?
Speaker 1people say, well, you idiots. They make them just for that, I know, but it's a lot cheaper yeah. Since I've already paid you know my week's salary at the grocery store I want my groceries Might as well get something out of it so I can use those bags as my garbage cans.
Speaker 2Yeah, speaking of groceries, I went to the grocery store Friday. I spent $100. This is just a small squirrel soapbox moment. I spent $100 and I carried out my groceries with two hands.
Speaker 4Oh.
Speaker 2Groceries are expensive.
Speaker 1Yes, Like crazy. I bet there wasn't even like one main meat for like a meal.
Speaker 2No, there were no meals, it was only snacks because I had to buy. We had a girl slumber party the whole weekend and Saturday I bought a pizza and breadsticks. That was $25. So that was a quarter of my grocery bill. Everything is so expensive and you know what? We're not getting raises. I don't know what we're going to do.
Speaker 1Now, poor California, they're taking their plastic bags away from them.
Speaker 2I store my plastic bags, you save them.
Speaker 1Yes, I save them.
Speaker 2I save them too.
Speaker 1Go back to the governor in California. I bet you he doesn't have to worry about that. I'm sure he doesn't have a bigger bag to hold his smaller bags in so that he can use them for the garbage cans he probably yeah he's probably never once had to put one of those into a small garbage can in the bathroom you know he buys the small garbage can bag he probably throws the garbage can away every week too. The entire can buys a new can what if it?
Speaker 2what, oh yeah, what if he puts paper like a paper bag down in there?
Speaker 1Oh, that's stupid. That is stupid, especially if he blows his nose and throws that in there. Yeah, a really wet one.
Speaker 2Dirty Q-tips.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean other stuff, Girl stuff. Yeah, oh God, this goes downhill. Yeah, it does, I wish he hadn't hallowed that in a few days.
Speaker 2That may change his mind.
Speaker 1You could have guys on the street corner now with a raincoat on and say hey, hey, you want some plastic bags. Plastic bags, got some black ones, got some white ones, got some, got some of these that smell like lemon.
Speaker 2You'll walk by, they'll just be like swishing, and you can hear them.
Speaker 1Hey, this one smells like lemon.
Speaker 2A policeman walks by.
Speaker 1They got to be still not to make any noises. You're selling illegal plastic bags. All right, no sir.
Speaker 3All right, spread them, you're going downtown at 644 wqsb mornings with barry and holly the tap, we'll get up a slow weekend.
Speaker 1Uh, football weekend. Not a lot going on entertainment wise, but beetlejuice. Beetlejuice stays at the top number one movie again yep, yep, beetlejuice.
Speaker 2Beetlejuice brought in $26 million. Transformers 1 brought in $25 million.
Speaker 1I'm kind of surprised, but that's the animated one, right? Yeah, I was kind of surprised about that. Yeah, I am too.
Speaker 2And then Speak no Evil, which is a scary horror story. Horror.
Speaker 1That will be a good one for Halloween.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's coming up in a few weeks up in a few weeks Only brought in $5.9 million, though.
Speaker 1It had a good opening week and it's kind of dropped some, but it's still. They said it's already made its money back.
Speaker 2Oh, okay. Well, director Ridley Scott is already planning Gladiator 3, despite Gladiator 2 not being released until November 22nd. Did?
Speaker 1you ever see the original Good movie.
Speaker 2I get that one and I get 300 mixed up because they came out about the same time.
Speaker 1They're similar. Yeah, it's good though. Yeah, part two looks very good. Should be the big movie of the fall. Yep, yeah.
Speaker 2And then a few months ago we said that Pretty Little Liars was coming back. It's not. Fans of Pretty Little Liars officially had to say goodbye to another series in the franchise. So this year's story was a lie. It was. Yes, my Pretty Little Liars was a lie. It has been cancelled after two seasons. I've never seen that one. Is that good? Yeah, I watched it. It's good for like. It's like a teen drama, kind of suspenseful, but like not really that good. I could see why it was cancelled, but I did. I watched it.
Speaker 1The story said they had trouble finding a good script that was acceptable to everybody and said, no, we're out of ideas. Yeah yeah, I could see that 653, birthdays are next Mornings with Barry and Hall here on Alabama's country giant WQSB. Ready to find your dream home? With Anna Weathers-Smith at Main Street Realty, your home search just got easier.
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Speaker 1To start congratulating our winners, we'll start with Johnny Elliott. Johnny is our WQSB Healthcare Hero of the Week. Johnny, good morning. He's on the phone with us. How you doing, Johnny? I'm doing absolutely marvelous. How does it feel to be a celebrity this morning?
Speaker 4Well, it's quite an honor.
Speaker 1Well, you've done, apparently, some great work and you've been doing this for how long in the health care field?
Speaker 4I've been doing it about 38 years Wow.
Speaker 1Now, you work currently, I believe, at Gadsden Regional Medical Center. Is that right?
Speaker 4That is correct.
Speaker 1And we're teaming up with our good friends at SoCo Roofing and Restoration. We're going to send you a check for $100. It's just our way of saying thank you for what you do in the healthcare field. Now, what is it you do now, Johnny? What exactly is your job?
Speaker 4Well, actually I do a little bit of everything but my current position. I'm the day surgery secretary. I do, you know, put charts and everything together, call patients. But I also deal with patients and I draw lab work I've done that for many, many years and transport patients.
Speaker 1Just a little bit of everything they ask me, and I do it. So you make everything flow smoothly then, don't you Johnny?
Speaker 4Well, I try my best.
Speaker 1Well, it sounds like you do a good job because, like we were saying, we received quite a few nominations suggesting we make you the healthcare hero. So that's got to make you feel good, and it should, because you apparently do a great job. Well, I appreciate that. Well, you're welcome. Well, johnny, thanks for taking time to talk to us and keep up the good work, and you'll get that check in a few days, okay.
Speaker 4Okay, sounds great All right, thanks, johnny.
Nomination and Food Updates
Speaker 1Have a great day you too. All right, bye-bye. That's Johnny Elliott. Johnny works at Gadsden Regional Medical Center and is our healthcare hero of the week. If you want to nominate somebody in the healthcare field, go to our website, wqsbcom. Just tell us their name, where they work, give us some info, be sure, and put a contact number so we can have a way of contacting them. And we still have our Teacher of the Week. We'll be announcing that winner coming up in about 10 minutes with our Teacher of the Week. Plus, there's more things going on. We'll also give you a chance to win with our NASCAR math coming up sometime after 8. I want to see you be brave, moving on with the quote of the day. So what have you got for us today?
Speaker 2Do what makes you happy and be with who makes you smile, laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
Speaker 1Great words. Sometimes you may be around someone who just kind of brings you down a little bit.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 1And we I've always been told you know we only live here one time. Be as happy as you possibly can be and make as many people happy as you can while you're here.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And that's what we do here. We try our best, like Johnny, we try our best to honor people, salute people and occasionally Holly throws in a joke or two, which I know I know a little cringy sometimes.
Speaker 2They're not cringy, they're good, they're really good jokes.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 4Well if you have another one in a few minutes We'll see if you can, you're welcome to throw one out in a few minutes, so no, pressure.
Speaker 1What did the ocean say to the sand? I don't know Nothing. He just waved. Oh, my goodness, of all the jokes in your brain, that's the one you went to. That's the one I pulled out in my brain.
Speaker 2Why did you?
Speaker 4go to that one?
Speaker 2I don't know, that's just the one I could remember.
Speaker 3Okay, fine. Well, you're off the day then. Okay, all right. Teacher of the week's coming up at 7 13 and holly on alabama's country giant wqsb.
Speaker 1Look a couple of food stories. You know tried this a couple of months ago and I didn't realize they had taken it away. But it's back. Uh, taco bell bringing back their big cheez-it menu. Now we had one. One of them was not bad, but the one where it's which one is it? It was the Tostada. It was so soggy To all the stuff. Yeah, it's the Tostada. Yeah, because at the bottom the Big Cheez-Its which they are Big Cheez-Its, but they were soggy from all the stuff being on it.
Speaker 2Yeah, I think it was so soggy. I mean it had a good taste to it but it's not something that I'm going to run out as soon as they release it.
Speaker 1Now the other one, the Big Cheese at Crunchwrap Supreme, wasn't as bad, it wasn't as soggy, it was good. So they're bringing all of these back for a limited time the Big Cheese at Crunchwrap Supreme, the tostada and the Crunchwrap combo. They're going to be in stores, I guess, starting today, until while supplies last.
Speaker 2Oh yum. Yeah so what else is going on? Well, popeye's has announced chicken dippers. These look so good. It's crispy chicken dippers featuring thin strips of all white chicken breasts, battered and breaded with Popeye's signature Louisiana herbs and spices. And then you get your choice of a dipping sauce. I would go with ranch, yeah.
Speaker 1But these look so good, especially just driving on the road. Oh yeah, just dip them and go, because they're kind of skinny.
Speaker 2I guess you say chicken strips. They're like chicken fries, but they are battered. They're like, they're not. They don't look like the frozen. No, pop them in the air fryer chicken yeah, they look chicken fries.
Speaker 1Yeah, they do, they look good-breaded, they really do.
Speaker 2Yeah, they do, they look good they look good, and McDonald's recently took a step towards bringing back the snack wrap and chicken strips. Y'all, you heard me right. Mcdonald's recently ran a short test of the new McCrispy chicken strips, so those are chicken strips that were in the snack wraps. Right now you can get this, says I don't know. If this is, is this good for us too?
Speaker 1It's only in North Carolina right now. Only in North Carolina, okay. So they ran a test and said it went well, so probably we're going to see the wrap and the strips here sometime before the end of the year.
Speaker 2Everybody loved the snack wrap. Yeah, I love the wraps. Yeah, I'm not sure why they got rid of them.
Speaker 1I'm not either. It's about their WQSB Mornings with Barry and Holly Mornings. Come on, man story Going to North Carolina. You may have seen this on the news over the weekend it happened, I think Thursday or Friday. There was a major highway In Caldwell County, North Carolina. They had to close down because Someone stole a spectrum Bucket. Like charter spectrum, they stole a bucket truck. It gets worse. There was somebody in the truck when they stole it in the bucket. Oh, did they know? I don't know If they did, they didn't care. Police say it happened when a utility worker was up in the bucket repairing a line. Then somebody came up, jumped into the truck, took off going down the road, drove more than half a mile down the road with the bucket truck extended, oh my gosh. And the person ended. But they're okay, the person is okay.
Speaker 2It says they were striking utility lines along the way.
Speaker 1Oh my goodness, Imagine the guy in the truck. I was thinking I'm going to be electrocuted.
Speaker 2I'm going to be killed. Yeah, all you can do is hunker down and hope for the best.
Speaker 1Hunker down and hope for the best Hunker down in your bucket. So what happened? He was attached to a safety harness, so he said he was okay, but he was in the bucket. He did have injured his leg when he got out. Eventually, police arrived at the scene and got the guy out, arrested the guy and he was taken into custody. No idea why. Why would you want to steal a bucket truck, of all things, and then, with somebody being in it?
Speaker 2You just skipped a really important part. It says that he came out of the bucket and was suspended in the air by a safety strap. He came out of the bucket. Do you think he just bounced?
Speaker 1out. I guess it probably did, I don't know. You're in the bucket. It's going from side to side as you're going down the road.
Speaker 2The slowest charter is.
Speaker 1Do you think that's why it took 12 hours?
Speaker 2no-transcript. Yeah, make sure you're available. Yeah, just be available.
Speaker 1Be sure somebody's at home, be sure your dog's out. You know what. They're slower than what.
Speaker 2A herd of snails traveling through peanut butter. Oh, mm-hmm, I know, wow, I know that's slow, slower than a slug on a scalded street man. Slower than a one-legged dog on tranquilizers yeah, man, slower than a one-legged dog on tranquilizers? Yeah on tranquilizers.
Speaker 1A one-legged dog. I'm picturing that.
Speaker 2One-legged dog.
Speaker 1That would be very slow.
Speaker 2That would be very slow.
Speaker 1It ain't going nowhere. They'd call them scooters. It's chartered. Yeah, it's 738.
Speaker 3Mornings with Barry and Holly here on Alabama's country giant WQSB.
Speaker 1Knowledge nuggets three things you need to know today. What have you got for us today?
Speaker 2So latest survey revealed that fewer people are looking forward to pumpkin spice this fall. I agree, I agree. Yeah, I loved it Last year. I was the only person in the station, I think, that liked it. People would bring stuff by or give things, yep.
Speaker 1This year. I'm like no, no, thank you, I don't want it like what is what has happened?
Speaker 2um, I got overloaded and, like it, I burn out on it. Yeah, I think I've never really liked it, never really liked it. Yeah, see how we get the pumpkin spice drinks and snacks and I don't know, that's a little too far, holly, I know, I know, I know I don't like it anymore, but I do love the scented candles. I will say I still love fall scented candles. Rachel's shaking her head. No, well, fall scented, but not pumpkin spice, pumpkin spice.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 1What about you, Barry? I like the fall. I like when you get more towards Christmas, like the cinnamon, the apples, but the fall you're at pumpkin spice. Oh, because I took Reagan to Bath and Body Works Saturday to get her some birthday stuff and she went for a couple of little plug-ins and I thought, oh, I'm not coming to see you for a while.
Speaker 2What'd she get?
Speaker 1There were two new scents they had at their fall scent, pumpkin spice. I said, reagan, please, we've got to have a long talk. I said, reagan, please, we've got to have a long talk. Father-daughter talk.
Speaker 2Wendy's had the pumpkin spice frosty last year. Did you try that, Rachel? No, I didn't. I loved it last year. There's no way I would eat it this year. I wouldn't have liked it last year either. I don't know. I don't know what happened to me, but my taste buds have changed.
Speaker 1I just can't do it anymore. It's not just you, according to what you just said. No, it's not just me. Yeah, it's the majority. It's a nationwide thing.
Speaker 2Yeah, Mm-hmm 75% of parents wrote a letter to Santa Claus around the holidays, did y'all?
Speaker 1Yes, when they were little, oh, yeah, oh when they were little.
Speaker 2yes, Did you, when you were little percent of children, write a letter? And that's sad.
Speaker 1That's a big drop part of the reason is you can do some of the stuff online.
Speaker 2Well, yeah, email santa yeah, you can email santa and get a response back, but I don't know. I still like the traditional writing letters because, I'm gonna be honest with you, I need a list. Santa likes to get those letters. Yes, he does. Santa needs to know what's on the list. They're very helpful.
Speaker 1You need a list.
Speaker 2Yeah, Santa does.
Speaker 1And to check it twice, yep Three or four times, to find out who's naughty, who's nice and how much that stuff is yeah.
Speaker 2That's a lot of money. A study found that people that watch reality TV are usually meaner Yep and the people that do not.
Speaker 1That's you what that's you. No, it's not, I'm not mean you watch those crime stories where they kill and bury bodies and you take notes.
Speaker 2That's what scares me about you. I love it so much. I love true crime when they do the co-worker thing.
Speaker 1I thought I need to be alarmed about this. No, I killed my coworker and hit his body.
Speaker 2Well, I mean I could do it, but I'm not. I have the ability, Well, I have the ability to jump out the window right now, but I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 1That's why you say when you want to take a long drive deep in the woods, I said no.
Speaker 2No, no. Hey, barry, you want to check out this cabin that I found with all these chainsaws?
Speaker 1Why is there a stumbling Clorox in your vaccine? Thank you.
Speaker 2What about you, rachel? Do you watch reality TV like junk TV? Not really. No, yeah, I do like true crime though. I love true crime. True crime's my number one. Number two I just finished up Secret Wives of Mormon Lives. That was a reality TV. I loved it, was it good? Oh my gosh, I could have binged it all in one day, but I had stuff to do. Life got in the way.
Speaker 2But, I loved it. And here's another thing Me and Will Brumlow talk about this because he and his wife, ariel watch reality TV all the time. They said and Will's like the only person I've got to talk to at work when I'm like, oh my gosh, these Mormon wives Tell Ariel that I said this and this, but they're not mean people, they're really good people, really.
Speaker 1Yes, really, you're telling me some of the stuff they did. No, no, no Will and Ariel.
Speaker 2Will and Ariel are nice, the Mormon wives, and they watch reality TV Well, I'm having a talk with Will.
Speaker 1I'm worried he's out of the group. He's not going to Taco Tuesday anymore.
Speaker 2Yes, he can.
Speaker 1He's watching these.
Speaker 2He can, you're not the owner of Taco Tuesday.
Speaker 1He's got a man up.
Speaker 4No, yeah, oh my gosh, I'm telling him you said that.
Speaker 1He's listening? Yeah, he is, he knows he's just crazy Well.
Speaker 2Will. I've tried to have your back and Ariel's, but Barry said you're mean Well no, he watches those shows.
Speaker 1He's grabbed a tissue and he's weeping right now. I'm so sorry, will.
Speaker 2He's about to walk through the door. I know I'm kidding, All right 757.
Speaker 3And Holly On Alabama's Country, Giant.
Zoo Controversy
Speaker 1WQSB. First, some rodeo news. You saw the video this morning in massachusetts lucky, nobody's hurt, but at a rodeo in town, and eight rodeo bulls escaped the pen and began running through the town and through people's yards and that's uh let me try to find which town it is, but anyway they went through the mall parking lot. They were going all over the place. Oh my gosh, here's the weird thing to me. Finally, they got somebody on a horse like a cowboy to help them.
Speaker 1But wouldn't you think you're at the rodeo and who's inside there waiting to compete later in the day? It would be people who do just that. Maybe they do that calf roping, bull roping, whatever Bull riding. I'd say, hey guys, we've got some loose cows, let's go, I'll tell you what they weren't doing Horsing around.
Speaker 2Oh my God, why didn't they, though? Why didn't they be like hey guys, were the horses just parked?
Speaker 1I don't know. Get on your horse and you'll get extra points if you can catch one of the eight. Yeah, okay, now here's a new twist of tonight's competition Whoever catches a bull, you get extra points. Right now, let's go.
Speaker 2What if you were the guy that was in charge of letting them out? Oh, I would never claim that.
Speaker 1No, it wasn't me, it was a new guy. It wasn't me, it was Seth it was Seth in the front office. Seth guy, he did it. Yeah, not me. Yeah, he was over there filling up the Pepsi machine, which we are out of, dr Pepper, by the way, seth.
Speaker 2Seth we are. We've told you 30 times.
Speaker 1Yeah Well, You're really scraping the bottom of the barrel that you find in the rodeo.
Speaker 2People are going to like these jokes just because you don't like them.
Speaker 4You're scraping the bottle of the bullfighter barrel.
Speaker 1See oh so yours are corny and good. Anyway, they finally caught all but one Last word. Is there's still one on the loose? Oh man, you remember what he's thinking.
Speaker 2That one's thinking I'm taking life by the horn finally I'm free.
Speaker 1Yeah, yes, right in my back, I hope they never find him.
Speaker 2I hope he's free for the rest of his life, that's his life. You know, wonders the woods yes, just a bull like an old scary movie the legend says there's a wild bull loose in the woods oh my gosh, speaking of legends, this is squirre, but Harlow wants me to take her to Cry Baby Holler this weekend.
Speaker 1Which one? There's a bunch of them.
Speaker 2I don't know. I'm scared to take her.
Speaker 1Don't do it, I'm not. Yeah, nothing's gonna happen, because the bull might come out of the woods there might be a bull.
Speaker 2There might be a bull in the woods there might be a baby bull in the woods.
Speaker 1A whole new legend all together. Yeah, it's 817. Wqsb Mornings with Barry and Holly WQSB's Country Music News. Well, there's a place to be New Year's Eve. You know, don't go to New York with all the people in Times Square. Go to Nashville. It's a free show. Keith Urban started this back a few years ago Now. Keith had, I guess, taken the year off. Kane Brown and Jelly Roll have been announced as the headline performers for the New Year's Eve Live Nashville's Big Bash.
Speaker 2Excuse me.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Did you say this was free? Yes, for real, it is for real Wow.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's going to be outside. It's at the Bicentennial Capital Mall State Park. It's outside Now. You can watch it on CBS and Paramount+. More performers will be announced, but unless something has changed, let me change this. Unless something has changed, it is free. Wow, an outdoor concert. Whether it goes on one way or the other, because it's New Year's Eve, it's got to go on, it's got to yeah.
Speaker 1You can watch it, but hey, with Kane Brown and Jelly Roll, that's going to be a madhouse, that's going to be a huge crap I was, so I'm going to watch that one instead of the one that I usually watch it's better it is. I watched it the last few years. It's much better than the one in times square yeah, that's the one I usually watch when the performers are people you'd never heard of old little poopy pants little poopy little pee pee, little pee pee.
Speaker 2I was doing abbreviations. I'm sorry, I was doing abbreviations.
Speaker 1He may or may not be there, I don't know, moving on, moving on. He's probably already canceled. I would. I would cancel, all right. How about Kenny Chesney? You heard about that? Yeah, yeah, all right. Okay, how about Kenny Chesney? You heard about that? Yep.
Speaker 2Yeah, kenny Chesney recently donated more than a million dollars to a series of local nonprofits, including those dedicated to offering music programs to young people and assisting animals in need. He also made big donations Stop, I don't know a word you just said I have no idea.
Speaker 1He also made big donations Stop, I don't know. A word you just said I have no idea. Something like Kenny gave money.
Speaker 2Kenny Chesney donated a million dollars to nonprofits.
Speaker 1Oh, that's huge yes.
Speaker 2And then he also made a big donation to Boston Medical Center, the police department and the Foxborough Fire Department. So he's giving out money all over the place. We're good, I'm happy it so he's giving out money all over the place.
Speaker 1We're good. I'm happy it's 822. We've got some morning trivia coming up. Next Morning's crime story a Florida man. I swear it's like every. It's like a breeding ground for crazy crime stories.
Speaker 2Scott Chambers. What are you all doing down in Florida?
Speaker 1Get them under control, Scott. Yeah, You're in charge. A Florida man was arrested after allegedly burglarizing a mini golf course in his underwear. Oh no, it happened at Smuggler's Cove. Wasn't smuggling much, but all he had on was the underwear. That's out there.
Speaker 2Sort of I wonder if a little pee-pee was with him.
Speaker 1Video shows he was 38-year-old. Francisco Mayorga was arrested wearing nothing but his underwear and sweating. Why do they throw this in the and sweating and sweating? When police found him, he was breaking things on the mini golf course. It doesn't say what it says decorations, a broken window, I guess, like the windmill.
Speaker 2I was about to say, you know, he broke that windmill, the windmill. Oh, you know he did, and like the dragon's mouth or whatever I like how they did not keep out the fact that he was sweaty Like why? Why is that? Of course, he is.
Speaker 1He's been breaking stuff. He's been working. I mean, even with his underwear, he's still breaking.
Speaker 2It's still wrecking it's still sweating.
Speaker 1He really worked hard out there.
Speaker 2Yeah, he did so I'm I wonder if he did it like with the um, putt, putt with the putter, I bet you know, like just smashing stuff like a rage room, and then yeah, oh lord, oh, not the putter, yeah, pulled out yeah, so he was arrested, though so it doesn't say why he was wearing just his underwear.
Speaker 1I think we might want to see if mike can come in early. What do you think? Well, it's happening again the animal story. We had this story a few months ago and at the time, this zoo in china they were fooling people by painting dogs. These are what do you call chow chow dogs yeah, they dogs.
Speaker 1Yeah, chow-chow they painted them to look like pandas and they were making people believe these were actually pandas, until some of the people visiting the zoo figured out those aren't pandas, those are dogs. Well, now they're doing it again. This time they're making a plan that, okay, we know they're dogs, but we're just doing it to give you something new to look at. So the videos of these dogs you can see the videos on our Facebook page. Yes, this time they're putting signs up and they're calling them panda dogs. Oh, wow, why are you?
Speaker 1putting these in the zoo.
Speaker 2I mean, they are pretty cute, they are.
Speaker 1But would you want to go to the zoo to see a panda dog?
Speaker 2No, I want to see a panda.
Speaker 1Yes, exactly, but this time they're putting signs up. They say that the pandas are painted, dyed, dressed up to look like the dogs, are dressed up to look like panda, but they're not harming them. They say that the all the, whatever dye they're using, is okay.
Speaker 2It only colors their hair that is what are y'all doing in china.
Speaker 1Quit wouldn't it be sad if you take the kids to the zoo. You're outside, it begins to rain, then your panda dog suddenly begins to melt, basically, and all of its panda markings wash off in front of the kids yeah, yeah, I mean I just I have questions like how do you dye a dog around the eyes?
Speaker 2like I'm looking at the picture? It has dark eyes, just like pandas do. How is that safe for the dog?
Speaker 1It looks real. They claim that it's okay, but look around its eyes it's already kind of running off where the dog's eyes kind of run. How many pandas have you seen sitting there like this one, with its tongue hanging out, panning and then scratching itself with its back leg and then relieving itself by raising its leg Hacking the leg? Yeah, I'm not a panda expert, but I think that's. But at least this time they're putting a sign up saying these aren't pandas, they're panda dogs.
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