WQSB Morning Show with Barry and Holli
Broadcasting to you from Northeast Alabama! Your Hosts are Barry Galloway and Holli Mostella. From Alabama's Country Giant, WQSB.
WQSB Morning Show with Barry and Holli
Episode 116
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!
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Speaker 4:Six 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 3:Why do people work? Do any of you people do any actual work? These are the days when you wish your bed was already made Broadcasting live from high atop Alabama's beautiful Sand Mountain. I don't like Mondays.
Speaker 4:Tell me why I don't like.
Speaker 2:Mondays. Tell me why oh, you don't understand how radio works. Tell me what oh, you don't understand how radio works Monday.
Speaker 3:Monday so good to me Doesn't really seem like work, does it? It sure is.
Speaker 4:Monday hitting it now, Except for Monday let's get to work.
Speaker 3:Please welcome your hosts Just another manic. Monday Mary and Holly.
Speaker 1:Wish 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 2:Yeah, that was way too hot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, who's in charge of this?
Speaker 2:I don't know. It's supposed to be fall. It's fall. Hey, it's officially fall.
Speaker 1:Today 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 2:I'd take it.
Speaker 1:Then 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 2:It don't matter, it's for Reagan.
Speaker 1:And, by the way, there was some confusion, I think, on the podcast. They were thinking it was one of your daughter's birthdays.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, not mine. It was one of your daughter's birthdays. No, not mine.
Speaker 1:It 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 2:Yeah, she loves it. Did she get the fall scent?
Speaker 1:I was disappointed.
Speaker 2:Why.
Speaker 1:We'd have a father-daughter talk because she wanted a bunch of pumpkin spice stuff.
Speaker 2:You let her have that pumpkin spice stuff.
Speaker 1:I know I'm a bad dad.
Speaker 2:It's her birthday. I know but it's still. You're not even going to be in there.
Speaker 1:When I do, even the poor cat she has goes.
Speaker 2:No, they do not. They do not. Apple, not apple cider, I've never seen that, but apple. What am I trying to say?
Speaker 1:I don't know, pumpkin spice.
Speaker 2:Pumpkin spice. Pumpkin spice is loud in scents, Not scents money like scents as in smell.
Speaker 1:It'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 2:No, Speaking of cats, Reagan's got a really fat cat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, one weighs 12 pounds and I think one weighs 14. So no chance of them ending up like Mama Kitty.
Speaker 2:They couldn't lift a leg on the air freshener.
Speaker 1:They are no. No chance they'll ever look like Mama Kitty.
Speaker 2:Poor Mama Kitty.
Speaker 1:No, 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 1:So 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.
Speaker 1:We 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 2:I don't know who invented this day, but it's weird. Today is National Apple Cider Vinegar Day.
Speaker 1:That may be one of the worst tasting things I've ever had. That and NyQuil run neck and neck.
Speaker 2:So 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 1:It was so strong I could smell it inside the house you said it killed the grass and it caused a sinkhole to form.
Speaker 2:And 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 1:my 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 2:I would rather drink Domitap, and that's the worst taste of medicine in the world.
Speaker 1:But 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 2:is 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 2:gonna 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 1:So 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 2:Well, 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 1:Let'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 2:Yeah, 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 1:Don't ever talk politics no, never, especially Thanksgiving, Christmas.
Speaker 2:No, if you want to have a fight.
Speaker 1:That's the one way to do it. Bring up politics or religion, one of the two.
Speaker 2:Don't do it. And then 22% argued over lifestyle choices.
Speaker 4:I wonder, what that would be.
Speaker 1:What does that mean I? Don't know, maybe they didn't like them Giving their kids apple cider vinegar.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I was about to say.
Speaker 1:See yeah Red your mind.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 1:I 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 2:But that number seems low. 22% argued over that. And then money and parenting issues were also common sources of conflict.
Speaker 1:I can see that. Oh yeah, Tell them how to raise your kids.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can't do it.
Speaker 1:No, you can't do it, just zip it.
Speaker 2:And 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 1:They were amazing.
Speaker 2:They are. They've got organization, productivity, community sacrifice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. And they sting those people that annoy us. So we could do the same.
Speaker 2:We 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 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:Or was that wasps, I don't know, maybe it's wasps.
Speaker 1:But if some wasps could only sting one time, I think, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I would have already used my stinger.
Speaker 1:I would have been stung out by now I'd have no stinger left.
Speaker 3:Instead of strung out, I'd be yeah. 6-16.
Speaker 1:Mornings 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 2:But 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 1:The 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 2:The Chicago White Sox lost their 120th game Sunday.
Speaker 1:They play 162 games every year all the baseball teams. They've already lost 120, with still six games left.
Speaker 2:Dang White Sox.
Speaker 1:And they may break the record of the worst team ever in one season.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 1:That'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 2:Yeah, 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 1:Right right.
Speaker 2:And 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 1:anymore. 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 2:I 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 1:Oh, you were good at that.
Speaker 2:And Earthworm Jim.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's a game you don't know about.
Speaker 1:No, I don't know about that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you don't know about Earthworm Jim. No, but you're right.
Speaker 1:It'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 2:Yeah, I did you gotta be be kind rewind yeah because sometimes I'd rent one in the person before me.
Speaker 1:They didn't, so I had to look them up and go find them what a shame. Yeah, but life has changed.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's 6 29 mary and holly on alabama's country, giant wqsb did yesterday.
Speaker 1:they 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 4:Oh.
Speaker 1:They 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 2:Man, 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 1:Oh 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 2:What am I going to pick up the dog poop with? Where am I going to store the dog poop.
Speaker 1:That'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 2:What am I going to use for snacks when we go to the pool?
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:See all these possibilities of plastic gone. That means, it says, at grocery store. I'm guessing it means everywhere.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm like you, though. What would we use for garbage bags, for the little garbage cans I know?
Speaker 1:people 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 2:Yeah, 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 4:Oh.
Speaker 2:Groceries are expensive.
Speaker 1:Yes, Like crazy. I bet there wasn't even like one main meat for like a meal.
Speaker 2:No, 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 1:Now, poor California, they're taking their plastic bags away from them.
Speaker 2:I store my plastic bags, you save them.
Speaker 1:Yes, I save them.
Speaker 2:I save them too.
Speaker 1:Go 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 2:what, oh yeah, what if he puts paper like a paper bag down in there?
Speaker 1:Oh, that's stupid. That is stupid, especially if he blows his nose and throws that in there. Yeah, a really wet one.
Speaker 2:Dirty Q-tips.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:That may change his mind.
Speaker 1:You 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 2:You'll walk by, they'll just be like swishing, and you can hear them.
Speaker 1:Hey, this one smells like lemon.
Speaker 2:A policeman walks by.
Speaker 1:They got to be still not to make any noises. You're selling illegal plastic bags. All right, no sir.
Speaker 3:All 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 1:Uh, football weekend. Not a lot going on entertainment wise, but beetlejuice. Beetlejuice stays at the top number one movie again yep, yep, beetlejuice.
Speaker 2:Beetlejuice brought in $26 million. Transformers 1 brought in $25 million.
Speaker 1:I'm kind of surprised, but that's the animated one, right? Yeah, I was kind of surprised about that. Yeah, I am too.
Speaker 2:And then Speak no Evil, which is a scary horror story. Horror.
Speaker 1:That will be a good one for Halloween.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's coming up in a few weeks up in a few weeks Only brought in $5.9 million, though.
Speaker 1:It 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 2:Oh, okay. Well, director Ridley Scott is already planning Gladiator 3, despite Gladiator 2 not being released until November 22nd. Did?
Speaker 1:you ever see the original Good movie.
Speaker 2:I get that one and I get 300 mixed up because they came out about the same time.
Speaker 1:They're similar. Yeah, it's good though. Yeah, part two looks very good. Should be the big movie of the fall. Yep, yeah.
Speaker 2:And 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 1:The 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 1:To 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 4:Well, it's quite an honor.
Speaker 1:Well, you've done, apparently, some great work and you've been doing this for how long in the health care field?
Speaker 4:I've been doing it about 38 years Wow.
Speaker 1:Now, you work currently, I believe, at Gadsden Regional Medical Center. Is that right?
Speaker 4:That is correct.
Speaker 1:And 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 4:Well, 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 1:Just a little bit of everything they ask me, and I do it. So you make everything flow smoothly then, don't you Johnny?
Speaker 4:Well, I try my best.
Speaker 1:Well, 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 4:Okay, sounds great All right, thanks, johnny.
Speaker 1:Have 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 2:Do 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 1:Great words. Sometimes you may be around someone who just kind of brings you down a little bit.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And 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 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And 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 2:They're not cringy, they're good, they're really good jokes.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 4:Well 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 1:What 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 2:Why did you?
Speaker 4:go to that one?
Speaker 2:I don't know, that's just the one I could remember.
Speaker 3:Okay, 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 1:Look 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 2:Yeah, 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 1:Now 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 2:Oh 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 1:But these look so good, especially just driving on the road. Oh yeah, just dip them and go, because they're kind of skinny.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:Yeah, they do, they look good-breaded, they really do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 1:It'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 2:Everybody loved the snack wrap. Yeah, I love the wraps. Yeah, I'm not sure why they got rid of them.
Speaker 1:I'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 2:It says they were striking utility lines along the way.
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness, Imagine the guy in the truck. I was thinking I'm going to be electrocuted.
Speaker 2:I'm going to be killed. Yeah, all you can do is hunker down and hope for the best.
Speaker 1:Hunker 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 2:You 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 1:out. 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 2:The slowest charter is.
Speaker 1:Do you think that's why it took 12 hours?
Speaker 2:no-transcript. Yeah, make sure you're available. Yeah, just be available.
Speaker 1:Be sure somebody's at home, be sure your dog's out. You know what. They're slower than what.
Speaker 2:A 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 1:A one-legged dog. I'm picturing that.
Speaker 2:One-legged dog.
Speaker 1:That would be very slow.
Speaker 2:That would be very slow.
Speaker 1:It ain't going nowhere. They'd call them scooters. It's chartered. Yeah, it's 738.
Speaker 3:Mornings with Barry and Holly here on Alabama's country giant WQSB.
Speaker 1:Knowledge nuggets three things you need to know today. What have you got for us today?
Speaker 2:So 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 1:This year. I'm like no, no, thank you, I don't want it like what is what has happened?
Speaker 2:um, 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 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:What 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 2:What'd she get?
Speaker 1:There 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 2:Wendy'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 1:I 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 2:Yeah, Mm-hmm 75% of parents wrote a letter to Santa Claus around the holidays, did y'all?
Speaker 1:Yes, when they were little, oh, yeah, oh when they were little.
Speaker 2:yes, Did you, when you were little percent of children, write a letter? And that's sad.
Speaker 1:That's a big drop part of the reason is you can do some of the stuff online.
Speaker 2:Well, 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 1:You need a list.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Santa does.
Speaker 1:And 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 2:That'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 1:That'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 2:That's what scares me about you. I love it so much. I love true crime when they do the co-worker thing.
Speaker 1:I thought I need to be alarmed about this. No, I killed my coworker and hit his body.
Speaker 2:Well, 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 1:That's why you say when you want to take a long drive deep in the woods, I said no.
Speaker 2:No, no. Hey, barry, you want to check out this cabin that I found with all these chainsaws?
Speaker 1:Why is there a stumbling Clorox in your vaccine? Thank you.
Speaker 2:What 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 2:But, 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 1:Yes, really, you're telling me some of the stuff they did. No, no, no Will and Ariel.
Speaker 2:Will and Ariel are nice, the Mormon wives, and they watch reality TV Well, I'm having a talk with Will.
Speaker 1:I'm worried he's out of the group. He's not going to Taco Tuesday anymore.
Speaker 2:Yes, he can.
Speaker 1:He's watching these.
Speaker 2:He can, you're not the owner of Taco Tuesday.
Speaker 1:He's got a man up.
Speaker 4:No, yeah, oh my gosh, I'm telling him you said that.
Speaker 1:He's listening? Yeah, he is, he knows he's just crazy Well.
Speaker 2:Will. I've tried to have your back and Ariel's, but Barry said you're mean Well no, he watches those shows.
Speaker 1:He's grabbed a tissue and he's weeping right now. I'm so sorry, will.
Speaker 2:He's about to walk through the door. I know I'm kidding, All right 757.
Speaker 3:And Holly On Alabama's Country, Giant.
Speaker 1:WQSB. 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 1:But 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 2:Oh my God, why didn't they, though? Why didn't they be like hey guys, were the horses just parked?
Speaker 1:I 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 2:What if you were the guy that was in charge of letting them out? Oh, I would never claim that.
Speaker 1:No, 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 2:Seth we are. We've told you 30 times.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, You're really scraping the bottom of the barrel that you find in the rodeo.
Speaker 2:People are going to like these jokes just because you don't like them.
Speaker 4:You're scraping the bottle of the bullfighter barrel.
Speaker 1:See 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 2:That one's thinking I'm taking life by the horn finally I'm free.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yes, right in my back, I hope they never find him.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:Which one? There's a bunch of them.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I'm scared to take her.
Speaker 1:Don'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 2:There might be a bull in the woods there might be a baby bull in the woods.
Speaker 1:A 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 2:Excuse me.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Did you say this was free? Yes, for real, it is for real Wow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 1:You 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 2:I was doing abbreviations. I'm sorry, I was doing abbreviations.
Speaker 1:He 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 2:Yeah, 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 1:He also made big donations Stop, I don't know. A word you just said I have no idea. Something like Kenny gave money.
Speaker 2:Kenny Chesney donated a million dollars to nonprofits.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's huge yes.
Speaker 2:And 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 1:We'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 2:Scott Chambers. What are you all doing down in Florida?
Speaker 1:Get 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 2:Sort of I wonder if a little pee-pee was with him.
Speaker 1:Video 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 2:I 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 1:He's been breaking stuff. He's been working. I mean, even with his underwear, he's still breaking.
Speaker 2:It's still wrecking it's still sweating.
Speaker 1:He really worked hard out there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 1:I 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 1:Yeah, 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 1:putting these in the zoo.
Speaker 2:I mean, they are pretty cute, they are.
Speaker 1:But would you want to go to the zoo to see a panda dog?
Speaker 2:No, I want to see a panda.
Speaker 1:Yes, 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 2:It only colors their hair that is what are y'all doing in china.
Speaker 1:Quit 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 2:like I'm looking at the picture? It has dark eyes, just like pandas do. How is that safe for the dog?
Speaker 1:It 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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