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 123
Ever wondered how sipping an energy drink slowly can transform your morning routine? Holly's got a hilarious personal story that will have you rethinking your own caffeine habits. Join us as we celebrate the Facebook Live contest winners Bradley Williams and Kendra Godinez, and share some uproarious anecdotes about work stress and oversleeping, all while keeping the laughter rolling.
This episode also brings a heartwarming piece on the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, and we don't shy away from the heavy stuff like the CVS Health layoffs. But don't worry, we balance it out with some lighter fare, like the curious case of a Texas man who obliterated a Taylor Swift-inspired guitar. You'll laugh, you might cry, but most of all, you’ll enjoy the blend of humor and current events that make our show a staple for your mornings.
And if quirky and whimsical tales are your jam, you’re in for a treat. From a SpongeBob-themed resort in Turkey to a goat named Mr. Joshua stealing the show at a Newfoundland marathon, this episode is packed with oddities that keep things interesting. Not to mention the bizarre business of burlesque taxidermy mice and a hypothetical snake-on-a-plane scenario. Tune in for a chaotic yet delightful ride with Barry and Holli that promises to keep you entertained from start to finish.
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Morning my neighbors. It's time to rise and shine and get your morning started with Alabama's award-winning morning show. We have hit the motherland hey, it's morning time Broadcasting live from high atop Alabama's beautiful Sand Mountain. We're no strangers to love.
Speaker 2:You know the rules and so do I. I listen to you guys every day, every hour, all the time. Keep it here and listen for this.
Speaker 1:Please welcome your hosts. Barry, you probably won't believe this, but I was bullied in high school for being too handsome. I don't believe you. You're right. It was for setting my crotch on fire in shop class. And Holly, the English language cannot fully capture the depth and complexity of my thoughts, so I'm incorporating emoji into my speech, to better express myself Winky face, let's play this backwards and see if it gets any better. I'm going to give you up. I'm going to let you down.
Speaker 2:I'm going to run around and desert you. Good morning at 606. It's another foggy day. Good morning to you. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3:Winky face.
Speaker 2:Yeah, had a lot of emojis yesterday, the thing we were doing with our Facebook.
Speaker 3:Live. Yeah, we did, we have a winner.
Speaker 2:We do, and it's Bradley Williams. Bradley is one of the winners. We have two winners.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we have two winners.
Speaker 2:So, bradley, thank you for joining us and coming on our podcast. And the other winner I think you may have the other name, I don't have it, kendra Godinez Kendra. Yeah, so we'll be getting you both the t-shirts, so congratulations to you, and we are Facebook Live again this morning If you'd like to join us, and there's people already waiting.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we got people live. We got about 20 people live. If you want to join us, just join us on WQSB Facebook page.
Speaker 2:And you can see what we studio, which is not much, but it's a living.
Speaker 3:Yeah, pays the bills, yeah, people were asking how did the energy drink uh go for you yesterday um it uh backfired on me did it yeah, so like I chugged it instead of like sipping it, and I think my heart went into like overdrive, oh, and I felt bad all day. Yeah, you know, yesterday, yesterday, the way my desk is set up, it's like across just a little corner and there's a copy room. Yeah, and you were in there and I was saying Barry, barry.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and you couldn't hear me. And I said Barry Galloway, yeah. And he said yeah. And I said you got to bring me something to eat now, Like I, and he said yeah, and I said you got to bring me something to eat now, like I feel weak and I think it was the. I didn't eat any breakfast and then I drank energy drink.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And I know, I know, I know that they're so bad for you. Yes, but I wake up at 3.30. Except for this morning. Yeah, I woke up at 4.30. And you overslept.
Speaker 2:I overslept. I overslept, I didn't mean to. Your last two days are getting off to crazy starts. Yeah, yesterday you were so stressed out over the facebook alive and today you overslept yeah, um, yeah.
Speaker 3:I like I literally cried. I don't know what it was yesterday. I don't know if it was the energy drink or what, but I went to bed at seven o'clock and, like, took a two hour nap too. I don't know. Well, I walked back to your desk yesterday and you were sitting there and I, but I went to bed at 7 o'clock and took a two-hour nap too. I don't know.
Speaker 2:Well, I walked back to your desk yesterday and you were sitting there and I said Ted, I think Holly's dead. I said I think we've lost her Because you were sitting there, leaned back, and you were just staring at the doorknob.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you said, you look like you've been ran over by a truck and I said, thank you so much that. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2:That's what every woman wants to hear. You said I actually feel like I've been running 10 miles and I crashed.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so I've got my energy drink this morning.
Speaker 2:Well, you got to be careful.
Speaker 3:I got to be careful, I got to slow it down.
Speaker 2:They are not good for you, but I know they give you a little boost. That's why I cannot drink any.
Speaker 3:No, they're not good for you at all. No, like there's nothing beneficial about it.
Speaker 2:No, they do have vitamins, but so do one-a-days.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know. So what flavor do you have? Today? I have breezeberry and it's really good.
Speaker 2:Okay, so what's your game plan today? How are you going to not crash today? What are you going to do?
Speaker 3:I'm going to ease into it like you would on a first date. You know I'm going to date my energy drink today. First, I'm going to woo it, I'm going to give it a little, you're going to take it to the movie. I'm going to give it a little attention.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just enough to make it want more Okay.
Speaker 3:And then I'm going to take little sips, you know, like the guy calling you up every once in a while.
Speaker 2:Sure sure.
Speaker 3:And then I'm going to take my time, like you're supposed to do. Yeah, I'm going to take my time, like you're supposed to do. Yeah, and I'm just going to date it.
Speaker 2:So at the end of the drink you're going to give it a little peck on the tab, or what I might.
Speaker 3:Okay, it depends on how it treats me today.
Speaker 2:I might crumble it up and trash it If it does, like the one yesterday did. You Kicked you to the curb and just used you and abused you and kicked you out. Well hey, people on our Facebook page are wondering where Spider-Man, the lemur and the chicken went. Well, I didn't even notice they were going.
Speaker 3:They did so. They made us clean it up. The other host made us clean our mess up.
Speaker 2:Mike, right, well, mike, yeah yeah, mike's so picky. Well, he just likes to. We've got to have a long talk with Mike. He just likes a clean space he's cleaning in here all the time and he's so clean I know which. We're not dirty or anything, but we had our stuff and all we have in here now is our saint jude, which is good yeah, but the other stuff is gone. Uh, but we'll have to. We'll go find some more stuff in a few minutes. How's that?
Speaker 3:okay, yeah, I can decorate. I can do that, I can. I can throw stuff. If y'all are missing that, I will put that back in here for y'all you should pick out unusual stuff every day from our desk and put it in here.
Speaker 2:You can bring in the Rolodex if you want to. I don't care, oh, the Rolodex, no, but getting serious, be careful. A lot of fog again this morning, very thick, dense fog. Advisory work and school. Be careful. It's going to be a beautiful day, mostly sunny, a little more humid, 82. We'll look at the low 80s all week this week and lows in the low 60s. As far as rain, you might see this pop up Shower a sprinkle or two. Probably not today, but maybe on Friday. And that is about it. Things you need to know today Already. The second day of October, wednesday, october the 2nd. So what special day is today?
Speaker 3:Today is National Noodle Day.
Speaker 2:Yes, national Noodle Day. Noodles, that's it. That's all we got.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's all we got.
Speaker 2:You go from Tonko Day to National Noodle Day.
Speaker 3:Which we celebrated.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:So should we celebrate with some ramen? No, did your kids like ramen?
Speaker 2:My kids loved ramen. Reagan still does.
Speaker 3:I still do too.
Speaker 2:She likes the hotter the ramen, the better. The hotter some of those hot soups. I've tried to tell her Reagan, you had gallbladder surgery a few months ago.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm pretty sure that those ramen soups ate your gallbladder up.
Speaker 3:Probably, I would say probably so.
Speaker 2:Because about every soup she has is like when it says on the box like extremely hot.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Every soup she has is like when it says on the box like extremely hot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she likes the hotter, the better. Yeah, it could kill your gallbladder, I think it says on one of them, and sure enough it did Gallbladder killer. But no, the hotter, the better she likes them. But I've tasted some of them. They're okay. Oh, I love them Every now and then.
Speaker 3:Okay, there's two types of ramen noodle eaters. Or do you drain the noodles and put the seasoning on your noodles?
Speaker 2:Well for Reed, when he was here, him and Reagan had so many fights he would eat the noodles and pour the soup out.
Speaker 3:That's what I did.
Speaker 2:Oh, it should get, because she's like me, she don't waste anything.
Speaker 3:Yeah, see, I pour the water out. Yeah, I pour the water out. I don't leave it as soup. And she'd come tell me Dad Reed wasted in ramen noodle again. I'm so sorry, reagan, I'll have a talk with him. Yeah, answer us on our facebook live and let us know. So ramen noodles have been and they were invented one more.
Speaker 2:Is it raymond or ramen?
Speaker 3:oh, I don't know, what did I say?
Speaker 2:I mean, I've heard both what I say? Well, I've heard both, I think I actually say both.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't know. Noodles have been around for over 4 000 years. I didn't know that. I didn't know Noodles have been around for over 4,000 years.
Speaker 2:I didn't know that I didn't know that. So cavemen basically had them. Yeah, basically. So they go and kill a dinosaur and put some T-Rex ramen.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay, wow, that's interesting Ramen noodles were invented in 1958 in Japan.
Speaker 4:I didn't know that they were made from Japan. Well, thank you, japan, yeah, I appreciate that.
Speaker 3:And in some languages ramen noodles means pulled noodles.
Speaker 2:Whoa Pulled. You could use that term in many ways.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, you sure could yeah, yeah Be careful with that, and ramen noodle soup is one of the best-selling soups in the world. But see, people are saying ramen, there's ramen and ramen, there's Raymond and Ramen. I don't know.
Speaker 2:I don't know, we're both.
Speaker 3:I don't know.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 3:Just call it pulled noodle. Hey Mom, can I have some of those pulled noodles?
Speaker 2:tonight I'm going to take my pulled noodles and go home and watch TV.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Yo, M&M's is bringing back the Halloween Rescue Squad If you run out of candy on Halloween. If you run out of candy on Halloween, If you have a candy emergency visit mmscom slash Halloween Rescue Squad after 5 pm on October 31st to find a bowl of M&M's near you. I wonder if that's going to be close to us too.
Speaker 2:No, it's not. I didn't think so. It's only the big cities. So they're telling us this lie, because I called it last year and they said you must travel to Louisville, kentucky, you must travel to wherever. I said no, I don't want to M&M that bad. No, I'll just. It's a great idea what they're doing.
Speaker 2:But are you one of those? A lot of people, when they're on Halloween, they get tired of handing out candies. They put every bit of it on the porch and put you know, just take one or two pieces. Yeah, just take one or two pieces.
Speaker 3:Just take one or two pieces. No, I love giving out the candy. It doesn't matter how long it takes, I love it. I love seeing the kids dressed up.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I'm a lot more fun than you are.
Speaker 2:No, Well no.
Speaker 3:I just wouldn't leave it out there.
Speaker 2:Well, the old neighborhood was expensive I lived in. I didn't know that until the first night I was in town for Halloween they warned me better have a lot of candy better have a lot of candy, yeah, yeah I thought, oh, I had a lot of.
Speaker 3:I thought I had a lot of candy yeah, but you lived over in like whispering pines yeah, oh yeah, yeah, that's where you go, I was only like 30 minutes into halloween and I had no candy.
Speaker 2:I'm serious, they wiped me out.
Speaker 3:I thought I had plenty of candy do you have to turn your pork slot off? Uh, no, they didn't matter oh, they come around to the back door and say well, no, you're in there.
Speaker 2:Come on, you cheap radio guy, Give us your Snickers. I gave them crackers. I got from the restaurants the salad crackers. I gave them straws. I gave them cans of soup. I even cooked soup and ladled it into there. That's when they quit coming.
Speaker 3:He ladled the soup into there. Don't go to that guy's house He'll.
Speaker 2:If you went to that guy's house, he would put soup in your bucket. So they quit. But, it got ugly, it turned on me.
Speaker 3:Oh Lord.
Speaker 2:They got pitchforks and came after me and burnt my house.
Speaker 3:Well, it is Halloween.
Speaker 2:It was tough.
Speaker 3:Well, yesterday I got to tell you this story. I bought a treadmill and a Fitbit to help me get into shape.
Speaker 2:Hey, way to go. I know Way to go. I've been really trying to work on it, proud of you.
Speaker 3:Within five minutes, though, my bank called and asked me if my card was stolen. They were like wait a minute, this is not like her, that's low.
Speaker 2:You're usually buying buffets, but now you're buying this stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. Somebody got your card.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's 6-6-8. Wqsb Mornings with Barry and Holly. Since you've been gone, we won't get into the debate last night which it was on. I watched a little bit of it, but man, I was tired too, I don't know. I had a hard workout like a four-hour workout or something.
Speaker 3:Oh wow, Like a gym.
Speaker 2:No, I was tired, but you know we don't really get into the politics here because that's the quickest way to get into trouble.
Speaker 2:Yes, Politics religion, things like that. Yeah, but from what I read, well, I won't even get into that, but it's over from last night. There may be a second one I read this morning, I don't know. So that was a thing last night. And then still the hurricane. So that was a thing last night. And then still the hurricane we were talking about in the control room yesterday. They were talking about it is so bad in parts of Carolina they're having to use pack mules to deliver supplies and goods to some of the people that the roads are just gone. There's no way to get to them.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh, that's so scary.
Speaker 2:I've never seen destruction quite like this as far as towns that had nothing to do with the hurricane itself. They weren't even around the coast.
Speaker 3:No, you haven't seen destruction like this, because Hurricane Helene now ranks as the fourth deadliest US storm in the past two decades. Horrible it unleashed 40 trillion gallons of water and it's claimed at least 152 lives across six states I wonder how they get that number 40 trillion.
Speaker 2:I wonder how I don't know that's a math thing. See, that's where I'm at on this stuff. I leave it to the guys who actually are good at math. But that is unbelievable.
Speaker 3:That much water was dropped from the gulf all the way through the carolinas yeah, that's just crazy and cvs health revealed plans to lay off almost 3,000 employees to reduce costs focusing on corporate roles.
Speaker 2:I'll be honest, I thought they'd already laid everybody off.
Speaker 3:There's nobody ever in there.
Speaker 2:Last time I went in there there was one guy back there putting up perfume on the perfume shelf and that was it.
Speaker 3:And did he have to come around and check you out?
Speaker 2:Had to ring the little bell, ding, ding, ding, ding. That's got to be a tough job, you're back there stocking shelves and somebody's dinging the dinger.
Speaker 3:I know you never want anybody dinging the dinger when you're stocking shelves.
Speaker 2:Not when you're working. No, not when you're working. They select you when you get home.
Speaker 3:And this one makes you mad. A Texas man bought a Taylor Swift-inspired guitar for $4,000 at auction. Quit laughing.
Speaker 2:No, no, this is going to hurt. This hurts you.
Speaker 3:It hurts. I ask you a question.
Speaker 2:He bought it for $4,000.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and he destroyed it with a hammer. That's awful, the event was part of the annual Ellis County Wild Game Dinner fundraiser. But he took that guitar and completely smashed it.
Speaker 2:At least the money went to a good cause, to a charity. But he said he was upset with her beliefs and he bought. Why don't you? He gave it to a good cause, that's true, but why didn't you just give them the money and just let somebody else have the guitar that really wanted the guitar.
Speaker 3:And not smash it.
Speaker 2:No, just go ahead and give them the money and let somebody else get the guitar that wanted the guitar. Yeah, maybe to take home and keep. I don't know, man, I don't understand people. I don't either. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:And the company that makes Tupperware has officially filed for bankruptcy. Oh no, yep, I was going to give you more details, but station management told me to put a lid on it.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm going to go over there and burp you and we'll get the information out of you. All right 631.
Speaker 2:Good story, good feel-good story here. How about the dad Speaking of the storm, the father of the bride? His name is David Jones. He walked 17 miles to make his daughter's wedding. Aw, he walked from part of South Carolina. He set out from South Carolina to Tennessee on Friday to find that Hurricane Helene had made Interstate 26 impassable. So he decided to complete the journey on foot because he said I've got to be there. This is her big day. Yeah, and there was no other way he could have got there. Yeah, so he began walking. He's a former marathon runner. He made it to the wedding by going through roads that were covered with debris, very dangerous. Luckily, at one point a motorist picked him up and helped him get the remainder of the way wow, I feel like my dad would do that for me.
Speaker 3:I bet he would yeah, yeah that's so. That's crazy though. So he had a little bit of preparation because he was a former marathon runner right, and then he walked 17 miles. So, like from where we're at in the studio, where would 17 miles?
Speaker 2:be Roughly, maybe Gadsden Roughly. It's a rough guess. We're in Gadsden, walking from here to Gadsden.
Speaker 3:I would definitely do that for my child.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, don't go and ride, but think of all the stuff he probably had to walk through. Yeah, but think of all the stuff he probably had to walk through. Yeah, because he's talking about the destruction. Yeah, trees down, power lines down, probably still raining hard, pouring down and flooding water everywhere, and he still made it, made it. Yeah, good job Dad had to be special for the daughter. Oh yeah, yeah, all right, 6.43.
Speaker 1:Barry and Holly On Alabama's country giant WQSB.
Speaker 2:But first Holly's pile of stories, and I'm excited about this. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame big ceremony is coming up and you're telling me there's some country stars who will be there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, keith Urban, jelly Roll. Kenny Chesney will be performing during the ceremony in honor of the inductees. Cool, chesney, and what's that?
Speaker 2:Shane McAnally I don't know him or Mac McAnally, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3:Okay, he said that, or they said that they're going to join James Taylor in a musical tribute to Jimmy Buffett.
Speaker 2:Isn't he one of your favorites?
Speaker 3:Yeah, James Taylor, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:So a Jimmy Buffett tribute, that's a good choice, good choice.
Speaker 3:Yep and Keith Urban will be performing alongside the who frontman, roger Daltrey.
Speaker 2:Oh wow, in honor of Peter Frampton, that's got to be cool for Urban With the who guitar man.
Speaker 3:The who, I believe singer rather yeah, playing with him. Yeah, and then Jelly Roll will also be performing.
Speaker 1:Good.
Speaker 3:The ceremony's going to be on Saturday, October 19th, and will stream on Disney+ Got to watch that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that'll be good. Gotta watch that, yeah.
Speaker 3:And then did you watch the 50th season premiere of Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 2:I told you you'd go back and watch some of the highlights.
Speaker 3:I did, yeah, I did.
Speaker 2:The beginning, they nailed all the political impressions.
Speaker 3:It was so funny. It drew in 5.3 million live viewers, which is the best opening for the show since 2020. I agree, but it was a lot funnier.
Speaker 2:It was a lot more clever. The skits were better. Yeah, the skits were better, and the news segment, when they brought in the little pygmy hippo Moudin. Oh my, gosh Moudin.
Speaker 3:That was so funny, it was good, that was so funny, yeah. And then John Amos, the actor known for his roles Dad and TV's Good Times.
Speaker 2:I know this was before your time, but I remember watching the reruns. Had one of the best theme songs, and here's the yeah, but he passed away.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he passed away at the age of 84 in Los Angeles. Due to natural causes, is what they say.
Speaker 2:I remember him from the Coming to America movie with Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he was a good actor. Yeah, he was yeah.
Speaker 3:And a movie with Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was a good actor. Yeah, he was. And then Scream 7 is set for release on February. Why are they doing it in?
Speaker 2:February, I don't know. Well, they had a delay in filming it because, remember, they fired the star, the girl who's been in the last two.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:She expressed some of her political beliefs came out, really, and they said you need to hold it down here. And she didn't. And they said, okay, we're going to fire you. And they did. So they had to go back and rewrite the entire script and they were able to get Nelf Campbell to agree to come be in this one and they got the Kevin Williamson who was the original director the guy who started all the Scream. He's going to be behind this.
Speaker 3:So she said, if he comes back, I'll come back. My guess is this may be her last one to go out with a. Well, I mean, we're already. They can go out with a bang because they use a knife.
Speaker 2:Whatever Go out with a slice, but I love the Scream movies.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but seven of them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but the first Two were really good. Yeah. Third one it was weak, but then when they reimagined it back a couple of screams ago, like five and six, those were really good. Okay, and they went to New York.
Speaker 3:Well, it's set to release on February 27th of 2026.
Speaker 2:I'll be there. Okay, it's going to be good. All right. Birthdays are next.
Speaker 1:WQSB Mornings with Barry and Holly. Hi, hey, hi, captain, I can't hear you, spongebob.
Speaker 2:So what about you, the kids growing up? Were they SpongeBob fans?
Speaker 3:I was a SpongeBob fan, Like I would try to force them to watch SpongeBob because I like to watch SpongeBob.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't have to. The kids would watch and I would hear it and I would go sit down and end up watching it with them.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I know the humor's to where the adults could enjoy it too, for the most part.
Speaker 3:Yeah, mayer liked it, harlow didn't, so I was all about it when Mayer watched it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we talk about this because it's been what? 25 years.
Speaker 3:Yeah, since 1999.
Speaker 2:It's still on, still going strong In the episodes. It hasn't lost anything. I think Some of the episodes are good. Some shows get bad as they go on, but this show is still doing well and there's actually a Spongebob-themed resort you can take the kids to. What, if you don't mind going to Turkey? Oh, okay, yeah, they have a Nickelodeon theme park and you can go to Land of the Legends and look at more of this. But they have a Spongebob-themed resort. You can spend the night in Bikini Bottom.
Speaker 3:That's so cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, resort, you can spend a night in Bikini Bottom. That's so cool. Yeah, so you can spend a night in Bikini Bottom. And I ask you are you ready to go there? And you said I'm ready.
Speaker 3:I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.
Speaker 4:I'm ready.
Speaker 2:And you say that you know somebody who's been there.
Speaker 3:Once I met this guy who knew this? Guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy's cousin?
Speaker 2:Who had been.
Speaker 3:Are there any more Spongebob that you want to play?
Speaker 2:Okay, all right, all right, no, but it opens up coming up in just a few months and it's got Spongebob stuff. It has a teenage mutant Ninja Turtles. It's got a lot of Nickelodeon stuff. So if you want to go, you can see pictures Facebook page. They look pretty cool.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so anyway, I think I would like that yeah.
Speaker 3:The kids would like that. I would think I'd like that.
Speaker 2:Hey, thank you everybody, Mornings. Come on man Story. I'm looking at the pictures on her Facebook page and I'm just having to shake my head.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Why? Who thought of this and why would you think of in their house at some point?
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, everybody.
Speaker 2:And pretty much everybody's had one that was dead in their house.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:Never once have I walked over looking at a dead mouse and say, hmm, I should take you and have you stuffed, take it to a taxidermy and then pose you as a showgirl, a dancing showgirl. A lady has done just that and she's making a killing doing this Taking dead rats, mice, whatever, yeah, and they stuff them and put them in certain poses as if they're actually dancing I think they're cute.
Speaker 3:I do, I think they're cute.
Speaker 2:But it's a dead mouse I know, but they're so cute. And what is rat bigger than the rats is right there, yeah, yeah so look at the picture here. There's one, it's a scribble, the white one with the green. It's in the bottom left-hand corner.
Speaker 3:Okay, so she has feathers behind her. She has little booby covers.
Speaker 2:She does, or like where her bikini top would be All six of them that is funny.
Speaker 3:That is funny because mice have, I guess, six yeah and she has fake lashes put on them, yes, and they look very. This is weird, weird. I don't want to have any words for this.
Speaker 2:Her name is Caitlin Hill and she said she had just had a feeling this would be big. So she teamed up with a taxidermy place and she this is in texas, by the way, oh, and they send them back to her in these poses. Then she decorates them and dresses them up like burlesque performers and dancers I just really like the nipple covers. It's $185 to get one of these.
Speaker 3:What no? And it only cost her about.
Speaker 2:She said about $5 for the taxidermy. While he charges, then she buys these little costumes which have got to be dirt cheap. She's making a killing off of dead mouse.
Speaker 3:I wonder if she catches them in her own house and she's just like yes, another one.
Speaker 2:There's a company. Let me find this. It's in the story. If you want to read the story, it's on her Facebook page. She says there's a company that catches these for her and they charge her about five bucks each. Oh, okay, and she's selling these to people all across the country. Why would you want one of these in your house?
Speaker 3:You know there's a. Let me tell you about people.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:There's a certain kind of weird for everybody, yeah, and this is just somebody's weird that they like.
Speaker 2:Don't judge them for it If you walked into somebody's house and on this place you walk in the front door like on their table where the keys go, whatever that table is called.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:There's three mice dressed up as burlesque dancers posing. What would you think?
Speaker 3:Well, first I would take a picture of it for my Facebook, yeah, and then I would be like, hey girl, where'd you get these burlesque mice?
Speaker 2:No, that's when I get a fake phone call from family who's in an emergency.
Speaker 4:You gotta go, I am so sorry, I gotta go.
Speaker 2:My daughter's had a flat tire. I've gotta go.
Speaker 3:See, I'm different. I would stick around and be like what's this about? How'd you get this done?
Speaker 2:I'd be afraid she's got something in the basement that she does that to humans.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but what about the people buying them? Like, what about? She says she makes a lot of money off of this?
Speaker 2:There's people that want these. I could see that being a good Dirty Santa gift.
Speaker 3:A good, dirty Santa gift. What if you open that? Yeah, but I'm not paying $200 for one.
Speaker 2:Nope, I'm not. Nope. Yeah, if you want to see the pictures, look at her Facebook page. It's weird, it's $7.40.
Speaker 1:WQSB Mornings with Barry and Holly.
Speaker 2:Do not let her down like you did with the jokes.
Speaker 3:I'm not going to let her down.
Speaker 2:What have you got today?
Speaker 3:Okay, in the US, each year 4,500 people injure themselves using pencils, pencils, pencils, oh.
Speaker 2:I don't know that I've used a pencil in a long, long time.
Speaker 3:I know we don't really use pencils anymore. Here's a pencil, look. In a long, long time. I know we don't really use pencils anymore. Here's a pencil Look. I think maybe as a child, and it's an old school pencil. What number is that, by the way? Probably number two.
Speaker 2:What happened to number one?
Speaker 3:I don't know, you don't want to know. They phased it out. Yeah, you don't want to know.
Speaker 2:Number two to be. That's what Dateline should cover what happened to the number one pencil?
Speaker 3:They did, they covered it.
Speaker 2:Number two. It's always in school. Get out your number two pencil. Yeah, but what number one? That poor number one.
Speaker 3:It has to do with true crime. You don't want to know, it must have really stunk it up yeah, true crime.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:But you know what I used to click them out all the way I could see that and then hold it down and be like, look, it's going in my skin, like giving myself a fake shot. There's where the accidents come in yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:How do people get injured with these. What are they doing?
Speaker 4:did they leave them in their pocket and bend over, yeah the sticks in their boob how did you get injured with a pencil? And you're a little rat, I'm trying to think. I would think more kids would injure themselves with pencils.
Speaker 3:Yeah teachers, probably running with pencils, for real, probably running with them, because mama always said don't run with pencils, don't run with scissors. You know right? Oh, I don't know anyway good guess 45 of americans lie when they go to the doctor.
Speaker 2:I'm one of them. I know it's stupid because you go in there to be feel better than he says how you feeling? I'm feeling good, then why are you here?
Speaker 4:I lie, my throat is all red and scratchy and inflamed, yeah well, when they ask me do you know how much you weigh?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, 104. 104.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, but I do, I lie.
Speaker 4:And then they're like okay, pretty girl, come step on the scale.
Speaker 2:I'm convinced those scales are wrong because it never matches mine at home.
Speaker 4:No, no, you're always heavier at the doctor, aren't you?
Speaker 3:Yes, they're just not calibrated correctly, okay because I'm always like 10 pounds heavier at the doctor than I am at home and that does a lot to my self-esteem.
Speaker 2:I think they want you to be fatter so they can say okay, well, let me help you. You take this and do this and do this.
Speaker 3:Have you ever thought about Ozempic? Yeah, no, only 1% of this food that's sold in the US each year is actually eaten. Can you take a guess?
Speaker 2:1%.
Speaker 3:Only 1% is eaten.
Speaker 2:And it's sold, and they sell millions of these every year.
Speaker 3:Millions, especially in the fall.
Speaker 2:Right around now, only 1% are actually eaten. We do other things with them. That's why they're so popular. This is a good trivia question.
Speaker 3:This is good.
Speaker 4:Pumpkins. I was thinking pumpkins, but then I was like no, everybody loves pumpkin spice. This and pumpkin spice that.
Speaker 2:But when you buy one, you don't actually cut it open to eat it, no, you just carve it, you use it and decorate with it.
Speaker 3:We talked about this last week because we had talked about something about pumpkin pie and I asked what pumpkin pie was made out of, because it's so hard inside. You got all the goop and the seeds. That's nasty. That's nasty. Does that go on the pie?
Speaker 2:No, Surely not, I would say no. I would say no, not all of it.
Speaker 3:So then, what do you do? Just carve out the sides and bake it into a pie.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, you probably mix it with some other things, like maybe condensed milk or something, yeah, to blend it to make a, not like a paste, but yeah, like puree, like a, yeah, yeah but if we love pumpkin pie, then why is only 1% of this food eaten?
Speaker 3:I?
Speaker 4:don't know, that stumped me.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 3:There you go. I don't know.
Speaker 2:When have you ever bought one just to take it home and eat it?
Speaker 3:Never in my life, never, never Me either. No.
Speaker 2:Tell you what's even sadder about it. Holly, you have a pumpkin. When's the last time you checked on it?
Speaker 3:I had a pumpkin that started growing in july and the storms came and I don't know if it's rotten or not. It may be rotten, but if it's not, I'm gonna bring it up here. Oh and okay, decorate with it.
Speaker 2:Okay, mom, one pumpkin so you've not checked on your pumpkin in a while.
Speaker 3:I haven't checked on in a while. Well, I'm proud of you for growing a pumpkin. I did. I grew a pumpkin. It's white, it's so cute. Checked on it in a while. Well, I'm proud of you for growing a pumpkin. I did. I grew a pumpkin. It's white, it's so cute, cool. Yeah, it's one of those flat ones that you can stack. Yeah, yeah, nice, yeah, my pumpkin.
Speaker 2:Alright.
Speaker 3:I will.
Speaker 4:By the way.
Speaker 2:They're asking on Facebook why they can't hear Rachel, we're still working on that microphone.
Speaker 3:Yes, Yep, we have ordered parts and we're waiting on them to come in, and once we get those in, Rachel's mic will be connected.
Speaker 4:Hopefully it'll be by Monday next week. Awesome, we should have the parts everything in by Friday. Better luck.
Speaker 2:There's one of those ports where there's tracking right now. Seriously, I know I know.
Speaker 3:So you can hear her on air, on the radio and on the podcast, but you just can't hear her on Facebook.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she was amazing this morning too Good job Rachel.
Speaker 3:Good job Thanks.
Speaker 2:Rachel Bye 756. Mornings with Barry and Holly here on Alabama's country giant WQSB. I love when the underdogs they can win, because who saw this coming in this race Get up some Rocky music, but it's a marathon race and it happened in. Is it Newfoundland? I think Newfoundland.
Speaker 3:You say it like Newfoundland.
Speaker 2:Okay, Newfoundland.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry. Yeah, I know it's weird. Just say Newfoundland. Yeah, just say it.
Speaker 2:In that Newfound land. A goat. Okay, all the marathon runners are going doing their thing, yeah. Then, out of nowhere, they run past this goat. The goat decides to join in on the race. It's a goat that kind of hangs out in the area. People know it as Mr Joshua. It's like a friendly goat, they love it, they feed it. It's like a friendly goat, they love it, they feed it, they take care of it. As they ran past this pumpkin patch where Mr Joshua kind of lives, he saw them, decided, hey, I'm going to do this too. And the goat took off running and joined them. People were loving it and it ran. It says four kilometers, which is roughly two and a half miles.
Speaker 2:The goat ran two and a half miles. Its owner finally caught up with it and then helped it slow down and walked him the rest of the way to cross the finish line.
Speaker 2:So not only did the goat run two and a half miles, the owner of the goat had to also run a mile or two because they had to catch him, finally caught him, and then they loved the goat so much that they put a medal around its neck for finishing Well, it didn't run the complete marathon, but far enough. A medal around its neck for finishing well, it didn't run the complete marathon, but far enough. And people were wanting their picture made with the goat at the end of the race, at the finish line Would you not.
Speaker 2:Yes, Mr Josh was now a celebrity.
Speaker 3:I would love that you can see a picture of him on our Facebook page. He's so cute.
Speaker 2:That is a great picture. That is a great story. Look at him there. He is so happy. He has no clue what he did. But you imagine the guys running. They've been training this for years and there's a goat running right with them, out of breath, nope go, joshua go so they really have the goat now. The goat is now famous in newfoundland yeah the mayor says he's quite the star. People are coming around wanting their picture made with Mr Joshua.
Speaker 3:Way to go, Josh.
Speaker 2:I love it. Yeah, it's 8.13. Some country news coming up.
Speaker 1:Barry and.
Speaker 2:Holly on Alabama's country giant WQSB WQSB's country music news. Well, the big Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony is coming up, and we mention this because there will be a lot of country music stars there. Keith urban, jelly roll and kenny chesney will all be there performing now. Chesney and mac mcinelli will join james taylor in a musical tribute to jimmy buffett. Now, he wasn't inducted into this year's hall of fame, but they are giving him like a special induction since he passed away, and I think he deserves it, don't you?
Speaker 2:I do so. They're going to perform a song or a couple of songs. Keith Urban's going to perform alongside the who frontman, roger Daltrey. They're honoring Peter Frampton, who will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Jelly Roll. They're not saying what he's going to sing yet. He'll be singing something. The ceremony's going to take place in Cleveland Saturday, october 19th. You can watch it on Disney+.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's awesome. Well, ruskell Flats are heading out on tour in 2025 for the first time since the group announced they were going on hiatus back in 2020. The Life is a Highway tour will celebrate the band's 25th anniversary. They're going to have 21 shows. They're also going to be joined by Lauren Elena and Chris Lane for the entire tour, and the closest place to us is March 20th at Huntsville at the Von Braun Civic Center. Von Braun Center.
Speaker 2:I'm glad they're doing this, because they had to cancel I believe it was the Huntsville show because when COVID hit they were doing their farewell tour and they had to cancel a lot of the shows. So I think, they're trying to make up for the shows they canceled and then doing some more.
Speaker 2:Love that, so I think that's one of those. So yeah, we'd love to go see them. Speaking of Jelly Roll earlier, here's Jelly Roll, and I Am Not Okay on WQSV Morning's crime story. Now, this is bizarre. We were talking about this off the air. I don't Certain people. There's a man who's been arrested for hiding under women's vehicles at a car wash. Just to look at their feet.
Speaker 3:That's what he told them. Are they driving Fred Flintstone cars? I mean, how is he getting a view of their feet? Here's what he was doing.
Speaker 2:The women would go through the car wash, pull over to do the vacuuming. He would then be nearby, run over and slide under the vehicle while they're vacuuming, because if you're down there in the floorboard vacuuming you don't notice what really is going on on the other side. Then he would lay under there and watch their feet as they vacuum. Then it's time to pull out. He will slide back under and off he goes. He did this two or three times. Finally he saw him doing it. Oh my gosh, that's when they got the manager and the manager called the police and the police arrested the guy.
Speaker 3:So what would the charges be? I mean, I know you can't do that, but like, what are the charges?
Speaker 2:I don't know what he was doing, does it say in the story. I haven't really looked that far Because I just no. Thrown for a loop.
Speaker 3:It doesn't, it doesn't say Okay, he's charged with voyeurism and disorderly conduct. Okay voyeurism?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but he never touched them. But he was under the vehicles, mainly SUVs. I would hope so.
Speaker 3:So I have a not an irrational fear, but I have a like I get so uncomfortable when I have to vacuum my car out at the car wash Because you literally cannot hear anything. So you can't hear somebody sneak up behind you. And I always feel like somebody's going to get me. They're going to snatch me, but I don't want anybody looking at my feet either. Don't look at my feet.
Speaker 2:I've never understood. There are men in the world who think that's.
Speaker 3:Attractive, they love feet.
Speaker 2:We've had stories of men breaking into homes. They love feet. We've had stories of men breaking into homes and they break in and they pull the covers back just to look at their feet.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and off they go. There's a certain weird for everybody that's bizarre.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, I hate to tell them, when they go to jail they're going to get more than just feet to look at In the meantime. Morning's Animal Story. Imagine being on a plane which you used to fly a lot and somebody brings in a carry-on and they put it up above you, say right above you in the seat, and all of a sudden, during the flight, a 10-foot python comes crawling out of the carry-on, out of the overhead bin, down upon you. What would you do?
Speaker 3:That would be very weird. I would make sure that it wasn't the nerve medicine that I took before I took the flight.
Speaker 2:But you weren't imagining it.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Snakes on a plane Snakes on a plane. It happened, almost happened. Use Beckistan is where this happened. Somebody was trying to go through security with a 10-foot Burmese python in his carry-on luggage.
Speaker 1:Why.
Speaker 2:He thought they wouldn't check exactly what was in there. I guess maybe when he set it down it began moving.
Speaker 3:Yes, squirming.
Speaker 2:Moving squirming so they opened it and you can see the picture. It's a massive albino Burmese python they were trying to smuggle in the carry-on.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh. And so they put it up top and it just slithered out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, and so they had to take it away from the guy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the man was promptly arrested.
Speaker 2:Don't know where the python went. What did he?
Speaker 3:get arrested for.
Speaker 2:Well, he was illegally carrying it, trying to smuggle it onto a flight.
Speaker 3:But where in the rules does it say no Burmese python?
Speaker 2:I don't know if it says that, but you have to, I guess, declare what you're carrying on. Kind of tell them what's in there.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Then I guess when they see it moving, they have to check and see if you're telling the truth. I'm sure he didn't say oh, it's a 10-foot burmese python. Yeah, beth garman says just give me a parachute. Yeah, I feel bad for the python because you know, here it is. Its dream is coming true. It's finally gonna fly on that plane, it's finally gonna get out of here everybody, and then they stop them at the security gate. I can imagine the python being on the plane, sitting there and this flight attendant's coming by. So, would you like steak chicken? No, I'll just have a seat 4A. I'm going to eat him. I'm just going to eat him. Bring him over here, that's all I need. And bring me some water too, by the way.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't know. I'd probably be like Beth I'd jump out of the plane.
Speaker 2:Yep, don't need a parachute. I I'd jump out of the plane. Yep, I'd be in a parachute.
Speaker 4:I'm gone.
Speaker 2:It's the alternative of being eaten by a python or whatever. It's 841.
Speaker 1:Mornings with Barry and Holly here on Alabama's country giant WQSB.
