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 209
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Speaker 3:are back here on Morning Mayhem. It's time to rise and shine and get your morning started with Alabama's award-winning morning show. Hey, how's your morning going? Broadcasting live from high atop Alabama's beautiful Sand Mountain Top of the morning. To ya, I was a boogie singer playing in the rock and roll band. Please welcome your host, Barry. It's a Charlotte Gold tuxedo. I had to fight three rappers down at the nonsense store for this Unbelievable. And Holly, yeah. Well, guess what? I don't like the looks of your face.
Speaker 4:What did I tell you about talking to me? You're interesting.
Speaker 2:You're funny and kidding. Love listening to your show every morning.
Speaker 3:I will be waking up with you from now on Right now, ladies and gentlemen, I think we're going to get back in the groove. Yeah, they were dancing and singing and moving to the moving and just when it hit me, somebody turned around and shouted play that fucking music. Good morning, care Bear.
Speaker 1:Good morning. 608 Care Bear. Well, thank you very much. That's very sweet of you.
Speaker 2:I didn't put that in there.
Speaker 1:I think you did.
Speaker 2:What is that even from?
Speaker 1:I have no idea. I don't think it fits.
Speaker 2:You just Googled good morning Care Bear, Care Bear.
Speaker 1:I did and it pulled it right up. Sunshine today how about 68? Close to 70. Another gorgeous day, I guess you'd say good pickleball weather, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 2:I would say, yeah, yesterday was good pickleball weather.
Speaker 1:Okay, we did something for the first time yesterday. We almost died. They were that close, yeah. Luckily there were service ducks nearby and they were able to rescue us.
Speaker 2:We saw Waddle's family.
Speaker 1:We did, we did. That brought back some sad memories. It's been almost a year ago since Waddles passed.
Speaker 2:We sat wing-to-wing and sang.
Speaker 1:Kumbaya, we did, and we saw a group of was it ducks or geese that flew over with the one that was missing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there was Waddles missing.
Speaker 1:The missing goose formation.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I hope you remember Waddles out there.
Speaker 1:If you don't, we'll have to bring back Waddles' picture and bring him back, celebrate him. But we're down at Lake Guntersville.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:The sunset was gorgeous yesterday.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I wasn't looking at it, I was focused on the ball.
Speaker 1:I know Holly had a bright idea. Hey, we should try pickleball.
Speaker 2:I didn't know. Will and Ariel wife was like hey, we've been playing pickleball. We really like it, it's good exercise. My brother told me that he's been playing it for a while and he he's lost quite a bit of weight, he's lost over 100 pounds.
Speaker 1:I can see how you can do that, because I don't recognize myself this morning well, I got on the scale thinking oh, I bet I've lost like 10 pounds.
Speaker 2:No, Nothing.
Speaker 1:Well, that's from the swelling. Swelling from all the muscles.
Speaker 2:I am, I'm swollen.
Speaker 1:And tired. I'll be honest. All of you who like to play pickleball, I'm with you. That was fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but y'all keep on the play today and I don't think y'all understand. I'm tired.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it'll be tough.
Speaker 2:Have you tried to twist your back?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh the muscles.
Speaker 1:I'm just glad I have my shoes. I'm able to slip them on, I don't have to actually tie them.
Speaker 2:I had to bend down and tie mine.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's why you were late. Yeah, yeah, I wasn't late. Yeah, but pickleball is fun. You, uh, I used to love to play tennis, but I guess as you get older, tennis is hard because you get too much ground to cover yeah, I can't figure out how much pressure or force to use with my pickle paddle yeah, because you put two in the lake I know I mean like I'm slapping them like softballs you put one.
Speaker 1:It was ridiculous. I know it went over airhead, over the basketball players heads and even the. The ducks are going. Where'd that come from?
Speaker 2:I know, but then sometimes, other times, I don't even get it to the net.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:So I don't know. It's hard. You got to learn, you got to find that sweet spot.
Speaker 1:We'll have to ask Will about it when he comes in later, because he and Ariel they take it serious.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we thought you know it's our first time. They'll probably let us bounce it across a couple times.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let it hit the ground twice before you have to hit it, no.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:They did not give us any slack. No, I think it was rude Will brought a whistle.
Speaker 1:Every time we did something wrong he'd whistle at us. I thought okay, I don't need this. This is back in high school now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like a he did. He ran around without whistling his mouth. That's all much.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what were those short shorts like on? What was that old TV show with the policemen? You know that comedy show where they had the show Reno 911. Yeah, I think he was a reject from Reno.
Speaker 2:No, they did great, they brought their little boy he was so sweet. He chased the balls. He was our ball boy.
Speaker 1:He was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he did good. No, but I think it's safe to say I'm the weakest link on the pickleball team.
Speaker 1:No, before we finished, you were getting better.
Speaker 2:I was, yeah, I was starting to.
Speaker 1:I mean it's practice.
Speaker 2:I was starting to sprout.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you were. I don't think anybody would pick you first if they were picking teams, but you're getting there.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't be the first time.
Speaker 1:No Bad memory. Yeah, Okay, we won't go into that. But hey, good, pickleball weather today, Sunny and 68. Gorgeous weather Tomorrow 72. So yeah, Jalen Brooks, take that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Jalen.
Speaker 1:Brooks who's bashing Sand Mountain Sam last week.
Speaker 2:It's going to be 72.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so there you go. No, it's going to be a good-looking week. The only chance of rain is Thursday, like a 40% chance. Then for the weekend, we're going to be looking at low to mid-60s all through the weekend. So yeah, nice weekend weather coming up. How do you know Things you need to know? We're almost through with another month. We're almost two months into this thing.
Speaker 2:It's the last Tuesday of the month, bro, yeah, last Tuesday.
Speaker 1:And this is the short month, so keep that in mind. February the 25th hey, you know even bigger three weeks from today is our Country Cares for St Jude Kids Radio Time.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm so excited. Three weeks from today, we're starting to get everything nailed down and put in concrete and Seth has got his big boy pants on in there.
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness, he took charge yesterday, his big boy pants on in there.
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1:He took charge yesterday. He did.
Speaker 2:That's the first time I've ever seen Seth take charge.
Speaker 1:He told me to please hold it down. He was thinking. I know I didn't realize it was such a big thing when he thinks.
Speaker 2:Well, did you hear? Yeah, well, I mean yeah, you know what they say about he gave me the look and like I'll destroy you. I just sat patiently and waited on my turn to speak.
Speaker 1:He likes it, because we have an intern now, braden, and he's actually over somebody.
Speaker 2:Yeah so.
Speaker 1:Seth really takes that serious.
Speaker 2:Seth is feeling in charge, large and in charge.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's bossing Braden around way too much.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know we might need to put a handle on that. Yeah Well, today is chocolate-covered nut day.
Speaker 1:I love those.
Speaker 2:How about that?
Speaker 1:You know the old joke, don't you?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Like you went to visit grandma over the weekend and she always has a bowl of either candy or nuts and you're eating the nuts and then somebody walks in and says, grandma, where's the chocolate-covered peanuts? And she said they're right there on the bowl. I just sucked all the chocolate off of them, that's gross. Yeah, and put the nuts in there.
Speaker 2:Aren't those called goobers? I think I'm pretty sure they are my grandma no, not your grandma. I mean, she may have had some goobers.
Speaker 1:Several days ago she was. She de-goobered them.
Speaker 2:I mean she. I think that's what they're called De-goobered.
Speaker 1:Yeah, de-goobered, I guess when she licked the chocolate off the outside.
Speaker 2:I guess, yeah, I guess you're right, there's Goober Peas. Really, yeah, I wonder what like okay, okay, anyway. Chocolate-covered nuts were first made in America in 1925. So that's a while ago, yeah. And then chocolate peanut M&Ms were made in 1954.
Speaker 1:Ah, I love the peanuts.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:If I get M&Ms, then I need the peanut M&M's. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I love all M&M's, but the peanut M&M's just mmm. They're so good. And here's a little something extra A listeria outbreak linked to Prairie Farms Dairy. Oh, that's scary. I know it has infected 38 people, causing 12 deaths across 21 states. Yeah, it's bad. The majority of cases reported have been in long-term care facilities or hospitals. The recalled shakes and, like I said, prairie Farms dairy shakes. They were distributed to nursing homes nationwide with the best-by dates of 2025-2026, but Alabama has reported cases of listeria.
Speaker 1:And I'm looking at the picture. I've seen these before when I used to visit my grandmother many years ago in the nursing home. This particular brand, I remember seeing it.
Speaker 2:I'm going to look at it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's from a Prairie Farms dairy and it's like a ready care and these are a lot of the nursing homes would, uh, would serve, and very good, she loved them and I'm seeing here the picture of it. Yeah, so you know, take a note of this, look at the picture. You can see the picture of what we're talking about on our facebook page. So if you have some of this or if you know, maybe uh, you or somebody in your family drinks these, you need to check it. It out.
Speaker 2:That's scary. It's very serious. Yeah, that's scary.
Speaker 1:It's killing people.
Speaker 2:Don't like that. Nope, nope nope, and here's something to think about. A friend of mine told me that a cop pulled her over yesterday.
Speaker 1:Oh, no, oh, that'll ruin your day.
Speaker 2:I know the cop walked up to her windows and he said papers, and so she said scissors and drove off. It didn't end well, no.
Speaker 1:So she thought she had won.
Speaker 2:She thought she had won because he said papers.
Speaker 1:She said scissors, like you shouldn't say rock. Scissors cut paper Gotcha, so she actually beat him.
Speaker 2:I mean she beat him yeah.
Speaker 1:If he said rock, I mean, then it'd be a little different. Yeah, I get you 617.
Speaker 3:Morning a little different. There I get you 617. Mornings with Barry and Holly here on Alabama's country, giant WQSB.
Speaker 1:You know everybody. Scott Chambers, he talked about this, was it last week. Yeah, About it was coming in. You're familiar with Joanne Fabrics. Oh yeah, I wasn't Now tell us you've dealt with them before.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've done a couple campaigns with them before. They're fun to work with.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:But hate to hear it they're going to close 800 US stores after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Oh, I hate to hear that, mm-hmm. They initially planned to close 500, but the new decision came after the new owners. Wow, so are they done forever? All of them came after the new owners?
Speaker 1:Are they done forever? All of them as of now. They said that they may bring them back with a new owner. They're probably going to try to rebrand or something in the future, but for now probably for the next year, I'm guessing they're done right now.
Speaker 2:And this one is for my doctor, Dr Justice. Alright, listen to this.
Speaker 1:He wants a medical story.
Speaker 2:He wants a medical story. Here we are.
Speaker 1:Are you going to play Stayin'?
Speaker 2:Alive. Okay, mona Lisa lost her sight.
Speaker 1:No, not that one, not that, not Mona Lisa. We'll find it Just Stayin' Alive. Somebody covered up my medical story music. Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, heads will roll Anyway, dr J, just imagine that there's, ah you, medical music. A woman who traveled to Thailand, japan and Hawaii over the course of three weeks returned with an unwanted souvenir Barry.
Speaker 1:This is scary. It was a brain worm. Give them the official name for this.
Speaker 2:It is a rat lung worm.
Speaker 1:Who named that?
Speaker 2:Who said I know what to name it A rat lungworm. The parasite caused the 30-year-old to feel like her legs were burning. I would not think that that would be a brain worm no, I wouldn't think so. But a visit to the doctor discovered that she had contracted a rat lungworm. That's disgusting.
Speaker 1:There's nothing good about that.
Speaker 2:I know so. Fortunately she's getting receiving treatment and she should be able to leave the hospital in a week. But if you want to avoid contracting this brain worm, the brain worm.
Speaker 1:See, I would never be in jeopardy at this, because it would starve itself to death if it was in your brain. Because, you'd have nothing to eat.
Speaker 2:Yeah it would. Yeah. At what point, though, does the doctor think, hmm, let me take the brain for a worm, if she's like hey, I'm tired, I don't really feel good. My legs are sore. Maybe, like girl, you've been traveling to Thailand, japan and Hawaii. You're probably sore. Go home and rest for a couple days.
Speaker 1:At what point do they say I think I figured this out. I think you've got a brain worm. Yeah, Got to be.
Speaker 2:What made them, what tipped them off?
Speaker 1:I don't know, because we've eliminated diarrhea.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we've tested you. Your blood work looks okay. Well, I guess your blood work maybe. I don't know. I don't know how it shows up.
Speaker 1:I don't either. They do something that our brains can't, and there's something in there just Wiggling around, wiggling around, ugh.
Speaker 2:What if you could feel it?
Speaker 1:Oh, oh.
Speaker 2:Your head's itching.
Speaker 1:Yeah, on the inside you think oh man, I must be getting, yeah, yeah, I must have cooties.
Speaker 2:The CDC says do not eat raw or undercooked snails, slugs, frogs, shrimp or prawns. Who's like, ooh, a fresh frog.
Speaker 1:Or raw slug.
Speaker 2:Today is my day.
Speaker 1:Who goes to like a party. And oh, over here we have shrimp scampi, here we have road tail cheese, but over there that table's got the raw slugs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you would like some raw snails, they're right over there.
Speaker 1:I've actually ate before I left.
Speaker 2:They're still moving in the shell. But, seriously, I wonder what made them think. Hmm, let me check the brain, you know.
Speaker 1:I guess they had knocked everything and eliminated everything else. Okay, you're not pregnant.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You don't have diarrhea.
Speaker 2:I wonder if she was having, like headaches or like you know, some kind of Well, you just said her legs were burning. That's all it was. Her legs were burning.
Speaker 1:But that's from playing pickleball I know I don't have a brain worm. I also have burning legs but I never thought brain worm. I was pretty sure I was from playing pickleball.
Speaker 2:You know how, sometimes, like, you know that you're completely healthy, but then you hear about something happening and you're like oh no, right. Then you hear about something happening and you're like oh, no Right.
Speaker 1:What if I have a brain worm, a rat lung worm, they call the family?
Speaker 2:Well, Don't tell my family, I would be embarrassed. Don't tell anybody.
Speaker 1:Don't tell anybody about the worm. Good news is it's not life-threatening Bad news, it's a brain worm.
Speaker 2:I think that would be life-threatening. If there's a worm in the brain, a worm in the brain, a brain worm.
Speaker 1:Well, actually it's a rat lung worm, to be exact, sir, but yeah.
Speaker 2:The fact that they combine the word rat and lung with the word worm. It's about as bad as it gets. That's disgusting. How big are these things, did it say.
Speaker 1:I'm looking at the picture here on the Facebook page. You can't tell. I mean, look at it. It looks like I don't know something. Three feet long.
Speaker 2:No, like three no no.
Speaker 1:Well, then again, I'm a guy I don't know and two.
Speaker 2:I wonder how does it travel from your stomach to your brain, To your brain, how does it get up there?
Speaker 1:You think there's other parts you don't want to go, do you feel it?
Speaker 2:wiggling up at your spine.
Speaker 1:It goes up the canal.
Speaker 2:The old what canal.
Speaker 1:Brain canal.
Speaker 2:I don't think that's a thing.
Speaker 1:I think it is. Your doctor will confirm that the brain canal is where most rat lungworms travel.
Speaker 2:We didn't learn about that in school.
Speaker 1:I did, oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Where'd you go? Crossville, crossville, yeah, oh, okay, okay, oh okay.
Speaker 1:Where'd you go? Crossville, crossville, yeah, okay, oh, okay, okay, all right, makes sense. Yeah, the lung canal.
Speaker 2:The lung canal, the rat worm that's connected to the middle intestine no-transcript. The rat lungworm.
Speaker 1:It's connected to the medium intestine. You got the small. There's got to be a medium one in there somewhere.
Speaker 2:No, there's no medium.
Speaker 1:You got small or large, that's it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, small or large.
Speaker 1:If you go shopping, you got a small, medium, large and 2X and 3X.
Speaker 2:No, not a medium, not with your colon.
Speaker 1:Should be.
Speaker 2:Well, sorry.
Speaker 1:Okay, longworms hang out, so be careful.
Speaker 3:They can travel up their brains. Yeah, it's 629. Barry and Holly on Alabama's Country, Giant WQSB.
Speaker 1:Imagine this. Tell us what you would do. Suddenly, you're on a train and it takes you back to your childhood for one hour. What would you like to do one last time? Now, for me I'm looking more of there's a lot of. Of course you'd like to see maybe your grandparents or something like that, but we're thinking maybe there's something fun you did as a kid. And for me, if I'm going to do something fun, one of the most fun things would like weather this time of the year, getting outside after school and playing wiffle ball.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love wiffle ball.
Speaker 1:I loved wiffle ball. It always made me so mad when you would be in the middle of a great game and somebody hits it too hard and it breaks the ball. It breaks one of the little. It's not the same anymore. Then you've got to get out the duct tape. Then it goes from being a willful ball game where you can make a curve to who can throw it the hardest and hit somebody in the head with it. Then it gets ugly. Then it hurts.
Speaker 2:I love Saturday morning tournaments when the field was wet and you could have the wet grass.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:And it was like nipping at your ankles and the softballs would get wet when they'd roll. That's just fun, yeah.
Speaker 1:So that's me. What would you want to do for one hour?
Speaker 2:I would seriously go back to one day of my kindergarten class, starting with the ride to school with my dad Mom getting me ready, doing my hair, dad driving, getting us a biscuit, listening to the radio, oh, yeah. And then going to my kindergarten class and taking a nap. I'm serious Taking a nap. Yes, I'm serious. My teachers are so proud of me when I went to sleep. You can go back for one hour and you're going to Taking a nap. Yes, I'm serious. My teachers are so proud of me when I went to sleep.
Speaker 1:You can go back for one hour and you're going to take a nap? Yeah, of course you would.
Speaker 2:I said I would do the other things too Well you only got one hour, though.
Speaker 1:Okay, one hour.
Speaker 2:Okay, I feel like I can squeeze all that in an hour. That's not much of a nap. Mama daddy skipped the drop through. We'll just listen to the radio in the truck. And then you don't remember when you wake up and they say you took a nap today, good job nobody says that to me anymore.
Speaker 1:What's funny as you get older, mother used to let them take the nap with you. She'd fall asleep and you'd get up and go outside and play while she's napping and get back in there and she'll never have a clue that you didn't nap. I can't do that, yeah.
Speaker 2:See now, when I take a nap, instead of you took a nap today, they say you took a nap today.
Speaker 1:Another one.
Speaker 2:Again, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well. Wendy on her Facebook page says hug my brother one more time and love on my mother one more time. And my grandparents and cousins. Of course, that's good. Tegan says I would go back to before my daddy died and me and all my cousins were little and playing outside together. Again, those were fun days.
Speaker 1:Playing outside yep, sonia says I would go back to when my brother was still alive and we all lived on Indiantown. Okay, oh, melissa, go to Guntersville State Park and camp with my family again. Those were the best vacations. Yeah, that'd be fun, those are good. So go to our Facebook and tell us what you would do. And, speaking of Facebook, you put up something this morning. This simply was asking people if they're up and at them and they're listening this morning.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was just like hey, what's up, y'all, Y'all up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so who's up?
Speaker 2:Who's up and listening? Sonia Harrell says one pot of coffee down already Whoa.
Speaker 1:Wait on WQSP, you're going to wet the bed.
Speaker 2:Mark Smith says we're up, Carolyn Kenworthy's up, Andrea Tidwell says me fixing to start work. Have a blessed day. Stephen Lang and Cindy Morgan are up. Dana Ray is up. What about you? What are you saying?
Speaker 1:Looking at some news, joey Hollis. Good morning y'all Be. What are you saying? Looking at some news, joey Hollis. Good morning y'all. Be sure, and comment. Tell us maybe what you're doing If you're on your way to work or you're just now moving around.
Speaker 2:Jason Pankey's been up since 4.30. Have an awesome day, jason. Go back to bed. Jeremy Jones says fixing to head out.
Speaker 1:Tuning in on the radio Betty Dobbins-Gilbreath. There's Sheila Lang Good morning. There's Susan. There's Connie Meeks, tina Norris 4.30 for me. She's up early too.
Speaker 2:Sheila Worley says up at 2 am to get ready or to get the husband off to work every morning.
Speaker 1:And I have noticed seriously coming into work when I come in about 3.15, there's me and this one other guy. I don't know who he is or what he's doing.
Speaker 2:Probably this guy's husband.
Speaker 1:But when you come in, I'm looking at the traffic. When I'm outside, yeah, there's traffic.
Speaker 2:It's really busy, starting about 5 o'clock there's traffic out there, like I have to wait and urge and get stopped by red lights and you know, flip off a couple trucks and I think people are moving around earlier than they used to be yeah, I think so too. I don't know why. I don't know what they're doing. Maybe some people go to the gym, maybe people go to get breakfast, maybe some people taking kids to daycare could be there's all kinds of different things they could be doing.
Speaker 2:But well, I, if you see me headed out, and it's that early on the way to work so my way to work, that's the only thing that I would be doing.
Speaker 1:Yeah that's it, I ain't going to the gym no, not that early.
Speaker 2:I did when I was like 17, 18, 19. I loved it, loved early morning gym, sure, not now, not now, no, no, no, all right.
Speaker 1:64. Holly's pile of stories and some sad news. Now she's been putting out music from, I guess, since the 70s, yeah, and there was one song that they you can help me out with this it's probably maybe 15, maybe 10,. 15 years ago they used her voice, her music, and it became a big pop song again.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Hold on.
Speaker 1:Let me find it for you, but you'll know what I'm talking about when I play it. But I think it was this one, the Fugees that's it.
Speaker 2:That's Fugees.
Speaker 1:With Roberta Flack.
Speaker 2:I didn't know that was her.
Speaker 1:That's her. I thought that was the Fugees woman. So they used her. Well, they sample, as they call it, but they used her, but unfortunately you're about to say she passed away.
Speaker 2:She died. Yeah, you should hear me sing that song in karaoke Really. Yeah, she was a Grammy-winning soul R&B artist known for the First Time I Ever Saw your Face.
Speaker 1:This one, the first time she saw a song Ever. I saw you and that's famous from a Clint Eastwood movie played Misty for me about a radio announcer who's being stalked.
Speaker 2:Ooh, ooh, it's good, it's good, it's scary.
Speaker 1:Please nobody stalk me. I'm so scared of stalkers. Stop the stalking.
Speaker 2:Yeah, don't stalk. Anyway, she died at the age of 88.
Speaker 1:We should have one other big one. Ooh, that's the time.
Speaker 2:That's the only one I don't know.
Speaker 1:So that was three of her big ones, but she had some great stuff, so passed away at the age of 88.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she had a cardiac arrest so I guess she had a heart attack. She was good. It's so sad and NBC News anchor Lester Holt is set to step away from his desk. I know that's a shocker In the early summer, yep, he was on NBC Nightly News. He's focusing on full-time work with Dateline NBC.
Speaker 1:I love him on Dateline. I love Dateline NBC. Yeah, I love Dateline.
Speaker 2:But it's weird to not see him on the Nightly News. It will be With Lester Holt.
Speaker 1:So he'll be stepping up and down soon.
Speaker 2:I wonder who's going to take his place.
Speaker 1:Don't know, we don't know yet Maybe Scott Chambers, I don't know.
Speaker 2:It could be. Could be. Scott Chambers Original report said that Starbucks was going to let go of 1,100 corporate employees yesterday, but they let go of 3,500.
Speaker 1:Wow, 3,500. More than double. Some of them didn't realize they'd been fired because when they sent out the message they misspelled their name. So Is that triple? What? Yeah, they're 3,300. So you weren't even listening.
Speaker 2:Yes, they misspelled their names.
Speaker 1:Like putting on the cup. Uh-huh, come on, they misspelled their name. No, that wasn't, I know. Okay, sorry.
Speaker 2:I thought that was great. But anyway, they said all right, what would you do with a brain if you had one? There you go. I don't know I was getting rid of 1,100 people today, but you know what?
Speaker 4:Let's make it 3,500. What would you do with a brain if you had one?
Speaker 2:What would you do with a brain if you had one?
Speaker 1:I guess I'd be happy because that rat lungworm wouldn't be eating on it.
Speaker 2:It might be yeah, you don't know. Yeah. And then Diet Cherry Coke is making a comeback after disappearing for a few years.
Speaker 1:I'll try this, because I've been drinking more Diet Cokes lately and I love Cherry Coke, so a Diet version has got to be good. I've never had the Diet version. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, we'll try it. Birthdays are next.
Speaker 3:Mornings with Barry and Hall here on Alabama's country giant WQSB.
Speaker 1:No, don't eat the pickles. Trust me, they're going to be dirty. But you can eat this ice cream. How about Pop-Tart ice cream? Oh yeah, we've done cereal ice cream, so why not Pop-Tart? So Pop-Tart. They have three flavors we know of. There's pictures. There's frosted strawberry Pop-Tart ice cream. There's brown sugar, cinnamon. Then there's Frosted S'mores from Kellogg's. And it should be out there saying sometime in the next few months at least three flavors, if not more. Yes please, which one would you try?
Speaker 2:Brown Sugar Cinnamon.
Speaker 1:I'm with you. That looks delicious.
Speaker 2:And then Sonic introduces a Strawberry Mangonada Slush.
Speaker 1:What is a mangonada?
Speaker 2:It is tajin. Have you ever had tajin?
Speaker 1:I have. So that's the seasoning right. Yes, that's the seasoning.
Speaker 2:It is so good. It has the manganata syrup, strawberries and 10 shakes, specifically 10 shakes of tajin. If you go to the Mexican ice cream store by my church, they have Maganatas and they're so good Let me give you a heads up.
Speaker 1:Okay, don't ask the server for an extra shake. You will be arrested.
Speaker 2:Ten shake max.
Speaker 1:Yeah, at the limit.
Speaker 2:At the limit. Okay, uk Over in the UK they're trying to solve the ongoing egg shortage. This is Hold on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she's losing it.
Speaker 2:Okay, there's a plant-based egg alternative that's hitting grocery shelves this spring. It is eggs in a can. It's no egg. Egg mimics the taste and texture of traditional eggs, but it's supposed to be healthier all natural-gmo, all the good stuff lower in fat, calories, cholesterol. It's also free from 14 major allergens that prevent people from being able to eat eggs. It's called cracked, it comes in a convenient pourable pouch and it's equivalent to seven eggs.
Speaker 1:So somebody yells at you and says are you on crack? You can say well, yes, I am. Yeah, I had seven cracks this morning.
Speaker 2:That explains it.
Speaker 1:That sounds horrible. No, this will not, in my world, take the place of eggs. There's nothing better, I don't think, than that boiled egg.
Speaker 2:You know what I think of.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:You remember the Justin Timberlake it. You know what I think of what you remember the Justin Timberlake, it's fine in a box, it's fine, it's in a box.
Speaker 1:No, I would never think that. Yeah, well, I do how?
Speaker 2:about? No, I wouldn't clip my toenails in my bedroom.
Speaker 1:Well, fine, fine. I'll never share a can of cracked egg stuff with you, I will never share my cracked eggs plant-based, non-gmo, all-natural, healthier, lower in fat, calories, cholesterol eggs with you either, sir. Well, thank you, I'll never play pickleball with you again, yes you will. Fine, Okay, I will All right. 729.
Speaker 3:WQSB Mornings with Barry and Holly, average Joe's.
Speaker 2:Hey, what if we did? What if we had an announcer? What if we had an announcer? What if Mike Allen comes and he's like and in the left corner, holly.
Speaker 3:Then we need a nickname.
Speaker 2:What is this?
Speaker 1:Old ESPN music.
Speaker 2:That's horrible. Turn that off Now.
Speaker 1:Turn it down a little bit Okay fine, you play one game of pickleball and you think you're an expert.
Speaker 2:Now, what's her team name?
Speaker 1:We never got one.
Speaker 2:I know, but what do you like?
Speaker 1:The big deals for the big deal pickle.
Speaker 2:I like gherkin for the weekend.
Speaker 1:Oh, by the way Will's in here. We've got to bring in Will. Why so serious and he's late.
Speaker 4:Sorry my bad. Thank you, Ted.
Speaker 1:McCreeless, he's listening to you. Well he should be. Somebody's got to put him in line. I'm on a tight schedule. Just because he's been in radio 74 years don't mean he can tell people what to do.
Speaker 2:Okay, so Pickleball.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Here we go. Will has told us about Pickleball and how he and his wife goes out and plays and he's like y'all should come. So ariel takes. I think if will would have texted me I would have said no, but I love ariel and she never. That's the first time she's ever invited me anywhere. So I wanted to, you know, say yeah, and so she do. Y'all want to come play pickleball? This was like at 2 o'clock. So Barry and I get together, we meet up, we go to Walmart, we get a racket. We're like we're going to practice a little bit right, like we're going to smack the ball a little bit around, and first we had to YouTube the videos to find out what the rules were. Didn't understand them at all Complicated rules, did not get them.
Speaker 1:I don't get the kitchen at all we don't understand.
Speaker 2:There's a kitchen, there's a dink, there's these things, a volley. So Barry says I'm sure that they will just come out and we'll just knock the ball around a few times. That was not the case. Will came out yeah, I came. That was not the case. Will came out saying here are the rules and they went over, and me and Barry are just like like blank faces, just like, oh yeah, I get it, okay, I still don't understand the rules, trying to figure out multiplication and division in second grade.
Speaker 4:You're sitting there like oh overwhelmed. Okay.
Speaker 2:All I know is I had to hit the ball and get it over the net and I could not get outside of the boundary.
Speaker 1:Right. You almost chipped every tooth in your head and I said thank God we have have dr conley on speed dial you seriously almost busted it. That was close because your hands were behind you.
Speaker 2:That was close, you were leading with your head, like a dolphin coming out of the water, and you were laughing.
Speaker 1:I know you wanted me to bust my face I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 2:I, you, you know that feeling when your heart sinks.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:I did feel like that, because I really thought you were going down for real. I did too, and I was like I could see him falling and hitting his hands and hurting his shoulder Because he had surgery.
Speaker 2:I was like, oh, no, yeah, he did good. I did good with the ones that you paddle across, but I can't. There's something about a bounce where I'm like my softball brain is like I need to catch that like this. You know like how you catch them underhanded. I can't. Ariel's like no, you have to turn around and hit it like this, but I can't get the softball habits out, like I swing away. Like can't get the softball habits out, I swing away, I give it the old one-two.
Speaker 4:I will tell you, though, by the end of the evening you had your serve down. You really did.
Speaker 2:I think it's because I was tired and my muscles weren't working the same as they were when. I first started.
Speaker 1:How about Will and Ariel man? They're champions. We thought you were on ESPN this morning while we couldn't find you back there, he's on a tournament.
Speaker 2:We had an over-under on if y'all would have matching uniforms.
Speaker 4:We do. We just didn't wear them yesterday, oh see.
Speaker 1:And Ariel talks trash.
Speaker 2:Well, I taught the baby how to say dadgummit he kept going dadgummit.
Speaker 4:Yeah, reese, he's a parent. Yeah, so if you say anything, he's going to say it right back to you.
Speaker 2:Well, there were many things I said, but not meaning to, they just slip on out there.
Speaker 4:I think one word you used a lot was sorry, I did, I, I did, I did, I said sorry.
Speaker 2:Ariel looked at me and said, girl, you got to quit. Stop Quit saying sorry, just do it. And then somebody else would mess up and I'd be like, oh, that's okay, it's time to reset.
Speaker 1:But when I messed up I was like I have ruined everybody's lives that are here. What do you think about it overall? I can see why people I'd heard about pickleball. I've watched some on TV and I said, okay, it looks pretty good, but actually playing I like it better than tennis because you've got a smaller court. I can see why as you get older you move to pickleball because you don't have to cover as much ground and it's easier to play.
Speaker 2:Where I was going with that practice round. It had been, barry and I had been out there for a while. We were both dripping and sweat our faces were solid red. He said why don't we go over here and sit on the bleachers for a few minutes? It had been 22 minutes oh wow she took a mouth 22 minutes. We were out practicing and I was worn out. Yeah, it's not it it does I think?
Speaker 4:yesterday, ariel, on her watch, said that she burned like 650, 660 calories.
Speaker 2:And she started late too. She started like halfway through. We're playing pickleball tonight.
Speaker 1:If you want to come watch us you can come watch us or come play with us.
Speaker 2:Seriously, come play with us, bring your own racket. We don't have any extra because we work in radio.
Speaker 1:We're. Yes, you can come watch it or come play with us.
Speaker 2:Seriously, come play with us, bring your own racket. You've got to bring your own racket.
Speaker 1:We don't have any extra because we work in radio and we're poor. Yeah, we're not cheap, we're just poor. We don't have it. I have to use an old badminton racket, so that's how poor we are.
Speaker 2:I have to use my hand.
Speaker 1:Use a ping pong paddle dollars at Walmart.
Speaker 2:We're going to be close to the Civitan Park at 430. It's going to be fun. Come out and play with us, and we may even. You know, there's so many times that we think about doing things for charity. We've got St Jude coming up. I think a pickleball tournament might be fun one of them to raise some money for St Jude Sure.
Speaker 1:As long as you don't take it serious.
Speaker 2:Yeah, don't come out if you're going to make fun of us, we don't want any full contact competitors. And don't take pictures. Please, Please, Lord, no, Please leave your phone in your car.
Speaker 1:We're going to pat you down. Leave that for your OnlyFans account.
Speaker 2:No, no pickleball pictures for free. I don't give those away for free.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 4:Paying a lot of big money for those eyes bitter. So did y'all have a good time? Yeah, we had a really good time. I feel like we ruined it for no well, we appreciate y'all coming out and playing with us, because usually it's just me and her, so the fact that we actually get to hit it back to somebody other than ourselves is fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we enjoyed it so I will say that I played better when I partnered with Ariel. Oh really I really did.
Speaker 1:I really did. I've been playing with you. That's cold.
Speaker 2:I think it's because she's better. Yeah, yeah, she's better. Of course that's it, she's better. Did you not feel like you played better with Will?
Speaker 1:Of course, because Will's the best.
Speaker 2:I know yeah and you suck.
Speaker 1:I'm not stuck.
Speaker 4:Oh, man, there's that trash talk from yesterday on the court.
Speaker 2:I can't wait. 4.30. Civitan Park. I'll see you there.
Speaker 1:Be there or be square, or I'll pick you up.
Speaker 2:Or be pickled 4.15. I'll pickle you up Speaking of pickles.
Speaker 4:we got that toilet of pickles. Have you smelled it? No, I don't do pickles, so I can't do it.
Speaker 2:Don't go, walk back in the kitchen. Don't walk back in the kitchen, will He'll gag it's bad, I'm out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we've got them laid on like a towel and there's some of them still draining.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's bad.
Speaker 1:Oh, no it stinks. Yeah, don't walk back there.
Speaker 2:Dale is eyeballing the pickle. What do you call a group of people that are together?
Speaker 4:Congregation.
Speaker 2:It's a congregation of pickles.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's radio, it's a whole bunch of them. Radio announcers are what you call them.
Speaker 2:We're just weird, god, we're weird yeah.
Speaker 1:But we're okay people, we're doing a photo shoot with pickles later today, oh fun. Yeah, we are, yeah Fun.
Speaker 2:And then Braden, our intern is going to Braden if you're listening, he's going to count them.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, he doesn't know that it's his job today. He's a pickle counter.
Speaker 2:And if it's not him, then it's Seth.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I believe Braden will do it and not complain about it. I think he can do it. I think he's a good pickle counter?
Speaker 2:Probably yeah.
Speaker 1:We.
