WQSB Morning Show with Barry and Holli
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WQSB Morning Show with Barry and Holli
Episode 211
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Speaker 2:Hey, if you love the podcast, join us live every morning from 6 to 9 on the WQSB Facebook page.
Speaker 3:Our Black Air On Morning May. Barry, it's a solid gold Playing in a rock and roll band. Please welcome your host, barry. It's a solid 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. What did I tell?
Speaker 4:you about talking to me. You're interesting.
Speaker 2:You're funny and petty. I love listening to your show every morning. I will be waking up with you from now on.
Speaker 3: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 when the fucking music at Good morning, care Bear.
Speaker 1:Good morning at 608. It is a beautiful Care Bear. Good morning at 608. It is a beautiful, beautiful morning. You got my solid gold tuxedo last night.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow, did you like that? Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and by the way, Holly last night was voted best hair at the chamber dinner.
Speaker 2:Thank you, congratulations, thank you.
Speaker 1:How about you pulled it off nicely?
Speaker 2:Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Got home after 9. Yeah, it might as well have been 12. Yeah, I am. Are you dragging? I'm dragging, but I'm dragging because I cannot stay up late like I used to. No, I'm an early sleep kind of girl.
Speaker 1:The party needed to end sooner because you had to go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's tell them where we went.
Speaker 1:Well, we had a couple of things going on. Hey, first things first. Yesterday morning we left the morning show and we went to the what I consider brand new Albertville School, which is this is its first year the Innovation Academy.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That blew my mind. That's beautiful.
Speaker 2:It is the coolest school ever. Yeah, I would have given anything to have that opportunity when I was in school.
Speaker 1:We were talking to Principal Stephen Hudgens last night Love that guy, yeah. And you told him too. Said if you'd had this when I was in school, I would have lived there.
Speaker 2:Oh, he said the same thing.
Speaker 1:Because it's got the kind of stuff that me and you are interested in. And when I was in school I didn't know what I wanted to do. When I was getting out of school I had no clue. But I said well, what are you going to do when you graduate? I had no idea, but if that school had been around, I would have known exactly what I wanted to do. I would have went in there and found me a career in, like this radio or TV yeah, Because they offer stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they have a whole setup to do a TV broadcast. They do record news and events and they have just so much stuff. Photography yeah, I think there's welding, I think there's pet grooming all kinds of trades, and these students can graduate with associates.
Speaker 1:It's amazing and thank you. They had like a tour showing kind of what they do, what they offer, and thank you to Lindsay who hosted this, showed us around. They did a fantastic and Tyler Reeves, thank you for allowing us to come in. That was fun. That was very fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, lindsay Beck, I love her so much. I went to school with her, graduated with her. She lived just down the street from me. My whole life growing up. Just so sweet. And Stacey Turner was great too. She's in charge of them. Tyler Reeves principal was there Great guy, but it was great running Stephen Hudgens last night it was. I went to school with him too. I love him.
Speaker 1:Then last night you mentioned, we went to the Albertville Chamber of Commerce banquet.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:A great time. Congratulations to the Citizen of the Year Great choice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, taylor, taylor Bentley Conner.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we've had a chance to work with Howard Bentley on a lot of things, including Second Chance Shelter, and they do so many things. They help the community. I think she was a fantastic choice for Citizen of the Year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, teacher of the Week, they're great. Yeah, I was a little surprised it wasn't me.
Speaker 1:I agree.
Speaker 2:I kept waiting for them to say my name.
Speaker 1:I did file a protest.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Even to say my name, I did file a protest.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like, even though that it was already published.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 2:I was like maybe I still have a chance to be an upset, yeah, but yeah, it could be like a write-in candidate. Yeah, you know like like a third party, like like a liberal winning the presidency yeah, but what's funny to me is we took a picture of us yeah put it on our facebook page yeah and to see some people's comments.
Speaker 1:It's like because when I was running into people last night, it's like they didn't recognize me, because rarely do I put on anything other than a t-shirt or blue jeans and tennis shoes Rarely, I know. Usually, if you see me with something else on, someone has either died or there's a banquet going on and I've been forced to go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the same.
Speaker 1:What is the three I?
Speaker 2:know, I went with my contacts without my glasses and I saw some people like what is that?
Speaker 1:Who is that? Poor girl, she can't even afford her glasses anymore. I know she might want to go to a trade day or something.
Speaker 2:I have been shrank down to a free pair with my eye exam every year. Yep, so yeah, one pair of contacts has to last me a year but the funny comments on our facebook page.
Speaker 1:When we had our dressy clothes on, they always thought he's like oh you're. What does snazzy mean? Exactly snazzy? I know that's a compliment, but where did that word come from?
Speaker 2:define the word snazzy. That's weird. Snazzy is an informal term. It means stylish and attractive.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'll take that oh wow, okay, well, I thought it meant something ugly no, we were stylish and attractive because I kept seeing the word snazzy. Okay, that's good. I don't know what that is. I don't really like jazz music. There's some kind of something to the jazz. I have no idea what they're saying.
Speaker 2:We had our picture made. Yeah, professionally yeah.
Speaker 1:She had a hard time getting us to pose.
Speaker 2:I think she just wanted to play in your pocket.
Speaker 1:No, she was with us at Possum Day, yeah, and then she was there last night and she was trying to get get us to stand here and we didn't know.
Speaker 2:We don't know how to pose.
Speaker 1:I don't want my thumb in my pocket look casual. So she stuck my thumb in my pocket.
Speaker 2:That's not casual I told you when we walked up, I am not doing a prom photo no, because the ones before us were yeah so then she wanted me to lay on the ground and put the number one up in the air, one finger like we're. I said no, ma'am, I'm not doing that yeah, that was a little silly, yeah, that was weird, yeah, so then she said well, put your thumbs in your pocket, I said.
Speaker 1:She said look casual. I said that is not casual. I've never once walked through walmart with my thumbs in my pocket like I'm going to a rodeo like you're gonna find somebody's huckleberry and whip out the exactly, take them to the train station yeah yeah, like yellowstone, yeah no, but anyway it was a lot of fun last night. I had a good time. I saw some, uh, some people we don't get to see very often, except like once a year. Yeah, maybe they avoid us, I don't know why they don't?
Speaker 2:they may, yeah, but anyway, we were there. We crashed the party we did.
Speaker 1:And can you believe? After today, we're through with the second month of the year. This is it. Two months. This is the last day. This is it. Yeah, the old 28th that snuck up on you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is it, man. Well, today is special because today is National Pancake Day.
Speaker 1:I love pancakes. Now, what do you like better, pancakes or waffles?
Speaker 2:That's like saying you like apples or oranges they're basically the same not really what they both hold syrup well, the waffles got little syrup holders a little syrup, but it does, it does yeah but I love pancakes um, it's hard for me because they really are so different, they taste so different, but I always feel gross when I eat them I think I smell like syrup all day yeah, yeah, I feel sticky and syrupy all day long.
Speaker 1:Everywhere I go, they probably smell syrup.
Speaker 2:Then they're like I know what she had for breakfast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she had Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, so they're also known as grill cakes or hot cakes at McDonald's. Okay, they're batter made. They're made back more than 30,000 years ago. They're made back more than 30,000 years ago and, in fact, they may be the oldest breakfast food in history, spanning as far back as the Stone Age.
Speaker 1:How do we know this? I looked up the Stone Age, that's back in the caveman days, when they had woolly mammoths, bears, wolves, elephants and hyenas, when they lived in caves. Basically, how do we know they had pancakes?
Speaker 2:How would they know to batter something and put it over a hot griddle?
Speaker 1:Exactly. How would they know? Because they barely just I guess they had fire. They just barely had fire back in the day. They had fire, but I don't know, I just don't know I can't imagine like Ugg or his wife, Mrs Ugg, going out with their club and they're hunting all day and they come home to the cave and they say ooh pancakes. What's dinner? They say, well, we got some grilled mammoth, we got some strawberries and your favorite pancakes. Oh, he said, in that case I'd not hit the head with club. Then.
Speaker 2:Do you know?
Speaker 1:only 7% of Americans say that they don't like like pancakes. That's a lot. What was it yesterday we had? It was one percent. So people like chili more than they do pancakes I do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, pancakes are down at the bottom, they're not. They're not. Are you hanging up on people? No, okay, yes you are, I should be calling. I am not Okay, out of one to ten. Ten being pancake obsessed, I'm about a three or four.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You can do without them.
Speaker 2:Well, I feel guilty eating them.
Speaker 1:I know they're fattening. Yes, yes.
Speaker 2:I can't enjoy them because I feel so guilty.
Speaker 1:And the syrup and the butter sure don't help, no it only helps if you put strawberries on them or like blueberries.
Speaker 2:I know it's pancake day, but it's hard when you walk into Huddle House and they've just made a few.
Speaker 1:Oh the guy next to you on his table, they bring out that big old dollop of butter. Oh, yeah, and you rub it all up. That's a huge piece of butter too.
Speaker 2:I'm moving on A little something extra.
Speaker 1:Former Beatle, george Harrison's unfinished piece of toast from breakfast in 1963, how it's a little piece of like the crust around the toast. They claim that somebody watched him eat. He didn't finish, they went over and got this off of his plate about someday. This will be worth something and they're correct. Well, but how can they prove that was his toast?
Speaker 2:Exactly. They recently sold to collector Joseph O'Donnell for an undisclosed price. It was originally saved in a scrapbook by a 15-year-old Beatles fan and the framed toast scrap dates back to February 8, 1963, which was the Eve of the Band's final show at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, which is kind of that's neat. And sources say the little tiny piece of toast brought in over $100,000. Wow.
Speaker 1:Little piece of info I just read a second ago. They say that when they walked over to George's plate and they grabbed the toast you know what he said Let it be. I'm too tired for this. He said you, you can't buy me love and you can't take my toast. They were gonna call that song.
Speaker 2:You know, take my toast what if I just put a piece of toast and made a little crumble out of it and let it dry out on my counter and was like this is Elton John's piece of toast that I've been holding for years? Would I get $100,000?
Speaker 1:Possibly.
Speaker 2:Is that a good?
Speaker 1:chess move. That's a good move.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I think I could do that. What's with the crust? This week we have the Uncrustable story. It's true, the piece of crust Rimmer also has it.
Speaker 1:the next day, Paul McCartney and George were talking and Paul said I just heard that somebody's got a piece of your toast. When did this happen? You know what George said Yesterday. This happen. You know what george said yesterday.
Speaker 2:yeah when his troubles are so far away. Yeah, oh well, I don't know. Come on, you're dying to laugh.
Speaker 1:You can't wait to turn the mic off I know I'm gonna laugh so hard okay, as soon as the mic's off.
Speaker 2:I just don't want to embarrass you or myself yeah, I feel like I've been working.
Speaker 1:I feel like I've been working eight days a week this week.
Speaker 2:Me too, I really do, I really do. I'm ready for an off day, like a real one, where I don't have to talk to people.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I love people. I really do. I love people, I love my job. My job is my favorite thing that I got going for me. But, I stayed up late, you wouldn't even talk to me on the weekend. You said shut up well, I talk so much I know I say hush, it's rude and here's something to think about. Do you think that it's ironic that people mostly use their driver's license to buy stuff that impairs their ability to drive? Have you ever thought about?
Speaker 1:that? No, that's a very good point.
Speaker 2:They use it to buy alcohol which you should not drink and drive ever.
Speaker 1:So the one time they're asking to see you prove who you are and how old you are is for the reason. That's a deep thought.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a deep thought. Think about it and let me ask you this Okay, have you ever I know, you know where I'm going with?
Speaker 1:this I know.
Speaker 2:Have you ever seen your neighbors bring in their groceries? Think about it.
Speaker 1:You know, I really haven't.
Speaker 2:Think about it.
Speaker 1:Now, what is this supposed to prove to me?
Speaker 2:That some people say and I know this is crazy and it's 6 21 on friday morning but some people say what if we were in a simulation and and you never saw? Like what if you never had? When was the last time you saw your neighbors bring their groceries in?
Speaker 1:I never have come to think of it. So they're all in on this. The whole world's just watching us.
Speaker 2:I mean, you've never left the state of Alabama other than just the southern states, it's true. So what if there's not a whole wide world out there?
Speaker 1:I've got this for you.
Speaker 4:What would you do as a brain if you had one?
Speaker 2:I have no idea Exactly. I'll never know.
Speaker 3:I'll never know. 621. Mornings with Barry and.
Speaker 1:Holly, here on Alabama's Country, giant WQSB. Okay, now this one is getting bizarre, the details coming in. We were talking yesterday. We thought it would be kind of something that the Gene Hackman story, that sadly they would say, probably carbon monoxide, something that happened to them while they were sleeping. But it sounds like now it was not and they really are puzzled on what exactly happened.
Speaker 2:You do this one, you explain this really good to me this morning.
Speaker 1:Gene Hackman, if you missed the story they found, we thought it had happened, but they're now saying that they apparently died days, possibly weeks, ago. Gene, he is 95. His wife, betsy we were asking she's 64.
Speaker 2:I thought so.
Speaker 1:He pretty much quit acting. They moved to Santa Fe just to get away from everything. But here's where it gets weird. They did find one dog also dead, but two were found alive. That began making them think okay, if it's carbon monoxide, why didn't all the dogs die? The door front door is slightly ajar A handyman was coming in to do some work around and he notified police that you know, nobody has seen them for days and the neighbors were asked and they said no. So the police came to do like what is it like a welfare check, because nobody remembers seeing them for days? And they found betsy, the wife, in like a hallway of the bathroom, kind of like near the bathroom and the floor and the floor. Her body was already showing signs of decomposition, along with mummification of her hands and feet what does that?
Speaker 1:mean that means she'd been there for a while.
Speaker 2:Oh, and then they found gene hackman in another room and it that means she'd been there for a while.
Speaker 1:Oh, and then they found Gene Hackman in another room and it appeared also he'd been dead for days. Oh oh, oh. So they're now saying no obvious cause of death was found in foul play, still not suspected, but the circumstances surrounding the scene raised enough suspicion to require a thorough investigation. They found some medication, some pills, on one of the countertops, kind of the bottle with the pills laying around the bottle. They're not saying what the pills were, but they really don't know what happened I want to know what the pills were.
Speaker 2:That's what they're not saying.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, but one dog was dead near betsy the the wife, the other two dogs Neighbors remember seeing one of the dogs running in and out of the house. That's when they began thinking okay, this is a little weird that the door stays open and one of the dogs comes in and out.
Speaker 2:And their bodies had already started.
Speaker 1:According to this, betsy looked like she had been dead longer than Gene Hackman had, but that's what the first reports are coming out. That's bizarre.
Speaker 2:Something happened.
Speaker 1:They don't know what yet. So now they're doing a complete investigation to try to get to the bottom of this.
Speaker 2:I don't know how long.
Speaker 1:But the gas company said that yes, they do have gas there, but after checking they say it appears there's no sign of any leaks in the house and no signs of carbon monoxide. That's the initial report coming in is it like a murder suicide? Don't know strange, but uh, I'm sure we'll have more details coming out soon. But they're the investigation is really going on uh heavy right now to try to something happened.
Speaker 2:I mean, this is not natural no, no, not at all they can't just but 63. I mean like, yes, you could have had a heart attack and health problems. Yes, sure, but that's fairly young.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and if Gene Hackman apparently he has not been in debt as long as she was he would have noticed something happened to Betsy. I need to call 911.
Speaker 2:911. Yeah, that didn't happen. Betsy's laying out on the floor.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Hadn't moved in a few hours.
Speaker 1:Wow, it's weird.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:I hate to hear it. You, I hate to hear it, but I want to hear it. I want to hear more. You want to know what happened?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I want to know what happened Exactly. Maybe we'll find out more.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Especially when those tox reports come out.
Speaker 1:That's when they'll have more details, right.
Speaker 2:A new study published in long one sure is?
Speaker 1:I didn't know, you read that, I know. Oh, I did.
Speaker 2:You do all kinds of research in the canadian medical association journal book that I was reading. It found that older adults who do at least 150 minutes of aerobic exercise per week lower their mortality risk by 31 percent. What's crazy is, when I'm exercising, I feel like I'm dying.
Speaker 1:You're that close to death yeah.
Speaker 2:Like when we play pickleball Tuesday, I can sit down for about an hour.
Speaker 1:I'm waiting for your tongue to be hanging out.
Speaker 2:You're just laying on the pickleball court saying please move over Like you're served. I know I'm like move. Push her off to the side. Yeah get her out of the kitchen. She's mummifying. Researchers found not exercising is a risk for 30 chronic conditions like heart failure, diabetes, even dementia. Wow, moderate aerobic exercise such as brisk, walking, dancing, gardening and I'm gonna throw in pickleball I would say yes, so 150 minutes a week. A week so roughly. What is that?
Speaker 1:Five divided Seven, 120. About 25 minutes a day, let's say about 30 minutes a day, because my heart doctor always says walk at least 30 minutes a day, a brisk walk, even on the weekends, he says a day. So he said at least five times a week at least Toward the point where you almost feel like you're breaking a sweat.
Speaker 4:Okay, a sweat.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, I'll get the. Okay says walking, dancing and gardening is considered aerobic exercise. What are you doing out there in the garden to be exercising?
Speaker 2:yeah, have you never gardened before I?
Speaker 1:have, but I don't consider that exercise. You're pulling up weeds, you're digging up dirt.
Speaker 2:You're on your knees, you're yeah, that's exercise I mean, I know when you're twisting and turning and you're carrying bags of soil apparently so.
Speaker 1:Apparently you're wearing that garden weasel out in the garden hey speaking of yeah, weasels in the garden.
Speaker 2:You know what I thought you said what, what, what did you?
Speaker 1:what did you say? You don't even have a garden I do actually, it's just overgrown yeah it's overgrown.
Speaker 2:I saw a possum last night and I think it was sam. Oh, he came home, I think, so he was in my road. He wouldn't let me touch him or get close to him but, and then he scurried off.
Speaker 1:But I saw a possum I know, did he say see, I told you early spring he said see, look, jaylen early spring, yeah, and we say that because we saw Jalen yesterday. And Jalen won.
Speaker 2:He won an award, and congratulations to you, jalen. Great job. We're so proud of you and everything that you do in the community. You really are a great person. Highly recommend Jalen.
Speaker 1:Insurance, by the way. Yeah, insurance, he doubted. Sam Publicly Jalen, but Insurance by the way, yeah, insurance Sorry about that.
Speaker 2:He doubted Sam Publicly, publicly. Now, if he had said this to maybe a friend and it had gotten to us via telephone, you know, like how you play telephone in school, like shh in your ear, yeah. If it had gotten to us that way, we would have been like ah, but since he called us out publicly, I think he now publicly apologizes him. Do you think you should?
Speaker 1:Should, yeah, he should hold up his award and say Sam. Yeah, hold up your award In honor of you and say this is for. Sam, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:Sand Mountain Sam, you're the best.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you are, yeah, the best and I'm going to insure you. Wow, you can say I'm insured. Yeah, yeah, be the first possum ever with insurance, I think it is Maybe, I think as far as I know, it is.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 634.
Speaker 3:Barry and Holly on Alabama's Country, Giant.
Speaker 1:WQSB. I've got to mention. There's a couple of crazy stories. These are two stories you'll be talking about for a while. We need some crazy but true music Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy but true. We'll save the soccer story for next hour. How's that? This one? We'll talk about Shrek. Okay, shrek, a woman in the Philippines. They say that she has been unknowingly worshiping a statue of Shrek which she thought was Buddha. Hmm, of Shrek, which she thought was Buddha. She bought this four years ago and she bought this, thought it was the Buddha idol. The discovery came as a shock when a visiting friend, when she showed her how do you like my new idol I bought? She goes oh my goodness, you've got a statue of Shrek. She goes no, no, no, no, this is Buddha. She says no, it's actually you've got a statue of Shrek. She goes no no, no, no.
Speaker 1:This is. Buddha. No, she says no, it's actually Shrek.
Speaker 2:Did the ears not give it away?
Speaker 1:I'm looking at the picture here.
Speaker 2:There's a picture of what she was looking at. Are we looking at different things, she and I?
Speaker 1:I think so. Okay, maybe she wasn't really familiar with what Buddhadha should look like is buddha supposed to be green? Um, this is green, just as green as shrek does buddha have antennas for ears? Uh, I wouldn't think so and I'll give her like this from the neck down, okay. But you're right, it's a bright green, much like shrek, and then the head is a definite giveaway. Yeah it is Because I'm looking at statues of what Buddha looks like compared to Shrek. I don't see how she didn't notice this.
Speaker 2:Is it meant to look like Buddha? Yes, I do believe it is Sort of, but does it look like Buddha? No, look at the ears and the face. Maybe she has cataracts.
Speaker 1:Possibly. Maybe that's why she was praying so hard.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe that Please Buddha, get rid of these cataracts.
Speaker 1:I mean with my vision, yeah, and the friend comes over and says how long have you been doing this? She said oh, about four years. Yeah, four years. Yeah, so for the last four years.
Speaker 2:I wonder what praying the strike did for her. Don't know what does that do?
Speaker 1:Probably somebody gave her a donkey, yeah, or her puss in boots, oh yeah, possibly.
Speaker 2:Could be. Don't know Either one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so if you want to see the picture, Go check it out On her. Facebook.
Speaker 3:Yeah 646.
Speaker 1:Wqsb Mornings with Barry and Holly. What's going on this week in Holly's pile of stories? And we've had some sad news the Gene Hackman story and Michelle Trachtenberg from Buffett the Vampire Slayer. This is also odd in what they're releasing this morning.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't understand this, so explain this to me. Actress Michelle Trachtenberg's cause and manner of death will be remaining undetermined following the family's request to forego an autopsy. Why?
Speaker 1:I don't know. This is coming from the coroner's office saying that that's what they've been requested to do, is not do an autopsy. Why, don't know? The family's not saying.
Speaker 2:At 39 years old.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:They don't want to know.
Speaker 1:I would want to know definitely what caused this.
Speaker 2:I mean, I'm not trying to be morbid here, no, but I would want to know she's 39.
Speaker 1:Yes, so someone answered questions because you know she was found. Her mom reported her Something was going on, so they found her dead at the scene. She was unresponsive when they found her in her home on Wednesday.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in Manhattan. So sad, but I don't understand why you would pass it up at the age of 39.
Speaker 1:I would want details of knowing what happened.
Speaker 2:I would want to know what happened to my baby.
Speaker 1:Sure would details.
Speaker 2:Annoying what I would want to know. What happened to my baby? Sure would. That's. Katie perry is set to join an all-female crew for the next civilian space flight of jeff bezos, blue origin rocket.
Speaker 1:You know, this is also weird okay, alongside cbs mornings.
Speaker 2:Co-host gail king. Okay, and jess fiance lauren sanchez okay, so it's katie perry, gail king and lauren sanchez, so three that I have, and Jeff's fiancé Lauren Sanchez. Okay.
Speaker 1:So it's Katy Perry, Gail King and Lauren Sanchez, so three that have no business being in there other than take a ride into space.
Speaker 2:They're going up to space.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:The team will also include a former NASA rocket scientist and two other qualified crew members. I'd hope so.
Speaker 1:I hope somebody can drive this thing I know how do they get back down? Ooh, that's one that they go up for like a short time just to say that you've been there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then what?
Speaker 1:And you pay like millions to be part of this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then what?
Speaker 1:And just basically, you land, you come back down. You like parachuted or like no, but this is one where I think that, if this is his, I mean, do they park it? Yeah, they land it really if this I know bezos has one, elon musk has one, it's like everybody's getting one they can just ride it up there go up and just come back.
Speaker 2:Go up into space and then just land on a tarmac.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, it is no, and tarmac, it's like landing in there like an airplane.
Speaker 2:Never heard of that in my life.
Speaker 1:This is the thing.
Speaker 2:That's crazy.
Speaker 1:And I believe this is one where you pay like a million dollars to be part of this.
Speaker 2:Okay, what about regular rocket ships? Do they just float back down?
Speaker 1:No, some of them, like you're talking about, they have to. When it's time to come down, they come down with the parachutes and all and land in the ocean or whatever. So you don't know where you don't know where you's going to be somewhere in the ocean, you hope I don't know. Or top of Dollar General, I don't know. You just hope it's somewhere safe.
Speaker 2:Your odds are in your favor to land on top of a Dollar General. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and this is going to be like an all-female crew is what they're shooting for here, which is going to be first in history. Okay, but it's odd that you got like Katy Perry, the. The only thing they'd ask her not to do is when they're going up is don't start singing your song, firework. You can't sing that. You cannot sing that, see.
Speaker 2:I think that would be a moment when it would be appropriate. I wouldn't think so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, because you don't want it exploding that kind of thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I guess. So that has happened before.
Speaker 1:Katie don't sing that song.
Speaker 2:Yeah, who was sitting around and thought you know what? Katy Perry, yeah, let's put her up in space.
Speaker 1:She just quit Idol. She got nothing else to do. Yeah, let's put her up there.
Speaker 2:We got CBS Mornings co-host. We got Bezos fiance, yeah, and who else? We want Katy Perry.
Speaker 1:You have somebody to drive.
Speaker 2:We want Katy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, katy wants you to sing.
Speaker 2:That's weird, weird okay zendaya has been announced as a new cast member for shrek 5 I love the shrek movies.
Speaker 1:Have your daughters ever seen the shrek movies? Oh yeah, because they've been around for quite a while yeah, they have.
Speaker 2:The new one is set to be released on december 23rd 2026. It's the first shrek movie since 2010. She's set to be the voice of the daughter of Shrek and Fiona.
Speaker 1:That'll be cute.
Speaker 2:That's cute.
Speaker 1:Love the Shrek. Eddie Murphy has already agreed to be Donkey, so he's coming back on set Good. He's the perfect.
Speaker 2:Donkey, is Michael Myers doing.
Speaker 1:They haven't confirmed him yet.
Speaker 2:Uh-oh, that'd be weird.
Speaker 1:He has to come back. He has to. He is Shrek.
Speaker 2:He is Shrek set to bring back his role in the sequel to the action thriller film the Beekeeper.
Speaker 1:I haven't seen that yet. Never seen it. I think it's on maybe Peacock. I haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 2:Somewhere I've seen it streaming, but I've never watched it.
Speaker 1:I like his movies. Yeah, I love him.
Speaker 2:I mean, okay, they're all about the same. He kind of plays the same one in every role in every movie.
Speaker 1:Moves to a small town. Just wants to be left alone.
Speaker 2:Kicks tail.
Speaker 1:Bad guys come in, they're selling moonshine or whatever. Then they get him involved. Then all that's missing is Liam Neeson coming in and he's trying to find his family, and that's basically. Those two should team up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's it. Yeah, that's the story of it Basically yeah, All right 657.
Speaker 3:Mornings with Barry and Holly here on Alabama's country giant WQSB Come on man.
Speaker 1:But first, this may be one of the most bizarre come on man stories we've ever had. I told it and showed it to Dave and Russ next door this morning, and I don't think I've seen Dave laugh this hard in a long time.
Speaker 2:You're going to take this either one of two ways, yeah well, it's a true story.
Speaker 1:It happened in Germany, a big soccer match, which they call football. It's a soccer match. They had to cancel and call it off because of an injury to the referee. Now I can't exactly read it exactly as the headline is. You think We'll reword this a little. Exactly as the headline is, you think We'll reword this a little. It says football slash soccer match called off after referees groin area was bitten by a child. That got my attention right off the bat. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I began reading.
Speaker 1:It says that the referee is it Stefan? Yeah, stefan had to abandon the match before it even started because, as he was walking over checking the players talking with them, they were warming up A child of one of the players on the field doesn't say how old the child was it ran over to him and bit him in the privates.
Speaker 2:What do you say as a parent to that? I am so sorry. This is not what we teach at home.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's never done this before, but he buckled over. That is the official, the referee, and they say he was in so much pain. He said there's no way I can do this and the two clubs had to call off the match and reschedule for later in the season.
Speaker 2:Oh no, was there not a replacement nearby?
Speaker 1:No, just the one guy.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:The one guy. He just had his privates bit and there's no way he can continue. I'm picturing, like you imagine, like their version of ESPN later in the night, when they're going over all the soccer scores from earlier in the day and they get to this one and they usually say because of severe weather, bad weather, of severe weather, bad weather or unplayable conditions, something like that, or there's too much snow, they had to call up this game because the referee got his. I almost said it.
Speaker 2:Oh, I heard you. You can say it.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, Just say it, say it.
Speaker 1:No, he got his groin area bit. We have audio of when he actually was bit. Here he is okay, I know that hurt, good lord, I know it hurt. There we go. And then he bent over and fell down.
Speaker 2:Yeah well you know I was gonna make a joke about a soccer ball, but I think I'll just play it safe here. I'm not going to make any jokes at all.
Speaker 1:I wonder how old the kid was. You'd think he would know better than what it don't matter.
Speaker 2:It don't matter if he's 4 or 14.
Speaker 1:But what led to this?
Speaker 2:You can't go around biting soccer balls at a match.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've seen kids walk over and punch you. You know they think that's funny, oh yeah. But I've never once seen one walk over and just chomp on the groinage.
Speaker 2:Yeah, why would you want to put your mouth on it? What are you doing, kid? What else does he put his mouth on?
Speaker 1:Okay, the referee had to fill out a report on why the game. Here's what the guy honestly said. Stefan says, quote while I was checking the FC taxi player's ID, a small child was doing warm-up exercises alongside the players came closer and closer to me then suddenly, to my complete surprise, gave me a sharp bite in my left private area. Got specific there.
Speaker 2:Yeah that's pretty specific. What would you do to that kid?
Speaker 1:I mean you can't hurt it no, but I'd want to oh well, yeah, you want to I'd want to hurt him bad, because that would hurt, that would be painful, bad enough, you couldn't even continue being an official and had to call off. I guess from now the officials will have to wear referees like a double cup, a double cup A double cup A reinforced cup.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh my gosh To avoid the bot mark.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. Next referee meeting they're going to have to throw that out there. Say little heads up.
Speaker 2:Please put on the reinforced cup because Stefan was severely injured when a kid bit his groin. They're going to say Chad. When you were four years old, do you know? You did a soccer match one time. You went up and bit the soccer ball. Referee's testicle.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, 7-4. You said it 7-4.
Speaker 3:Mornings with Barry and Holly here on Alabama's country giant WQSB. Why so serious?
Speaker 1:Time to bring him in. Will is in the building and you've been handed this story. Yeah, it's a little soft in the air, so I was telling it to Dave and Russ. I don't think I've seen Dave ever laugh this hard before, but I've never heard of this kind of. The match was canceled. Two teams were almost ready to play. What is this world coming to?
Speaker 4:y'all and the referee cannot continue.
Speaker 1:He was injured Slightly. Well, it doesn't say slightly, he was injured, oh man.
Speaker 2:He couldn't even. I mean, oh, I've got so many jokes, he couldn't finish.
Speaker 1:My kids have done some things before. There used to be a time when Reed would walk up when he was in an age and he would just want to pop. He thought that was funny. I had to make him stop. You don't get guys there.
Speaker 2:You don't do that. I bet if you got bit you couldn't finish either. Yeah, all in all, so what?
Speaker 1:do you think, wes, that's rough. You imagine SportsCenter later that night when they're going over the day soccer matches? That's got to be one of the plays of the day, yeah, yeah. So now they're all having to wear three cuffs now.
Speaker 4:A little soccer snack, yeah, a little snacky, but Will you had a chance?
Speaker 1:You and Stone were hanging out yesterday.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, you and stone were hanging out yesterday. Yeah, yeah, we went down to gadsden city, uh with miss johnson, who is the marketing and work study learning uh teacher down there at gadsden city, so we got to talk to a few of their students and tell them do anything but radio yeah no, we and we actually the first session that we done, we actually got to pull y'all up and listen to y'all while we were in class.
Speaker 3:Really that's cool.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they wanted to check it out. We also told them about the pot of gold giveaway, and so some of them might participate in that.
Speaker 2:How old were they?
Speaker 4:They ranged anywhere from sophomores to seniors. Sweet, so how did they like the pot of?
Speaker 1:gold contest.
Speaker 4:They thought it was funny. I said I know the answer. They thought it was funny. I said I know the answer. Can you all take a guess? And then they just started rattling off and one kid, his name is Trey. He said I'm just going to go on there and just say every number Like 1 through 500.
Speaker 2:I'm just going to say 1, 2, 3.
Speaker 4:I told them they had some prizes that they might win.
Speaker 1:We had a chance to go to the new Albertville School. Yeah, Innovation Academy.
Speaker 2:How is that it was wow, impressive. For real. It's student-led, like. The students work at their own pace and they learn what they specifically want to or need to learn, suited to their career choice.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 2:So everybody's pathway is a little bit different. Yeah, but they work independently. Yeah, so it's not like okay, everybody, get out your social studies book and turn to page 32. We're going to write these paragraphs. They're really doing stuff to prepare them for their careers.
Speaker 4:So worth the $3 to $5 million to build. Yes, okay, awesome.
Speaker 2:They had pet groomers, they had welding, they had medical. They had pet groomers, they had welding, they had medical, they had broadcasting. They have amazing programs.
Speaker 4:Very cool.
Speaker 2:Teachers were super supportive. I didn't know that one of the teachers was Stephen Hudgens' wife, okay, and she had an amazing. I want to take her class.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:She teaches on color theory and photography. They do the yearbook Like I want in there. Okay, very cool Maybe they'll let me go hang out.
Speaker 4:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1:I like it. They offer things that I wish I was in school. That's what I would want to go into and learn something that I would have wanted to be part of.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it'd make you want to go to school. It would Want to participate.
Speaker 2:That's what's different about the Innovation Academy. Those kids want to be there. They're eager to learn. They're excited about school.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I want Harlow to go there. I think they've got some amazing programs over there.
Speaker 4:The one thing I think kids need nowadays is options. Yeah, for sure you know, I think limiting, just you know, just your history, math, science. It kind of gives them a hands-on, basically work-based study.
Speaker 2:They have two blocks and then they have their four core studies.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 2:So they still have four cores, and then on their other blocks they just do whatever is suited to their pathway. It's so neat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's so neat. Very good, yep, all right, and I appreciate them giving us a chance to come on a tour of the school.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and check it out yeah.
Speaker 1:We might bring some of them in to intern. Sure, there you go. Yeah, had a good time there.
Speaker 2:All right Time for us to 43% of people have worn Mickey Mouse ears on their head at least once in their lifetime.
Speaker 4:I figured it'd be more than that, yeah.
Speaker 2:I never have.
Speaker 4:Really Never. We got to get you some Mickey Mouse ears.
Speaker 2:I'm not against it. No, I would wear them have you been to Disney World, yeah? I would once. It wasn't a thing I was 13. I'm 36 now.
Speaker 1:At 13,. Were you too old in your mind to wear Mickey Mouse ears at 13?
Speaker 2:Probably thought I was too cool, yeah, but I don't remember it ever being a thing. Let me tell you about my. This is so quick, okay. So we had cheerleading tryouts, right? Yeah, I was 13 years old, you know how you are at 13. Everything embarrasses you. Everything is painful, sure, and we were in the gym. They embarrasses you. Everything is painful, sure, and we were in the gym. They called out my number to go try out, right, we had had cheer camp all week and I. They started the music and I was sitting in front of the judges and I froze. No statue, oh couldn't move could not move.
Speaker 2:The music was like pump up the gym pump it up and I'm standing there like you know the emoji, that's just like yeah the standing, that was me. I just I didn't do anything, I didn't move. Then the song turned off. I turned around and walked out, and when they called out numbers, I wasn't surprised when I didn't make it.
Speaker 1:What'd they say when you walked off?
Speaker 2:thank you.
Speaker 4:They just it was like no, I guess the slow clap yeah, slow clap and then.
Speaker 2:So the next day we go off to disney world. And guess what's that disney world? Yeah, cheer camp. Oh, all these cheerleaders running around I didn't move like I don't know she froze, yeah, I don't know if I I went on to play softball and loved it, but I don't know if I ever would have made a good cheerleader. I knew the dance. I couldn't do it.
Speaker 4:It was cold out there. What does it mean to me? I froze.
Speaker 2:95% of employers say they use social media sites to find out more information about prospective job candidates. I think they should. Prospective job candidates.
Speaker 1:I think they should. I believe that I think they should. You can see the real person when you pull up their Facebook page, not the one that comes in for the interview.
Speaker 2:Well, most Most. Some people go opposite.
Speaker 1:Yeah, true, some hide the real person, uh-huh yeah. You know, but occasionally those will like to post a picture that they wish they had.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, if they're out at like, you know, 2 am and they're like 18 deep and they've got a pot you know like a joint in their hand Leg in the field.
Speaker 1:Yeah, riding a sheep.
Speaker 2:And like doing the nose candy you know you might be questionable Like is this going to be a good fit for our candidate for hire?
Speaker 1:Right, I don't know Careful what you post.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you got to be careful what you post. I really do and even years later it'll come back. It'll get you Sure will.
Speaker 1:Somebody's got a screenshot of it now. Uh-huh, yeah, it'll get you.
Speaker 2:They'll use it. You can clean it up, but it internet. It is there forever, sure is if you have trouble falling asleep researchers say that kiwis may help you fall asleep 35 faster. I've never heard of that. You know, yeah, you know what I figured out makes you fall asleep faster, what melatonin I got some this week yeah because I talked to my doctor at dr justice and I was like, cut it to me straight, doc.
Speaker 2:Like is this a placebo effect? Do people take these? And they're like, oh, I took my mel straight, doc, is this a placebo effect? Do people take these? And they're like, oh, I took my melatonin. I'm sleepy now. He said no, it really works. I didn't want to take any kind of prescription, anything, because what if the girls needed me in the middle of the night? I don't know what if? And so I'm too scared to take anything to go to sleep. But the melatonin is like oh, I'm sleepy now. Have you ever taken it?
Speaker 4:Never have. Wow. Be careful with it, because it can give you some very vivid dreams.
Speaker 3:Really.
Speaker 4:Weird and vivid dreams.
Speaker 2:Have you done?
Speaker 4:that, yeah, so I would just be careful with that.
Speaker 2:Like scary dreams.
Speaker 4:It can be that it can be just, you know, giant chicken walking in the middle of a building.
Speaker 3:Wow.
Speaker 4:I'm telling you like it's weird. It's very weird. Yeah, that's a trip. Yeah, I might try that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all right, good stuff, all right, thanks Will.
Speaker 1:All right, that's it for this week's 7.57.
Speaker 3:Barry and Holly on Alabama's Country, Giant WQSB.
