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 228
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Speaker 3:I was just in my office I heard a ruckus. It's time to rise and shine and get your morning started with Alabama's award-winning morning show.
Speaker 1:All right, everybody, we got 10 minutes to game time. Let's all gather round. I looked out this morning and the sun was gone.
Speaker 3:Turned out some music to start my day Broadcasting live from high atop Alabama's beautiful Sand Mountain. I closed my eyes and I slipped away. Exciting news everyone Tress is going to be all over us on this one. Something has jolted the city. Y'all check this out.
Speaker 2:How fantastic is that.
Speaker 3:It's time to switch on the integrator units and get the brain cells working. What a feeling. What a feeling. I hear the sun is closing in. Please welcome your hosts. Barry, I've begun to peak, and when I do peak you'll know, because I'm going to peak so hard that everybody in Philadelphia is going to feel it. Sir, are you classified as human Negative?
Speaker 1:I am a meat popsicle and Harley Wow, I'm very fortunate to be surrounded by such stupidity.
Speaker 3:That is the voice of an angel.
Speaker 1:That is exactly what we want. How are you Cuba? Good morning, it is 6.08, the voice of an angel right over there. There she is.
Speaker 2:There I am.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:The voice of an angel. Somebody texted me that the other day when I was singing my Celine Dion song.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they said, I have the voice of an angel.
Speaker 1:See, that's where it came from, right there, it's true. And speaking of that, which I'm not going to ask you to do it right now, but you know what? Today is the anniversary of.
Speaker 2:Titanic.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You're right.
Speaker 1:Is it today the day?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think today's the day.
Speaker 1:I think, it is.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, Hold on. Let me look it up real quick.
Speaker 1:I'm pretty sure because, today being April the 14th, it happened like at what? 2, 3 o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, let me see Titanic anniversary Tuesday, april 15th 15th, so tomorrow morning. Tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, gotcha, so tomorrow is the anniversary.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah, how many years ago was that it sank in 1912. Oh my goodness, 113 years ago. You want me to?
Speaker 1:tell you what I learned this weekend. I learned something too. You go first.
Speaker 2:Okay, do you know?
Speaker 1:just take a stab at it what year Picasso died, was he on?
Speaker 2:the Titanic. I'm about to blow your mind. Okay, I have no idea If you had to take a guess, what year do you think Picasso yeah.
Speaker 1:Picasso, I don't know, 1901.
Speaker 2:1973. 73? Yes, I didn't know that. Fact check me yeah. Fact check me Okay. 1973. I thought this man lived in, like the 1500s.
Speaker 1:I did too.
Speaker 2:I thought he was like medieval.
Speaker 1:So he was around when there was like some good music Like the Beatles, wow yeah 1973. Are you sure?
Speaker 2:Yes, April 8th 1973.
Speaker 1:I didn't know this.
Speaker 2:He was 91 when he died and he was born in 1881, which sounds like a lot longer ago. But I seriously thought he was like like there's color pictures of him.
Speaker 1:I had no idea.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:No idea.
Speaker 2:Doesn't that blow your mind? So anyway, tell somebody, it'll blow your mind, okay.
Speaker 1:First of all, I think it's Netflix that has a new Titanic movie.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, not that kind of movie, but it's one of those guys, oh yeah me, but it's one of the guys. They have some special cameras that went down. It's never been used before and they're able to like do 3d footage of the entire ship. These little cameras run around and they say I think it's netflix, look it up it is.
Speaker 1:I've seen it and they say people who's watched it, it'll blow your mind. And here's one thing that they found by watching this is when they got to the area where the men there might have been women too, I don't know they were shoveling the I guess it was coal and these men, even when the ship was sinking, kept doing it so that the lights would stay on in the ship long enough so some people could get out and hopefully get onto a lifeboat, because if it was completely dark you wouldn't be able to see a thing. They kept shoveling the coal even while the ship was ship was sinking, going under, knowing that they were about to die. They weren't even trying to get out. But they said they probably saved many lives by doing what they did until the very end. And they could tell by looking at the footage that this particular room they're in stayed hot even when it was underwater wow, okay, first I saw it on netflix when I was scrolling, but I didn't know it was going to be good.
Speaker 1:They say it's excellent. They're able to recreate the ship in 3D forms. That's never been seen before.
Speaker 2:Have you watched it?
Speaker 1:No, I was reading about it over the weekend. They say it's good.
Speaker 2:Sounds really good. Do you have that kind of selflessness in you?
Speaker 1:I don't know that I do Because your first thought is okay, the ship is sinking. I is thinking I've got to get out and get on me a lifeboat. What about you?
Speaker 2:I want to think I'm a good person, but I don't think that I could keep shoveling the coal.
Speaker 1:I'd probably be that one guy. What's it? Billy Zane.
Speaker 2:Yeah, cal yeah.
Speaker 1:I would be pushing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, getting on the women and children only I would get me a jacket and a scarf and I would no. Missed out, fired up yeah yeah, no.
Speaker 1:but seriously, if I was in the room where they are and I realized that there's no way I can get out of this room and get up to the top in time to get out, I'm going to die anyway. I might as well help save somebody else. I think I would have done that.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:If I knew there was no way I could get out of this boiler room up to the top to get out, I would have said, well, hey, let's at least give some people a chance. And for those men doing that, they save lives by helping to keep the lights on.
Speaker 2:That's great.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But I don't know if I could do it.
Speaker 1:That's tough.
Speaker 2:I'd panic.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'd be probably on the floor having a seizure for real, Like I'd be worthless.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if I was on any ship, first of all I'd be standing where Jack and what's Rose Standing. I'd be looking for icebergs. The whole trip, all five days. I don't care if I'm going to the Bahamas, I am looking for an iceberg.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't trust anybody.
Speaker 1:I will let you know if I see one, but if it was your first know to look for an iceberg, no, they didn't know. They had no clue that was getting up, even a possibility. Who would have thought? And it's a matter of running into it's going to cause that kind of damage and sink you it's supposed to be the unsinkable tip.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah oh well, and speaking of that, since it's so close, I think I would have, uh, changed the date of what's going to happen today, because today's the day that katie perry and other women go into outer space no, it's not, it is today, like it's eight o'clock eight o'clock.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the blue origin.
Speaker 1:yeah, katie perry. And it's the all, uh, women. It's never happened before. She's gonna go five other women they're gonna blast into space. It it's Jeff Bezos' space tourism rocket. It's the one that goes up to the edge of space, ends up saying you're in space and then comes back down. It's like an 11-minute flight, but you can say that you've been into outer space. And it's Katie, it's Gayle King of CBS and it's Lauren Sanchez. You know who she is? Yeah, he better be darn sure I'm coming back, because if that's my husband who's sending me up in his rocket, yeah, but what if they had a fight last night or this weekend?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I hope she's really nice to him the last week or so because he controls this is his baby here.
Speaker 2:It's the Blue Origins, anyway that lifts off this morning like at 8.30. Wow, well, we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1:That's one reason she's not American Idol.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Another reason is I think they were about to move her off anyway, mm-hmm, because they had some complaints. Yeah, I think Kira Yonderwood's doing much better.
Speaker 2:I think she is too.
Speaker 1:So anyway, that's happening later this morning. How do you know? It's Monday, brand new week, April the 14th. You realize we're almost halfway through with another month. April is almost halfway gone. That's crazy.
Speaker 2:It keeps happening Every month. We say this Every month, it's a new month. Yeah, well, today is National Pecan Day, but I wasn't saying that correctly. The correct pronunciation is pecan.
Speaker 1:Does it bother you when people call it that?
Speaker 2:It's pecan. Does it bother you when people call it, that we say so many different things in the South that? No, it doesn't bother me. Does it get on your skin?
Speaker 1:Yeah, when you watch TV or you're watching a movie or something, I realize that the correct pronunciation to what you said, pecan, I get it, but it's always been pecan here to me.
Speaker 2:Well, that's the southern majority is pecan.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I've always called it.
Speaker 2:We've done this. Actually, We've done a debate on this on Facebook yeah. And I think it was like 90% said pecan.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what's your favorite way to eat a pecan? Mine's pecan pie.
Speaker 2:Raw.
Speaker 1:I mean cracked out of shell yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love them.
Speaker 1:Just go into the tree. Yeah, you see, we had pecan trees when I was little.
Speaker 2:We did too.
Speaker 1:They'd always want us to pick them up and, out of them, eat half of them.
Speaker 2:We did too. We had this little bucket that had holes in the bottom of it, and you'd push it on the pecan and put it in the bucket and then, we'd have crackers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we would too. They're good weapons.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they were.
Speaker 1:That would make a good secret sound. By the way, that would make a good secret sound Cracking up a con, yeah, speaking of which We'll get into that next Monday.
Speaker 2:Next Monday.
Speaker 1:Secret sounds back.
Speaker 2:Yep, we'll get into them today. Commercials, you'll start hearing them tomorrow and we'll start recording secret sounds today. Mm-hmm. Lower back tattoos are making a comeback with Gen Z. The trend that first became popular in the 90s and early 2000s is known as a tramp stamp. Why it is it really is making a comeback.
Speaker 1:But why is it known as a tramp stamp? It's the lower back tattoo. I know what they're saying. Right around the belt line. Yeah, Most times, whenever you see yours, it was like a sunshine, like a sun Really. The ones I would see. Yeah, they would show it on TV. It was usually like a sun.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:What have you?
Speaker 2:seen Flowers like roses and stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, floral designs.
Speaker 2:Oh, tribal designs.
Speaker 1:That's not what I would get.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:I don't know what I would get back there.
Speaker 1:You've got to be careful what you put back there. Yeah, you do. Maybe some words.
Speaker 2:I don't know, because you could really kind of twist anything around Exit. Only I don't know Other door.
Speaker 1:If found, please return to and put my address.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I don't know, I don't they. They are making a comeback. I've seen this, so I love tattoos, I love, uh, the art of it and I, when I log on to pinterest, there are a lot of tattoos on my feed or instagram, and I have seen more lower back tattoos than I ever have before why do you think they're coming back? I don't know.
Speaker 1:Everything makes a circle back around, but why that of all the things in the world? Why, I know, tattoos have always been around, but yeah why the lower back tattoos just not coming back? It says the gen, they want it.
Speaker 2:I don't know, barry, why are people wearing parachute pants? I don't know, I don't know, I don't know these things. Why are people bleaching their eyebrows right now?
Speaker 1:Oh they are. That's the thing. I didn't know that.
Speaker 2:Yes, dark-haired women are bleaching their eyebrows.
Speaker 1:Why.
Speaker 2:Why are people getting tramp?
Speaker 1:stamps? I don't know Okay.
Speaker 2:And here's something to think about.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 3:Imagine how loud it would be if a centipede were to wear tiny little flip flops.
Speaker 1:It would sound like a thousand little Drews running around. Yep, it would.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's 619 wqsb mornings with barry and holly and I don't know about this.
Speaker 1:I know egg prices are down some, but uh, they've announced different things you can do in case you can't afford eggs the things that you can color and hide to save money. What do you think about this?
Speaker 2:Okay, so here's. I'm going to give you three things that you can decorate instead of eggs this Easter.
Speaker 1:Are you looking at the pictures on? But there are pictures of these on our Facebook page, by the way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't know what two of these were. Yeah, but okay. Wooden eggs.
Speaker 1:Wooden eggs.
Speaker 2:Wooden eggs. I've these were, yeah, but okay, wooden eggs, wooden wooden eggs. I've seen these at target. They're actually pretty cute, okay, and you can paint these and they're and it's. I mean you don't.
Speaker 1:You don't eat them, of course, but yeah, they're, uh, just eggs you don't really dye them, you have to actually hand paint each one uh, yeah wouldn't that take a lot of time? Uh, yeah okay, no, I'll pass on that potato eggs.
Speaker 2:Okay, can you actually dip and dye those?
Speaker 1:you still got to paint them still got to a lot of time. Yeah, okay, no, I'll pass on that. Potato eggs. Okay, can you actually dip and dye those, or you still got to paint them?
Speaker 2:Still got to paint them, that's a lot of work.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I mean that's half the fun, right, but not Do the artwork hey look at this artwork that's going to take you 10 to 20 just for one egg, and it's not even a real egg yeah, you're right. I mean, I can't defend that, no would you take the time to do say the girls want to hunt eggs and you're going to do a couple of dozen? Yes, we've done wooden eggs but would you paint a dozen of them? Two dozen, yeah Goodness.
Speaker 2:We paint a bunch of them. I got the wooden eggs for the girls when they were little because the dye made such a mess, like the dye would get on their skin and stuff, so we painted with acrylic paint on wooden eggs and then I saved them every year. Okay, they don't go bad, yeah, but potato eggs no is that just a potato.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like a little tiny. Look at the pictures here. Some of them, some you can tell there. I think it's the one on the bottom left. If you blow it up you can see. They're kind of unusual shade, like the one in the front of the picture yeah yeah, you can tell that's kind of like one of those red or those like little yellow potatoes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, russet.
Speaker 1:You know those are going to start stinking pretty fast. Yeah, I know Well, like an egg does too. Though If you ever do the indoor egg hunting, you forget one. Oh you'll find it in about a week.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you'll find it. And then pasta shell eggs. Pasta shell eggs no, pasta shells. Would you do that? No, these look like beach shells. Yeah, no, no, you have to paint these too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't want a giant piece of pasta. No, because I guess you have to. No, I don't guess you have to cook it for it to be limber then.
Speaker 2:Be too flimsy. Yeah, yeah, wouldn't you just?
Speaker 1:rather just do a plastic egg and be just go with it.
Speaker 2:Um, are you going to put things inside of there like money?
Speaker 1:Yeah, see, that's what we always do. Oh yeah, I would do plastic eggs. Do you have any bad experiences with Easter egg hunting?
Speaker 2:I sucked at it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I was really he's six foot two.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and he has always been tall.
Speaker 1:So you'd push and shove and get to the eggs first.
Speaker 2:I mean they would hide them for, like me, yeah, and Matthew would go get all of them because he could see them all. He just craned his head around and was like oh there's one on the roof. Let me go reach up and grab that one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, gotcha yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the tree over here at the top of it, I can get it. Yeah, I don't know he, I, I'm, I'm just. Even when I would hunt with my family, I was always the worst one to hunt because I'm like looking at weird places like inside of inside of stuff under the dog yeah, under the doormat, yeah, behind in in the swing, in the seat of the chairs yeah places you would never hide them. Yeah, but I'm thinking, oh, I'm gonna outsmart them this time yeah but I didn't just never got the good ones.
Speaker 1:Well I had one that ended poorly. I was spending the house probably about seven, 8, 9 with my cousin Bennett and we were going to go Easter egg hunting the next day and his mother told us don't mess with the eggs, they're all colored, don't mess with them. And we messed with them while she wasn't looking. Did you eat them? We cracked a bunch of them.
Speaker 4:Wow.
Speaker 1:We were just hiding them and playing, throwing them you know, throwing playing catch and we knew that there was a certain amount we had to have. Yeah, so we just got some out of the refrigerator and we dyed them ourselves. We didn't understand the fact you had to boil them first. So the next day, no, yeah, her dozen or two dozen, went to church to get them with the other eggs, and you knew which ones were ours, when the kids would always get one and if you wanted to eat it you'd kind of pop it on somebody's head gently.
Speaker 2:Then you would feel it, the first one that pops on somebody's head.
Speaker 1:It had the parents begin freaking out said who forgot to boil the eggs? Oh my gosh, I bet your mother. They narrowed it down to my aunt and she said what did y'all do? Yeah, what did y'all do yeah we didn't understand the boiling technique. We thought you just got an egg and you just you just colored it.
Speaker 2:no, no, bar, no, no, barry.
Speaker 1:No, it ended badly.
Speaker 2:Oh, I bet it did it was not a good Easter.
Speaker 1:No, no, it's 631.
Speaker 3:Mornings with Barry and Holly here on Alabama's country giant WQSB. Okay.
Speaker 1:And weddings. A woman in the news because she received an invitation to a wedding and said if you're coming, let us know if you're bringing a plus one yeah she checked the box. Yes, when she showed up, her plus one was her dog. About a half the people there loved it. There are others who said that's weird. You shouldn't have done that those are not my people. So what do you think?
Speaker 2:I think I love it and it's appropriate. And as long as the dog is well behaved, who cares? Also, who doesn't love a dog?
Speaker 1:they said the dog was amazing. The dog's name is cape the golden doodle. You can see pictures if you go back to a few days, to friday. Yeah, and she even had a dressed up. Dressed up but she dressed him in a blue suit jacket of the golden doodle. Have you seen the dog's picture? Yeah, and it's made for dogs and she went to a place that makes clothing for dogs. She even got a black bow tie. Put that on him and they perfectly matched. He matched her dress, so it looked like he was her, her date.
Speaker 2:Yeah, why would anybody care?
Speaker 1:I mean, if it was, it was doing nothing wrong. He even sat at the dinner table in a chair, nice and behaved. It didn't do a thing to sit there. They should give him something to eat. And he was fine. He didn't bark, he didn't bother anybody, he even joined other wedding guests in the photo booth. He was a big hit. People began taking them in the photo booth with them to take pictures with cape the dog.
Speaker 1:He even took over the dance floor. They say he was out on the dance floor that's so cute moving around.
Speaker 2:If I was a bride and somebody brought a dog to my wedding, I would probably no longer have a husband, because I would be more interested in the dog yeah then I would be the man. Yeah, yeah, I'd be like bring me that dog Come on, so it could have went wrong quickly.
Speaker 1:There are some dogs. If you were to bring them, like, say, the dog began barking nonstop during the wedding. Yeah, or the dog hiked its leg. And like Doug the dog.
Speaker 2:Oh no, would Doug be a good wedding? No, no.
Speaker 1:Doug would pee on everything. He would pee on everything, everybody.
Speaker 2:You name it. He would smell your dog and pee on your shoes. He would pee on the chairs. You'd see if he could pee in the punch bowl, I think he'd probably get it that high If he could get it up there. I think he could His stream's pretty strong. Yeah he would. He'd poop walking just down the aisle.
Speaker 1:On the back of the wedding dress?
Speaker 2:Yeah on the train, yeah, so see, it could have gone badly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it could have, or it could have been a very friendly dog that went for the ankle. You never know. Oh, that'd be disturbing.
Speaker 2:I love dogs. Dogs are like an instant serotonin boost for me, yeah, or like an instant stress reliever.
Speaker 1:Well, some places places like hospitals have where the dogs will walk around and they like stress relievers yeah they'll take them into rooms and the the patients will rub them, play with them for a little bit, and it helps them they do that at st jude. They have a couple labs. I love that yeah, um, yeah, I would definitely want to, uh, I agree, I think, as long as the dog was behaved and that's no, no problem yeah well, I don't understand why anybody would have a problem with it? I don't know. You know people.
Speaker 2:Like I said, if they have a problem with it, those people are not my people. Exactly I don't want to hang out with somebody that turns their nose up at a dog.
Speaker 1:Makes the dog leave. No, I mean, it's not scooching down the aisle.
Speaker 2:Even if it was, it's a dog. I mean it was it's a dog. I mean you know it's, you hope it don't. I mean, if it did, it's still a dog. But yeah, I feel like if doug wouldn't mark everything. Yes, he's been fixed. Yes, but he still is a man. Sure, he is a grown man and he marks everything he comes across and I've never seen a dog pee as much as he does.
Speaker 1:I know when you take him outside, I know I don't know how you have that much pee. It's an endless tank, I think. Well, he's raising his leg, but no, he's just. He thinks he's paying.
Speaker 2:No, no it's an unbelievable yeah, I don't know if he cuts it off so he can save it for other spots it's like a four-legged fire hydrant.
Speaker 1:It just continues coming out.
Speaker 2:I know, yeah, it's amazing so when he has accidents in the house, yeah, it's like a two towel cleanup oh yeah, it is, it's a lot yeah, and then one day months ago, and he did something extraordinary yeah when he raised his leg well, he was running from us, yeah we were going. You were with me, we were going somewhere. I opened up the front door, he took off like a rocket. Yeah, and I was panicking, chasing him running down the road and he gets to a mailbox, lifts his legs, pees and poops same time.
Speaker 1:While in the air While in the air, had his leg in the air yes, h. While in the air, had his leg in the air yes, hiking.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Amazing.
Speaker 2:He was hurrying as fast as he could.
Speaker 1:He just took care of both at one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he was like ain't nothing gonna slow me down.
Speaker 1:No, I gotta go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I gotta go. She's about to get me.
Speaker 1:I've got places to go.
Speaker 2:I think that's how it caught him too, wasn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, catch you same way, get your leg high.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if I was doing a number three, I'd be so made up too.
Speaker 1:It's at the place it gets you.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh.
Speaker 1:It's not long to ever do a three if you're running from the cops.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's 643. Barry.
Speaker 3:And Holly On Alabama's country giant WQSB.
Speaker 1:Minecraft movie, minecraft. They thought it was going to do good going to do this good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this thing is breaking all kinds of records. There were five new films released this weekend and, despite all of that going on, minecraft still brought in 80 million dollars. After just 10 days, the movie has already grossed 550 million globally, making it the highest earning film of the year and your daughter gave it. Uh, 10 out of 10 thumbs up 10 thumbs up, yeah, and then King of Kings was in second place. It's a faith-based animated film by Angel Studio.
Speaker 1:I want to see that one. That one looks very good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that looks pretty good Good reviews 19 million and while the amateur led by who?
Speaker 1:Rami Malek? I don't know. He's the one who played. You've seen this. He's like somebody does him wrong and he's not a professional hitman, but again he's going out and taking out people. He's the one that played Freddie Mercury. Oh yeah yeah, yeah, and the queen, the Freddie Mercury story.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Good actor and the movie's getting great reviews. 15 million, number three.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And Warfare is the one. So we're talking about this on Saturday, stone, we were talking about this on Saturday. It's a war movie dealing and it's from an actual Navy SEAL who came home after a big mission and said you know, some of these war movies just aren't realistic. I want to write one about what I went through and it's what actually happened in one of the missions he was in and Stone says he watched it and says it's amazing.
Speaker 2:So it's based on a true story.
Speaker 1:It is and it's amazing. So it's based on a true story, it is, and it's amazing. It deals with a bunch of American soldiers who I believe he was telling me were kind of like in an area. They're pretty much surrounded, trying to get out, and it happened about 20 years ago and it shows the point of view from them. He says the film, everything is fantastic.
Speaker 2:Wow, I kind of want to see that one.
Speaker 1:It looks good and then the horror film drop that's where they're, in a restaurant, and this woman there begins getting messages on her phone oh, airdrops, airdrops. And it's basically saying you need to kill somebody like your date or in so many minutes, or we're going to kill you and your family yeah and she has to decide what to do yeah, I want to see that one it.
Speaker 2:It brought in $7.7 million Looks good. And then Warner Brothers is going to remake the Bodyguard. The original Bodyguard starred Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston and if you'll remember, it's where the hit song came from. I Will.
Speaker 1:Always Love you. Tell you a rumor I heard They've been trying to do this for about three or four years now. About three years ago the rumor was they were going to do it and Taylor Swift was going to play that part. That was about three years ago Because they've been so close for the past three years to make it and it falls apart. Now Warner Brothers says it's going to happen.
Speaker 2:I don't think that would be a good move.
Speaker 1:You don't think so. No, Because at the time Whitney Houston was not an actress. That was like her first role.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just don't think that they should change dynamics that much. She is not Whitney Houston.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't think I would even remake that one. I thought Kevin Costner and Whitney did a good job.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what are they going to do? Just remake it like the original, pretty much Not like a sequel. It's going to be like the original.
Speaker 1:Nobody's going to read it like the whole story. They'll change a few things, I'm sure, but with the same starring role. Yeah, yeah, well, no, any for person. For kevin and for whitney. They're now holding, uh they're having, auditions and they're doing interviews on who's gonna play those two parts leave it alone, man I agree that's one I wouldn't remake just leave it alone.
Speaker 2:It's good like it is.
Speaker 1:Yeah it's gonna have to be a singer, because she's going to have to be able to sing like Whitney did. Yeah, and you can't sing like Whitney did, I Will Always Love you. She nailed it. What do you think about Mariah Carey?
Speaker 2:I think they've got to find somebody that a singer who everybody says yeah, that's a good choice yeah, maybe jennifer hudson possibly she's good yeah she can act okay well, pop star katie perry, journalist gail king and four other passengers are set to launch into space on a blue origin rocket today will she be singing this as they go up?
Speaker 1:better this one than her other one. What Fireworks?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Better this one than that song. It's probably the last song you want to hear when you're going up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that's true. The rocket is a 59-foot tall suborbital spacecraft. It will carry the crew to the Kármán Line.
Speaker 1:That's Kármán Line. That's where the line where you officially go past this, you're considered, you're in outer space.
Speaker 2:Okay, so they're going up to the edge and then coming back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they are. They're going to turn around and come back.
Speaker 2:Okay, passengers will experience a few minutes of microgravity before returning to Earth. And they're going to land with parachutes in the West Texas Desert. Ooh yeah, the launch window opens at 8.30 am Central.
Speaker 1:And everything looks good to go. They're saying this morning so it should happen. Okay, we'll see. We'll see. All right, 6.54, birthdays are next. I think we've got it worked out, so we're going to try this. Will's coming in Good morning.
Speaker 5:Will, how are you? I'm doing well, how? Check one two, check one two. Oh, you're good Sounds good, oh wow, yeah.
Speaker 1:So Drew's in here doing some work. We found out that Holly, whatever she did, she destroyed one of the wires and she cut it in two. Basically, oh no, she's tough on the wires. See, look at there.
Speaker 2:It kept getting caught up in the arm.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow, yeah, it're all in the wireless now. Yeah, so we're going to let you walk through the stadium interview.
Speaker 5:Yeah, you go anyway. Do you want me to go somewhere? You can go. Anywhere you want to, you can talk to Ted.
Speaker 1:You can talk to Ted. So we've got the wireless. We're using this here in St.
Speaker 5:Jude, yes, I feel like I'm about to get in trouble for something I don't know.
Speaker 1:No, no, so did you have a good weekend?
Speaker 5:Had a really good weekend. Friday we did the Maker's Child, which is a respite night for special needs families, where they come and drop off their special needs kids at a church and we just love on them, talk to them about Jesus and God, and it was a fun night. It was an adventurous night. We had a new kid there, adonis. He's an awesome kid. He gave me a run for my money. I can tell you that the Lord was working through him to me to teach patience, let's just say it that way.
Speaker 5:And then yesterday, last night, I watched High School Musical for the first time.
Speaker 2:Really, what did you think?
Speaker 5:It's okay, yeah it's not bad. We call it a D-Com night, which is the Disney Channel original movie. So we watched three Disney Channel original movies over the weekend. We watched Alley, Cat Strike, Motocrossed and high school musical Wow Okay.
Speaker 1:You were bored yeah. Well, but it was fun. I was going to ask you about Easter coming up. So, Reese, how old is he now? He's two. Is he into Easter egg hunting yet at all? Does he understand anything about that?
Speaker 5:I think he will be, but he will be one of those that gives people the eggs you know you have the two separate ones. You have the ones. That's all for their self stealing, you know, distracting people while they're pulling them out of their own you know egg basket, but I feel he's going to be the one that would like pick it up and give it to somebody.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, we look so cute this weekend. Are y'all going to church?
Speaker 5:yeah, yeah it looks so cute yeah, which church? The 945 service, that thing's getting packed so and it's hard for us to get to the eight and then the 11 30, so late in the day I know, but I mean it's getting packed, which is which is a good thing yeah, it's a really good thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, especially I know, uh, john henderson will be joining us later this week yeah, thursday.
Speaker 2:He'll be here thursday to talk about Resurrection Sunday.
Speaker 1:Perfect. It makes me want to go see the new movie that started this past weekend. I forget the name of it again, but it's animated the King of Kings and I was reading the reviews and say it is awesome Exceptional and Stone told me that a lot of the theaters, like Premier, were selling out. Wow, that's good. That's a good thing. Yes, yeah, because there were people were calling in reserving it. They said, uh, if you want to see it this weekend, you have to find the right time to find the right time, because most of them are already sold out.
Speaker 5:Yeah, well, I know, uh, passing by, uh, one movie theater that I mean it was parking lot was full, yeah, and you know they have the chosen series that they're showing too, so so that was another one that was really big, yeah.
Speaker 1:So some good movies out there showing, so be sure, and check one of those out. In the meantime, it's time to take you to school. Knowledge Nuggets what you got for us today.
Speaker 2:A survey found that 60% of kids have never experienced roasted marshmallows over a fire. Mine have.
Speaker 1:I love it. I love roasted marshmallows over a fire. Mine have. I love it. I love roasting marshmallows.
Speaker 5:How sad is it for the kids, the ones that have it, I know.
Speaker 1:It is. It makes me think of the Dennis the Menace movie. If you remember the movie, when he's got the shaking it on fire, he turns it loose, Mr Wilson.
Speaker 2:Stuck to his head.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I could see that happening to me.
Speaker 2:Do y'all like them burnt?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's got to be a little bit crispy.
Speaker 2:I want mine black.
Speaker 1:No, not me.
Speaker 2:You like them a little toasty brown. Yes. I want mine black, black, I want it charred.
Speaker 5:I want to chew through that first layer. Have y'all seen like the square ones that they've come out with now?
Speaker 2:Yeah, specifically for s'mores, I like those, because they're not as fat, they're thinner, they're easier to eat on your s'more.
Speaker 1:You've got to be careful with them. Those are the ones you want to eat before they've cooled off. These will honestly stick to the roof of your mouth and do some damage. Yeah, it really can.
Speaker 2:In a recent poll, 47% said that they attend a cookout to catch up on gossip news from friends and family so not really for the uh fellowship and the no, they just want to go gossip with their friends oh my goodness.
Speaker 1:Stories around the campfire, I mean makes me think of yesterday, went to visit my sister and I've got some stories that I can't put on the radio. But I've learned about family. I had stuff I didn't know. Yeah, I realized my brother peed in my cousin's hair when he was little.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, no idea, no, yeah, that well, that's what you get at family gatherings, yeah because uh, frosted tips on the oh lord do y'all have family get-togethers?
Speaker 5:yes, we do. We do Not as much as we probably should, but sometimes we like to have game night, like game boards and things like that. Those are good nights, yeah.
Speaker 2:We've never done anything like that. We only do like. Mom's birthday is the 4th of July. Maybe is it whatever else's day it is that you cook out.
Speaker 5:Oh, like Memorial Day or Labor Day or something like that. Yeah, one of those.
Speaker 2:Yeah, one of those yeah but that's the only time we get together and thanksgiving and christmas. The top three topics to talk about at a get together are people is not on here. Yeah, number one gossip food.
Speaker 1:Well, they're not being honest in the survey no, they're not gossip. Yeah, but in the real, number one is food well, I think what I'm reading this is if you're awkward and you're around people you really don't know, maybe just to find something to talk about, you ever do that it's hard when I'm holding food yeah, you know like and like a social setting.
Speaker 5:You're like wow, this is actually pretty good, eddie, exactly yeah, eddie, you know real ketchup mine's the number two the weather, that's my go.
Speaker 1:Like if.
Speaker 2:I'm sitting there holding my plate like man.
Speaker 1:It's hot today, beautiful, got pollen on my dog, my wiener.
Speaker 5:Ooh, it's so hot, I wonder if it's going to rain.
Speaker 1:I don't know, that is a big one yeah. That's so dry. I know the pollen's terrible, ain't it?
Speaker 2:I no rain, yeah. And then when we get rain, it's it ain't ever gonna stop raining and it's rained so much I haven't seen the sunshine in three darn days. What is that yellow thing in the sky, oh my goodness.
Speaker 1:And number three sports. Yeah, yeah, I talk to those who know nothing about sports, yeah they try to fit in by talking about sports and I thought you've been better off talking about food or gossip yeah, I talk about sports with my brothers and my dad and my mom's always like.
Speaker 2:You don't even like football, holly, I'm like, but I do Well you, surprisingly know a lot about sports. Yeah, and.
Speaker 1:I don't mean that in an ugly way, because the first time we were hanging around each other, we were watching something and you were just like you knew it like a football game.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love sports. I love it. I'll hang with the boys.
Speaker 1:I can talk sports, I can talk shop. Then she talks gossip about the sports. Of course I do.
Speaker 2:Then I'm like guess who Guess what Tom Brady did just a couple years ago.
Speaker 5:Or the boyfriend or the fiance that happens to be a social media star or a movie star or something, or a music star, yeah, media star or movie star or something, or music star?
Speaker 2:yeah, get to talk about that.
Speaker 1:Squeeze a little gossip everywhere you go hey, we got a special guest joining us after eight. Everybody, ben smith from channel 19.
Speaker 5:Okay because, he has pictures of an alligator in gunnersville really yeah, from this past weekend, uh, we were at the abby awards and he was showing them to us, oh wow.
Speaker 1:so we asked him can we call you one morning? And the Abbey Awards. And he was showing them to us, oh wow. So we asked him can we call you one morning and talk more about this? And he said sure, okay, so he's a fellow.
Speaker 5:Abbey Award winner.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he is.
Speaker 5:And also I saw on his Facebook he's been with his current job for 15 years. 15 years, 15 years today Wow, that's awesome you could ask him about that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we're going to give him a call in a few minutes. Awesome, all right. Thanks, will. 756.
Speaker 3:Mornings with Barry and Holly here on Alabama's country giant WQSB.
Speaker 1:QSB. It's Tyler Hubbard in Park. It's 807. Barry and Holly Will's in here and look who's on the phone. We've got an Abbey Award winner. He's been in this. It doesn't seem like 15 years. 15 years, Ben Smith, WHNT TV Channel 19. Ben, good morning, how are you doing?
Speaker 4:Barry Holly, so great to hear your voice and great to see you. I've got the Facebook feed up, so I've got the sound down, though, but it's probably a little bit of a delay, but it's good to see you all.
Speaker 1:Man, it was so good. First of all, I've got to play you a little piece because I didn't realize it was your anniversary coming up. I'm going to play you a little piece of music here, Happy anniversary baby.
Speaker 4:Got you on my mind.
Speaker 1:I know that's not country, but it's okay. Happy anniversary. So it's 15 years you've been doing the weather in Huntsville and for everybody in North Alabama. So I thank you for what you do, Ben.
Speaker 4:Oh, thank you. I'm so blessed to be here. I never knew that God would put me in this spot. Coming from Orlando, I got here in 2010,. Didn't know anybody and now I have friends all over the Tennessee Valley and so many there in Albertville and Marshall County. Just an unbelievable ride. It's been, barry and Holly Well. You won a well-deserved award just a couple of weeks ago. Just an unbelievable ride.
Speaker 1:it's been Barry and Holly. Well, you won a well-deserved award just a couple of weeks ago at the Happy Awards in Birmingham and we're so excited for you the best meteorologist, the best weatherman in the business in the state of Alabama.
Speaker 4:How does that make you feel it's an honor, it was a privilege to be up there. I never knew I could win that award because I had tried before and I never did. And my news director, greg Baldwin, said, ben, you need to give me your tape. And I'm like, I'm not entering this year, I'm just not doing it. And he goes, ben, give me your tape. And I'm like, okay, here it is. And I found out and just overwhelming, it was fantastic. You don't win an award by yourself. It has to do with everybody at the TV station, at News 19. And a lot of people have their print on that award, it's not just me.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you my professional opinion on why you won. I'm being serious. You're so relatable. You do a fantastic job in the weather forecast, but the way you explain it to the listeners you're relatable. You make me feel like you're my friend and you're telling me the weather like we're just out on the street talking and you do it in a nice, relatable way and I think that, to me, is what I get the most out of your forecast. I feel like I'm talking to my best friend and watching them on TV.
Speaker 4:Well, barry, I really appreciate it. It means a lot coming from you all, and I also want to congratulate you all, because I lost count on how many times you all went up there, and I was right there in the front row. I'm trying to get your attention, trying to shake your hand, give you a high five or something, and I was like 0 for 4. How many times did you go? Oh, went up there. But congratulations you guys too.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you, I was afraid I was going to hit you when I dropped the microphone, so I'm glad I missed your table. That was horrible. But a couple of things we want to ask you about. One you were showing us some photos before the award show started, because you do a great job with your photos of the eagles, but you showed us one that got our attention. You showed us an alligator that you had spotted in this area, right?
Speaker 4:That's right. I've seen four so far. I saw three of them down in Priceville off of Muscle Camp Road, there right on the river, and then I saw another one that was like south of the airport and that's the first time, honestly, I've seen one in real life that wasn't in a zoo or that wasn't there because it was caged or something like that, but, man, it was unbelievable to see three of them there. A couple of them were pretty big, barry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you showed us the picture, you zoomed in on it and I'll show you. Show it on the morning show, like maybe the next Monday after. But you showed us the eyeballs. We thought, okay, maybe it's a log, it's a piece of wood.
Speaker 4:But no, that's the real thing, isn't it? It was and it was swimming around and it turned around. You could see the back of it and it was obviously half of it was in the water, half of it was above the water. But you could tell it was not a young'un, it was one that had been there for a while because it was huge. It was one of the biggest ones I'd ever seen.
Speaker 1:Can you tell us exactly where you saw it for those listening maybe to stay away from that area?
Speaker 4:Okay, it was down on jolly b road. So if you go south uh, south on county line road, past the airport, and there's a sign down there that says the um wheeler wildlife refuge, right, it's actually down there on the left side. There's a little parking lot right there and I parked right there and the alligator was right there in the water wow, gosh, wow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know we also haven't spoken to you since, uh, possum day back a couple of months ago. I know you seemed. I know the weather was miserable, but you still seem to have a great time at possum day with sand mountain sam. So how was that for you?
Speaker 4:it was fantastic. I mean, the folks down there were so cordial, everybody was so nice. And Barry and Holly, I want to tell you guys, y'all's morning show is so fantastic. I had so much fun. It's so. You all are both of you are so personable. You're having a great time. I mean I wish I could hang out there with you all a little bit longer, but obviously both of us have these ridiculously long schedules and I just want to let you guys know how much I thoroughly enjoy being down there and being with you all during your morning show. You guys are just a really good time. You all just have a ball down there.
Speaker 2:Thanks, man, we really do. We have so much fun and we've got the best listening audience in the world down here. And just so you know, our table went crazy wild when your name was announced for best meteorologist.
Speaker 1:we went wild oh man, that's great we ordered an extra bottle of wine just with the table.
Speaker 4:Yeah, well, I tell you what. Albertville and marshall county dear, dear to my heart. I have so many friends down there. Uh, my, I was calling everybody telling them I was going to be on the radio down there. I got a bunch of folks that work down there at Mitchell Grocery. My favorite restaurant in all of North Alabama is Giovanni's down there. I'm in there about twice a month. I mean I love it down there. People are so kind. Abraville Aggies, the Boaz Powers, I mean all of them.
Speaker 1:Well, Ben, we love having you here. We'll love to have you back again sometime soon. You're always welcome. Give us a call anytime and we appreciate you taking care of us for the weather. It's been a crazy weather year. How about the hailstorm last week?
Speaker 4:That's probably the most hell I've seen at one time since I've been living here. It lasted in my house about 10 minutes, I was wondering. I was asking our news director and some of our managers here to check on some of the car dealers out there, especially the ones that were just north of town. I was trying to zoom in. Was there any hail damage down there for you guys?
Speaker 1:There was some. I've heard some roof damage, as you would expect, Some of the cars the dealerships in there were some. I've heard some roof damage, as you would expect, Some of the cars the dealerships in this area had some, but luckily I know you were explaining it it was more of a softer hail, if that's possible, but it didn't do as much damage as what I was afraid it would do.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it was. There's wet hail and there's dry hail or dry growth and wet growth, right what it's called. And, um, yeah, I was wondering myself. I said we have a piece of cauliflower coming down. What is going on with this thing, and that's what it was. I mean, you've seen hail perfectly spherical and that's just wet hail. There's just um, not a lot of dry air, and that dry air within some of that hail is calling it to be like causing it to be a little bit groovy and just ragged looking, and that's what we saw.
Speaker 1:What's your professional opinion? It looks like maybe this is going to be a good weather week overall. Are we through with the severe weather, maybe for a few weeks?
Speaker 4:I wouldn't say a few weeks, but definitely this week. A lot of folks want to plant and I would probably say go ahead. Usually tax day is the cut cut off and we don't have anything significant for a while. And you know, easter sunday coming up and should be a decent forecast, a little bit cooler tomorrow but it rebounds back into the 80s coming up over the weekend there you go.
Speaker 1:Awesome. Very own personal forecast from ben smith, channel 19.
Speaker 2:love it then.
Speaker 1:We love to have you on the air with us. You're just a great guy and we hope to have you back on again soon. Anytime, you're always welcome. Just give us a call, okay.
Speaker 4:Love talking to you all Such a great time. I tell you what you guys are. A big blessing to the Tennessee Valley and Sand Mountain and anybody listening all over. I sent this link to my whole family, so I'm hoping they're listening. Oh, I sent this link to my whole family, so I'm hoping they're listening.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, Well, they better be. We'll talk about them tomorrow if they're not.
Speaker 4:Okay, all right, good deal. Well, good to see you guys.
Speaker 1:Hey, well, take care, We'll talk to you again soon. Thanks Ben.
Speaker 4:Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1:All right, thank you. That's Ben Smith, just a cookout.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, he would be somebody. I would like to talk about the weather too, when I was bored holding my plate of food.
Speaker 1:Sure, yeah, yep, all right. All right, it's 817. Barry and.
Speaker 3:Holly on Alabama's Country, Giant WQSB.
