MP3 The Podcast
Casual, Witty, and informative show that centers on lively discussions about current events, politics, sports, and entertainment.
MP3 The Podcast
Introducing MP3!
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The introduction to the 3 Pitts brothers, Marshall, Miguel, and Myron.
I'm Marshall Pitts. Module Pitts. I'm Myron Pitts. And we are MP3. Welcome to the MP3 show. If you're not familiar with the three of us, I'm Marshall, that's Miguel, and that's Myron. We just announced ourselves. But I'm pointing out people who the people are. But I said it. I said I'm Miguel. All right.
SPEAKER_00He said I'm Myron. He said you're Marshall.
SPEAKER_01I'm re-emphasizing. Yes, re-empforce. Re-emphasizing. Okay. And as you might expect, we are brothers, as we've just said. We have the same initials, which hence the name MP3. Don't know why our parents decided to do that, but they did. Well, actually, I think it was our dad. Yeah, I think our mom. I think he he wanted that. He wanted that. He wanted all his sons to be initialed after him. And you kind of like a George Foreman thing where everybody wants to be able to do it. First and middle name. Well, except for you. You have the exact right, which is good. Yeah. Considering what your two middle names are, it's a good thing for me. Bruce. I'm okay with my middle name. I've learned to live with that. Yeah, yeah. We're all MVP. Right, MVP. So you you have to wonder what we do. Well, we talk about on this show politics, sports, and entertainment. Yeah, a little bit everything. A little bit everything. We mix it up with some other topics too as as the need arises.
SPEAKER_00And me being the sports guy, so because I'm the most athletic of the three of us. So that makes me asking. Why do we have to keep revisiting? Reopening. I mean, it's the introduction show. You want people to know who's the most athletic.
SPEAKER_02No. Well, we we know who the most athletic. People are clamoring into that information.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, apparently. If they're gonna talk sports, they're a sports guy, most athletic.
SPEAKER_01So I'm gonna talk sports. Yeah, we have unique perspectives. Uh Miguel is uh uh juvenile court former juvenile court counselor, uh also a juvenile area administrator for the state of North Carolina. Former, meaning I'm retired. Yeah, he's retired now. He always tells us that. Myron, of course, is the uh a journalist. Uh he's an associate editor with the federal observer, uh, first of his kind. Yeah. And Module's first of his kind. And I'm a lawyer by trade, and I've also been involved in politics, uh, former mayor. I wonder why we didn't get to introduce our own selves.
SPEAKER_00I don't know. He seems to be. Because uh I have to get him on a podcast taking control. I think I would have done a much better job of introducing my own selves. Wait for you to, yes, as a retired former state employee, yeah, uh the sports guy. Right. Uh 30 plus years of service to the state of North Carolina and all of those things. And so I would let Myron introduce himself. Myron, you go ahead and introduce him.
SPEAKER_02I as was mentioned, I am the opinion editor of the Fairville Observer. Uh longtime uh uh journalist there. I started off covering West Cumberland County as a reporter, which is where we're from, uh Fairville Cumberland County. Uh but West Cumberland County is where we actually grew up. Correct. School named Westover High School, uh Go Wolverine's. And uh people ask me, what does an opinion editor do? Well, I write columns. It's a good job, right?
SPEAKER_00It's a good thing if you can get it. I enjoy it.
SPEAKER_02I write three or four columns a week, and I also edit other writers uh who submit their You used to be a movie critic too, where you just go watch it. I did a little, I've I've done a little every coast. Roller Coasty right music parts. That was part of uh my job as a comic.
SPEAKER_00That was a great job. That's a great job. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02You know, uh I can write about pretty much any topic, but I uh naturally living in Fayetteville, North Carolina, I cover a lot of topics uh directly related to military military, uh city council, county government, and that whole deal.
SPEAKER_01Uh and myself, Marshall. I am the oldest of the and and also the one who provides guidance for the rest of these guys. Okay. Because for you didn't remember what time we needed to be here, and you didn't remember the what dress you need to have on. So so, but you know, that's what I do. That's what I do. But I'm a lawyer by trade, as I said before, do a lot of personal injury type law. Also, I've been involved in politics. I've been in the city council and served as a mayor. And so we, like I said before, all three of us bring different perspectives to the table. Right. Uh some better than others, but we all still bring it to the table. Thank you. You didn't have to say that about me. So now please first uh black bear, the city of the city.
SPEAKER_02First black bear, uh African-American mayor.
SPEAKER_00So uh do they say black anymore, though? Or does it African?
SPEAKER_02Both they say what you want to say. Right.
SPEAKER_00I'm just asking. You didn't ask that question when you gave your thing about. I want to be politically what I would have said African American. Yeah. Oh, I see enough for it. Depends on how you look at it. Depends on how you look at it. So as you see, I'm in between, you know, he's in between, but I'm the middle child. I'm the middle when it comes to opinion and stuff. I'm kind of middle of the road. Marshall is one way, I'm Myron's one way. But I'm kind of right there in the middle, maybe leaning a little bit to the right. More like that. He's he's more conservative. But you said it like a bad thing. No, no, just saying you're more like that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so you got one Well, you're really to the right of both of us. Correct.
unknownYou're not.
SPEAKER_00You think I'm to the right of Marshall?
SPEAKER_02Where do you get this middle from? Yeah, I think you are middle child. You think I'm to the right of Marshall? I do. That's okay.
SPEAKER_00But as I don't know if that's a good or bad, but what I would say is that my point was three negatives right here. Some people look at it as negatives, you know, a lawyer and a politician. That's some people say that's two negatives. And then a media guy, that's another negative. Whereas a state service guy who's giving his life service having a problem with state employees too. A lot of people don't like employee. Don't just say government employees now. We're not talking about a federal government, we're talking about the state of the government. But you were state government, and a lot of people have a favorable opinion of a state employee. Right. You know, because we we service people is what we do. We help people along and help people do things that they probably wouldn't ordinarily be able to do.
SPEAKER_01Right. And we were the three of us, we were raised in a kind of a I don't I don't don't want to say authoritarian, but a very strict, disciplined type of authoritarian discount. Well, yeah, I mean it's strictly. We had strict households, so you know, we didn't, you know, it we had the total line, and a lot of times, you know, we grew up in Myra and I later in life, we we carry that into our adult life is that when you see injustices or things uh a regime that you don't necessarily agree with, some of the practices, you have to challenge it. Right for phase four, you have to challenge it.
SPEAKER_00And I saw the carnage that that that produced over the years from you two, from you two guys when we were coming along. So and I decided that I didn't want to be involved in that. I worked within the system. There's always this thing where people say, Well, you gotta think outside the box. I'm usually in the box, thinking from inside the box. And you guys kind of challenge, you know. We specifically talk about our dad.
SPEAKER_02He was he was very strict when it came to church deacon. Uh my my our mother is mother of the church. Deaconess. We can say that. Deaconess, but mother of the church. Always dealt with youth, still deals with youth at her at our home church, uh, retired school teacher. Uh what brought us to Fayetteville, North Carolina is uh our father was a biology professor, and he moved the family moved from Georgia so he could uh teach at Fayetteville State University. You're talking about like he was just he he was there and witnessed everything. I was in the hopper, I was uh flash in my parents' eyes at that point. But I actually was the only I'm the only one of the three to be born here in North Carolina. Right. So the rest of these guys are from Georgia. Uh but they always stress, as you would imagine, education in the home. We we were it was kind of understood uh that we were after high school, we'd be going to college in most cases. Uh mind you, you kinda kicked against that for a little bit, but ultimately you also went went to school.
SPEAKER_00And sometimes I think about that too. Sometimes I think about you know you guys know, uh maybe some people who know me know that I was thinking seriously about going to the Marines after high school. Right. And uh would have been a would have come jar heads. Yeah, I would have been the in the marines and then I could have came back around. But it's funny how we take things from our parents. I took my my love of working with kids from my mother. Marcia, you took that going to teach and stuff. You also taught effective state and all that kind of stuff. And then Myron, your love of reading, you got a lot of that from uh mom and dad, both of them reading all the time. Yeah, so you know, reading different things. And so I I think we both kind of we all kind of offspring, but again, you know, when I think about it, I think about when our parents look back on on the three of us, I wonder how they feel about the three of us. You ever thought about that? I don't know. I don't know. I I think they would be proud.
SPEAKER_01What are you talking about? Well, I think they would be proud of it.
SPEAKER_00I'm going somewhere with this It's always it's always it's always a competition. I wonder which one of us they'd be most proud of. That's where I was going that our frame it that way.
SPEAKER_01But but I think the not only they instilling us the discipline part of it, you know, and being been disciplined and focused on your objective. And and my dad, you know, he's uh our dad. Yeah, well, our dad. Yeah, yeah. You act like you're talking to us, right? Our dad. Right. Our dad, he he always he was uh the epitome of a traditional man's man kind of guy. Sure. Yeah. And so, but my mother, as to to counter that, she didn't have any girls. And so she made sure that we knew how to do provide for ourselves. Yeah. In the case, you know, you know, she said you can't depend on a woman for everything, or the, you know, there's sometimes in your life, you gotta do it, do it yourself. And so you remember she had us out, you know, hanging out clothes and stuff in the morning. You know, we get we're getting clowned by our by our buddies, you know, hanging out underwear and stuff on the as they were walking to school. Yeah, we had to do all that washing clothes and all that kind of stuff as well. But as we got older, you know, yeah, yeah, it made it made a difference.
SPEAKER_02Right, and and along with the discipline, as we mentioned, they're both very strong people of faith, our parents. Um, and I I think it's it it shows our regard high regard for them that we're talking uh so much about them. But they also had the love, and you were uh had had alluded to that. I I think if you try to be a disciplinarian but the child doesn't feel that love, I think it's gonna fall short in some ways. It's gonna turn and see resentment on the part of the child. And as you can I I hope it comes through that as we talk about them, we understood to some degree why they were so so strict. Well we didn't understand it. No, we didn't understand that. Oh, yeah. Oh, later on, yeah. Right, right. Not as well. But but it always came. I never thought today, even as a kid, that they actually did not have my interest at heart.
SPEAKER_00I may not have agreed with some of the disciplinarian tactics, but uh I definitely felt they they always they always uh one of the best for when we think about it, when we talk about uh this show and the things that we'll be talking about, a lot of that will come through how we were raised. Yeah. What we thought, but we've we've all branched away from that, as we know. We've all done some things good and bad. Okay. Mostly you two. I've done some bad things. I've done some things that, you know. So we've uh and you know, when you go out in the world and you have an advanced age and those type of things, you you know, you start to get your own experiences, you gain your own experiences. You two have children. Uh I have I was not fortunate enough to have any children, even though I think I would have been probably a better father than both of you guys. I don't know about that. You've been on par.
SPEAKER_02I'm right at best. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00But we agreed that I'm at best. I don't know whether it makes you, I don't know whether it makes you a better father, but we agree that I'm better with kids.
SPEAKER_01No, no, no. I don't agree with that. I don't know where you get that. Where'd you get that agreement with?
SPEAKER_00Well, very good with kids. Ask your kids. Yeah. Ask your kids.
SPEAKER_02Now kids like my son and daughter. I have a son, uh, 13 and daughter he left, and they do love both both their uncles. But they have a faith. They rave about Uncle Lyle. Oh, and Miles does too. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01But anyway, we we we we look very thankful for our parents and what they've done for us. And we're very excited about this show, being able to move forward with MP3. I think you'll enjoy the banter that we have between ourselves and how we go about delving into topics and getting to the most of them, the best of them. So yeah, I'm excited about it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I I think that you will find. I know that you will find. But this show is uh an extension of a radio show we've been doing for some time. And in addition, we have a lot of fun, as was alluded to. But we also go deeper into some topics than that you might hear elsewhere, and we will continue to do that as well.
SPEAKER_00And in addition to that, we will have a lot of facts, but we'll let you know. You'll be able to determine whether it's our opinion or not. Oh, yeah, yeah. Versus the facts. And we're gonna give you a lot of facts about topics that you might not have known about before, and we're gonna keep and I'm going to make sure that it's interesting. That's my job to make sure that whatever we talk about is interesting.
SPEAKER_01Anyway, we have to get out of here and want to thank everybody for tuning in. I am Marshall Pitts. Marshall Pitts. I'm Myron Pitts, and we are MP3. MP3