WQSB Morning Show with Barry and Holli
Episode 33
Good morning, y'all! Barry and Holli here, bringing a dose of Southern charm and chuckles to your day as we reflect on life's peculiarities and the quirks of the English language. Ever wondered about the eerie origins of the word 'Kyarn'? We're unraveling the mystery and inviting you to join the fun in our latest episode.
We're all about the banter, from discussing the aftermath of severe weather on Sand Mountain to diving into heartwarming community traditions for Memorial Day. And trust me, you don't want to miss our take on the latest viral social media sensations — let's just say, it involves a country singer's unexpected artistic talents and ginger-infused cocktails that have us raising our eyebrows. Plus, we're gearing up for an exciting month filled with giveaways, including a Father's Day prize that'll make any dad's day!
Wrap up your morning with a deeper look into sleep habits, the hilarity of dog play dates, and a dash of Betty White's timeless wisdom, all served with a side of nostalgia for the simpler times. So, pour yourself another cup of coffee and let us be the soundtrack to your morning routine — laughter, insights, and all. Don't forget to hop over to our Facebook page, where the conversation continues and you just might snag yourself a snazzy t-shirt!
Good morning, y'all! Barry and Holli here, bringing a dose of Southern charm and chuckles to your day as we reflect on life's peculiarities and the quirks of the English language. Ever wondered about the eerie origins of the word 'Kyarn'? We're unraveling the mystery and inviting you to join the fun in our latest episode.
We're all about the banter, from discussing the aftermath of severe weather on Sand Mountain to diving into heartwarming community traditions for Memorial Day. And trust me, you don't want to miss our take on the latest viral social media sensations — let's just say, it involves a country singer's unexpected artistic talents and ginger-infused cocktails that have us raising our eyebrows. Plus, we're gearing up for an exciting month filled with giveaways, including a Father's Day prize that'll make any dad's day!
Wrap up your morning with a deeper look into sleep habits, the hilarity of dog play dates, and a dash of Betty White's timeless wisdom, all served with a side of nostalgia for the simpler times. So, pour yourself another cup of coffee and let us be the soundtrack to your morning routine — laughter, insights, and all. Don't forget to hop over to our Facebook page, where the conversation continues and you just might snag yourself a snazzy t-shirt!
It's time to rise and shine and get your morning started with Alabama's award-winning morning show. It's six o'clock already. I was just in the middle of a dream. Get up, we gotta go to work what? But I can't feel it, so then I guess I just won't get paid? Why do people work? Do any of you people do any actual work? These are the days when you wish your bed was already made, broadcasting live from high atop Alabama's beautiful Sand.
Speaker 1:Mountain, don't do any actual work Broadcasting live from high atop Alabama's beautiful Sand Mountain. I don't like Mondays. Tell me why I don't like.
Speaker 2:Mondays Tell me why. No, you don't understand how radio works.
Speaker 1:Monday Monday so good to me Doesn't really seem like work, does it? It sure is Monday hitting it now, Except for Monday. Let's get to work. Please welcome your hosts. Just another manic Monday. Mary and Holly Wish it was Sunday.
Speaker 3:Good morning, it's 610. It is a messy Monday morning. Did that shock you?
Speaker 2:Swam to work this morning.
Speaker 3:The headphones here are a little messed up.
Speaker 2:So our speakers got struck by lightning.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And we can't hear.
Speaker 3:The headphones are really weird. It's really weird y'all. It should sound fine on the radio, but here in this room it sounds like we're in a Tunnel Tunnel.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe like a flat tunnel.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It sounds like we're down in a deep, dark cave. It does Because, listen, it's silent, it is, and usually we have a little bit of feedback, something, a little bit of something, yeah, something going on, but yeah it's that way.
Speaker 3:We've alerted the engineer. Well, we have. We'll get something going, but be careful driving. There's a lot of water standing on the roads. There's still a flash flood warning effect for Marshall because it poured down. Between an inch and two inches of rain fell in an hour's time.
Speaker 2:My goodness, there's lots of tree limbs down too. So you guys be careful. If you're on your way to work, take it a little bit slower. Maybe take it a little bit so you can see what's on the road ahead of you?
Speaker 3:Yeah, because at least finally the sun is coming up, so that will help you some. But there's a lot of tree limbs on the secondary roads. I know ARAB. They had a tornado warning for well. We had three warnings at one time this morning when I came in. I came in early and luckily, as far as we know, nothing touched down, but there's still damage from the straight-line winds. Some of the winds were 60 miles an hour and there's a lot of trees down in A-Ram. They're showing trees down in Jackson County, parts of DeKalb County, madison County. Luckily, no reports of any tornadoes touching down, but still there's damage from the tree, from the straight-line winds and there's quite a few people without power.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was driving through downtown Albertville getting my coffee this morning and the power's completely out.
Speaker 3:It's restored. They're working on it. There's like a lot of people, especially in Arab and the Guntersville area, without power. They're working on it quickly to get it back up. As far as the weather, at the moment it's getting better. The strongest part of the system coming through is in southern Blount County Heavy rainfall, some flattening and some strong winds, the very southern part of Etowah County, then you've got St Clair. Right now Calhoun County is probably getting the worst of it as far as heavy rainfall, strong winds, some thunder and lightning and some, well even some small hail in Calhoun County. Oh really.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:But once this gets out of here, probably in the next couple of hours, the rest of the week looks great. So if you're Memorial Day, if you're going to be outside looking for things to do, weather gets a whole lot better. This afternoon You're looking at sunshine, windy, highs in the mid-80s.
Speaker 2:Then there's no chance of rain until maybe late in the day on Friday, and that's only a 20% chance. That's weird because I was literally up to my ankles in water on the way here, so you're going to tell me it's sunny later.
Speaker 3:It's going to be sunny later today, all right. And by middle part of the week, how about? Sunshine and about 80? So not as hot as it has been the past weekend it was hot.
Speaker 2:It was too hot for this early. I'm not ready.
Speaker 3:My parents' pool this early. I'm not ready, my parents pool's not ready, so I'm not ready. Well, that's why we're seeing the storms and it's been a horrible weekend for the for the us. I read this morning 18 people were killed with tornadoes across the us texas, oklahoma, kentucky and I believe um might have been iowa was the fourth state. It's been one of the worst weeks and one of the worst years as far as tornado outbreaks, but luckily alabama has been uh, spared again this year. For the most part, for the most part, we've had some damage, but nothing like what they've seen in the other states you said in the winter that it would be a tough spring yeah, they were saying it's because of this el nino coming out of the west.
Speaker 3:It was going to really um give us. They didn't know where, but they said that there's going to be a a major series of outbreaks, as far as tornadoes, across the US.
Speaker 2:Another El Nino.
Speaker 3:The one that came in in the wintertime. That's the one that's causing all these problems.
Speaker 2:El Nino Part 2?. I guess, Don't you remember that big one that?
Speaker 3:big El Nino that did all that damage Exactly.
Speaker 2:I know that I heard your strap on your Velcro.
Speaker 3:Come loose. Scott called this morning, which I'm glad he did. Yeah, we are, I'm glad he did. Oh yeah, I told him too. Anytime there's severe weather For sure. And I was about to jump in the shower. He says you got to hurry. I said hurry is no longer in my vocabulary. I said until my arm feels much better I cannot hurry, but my shoulder's hurting this morning.
Speaker 2:So how was this weekend?
Speaker 3:How was healing? It was tough. I mean, you just cannot sleep. There's no way to get comfortable.
Speaker 2:I was about to say you probably can't get comfortable.
Speaker 3:I'm not a back sleeper. I'm always on one side or the other, always have been, and now, with this, you almost have to sleep on your back.
Speaker 2:Well, you do right now. I think in the next couple of weeks, it gets better.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think, as the weeks go on, you'll be able to turn over to the other side when the brace comes off, with the braces on here for another at least two weeks, yeah, and so it was impossible. I've had very little sleep and I've rested by not moving, but not resting as far as sleeping oh Lord, I'm not used to sleeping anyway is at least I do sleep. Well, it's bad when you say you didn't get any sleep because you already don't sleep. Yeah, so you got double no sleep, yeah, and then this is an adventure putting clothes on and off and learning what parts of the body you can no longer wash effectively. Yeah, like with my left arm, I can't wash my right sidehuh. Now, some of you can do with your right arm, like you can wash your right leg and your shoulder.
Speaker 2:You don't have anybody to help.
Speaker 3:No, and you can't wash your right armpit.
Speaker 2:You can't wash your other armpit either.
Speaker 3:Nope, because I'm not supposed to get wet.
Speaker 2:You're not supposed to get wet.
Speaker 3:Uh-uh, that's where they reattach the bicep.
Speaker 2:It's right under my armpit but he don't stink y'all he don't say thank you yeah, you're welcome well, good I don't know if you're using deodorant or not, but you don't think?
Speaker 3:yeah, I think it's a water pressure. It's just knocking the uh, the charn off.
Speaker 2:You had a bath, this charn it was charn.
Speaker 3:That's what my grandmother and always said you smell like charn what is charn? We need to ask the listeners are they all right? Because I always heard. Well, look it up, I'm guessing you spell it K-A. What would you say? I-r-n or K-A-R-N?
Speaker 2:What is?
Speaker 3:K-A-R-N.
Speaker 2:How do you say K-A-R-N I?
Speaker 3:don't know. Look it up, hey Siri.
Speaker 2:Hey Siri, how do you say K-A-R-N? Hey Kian, I just said that, but I think she'll spell it Sure. Okay, hey Siri, how do you Spell Kian? Sure? Translate into which language it won't even let me.
Speaker 1:English.
Speaker 2:English.
Speaker 3:Does she even know what it is?
Speaker 2:Nope, uh-uh no.
Speaker 3:Kian.
Speaker 2:Well, so much for her All right, I'm just going to put it out there.
Speaker 3:Type in K-A-R-N.
Speaker 2:We'll look it up, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 3:Tell me how to spell it. I would say K-A-R-N. I don't know Somebody's calling out how to spell it.
Speaker 2:All right answer it.
Speaker 3:I mean no, it can't live on the air.
Speaker 2:You don't know what's. Are you Googling it?
Speaker 3:No, that's not it. It says the name for boys that comes from the masculine moniker. No, that's not it. No, karn, maybe it's with a C, I don't know. Human pile of stones. No, that's not it. I don't know. We'll have to look into this one.
Speaker 2:I put the question out there. Hey, we got a new-shirt every day this week.
Speaker 3:Yes, we are. We are Kind of a kickoff to an unofficial kickoff of summer. Yeah, giving a Barry and Holly morning show t-shirt.
Speaker 2:Yes, because I'm not going to tell you where today because Barry will tell you later, but we have tickets to go somewhere out of state. Yeah, that we're going to be giving away to Listener of the. Week and we're going to be doing that by commenting on the podcast post.
Speaker 3:It's really easy, so we'll give you some more details on that coming up in a few minutes. Go back to what we were talking about earlier. We just mentioned the word kiarn Kiarn. I mentioned it because I remember my grandmother even my mother had said it years ago that smells like kiarn. I never knew what she was talking about, I just thought that was something that really stinks yeah, but what did you say about the rain, the? Rain about.
Speaker 2:You said it knocked the yarn.
Speaker 3:Oh I you said about a shower. I said I can't wash my right side, I just let the water knock the car off. There you go from my, from my grandmother, what she said, but we uh, some listeners have messaged us and you found the actual meaning and the spelling of it on the internet.
Speaker 2:I wish I hadn't.
Speaker 3:So it's spelled two ways. One is K-Y-A-R-N, then there's a C-Y-A-R-N, and both of them roughly means the smell of a dead, rotting flesh.
Speaker 2:Basically. Yeah, Good morning. How's your biscuit?
Speaker 3:So that's Kyarn.
Speaker 2:If somebody says you smell like karen, you stink yeah so you don't want to be called karen. No, I think the most southern saying would be bless your heart, though don't you think yeah that's the most southern saying, because my friends up north they, they don't get that. I'll just say that like bless her heart. They don't know what that means they don't get it that, they don't get the sarcasm in it. When they tell me a story and I'm like, bless her heart, they're like what?
Speaker 3:Well, hit them now with your breath smells like charn. Hit them with that one and see what they say. They will know. Oh well, thank you, yeah, hit them with charn.
Speaker 2:Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 3:Well, thank you so much, yes, dead flesh yeah, that's dead flesh. Yeah, but we're looking for any other terms like that. Feel free to go to our Facebook page and let us know.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And one thing on Facebook page we put this post up what day was it last week? About Morgan Wallen?
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness, it was six days ago.
Speaker 3:So it's almost a week, a week from tomorrow. And it was a post where a fan held up a sign at one of his concerts and said that she wanted him to draw her a tattoo yeah, and that she would then take whatever he drew and have it tattooed to her body. And he did that. He grabbed the sign, drew a little. What did he draw like? It says simply well, he didn't really draw. It says love you, so does God. Then it's got an M and a W, kind of like in the shape of a cat.
Speaker 2:It looks like a kitty cat with whiskers. So in the shape of a cat, it looks like a kitty cat with whiskers.
Speaker 3:So she took that and got a tattoo and she posted this. Her post has over 7 million views and the post we put up on that story tell them about how big this thing is.
Speaker 2:So it has a reach, a Facebook reach of 227,000. And then we have 2,000 likes on the post. It's a really popular post and all it is is this girl. She went to the concert. She took a poster board, just a regular size poster board, and she said Morgan, can you draw my first tattoo? And she drew out a little blank box and then he grabbed the sign from her, wrote love ya, so does God. Wrote an M and then a W under the M, with some squiggly lines, and it looks like a kitty cat.
Speaker 3:Wow, so this thing is, I guess our post has also gone viral.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so ours did. It says that her post has over 7 million views. I bet it has double that now. Yeah, because this was a week ago and our post has got 2,000 likes, so there's no telling what hers has got.
Speaker 3:So the insights. If you're familiar with this, it's amazing Almost 228,000 impressions.
Speaker 2:That means we have reached 228,000 people's feeds With just one post. Yeah, and it's a good post.
Speaker 3:It's something good he did yeah it is. And there's some people arguing about it on facebook, as they always they did.
Speaker 2:Yes, I had to delete some comments. Y'all get spicy in the comment section sometimes I have to tone you down.
Speaker 3:Yeah, now what you should do is repost this, because people who didn't see it the first time around if you're just scrolling through facebook this morning, we'll repost this again on top of her Facebook. It's a cool story, okay, he stopped the concert and wrote this little note to her and drew something, and then she took it and did what she promised. She had a tattoo off of it. It's pretty good.
Speaker 2:Do you think he did it? Because she's cute?
Speaker 3:No, I think he just saw the sign and got his attention and he thought I'm going to do something good. I think he just saw the sign and got his attention and he thought I'm going to do something good. I like it. I think all the bad publicity he's had over the past few months throwing the chair, things like that I think he's going to be doing a lot of things like this to get back on people's good side.
Speaker 2:I think you're right.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because that was what some of the comments were saying was more.
Speaker 3:I think that's a good move too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's got to rebuild himself.
Speaker 3:Sure does, sure does, so we'll repost that in a few minutes on our Facebook page. Okay so check it out 634.
Speaker 1:Mornings with Barry and Hall here on Alabama's country giant WQSB.
Speaker 3:Things going on. I'm excited. Tomorrow night, america's Got Talent oh it comes on Yay. That's like still my favorite show because it's a show For the most part 99% of it you can watch with the entire family. Occasionally they'll get maybe a comedian who's a little, maybe a joke or two, but for the most part it's really good. And I love because you can take, like Cody Lee, for example, a young man that if they didn't have this show his talent would have never been realized and he wouldn't have went on to do the thing.
Speaker 3:He's autistic, blind but, he's an amazing singer piano player, and now he has a headlining show in Vegas.
Speaker 2:So you said because we were talking about America's Got Talent and it didn't hit me. But you said last year they did like a summer special.
Speaker 3:They had the regular show, then they had another show. It was like the best of the best, who came in from other countries and competed to be like the best of the best of America's Got Talent.
Speaker 2:Who won, do you remember?
Speaker 3:I don't remember I don't remember who won. I don't remember, was it between the dog. It might have been the dog. Was it the dog? If it didn't happen last week? I don't know.
Speaker 2:Even on anesthesia.
Speaker 3:This one that starts tomorrow night is the normal one. They've got Sophia she's back, heidi Howie Mandel, simon Cowell and Terry Crews is the host. So season 19 premieres tomorrow night at 7 and it's going to run through August. So it gives you a good summer show, good summer family show. I can't wait to see it tomorrow night.
Speaker 2:Does it come on once a week?
Speaker 3:Once a week, tuesdays. So tomorrow night We'll give you more entertainment news coming up Garfield and the new Furiosa movie, the new Mad Max movie. Battling it out big time, the cat against Mad Max of sorts and we'll tell you who won, coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 1:Barry and Holly on Alabama's Country, Giant WQSB.
Speaker 3:Even though it's holiday, the show must go on Time for Holly's pile of stories. Big battle over the weekend Furiosa, the new Mad Max movie up against the Garfield movie. Who won the battle?
Speaker 2:It was a close one. So Furiosa came in with $31 million and Garfield $30 million. Wow, furiosa took it, catfight, it was a catfight, yeah. And then the movie If came in at number three at $13 million. I'm still yet to see that.
Speaker 3:There's some good family movies this summer.
Speaker 2:You've got.
Speaker 3:Garfield If, and then Despicable Me, in-n-out, in-n-out's coming out, and then I think there's another one. So there's like four or five good family movies this summer, yep.
Speaker 2:And following the success of Cocaine Bear, it was the summer, yep. And following the success of Cocaine Bear, another furry four-legged creature is getting the comedy horror treatment the Werewolf. What, yes, yes, cocaine, cocaine, werewolf.
Speaker 1:How about?
Speaker 2:no.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Why Cocaine Werewolf should be in theaters later this year Did you see, Cocaine Bear.
Speaker 3:I saw part of it why I couldn't take it. That's exactly part of it. I couldn't take it. I just wanted to see what all the talk was about.
Speaker 2:I kind of do too. I just want to see.
Speaker 3:To me it was one of the stupidest movies I've seen, but it did really well at the box office. That's why we have Cocaine Werewolf.
Speaker 2:Why did it do good at the box office?
Speaker 3:Why don't people care? It's like one of those cheaply made goofy movies that it was just so bizarre people went to see it, okay. So what's next? Cocaine cicadas that will be the next one you watch. That's a good one. Cocaine cicadas, that's a good one. That'll be the next one.
Speaker 2:Well, Five Nights at Freddy's was the biggest horror film of 2023. And now we all know the sequel will land in theaters. It's been announced that the Five N freddy's 2 will open in theaters on december 5th 2025 did you see five night?
Speaker 3:no, no, I saw it and to me I was disappointed, because then I had to stop and think that it wasn't made for me, it was made for a younger audience yeah, for the younger audience. It was kind of scary yeah but for me, when you're looking at scream and all these other ones, not scary at all, but it wasn't made for me.
Speaker 2:It was made for the much younger audience and they loved it I have a six-year-old and a nine-year-old and they are fascinated, but I'm terrified yeah, it's terrifying it looks so scary and it's based off the game yeah, yeah, there's a video game. It would scare them, looks brutal to me.
Speaker 3:It did its job in scaring that age group.
Speaker 2:Yeah, why would you do that? Why would you want to target?
Speaker 3:a horror. Now they're having nightmares.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 10-year-olds. I mean my Lord, I don't know. Come on guys 6.56.
Speaker 3:Hey, we got a brand new song, jennifer Nettles. Now you're a big fan of Darius movie and the Blowfish, oh yeah. It's Darius and Jennifer Nettles called Never Been Over Our future hit is coming up next.
Speaker 1:WQSB mornings with Barry and Holly.
Speaker 3:Congratulations to our listener of the day, and it is Rita Lynn Smith.
Speaker 2:Yes, ms Rita Lynn Smith is going to get a T-shirt, because this is the first time we've ever done this. Usually, the winner of the listener of the week gets the t-shirt, so that's all five days. But all five days monday through friday of this week. We're going to be giving away a t-shirt every single day.
Speaker 3:Yes, we are of the week. And how do you get one?
Speaker 2:you simply listen to our podcast just listen to our podcast and wait for our podcast post on facebook and just comment and there you go and you'll be qualified.
Speaker 3:We'll have another listener each day. Each of you will win a listener of the day. Qsb morning show t-shirt that's right now.
Speaker 2:Next week we're gonna be.
Speaker 3:It's even bigger, it gets even bigger because we'll have listener of the day t-shirts, morning show and you could win tickets to chattanooga yes, and I think we should call it a little day trip.
Speaker 2:Okay, I love these little day trips, it is.
Speaker 3:Because we're going to have tickets to the Tennessee Aquarium, to the IMAX Theater and to the Discovery Museum yes, all in that one little area where the aquarium is so you can spend the day there and have a good time. This is so much fun, so that's coming up next week. You can spend the day there and have a good time. This is so much fun, so that's coming up next week. Yes, so we'll be giving you more details on how you can win that. Other things going on oh, our pet of the week Jasper, jasper, the horse Looking at Jasper's picture.
Speaker 3:This may be the funniest pet of the week photo we've had oh, you've got to see Jasperflopping.
Speaker 3:He is so cute, and the owner, Tracy Perry, congratulations. You and Jasper won a $20 gift card from Food City of Albertville and Gadsden and a Pet of the Week t-shirt from Dixie Designs in Boaz, and we're going to donate a $20 Food City gift card to Second Chance Shelter in Boaz. You want to see Jasper's picture? It's on our Facebook page and it'll be on her big billboard on Highway 431 in Albertville later this morning. Good, All right Time for the words of wisdom quote of the day. Today we're going for more of a funny one. I love Golden Girls and you may be thinking what quote did they have that was good? Well, they have tons of them.
Speaker 2:Trust me, they have so, so many.
Speaker 3:So which one are you going with?
Speaker 2:So Rose said this, who was Betty White in Golden Girls. She said my mother always used to say the older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana, that is true. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Unless you're a banana.
Speaker 2:Unless you're a banana, that's good Bananas don't age.
Speaker 3:Well, I like it. Nope 7-16.
Speaker 1:Mornings with Barry and Holly here on Alabama's country giant WQSB, get in my belly, come on.
Speaker 3:A couple of food stories. Reese's Cups I love Reese's Cups. What about you? Yes, they have another big one. This one is the Jumbo Cup.
Speaker 2:I thought they already had a big one.
Speaker 3:This is bigger than the other one. It's bigger than the big one, okay.
Speaker 2:They have the Big.
Speaker 3:Cup. I thought they already had a big one. This is bigger than the other ones Bigger than the big one. Okay, they have the Big Cup. Now they have the Jumbo Cup. Ah, so they've been spotted, I believe. Walgreens, I've read CVS and Walmart. Now these are arriving in stores now. It's four times the size of a standard Reese's Cup and double the size of a Big Cup. Whoa, the size of a big cup Whoa Four times. Four times. So if you like the big cup, that's the one you're talking about.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:That's now the Jumbo Cup in stores right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the slogan says too big, never Nope, oh my gosh. So one Jumbo Cup equals four Reesey Cups.
Speaker 3:It does.
Speaker 2:Stacked.
Speaker 3:So if you're watching your weight, you might want to stay away. Stay away from this one.
Speaker 2:Stay away from the jumbo ones.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, I've got a neat one. Welch's new canned cocktails, which is this, is different.
Speaker 3:What flavor?
Speaker 2:They're inspired by real fruit flavors. Okay, the new ready-to-drink cocktails, which is a blend of vodka and real juice, will launch with four flavors. There's vodka transfusion, which sounds dangerous. Vodka cranberry that's weird. I know Water, which sounds dangerous. Vodka cranberry that's weird. I know Watermelon mule. And passion fruit mojito. Okay, each of them have about 5.9% alcohol volume.
Speaker 3:What's it called Transfusion? You think?
Speaker 2:I don't know. It says that it has the Concord grape juice along with citrus and ginger.
Speaker 3:Ooh, I don't know about ginger.
Speaker 2:I don't know about ginger I think they all Listen. And then the vodka cranberry has just the taste of cranberry juice and vodka. The watermelon mule has the taste of real watermelon juice and ginger. What's up with the ginger, I don't know. And passion fruit mojito that's going to have mint and lime.
Speaker 3:And I don't want mint in my drink.
Speaker 2:So if you had to pick one, which one are you going for?
Speaker 3:I don't know, I want ginger, I guess cranberry, because it's the only one with just cranberry and no ginger.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 3:What about you?
Speaker 2:I guess I'd go for the cranberry, but I'd want to try a sip of the Transfusion.
Speaker 3:It's a weird name. It's a weird name.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it should. Grape cocktail Explosion oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Grape explosion, something like that. Yeah, yeah. Read more about these on our Facebook page. Check them out at 729. Mary.
Speaker 1:And Holly On Alabama's Country, Giant WQSB.
Speaker 3:Good morning, memorial Day morning. A lot of people off work today. Just now rolling around Check out our Facebook page. All kinds of stuff going on and like holly mentioned earlier.
Speaker 2:In case you missed this uh, tomorrow when we have a listener of the day, you're going to win a morning show t-shirt. That's right, listener of the day is a little bit more special this week because every day this week the listener of the day will be getting a t-shirt, and it's a barry and holly t-shirt. They are navy blue, they have the small pocket wqsp logo on the front and the big barry and holly logo on the back, and they are amazing does it mean you qualify to win one?
Speaker 3:you will actually win one if you're the list for the day tomorrow yes, that's the difference.
Speaker 2:So usually it's a qualify to win on fr, but this week you automatically win every day. So we don't want to confuse you, but we're just throwing out extra gifts this week. There you go, and then next week we are going to have tickets to the aquarium, to the Discovery Center and to IMAX.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so your chance to have a little day trip, or I guess day trip. It'll take you all day to go through the aquarium and watch a movie and go to the Discovery Museum. So be listening, more Ways to Win, coming up all kinds of stuff and starting, I believe, friday yes, it is Friday We'll start Wolfstock 2024.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm excited for Wolfstock.
Speaker 3:And I'm looking in the room across the hall from us. It's our t-shirt room, basically.
Speaker 2:It is overflowing with tie-dye t-shirts. We have beautiful t-shirts.
Speaker 3:Wolfstock t-shirts. We'll let Holly take a picture of one and show you what t-shirts you'll get this year when you deliver dog food by the station. Now, don't do it today. It will start Friday. Friday and coming up very soon. Details on our Father's Day contest. They can win a brand new riding lawnmower.
Speaker 2:Yes, isn't that exciting.
Speaker 3:Yep, so many things going on. This is going on. This has been a crazy year for things up in the sky. You know we had the big eclipse back a couple months ago. Yeah, now this is not as rare. We had one happen back in I think it was earlier this year. Another one will happen later, but six planets will be lined up in a row. They're calling it a planet parade. You'll see six planets all lined up. So if you can go outside and you have a telescope, you can see four of these with the naked eye. Two you'll need as a telescope. You get Jupiter, mercury, uranus, mars, neptune and Saturn. They're all going to be aligned in a row and it's going to happen coming up on June 3rd.
Speaker 2:I like this music that you're playing.
Speaker 3:Yes, it just puts you in the mood to go outside and look. Now, this happens more often than you would think. Now, it's the way that the planets all move, at a different speed, and occasionally, once or twice, maybe a year they will line up in a pattern, in a line, and you can walk outside and see them in a row. Now, four planets Jupiter, mercury, mars and Saturn will be visible with the naked eye, but you'll need high-powered binoculars or some kind of telescope to see Uranus and Neptune. Is that one of those words?
Speaker 3:Yep, yep a trigger word yep, uranus yep oh, I'm five years old I know so if they were to find water on uranus and they said it was moist, that way you would just fall apart. You'd have to fall apart, wouldn't you?
Speaker 2:there's people gagging on their bacon, egg and cheese biscuits right now.
Speaker 3:Our Uranus is moist. That's what you've been following apart. Now We've just lost Holly.
Speaker 2:I'm out, I'm out. The way to see this is of course you go out at night.
Speaker 3:Look in the eastern sky. The planetary alignment will be visible almost everywhere in the northern hemisphere, weather permitting, and happens june the third. So if you want to see this, it's pretty cool yeah, that isn't it.
Speaker 2:I hope the weather permits, I hope so yeah, so we'll make a note.
Speaker 3:June 3rd is when it happens look for uranus.
Speaker 2:Yeah, look for uranus, got it yeah, so it's 7 42 wqsb mornings with barry and holly I'm so jealous. I've posted on our Facebook what's your plans for Memorial Day and we're sitting here behind the mics, which I love Love being at work on Memorial Day but there's people at the pool and at the beach. Yep, yep, Jennifer, jennifer McSpadden is at the beach. She sent us a balcony view. Shame on you.
Speaker 3:Jennifer, shame on you, jennifer.
Speaker 2:Shame on you, jennifer, but I hope you enjoy it. I do too. Melissa had a cookout yesterday, but today she's binging the new season of Young Sheldon. Yes, okay, yes, binge the TV. Yeah, maria says Spanish Fort visiting my nephew's gravesite who has gone too soon? Wow, remember what this day is truly about those who served who we no longer have.
Speaker 3:That's so important, Absolutely. Some other comments Emily says she's working till 4. Pam Harris go to my son's for a cookout. Felix Hamilton heading to Florida, Navarre Beach Beautiful there. Audrey Hilburn doing some kayaking Well, Audrey you're probably going to have more water than usual because a lot of seriously. A lot of the creeks and the waters around the area are higher than usual. That's why there's still a flash flood warning for parts of Marshall and the Camp County.
Speaker 2:This morning.
Speaker 3:Be careful. Catherine Elliott working on the ambulance. Thank you for what you do, catherine. Amanda Lewis hanging around the house. Maybe a nap later, since I didn't sleep well with the weather earlier that's me, amanda.
Speaker 2:I was up at three o'clock and so was barry, and we talked about. You got up at three because you had to come in and do the weather, and then I got up at three because of the weather and tried to drift back and forth.
Speaker 3:But I mean, it's hard yeah, it's a lot of lightning it's so loud.
Speaker 2:Yeah, anyway, so that'll be fun. Kendra Helms is working, emily is working, connie's working, leslie's working, kayla's working. Yeah, nathan Lambert is listening to the morning show and doing a cookout. So this is where the podcast is perfect for you guys is we can recap everything and you can have the morning show whenever you want it at your fingertips there you go, man, if you're looking for stuff to do.
Speaker 3:Today I saw this. Let me ask you. Yeah, a recent survey. They surveyed 2 000 americans who went to a movie and, as they were coming up, they said okay, how long is the perfect length of time for a movie? How long, because some movies are like tit, for instance, my favorite Three hours, and what?
Speaker 2:Fifteen minutes yeah.
Speaker 3:That was a bathroom break movie for me. I try my best not to, because I don't want to miss anything, but I could not hold it.
Speaker 2:Well, when it came out on VHS it came out in two sets, so like it had an A and a B, so you had to separate it. So I always took my bathroom break when I had to change out, when I had to change out the vcr gotcha, you know yeah that's how long it's been my favorite movie for probably 20 years.
Speaker 3:So do you think 92 minutes is the perfect length?
Speaker 2:for a movie that is 90 minutes is the perfect length, I agree I agree that's 92 minutes.
Speaker 3:And they ask them okay, what is the perfect 92 minute movie? And they give them a list of them and they voted for Dodgeball, kung Fu Panda, beetlejuice Monsters Inc and Toy Story 2.
Speaker 2:Love Beetlejuice, love Monsters Inc. I would watch Tombstone.
Speaker 3:Tombstone.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I bet it's a little longer than two hours, but yeah, that's a good movie, though. Ask Siri.
Speaker 2:Hey Siri yeah.
Speaker 3:How long is the movie Tombstone?
Speaker 2:I'd say two hours and 15 minutes. The runtime of Tombstone is two hours and 10 minutes. Close oh you were close, I remember. Yeah, that's one of my favorites. That's also another one of my favorites.
Speaker 3:That's a good one To me if I want to watch, just a perfect movie. What is the perfect movie? Just to sit and watch. What is the perfect movie? Just to sit and watch. You said Tombstone or Titanic.
Speaker 2:I love Caddyshack.
Speaker 3:It's an older movie, it's just a good movie with Bill Murray and Chevy Chase, Roddy Dangerfield the cast is amazing. It's just good for a laugh.
Speaker 2:And you love Spider-Man.
Speaker 3:I'd like to see the latest Spider-Man movie. I think it was one of the best ever.
Speaker 2:So yeah, probably one of those, did you see?
Speaker 3:it in theaters.
Speaker 2:Yes, and it hadn't come out on a streaming platform.
Speaker 3:You can watch it on pay-per-view, but it's never been on a streaming platform unless you pay for it. I don't understand why.
Speaker 2:How long ago was that? It's been a?
Speaker 3:couple of years, two to three years, that's weird, it is weird. But you have to pay to watch it, even today. There's nowhere that streams it free, we'll Google, we'll have to watch it. Yeah, all right, 7.56.
Speaker 1:Mornings with Barry and Hall here on Alabama's country giant WQSB.
Speaker 3:Looks like a good week too. We'll tell you all about the weather coming up in a few minutes, and if you're looking for a new lawnmower, we've got you one coming your way very soon. We do, yeah, Father Moe's Best Contest Mines Appliance Lawn and Garden in Guntersville, teaming up with us and giving away a brand new beautiful riding lawnmower for Dad for Father's Day. Yes, and this is over a $3,000 value lawnmower and we're just what, a couple of weeks away from Father's Day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3:Yeah, coming up in the next few days. We'll tell you more details, but you can just go to our website and upload a photo of Dad with his lawnmower. If Dad doesn't have one, in case his lawnmower is so bad, you can go, maybe stand next to the neighbors, say, hey, can I get a picture next to your lawnmower?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so is the video we shot. Is that for the lawnmower? Nope, that's for the next thing. That's for the next thing. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:June is going to be a very big month here at QSP with stuff that you can win Because, like you mentioned, we're giving away morning show t-shirts every morning this week even though we're still in May every morning this week with our listener of the day. So you listen to our podcast, which will be coming up around 10 o'clock this morning, then you comment on it on our Facebook page and then tomorrow morning we'll randomly select one person and you win a morning show t-shirt. We're doing that all this week and then next week we're going to do the same thing, but we're also giving away free tickets to Chattanooga.
Speaker 2:Yes, and a whole family experience.
Speaker 3:It's going to be amazing To the Tennessee Aquarium, to the IMAX Theater and the Discovery Museum, yep. So that's next week. We're giving away tickets for that. We'll be giving away tickets to Chattanooga off and on over the month of June, and then we have the Father's Day promotion and then, coming up later in June, the Middle Park, giving away a brand new grill with our Grills Gone Wild contest.
Speaker 2:We can't say that with a straight face. Grills Gone Wild.
Speaker 3:I can't wait for you to hear the promo we're going to cut because you're going to be doing some singing.
Speaker 2:Yes, I'm going to sing for this promo.
Speaker 3:You're going to sing the Motley Crue song, girls, girls, girls, but we're changing it to Grills, grills, grills, and then people will get to send us a picture of dad next to a grill. But here's the catch we need dad dressed as our. It doesn't have to be dad, even if you're not a dad, mom, mom, anybody Mama Could be dressed as Cousin Eddie in National Lampoon's Vacation. It's the famous grilling scene from the very first vacation movie, where Clark and the family, the Griswolds, are at Eddie's house and he's over there grilling. He's grilling the hamburger helper and we, the staff here. We shot a video takeoff on that famous movie scene.
Speaker 2:We did, and I have edited it and it is finished and it is funny, it's funny, it's funny. Yeah.
Speaker 3:So we're going to put that on their website and Facebook in the next few days and then we'll let you start sending us your pictures soon, probably towards the middle part of June. Yeah, and you can win to Brand New Grill.
Speaker 2:Harlow called me cringe, Cringe. Yeah, she said just my part. Oh, she was like oh, mama, that's cringe. And I was like why Is?
Speaker 3:that bad Cringe is bad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, cringe means like, like that.
Speaker 3:Oh, you showed it to her. Yeah, I thought you nailed it.
Speaker 2:I thought I did okay, cringe, yeah, everything that I've done. I posted a picture of me and her on my Facebook stories and I put hanging with my bestie and she said that's so cringe, cringe, yeah. She was like don't put that on there, that's cringe, Hit her with one.
Speaker 3:Say well, you smell like yarn.
Speaker 2:See what she says about that, yeah but then she'll ask me what it is, and I don't know.
Speaker 3:Rotting flesh.
Speaker 2:Ew, but that's not what my mom used to call it, like when she would say you smell like yarn. She's not saying you smell like dead flesh.
Speaker 3:No, she just meant it really stinks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it just really stinks, yeah, who knows? So anyway, but anyway, there's a lot of stuff coming up, so just keep listening. Yeah, june is like absolutely bursting at the seams with giveaways.
Speaker 3:So a lot of stuff, and one of the key things is you need to check out her podcast every day and listen to the morning show.
Speaker 2:And we're going to be burying some Easter eggs in those podcasts, so you do want to listen.
Speaker 3:So if you're just not getting up, since it's a holiday, you missed the first two hours of the show. You can catch the entire show coming up roughly around 10 o'clock. The podcast will be available. It'll be wherever you find your podcast.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and let us know where we're hanging out with you, if we're by the grill or if we're at the beach or wherever we are, by the lake, wherever you're in. Yeah, wherever we are, we want to know 816 Baring and Holley on Alabama's Country Giant.
Speaker 3:WQSB, so the weather does look good today, but a lot of people I noticed on our Facebook page messaging you're asking what are you going to be doing today?
Speaker 2:Some said catching up on my sleep because the storms woke me up this morning. I know, and that's definitely what I'm going to be doing today.
Speaker 3:Here's Holley. Earlier she nodded off so and I'm with you, I'm a little tired this morning. I haven't slept any because of your, my shoulder surgery and I'm not a back sleeper, I'm a side sleeper, and it's impossible to sleep on the side when you've got shoulder surgery. So, um, I need some sleep I mean, yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 2:I'm with you. I've been since 3. I know you get up at 3 every morning, but I need a good 9, 10 hours of sleep every night. I know that's a lot.
Speaker 3:Well, there's a study. Let me ask. I'm glad you mentioned this.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:A study found that adults worldwide. They surveyed 68,000 people and asked them on average, how much sleep do you think you need each night? And the answer is seven to nine hours of sleep, somewhere in that area. Okay, so do you think you get that much?
Speaker 2:No, I don't think that I get nine, but I think I'd try to shoot for nine.
Speaker 3:Okay, that's what they said. They need seven to nine. Only 15% said they actually get seven to nine during the week. They said one night maybe, but five nights no.
Speaker 2:And I will tell you, those people that are sleeping so good, do not have children.
Speaker 3:They do not Nope, and they don't work the morning shift on the radio.
Speaker 2:No, they don't, or a health care shift.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they say on average. Most of us average. We hope to get seven to nine. We average six to seven on average.
Speaker 2:I knew a doctor that slept about 30 minutes a night. Really, yeah, wow, that's all About 30 minutes a night.
Speaker 3:How do you do that? He's got to take naps somewhere along the way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you have to. You have to, you would die, you would die.
Speaker 3:Because Oprah used to say that she would sleep about 3 hours a night. No, but she would work in a nap or two during the day. Oh, I love two naps. Now I don't think 14 hours is a nap, but that's what who says? No, I don't know but but these people who get seven to nine?
Speaker 2:that's what people shoot for I will have to say, since starting this job, I take more naps. Yeah, because I have to get up so early. I get up up at four and I go to bed around eight or earlier it's hard for you on the weekend.
Speaker 3:You say, because the girls, you want to nap, but you can't nap because you want to be with the girls. It's hard to do.
Speaker 2:I can't so like it's limited. My girls have to go with their dads every morning, so I feel guilty if I nap when I have time with them, but that's also the only time that I have away from the job, gotcha. So I don't know Parenthood. You don't know what you're doing. It's hard.
Speaker 3:It's hard, but it's amazing that it's not just us. People worldwide in the USs are getting less sleep than ever before how many hours a night would you say you get? I try to go to bed sometime after eight. Usually takes me about 30 minutes, so roughly 8, 30 till three. But I don't sleep the full 8, 30 to three.
Speaker 3:So you're getting like five hours probably not even that much, because I'll sleep maybe an hour and wake up. It takes me a few minutes to go back to sleep. Sleep an hour and go pee, go back to sleep. So from 8.30 to 3, that's roughly 3. That's 7, but I don't sleep the full 7 hours, not even close. I'd say 5 hours maximum.
Speaker 2:You can't even toss and turn right now.
Speaker 3:No, I can't. Even I can toss, but then I've got to get up and go crying because I've just tossed and landed on my shoulder and I'm not a back sleeper. I hate sleeping on the back.
Speaker 2:God, who I don't trust, back sleepers. I think they're a weird crew of people. You don't trust them. Uh-uh, I don't trust somebody that sleeps on their back. I'm with you.
Speaker 3:I sleep on my side Got to, and I know where my mental state's at yeah, you know I don't trust the stomach sleepers.
Speaker 2:How do you do that? Oh no, that feels good. Does it on your back? No, on your stomach no, yeah, I know really that feels good yeah it gets all the pressure off your back gotcha, but you don't like the back sleeping no, I don't either. No, I can't sleep on my back nope, can't do it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's 8 30.
Speaker 1:It's 830. Wqsb Mornings with Barry and Holly.
Speaker 3:Animal story. Now you have a dog. I do Doug.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Now Doug, does he like to play? No, he's old. Okay, well, there's a new study saying that dog play dates can help prevent him from getting canine dementia. What I didn't know, that was a thing I didn't know, yeah, I didn't know.
Speaker 2:How do you know? Wait a minute.
Speaker 3:I mean canine dementia.
Speaker 2:How do you know? How do you know about canine?
Speaker 3:dementia? I don't, that's why I don't know. But I'm reading the story.
Speaker 2:But I mean, how do you know if your dog has dementia?
Speaker 3:I don't know.
Speaker 2:Okay, go ahead with the story.
Speaker 3:The study says that play dates for your dog, like exercising, socializing, learning and playing with other dogs, are important factors in preventing canine dementia. They say that social and cognitive enrichment can also shield dogs from brain cell death and brain restructure loss, which causes memory and cognitive issues. Which causes memory and cognitive issues. I guess that the dog doesn't seem to, or maybe changes. The way he acts towards you is how you know.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 3:Maybe he doesn't come to you when you call him.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:Maybe he's a little different around you, like he doesn't seem to be the same dog around you as he gets older.
Speaker 2:Yeah, possibly, I don't know. That'd be awful, it would. Oh my gosh, I don't want that to happen to my dog. But our dog play dates, I think, oh, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, for sure. Like it's not like, but it's like hey, do you want to meet up at the park and walk our dogs? Yeah, like, that's a play date. You let your dogs play and then you sit and gossip about people while your dogs are out there playing.
Speaker 3:While your dogs play, yeah, you sit and gossip.
Speaker 2:You know a little gossip sesh. Get it out, Get it all out and then let the dogs play.
Speaker 3:I'm with you. I think dogs need other dogs.
Speaker 2:Now you asked me if Doug plays and I said no, I thought you meant with toys. He doesn't play with toys, but he loves to play with other dogs.
Speaker 3:Other dogs.
Speaker 2:Yes, now he gets aggressive. He's a little aggressive when he plays with other ones, but he loves it and it does. It keeps him young, it keeps him active. I think the doggy play dates are a great idea.
Speaker 3:I didn't realize that was a new thing.
Speaker 2:It was a. Thing.
Speaker 3:They recommend it.
Speaker 2:It's good for many reasons. Like different areas around town, here we have dog parks sure and people walk their dogs down by the lake and they gather.
Speaker 3:They may find that love of their life. Oh they may you don't know, you won't know one minute you're talking to your friend gossiping, look over in there. Oh, okay, they like each other a lot. They're locked up. Okay, I was gonna leave in about five minutes but it'll take longer gotta wait for the little bit longer, and always we'll leave you with the words of wisdom quote of the day. Some of these are inspirational. Some make you stop and think Occasionally. Sometimes I think we just need a funny one.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And we have one today.
Speaker 2:So this one is by Rose, who was played by Betty White in Golden Girls, and she says my mother always used to say the older you get, the better you get, Unless you're a banana.
Speaker 3:That is so true.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:It's about. The only use for an old banana is either feed a monkey or make banana pudding.
Speaker 2:It's banana pudding, every time Banana pudding.
Speaker 3:Yes, sir, that's a good one. Be sure and check out our podcast. It'll be up around 10 o'clock this morning and by doing this and comment on it you'll have a chance when a QSB morning show T-shirt will give away tomorrow morning. So I hope you have a great day. It's 8 to 52.
Speaker 1:Very, and holly On Alabama's country giant WQSB.