Checkers, PTSD & Pot Pie: The Hump Day When Emerald Coast Went Full Heritage Mode
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We crowned ourselves strategic geniuses over a checkerboard, debated the spiritual depth of flagpole prayer circles versus strip‑club parking lots, and learned that "unlimited PTO" is just corporate gaslighting with a motivational poster—because nothing says freedom like guilt‑tripping yourself out of vacation.
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Schuyler Black and Bobby Dewrell kicked off another hump day here on 100.3 KROCK, broadcasting from beautiful Fort Walton Beach on Florida's Emerald Coast — where the sunsets are decent, the shorts are autumnal, and the confidence moves faster than competence. We rolled through the national holiday lineup with our trademark reverence: National Checkers Day (a socially acceptable way to avoid feelings), Energize Day (where corporate naps meet spiritual buffering), National Great American Pot Pie Day (mystery meat in witness protection), and See You at the Pole Day (spiritual Wi-Fi at the flagpole). Bobby's take? "Chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot pie." We're not here to be subtle.
Weather-wise, we're staring down a high of 92 today with an 8% chance of rain — slim pickings on precip. Tomorrow drops to 88, Friday hits 87, and the weekend settles into the mid-80s. Perfect for outdoor plans, provided you're comfortable celebrating fall in what Bobby calls "autumnal shorts and polos" (that's maroons and darks, for the fashion-challenged). Sunset tonight should clock in around 65 out of 100 on the golden hour scale — decent, not spectacular. Sunrise? Completely flat. Just an orange disc rising in the sky. Why did we even wake up?
Local event rundown: this weekend is packed. Youth football, the Battle at the Bridge between Shalimar and Fort Walton, the Destin Seafood Festival, the Rally on the Court at the Fort Walton Beach Tennis Center, the Sunset Market at Freedom Tech, and Tyrus the Comedian at the Mattie Kelly Arts Center. Full listings live on our website at thebteamshow.com. Also coming up: the Emerald Coast Hispanic Heritage Festival at The Landing next Sunday, October 4th (Bobby's birthday eve, or as he calls it, "Bob-tober"). Noon to 9 p.m., free admission, food vendors from across Latin America, live music, art, and a Meet Your Giving Match activation benefiting Emerald Coast Victim Services. Our guests Zulma and William stopped by to break it all down — Willie Panama, retired Marine and jazz artist, will MC and perform. Don't miss it.
In the news: a three-parcel Gulf-front estate in Destin just sold for $12.1 million — the highest price ever recorded in the city. It listed at $14.5 million and got an offer the next day. Someone had wiggle room. Meanwhile, Okaloosa County and Crestview officially took over animal control services from PAWS today, with looser restrictions than the county imposed on PAWS (imagine that). The county also approved a 90-day suspension on citations for trap-neuter-return activities involving free-roaming cats. Mary Esther is launching its own Coffee with the City Manager event on Tuesday, September 29th, from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Mary Esther Library — basically copying Fort Walton's playbook. And the Okaloosa County Commission approved a $775 million budget for fiscal year 2027, maintaining the same millage rate for the 11th consecutive year. Tonight, the Destin City Council meets to discuss state property management for Holiday Isle, and Fort Walton City Council sets its millage rate and finalizes the budget at 5:01 p.m.
Ask Uncle Bobby tackled "unlimited PTO" — that magic trick where they replace a number with a vibe and guilt you into never taking time off. Bobby's advice? Turn their fog into paperwork. Email every request with dates, coverage plan, and one clean sentence: "Please confirm approval or denial in writing." If they reply with vibes, reply with a calendar invite. Make your vacation a bill. Make your absence a line item. They want it unlimited? Give them unlimited administrative drag. Brought to you by Hard Rock Bet, Florida's only legal app to bet on college football. Must be 21 and physically present in Florida to wager. Concerned about your gambling? Call or text 1-833-PLAYWISE.
Big thanks to our sponsors: Stripes Pub & Grill in Navarre, Okaloosa Gas, and Outkast Sushi in Miramar Beach. We're back tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. — same station, same irreverence, same refusal to settle for the ordinary. Until then, keep on rocking, keep on rolling, and remember: the quiet ones are the ones you need to watch. It's never the loudmouth who snaps. It's the guy who keeps it all in. So let Bobby yell at Schuyler. It's extending his life. This is 100.3 KROCK, and we're out.
Transcript
(00:00) Here's today's B Team Redux. Getting closer to the weekend. We've got a lot of local events coming up over the next several days, especially this weekend. (00:39) We've got a full listing for you of everything happening in the area online. Just click on the events tab at our website, thebteamshow.com. But Bobby, I want to give you an opportunity to tell me all about our first national holiday this morning. (00:55) It's National Checkers Day. Well, yeah, because, you know, there's nothing that screams holiday like moving in tiny little diagonals and pretending a red plastic disc has a personality. Oh, not the checkers fast food joint? No. Oh. National Checkers Day is that special little calendar accident where grown adults pretend sliding red and black discs around a board is a traditional, not just a socially acceptable way to avoid talking about their feelings. (01:21) So you celebrate by crowning a piece, declaring yourself a strategic genius, and then realizing your entire plan hinged on the other guy not noticing the obvious. It's simple. It's petty. It's quietly brutal, like a family reunion with rules. So pour something cold, set up the board, and get ready to learn the oldest American lesson. Confidence moves faster than competence. (01:45) It's National Checkers Day, folks. You live by that model. That's not very nice. Confidence moves faster than competence. Yeah, that really kind of sums you up. But there's a lot of people that could sum up. Yeah, well, I mean, yeah. Why are you just picking on me? (02:00) Okay, well, because, you know, I was wanting to give Bear a break, and Jim, and Tom, and... Anybody else? Pretty much everybody else in my life. It's a BT Morning Show on 100.3. I'm the confident guy in a group of confident ones. (02:17) There's the Scorpions. Wind of Change on 100.3 KROCK. When is the wind of change going to hit here, and that cool fall breeze going to start? Well, I mean, we've made it past the 21st night of September, so it's fall. (02:33) It is, officially. Can't you tell? Or if you're one of those fancy... I mean, I broke out my autumnal shorts. Yeah. I was going to say, if you're one of those fancy people, you call it autumn. Yeah, yeah. (02:48) I broke out my autumnal shorts and polos. Because, see, it's after Labor Day, so you don't wear the summer colors anymore. Oh. So I'm in my now fall colors of shorts and polos. So you've got to go with the browns and the oranges. (03:04) The maroons, the darkers. It's basically the darky season. I'll tell you what, our sunset's coming earlier and earlier all the time, though. Yeah, and thanks to the Senate, it'll be even way earlier in another month. (03:20) Yeah, because now we've got states doing whatever they want on it, and it's just going to be a mess, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. I tell you, British Columbia is actually the first place I saw that went, that as a province. (03:35) Canada beat us. They could actually get their crap together. That's pathetic. That is pathetic. Hey, we had a decent sunset last night. We're clocking to have a pretty decent sunset tonight, about 26% through the golden hour. Now, like we said, we're looking for 30 to 60, about 45 being kind of a perfect night. (03:55) We're scoring 65 out of 100. It should be decent. It should look pretty nice. Last night's sunset was fairly decent. All right. Sunrise is going to be completely flat. Only 4% of cloud cover. Well, why did we even wake up? I know. We just watched an orange disc rise in the sky. (04:11) How boring is that? That's right. Well, today on the National Day Calendar, we've got a second one to talk about. It's Energize Day. Yeah. Now, Energize Day, because apparently breathing and not screaming at strangers needs a brand, a slogan, and what a corporate-sponsored nap. (04:32) Oh, you're not supposed to let it out? No. This is I-N-N, Energize Day. That doesn't seem good for stress. Set in your little appointment with your own nonsense is what it is. It's where everyone pretends recharging is a spiritual practice instead of just sitting still and not touching the group chat. (04:50) Look, light a candle, drink something green, hum at a crystal, and stare into the middle distance like you're buffering. Whatever gets your internal batteries from dead raccoon up to barely functional adult is what I'm talking about. The point is enter energy, outer calm, and the radical act of admitting your life has been running on fumes and spite. (05:11) That's absurd. Sure. But so is working yourself into a stress rash and calling it ambition. So try not to act so damn superior, okay? Okay. It's Energize Day. Energize Day. (05:27) Right, right. So Bobby cannot show his frustration towards me today. That is a relief. No, that's not how that works. A look at your forecast is coming up next on the B Team Morning Show with 100.3 KROCK. Standby for more rock. (05:42) 100.3 KROCK. There's the Allman Brothers and Ramblin' Man. Another song named after you. All right, here's the deal. It's supposed to be Energize Day. You keep all your thoughts to yourself. (05:57) No. Why are you picking on me? Okay, listen. Look, I just want to point this out to you. You know, the guy that dies of a heart attack is never the loud mouth. It's the one that just sits there quietly just keeping it all in, right? So actually, I'm extending my life every time I point out your stupidity. (06:14) So you're releasing? Also, the other thing I want to point out, too, you don't get scared of guys like me. See, who you need to be scared of is the quiet ones. Because let me tell you, when they go into the post office and they shoot everything up, what's the first thing the neighbors say about him? The last guy I ever thought to do that. (06:30) He's so quiet, just kept to himself, so friendly. See, it's never, oh no, I knew that son of a bitch. So, I'm telling you right there, there's a reason I do what I do. Okay. All right, well, fair point. (06:46) It didn't go off on me. Go off on me. Let me be your release point. Look, you keep wanting me to go to anger management classes, and I'm telling you right now, the problem is I have to go to anger management classes, but you don't have to go to stupidity management classes, and it's your stupidity that's pissing me off. (07:05) Well, I can at least take you to anger management and take you to lunch. Speaking of lunch, it's National Great American Pot Pie Day. Oh, yeah, you know, because nothing says freedom like mystery meat wearing a crust and calling itself a lifestyle. (07:21) Hey, don't knock on pot pie. I love pot pie. That's my stuff. National Great American Pot Pie Day is that sacred little square on the calendar where we pretend a crust-lighted bowl of mystery counts as heritage. Yeah, it's comfort food with a witness protection program is what it is. (07:39) Chicken, beef, or vegetable sealed under a flaky alibi and served hot enough to cauterize regret. See, the whole point is to celebrate the uniquely American talent of taking leftovers, adding gravy, and calling it a tradition. We're going to sing a song today because tomorrow we go back to eating like adults and lying about it. (07:57) And we all know what the number one ingredient in pot pie is. Love. I was going to say pot. Oh. Hey, man, I like chicken pot. Can't beat chicken pot pie. Mm-hmm. Chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot pie. (08:12) Nice little song there, Bobby. Yeah. You like that? Yeah. Here's Seeger on 100.3 camera. I was a little too tall, could have used a few pounds. She's got the looks that kill. And you know what? That is the perfect song to segue into our last national holiday this morning. (08:31) This last national holiday brought to you by Sammy's. Yeah. Or the Matador. It's See You at the Pole Day. Wait, so that's your joke about the one day that kids meet at the flagpole to pray? Oh. Whoops. Hey, look, I mean, fine, I get it. (08:48) There's really a lot of spiritual depth and recess in a metal stick, which kind of describes Sammy's too, doesn't it? I'm going to see myself out now. See you at the pole is that day when a bunch of students and adults decide the flagpole outside of school was basically a spiritual Wi-Fi hotspot. (09:07) So they circle up at dawn and pray like the bell's about to ring for Judgment Day. You know, it's meant to be wholesome. It's faith, community, courage, you know, all that. Just staged in the same spot you used to get yelled at for skateboarding. You know, nobody's claiming it's subtle, and it's kind of the point, right? (09:24) You show up, you be seen, you feel brave, you head to first period like you didn't just try to summon divine intervention next to the visitor parking sign. I mean, it's earnest, it's awkward, it's American and a windbreaker, right? And it's exactly the kind of tradition that makes you ask quietly what we're all doing out there before sunrise. (09:44) All right. See you at the pole day. Sorry I took it that direction. Hey, look, again, man, like I said, it's, you know, it is what it is. It's spiritual death, and it's recess around the meadow. (10:00) Again, I feel like I just described exactly what you said. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so I wasn't that far off. I wasn't that far off. Hey, there's a lot happening this weekend, Bobby. A ton. There are youth football games, the Battle at the Bridge between Shalimar and Fort Walton on Saturday. (10:15) You've got the Destin Seafood Festival. You've got the Rally on the Court happening Friday and Saturday at the Fort Walton Beach Tennis Center. A fundraiser for Sox. You've got the Sunset Market at Freedom Tech Center. Tyrus the Comedian at the Mattie Kelly Arts Center. (10:31) We've got all the local events posted for you online. Just go to our website, thebteamshow.com, check it out, and see what we have for you online. It is the B Team Morning Show brought to you by our friends at Stripes Pub & Grill in Navarre, Okaloosa Gas at Outkast Sushi in Miramar Beach. (10:47) I'm Schuyler Black. He's Bobby Dewrell. This is the B Team Morning Show on the classic rock station, 100.3. 73 degrees this morning and a high today up to 92. We'll check your weather forecast here in just a little bit. (11:03) Schuyler Black and Bobby Dewrell. The B Team Morning Show is on the air, brought to you by Stripes Pub & Grill in Navarre, Okaloosa Gas at Outkast Sushi in Miramar Beach. Plenty of stories to get to here this morning, including three parcels of land in Destin selling for a record price. (11:28) Most recently, we'll talk about that. Also, we'll get to the Destin City Council to discuss their state property management plan. And the City of Mariesta are stepping up and saying, You know what? We like what Jason Davis with Fort Walton is doing, so we're going to put together our own Coffee with the City Manager event. (11:51) So we'll talk about all of that coming up here in just a little bit. It is Hump Day, everybody. Yes, it is. We're starting the downhill slide of the weekend today, and then taking a quick look at your forecast the rest of the week. 88 tomorrow, 87 Friday, and mid-80s for the weekend. (12:10) So if you've got outdoor plans, it looks like it's going to be a cooperative forecast for your weekend. It was interesting, though. Yesterday, right about 3 o'clock, the bottom absolutely fell out. We had about a 30-minute rain shower in Fort Walton and Chalamar yesterday. (12:30) It came down for a hot minute, and then when the minute was over, it was out of here like it never happened. Nothing like that in the forecast for today. We did have about a 30% chance yesterday in the forecast, and today they're giving us an 8% chance. (12:48) It's pretty slim pickings on precip. I told you, I feel like whenever it looks like we're going to have a good sunset, it's pretty indicative it might rain that afternoon. Yeah, well, that's fair. It did. We're looking at 27% cloud cover around 643, so decent sunset this evening. (13:07) Last night wasn't bad. Not bad at all. It's the B Team Morning Show on 100.3 KROCK. Good morning. Genesis and misunderstanding on the classic rock station, 100.3 KROCK. Beautiful sunshine here in Fort Walton Beach. (13:23) A high today of about 91 this afternoon. I'm Schuyler Black. He's Bobby Dewrell. We appreciate you dialing in and spending your morning with us. The B Team Show, of course, brought to you by our friends at Stripes Pub & Grill in Navarre as well as Okaloosa Gas and Outkast Sushi in Miramar Beach. (13:41) Speaking of misunderstanding, there is no misunderstanding here. A three-parcel Gulffront property in Destin just sold for $12.1 million. That's right, $12.1 million. (13:56) That's the highest price ever recorded for a property in the city of Destin. Now, the 12,404-square-foot estate comprising of three residences and 12 bedrooms and 15 bathrooms attracted an offer within one day of listing and sold below its asking price of $14.5 million. (14:19) If you take an offer the day after you list it for more than $2 million below asking price, you must have had some wiggle room in that acceptable range. (14:34) Yep. Anyway, thought that was absolutely, absolutely crazy. Also, coming up here in just a little bit, we'll talk about how the city of Mary Esther says, you know what? We kind of like this coffee with the city manager thing Fort Walton's got going on. (14:50) Let's look into that. Also today, Bobby, beginning today, Okaloosa County and the city of Crestview are taking over animal control services following the end of the county's contract with the Panhandle Animal Welfare Society. (15:05) Pause. Crestview will handle animal control in unincorporated areas north of Eglin Air Force Base while the county will serve the areas to the south. Now, with services focused on issues such as dangerous animals, bites, cruelty, neglect, livestock at large, and disease reports. (15:24) The transition also includes several ordinance changes, including reducing the stray animal hold period from five days to three and increasing certain fines and fees. Imagine that, the city having looser restrictions on their own, the county having looser restrictions on their own service than what they require to pause. (15:45) That's wild. Now, at the same time, county commissioners unanimously approved a 90-day suspension of citations related to the trap-neuter-return activities involving free-roaming cats and directed staff to develop language that could formally allow TNR in the future. (16:03) Supporters say that TNR can help control community cat populations while county officials noted concerns involving nuisance complaints, wildlife, and ongoing care requirements. The county plans to continue reviewing the ordinance and developing a potential TNR program as the new animal control system is implemented. (16:24) Yeah, I just find that so rich that the county knowingly had together a contract with PAWS that would cause PAWS a $400,000 annual cash burn. Yeah. And then as soon as they take it back over, oh, maybe... (16:40) Maybe we don't need that. We're not going to require ourselves to do the same standards. It's just, yeah, crazy. But anyway, today the county and the city of Crestview take over animal control across the county from PAWS. (16:56) All right, it's 727. We'll take a break, pay a couple bills. On the way, ask Uncle Bobby in about 20 minutes. That is coming up here in just a little bit. It's the B Team Morning Show on 100.3 KROCK. Petty, and you wreck me. (17:11) On the Classic Rock Station, 100.3 KROCK, it's the B Team Morning Show. Schuyler Black and Bobby Dewrell on a Wednesday morning. Beautiful sunshine here in Fort Walton Beach and high today, climbing up to about 91 degrees. (17:27) Well, coming up on Tuesday, the Mariester residents can meet with City Manager Jared Cobb at the Mariester Library to discuss City Matters and ask questions. Now, the session is scheduled to run from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. (17:45) Now, if you've been to coffee with the City Manager Jason Davis, City Manager of Fort Walton Beach, this is going to be a similar setup, it sounds like. Fort Walton's been doing this for, I don't know, 15, 16 months now since Jason got into the position. (18:04) So, Jared Cobb, City Manager, Mariester says, let's do it over here as well. Again, that's coming up on Tuesday, the 29th from 9 until 11. And where's that at? That is at the Mariester Library. Wow, it's even like the same place. Yeah, I know. Isn't that crazy? (18:21) Also, on Friday, the Okaloosa County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a $775 million budget for fiscal year 2027. Now, the $775 million budget representing an increase driven largely by enterprise fund reserves, capital projects, airports, tourism development, and water and sewer planning. (18:50) If you're taking a look and saying, well, that's a jump of the budget from the last year, it doesn't sound like it's much in the general fund. It's mostly to these different colors of money projects. So, that is a little bit of an update there. But the county did maintain their countywide property tax millage rate of 3.8308 mills for the 11th consecutive year. (19:14) So, a little budget update for you from Okaloosa County. All right, about seven minutes away from your daily advice with Uncle Bobby. We've got to ask Uncle Bobby on the way in just a bit, so stay with us. With the B Team Morning Show brought to you by Stripes Pub & Grill in Navarre, Okaloosa Gas at Outkast Sushi, Miramar Beach on 100.3 KROCK. (19:37) 100.3 KROCK, the classic rock station. It's Wednesday morning and 748 is the time, which means it's time for Ask Uncle Bobby. That's right, your daily advice each morning on the B Team Morning Show brought to you by Hard Rock Bet. (19:57) That's right, your daily advice each morning on the B Team Morning Show brought to you by Hard Rock Bet. That's right, pageantry, tradition, fight songs. College football is at its best when you're in the action on Hard Rock Bet. And Saturday's slate is loaded with big time games with playoff implications. Bet college football's biggest games all Saturday long on Hard Rock Bet, Florida's only legal app to bet on college football. It's offered by the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Must be 21 and physically present in Florida to wager. (20:21) Terms and conditions apply. Concerned about your gambling? We'll call or text 1-833-PLAYWISE. All right. Well, today, Uncle Bobby, your question comes in from the exhausted Calendar Gremlin. And they write in saying, Dear Uncle Bobby, my company advertises unlimited PTO. (20:39) But in the last three years, I have taken five days. So every time I request time off, my manager says, it is fine, but mentions, we're slammed, and then gets quiet until I withdraw the request. Am I being denied or am I just doing this to myself? (20:58) Oh, you're not being denied by a system that never has to say no. And you're helping it like a volunteer crossing guard for your own burnout. See, look, unlimited PTO is not a benefit. No, it's a magic trick. They took a number you could point to and replaced it with a vibe you have to interpret. See, back when vacation was a number on a payslip, HR could not haunt you into compliance. It was math. Now it's theater. And, well, you're performing in it. See, that sentence, we trust you to manage your own time, is the most hostile thing in corporate English. See, that's not trust. That is them handing you a loaded guilt gun and saying, please hold this to your own head while we hit our targets. See, the little add-on, we are pretty slammed. See, it's not information. No, it's a loyalty test graded in silence. You are not requesting vacation. You are applying for permission to be a person. (22:00) See, the reasonable advice is to take the time anyway. Wow, that's cute. It's really naive. You see, that is how you end up randomly missing out on opportunities while your coworkers who never blink get promoted for the bravery in never needing rest. See, here's what you do instead. You turn their unlimited fog into paperwork. Every request becomes an email with dates, coverage plan, and one clean sentence. Please confirm approval or denial in writing. (22:30) See, no apologies, no extra oxygen for the guilt. If they reply with vibes, you reply with a calendar invite titled PTO Approval Confirmation. If they go quiet, you follow up daily like a debt collector who drinks cold coffee and feeds on time stamps. Because unlimited PTO is just a liability they erased off their books. Fine, put it back on the books yourself. Make your vacation a bill. Make your absence a line item. They want it unlimited. Give them unlimited administrative drag until somebody somewhere either approves your time off or drowns in their own pretend generosity. (23:09) All right, there's your response this morning, exhausted calendar gremlin. Now, if you missed any of the past Ask Uncle Bobby episodes, you can find them all online at our website, thebteamshow.com, or if you go to dewbob.com, D-E-W-B-O-B.com, you can find all the past episodes and then get your exclusive Dewbob merch in one spot as well. We do Ask Uncle Bobby every weekday morning on the B Team Morning Show, brought to you by Hard Rock Bet. All right, it's 7.52. Dan Diamond has local news next on 100.3 KROCK. (23:49) The Classic Rock Station is 100.3 KROCK. Good morning, everybody. Schuyler Black and Bobby Dewrell. The B Team Morning Show is on the air, brought to you by our friends at Stripes Pub and Grill in Navarre, as well as Okaloosa Gas at Outkast Sushi in Miramar Beach. Bobby, this break, we've got a couple guests in studio with us, Zula and William. I even remembered their names. That's a great start. (24:19) That's right. That's a good start. They're in this morning to talk to us about the Hispanic Heritage Festival that's coming to The Landing next Sunday. Now, this is going to be an all-afternoon and all-evening event from noon until 9 p.m. So, Zulma, I want to give you a chance to tell us a little bit about what you're planning and what you've put together for next weekend. (24:40) Absolutely. Thank you for that wonderful introduction. My name is Zulma Berenice, and I am the founder of Creative Life Media, who is presenting this festival in partnership with Conexion Media and Danzando Promotions. We're very excited to bring this to the Gulf Coast because I feel like we're bringing back not just a festival, but an actual cultural heritage celebration of Latin cultures all throughout Latin America. The Emerald Coast Hispanic Heritage Festival is free. It's a family-friendly celebration of Latin American culture, and it will be, like you mentioned, held on Sunday, October the 4th, from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. (25:22) That's a long day. Plus, you know, it's Bob-tober the 4th, too, by the way. Oh, yeah. His birthday is in October, so he calls it, the month is Bob-tober. Well, and it's October 5th, so see, they're throwing this for me. It's a day already. Exactly. You know what? (25:37) Cool. That's right. You outed me. I figured it out. So, yes, it will be an all-day event. It is a full day of activity. It starts at 12, as I mentioned, and the highlight of this festival, right as it kicks off, is what I am calling the Meet Your Match activation. Meet Your Giving Match, excuse me. And it's created so that nonprofits, businesses, and volunteers can network and come together and figure out how they can support each other. In the meantime, the festival will have started as well. We will have music from the stage. The vendors will be all set up and ready to go. We will have an art area where we will be doing cultural painting. My artist friend from the Dominican Republic will be here with us, guiding some painting, and also we're still working on the details, but hopefully she will also be doing a live painting of the event that we can auction off to go towards our benefiting nonprofit, which is the Emerald Coast Victim Services. It is a local nonprofit, so I'm very proud of that. The founder of the nonprofit will be the one leading the Meet Your Giving Match activation of the festival. (26:55) Cool. Yeah. You got a lot going on. I do. Let's talk a little bit about what we are both interested in, and that would be food. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. So I do have a good amount of vendors already. I am looking for more because you know the more the merrier, the more variety the better, which it is a highlight of this festival as well. We want to promote diversity. So food is a great way to promote that. In the different Latin American dishes, in the ways that our guests, whether you are familiar with Latin American food or not, can experience that diversity. So yeah, please don't miss out because it's going to be pretty great. We'll have Mexican, Colombian, Venezuelan, and I mean, I'll leave the rest for you to come out and find out. I can give you all the secrets. (27:48) I'm not going to make it much further than horchata. Fun being honest. Yeah, I will make sure that we have a horchata vendor. And another thing that I do want to make sure that I include is that right around 2 p.m., unless you know we have to change that a little bit, we will be having what we're calling in America 250 celebration, which in order to commemorate America's 250th anniversary, as well as thanking our armed forces and our veterans, which I will allow my friend here, William, to share about. (28:26) Yeah, come on up, William. Good morning, good morning. It's a pleasure to be here. My name is William, but my artistic name is Willie Panama. Willie Panama. Yes, I'm a retired Marine combat veteran. And I work for the Justice Department as a criminal deportation officer, back in the days when Giuliani was the Justice Department chief. So I moved up to this area, which is a beautiful area. I have one of my homes in Jupiter, Florida. But because of my PTSD situation, I needed to be away. So I came up this way, and I came to the realization that there's beautiful, educated, respectful people in this whole area. There's no doubt about it, you know. And my participation in this event is to be the mass of ceremony. And also through music, I do the healing of the PTSD for a lot of veterans that are suffering with that. (29:30) Very cool. So I'm promoting one of my songs right now that I did in like a salsa jazz format, in a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, Sunday Kind of Love. So I don't know if we're going to have a band, because time is so of a crunch. But if it's not, we're going to be able to perform it with the tracks. And we hope to have a whole bunch of people out there, especially the military community. We need that support. I mean, we have So many veterans and so many active duty in this whole region that we want you to come out. (30:06) We want all that stuff to happen. We want to have a great pianist, educator and composer, Ms. Reyna Sang. She's going to be performing in the 250 elaborate segment. (30:22) She's going to play the national anthem and she's going to play a couple of her original tunes. We are going to do well and this is the first time that we have a group of people working in one company, which is Emerald Coast. (30:40) And it's going to be totally different than any other thing in the Fort Walton Beach area. Well, don't miss out, folks. Sounds like you all put together a great event next Sunday, noon to nine, down there at the landing. Now, the event is free. (30:55) It's open to the public. There's going to be food. There's going to be music. There's going to be art. There's going to be dozens of vendors on hand and it all supports a good cause as well. So don't miss out. I want to thank you both for coming in this morning and chatting with us and they're actually going to head down the hall to 94.3 FTW to chat with Dan Diamond a little bit more at length on things that are planned for next Sunday. (31:19) But again, it's Sunday, October 4th. We've got all the details posted for you online on the events tab at thebteamshow.com. Thank you so much for having us and we will definitely enjoy expanding a little bit more on the next show. But again, thank you. (31:35) We're very grateful. Hey, not a true thing. Absolutely. We're happy to have you in. Thanks for stopping in. Yeah. Thanks for stopping by. All right. We're going to take a break, pay a couple bills, a look at your forecast is coming up next on 100.3 KROCK. The classic rock station, 100.3 KROCK, Aussie, shot in the dark. (31:55) It's 838 on a Wednesday morning. By the way, tonight the Destin City Council will meet to address correspondence from Florida's Environmental Agency about a direct lease for state-owned Holiday Isle property. (32:11) The property that's out there on Noriega Point. The discussion will focus on the city's future management of the land and its potential use for conservation and passive recreation. Also, the City of Fort Walton City Council will meet tonight at 5.01 PM to set millage rate for 2027 and to finalize the budget. (32:36) So that is happening this evening. So I know what you're doing tonight. You do. You do. You do. Until I've had enough. I won't be there. We'll check your forecast here in just a little bit. It's going to be another warm one out there, Bobby. (32:54) 92 degrees are high this afternoon. Now 88 in the forecast for tomorrow and 87 on Friday. So we'll get down to those fall-like temperatures here in the next 48 hours. Because everybody says nothing sounds like apple cider and pumpkin spice at 87 degrees. (33:12) Oh yeah. I mean, I've known no different my entire life. Well, okay. Point taken. Ozark, Mountain Daredevils, Jackie Blue, 100.3 KROCK. ZZ Top and I thank you for dialing in and spending your Wednesday with the B Team Morning Show. (33:33) That's right. You know, best way to spend a hump day. Best way to spend a hump day. Well, except for... Anyway. That's a conversation for another day. Never mind. Never mind. By the way... (33:48) Parents enjoy explaining that to your kids on the way to school. Exactly. A little birds and bees discussion now. By the way, next hump day I won't be here. Yeah, that's true. That's true. You'll be slacking off as usual. Bobby and Tom next week. That's right. (34:03) The only Bob and Tom that matter. That's right. Big time Bob and Tom. All right. I want to thank you all for dialing in. If you missed anything we talked about today from local news and events to your daily national holidays, ask Uncle Bobby. And, of course, we've got the show on demand online for you as well at thebteamshow.com. (34:21) So hope everybody enjoys the rest of your Wednesday. We've got the B Team Encore Hour coming up next. We'll preview some more local events during the 9 o'clock hour. But until the show reconvenes tomorrow morning at 6, I'm Schuyler Black. Bobby Dewrell, get us on out. (34:36) Hey, folks. Thanks for listening to the B Team Morning Show. Your leading alternative to quality programming right here on the Emerald Coast. We know you have a choice in what you listen to each and every day, and we appreciate the fact that you settled in on this wild ride that we call a morning show. But it's come that time of day. We've got to mosey on out of here, so you keep on rocking. (34:52) Keep on rolling. Never settle for the ordinary. Until the next time, the B Team is out. And that's a wrap on today's B Team Redux.