National Chicken Finger Day: The Breaded Dignity Crisis America Refuses to Outgrow

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We're not putting up with this one. We are celebrating this one today. National Chicken Finger Day. Yeah, because nothing says adult like celebrating breaded poultry crayons dipped in ranch like it's a personality hunt. No, they make it sound like chicken fingers suck. And chicken fingers don't suck. No, they don't. They're actually pretty good at the right time. At the right time? Yeah. National Chicken Finger Day is that sacred moment on the calendar when we all stop pretending we're too busy and admit we trade basic dignity for a basket of fried sauce dunked certainty. It's not about poultry. It's about control. (11:02) Clean little strips you can count, dip, and inhale while the rest of life stays chaotic. And undercooked restaurants will slap on a special. Your friends will post a photo like they discovered fire. And somewhere an adult will eat eight of them in a car in complete silence. So yes, it's ridiculous on purpose. And if you're looking for meaning, start with the honey mustard and work backwards. Chicken Finger Day. Yeah. I'll be honest with you. (11:33) I probably eat chicken fingers two or three times a week. I don't eat them that often, but I will eat them at the right time. What does the right time mean? When is there a bad time to eat chicken strips? I don't know. When I'm busy. You know, busy, just don't have time to make something to eat. So yeah, chicken strips or chicken fingers work then. (11:53) I mean, they're one of the handiest foods to eat, and you can eat them in the car? That's what I mean. Yeah. It's got to be the right time, you know? For me, I don't intentionally go out and get chicken fingers maybe once a year. Otherwise, it's like, yeah, I'll just do those. Those are easy. I'm still an eight-year-old kid at heart. You can't go wrong with chicken fingers and fries. I'm sorry. Don't ever change. Nashville hot place. Here's the Traveling Wilburys. Kind of always felt that Genesis should have Porky Pig at the end of this song. (12:29) That's all, folks. Because it just goes and goes and goes and goes. I mean, the song's called That's All, so why can't you have Porky Pig? It is. Oh, I thought you did the lead out on it. Oh, no. It does kind of linger and go on and on and on and on. Come on, man. (12:48) Wrap it up. When it's over, it's over. I know. They just keep you going. I mean, they had an encore on those last two chords. Does it make the song, is there some kind of thing in radio or music where it's like they get points for more time? Kind of like a YouTube video or something like that? It's four minutes and 15 seconds. Okay. I would have to look up when that song was released because I couldn't tell you off the top of my head. I do have this little handy thing called Google here. The internet? I believe it was somewhere, yeah, 1983. Oh, wow. In the 70s and 80s, you saw a shift from the 60s where a lot of songs were two and a half to three minutes and 15 seconds, and then in the 70s and 80s, it kind of went from three and a half to five minutes in length. Yeah. So this is 415 right in the middle of three and a half to five minutes. Maybe they were just trying to find the sweet spot. Yeah. I doubt that, but you being a radio guy would probably know some of the background behind that, why songs were certain lengths and stuff like that. They didn't like to play the long songs, right? Is that true? To me, the short songs, if you remember some of the 50s music and all those Elvis songs, they were all like two minutes to two minutes and 20 seconds. Yeah. It was just like balls to the wall the whole time. There was no ebb and flow with the music. Right. To me, that's just fatigue on the ear. Okay. Because it's just pedal to the metal the whole time. Yeah. And there's just no ebb and flow to how the music transitions. You don't get a half a second to relax. No, is what you're saying. (14:42) Right. Okay. All right. I mean, there were no Jerry Rafferty's in the 50s. Yeah. It was just pedal to the metal the whole time. All right. It's the B Team Morning Show, 6.51 on this Monday morning. Schuyler Black and Tom Mason brought to you by Stripes Pub & Grill in Navarre, Okaloosa Gas at Outkast Sushi in Miramar Beach. One final national holiday for us to talk about today, and that is an interesting one at that. It's Take Your Pants for a Walk Day. It is kind of an interesting one because apparently your legs need supervision and your dignity needs fresh air. Take Your Pants for a Walk Day. Take Your Pants for a Walk Day is that proud little blip on the calendar where society admits we've run out of real problems and decides your trousers need fresh air and a sense of purpose. The premise is simple. You take your pants outside like they're a golden retriever with a mortgage and you pretend this is fun instead of a cry for help with better branding. It's not about fitness or fashion or freedom. It's about giving your dignity a field trip and seeing if it comes back. Stick around because the real entertainment isn't the pants walking. (15:52) It's the people explaining it like it's normal. This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. Take Your Pants for a Walk Day. What does that even mean? Do you have them on when you do this? Right, do you just carry them? Right. Do you put it on a leash? Yeah. (16:09) And just drag it? Yeah, is it like those, do you have to have like a walking thing to make them, you know, actually walk? Yeah, you put prosthetic legs in them. How does this work? This is gonna take some... I don't know, I protest we never do this one again. (16:25) Take it off the calendar for next year? Yeah, let's start a petition. This one sucks. Alright. Take Your Pants for a Walk Day. I'm with you. Of course, leave it to Bobby to pick that one. Well, you know, it's the guy that, uh, he picks all the other ones too. Yeah, it does make sense, right? It does make sense. It's 6.53, we'll take a break. Dan Diamond has local news coming your way next. Your Omni Broadcasting News is brought to you this morning by McCaskill & Company, the Emerald Coast's finest jeweler. I'm Dan Diamond. (16:57) Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputies said they were contacted by Bay Area Sheriff's Office and the Panama City Beach Police Department about a vehicle with two individuals that were spotted in connection with a series of vehicle burglaries. They said the two allegedly stole a gun, credit cards, gift cards, and other personal items. Deputies said they found the alleged suspect's vehicle around 1 p.m. in the parking lot of a Destin store on Emerald Coast Parkway and arrested 39-year-old Christopher Coker and a 16-year-old girl as they left the store. Now there's a nationwide hunt for 38-year-old Isabel Rose Johnson wanted for murder. The reward for information leading to arrest is now up to $16,000. If you have that information, contact local law enforcement or anonymously at Emerald Coast Crime Stoppers. (17:43) And that's your Omni Broadcasting News, sponsored by McCaskill & Company. I'm Dan Diamond. Expectations were flying high. Bobby was an Air Force pilot and Holly, the love of his life, well she was a pilot too. While they both went to the Air Force Academy, it wasn't until survival training that they actually met at a Bible study that Bobby started. So when they came into McCaskill & Company, Bobby wanted a diamond engagement ring as high performance as his Holly. 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How you doing, Schuyler? I'm fine, Bobby. How are you? (20:23) Made it this far. Made it this far. Do you think anybody's reported back to him that we've just talked smack the whole damn time? Hopefully he's listening. Yeah, maybe he and Ferris are listening. They might be. Are they still on the road? (20:39) They're on the road. They're not up this early. Okay. They're not leaving that early. Okay. Bobby doesn't have it blasted in the hotel room or wherever they're at. You don't think? I don't know. I'm going to say no. (20:55) I'm going to say no. So I think since we've decided he's not listening right now, we should do another sigh. We should. Yeah. One, two, three. That was really good, Tom. Man, that was good. (21:10) It's like we practiced that. I mean, we did a couple times off air. We did practice it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because you do those things on the radio. Exactly. Exactly. We stage all of this. Good morning. (21:25) Hope you're doing well. Schuyler Black, Tom Mason, the B Team Morning Show on the air, brought to you by Stripes, Pub & Grill in Navarre, Okaloosa Gas at OutKast Sushi in Miramar Beach. Don't forget, coming up this Saturday is the back-to-school event at the Fort Walton Beach Rec Center. That goes on from 10 until 2. (21:41) We're going to have an in-studio guest tomorrow morning with Tom and I to chat about that. Very cool. So looking forward to learning more about that this coming Saturday. Again, that guest is tomorrow morning during the 8 o'clock hour right here on KROCK. Now, this last Saturday, we had the school supply drive at Executive Air from 11 to 1 in partnership with the Emerald Coast Children's Advocacy Center. (22:06) And we literally gave away over 100 hot dogs. Oh, my gosh. That's great. Over that two-hour period. Did great collecting school supplies, collecting cash, donations on the QR code. I mean, it was a super successful school supply drive. So shout-out to ECCAC as well as Executive Air for hosting the event Saturday. (22:28) Those guys over there are fantastic. And they do this seafoam roasting company. They've got a coffee roaster that they have in their shop down there. Oh, yeah. They do custom roasts and blends for all sorts of different companies and enterprises. (22:45) Really cool company. So looking forward to chatting with them more and working with them on some stuff here in the future. Well, that's pretty cool. Yeah. Very cool. All right. Well, locally, the city of Fort Walton Beach is going to be beginning a resurfacing project of Wright Parkway from 98 to Hollywood this week. (23:08) Right there by the high school. Nice. The weather-dependent project is expected to take a couple days with crews working between 7 and 5 p.m. Motorists should expect temporary traffic impacts and use caution in the construction zone while residents and businesses along the route are asked to remove vehicles and other obstructions from the work area during the construction hours to help the project proceed safely and efficiently. (23:33) So if you travel Wright Parkway at all between Hollywood and 98 the next couple of days, expect there to be, yeah, maybe some lane closures and a little bit of traffic congestion and slowness through there. (23:48) How far is that? Like a quarter mile? Yeah. It really is. It's a short jaunt. Yeah. So, I mean, it shouldn't affect that many people. Hopefully not. Yeah. And if it does, it's only a quarter mile. Exactly. Now, I don't know if the football practices have started because that's right there by the football stadium. (24:08) Well, I'm sure they have by this time, yeah. School starts. Kids, do not hit the construction workers. Yeah. Leave them alone. Put your phones down. Yeah. And drive carefully. Right. Please and thank you. Yeah. (24:23) Be safe. Yes. This safety reminder brought to you by the B Team Morning Show. We're all about being safe, right? Uh-huh. And speaking of the B Team Morning Show, I don't think that we've got an Ask Uncle Bobby coming up today. What? Yeah. He didn't get one ready. Man, I wish I'd have known that. (24:39) I'd have brought an Uncle Tom. Let me see if I can find one between now and then. An Ask Uncle Tom? Yeah. I think we should do that. I'll see if I can dig one up. Those were a hit last time you did them. Yeah. All right. Let me see. All right. (24:54) Stick tight. Jimmy Hendrix on the way right now. Cream in White Room. And Uncle Tom is coming up in just a bit. Now I'm on the hook. On 100.3 KROCK. Jimmy Hendrix and Foxy Lady. (25:09) It's 722 on 100.3 KROCK. I don't know about Foxy Lady, but Katy Perry's a salty lady. That's for sure. Oh, she's angry, isn't she? She is not happy. She shouldn't have sold the rights to her music. Exactly. She sold her catalog. (25:24) Yeah, Katy Perry went off on President Trump's administration for using her hit song Firework in a social media video that shows missile attacks by the U.S. government. Now, Katy shared a tweet in response to the TikTok video and said that she's deeply appalled and angry to see her song as a backtrack for the footage of military strikes. (25:44) Katy added, I did not approve this. I was not asked and I absolutely do not condone it. She went on to explain that the song is an anthem of hope, healing and inner strength for people going through their darkest personal moments. (25:59) Katy ended the tweet with, to see a message of self-worth and upliftment weaponized to soundtrack destruction and violence is a complete violation of everything my song stands for. My music is for bringing people together, not celebrating warfare. (26:15) Now, this isn't the first time the Trump administration has received pushback for using songs to coincide with videos of military destruction. But let's ask President Trump whether he really gives a damn. Oh, we did. The answer is no. (26:30) No, I can't. I can't think he would. Don't think he does. No, not at all. Don't think he does at all. No. But again, as you mentioned, she sold her catalog a couple of years ago. She has no rights. That's it. To that music anymore. (26:45) Yeah, so cry me a river. Suck it up. Yeah. Go have fun with Justin Trudeau. Yeah, you got a nice paycheck and now you're complaining. Exactly. Right. Exactly. It's 724. (27:00) This is the BT Morning Show. Of course, the show each morning brought to you by our friends at Stripes Pub & Grill in Navarre, Okaloosa Gas at Outkast Sushi in Miramar Beach, and Stripes now open for dinner on Mondays. This has been going on for about a year now, but they'd always been closed on Mondays. (27:19) Yeah. But now they've decided, you know what? Monday, dinnertime, let's do it. It's good food, man. Fantastic food. It is really good food. So what do you normally get when you go to Stripes? So, I mean, they've got so much stuff. (27:34) I usually look at the specials, you know, whatever the special is, because some of the specials are just amazing. And they're typically one night a week. That's the only night they're offering it. And it may be going on for a period of time, but, you know, as much as we're not out there weekly, so the opportunity just to try whatever they've got on special is amazing. (27:56) And the vegetables, oh my gosh. They've got some of the best vegetables around. Their Thursday lunch special is my absolute favorite. Is it really? Yeah. They do the best chicken parm sandwich. It is fantastic. They only do the sandwich for lunch on Thursday. (28:14) They do a, I think it's like a tortellini that they do, or no, it's a penne that they do on Thursday night with the chicken parm. Yeah. So it becomes a pasta dish rather than a sandwich with fries. But either way, it's phenomenal. (28:31) So if you haven't been out to Stripes yet, head on out there. And by the way, buy Tomcat Custom Apparel, the proud apparel supplier of Stripes Pub and Grill in Navarre. That's right. Been a great relationship with them. (28:47) Rob's a great guy. He is a great guy. They've got a big event coming up here to La Sala Event Center. That's his new event center that he opened up a year or so ago in Navarre. (29:02) And they've got a couple big events coming up. We'll get those posted on our website at thebteamshow.com. But I know they've got something planned here in the month of August. So I'll get that here in just a little bit because it was sent to me on Friday. (29:17) Cool. So I'll talk about that shortly. All right. Stick tight. We're going to take a break. The Stone's on the way. Steve Miller, Pat Benatar, and maybe ask Uncle Tom at about 20 minutes. (29:32) Maybe. Yeah. Stay with us. We'll try. It's the BT Morning Show on 100.3 KROCK. 100.3 KROCK, the classic rock station. It's Pat Benatar on this Monday morning. Hope everybody's waking up without, you know, any sour milk in their Cheerios. (29:52) I was trying to make it radio appropriate. I thought you were going to say something else. Did you? I'm not even going to go there. No way. No? No. Why not? Because I don't know what prompted me to go in this direction when you started to say that. I'm going to leave that one alone. (30:13) Now I'm interested. Shane's going to call me back and ask me what the hell I was getting at. Yeah, just heard from Sugar Shane a minute ago. That's right. Gary's auto salvage, auto recycling, auto recycling up in Cresthaven. Yes. Yeah. It's a whole different ballgame there. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry about that. Yeah. Apologies. They still crush cars. Auto. (30:36) Which is still cool. Recycling. Recycling. That's right. Yeah. Sounds much more environmentally friendly. It is more environmentally friendly. It's more up to date. It's softer. It doesn't come across as harsh. We're recycling cars. We're not just salvaging them. Yeah. If there's anybody that's a tree hugging lib, it's Shane. Okay. Sure. Yeah. 82 degrees right now in Fort Walton Beach, 97 this afternoon, 97 tomorrow, 99 on Wednesday. So going to be a hot this week, but you know, it's the last few days of July and the Florida panhandle. So are we really that surprised? No, no, we're not. No, we're not. Hey, do have some details on that event that's happening out at La Sala Event Center coming up on Saturday, August 29th. It's their next comedy show. They actually had one this last Saturday. Yeah. But if you missed this last Saturday at La Sala, they've got another one coming up with a Clayburn Cox. (31:45) Oh yeah. Along with the big rich Brock and Jason Hedden. It's going to be a ton of fun. They're going to have a food trucks on site. There's going to be a cash bar available at La Sala Event Center. Tickets start at $36 and we've got the link to buy your tickets on our website. (32:05) Just go to the bteamshow.com and click on the events tab, but it's something we'll talk more and more about as the event gets closer. But again, that's a Saturday, August 29th. So still got a few weeks out on that, but it is something you'll, you'll want to circle. Yeah. That dates. (32:22) All right. We've got to ask Uncle Tom coming up here in just a little bit. Yeah. Are you ready to do one? I'm ready. Okay. I'm ready. We fired it up. I got the whole team back there working on it and we, we put something together. Are you guys ready back there? Yeah. I don't know what he said. That was some garbled English if I've ever heard it. I have no idea what he said. Darrell, you sure that's coffee you're drinking? That's like listening to some Cajuns talk. We hired him out of South Louisiana, didn't we? He's coming to us from Houma. Yeah. All right. You may or may not have heard this song before. Well, you probably have, but by T-Rex. This is the late eighties super group power station with their take on bang a gong, get it on. Oh, I remember this. (33:17) Yeah. Do you? Yeah. All right. Ask Uncle Tom at about seven minutes on KROCK. Stay with us. To be on acid listening to that song. Like you think I haven't tried that? I don't know. Tell me Tom. Is that what you're asking me? Tell me Tom, what's it like? I could, I, yeah, never done it. So I can't imagine, but, uh, I gotta think there's gotta be something. So you're just flat out denying it. You're not even pleading the fifth. No, not even, not even pleading the fifth. I'm denying it. It's seven 46. The music in the background. Well, constitutes one thing only. (33:55) Yeah. It's time for the most brilliant part of the day. Yeah. Almost brilliant. That's right. It's ask uncle Tom all stitched together byTomCat custom apparel. He's back. That's usually when Bobby gives a tagline where the, where the apparel is custom. There you go. Just for you. (34:20) Good job. All right. Uncle Tom today. Your question is, well, he doesn't even have a name. Uh, I think it's in candid hell. I, I scrolled down past it. Well, either way, dear uncle Tom, my wife asked me to stand for a picture and 45 minutes later, we're still trying to get it just right. My drink is empty. Half the party is gone home. (34:48) And I think the photographer knows my face better than I do. How do I get out of this picture? Hell well, in candid hell, uh, first, except that, you know, you're no longer attending a party. You've been drafted into a full-scale photo production, the empty drink, the disappearing guests and hearing, okay, just one more for the 17th time or all signs you've entered phase two. (35:11) Whatever you do, don't ask. Are we almost done? That's the fastest way to turn a 45 minute photo session into a feature length film complete with wardrobe adjustments, lighting changes, and 47 more natural smiles. My advice smile. Like you're having the time of your life quietly, get one of your friends to refill your drink. If you can, and tell your wife, honey, I think this next one is the keeper. It'll learn you a few husband points. And with any luck, she'll declare victory before the caterers start packing up. If not just remember in marriage, there are battles you can win. And then there are family pictures. A wise husband knows the difference. All right. I hope that helps. Yeah. That sounds like hell. We've all been there, right? Yes. Just one more. Yes. Just one more. I high school senior pictures. Yeah. Wedding pictures, right? God almighty. So it's the funny, the funny thing to this in that my wife and I will go to a party and we'll leave and head home and we've completely forgotten about going and getting a picture. Oh, yeah. Either together or even individually, whatever. We always forget to go get a picture taken. So, you know, I'm there with you on that because we tend to go to some parties where there are there's a photographer hired for the event. Yeah. And yeah, the two formals ago. Yeah. Totally forgot. And that was that was like pissed off because I'm like, how did we how did we not take a picture? Right. Right. Right. Right. All right. Well, there's your advice this morning. I hope that helps. We're gonna take a break. It's 749 coming up in just a bit. Music from Tesla. Yeah. We have to give the staff and back a break after what they did. Oh, yeah. Interns back there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They need a break. That was the name. (37:09) I'm afraid to ask after the last response we got at the last break. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Look at news is next. American woman from the guess who on the classic rock station 100.3 KROCK. It's 806 on a Monday morning. The B team morning show on the air. Schuyler Black and Tom Mason. Yeah. Getting back into it after the after the weekend, which honestly, it was a good weekend, but it wasn't very relaxing. No, you were busy. There wasn't a lot of R&R put it that way. Yeah. You was go, go, go for you on Saturday. That's for sure. I know. (37:50) Mike Betzel called me yesterday morning and wanted to know if I want to go golfing with him. And I thought, yeah, but no, it's just like, yeah, yeah. Let's table it. Yeah. It's going to be hot. There's more weekends. We don't have to suffer today. Right. I can't imagine being out on the golf course yesterday. Taylor and I went to the grocery store yesterday, and that's literally all we did. I'm going to, I just, there's this bug that's going around right now. Right. And I, I didn't do anything. I slept solid last night until I woke up this morning, obviously early to get here. But, and I think you've been fighting it the last few weeks too. Yeah. (38:34) And it's all, it's all in the head, head and the chest right now. Right. Mild headache. Eyes are kind of bothering you. Yeah. Cough. The cough is terrible. Yeah. I don't, I don't know what it is, but it's been kind of going around our circle a little bit, going around the radio station and going around and some other, other organizations and clubs that, that we frequent are, are dealing with that, that same thing. I don't know. I don't know what it is. They haven't put a name on it. (39:06) Uh, you know, maybe it's, maybe it's COVID-20. I don't know. Let's start that rumor. Yeah. Because they all emanate from here. Yeah. Yeah. And we've gone to from two weeks to flatten the curve to two decades to flatten the curve. Yeah. (39:22) Right. Jeez. Uh, coming up here in less than two weeks is the Stars, Stripes, and Second Chances Adoption Brunch to benefit PAWS. It happens out at the Alice in Destin, Sunday, August 9th, and tickets for this event are on sale now. We've got the link to buy those tickets. (39:42) If you go to our website, which is thebteamshow.com. Well, Tom, for a long time, economists have been talking about the great wealth transfer. Yep. You know, the idea that boomers are going to leave boatloads of money to their heirs. Right. (39:59) New studies suggest that the rising cost of aging and long-term care is stripping away savings that people expected to leave behind, and in some cases, it's emptying them out entirely. Okay. Now, the wealthiest of families will be able to get through this, but many middle-class families will not. Looking at federal survey data on thousands of people who died between 2006 and 2022, found that the share of people dying with nothing left after paying for care nearly doubled in that period, from 6% to almost 11%, and hit 41% among the poorest 5th. Those figures don't fully include housing costs associated with inassisted living and nursing homes, where the annual bills can run from $75,000 to $130,000 a year or more. (40:50) Right. Now, with Medicare rarely covering long-term care and few Americans holding private policies, families are selling homes, draining inheritances, and tapping their own savings to care for patients, and many ultimately land on Medicaid, only to face little-known estate recovery rules that can take back a parent's remaining assets, like often the family house. (41:12) Right. So, yeah, long-term care is expensive. It is, you know, and it kind of, I'm not a, I'm not a, one of those guys that advocates for any kind of government health care or anything like that, not in the least. (41:30) But man, the cost of health care is just, is just unbelievable, and it doesn't need to be. It's, it's more inflated by bureaucracy and, you know, insurance companies and stuff like that. Pharmaceuticals. (41:45) Yes, exactly. And it just doesn't need to be there, not at all. I mean, you can, you go into the doctor's office, and if you advocate to pay cash, you're going to, you're going to pay probably 25% of what the bill would normally be if it went through your insurance. (42:02) It's amazing how much they inflate the cost of health care because of insurance costs and all that stuff that goes along with it. Yeah, it's, it is a problem, and it's going to be interesting to see, because, you know, we've heard about this for, for 20 years, the great, great wealth transfer, you know, and well, you're technically the end of the boomers, right? (42:22) Yeah. Yeah. Right. As were my parents and, and, and Taylor's parents, you know, and, and all of, all of the end of the boomers are going to be hit in retirement here in the next five years. Right. Yeah. I mean, I, I can, I can see where there's going to be a lot of folks that, you know, may not, may not have a ton of money. (42:44) Right. Right. And I, I think maybe some of the older boomers probably have, if you were born in the late 40s or early 50s, you'll definitely have more to retire with than the folks that, you know, were born in the early 60s. Right. I don't know. (43:00) It just feels like the folks that are like in their early 60s down to the ones that are in their mid-70s, there's a big wealth gap between those two. Yeah. Those 15 years apart. Right, right. Same generation. Yeah. So there's a big wealth gap. Right. I don't know if that was, you know, the ones that were born in the early 50s buying their first house at, in 72 for $20,000 and selling it 10 years ago for $400,000. (43:25) I don't know if that was the big difference because when did you buy your first house? Oh gosh, I didn't buy my first house till 2000. So you lived on base at a lot of places, right? Well, not, not that, but we moved quite a bit and stuff like that. So we just, we just never, never, we never dove into buying a house until later on. (43:47) And yeah, so I, how that fits in, it's hard to say. I think, I think a lot of the rules change, tax rules. I mean, there's, there's all kinds of things that changed near the end of the, near the end of the boomers and stuff like that. (44:02) And I think those have had an effect too because a lot of the, a lot of the tax breaks and things like that, that you got, whether it was, you know, working for the government or whatever, you, you didn't get a chance to take advantage of some of that stuff that was available to the, to the boomer generation early on. (44:19) Right. Yeah. You're right. You're right. And I, and I think that the, the, the cost of housing here, the last decade that's just exploded. Yeah. I mean, I bought, no, granted I was in, in our, in a rural Southern Iowa, small town. I bought my first house for under 40 grand. (44:37) Yeah. Right. But now, I mean, I don't think you can find a starter house in Fort Walton for really under 250. Oh no. Yeah. You're going to pay, you're going to pay through the nose for a house. And you're going to expect to have some work on that house. Exactly. Yeah. Yep. If not have to knock it down and rebuild, you know, right on top of it because there's so many of those old cinder block houses, you know, from the early military days that are still left. (44:59) And those are the ones that are the most affordable, but those are the ones that need the most work too. Right. You know, so. Yeah. It's really, it's an interesting conversation and I would actually love to get some, get a real estate agent and maybe a financial advisor in here to kind of talk about, or a banker in here to talk about like the, the things that the, in the economic climate over the last 50 years that have kind of led to some of these shifts. (45:23) Yeah. I think that'd be an interesting discussion. I think it would be too. Yeah. In the meantime, we'll play some Brian Adams. There we go. It's KROCK. Good morning. And 17 on the V Team Morning Show, Schuyler Black and Tom Mason on a Monday morning. (45:40) Yeah, that's right. A little Florida man story for you. Okay. A senior Florida man hired a sugar baby. He met on Tinder for a thousand dollars, but he ended their first date by ramming her car and pulling a gun when she attempted to flee. (45:57) Now this 67 year old man told the woman he met on Tinder that he was looking for a sugar baby and he'd pay her a thousand dollars per visit. This is why the boomers don't have any money left. Yeah, paying a thousand dollars a visit. Yeah. (46:12) It's an expensive date. It would happen to a kiss at the end of the date, you know? A lot cheaper, wasn't it? Yeah. A lot cheaper. Well, they decided to meet for a date last Tuesday. The man gave the woman $200 and took her to a lingerie store where she bought three items and then he gave her another $600 at a restaurant. (46:31) Okay. Then things went downhill after the man allegedly took the woman back to his house in a retirement community where the woman became uncomfortable at his house and messaged three friends to come pick her up. Now according to police, the man demanded the woman return the money, claiming her leaving was not the agreement. (46:49) Now she refused and after her friends picked her up, he chased him in his truck and rammed their car twice, causing it to crash into a pole. The man cornered one of the victims and pointed a gun at him and told him to get on the ground or he would kill him. (47:05) They got to safety once the man was distracted. Police tracked the man down. He was arrested and charged with one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill and four counts of aggravated battery. Wow. You can't make this stuff up, can you? (47:22) He did not want to take no for an answer, really. And he just took a bad situation and just made it worse, man. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. He dumped a whole barrel of oil on it. Yeah. You're already involved in illicit activity and then you're going to make it worse by ramming your car into them and pulling a gun. (47:44) You know, sometimes you just got to walk away. Exactly. Just cut your losses, man. Uh-huh. You can get this guy to shrink. People can't see that. They got to be right. No. Being wrong, accepting the fact that you might be wrong about something is a tough pill to swallow. (48:03) It is. Yeah. Hurts the pride. Right. Right. Some people can't do it. Hey, don't forget, coming up tomorrow and Thursday, the Fort Walton Beach Police Department are collecting school supplies for their annual Stuff the Van event at the police department, the police station, 7 Hollywood Boulevard, right here in Fort Walton Beach. (48:21) That's going on from 9 to 4 tomorrow and Thursday. We've got more details on that event on the events tab at thebteamshow.com. Guns N' Roses Paradise City on the classic rock station, 100.3 KROCK. (48:38) It's the B Team morning show. Schuyler Black and Tom Mason. Don't forget, we've got a ton of local events coming up over the next few weeks and the start of high school football just around the corner as well. We're going to be carrying Niceville High School football for you on 103.7, the ticket, and Choctaw High School football on 94.3 FTW. (48:59) Also streaming live at wearesportsradio.com and 943ftw.com. Well, Tom, one final story this morning before we get set to get out of here. A missing dog has been reunited with his Nebraska family five years after he vanished. (49:18) I saw that. Isn't that crazy? That is. Five years, man. That's insane. The dog was found behind a truck stop more than 600 miles away. Wow. The family was heartbroken when the dog escaped from their Lincoln, Nebraska home back in 2021, but they never gave up hope of finding him one day. (49:39) A friend sent the family a social media post that their dog, Chong, had been found behind an Indiana truck stop 642 miles away. They reached out to the Hendricks County Animal Shelter to claim her long-lost dog, but she learned that someone had microchipped Chong in the years that he was missing. (49:59) Awkwardly had to tell the family that they had contacted the person who microchipped the pooch to pick him up, but said if that person failed to respond within three days, the shelter would be able to release him back to his original family. Now after the grace period passed without a response, the family was able to re-adopt their pup and was warmly greeted by his owners and new brother, Cheechie. (50:22) The family had gotten after Chong went missing, so now they got Cheech and Chong. Chong was confused at first, but eventually started cuddling with his original owners and barked with joy. (50:37) We all love our pups, and that's pretty cool that finally, five years later, the dog got back to his original house. So is it better for the dog or the family? It sounds like it's better for the dog, too. I mean, I think the family's thrilled, but you know, if a dog's behind an Indiana truck stop, I don't know if it was living a very good life. (51:01) Yeah, yeah, I would agree. But who knows the circumstances behind him getting away from the second family? Yeah, we don't know that, but we'll just assume it was bad. Anyway, I don't usually like talking about stories of people from Nebraska because I don't like the Corn Huskers, but this is a good one, so we can share those nuggets of good info once in a while. (51:26) You shouldn't let your personal prejudices influence stuff like that. You know, my problem with Nebraska is their corn sucks. It's full of Nebraskans, right? Yeah, their corn, they have bad corn. There you go. Bad corn. Who knew? (51:46) Bad corn, that's all it comes down to. Alright, we're out of time this morning. We want to thank you all for dialing in and spending this Monday morning with us. Stay hydrated, stay cool today if you can. Heat index up to 109. And yeah, stay drinking that cold ice water. Keep drinking it, because it's going to be a scorcher not only today, but all week long as well. (52:07) Yeah. So, stay hydrated, stay cool, and we'll see you all tomorrow. Stay cool. B Team Encore Hour is up next. There you go. We'd like to thank our sponsors, including Stripes Pub and Grilla DeVar, Okaloosa Gas and Outkast Sushi in Miramar Beach. Local news is next on 100.3 KROCK. (52:23) And that's a wrap on today's B Team Redux.