Ghost Students & Curmudgeon Day: The Secret Scams and the Weirdest Holiday We All Celebrate

(00:00) Here's today's BT Redux. Anyway, listen, you're listening to the bt morning show right here on 100.3k rock the classic rock station the bt morning show brought to you by our friends over at okaloosa gas stripes pub and grill and Outcast sushi. I'm bobby durell sitting in over here on mic one filling in for skylar black who's up in many somalia Today's love it. That's right. (00:39) And that uh second voice that you hear Well, that's the one the only the man behind by tomcat Which I don't even know how you got top billing on that Just sit. Yeah, it's working Tom Mason. Yeah, I'm doing good Bobby Man, you know if there was if I was any any better there'd be two of me. Yeah And I'm sure that the tax collector would want more money to raise Somali daycares. (01:04) Yeah, you would uh... we had a great show in store for you today folks course the six o'clock hour we've got all the crazy holidays that uh... that happened across this nation that uh... we love to bring to you and uh... (01:16) we've got some uh... news stories and more events are coming up seven o'clock eight o'clock hour don't forget around some forty we've got the ask uncle bobby break but you can always find everything that's going on at the team show dot com that's our uh... that's our website put together by one of the smartest developers there is in okaloosa county Yeah, that guy's right. That guy is amazing what he can do just uh, yeah, just a michelangelo of code And uh That's right. (01:44) Yeah, you can uh, you can listen to our show live there If uh, if you're having problems with the radio signal, you can also uh jump in listen to the b team rewind On our on-demand session that's right at about 915 every day. We post that up It's a full three-hour recording of everything that happens here on the b-team show and then the b-team Redux Which is where we boil it down to just the bits the fun part and we get rid of all that crappy music Then nobody wants to listen to anyway, you know when I think about it Nobody ever tunes in for the music they tune in for us Tom. Yeah, absolutely That's the whole reason why they're listening. (02:14) Yeah, you know I like to boil it down to essentially the thing that barely anybody wants to hear right and We call that a podcast That's right. Oh, you know, that's how podcast started. It says it's a little known fact. Yeah. (02:27) Yeah. No, not at all That's right, that's right so holidays coming up Tom what what day what day is it? So January 29th is a national scene I dog day Oh great another holiday where the dogs are more qualified to lead than half the people for Oh man, if dogs are best friends, then seeing-eye dogs are the ones who actually answer your calls and remind you where you left your dignity, right? (02:56) Yeah, is that the right words? Yeah, yeah. It's seeing-eye dog day, folks, an annual reminder that some dogs have jobs and, well, your cousin Todd does not. You know, it's the one day a year we pretend humans are worthy of canine professionalism. (03:09) Never mind, we still walk into screen doors and argue with GPS like it's a custody lawyer. But hey, you know, the idea is to honor guide dogs. But like most holidays, it's mostly an excuse for people to post pictures of Labradors and try to feel noble between brunch and a nap. So celebrate responsibly. (03:25) Don't pet the dog. Don't praise the owner. And for the love of tail-wagging dignity, don't dress it like a tiny mountain. Oh, man. (03:35) I'm not gonna say any names. But you felt that one? Yeah, I do. Did you feel that one? (03:39) Yeah. Yeah. Alright, stick around folks. We got a lot more to come. (03:43) More in store for you. But right now, it's time for The Who. And right here on 100.3 KROQ. Humble pie and 30 days in the hole right here on the BT morning show listening to Bobby and Tom the only Bob and Tom that matter right? (04:04) Mm-hmm, right. I agree with you. Yeah percent. Well, that's that's not something you hear every day folks It's a good thing, right? (04:13) Really agrees with me. I know Wow Wow Doesn't happen too often. You know, you're not getting paid for this. Oh, I I almost dropped an F-bomb there. (04:26) Yeah, let's don't do that. This isn't the podcast. This isn't the podcast. That does come with a fairly hefty FCC fine. (04:34) And that's the bad thing, you know, sitting and doing things like this, and all of a sudden you just, you know, you revert to one status or another and you forget, oh my gosh. Yeah, oh, oops. Yeah, that's an oopsie that costs a lot of money. Maybe we should never do the radio show from that studio. (04:50) Yeah, that is true. That is true. So we got we got more holidays coming up. That's what we do in our six o'clock hours. (04:57) Talk to you about what's going on So what what's happening? Well, this one this one fits in great with the last song that just yeah 30 days in a hole which would give you a lot of time for Free thinking because it is national free thinkers day. Oh Finally, a holiday for people who Google their own opinions and call it independence. Because I don't think they'll let you take your phone and put you in a hole like that. (05:20) Oh man, this is Free Thinker's Day when everybody who once read half a Carl Sagan quote suddenly thinks they invented skepticism. Free Thinker's Day is when we all pretend that thinking for yourself is still legal and not just something people say right before quoting a podcast they barely understood. Yep. It was pegged to Thomas Paine's birthday because nothing says revolutionary spirit like dying broke and being buried in a field by two friends who couldn't agree where your bones should go. (05:49) Yeah, the holiday's goal is to celebrate reason and logic, so naturally it gets less attention than National Donut Day and whatever nonsense involves dressing up your dog like a taco. But sure, raise a glass to independent thought and just don't ask too many questions or you'll ruin brunch. You'll ruin brunch, that's good. Free Thinker's Day, folks, right here, you know, on 100.3 KROQ, your home for free thinking. (06:17) We've got our marine report coming up next, and then we'll be back with some Led Zeppelin, George Thurgood, and the Destroyers, and so much more. So y'all stick around. Don't go nowhere. That's a song that goes out with love to the one and only Taylor Black. (06:30) It's Bon Jovi, Wanted, Dead or Alive. Dead or Alive, yeah. Yeah, see, I can play that because she's up in mini Somalia. She's not within arm's reach. (06:38) That's right. The cars drive. She doesn't know that we played it. Yeah. (06:43) Otherwise, I'd have to listen to her eye rolls. Oh, we're about half past six o'clock, folks. We're right in the middle of it. It's another cold morning out there. (06:54) You can't see it right now, but I just got a cramp. Yeah. Wow. Oh, man. (06:59) Isn't that great? Something wonderful about being our age. Thank God there's no cameras in here to see me lean back in my chair and go, oh, gosh. Yeah, because you don't know if he's got a cramp or passing gas. (07:11) Sometimes it's both. They both look similar. That's right. Oh, yeah. (07:14) One drives the other sometimes. That's I've been in that that weird situation It's like the last time you were reading reading the the the National Day moving my microphone in here that yeah Speaking of holidays, what's our what's our next national our next one is a national puzzle day. Oh, yeah Yeah, apparently we needed a holler break to celebrate a few being confused and missing one critical piece Kind of like your second marriage, right? Listen nothing says fun like paying money to recreate a photo that already exists I National Puzzle Day, for those keeping score at home, is the one day a year we pretend jamming small cardboard shapes into a bigger cardboard shape is a well and noble pursuit. (08:13) You know, it's the Super Bowl of Solitude, where grown adults voluntarily relive the trauma of losing that one corner piece back in 97. You know, supposedly it's about critical thinking, but mostly it's about yelling, WHERE THE HELL IS THE SKY PARK? for three hours straight. Celebrate any way you like, just remember, Sudoku doesn't love you back. (08:36) And then when you have that sadistic family member that goes over and takes a piece. Oh, you know it leaves well So so my dad loved puzzles. Yes huge puzzle guy. Yeah, and do puzzles all the time and one of the things that he found fun is When he would start to do a puzzle is he'd pull one piece out put in an envelope and seal the envelope And he had to have the entire puzzle together before he (08:59) could open that one piece. Really? Yeah, because then it makes you, like, your search for something, he's like, you're always like, oh, that's gotta be the missing piece. Oh, that's gotta be the missing piece. (09:11) So it keeps you from doing that and forces you to to keep going, huh? That's an interesting way to do it. Yeah Yeah, my my dad my dad had some some quirks And y'all wonder where I get him. Yeah, I was gonna say well, there's you that's right That's right. (09:27) All right, folks. We got heart straight on coming up right now 100.3k rock the classic rock station. Keep it here. Turn it up. (09:34) Play it loud. Have some fun We're gonna be around until nine o'clock. So The morning's just getting warmed up. Yeah Ellie guns ballad of Jane you remember yesterday. (09:49) I said Jane must have been a Yeah, yeah another another James song right man. They talk about that Jane. Yeah, yeah She must've been something. Or, yeah, she was. (10:03) She got around. Yeah. I mean, I think she was faster than Mustang Sally. And it's not just one band. (10:10) That's right. Not just one band. Right. Well, I mean, do you think she, was she set up like in LA? (10:15) You wonder if that's what it was? Like she just was in one place where they all... Yeah, probably. You used to freak at those places frequent That's different Alright folks starting to wrap up this six o'clock hour got a little music suite coming up for you, but right now Before we get into our local news Tom. (10:48) What's that last day our last day for January 29th is national curmudgeon's day Right the holiday for people who think turn it down the thermostat as a personality. That's it. That's it. Oh Man, it's it's like our day Tom. (11:04) Yeah It's really it's really our day. Yeah, you know cuz it's look it's it's a day for people who hate every other day. I Mean it it's a day when grumbling counts as celebration Man I'm gonna walk around on cloud nine all day. It's today's your day Bobby, right? (11:23) It's like everybody else's Christmas. That's right. That's right. Oh That's right, don't mess with me on January 29th, it's curmudgeon day. (11:31) Oh It's the one sacred occasion where being a disagreeable old crank isn't just tolerated, it's celebrated like a damn national sport. That's right, it's a day set aside for eye rolls, unsolicited opinions, and the kind of emotional honesty that ruins brunch. Officially it honors WC fields, but unofficially it's for anyone who thinks joy is a racket and small talk is treason So put on your best gal Cancel something fun and let's get judgmental I I can do that. Yeah, I feel like I can do that. (12:06) Yeah, I feel like it's a day I can judge people like nobody else I'm judging you right now. You know what there's very few things in this world. I feel I'm excellent at yeah I'm excellent at judging someone yeah I mean, I will judge your character in a heartbeat. That's right. (12:25) All right, folks, we're wrapping up this 6 o'clock hour. There's more to come in 7 and 8. We've got Ask Uncle Bobby still in the books. We've got all those stories coming up, plus all the events going around town. (12:37) So stick around. Y'all don't go nowhere. Right now, we've got the local news from Dan Diamond coming up after this. There you go, that's a that's a second second little June bug song right there June bug song Yeah, June bug was or some George Thurgood. (12:57) She loves a Okay. Yeah, that's a good song. That's a good song. Yes a little bad to the bone to yourself. (13:03) Yeah, I love it. All right. Oh Hey, uh, good morning for warm beach. It's uh, it's it's another cold one out there. (13:09) It's uh, just just a little over freezing Yeah, not as bad as it was yesterday. No, not not not quite. We're we're what like four or five degrees warmer Yeah, there's a couple and it it definitely feels different today than it did yesterday. I can I can say that Yeah, it's uh, it's a little sunnier a little uh a little warmer out there that uh, that is, uh, definitely For sure, but hey, you're listening to uh, 100.3k rock the classic rock station. (13:33) You're on the b team more Show with it's normally with Skylar and Bobby but Skylar's up in many Somalia. He's just over in st. Walls He thinks he's having a great time Yeah, he's a little colder than we are Yeah, I'm Bobby Darrell sitting in over here on mic one for for Skylar black who's well playing hooky and To my left Mike to we've got the one the only Tom Mason of by Tomcat fame to your left That's right to my left. (14:02) Yeah To my left, you know, you're my left-hand man. Well, you know, I gotta be something Yeah, I don't know I don't know how to tell you this but I can do it without you yeah That's the great thing. Uh, you know, that's, uh, I don't remember who I was telling the other day about that, that, you know, that's some of the many things that I love to do because it just, it proves that people just don't really listen. Right. (14:28) Yeah. And so I'll tell people that all the time, you know, they're, they're doing something, I'll go, Hey man, I don't know how to tell you this, but you know, really could have done it without you. And they're always, you know, usually like, oh yeah, thanks. That's going to settle in a minute. (14:40) And then you see him kind of sit there like did he did did he say that yeah, he didn't mean it Really could have done it without me It is 30 degrees out there folks is gonna climb all the way up to a balmy 56 today That's right. Now our overnight low is dropping back down to 29. It looks like it's going to be in the 20s pretty much the rest of the week. Yeah, it looks like it's going to be, what, Sunday? (15:05) Is it Sunday or Tuesday next week? It's supposed to be down like 23 degrees, I think was what the forecast is. Yeah. The train's going the wrong way. (15:13) Well, you know, the problem is, is so much stuff's going crazy up in Minnesota, even the weather decided to get the hell out. It's leaving. I'm out of here man going down the floor to where it's warm. That's right. (15:24) That's right So there you go if you're if you're from the Midwest upper Midwest up there you're You know much much much like what's gonna happen in a few weeks where we're gonna have your kids down here drunk and causing a problem Right now your weather's down here drunk in our front yard so Oh, some crazy stories out there today. Tom, did you see this one about ghost students stealing billions in college funds? I did not see that one. (15:48) Man, I gotta tell you, this stuff continues to get bigger and crazier that they're finding all across, but there's a little-known scam called Ghost Students that's just quietly draining billions in federal college aid and leaving real people with stolen identities. The scammers fabricate or steal social security numbers and personal data to create fake college applicants, especially at community colleges with very easy online enrollment, right? They'll apply for some federal grants and loans, they have the money sent to accounts they control, and then... Poof, they're gone. (16:24) They just disappear, leaving taxpayers on the hook and real students out of luck. Now, victims only discover the fraud when they try to apply for their own financial aid or see surprise debt on their credit reports. Federal investigators say the shift to online learning and the rise of AI and automated tools has supercharged the problem with more than 200 active investigations and hundreds of millions in confirmed fraud thus far. Colleges are now right racing to adopt better identity checks and fraud detection to stop go students before they steal more money and take spots from legitimate learners Yeah, you know it's one of the one of the bad downsides to AI is that it it can it can foster (17:06) this and and help Promote it. You know I mean AI's got some great qualities, and I think there's some good things to come from it You know there's a downside. I'll go differently. I'll say this is the problem when you take a huge federal bureaucratic entity and you try to push stuff through it and Yeah, we were never meant to have a strong central federal government like we do we were never it's meant to have all of this Overreach if (17:34) we pulled the federal government back to what it should be we could reduce taxes. We could reduce taxpayer burden yeah, and let these these financial things fall to the charities and the Nonprofits and the things that we choose to give our money to to support to better humanity, right? That's just my thought well i know it's and that's a good way to look at it you know lower it down and get it down to where people can actually uh... manage it it's not so overburdening that it's such a large large agency or large entity that you you you can't really look into everything that goes wrong when it's down at at the local level that can be done it can be done a lot easier when it's at (18:11) the local or state level or when it's with a uh... a non-profit that exists solely for that uh... and then it falls to that local non-profit board Yeah, I mean that that's where it is. Sure, you know, I I just what was it Ronald Reagan said that the most feared words from From that can ever be said in America. (18:33) I'm from the federal government and I'm here to help her to help Alright, that's enough of that talk for now. We've got Train Train with Blackfoot right here at 100.3K Rock, the Classic Rock Station. Stick around, it's the B-Team Morning Show with Bob and Tom, the only Bob and Tom that matter. That's right. (18:57) Leonard Skinner and give me three steps wonder what he was talking about. He just wanted three steps out of there, man Yeah, don't shoot me. I gotta go Oops brother, I messed up. Yep. (19:08) Yep. Wow. Just imagine if someone had a said that he probably would still be here today could be My mistake I'm gone. Yeah, I mean the world would be much simpler if we all listen to classic rock That's right. (19:21) I'm just followed the instructions. That's a great way to put it Bobby Just follow the instructions. Yeah Give me three steps mister. Just give me three steps about man. (19:30) I'll be I'll be gone. Don't you? Don't tase me, bro, right? Hey, you're listening to the b-team morning show right here 100 point 3k rocky classic rock station. (19:40) It's 31 degrees outside now, it's my it's bright and sunny looks wonderful. Hey, and I love this, too You know it feels like what it feel like 31 31 That's amazing It's amazing how that works, isn't it? Oh, yeah, the air quality a little better. Man, I tell you, yesterday I had to stop and get some eye drops. (20:03) Oh, yeah? Yeah, the air quality was down. I don't know what it was, but something that I had an allergic reaction to and my eyes started getting all gummy and red. Really? (20:14) Yeah, so I stopped in. Shout out to the guys up there at Florala Pharmacy. Yeah. I went wheeling in and could barely see. (20:22) Got that. Oh, honey. Oh, yeah. I need some eyedrops. (20:27) Inhale. She go. Yes you do She walked over and she pulled out she's like I'd use any any of these three. Oh, ma'am Just just give me one. (20:38) I don't care. Just just right now I'll put all three in there if it helps. I don't Give me a fountain. Give me a water hose. (20:47) But huge, huge shout out to those guys, man, to put up with me just walking in off the street like that. You're probably not the first one. No, I know. I do, man. (20:56) That's what I love about a good hometown pharmacy. I miss that. I wish we had more of that. Yeah, you walk in the door and they make you feel at home. (21:04) Yeah, and I'm a big believer that 90% of what we go to the doctor for, if we just go to a pharmacist and say, here's my problems. Or have you just walked in and somebody nice and sunny gave you a hug? All right, I'm better. But no, seriously, think about this. (21:21) So I think this is, it's part of what's kind of screwed up in the medical profession to me. We have a doctor that goes to school, he spends four years, right, learning how to diagnose, and then they give him like a six month Here's the drugs, right? So he spends all his time diagnosing, but yet we have him write all the prescriptions and prescribe and say what we should take. Meanwhile, a pharmacist goes to four or five years of school, right? (21:50) They learn all about drugs, interactions, what the drugs do, what it's best for, blah, blah, blah. And they get like three to six months for diagnosing. You know, you should really go to the doctor. The doctor shouldn't prescribe you anything. (22:04) He should diagnose, hey, this is what it is. Then you take that to the pharmacist, and the pharmacist gives you the right drugs for it. It makes perfect sense. It's the way it works everywhere else in the world. (22:15) You think I'm kidding? No, I believe you. It's the way it works everywhere else in the world. You go to any other country, you walk into the pharmacist, you tell them what your problems are, they don't diagnose, they prescribe. (22:27) But anyway. I digress. Tom, you got a story for us over there? I do, Bobby. (22:33) Several of America's favorite snacks have begun to eliminate the use of artificial ingredients. Oh, it's like they listen to Robert Kennedy or something. Yeah, the new stripped back versions of Doritos and Cheetos have begun to appear on shelves in Walmart and Sam's Club. Sam's Club in white packaging rebranded as Simply NKD or Simply Naked. (22:53) Oh, there we go. To show they are versions without artificial flavors or dyes. Inside the chips are now faded yellow and the Cheetos are near white instead of their usual red and orange hues. Manufacturer PepsiCo said the texture and taste of the snacks remain the same and hope we'll soon roll them out to more stores this year. (23:12) Yeah, I gotta tell you, I'm looking at these and it looks different. It does, but for example, the Cheetos, I mean, there's a white version of Cheetos already that's out there. I mean, they taste fine. We've been buying them for years when we do buy stuff like that, and they're great, but I think it's a great change. (23:37) I think it's going to be fantastic. The long-term benefits are just going to help out in the long run for the health of our kids and stuff like that. Yeah, I think we've got to do something about everything that we put into our food and into our bodies. I have a good friend that pointed out that, you know, you put deodorant on that is pure chemicals and guess where you put it? (24:02) Obviously in your armpits. What's right there under your armpits? All those, all those nodes, all the lymph nodes and everything like that. I mean, you're just introducing things into your body that really don't need to be there. (24:13) Yeah, that's right. You know, that's right. Yeah. Cause the, the, uh, what? (24:16) Any perspirant is like, high in aluminum or something like that. Oh my God, it's terrible. Yeah. Magnesium, all that stuff. (24:22) Yeah. Yeah. So hey, there you go. For more health tips and health advice, right here, 100.3K. (24:27) We're here to make your world better. That's right. That's right. That's what we do. (24:31) Hey, we've got your weather coming up, and after that, we've got the cars, guns, and roses. We've still got Uncle Bobby coming up this hour, so y'all stick around. Don't go nowhere. Guns N' Roses, welcome to the jungle. (24:44) Man, there's nothing like that at 741. Jones day morning get you fired up. That's right. You know sitting in traffic trying to get on base. (24:52) Yeah Yeah, you just can't do anything but dance in your car and sing out loud Tyler I hope you're hearing this Aren't you so glad aren't you so glad you're not one of those anymore? For the traffic to clear gonna be all amped up when you get up to the little airmen at the game Calm down uh... and i think that's it is uh... you have to have fun around here some days but i think i think that you know what i always laugh about is uh... (25:26) you know guns and roses so that's a that's a song that's a little special to my heart because i have to say you know when i was uh... initiated in the fraternity i want to point out that uh... the delta kai my fraternity abolished uh... hell week yeah and hazing in nineteen twenty nine yeah and uh... (25:43) i never forget showing up to the house that uh... that friday night before we're going to get initiated And we lined up, and just as we opened the door to walk into the social area, and the house had been closed up and everything, a strobe light went in on our faces. Welcome to the Jungle came on, and I remember seeing a big banner that said, Welcome Class of 1928. And I went, oh. (26:16) This might not go well. I don't think this is going to be as easy as I thought it was. Speaking of things not being as easy as you might think, a Las Vegas substitute teacher was fired almost immediately after a classroom moment went viral. Really? (26:34) Yeah, so video from a Clark County school district middle school showed the substitute teacher using the n-word during a lesson and asking students why black people can say it but white people can't. Not a smart idea. Nope. As you can imagine, some parents complain. (26:49) The clip spread fast online and the district stepped in. Within hours, school officials confirmed the teacher was terminated, barred from working in the district, and said the behavior violated policy and clause to clear the line. I wonder if that answered it, but did anybody answer his question? There you go. (27:11) Yeah. Yeah. Did the question get answered? You know, I've heard that debate a number of times and it's just not one I want to get into. (27:18) Yeah. Yeah. It's not that's this the close we're getting to it on air. Yeah. (27:24) Alright folks, we got Jimmy Hendrix with a little crosstown traffic and then we'll have Uncle Bobby next. So stick around, don't go nowhere. Best Worship Vice, you never knew you needed it. That was Jimmy Hendrix a little crosstown right there, and you know it's it's that time Tom you can tell by By the music that's not playing yet. (27:46) Yeah, but I can feel it I can feel it in the studio trying trying to help you get acquiesced to the yeah, cuz it's not gonna happen if I don't get that music Oh my gosh, oh man. I gotta tell you this is this is how trainwrecks happen right here live folks You're listening to it. You're listening to it speaking of which you are listening to the b-team morning show I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that we should always thank our sponsors something I did I didn't quite not mention enough, but that's Okaloosa gas Stripes Pub and Grill and of course our friends over at outcast sushi yeah, thank you guys for supporting the b-team show and keeping it alive and and And a big shout out to the guy stitching it together. (28:30) Yeah, that guy. Yeah, for Ask Uncle Bobby. It's all stitched together by Tomcat Custom Apparel. Great people. (28:38) That's right. Good people over there. Good people over there reminding you, cold mornings, warm afternoons. Well, you can still be branded all through the day. (28:45) It's just layers. And they'll put a logo on any of it. We will. That's right. (28:50) And by Tomcat Custom Apparel. Now, with the music cued up and playing, we have a listener with a serious question that needs some help. We do. From Uncle Bobby. (29:04) The best worst advice you never knew you needed. We do. So what do we have, Tom? It's a pretty serious one today. (29:09) Stapler Envy Goblin asks, I feel jealous whenever my coworkers get recognized or promoted. And even when they get small perks, like a nicer desk setup. I'm tired of feeling behind and I do not know how to stop comparing myself. How do I deal with this without letting it affect my work? (29:29) Ha! Well, first of all, let me tell you something there, State. Stopping is for people who enjoy being overlooked. Okay? (29:38) That jealousy in your internal alarm system telling you someone just got a cookie and you didn't get... Well, you should take that personally. Not spiritually, professionally. First, first order of business is treat every co-worker's win like an audit of your own reputation. (29:59) If they got praise for a project, you did not lose a compliment, you lost territory. And if they got a new office plant, that is not decor, that is a leafy little flag planted on your desk's border like you're some kind of conquered nation. Now you've got to stop thinking of jealousy as a feeling and start treating it like a budget. You've got to spend it. (30:21) You've got to convert it into visible output, louder relationships, and perfectly timed presents where it counts. Now, you gotta manufacture legend, okay? Casually mention your accomplishments in accidental hallway conversations that just happen to occur within earshot of the one person who controls promotions. You don't brag. (30:47) No, no, no, no, no, no. You curate the narrative like you're a museum exhibit titled competence, but with better lighting. Next, you gotta start seasoning the office with tiny doubts about everybody else's success. Nothing dramatic, just general questions that sound supportive, but land like a thumbtack in a sock. (31:14) Oh, was that deadline flexible for them, or did they just get lucky? Oh, did they lead that project, or were they simply the last person standing when credit got handed out? Then you escalate, because pettiness is precision. See, if somebody brings in a fancy new plant, you bring in two, and name them after your rivals, then ignore them publicly. (31:40) If someone gets recognized in a meeting, you follow it by sending a recap email with the phrase, building on that, and attach three extra deliverables nobody asked for, just to make their win look like a warmup act. See, in the end, you don't want peace. No, no, no, no. You want a workplace where your coworkers feel a strange, unshakable sense that they are always one step behind you, even when they are holding a plant. (32:15) Sound advice. Hey, I'm just telling you might have built an entire career off of that. I know people that did Yeah, you were a command chief I'm pretty sure you use some of those tactics How do you think I got there? All right folks stick around we got more to come right now we're going into to our local news with Dan Diamond some word from our sponsors and then we'll be back and You know, I'm not sure Tom, but I don't I don't think he was I don't think (32:51) he was happy with her no I don't think so either. That sounds like something you say to your ex. Yeah So that that right there is a song that goes out to all the exes today. You know who you are Hey folks, it's just after 8 o'clock right here on 100 point 3k rock the classic rock station. (33:09) You're listening to the b-team morning show I'm Bobby Durell sitting in over here at mic one for Skylar black who's off playing hooky and we got Tom over there in the Benchwarmer Tom and got called up to the majors. How's it feel? Yeah In the show. In the show. (33:23) In the show. Nobody carried my luggage in, you know? I was waiting on that. Yeah, this is kind of AAA. (33:35) We got to thank our sponsors out there, Okaloosa Gas. Stripes pub and grill and also outcast sushi Thank you guys for what you do to sponsor in part to keep this train wreck of a show on here It is it is a train wreck. I tell you like it's great music and it's it's okay hosting. Yeah, that's live TV, right? (33:54) That's right. Yeah Sometimes just okay is just okay Well, talking about things not okay, Tom, how about this? A customer claims they were forced to leave a tip in order to complete a pizza pickup order. I saw that. (34:08) You see that? Yeah. Yeah. Papa John's customer tried to place a carry out pizza order and hit an unexpected snag at the final screen. (34:15) As they were checking out on the app, the system wouldn't let the order go through unless a tip was added first. Even though the customer was picking up the food themselves now per the reddit post the person shared the app didn't accept zero as a tip amount Okay, leaving them no choice, but to enter something small like a single penny just to finish the order Okay, other people online said it felt absurd to force tip when no delivery was happening Regaining or reigniting the debate over tipping culture and whether prompts like this pressured customers unfairly. Yeah Yeah, I don't There's certain things I just don't think deserve a tip. (34:53) Well, you know, I'm of the same opinion. I think tipping culture's gone way too far. I do too. I think it was a holdover from Depression-era economics, right? (35:06) Because, you know, that's when tipping started, was during the Depression, the people that had money would show up and, you know, hey, here's $5 if you'll make such and such happen, right? That kind of thing. Created that that that sort of industry and then you know that the people in the industry realize Oh, if we just don't pay him as much we can they can make other money and yeah, you know anyway, yes You know, I think I told you about The tow truck driver picking up the car. (35:31) Yeah picks up the car drives it back and then says hey you can leave a tip Dude, it's your truck and you set the rate. Yeah. Yeah I What am I tipping you for? I know. (35:43) Did you wash the car? Yeah People do it You know, we get customers that come pick up their stuff. They like it They you know, they want to leave a tip and very appreciative of it But never ever would I ever expect somebody to to drop a tip because of we're doing our job Yeah, now that's totally different from the service industry and and people like that I got all that and I think that's warranted but it can't but some of it gets goes a little too far Well, it can be but I tell you what we're starting to do where people are talking about 30 and 40 percent tips Yeah, now that's getting a (36:15) little ridiculous, right? Right. I mean you you pulled the beer out of the cooler you pop the top and you set it on the bar Yeah, that is not a 30% tip Sorry, no Yeah, all right. Well now that I've just pissed off the service industry, you know, I can't go out for a little while and You know what but I'm gonna you know, I'm just gonna I'm gonna stay where I am. (36:41) I'm gonna do like Toto said I'm gonna hold the line you do that. Don't get a transition That's wonderful. We're on a roll today. That's right. (36:49) Hey, you're listening to 100 point 3k rock the rock classic rock station This is Bobby and Tom the only Bob and Tom the matter on the PT morning show How about a little Georgia Satellites? Keep your hands to yourself. You better keep your hands to yourself. Yeah. (37:09) Is that what Kat told you? I'm waiting for the phone to go off. As it should. Oh, man. (37:21) I don't even know why she lets you be on this show. I wouldn't. Oh, you're listening to the B-Team Morning Show brought to you in part by Okaloosa Gas, Stripes Pub and Grill, and our friends over at Outkast Sushi. If you missed anything today, if you're thinking, oh darn, man, I missed that wonderful Ask Uncle Bobby that's always stitched together by Tomcat Custom Apparel, well, never fear. (37:46) You can always go to thebteamshow.com and check it out. 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All that other crap the stuff you don't want to hear yeah, because I know that y'all just are thinking hurry up Let this song get over. I want to hear Bobby and Tom talk again And if that's where you are, well, then you hit the B-team Redux. (38:47) Now, that one lags about a day, maybe two days behind. But we usually get that one up before noon the next day. You know, interns just don't do what they used to. They got to go through it. (38:58) Hard to get good help these days. They got to listen to it. They got to pull all the music out. It's a lot of work for those interns. (39:04) Bleep out the F-bombs, all that other stuff. That's right. all those fun things but anyway you can find it all at the beat team show dot and you can play it on a loop you know play it on a loop and just all that good information entertainment just over and over and over and over again you don't know things that you've missed that's right that's right all of this was done thanks to uh... (39:26) to to one good friend of ours that never had the time to listen and uh... and when he did would always ask questions that we didn't know the answers to gary So, we built an entire ecosystem to make Gary's life easier. You're welcome, McCoy. He's worth it. (39:46) Yeah. We'll talk about that offline. Well, hey, coming out of Polk County, Florida, you gotta love this one. A, quote, drunkard and cooter brown substitute teacher was arrested for DUI at school. (40:00) Oh, God. Substitute teacher. That's right. Showed up drunk to work before ever making it into a classroom. (40:07) Deputy say 44-year-old Micah Allen Dial arrived at Lake Alfred Polytech Academy visibly intoxicated and struggled to back out of a parking spot. My gosh, you know, that's pretty well. First of all, I'm wondering how he even got into the parking spot A school resource officer stepped in smelled alcohol and stopped him on campus deputies later joked He was drunker and cuter Brown Wow now was arrested for DUI in the school parking lot agreed to blood test and immediately banned from all Polk County schools. (40:48) Oh my gosh What drives that kind of thought you know I don't know it Yeah, just hearing that and thinking about him. I remember years ago working construction I'm out at a site a guy come in boss boss. I fell off the ladder man. I'm hurt. (41:04) I'm hurt all right No, no worries need to go down to the To the hospital, I said, oh yeah, by the way, and I reached over and I handed him one of the little sealed bags that has a little pee cup and everything in it. He's like, what's this? I'm like, well, when you get down there, you need to hand it to him. So for workers' comp and our insurance, you're going to have to pee in the cup and we're going to do a drug and alcohol test. (41:23) He looks at the cup, looks back at me, puts the cup down and goes, I'll be fine. I'll shake it off. I just go, I'm going to go back out. It's always amazing to me how quick those guys got healed. (41:42) Found Jesus, one could say. All right, folks, we've got traffic and we've got weather coming up right now, and then we'll be back with some songs by the Polis. The Polis for traffic? That's right. (41:56) The big traffic problem in Fort Walton Beach? Aerosmith and Moore, so y'all stick around. Don't go nowhere. There's more here than meets the ear. (42:03) 100.3 KROQ. That's a little request and dedication this morning going out from the one and only Tom Mason to his wife Kat. Yeah, I'm okay with it. See, it's not all bad working here. (42:20) I'm okay with it. Yeah, that's what he said. He said he's going to get there and he said, lock that front door. Yeah. (42:28) Yeah, yeah, there we go, right? Oh So you get any stories first time anything anything fun happening over there no nothing Yeah, hang on a second give me give me just yeah, what did you did you see about this new brew? That's gonna be out that it's debuting during Super Bowl. Yes. (42:50) Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Is that where you were going? That was the one I was going into. (42:58) The new Super Bowl beer is already turning stomachs before kickoff. Outdoor brand Columbia Sportswear teamed up with Breakside Brewery to create a limited edition lager called Nature Calls. Brewed using water infused with bear droppings, Yes, real bear poop. The gimmicky beer is set to debut during the Super Bowl weekend as a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the great outdoors. (43:24) Columbia insists the final product is safe, clean, and drinkable, despite its unusual origin. Yep. What do you think, Bobby? Ah, nope. (43:37) You can sit there during Bad Bunny and drink your bear poop beer. We will not be watching Bad Bunny either. I don't know. I think you're secretly waiting for it. (43:53) Speaking of which, it reminds me of the story. The bear's sitting there and he looks over at the rabbit and he says, hey, does poop stick to your fur? Rabbit says no. So he grabs the rabbit and wipes his butt. (44:06) Anyway, well, there we go. That one's going off the rails, so we'll try to pull it back in. Hey, you know, we got a song coming up here. Do we? (44:16) About a lady. It's amazing. Now, Aerosmith, you were a little better than some of the others. Yeah. (44:23) Because Steven Tyler calls her Janie. He's a little closer to her. That's right. He's a little closer to her. (44:30) They had a little more special relationship. It's not just Jane. It's not just Jane. He called her Janie. (44:37) Janie. So here we go. Aerosmith. Janie's got a gun. (44:42) 1100.3 K rock B. Classic rock station. You're listening to BET Morning Show. Man, what a beautiful song to say sayonara to. (44:54) It is. I like that song. I mean, yeah. I mean, I feel like one of us is passing away now. (44:59) Bobby? You look kind of pale over there. Yeah, I know. I know it's going to be me. (45:05) I know. I'm not feeling it, so it's got to be you. Folks you've been listening to the BT morning show right here on 100 point 3k rock the classic rock station Yeah, that's right brought to you in part by our friends over at Okaloosa gas big Thank you to those guys to stripes pub and grill and outcast sushi for all for sponsoring the show in part to Bring us this joy and let us bring joy to the world for all of you. (45:29) Yes and For for Skylar black, I'm Bobby Durell Tom any fast last words final thoughts. Thank you Tom fast words Any final words no, thanks appreciate appreciate the opportunity to be here Good day. Yeah one more time and what are we taking bets on it if it'll be my yeah, I think we should I think we should We should pull the audience. That's right. (45:55) What kind of feedback we get. That's right. That's right. Yeah, definitely definitely Is there somewhere where they can comment like that? (46:01) Yeah, sure. Yeah, just call the station. All right, folks, we've had all the fun we can have for today, so we've got to head on out of here. But hey, reminding you, have a great day. (46:15) And final words, as always, I'm going to say thanks for listening to the B-Team Morning Show, your leading alternative to quality programming right here on the Emerald Coast. Now, we know you have a choice in what you listen to each and every day, and we appreciate the fact that you settled in for this wild ride that we call a morning show. But it's come that time of day. We're moseying on out of here, so you keep on rocking, keep on rolling, never settle for the ordinary. (46:35) Until the next time, the B-Team is out. And that's a wrap on today's B-Team Redux.