From 3% Caps to $950 Valentine ‘Arrests’: The Wildest Politics‑And‑Love Story of 2024

(00:00) Here's today's B-Team Redux. K-Rock, 7-0-9 is the time. Flirting with disaster, Molly Hatchet as the B-Team flirts with disaster yet another morning. How you doing, everybody? (00:11) Skyler Black and Bobby Durell hanging out, getting through it on a hump day Wednesday. Overcast skies, 59 degrees right now, a high of 63 this afternoon. Showers are going to be possible later on this morning, maybe a couple rumbles of thunder. Tonight, low around 35. (00:30) It's going to get chilly again with north winds gusting to 20. Tomorrow, not very warm. Sunny high 52. Overnight lows around freezing tomorrow night. (00:40) But for the weekend, things look really nice. Friday, sunny 65. Saturday, sunny 68. Sunday, sunny 67. (00:49) Yeah, beautiful weather in store this weekend, whether you're going out and participating in some of the parades or Super Bowl parties and festivities on Sunday, whatever the case may be, it looks like we've got a gorgeous weekend in store. That full forecast coming up in just a little bit. I'm Skyler Black, he's Bobby Durrell, we appreciate you all dialing in and spending this Wednesday morning with us. and bobby did get uh... (01:18) press release yesterday that uh... the new marine vessel uh... for the for walton beach pd and fire department is going to be uh... rolled out coming up on uh... (01:32) the tenth of this month i didn't realize it was a joint vessel now well actually it's uh... two different to uh... i'll gotcha gotcha gotcha different boats uh... have recently entered service with the for walton beach police department and for walton beach fire department and uh... (01:48) you can check him out at the uh... lies a jackson boat ramp coming up on the tent they're gonna have the uh... uh... public viewing of them and uh... (01:56) we'll get that posted on the events tab at uh... the b team show dot com no wonder ping walker voted against a problem yeah probably was that it was going to cost like eight cents making it up And also, next month, Bobby, is the upcoming vote to reverse the three charter amendments that were voted in November of twenty-four. There was a review committee to study the three charter amendments, including that three percent cap that we have been complaining about for the last fourteen, fifteen months. (02:36) No, that pretty much everybody but Payne Walker has been complaining about. I know, and there is no other municipality in the state of Florida that has that same type of charter amendment. It's a terrible idea. And if you don't understand it, Ben Merrill that owns Soundside, that's also on the city council, he put together a great analogy that everyone, even with little financial literacy, can understand how this current 3% cap will not work. (03:14) It can't work. I mean, the very nature of it is, it's a downward spiral. It's really, really good. I would encourage you to check out Ben's post on Facebook because it really just puts it out there in perspective for everyone to understand. (03:31) Ill-conceived, ill-advised, dumbass, terrible idea. So, to learn more on that, go check out what Ben has to say. All right, coming up here in just a little bit, later in the hour, we'll check in with Uncle Bobby for the daily advice that you always come back for, even though nobody really wants it. And of course, look at your forecast and local news later on in the hour as well. (04:01) Right now, Bad Company on 100.3 KROQ. This is the B-Team Morning Show. Jerry Rafferty and Baker Street on the B-Team Morning Show with 100.3 K-Rock. I'm Skyler Black, he is Bobby Durell. (04:17) Baker Street. The only thing anybody knows about Baker Street is that saxophone solo. You know, there's really, you think about some of those softer rock songs of the 70s, like Jerry Rafferty, Was there any horns in, like, Dreamweaver? Gary Wright? (04:40) I don't think so. I don't think so either, but there definitely was in Chicago. Oh, that's all Chicago was, was the horn section. I mean, earth, wind, and fire. (04:48) Yeah. I think one iteration of Boston had some horns. Really? I think so. (04:56) I'm trying to remember. In the 70s, you either had a damn carnival piano or you had musicians. BT Morning Show brought to you by our friends at Outkast Sushi in Miramar Beach, as well as Okaloosa Gas and Stripes Pub & Grill in Navarre, your spot to watch the big game on Sunday. So, an update on that whole situation with Savannah Guthrie's mom. (05:23) And the search for Savannah Guthrie's mom, Nancy, is now getting more serious. Police say that blood has now been found inside and outside of her Arizona home. And investigators believe she did not leave on her own. They're treating the house as a crime scene and the FBI is now involved. (05:42) Adding to the concern, TMZ says it received a ransom note demanding money for Nancy's return. Authorities say they are aware of the note and are taking it seriously, but have not confirmed whether it's legitimate. Now Nancy is 84, has health issues, and needs medication, which has now made the case even more urgent as the search continues. So, man, that's just a wild story. (06:07) Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy. It really is. Hey, speaking of wild stories, I saw only a brief something, but I think they nabbed the guy that stole the cash. (06:19) No, from Paws. From Paws, yeah. That's good. I think I saw that. (06:24) I'm trying to find the story now. I saw something last night as I was contemplating bed. So somebody made the headlines as a loser. Yeah, well, you know, I mean, it was a crime of opportunity and he was in dire need and blah, blah, blah, whatever. (06:39) There's 160-some charities here in Okaloosa County. There are resources, folks. You don't have to revert to criminal activity for that. All right. (06:51) We're about 20 minutes out from Ask Uncle Bobby this morning. Is it that soon? It is. It's already 725 now. (07:01) Coming up in 20 minutes. We'll get to that. The rain has started here in Fort Walton, by the way. And it looks like it's going to continue most of the morning. (07:10) So expect a wet morning, but maybe by the time kids get out of school this afternoon, things will have let up. Alright, we'll take a break, pay a couple bills on the way. Aerosmith, the cars, Don Henley and more right here on the B-Team Morning Show with 100.3 KROQ. Don Henley on the Classic Rock Station, 100.3 K-Rock, and streaming at krockfwb.com. (07:39) We're also now on thebteamshow.com with the entire show in a redacted version known as the Redux available. So if you missed anything from yesterday or last week, you can find it all online at thebteamshow.com, plus a full listing of stories, events, the daily holidays, and ask uncle bobby all at the beach show dot com scatter blackened bobby durell uh... moving our way through the second half of the seven o'clock hour and bobby's got something for us well yeah there's uh... interesting uh... (08:12) story and uh... study out there uh... about uh... the polarization gap uh... (08:18) in america and uh... will will definitely uh... have some links out uh... to it but uh... (08:24) you know to kind of sum it up that that's the here it's quite interesting it it it says that you know hey there's been a widening gap uh... over uh... the last several years if you look from the nineteen eighties to today over the past thirty five years uh... forty five years even it's it shows some things though that most people miss and that's but so what they actually present is that hate this uh... (08:51) cap really didn't start happening until two thousand eight Okay, that's that's when everything happened and what the study shows is is something that a lot of people miss that the polarization didn't grow because both sides ran to extremes it actually grew because the left shifted rapidly on social issues around 2008 after while the right mostly didn't. So liberals today are over 30% more socially liberal than in the late 1980s. Again, empirical fact. (09:23) Conservatives, only about 3% more conservative, right? So that means once I moved fast and the other kind of held steady, uh... and and the timing kind of matters if you think about it so let's let's go back to the two thousand eight and and think about what what was happening back then right we uh... social media started to uh... (09:46) hit critical mass now i really didn't take off until twenty ten twenty twelve right but that's when we see again another uh... spike but obama's two thousand eight campaign was the first to fully harness social media at scale And that's when politics moved from the front page to your pocket, okay? So we had 2008 social media mainstream. What else happened in 2008? (10:12) Well, that was the economic shock, right? Housing market crash. Yeah, the Great Recession. Millions lost jobs, homes, savings, trust in banks, corporations, the government collapsed. (10:21) So, you know, people stopped trusting institutions and started looking for someone to blame and someone to believe. uh... emotion became the algorithm right platforms rewarded emotion uh... especially anger and fear and social media didn't Invent the division right we can't blame the division on them, but they certainly learned how to monetize it right and then after 2008 people didn't just disagree more they just Lined up more cleanly right they we stopped being complicated humans (10:59) and started being political profiles started You know us and them right right now um and and that pattern israel right uh... now none of this proves causation right i'm not saying that this was caused by any of it but the timing is really hard to ignore when five big shifts happen at the same time that they don't cancel out the they really compound on each other and and honestly that's that's led us to where we are today with this huge gap in the middle and you know what makes it strange is when you when you look at it in in in total the u s is really unique compared to a lot of other systems out there and that there are vastly more conservatives than there are liberals we're just a lining to to cap to to to to silos two silos with this ever-widening trough between us and it's just it's hard when one side has has been unwavering and the other is just running to (12:09) an extreme right so uh... you know when anger becomes clickable that's that's when people start hold people just stopped holding mixed views and and started sorting themselves into teams i remember you know you think about two thousand eight and that's about the time piers morgan started his night show back on cnn right and at that time he was considered quite liberal and now he's no longer on cnn but some eighteen years later now he's considered very much independent maybe even slightly leading to the right on some man on some issues it's really strange well we had economic fear we had digital megaphones emotional algorithms and what we got was exactly what we're living today polarization income out of nowhere it actually came out of two thousand eight i mean so interesting like i said we'll have a link you can go you can go read the study yourself I mean, (13:15) to me, it seems fairly obvious. One side moved, the other didn't. Well, there you go. That's the story of modern politics. (13:26) Alright, another Uncle Bobby rant coming up in two minutes after Tom Petty. Stay with us. It's the BT Morning Show. Tom Petty, I Need to Know on 100.3 K-Rock. (13:41) I feel like that is the perfect Ask Uncle Bobby intro song, because if you need to know, Uncle Bobby will tell you. That's right. Uncle Bobby knows. It's Ask Uncle Bobby, the daily advice you didn't know you needed. (13:58) Weekday mornings around 745 here on the B-Team Morning Show, all stitched together by Tomcat Custom Apparel. That's right, Tomcat Custom Apparel, now customizing rain gear. right now we have a perfect day for that too. Well today, Uncle Bobby, you hear from Boundary Snack Skipper. (14:15) And they write in saying, Dear Uncle Bobby, I keep saying yes to requests at work and in my personal life, and I end up burned out and resentful. How do I set boundaries and actually stick to them without feeling guilty or causing problems? Look, you don't need better boundaries, okay? You need a better relationship with absence. (14:40) You've been available like free Wi-Fi and then you act shocked when everybody connects and starts streaming nonsense. Here's your new lifestyle. Intermittent boundaries. Same logic as intermittent fasting, except instead of skipping breakfast, you skip people. (14:59) Some days you are fully reachable, charming, almost human. And then other days you just vanish like a magician with child support, okay? Do it randomly. Predictability is a love language for boundary pushers and you've been writing them poetry. (15:20) So start dropping off the map mid-thread. Returning later with a calm, sterile message like, sorry I was unavailable. Because nothing makes adults behave like big, like being treated like a calendar invite, okay? You gotta make it an endurance sport. (15:41) The goal is not to be understood. No, no, no, no, no, no. The goal is to outlast their need to nibble on your attention every 10 minutes. See, you're training for a marathon where the hydration station is silence and the, well, the medals are people finally figuring it out. (16:01) And yeah, yeah, you get cheat days. I mean, call them people cheat days, right? Where you pop back in, do one nice thing, smile, and then immediately close the store again before anyone starts shopping. You know, you're not being mean. (16:19) You're being on a regimen. And anyone who argues with the regimen, well, they can take it up with your new religion. Peace and quiet. Boundary Snack Skipper. (16:33) There's your advice this morning. If you got a question for tomorrow or into the weekend, email in Bobby at Omni Broadcasting LLC.com. We do Ask Uncle Bobby weekday mornings at 745, all stitched together by Tomcat Custom Apparel, where the apparel is custom. News is next. (16:56) Stay with us. Red Ryder, Lunatic Fringe on the B-Team Morning Show on 100.3 KROQ, the Classic Rock Station, 8-12 is the time. Seeing rain across our listening area this morning right now in Fort Walton, 59 degrees, a high today of 63, which is something we will take. Absolutely. (17:23) Highs in the 60s. Tomorrow, 50s. But then for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, upper 60s. Lots of parades this weekend. (17:30) Panama City and Navarre Beach on Saturday. Obviously, Super Bowl Sunday this weekend as well. Lots of parties for that. The Super Bowl soup cook-off is coming up on Friday. (17:41) This is a fundraiser for PAWS happening at Mid-South Bank from 11 till 2. It's going to be about a dozen different chefs out there sampling soups. So if you want to stop by, taste the soup, vote for your favorite with cash, all the proceeds will benefit PAWS. Of course, the chef that raises the most money is going to be crowned the champion. (18:06) Yeah, hopefully you can stop out from 11 to 2 over the lunch hours on Friday and participate in that. And as you mentioned in that follow-up story on the guy that stole the jar of PAWS donations, 44-year-old Tony Salazar. says he took them. Says the money he took would have gone directly towards rescuing dogs and cats, is what Paz says, and paying for veterinary care, food, and bedding. (18:36) Fort Walton Beach Police Department did catch the guy in less than 24 hours. Yeah. Sorry, dude. Yeah. (18:44) There are other options out there if you need help. Yep. Also, in Utah's old mining town of Alta, archaeologists uncovered a rare Wild West time capsule, an intact bottle of alcohol buried for about 150 years. The bottle, dating back to the 1870s mining boom, was recently taken to a local distillery where experts finally opened it. (19:13) Now, the liquid inside smelled slightly vinegary and appeared cloudy, leading researchers to believe it was most likely beer, not wine or spirits. Now, using a special tool to sample it without fully removing the cork, the distillery's head distiller took a sip and said, well, it was actually surprisingly drinkable. Now, scientists plan to study the liquid further, including whether any old yeast survived, with hopes of someday recreating the beer miners once drank more than a century ago. So I thought that was kind of cool. (19:46) Yeah. Well, I mean it makes a lot of sense because everybody knows that miners always have the highest quality stuff Maybe the guy that owned the mine, but the miners themselves are I don't know about that. You dig 16 tons, what do you get? Tennessee Ernie Ford sitting across from me this morning. (20:09) Another day older and deeper in debt. Yeah. Oh my soul to the company store. Oh my soul to the company store. (20:23) My grandmother was the daughter of a coal miner. He was an alcoholic and they got evicted like 20 times before she graduated high school. It was bad. So are you saying she was born a coal miner's daughter? (20:37) Just like Loretta Lynn. Here's ACDC on 100.3 KROQ. I just want to celebrate because it's National Thank a Mailman Day. That's right. (20:55) That's what I was screaming about earlier. When do we thank a Milkman Day? Well, for you, that's in that Father's Day. You know I was it was funny Remember growing up some good friends of my parents He worked for Borden so he was a milkman right, but he so he works for Morton's and And anyway, when his wife was giving birth to their oldest son, it was before they (21:30) lived here, before he got transferred down here and where they were, she's at the Catholic hospital, right? So, you know, mid to late 60s, Catholic hospital, still Catholic nuns were the nurses and everything. And so they're asking Juanita, you know, about the husband and she keeps saying, Oh, you can't miss him. He's a milkman. (21:48) He's a milkman. Because he wasn't but that's not how the nurses right? Oh, this is not good So he's like, yeah, I got there he said they wouldn't let me say they wouldn't let him in They wouldn't let him talk to her. They were lecturing him. (22:04) He had to like prove that he was married to her They thought he was the illegitimate dad. Oh my god. That's hilarious praying for his soul No, we were married. This was supposed to happen! (22:18) But we were married in a Catholic church! We don't believe you. Stop lying. Repent. (22:25) Well, after the winter storm dumped several inches of snow last week across Oklahoma, 71-year-old grandmother Frances Graham climbed into a recliner mounted on skis with a running push from family and Kareem down the hill. And a lazy boy. Way to go, Granny. Video shows the chair picking up speed, then veering off into a ditch and tipping over. (22:48) Who would have thought that would have been dangerous? Yeah. Apparently not Granny. Now, luckily, Granny walked away unhurt, laughing so hard she said it almost hurt more than the tumble. (23:02) When asked if she would do it again, her answer was a clear and enthusiastic yes. So, I guess Granny's hoping for another snowstorm in Okie next year. We'll see if she gets it. All right, we'll take a break, pay a couple bills, look at your forecast is coming up. (23:19) The Doors, the Blue Oyster Cult, and Billy Squire on the way next on the V Team Morning Show. Brought to you by Outkast Sushi in Miramar Beach, Okaloosa Gas, and Stripes Pub and Grill on 100.3 KROQ. I'm Omni Broadcast. Seager and Hollywood Nights on the Classic Rock Station. (23:38) 100.3k rock. Good morning everybody. How you doing? It's the B-Team Morning Show. (23:42) Skyler Black and Bobby Durell brought to you by Stripes Pub and Grill in Navarre, as well as Okaloosa Gas and OutKast Sushi in Miramar Beach. And I think Bobby's got one last story before we wrap this thing up here in about ten minutes. Well, I'm calling this, you know, a little crime with extra pepperoni. Oh, sounds saucy. (24:05) Well, so a 41-year-old North Carolina man broke into a little Caesars, into a pizza shop after hours, fired up the ovens and, well, he made pizzas. And then he sold them to customers. and pocketed the cash. He returned later and was spotted by employees. (24:25) It led to a brief struggle before police were called. After being treated for some minor injuries, he was arrested and now faces multiple charges tied to breaking in and selling pieces that weren't his to sell. uh... a little caesar's thief hey i saw it look that is called vertical integration because he got rid of the fence that's true that's right that's kinda like the uh... (24:51) guy in charlotte that broke into the toys r us here's white snake before we get out of here what's the only road you've ever known? well the one I'm going down because here I am on my own and where does it lead? I made up my mind I ain't wasting no more time That's not a direct answer, Bobby. That's a very politician-like answer. (25:13) Where does it go? I've made up my mind. That's not an answer! I ain't wasting no more time. (25:21) That's not an answer either! what the answer is is that we're going home the history time is what thank you all for dialing in we are the bt morning show uh... will be back and do it all over again uh... tomorrow thursday he had on friday eve as bobby likes to say from time to time that's true i think our uh... (25:44) sponsors stripes pub and grill in the bar your spot to watch the big game on sunday as well as okaloosa gas and outcast sushi in Miramar Beach. Alright, don't forget if you missed any of today's show you can find it online from stories, events, Ask Uncle Bobby, holidays, and the show in its entirety as well as redacted versions, we call them redux, all online at your fingertips, TheBTeamShow.com. If you've not checked out our website, do it! Do it! (26:15) TheBTeamShow.com. That's right. I'm Skylar Black, he's Bobby, and he gets us out. That's right. (26:21) Hey, folks, and I want to remind you, you know, Skyler, I failed to talk about this in the last couple of days, so I'll have to work it together, but I did want to let everybody know we're working with the Fort Wallen Beach Police Department in an effort, a fundraiser for the B Team, actually, to help us out a little bit. We've got coming up now, there's only so many splats that we can do, but for $950, What we're willing to do is we'll arrange to have you arrested in front of your wife one day prior to Valentine's Day and then release you the day after. Now this is going to include lodging, a little bit of a guide, some fishing gear, food and beer. (27:02) So that's $950. You just need to reach out to Skylar at Omnibroadcastingllc.com to make sure we get you on the list and we will have that arranged. Yeah, folks, I'm just learning about this, too. Well, I mean, think about it. (27:14) It's a great deal, right? Well, have you arrested in front of your wife one day before Valentine's Day. So on the 13th, we will have you arrested. We'll release you on the 15th. (27:26) Yeah. And the price does include your lodging, food, beer, and some fishing gear. I guess they're all going to Pet Skoal with us. Yeah, getting arrested on Friday the 13th, doesn't that sound fun? (27:41) Well, yeah, but I mean, hey, you don't have to worry about that Valentine's Day gift. That's true. Save the money on the flowers and chocolates. Oh, he finally got there, folks. (27:49) It took a while. I knew it would. You've been 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. (28:00) Well, we appreciate the fact that you settled in on this wild ride we call a morning show, but it's come that time of day. Yeah. Hey, you can't say who it is. She might be listening. (28:12) Uh, no, uh, uh, Deve Rudley. Deve Rudley. Uh, uh, it's, uh, Deve Sudley? Uh, anyway, I've never heard of the guy. (28:22) Oh, folks, Skyler and I, it's that time of day, we're going to mosey on out of here, so you keep on rocking, 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.