09-02-2026 MetroNews Hotline Presented by Salango Law Hour 2

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2:09welcome back to the show. Hour number two, how do you do? Metronomew's hotline? Keeping your company here in West Virginia every week, afternoon from 306 until 6 o'clock on the old metronoze radio network. Did you see me talking to Chris Lawrence just for a sec? Did you see his story that he just posted at the website about the blue catfish? No, just posted. I mean, this is hot off the presses if the internet had presses. He just posted this a minute ago about Tyler Harmon and his four-year-old son Walker. They decided to go fishing last Friday. So they put in off the Ravenswood ramp into the Ohio. And they caught, there's a picture of the blue catfish that they caught that is insane. This thing, it's got the record. It's a brand new record for a blue catfish, almost 73 pounds. Holy my God. I mean, holy catfish. Holy

3:11catfish. This fish weighs almost twice as much as his son. His son's about 40 pounds so-can-whet. This catfish is almost 73 pounds. It came in at a little more than 48 inches, which is short of the record. And they put it back in. They didn't take it home. They put it back in. But there's something, something is up. And Chris points this out in the story that this is the ninth record fish caught in West Virginia waters this year. So the fish are getting bigger for whatever reason. Anyway. Yeah, he's down to a bunch of, he's been following some of these stories and he'll have to update them from week to week sometimes when West Virginia outdoors. It's been pretty amazing. This picture on the website is just fantastic. You looking at this thing. You see the fish. You see the dad and you see the, the, the four year old son Walker who's just got the biggest grand on his face. That's a, that's a memory of a lifetime right there. What a fish? What a fish? Anyway,

4:12it's posted at the website. Just got, just got posted within the last 15 minutes or so. Blue catfish record falls again here in West Virginia. Chris Lawrence. All right. We got a busy hour for you. We will take a look at what happened in the financial markets today. Reset our question the day. Coupon feeling pretty good about this pick one at four o'clock. A little four o'clock. A little four o'clock pick one today. We're going to do that. Abra Rahul Hedi is going to be here for a tech news segment. We haven't had her on the show in a couple of weeks. She'll be back at 433 today. Five o'clock. We're going to do some college football picks. Man, I need a, I need a palette cleanser after last week. You know, it was my fault. I didn't have to do picks on week zero. But I chose to open my big mouth and get it out there. So we want one for three in week zero. So we'll try to clean it up a little bit this week. I try to clean it up a little bit this week. So Jack Carlson will come over from the newsroom and you will heckle me as well. So we'll try to make some picks. One of my theories is who knows who plays for these teams, right? Who knows? Who knows? So I'm just

5:17going to kind of go with some statistical trends. We'll flesh it out at five o'clock. I know every year around this time some joke along these lines are always, is always made. But you could seriously roll out that key in a peel sketch. They did two parts of it with the ridiculous names that are one people's college footballs all start teams. Right. You could just cut that out and be like, hey, you know, America Joe Bob, Bob is, is, are starting cornerback next weekend. People like, yeah, where did Bob, Bob come from? Pretty close. Wouldn't think twice about it. Nobody's seen these teams. Somebody has any idea. So I'm going to go through. I'm going to do some statistical trends that will be at five o'clock. We'll play in around a five, twenty five, Tony Carrini. Now it's his job to know these dudes. So we'll try to get the straight skinny on WVU football. That'll be at five thirty three today. All right. Here's what happened in the financial markets today. Looking pretty good. Green across the board today. The Dow was up almost six tenths of one percent gain two hundred and ninety five points fifty three thousand and one.

6:21S&P five hundred up one half a one percent gain thirty five points today seventy six sixty six at the close. NASDAQ was up one half a one percent gained a hundred and eighteen points closing at twenty six thousand two seventeen big day in the market for him. In video. In video had a big day. I'm moving the tech sector higher. Stocks related to West Virginia that were big percentage gainers or losers today. Dow was up three percent gain ninety three cents thirty one thirty nine at the close FMC hold on to something. It was up almost thirteen percent today gained buck fifty one closing at thirteen dollars and thirty nine cents. That is a move man. That's a move. Huntington bank and most regional banks had a good day. Huntington bank was up two point seven percent tacked on forty five cents sixteen eighty seven at the close and the energy space. You know oils been rising and it's continuing to rise up eight tenths of one percent today gained another seventy six cents WTI clearing ninety pretty comfortably here at ninety dollars and ninety eight cents natural gas unchanged at the moment two dollars and ninety nine cents per unit and

7:25of course it is still trading in the crypto space. Bitcoin flat today. Down but just sixty two currently it's seventy seven thousand three hundred fifty bucks and in the commodities oil which took a step back yesterday stepped forward today up one point four percent gain sixty dollars and sixty cents per ounce closing at four thousand four hundred and nine bucks silver following suit up one point eight percent today gained a book twenty one sixty six dollars and seven cents and ounce all right here's the question of the day question today United States compact disc revenue CD revenue jumped fifty nine percent in the first half of this year reaching a hundred and seventy one million dollars up roughly from a hundred and eight million during the same period last year here's the question the day and it's sponsored by salingo law what's your reaction to the news that CD sales are actually rising and what are the best and the worst things about CDs compact discs

8:30what's your reaction to the news that CD sales are actually rising and what are the best and worst things about CDs so to respond text those in three oh four talk three oh four three oh four eight two five five three oh four I'm on exit weekly WEEK LLY one were three E's WEEK LLY are you Cooper you ready for a little little four o'clock Wednesday afternoon pick one action where you go yeah yeah I can do it all right pick one rules are kind of explained in the title and pick one for each topic two choices are given and you must select one of them hence you must pick one Cooper I have five sets of pick one topics we have not seen each others pick one selections there are no correct answers there are simply opinions honest responses well they're likely to result in hurt feelings that could jeopardize our friendship and working relationship but we're willing to risk that come on man it's a bottom line business we're all about the ratings here let's get started pick one topic number one Cooper are you ready let's make it happen all right so we've got the

9:33we've got the ratings now for the the big games in college football week zero on ESPN almost five million people four point nine million people tuned in to watch TCU and North Carolina three point two million watched Virginia and NC State you know I was making the argument that kind of like these international games I think I'm bucking the trend I know I'm into minority I think I'd love to see what's Virginia playing one of these games anyway almost five million people watch that game so pick one for you what are you more excited about the opening weekend of college football or the opening weekend of the NFL which is a week from tonight what gets your juices flowing more the opening weekend of college football or the opening weekend of the NFL please pick one for me I pretty much always I pretty much always default as a fan of the pros so I mean for me NFL season is as much bigger than what college football opening is for me

10:35personally but yeah it's definitely for me it's it's a it's a pro season there's a handful of college games that are good right but there's a lot of mismatches yeah I mean it's early in the season right now and there's a lot of but there's a couple of prime games but there's a whole lot of sub-prime games yeah all right pick one topic number two audio audible they're a full cast audio edition of the Harry Potter series has now surpassed five million sales since launching last November all seven books are now available featuring audio and a star-studded cast including Q. Laurie is Dumbledore and Kira Knightley as Umbrich the milestone was announced yesterday on back to Hogwarts Day all right so pick one topic number two audio books or hardback books please pick one audio books or hardback books please pick one this this is a really interesting thing for me but by the way the the full cast audio type presentations they're talking about

11:35there those are very good if that's like what the BBC used to do they did one with Star Wars that was like basically like an audio movie it was really amazing anyway having owned a bookstore or several books to was actually for a long time I you know I was always kind of pushing back against the Kindles audiobooks I never had much of a problem with eventually I adopted some of the e-readers and stuff like that I never really listened to many audiobooks unless I was traveling until I had my kid I'm all about the audiobooks now that's how I listen to a lot of my books I've been able to read again and a lot the last several years I'm talking maybe you know two or three books a week sometimes that I'm able to get to so I love both of them because I love to read but at this point in my life man I get more done being able to listen to to audiobooks than be able to read the hardcover so I'm gonna go to the audiobooks so this audible series on Harry Potter 130 hours 200 characters no I'm sorry 200 actors 500 characters so it's it's pretty pretty extensive

12:36all right pick one topic number three could we've talked about Miley Cyrus before sure did you see where Miley Cyrus is now just going by Miley she's she's dropped the Cyrus part she's releasing her 10th studio album on September the 18 so it's coming out 10 tracks synth driven dance record her label says the album honors the influence of her godmother dolly parton pick one topic number three synth influence yeah yeah it's what it's I mean they work close I mean I'm not going to disrespect that but that's just seems uh you know her her her concert tour will be a beginning soon in October and it the tickets go on sale September 10 pick one topic number three which of the following one name celebrity names has come out of your mouth more recently all right which of the following one name celebrity names has come out of your mouth most recently Beyoncé or Drake Beyoncé or Drake which of those one

13:46name celebrity names has come out of your mouth more recently I think I've articulated the symbol that used to be Prince more than I've said either one of those names that wild uh gosh man this is a random shot in the dark I think that I had a conversation with somebody about Destiny's child the other day okay chances I think that I brought something up about Beyoncé there's something that Beyoncé said on Oprah a while back that that I really took to heart and I use it in training a lot where she talked about breaking herself down into different characters that she has to play Beyoncé knows is her personally and she has Bay and all these different types of characters that that does different interviews and performances and different things along those lines and I've been part of that to different people in the radio like you know over over time that being said I've never other than when Drake was getting destroyed by Kendrick a couple years ago or whatever I've never uttered his name before in my wife so it's probably Beyoncé that's I thought that's I thought Drake was going to be the answer because you did throw shade on him

14:48or did I we talked about it maybe we did I can't remember I can't remember I'll be right pick one topic number four it was on this date in 1902 the first sci-fi film a trip to the moon was released trip to the moon on this date in 1902 better movie about space travel gravity or interstellar please pick one better movie about space travel gravity or interstellar please pick one I don't want to be argumentative here but interstellar was the only one of those is really about travel and they travel to the black hole you know gravity they were just an orbit well that's true I guess that's true now she did return to the earth yeah I mean I guess she traveled man that's they came out relatively close to each other if I remember if I maybe a few years apart but I enjoyed both of those movies yeah spectacular I like both of them a lot um the movie that I've watched the wind back and watch the most is interstellar so I'm going to go with interstellar there but I really like gravity all right quickly here's here's one more Bruce Feldman the athletic spoke to 18

15:51coaches at all levels of football from head coaches the position coaches to analysts the general managers and um don't say more the quarterback at Oregon is there picked when the Heisman Jeremiah Smith is second but the group also says Smith should be college football's highest paid player with more second two hour car ride Dante more of Oregon or Jeremiah Smith or Ohio State two hour car ride Dante more quarterback at Oregon or Jeremiah Smith the wide receiver Parix Alonz at Ohio State that's a tough one but I think I would have to go regional here I'd have to go with uh with Ohio State up Jeremiah Smith yeah I think I would go all right let's get on a horse what do you have for me very quickly uh better music for a late night drive under a full moon classic 60 70s country music or jazz where uh what at night late night late night drive under a full moon I think I'm going to have

16:53to go jazz there I think I'm going to have to go jazz there I'm trying to stay awake you know and I don't know that's really hard I think I'm gonna go jazz those are my two preferred so I like both of those okay witches worse so Linda has your ticket in your ID you're getting ready to board to go on a flight so you have everything you need to get on the flight and you realize just before you get into line that you left your wallet or phone back at home witches worse probably the wallet is worse because she's going to be with me and she's got a phone there you go I didn't think yeah I gave her your ID stuff so you wouldn't need that but I didn't think about the phone but I've got you know my identification all that kind of stuff is in my wallet so I'd say wall leaving the wallet at home is worse all right so next question I have for you very briefly uh better singing actor a better singing actor and we have here Michael C Hall did you know that he's saying no not a dozen amazing David Bowie he does it all the time or John C Rowley who of course saying all

17:57of his songs during the walk-hard The Doei Cox right and so forth quick taste for you okay John C Rowley of course you're all done all right the king wow Smith Smith is the answer all right all right yeah and that was impressive I know I know right yeah not bad at all do we have time for one more yeah yeah all right let's see we have okay a better uh with cabossa peppers or sauerkraut for me it's gotta be peppers I think I'm not a real sauerkraut person we got time for one more yeah I made these kind of quick okay better cautionary song about California a better cautionary song about California Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin brothers all the golden California and honestly a very similar theme

19:00red hot chili peppers California Cation which is a more cautionary a better cautionary song oh better cautionary they're both cautionary oh man giving them peppers all right yeah California Cation is all right that's a that's a Wednesday four o'clock edition of pick one let's take a break the entertainment reporter's next don't forget about our podcast check out your favorite podcast or simply go to wv metronoves.com and click on the podcast link this is hotline presented by salango law on metronoves the voice of west Virginia this is a Bloomberg money minute brown foreman the jack Daniel's whiskey maker saw profits be estimates in the latest quarter despite continuing sales pressure in the US and developed markets abroad the company's profits were helped by a 5% drop in advertising expenses brown foreman is in the process of finding a successor to its current CEO who will retire once

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22:08construction wv dot com foster construction they'll fix it right the first time keeping you informed on your drive home here's the latest traffic update from 580 wch s with your traffic update i'm my nickle sin there are no major accidents to report on at this time it's currently 94 degrees in the capital city for more traffic tips good to wv511 dot org once again from the wch s traffic studios i'm ryan nickle sin find more at wchs network dot com this is the year that i decided to buy a juicer that is what i did to my life i'd say that because i enjoy being a guy who has a juicer because now i get to be a guy who talks

23:10about his juicer to strangers i get to tell them how much energy i have and how great i feel and they ask stupid questions like why don't you just buy juice because i'm not a peasant i have to go to the grocery store and buy 40 dollars worth of produce every day take it home and run it through my juicer and then drink a glass of money that's how i start 428 on the show time for talking tv and more here are the latest entertainment headlines from abc abc entertainment news jonathan bayley has exited the upcoming production of sunday in the park with jor jen london's west end the announcement comes a month after his wicked co-star areyana grande departed the production in a statement on instagram bayley said this brilliant introspective musical has been the real passion project for me and i feel incredibly lucky to have shared in its journey with this team blueberry with the banana some familiar faces are suiting up for season two of heated rivalry

24:15france wilder no and robby gk who play fan favorite couples scott and kip on the hockey romance series are among the cast members returning alongside stars conner story and hudson williams season two will premiere in spring 2027 on hbomax in the us it's dirty we have our first look at season 4 of tulsa king the crime drama led by silvestres to loan returns to paramount plus on october 16th michelle france and abc news i will take a break here for news at the bottom of the hour we're going to tech news segment coming up in just a moment this is metrono's the voiceless virginia and good afternoon it's 4 30 and 94 degrees in the capital city i'm jack ralson in the 5 80 w chs

25:15radio newsroom the 90th annual west virginia chamber of commerce business summit is in full swing at the green briar us senator jim just to spoke to a large crowd this morning he and his family business recently completed a five hundred million dollar financing deal to pay off debt on the historic resort justice says he's thrilled with the new partnership with new york based firm kennedy lewis the kennedy lewis people were the greatest of the greatest of the greatest in my book and we wish them and this great hotel and the success here the very best it could ever be but for david sheen and brine doobin and loyth nathan we can never thank them enough the summit continues through friday a startling scene in the state supreme court chamber this morning during the first day of fall term oral arguments just as bill wooton suffered a medical episode he leaned back in his chair with his head tilted to one side and appeared to be unconscious yeah call the capital nurse called 911 back in the clerk's office called capital nurse called 911 that's how it sounded in the chamber wooton

26:21is 81 years old he's been on the state high court since twenty twenty one the court confirms that wooton is in a local hospital receiving medical care a man is behind bars and charged with breaking into vehicles and cross lanes kennedy sheriffs deputies arrested 34 year old jessie Reynolds for a string of break ins on three different roads he's now in the south central regional jail the news is brought to you by the merry phalan leadership academy it's a free public k through five charter school offering small classes free transportation free before and after care enrichment activities and more go to pla wv dot org it's ninety four degrees in the capital city i'm jack ralls and five eighty w chs have you ever dreamed of a project that seemed impossible wondered who could bring it to life with precision and care at gerry construction that'll just build a craft futures from historic restorations to cutting edge designs they have been your trusted partner since nineteen ninety nine whether it's an auto dealership apartment complex sports complex or church addition jerry construction has you covered see more in jerry dash construction dot com w v zero three zero one three three

27:25right on time right on budget colon jerry construction we have an updated sports on joh we're caught on five eighty w chs the martial football team opens their season santer day at penn state it is the first game for new penn state head coach mad following camels successful stint at iowa state we've watched a ton of uh... i was state uh... obviously where coach came from and there's twenty five guys uh... the following two penn state and uh... lot of the lot of the offense production a couple wide receivers uh... couple tight ends the running back uh... obviously their quarterback so you know we've got a good beat on what we think they're gonna do but we're gonna have to be able to make adjustments uh... and uh... you know if it's not well we've been prepared for that's Tony Gibson the martial men soccer team rallied from a three goal deficit to earn a three three draw with george mason last night with this update of

28:26sports on joh per cuddle on five eighty w chs one four five ninety six five and five eighty w chs all right welcome back twenty six minutes till the hour ever our heenies with us we're gonna to tech news segment here in just a moment but before we do coop we've got some pretty devastating uh... breaking news in the world of sports uh... this is come out within the last few minutes the nba has finally ruled in their year long investigation into the los angeles clippers of the national basketball association in the kawaii Leonard case they have stripped the clippers of five first round picks steve balmer the owner of the clippers has been fined thirty million dollars

29:29and is barred from the day-to-day operations from the clips for at least a but for for for one year there are suspensions also for lorence frank and gillian zucker who worked in the clipper front office kawaii Leonard will have to pay seven hundred k in restitution for improper benefits by the clippers for his uncle and former business representative denis robertson and robertson has now been banned from the nba for all future business dealings so they're burning down the clippers okay the end they might have still got off to a to light to be honest hey this this was huge why got to keep all that money seven hundred k's only has to he he like he absconded with million so once again the nba has just had their ruling on the year long investigation into the clippers the clippers will lose five first round picks steve balmer will be hit with a thirty

30:33million dollar fine but you know to be honest that's like a rounding air for him sure but it's not thirty and significant thirty million is thirty million yeah that's a boy I mean this is almost all from public public public tori reporting isn't I mean they broke almost all of this so wow this is breaking news and it's it's kind of rock in the nba so there you go there's that question of the day question of the day let me do quick reset on that and then we'll get a tech news segment so compact disc cd revenue in the united states jumped 59% in the first half of this year reaching 171 million dollars up from roughly a hundred and eight million during the same period last year's here's the hot here's the hotline question of the day and it's sponsored by salango law what's your reaction to the news that cd sales are actually rising and what are the best and the worst things about cd's best and worst things about compact discs send me your take on that 304 talk 304 304 8255 304 I'm on exit weekly w eek ley look who we found at cnet that would be

31:41a bra out he for a long overdue tech news segment segment a bra how are you doing today I'm doing well how are you let me ask you I wrote this question out question of the day about compact discs and I didn't I didn't spell out compact disc I just shortened it to cd's and I had somebody here in the building say what do you mean you mean certificates of deposit is that what you're referring to so do you do you own a cd I do I my middle school years were prime years for owning a cd even though I also had an iPod but what I love about cd's is the booklets that come with them with all the lyrics and the photos like I love that physical media aspect of it but I can't remember the last time I bought actually I will say the last time I bought a physical cd Taylor Swift is a mastermind of this because she releases physical CDs that are autographed right force people to buy them so that's the last time I bought one yeah and in the Taylor's version she sold all of her CDs again right exactly she's a smart business woman let me tell you

32:46so yeah it is kind of ironic that the the question of the day is about physical media CDs and then we're doing a tech news segment with you right now hey I want to talk about the apple rot surprise and shine fall event but before we talk about that you know this is in kupertino this is a pretty big week right I mean Tim Cook had his last day earlier this week exactly so now it's john turnis's turn to take over it'll be really interesting this will be the new CEO's first big event that he's hosting and I think there's a lot of I mean obviously I can only imagine how much pressure there is on him as he takes over from from Tim Cook and I'm sure Tim Cook felt that same pressure when he took over 15 years ago but yeah big big week in kupertino I think this will be interesting because rumor has it this could be the iPhone event where we see the foldable iPhone for the first time and so it looks like perhaps Tim Cook is handing over the baton to the new CEO and saying well you can have the honor of introducing this big major

33:50device and I think if it doesn't if it doesn't make its debut then we'll all be a little disappointed so I think we're all holding our breath and hoping that that happens but yeah we're we're gearing up that event as next Wednesday yeah you know what I think you're exactly right about that that cook leaving the stage and I was here in a pretty good argument last night that he belongs on the Mount Rushmore of the the greatest American CEO's and you know you can in light of what happened to the stock and what happened to the company after he took over Apple from Steve Jobs in 2011 I think you can pretty much make that argument. This is smart though right I mean one of the big criticisms of Tim Cook was yay made a lot of money and he found different ways to to keep bringing it in but there wasn't a lot of innovation well let the new CEO kind of bring this foldable iPhone to the front as because let's be honest people know who Tim Cook is yeah people really don't know who the new CEO of Apple is exactly and the new CEO actually is a hardware guy he was the senior vice president of hardware hardware engineering so this could be

34:54the time where Apple can once again kind of flex its hardware muscles and maybe show us products that are a little bit different under Tim Cook we got things like the Apple Watch and the AirPods but not much on the iPhone front that was that innovative so maybe this will finally be time for the iPhone to kind of take on a new form and stop looking like the same device year after year and also the Apple has really leaned into surfaces in the past few years because as iPhones become more expensive people hold on to them for longer right so how do they get your money well under Tim Cook they launch things like Apple TV and Apple music and Apple Fitness Plus so it's been a very subscription heavy strategy and so we'll see if under the hardware guy if we get kind of more hardware innovations too well let's let's be honest if you've got a two thousand dollar foldable iPhone that's a conversation starter it's a real real status symbol and you know Apple products have a tendency to be higher priced although they you know they have tried to dip their toe into lower priced items but not not as not as common as the the higher price stuff you know you see

36:01somebody's got a two thousand dollar Apple product that's a foldable phone you're gonna want to know more about it you definitely are I think you're right that it's a conversation piece and I noticed that even with my Samsung foldables where that becomes I was at a party last weekend I had my Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 and multiple people came and wanted to try it and hold it and so imagine what that looks like with an iPhone because the thing that I heard when they were looking at my Samsung phone was I've only Apple made this right so Apple show up with their foldable phone you're right it will be a statement piece that will draw a lot of attention and you know the given the fact that pretty much every foldable phone is around that two thousand dollar range just be you know I'll be extra careful if you have one maybe saw the case on that thing and and how about the watch too I mean there's probably a pretty good chance we're gonna get some more details about series 12 and that's not a low price item either it's not yeah exactly that's

37:02definitely expected between that and the ultra likely getting some some new wearables and yeah those those devices I mean it's been so fascinating to see how core those products have become to people's health routines and there's so much excitement I mean we notice that with our audience to there's so much excitement around the wearables and in the watches so I'm sure that'll also be a huge point of conversation let me ask you this I mean we're already talking about a lot of stuff okay a two thousand dollar iPhone that's foldable a new watch in the series 12 but you know if they don't roll out iPods with I mean AirPods if they don't roll out AirPods with cameras people are going to be disappointed I think so too this has been kind of them one of more interesting rumors is the AirPods with these cameras and they're not they're not really designed to snap photos or videos but these are little infrared cameras that can scan your environment so if you're speaking to Siri of sorry for triggering your devices but if you're speaking to that smart assistant

38:05they can kind of get a lay at a land around you and better understand your environment to kind of help you and so that's something people are anticipating and I I'm curious if it'll already make its debut now or if Apple's gonna save that for later because rumor has it Apple is not potentially not going to unveil all of its new iPhones next week it might just stick to the pro models and the foldables and then early next year they might release the baseline iPhone 18 and the cheaper iPhone 18e and so we'll have to see if that ends up being true you know what we've been doing these tech news segments for a while cooped how much long how long have we been doing these with with with that bro did we did we say it was seven or eight years I think it's something like that you know you know we've never talked about we've never talked about a toothbrush with an app okay I mean I saw this the other day all right so let's get into this Dyson has a $499 camera equipped toothbrush right where you're where you're brushing your teeth with like an

39:08electric toothbrush and you're able to see what's going on in your mouth on your phone mm-hmm well what do you think well um I just think if there's if you have been sitting with $500 burning a hole in your pocket and you've got what can I spend this on then we've good news for you it's been around toothbrush and yeah like you mentioned you'll be able to use the app to see in real time with the toothbrushes seeing as you're brushing it has this jet that shoots mouth rinse in between the gaps it's supposed to be you know better analyzing your oral health I personally will abstain from indulging in this product I think I'm good with my plain old electric toothbrush without a camera in it um I think this is you know just a really what Dyson says is it's not saving these photos or videos but I'm not sure I need a camera in my mouth anyway um so that's kind of how I feel about it but I'm curious what you think well you know I get you got to give it up to Dyson right I mean they're thinking outside the box here you know the air purifiers the

40:10vacuum cleaners I'm sure they're open to a lot of ideas makes you kind of wonder what ideas they passed on if they're going to have like a $500 camera equipped toothbrush exactly and I'm sure there are people who are so excited about it I mean Dyson makes great products um and you know this this could be maybe I'm sleeping on something great I don't know maybe there's this is a revolutionary thing but I'll wait to see what other people think here's the thing you know is this I don't know if this is the kind of thing that you buy for yourself but I think for the tech savvy person in your family this could be a great Christmas gift that's it that's a great point I think it's it's unique it's something they might not think of buying for themselves um and you know maybe if there's a tech savvy dentist in particular they'd be really excited about it's true oh my goodness all right well we got to leave we got to leave it there Abra thanks for coming on the show today I do appreciate it we'll talk again soon thank you so much take care Abra

41:12Alheedy from CNET and about that of $500 camera equipped toothbrush from Dyson huh we'll talk we'll take a break and when we come back it'll be time to get into the on the state file stay tuned Metro news hotline presented by Salango law will return right after these messages from ABC News tech trends John turnis on his first day as the new CEO of Apple put out a memo to staff in it he thanks his predecessor Tim Cook who's transitioning into an executive chairman role at the company turnis also pointing ahead to next week's iPhone event which he says will be a huge launch that Wednesday event is heavily rumored to be where Apple launches a foldable iPhone residents of three more American cities will now be able to hail a Waymo self-driving robo taxi the Google-owned service is expanding to Denver San Diego and Tampa which join 11 other American cities where the vehicles have already been in operation and the latest company to jump into the AI chatbot game is tractor maker John Deere JD is designed to answer questions farmers and

42:18ranchers have about things like fuel usage and harvest timing it's rolling out now on the web on mobile devices and on the control screens of certain John Deere farm equipment with tech trends I'm Mike deboskey a bee in a recent survey of 123 thousand wireless customers pure talk was the only wireless company to receive five stars in every category coverage support value and data what else do you need to know switch to pure talk today and get any plan including their top shelf unlimited data plan for just 15 bucks a month for your first three months no contract no commitment dial pound 250 say micro and let pure talks us customer service team help you make the switch these days heading back to school means more than pencils and notebooks it means laptops tablets online accounts and a lot of personal information moving across the internet webroot total protection gives families powerful online defense tools with antivirus VPN cloud backup identity protection and more helping keep your digital life secure throughout the school year

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45:22in a row to 525 time now for on this date we'll open up the file check the birthdays check the sports birthdays first got some good ones today how about Terry Bradshaw Terry Bradshaw the Steelers Fox Sports 78 years old today Jimmy Connors tennis player hola famer 74 years old Eric Dickerson man ran for over 2100 yards in 1984 he's 66 years old today Alenix Lewis Olympic gold medalist in 1988 former world heavyweight champ 61 years old today Tommy Maddox play for the Steelers for a while 55 years old today from entertainment Somahayek is 60 years old coupe Somahayek is 60 that is crazy right uh kiana reaves is 62 mark harman from NCIS is 75 years old today wow events on the state 1940 at the pga championship in her seat Hershey pa Byron Nelson wins his first major beating Sam Sneed in 1940 Byron Nelson

46:29faced Sam Sneed in one of the most iconic 36 hole championship goals in pga history after a back and fourth match Sneed was won up with three to play but Byron birdied the 34th in 35th holes to defeat the slammer one up a match that truly lived up to the height with this win Nelson captured his third major title and continued to cement his legacy as one of the game's greatest players also on the state 1960 American spinner Wilma Rudolph wins the 100 meter gold medal at the Rome Olympics in 11 seconds flat one of three gold medals she won in those games Friday September 2nd the gloom generated by Norton's unexpected defeat was erased in 11 seconds by a young American from Clarksville Tennessee log gazelle at the French writers called it Wilma Rudolph ran the fastest 100 meters in women's track history despite a sprained left ankle heavily taped she won the race

47:32by almost 10 feet all right there you go Wilma Rudolph from Clarksville Tennessee 1960 won the 100 meters and got the gold 1966 the Miami dolphins play their first ever game against the Oakland Raiders in South Florida and Joe hour takes the opening kickoff back for a touchdown Raiders won that game 23 to 14 and that mentioned a Danny Thomas make room for daddy Danny Thomas was one of the major owners of the Miami dolphins when they got into the AFL also on the state from boxing 1995 Frank Bruno beats Oliver McCall in a unanimous 12 round decision in London for the WBC

48:38heavyweight crown is this Frank's moment of destiny switches South Korea we are inside the last 10 seconds at the contest he's called me the left hand Bruno he holds on the fell is going to go any second Bruno must be a minor head on point he must have been the world heavyweight champion with that final bow he surely has won it night your band comes into the rain and lifts him high friend Warren punches the air the call of summer that can be no doubt surely that Frank Bruno Franklin Roy Bruno has entered boxing history for pretty on a no mentor s night of sport here at Wembley Stadium and also on the state from recording 1931 Bing Crosby makes his solo radio debut on CBS my brother ever had gone east and he'd been in touch with Bill Paley a youthful president of CBS and he'd played these records for him the records I'd made with R&M when I was in the

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