HHH Show 080326 - Hour 1

Use your thumbs not only to express your opinion and a hitchhike, sometimes give them rest, talk to another human being. I invite you into the real but evaporating human experience of conversation. 656-8255-1-8255-6-2-5-6-talk. 1-800-9-51 talk. Want to connect with you, want to know what you think and why you think it. So I hope you will join me in the fray two day. Let me say good afternoon to my esteemed colleague, dear friend, producer of this broadcast, Christopher David D. Wayne, aka Little Daddy, aka Chalk 2, aka the prodigious producer, aka... Sweet Mama Pearl's baby boy, aka the elder, well, we'll see. Typically, he plays video games with his 88-year-old dad on the Nintendo Wii platform. Krisby Golf, 3-point shooting, bowling. Mondays we get updates. I suspect it's been a buy week. Let's go to Chris and get this week's update. Good afternoon, kind sir. Well, good afternoon, Hallorne. I like it. Your son, your son is like that as well now. He's very clean and articulate. Yes. Mr. Mary, he was on the phone today. He's like, hello, Mr. Hill. How's it going? Well, he didn't do that. Close. He was close. But he did not do that. Thank God. But it was close. Bye week. It was a bye week. Okay. Yeah. Tis a bye week. Tis a bye week. Yes, it is. Spider-Man blew all the records. I wanted to see that this week. Saw it. I went to see it. Did you really? Yes. Bless your heart. Yes, yes, yes. Good? Oh, yeah. It was good. It's their biggest opening ever. Really? Yeah. Yeah, buddy. It's funny. Nice. Yep. Nice. Ms. Cahoon, did you see Spider-Man? I haven't yet, but I think I'm going to go this week. I'm seeing The Odyssey tonight, though. Oh, you're going to love it. I'm, like, ridiculously excited. I'm going to see it in IMAX. To both of you, this thought. Your response? Entire Spider-Man screening evacuated.

After film goers, what caused chaos and then an evacuation? First to you, Ms. Cahoon. What did the film goer have happened that caused everybody to evacuate the theater? I have no clue. Maybe like an accident in their pants. All right, Chris. Explosive diarrhea. All right, let's go. Entire Spider-Man screening evacuated. Clean it up. Entire Spider-Man screening evacuated. Entire Spider-Man screening evacuated after filmgoers rancid farts. Cause chaos. Are you serious? No way. Movie fans expected Spider-Man to save the day. Instead, they were forced to flee when one mystery cinema goers rancet fart reportedly emptied the entire screening within minutes. There's no way. This is from the mirror. You can look it up on the judge report right now and read it for yourself. He farted and it cleared this arena. A single human being. Clear the theater. With cabbage, rancid cabbage and convenience store hot dog farts. He blew one up and everybody was like, oh, oh. Did they get their money back? I don't know. This is in the mirror. Is that a real story? It's a real story. I'm looking it up. That's a real story. Yes, was thrown into chaos as one cinema goer reportedly cleared the entire auditorium with their rancid farts. Movie fans watching Spider-Man brand new day were forced to abandon the screening on Saturday after a foul smell spread through. The packed cinema. Rather than sit through the stench, hundreds of viewers got up, left the darkened screen, spilling into the corridor of the cinema. This was, where is this at? In Cardahana, Columbia. Oh, yeah. Footage from the scene shows crowds gathered outside the auditorium with some people covering their noses as they waited. A person dressed as Spider-Man could also be seen mingling with the disappointing. It's so Spider-Man, he couldn't save the day. He's like, no, I got nothing. Man, that Colombian cuisine can be a bit spicy, I guess. Yeah.

He can cause poots. Did you find the story, Ms. Coon? I did. And I watched the video, and it literally, like, people are running out of there. Like, I got tear gas. Start your day with the morning jolt of Drake C. Toll. See, now it's on demand. My podcast is kind of a radio thing, I think, but also it's a bit of a TV show, and it's about whatever I want it to be. It's listening live as it happened, when it happened, with the instant reaction. You're home for talking sports. We go back. Great Toll Show, Westwood One Sports Network, and there will be on demand on your radio. Anywhere in the country, I'll see you there. Westwood One Sports Talk, your home for Drake C. Toll, follow and listen on your favorite platform. Triple H radio experience, was it the tacos? How bad does a fart have to be to clear? And by the way, people packed out Spider-Man this weekend. I mean, they packed it out. I was trying to get a little ticket. I was like, whoa. Whoa. You see that? Where did you see it? Pinnacle? No, I went to downtown west because all the other, you know, Hoopity Hoot theaters were packed out. I just slipped over downtown west. Okay. Hadn't been there in a minute. Slipped off in there. My man. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You know, you like to recline and have them bring the food to you and do all that stuff, but sometimes you just want to get in, get out, get it done. Got it. But how bad? How bad? How soon, how far into the movie did they get before he dropped bombs? But what kind of sulfur and... What chemicals come out of a person's dairy air that would literally gas bomb a theater? Who's behind is terroristic? And was it just one? If he did that with just one?

That is so crazy. And then he cut it off about it halfway. What if that's the new villain in the next movie? I'd hate to smell his car. His house. The amazing dukius. He had cyclo, whatever. What is it called? The only cyclo what? Cyclosporiasis. Yeah, that's what he had. By the way, a couple of people have died from that. No. Yes. Two people died in Michigan. Are you serious? Yes. Are you serious? Very serious. George, welcome to the Triple H radio experience. What are you doing to that? Hey, taking it one day at a time. I'm well. Thank you. I just want to know how long it takes you to forget things. I seem to recall a story you told about being sprayed in the airliner, and those four folks couldn't get out. And the attendant came by and gave your squirt on the airplane. She gave you a squirt. I woke of it, I'm like, what is this? George, I forgot all about that. Thank you, sir. Natalie, have you heard the story about howling on an airplane? And he fell asleep on the plane, and he woke up. With wet arms, I guess, because of the tendon. I got misted. Weird. I got forbreezed. Oh, my God. He fell asleep and woke up for breezed because he was sleep farting on the plane.

And the funny thing is, I went to see Spider-Man this weekend. Oh, geez. And then this story comes out the next day. Hmm. Was it you? No, it was not. I don't think it was. Ed, welcome to the AAA Tradio Experience. How? How are you? Long time listener, first time caller. Welcome. We place you on the first time caller's throne. Give you the crown and septor. Welcome. Hey, my ex-wife, Rhonda, let me tell you what. She's got to the bar with her girlfriends and come back. And my God, it was like a nuclear combustion in that bedroom, man. Let me tell you some. We divorced back in 08. I ended up buying a bunch of comic book collections and, you know, the financial crisis. We just fell through the roof. But anyway, we had some good times. But let me tell you. Hey, question for you how. You got a lineup on the show today. I do. Marsha Blackburn, Monty Fritz, and John Rose will be on tomorrow at 530. Let me ask a question for you. When I first started listening, well, I guess more recently, you had a guy that used to read your news. He had quite a voice, and he sounded like Walter Cronkite every top every hour. Did y'all fire him or he quit? What happened to him? No, you're thinking about Dave Folk. No, Sam Brown. No, Luke. Yeah, Luke Limp. Luke. Luke. Yeah, Luke. When is he coming back? He, uh, he, he, he went home. No, no. No, we didn't fire. We didn't fire him. He farted in the studio. We were like, you. Get me out of here. Natalie said, go. No. Oh, well, I love this news, yeah, he was great. Where did he go, Chris? He went home to, uh, for the summer to. Is it Virginia, Natalie? Do you know? No, no. I think he's from North Carolina. Yeah. He went home. Well, he's a stud, and I hope he comes back. Hey, Hal, it's Luke Lammerer giving you a call from Richmond. Just wanted to say hi. I'm thinking of you, and I'll be back in about two weeks. Oh, that's funny. Did you hear the spray? Did you hit the spray? No, I felt it. You just felt it. And I look around and the person sitting next to me was looking out the window. And the people across the aisle were looking the other way as well. Nobody would make eye contact with it. What was it that you ate that day? I don't know. I remember you telling the story and you told us what you ate. I don't remember. Seems like it was a burrito or some sort. I had forgotten all about the story. I forgot about it. You got Fabriz. That is so funny. You sleep poop. And I look up at the flight attendant, and she just looked at me so tenderly. She's like, there, there. You had some sleep slippage. It's okay. Anybody that has a spouse or a partner, you farted under the covers.

Yeah, but you know when you're doing that. And you try to trap it or not. Yeah, you have to trap it. You try to put your arms down. Trap it in the cover. Yeah. You know, I have done my best to never fart around other human beings. I remove myself. What is it? You think you remove yourself. Start your day with the morning jolt of Drake Toll. Anywhere in the country. Your home for talking sports. The United States hockey team has four teeth left. What is LeBron James Legacy? Leonel Mess. 906 career goals is stupid. All of it. The Knicks. The Los Angeles Lakers. Aaron Rogers. Georgia football players. The Dolphins. The Mets. As it happened, when it happened. We'll talk all of it. Westwood One Sports Talk. Your home for Drake Toll. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. All right. AAA Tradio Experience. Chris Davis is administrator, sorry, of elections for Knox County. Mr. Davis, it is always a pleasure to speak with you, sir. Thank you for joining us today. I'm glad to be able to do so, and it's always a pleasure to speak to you. We take a deep breath. We finished early voting. Give us a recap. Early voting went really well, Haller, and we had relatively speaking pretty good weather. We had rain, you know, pretty heavy a couple days, but most days it was good enough to get out there. We had 11 locations, and people took advantage. We had over 52,000 people early vote, a little over 2,000 absentee votes. So we're primed to go into Election Day for hopefully a strong finish to get us up over, I'm going to say, 85,000 to 90,000, hopefully. How many registered voters in Knox County? Right now, about 267,000. So you could roughly fill up Neeland Stadium two and a half times, something like that. And you got 50, how many? In early voting, we had 52,633, had another 1974 that voted early or, excuse me, absentee or nursing home, and then we've added some more today absentee because they come in all the way through Election Day, so we're over 2,000. So we're very close to 55,000 people that have already cast a ballot. And, of course, Election Day still sits in front of us for 12 hours this coming Thursday. So good voter turnout, yeah. How does that compare to last time and how does that compare to your average? Well, it's well above average. And I'll tell you, the election I've been comparing it to, Howler, and it's 2018, because if you remember, that's when Bill Lee got elected, but it was Bill Lee versus, I think, Randy Boyd versus Diane Black in the governor's Republican primary. You'll remember there was no incumbent U.S. senator, so Marsha Blackburn ultimately was elected. There was no incumbent U.S. House member for the first time in...

Good Lord, 30, 40 years because that's after Jimmy Duncan retired and Tim Burchett won that primary. And then, of course, that was also the election where Glenn Jacobs ran and won as mayor. And you had four empty offices back then eight years ago. And even though two of those four offices now have incumbents, we've still beat that number in 2018 by about 20%. We're up about 9,000 over where we were eight years ago. And that's a... I think that's a combination of people moving here and social media interest and signs driving turnout because everybody, you can't go anywhere in this county hall and I don't know that you can drive more than a quarter mile and not see a yard sign or a billboard for one of these candidates. Talk about the social media aspect of this increase. You know, obviously it's all anecdotal, but we hear this at the polling place on the regular. We get calls on the regular people asking us about this rumor or what they've seen posted here or there. But the fact is, I've never seen it like this. And I think just to be blunt, a lot of the mayor's race is driving a lot of it. There's a very high turnout out in the top, in fact, the top two precincts so far out of all 102 precincts. that have early voted are both out in Farragut. So I know that Farragut mayor's race and Farragut-Alderman race have been very hotly contested. Obviously, you can't turn on the television anywhere in East Tennessee without seeing a gubernatorial ad. And so I think the combination of broadcast TV and social media has definitely driven folks to the polls. We're hearing that. Anecdotally, we're seeing that. And I think that's a big part of the increased turnout, frankly. Talk about the ballots, how many Republican ballots versus Democrat, because when you went to vote, you had to decide which primary you wanted to vote in. What was the split there? Absolutely. Well, it's right at 60% Republican ballot pulled, right at 38 and change Democratic ballot pulled, and then a little over 1% of your voters, you know, one out of every 100, give or take, is choosing a general only, which means they only get that county general ballot. But let me tell all your voters who have not voted, who I know are anxious for election day, it doesn't matter which primary you choose. you still get the county general, whether you pick a Republican primary or you pick a Democratic primary, you get that county general ballot. So you get to vote for mayor, sheriff, county commission, school board, all those fee offices. If you're in the town of Farragut, even if you choose a Republican or a Democratic primary ballot, you still get those races for mayor and for alderman. So I think we've gotten that question a lot, just particularly today. I know our phones have rang off the hook. People wondering if they pick a Republican ballot, do they still get to vote for mayor? Or if they pick a Democratic ballot, do they still get to vote for mayor? Yes, you do. It does not matter. You're just getting that state and federal primary where you get to choose a Republican or Democratic primary for governor, for U.S. Senate, for U.S. House, for state house, and for about 60 percent of the county, you get to have a state Senate race as well.

Chris Davis is Administrator of Elections for Knox County. He joins us on the broadcast. Get us ready for Election Day, which this time will be on a Thursday. Yes, this is of one election every two years that is on a Thursday. I don't know that I have a proper answer on why that is. I think it dates back to Tennessee's agrarian history, and maybe we used to farm and do stuff during the week and then head to town on Thursdays to vote in the summertime or something. But it's been in state law for decades that this election is always on a Thursday, the first Thursday in August. So we're not voting tomorrow, folks. If you're listening, it's Thursday, August 6th. But I will tell you, for all of your voters in Knox County, it is 8 a.m. when the polls open, we don't vote before then. I know some people will be in a hurry to get to work. We've always got a few complaint calls on Thursday morning that say, oh, wasn't able to vote at 755, and I had to get to work. And that's unfortunate, but we can't open by state law until 8, and we will let anybody who is in line by 8 p.m. get to vote, even if it takes you 20 minutes or half an hour to get through the line. And it may take a few minutes, Haller. Let me just kind of warn your people who haven't voted yet. This is the longest ballot we will see this year. And depending on where you are in Knox County, you're going to see between 24 and 27 races on your ballot that you can vote in. And so it's going to take a few minutes. And I will tell you, just during early voting, what I saw. That's what took the majority of the time. And the polling place was the actual voting because we got through the lines very quick. I know you and I often talked about downtown West and how efficient they were. We were pushing through about three voters a minute. And that includes the voting time. So even if you were in a long line, you got in there pretty quick. You checked in pretty quick. You got your ballot pretty quick. It took you, you know, five, six, seven minutes to vote that ballot if you vote for everything and then get out of there. But it was. It still went really, really well, and I just want voters to have a plan. And the other big thing I want to mention, Hallor, as you well know, that even though school is not in session this coming Thursday, there will be some schools that have in-services. And what that means for us is you'll have a lot of teachers doing these inservices at schools, which means they take up the good parking spaces. So if you vote in a school on election day, you may want to consider going a little later in the day when they're Parking may be a little bit more plentiful. So we're voting this Thursday? Correct. Eight to eight. Ladies and gentlemen, we are voting this coming Thursday, like three days from now. This Thursday. I want to make sure everybody catches that, and that it's not on Tuesday, and it's not a week from Tuesday. It's Thursday. I promise you, we'll get calls tomorrow morning if somebody's beating on the door to school, wonder why they can't get in, or they're beating on the door to church, wonder why they can't get in. We'll have to, we'll have a few of those, but hopefully not many. You know, this has been state law for decades and decades long, and it predates me by a long time. So, yeah, we're ready to go for Thursday. We'll get a few calls tomorrow, but.

On Thursday, we want to see a big crowd out so we can get as many votes as possible. All right, Chris Davis, anything else you want to say to listeners about Election Day coming up on Thursday. Well, obviously I mentioned the polling places that may be a concern, you know, the schools. So just think about that. Think about the fact you're going to have a long ballot. I guess the last thing I would mention is that you may have some people listening to you who haven't voted in Tennessee before. Maybe they just moved here. Maybe they just turned 18. I would tell you that if you come to vote, you will need a photo ID issued either by the state of Tennessee like a driver's license. or by the federal government like a passport or a handgun carry permit or if you work at the Department of Energy or if you have a military veterans card something like that if the state of Tennessee government or the federal government issued it and you have a picture on it it's sufficient for photo identification and that is a requirement under Tennessee law so I just want to let all your new voters I don't want them to be surprised when they get to the polls and they're asked for that All right. I want to make sure, you can go to knoxvotes.org to look at sample ballots, and you guys have done a great job with the website to make sure all the information is there so people can vote and be very informed when they come to vote. Chris Davis, we will talk to you on Thursday. It's always a pleasure, Haller. Thank you, sir. Mike Drop, hosted by former Navy CEO, Mike Ridland. How would you characterize your prowess? I'd say my style is that I just kind of outwork everybody until I get there because I'm not a quitter. It's just you. It's yourself. Everything else is team-oriented. The motivation, it was a sort of anger at myself for being weak. That ends up being the driving factor. That anger, that pride, that ego, I think it's a muscle. It gets stronger. When you take that voice seriously, you start to change your life. Mike Drop, follow and listen on your favorite platform. So I was watching a conversation between Leor Cohen, who had been the president of Def Jam and then Island, and he moved way up through the music industry. And then he moved over to become the president of YouTube music. And now he's one of the senior VPs at YouTube. And he was sitting down in conversation on a panel discussion with Harvey Mason, Harvey Mason Jr., who was the CEO of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Naris, which is the company that controls the Grammys. Okay. And they were having, and both. Superstar Music Executive. And then Harvey Mason Jr., his father, Harvey Mason, Sr., world-renowned drummer, one of the biggest studio guys in L.A., played with the Jazz Group 4 play. Harvey Mason Jr. was one of the two principals and a production team called The Underdogs. The Underdogs did all that Jim Jordan Sparks, Whitney Houston.

Chris Brown, you know, huge producers. And he went on to become head of the Grammings. Conversation was AI. Harvey Mason said in the conversation, he does not know a major, not minor, major L.A. or New York producer, the biggest names in the business that is not using AI every day. He said he was surprised to find out that a number of producers have been using AI to generate the tracks. And they just have the singers just sing on what the AI generates. And they just edit. They might add in something here or take something out. I've been using Suno. Suno Pro will give you all the stems. And then they have a Suno studio where you can go in and take this first out, add this. You can actually manipulate the individual stems for the tracks. And they have it where now you can clone your voice, throw it into the AI, and it will sing for you like you. But all the stuff you can't do and any of the tuning issues you may have with your voice, it just cleans them up. You kind of? He said one of the biggest hits last year. An artist, there's another platform called Splice where you can just grab loops, you can grab chord progressions, you can just grab them, drag them into your digital workstation. And he said one of the biggest hits last year, literally a guy grabbed two loops, a chord progression, a drum progression to put underneath it. and a baseline, and it was just a loop out of splice, sang on top of it, it was one of the biggest hits of the year. The only thing he did was sing on top of loops, period. So that stunned me when he said, we may not like it, you may have whatever purest instincts you have, but he's saying that the major producers. meaning Rodney Jerkins, Timbal and David Foster, all of the biggest names. He said he doesn't know one that isn't using it. I was like, wow. I'm not shocked. I'm not shocked because that's what I suggested that you do. Just sang on it. Sing on it. Just sang on it. Just sang on it. The track is done. The track is done, boss. Man. The tracks are done. I don't know how long it takes to do it, but the tracks are done in a few minutes. Oh, the songs that I'm writing. Oh, my goodness. It's amazing, actually. And I would imagine they're mastered already. So they have a, in Suno Pro, they have a thing where you can put it through and master it.

I thought you would find that interesting. Here's another stat for you today. Chris, we'll talk about this later in the show. A lot of burn guitars, a lot of burn guitars, a lot of burn. Live musicians are going to get more work because they just won't be doing it in the studio. They'll be doing it on the stage. You watch Facebook Marketplace for that in the world. I still like, I still build demos. Sing them, play the instruments, but then I take the demo that I build. You can do that with a Casio now. And throw it over in there and get your little $100 casio, drop it in Suno. Here's another step for you, Chris. We'll talk about it later in the show. For the first time, there are more daily users of marijuana than daily users of alcohol. Who didn't know that? Well, of course, we're in East Tennessee. Of course you knew. Meet Keith, loving dad, board game champ, bus driving pro. I drive 65,000 miles in my bus each year. If people knew what I know, lives could be saved. Like how there are some things I simply can't see. On my route the other day, a car tried to sneak past me and ends up right in my blind spot. I turned slowly, so accident avoided. But no car should be in the blind spot for 40,000 pound bus. It's our roads. It's our safety. Visit www.sharethe road safely.gov.