Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: W Vua FM, Tuscaloosa.
[00:00:16] Speaker B: Hippocampus. Welcome to 90.7, the morning show.
I'm Andrew Howdigee. I'm Christian Martin, and we're here discussing how we can improve the morning show. Right now, we're talking about. We need a soundboard.
[00:00:32] Speaker C: We do. We got to have a soundboard.
[00:00:35] Speaker B: But what sounds are we going to have on it?
[00:00:38] Speaker C: Definitely go for noise number two.
[00:00:40] Speaker B: Okay, go for noise number two. Tell me, what is the difference between gopher noise number one and two?
[00:00:47] Speaker C: It's very nuanced. There's a lot of nuance in it.
[00:00:50] Speaker B: But could you do your best to.
[00:00:53] Speaker C: Replicate go for noise number two? Go for noise number two.
[00:00:55] Speaker B: What does a gopher sound like?
[00:00:59] Speaker C: That was what a gopher.
[00:01:00] Speaker B: Okay, now do go for noise number one.
[00:01:04] Speaker C: And that's what gopher noise number one.
[00:01:06] Speaker B: Oh, there was a difference there.
[00:01:07] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't have the trained ear. It takes a very trained ear.
[00:01:11] Speaker B: I mean, when you've seen as many gophers as we have, you start to understand. But more on gophers later. But back to the soundboard. I think it goes without saying. We need an elephant noise.
[00:01:21] Speaker C: Yeah. No, 100%.
[00:01:22] Speaker B: So we can interview Big Al and get his responses.
[00:01:26] Speaker C: Yeah. So we can speak to him in his own language.
[00:01:28] Speaker B: We need a laugh track to tell you guys when to laugh because we're so funny.
[00:01:33] Speaker C: Yeah, of course. We got that along with an applause track.
[00:01:36] Speaker B: Applause. All the sitcom, every sitcom was the boo. Oh, my gosh. The will they. Won't they just happen?
[00:01:47] Speaker C: Yeah.
I feel like we need some vines or, like, classic memes, like, you know, cartoon running noise.
We need that. We need the boom.
[00:02:02] Speaker B: We need the cartoon noise. Just pack. Oh, I can do a spot on slowly opening creaky door impression.
[00:02:16] Speaker C: Oh, let's see again.
[00:02:24] Speaker A: It.
[00:02:26] Speaker B: Yeah, I just did that. Applause.
[00:02:28] Speaker C: Yeah. Applause track. I can do a phenomenal cartoon running sound effect. And this is me and not my phone.
[00:02:33] Speaker B: All right, hold on. No way you can do the cartoon. Do you know how much it takes at least 35 years of nonstop meditation in order to do it?
[00:02:44] Speaker C: Oh, trust me, I've mastered it, folks. You can hear it here. This is totally me and my voice.
[00:02:54] Speaker B: He's doing it. I don't know how he's doing it, but he is.
[00:02:57] Speaker C: Yeah. And to think, if we got a soundboard, we could do this.
[00:03:01] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:03:01] Speaker C: So, yeah. If anyone has any other ideas for things to put on our theoretical soundboard.
[00:03:06] Speaker B: Well, I think we're just proving that we are living soundboards.
[00:03:10] Speaker C: We are living.
[00:03:10] Speaker B: We should just stay here.
[00:03:12] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:03:12] Speaker B: Tell us the studio and do sound effects whenever other people shows.
[00:03:16] Speaker C: 24 724. Seven live here. Also, if you have any ideas of noises that we need to master impersonations of, call in, especially if your name.
[00:03:25] Speaker B: Is Danielle, please call in at 205-348-9070.
[00:03:31] Speaker C: Especially if you're Danielle. Danielle, we're begging. It's been over a semester and you still haven't called.
[00:03:37] Speaker B: Okay. I just had a realization.
I know you're already sitting down, but you're going to extra sit down for this.
What if. What if Danielle is the gopher?
[00:03:51] Speaker C: Oh, my goodness.
[00:03:52] Speaker B: It all starts to come together.
[00:03:54] Speaker C: It's all connecting in my mind.
[00:03:59] Speaker B: No wonder. No wonder Danielle hasn't been able to call. She's got gopher hands.
[00:04:04] Speaker C: Yeah, gopher hands. You can't call with gopher hands.
[00:04:07] Speaker B: I'm twiddling my thumbs right now because I, as a human, can do that.
[00:04:10] Speaker C: That's true. I don't have a pose with thumbs. It's so heartbreaking.
Yeah.
[00:04:18] Speaker B: So I think it's sort of. We need to get paid just exorbitant amount of money to just do sound effects here in the studio.
All right, well, we're going to get back to you with the music we've got when the devil's loose by aa Bondi. We'll soon be back to you with the morning show.
[00:05:01] Speaker A: It.
[00:05:04] Speaker C: Howdy. Howdy, all. This is the Wednesday morning show.
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[00:05:13] Speaker B: That's right. And the time right now is 819.
[00:05:18] Speaker C: No, just turned 820.
[00:05:20] Speaker B: But it's more importantly time for.
[00:05:25] Speaker A: You.
[00:05:51] Speaker B: And a low of 37. Expect it to be sunny or partly cloudy all day. The wind's 5 miles an hour with eleven mile an hour gusts. And the fields like it's 46 degrees.
[00:06:03] Speaker A: On the weather report. Weather report. With a report. With a report. With a report. With the report. With the report. With the report. With the report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. With the report.
[00:06:19] Speaker C: Weather report.
[00:06:20] Speaker A: Weather report. Weather report.
[00:06:23] Speaker B: Whether the weather is good or bad, we've always got something to make you glad on 90.7, the morning show.
[00:06:30] Speaker C: Right. And today it's a positive affirmation yet again with me, your host of positive affirmations on the morning show, Christian. And that's right. Today's positive affirmation is this. Today, mine and America's favorite radio show will go off without a hitch. There will be no glaring technical difficulties, no issues with the dad system. And everything will go on as it always does to give a wonderful listening experience and viewing experience when we hold pictures up to the microphone for our listening public.
[00:07:15] Speaker B: Well said. Beautifully said, even. And I think it's time to talk about the gopher in the room.
[00:07:23] Speaker C: The gopher in the room? Yeah.
[00:07:24] Speaker B: On your favorite segment, gopher.
Now, we briefly talked about this last week in our very short segment, but we're going to bring you the big five minute morning show on Super Bowl Sunday. I was doing my sprints up the ridgecrest south hill. Very steep hill. Good workout. And upon finishing my last sprint, I get to the top and walk, and I see the gopher walk into the bushes. I didn't even know he hung out around Ridgecrest south. Now, that's a rare sighting indeed. And that's how I knew the Chiefs were going to win.
But regardless, I hadn't seen the gopher in months since I sought out fresh foods, and I doxed it.
[00:08:03] Speaker C: So true. I'd really missed the guy.
[00:08:08] Speaker B: I've been drawing on whiteboards around the school, putting up missing posters with his exact coordinates.
[00:08:12] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:08:13] Speaker B: And right after that, I see him and I'm like, it's a sign. Everything's going to be all right. Every little thing is going to be all right.
[00:08:22] Speaker C: Yeah. Also, update.
Sadly, I've not yet seen the fresh foods possum.
[00:08:28] Speaker B: Again, I think I haven't been at.
[00:08:31] Speaker C: Fresh foods at, like, 08:00 at night enough, I guess.
[00:08:33] Speaker B: Well, here's the thing.
We talked about the battle between the gopher and the possum, right?
[00:08:39] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:08:40] Speaker B: And the first one I see after talking about that is the gopher. You know what this means? The gopher has won.
[00:08:48] Speaker C: The gopher. Do you think he won the war?
[00:08:51] Speaker B: He at least won the battle. Like freshwood is his territory.
Has the possum been subjugated as if he's still around?
[00:09:03] Speaker C: I don't think the gopher would.
[00:09:04] Speaker B: Unfortunately, I was really hoping that the gopher and the possum would team up, because the feral hog threat is as.
[00:09:10] Speaker C: Real as too strong. We must unite around our common enemies.
[00:09:15] Speaker B: It's why Richard's gone.
[00:09:17] Speaker C: Indeed. The feral hog.
[00:09:19] Speaker B: We lost him to the.
[00:09:19] Speaker C: They got him. Rip Dick Jenkins.
[00:09:22] Speaker B: Maybe we can tape him back together for a morning show cameo.
[00:09:25] Speaker C: One of these. Hopefully so, yeah.
[00:09:28] Speaker B: All right, well, we're going to bring it back.
[00:09:30] Speaker C: Wait, we have to show our listeners, actually, what the gopher looks like.
[00:09:36] Speaker B: Oh, how silly of me. Hold on.
[00:09:38] Speaker C: I got the picture pulled.
[00:09:39] Speaker B: No, but I do, too.
For morning show. First, we're pulling up the same photo at the same time. If you can't see it now, this.
[00:09:48] Speaker C: Is like surround sound, but for vision.
[00:09:52] Speaker B: This is 4d.
[00:09:54] Speaker C: Yeah.
Two different microphones.
[00:09:56] Speaker B: All right, Danielle, you get a good look?
[00:09:59] Speaker C: Well, at herself, it's like looking.
[00:10:01] Speaker B: I know. Is this a good photo of you, Danielle? Well, the gopher now has a name. We know. Good. Danielle to be the gopher. Danielle the Gopher. You can call us at 205-348-9070 Danielle the Gopher.
[00:10:15] Speaker C: If you have any war stories from your war with the.
[00:10:17] Speaker B: If you could tell us what happened to the possum.
[00:10:19] Speaker C: With the possum, please do tell.
We could make journalistic history.
[00:10:23] Speaker B: If you do, we really could.
[00:10:26] Speaker C: First ever reporters on a marsupial rodent war.
[00:10:29] Speaker B: All right, well, we're going to stay behind to keep listening from Danielle. Hopefully she finds out how to dial.
[00:10:36] Speaker C: The phone with her little gopher pause. Yeah.
[00:10:39] Speaker B: We're going to bring you back to the music. Up next, we have up the beach by Jane's addiction.
Welcome back to 90.7, the morning show.
It's time for your favorite segment, musical theater watch.
[00:11:14] Speaker C: That's right. What musical theater have we been seeing lately? Have you seen anything great, Andrew?
[00:11:19] Speaker B: Have I seen or heard anything heard lately? I was bopping to some Joseph and the amazing Technicolor dreamcoat jams the other day.
[00:11:29] Speaker C: Excellent choice.
[00:11:30] Speaker B: Some song of the king.
[00:11:32] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:11:32] Speaker B: Elvis Farrow.
[00:11:34] Speaker C: Elvis Farrow. We love Elvis Farrow.
[00:11:35] Speaker B: We love Andrew Lloyd Weber here. Yeah, I was born for that role. I know it. I can perfectly sing that song in the cheesy Elvis voice.
[00:11:46] Speaker C: Can we get a little sample?
[00:11:47] Speaker B: No. You want a little sample?
[00:11:48] Speaker C: Yeah. Can we get a little sample?
[00:11:50] Speaker B: Well, I was walking along above the pinks of a river when seven fat cows came about. Of the nylon.
Oh, yeah, something like that.
[00:12:01] Speaker C: No, that's something, folks.
Now, I did discuss my musical theater watch last week for our five minute segment that we aren't sure if anyone, if you all heard, because like 20 minutes, I would have tuned out. But anyway, we did have technical difficulties. No one can help it. But I recently saw a beautiful community theater production of ragtime to the point where it could be my new favorite musical.
[00:12:28] Speaker B: Why don't you tell us a little about that musical? I'm not.
[00:12:32] Speaker C: You're not too familiar with the ragtime, so it came out in the late 90s. It's based on a novel from the 80s. They also made a movie. If you all have seen the ragtime movie, I'm not going to spoil it too much, but it's set in the early 19 hundreds during the early stage of the progressive era during the Roosevelt presidency.
It's set in New York. It has to do with the story of three groups, some upper class, well to do, kind of know, white Anglo saxon Protestants, some immigrants, predominantly jewish ones, including the main characters who are immigrants, are jewish, and the black citizens of Harlem. It's called ragtime because ragtime was extremely popular and was sort of a forerunner to jazz and extremely popular, especially amongst the black community at the time. In the early 19 hundreds. There's a lot of beautiful music. It's got a really nice, really interesting story. It features a lot of historical figures such as the noted anarchist Emma Goldman, noted industrialist Henry Ford, the banker J. P. Morgan, and of course, another key character in it is Booker T. Washington, actually. And so it's really interesting, especially if you're into history. But also it's got some touching, heartwarming parts. It'll make you cry. I think me and my friends cried about four or five times during it. So just phenomenal show.
Really enjoy it.
[00:14:00] Speaker B: All right.
[00:14:01] Speaker C: Yeah, no, so big fan. So that's your musical theater.
You know, is it just me?
Is it just me, Andrew? Or other than musical theater watches, is it another big day today?
[00:14:17] Speaker B: I think it's also your other favorite segment.
[00:14:20] Speaker C: Let me check my clock. Is it, could, could today be Weezer?
That's right. It's Weezer Wednesday and today, this day in Weezer history, February the 21st, 2019.
Weezer. They released two big songs. They released high as a kite and living in. So.
[00:14:41] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:14:45] Speaker C: Now those are off Weezer's the black.
[00:14:47] Speaker B: Album, but those are sort of the black album.
[00:14:50] Speaker C: We don't, sadly, I don't album.
[00:14:54] Speaker B: I love queuing up songs from the TL album because hearing covers of iconic songs from Weezer is like my favorite.
[00:15:01] Speaker C: Oh, no. It's so fun. They really are a great at covers. Not that they don't have some phenomenal.
[00:15:06] Speaker B: Of course they do, because they're the.
[00:15:07] Speaker C: Greatest band of all time.
[00:15:09] Speaker B: They are one of the bands to ever.
[00:15:13] Speaker C: Mean we wouldn't have an entire day dedicated to them without it.
[00:15:18] Speaker B: All right. Well, we are coming to you with sweet Dreams by Weezer from the teal album, followed by a non Weezer song, Luke Holmes's cover of Fast Car. Hope y'all enjoy and we'll be back with you shortly.
[00:15:40] Speaker A: WVUA FM, Tuscaloosa.
[00:15:51] Speaker D: My weekly watch, that is a great question. I will admit I have not been watching very much tv lately.
[00:15:58] Speaker C: It can be a film as well. Anything you could watch.
[00:16:02] Speaker D: Let's see.
[00:16:03] Speaker C: Well, you know, my weekly watch, while you're waiting was Oppenheimer on Netflix. Oh, no.
[00:16:11] Speaker B: Peacock. That was my weekly watch. It was a big release.
[00:16:16] Speaker D: Amazing. Actually. I recently watched the movie the Color Purple. I would highly recommend watch it in preparation.
[00:16:25] Speaker B: Right.
[00:16:26] Speaker C: I haven't seen the new one's out. Yes. I was going to rewatch the old one in preparation for the new one. I didn't know the new one's out. I've been so excited for the new one.
[00:16:34] Speaker D: I think it's already on streaming platform.
[00:16:35] Speaker C: I have to give it a watch then.
I didn't think it was out because I went recently because I like going to like 6.50 cent Tuesdays at the theater, and it wasn't out at the theater, so that made me think it wasn't out yet. I guess maybe it's already done with its theatrical run. I don't know.
[00:16:52] Speaker D: To my knowledge.
[00:16:53] Speaker C: Very exciting because I love that soundtrack. But ours was both, we both watched Oppenheimer.
[00:16:59] Speaker D: I will admit I was not actually able to see Oppenheimer. I will see it at my earliest convenience. I know I will.
[00:17:06] Speaker C: If you have Peacock or if you need to borrow a peacock, we're here.
It's great.
[00:17:12] Speaker B: Quite the movie, quite the film, indeed. And weekly Watch is a segment that we have every week here on 90.7, the morning show. But we do have special segments that we reserve for when we have guests. Would you like to.
[00:17:24] Speaker C: This is going to be a shortened version because next break we want to do a lot of good questions.
[00:17:29] Speaker D: All right. I'm so ready for this game.
[00:17:31] Speaker C: We used to play a lot last year, so I don't know how familiar Andrew is, but it's called yellow journalism. It's quite simple. We tell you three headlines. You have to figure out which one isn't real.
[00:17:42] Speaker D: It sounds like an NPR show. I love it. Right? Are you ready, NPR guy?
[00:17:46] Speaker B: Here are your three questions. These are your three headlines, and you're allowed to ask us about each of them.
[00:17:54] Speaker C: You have to explain one of them.
[00:17:56] Speaker D: I have to explain the one that's real?
[00:17:58] Speaker C: No, you get to ask us to explain because we know what the headlines like. We know the actual news articles. You get to ask us to explain one of these headlines.
[00:18:07] Speaker B: He only gets to pick one.
[00:18:08] Speaker C: You only get to pick one before you make your guess.
[00:18:11] Speaker B: All right, so first, chocolate for dogs synthesized in New Jersey laboratory. One, two. General Mills urged to take the plastic out of.
And three, couple holds weding in Kentucky gas station's disco bathroom.
[00:18:31] Speaker D: So just to recap, I can ask you to explain one of words. I can choose one? Yes. All right. Can you explain the last one? Couple gets married.
[00:18:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Christian?
[00:18:43] Speaker C: Yeah. This is from the UPI by a man named Ben Hooper. It came out February the 20th, 2024. So the couple is from Ohio. So this gas station in Verona, Kentucky. Yeah. Destination wedding. There's a Verona gas station called hop shops. And this Cincinnati area couple married there.
Apparently this bathroom went viral because there's a big red button you can press and it causes a disco bowl to switch on in there to be plays in the can. And so this couple decided to get married there and press that red button.
[00:19:21] Speaker D: Understood.
[00:19:23] Speaker B: You can pick that one if you think he was just looking off his phone and reading it.
[00:19:28] Speaker D: I think I have a pretty good idea what I'm going to choose.
[00:19:30] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:19:31] Speaker D: Can you please repeat the first one for me?
[00:19:33] Speaker B: The first one was chocolate made specially for dogs synthesized in a New Jersey laboratory.
[00:19:38] Speaker D: I think that's my guess.
[00:19:40] Speaker B: That's the fake one.
Why do you think?
[00:19:44] Speaker D: Sorry, I thought I was guessing the real one.
[00:19:46] Speaker C: No, you guessed the fake.
[00:19:47] Speaker B: You guessed the fake one. There's two real ones.
[00:19:48] Speaker D: Oh, well, then the fake one is Kellogg's urge to remove the plastic out of.
[00:19:57] Speaker C: Know if we had a soundboard?
Loud buzer noise. Wrong.
The fake one was chocolate for dogs synthesized in Jersey laboratory. Yeah, we made that up off the top of our nose.
[00:20:12] Speaker B: He came to me with his phone, typed something, and I wrote it down.
[00:20:16] Speaker D: That was a really good one. I completely thought that was the realest one on there.
[00:20:20] Speaker C: It could be real because dogs can't have chocolate.
[00:20:22] Speaker D: Exactly.
[00:20:23] Speaker C: But that's a goofy.
[00:20:24] Speaker B: And you say synthesize when they make a new element. Exactly.
[00:20:29] Speaker D: Yeah.
That was a really good one, guys. You guys fooled me.
[00:20:33] Speaker B: All right, well, wonderful first segment. Wonderful first segment. We're going to take it back to the music. We're going to get you with waves by floral portrait.
[00:20:41] Speaker C: And please keep listening to hear more about. More from Senator Betty about things.
[00:20:45] Speaker B: We're going to hear more from our senator in a little bit.
[00:21:16] Speaker C: And as the pinnacle of journalistic integrity on this campus, we thought it'd be good to grill him, to give him a hard hitting interview.
[00:21:25] Speaker B: We're going to start with some SGA questions.
[00:21:29] Speaker C: Yes. Well, so, arom, the elections are coming up, right, aren't they? Yep. Can you kind of tell our listeners about them, how to vote, when they can vote, where they can vote?
[00:21:43] Speaker D: Of course.
[00:21:43] Speaker C: All that good stuff.
[00:21:44] Speaker D: So every year we have our SDA elections during the spring semester. This year they're actually following on Tuesday, February 27, from 07:00 a.m. To 07:00 p.m. That's a twelve hour window. So I hope you all make the time to get out there and vote. WHOOP, WHOOP.
[00:22:00] Speaker C: Now, how does one vote? Is it in person? Is it online?
[00:22:03] Speaker D: It's actually online. So you're going to open up your my Bama account, and then there'll be a huge box right at the top of your mybama home. And it'll say, vote here, you can't miss it. It's this big tan box. And just click it and it'll automatically take you to your ballot.
[00:22:20] Speaker C: Thank you. Well, that's very informative. Now, if we want to learn more about maybe candidates or the people running, how does one do that? For instance, is there a website that says all the names of them, or are there going to be any events going on where we can learn more about the candidates?
[00:22:38] Speaker D: Yes. So campaign week runs from the Monday we just passed until election day this Tuesday. And so throughout that week, people are going to be campaigning throughout campus. I'm sure you'll run into some candidates during your time. And then additionally, every candidate is listed with a short bio and picture on the SGA website. You would simply go to Sga ua.edu, then you would go to the elections page and we have all of our list of candidates. And then you can see all of our candidates for all the offices that are going to be up for election. And then additionally, if you want to learn even more about a candidate, besides that short bio, every candidate has an instagram page they are pushing all their policy positions from. And you can learn a lot about the candidate, both their background, what they believe in, and their affiliations on campus.
[00:23:24] Speaker C: Splendid. Thanks. And if memory serves correct, because I went last year, isn't there like, normally, doesn't the SGA hold, like, a big debate for the presidential candidates every year?
[00:23:36] Speaker D: Yes, they do. So all the campus wide candidates, that's like the vice presidents, the president, the secretary, all those really high up their positions in SGA, if they are contested, they will have a debate in the student center ballroom. It's going to be this Sunday, I believe you can actually check the timeline on the SGA website, elections page as well. Additionally, immediately before that debate, there's going to be a candidate forum with all the minor candidates. Things like Senate, other things. So, you know, get to meet any of the candidates.
[00:24:09] Speaker C: Yeah. Well, that's wonderful to know. Always good to be informed.
Now, if you could give us a sneak peek as a senator in SGA, what does it look like around election season? What are the logistics that the SGA works through to try and set up all these things and to set up an election? Kind of. If you could give us sort of a run through of what y'all do during election season, because I think it's be deeply interesting to our listeners. Yeah.
[00:24:39] Speaker D: So there's a lot of work that goes into setting up an election. Obviously, if you're a candidate, what that means is reaching out to a lot of student groups, getting as many speaking opportunities as possible. I remember when I ran for Senate back a whole long time ago, whole last year, forever on campus. But I talked to a lot of organizations. I got a lot of endorsements from student orgs. I think it's really important being able to reach out there and talk to your constituents in terms of the more logistics and organizational side of actually running the election. We have our tech people over at oit open up the voting portal for 12 hours and stuff like that. Do you have any more specific questions? I'm sorry, if you could elaborate on what exactly you were looking for. I'm not sure if I answered your question all the way.
[00:25:24] Speaker C: No, it was just like give our listeners a sneak peek of what it's like for maybe an SGA senator. If there's any more work that goes in your job than normal right now. What all you do. What all you do to set this election up. Yeah.
[00:25:38] Speaker D: As an elected official, there's a bit of a conflict of interest with me, actually. Like working on the election itself. We outsource most of our election work to the elections board, which is a separate part of SGA.
[00:25:48] Speaker C: Yeah. No, that's good to know. So there's an elections board.
I didn't even know there was an elections board. I just knew there was a j board.
[00:25:55] Speaker D: Yeah. You can actually, if you're interested in applying for elections board, they usually open up their applications shortly after every election cycle. So if that sounds like something you'd like to participate in, stuff like talking with candidates when they violate the elections manual, stuff like that. More just like being the enforcer of the rules on campus. The application should open rather soon. So I really hope if you want to. Of course you apply to that because it's important that we have good judges, that we have free and fair elections here on campus.
[00:26:27] Speaker C: So true.
[00:26:28] Speaker B: So true.
[00:26:30] Speaker C: Democracy is only as health democracy and a democratic system is only as healthy as its elections.
[00:26:35] Speaker D: That is so true. I think the voters are the heart of every democracy. In fact, I hate to plug myself in here, but actually, I wrote an opinion editorial on the Crimson White recently about every election cycle. So if you want to go check that out, that'd be cool.
[00:26:49] Speaker C: Slind differs. Well, we love the Crimson White. As you all know, it's where we.
[00:26:52] Speaker B: Get all our news and views.
[00:26:54] Speaker C: Our dear friends and fellow members of the office of Student media are like next door neighbors.
[00:26:59] Speaker D: I love Crimson White. I love student media.
[00:27:01] Speaker C: We love the student know to do a little impression of a president. We love student media. Yes, we do.
[00:27:07] Speaker B: Quite frankly, we love them.
[00:27:09] Speaker A: Don't Crimson White.
[00:27:13] Speaker D: Let me be clear. I love student media.
[00:27:16] Speaker C: Obama loves student media. We all love. So Trump loves student media. Wow. John F. Kennedy loves student media. Bill Clinton and I love student media.
I'll say they love student media, folks.
[00:27:34] Speaker B: And we want to thank you so much for your insightful answers about SGA and SGA elections process. And so then, also professional, we have some light hearted, more fun questions.
[00:27:47] Speaker D: I love fun questions.
[00:27:48] Speaker C: That sounds good.
[00:27:49] Speaker B: You ready to answer some fun questions?
[00:27:51] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:27:51] Speaker C: Splendid.
[00:27:54] Speaker D: Oh, snap. The tension just rose.
[00:27:57] Speaker B: Senator Betty, during your work on the hydrogen bomb, were you deterred by any moral qualms?
[00:28:05] Speaker D: No.
[00:28:05] Speaker B: By 1942, you were actively pushing the development of the hydrogen bomb, weren't you?
[00:28:11] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:28:12] Speaker B: So when did these moral qualms become so strong that you actively oppose the development of the hydrogen bomb?
[00:28:19] Speaker D: That's a really good question, Andrew.
It's not sure. It's something I can live with every night.
[00:28:26] Speaker B: I asked when.
[00:28:30] Speaker D: Probably by 1943.
[00:28:34] Speaker B: Is it true that you assisted in selecting the target to drop the atomic bomb on Japan?
[00:28:40] Speaker D: That is actually a rumor started by my good friend Harry S. Truman.
[00:28:44] Speaker B: True?
[00:28:45] Speaker C: It's true. President Truman would not lie about that.
[00:28:50] Speaker D: Look, Harry and I, we go way back, and I know him better than almost anyone. Right.
I think Truman needed someone to throw under the bus.
[00:29:01] Speaker B: Would you have been opposed to the dropping of a thermonuclear weapon on Japan because of moral scruples?
[00:29:11] Speaker D: It's a hard question, something else to live with every single day. But I think at that point in my life, I would have said I had no moral qualms with it. But now I think I've evolved as a person.
[00:29:22] Speaker B: Now, when did your strong moral convictions develop with respect to the hydrogen bomb?
[00:29:30] Speaker D: I think I evolved very rapidly after the end of World War II. In 1945, I got to sit down and reflect on my actions about the bomb, and I think I came out a new man.
[00:29:46] Speaker B: The. Do you or do you not support the continued use of the hydrogen bomb.
[00:29:50] Speaker D: I do not support the continued use of hydrogen bomb.
[00:29:53] Speaker B: But you pushed for its development.
[00:29:55] Speaker D: I did, and that was a mistake.
[00:30:00] Speaker B: Would you have continued work on the hydrogen bomb in Japan if you were ordered to?
[00:30:05] Speaker D: Back then, yes. Now I would not.
[00:30:07] Speaker B: Why? When did this moral change occur?
[00:30:10] Speaker D: I told you after the end of World War II. I got to think about my actions. I got to think about them in depth.
[00:30:16] Speaker B: It was after World War II that you started development on the hydrogen bomb.
[00:30:24] Speaker D: I didn't think you guys would catch me on that.
I'm going to have to revise my story.
[00:30:32] Speaker B: Aware that it's illegal to a lie on 90.7 the morning.
[00:30:37] Speaker C: This is a serious journalistic place. And we would never base questions on the script of Oppenheimer.
[00:30:45] Speaker B: All right, that's it. With that song, we just like to have a little fun on the morning show.
[00:30:54] Speaker C: As we said during weekly watch, we've been watching Oppenheimer.
[00:30:57] Speaker B: Yeah, it's fresh on our mind. So we gave a version of one of the interrogation scenes from the movie. So how did it feel to be in that hot seat?
[00:31:06] Speaker D: Yeah, it was certainly an unexpected series of questions.
I hope I performed my role well.
[00:31:15] Speaker B: What did you think of the music? Because debating on what music to use. Yeah, we were coming in, we were planning this bit and John Carpenter's Halloween.
[00:31:25] Speaker C: Theme because we have both of them in the system.
[00:31:28] Speaker D: That was an amazing interrogation song. I couldn't have imagined anything better. The second that song came on, I felt a shiver go down my spine and I felt on was like I was being quizzed in front of the entire nation.
[00:31:41] Speaker B: I mean, you were. We have countless listeners, it's true, innumerable.
[00:31:46] Speaker C: All across America, and definitely not in one county, because that's how far this broadcast, I think.
[00:31:51] Speaker B: Well, to say goodbye to you and to show our apologies for putting you in the hot seat, we're playing your 8th song choice. Yeah, we tried to find your top song choices. Eventually we found this. So to say thank you for coming on 90.7, the morning show, we'll be playing no woman, no cry Bob Marley.
[00:32:13] Speaker C: Before we go, is there anything else you'd like to tell our listeners?
[00:32:17] Speaker D: Yeah, just like one more reminder before I leave out.
If you want to vote this upcoming Tuesday from 07:00 a.m. To 07:00 p.m. I think it's really nice that we get to vote in our SGA elections. And if you are so inclined, research your candidates, get informed. I think it's really important to civic development here. Thank you so much.
[00:32:39] Speaker C: Thank you.
[00:32:39] Speaker D: Also, Bob Marley is a goaded musical artist.
[00:32:41] Speaker C: Real phenomenal.
[00:32:42] Speaker B: You're very welcome. All right, well, thank you so much for being on.
[00:32:49] Speaker A: Yamua FM, Tuscaloosa.
[00:33:03] Speaker B: Welcome back to 90.7 the morning show.
The three of us are still here.
[00:33:12] Speaker C: Decided he wanted to stay.
[00:33:13] Speaker B: Refuses to leave the studio.
[00:33:15] Speaker C: He does. It's just such a fun place here.
[00:33:17] Speaker B: That he wanted to stay, and I think we should let him in on a very special tradition here on the morning show. It's time for the sing along, if you know the words.
[00:33:31] Speaker D: I do not.
[00:33:32] Speaker C: Weather report.
[00:33:33] Speaker A: Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Do not distort the weather report.
[00:33:43] Speaker B: Weather report.
[00:33:44] Speaker A: Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report.
[00:33:50] Speaker B: All right, you got the weather?
[00:33:51] Speaker D: No, that's okay.
[00:33:53] Speaker B: It's 56 degrees in Tuscaloosa with a high of 71 and a low of 36. Expect it to be sunny to partly cloudy to cloudy later in the day. The feels like it's 55 degrees, six mile an hour wind and 13 miles an hour gust on the weather report.
[00:34:14] Speaker A: Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report.
[00:34:28] Speaker B: Whether the weather is good or bad, we've always got something to make you glad on 90.7 the morning show.
[00:34:35] Speaker C: That's right. We've got a wonderful news story out of Myanmore today, which is the Skywalker gibbon, thought to be nearly extinct, has now had significant populations discovered in Myanmore. It was originally just first described in 2017, also known as the Hulak gibbon. And it was thought to just have a population of 150 individuals living on a single mountain in Yunan in the south of China, the province of Yunon in south China. Now, they found that there are large populations in the union or the Republic of Myanmar. So, yeah, Myanmar also has many hulak ak skywalker gibbons.
And so, you know, that's lovely. Know, it's a beautiful thing, biological diversity. And so it's great to know that the populations of the Skywalker gibbon are doing way better than we thought.
[00:35:36] Speaker B: It's nice to see the Skywalker Gibbons doing well. I love them in star.
[00:35:40] Speaker C: They did great.
[00:35:41] Speaker B: They were great in episode two.
[00:35:43] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Episode two, they were phenomenal. Really? Now, episode five, they had a really underrated performance. I know. I will say.
[00:35:51] Speaker B: I think so too. We don't talk about the performance of the Skywalker Gibbons.
[00:35:55] Speaker C: Yeah. Aram, your thoughts on the Skywalker Gibbons performance? Just have any?
[00:35:58] Speaker D: I think they're really cool. I'm really enjoyer of Skywalker Gibbons. I love the role they play in the natural environment. I'm so happy Myanmar has rediscovered them.
[00:36:08] Speaker C: Splendid.
[00:36:09] Speaker B: To all you radio listeners who can't see through my mind's eye right now, our special guest is using our plush little buddy here in the studio to hold up his is, you know.
[00:36:22] Speaker D: Yeah, I think the term plush is a very strong word. I think plush usually refers to does that to be like a stuffed animal.
[00:36:29] Speaker B: He's like a stress dude.
[00:36:30] Speaker D: Yeah, it's like a stress dude.
[00:36:33] Speaker C: I don't know, but, I mean, he's swapped.
[00:36:36] Speaker B: He's built plushly.
[00:36:37] Speaker C: Yeah, he's built plushly. It's very plush body.
[00:36:41] Speaker D: I think it's more of a styrofoam sort of material, I'd say more memory foam.
[00:36:47] Speaker B: Yeah, he's our foam buddy, our little.
[00:36:51] Speaker C: Foam friend to do alliteration. Our foam friend.
[00:36:54] Speaker B: Our fantastic foam.
[00:36:56] Speaker C: Fantastic foam friend.
[00:36:57] Speaker B: All right. Speaking of fantastic, we have some fantastic music for you. And we'll be right back for our last segment on 90.7, the morning show. This is the last segment of the show. It's still three of us.
We cannot get our guests to leave yet. Just here, taking none of the hint.
[00:37:40] Speaker D: I'm just kind of viral.
[00:37:42] Speaker B: Going to keep squishing our foam friend.
[00:37:45] Speaker C: Yeah, at this point, it's kind of creepy.
[00:37:47] Speaker B: Yeah. But let's focus away from that. Today is a myriad of special days.
[00:37:54] Speaker C: Every day is special.
[00:37:55] Speaker B: And I think every day on 90.7 the morning show, every day is special.
[00:37:59] Speaker C: And in general, in life.
[00:38:01] Speaker B: But among these many days, we're celebrating, including, but not limited to the famous birthday of John Lewis.
[00:38:11] Speaker C: Yes. Former congressman John Lewis, a civil rights icon. It's black History Month.
[00:38:16] Speaker D: It is black History Month. Fun fact, John Lewis actually spoke at Martin Luther King's march for jobs and freedom in Washington.
He's just such an incredible figure. He died several years back, but he's a long, esteemed career. He went on to become, like, a congressman from Georgia. He did a whole bunch of stuff there.
Really a really pivotal figure, both in the civil rights movement and the modern age as well.
[00:38:38] Speaker B: And do you know any role he may have played, like here in Alabama?
[00:38:42] Speaker C: He did, actually, if you've heard of the Freedom Riders, of the.
He was a leader of the Freedom Riders, actually.
[00:39:01] Speaker D: Didn't he also cross the Edmond Pettis Bridge?
[00:39:05] Speaker C: I believe he was part of the march from Selma.
[00:39:07] Speaker D: Yeah, he did a whole bunch of stuff. I mean, honestly, even though he's from.
[00:39:10] Speaker C: Georgia, he was very involved in the state of Alabama and the civil rights movement here.
[00:39:15] Speaker B: Well, that's amazing. We celebrate Black History Month here on 90.7, the morning show.
[00:39:23] Speaker C: We celebrate the life of a great man and a man that had a great impact on the state. Congressman Lewis.
[00:39:28] Speaker B: But we also celebrate a group that has had a huge impact on our popular culture. That's right. It's the one and only Weezer Wednesday.
Now, do you have any special favorite Weezer songs for you? We have quite the sizable catalog of Weezer.
[00:39:48] Speaker D: Oh, I am quite a Weezer enjoyer.
Don't they have a really good rendition of Mr. Blue sky?
[00:39:56] Speaker B: We have that one.
[00:39:57] Speaker D: I am a huge fan of Mr. Blue sky. Incredible song.
[00:40:01] Speaker B: Teal. Album's my favorite album. We can queue that up to come.
[00:40:05] Speaker D: Weezer Wednesday.
[00:40:08] Speaker C: Weezer Wednesday.
[00:40:12] Speaker B: It is one of the things of all time. And we'll take everyone to Weezer Wednesday here in a second. But this is the last segment of the morning show and it's time for the sign off.
[00:40:30] Speaker C: That's right. We would like to bid you ado. So stay gold, pony boys.
[00:40:38] Speaker B: Goodbye, everyone. Have a great week. We'll see you again on Wednesday. I'm Andrew Howdigee.
[00:40:43] Speaker C: I'm Christian Martin.
[00:40:44] Speaker D: And I'm a Ron Betty.
[00:40:46] Speaker C: Our special guest. Roll tide and stay gold, y'all.
[00:40:56] Speaker A: W v ua f m tuscaloosa.
