We celebrate our 1,200th episode in our second hour with fun interviews with:

* Ayden-Grifton head football coach Paul Cornwell, who reflects on winning the Eastern Plains 2A and previews tonight's game at Pamlico

* Parrott Academy head football coach Matt Beaman, who previews tonight's NCISAA 8-man state semifinal

* Shivar Person, formerly of APA and the Down East Wood Ducks, LIVE from Berlin, Germany, to preview the Carolina Panthers vs. New York Giants game (which he will attend!) in Munich

* TGIF with IP -- our weekly NIL visit with N.C. Central's Isaac Parson

* Our NASCAR and Carolina Hurricanes expert, Paul Whittington, who previews tonight's APA playoff game

Paul Whittington helps us kick off our 1,200th episode by recapping his incredible Thursday night of sports by watching his Baltimore Ravens and ECU win key football games. He also previews the NASCAR Cup Series playoff championship in Phoenix.

Area veterans' advocate and leader Billy "Shep" McLawhorn and Ron Raines join Bryan today to preview Saturday's Salute! show at the Kinston Performing Arts Center. The show, which will feature great entertainment and respect to our military veterans, is free and at 7 p.m.

Jon Dawson joins Bryan late to catch up.

CSS Neuse Museum Director Matthew Young, our regular First Thursday guest of the month, joins Bryan in the first hour to talk trivia, World War II and much more.

Winner Wednesday continues in our second hour as Michael Martin and Bryan welcome N.C. Rep. Chris Humphrey, Lenoir County Board of Commissioners Chair Linda Rouse Sutton and Lenoir County Commissioner Keith King to the show.

In today's first hour, Michael Martin and Bryan broke down the federal and state races and then welcomed Lenoir County Commissioner June S. Cummings to the show at around the 40-minute mark.

Allen Thomas of the Small Business Administration and Carteret County News-Times News Editor Richard Clark are our second-hour guests today.

Allen, the decorated former three-term mayor of Greenville and GTP head, tells us about an important Small Business Town Hall that will take place Thursday at the NCDOT Division Office, 2815 Rouse Road Exd, Kinston from 9-11:30 a.m. Allen will be hosting the town hall along with Kinston Mayor Dontario Hardy; anyone who is thinking about starting a small business should attend the free meeting!

Richard continues his visit from the first hour to look at Brandon Ingram's first two weeks in the 2024-25 NBA season.

Jon, Jonathan and Bryan play a rousing edition of WhoSangIt, with birthday nods to Jerry Stackhouse and Jones County Sheriff Matt Wineman.

It's a jam-packed hour of information featuring our NASCAR expert Paul Whittington and our resident NBA and hoops aficionado, Richard Clark.

Paul helps explain what happened at Martinsville Sunday night to determine the final four going into this Sunday's championship race in Phoenix while Rich helps break down the Joel Embiid situation in Philly. Rich and Bryan also give their thoughts on the state of news journalism today.

Kinston head football coach Ryan "Diesel" Gieselman, Parrott Academy head coach Matt Beaman and Mark Panichelli join us in our second hour today.

Diesel recaps Friday's big 46-0 win over North Lenoir to win the Jimmy Smith Cup, while Beaman's Patriots cruised to a first-round 8-man playoff victory. Mark continues his first-hour visit to talk Washington Commanders.

Jon, Jonathan and Bryan play a traditional Birthday Game, with nods to Coach Beaman and Cyndi Brown.

252 Fox Sports Radio's Mark Panichelli joins us to talk about Sunday's controversial NASCAR Cup Series decision to allow William Byron into the final four, Sunday's NFL, prep football and more.

Bryan opens the week and hour by looking at Friday night's prep football results, catching you up on South Lenoir's historic season, Kinston and Parrott winning, the magic of Paul Cornwell and much more.