The legendary Bill Ellis and new Down East Bird Dawgs General Manager Shari Massengill join Michael Martin and Bryan in the second hour.

Shari, the former award-winning GM of the Kinston Indians, shares the road to becoming the Bird Dawgs GM and some of her goals in the new position.

Bill gives us a behind-the-scenes look at how the Bird Dawgs came into existence.

Jon, Jonathan and Bryan draft their all-time favorite actresses, with birthday nods to venerable Ayden-Grifton football coach Paul Cornwell and Phil Gardner.

Kinston's Renaissance Man, Michael Martin, makes his usual Wednesday visit to talk Down East Bird Dawgs, ECU Pirates football and more.

Kinston-Lenoir County Parks and Recreation Department Director Scott Alston tells us about the big USTA event coming to the area this weekend. He also gives us a mini-preview of Tuesday morning's baseball announcement at Historic Grainger Stadium and a "state-of-the-department" update on the parks and rec department.

Jon, Jonathan and Bryan play Who Sang It with local birthday nods to Ted Gaskin and Anthony Bruton.

Carteret County News-Times News Editor Richard Clark joins us in the first hour to talk NFL, ECU Pirates football and much more.

Kinston High School's Ryan "Diesel" Gieselman and Parrott Academy's Matt Beaman join us for Monday Morning Quarterback.

Coach Diesel describes his team's big 12-6 win in a driving rain in Washington Friday while Coach Beaman looks back at Friday's 64-30 home win against defending state champion Rocky Mount Academy.

Mark Panichelli opens the second hour by continuing his visit from the first hour to talk NASCAR.

Jon, Jonathan and Bryan play a traditional Birthday Game, with nods to Hall of Famer Linwood Hartsell, the lovely and talented Ariel Epstein and one of Greene County's all-timers, Charles Gamble.

252 Fox Sports Radio's Mark Panichelli helps us kick off the week with his thoughts on Sunday's NFL results and Saturday's ECU loss to Appalachian State.

Bryan opens the hour by looking back at Friday's prep football results and previews this week's prep sports schedule.

It's a fun and jam-packed second hour with Kinston-Lenoir County Sports Hall of Famer Jimmy Smith, Parrott Academy football coach Matt Beaman and WRNS' Jason Bryant.

Coach Smith gives us a health update following his open heart surgery last week.

Coach Beaman previews tonight's Strickland Agner Pittman game of the week between his Patriots and Rocky Mount Academy.

Jason opens the hour with exciting news about an Easter baseball tournament (featuring North Lenoir, South Lenoir and six other teams) coming to Historic Grainger Stadium in April 2025.

Jon, Jonathan and Bryan play a reverse Birthday Game with nods to Jameka Jones, Cassie Groff and James Alverson.

Paul Whittington and Jason Bryant join us in the first hour of today's show; Paul talks NASCAR while Jason shares his thoughts on tonight's prep football games.

Jimmy Ryals of The Assembly (TheAssemblyNC.com) joins us to share his thoughts on the Down East Wood Ducks leaving Kinston and the story he wrote about it. The Kinston native also shares his life journey that began in Lenoir County.

Jon, Jonathan and Bryan talk about Jonathan's tweet that made the Pat McAfee Show on ESPN (that is now had more than 1.1 million views at https://x.com/PatMcAfeeShow/status/1833222728926826719!), ugly NFL uniforms, the Disney vs. DirecTV battle and Bryan trading in his Mustang for a SUV.

One of Kinston's most important and positive forces -- Tonya Adams -- joins us to talk about the Lenoir County Fair (Oct. 1-5!), Lucky Cats and the Kinston Rotary Club.

For more information about the "Spay it Forward" event coming to Kinston at the end of the month, visit luckycats.org and click on the Kinston Spay it Forward link.

The Kinston Rotary Club will be holding its annual oyster roast on Thursday, Oct. 17 at the Cooperative Extension facility.