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Speaker 2: I know people don't like that. I get it, you
Speaker 2: don't like the Giants, But I had fun.
Speaker 1: It's good that you have fun. You need to take
Speaker 1: some time away and do something for you once in
Speaker 1: a while, and that's what matters. That's what matters. Think,
Speaker 1: we see you, we feel you, all the things.
Speaker 3: JT.
Speaker 2: Snow was my coach, former Angel and former Giant, former
Speaker 2: Yankee and former Angel and former Giant, and then I
Speaker 2: think he played for the Red Sox for a few months.
Speaker 1: Really big at the turn of the century.
Speaker 2: Humongous And what's funny is you can ask him about
Speaker 2: he hit in seven consecutive World Series games, which I
Speaker 2: think he said fewer than twenty people have ever done
Speaker 2: in the history of the World Series. But at six
Speaker 2: gold gloves, six consecutive gold gloves at first base. But
Speaker 2: what people remember him for is picking up Darren Baker
Speaker 2: at home play eight in that in that World Series,
Speaker 2: so the kid didn't get hurt.
Speaker 1: That was great, That was a great moment.
Speaker 2: That picture of him holding Darren big picking him up
Speaker 2: as he's crossing home plate so he doesn't get hit
Speaker 2: by I think it was David Bell that was going
Speaker 2: to score behind him. That is a picture that sits
Speaker 2: in the.
Speaker 1: The Smithsonian, the Hall of Fame. What else is going on?
Speaker 3: Time for what's happening?
Speaker 1: I did mention.
Speaker 2: Damage, fire damage, burglary call public adjuster Anne seven five
Speaker 2: two five six?
Speaker 1: Did Mark and Marlin? Did they screw that up the
Speaker 1: way we screw that up? No?
Speaker 3: Oh, thanks, you didn't have to answer so quickly. Preserve,
Speaker 3: Protect and defend, deserve, protect, and defend the.
Speaker 2: Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the United States.
Speaker 3: So help me, God, So help me God.
Speaker 1: Congratulations to stay forward. Our country will flourish and be
Speaker 1: respected again.
Speaker 2: All over the world.
Speaker 1: We will be the envy of every nation, and we
Speaker 1: will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer.
Speaker 2: That part of the inauguration speech that happened in the
Speaker 2: Capitol rotunda this morning as opposed to as opposed to
Speaker 2: outside because of some weather. The President said that the age,
Speaker 2: the Golden Age of America, begins right now.
Speaker 1: Speaking of I mentioned this right before the break kid
Speaker 1: Rock trying to flirt with a BBC reporter. Her name
Speaker 1: is Kaytriona Perry and she is the chief anchor based
Speaker 1: in DC. She asked Kid Rock during an interview what
Speaker 1: his plans are. He said he was thinking about going
Speaker 1: to the Canadian embassy, maybe trying to get Canada to
Speaker 1: become our fifty first state with Governor Wayne Gretzky. He
Speaker 1: says he's done with work so we can actually celebrate
Speaker 1: the rebirth of America today. And then he went on
Speaker 1: to say, what about you? What are you doing? Where
Speaker 1: are you at? She kind of laughed. She's like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting on the rooftop. It's super cold. I look
Speaker 1: like I'm ready to hit the slopes. He said, I
Speaker 1: can't see you right now, so I don't know what
Speaker 1: you look like. But then he says, you know, oh,
Speaker 1: the slopes. I love to go skiing. You sound sexy.
Speaker 1: You want to go with me?
Speaker 2: Uh? She stammered out a single, stunned syllable. Before wrapping
Speaker 2: things up. She says, well, we won't get into.
Speaker 3: That right here.
Speaker 2: We're doing no skiing today. We've bought a day of broadcasting.
Speaker 1: That's funny.
Speaker 3: He's smoking a cigar.
Speaker 2: Cute that shot La County has been told get ready
Speaker 2: for what could be more dangerous winds and potentially extreme
Speaker 2: fire weather at noon today. A few minutes ago, we
Speaker 2: entered the particularly dangerous situation again when it comes to
Speaker 2: red flag warnings. This elevated red flag plus plus danger
Speaker 2: zone is noon today until ten tomorrow morning. The red
Speaker 2: flag normal red flag warning doesn't expire until probably ten
Speaker 2: o'clock tomorrow night. So we are in the midst of
Speaker 2: it now and will be for the next several hours.
Speaker 2: As we've seen before, and if we learn any lesson
Speaker 2: out of the last couple of weeks, it is pay
Speaker 2: attention to.
Speaker 3: What's going on.
Speaker 2: And in the event that you see smoke, smell, smoke,
Speaker 2: saw the fire, had any reason to think that you
Speaker 2: might be in danger, its best to get out early
Speaker 2: and go back safely if you can. Then it is
Speaker 2: to wait until the very last minute.
Speaker 1: Well, we are dealing with fire. The rest of the
Speaker 1: country dealing with freezing Seventy five percent of the country
Speaker 1: expected to face freezing temperatures this week. You saw it
Speaker 1: live if you watch those football games yesterday. A lot
Speaker 1: of winter storm mornings from Tennessee to Maine on Sunday,
Speaker 1: so your travel plans if you're headed there, check them out,
Speaker 1: Double check them because there's a lot of snow everywhere.
Speaker 1: Like I said, seventy five percent of the country.
Speaker 2: A DC expected to see three inches six inches in
Speaker 2: New York and Boston. Somewhere Philly, they said a snow
Speaker 2: emergency was declared last night. Could be six inches of
Speaker 2: snow and below freezing temperatures through much of that area.
Speaker 1: Costco is going to go on strike. Over eighteen thousand
Speaker 1: Costco employees voted to approve this nationwide strike. What does
Speaker 1: this mean for Costco? Well, they say, from day one,
Speaker 1: we've told our Costco that our members will not work
Speaker 1: a day past January thirty first without a historic industry
Speaker 1: leading agreement. That Costco's greedy executives have less than two
Speaker 1: weeks to do the right thing.
Speaker 2: They are they closed or they just will they be
Speaker 2: picket signs outside my scabs.
Speaker 1: I don't know Costco scabs.
Speaker 2: Pretty large earthquake hit Taiwan. Initial reports of some minor
Speaker 2: injuries and a little bit of damage. This quake hit
Speaker 2: very early this morning. Epicenter about seven miles north of Euging.
Speaker 2: You know where that is, right, sure? Taiwan Central Weather
Speaker 2: Administration recorded a magnitude of six point four.
Speaker 1: The using is in Central Taiwan.
Speaker 3: I mean, I see knows that.
Speaker 2: And then Pepsi says they're going to roll out a
Speaker 2: new permanent flavor while another permanent flavor is being phased out.
Speaker 2: The newer of the two beverages, Pepsi Wild Cherry and Cream.
Speaker 3: Starts today.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a lot of diabetes.
Speaker 2: Sweet cherry and creamy vanilla. They will come both original
Speaker 2: which is sugary, and zero sugar varieties, still sugary but
Speaker 2: not sugar, not to be confused with wild cherry.
Speaker 1: Are you a flavored soda guy?
Speaker 3: I was amazed.
Speaker 2: I had an opportunity to drink soda on Friday night
Speaker 2: and I chose lemonade. That's okay, I've lost my flavor
Speaker 2: or lost my touch.
Speaker 1: For I almost bought diet coke in the market yesterday
Speaker 1: and did not because I was.
Speaker 2: Like, we all, thank you for that. Sometimes you and
Speaker 2: diet coke cannot be good friends.
Speaker 1: You could have just told me don't drink diet coke.
Speaker 1: He wanted to wait till.
Speaker 3: I wanted to be able to make that decision. You.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just want to give you some parameters just say,
Speaker 2: we would all appreciate it if you didn't.
Speaker 3: Okay, but we can't make that decision for you, Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Appreciate the safe space you've created here.
Speaker 2: Inauguration Day continues, the second inauguration of Donald Trump as president.
Speaker 2: Capital One Arena, the big basketball hockey arena there in DC,
Speaker 2: is crowded.
Speaker 3: It is absolutely packed to the gills.
Speaker 2: Instead of the normal inaugural parade that you see from
Speaker 2: the Capital down towards the White House, they are going
Speaker 2: to be doing a rally of sorts there at the
Speaker 2: Capitol One Arena.
Speaker 1: Look at Trump and Biden embracing and Milan Yeah, and
Speaker 1: Jill as well as Biden and Jill jetted off to
Speaker 1: Santa YNEZ.
Speaker 2: What I noticed this morning, and I don't remember this
Speaker 2: in the other inaugurations that we've seen, the president, the
Speaker 2: incoming vice president and second lady in this case went
Speaker 2: to the White House and then President Trump and Malania
Speaker 2: they showed up at the White House and they were
Speaker 2: greeted by Biden and Jill and it was very pleasant.
Speaker 2: I mean, they talked about I think President Biden even
Speaker 2: said to President elect Trump, welcome home, and Pleasantry's handshakes,
Speaker 2: that sort of thing that the official picture, and they
Speaker 2: go into the residence. It's officially considered a tea that
Speaker 2: they were having. They're having tea together. And then as
Speaker 2: they leave, it was Doug and Usha get into a
Speaker 2: limo and go.
Speaker 3: Then it was.
Speaker 2: JD and JD and Kamala get into their limo and go,
Speaker 2: and then Jill and Malania in a and they go.
Speaker 2: And then Amy Klobashar because she was in charge of
Speaker 2: the inauguration ceremony, Amy Klobashar, Donald Trump and Joe Biden
Speaker 2: all get into a limo and they go. But it
Speaker 2: was listen, I don't know how awkward those drives were.
Speaker 2: They're not very god for smartphones. I mean, think about
Speaker 2: Jill and Melania. The worst is Kamala and JD.
Speaker 3: What are they?
Speaker 1: I mean, those two have slung massive amounts of feces
Speaker 1: at each other.
Speaker 4: But that.
Speaker 2: Despite that, despite the amount of feces going back and forth.
Speaker 1: There's no conversation in that limo. I would bet my
Speaker 1: family and your family on that images jdie Vance and
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. There was nothing spoken but.
Speaker 2: The image of them getting into the same limo for
Speaker 2: that quick five minute eight minute drive over to the Capitol.
Speaker 1: I can't even get past I can't get past uncomfortable
Speaker 1: to important and civil, because you know that was not
Speaker 1: what that was. That was theater.
Speaker 3: I just think it was an important visual for everybody.
Speaker 1: I think so, But you know, deep down, it's not
Speaker 1: arguing that they emerged friends or anything like that.
Speaker 2: Hey, Gary, what song did you end up using to
Speaker 2: introduce yourself at Fantasy Baseball cameras?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: I didn't have to introduce myself because they had a
Speaker 2: guy doing the PA when we played the games in
Speaker 2: Scottsdale Stadium.
Speaker 1: I wish I was at So did everybody love it?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: What was the best and what was the worst?
Speaker 2: A couple guys had like, uh, it's not Pokemon.
Speaker 3: There were some other cartoon anima song. Yeah. I didn't
Speaker 3: recognize them, and they didn't make a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: Were the Asian?
Speaker 2: I don't recall, but I don't I don't recall.
Speaker 1: Okay, go on, he sounds like you're in a deposition.
Speaker 2: The best was I think three or four people had
Speaker 2: sabotage by the Beastie Boys.
Speaker 1: Really, how embarrassing? Four people the same?
Speaker 3: How do you not know?
Speaker 1: I would have been one we vetoed because we would know, well, Wed,
Speaker 1: so I know you're not getting to sabotage anyone.
Speaker 2: We also did veto it because I thought it was
Speaker 2: too common. Yes, it was going to be too common?
Speaker 1: Why did people call us?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: Are Championship Sunday is set? After this weekend's four games?
Speaker 2: We know the four teams that are going to be
Speaker 2: playing on Sunday to Buffalo Bills in Kansas City on Sunday,
Speaker 2: they're the first game, and then the Washington Commanders the
Speaker 2: what the Washington Commanders at the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 1: Wild watching what Jaden's been able to do this season.
Speaker 1: He has flown under the radar, probably because he's twenty four,
Speaker 1: he's a rookie, but also because he plays for the
Speaker 1: Commanders and nobody has the Commanders on their radar at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season, not midway through the season.
Speaker 1: Despite what he's able to do week after week, he's
Speaker 1: incredible to watch. Puts on a show. Who is rooting
Speaker 1: for the Eagles and the Chiefs? Other than Chiefs and
Speaker 1: Eagles fans, I don't know. The entire world wants it
Speaker 1: to be the Bills and the Commanders. The Super Bowl
Speaker 1: what a great story. We're tired of the Eagles, We're
Speaker 1: tired of the Chiefs. Move along. The refs fleeced the
Speaker 1: Texans in that game. That was not a personal foul.
Speaker 1: My god, I have loved that.
Speaker 3: I've loved that storyline.
Speaker 2: And my favorite image from it was Patrick Mahomes and
Speaker 2: the referee exchanging jerseys after the game.
Speaker 1: Oh they're great, the memes are great, But when you
Speaker 1: saw the calls that Lamar did not get, you know,
Speaker 1: when he's tackled and that one out of bounds tackle
Speaker 1: and you look at the crap they call for, whiny ass,
Speaker 1: Patrick Malmes, listen, I'm selling it from this. I was
Speaker 1: happy about the Chiefs when the Chiefs fans won, and
Speaker 1: I was a forty nine er fan and I paid
Speaker 1: a lot of money to go to Miami watch my
Speaker 1: team win, and they did not win. The Chiefs came out,
Speaker 1: they put on a show halfway through the fourth quarter. Okay, great,
Speaker 1: but the Chiefs fans were so humble. It was their
Speaker 1: first Super Bowl win. They were so happy, they were
Speaker 1: in tears, they were grateful. It was wonderful to see
Speaker 1: the excitement. There was a couple in front of me.
Speaker 1: I took their picture. It was an older couple they embraced.
Speaker 1: They ended up using it at the sixtieth anniversary that
Speaker 1: they had a few years later.
Speaker 3: Those are the people you can be happy for. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs fans have become forty nine er fans awful people, Awful, annoying,
Speaker 1: whiny people. It's like the Patriots fans used to be
Speaker 1: lovely people and then they had all their success and
Speaker 1: now they are whiny, entitled people. And there's this thing.
Speaker 1: And it's not just me. There is actually science behind
Speaker 1: this that shows that fan bases when a particular team
Speaker 1: does well in a particular market, the people there do
Speaker 1: well in terms of productivity at work and all of
Speaker 1: the things. It's stolen valor, it's stolen confidence. My team won,
Speaker 1: so I'm King of s Mountain and it translates. And
Speaker 1: so that's what you get when you go to Kansas City.
Speaker 1: Now you don't get those nice Midwestern type people. You
Speaker 1: get this entitled people who think that they're the winners
Speaker 1: of everything. And that's great, good for you, But it's
Speaker 1: time for us to move past as a country and
Speaker 1: embrace a commanders or Josh Allen and the Bills embrace
Speaker 1: the rookie of the Year in Jade and Daniel. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, let's move past. What does the NFL want
Speaker 1: the NFL that's a good question. What does the NFL want?
Speaker 1: The NFL should want, what I want, what we all want.
Speaker 2: Because Kansas City and Philadelphia are going to be big.
Speaker 1: People just hate to watch that GID. They're just gonna
Speaker 1: hate watch it. But it's a feel good feeling. If
Speaker 1: you've got a rookie quarterback and you've got Buffalo who
Speaker 1: lost the court, lost the Super Bowl four times in
Speaker 1: one decade, and they've lost three times to the Chiefs
Speaker 1: in the big game.
Speaker 3: In the AFC. Yes, I yeah, I don't know yet.
Speaker 2: I haven't figured out exactly what to even look at
Speaker 2: for these for these teams.
Speaker 1: I think you mean like position battles, No, no, no.
Speaker 3: No, yeah, I'm that deep.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, like, who's the player that I'm going to
Speaker 2: want to I think Jayden Daniels probably right now, is
Speaker 2: the one guy. Daniel's of all of those people that
Speaker 2: we know that I would pull forward but don't.
Speaker 1: And he's a good person, He's got his head on
Speaker 1: his shoulders, a good kid. But don't discount Josh Allen's story,
Speaker 1: and we can dig into it as we.
Speaker 3: Get closer to the super California kid.
Speaker 1: He's a California kid, grew up a Niner fan, but
Speaker 1: more importantly, no one wanted him. He sat down and
Speaker 1: did all his own work in terms of writing letters,
Speaker 1: putting his own reels together, sending them to coaches, like
Speaker 1: crazy amounts of personalized letters to each coach and college.
Speaker 2: Thing.
Speaker 1: I know, nobody wants to take a pass on me,
Speaker 1: but here's why you should. Here's why you should not
Speaker 1: take a pass on me. I guess I mean your
Speaker 1: point about him being a good guy. The end of
Speaker 1: that game, the game is whistled dead last night. The
Speaker 1: first thing he does is runs over and gives a
Speaker 1: huge hug to Lamar Jackson. Yeah, and I mean that
Speaker 1: that's one of those things that I mean your point
Speaker 1: earlier about.
Speaker 2: I've transitioned from a fan into the player. Like I
Speaker 2: can respect the other players for what it is that
Speaker 2: they do. I don't hate them just because of the
Speaker 2: jersey that they were exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good sign. So he's a close second
Speaker 3: for me.
Speaker 1: I want to know what they whispered to each other,
Speaker 1: and was it beat the effing chiefs. Go take it
Speaker 1: all and can't wait to see you beat the chiefs
Speaker 1: on the way.
Speaker 3: I hope so big.
Speaker 2: Inauguration Day today, Donald Trump sworn in as the forty
Speaker 2: seventh president in the Capitol Rotunda. They moved it all
Speaker 2: inside because of the temperatures on the outside there in DC.
Speaker 2: About six hundred people there in the rotunda itself markedly Obviously,
Speaker 2: every member of Congress gets an invite. They're guaranteed a seat,
Speaker 2: but that doesn't leave a whole lot of room for
Speaker 2: extra people. And guys like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg
Speaker 2: got to bring their wives.
Speaker 3: Or girlfriend I mean.
Speaker 1: Why not.
Speaker 2: Well if members of Congress can't, I mean, there's such
Speaker 2: a well there. They're there for a job. That's their
Speaker 2: job is to go to that. That's like bringing your
Speaker 2: wife to work kind of thing, I guess. And those
Speaker 2: are guests. It's more of a social event. For Mark Zuckerberger,
Speaker 2: what have you not? It's your duty to be there.
Speaker 1: Your job description says you have to be there for
Speaker 1: the inauguration.
Speaker 2: Is the guest They sat in front of the people
Speaker 2: who would be cabinet members. You know, I thought that
Speaker 2: was kind of interesting too. Aid say that the president
Speaker 2: is going to begin cleaning up the country's failed, corrupt
Speaker 2: political establishment. More than two hundred executive actions are expected
Speaker 2: on this first day in office, including fifty executive orders
Speaker 2: border security, domestic energy, production of federal workers hired based
Speaker 2: on merit, et cetera.
Speaker 1: I have a couple things to talk about. Number one
Speaker 1: not to talk about, just to mention. Number one is
Speaker 1: your jeopardy question if you wanted to do that. In
Speaker 1: the spirit of Martin Luther King Junior, day this category
Speaker 1: as winners for two hundred dollars. Martin Luther King Junior
Speaker 1: won aposthumous one of these awards for a Best Spoken
Speaker 1: Word recording in nineteen seventy one.
Speaker 3: And I'm sorry a grammy, Yes, sir, it is a grammy?
Speaker 1: What is a grammy? You are correct? Also, of note,
Speaker 1: the owners of Peanut the squirrel and Fred the raccoon
Speaker 1: are back in the news. You remember Peanut and Fred, right,
Speaker 1: They were seized by the government and killed because of
Speaker 1: the thread of rabies. Well, now the owners of Peanut
Speaker 1: and Fred are fighting to get the animal's bodies back.
Speaker 1: There's been a petition shared via Instagram demanding the return
Speaker 1: of Peanut and Fred's bodies from the New York State
Speaker 1: Department of Environmental Conservation. They want to give them a
Speaker 1: proper burial. They don't even know where the bodies are
Speaker 1: if they're still.
Speaker 3: There, they're not.
Speaker 2: The agencies don't continue to hold squirrel and what was
Speaker 2: the other thing, the raccoon Fred? They don't remember Fred
Speaker 2: the raccoon easy. They don't tend to keep those around.
Speaker 2: Those things have become either let's I'll clean it up.
Speaker 2: They're ashes to ashes, dust to dust, or they're fertilizer
Speaker 2: or some combination of both.
Speaker 3: But they are not still around.
Speaker 1: You should have a say and whether Peanut and Fred
Speaker 1: become fertilizer or your stuffed friends on the mantle.
Speaker 3: I don't disagree with you.
Speaker 1: Would you ever stuff an animal put it on the mantle?
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too, Have you ever we've talked about this
Speaker 2: last year at this time, we were talking about this
Speaker 2: with my previous dog. Yeah, there was a very strong
Speaker 2: sentiment in my household that it was a I shouldn't
Speaker 2: say very strong, I'd say outsized percentage of possibility that
Speaker 2: the Great King Fergus ended up as a mantle piece.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would totally do it. I think. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, because there were times he would just sit
Speaker 2: in the corner and you'd think he was stuffed. There
Speaker 2: were a lot of movement around, right, Not that he
Speaker 2: was old, It's just he was just judging.
Speaker 1: I've never really felt the need to get high, Like
Speaker 1: I have never been a weed person, but I have
Speaker 1: a really strong feeling to get high and just talk
Speaker 1: to your dead stuff dog like that sounds like an
Speaker 1: afternoon well right, like just sitting there, like on the
Speaker 1: carpet in that corner there.
Speaker 3: We did not end up stuffing him.
Speaker 1: I know, but if you did it, I did anyway.
Speaker 1: So that's going on. Disneyland. They redid the Haunted Mansion,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, like the headline was like, it's it
Speaker 1: looks sadder. It's a sadder hunted mansion because of the bride,
Speaker 1: And so I'm like, all right, you got me click
Speaker 1: I click on it yesterday. And it turns out that
Speaker 1: the bride used to be someone who was an axe
Speaker 1: murder and killed all her husbands and she had their
Speaker 1: heads and an axe and the whole bit. Well, they
Speaker 1: felt felt that that was too far, that that was
Speaker 1: too much, that the sensibilities of people today would be
Speaker 1: taxed beyond measure if they saw an axe wielding bride
Speaker 1: that was a husband killer. Well, one of the things
Speaker 1: that they said, they decided to make her just look sad.
Speaker 2: Right, like she had lost husbands, which is haunted in
Speaker 2: its own way.
Speaker 1: It's stupid. We can't handle of bride axe murderer who
Speaker 1: kills her husbands. We were in a nation addicted to
Speaker 1: true true crime. If there was ever a time when
Speaker 1: we had an appetite for a axe murderer bride, it
Speaker 1: would be right now.
Speaker 2: The uh, the interesting thing about it is that they
Speaker 2: get away with some of these more Well, they're drawn
Speaker 2: as cartoons.
Speaker 3: They're they're you know, they're not realistic.
Speaker 2: I think of the when you walk into the elevator,
Speaker 2: although people don't think of it as an elevator, you
Speaker 2: walk into the room with no windows and no doors,
Speaker 2: and the rooms begins to stretch. There could be some
Speaker 2: pretty scary things that you see in there, but they're cartoons,
Speaker 2: and that takes away a lot of the fear. And
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people don't see it as
Speaker 2: as scary. That way, why they would think that they
Speaker 2: needed to pull back on some of those things. I
Speaker 2: don't get it.
Speaker 3: After the introduction from the ghost Home.
Speaker 1: The feelings we are a society that can't handle a
Speaker 1: make believe acts murdering bride were too pansy afide.
Speaker 2: Well, the other one is the dead body that's supposedly
Speaker 2: hanging from a wooden beam at the top of the room,
Speaker 2: and that if you can't find your way out, this
Speaker 2: manner of death is his preferred method of escaping the
Speaker 2: seemingly inescapable room. They've tried to remove some theming elements,
Speaker 2: they say, from their attractions because of the potential to
Speaker 2: offend people's sensibilities. Carrie Underwood's going to get I don't know,
Speaker 2: ahead of Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Speaker 3: Something he says hits.
Speaker 1: When the music won't play, Carrie Underwood grabs the mic
Speaker 1: and saves the day.
Speaker 2: I just saw a different camera angle of what happened
Speaker 2: this morning. Carrie Underwood is gonna get up and sing
Speaker 2: America is beautiful, and she's standing there looking great.
Speaker 3: Everybody's waiting. It's quiet. It's still quiet.
Speaker 2: They start to play a little music and then it stops,
Speaker 2: and then it's still quiet, and you can see the
Speaker 2: camera angle. There's a director somebody who comes into the
Speaker 2: shot and they're wearing a headset and they say, you
Speaker 2: can only see the back of his head. But he
Speaker 2: says something to her and she mouths the words I
Speaker 2: can just sing it right and then she says into
Speaker 2: the microphone, if you know the words, help me out
Speaker 2: here and oh, and then just goes right in.
Speaker 1: Incredible. It was such a chills moment. Okay, So over
Speaker 1: the weekend I was scrolling through social media. I found
Speaker 1: that one of my bestest friends of all time, Lindsey Burkette.
Speaker 1: I almost said Lindsay Ford because that was her name
Speaker 1: when I first met her five hundred years ago in Seattle,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite military families. The Burquettes were off
Speaker 1: to Washington, d C. Lindsay her husband Brandon, thank you
Speaker 1: for his service in the Navy, and they're five children.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go make the track for a weekend in
Speaker 1: DC to do all of the things, go to the inauguration. Lindsey,
Speaker 1: thanks for your time. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Hi guys, Hey, First thing, have your husband tie that
Speaker 2: thing in a not you don't need more kids.
Speaker 3: Second thing, listen, we're on it.
Speaker 2: We're on it.
Speaker 4: There's no more.
Speaker 1: We have hitched.
Speaker 2: Okay, good, have you ever been to an inauguration? Why
Speaker 2: this one?
Speaker 3: And what's uh? You know, what what do you what does?
Speaker 3: What does your day look like?
Speaker 4: Well with we had decided early on, no matter either
Speaker 4: either side, we were going to go because we have
Speaker 4: an almost sixteen year old and for the next inauguration,
Speaker 4: he hopefully won't be living at home. So we kind
Speaker 4: of made the executive decision to take them all. And
Speaker 4: you know, we have lots of friends out here and
Speaker 4: we just thought this what better weekend to take them
Speaker 4: to their first trip to DC.
Speaker 1: And so you guys had tickets for the event and everything,
Speaker 1: but then all hell broke loose? So how what did
Speaker 1: you plan for? And what happened?
Speaker 4: Well, it was crazy. So they still were emailing and
Speaker 4: calling and saying, come pick up your tickets. We don't
Speaker 4: know what we're doing. So we went and picked up
Speaker 4: the tickets and they said, we'll be in touch, we'll
Speaker 4: let everybody know. And at that point they were still
Speaker 4: going to let everybody be at the mall and there
Speaker 4: was seating, and then they decided that the weather was
Speaker 4: really going to be detrimental to you know, all the
Speaker 4: officers and the security and the families. So then we
Speaker 4: were actually down there and they were taking all the
Speaker 4: fencing down and the chairs, and it was kind of
Speaker 4: crazy because then they basically were like, well, your sol
Speaker 4: unless you paid lots and lots and lots of money,
Speaker 4: you're not going to see anything. Go find a fun
Speaker 4: bar or a hotel and go watch it from there.
Speaker 1: So they didn't open up that arena or anything to
Speaker 1: the people who had gotten tickets for outside.
Speaker 4: I think that those were like all people who paid
Speaker 4: mass amounts of money, oh and for you know, like
Speaker 4: all the inner circles. We also had tickets to the rally,
Speaker 4: but at three am people were lining up, and by
Speaker 4: eleven the line for the to get into the rally,
Speaker 4: which is at the same arena which only holds about
Speaker 4: twenty thousand, it was six blocks long at eleven.
Speaker 1: O'clock and freezing and freezing.
Speaker 4: So we were like, you know what, we'll watch it
Speaker 4: on TV with some champagne and that it will be just
Speaker 4: as good.
Speaker 1: And then what was the vibe there? Are people? Are
Speaker 1: they going to like bars or restaurants or whatever? Is
Speaker 1: it all inauguration people? They flooded the town and were
Speaker 1: they mad flooded.
Speaker 4: You know, it's crazy. Everyone is more concerned about the
Speaker 4: President's safety and the weather, and everyone is still very happy.
Speaker 4: It is so crazy. It's like you're downtown with hundreds
Speaker 4: of thousands of your best friends. Everybody is hugging, everyone
Speaker 4: is cheering, every It's like every the energy is just crazy.
Speaker 4: It's you can't really describe it.
Speaker 1: That's why I asked you if it was like traveling
Speaker 1: for football, because that's what it's like when you go
Speaker 1: see your favorite team in another city and you have,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you have all these best friends
Speaker 1: you don't even know you have.
Speaker 4: The built in best friends. You're hugging strangers, you're taking pictures.
Speaker 4: You're like, you know, and we went to Arlington the
Speaker 4: day before yesterday, and that too is everyone's there to
Speaker 4: see all of this history being made.
Speaker 2: So well, I think that's listen, that's an incredible trip
Speaker 2: for you to gift to your family, especially your sixteen
Speaker 2: year old, the idea that this is it.
Speaker 3: And like you said, I mean, it didn't matter who won.
Speaker 2: You wanted to be there for the history of this
Speaker 2: thing because it, yes, it comes up every four years,
Speaker 2: but still very few people actually lay eyes on that.
Speaker 2: They don't, you know, they do like we do. We
Speaker 2: got to see it on twelve different.
Speaker 1: Those kids will remember this forever.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, yeah, I mean it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Outside of Arlington. Did you guys get to do the
Speaker 2: touristy stuff that's a little less less somber.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah. We went to the National Archives, We
Speaker 4: walked all around DC. We're actually heading back down right
Speaker 4: now just to go live it up with all the
Speaker 4: people and have some drinks and go show the kids
Speaker 4: the White House and you know, so I just think
Speaker 4: it's it's a special day.
Speaker 1: Well, good, thank you, Lindsey. Uh, safe travels back. I
Speaker 1: can't believe you took five kids on a plane across
Speaker 1: the country anywhere.
Speaker 4: Well can you believe that I sat in a row
Speaker 4: with five of them and my husband was by himself.
Speaker 1: He looked so peaceful. He looks so peaceful in that silence.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, thanks guys for Collinge.
Speaker 2: Well thanks and enjoy your time, Lindsay. And tell your
Speaker 2: husband will we greatly appreciate your time.
Speaker 4: Oh sure, thanks guys, you got by him all right.
Speaker 1: We will wrap it all up.
Speaker 3: Crazy stories about Lindsay that you want.
Speaker 1: To you have no idea. Listen, we were. I basically
Speaker 1: lived at her place when I lived in Seattle for
Speaker 1: a year. I actually picked She always says, I'm the
Speaker 1: best thing she ever picked up in a bar. I
Speaker 1: had moved to Seattle. I didn't know anyone to work
Speaker 1: at a radio station. I was living in Belltown. It
Speaker 1: was my first weekend in Seattle and I'm in bed.
Speaker 1: It's Friday night, It's about eight eight thirty, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know what, you are not going and this is
Speaker 1: in my head, like you are not going to feel
Speaker 1: comfortable here unless you meet friends. You've got to go
Speaker 1: meet friends. There was like a martini bar on the
Speaker 1: corner of like a block away from where I was
Speaker 1: living in my studio apartment. So I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: just going to go out. I'll get a drink, I'll
Speaker 1: sit at the bar, what have you. So I did that.
Speaker 1: I went out, sat there, and Lindsey and two of
Speaker 1: her friends came in and came to my area of
Speaker 1: the bar, and it was like we'd known each other
Speaker 1: forever and became great friends that that day and were
Speaker 1: inseparable my whole year there in Seattle.
Speaker 3: Story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she met her husband there at a bar so
Speaker 1: get navy she has she no, No, this was when
Speaker 1: we were like twenty four years old, so they've been
Speaker 1: together a long time. But she is taken care of
Speaker 1: five kids through countless deployments because he just runs those ships.
Speaker 1: The USS countless USS is a lot of uss's and
Speaker 1: she has been anchor for that. I mean, I.
Speaker 3: Forget it, navy anchor.
Speaker 1: I look at her her Instagram and I just get
Speaker 1: exhausted with the amount of stuff that she does.
Speaker 2: Well, it's cool. I'm glad that it's nice to meet her.
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