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Speaker 4: Welcome to the final day of twenty one day Fool.
Speaker 4: I am your host for the next three hours, Mandy Connall,
Speaker 4: dragging myself back in from an extended holiday period, joined
Speaker 4: today by the one, the Only, the man whose segment
Speaker 4: in the Rockies pregame show is my absolute favorite, Jesse Thomas.
Speaker 4: Everybody you know I love that segment.
Speaker 5: Thank you. You were talking me up the whole time.
Speaker 6: I was talking about you too.
Speaker 5: If anyone's going to take my thunder, I want it
Speaker 5: to be YouTube.
Speaker 4: And this is exactly why I didn't even introduce you,
Speaker 4: and you're already talking. This is why it'll let Chuck
Speaker 4: come on the show, Chuck. My husband is here as well.
Speaker 4: My daughter, the que is also in the studio. Now,
Speaker 4: we've never done this before, and there's probably a really
Speaker 4: good reason why I can't think of it right now,
Speaker 4: but by the end of the show it should clarify itself.
Speaker 4: But we have a really, really big show planned for
Speaker 4: you today. I've got some special guests coming in that
Speaker 4: you're not going to be expecting. But I do want
Speaker 4: to start the show with a male kulpa.
Speaker 7: And that is the.
Speaker 4: The video of me in the pageant in Florida. I
Speaker 4: completely forgot about it until right now, and I forgot
Speaker 4: to get it from VCR to some digital format. I
Speaker 4: just didn't think about it.
Speaker 5: I didn't know that was a thing or I would
Speaker 5: have taken care of. I didn't know.
Speaker 4: You see, now it's going to be taken care of.
Speaker 4: And now I'm not going to have an excuse. Now,
Speaker 4: I really did just put it out of my mind.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'll take care of that. We'll get that on
Speaker 5: in the next sometime in January. Q.
Speaker 4: You do you want to say anything now? No, you
Speaker 4: can't just come in the studio and sit here. We
Speaker 4: get enough of that at home. We need you to engage,
Speaker 4: be charming, act like more.
Speaker 5: People that you like being a teenager.
Speaker 4: Yeah, pick pick up the headphones. I'm reading a book. Okay,
Speaker 4: what are you reading a book?
Speaker 3: For?
Speaker 4: Found Dead?
Speaker 8: It's a book about a group a set of murders
Speaker 8: in of course awesome.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a broken down theater that was about to close. Yeah,
Speaker 4: of course, because that's where the best murders happened and
Speaker 4: breaking down.
Speaker 8: It's their last day, and then they get locked inside
Speaker 8: and then someone murders them.
Speaker 2: Or four of them.
Speaker 4: Oh of course, deadly Scooby squad. Yeah sure, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 4: A couple of things that are going to happen today. One,
Speaker 4: you can text us on the Common Spirit Health text line.
Speaker 2: For part of the show.
Speaker 4: But for part of the show, we're going to go
Speaker 4: back in time, back to when I first started doing radio,
Speaker 4: and we're going to take phone calls. Jesse, do you
Speaker 4: remember how to pick up the phone? Do you remember
Speaker 4: how to operate it?
Speaker 9: I think so, I'll have to go back to my
Speaker 9: sports radio days. But yes, I'm ready to screen some calls.
Speaker 4: Let's do it all right, So throughout the day you
Speaker 4: are welcome to call frankly because I missed talking to people.
Speaker 4: But today is an ask us anything kind of day.
Speaker 4: But there's a bunch of other stuff that we want
Speaker 4: to talk about because I got a bunch of stuff
Speaker 4: on the blog and it is the last final day
Speaker 4: of the year, right, so this is hang on, I'm
Speaker 4: opening that. I'm opening that. Okay, there we go. It's
Speaker 4: the last day of the year, so there's a lot
Speaker 4: of like retrospective stuff. I want to talk to you
Speaker 4: guys about what the biggest story of the year for
Speaker 4: you was, Jesse Thomas, what was the biggest story of
Speaker 4: the year for you?
Speaker 9: Probably the election and everything with it in the assassination attempt.
Speaker 4: I think, can we just say Donald Trump, Yeah, He's
Speaker 4: the biggest story of the year. I mean, there has
Speaker 4: never been in the modern era political comeback like we
Speaker 4: witnessed this year. In addition to the things Jesse just mentioned,
Speaker 4: You've got Donald Trump potentially being assassinated, You've got all
Speaker 4: these things happening. But there is a lot of news.
Speaker 4: As I was looking through all of the various, you know,
Speaker 4: top stories of twenty twenty four and all of this stuff,
Speaker 4: I was kind of struck by how much crap happened
Speaker 4: this year. And then I found a I don't know
Speaker 4: if it's ABC News or NBC News, I don't remember
Speaker 4: right now. I found an article like the most talked
Speaker 4: about stories of twenty twenty four. Guess what They were
Speaker 4: not the same as the biggest stories. For the most part,
Speaker 4: we cared about a lot of dumb stuff. That didn't
Speaker 4: matter the whole out Baldwin rust story. I didn't care
Speaker 4: about it while it was happening. I do think the
Speaker 4: man got away with manslaughter, period. But that being said, welly,
Speaker 4: we pay attention to dumb dumb stuff, really dumb stuff.
Speaker 10: We are forced to pay attention to dumb dumb stuff,
Speaker 10: so the good important stuff is not.
Speaker 4: You know, this is my choice though, because the news
Speaker 4: outlets are ranking their stories, and a lot of them
Speaker 4: are like CNN did a digital traffic one what story
Speaker 4: got the most digital traffic? And so that's a really
Speaker 4: good indicator of the news that people care about. But
Speaker 4: NBC News was like, these were the most quote talked about.
Speaker 4: I never know where are they talking about them at
Speaker 4: cocktail parties? Where are we talking about them? I'm guessing
Speaker 4: social media. I'm guessing they screamed Google and said what
Speaker 4: are people looking at on Google? And all that stuff.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but it was a lot of fluff.
Speaker 4: We like to pay attention to fluff that doesn't matter
Speaker 4: on this show.
Speaker 10: And they know we like to pay attention to fluff
Speaker 10: instead of important things.
Speaker 4: Correct, all right, So Mandy, this from the Common Spirit
Speaker 4: Health text line five six six nine. Oh, hello, Mandy
Speaker 4: and family. I've been looking so forward to this show.
Speaker 4: You're making my day. Oh, Mandy, welcome. I don't want
Speaker 4: to brag, but I have enough money that I can
Speaker 4: go fishing for the rest of the year. Sir madam,
Speaker 4: do you enjoy living the high life?
Speaker 5: What I want to do it?
Speaker 4: And may you have tight lines? Sir or madam? May
Speaker 4: you catch them, not just fish for them. Mandy Boo
Speaker 4: specifically made my way to the radio at noon to
Speaker 4: hear that tape.
Speaker 1: Boo.
Speaker 4: You guys, I'm telling you, I'm struggling with this. I'm
Speaker 4: struggling with it.
Speaker 7: Ben.
Speaker 4: Wait, are we talking about the Lusty pageant?
Speaker 5: The performance?
Speaker 3: Not?
Speaker 5: Oh, I a question answer type thing.
Speaker 4: It was a monologue.
Speaker 2: No I did.
Speaker 4: It's about how I sounded. No, I don't want to
Speaker 4: do the hasn't even seen it yet? No, you haven't
Speaker 4: seen it. You haven't seen it. Q.
Speaker 8: I feel like if I had seen it I probably
Speaker 8: would have been able to replicate a Southern accent for
Speaker 8: that one theater project where I'm supposed to.
Speaker 4: Be doing a Southern accent. This is alien, Okay, it's undeniable. Okay.
Speaker 4: Now Chuck is on the job. It will happen. It
Speaker 4: will happen. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5: I'm not Yeah, I'm just glad I get to share this.
Speaker 5: You never let me show it to anybody.
Speaker 8: Though.
Speaker 4: It looks so good. I look so good when I'm
Speaker 4: seventeen years old, you guys, yeah.
Speaker 5: So hot.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying I topped I topped out at seventeen,
Speaker 4: but oh god, it was really top notch, just top notch.
Speaker 5: Yes, Jesse, Nope, I just behave yourself, chuck.
Speaker 4: Anyway, I'm agree.
Speaker 5: I'm just agree.
Speaker 4: He didn't meet me until I was well into my thirties.
Speaker 4: So peak Mandy. You know we all have our peak age.
Speaker 4: What was your poke age? Oh?
Speaker 5: Physically sixty five?
Speaker 4: Nice Friday, and I have a peek.
Speaker 5: You're growing into a chuck into it.
Speaker 4: As a great phrase your pell. When did Jesse.
Speaker 5: Thomas eighteen or nineteen?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Downhill since then?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we all do.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I've never been asked that. That's a good question.
Speaker 7: Well think about it.
Speaker 5: That's a good question.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: Jeff Bezos six hundred million dollar wedding and asspen what
Speaker 4: that is a thing? This Texter said, what was the
Speaker 4: least talked about Biden's dementia. Let's do this. Let's go
Speaker 4: to the blog, because I have a lot of these answers,
Speaker 4: except that I didn't know about the Jeff Bezos wedding.
Speaker 4: They said that was alive and it was probably just
Speaker 4: to throw everybody off the track or whatever. Anyway, find
Speaker 4: the blog mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look
Speaker 4: for the headline that says twelve thirty one, twenty four blog.
Speaker 4: It's an end of the year wrap up with my
Speaker 4: family and friends. Click on that and here are the
Speaker 4: headlines you will find with it.
Speaker 7: The office House, American allyships and equipments and seen.
Speaker 4: That's kind of press plan. It's bedy on the blood.
Speaker 4: It's almost happy New Year time. I want your best's
Speaker 4: worst New Year's Eve stories. The biggest story of twenty
Speaker 4: twenty four has to be Trump's comeback? Scrolling? What about
Speaker 4: the Colorado News in twenty twenty four? Biggest story of
Speaker 4: the year. What journalists aren't curious about?
Speaker 12: Really?
Speaker 7: Jan really?
Speaker 4: Credit card default skyrocketed last year? Scrolling, scrolling. This writer says, no,
Speaker 4: two more democratic lies. Let's talk about twenty twenty five
Speaker 4: for a minute. What stupid new laws do we have
Speaker 4: to look forward to. Yes, Democratic legislators are why you
Speaker 4: can't find eggs right now. Minimuloy age is going up again.
Speaker 4: Psychedelic assisted therapy will be a thing in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4: Some good concerts are coming to Denver this year. Looking
Speaker 4: for something fun to do tonight, Bless Biden's little delusional heart.
Speaker 4: Jimmy Carter has passed this secret. Santo will gut you.
Speaker 4: That time a donkey adopted a three year old boy,
Speaker 4: the perfect time for a brotherly confession, a farewell to
Speaker 4: those we lost in twenty twenty four, and God is
Speaker 4: making a comeback. Those are the headlines on the blog
Speaker 4: at mandy'sblog dot com. Lots of videos, lots of graphs.
Speaker 4: You can just bring that down just there you go.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of like graphs and stuff and a
Speaker 4: lot of videos and stuff. But I want to play
Speaker 4: something in response to what that texture just said. Okay,
Speaker 4: and this is from Face the Nation. Major Garrett was
Speaker 4: filling in for Margaret Brennan and he has a panel
Speaker 4: of a CBS journalist sitting with him talking about you know,
Speaker 4: stories of the year, blah blah blah, and this is
Speaker 4: what transpired. Justice Alio stepped down.
Speaker 1: One of the things we also do in the year
Speaker 1: end Correspondence round Table is dig into what was undercovered
Speaker 1: or under reported.
Speaker 4: Jan undercovered, underreported.
Speaker 13: That would be to me, Joe Biden's obvious cognizant decline
Speaker 13: that became under eyeable.
Speaker 4: In the televised debate. The presidential debate was unquestioned.
Speaker 13: And you know, it's starting to emerge now that his
Speaker 13: advisors kind of managed his limitations. It's been reported in
Speaker 13: the Wall Street Journal for four years, and yet he
Speaker 13: insisted that he could still run for president. We should
Speaker 13: have much more forcefully questioned whether he was fit for
Speaker 13: office for another four years, which could have led to
Speaker 13: a primary for the Democrats. It could have changed the
Speaker 13: scope of the entire election. Yet still, incredibly, we read
Speaker 13: the Washington Post that his advisors are saying that he
Speaker 13: regrets that he dropped out of the race. You know
Speaker 13: that he thinks he could have beaten Trump. And I
Speaker 13: think that is either delusional or they're gas lading.
Speaker 4: Wait now, I want to wait here, because that is
Speaker 4: Jan Crawford speaking truth. She is spitting truth balls right there.
Speaker 4: But listen, listen to one of her colleagues jumps in
Speaker 4: right after to say this.
Speaker 3: Biden has said repeatedly he was sick during the debate
Speaker 3: June twenty seventh in.
Speaker 6: Atlanta, and he's always been fine and he leaves fine.
Speaker 14: That is his position, the position of many of his
Speaker 14: top eights as well, even though there is that reporting.
Speaker 4: Now, I mean, come on, you guys, like, what are
Speaker 4: you gonna believe? These guys are your lion eyes. We
Speaker 4: have known since he took office that the man was
Speaker 4: not at his best. Oh, well, he's just elderly.
Speaker 5: And I'm not trying to be like, you know, negative
Speaker 5: is just an old man.
Speaker 4: You can be eighty two and not be elderly. My mom,
Speaker 4: my mom is a perfect example. By the way, if
Speaker 4: you don't follow me on Facebook, you missed the picture
Speaker 4: of my mom, who is eighty one years old and me.
Speaker 4: First of all, you look at her and you're like,
Speaker 4: there's no freaking way that lady is eighty one exactly, which,
Speaker 4: thank you, thank you God for this.
Speaker 5: Do any kind of what do you call him? The
Speaker 5: stuff to the pictures? Yeah, like you don't even know.
Speaker 4: It's definitely didn't do anything to it.
Speaker 5: You know, those things you can do, those things things
Speaker 5: with their hands on her head, going, oh my gosh,
Speaker 5: my mom.
Speaker 4: Is sharp as attack. Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm not
Speaker 4: saying I want my mom to run the country. But
Speaker 4: my mom is perfectly fine at eighty one. Joe Biden
Speaker 4: is not. He is an elderly man with memory issues.
Speaker 4: He should never have been put in a high pressure
Speaker 4: situation like his family. I truly believe that him being
Speaker 4: president is even though he's been on vacation for nineteen
Speaker 4: months of his four year presidency. Did you just hear
Speaker 4: what I said? Nineteen months of his four year presidency,
Speaker 4: Joe Biden has been on vacation. He's in Saint Thomas
Speaker 4: right now, or Saint Croix, one of the saints down
Speaker 4: in the Caribbean. I think they shaved years off of his.
Speaker 5: Life like that. I think that's crazy.
Speaker 4: Mandy sixty eggs cost over thirty one dollars and we're
Speaker 4: going to talk about that a little bit later. I'm
Speaker 4: so happy that Chuck and Q showed up for my
Speaker 4: speed Bump birthday show. Thank you, Happy New Year. Speed
Speaker 4: Bump Birthday show is today You're birthday, speed Bump. I'm
Speaker 4: trying to figure out what that is.
Speaker 5: What is the speed Bump birthday idea, do we.
Speaker 4: Know what a speed I need clarification, Texter, I need
Speaker 4: clarification about what that is happening. And Elizabeth, by the way,
Speaker 4: said she's sitting in her pull patio listening to the show.
Speaker 4: She's been looking forward to it. Elizabeth and Wayne Chuck, Oh, hey, fantastic. Yeah,
Speaker 4: don't be typing stuff. People are bump birthday?
Speaker 10: Okay?
Speaker 4: On the blog today, I have a lot of really
Speaker 4: really really good stuff. But of course a lot of
Speaker 4: the reporting that's happening right now is you know, what
Speaker 4: were the biggest news stories of the year, And I've
Speaker 4: got a lot of stories linked through I've got to
Speaker 4: I've got with those from France because we don't spend
Speaker 4: a ton of time talking about what's happening around the world.
Speaker 4: Although in twenty twenty four, I fully expect that what
Speaker 4: is it? What is the speed bump birthday? Of course,
Speaker 4: the fifteen year old immediately goes to the interwebs and
Speaker 4: finds the answer.
Speaker 8: A speed bump birthday means a relatively small or low
Speaker 8: key celebration of someone's birthday. So probably if it is
Speaker 8: their birthday on New Year's Eve, that's probably why.
Speaker 4: Well we did it.
Speaker 11: We did it.
Speaker 4: We had a low key birthday celebration for Jesus this year.
Speaker 4: How was it, Christmas? Jesse?
Speaker 5: Fantastic?
Speaker 11: Hello.
Speaker 5: I guess it's very speed bumpish, speed bumps.
Speaker 7: I like that.
Speaker 4: I never got my gift. I'm just it's yeah cool, yeah,
Speaker 4: like all of mine are.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 4: I got a bunch of boxes with folded up pieces
Speaker 4: of paper in them with photographs of the things that
Speaker 4: were being shipped.
Speaker 5: Look what's coming. The best part about that is you
Speaker 5: and I sat down, we figured out what we're going
Speaker 5: to get her. We went to order it. It said
Speaker 5: it would be here one thing. That'scept the thing you gotcha. Yeah,
Speaker 5: instead of.
Speaker 10: They would be here on the twenty third, and then
Speaker 10: on the twenty third, they said they'd be here January
Speaker 10: twenty third. So yeah, you know, we can't take the
Speaker 10: tree down until we get one of them.
Speaker 4: So there you go. By the way, I was thinking
Speaker 4: about this last night, I want to run this up
Speaker 4: the flagpole of the Mandy Connell listener base and see
Speaker 4: what you guys think. So so immediately after Christmas, I
Speaker 4: start to feel this nagging a little bit of depression
Speaker 4: creeping in about the fact that the Christmas lights will
Speaker 4: soon be gone and it's still dark as hell at
Speaker 4: five thirty or six, you know, And i'd like to propose.
Speaker 4: I'd like to propose something to Denver rights, Okay, because
Speaker 4: you know, Denver is the home of Christmas lights. We've
Speaker 4: learned this and we started them here outdoor Christmas lights.
Speaker 4: So here's my proposal. Why don't we all just agree
Speaker 4: and you don't have to keep up the tree.
Speaker 11: You can.
Speaker 4: You can undecorate the inside, right, you can undecorate the inside.
Speaker 4: But why don't we all just agree to leave up
Speaker 4: our festive lights until it doesn't get dark until six thirty,
Speaker 4: Like that should be the cut off. Like, hey, once
Speaker 4: it gets start at six thirty, then everybody has to
Speaker 4: take them down. But it just it's so boring without them,
Speaker 4: and I love that, Like neighborhoods are putting up up sooner,
Speaker 4: you know, but I would love to just I mean,
Speaker 4: wouldn't it be more festive throughout the dark parts of winter?
Speaker 4: So everybody just keep their lights. We want it to
Speaker 4: just be us.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, I've said it for years. We get
Speaker 5: to put up lights.
Speaker 10: We spend hours putting up lights and decorations, and we
Speaker 10: have two trees because our collection is ornaments from all
Speaker 10: over the world, and our trees were amazing. My wife
Speaker 10: did a great job. But now we get them for
Speaker 10: six weeks and then we have supposed to take them down.
Speaker 10: That's ridiculous. We need we need to do Christmas in March.
Speaker 10: I feel like it's just having on his real birthday.
Speaker 10: You know, well that was actually probably jily. I'm good
Speaker 10: with that because it doesn't get dark until late then.
Speaker 10: I don't need the lights then. I'm just saying it would.
Speaker 4: Make the entire city feel, you know, more festive and
Speaker 4: toil the text he pointed out in Colorado, we leave
Speaker 4: the lights up until after the stalk show. That only
Speaker 4: takes you till like January twentieth. This year, we still
Speaker 4: have another month and a half of early darkness, cold snow.
Speaker 4: Probably we need some positive inspiration. That's where jash it up.
Speaker 4: Let's jazz up the city. So there you go, jazz
Speaker 4: duff on popcorn, jazz up Trump. Golf Day's total nine
Speaker 4: point five months, says this texter. I will check your work.
Speaker 4: But at least he wasn't in another country or on
Speaker 4: a beach somewhere trying to wrestle are now.
Speaker 10: And with the golf thing with the president, I remember
Speaker 10: a story about Barack Obama playing golf and they interrupted
Speaker 10: his golf game for like half an hour because he
Speaker 10: had to make a decision on whether we were going
Speaker 10: to attack somebody or not, you know, and then he
Speaker 10: went back to playing golf and he got it done.
Speaker 10: I'm not a Barack Obama fan, but he got it done.
Speaker 10: So I don't have a problem with them having a life,
Speaker 10: you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Mandy, Yes, festive lights for winter, especially because
Speaker 4: most are low energy use led vote yes, excellent. I'm
Speaker 4: just saying this is a new movement now. I don't
Speaker 4: expect it to take hold this year because I got
Speaker 4: a battle hoa's because you know, you got those hoas
Speaker 4: that are like it's it's December twenty sixth. Could you
Speaker 4: go ahead and get those.
Speaker 5: That's a really good point.
Speaker 9: That's the biggest hurdle in our way I think for
Speaker 9: this project is ha people are going to fit.
Speaker 4: The trouble trouble trouble thing. But now, like we moved
Speaker 4: into our neighborhood eleven years ago, and when we moved
Speaker 4: in the neighborhood was kind of in the process of
Speaker 4: beginning to turn over a meaning that a lot of
Speaker 4: original owners of those homes lived in that neighborhood for
Speaker 4: thirty five or forty years, and we were sort of
Speaker 4: of the first wave of new people with little children
Speaker 4: to move into the neighborhood.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of how over we moved there.
Speaker 4: We were on the leading edge. But now people are
Speaker 4: doing Christmas lights again, and I love it, and I
Speaker 4: just I don't want to see people and let's be
Speaker 4: real people. So many people don't put up and take
Speaker 4: down their own Christmas lights anymore. It is a cottage
Speaker 4: industry that is very strong. Yeah, So I just I'm
Speaker 4: just my this is my proposal. Mom.
Speaker 8: Yes, Jesus's birthday is in the fall, so fall, and
Speaker 8: that's how the light was. Yeah, Jesus's birthdays.
Speaker 4: And you know what it is, It's like having a
Speaker 4: little sac checker right here when the gis in the city.
Speaker 8: Part of it is I told you last night that
Speaker 8: the episode of Supernatural I was almost can I finish
Speaker 8: my FID was the Christmas episode and there's literally a
Speaker 8: sentence that Sam says, which was I'm pretty sure Jesus's
Speaker 8: birthday is.
Speaker 4: In the fall, So when you said July, I googled
Speaker 4: it and it's a fall. Okay, thank you supernatural.
Speaker 5: You know what that means. Forts We need to keep
Speaker 5: lights up for Jesus year round.
Speaker 4: Colorado needs to adopt Marty Gras good party time for
Speaker 4: the rest of dark winter. I am past the point
Speaker 4: in my life where Marty Gras even sounds fun, because to.
Speaker 10: Go one time, I've never been to Marty g Everybody's got.
Speaker 5: To go once. Yeah, I went a couple of times. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I have an old pair of shoes that I'm gonna Wearways, this.
Speaker 4: Is the best advice. Take a pair of shoes that
Speaker 4: you throw away before you come home. That is the
Speaker 4: best advisor for learning right. You do not want to
Speaker 4: pack those because they are full of puke and pea
Speaker 4: and beer and hurricanes and you just want to throw
Speaker 4: them away and forget that that ever happens.
Speaker 5: It is disgusting, but it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: Yes, wells fun.
Speaker 5: It's disgusting in some way.
Speaker 4: He's the person who said, Mandy, it's twenty twenty five,
Speaker 4: can you please update your photo on the blog? I
Speaker 4: knew how to do that. If I knew how to
Speaker 4: do that, I absolutely would but now I'm sure there's
Speaker 4: some new weird technological platform that I'm supposed to fill
Speaker 4: out a form and send to someone in New York
Speaker 4: to get that taken care of, because nobody knows how
Speaker 4: to do that here.
Speaker 7: I will.
Speaker 4: I will make that happen, though, because it is time
Speaker 4: that that advertise. That's false advertising. That photo.
Speaker 10: You need to put the picture up of when you
Speaker 10: were in the Missile Lusty festival, I know, because that.
Speaker 4: Just makes me sad because I was so thin. Well, no,
Speaker 4: the picture of n hair, Oh no, that was a
Speaker 4: miss Lustie. That was my sorority. Call it a hair
Speaker 4: picture it is. I've posted that before. Christmas lights are
Speaker 4: like the McRib great because they only happen for a
Speaker 4: limited time annually. I agree, And I'm not suggesting we
Speaker 4: stretch out Christmas music or even interior Christmas decorations. I'm
Speaker 4: just saying, because it's dark and cold, let's just have
Speaker 4: a little joy in our lives by leaving the Christmas
Speaker 4: lights outside up and all enjoying that. That's all. That's
Speaker 4: all I want. I'm not asking you can even put
Speaker 4: away the inflatables. I don't care put away the little
Speaker 4: Santa sled you know what I'm talking about with the
Speaker 4: lights up. Put it all the way. Just leave the
Speaker 4: lights up.
Speaker 7: That's it.
Speaker 4: We're gonna take a quick time out when we get back.
Speaker 4: I do have some surprises coming up on the program,
Speaker 4: and we're gonna share not those, but some other stuff
Speaker 4: that is coming up after.
Speaker 15: This Happy New Year from KOA.
Speaker 4: Hang on, gotta find it, I can repeat it. Hello, Mandy,
Speaker 4: what does the queue want to be when she grows up?
Speaker 4: I would suggest a stand up comedian.
Speaker 8: I'm hilarious, like a criminal profiler or an anthropologist.
Speaker 4: When did an anthropology answer the chat?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Okay, so you want? Okay, Okay, there we go.
Speaker 9: There you go.
Speaker 5: If as long as you don't act like bones, then then.
Speaker 4: You know, yeah, yeah, it doesn't ask us anything kind
Speaker 4: of day. I have a couple of prize guests coming
Speaker 4: up a little bit later, one around one o'clock. We're
Speaker 4: also going to talk to Steven Moore at one o'clock.
Speaker 4: Stephen is the economist who is part of the Trump
Speaker 4: economics team, And honestly, I just love Steve. I think
Speaker 4: he's hilarious.
Speaker 2: He is.
Speaker 4: He's almost like if I had to describe Steve more
Speaker 4: in real life. He's like the nutty professor sort of,
Speaker 4: well not the nutty professor, the absent minded professor. I mean,
Speaker 4: he's just a mess. He's just he's a complete mess.
Speaker 4: But he's super super smart and he's got a wish
Speaker 4: list for what he'd like Trump to do economically in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five. And it's good. It's really really good. Jesse,
Speaker 4: what song just played as a bump.
Speaker 5: Talking head melody?
Speaker 4: Thank you? I knew it was talking yea, but I
Speaker 4: cannot remember the name of the thank you the name
Speaker 4: of the song.
Speaker 7: Could not do that.
Speaker 4: By the way, it's already Happy New Year in New Zealand.
Speaker 4: Happy New Year, kiwis they kick off the New Year
Speaker 4: thing everything. The first Happy New Year party is in
Speaker 4: Hong Kong, New New Zealand is first?
Speaker 5: Are they first?
Speaker 4: First?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 4: So they turned first. They're right over by the you know,
Speaker 4: international dateline.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 4: There is a flight that leaves San Francisco and flies
Speaker 4: to Auckland, New Zealand, and they miss New Year's Eve
Speaker 4: and New Year's they missed New Year's Eve completely, so
Speaker 4: they leave on the thirtieth. They fly to Auckland and land.
Speaker 5: On the first Some doctor Who's stuff. That's really Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's wild.
Speaker 4: Well, it's like, wow, if you really want to see
Speaker 4: the year out, just shove it out the door that way.
Speaker 4: But the airlines have like a little celebration on the flight.
Speaker 4: I think the flight's twelve hours. Yeah, so I thought
Speaker 4: that was kind of interesting.
Speaker 10: When I left Korea when I was in the service,
Speaker 10: I left at my flight left at ten pm ful time,
Speaker 10: and I landed in Columbus, Ohio at nine to fifty
Speaker 10: five the same day in the evening, I'm fifty five PM,
Speaker 10: so I got there five minutes before I left.
Speaker 4: So if you are planning on flying anywhere tonight, and
Speaker 4: you know, I always had to fly on New Year's
Speaker 4: Eve when I was a flight attendant, and every year
Speaker 4: I ended up someplace interesting on New Year's Eve. Ended
Speaker 4: up in Vegas twice. But the problem with the Vegas
Speaker 4: trip was the sign in on New Year's Day was
Speaker 4: four am. So you have to make a choice, right,
Speaker 4: you have to. You have to decide, am I just
Speaker 4: going to be incredibly tired the entire next day or
Speaker 4: am I gonna I chose incredibly tired the entire next day.
Speaker 4: Although you have to stop drinking when you have a
Speaker 4: four am signing, that's a six am, uh probably a
Speaker 4: six or seven eight, six thirty pushback. So you had
Speaker 4: to stop drinking at ten thirty. Legally, there's a there's
Speaker 4: a legal limit right when you.
Speaker 5: Can assume your last week.
Speaker 4: We're supposed to have stoped eight hours bottle to throttle.
Speaker 4: Trust me, I thought that was just the pilot. No,
Speaker 4: it's flight attendants too, Like you have to stop drinking.
Speaker 5: That's awesome. I'm gonna start using that.
Speaker 4: It's eight hours bottle to throttle or eight hours bottle
Speaker 4: to check it. I can't remember now, it's been a while,
Speaker 4: but yeah, you have to stop drinking at a certain time,
Speaker 4: so like ten twenty five, you're cranking like four drinks
Speaker 4: and then you know, going out. But we met, like
Speaker 4: we met a guy on the airplane one year who
Speaker 4: was with Jerry Seinfeld's production team, and Seinfeld was performing
Speaker 4: in Vegas for New Year's Eve, and he gave us
Speaker 4: tickets to that. He's like, I know, you guys don't
Speaker 4: have tickets, so I'll give you some tickets. And we
Speaker 4: all went and did things like that, and you know,
Speaker 4: but New Year's Eve. Luckily, I'm old now, so at
Speaker 4: fifty five, I don't give a rat's ass about New
Speaker 4: Year's Eve. I can assure you I will be in
Speaker 4: my yoga pants with a sweatshirt on, probably asleep at
Speaker 4: midnight tonight.
Speaker 5: You're not old, because if you're old, I'm old.
Speaker 4: Okay, well you're older. That being said, New Year's Eve
Speaker 4: is like fraught with expectation.
Speaker 10: If she makes it to midnight and is still awake,
Speaker 10: it's happened once in the last six years.
Speaker 4: I know I've woken her up at twelve thirty from
Speaker 4: her chair. So I don't feel any of this pressure anymore.
Speaker 4: But I remember being young, and it's just you're like,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be the best night ever, because all of
Speaker 4: a sudden you have to be a fifty dollars to
Speaker 4: get in the same crappy bar that you get in
Speaker 4: for free every other day of the year, exactly. But
Speaker 4: I was wondering. I will say this, I've had my
Speaker 4: share of wonderful New Year's Eves. I happen to get
Speaker 4: engaged to this husband on New Year's Eve, like right
Speaker 4: as the fireworks went off. It was lovely. It was
Speaker 4: lovely as he plans everything. It was planned to the tee.
Speaker 4: So it was great, but I had so many more
Speaker 4: New Year's Eves that were just so One year, at
Speaker 4: New Year's Eve, I'm dating a guy that I had
Speaker 4: already decided, like what am I doing here? I'm already
Speaker 4: having that hold what am I doing here? Situation with
Speaker 4: this dude, And literally four minutes before midnight, he goes, oh,
Speaker 4: I gotta go pee, and I'm like, it's four minutes
Speaker 4: before midnight. Can you hold? He's like, now, I gotta
Speaker 4: go pee. So he leaves fail oh yeah, he leaves
Speaker 4: to go to the bathroom. So nice happens, and I'm
Speaker 4: standing there like a dill hole in this bar by myself.
Speaker 4: It was so aggri and then he came back and
Speaker 4: I am fuming, angry.
Speaker 2: I'm so mad, and he was.
Speaker 4: Like, what's your problem? And I just went this is
Speaker 4: not for me. For like two more years after that,
Speaker 4: only dating, and I think I really did it for
Speaker 4: like two more years. Boy, I really paid attention to
Speaker 4: that red flag.
Speaker 2: But it's late.
Speaker 4: It's it's almost like we put so much pressure and
Speaker 4: that means it will never live up to that, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean. So basically, I'm bringing you all
Speaker 4: this so if you have plans tonight and on the
Speaker 4: blog today, I do have an entire list of stuff
Speaker 4: going on tonight. There's free stuff happening downtown. If you
Speaker 4: want to go party downtown and see fireworks and all
Speaker 4: that stuff, there is stuff to do. I just want
Speaker 4: you to manage your expectations. And here's my other question,
Speaker 4: like what age did you just decide I'm not going
Speaker 4: out on New Year's Eve. That's not a thing I'm doing.
Speaker 4: I'm just not doing it.
Speaker 10: I did that personally when I quit work in the bars.
Speaker 10: I was like, I'm not going to a bar on
Speaker 10: New Year's Invest spent the last twelve years either in cars,
Speaker 10: are in a foxhole on New Year's Eve. I don't
Speaker 10: want to go hang out with a bunch of people
Speaker 10: that are drunk and walking around. After I got through
Speaker 10: working bars, I'm like, no, you and I went to
Speaker 10: a couple like nice things.
Speaker 5: Yeah that happened to be in bars, but they weren't
Speaker 5: the normal bar set up. Yeah.
Speaker 7: I just got that.
Speaker 5: Personally for me, I was done when I stopped working
Speaker 5: in bars.
Speaker 4: I just I'm not a I'm not a gosh, how
Speaker 4: do I say this. I'm not a person who enjoys
Speaker 4: like the night life I did when I was younger,
Speaker 4: but I don't anymore. I don't like crowds. I hate
Speaker 4: being around super drunk people. Really can't stand it. At
Speaker 4: this point, we ran out. We went with Judy and
Speaker 4: saw some eighties band. Oh yeah, that was super fun then,
Speaker 4: and that was fun.
Speaker 10: But I was looking at the people going, okay, wow,
Speaker 10: if I if I was, you know, fingle and had wow.
Speaker 4: Okay, So we're watching an eighties band, which was so good,
Speaker 4: but then you look for the crowd and you're like,
Speaker 4: who are all these old people in this dancing to
Speaker 4: this band? And then you realize you're the same age
Speaker 4: as the old people dancing to the band, And it's
Speaker 4: just a little disconcerting. But we did have fun that night. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that was a fun night.
Speaker 5: Mandy just reinforced me not wanting to go out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go, Mandy. Hi Mandy. We met on
Speaker 4: the Christmas market cruise. My question is one of the
Speaker 4: best and worst parts of your job? That from Anita,
Speaker 4: Oh Grandather, Hi, Anita. The best and worst parts of
Speaker 4: my job. The best parts are that there's no heavy
Speaker 4: lifting and very little math, right, very little math in
Speaker 4: this job.
Speaker 10: Well, the best part was you were there Anita the cruise.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, that's part of the job. That is one
Speaker 10: of the best parts, the best part of the job.
Speaker 10: But we did have a spectacular Christmas market group.
Speaker 4: We really did.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: That being said, I would say the worst part is
Speaker 4: is that I can't. I don't have the luxury of
Speaker 4: not paying attention to politics. I don't have the luxury
Speaker 4: of not paying attention to the news. And I never
Speaker 4: looked at it as a luxury until I was having
Speaker 4: a conversation with my friend Greg and I said something
Speaker 4: about some news story. He said, oh, my wife and
Speaker 4: I we don't pay attention to the news. And I
Speaker 4: went what He's like, Yeah, we don't really pay attend
Speaker 4: to the news. We're fine, And I was at that moment,
Speaker 4: I was filled with jealousy, right, I was so jealous
Speaker 4: of just being able to check out and not have
Speaker 4: to pay attention to that. So that is that's a
Speaker 4: little bit exhausting, and I don't love that all the time.
Speaker 4: Sometimes I do love it because I find it all
Speaker 4: so interesting. So it's really a double edged sword, I guess.
Speaker 4: But this job, I mean, you guys, they pay me
Speaker 4: to sit and talk on the radio for three hours
Speaker 4: a day. That's not all the work I do. I
Speaker 4: do a ton of work on the blog every day.
Speaker 4: But I mean, this job is like the greatest job
Speaker 4: in the world. I firmly, one, one hundred percent believe that.
Speaker 4: And the fact that every idiot and their brother now
Speaker 4: has a podcast to try and do this should indicate
Speaker 4: exactly how much fun it is to do this job.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 10: I don't know what my life would have been like
Speaker 10: if I wouldn't have gone into radio at fifteen, you know,
Speaker 10: I mean, you look back at your life and what
Speaker 10: direction would you have gone If I would not.
Speaker 4: I probably would have been sober a lot faster. If
Speaker 4: I'm not hang on, we gotta take a break.
Speaker 5: We'll be right back, you know, because they listened to stuff.
Speaker 4: Phil was a big All of his music was angry
Speaker 4: people growling at you, eating the microphone and just yelling.
Speaker 4: And I don't know whether a.
Speaker 5: Lot of those bands he became friends with, so, you know,
Speaker 5: good for him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I mean, you don't get enough yelling at home,
Speaker 4: why not find a band to yell at you as well?
Speaker 4: So there you go, right now, got a couple of
Speaker 4: things on the blog, a lot of people are weighing
Speaker 4: in on their best or worst New Year's Eve, and.
Speaker 5: I love this one.
Speaker 4: My wife used to leave the tree up so late
Speaker 4: I would joke about leaving it up all year. Now
Speaker 4: we have a year round holiday seasonal tree. See Jake,
Speaker 4: you need to keep your mouth shuts. Yeah, exactly, Mandy
Speaker 4: h Oas just hate the floppy Christmas lights hanging on houses.
Speaker 4: Most are approving permanent Christmas lights with the wires hidden
Speaker 4: up behind the fascia. They can be many colors and
Speaker 4: displays and you could brighten up some of your dark
Speaker 4: evenings control them with a remote. I'm thinking about doing
Speaker 4: that now. Jellyfish is the brand that everybody knows, but
Speaker 4: oh my god, they're expensive. A Rod has found another
Speaker 4: brand that my friends Cindy and Sean are about to
Speaker 4: put on their house. So once we have some feedback
Speaker 4: on that, we may lead the light up Denver all
Speaker 4: winter and along the break. I can't remember either, That's
Speaker 4: why I'm not saying. I want to say movie Govie
Speaker 4: or something like that. Oh that's right downstairs, all right, Mandy,
Speaker 4: I just started listening late. Did you already do the accent?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 4: You guys, I can't and we can't get the video
Speaker 4: off the VPR tab.
Speaker 10: I'm just going to throw her under the bus and
Speaker 10: I will get this taken care of in the month
Speaker 10: of January.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it may take a while. We're working on it.
Speaker 5: We're working on it.
Speaker 4: This person reminds us Christmas is not just one day.
Speaker 4: It's a season lasting twelve days. Hence the song the
Speaker 4: never ending Lights for twelve days. No, that's not what
Speaker 4: they're talking about. Further, the Christmas cycle for this year
Speaker 4: last until February twelfth. Every christ and should know why.
Speaker 4: But alas even those Catholics who really should know don't.
Speaker 4: Correct Mandy. All of us serious party yours do not
Speaker 4: go out on amateur night, correct him, Mandy. Can we
Speaker 4: get everyone in the studio to give a big old
Speaker 4: darn tutin and a hoot and hollar? That's a new thing.
Speaker 4: Somebody made me say darn tutin on the text line,
Speaker 4: and now this texture reminds.
Speaker 1: Me of it.
Speaker 4: Wow, yeah, darn tutin. I like the hot and holler exactly.
Speaker 4: I love a good hoot and hollo exactly. I'm down
Speaker 4: for all of it. I'll even go to a hoot nanny.
Speaker 4: I don't care for all I grew up.
Speaker 5: You're talking, Uh.
Speaker 4: Mandy, nothing changes New Year's Day, ask Bono, Yes, that's right.
Speaker 4: If tickets are still available, I recommend Super Diamond at
Speaker 4: the Gothic tonight. You must be able to seeing Sweet
Speaker 4: Caroline and all of the other Neil Diamond songs all night.
Speaker 4: We actually saw Neil Diamond like what twelve years ago?
Speaker 4: Was it Louisville before we left thee and we we
Speaker 4: brought the average age in that arena down to like
Speaker 4: ninety four. Okay, there was more walkers and oxygen tanks
Speaker 4: lining the walls of that arena, and you know when
Speaker 4: a band starts and like the band comes out in
Speaker 4: therebody goes yeah and they stand up. Each year it
Speaker 4: went like this for Neil Diamond. It was like here
Speaker 4: comes eleven. Yeah, okay, that's enough standing, I'll sit right
Speaker 4: back down.
Speaker 10: Well, the people next to us, the guy next to us,
Speaker 10: I remember, was he was irritated because we knew all
Speaker 10: the words and were singing the song and he was
Speaker 10: on oxygen and didn't have the ability to like sing
Speaker 10: like we did, and he was like singing for me.
Speaker 5: I'm like right, I we'll do that all.
Speaker 4: Right, Mandy. A couple of years ago, not sure if
Speaker 4: I heard you right, you said that when someone recognized
Speaker 4: you in public, you didn't like it when people said
Speaker 4: they loved your radio show. Am I correct? I don't
Speaker 4: think I was doing drugs that day. Just kidding Leah
Speaker 4: from Albert No, I love it when people tell me
Speaker 4: that they love the show. I mean, why wouldn't I
Speaker 4: I would. It's always that I get. I always have
Speaker 4: people recognize me when I've just been like cleaning the
Speaker 4: toilet at home and I ran to Walmart to get
Speaker 4: more toilet.
Speaker 5: Oh, you're on a beach in Costa Rica.
Speaker 4: Thank you. That was awesome though.
Speaker 5: That was awesome.
Speaker 4: When we get back on.
Speaker 10: One thing about that out of time is you're not
Speaker 10: a person that seeks the you know, the spotlight now,
Speaker 10: so it's kind of you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah at the time. Yeah, Mandy, I'm an electrical contractor.
Speaker 4: We've installed the jellyfish lighting before, and I can tell
Speaker 4: you if you do have the right roof line and
Speaker 4: house for it, it looks badass. Oh and darn toutin
Speaker 4: We love the darn tuton. Okay, when we get back,
Speaker 4: I've got a couple of things happening. Number one, oops,
Speaker 4: number one. We're going to talk to see more about
Speaker 4: his column about what we'd like to see in twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five. Then I have a secret guess coming on.
Speaker 4: You'll recognize them, but you're gonna have to stick around
Speaker 4: to find out what it is.
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Speaker 2: No, it's Mandy Connell.
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Speaker 4: Welcome on, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
Speaker 4: And joining me now one of my favorite eggheads, one
Speaker 4: of my favorite nerds, the nerdiest of nerdy, Steve Moore,
Speaker 4: Economist at Large. That's what I'm changing your title to,
Speaker 4: Economists at Large. That's who you are, Steve Moore.
Speaker 7: Hi, Maddie, Well, I guess when you say that I'm
Speaker 7: your favorite nerd, I guess that's kind of a backhanded compliment.
Speaker 4: Oh no, it's a front handed compliment. I mean, if
Speaker 4: a front handed compliment, let's be real, Steve, nerds rule
Speaker 4: the world, right. Nobody's gonna accuse Elon Musk of being
Speaker 4: a sexy, cool guy. He's just a nerd who's made
Speaker 4: it big, right.
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, saying economist and nerd in the same sentence as.
Speaker 4: Redundant, exactly exactly. So I saw your column on hot
Speaker 4: air dot com, and as I was reading it, the
Speaker 4: column is headlined ten new ideas to make America's a
Speaker 4: to me great again in twenty twenty five. I'm not
Speaker 4: gonna lie, Steve. I started, like, I started to get
Speaker 4: tingly as I was reading it because I got so
Speaker 4: excited about the prospect of any of these things happening.
Speaker 4: But I have to ask you, I know, you do
Speaker 4: have the president's here on some of this stuff. What
Speaker 4: are the chances And we're going to go through the
Speaker 4: ten real quick here in just a second, but what
Speaker 4: are the chances of any of these things getting done?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 7: First of all, I would say that I think President
Speaker 7: Trump wants to do virtually everything on that list, and
Speaker 7: there may be one or two things that even he
Speaker 7: might not want to do. But I think the real
Speaker 7: challenge is going to be will Congress, you know, apt
Speaker 7: ye do these things. I mean, I think Trump has
Speaker 7: a has a voter mandate, you know, given what happened
Speaker 7: in the election, people want to see real change. But
Speaker 7: you know, Congress in both parties. By the way, Republicans
Speaker 7: and Democrats, they love to play Santa Claus. They love
Speaker 7: to pass out money. They don't want to cut spending.
Speaker 7: They want to spend the Repentny they can get their
Speaker 7: hands done. And so that's going to be the real
Speaker 7: challenge is convincing Congress to do what's right for our country.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm going to rip through these really quickly, okay,
Speaker 4: and I want to start with one slash job killing regulations.
Speaker 4: How do you how do you look at our regulatory
Speaker 4: system which is which is massive and ridiculous, but how
Speaker 4: do you know how many of those need to be
Speaker 4: cut in order to set off a job's boon? What
Speaker 4: are we looking at realistically there?
Speaker 7: Well, regularly, look, we all want regulations that you know,
Speaker 7: keep us safe and you know, keep our food safe,
Speaker 7: and our workplace is safe, and our financial systems safe
Speaker 7: and so on. But the regulations have become just so
Speaker 7: onerous right now that you just don't have, you know,
Speaker 7: any sensibility. In other words, you have to you have
Speaker 7: to weigh the costs and the benefits of regulations, and
Speaker 7: in too many cases the regulations are far more costly
Speaker 7: than than uh, you know, any kind of benefit. It's
Speaker 7: like a two trillion dollars tax on the American economy.
Speaker 7: It's like a second income tax over regulation. And so
Speaker 7: what you need to do is you need to have
Speaker 7: the Congress or the White House just repeal these things.
Speaker 7: And by the way, most of these regulations that I'm
Speaker 7: talking about were never enacted by Congress. Did you know that?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, most regulations are just by agencies you never even
Speaker 7: heard of, that are propagating these laws and they're not
Speaker 7: accountable to anyone.
Speaker 4: I thought after the Chevron decision that we would be
Speaker 4: able to change that. I thought that it would be
Speaker 4: easier to strip out these regulations after the Supreme Court
Speaker 4: essentially kind of neutered the bureaucratic state with that decision.
Speaker 4: And I haven't seen any of that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so you're for people don't know what you're talking
Speaker 7: about because it's kind of inside baseball stuff. This Chevron
Speaker 7: decision was their Supreme Court decision a few months ago
Speaker 7: that found that the the regulations with a certain cost
Speaker 7: have to be approved by Congress. After of Congress is who,
Speaker 7: uh you know, is the one who makes the laws,
Speaker 7: not some uh you know, it's the legislative branch that
Speaker 7: makes the laws, not the executive branch.
Speaker 4: And I'm just it's been kind of disappointing. Do you
Speaker 4: think that the Department of Government Efficiency is going to
Speaker 4: be helpful in this or is it a ginning?
Speaker 7: Oh? I do No, I don't think it's a gimmick.
Speaker 7: I think, first of all, I can't think of anybody
Speaker 7: better than you know, Elon Musk to find efficiency in
Speaker 7: the ways of you know, waiting, ridding the agencies of
Speaker 7: of redundancy, obsolescence, of fraud. I mean, the amounts of
Speaker 7: money that we're talking about are in the hundreds of
Speaker 7: billions of dollars a year. And I think there's a
Speaker 7: real value I really do of the government of the
Speaker 7: government exposing I mean, Congress, exposing the American people where
Speaker 7: do money is all going? Because I think people will
Speaker 7: be infuriated when they see. I mean, we spent ten
Speaker 7: billion dollars last year, ten billion dollars on vacant federal buildings.
Speaker 7: What just empty buildings, Yeah, renting buildings that were left empty.
Speaker 4: So this is crazy.
Speaker 7: I mean that's just one tiny little example of how
Speaker 7: government's spending your money. Books.
Speaker 5: Let's go to number two.
Speaker 4: Make the track Trump tax cuts permanent. These tax cuts
Speaker 4: were only for the rich, Steve, so they say, But
Speaker 4: you've got an interesting point in this column. A family
Speaker 4: of four earning seventy five thousand dollars a year saw
Speaker 4: their tax bill fall by half, a benefit valued at
Speaker 4: more than two thousand dollars. And of course, the corporate
Speaker 4: tax rate fell from thirty five percent to twenty one percent.
Speaker 4: This seems like a no brainer. And I think even
Speaker 4: the Democrats, unless they want to push us into a recession,
Speaker 4: to better their chances in two years in the midterms,
Speaker 4: they would have to finally admit that the tax cuts
Speaker 4: were a good thing, even though I know they're never.
Speaker 7: Will that's right, Yeah, I mean they would. I take
Speaker 7: some personal pride in this because I helped write the
Speaker 7: original version of the Trump tax cut with our laugher
Speaker 7: and some others, and all the things that the good
Speaker 7: things we said would happen if we put this fill
Speaker 7: in place did happen. We made the text system much simpler.
Speaker 7: You know, it used to be forty percent of Americans
Speaker 7: itemize their deductions. You know what that number is? Now
Speaker 7: what it's like nine percent? Oh yeah, bouts, Yeah, most
Speaker 7: people don't even itemize deductions, which is by the way,
Speaker 7: I have a piece in the Wall Street Journal today.
Speaker 7: I hope people take a look at it. Where Steve
Speaker 7: Forbes and I argue, why don't we just have a
Speaker 7: flat next, get rid of all the deductions now, and
Speaker 7: just you know, lower the rates as much as possible,
Speaker 7: which would be explosively pro growth. But yeah, the Trump
Speaker 7: tax cuts. Oh, I want to remind your listeners of
Speaker 7: something else, Mandy. If we don't do anything this year,
Speaker 7: we're looking at the biggest tax increase because all of
Speaker 7: the tax cuts, not all of them, but almost all
Speaker 7: of them expire. Well, so if we don't, doing nothing
Speaker 7: is not an option.
Speaker 4: Right, well, unless you're Colorado when it's property taxes. But
Speaker 4: that's the story for another time. Okay, Number three, replace
Speaker 4: welfare with work. Considering that this has already been done
Speaker 4: in the nineties under a Democratic president, can we get
Speaker 4: this done now, because we've already shown that it can
Speaker 4: be very very successful in moving people off welfare into work,
Speaker 4: which then allows them a chance to achieve in life.
Speaker 4: We already know this works. Can we get this done?
Speaker 7: Yeah, we can, And you're right, we did this in
Speaker 7: the mid nineteen nineties. Under a Democratic president, remember it
Speaker 7: was one who signed welfare reform into law and with
Speaker 7: a Republican counris. It was a true bipartisan bill, and
Speaker 7: we reduced the welfare dependency rates by like sixty percent.
Speaker 7: And we've got people out of welfare into work. And
Speaker 7: by the way, I'm not talking about who are blind
Speaker 7: or people who are you know, disabled, you're able to work.
Speaker 7: We're just talking disabled people. I'm talking about people who
Speaker 7: could be working, should be working. And uh and by
Speaker 7: way that we turn people from people were sucking money
Speaker 7: out of the government and the people actually when they
Speaker 7: were working, they were paying taxes. So the by the way,
Speaker 7: work is very associated with happiness. This is one of
Speaker 7: my pet peeves. You know, people are working are happier
Speaker 7: than people who don't work. And now, you know, for
Speaker 7: the most part, if you have a job you hate, yeah,
Speaker 7: you may not. You and I are lucky.
Speaker 6: You know, we love what we do.
Speaker 7: And you know, I don't even consider what I do
Speaker 7: work actually because I really I love I love being
Speaker 7: active and I love being productive. I think that's the
Speaker 7: way most people are. So you don't. I don't think
Speaker 7: we're doing a favorite of people paying them to sit
Speaker 7: home and watch TV.
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 7: I agree.
Speaker 4: I think human human flourishing is feeling like you have
Speaker 4: a purpose. Yeah, you know, and we've taken that away
Speaker 4: from a lot of people. Number Four, use America's abundant
Speaker 4: natural resources. And I'm guessing you're specifically talking about coal,
Speaker 4: natural gas, and oil. But when are we going to
Speaker 4: start tapping into our rare earth minerals deposits here in
Speaker 4: the US? Because right now, Steve, you know as well
Speaker 4: as I do, we're kind of China's bitch when it
Speaker 4: comes to renewable energy because they are producing rare earth
Speaker 4: minerals and we are not.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's ridiculous. I mean, if we want to and
Speaker 7: by the way, I don't know that you know, the
Speaker 7: green energy is the future. I mean, we have so
Speaker 7: much oil and gas and coal and nuclear power. But
Speaker 7: even if it were, are we going to depend on China? Yeah,
Speaker 7: to get the rare earth minerals that we need. No,
Speaker 7: why would we do that when we have them you
Speaker 7: know in Colorado we have them, and you know we
Speaker 7: have them in Montana, and we have them in the Dakotas.
Speaker 7: And I'm not talking about you know, drilling or you know,
Speaker 7: mining and usanite or yellowstone. I'm talking about non non
Speaker 7: environmentally sensitive lands. We should use those resources. By the way,
Speaker 7: we could then charge these companies attacks, you know, to
Speaker 7: to you know, to produce the minerals and to mine them,
Speaker 7: and so it's a win win. We get jobs, we
Speaker 7: get the stuff is made here in the US, and
Speaker 7: we get a lower deficit.
Speaker 4: Steve, one of the things that gets me is that
Speaker 4: we don't talk about this in terms of national security,
Speaker 4: but the reality is we would never have gone to
Speaker 4: war in Iraq and or on if it were not
Speaker 4: for oil and our need for energy from the Middle East.
Speaker 4: So if we were producing our own energy here, if
Speaker 4: we were producing our own rare earth minerals and we're
Speaker 4: truly energy independent, we would have so much more leverage
Speaker 4: over these little crappy nations that want to bring the
Speaker 4: world to their knees over a resource.
Speaker 7: You're exactly right, and you know it's almost on patriotic
Speaker 7: not to be supporting using our By the way, don't
Speaker 7: you mentioned the minerals you need? We have more coal,
Speaker 7: We have huge amounts of natural gas in this country.
Speaker 7: So I estimate the value of these things are in
Speaker 7: the trillions of dollars. Yeah, you know, this is a
Speaker 7: country that we're running at two trillion dollar annual deficit.
Speaker 7: Maybe we could base off some of this debt by
Speaker 7: using our resources here. We're an incredible country. I mean,
Speaker 7: you're there in Colorado. You know how resource rich we are.
Speaker 7: It's just an amazing story. And it's a great story
Speaker 7: of how we're endowed with these resources and yet we
Speaker 7: don't use them. I don't understand the logic of it.
Speaker 4: Well, the logic is and this is my theory, and
Speaker 4: I went down this rabbit hole several years ago and
Speaker 4: I've never really recovered, is that China is the driving
Speaker 4: force behind the green movement in the United States and
Speaker 4: to demonize I agree, fossil fuels. They want to demonize
Speaker 4: anything that would allow us to achieve that independence and
Speaker 4: lessen their control over the world. And all we're doing
Speaker 4: is enriching China by leaning into green energy and not
Speaker 4: getting our stuff here. It's very frustrated.
Speaker 7: I would just add to that that it's not just China.
Speaker 7: I think it's the Saudi's. Yeah, I think it's the
Speaker 7: you know, the all the countries that have oil that
Speaker 7: their whole economy in the Russians. You know, the Russians
Speaker 7: would love it if we stop producing oil and gas. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I mean, this is why how we're going to I
Speaker 7: think Trump is going to I'm going to make a
Speaker 7: prediction on your show. I think in six months you
Speaker 7: will have an armistice in Ukraine. You know why, because
Speaker 7: Trump is going to say to that you're going to
Speaker 7: sit down with the Ukrainians and say you start negotiating
Speaker 7: a peace treaty here, or we're going to stop giving
Speaker 7: you one hundred billion dollars. And then he's going to
Speaker 7: go to the Russians and say, pewdin, you stop attacking Ukraine,
Speaker 7: or we're going to produce so much oil you're not
Speaker 7: gonna have any money left because that's their whole economy.
Speaker 10: Yep.
Speaker 7: And you know what, they're both going to say, Oh,
Speaker 7: we better better sit down and stop the killing and
Speaker 7: uh and suit for peace. So uh, there's so many
Speaker 7: advantages to using our resources, both from a national security
Speaker 7: and a national economic standpoint.
Speaker 4: I agree one percent. Now number five is the thing
Speaker 4: that gets me the most excited. I've been talking about
Speaker 4: this potential option for a very long time cut medical
Speaker 4: cost by demanding healthcare price transparency, Steve, if I was
Speaker 4: in charge, and I'm just going to tell you this,
Speaker 4: and I'm a former insurance agent, Okay, so I understand
Speaker 4: health insurance, understand how it works. I understand how healthcare
Speaker 4: is delivered. What we need in this country are two things.
Speaker 4: Number One, direct primary care. We need to just have
Speaker 4: everybody in a direct primary care office. You pay them
Speaker 4: directly for your care, and then you have a catastrophic
Speaker 4: plan that covers if you get sick, if you could cancer,
Speaker 4: if you have a heart attack, or anything major, anything else.
Speaker 4: You should be able to call a hospital and say
Speaker 4: how much you're going to pay for this, and then
Speaker 4: call another hospital and say how much a we're going
Speaker 4: to pay for this. Because once we inject competition into
Speaker 4: the delivery of health care, everything changes, everything changes, and
Speaker 4: we've done nothing to make that happen up to this point.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's amazing, isn't it That the two areas of
Speaker 7: our economy with the fastest inflation our education and healthcare. Yep,
Speaker 7: And those are the two that are run by government
Speaker 7: where we don't allow the free enterprise system to work.
Speaker 7: But I mean, we found an amazing data, by the way,
Speaker 7: where you could literally have two hospitals down the street
Speaker 7: from each other in Denver, and one would be charging
Speaker 7: five thousand dollars for a pro seizure and the other
Speaker 7: words would charge fifty thousand. Yeah, we literally ten times more.
Speaker 7: And no patient knows what these things cost. I mean,
Speaker 7: I remember I had some surgery on my shoulder and
Speaker 7: I remember asking me that how much it was the
Speaker 7: class he said, I don't know what this costs. Nobody nobody.
Speaker 4: I mean, how can you run them?
Speaker 7: How can you run an economy when nobody knows what
Speaker 7: anything costs, and it's.
Speaker 4: A critical part of the economy and it's something that
Speaker 4: has to be done. I don't know. I'm sure you
Speaker 4: know about the Oklahoma City Surgical Center, one of the
Speaker 4: first places in the world that started posting their prices online.
Speaker 4: You can go to their website and find out how
Speaker 4: much a neigh replacement is. You can do all of that.
Speaker 4: But what's happened is it is driven down the cost
Speaker 4: of service at all of the other hospitals in Oklahoma City.
Speaker 4: So they're now competing with the Oklahoma City Surgical Center.
Speaker 4: And it is working in that place, why won't it
Speaker 4: work everywhere else? That's all I want to know why
Speaker 4: want or cad wheals. Okay, Number six allows school choice
Speaker 4: for all families. That's a no brainer for me. I
Speaker 4: just why we're trapping children and their families and failing
Speaker 4: schools and not get them an option is absurd and
Speaker 4: criminal in my mind.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I really add to what you just said that
Speaker 7: I really believe that that the issue of school choice
Speaker 7: for every child in America dependent, you know, regardless of
Speaker 7: their race or income. I believe it's the single most
Speaker 7: important civil rights issue of our time. Agree we want
Speaker 7: black progress in this country. We can't. We can't force
Speaker 7: you black children to go to schools where they don't
Speaker 7: teach them to read or write.
Speaker 4: Aimen to that number seven. Implement a pro America immigration policy.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we are such an opportunity here. I mean, you know,
Speaker 7: we have every smart person in the world, the talented,
Speaker 7: the most hardworking people, the freedom loving people. Now not
Speaker 7: not every immigrant comes from the country is a desirable person.
Speaker 7: We do have to keep out the bad people, which
Speaker 7: is something that the Biden didn't do. But absolutely, yes,
Speaker 7: you know we and I think we could easily. And
Speaker 7: by the way, the big story around the world is
Speaker 7: declining birth rates. Remember if you're an hour old of
Speaker 7: old enough to remember when they said, oh, we're overpopulation.
Speaker 4: Now, yeah, the.
Speaker 7: World isn't overpopulated. It's the opposite. They're just there's just
Speaker 7: not enough kids that are going to replace.
Speaker 5: People like me.
Speaker 7: I just started sixty four, so I would be next
Speaker 7: year eligible for sold security and medicare. So these are
Speaker 7: you know, these demographic crises are a problem. But look,
Speaker 7: immigrants are one of our great advantages. There wouldn't be
Speaker 7: a Silicon Valley if it weren't for immigrant talent. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and we take advantage of it.
Speaker 4: All right, Steve, I'm gonna because we're almost out of
Speaker 4: time and I want to I'm going to skip over
Speaker 4: the one about cities. I'm going to skip over that
Speaker 4: one because that is a whole different conversation. You say
Speaker 4: pulls the US out of the Paris Climate Change Treaty
Speaker 4: and other anti American agreements. So obviously, the Paris Climate
Speaker 4: Agreement was designed to be a Welsh distribution system where
Speaker 4: the United States would be siphoning off wells to other nations.
Speaker 4: But what else are we looking at in that category?
Speaker 7: Well, look, I managed to give you a couple of
Speaker 7: examples to health organization. Why are we running money on
Speaker 7: that They lied about everything with COVID, you know, And
Speaker 7: I mean I could just go on and on the
Speaker 7: United Nations. So much of what the United Nations does
Speaker 7: is you know, contrary to America's interests. So look, I
Speaker 7: turned more and more into a non I think I'm
Speaker 7: very concerned about America's national sovereignty and the idea that
Speaker 7: we should be you know, you know, part of all
Speaker 7: these international organizations that are not pursuing America's interests, I
Speaker 7: think is wrong. And I think that's where the American
Speaker 7: people are too. That's why Trump made a big deal
Speaker 7: of this that we're only going to you know, be
Speaker 7: involved in these you know, we're going to we can
Speaker 7: do this, uh bilaterally. We don't have to be under
Speaker 7: the rule of you know, people in all these other countries.
Speaker 4: I agree wholeheartedly, and I have I have become far more,
Speaker 4: far less interventionist as as you've seen, especially since the
Speaker 4: since two thousand, like we've seen all all of these
Speaker 4: different things that we've been involved with, and now we've
Speaker 4: essentially armed the Taliban, you know, for the for the
Speaker 4: future whatever. I'm not interested in fighting everybody else's battles.
Speaker 4: If they're worried about their neighbor saber round, then they
Speaker 4: can pay for their own defense period.
Speaker 7: And I'm not a I'm not a national security expert,
Speaker 7: but even in the Middle East, and I know I
Speaker 7: don't want to you know, I know some of my
Speaker 7: Jewish friends may not like my famous but you know,
Speaker 7: I think we would we've destabilized the Middle East if
Speaker 7: we just stayed out of it. I think you've probably
Speaker 7: see more, you know, peace and stability in that region
Speaker 7: of the country, so the world. So I don't even
Speaker 7: think that our efforts are even achieving what we hope
Speaker 7: to do.
Speaker 4: I think we're funding both sides of whatever's happening. That's
Speaker 4: that's where we are at this moment. We are funding
Speaker 4: both sides of every conflict that we're involved in. It's
Speaker 4: just it's insane. See more. It's a joy as all ways.
Speaker 4: You know where you gonna come out to Colorado anytime soon.
Speaker 7: How's the snow out there?
Speaker 5: Not at all.
Speaker 4: It's been like it's just it has been like fifty
Speaker 4: and sixty degrees every day almost for the month of December.
Speaker 4: It's been very mild. The mountains have a ton of snow.
Speaker 4: I should say that the mountains, do you have a
Speaker 4: ton of snow? But Denver, proper, we got nothing.
Speaker 7: I mean, I want to go up to Aspen rail
Speaker 7: or whatever it might be.
Speaker 4: Don't go to Aspen, go to Veil asthmen's too bougie
Speaker 4: and they're very rude. Anyway, if you come back to
Speaker 4: the to the state, let me know. I'll talk to
Speaker 4: you soon. My friend, Happy New Year. Look what the
Speaker 4: cat dragged in on the wed Day of the year.
Speaker 7: I thought I.
Speaker 4: Would have an old friend, backup, familiar voice. I still
Speaker 4: get emails all the time asking have you talked to Susan,
Speaker 4: And sometimes I say no, I need proof of life
Speaker 4: because I go too long without talking to you. But
Speaker 4: you are living your best life. And if you're a
Speaker 4: new listener to the show, Susan Witkin was my newswoman
Speaker 4: for ever nine years, eight or nine years like it? Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean for a long time underwater and also a
Speaker 4: very dear friend of mine as well, so I know
Speaker 4: he does. People stop, are you really friends with Mandy?
Speaker 4: I'm like, yes, yes, we are really friends.
Speaker 11: In real life.
Speaker 4: We're not really doing well fends and that of course
Speaker 4: is truck my husband my daughter the Q is in
Speaker 4: here reading a book. Uh, you know, doing things. Yeah,
Speaker 4: she was doing homework.
Speaker 5: She was waiting for ask me anything.
Speaker 4: I know, we'll do that in the next hour. So
Speaker 4: people want to know, what are you up to? Busier
Speaker 4: now than you were when you were here. I don't
Speaker 4: know how I could have fitted in and worked at
Speaker 4: the same time. Yes, because you've got so much stuff
Speaker 4: going on.
Speaker 5: I'm retired and now I'm like, so busy.
Speaker 4: I was so busy doing fun things.
Speaker 1: Been to Namibia, Africa the continent, yes, is on was
Speaker 1: on my bucket lit but which country?
Speaker 4: I couldn't figure it out right.
Speaker 1: And there was a group of girls who were going
Speaker 1: to uh a group of girls who was group was right, Yes,
Speaker 1: going to Namibia?
Speaker 4: And oh yeah, okay, cool, I'm not I don't. I'm
Speaker 4: not really super certain we're Namibia is.
Speaker 1: On the west coast, okay, way down there, near South Africa.
Speaker 4: Okay. And what's cool about Namibia.
Speaker 1: Is that it's got the ocean and it's got intensive desert.
Speaker 1: It is apparently the second least populated country the desert
Speaker 1: to the ocean.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, documentary, It's amazing.
Speaker 5: Africa.
Speaker 4: It doesn't seem like it should work that way, the
Speaker 4: desert should go up to.
Speaker 5: The because some grass or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just it's just an amazing and amazing country,
Speaker 1: very nice people there. It was a German colony, oh really,
Speaker 1: because we remember all of Africa all different, you know,
Speaker 1: So French had this place, and British had these, and
Speaker 1: German had these, and so it was. So this was
Speaker 1: German and a lot of still the German names are around,
Speaker 1: but Namibia is its name, and the people are lovely
Speaker 1: and wonderful. I actually have a picture I show this
Speaker 1: of you. Food was outstanding. I ate everything they served.
Speaker 1: I was one of the few people go yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: try that iback. So yeah, that's like an ape, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I tried everything it was. I haven't Why wouldn't they
Speaker 1: eat antelope? That doesn't even seem like I don't think
Speaker 1: there was antelope. If ibix is similar to an antl
Speaker 1: wh wouldn't I just try that?
Speaker 4: That's what I'm asking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Don't care. I don't know what kind of animals did you.
Speaker 1: We saw lions, we saw elephant, giraffe, we actually saw
Speaker 1: This is going to kind of gross people out, but
Speaker 1: oh well, it's you know, the circle of life, right.
Speaker 1: So there was an all these different prides of of lion.
Speaker 1: It was really quite wonderful. And we saw a giraffe,
Speaker 1: a pregnant giraffe. She had just been taken down by
Speaker 1: a big male, a lion who had ch And now
Speaker 1: giraffe are fast and they sometimes can outrun a lion,
Speaker 1: but this gal was she was pregnant, and so she
Speaker 1: was taken down off right up going this ravine.
Speaker 4: And he had had his fill and she.
Speaker 1: After she was taken down, it was aboarded, right. You
Speaker 1: could see the baby's little legs stick and help.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, she was a meal. Wait a minute, I
Speaker 4: thought lions were the ones that hunted, though. Do you
Speaker 4: know that he took her down.
Speaker 5: That's that's a that's a female.
Speaker 4: Lions went on this guy.
Speaker 1: He had taken her down, and so we came up,
Speaker 1: We came up to the kill and we could see
Speaker 1: and then he was up on this ridge watching making
Speaker 1: sure nobody was going to disturb what he was going
Speaker 1: to snack on later.
Speaker 7: Him.
Speaker 4: He was all lonely, very very Tommy know, it was intense.
Speaker 4: I was going to say that that has to be
Speaker 4: a little bit unnerving. Yeah, I mean it was incredible,
Speaker 4: I have to say so. Some guys did like seeing that,
Speaker 4: but it was it was not happy, but I have
Speaker 4: pictures to prove it.
Speaker 15: And hyena.
Speaker 1: We saw hyena. We did not see leopard. We saw
Speaker 1: oh black and white rhinos. Oh wow, that was cool.
Speaker 1: We got to see that those animals. It was a
Speaker 1: neat experience. I would go back.
Speaker 4: I would take that to Africa.
Speaker 1: There are a couple other countries I want to go to.
Speaker 1: And they said to John is this on your bucket list?
Speaker 1: And he said no, and I and I called him
Speaker 1: from there and I said, oh, yeah, you're coming. This
Speaker 1: is intense Mandy Cornell Adventure. We're going to do just
Speaker 1: Tanzany at some point because they have.
Speaker 4: The cruise and tour works with a great or a
Speaker 4: group down there, and it's definitely on my list. I
Speaker 4: just won't wait till that one is gone away to
Speaker 4: college so we can we don't have to worry about
Speaker 4: her being in school because that's a winter trip. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean we went in February. Yeah, it was insane,
Speaker 4: it was awesome. Yeah, I love that. So you've been
Speaker 4: spending a lot of time in southern Colorado, southwestern col
Speaker 4: I keep waiting for Susan to run for mayor of
Speaker 4: Urray because it's going to happen, because he's like, yeah,
Speaker 4: we're busy, we're thinking about, you know, buying a place
Speaker 4: down there, just to and then she just literally just
Speaker 4: left and moved down there for five months.
Speaker 10: I does that, by the way, because I've always been
Speaker 10: able to just pick up and go before I had
Speaker 10: a family. I'm done to Atlanta, let's go in the
Speaker 10: army kind of thing. When you did that, I'm like,
Speaker 10: good power to them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what, it's It's one of those places
Speaker 4: that it.
Speaker 1: Truly is God's country. It is absolutely magnificent, and Uray
Speaker 1: is very special. I met some Native Americans a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago. I was in Mexico and there were
Speaker 1: some guys there. They were doing all these different ceremonies
Speaker 1: and they were from different tribes. They were from Navajo Apache.
Speaker 1: There weren't any ute because that area in southwestern Colorado.
Speaker 4: You were in Mexico, Mexico.
Speaker 1: I was in Mexico, but they had come to this
Speaker 1: area in Mexico where I was staying, and they were
Speaker 1: putting on different ceremonies. Cleansing, ceremonies, actually getting you know,
Speaker 1: helping yourself. And I said, oh, I spent a lot
Speaker 1: of time in Uray. And one the guy who is
Speaker 1: a medicine man, he said, oh, that's very sacred area
Speaker 1: and I said, yes it is, and you can feel
Speaker 1: it when you're there, the hot springs and these surrounding mountains.
Speaker 4: And don't talk it up too much. We already know.
Speaker 4: We were talking off the air today. Is what is
Speaker 4: John Denver's birthday today?
Speaker 5: First birthday?
Speaker 4: He would have been his eighty first birthday. And you said,
Speaker 4: being an athet when he lived there, Your program director
Speaker 4: thought he ruined Colorado back my dad he saw him
Speaker 4: on the Johnny Carson Show and he goes, oh, there
Speaker 4: goes Colorado. Look yeah, he said, oh now we're going
Speaker 4: to get a whole bunch of tourists coming.
Speaker 5: That was right, and he was right. That's what was
Speaker 5: the catalyst for it.
Speaker 4: But Southwinstern, Colorado, it has been talked up. I think
Speaker 4: it was in Men's Health magazine recently, and all these
Speaker 4: different magazines, all the place to go.
Speaker 1: It really is Expanda of Colorado, as they call it,
Speaker 1: is you come and visit and spend your money and
Speaker 1: then go back home.
Speaker 4: Mandy says this text her. It's so good to hear Susan.
Speaker 4: Can you do your air horn version?
Speaker 7: I love your hair?
Speaker 4: I how did you find him? Jesse? This is what
Speaker 4: Now play the actual airhorn Jesse if you could. I'm
Speaker 4: putting Jesse through.
Speaker 5: So we're supposed to make that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, now play go through the whole wall of air
Speaker 4: horns if you could. That mine's the best. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: well no, I like the Little Girls. She's my favorite. Okay,
Speaker 4: she's so stink and cute.
Speaker 7: Well be came the.
Speaker 4: Videos with it. Never work with kids, never work with kids.
Speaker 4: So we're gonna have you, Chuck and Q do that
Speaker 4: at the end of the show so we can record
Speaker 4: those as well. Air horn versions. Yeah, you've got Mandy
Speaker 4: surprised that Susan took off a time from crashing webbing
Speaker 4: parties to her crash your show. Whose party are you
Speaker 4: crashing tonight? I have to wait tell the story when
Speaker 4: we get back. I got to take a break. We'll
Speaker 4: be right back, Susan. We were just talking about news
Speaker 4: because Susan is a true journalist in her soul, and
Speaker 4: it showed in the work that she did here, and
Speaker 4: if you guys knew how much time was spent behind
Speaker 4: the scenes by Susan making sure she was getting it right,
Speaker 4: it was really incredibly gratifying to work with her because
Speaker 4: of that. But now we are at a point now
Speaker 4: where we are seeing newsrooms be decimated and and I
Speaker 4: don't just mean radio, I mean television. I mean forget
Speaker 4: about newspapers. I mean newspaper newsrooms have been annihilated. So
Speaker 4: we're we were talking off the air, like who is
Speaker 4: going to watch the people in charge and not just
Speaker 4: the federal government? Right, Who's going to watch the school board,
Speaker 4: Who's going to watch the water commission? Who's going to
Speaker 4: watch the people that are making decisions on a daily
Speaker 4: basis that will affect our lives immediately? We don't have
Speaker 4: those people anymore.
Speaker 1: People are the most expensive thing, and I'll use that
Speaker 1: you know thing, big product, product fake in any corporation,
Speaker 1: whether it's a radio station or whether it's the widget industry.
Speaker 4: Right, people are expensive.
Speaker 1: And when corporations come in and they want to make
Speaker 1: a profit, if they got the people, then the shareholders
Speaker 1: can say, oh, well, we're making more money, But they're
Speaker 1: also they don't have the people who are contributing to
Speaker 1: the product.
Speaker 4: And a news department needs needs to have people.
Speaker 5: You need a human factor.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you need You need people, and not just people,
Speaker 4: you need people who know what's going on. And John
Speaker 4: Caldera has a great column that I have on today's
Speaker 4: blog about the the sort of uncuriousness of local journalists
Speaker 4: when it comes to finding out if their newsrooms have
Speaker 4: any political diversity when it comes to ideology. Uncuriousness, uncuriousness.
Speaker 4: I may have made that word out at the point. John,
Speaker 4: he said it typical, says CPR. He said, look, you
Speaker 4: know forty something percent of Coloradin's voted for Trump. How
Speaker 4: many in your newsroom voted for Trump?
Speaker 1: Well it's not just that, but why ask the question why,
Speaker 1: what's behind and then figure out anything? You have to
Speaker 1: be curious. You should be curious to find out everything.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter what your political affiliation. Mandy, you gave me
Speaker 1: one of the highest compliments. Actually, it was your listeners
Speaker 1: years ago that said, we never know how Susan Witkin votes.
Speaker 4: I don't know what her political affiliation is. It's leave
Speaker 4: it at the door and.
Speaker 1: Have the find out what the reason is behind everything.
Speaker 1: You should just be driving down the street and say, well,
Speaker 1: how did those we to have these.
Speaker 4: Really cool license plates?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 1: They were the mountains on them, right, and now you
Speaker 1: have black license plates and red license plates.
Speaker 4: You know, wait, what how did that happen?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 15: Who gave the right?
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden they're popping up. I
Speaker 1: mean that's mundane, right, that doesn't affect your life. But
Speaker 1: what else is out there that is affecting your life
Speaker 1: and the reason why behind it?
Speaker 4: I already have video on the blog today about CBS News.
Speaker 4: They're doing their roundtable what was underreported? And one of
Speaker 4: the reporters, Jan Crawford said, obviously Biden's mental decline was
Speaker 4: underreported and and that to me, that story the way
Speaker 4: that the media not that I expected the media to
Speaker 4: go beating down the door to the White House, but
Speaker 4: they never even asked the question.
Speaker 5: I did expect that. I expect my media to beat
Speaker 5: down the door.
Speaker 10: I expect the newspeople to find out what the what
Speaker 10: the deal is not you know, be passive about it
Speaker 10: because he's an old man and has to be the president.
Speaker 5: I want them on the story.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's of journalism. Or died with Mike Wallace?
Speaker 1: I mean to you can you can compare, where's the
Speaker 1: comparison in contrast, how was he four or five, eight
Speaker 1: years ago?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 4: Do all these different things find out as opposed to
Speaker 4: just well, we're just not going to talk about it.
Speaker 5: It will go away. I teach you all the time.
Speaker 10: And she gets irritated at me, but she'll make a
Speaker 10: comment about something and I'll break in with, Okay, here's
Speaker 10: the you know, the their motivation that you don't know about,
Speaker 10: or here's other things that you don't know about, this
Speaker 10: situation that they're you know, they're secretly trying to move
Speaker 10: this way, and this is the facade they're putting up,
Speaker 10: you know, And it just falls into the same category.
Speaker 4: I just think that Susan, your type of journalism is
Speaker 4: in one way dying, but in another way reinventing itself.
Speaker 4: In other places, I was talking about the free press.
Speaker 4: There are journalists who are leaving the institutions but continuing
Speaker 4: to do great work, whether it's on a substack or
Speaker 4: whether it's on some other site. So it's like, I
Speaker 4: can't say I'm hopeful right now, but there is hope.
Speaker 1: There is, you know, and I and I hope you're right.
Speaker 1: I hope you're right. I hope that people at the
Speaker 1: ques age to find you know, to start looking for
Speaker 1: the information, the correct information. And if you're not going
Speaker 1: you're going to listen to one thank you, you have
Speaker 1: to make sure that you also listen to other places.
Speaker 4: Right, because you're it's really really important. Susan Wicken is
Speaker 4: our guest. And now when we come back, I have
Speaker 4: another guest that's going to be joining us by phone.
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Speaker 2: No, it's Mandy Cuddle.
Speaker 15: Nine God.
Speaker 4: Study a nice It's through baby Connell Keith sadding Welcome, Welcome,
Speaker 4: Welcome to the third hour of a show that's going nowhere.
Speaker 4: This is the most Striinfeld show I've ever had. It
Speaker 4: is a show about nothing. But I've got my husband
Speaker 4: Chuck in here, the Q, my daughter's in here. Susan
Speaker 4: Wickin is in here for the moment. And now I
Speaker 4: want to bring to you a blast from the past.
Speaker 4: A voice many of you may remember is one of
Speaker 4: the funniest interns to ever intern anywhere that the dead
Speaker 4: to me in turn, welcome back to the show, my friend.
Speaker 5: How are you?
Speaker 7: Hey, Hey, good to be back.
Speaker 6: I'm doing well. How are you?
Speaker 9: Guys?
Speaker 4: We're doing great, little bit more boring here without you,
Speaker 4: and they pretty much destroyed any opportunity to get interns
Speaker 4: at this point for my Heart Media. I'm not saying
Speaker 4: you've ruined it, but I'm just saying there was an
Speaker 4: impact after you left. Now where are you now? What
Speaker 4: are you doing? Let's give us an update on your life.
Speaker 4: Last we heard you were going off to marry the
Speaker 4: lovely Sarah. You were living somewhere in Florida doing fancy
Speaker 4: things that I was mocking you for. What's going on now?
Speaker 7: That's still pretty much going on.
Speaker 6: Great marriage successful.
Speaker 7: Still bouncing around between here in Florida and Boston. And
Speaker 7: let's see, I don't know.
Speaker 6: We'orking at a nonprofit doing some crazy stuff for an
Speaker 6: animal rescue.
Speaker 7: And still doing some fancy.
Speaker 6: Well the rescue is based in O'calla, Florida. Yeah, I
Speaker 6: stay out of there as much as I can.
Speaker 4: That is my that's my old stomping rounds.
Speaker 9: Matt.
Speaker 4: I'm from like forty five minutes north of Okalla, So
Speaker 4: don't walk my part of the state.
Speaker 7: I'm I'm sure forty five minutes away is nice.
Speaker 5: So Cala is there, now I'm.
Speaker 10: With you there.
Speaker 6: What is there any good food in Okaala?
Speaker 4: Well, it depends on what you like. I mean, if
Speaker 4: you like fried chicken and southern food, then yes, there's
Speaker 4: a ton of it. Okay. If you're looking for bougie
Speaker 4: like pinkies out food, probably not, Matt, what do you rescuing?
Speaker 7: Rescuing?
Speaker 6: A great question.
Speaker 7: Hi, Susan. By the way, Hello Doll, Hello, I'm rescuing.
Speaker 6: It's a large animill rescue, so.
Speaker 7: Horses, cows, anything big that needs rescuing.
Speaker 6: Antelope Campmel's.
Speaker 5: Have they been there a long time?
Speaker 6: They started in Lexington, Kentucky actually, so you might know
Speaker 6: him from there as well.
Speaker 7: But it's been maybe maybe.
Speaker 6: Okla, maybe three or five years and like that.
Speaker 4: Okay, we have a really good friend there that I'll connect.
Speaker 4: He's with the chamber there and he's a great guy,
Speaker 4: and maybe I can connect you with him and he
Speaker 4: can tell you where the good restaurants are. You freaking snob.
Speaker 4: How's your lovely wife? How's your lovely wife is? She's
Speaker 4: still doing her horse stuff.
Speaker 6: Too, she's doing her horse stuff. She's yeah, we're bouncing around. Uh,
Speaker 6: I'm getting I'm developing an eye for horses. I know,
Speaker 6: I'm looking at.
Speaker 7: I know, uh, you know, looking at the hind end,
Speaker 7: which ones are going to jump high and far?
Speaker 6: And so we're getting really into that.
Speaker 10: What I what I'm listening to is you're checking out
Speaker 10: horsebuts the hind end.
Speaker 5: That's your new passion horse butts.
Speaker 4: Here's a fun fact about my time in O Califlorida.
Speaker 4: One of my clients in O Califlorida was a person
Speaker 4: who procured and then delivered horse semen to to uh,
Speaker 4: to fertilize other horses around the country. Short and like
Speaker 4: really high end race I mean like fifty thousand dollars
Speaker 4: works of you know semen. And and of course my
Speaker 4: first question was huge, and how do you get that?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: And and I learned that I did not see it.
Speaker 4: I didn't feel the need for a demonstration, per se.
Speaker 4: But it is just what you'd think it was. So
Speaker 4: that was that was my experience in O Califlorida. And
Speaker 4: you're you're here asking about restaurants.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess perspective. Perspective is a big thing that's
Speaker 6: a dream job though. That's come on for whatever that is.
Speaker 12: Mat.
Speaker 4: I got to ask you your your boy Tom Brady
Speaker 4: is now in the broadcast booth, and and he's not
Speaker 4: he's not getting the best reviews as of late. What
Speaker 4: what is your take? Have you been able to watch
Speaker 4: him call the game? Oh yeah, oh yeah?
Speaker 6: So what do you do?
Speaker 4: You sit there and do you wear Tom Brady's shirt
Speaker 4: while he's calling the game or I mean, what's do
Speaker 4: you still have the same love for him? Hello, he's speechless.
Speaker 6: I was speechless there you Uh no, As you know,
Speaker 6: I followed Tom Brady when he left the Patriots. I
Speaker 6: became a huge buccaneer. Yes, I was actually always a
Speaker 6: lifelong book you, but sure I leaned into it.
Speaker 4: Wow and the right.
Speaker 7: I don't know what people were talking about.
Speaker 6: I listen, I hear a golden voice. Angel brought giving
Speaker 6: unbelievable insight into the game of football like you've never
Speaker 6: heard before when he broadcast.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, people think he sucks. Yeah I can't.
Speaker 6: I don't know what people are listening. They must be
Speaker 6: they must be listening to Romo and they think it's
Speaker 6: Grady or something. Yeah, Brady is amazing.
Speaker 10: You know, Mat, it's really glad to hear that you
Speaker 10: haven't changed, haven't changed it all. How's your love affair
Speaker 10: with Hillary going?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 7: Well, that that that's fizzled. But you know, oh that's right.
Speaker 4: Let me let me explain where that came from. So
Speaker 4: we hypnotized Matt on the show one time and had
Speaker 4: him convinced that he was looking at naked pictures of
Speaker 4: Hillary Clinton, and he liked it. And and then and
Speaker 4: and also Matt made a bet on a game. I
Speaker 4: believe it was the Anty Championship if I do recall correctly,
Speaker 4: and please direct me if I'm wrong, that he did lost,
Speaker 4: and we brought in a henna tattoo artist to tattoo
Speaker 4: the score on his forehead and the back of his hands.
Speaker 4: Already had to go to class for his International relations
Speaker 4: master's degree. So that is one of the reasons Matt
Speaker 4: will always be beloved in my heart. As interns go,
Speaker 4: you're like right up there, Matt. Honestly, I've had a
Speaker 4: lot of interns, but you are the top dog.
Speaker 6: I'll take it.
Speaker 13: Thank you.
Speaker 6: That's that's nice. I wish you know it didn't include
Speaker 6: having a henna tattoo on my forehead in the middle
Speaker 6: of taking a final Damn, he.
Speaker 10: Doesn't mind you're looking at naked pictures of.
Speaker 1: Matt.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 4: Are you Are you at your mom and dad's house
Speaker 4: right now? I am, and we'll Damn we're celebrating. What
Speaker 4: are you guys doing tonight for New Year's Eve? Something fun?
Speaker 4: Now you're old and married, though, so it is probably
Speaker 4: not as fun.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 6: It's less fun than a US think. Uh, just having
Speaker 6: some people over and getting the champagne going, that's about it. No,
Speaker 6: it's yeah, No, the bars in veil.
Speaker 7: I'm up in veil. It's like it's like a zoo.
Speaker 6: Yeah, tonight, so I will be steering clear of that.
Speaker 6: Although yeah, a few years ago I would have been
Speaker 6: all over it.
Speaker 4: But yeah, getting a doesn't it, doesn't it? Yeah, I'd
Speaker 4: rather I like this better. Well, I got to tell
Speaker 4: you I do too, because I'll be asleep by ten
Speaker 4: o'clock to night on my couch. But are my sweatpants.
Speaker 4: I'm I'm gonna try and make it till ten. I
Speaker 4: feel good about that. I add doing that o'clock. Can
Speaker 4: Matt do me a favor? Next time you come through Denver,
Speaker 4: you better reach out and come see me.
Speaker 6: I will do that, will do that.
Speaker 4: I know it's been a while, it's been a long while.
Speaker 4: Give your mom and dad my very best, especially your mom,
Speaker 4: and a big hud to your lovely wife for putting
Speaker 4: up with you all these years. I will do that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, she appreciates that.
Speaker 4: All right, man, I'll you soon.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 4: Happy New Year, man, Happy New Year to Matt the
Speaker 4: Dead to me in turn, all right, now, I'll talk
Speaker 4: to you later, my friend. All Right, Matt the Dead
Speaker 4: to me back one more time. We will be back
Speaker 4: and when I have back, when we get back, I
Speaker 4: have some questions. It's an ask me anything. And I
Speaker 4: have some questions for Q. And I have a question
Speaker 4: for Chuck. I might have a question for Susan.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: We're gonna find out next.
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Speaker 4: All right, we're back. We got a studio full of people.
Speaker 4: I got the chuck, my husband, the Q, my daughter,
Speaker 4: the Susan Wickin, my beloved friend and former newsperson. Someone
Speaker 4: just hit this, Susan. Susan teased the story about wedding crashing.
Speaker 4: We'd love to hear about. It's always amazing what you
Speaker 4: guys remember. Susan one day on the program just reveals
Speaker 4: after knowing her for years, she's a very respectable woman.
Speaker 4: She's very active in her organization. She very important, has
Speaker 4: held very important positions on board.
Speaker 5: He's a community leader.
Speaker 4: She is a community leader. And Susan announced to everyone
Speaker 4: on the show that she likes to crash weddings for
Speaker 4: the cake. Oh yes, of course that's not even the
Speaker 4: best part you've done this.
Speaker 1: It's the video that she old for a dozen probably
Speaker 1: and the best part, which what's really important about doing
Speaker 1: that is that then you go to the photographer, Yes,
Speaker 1: and you make sure that you get your picture taken
Speaker 1: by the photographer at the wedding so that the bride
Speaker 1: and groom later on they're going, wait, who is this?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 10: I was rolling on the floor when you told the
Speaker 10: story about making a video saying.
Speaker 1: I love you guys, top, I was sure, absolutely, they're
Speaker 1: like I thought they were on your son.
Speaker 4: I thought they were on your sign. Yeah, that's probably
Speaker 4: Uncle Bob's day. Sure, yeah, she's so shady. Great, all right,
Speaker 4: que somebody asked you a question, A question for Q.
Speaker 4: What was your perception of the whole election process for
Speaker 4: the presidency. I didn't pay attention. I like, if I
Speaker 4: can't avoid it, I will. Did they talk about it
Speaker 4: at all in school? Because she's a sophomore in high
Speaker 4: school now.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 4: Not not really.
Speaker 8: When my teacher talks about things that are related to
Speaker 8: like elections, it's like elections in the eighteen hundreds, and
Speaker 8: he has very strong opinions about who should have won.
Speaker 8: And it's if I had to deal with that while
Speaker 8: this election was going on, I would have torn my
Speaker 8: own hair out because it would have been in suffer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, ask you anything? What is the up and coming
Speaker 4: music that your parents enjoy? Like you should have asked
Speaker 4: us that texture come on? Well yet I love Yeah.
Speaker 8: If I could think of names and not just faces.
Speaker 5: Chapelle, what is her name? Okay, I can't remember the name.
Speaker 4: And then we've got Kelsey Ballerini, big fan there. She
Speaker 4: introduced me to The Wallows, which I never heard of.
Speaker 4: We went to see them at Red Rocks. Lord Huron's good.
Speaker 4: Let's see who else? Who else is in the Taylor family?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 4: Serena Carpenter. I like Sabrina Carpenter, but not I. I
Speaker 4: don't love her.
Speaker 8: I don't think I've played Conan Gray for either of
Speaker 8: you guys, because I played some of it. I've played
Speaker 8: a couple that were in heart Stopper, but like a
Speaker 8: lot of the ones that I know are really depressing,
Speaker 8: and so I just don't play them.
Speaker 4: Because you like a beat music.
Speaker 5: Someone it's a country artist that I actually think.
Speaker 4: Aaron that was her top song for Spotify this year was.
Speaker 10: Actually sounds country where most of the country now sounds.
Speaker 8: Literally said the opposite to me, like, I know I
Speaker 8: should be What music of your parents do you like?
Speaker 8: She listened to a lot of stuff I all of
Speaker 8: Like half of the music that I listened to has
Speaker 8: come from either like artists I follow on Instagram that
Speaker 8: aren't like mainstream, which that sounds kind of shallow, but
Speaker 8: music like it's either that or I find it from
Speaker 8: TV shows. It's like, it's very That's why I've found
Speaker 8: lord here on because the night we met is like
Speaker 8: the most important song in thirteen reasons Why so so?
Speaker 4: But didn't answer our music, Dad and I music.
Speaker 15: So I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, I have like three tears for fear songs.
Speaker 4: I know you We'll take it because I'm a little
Speaker 4: Ricky Martin.
Speaker 10: She likes, she likes to live in Leviv the loco.
Speaker 10: What's the other one? You play every once in a while,
Speaker 10: Bobby Brown?
Speaker 4: But you know, not prerogative.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I know one song and I haven't heard
Speaker 8: it for a long time, except for those times where
Speaker 8: he's like, play something.
Speaker 4: I like, and so I just play that.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I banned it from Bobby Brown for a while.
Speaker 5: That was the one song she kept playing.
Speaker 4: I couldn't think of other songs.
Speaker 15: All right.
Speaker 4: It doesn't ask me anything, And since Susan's here, you
Speaker 4: can ask her anything too. I have a question for
Speaker 4: my family, and that is, are either of you setting
Speaker 4: goals for twenty twenty five?
Speaker 5: Well I am.
Speaker 4: I'm not doing resolutions. I'm done with resolutions. Resolutions are stupid,
Speaker 4: Yeah they are. My goal is to come in here
Speaker 4: and annoy you on the air as often as well.
Speaker 4: That is not going to happen. Okay, you know, are kiddinges?
Speaker 8: So someone make a bingo card of things that they
Speaker 8: want to do in like the new year, so that
Speaker 8: way they can just cross it off rather than going
Speaker 8: to the end of the year and being like, oh,
Speaker 8: I haven't done any of the.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I would like to do that. I am
Speaker 4: I don't really have like I would.
Speaker 8: I would like to put doors back on my closet.
Speaker 4: That would be you know what, picky, picky, picky, It's fine.
Speaker 4: It has like my dog them off, put them on,
Speaker 4: take him off, put them on. Yeah, okay, what will
Speaker 4: be on your bingo card? I I don't know one thing.
Speaker 4: That's just one thing. Get your braces off. Sure, you
Speaker 4: put things on there that you know are going to happen,
Speaker 4: and then you have the satisfaction of why I think
Speaker 4: you got.
Speaker 10: A couple of things you know are going to happen,
Speaker 10: But you gotta put some stuff on there.
Speaker 7: You have to.
Speaker 4: Oh no, but you've got to get to throw yourself
Speaker 4: a bone. Man, Will you put on your bingo card?
Speaker 4: I am going to write this damn book that is
Speaker 4: in my head that is a thing that is going
Speaker 4: to happen to do that too. I also am trying
Speaker 4: to start doing more speaking, and I'd love to do that.
Speaker 4: So if you're listening and you have an organization I
Speaker 4: can speak to, I'd love to come speak to you.
Speaker 4: Here you go. What we should try to get the podcast?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you were little. Yeah, I'm looking forward to He's ready.
Speaker 4: I just don't have time to edit it. So I
Speaker 4: got to teach her how to do the editing so
Speaker 4: she can do it.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 4: These are all good things. Love it listening, audience. We'll
Speaker 4: get his on the way. We'll get We'll get his
Speaker 4: on the other side because I'm out of time. If
Speaker 4: you want to text in your goals for twenty twenty
Speaker 4: five or what's going to be on your bingo card,
Speaker 4: I love that idea. We'll do that next.
Speaker 5: It's great.
Speaker 4: We've got the queue, We've got my husband, Chuck. Chuck.
Speaker 4: You have to tell people what's going to be on
Speaker 4: your twenty twenty five bingo card. Shop. My inquiring minds
Speaker 4: want to know. Nice.
Speaker 10: My main thing is getting out of the house, and
Speaker 10: I've had some injuries over the last couple of years
Speaker 10: where I haven't been able to go hiking through the incline.
Speaker 10: And I am feeling pretty good thanks to Dana, our trainer. Yes,
Speaker 10: and she has been kicking my butt literally three times
Speaker 10: a week for.
Speaker 4: The last I don't know how long, and it's making
Speaker 4: a difference.
Speaker 5: It's making a huge difference. And I'm ready to get
Speaker 5: out and get in the woods.
Speaker 4: Just got this text bingo card heading to Korea and
Speaker 4: Japan with you and Chuck. That's from Tim and Melissa Hansome.
Speaker 10: Oh I see now, love Melissa. By the way, they
Speaker 10: also said they're going to Tanzania with us.
Speaker 4: Oh good Mandy. What travel company are you using for
Speaker 4: the Japan trip. I'm just going to do a little
Speaker 4: sales pitch right now because it's after Christmas. Maybe you
Speaker 4: got a Christmas bonus you want to spend it on
Speaker 4: some fabulous go with us. In June, we are flying
Speaker 4: to South Korea. We're going to spend a day in
Speaker 4: seld and we are hopping on a beautiful celebrity ship
Speaker 4: and we are sailing around Japan for total love.
Speaker 5: But we still go to Korea. We go to change
Speaker 5: your land.
Speaker 4: I just said that. Then we're sailing around Japan. You
Speaker 4: can find out more at Mandyconnell trip dot com Mandyconnald
Speaker 4: trip dot com. There's still it has to be booked,
Speaker 4: like in the next month, okay, and then it needs
Speaker 4: to happen. So if you want to go with us,
Speaker 4: check it out. It's going to be just incredible, incredible experience.
Speaker 10: So the answer to your question is Cruise and Tour. Yes,
Speaker 10: is the name of the company Cruse hyphen Tour dot com. Yep.
Speaker 10: And for those of you who went to France with
Speaker 10: Ross Kaminsky and I go on this trip because you
Speaker 10: get to see my my big little brother coming on it.
Speaker 5: And my nephew, yes who's listening right now, Happy New Year.
Speaker 4: And nephew Pat. So the que will have someone to
Speaker 4: play with.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, he's only forty, but that her cousin is.
Speaker 4: Coming, so now she'll have somebody to play with.
Speaker 8: He calls me his niece, and like Sam calls me
Speaker 8: her niece as well, and like I will be in
Speaker 8: the middle of a conversation and one of them will
Speaker 8: be like my niece and I'm like cousin.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she's in between two generations. Yeah, so here's one
Speaker 4: for you, Chuck. First of all, somebody said you have
Speaker 4: a great radio voice. And then Sandy asked Chuck what
Speaker 4: his highest military award is and what it's for. Oh, well,
Speaker 4: kill I mean, for me, I would say the biggest
Speaker 4: one is the purple heart. Yeah, because that one was
Speaker 4: earned in a negative way, but at least he was
Speaker 4: noticed and recognized for surviving. I mean, isn't that what
Speaker 4: a purple heart's all about? A couple of times, yeah,
Speaker 4: I's And the short story.
Speaker 10: I know I've been asked to say this story on
Speaker 10: the air, but we don't have time, so we'll do
Speaker 10: that some other day. But the short story is, watch
Speaker 10: the movie Black hawk Down that happened October third of
Speaker 10: ninety three. I had a smaller incident that wasn't as
Speaker 10: brutal as that, but nobody was killed in our incident,
Speaker 10: and me and my partner were ambushed right outside the
Speaker 10: beginning of black hawk Down, they show the stadium. We
Speaker 10: got ambushed right outside the stadium. I got shot a lot,
Speaker 10: and my buddy lost to sight in his eye. And
Speaker 10: that's the short story. So that's what the purple hearts for.
Speaker 10: I have another one for being stabbed, but that's a
Speaker 10: totally different story. That's not even dramatic. I mean, that's
Speaker 10: just like a thing. He just got stabbed. It's fine,
Speaker 10: it's fine, nothing to worry about.
Speaker 4: That one didn't leave as many blasting marks as the
Speaker 4: Somalia incident, which left a lot of lasting marks. So, Mandy,
Speaker 4: what popcorn do you like? I'll be happy to share
Speaker 4: that with you. First of all, you have to have
Speaker 4: the Adam popper, yes, popcorn maker that goes on the stovetop.
Speaker 4: I am anti microwave popcorn. And then I use Bob's
Speaker 4: Red Mill white popcorn. It is so delicious and so fantastic,
Speaker 4: and I usually have to order it on Amazon because
Speaker 4: I can't find it in the stores anymore.
Speaker 5: And it's amazing.
Speaker 4: I use ghee. I use gee to cook the popcorn,
Speaker 4: so it just gets a little shade of butter, but
Speaker 4: not gooey and gross, just a little shade of butter
Speaker 4: as it goes in the popper. And it is just
Speaker 4: we're so magical.
Speaker 10: We have a giant thing of popcorn salt that we
Speaker 10: refill our popcorn salt.
Speaker 5: Like a big Morton popcorn salt.
Speaker 8: Does to get from how Dad lost his finger to popcorn.
Speaker 4: Welcome to the Many Call Show. I'm like I don't
Speaker 4: know if you've heard of us before. I want to
Speaker 4: ask this. I need a chuck and I are watching
Speaker 4: the best show right now. This is completely random. Yes,
Speaker 4: it is The Lioness with Zoe Saldano. It is amazing,
Speaker 4: so good and so stressed. But I need to know
Speaker 4: from listeners, like what are you guys watching, because we're
Speaker 4: going to watch the other six episodes of it tonight.
Speaker 4: That's my plan for New Year's Eve? What are you
Speaker 4: gonna do on New Year I'm gonna wach six episodes
Speaker 4: of Lioness. I need more shows. I love The Diplomat,
Speaker 4: although it might be late to the party on that one.
Speaker 7: Is that kid?
Speaker 8: Is that it is?
Speaker 5: I have no idea.
Speaker 4: It is on Netflix though the moment just told me about.
Speaker 2: This, I think.
Speaker 1: And also I've been watching Shrinking. We're finishing up Shrinking. Okay,
Speaker 1: that is Carrie Russell. I love Carrie The Diplomat.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a really really good show.
Speaker 10: And well, we've watched one episode of Yellowstone, but I
Speaker 10: think we might kick that off and actually it's over now.
Speaker 5: I know watching.
Speaker 4: Did you watch Drinking? Uh no, what is drinking? Drinking
Speaker 4: is with the same guys that Ted lasso. Okay, that
Speaker 4: that Apple TV, though it is. I don't I'm not
Speaker 4: buying another subscription. Okay, they're not happening. Yeah for Susan,
Speaker 4: who is your favorite host on KOA? No pressure? Oh literally,
Speaker 4: he says, no pressure really? Oh yeah, you don't have
Speaker 4: to I silence, thank you. You know, of course it's
Speaker 4: some Mandy Connell show. Yeah, I'd follow you anywhere. Ralph
Speaker 4: says being a survivor of anything regarding Somalia is an
Speaker 4: epic feat.
Speaker 5: Yes, you know what.
Speaker 4: We when we were in Switzerland last year. So we
Speaker 4: got to Switzerland and our bags didn't arrive and it
Speaker 4: was a complete cluster in Geneva. We're flyingto Geneva, but
Speaker 4: we're staying in Loasan, which is like half an hour away.
Speaker 4: Our plan was just hoped the train right, because the
Speaker 4: trains in Switzerland are great. But by the time we
Speaker 4: got there, we were so tired and so irritable. I said,
Speaker 4: I'm calling an uber. I'm just calling an uber. I
Speaker 4: don't want to have to deal with the train. I
Speaker 4: don't have to figure it out. I just want to
Speaker 4: call an uber. We call an uber. This guy comes
Speaker 4: and picks us up in a Mercedes, because everybody in
Speaker 4: Uber drives the Mercedes, so you feel fancy even though
Speaker 4: you're just in an Uber. We start talking to him,
Speaker 4: as we do, we kind of talk to every Uber
Speaker 4: driver we have. We're chatty passengers. And we find out
Speaker 4: he is Somalian and chucks that out. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 4: lost a finger in Somalia, and the guy goes, really when,
Speaker 4: So they start talking to the guy says, I might
Speaker 4: have been one of the kids shooting at you.
Speaker 5: It was like ten and what did he do?
Speaker 4: He turned off the mat, the meter and for free.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he would not.
Speaker 10: So he attributed the American soldiers coming into Somalia as
Speaker 10: saving his life. He now has four kids and a
Speaker 10: family who lives in Switzerland.
Speaker 4: He was adopted by a Swiss couple when he was
Speaker 4: like twelve. Yeah, he told us about what the warlords did.
Speaker 4: The warlords would give the these are children, Okay, he
Speaker 4: was say nine, ten years old. They give him methamphetamine,
Speaker 4: and they get them hooked on methamphetamine, and then they
Speaker 4: ordered them, while they're high on meth to go kill
Speaker 4: their family, and they did. And now the only family
Speaker 4: they have are the warlord and the gangs. Right, and
Speaker 4: so it was. It was fascinating. It gave me so fascinating.
Speaker 4: But you talked to hearing your story, Yeah it is,
Speaker 4: it's chilling.
Speaker 5: It was amazing. We're in the cab.
Speaker 10: You know, it could have gone either way with me
Speaker 10: saying that, you know I was in Somalia because he may,
Speaker 10: you know, have been a person who hated the Americans there. Yeah,
Speaker 10: so I was very COGNI cautious, incognizant of what I
Speaker 10: was saying to him.
Speaker 4: So well, I got a couple lots of people saying,
Speaker 4: we got to watch lad Man, which is another Taylor
Speaker 4: Sheridan show, which Zoe Saldano's Taylor Sheridan as well. So
Speaker 4: we got to watch Landman. Here's one Chuck, do you
Speaker 4: find it hard to get a tan living in your
Speaker 4: wife's shadow? Chuck is the one holding the spotlight. And
Speaker 4: I mean that in the nicest possible ways. I said
Speaker 4: this the other day. This is what Kat was saying
Speaker 4: in the Chuck is my biggest fan, and he is
Speaker 4: my biggest cheerleader, and he is the guy whenever I
Speaker 4: say hey we should, He's like immediately like, I think
Speaker 4: that's a dumb idea. But what can I do to help.
Speaker 4: He is the reason that I can do this and
Speaker 4: still have a family and still enjoy my life. Because
Speaker 4: he takes care of everything that is not on this show.
Speaker 5: I don't have to go to a job, so that
Speaker 5: helps out.
Speaker 4: I am a job.
Speaker 5: Point full time, retired when we got here, and you know.
Speaker 4: What, you've produced this lovely young lady here. Yeah, very true.
Speaker 5: She's got a smile on her face today. Wait till tomorrow.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry I had to type somebody what kind of
Speaker 4: popcorn that was? So yeah, we have a little bit
Speaker 4: of busy work. First of all, if you're going to
Speaker 4: watch the game on Sunday, got good news. Pat Mahomes
Speaker 4: isn't starting. Several other chiefs are not starting because they've
Speaker 4: already locked up you know, their position in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: So that bodes well for the Broncos. But that's not
Speaker 4: why you should watch them.
Speaker 10: Oh no, you get to be on Chuck's drinking game. Yes,
Speaker 10: Chuck is running the parabolic mic at the game. So
Speaker 10: here's the deal. If you're watching the game and you
Speaker 10: see on the sidelines and you see me, I'm in
Speaker 10: one of the vests and I'm a big guy. You
Speaker 10: can't miss me and you see me, you have to
Speaker 10: take a drink or whatever. You're drinking the whole game.
Speaker 10: And do you know who's on the screen all the
Speaker 10: time in those games, all the guys standing on the fiece.
Speaker 10: So get your case of beer, you know. But I
Speaker 10: will say, are you doing this Sunday? Good game Sunday
Speaker 10: with the Kansas City. I will say this, drink responsibly.
Speaker 10: Don't be driving after you? Yeah, exactly driving after the
Speaker 10: Chuck football drinking game.
Speaker 5: But uh, that's a good way. Look for me. I'll
Speaker 5: look for you. I won't be able to see you,
Speaker 5: but you know I want.
Speaker 4: The game and look for Chuck, big bald guy. Can't
Speaker 4: miss him? Really? And why I say can't miss him?
Speaker 4: I mean can't miss him. Yeah, I'm gonna say goodbye.
Speaker 7: Are you leaving?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna leave you? You are said you are chicken.
Speaker 4: I use this game. I am so glad, quietly and
Speaker 4: noting how disappointing. Yes you want to stay for the day?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 8: Uh Q.
Speaker 4: What is the thing that you are glad? You don't
Speaker 4: have to look at anymore? In twenty twenty five, what
Speaker 4: are you glad?
Speaker 9: Is over?
Speaker 4: In twenty twenty four, my freshman year of Yeah, that's
Speaker 4: so yes, it is over. You never have to. But
Speaker 4: I cannot even tell you how many people texted Landman
Speaker 4: on the text line I'm talking over paramount it is.
Speaker 4: I don't think. I don't know.
Speaker 5: Maybe next that's a paramount plus Operation Paramount.
Speaker 4: Okay, we have paramom plus.
Speaker 2: Oh I do too.
Speaker 4: I have that Tulsa King we're already watching, which is
Speaker 4: so good.
Speaker 5: And they got rid of the Old Man, which was good.
Speaker 4: I was so bummed out about that. Jeff Bridges and
Speaker 4: John Lithgow. Only two seasons and they're only like six
Speaker 4: episodes each, but so flipping good, and they canceled it.
Speaker 10: Uh, the Old Man really really think that Netflix. I've
Speaker 10: seen lab Man, I have seen the previous.
Speaker 4: Billy about Fort Mandy or Susan. Can I be your
Speaker 4: date at the next wedding crash?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Totally. You know you should schedule that. Sure, you should.
Speaker 4: You should schedule that. We have to find them sometimes
Speaker 4: are tough. Yeah, a little discerning on cake.
Speaker 10: We should have people submit what their wedding date is
Speaker 10: and then you not tell anybody and see if they
Speaker 10: catch you.
Speaker 4: That would be fantastic. I like that, but you'd have
Speaker 4: to carry around a little speaker that just played that didn't.
Speaker 1: I did?
Speaker 4: Only one time? My daughter and I got caught. What
Speaker 4: did you get? Did you get hauled out? What happen
Speaker 4: is that we got there the best man sauce. He goes,
Speaker 4: h and who are you?
Speaker 7: Who are you?
Speaker 4: And we kind of looked and I had to admit it.
Speaker 4: I said, well, we really came for cake. He goes,
Speaker 4: come on, what do you want to drink? The bar's open,
Speaker 4: I swear. See that's the other thing to do was
Speaker 4: to drink. Susan doesn't drink or eat. She just eats
Speaker 4: the cake.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 4: Oh, she's not like busting through a bar or anything
Speaker 4: like that. She's not money, she's not being Vince Vaughn
Speaker 4: and Winny Cratchers. No, she's just having the cake. I
Speaker 4: just want the cake, Just the cake. Can I be
Speaker 4: there for the cake?
Speaker 15: Why?
Speaker 5: Yogi?
Speaker 4: Landman is so good? Yes, I just have to. We
Speaker 4: have to watch Landman. That's now. We're gonna put it
Speaker 4: in right after the Lioness to find that out. All right, guys,
Speaker 4: tomorrow we are off, but I'm going to tell you
Speaker 4: something to do tomorrow. Tomorrow. Just go to the internet,
Speaker 4: go to Twitter, or x dot com. And look at
Speaker 4: all of the images that people are making of Jared
Speaker 4: Polis using rock. It has been the most entertaining day
Speaker 4: on X at groc is X's new AI and you
Speaker 4: can make images with groc now. And now there's one
Speaker 4: now Jared Polis with a giant egghead. I didn't even
Speaker 4: get to the egg situation. Okay, the egg situation is horrible.
Speaker 4: And if you have gone to buy eggs, you may
Speaker 4: have seen empty shelves or you're seeing eggs for twelve
Speaker 4: dollars a dozen again. Oh oh, yes, it's happening right now. Yes,
Speaker 4: the official shift to all KG three is happening right
Speaker 4: now in Colorado. So I went to buy eggs and
Speaker 4: I was like, what the deuce is going on? So
Speaker 4: I belong to a Facebook food group. It's a dumb
Speaker 4: little group. There's people from all over the country. I've
Speaker 4: been in it for seven or eight years, maybe even longer.
Speaker 4: Everybody is from all over and I do informal polls
Speaker 4: in my Facebook food group, and I asked just All
Speaker 4: I said was what is the egg situation? Where you are?
Speaker 4: Where are you and what is the egg situation? Unless
Speaker 4: you live in a democratically controlled state or a democratic
Speaker 4: democratically controlled city. There is no egg shortage. People are
Speaker 4: finding eggs left and right there. If their prices are high,
Speaker 4: there may be thirty cents to a dollar more than
Speaker 4: they normally would be. There is avian flu in the country.
Speaker 8: We know this.
Speaker 4: Ironically, cage free eggs spread avian flu faster because the
Speaker 4: chickens are not segregated unless you give them tons of antibiotics.
Speaker 4: So the cage free eggs that most people are gonna
Speaker 4: be buying in Colorado are gonna be pumped full of
Speaker 4: antibiotics because they're trying to stop the spread of avian flu.
Speaker 4: But it is democratically controlled states Michigan, California, Colorado that
Speaker 4: are having a complete shortage because they've all gone to
Speaker 4: cage free eggs and no one can get them now.
Speaker 4: So all of these people have been posting on x
Speaker 4: dot com because I made a post and it's been
Speaker 4: seen by like seventy five thousand people now about this
Speaker 4: is what happens when people make laws so they feel
Speaker 4: good about themselves. And I'm not gonna lie. I buy
Speaker 4: really expensive eggs, I buy the happy eggs, I buy
Speaker 4: pasture raised eggs. They are a massive part of our diet,
Speaker 4: so I spend a lot of money on that. You should,
Speaker 4: guys start owning chickens.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 4: I freaking hate chickens, and I hate them because I
Speaker 4: was attacked multiple times as a child buy chickens trying
Speaker 4: to collect eggs so hard pass I have no interest.
Speaker 4: Stop laughing here. I wanted to feel like sad for men.
Speaker 4: Can you envision that in your head?
Speaker 1: In my thought bubble, I've got Mandy running from chickens.
Speaker 4: Running away from that brought me so bad that I
Speaker 4: thought I was gonna have to have stitches on the
Speaker 4: back of my leg. I hate roosters, so I don't
Speaker 4: want to have to lay the eggs. But you have
Speaker 4: to have a rooster to get the egg. Well, that's true,
Speaker 4: you know, unless they're transgender. I'm glad my pain could
Speaker 4: make you laugh as hard as it just did. What
Speaker 4: is wrong with you?
Speaker 6: Hey?
Speaker 10: So this movie, or this showed land Man has two
Speaker 10: great I mean, it has a bunch of great actors,
Speaker 10: but it has Ali Larder I love Ellie I like
Speaker 10: her too, and Mark Coley the singer.
Speaker 5: That's fantastic. Here, I'm into this.
Speaker 4: The other thing that I meant to mention today, And
Speaker 4: this is exactly how much time I'm gonna be giving
Speaker 4: this going forward. So President Jimmy Carter has passed away.
Speaker 4: He should be remembered for his work with Habitat for
Speaker 4: humanity and as a godly man. And that's all I'm
Speaker 4: gonna have to say about Jimmy Carter. Moving on, we
Speaker 4: will be back on what is today? By the way,
Speaker 4: what day is it? Tuesday? It's Tuesdays, okay, So we'll
Speaker 4: be back for a full week Thursday and Friday. After that.
Speaker 4: That's all I can do. After all these days off,
Speaker 4: I can't work any more than two days in a row.
Speaker 4: It's going to be a struggle the following week to
Speaker 4: see how I pull it out. But I think I'll
Speaker 4: be okay, you know what, Maybe a little lie down,
Speaker 4: maybe a little nappy on the couch over there. I
Speaker 4: don't know. We'll have to wait and see. But now
Speaker 4: it's time for the most exciting segment all the radio
Speaker 4: of its guy who's still not great. They I'm just
Speaker 4: saying of the day, not the best And Susan, you
Speaker 4: can participate or you can sit quietly and look adorable
Speaker 4: cry thank you, Susan Wickin say oh, Nick Ferguson, coming
Speaker 4: in the se We got a full house, Nick, we
Speaker 4: got a full house.
Speaker 2: You can go.
Speaker 4: You can go in there to the call screener station
Speaker 4: if you want to pop on right there, do it,
Speaker 4: Nick Ferguson, All right, what is our dad joke of
Speaker 4: the day? Zach is pinch hitting for Jesse Thomas, who
Speaker 4: was ever done of the day? So Zach is in
Speaker 4: to handle this part of the show. What do you
Speaker 4: got for us? Dad joke?
Speaker 14: Whise there, Zach? Uh dad joke of the day? Why
Speaker 14: do turkeys play percussion?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 1: I know it?
Speaker 7: What is it?
Speaker 5: They have drumsticks?
Speaker 4: Oh? Very nice and not a great joke.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 4: The portrait monument, located in the US Capitol, features bus
Speaker 4: of three women. Who are the three women? I have
Speaker 4: no idea this. You're in ap history this year. My
Speaker 4: teacher doesn't teach. Oh, well that's the good. I know
Speaker 4: the woman who actually wrote the AP history. If you
Speaker 4: don't know this, you're not gonna guess it. So I'm
Speaker 4: gonna give it to you. Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Katie Stanton
Speaker 4: and Susan B. Anthony, three Suffragettes, who influenced the woman? Yeah,
Speaker 4: hang on, let me write everybody down? All right? Is
Speaker 4: Nick playing? Is he on the mic? Okay? Perfect?
Speaker 5: Are you playing?
Speaker 7: Or are you playing?
Speaker 3: Nick?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Turn Nick's mic on? There you go?
Speaker 2: Can you do it?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Turn it on.
Speaker 5: He doesn't have headphones.
Speaker 4: You can't do it. Well, no, you can't do it? Sorry, sorry, buddy?
Speaker 4: All right? What is our Jeopardy category of the day?
Speaker 4: I didn't do. Do we do word of today?
Speaker 8: What do you do?
Speaker 4: Word of the day? What is that word of the
Speaker 4: day today is zeitgeist?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 7: That is like the.
Speaker 4: Gosh, how do you define that? Zest is like someone
Speaker 4: who is the top of something like that. They're a star.
Speaker 4: They the pinnacle of something? Am I around it? Definitely?
Speaker 14: That's kind of what I would have gone with to
Speaker 14: their definition here is Zeitgeist refers to the general beliefs, ideas,
Speaker 14: and spirit of a time and place.
Speaker 4: I had that completely wrong my whole life. I think
Speaker 4: is there another definition? They only have the one right
Speaker 4: here on marrionwebster dot com. The Senates af the artists
Speaker 4: songs perfectly captured the zeitgeist to nineteen I was woodstock.
Speaker 4: I have been using that word wrong. For I don't
Speaker 4: even know how long now so often exactly what is
Speaker 4: our Jeopardy category? Now the fifty states?
Speaker 8: You better get this that No, that was the part
Speaker 8: of my eight push test, and I somehow managed to
Speaker 8: mix up Alabama and Mississippi.
Speaker 4: Because so much live, yeah, very much?
Speaker 8: So?
Speaker 2: What is you?
Speaker 7: You know how to do this?
Speaker 4: You yell Q you yell Susan, You yelled Chuck, I
Speaker 4: yell Mandy. Okay, all right?
Speaker 14: It's state song includes the words from hill to hill,
Speaker 14: from creek to creek, Potomac calls to Chesapeake, Mandy.
Speaker 4: What is Maryland? That's correct?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 14: This state leads the US in the production of uh, barley,
Speaker 14: tobacco and bourbon whiskey, manny.
Speaker 4: What is Kentucky?
Speaker 5: Correct?
Speaker 4: Technically a commonwealth, but I'm just not gonna mince you know,
Speaker 4: split hairs.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 14: It's state university system is based in Las CRUs.
Speaker 4: Susan, Susan? What is New Mexico? The day you're on
Speaker 4: the board?
Speaker 14: Native daughter Helen Keller is on the reverse of the
Speaker 14: quarter that represents this southern state.
Speaker 4: I don't know where Helen Keller was born. I want
Speaker 4: to say I think I know, but I don't want
Speaker 4: to guess. Because I'm sitting on a lead. I can't guess.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to guess. Alabama. There you go, Quinland,
Speaker 4: you wouldn't have got that.
Speaker 14: According to the statue, or according to statue, the outer
Speaker 14: circle of its state seal is a color.
Speaker 4: Called golden poppy.
Speaker 5: Gold poppy outer California.
Speaker 4: What is but I'll give that to you. Yeah, he's correct,
Speaker 4: all right?
Speaker 1: Was that it?
Speaker 4: That was the last one.
Speaker 9: With you?
Speaker 4: You guys are tight for first loser.
Speaker 7: There you go.
Speaker 4: That is an excellent of the day. Guys, Thank you
Speaker 4: for listeners for indulging me in this very ridiculous day.
Speaker 4: And I promise that when I get back on the second,
Speaker 4: I got a lot of stuff we're gonna dive pretty
Speaker 4: deeply into coming up in the new year, and it's
Speaker 4: gonna be really great. The blog today is outstanding with
Speaker 4: a lot of news wrap ups. So if you want
Speaker 4: to go to one place and find up a bunch
Speaker 4: of news wrap ups, please go to mandy'sblog dot com
Speaker 4: and check it out. Happy New Year, I hope everything.
Speaker 4: If you is safe tonight, Do not drink and drive.
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Speaker 4: have a great time.
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Speaker 4: There's lots of ways to not drink and drive. You
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