December 16, 2025 • 15 mins
🌟 “If your pet feels like family, should the IRS agree?” That’s just one of the wild questions Sandy and Tricia tackle in this laughter-packed episode of The Sandy Show! 🎙️ From the moment Sandy introduces his “beautiful, talented, yet somewhat acerbic” wife Tricia, you know you’re in for a ride. The duo dives into the quirks of social media fame, with Tricia celebrating her Instagram milestone (“I only wanted 900 followers, now I’m at 948!”), and the hilarity of being followed by “your mother’s fave 58.” But the real fun begins when a lawyer sues the IRS, demanding that pets count as legal dependents. Tricia and Sandy debate: “He has no independent income. He resides exclusively with her and has annual expenses exceeding $5,000. That satisfies the IRS’s intent of dependency… except for the fact that it’s not a human.” Would you write off your goldfish? 🐟 The episode gets heartfelt as Tricia shares the emotional journey of pet ownership—“Rip your heart out having a pet, won’t it?”—and the bittersweet memories of their beloved dog, Shiny. The conversation turns to pet insurance, family, and the little things that make life magical. 🎉 Bigfoot believers, rejoice! Tricia’s passion for the legendary creature takes center stage as she reveals her plans to hunt Bigfoot with friends, her collection of Bigfoot gear, and the latest news: Bigfoot is now in Fortnite! “He’s super strong, can’t be defeated easily, and if anybody gets close, he disappears into the woods.” Will you spot him first? 👣 The Sandy household is a carnival of joy and humor, from Bigfoot wallpaper to needlepoint messages (“Sorry I called you an a-hole. I thought you knew.”), googly eyes on outlets, and signs that say “have a nice poop.” It’s a place where you can’t help but smile—or be playfully insulted. Other highlights include:
Memorable Quotes:
- The surprising history of movie trailers (“They were originally shown at the end of movies!”)
- Tricia’s superhuman sense of smell (“Approximately one trillion scents!”)
- The real story behind Van Gogh’s Starry Night (“It was the view from the room of a mental asylum in France.”)
Memorable Quotes:
- “I want to give a comfortable 60% and have time for my shows.”
- “Bigfoot is everywhere right now. He’s like the kale fad. He’s cottage cheese right now.”
- “Our house is so fun. It’s like living in a carnival fun house.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thank you very much for being a part of the
best part of our name.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
My name is Sandy.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is my beautiful, talented, yet somewhat somewhat keyword acerbic wife.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Her name is Tricia.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Hi, friends, and away we go.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
We'd love hearing from you.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Guys. I'll shoot us a text at seven three seven
three zero one ninety six hundred. That's seven three seven
three zero one ninety six hundred. Of course, follow us
on Instagram too. We didn't do we ever get an
update from you on your Instagram account.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
How are followers you have?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Remember I was at nine forty seven. I get really
excited because you were closing because you only Nutrisa only
wanted nine hundred. She exceeded her goal.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Now I'm at nine forty eight.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
That one net one got one.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Hey, I'm not that at all.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It's not gaining listeners or excuse me.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Gaining followers on social media is not like it was
back in the day where you could get a whole
bunch of one day because it was brand new.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
You know who started following me? Their handle, your mother's
fave fifty eight.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Thank you. I bet you are your mother's face.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
They've got to be right, right.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Give Tricia a follow at Trisha tri Cia Dot Delysia
d E l I s h A Tricia Lisa. Some
birthdays today include Benjamin Bratt.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
He is sixty two.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
You know him from pop up on Modern Family and
back in the day he was.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Detected Julia Roberts for a while.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Oh that's right, forgot.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
He's a cutie and he was Detective Ray Curtis for
a few seasons of Law and Orders.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Right, yeah, I didn't start that far back though. I'm
in season eighteen right now.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
William the Refrigerator Perry is celebrating number sixty three today.
What's amazing about that is, back when the Fridge was
playing football, it was a big, big deal to have
a guy that weighed over three hundred pounds. Now all
those guys weigh three or at least three hundred pounds. Also,
Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top, my man is seventy six.
(01:57):
I may have to listen to a little ZZ time
up to the little gimme all.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
With the beard, okay, ye, spinning the guitar in front
of the Mini Cooper.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
That's right, it was a Mini Cooper. What was it?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Was a hot rod rod roadster there's a little cheap
sunglasses today. You really knocked me out with your cheap sunglasses.
You know what's funny is the the third guy without
the beard. Yeah, his last name is beard. Oh that's strange.
Leslie Stall, Yes, Leslie Stall from sixty minutes is eighty four. Wow,
(02:30):
I'm thinking there's going to be a position opening up
at sixty minutes maybe.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
So that's a treasured gig, isn't it right?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
But don't you remember when Oprah went on it?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Oh yeah, they tried to tell her how to say
and I'm Oprah and she said, I'm out of here.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
They tried to coach her on how to say her name.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, they made her do it over.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, she's the one person you could just put up
there and everyone knows who she was, right, right, Tricia,
what's the first thing they made you laugh today?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I don't want to do my best.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I want to give a comfortable sixty percent and have
time for my shows.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
That's you. That's me to a t that is Tricia
never gives one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I'm gonna give a little bit more than what you're expecting.
And then I'm gonna go lay down and watch my programs.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Tricia's one of those people.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Give her a list of ten things to do, She'll
do every single one of them and not one extra.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Now, I mean I might throw in an extra. I'm
not gonna throw in five extra. I'm gonna wow you
a little bit with a little bit more than you expected,
just to keep you interested.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
In her defense, though, Tricia, all ten of the things
on the list will be done perfectly.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
They will. That's just who she is. Yep.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Coming up on the show today, Tricia's excited because Bigfoot
is getting some publicity in the game.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Oh finally, Bigfoot's getting some traction all of us believers
out there and y'all have been making fun of for
all these years. Bigfoot is everywhere right now. He's like
the kale fat he is. He's the new He's cottage
cheese right now.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Also, we'll share with you ten here. Ten are things
that happened ten years ago this week, and the story
we love is next.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
One O three point one, Austin.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Hold on to your hats, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Chrisia's got an irs story and it's the story we love.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
It's a good IRS story. You guys, come on, you
know me?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Okay, Well, I'm IRS needs some good stories, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
No, it's not good for the IRS, it's good for us.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You're not going to get the IRS coming to pay
us a visit, are you. Oh well, don't make them
mad again.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I'm just reporting.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Okay, just report the news.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Give us a follow on Instagram, at the Sandy Show
Official Facebook is at The Sandy Show Radio.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
The story's weelaw.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
A lawyer is in the news because she is suing
the IRS and she's demanding that your pets count as
legal dependents just like human family members for tax relief.
So at first you're like, that's dumb, But then I'm like,
wait a minute, is it. Here's what she says. She
has an eight year old Golden retriever. He has no
independent income, he resides exclusively with her, and he has
(04:58):
annual expenses exceeding five thous dolls. That satisfies the IRS's
intent of dependency. I mean, it checks all the boxes
except for the pact that it's not a human.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, good luck.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I mean, you know, I don't see the RS changing
the tax code for dogs. I know, then what do
you get. Can you write off a parrot? And then
can you write off a fish?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
You know what I mean? If it's sixty fish or hundred.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
If they meet the requirements, maybe they're at ninety seven
percent of American pet owners say that they considered their
pets to be part of their family. Their dependence, They food, shelter, medical.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
You know what I mean, And they're dependence forever.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Exactly exactly, so right now, pets are considered property by
the irs, not eligible for human dependent tax benefits.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
But she's going to try. She's going to try.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, good luck. I mean, I'm no lawyer, but I
don't think this goes far to you.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I mean, I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
But the case hasn't been dismissed yet, you know what
I mean, And it's you might as well try.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Who knows it.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Being a pet owner is huge and they were like
ten years ago. I laughed at people who've got pet insurance.
Oh yeah, Now, if you and I ever get another dog,
a one hundred percent will get pet insurance. My mom
has a dog, and in the first year of the
dog's life she almost died three times.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
She spent like twelve.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Grand on her right and but got reimbursed almost all
of that from pet insurance.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So give me the idea what her premium is on that.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
I think it's pretty pretty low.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It's like Diddle insurance.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah, it's and expensive.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
But then you know, we had our dog Shiny for
eight years, not one thing wrong with her her entire
life until the very.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
End, and then it happened so fast.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
And then it happened so fast. I'm still mad about it.
I'll never be I'll never be over that.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
But how old would Shiny be now?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Thirteen?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Oh? Wow?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, wow, she'd be here, I would say it, but
she'd be Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
She'd be wise, should be approached and white be approaching
the rainbow.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Ber she'd be.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Thinking about the rainbow, which I don't want to talk
about that either.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah, we kind of got I feel like we got
ripped off. We did not financially. We just didn't have
her long enough.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
No, we only got her for eight years.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Yeah, oh man, rip your heart out having a pet,
won't it?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
It really will. We're never getting another dog, I.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Mean not unless you're gonna step up and pick up
the poo on the walks. I'm not. I can't.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I can't walk around in the neighborhood carrying a bag
of poo and act like it's okay, act like it's
no big deal.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I just can't do it.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
I chried so many times with my mom's dog and
they just can't do it. It kind of internally makes me
bad because we've never had to pick up poof for
any of our dogs before.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
We just because they ran wild. Yeah, all right, that
is the story. We love. She's trut might Naven Sandy
stayed with us more coming.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Up one O three point one Austin.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Happy holidays everyone. It is Sandy from The Sandy Show.
And you know, the holidays are a magical time of
the year, a time where anything can happen, like maybe
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(08:10):
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Texas Lottery. You know, I really feel like I need
to preface this a little bit with people need to
understand that Tricia is a one hundred percent died in
(08:32):
the wool believer of bigfoot. She's one of those people
like she's planning vacations to go hunt them with some
bigfoot friends that she's met online.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
My bigfoot friends.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, they're they're planning their trivia. Is it in Pennsylvania now?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Pennsylvania's high bigfoot activity and up in the Pacific Northwest
in South Carolina, I'm sorry, North Carolina. My cousin Lisa
said that they have a bigfit festival each year, but
it hasn't shown up for it yet.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
But he is a guest of honor every year.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Does he ever? RSVP?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
No, No, they're not sure where to mail his information to.
Trisia's got bigfoot clothing. I do the world's greatest Hide
and Seeker.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
She's got all kinds of bigfoot stuff. Now he's gonna
appear in a game.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Fortnite has put the elusive Bigfoot into their game into
their latest update. He's very hard to find in the game,
just like in real life. He's super strong, he can't
be defeated easily, and if anybody gets within like a
certain distance from him, he disappears into the woods.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
So they never really catch him.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
No, No, I mean you're trying to so there's no word.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
If this is just like a promo, or if he
is now a permanent part of Fortnite, the people.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Will be playing Fortnite forever to see if they can.
They're going to try to screenshot.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
It if they do, and it's going to be a grainy,
a grainy screenshot.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
That's really fun.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I know, I think it's brilliant.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
And remember last week I showed you my friend Word
sent me a picture of wallpaper. It's this beautiful kind
of dark blue background has all these pine trees and stuff,
and if you look very closely, there's bigfoots all over
the wallpaper.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
This is the one you've been threatening to do the bathroom.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
No, I'm totally going to wallpaper our guest bathroom with
this bigfoot wallpaper.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
That's fun.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I think it's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
And then you can also hang up the piece of
etched metal that when our listeners sent us a smoky
bear and bigfoot hold in the hands.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
That's where it will go in a place of honor or.
I know, we have a fun house, Sandy.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
There's a message just inside our door, on the table
where everybody sets their keys, and it's a needle point
message and it says on it sorry I called you
an a hole.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I thought you knew that.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
You knew If that's the first step in.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Our home, welcome. A lot of people have live, laugh,
love not us.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
No, no.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Then there's googly eyes stuck on things and mustaches on
electrical outlets.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Right now, in the guest bathroom, there's a sign that
says have a nice poop.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, we're that house funhouse. It's like living in a
carnival funhouse.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
You can't walk around our house without smiling at something
or being insulted.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Well, Bigfoot, you've made it man. Congratulations. People have doubted
you forever. Now you're showing up on a game that's
played by millions and millions of people every single day,
and they're all looking for.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
You're looking for you.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I think it's brilliant looking.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Stay with us. We have more coming.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Up Austin dot com.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
How many cents is the human nose capable of detecting?
Hopefully Trisha will care to know. We got Caro don't
care coming up in just a sec. Thanks for being
with us. I'm Sandy and this is Trisha and this
Rob Ryder thinks weird, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
It's so weird, it's so shocking.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah, shocking.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
The announcement was shocking, like Gene Hackman's announcement was shocking.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah, I was random, just like wow, just's evolving, it
gets changing.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
It's just weird. Everything's strange.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Tricia Carroll don't care to know a little bit of
history about movie trailers and where they originated.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Oh yeah, okay, love trailer.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Movie previews, as you know, are called trailers because they
were originally shown at the end of movies. The name
stuck even once they started showing them first, so they
used to wait till the movie was over, and you'd
stick around to see what movies are next.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I don't know what year.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
They started doing that, but I feel like I was
old enough to remember them being at the end.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Oh, I don't feel like I remember that at all.
What I would like to know why they stopped doing
bloopers at the end of movies.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Oh, do you remember it was Ferris Buehler's day off
was the one that I remember first, or maybe Burt
Reynolds with abandon. Yes, that's what it was. And then
I remember in Paris, he goes, why are you still here?
It's over, Go home, Go home. So yeah, trailers used
to play at the end of the movie. Now they
play in the first part of the movie.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Tricia carried out, care to know how many sins the
human nos is capable of detecting?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I definitely care, approximately one trillion?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
What one trillion? Sense?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Tricia has an incredible sense of smell.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I mean, I really do.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Though.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I think that it activated when I was pregnant.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
That's one of the things I think that is kind
of common in pregnancy, but mine never turned off.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yeah, well you could.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I mean, I have this pura sensor sense thing in
my in my room at home, and our daughter and
I were in Tricia's room, yes, we sleep in separate beds,
and we were like, wow, you really got that pure
thing going.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
You got that sucker pumping.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, and neither Landry or I could smell it.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
And it was like it was plugged in next to
my bed.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, And I was like, I can't even smell it
from here.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
I think you can smell it because you've been sitting
in your room with it on with the door closed.
I think you've become no Landry couldn't smell it too. Yeah,
she was all stocked up yesterday. Okay, I still think
you have a very powerful sense. I think you do smell.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Finally, Vincent van Go's famous painting The Starry Night, would
you like to know what that was? What the actual
view was when he painted that? Like?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Where what he was looking at?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I feel like I read that he was sitting like
in a park on a sidewalk looking up into the sky.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Not that peaceful for mister van Go.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
It was the view from the room of a mental
asylum in France where he'd admitted himself.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Oh interesting, Yeah, that was We're not artsy fartsy people.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
But we did have the opportunity to go to the
Reich's Museum in Amsterdam and they had the van Go exhibit.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Cool and it was cool. It was really really cool.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
That was one of those things on that trip that
I was like, good, I really want to do this.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
But I was really glad that I did.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Loved it, And I have heard that you can look
at that painting starry story night and based on where
the stars were in the sky, they can hit point
the day that he painted that that's crazy. The depiction
of the date of the night that he painted that
that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
That crazy.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yeah, it really is a very unique style, mister van
go right, that's care.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Note care, she's started. Somebody name is Sandy More coming.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Up one O three point one Austin. Well, that's it.
Do us a solid and copy and paste the link
to this episode and send it to a friend or two.
Thanks for listening.
Thank you very much for being a part of the
best part of our name.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
My name is Sandy.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is my beautiful, talented, yet somewhat somewhat keyword acerbic wife.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Her name is Tricia.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Hi, friends, and away we go.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
We'd love hearing from you.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Guys. I'll shoot us a text at seven three seven
three zero one ninety six hundred. That's seven three seven
three zero one ninety six hundred. Of course, follow us
on Instagram too. We didn't do we ever get an
update from you on your Instagram account.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
How are followers you have?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Remember I was at nine forty seven. I get really
excited because you were closing because you only Nutrisa only
wanted nine hundred. She exceeded her goal.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Now I'm at nine forty eight.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
That one net one got one.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Hey, I'm not that at all.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It's not gaining listeners or excuse me.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Gaining followers on social media is not like it was
back in the day where you could get a whole
bunch of one day because it was brand new.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
You know who started following me? Their handle, your mother's
fave fifty eight.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Thank you. I bet you are your mother's face.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
They've got to be right, right.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Give Tricia a follow at Trisha tri Cia Dot Delysia
d E l I s h A Tricia Lisa. Some
birthdays today include Benjamin Bratt.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
He is sixty two.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
You know him from pop up on Modern Family and
back in the day he was.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Detected Julia Roberts for a while.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Oh that's right, forgot.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
He's a cutie and he was Detective Ray Curtis for
a few seasons of Law and Orders.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Right, yeah, I didn't start that far back though. I'm
in season eighteen right now.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
William the Refrigerator Perry is celebrating number sixty three today.
What's amazing about that is, back when the Fridge was
playing football, it was a big, big deal to have
a guy that weighed over three hundred pounds. Now all
those guys weigh three or at least three hundred pounds. Also,
Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top, my man is seventy six.
(01:57):
I may have to listen to a little ZZ time
up to the little gimme all.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
With the beard, okay, ye, spinning the guitar in front
of the Mini Cooper.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
That's right, it was a Mini Cooper. What was it?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Was a hot rod rod roadster there's a little cheap
sunglasses today. You really knocked me out with your cheap sunglasses.
You know what's funny is the the third guy without
the beard. Yeah, his last name is beard. Oh that's strange.
Leslie Stall, Yes, Leslie Stall from sixty minutes is eighty four. Wow,
(02:30):
I'm thinking there's going to be a position opening up
at sixty minutes maybe.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
So that's a treasured gig, isn't it right?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
But don't you remember when Oprah went on it?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Oh yeah, they tried to tell her how to say
and I'm Oprah and she said, I'm out of here.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
They tried to coach her on how to say her name.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, they made her do it over.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, she's the one person you could just put up
there and everyone knows who she was, right, right, Tricia,
what's the first thing they made you laugh today?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I don't want to do my best.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I want to give a comfortable sixty percent and have
time for my shows.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
That's you. That's me to a t that is Tricia
never gives one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I'm gonna give a little bit more than what you're expecting.
And then I'm gonna go lay down and watch my programs.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Tricia's one of those people.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Give her a list of ten things to do, She'll
do every single one of them and not one extra.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Now, I mean I might throw in an extra. I'm
not gonna throw in five extra. I'm gonna wow you
a little bit with a little bit more than you expected,
just to keep you interested.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
In her defense, though, Tricia, all ten of the things
on the list will be done perfectly.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
They will. That's just who she is. Yep.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Coming up on the show today, Tricia's excited because Bigfoot
is getting some publicity in the game.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Oh finally, Bigfoot's getting some traction all of us believers
out there and y'all have been making fun of for
all these years. Bigfoot is everywhere right now. He's like
the kale fat he is. He's the new He's cottage
cheese right now.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Also, we'll share with you ten here. Ten are things
that happened ten years ago this week, and the story
we love is next.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
One O three point one, Austin.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Hold on to your hats, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Chrisia's got an irs story and it's the story we love.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
It's a good IRS story. You guys, come on, you
know me?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Okay, Well, I'm IRS needs some good stories, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
No, it's not good for the IRS, it's good for us.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You're not going to get the IRS coming to pay
us a visit, are you. Oh well, don't make them
mad again.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I'm just reporting.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Okay, just report the news.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Give us a follow on Instagram, at the Sandy Show
Official Facebook is at The Sandy Show Radio.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
The story's weelaw.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
A lawyer is in the news because she is suing
the IRS and she's demanding that your pets count as
legal dependents just like human family members for tax relief.
So at first you're like, that's dumb, But then I'm like,
wait a minute, is it. Here's what she says. She
has an eight year old Golden retriever. He has no
independent income, he resides exclusively with her, and he has
(04:58):
annual expenses exceeding five thous dolls. That satisfies the IRS's
intent of dependency. I mean, it checks all the boxes
except for the pact that it's not a human.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, good luck.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I mean, you know, I don't see the RS changing
the tax code for dogs. I know, then what do
you get. Can you write off a parrot? And then
can you write off a fish?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
You know what I mean? If it's sixty fish or hundred.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
If they meet the requirements, maybe they're at ninety seven
percent of American pet owners say that they considered their
pets to be part of their family. Their dependence, They food, shelter, medical.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
You know what I mean, And they're dependence forever.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Exactly exactly, so right now, pets are considered property by
the irs, not eligible for human dependent tax benefits.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
But she's going to try. She's going to try.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, good luck. I mean, I'm no lawyer, but I
don't think this goes far to you.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I mean, I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
But the case hasn't been dismissed yet, you know what
I mean, And it's you might as well try.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Who knows it.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Being a pet owner is huge and they were like
ten years ago. I laughed at people who've got pet insurance.
Oh yeah, Now, if you and I ever get another dog,
a one hundred percent will get pet insurance. My mom
has a dog, and in the first year of the
dog's life she almost died three times.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
She spent like twelve.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Grand on her right and but got reimbursed almost all
of that from pet insurance.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So give me the idea what her premium is on that.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
I think it's pretty pretty low.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It's like Diddle insurance.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah, it's and expensive.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
But then you know, we had our dog Shiny for
eight years, not one thing wrong with her her entire
life until the very.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
End, and then it happened so fast.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
And then it happened so fast. I'm still mad about it.
I'll never be I'll never be over that.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
But how old would Shiny be now?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Thirteen?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Oh? Wow?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, wow, she'd be here, I would say it, but
she'd be Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
She'd be wise, should be approached and white be approaching
the rainbow.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Ber she'd be.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Thinking about the rainbow, which I don't want to talk
about that either.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah, we kind of got I feel like we got
ripped off. We did not financially. We just didn't have
her long enough.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
No, we only got her for eight years.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Yeah, oh man, rip your heart out having a pet,
won't it?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
It really will. We're never getting another dog, I.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Mean not unless you're gonna step up and pick up
the poo on the walks. I'm not. I can't.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I can't walk around in the neighborhood carrying a bag
of poo and act like it's okay, act like it's
no big deal.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I just can't do it.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
I chried so many times with my mom's dog and
they just can't do it. It kind of internally makes me
bad because we've never had to pick up poof for
any of our dogs before.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
We just because they ran wild. Yeah, all right, that
is the story. We love. She's trut might Naven Sandy
stayed with us more coming.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Up one O three point one Austin.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Happy holidays everyone. It is Sandy from The Sandy Show.
And you know, the holidays are a magical time of
the year, a time where anything can happen, like maybe
a front row parking spot at the mall or a
family photo where everybody looks great. This year, give a
little magic of your own. Give holiday scratch tickets. We're
(08:10):
talking top prizes from five hundred dollars all the way
up to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Give the
gift of infinite possibilities. Give holiday scratch tickets from the
Texas Lottery. You know, I really feel like I need
to preface this a little bit with people need to
understand that Tricia is a one hundred percent died in
(08:32):
the wool believer of bigfoot. She's one of those people
like she's planning vacations to go hunt them with some
bigfoot friends that she's met online.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
My bigfoot friends.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, they're they're planning their trivia. Is it in Pennsylvania now?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Pennsylvania's high bigfoot activity and up in the Pacific Northwest
in South Carolina, I'm sorry, North Carolina. My cousin Lisa
said that they have a bigfit festival each year, but
it hasn't shown up for it yet.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
But he is a guest of honor every year.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Does he ever? RSVP?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
No, No, they're not sure where to mail his information to.
Trisia's got bigfoot clothing. I do the world's greatest Hide
and Seeker.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
She's got all kinds of bigfoot stuff. Now he's gonna
appear in a game.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Fortnite has put the elusive Bigfoot into their game into
their latest update. He's very hard to find in the game,
just like in real life. He's super strong, he can't
be defeated easily, and if anybody gets within like a
certain distance from him, he disappears into the woods.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
So they never really catch him.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
No, No, I mean you're trying to so there's no word.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
If this is just like a promo, or if he
is now a permanent part of Fortnite, the people.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Will be playing Fortnite forever to see if they can.
They're going to try to screenshot.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
It if they do, and it's going to be a grainy,
a grainy screenshot.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
That's really fun.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I know, I think it's brilliant.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
And remember last week I showed you my friend Word
sent me a picture of wallpaper. It's this beautiful kind
of dark blue background has all these pine trees and stuff,
and if you look very closely, there's bigfoots all over
the wallpaper.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
This is the one you've been threatening to do the bathroom.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
No, I'm totally going to wallpaper our guest bathroom with
this bigfoot wallpaper.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
That's fun.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I think it's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
And then you can also hang up the piece of
etched metal that when our listeners sent us a smoky
bear and bigfoot hold in the hands.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
That's where it will go in a place of honor or.
I know, we have a fun house, Sandy.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
There's a message just inside our door, on the table
where everybody sets their keys, and it's a needle point
message and it says on it sorry I called you
an a hole.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I thought you knew that.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
You knew If that's the first step in.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Our home, welcome. A lot of people have live, laugh,
love not us.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
No, no.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Then there's googly eyes stuck on things and mustaches on
electrical outlets.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Right now, in the guest bathroom, there's a sign that
says have a nice poop.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, we're that house funhouse. It's like living in a
carnival funhouse.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
You can't walk around our house without smiling at something
or being insulted.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Well, Bigfoot, you've made it man. Congratulations. People have doubted
you forever. Now you're showing up on a game that's
played by millions and millions of people every single day,
and they're all looking for.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
You're looking for you.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I think it's brilliant looking.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Stay with us. We have more coming.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Up Austin dot com.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
How many cents is the human nose capable of detecting?
Hopefully Trisha will care to know. We got Caro don't
care coming up in just a sec. Thanks for being
with us. I'm Sandy and this is Trisha and this
Rob Ryder thinks weird, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
It's so weird, it's so shocking.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah, shocking.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
The announcement was shocking, like Gene Hackman's announcement was shocking.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah, I was random, just like wow, just's evolving, it
gets changing.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
It's just weird. Everything's strange.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Tricia Carroll don't care to know a little bit of
history about movie trailers and where they originated.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Oh yeah, okay, love trailer.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Movie previews, as you know, are called trailers because they
were originally shown at the end of movies. The name
stuck even once they started showing them first, so they
used to wait till the movie was over, and you'd
stick around to see what movies are next.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I don't know what year.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
They started doing that, but I feel like I was
old enough to remember them being at the end.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Oh, I don't feel like I remember that at all.
What I would like to know why they stopped doing
bloopers at the end of movies.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Oh, do you remember it was Ferris Buehler's day off
was the one that I remember first, or maybe Burt
Reynolds with abandon. Yes, that's what it was. And then
I remember in Paris, he goes, why are you still here?
It's over, Go home, Go home. So yeah, trailers used
to play at the end of the movie. Now they
play in the first part of the movie.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Tricia carried out, care to know how many sins the
human nos is capable of detecting?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I definitely care, approximately one trillion?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
What one trillion? Sense?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Tricia has an incredible sense of smell.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I mean, I really do.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Though.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I think that it activated when I was pregnant.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
That's one of the things I think that is kind
of common in pregnancy, but mine never turned off.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yeah, well you could.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I mean, I have this pura sensor sense thing in
my in my room at home, and our daughter and
I were in Tricia's room, yes, we sleep in separate beds,
and we were like, wow, you really got that pure
thing going.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
You got that sucker pumping.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, and neither Landry or I could smell it.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
And it was like it was plugged in next to
my bed.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, And I was like, I can't even smell it
from here.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
I think you can smell it because you've been sitting
in your room with it on with the door closed.
I think you've become no Landry couldn't smell it too. Yeah,
she was all stocked up yesterday. Okay, I still think
you have a very powerful sense. I think you do smell.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Finally, Vincent van Go's famous painting The Starry Night, would
you like to know what that was? What the actual
view was when he painted that? Like?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Where what he was looking at?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I feel like I read that he was sitting like
in a park on a sidewalk looking up into the sky.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Not that peaceful for mister van Go.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
It was the view from the room of a mental
asylum in France where he'd admitted himself.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Oh interesting, Yeah, that was We're not artsy fartsy people.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
But we did have the opportunity to go to the
Reich's Museum in Amsterdam and they had the van Go exhibit.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Cool and it was cool. It was really really cool.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
That was one of those things on that trip that
I was like, good, I really want to do this.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
But I was really glad that I did.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Loved it, And I have heard that you can look
at that painting starry story night and based on where
the stars were in the sky, they can hit point
the day that he painted that that's crazy. The depiction
of the date of the night that he painted that
that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
That crazy.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yeah, it really is a very unique style, mister van
go right, that's care.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Note care, she's started. Somebody name is Sandy More coming.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Up one O three point one Austin. Well, that's it.
Do us a solid and copy and paste the link
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