01-03-25 FULL SHOW - The FBI Yells "Squirrel" To Throw Us Off, And Dry January

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:15):
God say the nicety prey, Bendyconnell, keeping sad thing. Welcome, Welcome,
Welcome to a Friday edition of the show Altogether Now

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And if you're tuning in to find out who the
news Speaker of the House is, well, sorry about your luck.
I don't have the answer, though I do believe that
Mike Johnson will get enough votes. On the second go round.
Chip Roy voted for Mike Johnson. Representative Gostar voted for
Mike Johnson. They were two holdouts and now there are three,

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one of them being Congressman Thomas Massey, who is not
going to vote for Mike Johnson. And Ronson and I
were just talking about Thomas Massey, who I have a
great deal of affection for. I have affection for him
because I got to know him when I lived in Kentucky.
He is so incredibly incredibly principled, and I admire him

(01:29):
for that. I don't agree with him on everything, but
I admire him for being so incredibly principled, and he
is a never never Johnson guy, because all he wants,
all Thomas Massey wants is to have a Speaker of
the House that does things the way they are supposed
to be done when it comes to the budget. And
Mike Johnson said he was going to do that, and

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then Mike Johnson did not do that. So Thomas Massey
knows that he is not going to be able to
convince enough people to vote for someone else. So he
is sort of what's the word, It's a performative vote
in his respect, I think performative is a good word

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for it. But at the same time, Thomas Massey is
the guy in DC right now walking around yelling about
the debt. Today, he had a box of his debt counters.
He actually made pins, because what you might not know
about Thomas Massey is he's an MIT graduate. He is
a super smart egghead. He is an inventor who holds

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so many patents it's not even funny. And he created
these little pins that you can wear on your lapel
that have a running total of the debt clock. And
he's handing them out to junior members of the House,
people who are showing up today for the first day
at work and he's trying to make a point. But
does Mike Johnson have the ability to peel off the

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last two votes that he needs? And I would think
that he probably will get it. Nobody wants to King
Jeffries to be the Speaker of the House. Nobody, Well,
that's a big, fat lie. All the Democrats wanted King
Jeffries to be Speaker of the House, but the Republicans
certainly don't want King Jeffries to be the Speaker of

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the House. So that is kind of where we are now.
They are moving to a second ballot. There are a
lot of a lot of conversations happening right now on
the floor of the House of Representatives. We'll see how
that works out. Maybe it'll be done by the end
of the show. It's on right now, so I can
just watch it as it's happening, and I'll report to

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you throughout the show what's going on. But there will
be a second vote because he doesn't have enough enough members.
People on the text line, the Common Spirit Health text
line is open. You can text me at five six
six nine zero to the text who said Thomas Massey
is grandstanding? Yes a bit. Yes, But here's the thing

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about Thomas Massey. First of all, he's not a flash guy, right,
He's really not. And I just said this to Ross
because Ross said, I like the guy, but I think
he's becoming a flaming a hole. And in all honesty,
Thomas Massey's wife died unexpectedly like six months ago. They
had been together since they were in their early teens.

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I think she was a really important part of his
life in Congress by providing a balance for him and
a sounding board for him that provided him some framework
that he currently is without because his wife passed away.
And I'm not making excuses, I'm simply saying I do

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think that that has had an impact on him. But
as for grandstanding, this is his opportunity to bring attention
to the fact that Congress has been basically committing budgetary
malpractice for decades now, and because of that budgetary malpractice,
we have a thirty six trillion dollar national debt. That

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debt is so massive you can't even begin to wrap
your head around it. It's so absurdly high. And Thomas
Massey also knows that the fall of every great empire
was preceded by people deciding they could vote themselves the Treasury,
and that's where we are in the United States of America.
You know, think about it. Think about the movies, the

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first few pirates of the Caribbean movies, right, who was
the bad guy in that? Was that the Dutch India
Trading Company. So at what point the Dutch were in
charge of everything? And then they fell out of favor.
They were a world power, and then they fell out
of favor, and then you have I mean, we can
go back to the Roman Empire. At one point, the
Roman Empire covered pretty much the entire European continent. You

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can see Roman ruins in the UK right now today,
you can see Roman ruins in the UK. But when
people start to overspend, when they start to devalue their
current and see they're starting to spend more than they
bring in, that is the beginning of the end. And
oh my god, thirty six trillion dollars. So yeah, if
Thomas Massey has taken a minute to grandstand and to

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appear on programs to talk about why he's not voting
for Mike Johnson, I'm all for it. I'm completely for it.
Now that being said, Republicans need to have this settled
sooner rather than later, how am I watching the vote?
It is currently on Fox News. They're running live with

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the vote right now, so you can watch it on
Fox or I was actually sitting at my desk watching
it on c SPAN initially. Whenever you want to know
what's going on in the Capitol, you can go to
c SPAN dot org on your computer and they have
a feed of whatever's happening. Mandy. Nineteen ninety six was
the last time Congress passed a budget. Holy cow, hang

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on national growth debt by year starting in nineteen ninety six.
Let's see what that did. Let's just look. Give me
a graph. Oh, perfect, perfect, that's so small, I can't
see it. Let me see if I can make this
bigger from nineteen ninety six now between nineteen ninety I'm

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looking at up an abbreviated graph of our public debt
of the United States from nineteen ninety three to nineteen
or twenty twenty three. Between nineteen ninety and nineteen ninety six,
we went from just under five trillion to just over
five trillion. Right, we went from three point to trillion
to four point nine trillion, so one point three we

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added on in the six years between nineteen ninety and
nineteen ninety six. So in the following almost thirty years,
we've added thirty five trillion excuse me, that's totally wrong,
thirty one trillion onto the debt and the line, the

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spending line. Starting in two thousand and eight, it just went.
It just goes almost a straight line up, almost a
straight line. And nobody is serious about it in DC.
Nobody wants to be the one to say, yeah, we
gotta cut spending, because cutting spending with you know, just

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just drawing down the amount of money that the federal
government spends is going to have a short term negative
impact on our economy. It is, there's nowhere around it.
When you have the government spending as much money as
it's spending, it will have a short term negative impact
on the economy. But then after that, when all of
that money is reabsorbed back into the private economy and

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people can begin to produce stuff with it and hire
people who are going to make something. You know, government
doesn't make anything, It doesn't produce anything but misery. So
it is incredibly important that we settle this. And and
Thomas Massey has taking his you know, big swing. I
get it, I really do. But I fully expect Mike

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Johnson to be confirmed here very very close, very very quickly.
I don't know, we'll see. The problem says this text
or with this is it leads to more of it
later in the session when others want a grand stand,
so we won't be able to accomplish much. Yeah, I
mean yeah, that's pretty much how politics works. When you

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have a margin is thin, as the Republicans have in
main in this House, you have to do a little
horse trading and people get a grandstand to get what
they want. That's part of the deal. I'm actually okay
with it. So anyway, we are making our We're going
to make our way through this Friday together.

Speaker 4 (09:48):
I have a blog.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
I will tell you this. Today is the last day
of the week that everybody has just been not working
a lot. So there wasn't a lot of news today
that I thought was worthy of your attention. Now you
know that I still created a fantastic blog for you
because I'm here for you, here for you. But let's

(10:12):
do the blog. You can find it by going to
mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the
headline one three twenty five blog. The FBI yell squirrel
to throw us off and dry January. Click on that
and here are the headlines you will find with it.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
Anyone's missing office, half of American, all the ships and clippas,
and say that's going to press platch.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
Today on the blog, the FBI releases footage of the
j six pipe bomber scrolling scrolling the wine. Yogi's on
to talk dry January. The Vegas bomber just got dumped
by his wife. It's time to vote on your favorite broncos.
Call ever cash isn't king at the airport. Make sure
your passport and ID are right to travel. Want to

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read more mask mandates make a comeback. Douglas County is
the seventh rich county in the country. A seddondary lifestyle
leads to these chronic conditions. Afghanistan was always a mess
and still is. Don't hop in and out, don't hop
in and out of express lanes anymore. Booze may get
cancer warnings. We may have a new Speaker of the

(11:17):
House today. This pop tart bowl tradition is just super weird.
How did you waste your twenties and now laughing babies
on a snowslide. Does this even seem fun to you?

Speaker 4 (11:27):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (11:27):
Rod says, Wicked is just okay? Those are the headlines
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And can we
start with Wicked for just a second. I'd love to
know your thoughts because every woman that I've seen loved it,
So what was wrong with now? Wicked? Of course the
movie based on the incredibly successful Broadway show, which is

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one of my favorites. It stars Cynthia Ribo and what's
her name Arne who honestly, their behavior in the press
tourist almost maybe not want to see the movie with
all the crying and that, oh she's so amazing, she's
just so amazing. Oh my god, she's No, you're amazing, No,

(12:11):
she's amazing, You're amazing. I can't anymore with that anyway,
might say.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
Not so much. My take on the movie may not
be popular.

Speaker 5 (12:20):
Ha ha, I know you did that the amazing I'm
defying reality, uh huh with my take and again musical background,
saying for ten years, still love to do so love
a great musical rent my favorite with along with Joseph
tick take Boom.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
You know for a part one two and a half
hour movie. I expected a.

Speaker 5 (12:41):
Lot more depth and a lot more caring and feeling
and emotion. Yeah, that sounds dumb coming from anyone that
had seen the movie, because there's plenty of emotion. Hard
to feel anything, though, because it just didn't stick together.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
The components were there.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
Yeah, Ariana Grande is a great actress and she can
not that we didn't already know this, but she can sing, Yes,
she can. Cynthia Arrivo can sing. Some of the acting
was really good. The pieces were there. I mean, honestly,
if you were to have told me to guess how
long the movie was after watching it, I would have
said like an hour and twenty minutes because I would

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have felt like no, because I'm saying like it felt
like there were like a lot of deleted scenes, like
a lot of depth was missing there. And I'm I
haven't seen the play in person, I'm familiar enough with
the story. It just didn't click. Something was missing. I
really had a hard time putting my finger on it.
I said that was good, wasn't great. I'm barely excited

(13:44):
for part two because I know it's darker. I think
it'll cap a lot of the story, but man for
two and a half hours. I don't understand how it
could have been that clunky. And again I loved a
lot of it. First of all, no wonder that took
as long as it did because the sets were immaculate,
but not a whole lot of CGI, despite what you
might think by seeing it, a lot of a lot

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of realistic sets and a lot of realistic basically. Ever,
all the motion and whatnot, everything was great that the
components were there.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
I can't put my finger on I just didn't love it.
I kind of liked it well.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
A lot of people on the blog Wicked was amazing.
We saw twice. Here's one for you, Wicked A rod
let me know if you ever get your straight man
card back. Definitely a woke liberal woman movie I have.
Actually my conservative friends, one of my most conservative friends
went and saw it and loved it.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
I wanted dropped it. I wanted to, I really did.
I love a great musical.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
This texter makes a great point by the way people
are posting and saying the blog isn't there? Yes, it is,
refresh your browser fresh, So it is there. I promise you.
I'm looking at it right now on Ka Colorado. So
this person makes a good point. The play is like
two hours and thirty minutes long. The movie is two parts,
with the first part being two hours and four forty minutes.
So much filler and that could have diluted the emotional

(15:05):
impact of the show. By putting too much nonsense or
filler or fluff in there, you could dilute the emotional
impact of the show.

Speaker 5 (15:14):
Yeah again, I you know me, I rarely am my
problem when it comes to shortage of words and explanation
on something.

Speaker 4 (15:22):
I don't I can't really put my finger on it.
I don't know what's missing. It just feels like there's
something missing. And again, like you said, two and a
half hours of to this point, this is when intermission starts.
Like in the movie part one, this is when intermission starts.
So two and a half hours is almost exactly like
you said.

Speaker 5 (15:39):
As long as the play is, there shouldn't be something missing,
if anything, Like you just said, it should be more
like there's too much It just it didn't.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
It didn't.

Speaker 5 (15:47):
All of the pieces were there, but you're staring at
all the pieces of a puzzle and not put together.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
That's the best way I can explain what happens.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
I wanted to bring this up because I wanted to
ask you guys in our listening audience, what you're un
popular opinion about pop culture is? Because I have created
an unpopular opinion about Taylor Sheridan, who is the man
of the hour right now, because I watch The Lioness.
Have you've heard about The Lions with Zoe Sealdano? First
of all, fantastic Okay, two seasons, eight episodes each. It

(16:17):
is on Paramount Plus, and Zoe Sealdano is so good.
It's Zoe Seldano and Nicole Kidman star in it. And
it's a movie about women in this very specialized sort
of special ops division called the Lions. The Lions is
are females that are highly trained soldiers that are sent

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in to do jobs when a man could not get
access to the certain you know, to whatever is going on.
So these women are complete badasses. But after we watched
the first season, I looked at Chuck and I said,
I can tell that this was written by a man
because the women have two speeds. Either hard as nails

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and literally someone to death, or they're crying. That's their
emotional range. Oh are you crying? Or are you are
you stabbing someone? To death. What And I was a
little frustrated. And then in the second season, and I'm
not these are no spoilers here, but in the second
season that was even more apparent that Taylor Sheridan writes
this as a man fantasy. Right, it's a man fantasy.

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And then people keep telling me to watch Land Man.
Apparently Landman is about Billy Bob Thornton's character just stealing
the land from the Native Americans. And some people are,
like Jesus, the sexism in that show is out of control.
So my unpopular opinion is I'm like eh on Taylor Sheridan,
I don't think he writes women. Well, this is the

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same problem that I have with Ernest Hemingway as a writer.
And I know that for many people what I'm about
to say is blasphemy. Ernest Hemingway's women characters have the
depth of a bag of Dorito's right, exactly the same
thing that Taylor Sheridan is doing to women. Think about
Beth Nutton on Yellowstone. She's either hard as nails or crying.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
Those are the two.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
That's the emotional range of the female characters.

Speaker 4 (18:05):
How does that range compared to mid Kid. I mean Wicked.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
I haven't seen it yet.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
You haven't seen no Wicked.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
No, I haven't seen it yet.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
Are you said you're gonna see it over the break?

Speaker 3 (18:14):
I didn't really do any movies over the break. I
didn't do anything over the break. It was glorious.

Speaker 5 (18:18):
Oh they Oh well, I was expecting you rip into me,
and you will then, because I think you're gonna like it.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
Mandy, married for twelve years, that sounds just like women.
You're hanging out with the wrong women. This person's every
fresh several times. The blog is not there. Okay, then
do this. I'm gonna make you go through an extra step.
Text her go either find me on Facebook Mandy Connall
or on Twitter at Mandy Connell and I link to
both of them, and so you may be able to
do it that way. But I promise you it's there.

(18:45):
I promise you, Mandy. Based on the show of Lioness,
those women aren't highly trained. Verlin, I love the Lioness,
says this texter landman is good. Also, I just I
get time. I get I don't know, I get persnicity
about I just want my characters to have some kind
of depth. Anyway, is it woke Friday.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
No.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
See, this is why it's an unpopular opinion, just telling
you how I feel. You all can like whatever you like.
This is what I said. What is your unpopular pop
culture opinion? What do you not like that everybody else
is raving about? And by the way, I loved The
Lioness to be clear, I enjoyed the heck out of it,
even though it had plot holes you could drive a
truck through. You just have to kind of lean into

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the plot a little bit because the plot's absurd. The
second season plot is so ridiculously confusing, unnecessarily, but it was.
It was fantastic. Mandy Landman has nothing to do with
Native Americans. Okay, wait a minute, I love Tulsa King.
Somebody said, what about Tulsa I love Tulsa King, but

(19:53):
there's no female characters in Tulsa King except for the
one chick who works at the pot shop and Dana
lady who's like this you know, secondary character where she
has no you know depth there. We'll see. Okay. The
people say nope, no blog. I'm telling you I'm looking
at it right now. What does it say?

Speaker 5 (20:15):
If you are on browser, I will say click at
the top, click on Mandy's face or click on where
it says Mandy Connell repopulates and the blog will come up.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
That will help.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
I'm I'm going a different route, refresher cookies. It's right there.
I mean, it's I just got it straight. I'm going now,
I'm gon try. Many also posted it on X Andandy's blog. Wait,
I'm doing this now.

Speaker 4 (20:36):
Like you said, Facebook or X.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
Okay, if I go to Mandy's blog, it all comes up,
you guys. Yep, Oh no, that didn't come up. One three, Yes,
yes it did.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
I did.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
It's there, Okay, I promise you, it's there. I promise you.
This person said Springsteen and the Rolling Stones suck. You
know what. I love the Rolling Stones, but I I
had a chance to go see Springsteen and concert for free.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
I'm not paying a ticket for that. And he blew
me away in concert. I was shocked at how good
Bruce Springsteen is in co text text are unpopular. Opinions
don't do it, don't read it? Which one?

Speaker 4 (21:13):
That one right after the Rolling Stones? Hot take one?

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Don't We're coming back with one that's going to make
no rots head explode. Right after this, two House members
have flipped their votes to Mike Johnson, he remains Speaker
of the House. I don't know. I know Thomas Massey
didn't flip his vote, so he is now Speaker of
the House again, and we can avoid the ridiculousness that
we went through when Kevin McCarthy was eventually ousted. You know,

(21:39):
I I still like Kevin McCarthy. I realized that's an
unpopular opinion among a lot of Republicans, but I liked
the guy, and I think the way he was booted
was a little bit absurd. That being said, I like
Mike Johnson's demeanor, but if he can't get things done
in regular order, I I why are we even electing Republicans?

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And I realize we have a super slim majority. Don't
get me wrong, I don't think he's going to be
able to shove through my dream agenda, right. That's not
where I am. I just want for me. Number one
is budget in regular order, twelve different spending bills. That's
what we need to do, period, full stop. Nothing else
needs to happen other than that. If he can do that,

(22:24):
then he will have won my heart as as Speaker
of the House. Lots of really good stuff. When I
ask people your unpopular pop culture opinion, you guys are producing.
This person says, although, whoops, hang on if, oh, by
the way, if for some reason you're going to my
page you don't see the blog, click on my picture

(22:45):
or the word posts and it should take you to
the blog post, so that that should help for those
of you who are still having trouble. And by the way,
once again, I appreciate all of you who are taking
the effort to go to the blog. I put so
much work into it every it means a lot to
me that you go and you read what I say.
I really appreciate that. This textra said, although I think

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the Evan Hanson musical is amazing and better than the movie.
The movie is a little woke, but the musical is better.
I love Dear Evan Hanson. It's one of my favorite
shows now because just great music, great great just really
great story. This person said, I think the Mean Girl's
Musical is better than the movie. I have not seen it.

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My daughter's going to see it in March. She's going
on a school trip to New York. And I think
Mean Girls is one of the thing I think. Maybe
I'm just fabricating that I can't remember now, Mandy. One
episode of Yellowstone was enough unlikable, immoral characters. But isn't
that why we watched soap operas.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
I've tried Yellowstone, and I should like it.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
God, I think I'm mixing that up. I think that's
the one about stealing land from Native Americans, because a
lot of you are saying the Landman is not at
all about stealing land from Native Americans. So I have
to go back and revisit that. This person says the Beatles,
I could never understand the appeal. I think there's a
lot of people out there who don't understand the appeal
of the Beatles. Oh, I think a rod. Are you

(24:09):
a Beatles fan? Beatles are the best band of all time?
So yes, they're not my favorite band of all time,
but they're up there. They're like top three anyway. Uh, Mandy,
let's see here. The Harry Potter movies are boring that
I do not I do not see that. I mean,
you could say a lot of things about the Harry

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Potter movies, and I have the last three that were
that were done in that sort of washed out film
style that I hate. That's not very good, nice to
look at. I didn't love those, but I always thought,
I mean, there was always a lot of action and
exciting stuff going on there.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
Seed.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
Yeah, you know, Mandy Landman has nothing to do with
Native Americans. It has to do with oil and gas
industry struggles in the current political climate. So I've obviously
gotten bad intel. Mandy and Ayrod, thanks for discussing Wicked
without spoiling it. Looking forward to watching the Blu ray
in June when Amazon puts it on my porch, or
maybe a couple of years after that, so I can

(25:05):
watch the whole thing. Yeah, I'm not saying because I
already know the story, so I don't have to wait
for the second part. Hi, Mandy. To steal a line
from the movie Knocked Up, the quote Steely Dan gargles
my junk is a sentiment that I fully support. I
understand why people don't like Steely Dan, but I love

(25:25):
Steely Dan. I think I think you have to reach
a certain age, you know, like you have to be
sixteen to drive, you gotta be eighteen to vote, you
gotta be twenty one to drink. You gotta be like
thirty before somebody puts on a Steely Dan record and
you're like, yeah, yeah, I get it.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
Love that.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
Where are you on Steely Dan, eh Rod?

Speaker 4 (25:46):
Indifferent? You know? Good?

Speaker 3 (25:47):
Seeing them in concert, it's kind of like seeing Chicago
and concert. Chicago and Steely Dan are very similar in
that they are huge bands and they are full of
incredibly talented musicians. Seeing the Steely Dan and concert was
the thing that really pushed me into being a Steely
Dan fan. But I can understand. I mean, there's songs
don't make a lot of sense, and they're so random.

(26:08):
The things they sing about just random. Landman is Billy
Bob dealing with cartails and oil companies? Okay, Mandy, I
can't answer your question because I don't know what everybody
else thinks is great? Is that un PC? No, it
is not un PC to not care what other people think.
But I mean, don't you hear people talking about, oh

(26:29):
my god, this is so good, you have to watch it.
You don't have any of those people in your life.
Are you watching this? What are you watching? Are you
watching this? Have you seen this? Are you watching it?
Those people?

Speaker 4 (26:38):
I love those people. I'm one of those people.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
Yeah you are. I love you for it. By the way,
so there you go. Uh, Mandy, rap and hip hop
such an insult to talented musicians. Call it an art
form if you want, but don't include in music categories
at the Grammy's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, et cetera.
I actually think there's so I'm listening to our sister station,

(27:01):
what is it now? Hits ninety Okay, so hits ninety
five point seven because my daughter listens to hits on occasion,
and I'm listening to this song and I don't know
what the who the artist was, but I had one
of those moments where I was like, good grief. I
remember when rap music rhymed and when they put together
these incredibly complex rhymes that were so funny or so biting,

(27:25):
are so good, and you you enjoyed it because it
was it was smart, even the gangster rap. I mean
even you go back and listen to like NWA, and
you listen to those bands, and I've seen all those
bands in concert, occasionally being one of the only white
people in the crowd. Right. So I love og rap music,
I love old school rap, but what they're doing now,

(27:47):
I just feel like they've diluted it in a sense
by kind of giving anybody a record contract and the
music they're creating, some of it is really really good.
There are some great rappers out right now. Even if
you don't like rap Texter, there's some great rappers out
right now. But not everything that plays on the radio
should be on the radio. Just saying anyway, Mandy, greetings

(28:10):
and salutations from Royal Gorge Country. I'm able to see
the blog just fine. I'm using a Mac. You're listeners
who can't find the blog need to call their grandkids
to come over and do the tech support. Everybody's different,
everybody's different. Did you see Mandy? The Syrian president allegedly
poisoned in Russia? Yes, a Sheer Albasade. Wait a minute,

(28:32):
did I say that right? A Sheer Albasade? Why does
that sound weird? Asad Asad is his last name. Yeah,
a Sheer Alasade.

Speaker 4 (28:38):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
I had it backwards. He has decamped to Russia, where
he just ended up in the hospital after being poisoned.
That is so on brand for Vladimir Putin, it's not
even funny. But if you're a sod, where do you
go now? You just got poisoned in Russia? And if
you think anybody is poisoning anybody else in Russia without

(28:59):
putin oing about it, you are not paying attention. I've
just found that kind of funny, not like haha funny,
just like, isn't that interesting? Lay down with dogs get
up being poisoned? As they say, I'm popular opinion, Marvel
and superhero movies are for kids and really not that.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
Good, sir or madam? First of all, how dare you?
And second of all, you're just flat out wrong.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
I actually I no longer I think the last that
they've really done a poor job since the wrap up,
since endgame, right, But there was a lot of emotional
investment in the Marvel movies. But when I say emotional investment,
though you loved these characters, I cried when iron Man died.

(29:45):
And I think that trying to do the what's their
new thing that they're doing where basically everybody exists in
an alternate unit. Yeah, the multiverse, the multiverse takes this,
that the emotional attachment out because you know they're just
gonna come back to life.

Speaker 5 (29:59):
I will simply say it's going to rebound with two things,
the X Men coming into the MCU in Fantastic four
and if neither of those solve it, James Gunn will
take it by the grasp with the DCU.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
Because the New Superman and all the other movies, man
looks good. So the door open for that.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
I will tell you. I was heartbroken that they were
replacing Henry Cavill because Henry Cavill. Oh, he's so hot.

Speaker 5 (30:25):
The future is bright on the other side, Manly, the
door is open for the DCU to Uh, you.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
Don't want helping in the next Like, let's just say,
in the next ten years in Hollywood, I want to
see the return of more manly men. I want to
see manly men. I think Henry Cavill is a very
manly man. Hugh Jackman, I love you, Jackson, but I
don't think But here's the thing with you, Jackman. He
can still he can play a badass elder statesman. You

(30:50):
know what I'm saying, Like, we don't need him to
be twenty because he's awesome. Oh.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
I just meant so we can just keep him around longer.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
Yeah, this Texter said Mandy Taylor Swift is overrated, and
I texted back, the Q is giving you some serious
sideye right now. When we went to see when when
Q and I we went to see Taylor Swift, we
went to see Olivia Rodrigo though, and I was like,
I came out, I said, ah, I like her better
than Taylor Swift, And after the initial gasp, she said,
that's okay. She's part of the Taylor universe. It's part

(31:18):
of that whole little Taylor group of people. But yeah,
I could see that. And the person who asked this,
Mandy not a Steely Dan fan myself, but you do
you know what a Steely Dan is, the thing the
band is named after. Right, Yes, I do. And if
you do not, you should go back and read william
S Burrow's Naked Lunch. Now, first of all, have you

(31:40):
ever read any of the beat writers A Rod william
S Burrows, Oh my gosh, she's the guy who wrote
Fear and Loathing, a lot of Hunter S Thompson. No,
they were all locked down on drugs, like like no

(32:00):
way whacked out on drugs when they were writing, and
Naked Lunch is a perfect example of that. But there
is I'm trying to think of a way I can
say this on the radio. A Steely Dan in Naked Lunch.
It's also Naked Lunch is also has very graphic sex scenes.
As a matter of fact, I was in college in
an English class, and my teacher said, we are going

(32:21):
to read Naked Lunch as part of our curriculum, and
you need to understand there's so much graphic sex, there's
so much graphic drug use. But that book, my teacher said,
that book, more than any he thought, encapsulated the beat generation,
the entire feel for that particular moment in time. And
this was a modern American literature class. So it has

(32:42):
graphic sex scenes and in one of those, the Steely
Dan makes an appearance and it's used in one of
those graphic sex scenes. And that's really all I can
say about the name of it. But the apparently the
band members thought it was hilarious. And I only know
this because I one day that's a weird name. Do
you ever think about where your band names go? Like,

(33:03):
where did Panic at the Disco come from?

Speaker 5 (33:06):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (33:06):
Where did that come from?

Speaker 5 (33:07):
There's a trend on TikTok right now where they come
up with these really funny skits that they at the end.

Speaker 4 (33:12):
That's how these bands get to the name.

Speaker 5 (33:14):
It's it's so funny, worth your time, Okay, Like the
stupidest names, and you wonder how they get there, and
they come up with a thirty second skit and by
the end the name comes out.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
And they go, oh, there it is, there's our band name.
It's hilarious.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
There is a skit sketch by Eddie Izzard, hilarious comedian,
on how Tom Joe no Inglbert Humperdink, how they Ingolbert
Humperdink a famous singer from the sixties and seventies that
is not his real name, that is a mate somebody
thought Inglebert Humperdink was a great name, and so that

(33:48):
and he does an entire bit on how they came
up with Inglbert Humperdank.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
An example, and this is the exact skit for this one,
but an example.

Speaker 5 (33:54):
A man goes to coffee and the coffee costs let's say,
four dollars, all right, excuse me, it costs three ninety five, okay,
And someone gives the cashier four dollars and he goes, okay,
how much change will that be?

Speaker 4 (34:09):
And then it's a nickel back and then the song
plays at the end of the skit. Their skits like that,
it's really funny.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
Well, when we get back, I'm playing this bit by
Eddie Hazzard on how they came up with Ingolbert Humperdink,
and I'm not sure it doesn't have cursing in it.
So we're just gonna have to see Living on the
Edge on a Friday right in twenty twenty five. It's
too funny not to play though, speaking to this, and
we're also going to talk about the FBI when we
get back. Cash Pattel must be confirmed as the head

(34:36):
of the FBI, and what they did yesterday is a
big reason why all of that coming up for the
next hour.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
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Speaker 2 (34:46):
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Speaker 3 (34:57):
God bandy o'conn'll keep sad baby. Well, we'll go into
the second hour, and it's kind of I just want
to put a cap on the conversation from the last hour,
and if you're just joining us, you may have no
idea why I'm about to play an Eddie Izzard bit

(35:18):
about Englebert Humperdink and how he got his name. But
we were talking about the band named seely Dan and
how that came about which I'll just let you look
up if you're just joining us, because I'm not going
to dance around to ask you again. Yes, n SFW
is correct. Anyway, So yesterday, I don't know if you
guys knew this, but yesterday, yesterday, January second, What year

(35:43):
is this? Say, Rod? Let me just check real quick.
What year are we in right now? So twenty twenty five, so,
if I'm not mistaken, January sixth, the situation in DC
that occurred in twenty twenty one. Correct, Yes, January sixth,
twenty twenty one, that's when that happened. So the FBI

(36:07):
yesterday releases video of the alleged pipe bomber who set
the pipe bombs during the or near the offices of
the DNC and the RNC. They just released the video yesterday.

(36:27):
But that's not all. Now, from the videos we now
know because the FBI finally finally decided to release the video,
we know that this person is five feet seven inches tall.
We can tell that because well we've got clear video
of them standing up. But that's not all. This bomber
also wore a pair of Nike air shoes that were

(36:50):
not common only twenty five thousand pairs of these shoes
were made, and that's what the bomber was wearing. Now
do you think any of this might have been helpful
January of twenty twenty one if we were indeed trying
to catch the person who laid these pipe bombs near

(37:11):
the RNC and the DNC, neither of which exploded, thankfully.
Don't you think the FBI could have released this stuff,
I don't know four years ago. Combine this with the
FBI's response in New Orleans to the terror attack, and yeah,
I'm gonna call it a terror attack because it was
designed to strike fear into people's heart by by a

(37:34):
guy who had been radicalized and decided to join ISIS
and had an ISIS flag attached to the truck. Then
he rolled through a crowd of people in New Orleans,
and when someone said it was a terror attack, the
FBI is like, you know what, we don't know, We're
not sure, we don't know. And then then the FBI
comes out right after that, as, you know what, we
don't think this guy worked alone, we think he was

(37:56):
we think he may have accomplices. Well, that just strikes
terror in the people's heart. And then they're like, out
like you know, like the next day. Oh no, no, no,
we were wrong. We were wrong. You worked alone. Nothing
to see here, Move along.

Speaker 4 (38:08):
You guys.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
We have to have the FBI via functioning, properly operating
law enforcement agency in this country. I want to believe
in the FBI. Is that Pollyanna ish to say? I
really want to believe in our institutions in the United
States of America. I want to be able to know
that the FBI is out there trying to catch bad guys.

(38:30):
And I want to know that the FBI is not
out there trying to frame not bad guys, as they
clearly did when they lied on a FISA application for
carter Page. And not only not only was no one
held accountable for that, I mean no one. I'm gonna
let Cash Betel, this is from an interview. I'm gonna

(38:52):
let him tell you exactly what didn't happen with the
FBI agents who were well were for one of the
greatest political travesties of our lifetimes. This is Cash Mattel,
who should be should be confirmed as the new head
of the FBI. Oh come on, and now, of course,

(39:14):
now it's regenerating. One second, please let me just go
to X and watch it there because it's not working here.
All right, hang on one second, a Rod, give me
my audio. There we go do that. There we get.

Speaker 6 (39:26):
You need a twenty four to seven declassification office whatever
you want to call it, transparency, truth, whatever, I don't care.
Sits in the White House, reports directly to you and
you take incoming.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
From the United States of America. I want JFK, I
want the nine to eleven files. I want this, I
want that all the FBI. And this is a tool.
This is something we didn't cover.

Speaker 6 (39:49):
What the deep state uses the most to cover up
their corruption is an a legal application in the classification system.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
Remember the Lovebirds text from This.

Speaker 6 (39:59):
Is a beauty the love Bird text for FBI, Dojland,
Russia Gate, Stock and Page. We're texting each other who
they were running the Russiagate investigation against Trump. They were
the head of the counter intelligence unit at the FBI,
and they're having an extramarital affair together.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
Can't make this stuff up.

Speaker 6 (40:15):
They're sending each other text about how much they hate
Trump and are going to create an insurance policy to
stop Trump. Then we finally find those text messages. You
know what the FBIDJ do for like a year redact
them to congressional investigators in congressional men and women running
the oversight of their of their agency.

Speaker 3 (40:35):
That's just one example. But it gets even better. Here's
the deep state full circle.

Speaker 6 (40:41):
Just last week, do you know what Stock and Page
received from the Department of Justice a one point five
million payout to settle a lawsuit that Stock and Page
brought for the improper disclosure of their personal text messages
on FBI.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
Phones, And the DOJ just rewarded them.

Speaker 6 (41:03):
They broke the law, they broke the chain of command,
they broke every regulation there is in the FBI. They
weaponized the system of justice against the political target they hated.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
We found those text messages and we got them.

Speaker 6 (41:17):
Declassified finally in full when I became Deputy Director of
National Intelligence, and the world has now seen them and
they can read them. That's the best form of transparency.
That's why I want this twenty four to seven de
classification office. Don't have me regurgitated to read it. Get
the documents, get the files, get the memos. But the
deep state came full circle and gave these guys a
payday for breaking up presidential election and breaking the law.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
So now you don't why. This is why we need
cash Betel, and this is why, honestly their FBI agentstead
are threatening to quit if he's confirmed good. If your
allegiance is to a person like Christopher Ray instead of
law enforcement doing the job that you were hired to do,
then you are part of the problem. And I hope
you quit. I hope you take your politicized ass somewhere else,

(42:05):
because the FBI, the FBI, the IRS, all of these
agencies that have the power to destroy someone's life, and
that's what they have the power to do. I mean,
when was the last time you got a letter from
the IRS? As soon as you see that return, you're like,
oh god, oh no, oh no. Mandy, the guy that

(42:28):
left the pipe bombs is a size ten but squeezed
his feet into size eight specialty nikes. He ain't stupid
or he assumed that he was going to be getting
cover from someone in the government. That that whole ied
thing that those pipe bombs planted that never went off
with the RNC and the DNC, that always stunk to me.
It just stinks. It felt very contrived, the fact that

(42:52):
neither of them went off.

Speaker 4 (42:53):
I mean.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
Don't get me wrong. I know that sometimes it's challenging
to build a bomb. I get it, I get it.
But neither of them went off. We're both found in time.
I think they were just put there to instill fear,
and people in the government could have done that.

Speaker 4 (43:08):
Mandy.

Speaker 3 (43:08):
It's very pollyannaish for you to believe in our society
today that the Department of Justice the FBI will ever
be objective. They've been corrupted and I don't know that
they can ever be uncorrupted, which is extremely sad. Let
me just say what I think has to happen at
the FBI because I disagree with you, Texter, and I
disagree with you for one reason, and it is culture
begins at the top, and that is true of any organization.

(43:31):
I've worked in companies where there was a change in
the top, where there was a change in command, and
it permanently altered the culture, sometimes in a bad way,
sometimes in a good way. A good, strong leader does
two things. Number One, no crooked deep state scumbags are

(43:52):
going to want to work for cash, Betel, so they
will self select themselves out of the agency. That's thing
number one. But do you really think that the FBI
under Cash Betel is going to give those two scumbags
of settlement because their text message which clearly showed they
were working double time, probably ignoring anything that showed Trump's

(44:13):
innocence to destroy Donald Trump, the man who was running
for president, and there was president. Those text messages indicated,
in my mind, a scheme, a plot, if you will,
and they should have been made a much bigger deal.
But no, they just they just gave him enough money
to retire and walk away. It's it's disgusting. Cash Hotel

(44:33):
is not going.

Speaker 6 (44:34):
To do that.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
He is going to root out that upper layer, the
upper tier of the FBI. And once the culture changes
at the top, then you create an atmosphere and you
create an organization where the good people. There are so
many good people who work for the FBI who want
to work for the FBI because they believe in the

(44:57):
mission of providing a law enforcement agent for the United
States of America. They're out there doing their jobs every
single day. By cleaning house of the political scumbags, you
then allow those people to continue to do their job
without fear of repercussion if they go up against the
wrong people. So it's just you know, Mandy, maybe in

(45:20):
the past that was the case, but not in today's society. Well,
then we should all just give up. We should all
just give up and lean into anarchy and do whatever
we want, break every law we want, and see what happens.
I'm not willing to just say, oh, those are olden times,
we can't fix it. I believe all of these things
can be fixed, but it all has to come from
the top. You guys forget at the end of the
Hoover era at the FBI, the FBI was incredibly corrupt,

(45:44):
incredibly corrupt, and yet they managed to pull it out
of the ditch for decades and then it got corrupted again.
I'm telling you, political power is the most corrupting force
in the universe. Mandy, What the heck is the deep state?
Isn't there another word that describes the same thing. I
used to hate the term the deep state because I

(46:06):
thought it was overblown and none unnecessarily dramatic, right, And
it's like, oh, you're using the term the deep state.
But ultimately, and if you read Cash Hotel's book, he
talks a lot the deep state is the part of
the bureaucracy that is actively working against someone they dislike
who is in theory their boss, or actively working against

(46:30):
the mission of their organization, or actively using their position
to do things to stop the progress of organizations they
disagree with. Then a perfect example of that was lewis
Lerner of the IRS, when Tea Party movements started filing
for tax exempt status as a five on one C
three or a five on one C four, whatever the
status they were applying for, and she decided that conservative

(46:53):
organizations were not going to get that status. She then
used and abused her position in the deep state. She
became part of the people working behind the scenes to
create havoc for the people that were in charge. And
under Donald Trump and his administration, it ratcheted up to

(47:16):
a level that we have never seen before. The hatred
for Donald Trump for so many bureaucrats overcame their sense
of duty or responsibility. And you can see that clearly
in the FBI. The FBI lied to Feis the court
judges in order to get a warrant to spy on

(47:37):
Carter Page. This is not in question, This is not
this is not something that you know is speculated in
right wing circles. This has been confirmed that the FBI
lied on FEISA applications. And I don't think a single
person at the FBI has been held accountable. I don't
think a single no one has been held accountable for that.

(47:59):
Think about one of these the power that is. And
if they can do that to Carter Page, if they
can do that to the Trump administration, what do you
think they can do to you? And I know what
you're thinking, I'm not important enough to have anybody come
after me from the FBI. Well what if you have
a run in with somebody that's politically connected at the
FBI and they decide to call in a favor to
make your life a living hell. I mean, that's what

(48:21):
we're talking about. We're talking about abuses of power that
have to be reined in. And the only way that
they can do that is with strong leadership that is
going to clean house, to get these ideological freaks out
of power and allow the good men and women of
the FBI who just want to be law enforcement officers
to do their job without worrying about political blowback. That's it.

(48:46):
And I gotta tell you, I love Cash Mattel. I
love this pick. He was part of the Devin Nunas
team who initially shined a light. Remember the Nunez memo
that when Devin Nunez, who was in the House, came
out with this memo outlining the very violations, the various
ways that the FBI had overstepped its bounds during the
Russia collusion investigation, and all of the Democrats were like,

(49:08):
oh my god, that's so stupid. You're just making stuff up.
And all of it turned out to be true, all
of it, all of it. And Cash Battel was the
guy behind that memo. He's exactly the guy that needs
to be in this position right now. So I'm happy, Mandy.

(49:28):
Can we have a happy, fun, free for all Friday?
Depressed enough? Thanks? Okay, guys, but this is why you
need to be hopeful, because Cash Battel can fix this.
He can fix it. He just has to be confirmed.
So I'm actually I'm hopeful. I know that a lot
of Trump's picks have been you know, people are freaking out.

(49:49):
I actually like a vast majority of them, a vast majority.
I think they're fantastic. They're fantastic because they're all from
DC Meeting, they're from inside the system. They know exactly
how it works, and it makes this so much easier
to dismantle things that are not working if you understand

(50:11):
what you know how it all works. The problem with
Trump's appointments the first go round is that he tried
to bring in people from the business world, and that
was an abject disaster because the way government works, especially
the federal government works, is so foreign to the way
business works. And I have a great story, I mean
great story on the blog today. It is paywalled at

(50:32):
the New York Times, but you may be I don't
know if if let me check that link and see
if it's paywald on this link I tried to get.

Speaker 4 (50:39):
No, it's it is.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
You can get access to this story with just putting
in your email for to see this story. It is
about the hang on one second.

Speaker 4 (50:50):
Let me just open this.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
It's about the.

Speaker 4 (50:58):
Hang on one second.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
I'm logging in. So I don't know if you guys
knew this, But we've had a man since twenty twelve
looking into how the money in Afghanistan was spent. His
name is John Sopco. He was a Special Inspector General
for Afghanistan Reconstruction since twenty twelve. His mission is about
to be over. He's about to issue his final report

(51:23):
on Afghanistan. But this is exactly why you can't bring
in people from business to run government. Listen to this,
A perverse incentive drove our system to win promotions and
bigger salaries. Military and civilian leaders felt they had to
sell their tours of duty, deployments, programs, and projects as
successes even though they weren't. Leaders tended to report and

(51:46):
highlight favorable information while obscuring that which pointed to failure.
After all, failures do not lead to an ambassadorship or
an elevation to general They also aren't good business for
the contractors on which the US Mission relied to manage
and support programs and projects. For contractors, claiming success, whether
real or imaginary, was vital to obtaining future business, so

(52:09):
spending became the measure of success. The same, of course,
is true in Washington, where unspent allocations are tantamount to failure,
leading to budget cuts. Accountability for how money was spent
was poor. One general told us that he faced a
challenge how to spend the remaining one billion dollars from
his annual budget in just over a month. Returning the

(52:31):
money was not an option. Another official we spoke to
said he refused to cancel a multimillion dollar building project
that field commanders did not want because the funding had
to be spent. The building was never used. Now the
rest of the article just outlines more and more failures.
And by the way, this is our money, this is
my money, this is your money, this is fifty this

(52:54):
is thirty six trillion dollars in debt money. And all
I could think of was when I read that if
I exchanged the word homelessness for Afghanistan, it's the exact
same measure. They don't care about results. They just care
if you actually spent the money that they've allocated. Results
are secondary. When we get back, I'm gonna help this

(53:18):
text her out. We're gonna lighten it up just a
little bit. I have another question for the audience, how
did you waste your twenties? I have an answer, I'd
like to know yours. We'll do that next. A Rod
sent me this today. Seventeen people over thirty shared how
they wasted their twenties, and it's eye opening for younger people.

Speaker 4 (53:40):
Now.

Speaker 3 (53:40):
I refer all the time to, as I call it,
my lost decade of my twenties. I spent my twenties. Now,
don't get me wrong, I had a job. I supported myself.
I eventually went from being a flight attendant to going
into radio, and I worked really hard, and I worked
two jobs. Sometimes It's not like I was a slacker
living in my parents' basement. Number one, nobody had a basement.

(54:03):
Number two, my parents gave me luggage for high school graduation.
That's a pretty clear sign that you need to get
the blank out right.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
So I did.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
But my twenties were what I look back.

Speaker 7 (54:18):
On.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
The bad decision making I made in my twenties, it
was just mind blowing. But I'm one of those people.
I believe this life is a classroom. We're supposed to learn,
and I did. I absolutely did. By the way, A
Rod Mandy just watched the Eddie Izzard Engelbert humperdict bit funny.

(54:42):
Only one curse word, the S word that I did
here on the stream easily bleepable. Never knew that. Well,
I'm not going to say I'm out steely Dan. I'm
not going to repeat that, but some of these are
kind of interesting. I pursued a career in a field
that wasn't right for me, says this person. One of
my friends, went to Las school, became a lawyer, passed

(55:02):
the bar, did all of that stuff. Practice law for
two years. So when she got done, she was like
twenty seven. When this happened, she was like, you know what,
I hate being a lawyer. I'm changing direction. And that's
one of those things.

Speaker 4 (55:15):
I mean.

Speaker 3 (55:15):
I had no idea what I wanted to be when
I grew up. I was a flight attendant. I was
having the time of my life, traveling all over the world.
I've been drunk in some of the best cities in
the world, just letting you know. I passed out on
a car in Germany one time. I wish I was
kidding on the hood of a car, a Mercedes. Nonetheless,

(55:36):
what was awakened by a kindly German Man saying can
you get off my car? That's how that went. Yes, ah,
good times, good times. But I look back now and
part of me is really happy that I did that,
because I have friends who got married either right out
of college, and guess what, fast forward thirty years, they're
now divorced and they're all partying like I did when

(55:59):
I was in my twenties. No, thank you, no thank you.
That is not a lifestyle choice that I want to
make right now. Somebody asked me Q had some friends
over for New Year's Eve. She had a slumber party,
and one of the parents was like, Okay, are you
guys going to be there the whole time? And I'm like, oh, yeah,
we're not going anywhere. And then her daughter came over

(56:21):
and she's like, yeah, my mom said, you know, if
they're drinking, you're not supposed to drink. I was like,
tell your mom not to worry about it, Like that
is not I didn't have a cocktail on New Year's Eve, nothing,
And you know what, I woke up on New Year's Day,
felt fantastic, got up, did a whole bunch of stuff,
took the chip Jings for a really long walk. It
was a beautiful I mean, it was just glorious. So

(56:43):
I'm glad I got all of that out of my system.
In my twenties. That was my lost twenties. And oh,
don't even get me started on the men I dated.
Good lord, good Lord, what was I thinking? Anyway, Mandy?

Speaker 4 (57:00):
The first half of my twenties, if.

Speaker 3 (57:01):
I wasn't working, I was drunk. The second half I
figured out I could spend alcohol money on something else
and started going to rock concerts. I saw a lot
of them. Sober Mandy, I married the same woman twice.
My twenties, needless to say, were a loss. I love
these Mandy, drinking beer, smoking cigarettes, and playing slow pitch

(57:23):
softball six days a week. Ooh, that's hilarious because I
knew you. I knew so many guys that were that
guy in my twenties. I went to so many softball
games in my twenties where I don't play softball. I'm
not good at softball. I don't have any desire to
play softball, never have, never will. But man, I went

(57:45):
to some softball games. You know why because there was beer,
sat around outside, watched some softball. There you go, Mandy,
I'm almost seventy. I still don't know what I want
to do with my life. I love that because that
means you should remain into like curious until the day
you die. That would be amazing. Naked lunch. Wow, I've

(58:07):
tried numerous times to watch the movie. Every time it
was like a bad dream. You should try to read
the book, Texter, just try it.

Speaker 4 (58:15):
I dare you?

Speaker 3 (58:16):
Did anybody else resolve this year to read more? Has
anybody else made that, anyone just totally waved me off.

Speaker 4 (58:23):
He's like, no, no chance, no chance.

Speaker 1 (58:26):
I am.

Speaker 3 (58:27):
I'm I'm going to the library this weekend. I'm gonna
find myself some fiction because I can read fiction super fast,
Like I can read a fiction book in eight hours,
you know, not like a Tom Clancy book. Those are
really long. I mean I could if I just skipped
through the discussions of the weapons systems and the Tom
Clancy books, I can get through them really fast. This

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textor said, the problem with changing directions are career paths.
Now isn't so much the time it takes, but the
amounts amounts of money that the tuition costs. Your lawyer
friend must not have owed amountain of money and student
loans to me to shirk it off and go in
another direction, rather than be handcuffed to a career path
she didn't care for because it was the only thing
that could get her bills paid. And you are correct, Texter,

(59:10):
You are correct, Mandy. Unfortunately, I've never had a passion
for any kind of career muddling along through bad jobs
at age fifty seven, planning to work well into my sixties.
My choice is my fault. Sometimes I think I'm still
in my twenties. Well, what age do you think? And
the win yogis in here and we're the same Are
you the same age as me? Or we both fifty five?

(59:31):
Are you younger? Okay, so wine Yogi is fifty three?
Turn the microphone off? What age do you think? You
start to think that your possibilities are narrowing because there's
a couple things that happen. Number One, you get responsible.
You have bills to pay, you have a family to
take care of, you got kids to put through college.
So you get a little bit of a golden handcuff thing,

(59:52):
even if you're in a career you really like. And
I think that for a lot of people, they reach
a certain age and they feel like, well, it's over now.
I'm just going to do this until the day I die.
And whenever I see stories of people that say, you
know what, this fifty five year old woman decided to
go back to college and became a doctor, And you
think that's insane, But think about it, She's got another

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twenty more years of workable life really had fifty five,
I think for me.

Speaker 7 (01:00:20):
Well, so to go back to the original question about
the twenty your twenties, so, like I was living in Japan,
being in the military kind of makes you grow up
a lot faster, I think.

Speaker 3 (01:00:29):
Yeah, and I'm still party like a rock star.

Speaker 7 (01:00:31):
I mean, and I also I also have been ineviorated
in a number of really cool places, yep, thankfully surrounding
myself with a good crew to make sure that I
didn't do completely illegal things that would have gotten me
in trouble.

Speaker 3 (01:00:45):
Thank goodness, we did not have cell phones.

Speaker 4 (01:00:47):
Yes, kind of Yes.

Speaker 7 (01:00:48):
I may have crawled over a fence at a certain
base in England that no longer exists because we didn't
want to walk all the way around to go to
the entry point.

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
Good move, good move. Anyway, I digress.

Speaker 7 (01:01:00):
But I think when I went to pilot training, So
I was twenty eight when I went to pilot training,
So I think kind of that mindset, like I could
kill myself doing this and make an airplane shape hole
on the ground, or even worse, I could kill everybody
behind me. That's you know that I'm you know, flying somewhere.
I think it brought a seriousness to my a gravity, yeah,

(01:01:21):
and my outlook on life. So I don't kind of
feel like I'm honed in.

Speaker 3 (01:01:26):
Like that's it, you know, that was that was the end.
I'll be off for me because I've gone on after
I retired.

Speaker 7 (01:01:30):
I went to culinary school, I became a yoga instructor,
I did.

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
All of the other training. You're not normal, though, and
this is one of the reasons that I love Crystal,
because you are such a type a person that you
don't just do something. You want to make whatever that
is your bitch, right, Like, it's not enough to say,
oh I love wine. Oh, I'll just become a small ya.
This is the way the wine yogi thinks. Oh I
enjoy yoga. Oh I'll become a yoga instructor. Oh I

(01:01:55):
like to cook, I'll I'll become a chef. You just
go all in on what what it is you want
to do. And that's one of the things I love
about you.

Speaker 7 (01:02:02):
And well, it kind of goes back to New Year's
resolutions versus goals and intentions, and I.

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
Realized solutions feel so negative.

Speaker 7 (01:02:10):
Well it's it's also I mean, you are resolving to
do something, but I think intentions or goals you can
establish milestones and then also if you stray from it,
it's not this hard and vailable. There you go, by
the end of January, I haven't worked out every you know,
every day or four days out of the week.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
There goes I fail. I have failed.

Speaker 7 (01:02:30):
So that's why I do kind of approach that and
changing that mindset, I think, and I probably did that
in my thirties when I became a mom, because.

Speaker 3 (01:02:39):
A parent too. That's that's the other sobering thing, very
much so.

Speaker 7 (01:02:43):
And I think that really kind of helped me realize
I put in my yoga training really helped me realize
I am my world's worst critic. I put so much
stress on me that the rest of the world isn't
putting on me. And and but I don't see that.
So addressing that inner critic, critic, that voice that tells
me I'm not good enough or that I'm a failure,

(01:03:06):
that would hold me back, I have learned to kind
of She drives me and inspires me and motivates me
and gets me off the couch, gets me into my
workout clothes, gets me to Orange Theory, which I went
to on New Year's Day at the very first class at.

Speaker 3 (01:03:19):
Seven point thirty.

Speaker 7 (01:03:21):
But yeah, it's that's that that I've learned to shift
that critic away from discouragement and more of that motivating voice.
And then when I don't need to hear from that
motivating voice because I am having a hiccup, that's when
I kind of do the really hard work of trying to,
you know, forgive myself.

Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
And that's why I like intentions, I resolutions. I learned
something fairly recently that I think is kind of game changing.

Speaker 2 (01:03:46):
And it is.

Speaker 3 (01:03:48):
And I saw a psychology a psychologist talking about this concept,
and that is everybody, most people, not everybody has a
stream of consciousness in your brain, but everybody has that
voice in your brain, right, And this cologist said, the
thing you have to realize is that voice in your
brain is not you. You're listening to the voice in
your brain. And the voice in your brain is your
lizard brain. It's the most basic part of your consciousness

(01:04:10):
whose sole purpose is to scare you so badly that
you don't try anything because it's afraid of you getting hurt. Right,
don't try that because you'll feel that'll be a DESI
Your lizard brain is that part of your brain that
tells you all the things you should not, cannot do,
and you're the person listening to it, but it also
gives you a lot of power to tell it to
shut the blank up when you need to. We'll be

(01:04:33):
right back. What is your favorite Beatles song? Hey, ron
Oh on the spot.

Speaker 5 (01:04:38):
I'm gonna go probably with the one that I did
my third Great Talent Show, which is help Okay, gotta
go with help Me.

Speaker 3 (01:04:44):
I'm partial to Maxwell silver Hammer okay, and Crystal Dewinogi
just she's coming in at two thirty to talk about
dry January, but you're going to hear yeah, And mate,
I just want to say, Mandy, you're amazing. That's amazing. Hearts.
Are you so strong? You're just oh, you're so good.
I just we're doing our own wicked prim Press tour here,

(01:05:04):
that's what's happening.

Speaker 7 (01:05:05):
So my father daughter dance at my wedding was in
my life, so that is it was also a song
that I played at my dad's.

Speaker 3 (01:05:16):
You know, weorial life, and so that will always be
kind of a special song for me.

Speaker 4 (01:05:21):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
Lots of you were weighing in on how did you
waste your twenties? Some of these are super interesting. This one, Mandy,
were you that blonde flight? Attendant I met. I wondered
what happened to you? Possibly, I mean maybe, I don't know, Mandy.
I became an r in at forty one, best decision
of my life. In my twenties. I tried and failed

(01:05:44):
at a number of careers. You're out of here was
common told my ears were too big to be a
corporate pilot by a very influential person in aviation. Retired
after many years in the fire service. I think the
twenties should be about finding your way, you know, should
be about trying stuff out and figuring out what you
want to do. But honestly, in my twenties, if somebody

(01:06:05):
had a good idea, I was like, Okay, I meet
a flight attendant at a bar. Okay, I meet a
guy on the airplane. You should go on the radio. Okay.
It was just like, whatever, it's fine, Mandy. I regret
to say I wished I would have slept around more
or had multiple girlfriends. Now in my early forties, having
gotten married just four years ago, there really is no

(01:06:26):
hope of me having kids on my own with my wife,
who was in her mid forties. Being a step dad
didn't bring the fulfillment I would have hoped for as
her kids prefer her dad over us. You know, here's
the thing, and I'm just going to say this as
a step parent, those relationships change and it really you

(01:06:48):
can do more about that than you think you can.
And I'm sorry that that didn't work out. I wish
I could say that I had that same regret, But
I enjoyed my twenties. Mandy, does Chuck mind your body count? Okay,
First of all, this whole conversation about body counts is

(01:07:08):
baffling to me. It is none of anybody's business what
me or anybody else has done in their past. But
trust me, Chucks is much higher than mine, so if
it bothered him, it would be highly hypocritical if that
was a problem. Okay, you know, here's the thing. Like

(01:07:29):
I met my husband, I fell in love with him.
He fell in love with me just the way I
was at that moment. And that person that he fell
in love with had history. I'd been engaged three times prior,
I had lived with two other guys. I mean I
had history. So did he. He'd been married twice. All
of those experiences, though, made him the person he is.

(01:07:50):
And I would not change one single thing about it,
Nor would I change anything about my twenties because I
think it made my life much fuller and richer. Becoming
a flight attendant was a phenomenal, great decision for me
because it allowed me to see the world. I was
a kid from a podunk town in North Florida. The
first commercial flight I ever took in my life was
to fly to Delta for an interview to be a

(01:08:11):
flight attendant, and it was the greatest experience of my
life because I took advantage of it. Every layover, I
was out seeing cities that I would have never visited
before in my life had I not been a flight attendant,
Great Falls, Montana. I'm looking at you, you know. But
it also exposed me to all of these different people,
all these different cultures. It was phenomenal. But I don't
want to do it anymore. So there you go, Mandy.

(01:08:34):
When I see my crush next, should I invite her
for dinner and to show or tell her to go
to hell? Or does it not matter? Why would you
do that? Why would you tell your crush to go
to hell? That doesn't make any sense, Texter. Maybe this
is why you're single.

Speaker 1 (01:08:50):
Just saying the Mandy Connell show is sponsored by Belle
and Pollock, accident and injury lawyers.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
No, it's Mandy Connell on kam got.

Speaker 3 (01:09:08):
Study the Nicey's three Bacon Keeping really sad thing. Well,
well to welcome to the third hour of the show
coming up at two thirty The Wine You. He officially
joins us, and we're going to talk about two things.
Number one, drive January what it is and if you

(01:09:29):
really have to have your wine fix. She's got you
with non alcoholic wines that actually taste good. I just
tasted them, taste quite quite tasty. I was a little
shocked by that. Anyway. Uh, We're also going to talk
about the Surgeon General asking for a cancer warning on alcohol,
and so we'll do that at two thirty. But in
the meantime, I got a couple of stories that I
want to draw your attention to on the blog, which

(01:09:51):
you can always find at mandy'sblog dot com. First of all,
now where can people actually vote a rod for the
best call? Is that on Instagram or it is on
x formally known as Twitter. So that's what I embedded.

Speaker 5 (01:10:05):
Yeah, at Broncos, which you have met it. Also at
Kaoi Colorado, we've shared it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:09):
You have.

Speaker 4 (01:10:09):
I think they're running it through today.

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
I'm gonna I'm gonna this is fifty five seconds. You're
gonna get a little flavor. Are they all on here
in fifty five seconds?

Speaker 4 (01:10:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:10:17):
Right, here are four options we're turning. I don't know
if you guys have heard, but KOA is now one
hundred years old. We're a centagenarian, and over the year
we're gonna be doing some fun stuff like this and
sort of remembering what's made KOI great After.

Speaker 4 (01:10:32):
All these years.

Speaker 3 (01:10:33):
We are the king of agriculture, the blow parts of
the Rockies, and we have had some incredible Bronco calls
as the Bronco radio partner for ever, I mean ever.
We've been teamed up for the Broncos.

Speaker 5 (01:10:46):
Fifty five years. Fifty five years, gave Logan thirty five years.

Speaker 3 (01:10:50):
That's crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:10:51):
He will plant the flag.

Speaker 3 (01:10:53):
Can I just say that Dave Logan looks so damn
good for his age. He just looks good period. But
then you throw in the four and like when I
found out that he just turned seventy, I was I
saw him coming out. I go, Dave, dude, you would
never know it. No, ever, he's just in great. You

(01:11:13):
should all aspire to be David knew.

Speaker 5 (01:11:16):
The lifespan of goats is pretty is pretty Latham, So
that is you know, yeah, long long life on that.

Speaker 3 (01:11:24):
Okay, here we go. Yeah, anyway, let's play. We are
looking for the best call out of four iconic calls
we've put together. Which of these is your favorite? Let's
roll these and then you can go to our account
on x and you can actually vote on which one
of these you like.

Speaker 5 (01:11:43):
By the way, also on Instagram we are oh no,
waits two o seven just kidding.

Speaker 4 (01:11:48):
We usually get people in the Broncos games. I just
realized the contest window clo. Sorry, that's okay though.

Speaker 3 (01:11:54):
All right, so what are these calls?

Speaker 4 (01:11:55):
A rod?

Speaker 3 (01:11:56):
We've got the nineteen eighty nineteen eighty six AFC Championship,
the drive, Yeah, the drive, and then what is that
for that? Because I haven't I showed up there after.

Speaker 5 (01:12:04):
The drive, I believe number two of the are in
the order is the helicopter LA obviously in the air.
Number three is the one that I voted for just
sentimental value, which is t Bow to Damarius Thomas, the
wild card walk off winner against the Steelers. The first
play of ote and then the fourth is the strip
sack touchdown in Super Bowl fifty.

Speaker 3 (01:12:24):
Okay, so here we go four of the most iconic
Bronco calls in our history.

Speaker 2 (01:12:29):
Forty two seconds to go Broncos at the Cleveland.

Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
Five, The Slapdelway, the look, the.

Speaker 2 (01:12:35):
Throw touched down, John Elway has roll, they touchdown. The
mark checkson.

Speaker 4 (01:12:42):
Ninety eight and a half yard drive. I'm sure jumping
around they rushed fourth. Hell wait can run inside the
tent head first yard.

Speaker 5 (01:12:51):
You want to tell me the thirty seven year old
man didn't want to win this game, and I'll man,
that's sacrifice.

Speaker 4 (01:12:55):
Timp Playfax in the pocket sets Bros past pok Damarius
Thomas the forty five big deal. Here we go foot
wrong on thirty five foot rights twenty fifteen ten touched
out dead Phir you burn out of ten. We'll face
some pressure here in the pocket. Quah Head sacked in
sent to five The pall is free touchdown.

Speaker 3 (01:13:15):
Den Fiat Kelly, I have goosebumps right now from listening
to those so good, so good. So go to our
Twitter feed and vote on.

Speaker 4 (01:13:23):
That long lived DT. You get some more votes on
that one.

Speaker 3 (01:13:25):
Yes on a couple of things if you're a traveler
like I am. If you are, if you park in
the garage or the economy lot at the airport, or
you go to pick someone up and you park in
short term parking, you can no longer use cash at
the gates to get out of parking. So if you
have cash, and you want to use cash because you
don't want the government to be able to track that

(01:13:46):
you are at the airport, then you're gonna have to
use a kiosk inside on the fifth floor at Denver
International Airport to pay for your parking. That is going
to be the only option to pay cash for parking.
So just make a note of that, because I can
already imagine it's going to create problems going forward. We
shall see also interesting story this from iHeart Actually, new

(01:14:14):
travel restrictions set to be enacted in twenty twenty five
could make Americans passports useless. All travelers will be required
to use a real ID in order to take domestic
flights and gain access to some government buildings beginning in May.
Colorado driver's license apparently is I have had issues in

(01:14:36):
three different airports, the Boston Airport, JFK and Vegas mccaren.
It'll always be Mccaaran to me, I refuse to call
it Harry Reid Airport. I'm not doing it. I'm not
going to honor that man by calling an airport after him.
I'm not doing it. Forget about it. In any case,
McCarran in Las Vegas. I've had problems with my ID there.
They said for some reason, the Colorado ID does not

(01:14:58):
work with all TSA machines, which makes no sense to me.
But here we are. So now I've started traveling with
my passport, so I have double forms of you know,
of ID just going through. But listen to this. If
you're planning to go to the UK after January eighth,
you are now required to register with the Electronic Travel

(01:15:20):
Authorization Program in order to enter the country. Anyone from
outside the UK and Ireland is set to visit for
six months or less for business or study will also
be required to apply for the ETA program, which costs
thirteen bucks and covers you for two years. So this
obvious money grab. We don't know why we have to

(01:15:41):
do that, but they are trying to update I guess
their immigration system and in theory this should help making
going through customs in the UK easier but last time
I went through you customs in the UK it was
a bleeping nightmare. Eighty bazillion people and no sense of urgency.
I'm just super frustrated. But whatever, it's fine. You also

(01:16:04):
need the UH. You need to apply through the European
Travel Information and Authorization System ETS in order to gain
access to the continent beginning in May. That is going
to cost you seven bucks. But here's the kicker. Could
take several weeks to receive a response. Your passport is
still required, but it must be more than three months

(01:16:24):
from its expiration date and cannot be older than a decade. Well,
your passport expires after a decade, you have to get
a new one after ten years. Yeah, for sure. I
just had to get a new one. So that is
just be aware if you're traveling, just be aware of
what you need to go there. And your airlines should
be able to tell you this if you're flying into

(01:16:45):
a country, but you should be able to google what
documents do I need to get into the UK or
what documents do I need to get into you know,
Lithuania or wherever you're going. Just check before you go. Now,
I have bad news and I'm gonna with you next,
and it has to do with masks. The medical community
is once again embracing the unscientific wearing of masks to

(01:17:11):
stop respiratory infections, something we've known for a very long
time does not work. I'll tell you about it next.
We are having kind of a quadruple whammy of respiratory
viruses now really a triple whammy of respiratory viruses, and
then throw in neurovirus, which is the stomach flu. It

(01:17:32):
all started to surge at Christmas. Everybody I know east
of the Mississippi currently has some sort of illness. Everybody
some sort of respiratory They either have COVID. By the way,
they're not dying. I'm just letting you know. They just
have COVID, or they have the flu, or they have
a really bad cold, or they have RSB. Now, hospitalizations

(01:17:53):
for things like the flu, COVID, and RSB have been significant,
and some and I mean some hospital systems in Wisconsin,
parts of California, Illinois, Indiana, and New Jersey have brought
back mask mandates. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. I'm not

(01:18:21):
doing it. I'm just never going to do that again.
I refuse I just refuse. I still have my mask
exemption from the last time for my doctor, thank you
very much, and I will use it this time because
you guys, until COVID, there were so many studies that

(01:18:43):
had been done over time in hospital settings with medical
professionals who know how to properly wear a mask. This
showed over and over again. Respiratory illnesses are not stopped
by a surgical mask. The reason that surgeons wear surgical
asks in surgery is because they don't want biological material

(01:19:05):
to come out of their mouth or nose and go
into the open patient or vice versa. They don't want
any biological material from the patient to splash into their
mouth or nose. You notice they also wear protection over
their eyes as well. It's just it's crazy and I'm
just I'm not going to do it. I'm not going
to do it. Just make watch me, watch me. I

(01:19:29):
would urge you guys to go to the blog today
and read the story about Afghanistan. I feel like doing
a deep dive on that, but I was you know,
somebody said, can we do something less depressing today? And
I'm like, okay, but we have wasted so much money
and if you want to know why we need the
Department of Government Efficiency. It is because the mentality of

(01:19:49):
government employees is we better spend it or they're going
to take it away. Whereas I think, if you really
want to curtail government spending, imagine this is my plan.
As a matter of fact, maybe I should send this
up to Elon and Vivik so they could make it
part of the Department of Government Efficiency. I would say
this to any government employee, whatever savings you ring out

(01:20:12):
of your department, you get ten percent of So if
you are the Department of Defense and your multi billion
dollar budget comes in a billion dollars under and you
can prove that you helped that department come in a
billion dollars under budget, you get ten percent of that. Now,
before people freak out, we were going to spend that

(01:20:33):
billion dollars. We've never incentivized government workers to save money.
And that's insane and it shows. My nephew was deployed.
He was in the Marines, and he was deployed to
a forward operating base and they had a motor pole there.

(01:20:53):
So all the trucks came in and they got their
repairs and their upcapmental at this one forward operating base,
and he, the guy who ran the motor pool, needed
like ten bolts, very specific bolts to this transmission of
these big trucks, and he ordered it. But when he
ordered it, he made a typo and they sent him

(01:21:16):
ten thousand bolts instead of ten. Now that's a pretty
significant mistake. But when he said, Okay, I don't need
ten thousand bolts, I need to send them back, do
you know what they told him to do. Just throw
them away, Just throw them in a hole, bury him,
just throw them away. That kind of stuff. That's why
we have thirty six trillion dollars in debt. So yeah,

(01:21:37):
I'm all for it. I think we should incentivize people
to save money because right now, when I work for
the Florida Senate, when I was in college, at the
end of the legislative session, you would see people walk
out of the building carrying like ten, you know, boxes
of paper, all the pens, all the stuff, all the

(01:21:59):
office supplies that they had bought for the legislative session
that didn't get used, they would just steal them. And
when you asked him about it, because I did, you
know what, they said, Well, if we don't use it,
all they won't give it to us next year. So essentially,
you don't mind steeling as long as it makes sure

(01:22:20):
you get the same budget, which clearly you didn't need
for office supplies. I mean, it's absolutely crazy. It's really
really nuts. If you didn't hear, we do have a
new Speaker of the House today. Mike Johnson did manage
to wrangle Republicans all but Thomas Massey, and they did

(01:22:42):
re elect him to the House of Representative speakership, So
that is done. A Rod sent me a video that's
on the blog today of this person's skiing, and I
don't know what's wrong with you people, if you want
to do that. Lots of stuff to see on the
blog that I'm not going to get to you because
when we get back the win Yogi officially joins us.

(01:23:03):
She's been here for the last hour, but she's officially
joining us. It's dry January. Don't know what that is.
We'll tell you about it, and we're going to talk
about no alcohol wines that are actually kind of tasty.
Where that's all coming up next. We keep it right
here on KOA. It is dry January. Text who texted
in what is dry January? I think I've been celebrating

(01:23:26):
it wrong, Martini's Oops. No, it is Dry January, and
it was something that's been around for I mean probably
twenty years now, don't you think. Yeah, it's definitely been
around for it quite a bit. Let's be real. Dry
January stopped started because people drank themselves stupid during December
and they were like, you know what, my liver feels weird.

(01:23:47):
So I'm just going to not drink for the month
of January and sort of reset everything and make sure
I'm not an alcoholic in the process. That's what dry
January is essentially.

Speaker 2 (01:23:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:23:57):
Yeah, and then it coincides with a lot of again
tap into New Year's as alutions, so you have things
like Whole thirty that kind of became a thing about,
you know, ten years ago, which is a specific diet
and often kicks off at the beginning of the year
to do thirty days of kind of following this, one
of which is no alcohol seventy five hard. Lots of
groups kick off one January. Part of one of the

(01:24:20):
expectations is no alcohol. I can't lose weight and drink
alcohol at the same time. It wouldn't no matter what
diet plan I'm on and no matter what I'm drinking,
if I have alcohol while I am trying.

Speaker 3 (01:24:31):
To lose weight, it stops it for like a couple
of days. It leads to bad decisions. Well not only that,
it just we've already established my body does not like
alcohol at this point in my life. It's not it
just doesn't. And when I'm trying to lose weight one,
you know, like a glass of red wine, low carb,
doesn't it. Now, I'm not going to lose anything for
like two or three days.

Speaker 7 (01:24:51):
Well, and in fact, next month, at the very first
Sunday in February, I'll be teaching you know, a mori
vino love affair of wine and food because there's the
reason why things like that happen, and it's because when
you are having a glass of wine, and that's my
favorite thing to do is I like to then figure
out what's going to pair with it, to see what
happens and kind of enjoy that aspect of it. So

(01:25:14):
it does kind of, you know, tend to lead us
down that rabbit hosket. Yes, especially when you start busting
out popcorn and cheese. It's soon then that it's all.

Speaker 3 (01:25:21):
That's all, that's rof. But if you are a person
who still likes to have a glass wine with your
dinner or a glass of wine with you know, at night,
just because it's just your habit, you enjoy it. The
WINOGI is brought into alcohol free wines that are actually
the first alcohol we free beer that I ever had

(01:25:42):
was like thirty five years ago. It was it was awful, terrible.
Remember it was the tab of alcohol, you.

Speaker 4 (01:25:49):
Know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:25:49):
It was just like the worst tasting thing. Then o'duels
showed up and o'duels doesn't suck. It's not horrible, it's
not great, don't love it. But now there's a ton
of na beers, like a ton of options. No matter
what you like, you've got beer. And I think the
beer part of it has has grown faster and more
successfully than the wine part of it is because I

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think they figured it out faster, and I think.

Speaker 7 (01:26:14):
There are aspects of beer that kind of lend themselves
better to the de alcoholization of the product that wine.

Speaker 3 (01:26:23):
You know, when you're drinking wine, there are expectations.

Speaker 7 (01:26:25):
Of aroma and bouquet and tannic structure and finish that
you don't necessarily have with beer. Beer, you're looking more
into the hops and kind of how that balance is happening,
the malts and things like that, whereas with wine, I
think it's probably a little bit more delicate and also

(01:26:45):
even just the fermentation process.

Speaker 3 (01:26:47):
If you look at how beer is made versus.

Speaker 7 (01:26:48):
How wine is made, how do they get the alcohol
out of these they well, there are three different ways
that they can do it, and they can cook the
hell out of it, just like when you deglaze a
pan when you're cooking and you want to like you
know basics.

Speaker 3 (01:27:00):
Doesn't that change? That will change it? Okay, there is disolation,
which is still.

Speaker 7 (01:27:05):
They are heating it up, but they're heating it up
just enough to get that alcohol out burn off to
burn off. And then there in which these two wines
I brought in, the red is actually triple distilled. But
then there's a new technique that they're coming out with
and I think a lot of your spirit uh non
alcohol makers are tapping into this, and it's a it's

(01:27:26):
a cone type of they have these vertical cones that
they send it down and basically that's kind of like
when they spin out your blood to get your platelets
out right, similar thing they're spinning out the alcohol and
leaving everything. But that's that's kind of the newest, uh
So that's probably up and coming and more and more.
I think non alcohol wines are looking to that because

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they don't want to necessarily cook the wine and heat
it because it does lose tannic structure and fruit that
kind of also cooks off in addition with the alcohol.
But these are two makers, Doctor Loose doctor Lucin, which
is a known for making diverts remeanor and reesling fully loaded.

Speaker 3 (01:28:07):
But they've met.

Speaker 7 (01:28:08):
I brought in a sparkling reesling that has a little
bit of residual.

Speaker 3 (01:28:11):
Sugar, so especially if you wear a lot of bit
of residual sugar. For my palate, I have it made
my cheeks. That's okay, And that's also the acid.

Speaker 7 (01:28:19):
I know, but I was like, eh, but this is
a great opportunity, like if you're doing some brunches or
you know, if you're thinking of the Moosa Bellini bar,
this I would actually consider, like even just year round,
especially if you have friends and a lot of millennials
and younger generation are kind of.

Speaker 3 (01:28:35):
Stepping back from alcohol.

Speaker 7 (01:28:36):
COVID also has forced the lockdowns and people. Over indulging
has forced a lot of folks to decide, you know what,
I don't need to have this in my life.

Speaker 3 (01:28:44):
That was too much.

Speaker 7 (01:28:45):
So this is a great alternative to offer to your
friends that don't want to drink alcohol but maybe want to.

Speaker 3 (01:28:50):
Toast and still have a pretty, you know, pretty little.
I think that would be great was like pomerana, pomegranate juice.
Something that's a little more tart or cranberry. Yeah, something
that gives it a little little of that sugar. I
think it'd be even with grape for juice, it would
actually be really good. Something that's a little less. But
even just drinking alone, it has way too much residual
sugar for my taste, but it's it's still tastes good.

Speaker 7 (01:29:13):
It doesn't taste I've had others before that taste like
they've just taken grape juice right, I've done something with
it right. Both of these have properties that you look
to find in the wine if you're into smelling wine, swearing, experience,
tasting and seeing what it's doing on your palate, kind
of that mindful experiment with wine.

Speaker 3 (01:29:36):
I think both of these answer and fit that bill.
The other one is the red is outstanding.

Speaker 7 (01:29:41):
So this is new blood and it's coming from Australia.
It's new Guenes state. They're known for their charras and
this is what they're non alcoholic charras. They call it
a red blend. So I'm not really sure if they're
throwing some other things in. There probably are bits predominantly charras,
which is sarrah from down Unda.

Speaker 3 (01:29:57):
And this is coming in on a whopping twenty calories.
That is that is like a drinkable drink, like I
could totally consume that and be very happy.

Speaker 4 (01:30:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:30:04):
So if even if maybe it's not the alcohol that
you are looking to reduce, maybe it's your caloric intake
because typically wine is in that you know, red wine
is in that kind of one hundred and ten to
one hundred and fifty depending on the size. It could
go up a little more if you're doing heavy handed pores.
It doesn't twenty calories for you know, a six ounce serving.
That's that's awesome. Yeah, very low in sugar. The other

(01:30:27):
one is slightly higher in sugar. Therefore it is slightly
higher in calorie, but it's still under one hundred calories.

Speaker 3 (01:30:33):
The sparkling reseling. But both of these they are.

Speaker 7 (01:30:37):
Considered non alcoholic, and by both manufacturers there's zero percent alcohol,
but however on the label they say less than zero
point five percent. So if alcohol is something that you
have to avoid for medical reasons or just you know,
it doesn't.

Speaker 3 (01:30:51):
Let you know how that goes tonight when I try
to go to sleep, because I had a little bit of.

Speaker 7 (01:30:55):
Both of them, and we'll see, but it doesn't if
you are dealing with it as a problem, then I
would stay away from these because they did at one
point have alcohol. They have removed the alcohol. But if
that is something that you don't want to test yourselfish.

Speaker 3 (01:31:08):
I would just say, if you have had trouble with
wine in the past, don't do things that are reminiscent exactly,
and this is very reminiscent. This is this is going
to kick in those taste buds and those flavors that
could create ratings going forward. Just that part of it.

Speaker 7 (01:31:26):
This is the closest thing to wine that I have
experienced thus far. And I've done all the I've done
a lot of non alcohol beers, never really close. I've
done several spirits. It's a lot of herbaceousness. Yeah, I
don't like this, and it doesn't quite There's only one
that kind of, you know, said, okay, maybe this could
be a margarita, but I'm not really sure.

Speaker 3 (01:31:45):
I have to close my eyes, but this one.

Speaker 7 (01:31:48):
Both of these I really I enjoyed the nose, I
enjoyed the kind of what it did on my palette,
and I totally could see. In fact, I probably will
be introducing some of this into my right habits when
I returned to enjoying wine the weekend of my birthday
in Urray. The hopefully Susan Wickim will be that she's
not going to be there, DAGs, she's not going to

(01:32:09):
under in the winter. I'm going to be there and
asked her, I'm going to be there Valentine's Day weekend
for my birthday in the Urray Wine Festival.

Speaker 3 (01:32:15):
If you want to join me there you go. Let's
talk about a news story real quick, because this came
out yesterday. The Surgeon General has asked that we begin
to put warning labels on alcohol concerning cancer right, and
the logic being they believe that they could stop one
hundred thousand cases of cancer per year. First of all,

(01:32:38):
I reject out of hand, the speculative nature of if
we did this, we would save one hundred million people.
It's crap. You cannot possibly know that. It's just a
wild guess and that's what this is. But the reason
is because younger people are starting to show up with
significant digestive issues, colon cancer, stomach cancer, things like that,

(01:33:02):
and for some reason they're blaming alcohol, even though to
your point, younger people are not drinking like we did
in our twenties. It's just not happening. What are your
thoughts on this?

Speaker 7 (01:33:15):
So I just want to I want to lay out
my thoughts before I did get the first two vaccines
to help with my mom.

Speaker 3 (01:33:25):
Okay, but I've not gotten any sense.

Speaker 7 (01:33:27):
But is there any correlation with the vaccine status and
how many vaccines that they are saying that these people
with all these cancer cases because there is a lot
of other things happening out there in the world, was
that part of their study at all?

Speaker 3 (01:33:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (01:33:43):
Are they looking at diet, obesity, exercise, all of these
other things that also play into your overall health, genetic
predisposition to these cancers And is there something that has
happened that has maybe sparked a lot of these you know,
colon cancer and you know stomach cancers and things like that.

(01:34:07):
I would look to other countries that consume a lot
of alcohol and smoke a lot, yes, and eat fried food,
but are not obese. I lived in Japan for two years,
so I know firsthand how much they smoke and drink.

Speaker 3 (01:34:23):
And oh, Europe is the same way. You're shocking how
many people still smoke. And so what does that roll?

Speaker 7 (01:34:32):
Because if I look at younger people and when I'm
at the beach all the time, I'm like, I was
never like that when I was in my teens and twenties,
And what what is it in our diet our food system?

Speaker 3 (01:34:44):
I don't know. There's a lot of corn, GMO.

Speaker 7 (01:34:47):
Corn soy fruits, corn syrup, hyoscorn sorup soy soy, less
than sunflower, less than all these breakdowns that have infiltrated
our food system.

Speaker 3 (01:34:57):
Have we researched any of that?

Speaker 1 (01:34:58):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:34:59):
To me, this is more just away for them for
the nanny state to kind of say, oh, it must
just be the alcohol.

Speaker 3 (01:35:04):
Well, I was telling Crystal that for no apparent and
I don't know what spawned this. Sometimes I'll see something
or I'll hear something and I'll go I wonder what
that number is. So over the break, I looked up
what percentage of people who smoke get lung cancer now
based on all of the education that way, And by
the way, please do not take this as any kind
of endorsement of smoking. I am not. I am not

(01:35:24):
endorsing smoking at all. I'm not a smoker any I did.
I the dumbest decision I ever made was starting to
smoke when I was in my twenties, and I don't
smoke anymore. But if you just like dropped into the
United States of America, you would think if you picked
up a cigarette, you were going to get lung cancer,
when the reality is between twenty and thirty percent of

(01:35:45):
lifetime smokers are going to get lung cancer. So then
I was like, well, what about COPD Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Speaker 4 (01:35:52):
I look that up.

Speaker 3 (01:35:53):
Thirty percent of lifetime smokers are going to get COPD.
So the numbers are really small. Of the p people
who are negatively affected, and for the most part, it
is people who are doing too much of any of
these things. And that's what I feel like is happening now,
because if you are a hardcore alcoholic and you are
drinking all day, you are not taking care of yourself. Otherwise,

(01:36:15):
you're not going to the gym, You're not making sure
you're eating fruits and vegetables and making sure that you
nutrition is sound. You're probably sitting in a until recently
smoke filled bar while you're drinking. I mean, there's a
lot of other confounding factors that go into this. Now,
do I think alcohol is good for you physically? Honestly?
For most people know it probably isn't. But we have

(01:36:38):
tried prohibition. It failed spectacularly because whatever it is about
human beings, we want something to take the edge off.
That's just a certain percentage of the population wants something
to take the edge off.

Speaker 7 (01:36:51):
And I just are they giving obesity? This has is
the same amount because we can't body.

Speaker 3 (01:36:57):
Sheame and I do understand and that we have a
cancer label on the outside of a bag of durta exactly.
I mean, because when you are looking at processed.

Speaker 7 (01:37:07):
Food, because the food lobby is stronger than the alcohol,
or you're going and get in a frappuccino that's a
thousand calories because it's full of sugar. I don't understand
why we aren't actually looking at probably what is more
likely the suspect alcohol contributing to it, because that is
also a sugar, it is based off of sugar. I

(01:37:27):
get that, But there are probably some other things that
the search in general could maybe be looking at and
start encouraging again pe in school and how to eat properly,
not just drink your calories from alcohol, soda or soda
or fraggy rous energy drinks or any of these things
that are.

Speaker 3 (01:37:47):
Loaded with sugar. Also fake sugars, which are.

Speaker 7 (01:37:50):
Not exactly good for you either because it is a
chemical that you're ingesting.

Speaker 3 (01:37:53):
What does that do to your body? There are so
many other things that it would be I wish they
would kind of focus on, but agree ahheartedly and unfortunately
I don't necessarily trust the current governmental medical I don't
either infrastructure. They let us down so yes terribly during
COVID that they have no credibility for me at all.

(01:38:16):
I mean truly do not have any credibility with me
at all in this.

Speaker 7 (01:38:19):
In this to me because they're not focusing on something
like obesity and the overall health. This to me, I
just kind of throw it out and shrug at it.

Speaker 3 (01:38:28):
So Mandy, let me see here, I'm trying to find.

Speaker 4 (01:38:34):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (01:38:34):
When you just send two words, I have no idea
what you're talking about. I mean absolutely no knowing, no
no idea. Yeah, if you store wine for multiple years,
will it fer ment and create alcohol?

Speaker 7 (01:38:49):
So it really depends on how much sugar is in
that wine when you lay it down. Also in the
conditions that uh that wine is has has been stored.
If you are allowing it to get kind of warm
and there was already a little bit of sugar in there,
if there was any type of geese particulate still left
in there, let's say it was an unfiltered wine, you
might have some secondary fermentation. Typically, a secondary fermentation takes

(01:39:13):
place in the process of making the wine at the winemaker,
you know, at the vineyard or the winehouse itself. So
having that secondary it was probably a faulty wine. If
you stored it now, if it was hot and you
started kind of cooking it a little bit, then that
is a potential to have that secondary fermentation happen.

Speaker 3 (01:39:32):
And by the way, you must be twenty one to
buy these wines. Kids cannot buy these wines. I should
throw that out there. You can find these wines. You
can find the Wineyugi's blog about intentions for the year.
It's all on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And
energy drinks like Monster and Red Bull are in horrible
and lots of teams drink them. Amen to that. I

(01:39:55):
have a family member who is hang on, let me
do bath in my head twenty eight or twenty and
he has fatty liver disease. And when trying to figure
out why a young man who's not fat, he is
not overweight, and the doctor could not figure out why
in the world he would have fatty liver disease until
he told him he drinks like five energy drinks a day.

(01:40:17):
And the doctor was like, well, that's why your liver
is wrecked, so stop it. And they're trying to reverse that.

Speaker 4 (01:40:22):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:40:23):
Energy drinks are the devil straight up. But now it's
time for the most exciting segment on the radio of
its guide in the world of the day. All right,
let's do it. What is our word of the day.
And to the texture who said I believe almost everything
is okay in moderation, you are correct, you are We

(01:40:47):
just suck at moderation. That's a problem with you. Okay,
what's our dad joke of the day? Fleece anthony.

Speaker 5 (01:40:53):
Americans don't know how to do basic map. Thank god,
I'm part of the other twenty five percent.

Speaker 3 (01:41:00):
Yeah, yeah, anyway, Uh, what is our word of the day? Please?

Speaker 4 (01:41:05):
It's an adjective. Adjective apple dated? Oh sorry, sorry, adult pated?

Speaker 3 (01:41:13):
Oh wait, addul paated? Is it when you mix up
words when you're reading it. I think it's like, if
you're addle pated, you're stupid, you're dumb, you're Somehow.

Speaker 5 (01:41:25):
Someone described as adult pated is mixed up or confused. Yeah,
synonym for eccentric.

Speaker 3 (01:41:32):
Yep, I'll do that. What Nickelodeon TV show did musician
Alanis Morissett appear in as a child actor? Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:41:39):
Was a child actor?

Speaker 3 (01:41:40):
Oh yeah she was. That's how she got famous, you know,
And I saw her in concert. You think, I know
you can't do that on television. Hello, she was part
of that crew. Nothing, that's how she met Dave whatever
his name as show. You can't do that on you
can't tell you don't remember that. I was just get
a show that was back in the og Nickelodeon days.
I never watched Nickelodeon. I did at night, late at night.

(01:42:01):
When I was in college, I watched nick anyway. I
had a little five inch TV that was black and white. Now,
rabbit ears, let's see here. What is our Jeopardy category?

Speaker 4 (01:42:11):
Flavor of the month? Okay, flavor of the month. Get
out the peanut chips. Sabra makes this?

Speaker 3 (01:42:18):
What is homicide? Correct?

Speaker 4 (01:42:21):
Around for.

Speaker 5 (01:42:23):
Around for nearly sixty years. Atomic fireball candies are this flavor?

Speaker 3 (01:42:28):
Mandy? Did I get it? What is cinnamon?

Speaker 4 (01:42:31):
Correct?

Speaker 5 (01:42:32):
Originally the green Life Saver in the classic role of
five flavors was lime.

Speaker 4 (01:42:38):
Today it's this flavor.

Speaker 3 (01:42:40):
What is green apple?

Speaker 2 (01:42:41):
Wrong?

Speaker 3 (01:42:43):
Green? What else could green be?

Speaker 4 (01:42:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:42:46):
I have no idea.

Speaker 4 (01:42:47):
What is watermelon? Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:42:49):
That's dumb, stupid?

Speaker 4 (01:42:52):
A fall favorite from Starbucks is this flavor?

Speaker 3 (01:42:55):
What is pumpkins spice?

Speaker 5 (01:42:57):
Ryan?

Speaker 3 (01:42:58):
Shout out, pipil It is to zero back to zero.

Speaker 4 (01:43:03):
In summer twenty thirteen, this pasta favorite from Campbell's, made
the rounds with its first new flavor in twenty years.

Speaker 3 (01:43:09):
Cheeseburger, Mandy, what a Spaghetio's correct? Woo? My daughter was
built of Spaghettio's. That was my only pregnancy craving with Spaghettio's. Yeah,
I had none. I know, I know, not proud pizza,
Gamy Gas and so did A, So did A. When
your pregnant, everything gives you.

Speaker 4 (01:43:27):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (01:43:27):
Oh, it's terrible, It is awful. All right, kids, We
will be back on Monday. Monday is like the first
fall We're really back show because everybody's going back to work.
If you're planning on going to the mountains this weekend,
it is going to be an absolute zoo getting back
on seventy plan accordingly. Hope you guys all have a
great weekend though, because on next week we've got some Actually,

(01:43:50):
I'm trying to get a guest on psychedelic therapy because
that is now a thing in Colorado, and I want
to get someone who under stands it, who can talk
about it, because I think it is very important and
can help people. But I also believe the entire system
is ripe for abuse. So I am kind of like

(01:44:10):
one foot in, one foot out, not sure how this
is going to play out, but I will tell you
that pot legalization has made me far more suspect of
any more legalizations of stuff going forward, We're going to
make room for KOA Sports coming up next. We'll be
back Monday. Have a great weekend everybody, and keep it
right here on KOA