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We have some good stuff on the blog.
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Go to mandyblog dot com doesn't need an s. Mandyblog
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says a Nazi wins the nomination and let's end Iran.
Click on that and here are the headlines you will
find within.
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Me half of American all with ships and clipments of
that's going to.
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Press plant.
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Today on the blog whether Wednesday at twelveth Dirty the
wine Yogi wants to help you celebrate Dad.
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Remember when being.
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A Nazi was bad scrolling. I've got the perfect gift
for Father's Day. The Iran war is back on, I
guess oh, look, proof of voter fraud in LA. Even
the Denver Post is passing on Jannack Griswold. Inflation is
back up over four percent, a new culprit for declining
birth rates the smartphone. Only eleven percent of Europeans view
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the US as an ally right now. Dirty soda is
a bad nutritional choice. Catch him if they can, and
they did. Colorado is number one in high childcare costs.
The WAPO can't see the difference.
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Can you?
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Scrolling? I travel for my brain health? About the Carmelo
Anthony conviction? Why talk therapy doesn't work for everyone? Yes,
the IPCC exaggerates climate change.
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VIC is running.
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Cover for his disastrous Kyle Clark interview stages of being
in a hotel. Welcome to the major's cold carg Jenni
Griswald can't be bothered to debate?
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But why?
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Though those are the headlines on the blog at Mandy
blog dot com.
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Tech two what easily?
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Why?
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Because Nancy stands in unison with me? How dare you
with the last headline? That is not why I sent
you that? I sent you that because that is so awesome?
And here you are poop pooing on my awesome long,
incredibly awesomely long superhero movies.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Hours and thirty minutes long enough? Spider Man? Bring it
three hours, Spider Man.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Go Infinity War endgame, because this new Spider Man looks awesome?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
How dare you it's worth two of them?
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You know what it is? When you get older, you
just have to pee a lot? Anthony? What can I
tell you.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
So that's a you problem, not the movie problem.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
But you know, it makes an inconvenient to go see
these movies in the theater, not that I probably would anyway.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I blah blah blah.
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You want blobbedy blobbity blind birds, We've got. We've got
a full full plate today because of twelve thirty. We
have our favorite meteorologist, Dave Fraser from Fox thirty one
coming up for Weather Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
And then at.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Let's see here we have I think I have interviewed
someone from the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader for probably sixteen
or seventeen years now.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
It's Brian Bloom.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
He has purchased the Bathroom Reader from the prior owner
that I used to interview.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
And what is the Bathroom Reader?
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Oh, it is a delightful gift for someone anyone who
spends a good bit of time in the bathroom before
the era of the smartphone kids. The Uncle John's Bathroom
Reader is a book that is just full of little
let's just say.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Perfectly long in you know, in length.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
As to coincide with the average time spent in the restroom.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Stop it, stop it right now.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
So he is coming on Brian Bloom from the Uncle
John's Bathroom Reader is coming on at one o'clock, and
then the wine Yogi. I challenged the wineyo Guess you
know I noticed something before Mother's Day. There's this flurry
of activity, right, there's a flurry of what are you
gonna get your mom? Did you make your did you
make your brunch preservations?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
You already have brain? Are you going to brunch? What
are you doing? Are you having dinner? You getting flowers?
Are you doing both?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
What are we gonna do for mom? And don't get
me wrong, moms deserve it, but I think.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Dads do too.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
And maybe that's because I'm married to an awesome dad.
So I just think you guys get the short end
of the.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Stick on this.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Now, some women whose husbands are very bad at helping
their kids celebrate Mother's Day right now, or like, Mandy's
shut your pie hole, and I'm deeply sorry that your
husband stinks in that department.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
He could be great in a lot of other areas.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
But no one's perfect, right, But and then you look
at like, uh, here's some gifts for dad. Here, here's
some whiskey glasses, here's some barbecue tools. Oh oh, here's
some golf, golf towels or golf. I mean, okay, so
if you don't drink whiskey, uh barbecue or play golf,
you're just you gotta sit.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
This one out. Dad's just got to send it out.
You'll get what you get.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
You'll love that ballmarker even though you don't play golf.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
It'll be great. Uh win Yogi.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
It came up with some other ideas, and I also
found another list with some really cool gifts for dad,
depending on what your dad would like. But anyway, so
yesterday in Maine there was a primary and a guy
named Graham Platner made it through the Democratic primary against
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the governor of Maine. Even though it has now been
exposed that pretty much everything about his rough and tumbles
story his backstory is a lie. He likes to talk
about his rough and tumble upbringing. In reality, his parents
are wealthy, he went to a twenty five thousand dollars
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year private school, and he also likes to portray himself
as an oyster farmer, except then they found out that
he's not growing oysters for anyone but his mother, who
buys them for her restaurant.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
But that's not all folks now.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Then we find out the guy, while he was in
the Marines got a giant tattoo that is associated with
Nazi concentration camps, but not in the favor of the
people who were victimized in those camps. Nope, dude has
an actual Nazi tattoo on his chest, which, by the way,
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then promptly blacked out, just went as oh, and then
tried to tell people.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I had no idea what that meant.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
I had no clue except then people started coming up
and they were like, uh, yeah, he knew.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
He knew the whole time.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Then we find out that he is a serial cheater
with his wife, who then came out and defended him
for sexting with other women. The dysfunction of that relationship
I don't know, because, by the way, she didn't know.
It's not like they had an open marriage or something. No,
she didn't know, so it was all behind your back.
I mean, this whole thing is such a dumpster fire,
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and the Democrats of Maine just made him the nominee
eerily similar to what I am relatively certain is going
to happen here in Colorado today. Now a rod I
had not seen the latest victor Marx video that he
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put out as a response to what Kyle Clark was
asking him about when it came to a task force
in Florida that rescued several I think maybe I think
it's like forty three.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I don't know the.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Exact number actual children from actual slavery situations, right, sexual slavery.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
And he tried to glom onto that.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
But in the press conference announcing the arrests, the law
enforcement officials thanked twenty six different agencies, ministries, and other
non you know, nonprofit organizations for their help and support.
His was not any part of that, none of it.
So he posts this video. First of all, he actually says,
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you know, Kyle Clark, you know these journalists, well an
they do blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
So he posts this video.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
And in the video, one of the law enforcement officials'
references a Protect Child's Innocence task Force, So they Protect
Child's Innocence task Force. He has a project that is
the Protect Child's in that's the name of his project.
But I spent approximately three seconds on the internet if that,
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and I immediately found out that there is a press
release about a group of law enforcement agencies in Florida
that created a task force called the Protect Child's Innocence
task Force. Victor Marx not mentioned in this press release
at all. I'll just read you the blurb that I grab,
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but I also linked to it so you could go
ahead and see.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
It for yourself. The new task force.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Is a joint effort involving the Leon County Sheriff's Office,
Wakulla County Sheriff's Office, Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, Tallahassee Police Department,
and Homeland Security investigations. According to Colonel Chuck Whaley at
the WCSO, who I left a message for today. By
the way, this will pull and coordinate law enforcement resources
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from across the jurisdiction and the the headline Cotecting Children's
Innocence task Force launches. So what exactly is going on there?
Because not in a single bit of this. Oh my gosh,
you guys, I have to correct the record and myself.
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According to Wayley, the task force is funding an additional
detective in Wacola County at no cost to taxpayers. The
funds for that position, which include benefits, equipment, and a vehicle,
were provided by Colorado Springs based anything as possible ministries.
I owe Victor marks and apology. I will be doing
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that at the bottom of the hour. I didn't read
the whole press release. I saw what I wanted and
I ran with it. That is shoddy work on my fault,
and now I have that on my face. Wow, good
for Victor. Good for Victor. That's one in his camp one.
And how easy was that for him to prove? How
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easy was that pretending that he was in some way
otherwise involved training. When he says we were involved, people think, Wow,
they were on the ground, they were going.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
See this is what he does.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
And I feel bad saying this right now because I
just got something so spectacularly wrong in his favor. But
you take one little part of something and then you
take too much credit. You say we rescued, but then
it turns out you're just giving out teddy Bears things
like that, and it's very purposeful. It's very purposeful. H Anyway,
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I haven't got the text line open, So whoever's texting me,
going nan or nater, I deserve it, Go ahead and
do it. I take it on the chin when I
get it wrong, And boy, did I get this one wrong.
Sometimes even your favorite talk show host has to be
reminded that reading the entire story is necessary.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
And this would have been very, very helpful. And by
the way, I.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Would have shared that with you if I had found
it as well. I want you to know that because
I've said it before.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Many, many, many times.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
I just want to give out the right information, the
correct information, and sometimes, like this, the correct information does
not deliver what I think it delivers. Mandy on the
text line comment spirit text line. I haven't looked at
all of Victor marks and social media, but the stuff
I have seen on Facebook is weird. Nothing but positive
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support comments on Facebook. Either he scrubs the bad comments
from it or he has a ton of idiotic sycophants.
A lot of those accounts and this is not my
work that I'm quoting. There are a lot of people
are doing a deep dive into.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
A lot of stuff right now.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
But I've been told that a lot of the accounts
have shown up directly either around or after he declared
for office, which would indicate that they are paid clientele.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
So you know, you can decide what you want.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
But the statistics on the overwhelming positive comments on Facebook
are pretty ridiculous. When you go to his Twitter page, X,
you can't hide the comment. I mean, you can hide him,
but it's much harder to manipulate the data and manipulate
with bots. And he just gets killed on X when
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he posts, Mandy, are you voting in the primary? Of course,
I'm voting in the primary. I mean, of course, why
wouldn't I vote in the primary? That's a weird question
to ask me? Text or I would like a follow up,
why would you ask me if I was voting in
the primary?
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Of course?
Speaker 5 (14:34):
And I'm going to make educated decisions about every single
race I vote in.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
I'm going to look up the candidates. I'm going to
make sure I understand things by the way. I did
this today just to see as an experiment.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
I opened up chat, GPT, Perplexity AI, and I use
Google Gemini, so I have three ais open at the
same time, and I put in an attack ad that
feel that Michael Bennett has running against Phil Wiser, and
I just linked it to the YouTube channel and I said,
tell me, what part of this is accurate and what
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part isn't? Give me context for the entire ad. I
got to say, all three ais did a pretty dang
good job. I would say Perplexity was the one that
I felt was the least biased. And I didn't use ROC, guys,
I just I opened up the three in my browser,
and I didn't even think about CROC to tell you
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the truth, but Perplexity was the most just even handed,
and it was it was fascinating.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Where if you I would love to tell people.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
You know, it will be great when we can utilize
AI to help us wade through the nonsense of a
political campaign in just the way that I just said.
But I don't trust AI to not scrub the web
in a certain way that would create a political bias
one way or the other. But just for informational purposes,
you know, give me the facts. Just give me the facts, Mandy.
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I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
This is the follow up.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
I only saw a clip, so I didn't get the
whole context. But you and Michael Brown were talking about
no confidence for the candidates. That is, if if Victor
Marx gets to the general election, I may just vote
no confidence. Mark mark the right end ballot and write
no confidence just to send a message. But yeah, I'm
voting in the primary, Mandy. Victor marks himself, states he
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deletes and blocks any negative comments on a social media Okay, ooky, Mandy,
that's okay, We'll give you this one, considering everything else
he said is so absolutely ridiculous, Like has he even
mentioned the fact that he said he was gonna call
on an airstrike on civilian?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
He didn't. He called it in as oh you said
as a civilian. Sorry about that? Sorry about that? So yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Interesting, Well, lesson learn today, Mandy. Just when you think
you're getting too big for your breches, God has a
way of going, hey, let me show you how to
make a fool out of yourself instead.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
It's like, yep, today was my day.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Now when we get back, I have a million things
on the blog. There's been so much good stuff on
the blog in the last few days, and we haven't
gotten to it because there's just been so much. But
when we get back, dare I say we may actually
have the beginning of proof a voter fraud in Los Angeles.
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I mean, real, honest to God people that are saying, yeah,
they gave me two dollars to vote for a Democrat.
And it's not one person, it's a whole bunch of
homeless people on skid row who said, first of all,
they were paid to register to vote, which is illegal,
and then they were.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Paid to vote. They were encouraged to vote for.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Mayor Bass or the other commune, and then they were
given two to four dollars. That's a bargain. I mean,
people that aren't on skid row would probably want more
to sell their vote. Maybe they didn't know they were
committing voter fraud, but I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Mandy.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
I decided to vote with the Democratic ballot since Republicans
have no chance. I want to vote against Jenna and Phil.
You know what I forgot? I was an independent. I'm
gonna get vote ballots. No, I'm voting for Barber. I'm
voting on the Republicans.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
There's some.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
There's some people that on the Republican side that I
am very kind of excited about supporting. So yeah, I'm
gonna be voting on that. Mandy, my spouse switched to
independent in order to vote in the primary. Do they
have to contact the local clerk's office to get a
ballot to vote in the primary. I received my ballot,
but he didn't receive anything. From what I understand, Independents
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are still allowed to vote in primaries. They just have
to choose which ballot Democrat or Republican they want to
vote in. Yeah, I would wait, I mean the ballots
literally just went out Monday, So if you haven't gotten
your ballot by Friday, then I would start to worry.
But he should get two ballots for this primary election.
So yeah, when we get back, let's talk a little
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bit about what's popping up in Los Angeles. And here's
the thing. It's not NBC or ABC News or even
CBS News that is down on skid Row talking homeless people.
It's again citizen journalists, independent journalists who are out there
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hunting down these stories that the news media, the vaunted
fourth Estate, doesn't seem remotely interested in covering. I wish
I thought that was weird. I just at this point
think it's sad. Dave Fraser's Fox thirty Wait, Fox thirty
One's Dave Fraser.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
That was a little I just apparently you own.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Hi, Dave, good afternoon. How you doing on this wedness?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Apparent? Well, you know what's wrong with me right now?
Speaker 5 (20:04):
My socks have slid down the back of my heel
and are halfway off my foot. That is what's happening
in my world right now, Dave Fraser.
Speaker 8 (20:12):
I understand that, knowing as that can be, I get it.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
It's nice out though a little warm. What are we
looking at for the next week or so.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Yeah, so we've got a nice cold front coming in.
Today will be calm.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
We don't have any storms in the forecast, just the sunny,
warm day. Temperatures today should be very similar to yesterday.
Yesterday Denver topped out it. I believe eighty eight will
be right there at eighty eight, eighty nine degrees, no
cloud cover, maybe a couple out on the eastern plants.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Tonight, we got a cold front coming in, so for
a few hours tonight.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
The cold front will come in from north to south
and it'll get a little breezy to windy fifteen twenty five.
You'll notice the wind, but then it will lay down.
Right now, temperatures in Montana Wyoming are in the mid
upper sixties.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I don't think we'll.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Cool that much, but we'll be down into.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
The mid to upper seventies tomorrow and a beautiful sunny day. Really,
Tomorrow just looks gorgeous, Just an unbelievable sunny, cool, comfortable day. Friday,
we're back close to ninety and then we're.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Tracking some pretty good rain chances.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Saturday's hit and miss, but Sunday and Monday looked really
promising for rain, and we may only be in the
sixties for sixties comes Sunday and Monday. Yeah, nice cold
front coming our way. Good chance to pick up a
quarter a third, and I'm seeing half things totals possible
come Sunday Monday. That would be awesome given the fact
that we've been you know, we'll be dry for two
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or three days before that.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
And thank you for telling me to bring in my
plants the other day.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
We got we got shelled with hale the other day.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
So my husband came through and brought in all my
plants and they all survived and they all look wonderful.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Now, I got to tell you, Dave, you sound.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Almost giddy when you talk about those potential rainfall totals.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Are we gaining it all on our drought?
Speaker 8 (21:55):
No, we're not.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
We're inching. You were slowly inching.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Any moisture depending on you know, when it comes to
like if we go seven ten days dry and we
get a little bit of moisture, probably doesn't move the needle.
We're not moving the needle substantially. Pretty much all of
Colorado is in some level of drought. But the good
news is, and we talked about this for weeks and weeks.
You go back to March and how dry it was
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and how warm it was with all the eighty degree days,
and everybody was all concerned about fire danger and what
the spring and the rest of the summer would look like.
And I've always said, you.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
Know, you can't give up on a season.
Speaker 8 (22:31):
You gotta wait. And so we got into the growing season,
and April gave us a little boost, and then May
was very promising, and we all saw the results.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Of the May rain.
Speaker 8 (22:39):
It didn't rain the whole month, but it rained enough.
And now we've got this green or you know looking
I mean even the natural grasses and the sage brush
and everything looks really good.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
But we're still in a drought condition. What I like about,
and I'm smiling about, is that we're.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
At least introducing a chance for rain about every three days.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
So, yes, it's hot, dry, and I.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
Don't want things to dry out, and I don't want
the fire danger in the conversation.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
To come back.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
And we do have a red flag warning today for
high fire Dingji because of the wind. Mainly because of
the wind. However, I like the rain that I'm seeing ahead,
and then we'll go drive for a couple more days
and I'm.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Seeing additional rain next Thursday.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
The following weekend also looks soggy.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I like that pattern.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Well, I like it, except I'm going to see Paul
Simon this weekend. So am I going to be okay
on Saturday night? Is that going to be? Am I
going to get rained on?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Is it going to be another Steely Dan situation?
Speaker 8 (23:33):
I don't think so. I think Saturday storms are scattered
and there will be in the typical timeframe of about
two to six up and down the I twenty five
quarter maybe seven o'clock and they're gone. So for an
evening concert, you know, maybe the beginning of it's a
little you know, you might get a rain dropper too,
and maybe it's a little breezy, But overall, I think
the evening itself should be fine.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Saturday yay.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
So I've got a question from one of our listeners.
Good afternoon, Mandy. I have a question for mister Fraser
on Fox One. I've always wondered how do high wind
warnings work. Take for example, today there's sixty five mile
an hour cross winds between Cheyenne and Torington, but there's
no high wind warning. In the wintertime, there would be
a high wind warming.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
It seems.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Thanks, So explain the high wind warnings, what kicks that
in and is it different season to season.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
It's not different season the season it is.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
It is different.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
It's based on the parameters of the land. And I
think the low end threshold is actually sixty mile per hour.
So if you only have some areas that are dealing
with that, in other words, it's a limited area, they're
probably not going to put out a whole watch for
that or a warning for that. I do know right
now that I'm just looking at the maps right now
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that there is a high wind watch from six o'clock
this morning through this afternoon, and it does include areas
along the Interstate eighty up into Wyoming, so the Laramie
Range and those areas to the north. Is some high
wind advisories in those areas for the wind. But no,
it doesn't change season. The season you want sixty plus
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seventy eighty, you got to start to get into that
kind of wind and then you're going to get a
high wind warning for damaging winds.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Okay, speaking of warnings, Denver got quite the shock when
the tornado warnings went off. How does that process work?
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Dave?
Speaker 9 (25:24):
So?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
What should have happened?
Speaker 8 (25:26):
As we all know that that was a mistake at
the city admitted that they said it was.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
A human error.
Speaker 8 (25:34):
Someone manually triggered the sirens that are meant to be
heard outdoors for tornado warnings and or other emergencies where
you're supposed to take shelter and get inside. It was
an error. It's frustrating for that to happen. Generally, what
should happen is the National Weather Service would be the
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responsible party for triggering a warning for the Denver count
the area that would automatically then trigger the sirens alerting
people to head inside.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
It's a little frustrating that the mistake happened.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
And because it's human era, I don't want to see
somebody losing their job. But the city has stepped up
and said that they took responsibility for it. They're going
to look into it and see if they can fix it.
There were a couple other instances early this year where
the sirens went off for different reasons, not weather related.
What was frustrating to a lot of meteorologists was couldn't
have happened on a work it happened on a sunny day.
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If that had happened on a sunny day, everybody would
have just ignored it and gone on.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
But we were under thunderstorm warnings.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
We did have a tornado watch, meaning conditions are possible
for tornadoes, but there was no imminent threat.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Of an actual tornado. Here's what I will say.
Speaker 8 (26:46):
If you heard those alarms and you reacted correctly, and
you went inside and kind of made sure that there
wasn't anything threatening from weather, Sorry that you were inconvenience,
but at least you did the right thing. We're owned
the mistake and let's hope it doesn't happen in the future.
But we as meteorologists we fight a lot these days
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on social media and other venues where misinformation or bad
information is being given out, and we'ren't trying to be
that calm voice.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Through all that noise.
Speaker 8 (27:18):
Yeah, and make sure that viewers and listeners. Your listeners
are viewers, people who follow us on our digital.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Platforms and social platforms.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
Are getting the right correct most accurate information we can provide,
and that just didn't help.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
So running around in front of the green screen yelling
We're all going to die isn't part of the plan
over there at Fox thirty one.
Speaker 8 (27:40):
Right. The sky is falling, the sky is falling. But
what we try and avoid all the time is the
boy you cried wolf.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Yeah, that's the situation, right.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
I mean, living in Florida, I'll tell you, hurricane fatigue
is real. And when you have, like in a really
active hurricane season, where you have three or four storms
that have come asure you know, and then you have
ten storms that they tell you are going to come
ashore and they don't, you just get sick of it.
You just are like, I don't care if the house
blows down, I'm not leaving.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
And that's when things get bad.
Speaker 8 (28:10):
Well, you know, and you know that not only from
the repetition of fatigue, but also from the Okay, we're
gonna it's a category two. We should be doing this,
this and this, and you do everything, and you follow
the instructions, and the category two goes by and you go, huh,
that wasn't so bad. And so the next one comes
along and you're like, well, the last one wasn't a
big deal. What's the big deal this time? And this
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one actually does a lot more damage. So that's what
we fight, right. We want to make sure we're giving
out the information.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
And by the way, I don't like telling people.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
What to do. I like providing information as detailed as
I can, as specific and as accurate, more pinpointed to
time and place as I can. And then I'm hoping
that information is received and then people act on it accordingly.
You know, we have this term called be weather ready. Yeah,
and so hopefully people are paying attention to the message.
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Hopefully they're getting the message from the right source.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Dave, you can bring him to a horse to water,
but you can't make them think. Dave Fraser from Fox
thirty one. I'll talk to you next week, my friend.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
I have a great rest with the YouTube.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
I mean, there's been a significant edit on the blog.
Uh And I corrected myself and I apologized to Victor
Marks on X because I made a stupid, dumb ass mistake.
Because you know what I did. I saw something that
confirmed my bias and I didn't keep reading. So you know,
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I'd love to tell you I'm infallible, but you could
just ask Chuck.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
He'll clarify that that's not really a thing.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
But I do want to own it when I made
a mistake, and Mandy, I thought, you want to know
that the link to your blog on eight fifty KOA
is not active. Also, although I am subscribed to your
sub sac, I'm not receiving the blog in my email.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Dennis, you got to make sure that your.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
Email settings are on in your in your account in
subsec and I'm sorry about that. I realized this is
a big change we've asked you to make, and I
appreciate all of you who have jumped on.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Board with that. Aron, are you down with.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
This dirty soda thing? Do you know what this is?
Speaker 4 (30:16):
This sounds awful to me. By the way, again, I've
heard the phrase it is. It's like, wait, hang on
in a second.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
It's a It's a soda, a soft drink of some
kind that includes a combination of added ingredients such as
flavored syrups, creamers, fruit juices.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
And other garnishes. What I have heard of this that
sounds awful to me. Why why would you do any
of that?
Speaker 5 (30:40):
And you're taking something that already has an insane amount
of sugar. I guess you could do it with a
diet drink, and then you're adding more sugar to it.
When I was a flight attendant back in the day,
I was working a flight one time and it was
a flight out of Mexico and there was a like
several women with very small babies. The babies were still
on the bottle and the women when I came down
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the aisle, I was expecting a request for milk or something.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
No, they asked for orange juice and then ask for packets.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
Of sugar, put it in the orange juice in the
model and fed their babies. And I was like, holy smokes,
what is happening right now? But nonetheless, if you're hearing
this dirty soda trend, dirty sodas can easily deliver two
hundred and fifty to four hundred calories and up to
seventy grams of sugar in a single drink.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
That is so much added sugar. Yeah yeah, And I mean,
is it.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Any wonder in the United States of America that we
are all fat?
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Have y'all been to crumble cookie? I mean have you?
Speaker 5 (31:47):
And now, because you know, donuts are not bad enoughing
by bad.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
I mean so so so good.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
Now we're gonna come up and take something that is
already loaded with sugar and add more sugar to it.
It's a mystery while we're all so big, it's.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
It's just it's so confusing.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
No one's ever gonna be able to figure that one
out anyway. When we get back, are we gonna talk
to Brian at one?
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Is he at one or one thirty? When did we
schedule thirty? Okay? Great?
Speaker 5 (32:21):
So I can talk about the Iran War because I
think it's back on. This Iran War is turning out
to be like a toxic relationship where everybody else knows
it needs to end one way or the other, but
the people directly involved are like, no, we can work
it out.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
No we can't. You're awful.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Trump is beginning, I think to understand that Iran is
never gonna come to the table in any meaningful way.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Does this mean the end? We'll see. I got a
bunch of stuff on that and more coming up next.
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I am your host, Mandy Connell. That guy is Anthony Rodriguez.
Speaker 7 (33:31):
Bday, Susan, Happy birthday, Susan.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Why can you get near us? She's down in the
urey right. Oh no, oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
You may be at her son's wedding. Not to give
you too much information about Susan's life, but she's getting
to have wedding cake. So last hour I mentioned these
dirty soda things that I have a story on the
blog today and I got the link wrong initially, but
I fixed it. And then when you take a soda
and you add all these the stuffed it listen to this.
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A texture just texted me this and I was like,
that cannot be right, but yet it is correct.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Crumble Cookies.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
It was also in the chat new customizable Crazy Cousins
thirty two ounce beverage a massive drink that is a
blend of mountain dew and red Bull combined with pineapple
and strawberry pures and topped with coconut cream. It has
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are you Ready, ladies and germs thirty two ounce beverage.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
It has.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
One hundred and eighty six grams of sugar.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
That is the.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Equivalent of guess how many teaspoons Anthony of sugar?
Speaker 4 (34:51):
Guess how many forty.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Six forty six grams of sugar?
Speaker 4 (34:58):
What the actuable bit?
Speaker 5 (35:01):
Anyway, the Iran War's back on. In case you missed it,
listen to this. Can I get my audio please, Anthony.
This is President Trump talking today about Iran.
Speaker 9 (35:14):
I've been working with around for a number of months
and nation, so I did you.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
It's a good deal.
Speaker 9 (35:25):
It doesn't give them the right to have a nuclear weapon.
In fact, it totally prohibits them from ever having a
nuclear weapon. And it was just tap, tap tap. I
don't know what they're doing. So they then shout out
a shot at or helicopter. Very expensive helicopter, by the way,
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but much more importantly the two men. Fortunately they're okay,
but an amazing rescue. If you ever get a clip,
you won't believe the rescue.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Cool.
Speaker 9 (35:56):
It was the equipment we have. Look, we have the
strongest military in the world, and I gave them a
break at the request of Pakistan, the Field Marshall and
the Prime Minister of Pakistan Grave.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
We stopped them from.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Going to war within there, you would have had a
nuclear war.
Speaker 9 (36:12):
But it wasn't for me. But they became friendly to me,
very friendly, and they did close to Iran and they
work and they still are working and try them to
do what's right. But we want to deal. This is meaningful.
We want a deal that works. We don't want to
just have a baroque Hussein Obama deal. JCPOA the worst deal.
That was a path to a nuclear It's the exact topic,
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you know, I like on television said, oh they should
have kept that deal. First of all was over. It
was a short term deal. But that deal was a
path to a nuclear weapon. This is a path against
you can't have a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
His was a path to a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 9 (36:52):
They were developing during his administration, nuclear weapon. If they
had a nuclear weapon, they'd be no Israel, there'd be
no Middle East, and they would have absolutely shot at us.
So we'll see what happens. But we hit them hard
yesterday and we're going to hit him again hard today
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in case you missif in case you don't turn on
your television set, and we'll see what happens with the deal.
We're really close to a deal, but they keep tapping
us along, they keep playing us for suckers, because you
know what they dealt with some very stupid presidents.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
I have to say that.
Speaker 9 (37:28):
I'm embarrassed to say it. Some very stupid people were sitting.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
Here and that is from earlier today.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
But it gets better.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
It gets better, ladies and germs, because the President lets
something slip that he could not let slip before now
and I love the way he presented this.
Speaker 9 (37:46):
You know, I can say it now something you did not.
You know, we've been taking out millions of barrels of oil.
Nobody knows it. You know who doesn't know about it,
Iran until right now. We took out the other night,
twenty two ships late at night with no lights because
they don't have any radar because we've blasted the crap
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out of it. We took out this way. Oil is
eighty five dollars a barrel. You know I can say.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
I mean, apparently Iran found out that we took their oil,
and so now he's all excited he can talk to it.
He said in a different part of the press conference.
It was killing me not to talk about this, but
we're taking their royal But now they know, so we
can talk about it. Iran's has no intention of doing
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a deal of any sort. Iran is tap tap tapping
him along exactly right. I'm glad he's finally hit to that.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
No one can.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
Say that he has not tried with the rogue nation
of Iran. What's interesting, And I think I had this
on yesterday's blog. I don't know if I put it
on there or not. In the Arab press, there's a
lot being talked about that the Grand Pooba, the mushja Ayatola,
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the Gayetola, as we can refer to him, who no one,
by the way, is scene.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
Since he's been elevated to the status.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
Many people think he's like in a coma and they
can't find a guy who looks enough like him yet
like they did in the movie Dave. But fully expect
as soon as that casting is done we'll see him appear.
But so far he hasn't made an appearance. But they
said there's no connection between the Mullahs and the military
right now in Iran.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
That is not good news, not at all, not for
the Iranian people for sure. So I don't know who
we have been negotiating with. I really don't.
Speaker 5 (39:41):
It's starting to resemble a little bit in this situation,
the Palestinian situation, where you have Hamas in Gaza and
you have the PLO running the West Bank, and those
two they.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
Don't get along.
Speaker 5 (39:54):
They don't share the same vision other than killing Israelis
and Jews. So it's very fractured. So who exactly are
we negotiating with? But I'm at the point now where
I think that if we don't go ahead and proceed
and proceed quickly end this and the Iranian regime, what's
left of it. Israel knows where every single one of
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those people are. Israel knows when they go take a dump,
Israel nos when they take a nap. Israel knows when
they go to bed, they know if they snore. They
know everything. They've demonstrated it over and over and over again. Really,
I just wish the President would be like, call up
BB and be like, Bibe, you know what, go dog,
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just go.
Speaker 4 (40:39):
We've got your back. Let Israel proceed.
Speaker 5 (40:43):
Let them fight this war, because they can get it
done if we just allow them and stop telling them
how they can prosecute a war for their very existence.
That's the part that's killing me. They're so it's so
interesting to me to watch people on the right mostly,
although I'm sure it happens on the left as well.
I just don't pay as close attention the people on
the right who are anti Israel, who genuinely believe that
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Benjamin net Nahu is calling all the shots.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
If you go to.
Speaker 5 (41:10):
Israeli media, they are in the exact same camp that
it's Donald Trump who's calling all the shots, and Bibe
is just, you know, basically a puppet. So depending on
how you're against this relationship in this war depends on
who you think is in charge.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
Of the puppets show.
Speaker 5 (41:29):
I think that Israel has been very constrained and very restrained.
Speaker 4 (41:35):
They probably told.
Speaker 5 (41:37):
Trump that no matter what he said about Lebanon, they
were going to keep fighting Hesbela, because the thing you
guys have to understand is that Israel is relentlessly attacked
from the north and the south, and it's coming from
the south, it's Amas.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
If it's coming from the north, it's Hesbela.
Speaker 5 (41:51):
They have dismantled so much of Hamas right now, and
with Iran in the situation they're in, I don't think
they're re arming Hamas as quickly as they would like,
because now they're focusing their attention on Hesbealah because it
is still intact somewhat.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
Israel knows this.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
They know that this is the best chance they've ever
had to knock out these proxies. And if they knock
out the proxies, but Iran is left to stand as
it is now, the proxies will just be rearmed again.
And this is something Trump has to understand that and
that's the part that gets me. That's the part I
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really don't understand. We're in a place in the Middle
East where the Arab states who are looking around and saying, wow,
we can have nice things.
Speaker 4 (42:37):
Look at Dubai, look.
Speaker 5 (42:39):
At that they have taurusts that are coming here and
bringing dollars in money and all kinds of stuff. And
we can create an economy that isn't necessarily oil based,
and we can do these things to create a vibrant
environment where our people can flourish.
Speaker 4 (42:53):
That's happening now, not in Iran and.
Speaker 5 (42:56):
Not in places like a rock at Afghanistan, mind you,
but it's happening in.
Speaker 4 (43:01):
The Middle East. This is an opportunity.
Speaker 5 (43:03):
This is a moment in time that if you can
just take advantage of it and.
Speaker 4 (43:08):
The murderous regime in Iran.
Speaker 5 (43:10):
Free ninety million Iranian people, allow them in the next
two years to hold free and fair elections to determine
their own fate, but also let them know that we're
not going to put up with more terrorists in charge.
At some point, you gotta say enough is enough. It
makes me it's disheartening to see the way people are
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reacting to this war. I totally understand it. Nobody wants
to be enough forever.
Speaker 4 (43:35):
War again. This is what I'm saying. Do it, end it,
get it done now.
Speaker 5 (43:40):
Just pursue the war. Don't give anybody time to rearm.
That's all these that's all this lollygagging. Is I have
something on the blog today that's enough of that. Oh
you know what, let me check. Hi, Mandy, I'm with you.
Let's finish this with a I'm looking for a pe
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opposing opinion.
Speaker 4 (44:03):
Mandy. Who are we the negotiating with? Then?
Speaker 5 (44:06):
Why does Israel need the US support? Please explain it
like a ten year old. I talked about this yesterday,
and I understand people who are tired of wars around
the world. I absolutely understand that the people that are
truly just for lack of a better way to put it,
isolationists in their view. I am mostly isolationists, but there
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are other ramifications from our support for Israel. First of all,
if Israel stop fighting and we stop supporting them, they
would fight to the death and millions of Israelis would
be murdered and Jews would be murdered. I'm not okay
with that. We've already seen that movie. We already know
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how it ends. When Jews are specifically targeted for extermination,
Usually it's by people who are pretty good at exterminating Jews. Luckily,
the Arabs in the Middle East haven't been that.
Speaker 4 (44:59):
Good at it. They've been outflanked mostly.
Speaker 5 (45:04):
You have to realize this. This is my main position.
In places like Iran, in places where Islamists are in power.
Israel is the little Satan. That's what they call them,
the little Satan all the time. They call it the
little Satan. Why because the United States is the big Satan.
What do you think is going to happen if they
finally get their way and finally get.
Speaker 4 (45:25):
The Jews out of Israel. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5 (45:28):
If you are a Christian, I have no faith that
all of your religious holy sites would be somehow destroyed
if Israel fell. I'm no doubt extremists have already shown
what they.
Speaker 4 (45:40):
Will do with other faiths.
Speaker 5 (45:41):
They have no respect, none whatsoever, as evidenced by the
fact that the aloxam osque right on top of a
Jewish temple. So in my mind, this is the long game,
and Americans suck. We suck so bad at playing the
long game. As soon as Israel is gone, all tension
focuses on the United States.
Speaker 4 (46:02):
There's nothing else.
Speaker 5 (46:04):
Nowhere else because if you haven't been paying attention, they're
conquering Europe without firing a shot. They're sending wave after
wave after wave of young military age men to Europe.
And if you haven't seen what's happening in Belfast, Ireland
right now. I didn't put it on the blog today
because I was like, well, it's Belfast. I mean, it's
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far away, but it's fascinating what's going on in Europe overall.
They're riots right now in Belfast because a Sudanese immigrant
tried to chop the head off of an irishman in
the street. And they have hit maximum overload for Muslim
and Middle Eastern immigrants and they're fighting back. And don't
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take this to mean that I encourage the kind of
lawless behavior as you know, crowds moving through streets looking
for immigrants.
Speaker 4 (46:59):
I do not support that at all.
Speaker 5 (47:01):
But what I do support is people demanding that governments
actually do stump something to stop this unfettered immigration, because
now in multiple countries there are no go zones where
police simply refuse to go. I read a story yesterday
in Belgium.
Speaker 4 (47:17):
Belgium is just.
Speaker 5 (47:19):
The most charming, beautiful little European country. It is lovely.
But in Belgium they have foreign fighters who are now
running human trafficking rings, and they have these armed guys. Now,
gun control in Belgium is out of control. You can't
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get a gun in Belgium unless you really need one.
Except there are now armed Middle Eastern men protecting the
areas where the boats are coming in with the illegal immigrants,
and they're protecting it in such a manner that the
police will not venture to those parts of the shore.
How is that not and in Asian by a foreign force.
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How do you not have to look at that and go, well,
we've ceded that territory to the enemy. Where's the Belgian military. Oh,
they don't have one. I mean they have one, but
it's not much of one interesting story on the blog today,
I saw this headline and of course I had to.
Speaker 4 (48:19):
Click on it.
Speaker 5 (48:20):
Only eleven percent of Europeans now view US as an.
Speaker 4 (48:24):
Ally, poll shows.
Speaker 5 (48:27):
But if you read a little bit something I did
do in this article, a new survey shows that only
eleven percent of Europeans across fifteen countries consider the United
States an ally, marking a record low in transatlantic relations.
The figure represents a decline from sixteen percent six months ago.
And here's the number that matters, twenty two percent in
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November of twenty twenty four, So this number has not
been great for some time.
Speaker 4 (48:59):
The Pole also.
Speaker 5 (49:00):
Found this is great. I love this this part of it.
The poll found forty seven percent of respondents across the
regions support collective EU borrowing to fund defense initiatives. Portugal
recorded the highest level of support at fifty nine percent,
followed by Denmark at fifty six percent and the Netherlands at.
Speaker 4 (49:20):
Fifty five percent.
Speaker 5 (49:21):
Most Europeans favor reducing dependence on US military equipment and
purchasing European alternatives instead.
Speaker 4 (49:28):
Do they even have.
Speaker 5 (49:30):
European alternatives to the kind of hardware we have here
a genuine question do they I know they make great jets,
you know they have they have a really nice you know,
aircraft division. Poland was the only country where a majority
favored increasing purchases of US weapons. Germany and Italy and
Hungary showed significant division on this issue. Opposition to cutting
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domestic spending to fund higher defense budgets remained strong in
Italy at sixty three percent, Austria at fifty nine percent,
and Germany.
Speaker 4 (50:06):
At fifty six percent.
Speaker 5 (50:08):
See this is where you get to see what is
really going on in Germany, Germany. Excuse me, Europe. And
by the way, you guys, I say this to someone
who absolutely loves Europe. And when I travel I have
the most lovely conversations with Europeans. We talk about all
kinds of stuff. Sometimes they want to talk about Trump,
sometimes they don't. But this is again what the government
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is doing. The European people don't want to give up
their nice benefits to fund their own defense.
Speaker 4 (50:40):
And yet they look at us and say, oh.
Speaker 5 (50:43):
They're not our ally, We're the ones putting the bill
for everything, or not their ally.
Speaker 4 (50:49):
Where their benefactor.
Speaker 5 (50:51):
They can't possibly, they cannot possibly in any way, shape
or form, match what our military brings to the table ever,
and yet we're supposed to be like, oh my god,
Europe doesn't think we're an ally anymore. I'd love to
ask a mayor, do you think Europe has been freeloading
off of us?
Speaker 7 (51:10):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (51:10):
The answer is yes, a thousand times yes. This is
another fantastic part of this poll. Most respondents continue to
view Ukraine as an ally or strategic partner, but support
weekends for sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine after the war
or expanding EU membership eastward. So we love you Ukraine,
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you guys, big ups your Rome love you. Oh wait, no,
we're not going to send our soldiers there now. We
don't have them, many can't possibly have them running around Ukraine?
Speaker 4 (51:46):
What is that?
Speaker 5 (51:48):
Europeans want to believe that they are our equal and
they clearly are not in any way, shape or form
other than cultural. Europe knocks our socks off simply because
they're just way way way older, way way way older,
and they sort of started when people built buildings meant
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to last, unlike here, where a lot of our buildings feel.
Speaker 4 (52:13):
A little bit. Eh, what's the word I'm looking for?
Streo disposable, Mandy.
Speaker 5 (52:23):
We were in last summer surprised to hear from all
of our Uber drivers, legal immigrants themselves, how much they
supported Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (52:30):
They spoke about how illegal.
Speaker 5 (52:32):
Immigration causing all kinds of trouble in their country, and
they wanted politicians to pay attention and do something about it.
Speaker 4 (52:38):
Exactly.
Speaker 5 (52:40):
Kanafi said, Europe would be conquered without firing a shot,
all through mass immigration, and that is what's happening right now.
But now people in Belfast, people in other parts of Europe,
they're saying, enough is enough.
Speaker 4 (52:52):
We don't want our.
Speaker 5 (52:53):
Culture overtaken by people who demand tolerance while being utterly
intolerant of everything they claim to migrate too. I've interviewed
someone from the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, and today that
someone is Brian Uncle John Bloom, and he is cared
to talk about what I always say is the perfect
gift for Dad and Brian, I want to share with
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you what happened in my household. My husband enters the
restroom and he says, and I quote, dang it, I
forgot my phone. And I said, right behind you is
the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. It's not like in the
olden days where we had to read the back of
the can of lightesol. Now we've got quality literature that
can sit right on the back of the toilet.
Speaker 4 (53:34):
Brian, welcome the show.
Speaker 10 (53:36):
Oh thanks for having me out. Yeah, I mean the
phone is for the rest of the day. Just take
that moment of solace in there and educate yourself, learn something,
and you know better yourself. A little bit for my
listeners that have not heard of the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.
Speaker 5 (53:51):
Series, tell the folks kind of give me the lure.
Tell me the story of how this came to be.
Speaker 10 (53:58):
It is the biggest, greatest, most robust, variety laden trivia.
Speaker 4 (54:05):
Book on the planet.
Speaker 10 (54:06):
Basically, back in nineteen eighty eight, our original Uncle John,
John Davna was stuck in a bathroom with nothing to read,
and he said this must be a problem for other
people too, So he launched this trivia book series, and
they just kept getting bigger and bigger every year to
where I'm the third Uncle John now. But we keep
putting these books out and they are designed to where
you can flip them open at random and find whatever
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you need to get you through your captive moment, your
dead time, your downtime.
Speaker 4 (54:34):
We cover everything.
Speaker 10 (54:35):
There's history, science, origins, word origins, wordplay, jokes, I'll culture, music,
everything you want, and then just stuff you didn't even
know you wanted to know.
Speaker 4 (54:45):
Anything about it.
Speaker 10 (54:45):
You know, maybe you don't know much about nature, and
then you'll find an article about nature or so, and
then everything is short, so you don't need to commit
a whole lot of time too.
Speaker 4 (54:54):
It's just fun, fun stuff about the world around you.
Speaker 5 (54:57):
If you want to be one of the most interesting
people at a cocktail party, this is your book because
it doesn't just give you a trivia question and answer situation.
It is actually good sized blurbs about various things. And
because it's good sized blurbs, you get enough knowledge to
make yourself look super smart if somebody asks God for
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going to follow up question. But I love the sort
of random nature of what you find. How do you
guys edit this book? Because sometimes it feels like you
must just throw a bunch of stories on the table
and start picking it up and going, okay, this is
page one, this is page two.
Speaker 4 (55:34):
How do you put the book together?
Speaker 10 (55:37):
I mean, best laid plans the book that we think
we're going to do at the beginning of the process
is a lot different than the book.
Speaker 3 (55:43):
That we end up making, because we we go down.
Speaker 10 (55:45):
Rabbit holes or a story is much bigger than we
think it is, or you know, we'll start to you know,
find little things like, oh, this story can actually match
up with this story and things like that, where you know,
we'll find one story about you know, a funny robot,
and then you know, you'll you'll just start to do a.
Speaker 4 (56:00):
Little research and find ten more stories about that.
Speaker 10 (56:02):
So it's just a matter of you know, what comes
across the desks for us, and then what people send us,
and then what we seek out. And we've got a
huge research library, and we were on the internet. We
get magazines, newspapers, people send us things. So it's just
kind of, you know, just kind of let have to
let it take shape.
Speaker 4 (56:21):
It's kind of let it be a breathing thing.
Speaker 5 (56:24):
Do you ever have an experience in real life that
teaches you something and you immediately go, oh, my gosh,
that has to go in the book, like just a
random piece of information.
Speaker 10 (56:33):
Oh yeah, absolutely all the time, you know, you know,
my little cousin, well cousin's kid offered me a you know,
a PEZ the other day, just like you peace of candy.
I'm like, oh, PEZ dispensers. Why do I never How
have I never written about pets dispensers and so as?
So I get on and then you know, find you know.
Speaker 4 (56:52):
Ten thousand facts about pays.
Speaker 10 (56:53):
So then I get to write a PEZ article or
just you know, just I see the world around me
and I'll, you know, write an article about you, like
a you know, like a KNDy cane, like there's there's
a reason candy canes are shaped the where they are,
or pretzels, you know, started off as a as a
treat for for for kids in Catholic school because it
resembles like praying arms. So there's there's just always something
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I'm stumbling on that I'm like, oh, that's a great
bathroom read article. So I write it down in my
in my notes app and then uh, yet after it
later is.
Speaker 5 (57:23):
It hard to get great information? I mean, it seems
like now we live in this kind of disinformation as
And the best example I have is how many quotes
have we attributed to the wrong person? You know, how
how many quotes are being attributed falsely? Is it more
difficult to verify what you guys have in the book
is true?
Speaker 3 (57:44):
Sometimes?
Speaker 10 (57:45):
Yeah, it's you know, every quote is attributed to either
the Art of War or Mayor or Minroe right or
or FDRC.
Speaker 4 (57:53):
Yeah there as there you go.
Speaker 10 (57:55):
Nobody else ever said anything anything funny is always Mark Twain.
Speaker 3 (57:59):
But yeah, you got, you got.
Speaker 10 (58:00):
You got to look for as much more information that
there is out there and more places to find it.
Speaker 3 (58:06):
Uh, it's got.
Speaker 10 (58:08):
You gotta do more sourcing and fact checking and and
verification of things. But generally things turned out to say
about ninety five percent of the time things turned out
to be to be true. Honestly, there's just always more
story there lurking below. The one fact that gets you
into a subject. Then you and then instead of writing
one paragraph about something, I'm writing a four page article
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about it.
Speaker 5 (58:31):
This year's book is Uncle John's Know It All Bathroom Reader,
Superior Trivia, Amazing Facts and Figures.
Speaker 4 (58:37):
That's the whole title. I want to make sure I
got it all in there.
Speaker 5 (58:40):
I always mention this when I do this interview, and
I mean it. I have an eight year old grandson
who doesn't love to read, so We're going on a
family vacation in July. I've already started marking stories in
this bathroom Reader that I think he will enjoy because
I'm trying to get him over that not liking to
read help. And I think some of these ever stories
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are perfect for kids that maybe don't love to read
because they're having to read stuff they don't like, adults
that don't love to read, adults whose attention spans have
been whittled down to that of a goldfish because of algorithms.
This is the book for you. What is your favorite
story in this year's book.
Speaker 10 (59:19):
I think my favorite story, my favorite long story is
about those burma shaved billboards that used to be everywhere
in America. Just like that turned into this, you know
this epic story about the history of advertising. But I
think my favorite nugget is about one of my favorite
baseball players, Mike Piazza. He was drafted last, dead last
in the nineteen eighty eight draft, kind of as a joke.
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His father was friends with Tommy lasorda manager of the Dodgers,
so lesorda draft use their their you know nothing, drafted
their garbage pick to pick to pick this guy garbage
pick to pick this guy who's playing at a community
college in Florida that nobody had heard of, just as
a favor, as a just a kind thing to his
this print. And then it turned out the guy that
never ready heard.
Speaker 4 (01:00:02):
Of was tremendous.
Speaker 10 (01:00:04):
So it's just a it's just an inspirational story about
being overlooked and and then he just worked his way
through the farm system and became an All Star and
a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 5 (01:00:12):
That's pretty amazing. That is pretty amazing. Brian Boon, Brian,
Uncle John Bood. You guys are also doing a big
fat giveaway on your website.
Speaker 10 (01:00:19):
I see we are, Yeah, go to We have a
brand new website with lots and lots of great stuff
on there, our articles from our books, brand new stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:00:28):
All the time.
Speaker 10 (01:00:29):
But if you go there right now a bathroomreader dot
com bathroom reader dot com, you can win a library
of ten old, vintage, brand new bathroom readers that are
out of print, that haven't been a scene in bookstores
for a long time. And you can you can win
yourself a little starter bathroom reader library that way.
Speaker 5 (01:00:47):
I'm just gonna say I already own most of these,
just to let you know, yeah, I'm just.
Speaker 4 (01:00:52):
Sit people wonder.
Speaker 5 (01:00:53):
I do a dumb trivia game at the end of
the show every day and everybody's like, you're so good
at them. It's because I read books like this, uh, Brian,
and I appreciate you making time today. I put a
link to bathroomreader dot com. Bathroom reader dot com. You
can buy the book that's out now. You can buy
any other book, but do it. This is a great
Father's Day gift. It's just quirky and nerdy and often
(01:01:15):
there's some good dad joke material in here. I'm just
throwing that out there. So, Brian, I really appreciate your
time today.
Speaker 10 (01:01:22):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (01:01:23):
I appreciate you having me on the show.
Speaker 5 (01:01:24):
Thanks so much, No problem, that is, Brian. Uncle John Boone,
thanks so much. We'll see you next year. Man, Thank
you all right, that is a fantastic gift. I'll be
right back, guys. I do want to mention that we
are in primary season. Steve Hilton made it through the
primary in California. He will be on the ballot as
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a Republican in California. Now this as we are beginning
to see how the fraud works in LA fascinating story,
you know, I keep saying. I'm not saying and there's
not voter fraud. What I'm saying is we need proof. Well,
guess what, my friends, guess what. Actual journalists went down
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to skid Row and they asked homeless people who they
voted for, and guess what they found out. Homeless people
were paid to vote for the Democrats. The California Post,
which is an arm of the New York Post, obtained
copies of the videos after they were published Tuesday on
(01:02:32):
the TikTok account Lane needs Spencer Pratt. The footage, recorded
near Seventh Street and Flower Street in downtown Los Angeles
on Tuesday morning, has since been provided to the Department
of Justice. It all also follows the Post revelations that
thousands of homeless voters were registered to shelters where they
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did not live. One shelter in Venice where one hundred
and eighty five Ramen voters were registered. She is the
woman that after election day, we are supposed to believe
that almost all of the ballots that came in in
the mail were only for her. Only one shelter where
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one hundred and eighty five Ramen voters were registered, received
six hundred thousand dollars from taxpayers care of.
Speaker 4 (01:03:22):
The socialist Ramen.
Speaker 5 (01:03:24):
In one of the clips, a man who calls himself
Kevin Shephard claimed he received four dollars to vote for Bass.
When asked whether he would have also been paid to
vote for Ramen, Shepherd answered yes and said Spencer Pratt
was not among the candidates he was encouraged to support,
so weird. Shepherd claimed they gave you an optional choice,
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alleging that he was offered two dollars but negotiated for
a higher payment and ultimately received four. Shepherd further claimed
that he completed a mail in ballot for Bass and
deposited it in a ballot box. Skidrow resident Renee Johnson
also claimed she received five dollars after being told to
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vote for Bass. She did a much better job negotiating
than mister Shepherd. Apparently, Johnson said she supported Bass, but
told the creator she was still unclear about some of
the forms she had completed. But you know, at the time,
I didn't know what was going on. I was just
trying to make five bucks, you know. But I didn't
do the fraud. Now, I'm not sure which part of
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this she thinks is fraud.
Speaker 4 (01:04:33):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:04:36):
The content creator behind the video said he visited the
area after being alerted by a friend who works nearby,
and claimed to have seen political volunteers operating in the
neighborhood in the lead up to the election. Everybody said
it was normal. They said people came through all the time.
Now we already know that a woman has been prosecuted
now for paying people to sign up to register to vote.
Speaker 4 (01:04:57):
But could this be.
Speaker 5 (01:04:58):
The beginning of the end of the democratic racket machine.
Maybe this is why they don't really want to solve
the problem of homelessness and Denver.
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We are trying to bring sort of the pizzazz that
surrounds Mother's Day to Father's Day, and of course Anthony
Rodriguez here as well. So I just mentioned before the
break that there is very interesting evidence of voter fraud
in the LA elections in that there are multiple people
on skid who are describing how they were paid to
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vote for Democrats. This is the most interesting comment that
I got on the Common Spirit.
Speaker 4 (01:06:09):
Health text line.
Speaker 5 (01:06:11):
Hi, Mandy homeless, getting four dollars to vote? Is that
the best you can do at proving election fraud? Now,
I'm going to assume that this texture knows that you
cannot pay people to vote for a candidate. You cannot
pay people to vote, you cannot pay people to register
for an election. You cannot incentivize someone to act in
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any of those ways, or you are breaking the law.
What is the intent of breaking this law? The intent
in breaking this law is to push a Democratic candidate
over the top of a Republican candidate. This is actually
the clearest, most easy to understand kind of election fraud.
Speaker 9 (01:06:57):
Now.
Speaker 5 (01:06:57):
Another Texter said this, Mandy, you mockingly think may be
the beginning of the end, but it will not. It
will never end because the powers of powers that be
and the media allow it. Even if you caught them
red handed, it would not change. Just like Colorado, I'm
in my sixties and I doubted my lifetime and will
ever see a Republican controlled legislature or governor or state
attorney general.
Speaker 4 (01:07:18):
You name it.
Speaker 5 (01:07:19):
It just won't happen because if it does, there will
be lawsuits flying like crazy. Just saying so, this is
the frustration of the person who says, you know, mail
in ballots for a nightmare. And then we have another
person saying, oh, that's no big deal, that's disappointing. Second Texter, No,
first Texter, Mandy. Next thing, you know, bars, liquor stores, banks,
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and ATMs will all be closed until the polls closed.
But it doesn't matter because in California, I don't even
know how long those votes take.
Speaker 4 (01:07:48):
You can just go scoop them all up later.
Speaker 5 (01:07:52):
We need to make voting special again, and not for nothing.
One of those people that thinks everyone needs to vote,
I'm just gonna say it.
Speaker 4 (01:08:04):
If you're living on skid.
Speaker 5 (01:08:05):
Row in Los Angeles, your judgment isn't as good as mine,
and therefore I just sit this one out. You're probably
not very well informed on the issues, not at all.
So yeah, Mandy didn't elon Musk pay people to vote.
I'm not sure what you are referring to. I do
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not recall that, Mandy. Why can't those votes be thrown out.
How how do you throw them out? In a secret ballot?
Here's what happens. They come in, somebody allegedly verifies the signature,
but obviously doesn't. They take the ballot out of the envelope,
and from that moment on it's a secret ballot. You
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don't know what ballot is connected to one envelope, so
you don't know how they voted. It's pretty cool, Mandy.
That's pretty lame though, Mandy. As much as I wanted
Pratt to win four dollars, to vote is lame proof.
Speaker 4 (01:08:58):
Wait, what are you looking for?
Speaker 5 (01:09:00):
I mean, in a genuine question, what do you need
to satisfy in the term of hard evidence that voter
fraud is taking place? Because I got to tell you,
this feels like hard evidence to me. You have people
that are like, yeah, they paid me and I voted
for one of the Democrats. They didn't recommend Spencer Pratt.
How is that not hard evidence? And how many times
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over and over and over and over again, you guys
have to remember, let me do it. Hang on, how
many people live live on LA's skid row?
Speaker 4 (01:09:34):
Let me just tell you how many people are in
this one area?
Speaker 5 (01:09:38):
Almost eleven thousand people living in that general vicinity. That's
a lot of votes, especially if you ensure that they're
only going to go one way. And this is only
one part of Los Angeles. How many other homeless people
are registered to vote at shelters where they do not live,
and yet the shelters are still getting the ballots. You
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really just need enough proof, hard evidence, to make all
the other stuff seem a lot more believable, because right
now Democrats can do the same thing I've done over
and over agoad. You know, for everything that we've gone through,
and all of the machinations and all of the recounts
and all of this stuff, nobody has come up with
hard evidence that doesn't have an easy to explain explanation
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that there.
Speaker 4 (01:10:25):
Was voter fraud. This is blatant.
Speaker 5 (01:10:28):
So just by showing this blatant example, haven't you shown
that fraud exists at a scale.
Speaker 4 (01:10:35):
We have not paid attention to Mandy.
Speaker 5 (01:10:39):
This from Spencer Pratt's x accounts. Someone just hit the
text line and sent this to me. A net swing
of more than forty three thousand votes since Tuesday, forty
three thousand. Huh, Where have I seen that number before?
Probably nothing from an article that says it's no secret
that Los Angeles has one of the largest homeless populations
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of any major city in the United States. Well, the
homeless count has shown decreases in the last two years.
Forty three, six hundred and ninety nine people experience homelessness
on any given night in the city.
Speaker 4 (01:11:13):
Of Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (01:11:16):
You want to know why Democrats are not really that
interested in curing homelessness, Well, the homeless are apparently very useful.
By the way, Spencer Pratt, if the race ran or
ended right now, is losing by about three thousand votes.
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The population of skid Row is enough to put his opponent.
That's the spread right there. But do enough Californians care.
Speaker 4 (01:11:44):
I don't know. I don't know what they do.
Speaker 5 (01:11:47):
They keep voting for the same people, they keep electing
the same party. I don't know why I would think
that it would be, you know, cool, Mandy must got
a sweepstakes to win something if they showed they were
registered to vote. He did not pay anyone to register
or to actually vote, just to show that they were
registered to vote.
Speaker 4 (01:12:06):
There was a court case about it, but I don't
know the outcome. I don't remember that at all.
Speaker 5 (01:12:12):
Thailand makes it a day off and no alcohol sales
from midnight until after the polls close.
Speaker 4 (01:12:17):
Majority of the vote counted in one day.
Speaker 5 (01:12:21):
Mandy, our president votes by mail because he votes in Florida,
and as president he lives in Washington, DC.
Speaker 4 (01:12:29):
What would you have.
Speaker 5 (01:12:29):
Him do fly down to vote so people like you
could say he spends all his time in Florida.
Speaker 4 (01:12:36):
I'm not at all opposed.
Speaker 5 (01:12:39):
To people who have physical difficulties, who have another home,
they have a second They're like, hey, you know what,
when the election's going on, I'm going to be in Arizona.
I don't have a problem with them getting mail in ballots.
What I have a problem with is the blanket mailing
of ballots to everyone, whether they live there now, whether
they ever really there.
Speaker 4 (01:13:01):
That is the problem.
Speaker 5 (01:13:02):
And I think we now are beginning to see evidence
that we need to be paying attention to.
Speaker 4 (01:13:08):
This stuff, at least when it comes to the homeless population.
Speaker 5 (01:13:10):
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I'm so grateful for that.
Speaker 5 (01:13:24):
I just want to talk for a moment about the
Carmelo Anthony conviction because this was a case in Texas.
This kid was caught on tape stabbing another kid to
death with a very small knife, but stabbing a kid
to death, and.
Speaker 4 (01:13:42):
There was no doubt that this kid murdered the other kid.
I mean, there's just no doubt.
Speaker 5 (01:13:47):
So this is what I want to bring up, and
it's going to sound.
Speaker 4 (01:13:49):
It is hypercritical. It's critical.
Speaker 5 (01:13:52):
I do not understand the reflexive nature of the black
community to pretend that someone who murdered another teenager deserved
less than thirty five years in prison.
Speaker 4 (01:14:07):
Some of the reactions that I've seen have been.
Speaker 5 (01:14:09):
Ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. I saw a woman on ex and
I'm not gonna play it because I can't remember. I
don't think she curses, but I'm not gonna play it.
Speaker 4 (01:14:17):
But she says, I've got five boys. What do I
tell my five boys? What do we do now?
Speaker 5 (01:14:22):
How about let's start with don't stab people? That should
be your leading concern, like, do not stab someone. Let's
just start there. Why is that challenging? Why is that
even a question? I didn't put it on the blog
but Cardi B weighed in on this via social media,
(01:14:45):
and I was like, are you serious?
Speaker 8 (01:14:47):
What?
Speaker 4 (01:14:51):
This is not justice? Says Cardi B? What what? What
would what would justice have looked like?
Speaker 5 (01:15:00):
While just freaking, while disgusting, This is not justice. This
is trying to make an example. What that's just It's insane.
George Zimmerman goes free and Carmelo gets convicted.
Speaker 4 (01:15:18):
Amar kkk uh.
Speaker 5 (01:15:22):
There was no video evidence in George Zimmerman's case, none,
and all of the physical evidence corroborated George Zimmerman's version
of events. Go back and read the court transcripts. I
am so sick of talking about that case. The reflexive
nature of people just deciding that this kid is innocent
is just ridiculous to me. It's it's I've never felt
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the compulsion to say, when a white person gets convicted
of someone, well, that's not justice, unless, of course, they
get out too easily.
Speaker 4 (01:15:53):
They get off too easily. But you give a white dude.
Speaker 5 (01:15:56):
Half the time in Colorado, especially half the time I
hear someone it's like, oh, he was convicted of raping
a child.
Speaker 4 (01:16:03):
He got two years probation. That's not justice because that's
not enough.
Speaker 5 (01:16:10):
But make me understand that that's that's a thing that
I we can take the entire history of the oppression
and mistreatment of black people in this country, I get it,
but we don't live in that era anymore. And guess what,
Sometimes black people are gonna do dumb things like this kid,
(01:16:30):
and they're gonna have to pay a price. Just because
historically it hasn't gone so well doesn't mean that right
now he doesn't deserve thirty five years. If Tina Peters
got nine years for what she did, this guy murdered
someone and there was no doubt he murdered someone, none whatsoever.
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And whatever was said before, I'm sorry, I don't care
to that Black mom. Please, why don't you just say
whatever people say doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (01:17:02):
It really doesn't.
Speaker 5 (01:17:05):
It's it's it's just it's I'm boggled by it, completely
boggled by it.
Speaker 4 (01:17:14):
But yeah, here we are.
Speaker 5 (01:17:15):
But now that young man who made a really dumb
choice can sit in prison for a very long time.
And I hope that he's one of those people who
goes to prison and decides he does not ever want
to be in prison again, and takes advantage of everything
that most prisons have to offer in terms of getting
a college education started, you know, doing the right thing,
becoming a I hope he flourishes in prison as much
(01:17:38):
as one can.
Speaker 4 (01:17:40):
But did he deserve it, Yeah, yeah, he did.
Speaker 5 (01:17:45):
Anyway, we have a lot of other stuff on the
blog today, including an article about the Washington Post. You
guys know, I'm not the biggest Trump fan in the world,
but I've also seen the reflecting pool in Washington, d C.
And when I saw it, it was full of scum
on the bottom of the reflecting pool. It was murky,
(01:18:06):
It looked terrible. There was certainly nothing reflecting off of it.
So as part of the Trump administration's push to invigorate Washington,
d C. Starting by the way, with sending you know,
National Guard troops into help with crime, they're dolling up
the city in advance of our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary,
(01:18:27):
and one of the projects.
Speaker 4 (01:18:28):
Was redoing the reflecting pool.
Speaker 5 (01:18:30):
They emptied it, they cleaned it, they put a new
liner in it, they painted it this beautiful blue on
the bottom, and now it's filled up, and the Washington
Post tweets out the reflecting pool on the National Mall
has been refilled following President Trump's renovations. The project ultimately
took six weeks and costs more than ten million, far
more than Trump initially projected, and the headline is, after
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Trump's ten million dollar renovation, the reflecting pool is full
again and looks almost the same, except it doesn't you
know what it's doing now, it's reflecting.
Speaker 4 (01:19:08):
You can actually.
Speaker 5 (01:19:09):
See the Jefferson memorial in the reflecting in the reflection.
It's quite quite fantastic, quite fantastic. But the Washington posts
they just can't. They can't see the difference, and people
wonder why journalism is on the on the decline.
Speaker 4 (01:19:24):
We're not really talking about wine today.
Speaker 5 (01:19:26):
We're gonna talk about Father's Day, but I am going
to talk about wine for a minute. It does kind
of go to show the contraction happening in the wine
industry as habits are changing.
Speaker 11 (01:19:35):
Yeah, and I think more people more and more. It's
it's kind of like a support your local farmer. In fact,
I just saw a post about how wine is cheaper
than gas now, so you know, don't drive, just go
support your you know, your local wine maker. I definitely
think there is a big shift going on.
Speaker 5 (01:19:49):
There's a cultural shift happening right now as people begin
to understand that alcohol is just not good for you,
or in my case, I had to realize like alcohol
hates me and it just makes me feel bad all
the time.
Speaker 4 (01:20:01):
But there's another aspect of.
Speaker 5 (01:20:02):
This, and that is all of these people on GLP ones,
because it doesn't just suppress your appetite for food for many,
many people, it suppresses your appetite.
Speaker 4 (01:20:12):
For wine, for beer, for liquor, for weed.
Speaker 5 (01:20:16):
A lot of people are saying, as far as addictions go,
glp ones are basically eliminating the desire, and not just
for alcoholics but just people who casually enjoy.
Speaker 4 (01:20:26):
They're just saying, you know what, just doesn't appeal to
me right now.
Speaker 11 (01:20:28):
I also think though you and I, when we were
growing up, that's what.
Speaker 4 (01:20:33):
We did to socialize.
Speaker 11 (01:20:34):
Yeah, you would go to the bar, we'd go to clubs.
You know, you'd go to a friend's house. You'd have like,
you know, a hurricane party where you take it with
garbage can and I don't even know.
Speaker 4 (01:20:42):
What went in that.
Speaker 11 (01:20:44):
It's just different. And now you know it's a constant.
You know, when you're going to a party and everybody's
on their phone staring their dopamine is getting served by
that instead of what when we were at that age.
I think there's a lot of factors going into it
as well, also the ease with which it is to
you know, get weed and stuff like that, and you know,
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hear magic mushrooms or whatever it is that floats your boat.
There's so many other things available to folks. I still
think that there is definitely an element. I'm raising one
I have assumed to be twenty one year old who
appreciates wine for much like he appreciates a really good
steak or you know, pan sered foie gras or any
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of these kind.
Speaker 4 (01:21:28):
Of luxury luxury items.
Speaker 11 (01:21:30):
He appreciates it for the intrinsic value of it and
the connection to the past, which is one of the
reasons why I still enjoy it.
Speaker 5 (01:21:39):
Well, we're talking today, not necessarily about wine, but not
you know, we're not eskewing wine.
Speaker 4 (01:21:44):
But I was talking to Crystal the other day.
Speaker 5 (01:21:47):
I said, look, you know, dads, moms are like, did
you make a reservations for bruns? Did you order the flowers?
Did you what are you getting your mom? But dads,
it's like, here's some barbecue tongs there you go dad.
Speaker 4 (01:21:57):
But I feel like men don't get enough.
Speaker 5 (01:22:00):
Credit, especially in today's era, because men at this moment
in time, are way more involved with their upraising and
you know, care of their children that I don't.
Speaker 4 (01:22:11):
Know if they've ever been well.
Speaker 11 (01:22:13):
And I said it in I said in my blog,
like my dad and my husband's saying just the same
kind of approach. They're just happy, like with the homemade gifts,
the homemade cards. That's what really because they don't really
it's not about breakfast in bed or.
Speaker 4 (01:22:29):
Things like that.
Speaker 11 (01:22:30):
It's not those things that the mom, who you know,
in traditional roles, tends to be the person who's doing
all the cooking. That's why I suggested, why don't you
try to pry those tongs and the grill apron out
of you know, dad's hands and have a go at it.
In my family, I am the girl master's that's kind
of where I am.
Speaker 5 (01:22:47):
Checked he does turn it on for me because now
I'm really is so old that same the switch doesn't work.
Speaker 4 (01:22:54):
But I know how to do all of that too.
Speaker 5 (01:22:56):
Oh, I know how to do it. I just don't
want to do it. So he likes the grill for me.
But then it's you know it's me.
Speaker 11 (01:23:01):
It's often it's really still it's just an extension of
the kitchen for me.
Speaker 4 (01:23:05):
But I'm teaching my son how to grill.
Speaker 11 (01:23:07):
Yeah, and so because I was like, you know, Mom's
not going to be there every time you're wanting a
grill of steak. So that's why I included how do
you know what temperature steak has cooked?
Speaker 10 (01:23:14):
Too?
Speaker 11 (01:23:14):
And I include it on the blog posts. Uh if
if that's not something you're super familiar with, how to
use your hand to figure out the temperature without actually
temping it.
Speaker 5 (01:23:23):
I've known this, but I didn't ever see it, like,
I didn't ever see it that clearly until now.
Speaker 11 (01:23:29):
And so if you I know, this is a radio
and you can't see what Manby's actually doing, but touching
the thumb to your index finger, your middle finger, your
ring finger, your pinky yea determines and the and then pushing.
Speaker 5 (01:23:39):
It really like I don't have a lot of fat
on my hands anyway, though, that's why I use the thermometer.
Speaker 11 (01:23:44):
I don't because I don't like to poke a hole
in the protein because the minute you break that skin contact, yep,
that's when things are going to start sweeping out of it.
Speaker 4 (01:23:52):
Yeah, but I don't want to overcook.
Speaker 5 (01:23:53):
And I'm telling you I got no meat on this,
and that feels like well done right there? All it doesn't, Yeah,
no feeling I feel mine.
Speaker 11 (01:24:00):
Yeah, but you need to go see everyne You need
to find a spot that's a little squishy.
Speaker 4 (01:24:04):
I've just got bony fingers, I mean have never anyway,
after the show, I'll show you where it's at. But
I just use a thermometer. I use a thermal.
Speaker 5 (01:24:12):
I was talking to a friend of mine and I
was talking about cooking a fish that I had never
cooked before, and he said.
Speaker 4 (01:24:18):
How did it come out?
Speaker 5 (01:24:18):
Because I called him because he's a fish person as well,
and I said, how do I cook this?
Speaker 4 (01:24:23):
He goes, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:24:24):
So we kind of figured some stuff out and I
called him back to let him know how it turned out,
and he goes, how to turn out? I said, well,
I took a past about one twenty five, which is
where I want ed.
Speaker 4 (01:24:33):
It, so it was overcooked.
Speaker 5 (01:24:35):
He goes, why have I never thought about using a
food thermometer on fish? I use the thermometer on everything.
Speaker 11 (01:24:41):
I don't I just yeah, for me, it's more of
a unless It's something that I need to take to
a certain tempature ly chicken.
Speaker 5 (01:24:47):
This text Mandy questioned for the wine Yogi that she
enjoys wine. I'm curious if you enjoy distilled wine as
in brandy. If she does and she wants to have
it shipped Osbock twenty one year is excellent, where are
you on Brandy?
Speaker 11 (01:25:01):
I do enjoy brandy, not as much as I used to,
because I do tend to right now. As my palette
is evolving, I am much more into life.
Speaker 5 (01:25:12):
You know what you just said, as I'm getting older,
But yeah, my palette's evolving.
Speaker 11 (01:25:18):
But it's also it's interesting because we were just talking
about this the other day. I ended up working in
a couple couple of wine tastings and then I got
invited just to go work a wine festival and Manitou Springs.
Speaker 4 (01:25:29):
I was just talking about these wine makers. I was like,
you know, I just am getting.
Speaker 11 (01:25:32):
To the point now where I really want a lot
of vcidity in my wine unless ABV.
Speaker 4 (01:25:37):
In part. Again, as I am.
Speaker 11 (01:25:40):
Getting older, my body metabolizes alcohol differently. So even with brandis, yes,
I do like certain brandies. I am much more if
I am drinking more distolate or fortified wines. I'm much
more of a Madeira girl simply because of Again, I
consume wine for a certain extent because of that historical
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connection in Madeira. As we're coming up to the fourth
of July, Father's choice because it was not taxed by
the crown, and that is what they toasted after they
signed the Declaration of Independence, after when Washington, Adams, and
Jefferson were all sworn in as president, that was what
was used to celebrate.
Speaker 4 (01:26:18):
So if I'm drinking.
Speaker 11 (01:26:19):
Something that's higher in ABV and falling into that distillate
and or fortified wine category, I'm probably leaning towards a
bowall Madeira.
Speaker 4 (01:26:28):
Okay, hang on, I'm looking up something right here.
Speaker 5 (01:26:30):
Let me see here how much alcohol was consumed at
George Washington's inauguration. Sixty bottles of claret that's Bordeaux red wine,
fifty four bottles of Madeira wine, twenty two bottles of porter,
twelve bottles of beer, eight bottles of colonial whiskey, eight
bottles of hard cider, seven bowls of alcohol like punch.
Speaker 4 (01:26:50):
So Madeira, it's just traditional, it is. It is.
Speaker 5 (01:26:53):
You've got a great recipe on the blog today, at
the wine Yogi blog and you I got a pulled
pork recipe.
Speaker 11 (01:27:01):
Yes, so I'm from North Carolina and so one of
the things my dad always enjoyed. Again, he was happy
with the homemade gifts, and I even teased, you know,
if you've added some pasta and dried beans on it.
Speaker 4 (01:27:12):
It took it to the next level for his gifts.
Speaker 11 (01:27:14):
And now I still have to collect all of those
kind of pasta gifts that my son made.
Speaker 4 (01:27:20):
But yeah, my dad, that's one.
Speaker 11 (01:27:22):
Of his favorite meals is pulled North Carolina pulled pork barbecue,
and my mom and I are frequently asked to make
it wherever we're going. I'm making it this weekend because
I'm actually doing a barbecue and a wine peering class
at the Wine Gallery on Sunday, So come see me.
Speaker 4 (01:27:36):
And yeah, I love I love pulled pork. It's such
an easy recipe.
Speaker 11 (01:27:41):
It's vinegar based instead of like a tomato based or
mustard based.
Speaker 4 (01:27:44):
This is barbecue. Is one kind of barbecue sauce that
I just do not like.
Speaker 5 (01:27:49):
I do not like Carolina barbecue sauce, and I've tried,
I have tried to sort of hard exactly. That's what
everybody says, and I've tried it, I'm like, no, I
still don't like it's just.
Speaker 4 (01:27:58):
Two vinegar forward for mine is not mine.
Speaker 11 (01:28:01):
I would say mine probably leans more a little bit
heavier into the brown sugar. I will occasionally add maple
if I'm not doing refined sugar, so I can go
with maple, and then I up with a lot of
different I use lower acidity. A lot of people will
use like a white wine vinegar. I actually like to
use rice wine, which I find is not nearly it's
(01:28:22):
has a sweetness take.
Speaker 4 (01:28:23):
It does that's different.
Speaker 11 (01:28:24):
Yeah, I will replace the white vinegar with rice wine.
Speaker 4 (01:28:28):
I think I've included that in the vid.
Speaker 11 (01:28:29):
You That's how I tend to do it because my
dad had acid reflex issues, so we always kind of
we went with the apple sided vinegar with the mother
and then also its harsh and then rice wine.
Speaker 4 (01:28:42):
All right, you also have a little bit.
Speaker 5 (01:28:44):
There are some gift ideas on this as well for
people that are still looking for what to get for
your dad and order now for those those seriously tried.
Etsy has some really cool stuff. But I've tried to
on the blog the last couple of days include links
that have some really good, kind of gifty things to them.
(01:29:04):
But it's it's this is what's been driving me crazy
for years because my husband does not drink whiskey, he
does not grill, and he does not play golf. I mean,
he knows how to play golf. We just don't play
very often. It's literally like, if you're not a dad
who does those three things, we got nothing for you.
Speaker 4 (01:29:22):
Super frustrating.
Speaker 11 (01:29:23):
Seeing my dad was the same way, not a drinker,
didn't really grill because he had me come over and
you know, and he played golf, but he wasn't like
so into golf that that would have made right. So
that's why I tend to go towards more of those
personalized things, whether like one of his favorite gifts that
we got him for a Father's Day was I got
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him not only a T shirt a favorite picture of
he and his grandson, but I got him a coffee
mug with that same picture so that he could sit
there and drink his coffee see your World's greatest Papa.
And then the coffee mug matched the T shirt.
Speaker 4 (01:29:57):
So it was really an alsble. It was everything.
Speaker 11 (01:30:01):
You know, multiple gifts, and you know it's still to
this day, I can look at that and there's a
picture of my son when he was a baby, holding
on to world's greatest Papa and he's kind of biting
into the card. And I caught that just, you know, randomly,
as a picture, and I made that into a T
shirt and a coffee mug.
Speaker 5 (01:30:22):
There are people coming at you on the text line,
and I'm gonna read it. I'm sure as it was texted.
This is my vision of how this was texted. I
sure hope that your Carolina barbecue sauce is a mustard sauce.
Speaker 11 (01:30:34):
No, that's I'm not Western North Carolina. That's western North Carolina.
I am Eastern North Carolina. I'm from the Piedmont towards
the beach. So I enjoy my North Carolina barbecue sauce
with vinegar. And my husband's allergic to mustard, so new
there is no mustard.
Speaker 4 (01:30:50):
And I take it back.
Speaker 5 (01:30:51):
What I should have said is the only barbecue sauce
I don't like is the barbecue sauce from the state
of North Carolina. Because I don't like the mustard sauce either.
I even will do the Alabama white sauce, which is
not a barbecue sauce. It's just mayonnaise and something else.
I mean there's nothing in.
Speaker 4 (01:31:05):
It's more vinegar added in.
Speaker 5 (01:31:07):
Yeah, and it's like I I will even do that
ahead of Carolina barbecue.
Speaker 4 (01:31:11):
I just need to let me make you mean that's
again whateveryone's way. Wine vinegar changes the whole complex of.
Speaker 5 (01:31:16):
It that you actually have intrigued me. So you said
you were doing a wine tasting and a food tasting
this weekend.
Speaker 4 (01:31:22):
Yeah, at the wine gallery.
Speaker 11 (01:31:23):
It's all focused on kind of your summer wines ideally
suited for pairing with a different barbecue.
Speaker 4 (01:31:30):
Are we in rose season right now? We are totally
it's time to rose day away, guys. This is where
not being able to drink wine hurts my wine and
the sunshine.
Speaker 11 (01:31:38):
In fact, I have a great non alcoholic rose too
that I do.
Speaker 4 (01:31:42):
Enjoy as well. I thought you'd forget it out, but
I know your dad extract right now, we can't do anything.
Speaker 5 (01:31:48):
All dads need an obnoxious Semiquincentennial shirt.
Speaker 11 (01:31:51):
Yes, yeah, I think that's a good one too well.
And in fact, so my husband's birthday always falls around
Father's Day, and we used to go camping hall the time,
which you know, that's what he likes to do. Again,
for me, it's more about like kind of focusing on
what the.
Speaker 4 (01:32:05):
Dad enjoys doing.
Speaker 11 (01:32:06):
So exactly in the case of Chuck, I could totally
see like this massive like Hawaiian print shirt with like
pictures of his kids and grandkids, like their faces and
all the funny do you have that with the dog's photos.
Speaker 5 (01:32:18):
But the problem is being as big as he's like
it's and Chuck is all.
Speaker 4 (01:32:22):
Upper by to right.
Speaker 5 (01:32:24):
So it's like getting a shirt that's from one of
those companies.
Speaker 4 (01:32:27):
It's a little challenging. Well so, you know.
Speaker 11 (01:32:30):
But for like my husband, his big thing like the cards,
I really we just ordered him yesterday. Again, Etsy is
a great place to get in to get those personalized things.
But my husband absolutely loves the show Ted Lasso. He
is Roy Kent and so I hope he's not listening
because it's going to ruin the surprise. But his Birthday cards,
his father Day carts, they are all they're all Roy
(01:32:50):
Kent themed because one of the favorite gifts I've ever
gotten him. And he just comments all the time about
how people when he's on a trip and he wears
it down to a hotel restaurant. He's like, oh my god,
people can't stop talking about you know, my Roy kent't
is my spirit animal t shirt, And so I got
them a new one which is identifies more as a
Roy and less as a Tad. And if you're a
(01:33:11):
Ted Lasso fan, that joke kind of lands pretty funny
because Roy tends to drop a lot of f bombs
and so yeah, it's just one of those things knowing
who you're buying for and I think finding kind of
those things that make them feel appreciated because you're noticing
that is something that brings me joy.
Speaker 5 (01:33:28):
But that's that's the heart of good gift giving period.
It really is in that, you know, if you give
a gift that says I see you, I know who
you are, I understand you as a person, that in
and of itself doesn't matter the cost of a gift
or anything. It just says, this gift made me think
of you because of this. And I've never gone wrong.
(01:33:50):
And I bought some weird gifts before, I mean really
weird gifts before. Looking at the wine gallery, you've got.
Speaker 4 (01:33:59):
Two one already and three ds.
Speaker 11 (01:34:01):
Yeah, so well fancy and you know, come with an
appetite because you're gonna have it's not gonna be h.
Speaker 4 (01:34:06):
It is gonna be pulled pork.
Speaker 11 (01:34:07):
Although I'm not adding in the vinegar sauce because I'm
going to be using a sauce that we actually carry
in the store to sauce the pulled pork. But yeah,
we'll be doing some pasta salad and I'm gonna have
a white wine a rose, and I'm gonna have two
rats pino no orn.
Speaker 4 (01:34:22):
I think a charraz Or Sarrah camera.
Speaker 5 (01:34:25):
These are always fun and you can go to the
Wine Galleryco dot com Wine galleryco dot com, or you
can just go to Crystal's blog which is linked today
on my blog blog to blog support is what we're doing.
She always has good stuff on the blog as well. Mandy,
dads love tools and pocket knives. Let me just say this.
Young dads love tools and pocket knives. Old dads already
(01:34:47):
have all the tools and all the pocket knives.
Speaker 11 (01:34:50):
And I would just say, my husband wants to pick
out that stuff. I've tried gifting him that over the years. Yeah,
and or like I get him. I would go to
the Renaissance Festival and I would go to you know,
a blacksmith, and I would get this amazing forged, you know, knife,
and like it's so perfect when you're hunting, and he's like,
it's too pretty.
Speaker 4 (01:35:07):
I can't use that, thank you, And I'm just like
what but just me and me, I saw this and
it was so perfect for you. Yeah, it's too pretty.
The grip's not right.
Speaker 11 (01:35:15):
And so I just said, you know, those kinds of
for me now, and I don't want to do a
gift card, so you know, I go with things. I
know he's gonna I know he's gonna wear. My husband's
a T shirt guy. And you know, after a while,
especially when I get a hold of the T shirts
that need to be retired, I e thrown away, I need.
Speaker 4 (01:35:33):
To replace them, so I replace them with quality things.
Speaker 5 (01:35:35):
I love this text message. We'll finish on this note
before out of the day. My daughter gives me canned
corn beef hash sorry, my guilty pleasure. That is a
perfect gift, exactly perfect. He knows what your guilty pleasure is.
A very well done, daughter, or she's trying to put
you in an early grade, whichever you decide. You know
more about that relationship than I do. But now it's
time for the most exciting segment on the radio. I'm
(01:35:58):
it's kine the world.
Speaker 2 (01:36:04):
That day?
Speaker 4 (01:36:05):
All right? Oh quiet, any.
Speaker 5 (01:36:09):
Can't I gotta get my pen. It's okay. What is
our dad joke of the day? Please, Anthony?
Speaker 7 (01:36:13):
My cat seems to like stormy weather when it rains
it perfect?
Speaker 4 (01:36:20):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (01:36:22):
Okay, I've yes, yes.
Speaker 4 (01:36:24):
What is that a word of the day please? It
is a noun.
Speaker 5 (01:36:30):
Means like, uh, an odd misstep of a silly a
quirky moment there. Yeah, I think we're nibbling around the edges.
Speaker 7 (01:36:41):
Martial minor flaws or shortcomings in someone's character or behavior, okay, y, yes,
or in fencing, it also refers to the weakest part
of the sword's blade between the middle end point.
Speaker 4 (01:36:53):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 8 (01:36:55):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:36:55):
Mandy asks the wine goouru why she prefers prefers a
pick wine? Well, let's see quickly.
Speaker 11 (01:37:03):
Ten seconds, just like the way it feels in my palate,
and it doesn't weigh me down and needs something of
light and refreshing. Acid is the key to light and
refreshing theaters. Why you lemon zest or lemon juice to
judge up your like sauces?
Speaker 4 (01:37:17):
All right?
Speaker 5 (01:37:18):
The prehistoric period, when there was human life before records
of human activity is broadly divided into three ages, the
Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age.
Speaker 4 (01:37:30):
The Iron Age.
Speaker 5 (01:37:31):
Is correct, that was when we began forging iron. So
we were moving through there, very good crystal.
Speaker 11 (01:37:37):
And when the first knife that was forged was human
on Father's Day and the guy said, yeah, it's too pretty,
too pretty to handle.
Speaker 5 (01:37:45):
It's not right, but I appreciate it. I appreciate you anyway.
All right, what is our jeopardy category?
Speaker 7 (01:37:50):
Well, first of all, according to the official standings for
this year, whin ye, he's only on one something.
Speaker 3 (01:37:56):
How she's only been on yeah.
Speaker 11 (01:37:59):
And I went to your up in April, and then
nest to May, she's been gone anywhere.
Speaker 3 (01:38:04):
Guests are fourign eight against Mandy. So here we go
to the case one. I thought, I went, well, not
this year, not this year.
Speaker 4 (01:38:10):
This only started January.
Speaker 7 (01:38:11):
First, Yes, category is Saints on the map, so it's
Saint something, Okay, Probably it's where to go to groove
to the Twin Cities jazz.
Speaker 4 (01:38:24):
What is Saint Paul?
Speaker 3 (01:38:26):
Correct?
Speaker 4 (01:38:26):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (01:38:27):
Napoleon lived at the Briars Pavilion and then at Longwood
on this island in the South Atlantic.
Speaker 5 (01:38:38):
I think I know, but I'm not super sure. I know,
I'm not going to guess because I'm not sure at all.
Speaker 3 (01:38:43):
Nyogi anything going once? What is Saint Helena?
Speaker 8 (01:38:47):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (01:38:47):
Good?
Speaker 2 (01:38:47):
I was wrong?
Speaker 4 (01:38:49):
Good choice?
Speaker 7 (01:38:50):
An island country in the Lesser Antilles is a package deal,
the Saint and the Grenadines. Saint Blank and the Grenadines.
Speaker 3 (01:39:00):
Umm, you'll know it when I.
Speaker 2 (01:39:03):
Say it, Mandy.
Speaker 4 (01:39:04):
What is Saint Martin?
Speaker 3 (01:39:05):
Wrong?
Speaker 4 (01:39:06):
Dang it?
Speaker 2 (01:39:06):
What is Saint Vincent?
Speaker 4 (01:39:08):
Oh? Prime?
Speaker 7 (01:39:11):
The Pony Express went from this Missouri city Sacramento.
Speaker 3 (01:39:15):
Man, how's a tie tie goes?
Speaker 4 (01:39:17):
What is Saint Louis?
Speaker 3 (01:39:19):
That is?
Speaker 8 (01:39:20):
It?
Speaker 7 (01:39:20):
Says both? Says Saint Joseph or Saint Louis. So we're
gonna go, well, yeah, well we'll go Okay. A church
in this suburb of Paris has the tombs of twelve
centuries of French kings.
Speaker 4 (01:39:34):
What's the score is one crystal zero? Mandy, I'm not
saying any.
Speaker 3 (01:39:42):
Agree.
Speaker 4 (01:39:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:39:44):
I think it's pronounced St. Denny or Saint Dennis.
Speaker 4 (01:39:48):
Crystal win.
Speaker 2 (01:39:49):
Dang, dang.
Speaker 5 (01:39:51):
That was a good one for you except for me. Anyway,
We're gonna get out of here. Goodness, see you, my friend,
and we're gonna open it up. King O Sports coming
up next. We'll be back for what thirty minutes tomorrow
before baseball, but we'll be back. Keep it on, Koa