06-27-25 FULL SHOW - Summer Movies and Blacklists With Christian Toto

IT'S AN ASK ME ANYTHING KIND OF DAY So get your idiotic question ready!

CHRISTIAN TOTO ON TO TALK HOLLYWOOD As he does at his website and podcast called Hollywood In Toto (find them here). Christian has been writing a lot lately about what it's like to "come out" as a Trump voter or conservative in Hollywood and it's not pretty. It actually makes me like the folks who have done so even more, because it's a real act of bravery. Read a story from Newsbusters here, and from early January about stars who support Israel. He joins me to talk about this and summer movies at 1.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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I'm your host for the next three hours, Mandy Connell.
Anthony Rodriguez. He runs things like onion rings.

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It's true.

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I know I made that saying up. It's catchy, isn't it?
Exactly Susan Wikin exactly, Anthony, I think altogether?

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Or now did we woo? Who?

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Yes?

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We did woo who.

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I just wanted to make sure we can we can wooo.

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Okay, all together now woo.

Speaker 6 (01:09):
It's a big, big weekend from Metallica fans. I know
that A Rod is going to go to the show.
I will tell you this, A Rod. Get ready to
think that I have more lame now than I've ever
been before.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, I saw your email.

Speaker 6 (01:21):
You are you are like you know what I'm passing
on the Metallica shows. And I have nothing against Metallica.

Speaker 5 (01:27):
I I like them. I'm not a huge fan, but
I do like them the legendary.

Speaker 6 (01:31):
If it was, you know, closer to my house and
an inside and earlier, yeah, okay, I would do it.
I've I've just now reached this point in my life
and Chuck Fields the exact same way. It's like, it's
it takes a lot to make us drive from where
we live in Douglas County to the stadium.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
I mean, in all the traffic, so much so much.
Let's do the blog, shall we?

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (01:58):
Anthony find the blog by going to Mandy's blog column,
Mandy's blog dot com.

Speaker 5 (02:04):
The blog blog blog.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Bob always had the column, had a blog, the blog,
the blog, don't.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
I don't have a column.

Speaker 5 (02:13):
I'm just to be clear. So when the next person is,
we're going.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
I just have.

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Blog.

Speaker 5 (02:21):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Just a blog dot org.

Speaker 6 (02:27):
Yeah, Mandy's blog dot com. And you go there and
then today in the latest Folks that post section what
the latest Pokes Latest post section, look for the headline
that says six twenty seven to twenty five blogs, Summer
movies and blacklists with Christian Toto.

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Click on that and here are the headlines you will find.

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Plant today on the blog Christian Toto on Totalk, Hollywood
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The Supreme Court is going to decide some big stuff today.
I heard a trashy bit of gossip. Yes, the US
strikes and iron were effective scrolling. The US and China
have a trade deal. We have the legal immigrants to

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thank for dismantling the surveillance state. A new way to
spot the transplants. Dun dun dun d d d dundh.
Another school district says no to boys in schools when
public comment is abused. I love an American dream story.
Did you hear about the gunfight at the Gaza Hospital?
Patrick from SpongeBob is just like Ryan Schuling. Leelo and

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Stitch too is a thing now. One woman shows how
cruise ship living is super affordable. This is a fantastic prank.
This prank sucks at and T customers may get a
good payout.

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Why are you using your loved one? Those are the
headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com Tick Tech two.

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All winner, Thanks Nancy. I like that little boost by Nancy.
Like that blog was a winner.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
What I don't see the blog right now?

Speaker 5 (04:03):
Wait, what fall disclosure?

Speaker 6 (04:05):
Okay, Well, if people go to my Facebook page at
Mandy Connell or my ex page at Mandy connall, you
will find today's block because that's how I pulled it up.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
First. It's not updating for some reason, I don't see it.
It's there. I looked, I refreshed, it's there. I'm telling
you what. Sometimes you have to refresh, but it's not working.
I refreshed. I mean it's up there because I pulled
it up. Oh it's not there.

Speaker 6 (04:29):
Well, why if you go to my Facebook page at
Mandy Connell to it or might No, I'm just saying
that's how I got to it.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
I'm gonna try to fix it.

Speaker 6 (04:38):
Okay, figure it out, knock yourself out, do it, take
care of it anyway. By the way, I told Ryan
Schidling as I was walking in, I said, Ryan, I'm
sorry today I compared you to Patrick from SpongeBob today
on the blog and he said, and I said, well,
just look it up. So that's one bit of traffic today.

(04:58):
But a Rod sent me a video of the guy
who does the voice for Patrick from SpongeBob and he's
a big Detroit Tigers fan and nobody's a magor Detroit
Tiger's fan that are Ryan Schuling.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
So I have compared some poetry exactly. Christian Todo is
going to join us at one o'clock.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
It's Hollywood blockbuster season. Have you seen any of these.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Blockbusters a rod There are actually quite a few I
have still not seen. We did finally watch Lelo and Stitch.
That was a good so perfect.

Speaker 6 (05:30):
Well, there's going to be Leelo and Stitch too, because
Leelo and Stitch one has and we're talking about the
live action version of the animated classic.

Speaker 5 (05:38):
It's well done, it's it's cleared.

Speaker 6 (05:39):
Like nine hundred and ten millions, so it's on its
way to a billion. And yeah, there's going to be
Leelo and Stitch too. So we're going to talk to Christian,
not necessarily just about that. He's writ a couple of
really good columns in the past few months about the
blacklist in Hollywood and how challenging it is to be
out in Hollywood as God forbid a Trump supporter. So

(06:00):
we're going to talk a little bit about that. But
I think it's interesting that a lot of these incredibly successful,
long term people in Hollywood who are now. They got
a few years under them, right, and they kind of
have few money so they don't need any more money.

Speaker 5 (06:18):
And now they're kind of.

Speaker 6 (06:19):
Getting like pretty open about supporting Republican ideals, and not
all of them are just Dean Kane, and nothing belove
for Dean Kane, but you know, he needs to get
a role. In the meantime, you got Sylvester Stallone who's
coming off Tulsa King, which is a great show, and
he was an unabashed Trump supporter. So I'm interested to

(06:41):
hear from Christian a little more about that. And I
have so much stuff on the blog today and Supreme
Court decisions are coming out today, and I've got one
already on the blog, and then i have one that
just came out like as I sat down to begin
to do the show. Some of them are very very big.
Here's what's going to be coming out today. Trump versus Cossa.

(07:04):
The Court will consider whether activist judges can block federal
policies nationwide in a case stemming from Trump era efforts
to end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants.
So they announced that decision this morning, and Trump won,
though it was about nationwide injunctions, not on the merits
of illegals citizens or whether their children have citizenship. That

(07:29):
will be decided in another case that will be brought.
So this basically cleared the debts for a case on that.
But this got rid of the nationwide injunction. And I
think that this was more about putting federal justices on
or federal judges on notice that these nationwide injunctions will
not stand. So maybe we can be done with federal

(07:51):
judges trying to rule from the bench, which I think
no matter who the president is, it's a federal judge
should not have the right to shut down presidential policy
because they don't like it.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
There's a whole.

Speaker 6 (08:04):
Different process that has to happen anyway, So that's been decided.
Free Speech Coalition versus Paxton, Texas passed a law to
protect children from online online pornography by requiring an age
verification program.

Speaker 5 (08:18):
The adult industry is fighting it. The court will decide
if the law should face.

Speaker 6 (08:22):
Strict scrutiny or a more reasonable review standard. So let
me pull this up very very quickly because these are
coming out. Nope, that's not it. Then we have FCC
versus Consumers Research, a watchdog group is challenging a federal
Internet subsidy program, arguing that Congress unconstitutionally handed its lawmaking

(08:42):
power to an unelected FCC run nonprofit. The case should
or could rein in bureaucratic overreach and Mahmoud versus Taylor, Muslim,
Catholic and Orthodox Christian parents sue to protect their religious rights,
arguing that public schools shouldn't force their kids to learn
from LGBTQ themed materials without parental consent. Now that has

(09:06):
been decided as well, and the Supreme Court has decided
that parents do indeed have the right to opt their
young children out of LGBTQ readings in Maryland, at least
while this case continues to work its way back through
the courts. So the summary says, the case concerned a
new curriculum adopted in twenty twenty two for pre K

(09:29):
through fifth grade by the Montgomery County Public Schools.

Speaker 5 (09:33):
At first, the school.

Speaker 6 (09:34):
System gave parents notice when the storybooks were to be discussed,
along with the opportunity to have their children excused, but
administrators soon eliminated the advanced noticed and opt out policy,
saying it was hard to administer led to absenteeism and
risk exposing students who believe the storybooks represent them and
their families to social stigma and isolation.

Speaker 5 (09:58):
Parents of several.

Speaker 6 (09:58):
Faiths sued, saying the books violated the First Amendments protection
of the free exercise of religion. The books, their complaints, said,
from a one sided transgender ideology, encourage gender transitioning, and
focus excessively on romantic infatuation. And the Supreme Court has
now decided that parents can opt themselves out. So that's

(10:22):
that's a very big deal, a very big deal. So
that one is out, I haven't seen anymore. So we'll
see the other two should be out with this. Let
me just double check and make sure because they should
be out by five pm Eastern time. So just looking

(10:47):
very very quickly, and the apparently the liberal justices have gone,
have just come out like politically swinging in a way
that is rather untenable. According to Newsweek, Supreme Court Justice
Amy Coney Barrett has taken aim at Justice Katanji Brown

(11:08):
Jackson's dissenting opinion in Trump versus Kasa. Oh wait a minute,
that's the ruling that does away with the national injunctions.
The Court handed down its decision in the birthright citizenship case,
one of its most significant of the current term on Friday,
this from Newsweek. The six to three decision does not
weigh in on the legality of birthright citizenship, the idea

(11:28):
which ensures that children born in the US are citizens
regardless of whether their parents are. Instead, it delivered a
procedural victory to the Trump administration, ruling that federal judges
don't have the authority to issue nationwide injunctions that go
beyond relief for individual plaintiffs on cases.

Speaker 5 (11:45):
It's a win for Trump, whose executive orders have.

Speaker 6 (11:47):
Been held up in the courts as judges issue injunctions,
temporarily pausing many from taking effect as legal cases challenging
those policies make their way through the legal system. These
injunctions have been check on executive authority from Democratic and
Republican presidents in recent years. So now to the part

(12:08):
where Amy Cony Barrett is kind of irritated. And I
haven't read the opinions yet, obviously because all of this
stuff is coming out today. But Barrett wrote the majority
opinion which sided with the Trump administration and her ruling
the conservative justice that her liberal colleagues' position is difficult
to pin down, and this part's a quote. She might

(12:29):
be arguing that universal injunctions are appropriate, even required, when
the defendant is part of the executive branch. If so,
her position goes far beyond the mainstream defense of universal injunctions.
And then she described the dissent as more extreme still
and at odds with more than two centuries worth the
president not to mention the Constitution itself. Now that may

(12:54):
sound like, you know, kind of soft criticism, but when
Supreme Court justice is criticize each other, for the most part,
it is with a great deal of delicacy. And again
I have not read the opinion or the dissent, so
it's that's a pretty sharp retort in Supreme Court circles.

Speaker 5 (13:15):
And the it's almost today when I heard.

Speaker 6 (13:21):
I think it was Chad I don't remember which newsperson
I heard say this, but they said they were talking
about it being a six to three ruling with the
six conservative justices and the three and I can almost
say chick justices like the dames. And then I thought
to myself, now I can't say that because Amy Cony
Barrett is also a woman on the Court. Absolutely, So

(13:44):
the birthright citizenship thing is going to be really interesting
to see what happens next because Donald Trump's executive order
that birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants does not exist, which
I believe is the correct viewpoint or the old in
the world that allows someone to break into the country,
have a baby, and then declare that baby as citizen.

(14:05):
Nobody else does that. Not a single other country that
I'm aware of does it. So that has to stop.
But now practically, what does that look like? Well, I
think we look at other nations and find out what
they do. It shouldn't be that hard to figure out.

Speaker 5 (14:20):
So now we're just.

Speaker 6 (14:21):
Waiting for free speech, the Texas ruling and the FCC ruling.
I don't care as much about the FCC ruling as
I do the other rules. But I'm gonna pull up
Scotus blog right now and I'll just have it up
and check it during the show. Scotus blog is a
great website if you want to follow along with Supreme
Court rulings like this as they're having out, and it

(14:43):
sounds just scotus scot us, which of course stands for
Supreme Court of the United States blog dot com. I
bet nobody has a problem finding their blog, just saying
maybe it's because they didn't put Scotus this blog. So

(15:03):
we will find out today at some point what is
going to happen in those other two cases. Now, you
may have heard me say this headline I heard a
bit of trashy bit of gossip. Now, this trashy bit
of gossips a doug Co piece of gossip. And I'm
not going to repeat it on the radio because it's
tacky to repeat gossip. But if you've been kind of

(15:27):
paying attention to the doug Co debacle that was Home Rule,
or at least the push to get this version of
Home Rule done, you might enjoy it.

Speaker 5 (15:37):
So I'll just let you know that's on the blog today.
Now I've got a text message.

Speaker 6 (15:42):
And I'll probably talk about this a little bit more later,
but I thought it was very interesting. Got a text
message from my nephew who is in Israel, and he said,
can you explain what the problem is with Americans doubting
the four to doh strike results? What's everyone's problem? And
I just responded, Look, the media hates Donald Trump so

(16:05):
much that they would rather deny him the victory and
put out wrong information, and.

Speaker 5 (16:12):
That's the truth.

Speaker 6 (16:14):
Don't let the truth get in the way of promoting
Donald Trump's failure.

Speaker 5 (16:19):
I mean, honestly, that's.

Speaker 6 (16:20):
How aggressive it is, and that's how obvious it is.
So yeah, he doesn't understand that, but I did. It
went down a rabbit hole today. And I want to
share with you what the Israeli military is reporting about
the strikes on Iran, both by Israel and the United States.

(16:41):
I just want to listen to this very quickly, what
they've accomplished. The next twelve days of strikes had two
main goals. First, to target and destroy Iran's various nuclear
enrichment and development sites and Iran's missile production and launch sites.
Defrin described the US's strikes on Bordo and israel strikes

(17:01):
on the tanks as having prevented Iran from developing a
nuclear weapon at this time. The IAF also targeted thousands
of centrifuge production sites, as well as other facilities used
to produce components needed to produce a nuclear bomb. The
assassination of eleven Iranian nuclear scientists will also have set

(17:23):
back the regime's efforts to produce a nuclear weapon. The
second major focus of the strikes was Iranian missile production
and launch sites. The IDF struck over thirty facilities relating
to missile production throughout Iran. The strikes set back missile production,
particularly of long range missiles, through the targeting of navigation
systems factories. The elimination of over thirty senior Iranian military

(17:48):
commanders helped to prevent Iran from deadlier retaliation. Over fifty
percent of launchers and hundreds of ballistic missiles were destroyed
during the strikes. Over eighty percent of aerial defense rays
were destroyed. In the strikes, Over five hundred and thirty
missiles and eleven hundred drones were launched at Israel, with
ninety nine percent of the drones being intercepted. Derfin warned

(18:12):
that despite the success of the operation in preventing Iron's
existential threat to Israel, the regime would still attempt to
destroy Israel. Hmm, it's weird that our news doesn't report that.
I really need to know what that license plate is.
Have you ever had that experience?

Speaker 5 (18:29):
Anthony?

Speaker 6 (18:31):
Agree your personalized plate and I'll give you my example today.
Little yellow sports car looking thing. Don't know what kind
of sports car it was. Honestly, little sports cars all.

Speaker 5 (18:40):
Kind of look the same.

Speaker 8 (18:41):
To me.

Speaker 6 (18:41):
I realized that's blasphemy for car people. I'm sorry, but
I'm not a car person. And all little sports cars
look the same, bright yellow, bright yellow sports car. And
the license plate says plat a pie plat y pi
plati pie. No obviously, uh or maybe I didn't look

(19:03):
it up. It would seem like that would be the
plural of platypusinas maybe or kind of a play on that.

Speaker 5 (19:12):
But why would why would that be your license plate?
You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (19:19):
Why?

Speaker 5 (19:20):
Why would what meaning does that have for that? Dude?

Speaker 6 (19:23):
Like, I mean, but what am I going to get?
My license plate's gonna say? Cappy bera?

Speaker 1 (19:28):
No?

Speaker 5 (19:29):
You know that's it was just it was an odd
in it, sir.

Speaker 6 (19:35):
If you're listening to this program, please text what your
license plate means. We have a lot of personalized license
plates in Colorado, you guys, ever notice that I.

Speaker 5 (19:45):
Mean a lot. What are some of the weirdest ones you?

Speaker 6 (19:50):
Because I always see him in traffic, It's like my
eyes are drawn to personalized license plates.

Speaker 5 (19:55):
And no, I don't have one. I don't want one.

Speaker 6 (19:58):
I would never think of anything snappy and like, you know,
you gotta like plat a pie. Now what if you're
gonna have one like that? I feel like you need
to have some kind of explanation.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
They're limited to seven or eight characters. Seven seven No,
wait a minute, I don't know. Yeah, I think seven
Mandy coo, No Jody for Connell and for Colerad.

Speaker 5 (20:18):
No, no, I'm good, I'm good. I don't need that, Mandy.
Last blog text.

Speaker 6 (20:26):
I read your blog post about the woman living on
a cruise ship for two thousand dollars a month. But
the blog post links to and lad Bible up and
I hitt and hacked to claim up to fifty pounds
at some of the UK top Okay, Andy, thank you
for that. I'll fix that link. But yeah, woman living
on a cruise ship. You can know she's got an
inside cabin. Would you live in an inside cabin? Like,
live in an inside cabin? I don't mind going on

(20:48):
a cruise in an inside cabin, but could you live
in the inside cabin?

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Probably because we wouldn't be in there much, just like
we're not on a.

Speaker 6 (20:56):
Cruise, But if you're living on it, like it's the
point as a year old living on a cruise ship.
At some point, you're probably gonna find yourself spending a
little more time in your room, you know, getting sick
of people getting overculated that retirement choice. Yeah, yeah, anyway,

(21:18):
I'll fix that link. I also want to remind you, guys,
it'sn't asked me anything kind of Friday. The last few
times we've done that, it's been really really good, really good.
What is a personal license plate? Peebefore you go?

Speaker 2 (21:33):
What PP for you? What is that?

Speaker 5 (21:37):
I don't know what that means.

Speaker 6 (21:38):
I bet Mandy's license plate is going to say, darn
Tutin takes too many letters, Mandy. What happened to the
word Guy Elster? Haven't heard him as a guest for
some time. I have very bad news for you. Charles
Harrington Elster passed away. He had been battling multiple forms
of cancer for a very long time before he passed away,

(21:59):
and there were often times in the last year or
so where he had to cancel appearances because he was
feeling so poorly.

Speaker 5 (22:08):
And I'm still very sad about that.

Speaker 6 (22:09):
And I've not seen someone or been able to contact someone.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
That has a.

Speaker 6 (22:16):
It would be as good a replacement as I would
want to have. So that is what happened to Charles
Harrington Elster. He has passed away, Mandy. Maybe plate of
lemon pie. Oh, but wouldn't that be plate why pie?

Speaker 9 (22:29):
Well?

Speaker 5 (22:30):
Why pie is a dumb question. Because pie, that's why pie. Mandy.

Speaker 6 (22:36):
My license plate is Brock seventy four, my last name
and the year I was born.

Speaker 5 (22:40):
You're practically giving away your passwords, Brock. Why don't you
just tell everybody the answer to your security questions?

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Geez, I'll be in a zero for the Oh oh,
there's the password right there.

Speaker 5 (22:54):
Exactly with an exclamation.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
A symbol.

Speaker 6 (23:00):
Mandy, you need a plate for Randy Cromwell. You know
Randy likes to fly under the radar.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Randy ceo.

Speaker 6 (23:06):
No, no, oh, pee before you go, ah instead of
peebe pee before you go, Mandy. My brother in law's
orange corvette is a license plate that says change order
was paid for by change Orders.

Speaker 5 (23:24):
Now that's pretty funny. No, I want to ask if
you have a personalized license.

Speaker 6 (23:27):
Plate, why, just to be fine or you know, what
is the thinking behind that? And I'm not knocking it,
Please don't take it as a criticism. This is just
one of those things that I just don't think about ever.
My regular license plate is eight two three whit. I
love it because I'm a nerd Jessica King scooter librarian.

Speaker 5 (23:51):
Is Mandy going to baby medal with her daughter? What
is baby metal? Is that supposed to be like Metallica?
Is not real metal? Is that what that means?

Speaker 1 (24:00):
No?

Speaker 6 (24:01):
Oh, somebody just suggested O F T H D A
Y for me. Okay, now we're talking. Now, I'm starting
to see the fun. Could you imagine of the day?
That would be amazing, amazing. In all honesty, I want
plausible deniability in case you guys see me driving and
I'm not doing a good job, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (24:19):
I want to be able to know that wasn't me.
I don't know what you're talking about. God, that was
obviously someone else. Anyway.

Speaker 5 (24:26):
My wife's plate is hey, hey, uh, Mandy, your license
plate should be yah.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (24:36):
I realized too many words, but they could abbreviate just
saying oh. It could just be just saying I'm not
getting a personalized license plate.

Speaker 5 (24:43):
I'm not doing that, Mandy.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Why?

Speaker 6 (24:45):
And so many radio commercials I hear the terms tell
them Mandy sent me or something similar.

Speaker 5 (24:49):
I've always been curious love your show. That's because I
really want you to tell advertisers that that I sent you.

Speaker 6 (24:55):
That's why I say it because tracking where your customers
come from is extremely important in determining what advertising works.
And because we are not a method, people are not
going to walk in with a KOA coupon in their
hands because that's not.

Speaker 5 (25:12):
What people do, right.

Speaker 6 (25:14):
So it's harder to track radio than some other forms
of advertising. And so when you walk in and say
I heard about you on Mandy Connell's show, they know
exactly that you are in their store because I told
you to go there, and me it is. That is
the greatest thing you can do to support the show
straight up. Is when you walk into a business that

(25:35):
I support and I advertise for, the first thing you
say is look, I'm here because Mandy Connell and Koway
sent me. That is so powerful for me and it
helps me keep long term clients some of my When
I go to running Credental and at Reagen Revolution, the
women at we work at the front, they're like, oh
my gosh, I'm met the nicest listener of yours and
then they tell me a story about you know, without

(25:57):
telling me your name.

Speaker 5 (25:58):
Because that's you know, it's like a medical law. But
they always tell.

Speaker 6 (26:01):
Me the nicest things, and I always appreciate that more
than you could possibly imagine. So I always say I
love it when people say I love the show. But
if you love the show and you need windows, go
to Gravina's Windows Center of Littleton, and you want to
feel better, and you want regenerative medicine, go to regen Revolution.

Speaker 5 (26:17):
That's that's how you support the show, because boy does
that matter.

Speaker 6 (26:21):
You know, we've been joking around and not really joking
about the fact that you know, corporate as we'll call them,
is now checking to see how many people in you know,
in our area have set KOA or The Mandy Connell
Show as presets on.

Speaker 5 (26:34):
Their free ieartradio app.

Speaker 6 (26:36):
But that and and whether or not our advertisers get
great results, those are the two things that mean the
most in terms of whether I get to work here.
And those are the rules of the game I signed
up for, by the way, So it's like sometimes people
are horrified, I'm like, no, no, no, There's a lot
of factors that go into this, but this is the
game that I signed up for when I got my
very first job in radio. It's it's not the most

(27:00):
It's not an industry for the fate of heart.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Let me just say that you.

Speaker 6 (27:04):
Gotta have a little You gotta be able to gird
your loins in this industry. Anyway, Mandy, my parent's license
plate was er. Now is that an angry err? Is
there another err?

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (27:18):
Rod?

Speaker 5 (27:18):
If I have if you see a bunch of rs
in a row, er, are you what do you think
that emotion is?

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Anger?

Speaker 3 (27:24):
See?

Speaker 5 (27:24):
I think er or frustration? Could be frustration?

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Er?

Speaker 5 (27:29):
These are their drivers.

Speaker 10 (27:30):
Er.

Speaker 6 (27:33):
I saw the license plate and I'm gonna spell this
out because I'm not gonna say it. I'm not gonna
you know, nigga the owner said it meant back again?

Speaker 5 (27:44):
What anyway? I don't think they would get that plate out.
I don't think they would give that plate out.

Speaker 6 (27:51):
I mean, states deny license plate requests all the time,
and I mean, please, I hope they would deny that one.

Speaker 5 (27:58):
Mandy.

Speaker 6 (27:59):
Can we say you send us to companies that do
not advertise with you? Sean, I would love that. I
would absolutely love that. But here, you know what's funny
is I've mentioned my property manager for our rental property
on the air she's amazing. We're in the United Business
lounge last week, getting ready to leave Tokyo, right and
there's two dudes sitting across from me, and I don't

(28:20):
even know how we started chatting, but we start chatting,
and this guy hash He goes, oh, I own it
rental property in Denver, and he's telling me about this
garbage property manager that he has. You shall remain nameless
because I can't remember the name of the company. And
I said, dude, I have a phenomenal property manager. She
is amazing, and so I gave him her information and
he called her. And this guy doesn't even live in Denver.

(28:42):
He lives something like Texas somewhere. So if I believe
in a business, I'm going to tell people about it.
And I believe in the companies that advertise with us,
So I really, really do appreciate that. Years ago, I
was in a store with my young daughter, says this
Texter as we were checking out. She said, should we
tell the Mandy Connell sent us struck my funny bone
and it was not one of your advertisers. That's fantastic.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
I love your daughter. I plant the sea like we
don't advertise with Mandy. Wait, idea, Yes, yes, let's look
into it.

Speaker 6 (29:15):
Yeah, Mandy, I say you sent me every time I
go into my local liquor store.

Speaker 5 (29:20):
Okay, that's very funny, Texter.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
What are you getting?

Speaker 6 (29:26):
Yeah exactly, I mean what are we Are we talking
about natty light? Are we talking about like a nice
bottle of scotch here?

Speaker 5 (29:32):
What is that?

Speaker 6 (29:33):
I think it's a fair question answer. I don't think
I send people to tequila. I think I think i'm,
you know, sending people to.

Speaker 5 (29:42):
A nice cocktail, a high ball, if you will. That's
what they used to be called back in the day. Well,
as long as it's not if you do do tequila,
hopefully not Don Hully or cast amigos anymore. Why what
is wrong with them?

Speaker 7 (29:55):
You didn't see? No, they're getting h thrown under the
bus for what. Oh wow, big, Well.

Speaker 6 (30:06):
You know what, if you're gonna play stupid games, you're
gonna win stupid prizes. Really quickly, I'm going to take
you to the Denver Post Letters to the Editor section.
Every once in a while I peruse the letters to
the Editor section, and I hadn't been doing it in
a while because I don't subscribe to the Denver Post anymore.

Speaker 5 (30:27):
So I have to, you know, figure out how to
see that.

Speaker 6 (30:29):
But anyway, luckily someone hiding and All posted this on
her Twitter feed x feed, and I am now treated
to some of the letters to the editor.

Speaker 5 (30:39):
The headline that the Denver Post has put.

Speaker 6 (30:41):
On these letters exploring the motivations to bomb Iran both
good and bad. Peyton names from Green Valley, Arizona sends
this gem in is it possible that our president has
started a war in the Middle East so that he
can quote negotiate peace and get a Nobel Prize?

Speaker 5 (31:00):
He's always been so jealous of Barack Obama's win.

Speaker 6 (31:09):
Tell me you just started paying attention to the Middle
East without saying I just started paying attention to the
Middle East. First of all, if the Nobel Peace Prize
was ever gonna go to Donald Trump, it should have
gone for the Abraham Accords.

Speaker 5 (31:23):
And because a president they.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
Didn't like accomplished something that nobody probably thought could get
done in the near future, and that is bring Arabs
to normalized relationships with Israel.

Speaker 5 (31:39):
That is a stunning achievement. And the left wing media
and the Nobel Peace Prize Committee were like, ooh, ooh, yeah,
Oris Man bad. So he's never gonna get the Peace Prize.
That's just stupid.

Speaker 6 (31:53):
But I love it when people are like, you know what,
you know what I think he did. I think he
tried to kill all these people just because he won
the Peace Prize. That's all he wants. Here's the reason
I think Donald Trump is so aggressive about negotiating peace.
And this also applies to a story that I have
today about China has now agreed to a trade deal.

(32:16):
Donald Trump think drugs and alcohol are stupid waste of bandwidth.
He has never been a drinker. He doesn't do drugs.

Speaker 5 (32:23):
I don't know what he did when he was a kid,
he says he hasn't. I have no reason not to
believe him. He feels the same way about war. It's
a stupid waste of resources, blood, and treasure. And so
I think that's why he's so keen to negotiate.

Speaker 6 (32:36):
And when he realizes that the people he's trying to
bring to the table have much more deep seated, you know,
animosity that can't just be fixed by economic means, he
loses interest because they're not his people. So I think
there's a lot there. But yeah, I'm that's that's and
you know what, someone at the Denver Post was like, yeah.

Speaker 5 (32:56):
We're gonna print this maybe so I talk about it.
Who knows.

Speaker 6 (33:01):
When we get back my poe, Christian Toto is coming
in with Hollywood in Toto.

Speaker 4 (33:05):
If you saw my graphic today on Twitter and on Facebook,
did you see the graphic A rod?

Speaker 5 (33:09):
Because I used AI to make it?

Speaker 2 (33:12):
Oh lord? Which one?

Speaker 3 (33:13):
The one?

Speaker 5 (33:13):
On today's blog?

Speaker 2 (33:14):
The which AI platform? I used?

Speaker 5 (33:17):
Canva AI?

Speaker 2 (33:18):
This time?

Speaker 5 (33:19):
Grok did not deliver Canva AI.

Speaker 6 (33:21):
Oh well, oh yeah, there's AI for everything now, so
I use Canva AI. But I used Grock first and
I used Chat and they both let me down, and
then I went to Canva and it worked out.

Speaker 5 (33:30):
So go check it out. I'm pretty proud of it.
I'm not gonna lie. We'll be right back with Christian.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
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Speaker 2 (33:39):
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Speaker 5 (33:44):
On KOA ninety one f M SAT Say can they three?
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the show.

Speaker 6 (34:04):
And I am pleased to as punch, to have one
of my friends here in the studio with me again,
Christian Toto from Hollywood in Toto. We're gonna talk to
him in a moment, but I have to do something first. Oh,
someone has sent something to the common spiritual text line
that I have to address. Mandy, you didn't know how
delicious fried okra is at the Black Eyed be Oh
contrary or my friend?

Speaker 5 (34:22):
I do because I get it every time. How are you?
What's your opra reaction? What fried okra?

Speaker 8 (34:28):
Yes or no?

Speaker 10 (34:30):
When I grew up, I didn't eat blueberries or raspberries.
My diet was as simple as you could pot like
a like a toddler's right. Still, I've gotten much better, okay,
but I haven't done the opra o fried oprah.

Speaker 6 (34:42):
There's nothing offensive about yeah, I mean regularly, like if
you don't cook oprah, right, it is like it's snotty.
It's for lack of a better way to put it,
but fried okra is very innocuous. It's like a it's
like an entryway into okra. Describing it as snotty means
I will never eat it.

Speaker 5 (34:58):
Thank you, Thank you for I believe truth in advertising.

Speaker 6 (35:01):
I'm never going to be one of those people that
hands you a bowl of like mashed cauliflower and says,
you're not even gonna know it's not potento.

Speaker 5 (35:07):
So amazing, Yeah, you are going to know it's not potatoes.
It's still good.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
Do you make fried Uh?

Speaker 6 (35:12):
I don't do that kind of deep frying at my
house just because it makes I mean, I can, but
it makes a mess.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
It's tricky.

Speaker 5 (35:18):
Well it's not tricky, it just makes a mess. Then
you got to deal with the oil afterward. Blah blah blah,
et cetera, et cetera. I have a pretty good fried
adding myself. Actually, oh yeah, I'm not afraid.

Speaker 4 (35:27):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (35:28):
Christian. First of all, let's get this out of the way.

Speaker 6 (35:29):
Christian has a phenomenal podcast, a phenomenal website.

Speaker 5 (35:33):
He now writes, you're everywhere. I just looked down and
I see there's Christian Toto's name again. Good for you.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (35:39):
I'm in the Daily Wire at the Blaze once a
week at NewsBusters, which is such an amazing resource for immedia.

Speaker 5 (35:45):
I love NewsBusters.

Speaker 6 (35:47):
I have loved them for years, and they never They've
never changed, and that is a compliment. They've always been
very consistent with the stuff they call out. It's not
like they've gone crazy, you know, in one way or
the other. I mean, they've been so consistent the entire
time they've existed.

Speaker 10 (36:04):
That's an extremely good point. And it's also in our
times right now we're seeing major players, platforms, commentators just
losing their minds and can all point to some fingers
there not them. Yeah, I agree, and I when I
see what they share, it's very clinical, it's accurate. I
don't remember ever being fooled by right, right, which is

(36:24):
all the more important.

Speaker 6 (36:25):
Exactly they're right, They're just they're very journalistic at NewsBusters.

Speaker 5 (36:29):
Okay, so let's talk about two things.

Speaker 6 (36:31):
First of all, you wrote a great column the other day,
and and this is going to be one of those
things that there's going to be a percentage of my
audience that is going to say, Mandy, why do I
give a crap if any of these lefty Hollywood people
get canceled, Like, why do I care? But I think
there's some stories of a little bit of courage starting
to show in Hollywood. And so let's talk about a massive,

(36:53):
massive producer. Brian Grazer has now he came out of
the closet and he's a pretty big Democratic donor. For years,
I remember just seeing his name.

Speaker 10 (37:04):
He's done a lot of the Ron Howard films, you
know that best you know backdraft of about thirteen. Just
he's got incredible resume, and he was captured on camera.
There's a Fox Nation docu series where he admitted to
voting for Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
And this was a you know, came out recently.

Speaker 10 (37:19):
I think that the footage was maybe from a few
months ago, but that is an amazing admission. And listen,
you could, like you said, who why do we care?
But there's several reasons too care. First of all, when
anyone in the culture of consequence comes out and is
able to say that, especially in the industry, that's will
chew up and spit you out, that does matter. We
need to be brave, we need to be outspoken, need
to be it's okay to say that I voted with

(37:41):
half the country and more. And also, again, he's such
an interesting player behind the scenes. You don't know his name,
you've just seen his movies for decades. And the fact
he's willing to stick his neck out and not worry
about it. That doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
Now.

Speaker 10 (37:54):
I watched the coverage of it, Variety, the Hollywood Reporterety
he got the vapors. Yeah, they all love kind of
the circle. They want more comment. Can you elaborate on this?

Speaker 3 (38:04):
You know?

Speaker 5 (38:04):
Yeah, I didn't know you were so hateful. It's interesting.

Speaker 6 (38:08):
I saw the comment where people are upset, but people
have also said, but I'll still work with him.

Speaker 5 (38:14):
If you call me Brian, yeah, I think you're a racist,
Call me Brian. I mean that's what it is. You're
a fascist. Call me Brian. I mean he's like, it
must kill them.

Speaker 6 (38:23):
But I'm hoping because now you've got Brian Razer has
come out, granted he's probably in his seventies getting a
little bit older.

Speaker 5 (38:30):
You've got Slice s. Tolone who has just.

Speaker 4 (38:32):
Banged open the door as a Trump supporter and with
absolutely no blanks to give right as he did it.

Speaker 6 (38:40):
Maybe there's cracks in the blue wall of Hollywood. Maybe
it's going to become maybe not accepted, but at least
not a death sentence for you to be a conservative
in Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
It's complicated now. Listen.

Speaker 10 (38:54):
Stallone is Stallone, He's an icon. He's got a hit
show in Paramount, which is terrific. By the way to Tulsa,
can And also Grazer is still making movies. He's got
his Howard Ron Howard connection. He still plugged in, so
he has juice within the industry. But I talked to
so many people again and again and again over the years.
They're still afraid, they still understand they could be canceled.
And often it's the people who you don't know their

(39:16):
names right, say, it's the hairdresser, it's the cast member,
it's the crew member. And I've talked to people who
worked with a group called Friends of Abe, where these
people would get together and commiserate and cry and talk
about how they're mistreated.

Speaker 5 (39:29):
And again and again you see examples of this going on.

Speaker 10 (39:31):
I mean the fact that a Hollywood producer says, I
voted for X not Y, and it's news that says
it all.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
It really does.

Speaker 6 (39:39):
So, my sister, do you remember the John Travolta movie Basic,
Oh gosh, I don't know our Sun A mediocre film
at best. I cannot recommend that you go back and
give it a look. But my sister, isn't it She
was Connie Nielsen's stand.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
In Oh Wow.

Speaker 6 (39:52):
Well, they were filming that in Jacksonville, and so they're
in Florida and Jeb Bush was the governor at the time,
and so Jeb Bush was coming to visit the set
because here we're filming.

Speaker 5 (40:02):
A big movie in Florida.

Speaker 6 (40:04):
And before he showed up, everybody, like the cast and
the crew like a kind of grumbling, and one of
the people on the set, a more important person than
my stand in sister, right, says, we don't even know
any Republicans, and she goes, I'm a Republican.

Speaker 4 (40:19):
Oh, and when she said it, she said, everybody just oh,
hes on a swivel.

Speaker 5 (40:24):
But then everybody was super nice to do a Bush
as well.

Speaker 6 (40:27):
They were very gracious and they were very kind, and
nobody said anything else about it.

Speaker 5 (40:31):
So I was like, well, you don't matter, but good
for you for saying.

Speaker 6 (40:34):
Actually, a couple other people, like in craft services, were like, yeah,
I'm a Republican. But I do think to your point.
There's so many things in Hollywood because it's such a
just honestly kind of inherently gross the way people become
stars in Hollywood. And I don't necessarily talk about the
casting couch, but it's about having to curb yourself and
your personality because you don't want to rock the boat ever, right,

(40:56):
And it's so arbitrary.

Speaker 5 (40:58):
It's a very weird culture to go along to get along.

Speaker 10 (41:01):
And if you says you, if you're a rising star,
someone who wants to crack into the system to get
a gig, you can't get political. He certainly can't on
the right for sure. That's just a death sentence. Just
there's no way I'd recommend that. But we do need
more people to speak out, you know, off the year
we're talking about sort of when you don't give a
bleep anymore. And there are people in our culture you
think would be in an exact situation like Stephen King.

(41:22):
Yet a few years ago, Stephen King came out and
talked about art and diversity and the oscars that you know,
it should be about a talent, it should be about
making the best picture possible.

Speaker 5 (41:31):
And he was hounded by the woke mob and he backpedaled.

Speaker 10 (41:35):
He even wrote an op ed in the Washing Post
basically apologizing for saying that merit matters.

Speaker 5 (41:39):
But he's such a lefty, I mean, he probably never
thought he probably thought he had.

Speaker 6 (41:44):
Enough lefty bon offends, you know what I mean. Nobody
was going to come after him, and he could make
a very valid point. By the way, a rational, you know,
well thought out point that makes a lot of sense,
and not the attack for it. But low and Beholdie
underestimates the hatred of his side of the ale.

Speaker 5 (42:00):
Yeah, you never can be woke enough. But also look
at like J. K.

Speaker 10 (42:03):
Rowling, who's just been an absolute bulldog and will not
back down. And she's similar to King, like this author,
a superstar, all the money of the world, all the
gravitas in the world. Her legacy is secure. She could
retire today, spend the next thirty years just you know,
being in the garden.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
And she is who she is.

Speaker 10 (42:20):
But she's been attacked for multiple years. There was just
a bookstore, thought it was in California. I said, we
will not sell her books anymore.

Speaker 5 (42:27):
Yeah, oh, okay, okay, Boomer, do what I should say? Okay,
gen z U huh.

Speaker 6 (42:32):
You know, to your point, I love jk Rowling for
that because she doesn't need to engage at all. I
kind of feel the same way about Elon Musk's actions coming.

Speaker 5 (42:41):
To try and work for government.

Speaker 4 (42:42):
Talk about a guy that you know, leve him or
hate him, you know, lever hate the idea of doge.

Speaker 5 (42:48):
What are the world did?

Speaker 6 (42:49):
How in the world did that possibly benefit Elon Musk
So people cannot wrap their heads around sometimes when someone
who is super wealthy can and used to dip in
in some way, that is controversial because why would you.

Speaker 5 (43:04):
You think I would buy an island and you'd never
hear from me again, which is exactly what I would do.
I'm just letting you know, So I do think those
things kind of go hand in hand. It's kind of
sad though.

Speaker 6 (43:13):
I mean, I remember when, you know, actors would go
on Johnny Carson and they would talk about what was
going on in the news of the day, and it
was funny and even if they you know, a little
bit of pushback here and there.

Speaker 10 (43:23):
But we don't get to do that anymore. We don't
listen to celebrities. Most of them, not all of them
are not really well thought out. They're often angry, they're bitter.
It just the way it comes out is really corrosive.
And we're living in a time where we have a
million different options of what to watch at any given time.
I just go on my phone and watch YouTube videos
for the six hours. I don't need to see Brad

(43:43):
Pitt's movie. So if Brad Pitt says I'm an idiot
for voting a certain way, or says I'm a jerk
because I don't want trans women and women's sports.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Why would I go see this movie? Right? So it's
so counterintuitive, but they keep doing it.

Speaker 10 (43:57):
Listen, if they were more well informed, if they were thoughtful,
if they weren't abrasive. Okay, I mean they have a platform,
they've got a pedestal. I'll listen, I'll hear what they
have to say. But also you know that they never
get challenged. It's an a worse show. It's an interview
with a lefty magazine, it's social media. They will never say, Okay,
I'll take some questions based on my beliefs, and I'll
go back and forth with you, and I'll be challenged

(44:18):
and I'll defend my position, and never do that.

Speaker 6 (44:21):
Well, do you think that after the Rachel Zieglers, You know,
just I believe her commentary probably killed what might have
been a decent opening weekend and the movie itself. I've
tried to watch it just so I you know, be more. No,
it's terrible. They I mean, they just took a story

(44:41):
that is a classic and made it something so dumb.

Speaker 5 (44:45):
It's just awful.

Speaker 6 (44:47):
Do you think contracts are going to be written that say,
during the until this, you know, six weeks after release,
you better keep your pie hole shut.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
Well, no, absolutely not. Maverick.

Speaker 10 (44:59):
We're seeing with in real time right now. Pedro Pascal,
who's in every third time. He just keeps blathering on
and dropping f bombs and being corrosive. And he's got
he's got a movie coming out Eddington, He's in the
Fantastic four First Steps. He's a huge part of that
whole franchise.

Speaker 5 (45:16):
He doesn't care.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
Listen.

Speaker 10 (45:17):
I don't want him to be sequestered. He should be
able to speak his mind. I get that, But just
from a pragmatic point of view, if you're doing press,
excuse me, that is to get people's fannies in the
seats to the movie period.

Speaker 5 (45:30):
That's the only reason why you're talking to a journalist
and they don't get it.

Speaker 6 (45:33):
Well, it's I don't know to your point about all
these different opportunities for entertainment. I mean, we we deal
with this in radio all the time. Like it used
to be that when you were driving in the car,
the only thing you could do was listen to the radio.
Right then, if you were lucky you got an eight
truck tape. But now even in the car, you can
cultivate whatever you want to cultivate. It doesn't it doesn't
mean anything. So it is you know, you don't want

(45:56):
to drive away any listener like. Of course I get
the I'm never listening again text messages, but you know,
everybody else I give a.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
Little emotional one day.

Speaker 6 (46:06):
But I do think that you have to be even
more aware of not giving people a reason to listen,
you know what I mean, or a reason to watch.
Don't give them if they're already competing for all of
this other stuff. You don't want to give them a
reason to say, absolutely not.

Speaker 5 (46:19):
I'm not seeing that.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
I agree. I mean, it's amazing.

Speaker 10 (46:22):
And the fact that that Rachel ZEGLIBB went to that whole,
I don't even know how to describe it.

Speaker 5 (46:26):
I mean, just being pummeled by her.

Speaker 6 (46:28):
What did she like five just spouting off and I
could think of this. Nobody told her how life works,
how business works.

Speaker 10 (46:37):
In her meager defense, she was basically just reciting the
lines from all of her colleagues, all the people behind
the scenes.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
I'm the victim. I hate Trump.

Speaker 10 (46:45):
I mean, just go on and on old content is
stuffy and antiquated, we have to reimagine it. So she
just really read the script that Hollywood has been unofficially
been giving her forever. But she got burned and it
just was a cavalcade of we're going to not hire
little people. Yes, we're gonna put little people in there,
but it's gonna be cgi, and we're gonna insult the
source material and the trailer is going to be terrible.

(47:07):
I mean, it was just a perfect storm of just
bad buzz after bad buzz, and the movie collapsed.

Speaker 6 (47:13):
So we've seen this year Leelo and Stitch, the unanimated
version has kicked Booty at the box office. What are
there things are we looking forward to in the summer?

Speaker 10 (47:23):
Well, I just real quickly. A Minecraft movie was huge.
Sinners was terrific and big, big box office. Good for
that movie because it wasn't a sequel to remake, it
was an original film, beautifully told.

Speaker 5 (47:33):
Superman's coming out next month. I cannot wait to see
this new Superman.

Speaker 6 (47:36):
I am stoked and I loved Henry Cavill like it
hurt my heart when they replaced Henry.

Speaker 5 (47:41):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
I can't.

Speaker 5 (47:42):
I mean, we all age out right, But this guy
looks pretty dang good.

Speaker 10 (47:46):
Yeah, I mean, I think I'm just more curious about
how they're gonna treat this and anything else as I
grew up in the Christopher Rie era and he was
the boy scout. Yeah, but he was amazing and he
was so perfectly cast for the role. And three and
four with bad movies, let's just put that way.

Speaker 5 (48:00):
I liked the the what was the one where they
redid the Zod storyline of Steel?

Speaker 1 (48:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (48:05):
Think like we just watched that this past week because
it and I thought.

Speaker 6 (48:10):
This is a really good reimagining of that first movie
because it's the same story essentially, right.

Speaker 5 (48:16):
I thought they did a good job with it. Who's
directing this one? So this is James Gunn. He did
the Guardians of the Galaxy film. He's okay, he's talented.
He's a bit quippy and silly and boyish in a way.
That's not a did he do the thor love and No?

Speaker 2 (48:30):
That was a white no.

Speaker 6 (48:31):
We should never let him near any kind of superhero
movie again. That was shameful.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
Take his camera away.

Speaker 5 (48:36):
Somebody needs to be hurt for that needs to come
down the pike on that one. So we got the Couple, Marvel,
a Marvel movie, One More, and the Fantastic Four.

Speaker 10 (48:47):
Yeah, First Steps that's coming out the end of July
in New Jurassic World. Those movies just print money. Yeah,
you need to see Dinahaurs on screen. It gets scroll
at you a handsome big stars. So that's just gonna
make a hole the money.

Speaker 5 (48:59):
Billion dollars.

Speaker 6 (49:00):
What is bombed already since Memorial Day? What was expected
to be big and just it wasn't anything. Mickey seventeen
is new ish. That was a big bomb because the
budget was so big and no one saw it.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
It was it.

Speaker 10 (49:12):
It's a science fiction film. It's really kind of heavy handed.
Robert Pattinson, Oh, I wanted to see that.

Speaker 4 (49:17):
I saw.

Speaker 5 (49:18):
It's not good.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
It's tough sletting.

Speaker 5 (49:19):
No, oh, no, you know what movie I just watched
on the plane on the way to Japan. Better man, I.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
That's the movie.

Speaker 5 (49:27):
Loved it. Yes, that was a colossal bomb. It's such
a weird iss so good, I'm telling you.

Speaker 6 (49:34):
By the five minutes in, you don't even think about
the fact the main character is a monkey. The music
is fantastic, the cast is likable. It was so entertaining
I absolutely loved that movie. That movie should have a
good second life, but its first life was crazy. I
feel like it's going to be in the category of
this is spinal tap and uh, you know, the gods
must be crazy.

Speaker 5 (49:54):
Let's think of all the movies from the eighties that
we that were always left over on the video shelf.

Speaker 4 (49:59):
So that's all my family rented. I'm not even kidding.
All the blockbusters were gone.

Speaker 6 (50:04):
We were just like, oh, we'll watch the Lows Brothers again.
So I've seen that like one hundred and eighty times.

Speaker 5 (50:09):
Mandy ask him about the new Jurassic Park and the
new Godfather movie.

Speaker 6 (50:12):
Wait what, I'm not aware that a new Godfather movie
that we learned something from part three, and that is
we don't need anymore.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
We stop it too.

Speaker 10 (50:23):
Yeah, I'm not aware that. Yeah, Jurassic World Rebirth is called.
I don't have much information about it. These are big,
big productions. Obviously, scarletj Hansen storing it is a major,
don't you know. It's funny you don't even need that.
I don't know why they hire her because it's Jurassic World.
It just itself as he needs the residuals had for

(50:43):
poor Scarlett.

Speaker 6 (50:44):
Yeah, I mean, I'm seriously we got to make sure
these Hollywood people can get by Mandy. Having worked in
film and TV, I rarely discussed politics. It's an industry
that makes the radio business look stable, and the industry
has had major downturns, and it's even harder to find work.
So that also reaffirms you don't want to give anybody
a reason to say no.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
Yeah, the industry is really suffering on many levels.

Speaker 8 (51:06):
LA.

Speaker 10 (51:06):
The productions are fleeing the city. Streaming platforms haven't been
making as much money as you think. The box office
has been not so bad, but there have been some
significant bombs, right, you know the reason Kroadit Kid Legends
I thought was perfectly fine, but didn't really get a
lot of attention. So there's been some box office disappointments
for sure. L e O is a new Pixar movie.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
No one seeing that.

Speaker 6 (51:25):
You know, didn't even hear about that movie. But then
I don't really watch commercials, so I don't know.

Speaker 10 (51:29):
You know, that one didn't get a lot of buz
didn't get a lot of promotion. So that's often a
sign with the studio says we know this is not
an a plus product.

Speaker 5 (51:36):
We'll just put it out there if it catches fire.
Wonderful of those.

Speaker 6 (51:39):
Good videos three weeks and people will in it for
their kids. What about F one, the new Formula one movie?

Speaker 5 (51:44):
He was that Bruckheimer. He may be a producer in that.
The director is the same person who did Top On Maverick.
It comes out today. That's what I'm thinking about.

Speaker 10 (51:51):
Brad Pitt is the star. It is very Maverick esque.
An older guy who once had great success in his field.
Now he's trying to recapture his u with one more
stabic greatness. There's a younger driver who's threatening his place
on the team.

Speaker 6 (52:05):
I gotta tell you, I still am shocked and delighted
at how amazing Top Gun Maverick was. I mean, talk
about picking up the mantle and just just using it perfectly.
He just did such a great job that I am
not necessarily excited about car racing, but I'm totally going
to see this because if you can pull off those
male dynamics, and.

Speaker 5 (52:27):
This is what's so good about those movies.

Speaker 6 (52:29):
And I just said this to a friend of mine,
those movies allow the men to be unabashedly male, and
it makes them not jerks while doing it, except the
one guy who's.

Speaker 5 (52:37):
You know, egotistical and all that stuff. And that's it.

Speaker 6 (52:41):
They're manly men doing manly things and it's fantastic to
see on the big screen.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
It is.

Speaker 10 (52:47):
It feels like a throwback experience and this film is
not that good, but there are definitely echoes between the
two films, and there's just listen to get an older
movie star who still looks amazing, right, and what he's doing.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
It's it's working quite well.

Speaker 5 (53:01):
We thought it was a movie, but it's the story
of his life. It was a documentary of yeah, exactly,
all right.

Speaker 6 (53:06):
Find Hollywood in Toto at Hollywood Intoto dot com. He's
got a great podcast with the name always look for
Christians reviews and if you're wondering if you want to
go see a movie, hop on over to Hollywood and
Tote where they have a lot of reviews from that
right leaning perspective, so you can kind of get an
idea on what you want to do there. I appreciate
you go. Can you stick around for one more segment?

(53:26):
Somebody just asked the question and I think we need
to address it. But I'm going to give you a
moment to think because a brief which is worse Blues
Brothers two thousand.

Speaker 5 (53:39):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 6 (53:40):
You should check him out on Hollywood intoto dot com.
Sam Clever that is, did you see the graphic I'm
made for you?

Speaker 2 (53:47):
I love it?

Speaker 6 (53:47):
My AI graphic little squirrely things up on the right
there I couldn't get rid of. But I went to
Rock and Chat and they let me down, and then
I went to Canva AI and that's what they came
up with. I was very proud of my It was
utilization of AI.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
It was beautiful. It's so funny.

Speaker 10 (54:03):
And I think in two years all these little squiggles
and all the like hands got five six fingers, and
of five, it's all going to go away.

Speaker 5 (54:09):
It's going to get even creepier. But well, it's a
great tool I And of course they just in a
study of.

Speaker 6 (54:16):
What am I trying to think of AI and how
it affects your brain use and there's two different things
that emerged out of study.

Speaker 5 (54:23):
One people that use AI to do their work for them. Okay,
kids that are.

Speaker 6 (54:30):
Using AI and copying, pasting and putting that stuff. They
would have a kid write an essay using AI. And
then turn the essay in and then give them a
quiz like four or five minutes later on the essay,
and they would not even know what was in the essay.
They just turned And then they studied brains, and it
actually showed that the part of your brain that is
for information processing and creativity just basically.

Speaker 5 (54:54):
Started shrinking and usage. But people who were.

Speaker 6 (54:58):
Using AI as a tool, and I use AI all
the time to do stuff like this. Compare these downtown
vacancy rates of these twelve American cities.

Speaker 5 (55:07):
I did that the other day.

Speaker 6 (55:09):
It's fantastic, and they showed those folks they actually interacted
those parts of the lit up more because you were
using it informationally and not as a replacement for your
own actual work. So I think we're gonna have to
deal with that as kids are cheating with AI all
the time.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
I talked to your.

Speaker 10 (55:24):
Professor recently and he had nightmare stories about the cheating
and the school not even having his back in certain ways.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
And they're still kind of feeling the way around.

Speaker 5 (55:32):
What do you do with this? Yeah, it's a huge problem.

Speaker 4 (55:34):
Oh, it's AIS lead pasted us in this issue. Let's
talk for a moment about.

Speaker 6 (55:38):
This text messenger's question because they sent the question and
then they sent another text that just said excuse me, Mandy,
And I feel like that was a quiet repro small
So let's just go ahead and get this question out. Mandy,
what are Christians thoughts about the late composer Lelo Schiffrin?

Speaker 5 (55:55):
Lolo Schiffrin, I should say, you.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
Know, it's funny.

Speaker 10 (55:57):
As a movie critic, I don't really on music as
much as I should, so it's definitely a fallacy of
my part.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
But I mean, mission impossible. He done some other namesers
give me?

Speaker 5 (56:07):
Isn't can I have my.

Speaker 6 (56:10):
Audio please, Anthony? Because he also did this original soundtrack
the Amityville Horror. Yes, that's Lalla is different. You know,
these these composers, I only noticed the music when it's

(56:30):
bad or well no, because spectacular just makes the entire
experience so much better. So you're more likely to say,
you know, golly, what an amazing film that.

Speaker 5 (56:41):
Was because the music was so good. But boy howdy,
a bad soundtrack and I'm like, what the deuce? What
did they like buy this on the internet? What is happening?
A bad soundtrack?

Speaker 10 (56:52):
And some of those eighties movies that synth sound it
might have been good at that specific moment.

Speaker 4 (57:00):
Instantly hy all of the Roger Moore John jajams are
all that horrible digital synthesizer stuff.

Speaker 5 (57:07):
It's so bad.

Speaker 6 (57:08):
Let me ask you this, like now that we're seeing
some of the animation AI, and I'm sure you see
it on X.

Speaker 5 (57:15):
As well, it's insane.

Speaker 6 (57:17):
Did you see the cat diving competition that's been making
its way around the internet.

Speaker 10 (57:21):
No, but I mean I see everyone's transformed to a baby.
I mean, that's just tell you those are hilarious.

Speaker 5 (57:26):
Baby Trump is very fun of me. I find that entertaining.

Speaker 6 (57:31):
But no, there there was a video this week. I
saw it and it was cats diving off of a
diving board. And if you drop that into nineteen eighty five,
you would have had the entire world going, oh my god, did.

Speaker 5 (57:45):
You see the cats jumping off the diving board? It
looks that real. What does this mean for Hollywood?

Speaker 6 (57:50):
This is part of the writer's strike or the last
contract negotiations.

Speaker 10 (57:55):
They've put in a lot of protections against AI, but
this is you cannot hold this back at some point.
And also you're going to have independent studios, people who
are with the different guilds just saying, Hey, I want
to make a story. I've got a script. I can
use AI to animate it and do it at a
fraction of a fraction of the cost. It's inevitable. It's inevitable.

Speaker 6 (58:13):
I have a friend who does like training stuff. That's
her job, and she sells training the individual corporations and
things like that. She's now working to use AI two
when she gets a question from somebody that she is
in a training cycle with and she we're talking at
thousands of people training at the same time. Okay, when

(58:33):
she gets an individual question, she'll be able to program
that into this program and it will create a video
of her visually answering the question. Because she is found
in her work that retention is better when people feel
like they're getting that personal feedback. So she's now going
to be able to basically fake personal interactions.

Speaker 5 (58:53):
And she said, people love it. I mean, I understand
it is great technology.

Speaker 10 (58:56):
I think about you know, when pages went away, we
were like, oh boohoo, page gone.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
You have to adapt.

Speaker 10 (59:01):
I mean, whoever is selling pages out of pager business,
They're in trouble now. I feel like so many industries,
so many people could be significantly impaired by this, by
my job is gone because you know, I mean, I
can create a graphic for my website right now using
AI and doing this and that where I don't have
to hire a designer, and that's a title I can't
help myself.

Speaker 5 (59:21):
Sometimes it's there.

Speaker 10 (59:22):
I mean, other people are using it same token, like
I should be hiring a designer to do that. I mean,
it's just a microscopic example of how things are going
to change.

Speaker 6 (59:30):
I feel a little bit guilty, But the fact of
the matter is is that this kind of AI technology
that we're talking about right now, how long is it
before some kid or some woman you know, working in
their basement is going to be able to create an
animated movie from scratch by themselves in their basement and

(59:52):
it's going to win an Oscar.

Speaker 5 (59:54):
That's going to happen. It's sooner rather than later.

Speaker 6 (59:57):
And I think that much like I think the Internet
for or the arts for artists, for musicians, for actors
is one of the greatest things in the world and
also one of the worst, you know, in terms of
how they get paid and everything else.

Speaker 5 (01:00:09):
But I just think those who adapt.

Speaker 6 (01:00:11):
To the technology and adapt quickly and figure out how
to use it to their advantage instead of having a steamroll.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Them are going to be the ones who survive. And
I agree.

Speaker 10 (01:00:20):
And you know, you have storytellers now who can make
something and put it up on YouTube where they can
never they never had the tools to do that at
a low price point ever before. I mean, you know,
the Tim Dillon podcast is very popular in YouTube and
it probably gets more views in like CNNA times oh oh,
and imagine the budget of C and N versus Tim
Dillon in the studio cracking wise. So those are great things,

(01:00:40):
and it's kind of, you know, democratizing the whole process.
But the careful what you wish for, because you know,
maybe Disney goes out of business because they've got You've
got a kid who's got a great story, but then
today it's a great story and he or she did
it with this technology, and all of a sudden, we've
got a wonderful yarn to spend, right that makes our
lives better.

Speaker 6 (01:00:58):
So that is you know, maybe maybe it would inspire
a little more original creativity. You know how many of
the movies that we're talking about for this summer have
no connection to a prior film. Yeah, you know, f
one I don't think has a prior connection to a
prior film. But other than that, you got Leelo and Stitch.

(01:01:18):
That's a remake. You've got another Marvel movie that already
has a lure and a history.

Speaker 5 (01:01:24):
We have Superman. I mean, we're just and don't get
me wrong, I love some of the regurgitations. But man,
that's why I think I.

Speaker 6 (01:01:31):
Love Better Man so much because it was so different
and it's so strange and so fun.

Speaker 10 (01:01:38):
And that's why Centers was so magical, because it was
absolutely fresh. It's a vampire movie, but it's really about
a set in the Deep South in nineteen thirties. It's
about racism. It's about these black brothers who are trying
to create like a juke box joint or this I
forget the exact terminology there, but just a club for
people with their neighbors.

Speaker 2 (01:01:56):
Can you enjoy themselves?

Speaker 5 (01:01:57):
Subject joint?

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:01:58):
And things go awry? A thought that so, yeah, we
do we do want? Oh, this is what I want
to say.

Speaker 10 (01:02:05):
Did you hear them making a prequel to Young Frankenstein?
What called very I'm not even lying, they're gonna call
it very Young Frankenstein. I think it's either Hulu or FX.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
I think it has.

Speaker 10 (01:02:16):
Mil Brooks's Blessing is a series no stops. I mean
that's it sounds so farcical. But you talk about like regurgitation, reimagining, sequels, prequels, remakes.
I mean, at some point we have to put the
put down the brakes right, and this is ridiculous. I mean,
and how do you replace those actors?

Speaker 5 (01:02:33):
What's sacred?

Speaker 6 (01:02:34):
That's what I'm saying, is nothing sacred? We never answered
what is worse? Blues Brother two thousand or Caddy Shack too.
I don't think I ever, I ever suffered through Blue
Oh my god, I've seen them both. I've seen them both.
And this is Sophie's choice.

Speaker 10 (01:02:48):
Yeah, I mean, is such a beautiful example of a terrible, awful,
no good sequel.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
So I have to just default to that.

Speaker 5 (01:02:57):
They should have just called it Caddy Shack too.

Speaker 6 (01:02:59):
We just want your mind anyway. Christian Toto, thank you
for stopping by. I appreciate you so much. Hollywood and
Toto is his website where you can get to his
work and his reviews, and you can also listen to
his amazing podcast, We'll Talk to again, to you, my friend,
sounds good. Soon soon not tune too well. Next time,
we'll do the entire segment in song. Ah, you don't
want that, Okay, it is ask me anything. This texter

(01:03:22):
said AI. A concern of mine is leftist bias in AI. Mandy,
I agree about not using it in a lazy way,
sort of the path of least resistance. I'm excited about
using AI and healthcare. It will accelerate managing and curing diseases.
I'd like to integrate AI into the human geno map.
Some of the stuff that's happening in medicine with AI
is fascinating. There's an AI and I don't know if

(01:03:45):
it is available.

Speaker 5 (01:03:47):
Widely.

Speaker 6 (01:03:48):
I don't remember if it was in beta. I can't
remember where it is in the process. But they were
testing it against human doctors when it came to diagnosing
the underling issues.

Speaker 5 (01:04:01):
And this isn't a knock on human doctors.

Speaker 6 (01:04:03):
But when we go to the doctor, it's like, Okay,
you know, I'm having this pain here, and I had
this kind of reaction and I'm feeling this way, and
you know whatever, we give them our symptoms and a
human being, you know, an experienced doctor of course, has
seen enough things to have a pretty good idea of
where to start.

Speaker 5 (01:04:20):
But when you have the ability to plug.

Speaker 6 (01:04:22):
In every single symptom that you have right, even things
that don't necessarily Oh yeah, I have all that, and
then my right elbow has been killing me, and I
have a slight bit of low back pain and my
right you know, lower hip or whatever.

Speaker 5 (01:04:37):
AI has the ability to comb through.

Speaker 6 (01:04:38):
Everything instantly to come up with potential diagnoses, and then
medical doctors can go and test those theories. And what
it's doing, at least in the beta test that I
read about, is speeding up what can take days, even
weeks sometimes trying to narrow down what is wrong with someone,

(01:05:00):
and those weeks and days can make a huge difference
in some situations in being able to successfully treat someone
and help them come back. And that's where the human
doctors come in. So AI is not going to replace doctors,
but AI should be a potent tool for doctors who,
many of whom are way overworked. I know that I've

(01:05:20):
had frustrating experiences at the doctor's office in the last
few years. Not my doctor now, but just in general
where you just feel overlooked. They don't listen. God forbid
you want to ask them about something that isn't on
the appointment, right.

Speaker 5 (01:05:33):
So I love the possibility of AI in medicine. I
think it's going to be amazing.

Speaker 8 (01:05:39):
I do.

Speaker 5 (01:05:39):
However, like the other day, I used GROCK and Chat.
I compared them. This is what I do.

Speaker 6 (01:05:44):
I pit AI against AI, ask them the same question,
see who comes up with the best stuff. And for
the most part, the data in those posts was the same.
So I was just using the data points, That's all
I was using. Yeah, we should be worried. We should
always be worried. If something looks too good to be true,

(01:06:04):
you need to double check. And it actually says that
on Chat GPT it says, hey, you're gonna want to
verify what you see here.

Speaker 5 (01:06:11):
I would never ever ever use it to do something
like write my blog. I just would not do that.
First of all, could I don't think it could ever
capture my voice? Ooh ooh, a Rod.

Speaker 6 (01:06:23):
You know what I'm gonna do next week, I'm gonna
have I'm gonna have AI write my blog one day
and see if anybody can tell.

Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
I'm intrigued.

Speaker 5 (01:06:34):
I'm intrigued as well.

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
Maybe it'll write in a way that people can find
it better. You had it right there.

Speaker 3 (01:06:41):
Maybe have it generate away in the beginning of the
segment show where people can find.

Speaker 4 (01:06:47):
It better audibly. Yeah, anyway, I hope it doesn't do
better for your sake, Mandy, Am I a thief? I
was just at Albertson's at the self checkout. I noticed
someone left.

Speaker 6 (01:07:00):
Change sixty cents sixty four cents, not dollars, and I
took it. Just as I took it, an employee came
over to check my work and accused me of stealing.
Because if he claims if someone leaves their loose change,
it belongs to the store. I think I would have
looked at him and said, finders, keepers, losers, weepers.

Speaker 2 (01:07:20):
Let me use it for bags. There you go, how
much per bag? I don't think you're six and a
half bags?

Speaker 5 (01:07:27):
Yeah, I don't think you're a thief. You're just fine.
Greg Stone slipped up and called you manly Connall. First
time I've ever heard someone blush over the radio right
after he was impressed with your personal opening jingle.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
Here you know, Manly Connell, I've been called worse.

Speaker 5 (01:07:46):
I'm fine with it. Actually, I heard it when it happened.

Speaker 6 (01:07:50):
I heard it right after it happened, because I was
already back last Friday. I was just too tired to
do anything, and I sent Grant a text and just said, well,
it is Pride Month.

Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
The Mandy Connell Show is fun third by Bill and Pollock,
Accident and injury Lawyers.

Speaker 9 (01:08:03):
No, it's Mandy Connell, ninem got.

Speaker 5 (01:08:15):
I want to study the great sad bab Welcome Local
Bay from to the third hour of the show.

Speaker 6 (01:08:27):
And though I have a lot of stuff on the
blog today, I got some good stuff on the text
line from you guys, that common Spirit health text line.
It doesn't ask me anything kind of day. I'm Mandy Cornell.
That guy is Anthony Rodriguez getting ready geared up? Is
it supposed to rain tonight at Metallica?

Speaker 5 (01:08:43):
Hey, Rod?

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
Not that I've seen.

Speaker 6 (01:08:45):
Okay, good clear, Scott. But that's why I've given up
stadium shows.

Speaker 3 (01:08:50):
The weather may or may not be hoping for a
wicked thunderstorm during Master of Puppets.

Speaker 5 (01:08:55):
No, they'll shut it down and make you all leave understorm.

Speaker 3 (01:08:58):
Yes, well, I say from because Red Hot Chili Peppers
went two years ago, okay, and it was with.

Speaker 6 (01:09:06):
Sharon Concert they shut it down in the middle of
a song and made everybody go into the concourse.

Speaker 3 (01:09:13):
Well, then just a downpour looks cool with lightning in
the distance during Master Puppys.

Speaker 6 (01:09:17):
Yeah, because it's all about how close it is in
the radar. So I will hope you get a hard
downpour with no lightning so you.

Speaker 4 (01:09:22):
Can have that experience. Not a shower like we had
the Rockies game the other night, but Sprinkle, No, it
was a shower. Yeah, free of charge, all right. Never
let it say they don't deliver on a shower anyway, Mandy.
I've been pondering the news that the Denver Zoo will
be closing early tomorrow due to a quote scheduled takeover

(01:09:42):
by teens of city park.

Speaker 5 (01:09:45):
This is so sad.

Speaker 6 (01:09:46):
While I support the Zoo's precautionary decision to close early,
I question why Mayor Johnston and Denver Police are not
taking a more proactive approach to this scheduled takeover instead
of what seems to be a reactive approach. If if
the city knows it's coming, why isn't there widespread advertising
to these teens that they can expect arrests If the
gathering is similar to what happened at Northfield, not from Andy.

Speaker 5 (01:10:09):
You guys, I really do not understand. I mean, don't
get me.

Speaker 6 (01:10:13):
Wait, let me walk that whole thing back, because my
teenage self understands a bunch of teenagers getting together and
making a series of really dumb decisions.

Speaker 5 (01:10:24):
But this whole takeover thing, I'm with you, Andy.

Speaker 6 (01:10:27):
If I'm the chief of Denver Police, I send out
a message on social media, on all of the news
media outlets and say, look, if your kid comes down
here and there's any trouble whatsoever, your kid's getting arrested,
and you can come get them from us, and then
do it. Do you really think the kids are gonna
stay there and raise how my worry is is that

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they're just going to go from the park and then
go into businesses like they did in Northfield, and recavic
can cause problems. It's the problem for cops is they're
gonna be outnumbered.

Speaker 2 (01:10:59):
And these are.

Speaker 6 (01:11:01):
Most of them are teenagers. They're high school students with
nothing to do during the summer but cause problems. And that,
my friends, has been true since the beginning of time, right,
there's always been a group of high school students ready
to cause problems. So I guess we will see what
happens Mandy. I just asked Rock where I could find
Mandy's blog. It's at mandy'sblog dot com. Even groc knows

(01:11:23):
what's up.

Speaker 5 (01:11:26):
Mandy.

Speaker 6 (01:11:26):
Aluminum foils, shiny side up or down. I will be
honest and say, I don't care. I use aluminum foil
so I don't have to clean up something super messy
after I make it.

Speaker 5 (01:11:37):
I just throw it away. I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
I don't think so either.

Speaker 6 (01:11:41):
Now, No, what Chuck is a shiny side up guy
because he feels like there are reflective.

Speaker 5 (01:11:46):
Properties come into play there when you're cooking food. And
I'm like, ah ah ahhh, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:11:55):
I mean sounds right, but I don't think it matters.

Speaker 5 (01:11:59):
I don't know if it matters or not.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
We let's ask Chad gpt.

Speaker 3 (01:12:03):
See.

Speaker 6 (01:12:03):
Here's one to your point about loose change at Albertson's.
My son's ex boyfriend used to work security out a casino,
and they'd have patients arrested if they took change from
a slot machine, or if they walked by a slot
machine and saw a credit where someone once abandoned it
and they played the machine because it belongs to the house.

Speaker 5 (01:12:20):
You can google it.

Speaker 6 (01:12:21):
It was the law in Colorado casinos too, but Albertson's
is not a casino.

Speaker 3 (01:12:25):
Yes, break it to chuck From CHADGPT, I asked, does
it matter which side of the foil you wrap your
food in?

Speaker 2 (01:12:32):
First of all, it said, great question.

Speaker 3 (01:12:34):
The short answer is no, it doesn't really matter which
side of the luminum foil you use.

Speaker 2 (01:12:38):
When wrapping food.

Speaker 3 (01:12:39):
Both sides function the same for most everyday cooking and
storage purposes.

Speaker 6 (01:12:44):
Most of the time I'm using aluminum foil, I'm not
using it to wrap food. I'm using it to line
whatever sheet I am cooking something.

Speaker 5 (01:12:51):
In heat conductivity is the same on both sides. Oh,
there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:12:55):
And the shiny indull sides exist due to manufacturing, not
because they.

Speaker 2 (01:12:59):
Serve different purposes.

Speaker 3 (01:13:01):
Okay, thank you chat GPT for your contribution to Mandy Congos.

Speaker 5 (01:13:05):
Now we're a little dumber because we use chat I.

Speaker 3 (01:13:08):
Feel smarter, I know again as a tool that is
the Crux cool not Crux crutch.

Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
Whatever is.

Speaker 5 (01:13:20):
No, No, not at all, No, not even at all.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
Great question, it.

Speaker 5 (01:13:24):
Says, no, great question, dumb ask No, I'm just kidding. Yeah, yeah,
that's okay.

Speaker 6 (01:13:31):
Yeah, yeah, man, how does the radio network calculate how
many listeners are tuning in? I'm talking, AMF I'm not iHeart.
I've always wondered this. I cannot go into detail about
that information, and I'm not trying to be cute. We
have we are very restricted from having any sort of

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lengthy discussions about how our rating systems work. We can
be accused of trying to interfere with the rating systems
if we do that. And we are not in a
ratings book. Now, when I first started in to radio,
you only had quarterly reports, so there were certain periods
of a quarter that you'd be in.

Speaker 5 (01:14:09):
A book and it was like, oh, we're in a book.
We're in a book.

Speaker 6 (01:14:11):
But that no longer holds true because they've changed some
of the way we do it. But there's a chance
that if I go on any kind of lengthy explanation,
I could cross a line that could get the station
in a whole lot of trouble and create a whole
lot of trouble for myself. So please you could ask
chat GPT and see what they say. I don't know,

(01:14:33):
I don't know, Mandy, I just created it. Mandy Connell
blog with chat GPT and there's here's one of the stories.
California City bans fast food drive ins in twenty twenty five.
That's right, Santa Clara has banned new fast food drive
throughs because apparently convenience is now a threat to civilization.

Speaker 5 (01:14:52):
The logic traffic, obesity, climate change, pick your well, pick
your villain. Meanwhile, in in and outline still wrap around
the block like it's a.

Speaker 6 (01:15:01):
Taylor Swift concert prediction, black Market Big Max in eighteen months.

Speaker 5 (01:15:05):
Oh, I can't wait. It's going to be better than
my normal blog.

Speaker 4 (01:15:08):
Though.

Speaker 5 (01:15:09):
Oh no, I may have committed to something that's gonna
put me out of a job. Dang, Mandy.

Speaker 6 (01:15:16):
Can you say all the new catchy word on the
radio that you picked up on vacation?

Speaker 4 (01:15:20):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (01:15:20):
I can.

Speaker 4 (01:15:22):
First of all, we have anisia, which means hello, But
you can't just say canishi wa. You have to say
canichiua because they sing it because it's like a joyful hello.

Speaker 6 (01:15:32):
I think it actually means good day, like it's kind
of like a loja a little bit not quite. I
know that I used it at the wrong time of
day once and got corrected by our guy, But I
don't care. Then there's hell, yeah, anie gotto, which is
thank you, and they don't. You don't say domo ergoto.
That's very formal. You just say adi gotto means and

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then no, you don't say that either. And then I
learned on my own. I learned how to say sumi mason,
which is excuse me. Because it was so crowded, I
kept bumping into people and that means excuse me, summi mussen,
sumi mussen.

Speaker 5 (01:16:04):
Sorry about that. And then I also learned a word oishi,
which is delicious. And oh boy, you should have.

Speaker 6 (01:16:11):
Seen the vendors when I would eat something and then
go oishi. They were like, aw, they appreciated me trying.
And that was pretty much all I got. In Japan
and Korea, Gaza Strip, there was a big old gun fight.
And this hospital is important. This is the Naser Hospital
in Conunis.

Speaker 5 (01:16:28):
It's so important that.

Speaker 4 (01:16:32):
Just in June June fifth of this year, who warns
that the Gaza Strip's health system is collapsing, with the
Naser Medical Complex the most important referral hospital left in
Gaza and Alamol Hospital at risk of becoming non functional.

Speaker 6 (01:16:48):
That's terrible. The World Health organization says we got to
fix it. Listen to this story. Happened right there at
the hospital. Now, some of you are probably already thinking, ah, yeah,
Israel went in there.

Speaker 5 (01:17:01):
Not quite.

Speaker 6 (01:17:03):
Media outlets and Gaza report that a confrontation broke out
yesterday between Hamas operatives and armed members of the influential
Barbik family clan at Nasser Hospital in southern Gazas communis
Footage shared on social media captures the sound of gunfire
during the confrontation, and burned vehicles in damaged equipment can

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be seen in the vicinity.

Speaker 5 (01:17:25):
Of the hospital. There are no known casualties from the clash.

Speaker 6 (01:17:30):
The Amas run Interior Ministry said that quote armed individuals
operating outside of the law entered Naser Hospital, fired weapons
inside the facility, set fire to ambulances and destroyed equipment.

Speaker 5 (01:17:43):
But again, that's not the entire story.

Speaker 6 (01:17:49):
Anti Hamas media outlets and Gaza report a different version
of events, saying that members of hamasa's sam Unit, a
unit task with enforcing order and pursuing the accused of
theft or collaboration with Israel, killed a member of the
Barback family and then fled to Nassa Hospital. According to

(01:18:10):
these reports, are members of the Barbak clan pursued them,
resulting in the confrontation. The report further claims that Hamas
forces used ambulance ambulances and fired toward homes belonging to
the bar Back family members, and the Barback family members
are now upset with AMAS. So the most important hospital

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on the verge of collapse. Oh wait, it also happens
to be where Hamas retreated to.

Speaker 4 (01:18:41):
Why would they retreat there? Gosh, it's such a mystery.
Cannot figure it out, so weird. Gosh, it's too hard.
Just gonna move on, Mandy. I found an American flag
romper for men at Shields. Do you think if I'd
buy it wear it for the fourth it will embarrass

(01:19:01):
the wife and kids? Well, sir, that entirely depends on
what kind of body you're putting into it, because I
will always think fondly of Sean Connery rolling out of
the pool putting on the baby blue terry cloth romper
in Goldfinger. That man rocked a romper like other men
rock a leather jacket. Now, whatever you have going on there,

(01:19:24):
if it's not Connery esque, then yes, maybe perhaps it
will embarrass the wife and kids, which is precisely why
I strongly.

Speaker 6 (01:19:31):
Endorse you doing this. On the fourth of July, just
letting you know, Mandy, did you gain weight on your vacation?
They seem to be healthy over there. I only gained
like two pounds and it's already gone. I've been doing
soda this week, and now I got to I've probably
put on a little bit more weight than I would
have wanted to over the winter when I hurt myself

(01:19:51):
and could no longer walk.

Speaker 5 (01:19:53):
So I'm taking that weight off.

Speaker 2 (01:19:54):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:19:55):
When are you going to announce the next Mandy Connell trip.
I think I'm going to announce it next week. But
what happens with the trips is when we get back
from our trip, whatever trip our Japan Korea trip this time,
we just did, then cruise and tour, the company that
we work with, who does an amazing job, sends out
an email to everyone that's ever been on a Mandy
Connell trip before, and they get first bite at the apple,

(01:20:18):
so they get they're like, they get the uh, you know,
returning traveler window of time. So I'm not sure they've
done that yet, but if all the people on Japan trip,
they already know. So if you know any of the
people who went to Japan, you can find out check
it out yourself. But yeah, that'll happen. And I'm super
excited about this one. Not that I'm not super excited
about all of them, but I've been to several of

(01:20:40):
the cities on this trip before and they.

Speaker 5 (01:20:42):
Are amazing, absolutely amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:20:48):
This texter says crutch is a move point that made
me laugh out loud on the last break. I am
gonna be honest, and I love this text about the
aluminum foil. Are you trying to receive signals from space
or trying to protect from government signals?

Speaker 5 (01:21:05):
That is a fair question. If you make your tinfoil
hat a rod, are you shiny out or shiny.

Speaker 2 (01:21:10):
In shiny out?

Speaker 6 (01:21:12):
Of course that's a fashion statement. Exactly, yeah, exactly. Yep, Mandy,
are you a fan of cottage cheese? I think it
should be offered as a side at more restaurants. You know,
the only offer offered for morning, right.

Speaker 5 (01:21:27):
Like breakfast.

Speaker 6 (01:21:28):
You go and you're like I don't want potatoes, or like,
hey we've got cottage cheese. Yes, you don't like cottage cheese? No,
It's very versatile and it's kind of having a moment
right now.

Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
That's true.

Speaker 6 (01:21:38):
But I don't ever really eat just like sit down
and eat cottage cheese. I just it's just I don't
know why. I like it well enough when I do eat,
and I'm like, you know, why don't I eat this more?
I don't know, just not top of mind.

Speaker 5 (01:21:52):
Mandy. Do you write your column on the weekend too?

Speaker 1 (01:21:54):
No, I do.

Speaker 2 (01:21:54):
I don't have a I don't have a column.

Speaker 5 (01:22:00):
Helpe, just and cotag.

Speaker 6 (01:22:03):
Cheese fan here again, says try it with some no salt,
herb seasoning, let it sit for a couple of hours.

Speaker 5 (01:22:08):
Delish. Why do you have to let it sit so
the herbs absorb some water? Just curious. Cottage cheese, garden tomatoes,
salt and pepper.

Speaker 6 (01:22:17):
Best summer afternoon snack ever, Except I am not gonna
eat a raw tomato. Weirdly, the texture of cottage cheese
doesn't bother me, but the texture of a raw tomato
will literally kick in my gag reflex. I know, it's weird,
super super super weird. Now, I have a bunch of
stuff on the blog today that I wanted to get to,
and one of them is the story about a woman

(01:22:40):
living on a cruise ship. Now she's doing it all
the cheap. Well this just happened again. Well dag nab it.
Hang on one second, let me see if this updated.
I changed the link and it seems to have changed
it back.

Speaker 5 (01:22:54):
Dunt dun, dun. We'll get another area code. Got that
one on there?

Speaker 6 (01:23:01):
Uh Patrick from SpongeBob and Ryan schulling her like that
one's on there.

Speaker 4 (01:23:07):
Let's see if this updated. Yeah, here we go, cause
is kind of a cool story.

Speaker 5 (01:23:12):
So a woman, what's her name? What's her name? What's
her name? I'm trying to find her name. I don't
know this woman's name. It just says us.

Speaker 6 (01:23:19):
Woman speaking from onboard Carnival's Valor cruise ship during a
two week stint from New Orleans to Barcelona, she explained
how she lives a lifeled luxury for a surprisingly low cost.
She got a doors and she sold all of her
stuff and decided to just live on a cruise ship.
She has a YouTube channel called Poverty to Paradise. She

(01:23:41):
breaks down how she spends her money and how she
can afford to live on a cruise ship. It works
like this.

Speaker 5 (01:23:48):
She decided to start her new life.

Speaker 6 (01:23:50):
Of independence on Independence Day. On Royal Caribbean's independence of
the seas cruise ship, she sold ninety nine percent of
her possessions, her home, her car, everything, and she's amassed
plenty of vouchers over the past eleven months living on board,
and her monthly costs are pretty dang cheap. She broke

(01:24:15):
it down with a spreadsheet looks like this. In July
she spent two thousand and thirty one dollars. August one thousand,
five hundred and five dollars the most she spent the
entire year in any month with three thy, four hundred
and seventy eight dollars because she bought a flight to
go to Vietnam and catch a flight there. Now, this

(01:24:38):
would be amazing, Like if anything ever happened to Chuck,
I would totally do this. My issue, though, is I
think she's got to be in an inside cabin to
make it that inexpensive. And I mean, come on, no,
my blog is not hiding in a big bowl of
cottage cheese. That's not happened.

Speaker 3 (01:24:58):
Mm hm.

Speaker 5 (01:25:00):
Cod she's used as salad dressing. No coda.

Speaker 6 (01:25:04):
She's with beats. I do like that as long as
the beats are good, guys. What I have beats in
a foreign country. I had beats in Japan. I had
a dish with beats that was chopped up and they
were flipping delicious.

Speaker 5 (01:25:15):
Why do our beats taste like dirt? Why is that?
And not all beats do?

Speaker 2 (01:25:21):
But you never know.

Speaker 5 (01:25:21):
With a beat.

Speaker 6 (01:25:23):
You get one beat that looks exactly the same as
another beat. You roast them up, you peel them, you
slice them. One of them tastes delicious, the other one
tastes like dirt. Dorito's that doesn't happen. Just saying Mandy
During the news, I flipped through the dial and a
few ticks down all the dials talking about chat, GBT
and AI and how you can't be an idiot and
have to have enough knowledge to know if what it

(01:25:45):
spits out is BS or not.

Speaker 5 (01:25:47):
I'm back to the Mandy show now, guys. I here's
the thing.

Speaker 6 (01:25:52):
You can decide to learn how to use AI, learn
its limitations, learn how to mitigate those limitations, or you
can be left behind.

Speaker 5 (01:26:01):
That's just the way it's going to be.

Speaker 6 (01:26:05):
So yeah, I'm choosing cottage cheese, bell pepper and blue cheese.

Speaker 5 (01:26:10):
Oh sorry, you're not ross.

Speaker 6 (01:26:12):
I actually love blue cheese, but I do also hate
bell Pepper because Bell Pepper hates me. As my late
southern grandma used to say, it repeats on me. Something
fierce makes me burp like nobody's business, Mandy. Letting the
herbs sit in the cheese allows the flavors to develop.
I have some for lunch every day, make it the

(01:26:32):
night before, dip laze potato chips and cottagechees. Wh aren't
you kind of defeating the purpose of eating cottage sheese,
one of which is to have a healthy source of protein.

Speaker 5 (01:26:42):
Just a question. By the way, I'm reading from.

Speaker 6 (01:26:45):
The Common Spirit health text line at five sixty six nine. Oh,
so you can find this stuff there. Now, I have
a video on the blog today that I absolutely love.
And I've talked about Soft White Underbelly the show before,
but normally mark on Soft White Underbelly and you can
see it on YouTube.

Speaker 5 (01:27:03):
He interviews people that are really on the just the
edge of society, for lack of a better way to
put it, drug addicts and prostitutes and people who.

Speaker 6 (01:27:13):
Have suffered mightily at the hands of others. But in
this episode, he talks to psychologist Sadilla Khan is her name,
and I saw a blurb pop up on social media
about this and in it, in the blurb, she starts
talking about, you know, women meet people and think, how

(01:27:35):
am I going to use you? And I was like, oh,
let me listen to this piece of work. But then
I really listened to what she said, and it's outstanding relationship.

Speaker 5 (01:27:43):
Advice, really outstanding.

Speaker 6 (01:27:47):
And she makes the point that there are some people
who go into relationship and say, how am I going
to use this person? Or are they going to put
a roof over my head? Are they going to you know,
fill the void left by a bad childhood or otherwise
sort of a usively using someone? But then she says,
or am I going to use them? Because they make
me feel safe and they make me feel protected, And

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that's a good way of using someone. And really we
all use each other in some way or another. But
then she kept going and talking about how in our
modern society we've lost our sense of duty and that
everything in our society has been centered around self. And
I'm a big individualist, right, I recognize that, you know,
we are all individual individual.

Speaker 5 (01:28:29):
People that have to guide our own path.

Speaker 6 (01:28:32):
Now in that path, we may go with other people
and create a pack and a family and everything else.
That's very incredibly fulfilling, But ultimately we are still the
captains of our ship. We are making decisions every single
day about our behavior and how we interact with other people.
She doesn't go into that realm. I'm adding that, but
it's really fascinating. If you like to read interesting stuff

(01:28:54):
that will make you think or listen to it. The
entire show is like an hour and twenty minutes long.
You know, I jump to the part that I'm talking
about if you just want to go watch that. I
despise people who make lasagna, which with cottage cheese. I
don't despise people who make lasagna with cottage cheese, but
I'm probably not going to like it.

Speaker 5 (01:29:17):
Lazagnia needs to be made by ricotta cheese. I'm just saying.

Speaker 6 (01:29:21):
And here's the thing I have med Italian people. I
know this is gonna sound blasts.

Speaker 4 (01:29:26):
I've met Italian people who make lasagna with cottage cheese,
and I don't.

Speaker 6 (01:29:34):
I mean, who am I to criticize? Right, They're Italian,
I'm not Italian. Cottage cheese and dairy gives me the trotz.
Thanks for sharing texture, Yeah, been alright strolling in the
studio for that one.

Speaker 5 (01:29:45):
How does dairy work for your constitution?

Speaker 7 (01:29:47):
Ben?

Speaker 5 (01:29:48):
How do you is dary okay for you? You know,
no lactose issues you gotta worry about you're getting older.
I can handle all the spicy things like mecca.

Speaker 6 (01:29:58):
You know, little kids when they learn new words are
hilarious because of the way they use them. And when
my daughter was like four, we learned the word spicy,
and then it was Mama, this is too spicy. I'm like,
that's Kraft macaroni and cheese out of a box. There's
literally no seasoning in that. WHATSOE too spicy?

Speaker 5 (01:30:16):
I know to spy.

Speaker 6 (01:30:17):
Well, now she's a gamer for hot food at sub scene.
Now she's you know, she won't seek it out, but
if she gets something's full of spicy, it's okay.

Speaker 2 (01:30:25):
So for me, it wasn't misuse of words.

Speaker 8 (01:30:27):
I taught myself mostly how to do that stuff, so
I would mispronounce.

Speaker 5 (01:30:30):
Words I've always heard.

Speaker 6 (01:30:31):
And a teacher said this to me when I was
like in tenth grade, and I've remembered it ever since.
She said, never making never make fun of someone for
mispronouncing a word, because they probably learned.

Speaker 8 (01:30:40):
It from reading, and so it's not ridiculous, it's ridiculous.
Have you seen the.

Speaker 6 (01:30:46):
Woman who has now achieved lasting internet fame by the
incoming video?

Speaker 5 (01:30:52):
Is her lying there and saying what word have you mispronounced?

Speaker 6 (01:30:55):
That still haunts you to this day And there's got
to be a million stitches on that of people saying
the funniest stuff.

Speaker 8 (01:31:01):
So we had to read aloud books in English class
in high school. And for those of you who don't know,
I went high school in Arkansas, imagine yeah, southern drawl.
We had a guy named Ronie McCann who would do
that something. He was trying to read the word for ordures.

Speaker 5 (01:31:17):
Oh and that's a tough one.

Speaker 9 (01:31:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:31:22):
Yeah, he still said that the lie because we we
were acting out Hamlet. All of a sudden, dude, pipes,
can I be Larte?

Speaker 2 (01:31:28):
And it was like lasting.

Speaker 6 (01:31:31):
I used to work in a fine dinining restaurant and
people would want to order wine and and they would
be so out of their depth. And this was back
in the you know, like early nineties, right, so it
was like before wine was really where it is now
everybody knows you, yeah, and it would be like, well,
we'll have some of this saving saven yelling bilk, and
I would as kindly as I could, not condescendingly. I

(01:31:53):
would finish taking whatever order and I'd say, Okay, I'll
be right back without Sammy Omblanc repeat it back in.
But been in a kind way because I've been condescended
to by a waiter. And let me tell you something,
person who's asking me for additional money, Uh huh, you
probably don't want.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
To condescend to set them up.

Speaker 6 (01:32:11):
Have you ever dropped at And this is probably the
only time that I've ever like busted out my level
of success for this waiter, like just a little bit
because he was so condescending. I was like, huh, guy
who basically hustles every day for a cash salary over
here and you know over.

Speaker 5 (01:32:30):
It Actually it was profit over here with like you
know whatever from overhead.

Speaker 2 (01:32:35):
Yes you are, it was.

Speaker 5 (01:32:36):
He was nasty though, he was a nasty waiter. Actually
I need to see the manager on the ash.

Speaker 2 (01:32:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:32:42):
Well, well here's the thing that is the most counterproductive
attitude for a waiter or a waitress to have, right, Like,
there was a period of time right before we left
Louisville where hipster waiters became a thing, and I went
to multiple restaurant because Louisville, Kentucky has an amazing food
scene and I'm not being sarcastic, and they have two
culinary schools. It shows you can get anything and it's

(01:33:05):
all incredible. So we kept going to these new restaurants
and they'd have the hipster servers and it was literally
like they'd be standing there with a look of disdain
on their face until I would go, I'm sorry, is
taking our order bothering you?

Speaker 9 (01:33:17):
Are? We?

Speaker 6 (01:33:18):
Are we interrupting something here that you need to go
take care of. Oh my god, it was horrific. It
was absolutely horrific, terrible.

Speaker 2 (01:33:27):
Yeah, yeah, I used to. I never served, but.

Speaker 5 (01:33:31):
Oh I've done everything in a restaurant but cook.

Speaker 8 (01:33:33):
Yeah, I never.

Speaker 5 (01:33:34):
I cooked myself cook at home.

Speaker 3 (01:33:36):
I never.

Speaker 4 (01:33:38):
I never busted tables, none of that. I did bartend
in college, but I bartended. I baked at a bakery
one time I bartended. I served, I managed a restaurant.

Speaker 6 (01:33:48):
I've done prep work in the restaurant, but I've never
actually just cooked on the line.

Speaker 5 (01:33:54):
That's I think I've washed dishes in a restaurant.

Speaker 6 (01:33:56):
I literally don't every I don't care. I don't care
because there's a sense of instant gratification.

Speaker 5 (01:34:01):
With washing dishes. It's like mowing the grass.

Speaker 2 (01:34:03):
Wet we had this washers.

Speaker 5 (01:34:05):
You're not washing them by hand. I mean you're cleaning.

Speaker 8 (01:34:10):
Yeah, and I've been through serious school. You get torture
me and I'm not giving up state secrets. You put
a pot of a bunch of dirty pots and pants.
I'm telling you, where has the troop movements are?

Speaker 5 (01:34:16):
Anything?

Speaker 9 (01:34:17):
You want to know?

Speaker 2 (01:34:19):
Selling them out?

Speaker 6 (01:34:20):
Whoever is missus been in the future is really going
to have to Oh, I'm upfront about it.

Speaker 5 (01:34:26):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:34:28):
What do you?

Speaker 5 (01:34:29):
What are you doing today?

Speaker 3 (01:34:29):
In here?

Speaker 5 (01:34:30):
What are you? What are you doing? Told me to
come in here hanging out here saying no sports?

Speaker 2 (01:34:34):
You just there's a too where I was trying to
hide from.

Speaker 5 (01:34:37):
So wait, what was that? It was like kids?

Speaker 6 (01:34:39):
So you said, I don't give a ratsptuty about this.
They just want to through the music station.

Speaker 2 (01:34:42):
Yeah, right, right right.

Speaker 6 (01:34:43):
I will tell you when we were in Japan, the
cutest thing, and I mean this, it was adorable. First
of all, every Japanese student where's a uniform and every
school or class has a different uniform. And they kind
of look like they all came out of a Creola box, right.

Speaker 4 (01:34:57):
Like one group will have on a yellow shirt with
a yellow cap, and they're already adorable.

Speaker 5 (01:35:01):
And they're all learning English.

Speaker 6 (01:35:04):
So they see you in the big park, and they
always run up directly to my husband because he's giant, right,
so he is the guy. They all wrote, excuse me,
we are learning English, can we interview you? And it
was so stink and cute, I mean, and they'd asked, like,
what word do you at? What brings to your mind
here in Nagasaki where it's Hiroshima, And he said inspiring,

(01:35:27):
and they didn't know what that word meant.

Speaker 5 (01:35:29):
So then they all pulled it up on diction.

Speaker 6 (01:35:30):
He pulled it up on dictionary dot com, put it
in a Google Translate, and they're, oh, but they're all eager.

Speaker 5 (01:35:35):
To hello goodbye.

Speaker 6 (01:35:37):
It's so flip and cute, and I just can't imagine,
like our little Americans. The problem for us in America
is what language do we learn? Collectively?

Speaker 2 (01:35:46):
Barely learn English? My kid's advanced, you know, all this
kind of stuff.

Speaker 8 (01:35:50):
Meanwhile, you got the kid in Japan who's eat his
food with two sticks, you know, and learned how.

Speaker 2 (01:35:54):
Many languages I am having.

Speaker 6 (01:35:57):
I'm having like a I feel like this is like
an athlete mental issue that I'm having. Then, and you know,
as a guy who played football yourself, so I have
successfully used chopsticks forever, I don't have any issue with chopsticks.

Speaker 5 (01:36:09):
So we go over to Korea. We're with this Catuosa,
a Korean army guy attached to the United States, a
former CATUSA.

Speaker 6 (01:36:16):
But he took us on this pig tour, went the
DMZ blah blah blahready talked about it was awesome. But
then we go to like a mom and pop like
Korean restaurant. Right, so I'm eating successfully with my Korean chopsticks,
which are flatter than Chinese chop sticks, a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:36:29):
Harder to use.

Speaker 6 (01:36:30):
But my Korean guy goes, your chopstick skills are terrible.
And now I swear to God, I can't use chop
sticks in my head because and I looked at him
as I picked up a piece of food and put
it in my mouth and said, but works.

Speaker 5 (01:36:43):
Doesn't it.

Speaker 8 (01:36:44):
So in America we tend and you know, I've been
in Korea before, but in America we tend the fulcrum
on the chopsticks. We tend to have it too low
on the chop sticks. I don't used to grab whereas
they tend to have them further back and have you know.

Speaker 6 (01:36:55):
Yeah, but I apparently do the whole thing wrong, even
though I've been successful, and after that my game is shot.
I got no chopstick game. I could barely finish eating
for the rest of the I have chopstick kIPS, and
I have no idea how to get over that.

Speaker 5 (01:37:08):
Well, what do you do here? Get like a sports
a chopstick psychologist? Is there such a thing?

Speaker 2 (01:37:13):
If not, is there a.

Speaker 6 (01:37:15):
Cultural appropriation psychologist that can help me come back and
properly culturally appropriate the use of chopsticks.

Speaker 8 (01:37:20):
I'm writing the SNL sketch in my head right now.
This is something I feel like it does.

Speaker 5 (01:37:24):
It's in my brain.

Speaker 6 (01:37:25):
And then like I was in Japan and I was
trying to pick up the piece of sushi, which is
like the easiest thing to pick up, and it was
like I can't hushi is like I couldn't do it.
I had to pick it up with my fingers. Oh
my good, it was terrible. I've never had anybody to
get in my head about something so dumb before.

Speaker 8 (01:37:42):
We got to build your confidence back. Then we'll have
some I'll bring some I mad that break, sush, We'll
bring something up here to break. Some chopsticks eat.

Speaker 5 (01:37:47):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:37:47):
I learned how to use chop sticks when I was
a flight attendant because the service that you do in
first class international, they use two spoons.

Speaker 4 (01:37:53):
It's the same motion we used to have to practice
and they would say, go and pick up m and
ms with the chopsticks.

Speaker 5 (01:37:59):
So that's where my game has been.

Speaker 2 (01:38:01):
So you have been there.

Speaker 5 (01:38:02):
I'm telling you like I've been in the big leagues
of chopstick usage.

Speaker 2 (01:38:06):
I know my game is strong.

Speaker 4 (01:38:08):
I don't know what's happening. Yeah, lost my edge, just
absolutely terrible. I do it's awful.

Speaker 5 (01:38:14):
But now it's time for the most exciting segment on
the radio of It's kind of the day, all right,
what is our dad joke of a day? Please today, Anthony.

Speaker 3 (01:38:27):
I am in search for someone to assist with milking
cows on my dairy farm.

Speaker 2 (01:38:33):
Must work well with the utters.

Speaker 6 (01:38:36):
I figured Utters was going to be a part of that,
but I just couldn't make the joke before the punchline came.

Speaker 5 (01:38:41):
What is our word of the day, please.

Speaker 2 (01:38:43):
It is, and not the way you're thinking. Glare. G
l A I air.

Speaker 5 (01:38:49):
Oh, g l a I air. I wait, g l
a I R. Correct, thank you, glaire and a noun
a noun, and a glare is not. I'm gonna say.

Speaker 6 (01:39:03):
This is like the bougiest layer out there, like not
just your average criminal layer, bougie layers.

Speaker 5 (01:39:10):
It's a it's a glare.

Speaker 2 (01:39:11):
That's good, I know, not wrong. It is the white
of an egg. What a glare?

Speaker 5 (01:39:17):
I had no idea.

Speaker 6 (01:39:19):
Now when I'm making eggs every morning, you know, I'm
gonna look down and go, don't blare at me.

Speaker 5 (01:39:24):
Don't glare at me. I am exactly Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:39:28):
On the periodic table of elements, what element is represented
by the symbol b E.

Speaker 5 (01:39:37):
Really maybe that's wait, hang on, let's see here.

Speaker 2 (01:39:39):
Oh no, that's b R and b A.

Speaker 6 (01:39:42):
Ben's correct, brilliant. I don't know my I don't know
my period that's one of those ones.

Speaker 4 (01:39:48):
My history or my chemistry teacher in high school was
god awful, absolutely got awful.

Speaker 6 (01:39:54):
It was a teacher. It was one of those absolutely
teacher times. Okay, what is our jeopardy category of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:39:59):
The boss of pop culture?

Speaker 8 (01:40:01):
Oh gosh, okay for all the answers Springsteen, they all
have boss in.

Speaker 2 (01:40:05):
The answer, okay and let me just look okay.

Speaker 3 (01:40:09):
In twenty sixteen, Sharon Price, john CEO of Buildebert, got
a unique look at the company of this show.

Speaker 8 (01:40:17):
On this show, Manny, what is undercover Boss? I was
gonna say who's the boss? So they could have been
twenty sixteen.

Speaker 3 (01:40:25):
In two thousand and nine, Buddy Velastro began living up
to his TV.

Speaker 5 (01:40:30):
Title What's the Cake Boss?

Speaker 2 (01:40:32):
That is correct?

Speaker 3 (01:40:33):
Jennifer Aniston was part of an awful trio making employees
lives miserable in this twenty eleven Ben Horrible Boston correct
good movie.

Speaker 2 (01:40:41):
We think the answer to this title eighty sitcom question?
My goodness?

Speaker 10 (01:40:46):
What is.

Speaker 2 (01:40:48):
What's the score?

Speaker 3 (01:40:50):
Finally, Alec Baldwin was all business as the voice of
the title infant is what is Boss?

Speaker 5 (01:40:56):
Ban? That is corrected? Hate Alec Baldwin. I love that movie.
It's so funny, very very funny.

Speaker 2 (01:41:02):
Al Baldwin was great in thirty Rock.

Speaker 6 (01:41:05):
Alec Baldwin is a jerk, and it's just a jerk,
you know, and he just keeps reproducing, you know, like
we Oh my god, he and his wife have like
seven kids or something. Oh yeah, his much younger wife
who will be raising them all after he, you know,
eventually dies.

Speaker 4 (01:41:23):
Changing diapers, changing diapers. Oh wow, that just sounds horrible.
Sounds so horrible to me.

Speaker 5 (01:41:28):
Anyway, I would ask you what's coming up on KA Sports,
but we already established.

Speaker 2 (01:41:32):
You have no idea.

Speaker 5 (01:41:33):
Orlando's come in. Oh okay, Orlando Franklin. I love.

Speaker 6 (01:41:36):
I have enjoyed hearing you guys with the Orlando Franklin
quite a bit. I think there's you guys are very funny.
And his story about getting traded when he was part
of the Russell Wilson.

Speaker 5 (01:41:49):
You're right, that was Shelby Harris. So that was hilarious.
I love hearing that inside stuff that most of.

Speaker 2 (01:41:55):
Us are never going to have access. That's great. That
Dave getting left, that was going too.

Speaker 6 (01:41:59):
Yes, And I told I told Shelby the story of
me writing in the back of a cop car. I
have a similar story, but not quite.

Speaker 2 (01:42:06):
But he wasn't wearing cuffs, stop it.

Speaker 6 (01:42:08):
I wasn't either, never been in the back of a
cop car in cuffs, just back of a cop car.

Speaker 5 (01:42:14):
Talk about that never