10-31-25 FULL SHOW - It's Halloween - Break Bad Spells And What Pairs With Candy

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:27):
Welcome, Welcome to a Friday edition all together. Now, whoo,
that's right. That other voice you hear is a man
dressed like a hot dog. Everybody Grant Smith in for
a Rod who is preparing for his epic Halloween event
tonight at his home. You is in honor of a

(00:47):
rob Can you catch up to the show here?

Speaker 5 (00:49):
Well, as you know, the Dave the intrepid would say,
ketchup does not go on a hot dog.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
No, it does not, but it is on your hot dog? No,
isn't it all? I guess not. I know the reflection
of this window is impacting how I'm seeing the colors.

Speaker 5 (01:03):
I'm a very specific type of hot dog. What kind
do you see the hat?

Speaker 4 (01:10):
You're a Rocky dog? That's right? Yes, did you see
we've narrowed down some GM stuff in the Rockies? Are
you following along?

Speaker 1 (01:17):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:18):
I am, I'm following along.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
This is me.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
You know what this is Grant. This is you know
when you were a kid and you had to watch
videos in school of how plants grow, and they would
show you how a seed goes into the earth and
then the seed would get water and then all of
a sudden, like a little, a little bendy thing will
come out of the top and then but it's not
really even a sprout until it comes out of the
grass and it just the little leaves just poop like that.
That's the that's the seeds of my hope right now,

(01:44):
Grant springing well, watching the Rockies. Look at some really
good baseball people. I hope you're right. Yeah we do.
But you do have much faith right now? I mean
this this could turn into a you know, another Denver
Public School board meeting if I keep talking about the Rockies,
but with a crying Anyway, we got a giant blog
for you. You can go right and find it right now.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Go to man.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
No, you know what, I'm not going to do this
because I just saw a blond lady on TV and
it reminded me of the story from yesterday. So yesterday,
I'm an Urban Egg, which is one of the restaurants
right here in the Tech Center. They do an amazing,
amazing breakfast. I was waiting for a friend to show up,
and I'm sitting at this table by myself and I
look up and you know, Grant, they have those long
tables at Urban Egg. They have kind of communal tables.

(02:27):
And I look over and there's maybe six people with
their backs towards me, and they all have on black
shirts and they all all have the exact same hair,
which is obviously not real. Right. You know a bad
wig when you see a bad wig, right, And then
I look at the other side of the table and
I noticed that everyone on the other side of the
table that I can see is also dressed in the

(02:48):
exact same outfit. They have the same glasses on and
the same hair. So I'm sitting at my table waiting
for my friend and I was like, okay, I got
a know, and I got up and walked over and
I was like, excuse me, sorry about but I need
to know the story here. And then I looked and
there was a woman I couldn't see, and it was
obvious they were all dressed like her. It was Mellie's birthday,

(03:09):
their boss, and they all came to work. But the
kicker was Grant. They all had glasses just like mine,
they had hair just like mine, and they all had
on black turtlenecks. Ask me what I was wearing yesterday, Grant,
A black turtlenecks. I was, Grant, I was. And when
I walked over to the table, one of the girls said,

(03:31):
you're at the wrong table. It was so funny. Would
you have walked up and asked them what the deal was? Grant?
Would you have done that? Maybe I have no reservations
about going up and inserting myself in those situation. I mean,
I always go up and talk to people. Don't you
want to know?

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Though?

Speaker 4 (03:48):
It's like, how do you not want to know the
story behind that? I just don't know if that's interesting
enough for me. I'm just curious. It's not like, here's
the thing. Me knowing that is not going to change
my life. But I was so entertained by it, you
know what I mean. I was just entertained for that moment.
And then they got to appreciate that some complete random
person appreciated what they were doing. And apparently dresses just

(04:09):
like their boss exactly. Melly has amazing taste. I'll just
say that just all boss women yes, there you go,
There you go. Now coming up on the show today
is the blog all of the stuff on the block,
well some of it, you know what, Grant, I had
a diet coke and it's not sitting well with me.
I had half of the diet coke. I needed some.

(04:29):
I needed some, you know, phosphoric acid because I got
phlim I can't shake this little last remnants of this
head cold. They're just hanging on. Can I give you
what I mean? What can I give you a life
hack for that? Sure?

Speaker 5 (04:42):
Fifty small jumps when you wake up first thing in
the morning, shut the front door.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
What does that do?

Speaker 5 (04:46):
Gets it all drained out of your face and down
into the rest of your body.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
It's so aggravating because here's the thing. And I don't
want to complain about not being completely stuffed up, because
being completely stuffed up sucks, right, that's just the worst.
But where I am is I'm not stuffed up, but
I'm not clear either. I mean this crew never world
in between where I just feel all of my sinus
has swollen annoyingly.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
I'm telling you, how do you feel like an idiot?
My wife told me to start doings you'd fifty.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
Small jumps right when you get out of bed. Well, well,
here's the thing about that though. But there's another thing
about that, Grant. I just read a study, because I
read all these studies about healthy aging, and they did
a study and they asked women over the age of fifty,
some of whom already had bone density issues, some of
whom had healthy bone density issues. It arranged in age

(05:38):
from fifty to like eighty five, right, So they asked
half of the control they have, half of the group
to get up every day and do fifty jumps, just
like you're talking about fifty jumps. And then they tested
the bone density. After they did this, like a six
week experiment of fifty jumps every day, the women who
had done the jumps increased their bone density in their

(06:00):
in their hips and legs. It didn't do anything for
upper body bone density issues, but fifty jumps a day
got some of the women from an unhealthy range of
bone density to back to a healthy range of bone density.
So tight she uses a lot of those kind of
jumping things and all of those kind of motions where
it looks like you're just slapping yourself and stuff. But

(06:20):
there's I mean, you know, we sort of look at
Eastern medicine as being old fashioned, but the reality is
it's worked for thousands of years. Maybe not as well
as penicillin against a bacterial infection, but but Eastern medicine
has worked for a very long time. So it's you
just gotta kinda there's a reason that stood the test
of time. Yes, exactly. Speaking of weird things, let's do

(06:40):
the blog because my first guest is gonna Okay, Anthony
set this up a rod, set this interview up, and
when I looked at it this morning, I was like,
what am I even doing with this interview? But when
you hear about Satin Sanchez, you're gonna love this one.
Oh yeah, oh yeah. Find the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.
When you get there, go to the latest post section.

(07:01):
You may have to scroll to the right depending on
when you go to look for the blog, but look
for a heading that says ten thirty one twenty five blog,
It's Halloween, break bad spells, and what pairs with candy?
Click on that and here are the headlines you will
find within I You've been with some of whom office
half American, all with ships and clipments, A sea.

Speaker 6 (07:18):
That's going to press.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
Plage today on the blog. Have you signed up for
the Mandy Connell Adventure yet? What pairs best with Reese's pumpkins?
Happy Halloween, everybody, you got a spell on you? When
will we get our first know? If you need food,
there are lots of places to get it. Morrero, missus
the mark, Hey about those school board races. The shutdown

(07:42):
will continue into next week. What are we even doing
in Venezuela? The city of Denver is out of liability
settlement money. Trump wants to nuke the filibuster scrolling the
time change kills animals. Two forty seven percent of Americans
are right on the time change, having a long health span.
These houses go all out for Halloween. Find a penny,

(08:03):
pick it up? The Spring shows how flock can work.
Fort Collins is going right choice voting Democrat facing charges
for dirty tricks. Need to eat more veggies. China uses
our tactics against us. Exercise may cancel out junk food
to a certain extent. The Andrew formerly known as Prince
what ceasefires are really for the corruption of science? She's

(08:26):
got a life of crime ahead of her. Funny Halloween
costumes Old people Halloween costumes, last minute costume ideas. Those
are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. No,
Nancy's not here today. She took the day off with
a rod so Grant Nancy Pelosi. She usually judges me

(08:47):
on how well I did with the tic tac toe
a winner SoundBite. This should be on the button bar somewhere.
I just don't know where, you know, I don't know
how to work any of that stuff now, Grant, Yeah,
you got too big. I started back here behind that glass.
I did. And here's here's a little pro tip for you, Grant.
Let me just lean in, lean in, Grant, I don't
I don't want our boss to hear this, Grant. When

(09:08):
you finally move over to the side of the glass,
and I do believe you will stop learning any of
the new equipment. Okay, like she don't say anything, stop
learning how to work the automation. Don't learn any of
it when they upgrade it to something else, which they
will just stay home on the day that they give
those lessons. It's been the greatest experience of my life's

(09:30):
ratcheting back ratchet because here's the thing, you, guys, when
you first get into radio, you have to do everything.
And this is the advice I gave Grant when he
first got into radio. I'm like, whatever you are asked
to do, do it. But you do reach a certain
point where you're like, I don't want to do that anymore.
And I'm well past that point on something. So that's
my piece of advice to you. Okay. My twelve thirty

(09:52):
guest sat In Sanchez. She is a biochemist with a
master's degree in biochemistry, but also a ninth generation High priestess.
She blends ancient root work and energy rituals with modern
science to keep the good energy flowing and ward off
the bad stuff. You know, Grant, when the Rockies were
stinking it up so bad, I was like, we need

(10:13):
somebody to come in and break the curse that obviously
has befallen course Field. And I had no idea that
this was even a thing, but now I know. So
when things start going terribly wrong, But we're gonna have
satin On in at twelve thirty to talk about that
because it is Halloween now, Grant, how long have you
had a hot dog costume? And what was the thinking

(10:34):
behind that? I'm curious, like, what makes you go, Yes, yes,
I'm a hot dog. I love hot dogs. Anywhere does
I will eat a hot dog. But it was just easy. Honestly.

Speaker 5 (10:46):
My wife was like, we're having a Halloween party, and
I said, I don't have any costumes, and that Ohio University.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
I know you probably y yeah, yeah, Halloween is huge Athens, Ohio,
where Ohio University is. Back in the seventies, used to
have a Halloween celebration that brought tens of thousands of
hippies to Athens and it was like all manner of
chaos and craziness. And it's still a big celebration, but

(11:12):
not remotely what it was. I'm sure you've heard from
your parents. Yes, So I dressed up in college. I
was Joe Dirt one year.

Speaker 5 (11:18):
I was Napoleon Dynamite, very nice brick from Anchorman because
our whole apartment did all that. But I didn't have
any of those costumes left, so I just needed something easy.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
And I said, what's your favorite costume you've ever done?

Speaker 5 (11:29):
I think the Napoleon Dynamite one was just so spot on,
and it was kind of sad to me because I
was in that era of like really trying to be attractive.
I was a single man in college. Yeah, but I
looked so much like Napoleon. I was like, you know,
totts in my pocket.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
You got to lean in, man, You've got to lean
in and just go with it, right. I have two
favorite costumes of all time. This is I don't know
if people remember the comic strips Snuffie Smith and Snuffy
was this little hillbilly and he was married to this
Snuffy was really little and Louisy, his wife, was really big.
And when my mom was our girl Scout troop leader,

(12:06):
she dressed up as Louisy and dressed me up as
Snuffy Smith and it was hilarious. And then as an adult,
I went really all out one year and I made
this black outfit. It was like a black tube dress
and it had lights down each side of it and
a white line in the middle, and I did big
hair and makeup, and I went as a runway model
and spent the entire night explaining my mensa costume to everyone.

(12:30):
Super frustrating Mandy. I think during Ross's show, I heard
a commercial saying a program is moving from one iHeart
channel to Kowa from the nine to noon time slot.
If that's the case. Where's Ross's program going? It is
also and asked me anything Friday, as it is every Friday,
so I will answer this question. Starting November tenth, Ross
will be heard as part of Rotten was Gina Gondeck.

(12:54):
Ross on the News with Gina Gondeck from six to
nine am. The lineup looks like this. From five to
six we got Gina with Gina Colorado's Morning News with
Gina Gondeck. At six am, Ross Kiminski pops in for
three hours to do Ross Kiminsky on the News with
Gina gone Deck. And then our pal Michael Brown is
he's packing up his stuff over there in KHW right now.

(13:15):
He was measuring the drapes here yesterday. He's going to
be nine to noon and then everything from that point
on will remain the same. So there you go. Ask
me anything. I do want to point out the Nandy
Coddal Adventure has seven and maybe six cabin's left. Irene.
If you are listening to me right now, you need
to call Cruise in Tour and get your cabin.

Speaker 7 (13:36):
Lady.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
I'm expecting to see your sunny face on this trip. Guys.
We have some of the just nice see, here's the
thing I say, we have some of the nicest people
coming with us. Again. We have so many nice people
on our trips, it's like you can't They're all wonderful
to travel with. But we've got some really, really good ones.
Marty Lenz was laid off in the last Reduction and Force,
so he is not part of the new lineup. Somebody

(13:59):
just have about Marty? Uh Mandy on the time changes
twice a year, I say, just thirty minutes one time,
set it and forget it across the US and make
the time zones uniformly spaced. Do you know what's funny
about Iran? Did you know this grant? In the In
Iran they they turned the clock half an hour just
so the Western world would not tell them what time

(14:19):
it was. I kid you not, I kid you not. No,
look it up right now. Look up the time right
now in Iran. It'll be a half hour and many
hours different. It's ridiculous. When are we getting rid of
this stupid time change?

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Thank you?

Speaker 4 (14:33):
I mean, you know how I feel about a grant.
You worked on my show long enough to know this
is fallback isn't as bad as spring forward in terms
of how disruptive it is to my you know, my body.
I as a person who struggles with sleep. You guys,
you easy sleepers, You really don't understand how difficult this
is on people. And it's absolutely terrible, absolutely terrible. Mandy,

(14:57):
who cares where the host go? Who gets draggon?

Speaker 3 (14:59):
An?

Speaker 4 (14:59):
A dragon will be producing the morning show and Michael
Brown's show, and then a rod stays with me. I'm
not letting him take a rod? What do you think? Crazy?
No offense? Grant? Come on, Mandie, tell us how pissed
off you are about not getting Ross's slot.

Speaker 8 (15:16):
You know what.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
Somebody else asked me about this, and I've said before
that nine to noon is is the sweet spot of
radio for me. But I got to tell you guys
now that I'm not volunteering in my daughter's school. When
my daughter was little and I wanted to volunteer in
her school, working this time slot is hard because most
of the volunteer stuff is in the afternoon, so that
was challenging. I would have preferred to have it then,

(15:39):
but now it really doesn't matter because my daughter really
doesn't want me to be a part of her life
at school. Oh my gosh, guess what I did last
night to ask you. Okay, So my daughter's high school,
their theater department does a haunted house, okay, and she
says she's in the haunted house last night and she

(15:59):
said something to my He's like, well, are you coming?
And he goes, well, you know it's not your mom's thing, right.
But then I was like, Okay, it's my kid. I
should go. And how scary can it be? Grant? It's
a bunch of high school kids. Because this was all
student directed. So they made the scenes, they made the scenery,
they got the costumes, they did everything. It's all student legged.

(16:19):
And I was like, how scary can it be? Grant?
You know what the answer is, Grant, really scary. It
was really scary of it. I did not like it,
but I have to give it to the kids were amazing.
They could touch you. You had to sign a release
that said they could touch you. And they touched me
on the ankles when I'm walking by Grant the scariest.

(16:44):
Heck me in that's how you get punched in the
face that well, they are students, you do heard?

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (16:51):
Yeah, Mandy, where do we stand with the time change?
Not being jacked? Up any longer? Is that a polist
state thing?

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Know?

Speaker 4 (16:57):
That has to be a change at the federal level.
And the big making point you guys, is do we
choose daylight saving time or do we choose standard time?
That's the problem. Who cares? Pick one? Here's the thing, Grant,
it's split fifty to fifty. And as much as you
and I don't care, there are people who will die

(17:17):
on this mountain. Do you know what I'm saying? Like
this is the most important discussion they've ever had, Not
for me, cheers one. I don't care which I will
change my clocks today, says this clever texture. By Monday,
I'm did you go? Well? Hopefully you don't have anything
important scheduled for tomorrow exactly. Ooh, we're going to the
Army Air Force game tomorrow. That'll be We're super excited

(17:40):
about that. We're going to tailgate with some friends of friends,
so we're gonna be making new friends. Go Army, no
offense Air Force people. But I'm married to an Army man. Yeah,
you have to root for exactly. I think Army's better
this year too, so they are. I gotta tell you, man,
forget about armies. What is Navy doing. Actually, look okay,

(18:00):
we went to the Okay, how can I We went
to the Air Force Army game a couple of years ago.
The quality of football that we saw would not have
flown at my high school, let alone in an actual
college level setting. I'm just gonna say it, but Navy
has gotten it together. Armies having a better year should

(18:21):
be a good game, looking forward to it. Asking people
what their favorite Halloween costumes are, and you guys are
delivering nine five six nine. Oh wait a minute, let
me try that again. The common Spirit Health text line
is five six six nine. Oh, there you go text us, guys, Mandy,
I think Ross got demoted. No, guys, I said this

(18:43):
yesterday in radio. The two most important critical time slots
are morning drive and afternoon drive because most people listen
in their cars. When you move a morning drive, that
is a promotion. Unless you're me. I never want to
do a morning drive schedule. Again, It's hard on my
I don't want to do it. So I'm perfectly happy
where I am. But that is a promotion. Well, when

(19:05):
you reach your level and you have the audience, you
have eat no matter what time you're out. You know
what Grant That's why I love you. We'll be right
back where we got Satin sandshows coming up next, Delicious
Reese's Pumpkins. I think the pumpkins are one of the
best shapes. Yeah, well, the Christmas trees are great. Christmas
trees are great, But I feel like the chocolate peanut

(19:26):
butter ratio on the on the pumpkins, it's just.

Speaker 5 (19:29):
Perfect, Just the perfect Halloween candy. I mean, yeah, I
think so dull. Come on second to candy corn.

Speaker 4 (19:36):
Maybe. Did you see my post yesterday on my on
my Instagram. Oh so, I had breakfast at Urban Egg
right here in the tech center. I'm walking back to
my car. I go across the road. There's a bag
of candy corn that someone has dropped in the road
and it's been run over like fifty times. So I
posted it on my Instagram with finally candy corn gets
what it it's deserved. Do you think they like went

(19:58):
forward and backed up again? I certain so. Do you
know why we have jack o' lanterns on Halloween? Grant?

Speaker 6 (20:04):
I do not.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
I look this up today because I thought to myself,
I don't know the answer to that question, and then
I thought I kind of want to know, it does
seem kind of random, Like who was the first person
to say, I know, we'll take the gut set of
a pumpkin, call a face on it and put a
candle in, Like who said that the first time? Well,
I'll tell you. The tradition goes back to the mid
nineteenth century. Back then, about two million people emigrated from

(20:29):
Ireland to the United States as the result of the
Great Famine of eighteen forty five to eighteen fifty two.
The Irish people made all kinds of contributions, including Halloween traditions.
There's an old Irish folk tale that tells the story
of Stingy Jack. He was a miserable drunker who played
tricks on family, friends and even the devil. Grant the devil,

(20:52):
even the devil, even the devil. One day, he tricked
the devil into climbing a tree, then put crosses around
the tree trunk so the devil couldn't get After Jack
made the devil promise not to take his soul when
he died, he removed the crosses. When Jack died, Saint
Peter denied him entrance to heaven. No, no, no, you
were a jerk, and the devil kept his promise and

(21:12):
didn't take his soul. That meant stingy Jack was destined
to wonder forever in the darkness between heaven and hell,
but he asked the devil how he could live with
no light. The devil tossed him a live coal from
the flames of hell to help him light his way.
Jack placed it in a hollowed out turnip, and since
that day, Jack has roamed the earth without a resting place,

(21:35):
with only the makeshift lamp to light his way. Do
you know the origin of this folklore? Grant? This is
also fascinating. Many folklore or you know, tales are used
to explain things that could not be explained another way. Right, So,
in Ireland, over the sort of peep moss swamps that
they have over there, they have spontaneous combustions of the

(21:59):
gas from the deteriorating peat moss. It releases gases like
methane and stuff like that, and they'll spontaneously combust and
the glowing fog was considered to be a sign of
the sign of Jack roaming the earth, as these spontaneous
combustions happened in the Pete marshes. I do too, after

(22:21):
I looked it up. I was like, oh, well, there's
no way I'm not sharing this super cool, but now
we need to have we need to carve turnips.

Speaker 5 (22:28):
Yeah, I was gonna say, you didn't explain how we
went from turnips to pump Well, I don't have that
part of the story. I guess pumpkins are much easier
to carve them.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
Do you carve pumpkins?

Speaker 6 (22:37):
No?

Speaker 4 (22:38):
You know why I don't do it. I cannot stand
putting my hand inside a pumpkin.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
And.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
I don't like that feeling. Nah, I will say pumpkin seeds.
I love pumpkin seeds that someone else took out of
the pumpkin and baked and did everything too. I love
pumpkin seeds that way in a salad. Just guess so good. Anyway,
that's that. And I then after I went down the
pumpkin rabbit hole grant, then I had to go down
the history of trick or treating, because I thought, how

(23:05):
did we start telling children that they should go out
and threaten people that they were going to play a
trick on them if they didn't give them candy. If
the whole thing feels very extortionary, where do you look
at it like that, right, like you just walk on,
very socialist, I demand you give me candy. But the
reality is completely wrong. The whole backstory on trick or

(23:27):
treating is completely not what I thought. So Halloween actually
goes back to the Celtic Festival of Some Mind, and
that's a harvest celebration that coincided with the beginning of
the new year, and people believe that on that night,
the spirits of the dead roamed the earth, so people
dressed in costume to hide or blend in with the

(23:47):
spirits of the earth, and they called it guysing, which
I'm guessing disguising is probably from guysing. In the eighth century,
the Roman Catholic Church moved All Saints state of November first,
trying to replace the Christian holiday. So Halloween all Hallow's
Eve became kind of a different holiday. But even then
you still don't have trick or treating. So when did

(24:09):
trick or treating really get going? The phrase trick or
treat was first recorded in nineteen twenty seven. Early Halloween
celebrations leaned heavily towards tricks, but kids would knock on
the door and offer to do a trick or get
a treat, right, like, let me do a little song
and dance for you a little softshew, sing a little song,

(24:30):
whistle a tune. Following World War Two, at the end
of sugar rationing, it helps cement the tradition's sweet side.
In the early nineteen fifties, trick or treating game popularity,
thanks in part to two cartoon characters in a Peanuts
comic strip featured Charlie Brown using the phrase tricks or treats,

(24:50):
and a short film by Disney called Trick or Treat
starring Donald Duck was released. And today Halloween is all
about the candy, and nobody offers to whistle a little
tune or do a little dance when they trick or
treat anymore. I think we should bring that back. I mean,
it'd be cool. There. There are two things I bet

(25:10):
you didn't know. Did any of you actually know the
turnip thing before we got it? Absolutely correct? On pumpkin
receis from this Mandy Lorian five three four four? Oh
did you know we named our audience now grant? Did
you hear? I just picked up? Yeah, Mandylorians? Why just

(25:31):
to have a cool name? Well, I mean, Michael Brown
has a name for his listeners. What are his listeners called.
They're called goobers. Oh, and then I named Grant. I
forgot to tell Ross I named his audience today. I
named his audience yesterday the dirty leggers. I heard that, Michael,
Yeah on our social media. Yeah yeah, although Jack Lennards
were used to scare away candy corn. They are at

(25:53):
my house. Friend absolutely Satin Sanchez coming up at one o'clock.
I am super excited to doctor Herr. Anthony set this
interview up and then was like, I'm taking the day off.
You can talk to the High Priestess and I will
a couple of things I do want to talk about
on a serious note for just a moment. If you
are one of the people who has been affected by

(26:13):
the loss of Snap benefits, and you know, I've been
highly critical of the people that are popping up on
social media to demand that someone else pay for the
food for their kids. But there are people who are
on these benefits for you know, reasons that are well
beyond their control and are not just sitting at home
trying to mooch off the government. There are people that
have genuine need. That's why we have these programs, and

(26:36):
you know what, let me just have a moment on that.
The notion that somehow, because you don't want to pay
for an able bodied person to be able to stay
home with their kids while you go to work and
leave your kids behind, that that somehow is bad is ridiculous.
But it also doesn't mean that that me or anybody

(26:58):
else wants anyone to starve in this country. We're the
richest country in the world. For people to go hungry,
it would be absurd, But the reality is grant. Have
you seen any of these social media videos. I'm just
going to say it. Every single person that I have
seen on social media screaming, yelling, hollering, caring on about
not getting their food benefits is morbidly obese. And I'm

(27:21):
thinking to myself, sister, you could skip a meal or two.
I don't mean to be petty or small, but now
we're paying for that person to be so big that
at some point they're going to become a burden on
our healthcare system. It's funny. There's a proposition in Denver,
and I haven't talked that much about it because at

(27:41):
this stage in the game, if you live in the
city of Denver and you want to vote to restrict everything,
that's fine. The people that want to buy it can
go buy it elsewhere. You're just going to put local
businesses out of business in Denver because it's a huge
hit for the mom and pop shops that only shops.
And it's the flavored tobacco ban. The logic in Denver
is that it's for the children. The children are buying

(28:06):
the flavored vapes and it's hurting the children. We added
to it for the children. No, no offense. But the
biggest health epidemic in the United States of America is
no longer smoking. It's no longer it's been displaced years
ago in the sheer number of deaths by obesity and

(28:28):
obesity related conditions. Obesity drives more disease and more health
care crisises than anything else in this country, including smoking.
And you don't hear anybody on the Dinversity Council going, well,
you know what, in the city of Denver, we're just
gonna have to do away with access to any junk
food for the children. Nobody ever says that the reason

(28:52):
they're going after flavored tobacco is that tobacco is not cool.
Anymore tobacco. When I was young, I'm just gonna be honest.
When I was in my twenties, everyone I knew smoked.
Everyone I knew smoked. It was a part of the
culture that we were rolling in in our twenties. Okay, great,
how many of your friends when you were in your
twenty smoke? Do you remember? And were you ever a smoker?

(29:15):
A bunch? And yes, okay, so we all go through
our idiotic faces. Yay. But back you know, when I
was young in the nineties, it was very cool, like
everyone was doing it. Now it's just fallen out of
favor because it's been banned everywhere and people when you
ban smoking from the general population and then all of
a sudden you walk through a cloud of cigarette smoke,
it is repulsive. It just gross.

Speaker 5 (29:38):
Yeah, But as a former smoker, do you ever, like
walk behind someone on the street and just kind of no?

Speaker 4 (29:44):
And I think you move from being former smoker into
being ex smoker when you realize that the smell of
cigarette smoke repulses you. Although I did tell Chuck like,
if I live to be eighty five ninety, I'm starting
to smoke again. I'm doing it. I am I don't
care at that point, and I don't care, but nonetheless,
I have no desire to smoke at all anymore. But

(30:04):
I used to be able to go and enjoy like
a cigar every once in a while, but I can't
even do that anymore. I've lost my sense of smell
for the first time in my life. I've lost my
sense of smell like four times now, and it's all
related to sinus infections that I've had. So I lost
my sense of smell, and I went to see the doctor,
and the doctor said to me, she goes. I said, well,
how long is it going to take to come back?

(30:25):
She goes, Oh, could be two months, could be two years,
could be never. And I was like, what not having
a sense of smell is weird? And I realized there
are a lot of people. Some people are just born
without a sense of smell. But if you love to
cook like I do, I cook with my nose as
much as I cook with everything else. You know, I'll
put something in the oven and chuckles, say how much
more time does it need? And I'll say four more minutes.

(30:48):
But then in three minutes and fifteen seconds, I'm like, oh,
that's done. Because I can smell it. I can smell
the change. I'm not kidding. I have a very sensitive sniffer.
My wife is the same way.

Speaker 5 (30:58):
She was baking something a couple of weeks ago, and
she was like, set the timer for five more minutes,
and then check them again, and then like three minutes past.

Speaker 4 (31:05):
Yeah, she's like, they're done. You're ready.

Speaker 8 (31:06):
I can tell.

Speaker 4 (31:08):
But when you lose your sense of smell, it's very disconcerting.
So I've lost my sense of smell. It'd been gone
for about a month and a half and I'm walking
in downtown Louisville. I was in Louisville, Kentucky. I come
around the corner. There's two people smoking. And the first
thing I smelled in a month and a half with
cigarette smoke, and then it stayed in my nostrils for
like two days. I think that's what fully. I was like, Ah,

(31:30):
that boof. Never want to do that again. If you've
ever felt like someone has cast a spell on you,
or that you've been cursed, my next guest is exactly
what you want. We'll talk to Suton Sanchez when we
get back.

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Speaker 4 (32:11):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
And if you guys have listened to the show for
any length of time, I have long suggested that for
the Colorado Rockies in the last few years, where things
have been so challenging, we needed to have someone come
in and do some kind of cleanse around course field
to get the bad spirits and the curse of the
Rockies off of what we were doing. And I think

(32:34):
maybe we have found the right person to help us
do this. Satin Sanchez is a biochemist with a master's
degree in biochemistry and a nights Generation High Priestess. She
blends ancient root work and energy rituals with modern science
to keep the good energy flowing and award off the
bad stuff. Sat and welcome to the show. First of all, yes,

(32:57):
thank you for having me so. First of all, let's
walk right from the very beginning. Explain to me what
you mean by ninth Generation High Priestess. We're going to
work through some of the terms that may not be
familiar with my audience.

Speaker 8 (33:11):
Yes, of course, So that just means it's in my boodline.
It's been passed down from my great grandmother and her grandmother.
They were all witch doctors, so you know, they utilize
herbs for healing.

Speaker 6 (33:22):
But also the spiritual aspects. They did amazing spells and
rituals to really change people's lives.

Speaker 4 (33:30):
So are these when you talk about spells or rituals,
what exactly are you are you using? Certain I mean, okay,
this is gonna sound stupid, bear with me, but I
think probably other people are thinking this. When you think
of spells, you think of toil toil. You know, I
have new to whatever, toa frog or whatever those kind
of things are. When you're talking about spells, what does

(33:51):
that look like in practice?

Speaker 6 (33:54):
It doesn't look anything like what you see on TV.

Speaker 8 (33:58):
I think they kind of sensational it and glamorize negative
aspects of it.

Speaker 6 (34:03):
But we just do it for healing.

Speaker 8 (34:06):
We do it to remove hexes, remove curses, to bring
in money, wealth, prosperity, and protection and peace.

Speaker 6 (34:14):
So it's more about balancing your life and ensuring.

Speaker 8 (34:17):
That you're living a better life than any of the
things that you've seen on TV.

Speaker 4 (34:21):
Why did you go into biochemistry?

Speaker 6 (34:25):
My dad was a scientist, so I always knew that
I was going to be a scientist. I didn't know how.

Speaker 8 (34:30):
I fell in love with chemistry in high school, so
that's why I wanted to Biokem bio because you kind
of need to know about your body, you know, anatomy, physiology,
you got to know how everything works. But chemistry, I
just loved learning about, you know, chemical reactions TOI cheometry.

Speaker 6 (34:45):
I ended up being really good at it, so I
had a passion for it.

Speaker 7 (34:49):
So that's why I studied Biokem is.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
That kind of an interesting combination someone who works also
in the spiritual mystical world and also in a hard
science like biochemistry.

Speaker 8 (35:01):
Yeah, because I create methodologies for all of my rituals.
So it's not just me putting two herbs together and saying,
you know, incantation or something like people seeing movies, and
I make it work. Like every person that comes to
me for spiritual work, I create a methodology for them,
so it's conjured, but it's still science. So that's what

(35:22):
sets me apart from anyone else that you'll ever meet,
because I bring science to spirituality.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
So what does root work mean on your website. I
went to your website. You have all kinds of cool
stuff and you have cool products that can do different things.
But then you talk about individual root work, and honestly,
I didn't know what that was.

Speaker 8 (35:38):
So what is that?

Speaker 6 (35:41):
Yeah, so it's getting to the core of problems.

Speaker 8 (35:44):
So you know, kind of like certain Western medicine treats
only the symptoms.

Speaker 6 (35:49):
And you never treat the core. So spells, for the
most part, we'll treat the surface level aspects of it.
But root work would get to the root call so
that you actually have results and long lasting results.

Speaker 8 (36:02):
So for instance, someone might come to me and they
say that, you know, they can't keep money. They get
money and it goes and they want to be rich, they.

Speaker 6 (36:08):
Want to be wealthy. So I'm going to get to
the root cause of why energenic. Energetically, they are not
manifesting what they want, the lifestyle that they want, the
luxury that they want. So I will do a reading
for them, I'll do divination and then we will tackle
it there.

Speaker 8 (36:21):
Some people have generational curses of povery, so we will
treat that first and then I will bring them the
wealth Okay, so how.

Speaker 4 (36:29):
Much of this and I'm going to come at this
from a skeptics perspective because I trust me, I know
what my audience thinks. How much of this is actually
just well not totally a skeptic because I believe that
you send energy out into the world and you get
energy back. I mean, I completely believe in that exchange
of energy. So part of this be just just making
people aware of their own role in that energy by

(36:51):
using a spell to say, look, we're going to do this,
but sort of bringing someone's focus to it can actually
move them in a better direction. Does that make sense?

Speaker 8 (37:01):
Yes and no, because just being aware of something doesn't
mean that you can change it, right, So what I'm
doing is making them aware of but we're also.

Speaker 6 (37:09):
Fixing it because reality is, if they could do it,
they would have. That's why they come to me because
they know it will happen.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
Right. So what are some of the things specifically that
you might incorporate? Do you do individual spells for individual people,
like the people that you work with one on one? Say,
if I come to you and I say I would
like to travel more, which is funny because I travel
a lot anyway. But how would you individual? How do
you make an individual spell for someone or do you

(37:36):
even do that? Or you just find the appropriate spell
for that person.

Speaker 8 (37:41):
Oh, I've been doing this for a very long time.
Like I said, I'm not generations, so I was born
into this.

Speaker 6 (37:45):
I know ancient rituals. I have a lot of knowledge
in in root works, so I created.

Speaker 4 (37:51):
Per the person.

Speaker 6 (37:52):
So one person ritual is not going to look like
the next one. So I just utilized, you know.

Speaker 8 (37:57):
The knowledge that I have, and from their enter, I'll
be able to decide how we're going to tackle that.

Speaker 6 (38:02):
But it's not always the same. It looks different for everyone.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
So when you are when you are working with someone
or doing root work, is it you do the work
or do they have stuff that they have to do
to follow up?

Speaker 6 (38:15):
No, I do everything, but I called it layering.

Speaker 8 (38:19):
So to make sure that the energy stays positive and
stays high, they'll utilize my products. Might I have skincare
products that are also blessed, so like a spiritual cleanse
or on hexwash, things like that that they utilize to
ensure that they get all the negative energy off of them,
the ey off of them. They'll utilize my products that
I have on Satin says.

Speaker 4 (38:40):
Dot com Satin, do you have anything to help a
horrible baseball team that I believe has been cursed for
some reason? I say that like I'm kind of joking,
but I'm kind of not because the Colorado Rockies need something.
They need good juju? Do you do stuff like like
if if a baseball team called you and said, Satin,
give us your best shot, I mean, could you could
you help with that?

Speaker 1 (39:01):
I have?

Speaker 8 (39:01):
They do it all the time. Basketball players have come
to me. A lot of team owners have come to me.

Speaker 6 (39:09):
So yes, I'm not.

Speaker 8 (39:10):
Gonna say exactly who because I'm under NDA, but.

Speaker 6 (39:12):
Yeah, they come to me all the time. Celebrities come
to me more than you would think, more than people
would expect.

Speaker 4 (39:19):
Okay, So people have specific questions, and one of the
questions I asked sat And off the air is I
was like, I wanted clarification on where the high Priestess
thing came from. And I'm getting several questions about that
because people are somewhat aware that there are different religions.
There's voodoo, there's Santa Ria, there's just different sort of
faith structures. Do you subscribe to any of those faith structures?

(39:40):
In specifically.

Speaker 8 (39:42):
Well, my husband is in Santario, so I know how
to do Santario rituals. Who do My great grandmother was
into it, so i know how to do those rituals.
But I'm more eclectic. I don't subscribe to one specific way.
I'm too free spirited to stay in one box. You
can't categorize me. I am just a spiritual being. I'm
just say and I'm here to just, you know, help
the world. I don't say I'm just one specific way.

Speaker 4 (40:05):
Well, I put a link to your website today, Satin.
People can go check it out for themselves. I appreciate
the conversation today. It's always interesting to me too. You know.
We have so many instances here where people are searching
for something to help them get out of a block,
situation or whatever, and I'm like, you know, what, if

(40:26):
you if this can help you, I think that I
just want more people to know about it. I appreciate
your time today, Satin.

Speaker 8 (40:32):
Yes, thank you so much for having me, And I'm
so happy that you feel basically the same way that
I do.

Speaker 6 (40:38):
I just do it with my ro work, with my rituals.

Speaker 8 (40:40):
But really it's like therapy too, you know, I have
a group of girls that are just so amazing and
I've helped them heal and you know.

Speaker 6 (40:47):
Manifest life on their terms. So yes, I agree. I
feel the same.

Speaker 4 (40:51):
Exact way, Saton. I appreciate your time and we will
talk to her again in the future. You know, what,
do you believe in any of that stuff? Grant? Yeah,
I here's the thing. I do think there's power in
letting people believe that something is going to help them
accomplish something. Do you know what I mean? I think
whatever helps you live a better life, try it out. Well,

(41:12):
I've already got somebody saying, Mandy, you don't even know
you're giving this woman a platform. You should see what
the Bible says about this. Guys, this is, you know,
my personal beliefs about God. We have people of every
faith that listen to the show. We have people who
know faith that listen to the show, right, So I
can appreciate what you're saying. But I'm bringing this up

(41:32):
because it's my belief that sometimes people need a nudge,
and the nudges come in different ways. And if someone
can can subscribe to this in for whatever reason and
make their lives better, more power to you.

Speaker 5 (41:46):
We have a friend that is very I would say,
similar to Satin and her beliefs, and she gave us
some sage when we oh, yeah, I've.

Speaker 4 (41:55):
Bought I smuch every single house that I get.

Speaker 5 (41:58):
Yeah, and I think it really made it difference, Like
there were some weird vibes when we first moved in.

Speaker 4 (42:02):
It makes me feel happy to feel like I'm getting
and I have over my kitchen sink. When you go
to Greece everywhere, have you seen the hand with the
eye in it? Grant? Okay? Those are to ward off
evil spirits. And when I was in Greece, I got
one of those and it's hanging over my kitchen sink,
so there'll be no evil spirits in my in my kitchen.

(42:24):
I guess, you know, I don't know. I think it's
interesting to have the conversation.

Speaker 5 (42:31):
I agree, yeah, And I think for people that are
closed minded and don't want to hear it, yep, that's
their prerogative. But I think maybe some you might have
helped someone today, like, oh, maybe I'll try something else
to get out of this crappy situation and maybe.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
It will work. It's not crazy if it works, and
even if it's a placebo effect. Exactly, care exactly. Uh, Mandy,
there's a reason snapp recipients are fat. Healthy food as
expensive as hell. You know what, guys, I know that
not to be true. We have a good family friend

(43:05):
who was married to a really horrible man. She had
six kids, and when she finally left this man, she
ended up on food stamps. But as a very health
oriented person, she said about trying to prove that you
can eat a healthy diet on food stamps, and she did. Now,
she bought a lot of frozen vegetables, a lot of
frozen vegetables, a lot of frozen fruit, but then she

(43:27):
used it to make healthy food for her family. Now,
a lot of people who may be working two jobs
may not have time feel like they have time to
make healthy food for their family. But I'm trying to
do you do any food prep grant? Are you a
food prep person? I'm trying.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
No.

Speaker 4 (43:45):
What I found out is the only thing that I
have to food prep is lunch because my mornings are
pretty tightly scheduled, right, But if I food prep lunch,
it makes the rest of my week so easy, so
incredibly easy. I need to do more of that.

Speaker 5 (44:01):
I just hating the same thing every day. So everyone
that I see that food Preps makes one thing, but
you know.

Speaker 4 (44:07):
What it is, They make one thing seven times for
three meals a day. You know what I'm saying. Like,
breakfast is the same. My breakfast is the same pretty
much every day. My lunch is now the same pretty
much every day. But my dinner. Then I enjoy cooking,
you know, because I haven't been in the kitchen all
day trying to figure out what I'm gonna eat well.

Speaker 5 (44:24):
And my wife doesn't make leftovers, and a lot of
the recipes we make are like family recipes that, oh god,
she doesn't eat leftovers.

Speaker 4 (44:31):
Yeah, okay, I know what I'm getting you for Christmas.
So I always eat the leftover. Like we made zupa
Tuscana last week. I ate that soup for crunch for
a week. Google supercubes s O U p er. There's
silicone cubes. You can freeze your soup and then you
just pull out a block and you put it in
the microwave and it's like it's so good. My kids
got them for me last year for Christmas. I freeze everything.

(44:54):
I freeze sauces now in these cubes and you can
and then that's enough for one person. Cube is enough
for you on the next survey. So good, It'll change
your ever loving leftover life. It's so good because you
know what happens. You put the leftovers in the fridge
and then it's just like you start to chip away
and chip away. This allows you to freeze a single
serving of whatever you're doing. You can do chili, you

(45:16):
can do soup. Although lately, after not eating soup for
all these years, my family's like, I don't really like soup.
Now I've been making soup. Now They're like, we can't
get enough of soup, so I don't have any left over.
I'm like George Constanza, Soup season as my favorite. I
love now this week. This week, I have made tomato
soup from scratch, and I have made cream of mushroom
soup from scratch.

Speaker 5 (45:36):
My wife's parents were just in town this past week,
two weeks ago. I don't know whatever, but they brought
us canned homemade tomato soup.

Speaker 4 (45:46):
Ya homemade tomato soup is the easiest soup to make
in the world. Here's what's in it. Chop up an onion,
cook it for like five minutes till it starts to
get translucent. Throw some garlic in there. Put like cans
of chopped tomatoes. I use the fire roast to tomatoes,
some tomato paste, and then use either vegetable broth if
you want to keep it vegetarian, I use tomato stock

(46:08):
or a chicken stock and cook it down and then
use the hand blender. Oh my god, oh basil. You
gotta have basil in there, and salt and pepper. It's
that's it. That's it, Mandy. I don't smoke wheed anymore,
but I can tell if it's good or bad based
on the smell, and I get mad when I find
out people are smoking bad weed. That is fantastic. This

(46:32):
is how I feel about anyone over forty drinking cheap liquor.

Speaker 6 (46:36):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (46:37):
Like if I see you and you got a bottle
of pop Off vodka in your house, judging you, Yeah,
I'm judging you. If you've got a bottle of pop
Off godfa yeah, I'm vodka.

Speaker 8 (46:48):
I am.

Speaker 5 (46:49):
I don't smoke weed anymore either, but I will say
I think it's time to go back to bad weed.

Speaker 4 (46:56):
It is too strong. Oh my god, Wait a minute,
wait a minute, let me just rephrase that for you
back in my day. Strang you know you should go
back to that. You don't need seventy marijuana it makes
you crazy. Yeah yeah, yeah, Mandy. Did you like how

(47:19):
Satin Mexican mexicanified the word santania? Yep, yep. I have
courts above my door. It was a gift. I'm not
rejecting good energy. See. I think a lot of people
have these little things that even if they're Christians, they
still do them. Eh, I don't know. I mean, I
hope God's not mad about that. This person loves super cubes.

(47:40):
They're great. Did you find him great? You see what
I'm talking about telling you change your soup, love and life. Okay, guys,
when are we going to get our first snow? That's
the big question now. It could be the middle of
November because according to Focks thirty one, there's nothing coming.
It's fairly unusual for us not to have any snow

(48:01):
by today. But it's not crazy. I have to say
I love it. I this snow long the mountains. This
fall has been magnificent, magnificent. It has been my favorite
fall in years because we haven't had that giant snowstorm
that knocked all the leaves off, right, So we've had
beautiful color. The temperature has been perfect, it's been sunshiny

(48:24):
and gorgeous. This is the fall that I live for.
This is the most This is the perfect season. And
now it's super weather, Grant.

Speaker 5 (48:30):
And my biggest complain better moving to Colorado from Ohio
has been you don't even have fall.

Speaker 4 (48:36):
Yeah, but this year it feels like we have. It
has been gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. Right now, there's no snow
at the snow in the forecast for the metro. Obviously
it's been snowing in the mountains a little bit, but
the latest first snowfalls for Denver, the latest was in

(48:56):
twenty twenty one, and I remember that year the snow
was never coming. But the fall was also not good
because it was hot late. It was hot late that Yeah, Grant,
we sweated well into October. If I remember correctly. Before
that it was nineteen thirty four at November twenty first,
so we probably if we make it to November fourteenth,

(49:21):
we will we will tie in the top ten. So yeah,
and you'd think with all the global warming that they
would all be in the late you know, like right, now,
but you've got most of them far far before the
common era. Anyway. Just wanted you to know that, because
I know we're all looking forward to getting our snowblowers out.

(49:43):
I did already win arise my deck and get that
ready to go when we get back. Let's see one thirty.
I'm want to talk about the Denver Public schools one
more time. I realized we've talked a lot about them
because they've been so insane this week. But after allowing
the superintendent to come up with the things that he

(50:04):
was going to be evaluated on, they released the evaluation
of Superintendent Alex Marrero, and he did not meet the
minimum that the well, I shouldn't say that they wanted
to hit seventy five percent of the goals. They judged
he met seventy three point two percent of the goals.
So he fell short of that measure. And here's the

(50:27):
interesting part. If we had not gone and given him
a contract extension and changed the way that he was
evaluated or could be fired, I wouldn't be so irritated
by this. But this board, which please, for the love
of all that is holy Denver, vote these people out.

(50:50):
I have put four people on the blog today. None
of them were particularly right wing, but out of the
choices we've got, I feel like they will focus the
most on student achievement. Imagine that that would be fun
right student achievement. This board needs to go, by the way.
I also have my picks for the Jeff Cost school
Board race, the Doug Cost school Board race, the Denver

(51:12):
school Board race, and the Cherry Creek school Board race
on the blog today at mandy'sblog dot com. So if
you're getting ready to vote on the school board races,
those four are on the blog and they will be
every day until election day. Just trying to help Mandy.
The twenty twenty one late snowfall was on New Year's Eve,
the day after the Marshall fire. No, it was on

(51:34):
December tenth. That is the latest measurable snowfall, Mandy. I
blame the global warming caused by all the hot air
Governor Paulus is putting out. Mandy, I'm Greek. The evil
Eye only works if you received it as a gift.
I gifted it to myself, and as I did, I
was like, Mandy, oh, look at this, I'd like to

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give you this. And I was like, well, thank you. Mandy,
I appreciate you. I got to bring this up because
there are things that I have loved about the Trump administration,
not the least of which is that he seems to
be a peace manger. I like you having a peace
monger in the White House, except we are doing everything
but peace mongering towards Venezuela, And genuinely, I'm like, what

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are we even doing right now? What are we doing now?
Don't get me wrong, I've watched Venezuela since two thousand
and five. Actually, I've started watching Venezuela before I got
my first show, just because I thought it was interesting.
When Hugo Chavez took over Venezuela, it was the richest
country in South America. They had a burgeoning capitalist society.

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The oil money was being somewhat distributed, but they still
had very high rates of poverty. Now, if you go
back to that time and you look at the schism
in income distribution in Venezuela, there was an educated class
and a not as well educated class, and the not
as well educated class from the rural areas, they were

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very poor that they were living in poverty, and real poverty,
not like poverty we have in the United States like
actual poverty. So it's very appealing when you have all
the rich keep get riching and the poor keep get point.
It sounds very familiar to what's happening in New York
right now. And Hugo Chavas is elected in a landslide
to bring socialism to Venezuela. First thing he does is
turnover the Venezuelan oil companies, basically strip them from the

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companies that own them and turn them over to be
run by his cronies and friends who knew absolutely nothing
about the oil industry. That was bad enough, But when
a country takes over an industry and then staffs it
with people who have no idea how to run the industry,
the first thing that happens is they stop doing the
necessary investment in said industry, and almost immediately the oil

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industry started to begin its slide to where it is now.
They didn't do the upkeep on machinery. You guys, oil
drilling is an extremely intensive business in the sense that
you always have to be looking for best practices, you
always have to be looking for innovations, you always have

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to be looking for new wells, and if you have
an oil person running the oil company. You understand all
of these things, and you do all of these things.
Venezuela hired pronies of Javaz. They didn't do any of
these things, and now you see the end result. Their
overall production has dropped dramatically. The reason I bring this
all up is fast forward to today. Hugo Chavez is
dead after going to Cuba for medical treatment. I might

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want to point out Michael, whatever his last name is,
who's the guy who does all the documentaries. His name
just went right out of my head. Michael Moore. Michael Moore,
he loves Cuban healthcare. Well, it killed Hugo Chaves. But
then we got Nicholas Mindoro, who promised to keep the
failing policies of Hugo Chaves going along. By the way,
same policies being advanced by Zorn Mumdani right now in

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New York City. Just keep that in the back burner.
So Ugo Chavez ran the oil companies into the ground.
Nicholas Muduro continue to drain money out of their economy
and continue to destroy their economy, which is why seven
million Venezuelas have left the country, many of them ending
up here in the United States. Now, I see if

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the President wanted to make the case that we should
do something about regime change in Venezuela. First of all,
I would say no, because historically we suck at regime change. Okay,
we suck, and I would prefer to know, support the
opposition without military arms. But whatever, we don't ever learn anything,

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it's fine, It's going to be fine. But that's not
what Trump is alleging. Trump is now stationed the military
off the coast of Venezuela. Sources told The Wall Street
Journal that targets in Venezuela are looking to There are

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certain targets that they believe if they hit those targets,
they would be able to decapitate the drug cartels that
are running drugs out of Venezuela with the help of
the Venezuelan government. Now, before someone poo poo's this, the
Venezuelan government is broke. They've destroyed their largest cast cow

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in the oil industry, and they don't have any money
coming in. They have no economy, they have out of
control inflation, and you've got to make sure the higher
ups can still live high on the hog because in
a socialist and communist society, the higher ups, the people
in charge, always live high on the hog, while the
rest of the people suffer. By the way, the rest
of the people suffering looks like they ate zoo animals.

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That's what suffering looks like. So the US, someone told
the Wall Street Journal that there were these targets that
could be struck by air in a matter of days
or even hours. And they believe that the cartels export
five hundred tons of cocaine yearly, evenly between the United

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States and Europe. Now listen to this. This is what
the source said. And we all know how anonymous sources go,
but I will say this, There's been an incredible amount
of discipline in this Trump administration. And everybody who faults
Trump for hiring loyalists, well, first of all, every politician
hires loyalist. But after the last go round, Trump learned

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a lot. Trump got attacked a lot by the people
who worked in his administration, and he's not going to
do the same thing this time. So part of me
thinks this is a targeted leak, like an on purpose
type thing, because listen to what the quote source said.
The source said, Maduro is about to find himself trapped

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and might soon discover that he cannot flee the country
even if he decided to. What's worse for him, there's
now more than one general willing to capture and hand
him over, fully aware that one thing is to talk
about death and it's another to see it coming. Washington
has doubled the reward for information leading to Maduro's arrest

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to fifty million dollars, the largest bounty ever offered, and
currently offers twenty five million for the capture of some
of his top lieutenants. Here's why I'm annoyed, not even annoyed,
concerned about all this. I don't like a president unilaterally

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taking the power to essentially wage war against another country
without looping in Congress. And I know Congress is wildly dysfunctional.
I get it. I understand all of that. But if
the argument is so convincing that we're talking about launching
military strikes, then make the argument to Congress loop them in.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
Now.

Speaker 4 (58:49):
I realize that the president has the right, he is
the commander in chief. I get it, one hundred percent.
But that's why we have a congressional declaration of war requirement.
That's why we have the division of power. When it
comes launching more on other people. And I realized for
many of you, you're like, drug dealers sucked. You know,
they get whatever they deserve. I understand all of that.
I agree that drug dealers suck. I agree that if

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the case can be made that these people are importing
deadly drugs into the United States of America, then they
are importing a weapon of mass destruction and should be
treated as such. But make the damn argument because when
we do it on this side, then it gets done
on the other side, and the next time it might
not be someone we want to see killed.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
We play.

Speaker 4 (59:34):
We've gotten so far away from the way our government
was supposed to operate. Did you guys know, do you
know the last year they passed a regular budget, I mean,
passed all twelve bills, got them all done in one
year past a budget nineteen ninety six. Now, let's talk
about what's happened since then. We have seen the kind

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of polarization happen in Congress that has now bled down
to a society where people on one side gleefully cheered
for the death of someone on the other side of
the political idol. Part of that has to do with
the fact that we have not passed a regular budget.
Hear me out. When you have to pass twelve appropriations
bills for twelve different aspects of the government, you cannot

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afford to alienate the people on the other side. You
have to talk to them. You have to discuss your priorities.
You have to convince them that your priorities matter, and
you have to listen to their priorities, and you have
to hear what's really important to them, so they get
some of what they want. You get some of what
they want, and the budget comes out and you all
move forward. Now that we're passing giant continuing resolutions, all

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the craps in there, so there's no need. You just
got to fight on whether or not you want to
shut the budget the entire government down over it, like
we're doing right now, but you don't have to work
with people across the Aisle. I genuinely believe that that
is a huge part of the polarization in Congress right now,
because one of the big incentives to do not alienate

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the people on the other side was that you needed
their help to get your budget priorities done. With the
massive bloated garbage spending bill that still has all of
the COVID money in it that is gone. And the
Speaker of the House, Mike Johnston, he told me he
was going to go back to regular order, and so
far that's been a big fat lie. It is ask

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me anything, so you can send those over by texting
them to five six six nine. Oh this Texterter said, Mandy,
how is it that we have the House, the Senate
and the Presidency and can't run roughshod getting done what
we want and opening the government. I don't think it
would alienate the other side because they would understand after
the hardship they are about to face what the Republican
Party has done for them. Am I wrong? Well, okay,

(01:01:46):
yes they can. They can absolutely vote to end the filibuster.
They can get rid of the filibuster as a rule,
and then they can do whatever they want with a
simple majority, which they have they have fifty three votes
in the Senate. But I want to share with you
the history of the filibuster and why it's important. I
looked this up today. I had my assistant Chat GPT
and then I checked Chat's work. It started in early congresses.

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There was no filibuster. There was just a previous question
rule that was allowed to end debate. So they would
be debating something and then someone could say I would
like to invoke the previous question rules. They would vote
on it and it would end debate, and that was
replaced in eighteen oh six. Vice President Aaron Burr advised
removing that that allowed unlimited debate, and that was a

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problem in the mid eighteen hundreds. The term filibuster, that's
from the Dutch word for pirate, appeared in the eighteen
fifties and it was used to describe senators hijacking debate,
often over slavery or statehood, and without a way to
end debate, they would just go on and on and on.
In nineteen seventeen, the cloture rule was created. It was

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a World War One era filibuster. It angered President Woodrow
will Wilson so much the Senate adopted Rule twenty. Rule
twenty two cloture required two thirds vote to end debate.
That's kind of where we are now. During the Civil
rights era, Southern senators you'd used filibusters to block civil

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rights laws. Strom Thurman's nineteen fifty seven speech that lasted
twenty four hours and eighteen minutes. In nineteen sixty four,
the Senate invote cloture to pass the Civil Rights Act
after a sixty day filibuster. The threshold was lowered. In
nineteen seventy five, closure requirement was reduced from two thirds

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sixty seven senators to three fifths sixty senators, and they
also allowed what's called dual tracking. It allowed other business
during filibusters, enabling the silent filibuster now in back in
twenty thirteen, Harry Reid wanted to confirm some judges and
used what was called the nuclear option. He removed the

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filibuster from a presidential nominations, and in twenty seventeen Republicans
extended that to Supreme Court justices, which is why we
have three Supreme Court justices nominated by Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:04:13):
Supporters say that the filibuster is there to support or
protect minority rights. But I think the filibuster has been abused.
But that being said, you got to think about this. People.
If you do away with the filibuster now, then the
Democrats are going to be able to do the exact
same thing with the exact same rules when they take
power again. Now, you may be willing to trade the future,

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you know, ability for the minority to have a voice
for expediency now and that I'm not going to say
that would be the wrong decision, but history has generally
shown us that it is. So yeah, we could do it.
We absolutely could do it. So there you go, Mandy.
Will Michael Brown keep us Saturday morning show on Freedom
after he comes to KOA, Yes he is. Mandy always

(01:04:58):
talks about updating her home and garden and commercials. Why
did she buy a fixer upper? You guys, I don't
like new homes. I mean, you've been to my house.
It's a groovy house, isn't it. It's like a groovy house.
It's it's not yeah, I mean it's it's like we
looked at a bunch of newer built homes and they

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all they just had the same, the same vibe. They
all looked the same. So I wanted a house with
more characters. So you got to buy an older home,
and a fifty year old home. Stuff breaks, you gotta
fix it.

Speaker 5 (01:05:31):
Our house is from nineteen sixty three and it has
so many little weird details and I love that.

Speaker 4 (01:05:35):
I do too, So it's just for me. I bought
a fixer upper and about to buy myself another fixer up.
Chuck is horrified. We're looking to buy a place in
Ohio near our kids and every house I keep sending me,
He's like, God, this is really it's a full gut
like our house. Our house. When we bought it, We've
replaced every single thing in our house. I'm not exactly
that we did not replace the roof. We have a

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good roof, have to replaced the roof. Every other room
in our house has been renovated since we moved in,
So now it's all new. I still love it and
it's groovy, but it still has stuff that breaks because it's,
you know, almost fifty years old. Just say it. Since
Christmas season starts tomorrow, can Mandy Show play Christmas song
Bumper starting Monday, have a good weekend and go darn

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tooting Mandy and Grant. That would be a no, but
only because a Rod's a jerk. Like Christmas, Let's like,
let's let's Thanksgiving have a minute, which isn't a bad argument,
but still we'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (01:06:32):
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Speaker 4 (01:06:58):
Welcome bacle Ball to the third hour of the show.
I'm Mandy Connell and Grant Smith in for Anthony Rodriguez.
We'll take you right up until three o'clock. Coming up
at two thirty the Winyogi Crystal off on so pops in.
Because we all know what happens tonight. Our kids go
trick or treating, they come back. We take the parent
texts and if you want to be classy about it,

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you gotta have the right wine pairing with that Halloween candy.
We're gonna go into that at two thirty. I also
want to remind you, guys, if you don't have anywhere
to watch the game, you can go watch Broncos Texans
with Benjamin Albright, Nick Ferguson. It's all happened at burned
Down Denver off Broadway. They're gonna be there at eleven
a m. Bloody Mary's to stop the game. Everybody you
can enter to win Broncos Raiders Vegas trip. I mean,

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let's just be real about that trip. First of all,
you're gonna go to Vegas on a trip paid for
by us, So that's also awesome. And then second of all,
it's probably gonna be a win. I mean, the raiders
are god forsaken horrible, this year horrible. And it's all
present by Arta Tequila, the official tequila of the Denver Broncos.

(01:08:05):
Go hang out with naked bed bloody Maria instead of
a bloody Mary.

Speaker 6 (01:08:08):
What is is that?

Speaker 4 (01:08:09):
What tequila? Yeah, I don't think I've ever tried that.
I've ventured out like I've had the you know, if
you ever had like you've had the bloody Caesar, I'm sure,
Oh yeah, it's a calmato juice in it. I love
those super salty, well bloody. I've never had a bloody Maria.
But then there's like when I was a flight attendant
and I realized that in Canada. Do you know what
people in Canada who have a hangover due, They will

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get on an airplane at six o'clock in the morning
and order a tomato juice and a beer and put
them together, which is also delicious. Really, I've never had
the nerve to try that on something. I don't know
what that is. Yeah, but every time I would pour it,
I'd be like, ah, I don't know about this. Then
there'd be those people is like, oh the Scotch and
soda six thirty eight. God bless you, sir or madam.

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A lot of you weigh in on the Common Spirit
health checks line. Mandy, Oh, Christmas music until after Thanksgiving,
Grant needs to play the monster mash okay, Oh tell
me what to do, Texter her yep, Mandy, what is
the maximum amount of weight you lost on soda? I
lost thirty three pounds as of now. How much are
you still down? I'm down about probably eighteen pounds overall,

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but I did gain back about seven pounds of muscle.
So I have one of those ridiculously fancy scales that's really, really,
really accurate, So I measure my muscle mass and I'm
gonna be honest you guys. I got down thirty three
pounds from you know where I started, and Chuck was like,
you're a little too skinny for me, and I'm not
gonna lie. I want my man to think I'm hot

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more than anybody else, so I am where he wants
me to be. I mean, is that is that like
old fashioned? Is that is that? I? I mean, that's
who you want to be attractive. I would never cut
my hair short because My husband said to me when
we first started dating, please don't ever cut your hair short,
because my experience with women with short hair has not
been good. And I said, okay, just like he wears

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a go tee and I understand, Chuck. You know some
of us men like our women a little thick. Yeah. Well,
I mean he just's he trusts me without I don't
want to like delve into but he was like no,
he was just like, you're you're a little too thin
right now. And that's why I worked on putting back
on muscle, because that's what keeps you healthy and strong

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and all of those things as we age. So I
could be that skinn of you guys. But I you know,
my man has has opinions, and I'm okay with it.
I did set my glue tied for three months two
years ago. I lost forty pounds. I'm still down thirty
years two pounds later. Just seeing how the two methods compare,
I will say this about the Soda weight loss plan

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more than anything now. You know, Grant and I were
talking about prepping lunches like I prepped my lunch on
the weekend. My lunch now is a mixture of cooked
vegetables and lean protein every day every day because they
teach you like how to properly fuel your your your body.
So there are definitely things that have permanently changed for me.

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How do they feel about cold cut sandwiches? I don't
eat a lot of bread. I still don't eat a
lot of bread. That's my lunch about nine. Yeah, I
do a lot of I use cold cuts on my
salads if I'm in a hurry. Stuff like that, you know,
But I don't know. I try to just get. I
eat a ton more veggies than I ever had before.

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I get veggies at my breakfast now a lot. I
have vegetables sauteed with eggs. That's what they do in
the morning. I love. I could eat eggs on anything, spinach,
green not eat no no, no. Bell Peppers repeat on
me terribly. I'm sorry to hear that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:42):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:11:43):
Mandy beer and tomato juice. That is a red beer.
Great for hair of the dog. That's what I'm talking about.
Hungover Canadians taught me that trick. Hungover canad What are
the funniest flights I was ever on as a flight attendant.
I worked a flight from London. It went London Miami,
jumped off some passages in Miami and then Miami too Orlando,

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and we had all of these, like like twenty guys
who had just spent six months on a north shore
oil rig. Okay, so you've got all these roughhousers that
have been They work six months on, three months off,
six months on, three months off. That's how they work
on these oil rigs. And they make a crap ton

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of money and all of their living in food and
stuff is taking care of obviously while they're living on
the rig, so they are just literally saving up a
pile of money. And they're all in there like mid
twenties whatever. I'm the only flight attendant on this trip
that is not one hundred years old, so I am
the target.

Speaker 8 (01:12:41):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:12:41):
So by the time we land in Miami, these North
Irish oil workers are all hammered and they have made
up drinking songs with my name in it or I
am doing all manner of indecent things. It was so
bad because of the songs they were singing that the
pilot came back and lectured them when we landed in
Miami and told them to sit down and shut up

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until we got to Orlando or he was going to
remove them in Miami, and so the flight from Miami
to Orlando, they quietly sang their dirty songs with my
name in them like this loud because the pilot's like,
if I hear another peep out of you, you're all
in big trouble. We're gonna have you arrested. So they're
drunk and there's quietly singing their song like this with
rude things. It was just it was insane. I have

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no idea. I just thought of that story. No clue.
Good for the pilot for sticking up for you either.
You didn't need it. That stuff kind of happened all
the time, Mandy, red beer beer and tomato juice is delicious.
I used to drink them in sixty nine and seventy
after midnight shift at the local watering hole while eating
peanuts and playing cards. You know what, That just gave

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me a complete visual. Were you wearing the wife beater?
By any chance, sir? Any chance chance? Mandy, she's broad
where broad should be broad. Yes, according to my husband,
I am Andy. What kind of scale do you have?
I have the humye hume, and you stand on the
scale and you pick up this bar that's attached to

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the front of the scale and you stand up and
it gives you everything. They say it's ninety nine percent
as accurate as a DEXA scan, and I will tell you,
as one who's had a DEXA scan, I think they're right.
It's a pretty impressive scale. And it tells you body
fat percentages on each part of your body. It tells
you how much water you have, how much I mean,
it tells you everything.

Speaker 8 (01:14:29):
It was like.

Speaker 4 (01:14:31):
It was it was expensive enough that I had to
talk Chuck into it over a period of weeks. It
was not a hey, I'm going to buy this scale.
It was a hey, we should really buy this scale
that tells you all these other things. How much does
it cost? No, we're not buying That kind of conversation
that went on for a while, So it's an investment.
I think it was like I think we got it
on sale and it was like one eight nine. But

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it's fantastic. And if you're on a diet plan, one
of the most frustrating things are you're trying to work
out eat healthier. One of the most frustrating things is
when you're doing the right things and you don't see
the scale move. You just see that number stay the
same and you're thinking nothing I'm doing is working. This
scale shows you how it's working. So you know this

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is not an endorsement, but I think you should buy
one if you want to go with us too the
Rhyan River next October. It's going to be a spectacular trip.
A friend of mine just got back from this exact
same trip at the exact same time and said the
leaves were changing and it was stunning, and it's not
summer in Europe, which I have to tell you kind

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of sucks because they don't do air conditioning. Anyway, got
a lot of other stuff on the blog today that
we did not get to, including this important story. Not
only does the time change kill people, and the time
changes this weekend, don't forget to fall back or you'll
be at work an hour early on Monday and everyone
will laugh at you, but it also kills wildlife. Yes,

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more car wildlife deaths are expected to occur on Monday.
See dot has issued the warning. So now it's not
only dead for deadly for people, steadily for wildlife. So
if you love animals, you should vote. With forty seven
percent of Americans who say it's time to lock the clock.

Speaker 6 (01:16:13):
What is wrong with this?

Speaker 4 (01:16:14):
Other fifty three per well, only thirteen percent say they
love it. Oh, I don't know. I don't know, no clue.
Interesting story about pennies. Now you may not realized this
because it flew under the radar for a lot of people.
But the Trump administration ended production of the penny. Why

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because it costs more to produce a penny, then the
penny is worth And I think that you know, inflation
has killed the penny. That's the problem. Inflation has made
the penny an archaic coin, and businesses are now having
a hard time making change because they cannot get pennies. Now, Grant,

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do you have a changed your right home?

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
We do.

Speaker 4 (01:17:01):
I mean everyone in America has a change car right.
How many pennies do you think you have in that
change jar oh Man? Because here's I got an idea.
I got a business idea for ust Grant, because I'm
trying to figure out ways to separate people from their money.
I would say at least one hundred. So why don't
we gather up our pennies and will offer to sell
them at a small markup to the businesses that may

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be having a penny short, just a small good idea
path true fee. You know what I'm saying, because I
feel like in the bottom of my car, I probably
have a thousand pennies under my seat and that nice Mercedes.
I'm just kidding. My car's clean.

Speaker 2 (01:17:35):
My car.

Speaker 4 (01:17:36):
I can't stand a dirty car. I cannot I just
got a new vehicle and I'm like, I'm keeping this thing.
I mean, I've had my car for six years now
and my car is ten years old. And someone got
in my car the other day and goes, what yours
this car? And I was like, it's it twenty fifteen.
They were like, dang, this car is clean. You know.

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My dad always said, if you treat your car well,
it will treat you well. You know what's interesting about this,
I think I learned how to care for my car
from my high school boyfriend. I had the same high
school boyfriend for three years. Great guy. His name was
Emmy and he worked in the tobacco fields from the
time he was twelve years old until he was sixteen,
so he could save up enough money to buy a

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new truck. Cash money just paid for it outright, and
he did, and he bought himself a little Ford Ranger.
This was like in the beginning years of the Ford Ranger,
and that truck was everything to him because he earned
every bit of it, every single and he took immaculate
care of his truck. And then I had friends whose
parents got him a car and they made it disgusting

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and gross, and I just thought, Wow, that's gross and ungrateful,
and it sort of changed my perception on how to
take care of a car. Take care of it like
it matters, because guess what it does. It absolutely matters. Anyway,
if you find your pennies, pick them up, and then
all day you'll have the pennies no one else can
get there. You go that the new end of that saying,

(01:19:01):
we also have stuff. You guys have to read this
story on the blog. I don't have time to get
into it now because the wine yog is coming up next.
You gotta read this story about this Maryland Democrat state senator.
This woman is straight up evil. She fell into odds
with a political consultant, and in order to prevent the

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political consultant from helping her opponent in her race, she
bugged the woman's apartment so she could record her having
sex with a married guy and then threatened to blow
the whistle and expose it all. It is like a
lifetime movie. And now that lawmaker is facing extortion charges

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as well. She should. Coming up next tonight, we're gonna
tell you whatever bottle of wine you have in the fridge,
We're gonna tell you which candy to steal to get
the most out of that bottle of wine. Tonight, wine
pairings with Halloween candy coming up next with the wine
Yogi back after this, Why Yogi? Crystal Alfonso joining me?
Now she's dressed as a burning man zombie.

Speaker 7 (01:20:04):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (01:20:04):
It's a complex series of things going on there. It is.

Speaker 9 (01:20:08):
I have my blunt stones on. There's a very popular
shoes amongst that group. Yes, corn pants. Yeah, I still
got my glitter on emp care. Yeah, there you go,
dead but the dead. But I'm still hydrating because I
have to have my massive hydroflask which could pass for
a Stanley cup.

Speaker 4 (01:20:23):
Mandy, have you ever tried saying grieta, Not to be
confused with saying gria. It's tomato Oje's I'm just upping
tomato orange lime juice, hot sauce chaser for tequila sipping. No,
that sounds awful.

Speaker 7 (01:20:38):
I don't know why you're trying to do that on
purpose to BERRIERR tequila.

Speaker 4 (01:20:42):
Yeah, if you're gonna have sipping tequila, why do you
have a chaser now shooting tequila? I get sipping tequila.

Speaker 7 (01:20:50):
That's a re episoda.

Speaker 4 (01:20:51):
Do you put tequila? If you have sipping tequila, do
you put it on Rockso? Do you do it neat?
I prefer it neat. I don't like it chilled.

Speaker 9 (01:20:58):
I like my so it's just a pens But yeah,
if I'm having a repisado, I'm probably gonna have it neat.

Speaker 4 (01:21:04):
Yeah, I just I think the flavors of tequila do
better if it's a little on the warmer side. Not
he did not like a warm brandy sniffer. But you know,
just room temperature, you really get all of the things
that are going.

Speaker 1 (01:21:14):
On in there.

Speaker 7 (01:21:15):
But if I'm doing Scotch or bourbon, I am.

Speaker 4 (01:21:17):
I am not doing Scotch or bourbon, So that's not an.

Speaker 7 (01:21:21):
Are you clearly cube?

Speaker 5 (01:21:23):
I really have tried to like Scotch and bourbon because
my dad's drink of choice.

Speaker 4 (01:21:27):
No, but it's gross.

Speaker 7 (01:21:29):
Bourbon has grown on me, so I can't do since
I finally had some really good bourbon.

Speaker 4 (01:21:34):
Oh see, when we lived in Louisville, our friends Tim
and Mitzi. Tim is a bourbon connoisseur, so he has
a bourbon bar in his basement and we have tried
cheap bourbon, expensive bourbon, really expensive bourbon bourbon you can't
even get because it's a unicorn bourbon that you have
to know people in the bourbon industry to get your
hands on this bourbon. Peppy d I hate it all.

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I don't like that. That's like shipped over on a
boat that Benjamin Albright got me. I forget what it's called. Yeah, yeah,
the whole time. Not good, hard pass. Not going to
do that anyway, We're not talking about bourbon today.

Speaker 9 (01:22:12):
A bourbon would be delicious with something some type of
caramel candy.

Speaker 7 (01:22:16):
So if you're a bourbon drinker, try it with some.

Speaker 4 (01:22:18):
Caramel to night. First of all, the the you may
be thinking, why would I pair wine with candy? But
red wine and chocolate is a classic parent dirt chocolate, especially.

Speaker 7 (01:22:30):
Certain red wines.

Speaker 9 (01:22:31):
Yeah, if you're going to have more of your milk
chocolates and those sweeter chocolates, you want to steer clear.

Speaker 7 (01:22:36):
Of those big tannin bods.

Speaker 4 (01:22:38):
I love like a hearty mal back with dark chocolate,
just a little a square of dark chocolate and a
big maul back.

Speaker 9 (01:22:46):
And what's happening with that are the tannins or kind
of dark chocolate has.

Speaker 7 (01:22:50):
A lot of tannic properties.

Speaker 9 (01:22:52):
Tannins are what cause our uh saliva gland to stop salivating.
And it's that sense that dries your mouth out. It
makes you feel like you're teeth are pulling back. I mean,
your gums are pulling back from your teeth. Those are
tannins and they occur in things like walnut skin. That's
another tannic structure.

Speaker 4 (01:23:08):
Okay, dark walnuts get bitter.

Speaker 9 (01:23:12):
Yes, it's a bitterness, and tannins are considered in that
bitter family when you're talking about like all your different
taste buds, So tannons.

Speaker 7 (01:23:22):
Fall into that bitter.

Speaker 9 (01:23:22):
So seeds always, like if you end up getting grapes
that have some seeds in them and you end up
accidentally kind of chewing on that and you get that tannic,
that's that bitterness.

Speaker 4 (01:23:31):
I don't know, I have no idea what you're talking
about right now, talking about chewing on grapes, but that's
the thing that's not going to happen in my world.

Speaker 9 (01:23:37):
Tannons occur in red wines, in some aged like chardonnay
as well, that's seen some oak time. It can occur
from the skin contact, from the skins of the grapes themselves,
the seeds that go unto crush, the stems and the
leaves and everything that kind of goes in the crash,
I'll create that bitter component that we refer to as tannins.

Speaker 7 (01:24:00):
But the oak barrels that you will age.

Speaker 9 (01:24:02):
Wine in as well, because it's wood, wood brings its
own tannic structure and property into wine.

Speaker 4 (01:24:08):
So I've got to ask a question about something you
just said that never occurred to me in my entire
life until right this second, when wine is being made
and you're talking about putting all the grapes into the crush.
The crush is the actual mechanical machine that switshes everything down.

Speaker 8 (01:24:21):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:24:22):
Yeah, that's fine, And so what you just said the
leaves and the stems, there has to be a rule
on how much leaves and stems are allowed, right, like,
like only eight percent.

Speaker 7 (01:24:33):
They you know, they do limit it.

Speaker 9 (01:24:34):
But when you talk about the wine production when you're
talking about whole cluster. So sometimes they will take the
whole cluster. Well, guess what is Those grapes are attached
on stems, sure, and there are going to be some
leaves in there. They are for the most part, going
to be removing a lot of that out naturally, but
a lot of wine, especially if it is made in

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a more organic, sustainably farmed, hand harvested method, you're gonna
get some some stems and the occasional leaf for two
is going to get in there as well. And I
really what about Oh I really hate to let everybody know,
but if there's something that loves crush, it is yellow jackets,
and they deserve to die though there they I.

Speaker 4 (01:25:19):
Would like the wine better if I knew it was
full of the bodies of yellow jackets, because they all
deserve what they get. But the heat yellow jackets.

Speaker 9 (01:25:26):
It is one of like, kind of the worst in
my opinion, one of the worst parts of harvest is
during that crush period when all that juice is being
created and it attracts all of the worst uh insects,
and but they, you know, winemakers do their best obviously
to kind of you know, limit all of that, but
they they deal with it to try to prevent that

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from getting into the grape must But you know, so.

Speaker 4 (01:25:52):
Once the tannins are in the wine, this texture just said,
why do tannins calm down after using a decancer? Are
they actually calming down? Are you changing the cannas? Are
you just allowing the air to sort of interact Like
So that's just a natural oxidation process.

Speaker 9 (01:26:07):
As you begin to introduce oxygen to wine itself, things
that are tight. So whether it is acidity, and say
a young white wine that might just the acidity is
like slightly too much and considered volatile. When it gets
to the volatile level, that's actually a fault. But it's
like borderline right there. Or you know, if you have

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really overwhelming tight tannins that overwhelm the palette, they will
soften just naturally as that oxygen breathes because it's been
trapped in this bottle in a very limited, confined space.
When you're decanting something or you're putting it through an errat,
or you're naturally introducing.

Speaker 7 (01:26:49):
Oxygen and you're kind of allowing it to spread out.

Speaker 9 (01:26:53):
That's why they call it breathing, and that's why they
call it breathing, and so you're allowing oxygen to begin
to soften those things. Now, when wine is oxidized and
it begins to turn go through that oxidation process, that's when, yeah,
other things eventually will happen when you skunk your wine.
And that's why you don't want to leave a wine

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bottle open for multiple days, because if you were to
go in and do that science experiment and start tasting it,
you might find that sweet spot of about twenty four hours,
Like particularly with Spanish and Portuguese wines, twenty four hours
after you've opened it, it's breathed and it's been it's softened,
and things that were really overwhelming your palette have now
simmered and kind of melted into the background. But as

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you go along, then you lose all of those altogether,
and then what you're left with are those tannins, right,
and the.

Speaker 7 (01:27:41):
Alcohol, and it's just not very pleasant.

Speaker 4 (01:27:43):
You lose all the fruit. Let's do this first. Let's
talk about your class you have coming up, and then
we're gonna rip her some Halloween candy and do some pairings.
The Wine Gallery in the Springs is where the Wine
Yogi hosts these tastings, and she's got her holiday tasting
and this one is always it always sells out. If
she brings amazing food for you to try, and you
get to try some really amazing wines to go, How

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can people sign up for that? I want to go
ahead and fill this.

Speaker 9 (01:28:07):
Up for you today, So you just head over to
the Wine Galleries website and the link is there in
the blog right to the class.

Speaker 7 (01:28:15):
We're charging slightly more than we normally.

Speaker 9 (01:28:17):
Do for the wine and food pairts because we're opening
slightly more expensive wines. We're opening wines are going to
be more in that forty to fifty dollars price point
special occasion wines for the holidays. I thinking we're probably
gonna have a bottle of champagne. I do have the
menu posted, green chili, sausage and corn bread stuffing, a
sweet potato casserole, pumpkin honeybetter glazed ham, and then beef
Wellington appetizer bites.

Speaker 7 (01:28:38):
So we're gonna pair.

Speaker 9 (01:28:39):
We're gonna so like I'm gonna pour that Viniols that
I poured for you a couple of times ago for
calling you guys.

Speaker 4 (01:28:47):
Just pay the money and go to the tasting just
to try so good.

Speaker 7 (01:28:50):
It is so good.

Speaker 9 (01:28:51):
But we'll have like probably a Gammay nowir, which is
another classic holiday if you're familiar with Boujelet neu Vaux,
which is the it's Bojelet Newvae release days that when
Thursday before Thanksgiving always, So that's Gammay noir. So we're
gonna pour a gammey in nooir because it's fantastic with trooky.
You can also go I'm not trying to rush you,
but we're gonna run out of time. You could also

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go to my blog today and I linked to Crystal's
blog and it has links to all of this stuff
on the blog, and it also has all of the
wines that we're talking about and all of the candy
pairings that we are about to talk about. Now, if
you are the sort that likes to have some bubbles,
have a little champagna or maybe a lovely Chrummel.

Speaker 4 (01:29:29):
Dell sauce, which is like my favorite, what do you
pair with those?

Speaker 9 (01:29:33):
And why so those nasty smarties that all loved as kids.
I don't know, maties, not me, but the chalkiness going
up against especially when talking abouley champagne or like you
know prosecco, The chalkiness really has a fun effect on
the bubbles themselves. The bubbles dissolve the candy like right
in your mouth. It's almost similar to like the popcorn experience.

Speaker 8 (01:29:55):
Stuff it with.

Speaker 9 (01:29:56):
Champagne and then you're kind of left with that fruit
sugar kind of flame profile. Skittles would also be a
really fun Skittles with the all of the acid kind
of notes when you're talking about strawberry apple and all
lime and all of those fun skittle flavors would also
be a fantastic pairing.

Speaker 4 (01:30:13):
Moving on, if you're a sauvignon blanc type, that is,
of course a lovely crisp white wine from well, I
like the ones from Australia or New Zealand. News that's
where I like, am what do you eat with that?

Speaker 7 (01:30:23):
So a couple of options.

Speaker 9 (01:30:24):
You can go with kit cats just because of that
short bread or you know that cookie crunch crunch, it's
very very sweet. Savignon blanc, particularly from New Zealand, tends
to be very citrusy, grapefruit kind of laden, So you
want something that's going to kind of play off of
those grapefruit citrus notes. So I also included Recis, but

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I agree Recea's is Resee's pumpkin.

Speaker 4 (01:30:47):
I'm telling you, it's like the perfect ratio. It's might
be my favorite Receis, but.

Speaker 9 (01:30:51):
My favorite for these if your parents stop blanc is
to go with the white chocolate.

Speaker 4 (01:30:54):
Covered the white cream covered, Yeah, because you.

Speaker 7 (01:30:57):
Want something creamy.

Speaker 9 (01:30:58):
Because when you have savignon blanc, like with a normal dish,
think of you would pair it with something like with
an alfredo, because you want that acid to kind of
cut through that fat. So the acid is going to
kind of cut through the sweetness of that white chocolate,
and then just kind of play off with think of
your adding like grapefruit or like an orange jelly to

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your peanut butter.

Speaker 4 (01:31:20):
Okay, Shardenay not my favorite, but many do enjoy the shard.
What do you eat with that?

Speaker 9 (01:31:26):
Yeah, so I would still stick with UH. If you're
doing oak shardenay from like Napa, which is naturally buttery
vanilla kind of apple pie, definitely stack it up with
your caramel kind of candies either just straight caramel.

Speaker 7 (01:31:39):
I love a good zero bar. Again, it's a white.

Speaker 9 (01:31:41):
Chocolate bar that has some nougat in it, but it
also has that caramel component.

Speaker 4 (01:31:46):
So dif your candy corn hair with shardenay, I don't
like sharday, and you can pare it with candy corn,
then have all you want.

Speaker 9 (01:31:52):
I want that you could do peanuts, candy corn, and
popcorn with your shard It's absolutely fantastic.

Speaker 7 (01:31:57):
It's like drizzling caramel.

Speaker 4 (01:31:59):
Yeah, without rose and grenache. Let's go to some of
the big reds. We've got Cabs, Cable, Cabernet, Salviole. What
do you eat with that? Work? What do you do
with that?

Speaker 9 (01:32:06):
So for that, I'm definitely going to stick with dark chocolate. Yeah,
you want to go with the quality. Dark chocolate's probably
not going to be the dark the Hershey's mixed dark.

Speaker 7 (01:32:14):
Which I find gross.

Speaker 4 (01:32:16):
In the assorted from my childhood, there my favorite.

Speaker 9 (01:32:19):
I did not like them as a kid. I love
the all all the way, but any kind of dark chocolate.
I listed a few of my favorites there. That's where
you want to maybe go out and just get your
own chocolate to enjoy your big cabs.

Speaker 4 (01:32:30):
With you can look at if you're a Panona war.
I think it's interesting that like Eminem's and Snickers are there.

Speaker 9 (01:32:36):
So again because of those lighter they're fruit forward wines.
Gammy and peano and no War tend to be very strawberry,
cranberry raspberry. So if you're thinking about like Snickers, there's milk, chocolate,
peanut butter, and peanut caramel kind of in there. Same
with them, you can get those peanut m and ms.
So it's the same kind of concept as peering like
a RISI's bar. With shiraz um or Low, you're playing

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off of the fruit component and how it's going to
pair up with the candy itself. So think like a lighter,
it's like your peebee crust, the crustables, peanut.

Speaker 7 (01:33:06):
Butter and jelly.

Speaker 9 (01:33:07):
And then when you get into the bigger ones, when
you're talking shiraz or merlow with straight up Reese's pumpkins,
that's when you're really starting to get into your peanut
butter and jelly sandwiches.

Speaker 4 (01:33:17):
So if you really want to be fancy tonight, steal
a little bit of everything from your kid's bag and
then line up a wine tasting. Here you go and
just do your pairings like that I've heard from the
wine Yogi. I should be having a garage with this
A the raw maybe a bottle of bubbles. I think
it could be really fun to do a Halloween candy
like a formal wine toasting.

Speaker 7 (01:33:35):
And it's Friday night, nobody has to get up to exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:33:38):
So it's all on the blog. You can look at
it at I Am the wine Yogi or just the
wine Yogi blog dot com. You can do that what
the wine Yogi blog dot com, or just go through
my website and find it there as well. But as
Crystal is a seasoned veteran of the Mandy Connell Show,
I think nothing of thrusting her into the world of
the day, because now it's time for the most exciting

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segment all the radio on his guide in the world.
Oh the day. What is our dad joke of the day?

Speaker 8 (01:34:11):
Please?

Speaker 5 (01:34:11):
Dad joke of the day? I've got two short ones.
A ghost walks into a bar.

Speaker 4 (01:34:16):
The bartender says, sorry, we don't serve spirits. That's a
good one.

Speaker 5 (01:34:22):
So I swapped all the sweets into different rappers. My
wife isn't amused. She got her snickers and a twitch.

Speaker 4 (01:34:29):
That's funny. I like that one a lot. I like
that one a lot. All right, what's her word of
the day? Please? Grant word of the day is grim
wire gr that's.

Speaker 7 (01:34:38):
A magic book. It's grimoire.

Speaker 9 (01:34:40):
It's where you store all your spells, your last your
guest would have known that war is our book of magic.

Speaker 4 (01:34:47):
Okay? Is that correct? That is spot off? Nice, very
very nice. What was your costume again?

Speaker 7 (01:34:52):
Oh, I'm a zombie. But I watched a lot of Charmed.

Speaker 4 (01:34:55):
Yeah, there you go. There we got be rest.

Speaker 7 (01:34:58):
When I was pregnant, I watched her.

Speaker 4 (01:35:01):
I don't have a Halloween question because that page is
gone in my calendar. Literally, I don't have that page
in my calendar for some reason.

Speaker 9 (01:35:12):
Anyway, I think I think it was when what did
the Irish used to make care check layers?

Speaker 4 (01:35:18):
That is from back to the beginning of the show? Yes, nice?
In what year was the National Aeronautics in Space Administration
NASA created what nineteen sixty.

Speaker 7 (01:35:27):
Fifty late fifties for Mercury project problem.

Speaker 4 (01:35:30):
Oh yeah, that's right, that was the definitely fifty fifty four.
Come about nineteen fifty eight, the same year the United
States launched the satellite Explore one. All right, what is
our jeopardy category?

Speaker 5 (01:35:42):
Jeopardy category for today words and Halloween? So all these
responses you can make from the letters in the word halloween.

Speaker 4 (01:35:50):
Oh no, okay, are you ready? You have to spell?
I might you might spend one of fortune? Wait? What
might spin one of fortune? Spin one of fortunes? Maddy?
What's a wheel? Correct?

Speaker 5 (01:36:11):
Ah?

Speaker 4 (01:36:11):
I got you? Okay, it may be short eared or
great horned? Crystal? Crystal?

Speaker 8 (01:36:18):
What is an L?

Speaker 4 (01:36:19):
Correct?

Speaker 8 (01:36:20):
One?

Speaker 4 (01:36:21):
One? Temporary financial aid?

Speaker 7 (01:36:25):
Mandy?

Speaker 4 (01:36:25):
What's alone? Correct? Too?

Speaker 3 (01:36:27):
One?

Speaker 4 (01:36:29):
Saintly nimbus? Mandy, what's an angel? Incorrect? Dang it? Saintly nimbus,
It's not a spelled and the word halloween?

Speaker 7 (01:36:43):
Crystal?

Speaker 4 (01:36:44):
What is a halo? Correct?

Speaker 3 (01:36:46):
Dang it?

Speaker 2 (01:36:48):
Game?

Speaker 4 (01:36:49):
Rodean sculpted the gates of this crystal? Crystal? What is hell? Correct? Crystal?
The only thing I know by Rodane is to think her.
That's the only thing that I know about Rodane.

Speaker 7 (01:37:05):
Well, I lost to a dead woman.

Speaker 4 (01:37:08):
You know what I've lost to worse? I have lost
to worse. Okay, guys, coming up next week, next week's
I'm just gonna say it, like next week shows are
already proving like it's going to be a banger next week.
And on Tuesday, I'm interviewing my brother. He's got a
new book coming out on Monday. I'm interviewing a woman
named Nora Fleming. Guys, if your wife collects Nora Fleming stuff,

(01:37:31):
this is such like a girl thing that I'm going
to do an interview about. But if she does, she
can get it signed. There's a signing event next week.
There hardly ever happened. It's just one of those geeky things.
It's going to be an incredibly, incredibly good week. You
know what's on Wednesday of next week. Check Jimmy Kimmel's ratings.
I mean, don't forget to vote Tuesday. Oh, we'll be
talking about that a lot on Monday. School Board elections matter. Anyway,

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school board elections matter, We'll be balloween