12-11-25 FULL SHOW - We Took An Oil Tanker, Plus Christmas Movies

Today is Mostly Non Political Thursday so we're talking about stuff that isn't politics (mostly), but we took a Venezuelan oil tanker, plus a chat about Christmas movies.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell, Andy Connell on KOA ninety one.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
M God, wait.

Speaker 4 (00:18):
Thenicty's three Bendy Connelly, sad Babe. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to
a Thursday edition of the show. I'm your host for
the next three hours, Mandy Connell. I am joined by
my right hand man. Couldn't note without him. Tries to
keep me on the tracks and fails most times. That's

(00:41):
Anthony Rodriguez, you can call him a rod and together
we will take you right up until three pm when
we hand the show over to the boys of KOA Sports.

Speaker 5 (00:51):
I got a lot of stuff on the blog, but
I want you to know.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
I had a listener say, Mandy, it's all been politics
as of late, and I was like, you know what,
You're right, And I was like, I'm going to do
a show with no politics. But there's a story today
that I we're just in. You know, we are doing
things now that I find super interesting because I just

(01:17):
don't know how they're going to turn out, and some
of them are political and they're going to make it
on the blog. But I also have some other stuff
a rod. I looked up the number one movie Christmas
movie in dollars, the biggest box office. I went back
and said, look, adjust these all for inflation. I was

(01:38):
shocked to know the highest grossing Christmas movie of all
time of inflation adjusted dollars. I was shocked. So I
didn't put it on the blog. I did not. I
figured I would just and now I just realized I
left it on my printer at home. Fantastic, So I'll
recreate that very quickly.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
I know what they are. I know what the top
five were.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
So we're gonna talk some Christmas movie stuff today because HI,
wait a minute, Okay, So we watch the uh we
watched a lot of repeats.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
In our house.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
We have the emotional support television on in the background
when we're doing stuff. You know, I think a lot
of people do that. You're doing other things, but the
emotional support TV is on in the background, and we
watch Castle or No, it's the Rookie that's on Lifetime.
So I have to see the commercials for the Lifetime movies.
They are.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
They are.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
There's one a ride something about pickleball and Christmas.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
I kid you not, I kid you not what.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
Who anyway, But we're gonna talk about real Christmas movies,
not those Christmas movies.

Speaker 5 (02:42):
So let's do the blog.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
Shall We find it at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog
dot com or Randy Cromwell dot com. And then look
for the latest post headlines or latest post section. Look
for the headline that says twelve eleven twenty five blog
we took an oil tanker plus Christmas movies. Click on
that and here are the headlines you will find within.

Speaker 6 (03:04):
Oh god, I.

Speaker 7 (03:05):
Don't know'sing office south of American all with ships and
clipments and say that's con to.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Press plans.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
Today on the blood Nominate a hero you know we
just nabbed at venezuelan oil tanker. Let's talk about Christmas
movies for a hot minute. I want to know your traditions.
Crazy homeless guy attacks people in Loveland. This Michigan coach
story got nuts. Guess what Walmart did to reduce crime?
Don't be an ass at the company party. Denmark is

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banning social for under fifteen vintage foods making a comeback.
Cower Ball is a billion again. McDonald's learns AI isn't
what people want jellyroll cried, I cried good ideas to
bring down property insurance in Colorado. John Caldera rips the
PUC green energy Plan. Albert County residents are already being

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victimized by green energy. What food did we get delivered
this year? Looking for free Christmas light displays? And eerie?
A scumbag shows how scum baggy he is. Our pal
Rich Guggenheim is causing good trouble. CSU loves to pick
on Christians. The Fed cuts rates a quarter point Direct
Primary Cares good for patients and doctors. She has no

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clue what is happening here? This could be me the
evolution of Netflix? What life coach jamis? Let's all celebrate
the return of Philip Rivers scureling.

Speaker 5 (04:25):
This kid eats why men die Younger than women?

Speaker 4 (04:28):
Part forty three and eighty five. Continuous flow intersections may
take a minute. Bobert uses campaign funds for concert tickets
and the difference with gen Z. Those are the headlines
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Tick tech two

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come on just because there was a lot there.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
That's I should not be penalized for blog length.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
I should not I'm not just Jesus, not subsidies. I
don't have a lot on the votes today in the
Senate about extending the subsidies or whatever, because I'm working
on trying, trying very hard to coordinate as many different
options as we can, and we're going to do a

(05:18):
healthcare day. Yeah, the whole show may be on healthcare
in various forms, because what's happening now in DC is
absurd and it is impossible for me to believe that
they are not good, well written bills being promoted by
someone that's not in the legislature that would solve a
lot of the problems that we're dealing with in healthcare.

(05:41):
The report for the New York Times that came out
yesterday the day before, I can't remember, about the level
of fraud in Obamacare is unbelievable, and there are some
super easy ways to fix some of that easy fraud
that's happening now, and you can't even agree on that.
The Democrats, we had a SoundBite from Michael Bennett, you know,

(06:02):
his camp, saying, Oh.

Speaker 5 (06:03):
We're not gonna we're not going to work on any
real solutions.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
It's extend the subsidies or nothing that does not solve
the problem. But it really demonstrates that Obamacare was never
about making health care more affordable. And I said this
back in two thousand and eight when I read the bill.
I shared with my audience at the time in Fort Myers,
there's nothing in this bill that's going to bring down
health care costs, not a single thing. There was not

(06:28):
a mechanism that was going to bring down health care
in that bill. That bill was designed to do exactly
what it's doing right now, and that is to make
everything so expensive, to make everything so miserable that people
beg for single payer. This was just a way to
make you hate the way healthcare is delivered and the

(06:50):
way we pay for it enough that you would demand
single payer. That's what they want because it's easier to
control the population. Guys.

Speaker 5 (06:58):
I didn't put this story.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
Oh see, it was I'm going to do politics today,
dang it. Okay, ay, Rod, remind me tomorrow. Don't remind
me today. Don't remind me right now. Remind me tomorrow
that I want to talk about what's happening in Canada
when it comes to assisted suicide. Do you want to
know how they're solving the problem of a lack of
specialists in entire provinces of Canada. They're offering the patients

(07:22):
who need them assisted suicide. Instead, they're literally killing people
rather than treating people with their national healthcare system.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
And that's what Democrats want.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
Okay. I wasn't gonna do politics today.

Speaker 8 (07:35):
Just walk at that.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
Tomorrow.

Speaker 8 (07:37):
Yeah, don't forget tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
Tomorrow, you're gonna remind me tomorrow.

Speaker 8 (07:41):
Okay, but don't forget.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
I want to start up by reminding you guys about
our Hero's Thank You Program.

Speaker 5 (07:46):
This is a wonderful program. Every year we do it.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
We're going to be giving out twenty five hundred dollars
checks to people who are nominated. We're talking about first responders,
we're talking about active military and veterans. If you know
somebody that you know what, maybe they're that kind of
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Now go ahead and nominate them. It's our chance to

(08:10):
say thank you. Our sponsors, Common Spirit Health and Fix
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blog where you can just make your nomination there. So
today's like cray cray story is that we just took
an oil tanker from Venezuela. We just took it, just

(08:33):
took it, just boarded it. More like, yeah, this is ours.
Now we've got this, So listen to this. This is
from the sun. This is the moment rifle wielding US
troops repelled from the helicopters and storm and oil tanker
near Venezuela, prompting cries of piracy from Dictator Nicholas Maduro's regime.

(08:54):
I had to read it like that because that's in bold,
and I wanted to impart to you what the author
or the type center was trying that that part was important.

Speaker 5 (09:02):
But I'm gonna go back to my normal reading voice now.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
Stunning foot well, okay, stunning footage showed commandos sweeping through
the ship as they executed Donald Trump's boldest plague yet
in his standoff with the Venezuelan tilant. But Dura's cronies
also described the daring operation as theft and once again
accused the US of seeking regime change. Footage released on
x by Attorney General Pam Bondi shows a military helicopter

(09:27):
hovering over the tanker, with another buzzing nearby.

Speaker 5 (09:31):
Ropes are tossed from the.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
Cabin and geared up troops immediately clambered down to the deck.
They dispersed information, guns aloft, darting up staircases, and sweeping
through cabins. Forces from the FBI, Homeland Security, and US
Coast Guard all came together for the slick sting. MS
Bondi said the troops were carrying out a seizure warrant
for the tanker, which was used to transport sanctioned oil

(09:55):
from Venezuela and Iran. Announcing this successful operation earlier on Wednesday,
Trump said, we just seized a tanker on the coast
of Venezuela, a large tanker, a very very large, largest
one ever seized. Actually, what was the justification, Well, they
were breaking the sanctions against Iran. Because you know what

(10:16):
we're seeing here, and I you know, you know that
I run hot and gold on Donald Trump. But when
he does something that I actually think is a bold
but good move, I'm going to tell you and this
is a bold but good move because ultimately, for years now,
our diplomacy has been paper diplomacy, right, And I always

(10:39):
look back at the most egregious example, and that was
Obama's Syria, don't cross this red line, and they walked
right over the red line. And Obama was like, uh,
I didn't say that. I mean, what are you talking about.
Our diplomacy has had no teeth behind it for a
very long time. So Trump is not doing anything outrageous here.

(11:01):
He's really not in the grand scheme of things. We've
passed sanction against sanction against, sanction against both Iron and Venezuela.
And when it comes to oil, sanctions don't work if
nobody enforces them. This is one of the reasons I
think sanctions don't work very well all the time. When
there's no teeth behind the sanctions, when there's no real

(11:23):
reason to not break them, what is the point? So
I did look something up.

Speaker 5 (11:28):
On the interweb.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
So I asked two different you guys, I'm I'm cheating
on chat GPT a little bit with Gemini, and I
gotta say kind of impressed. And right now Gemini is
free just letting chat know if you're listening, and you know,

(11:49):
they are. So I asked chat how much oil are
we talking about here? What's the value current market value
of an oil tanker full of oil? Well, of course,
it depends on the size of the tanker, it depends
on the kind of the oil, blah blah blah. But roughly,
let's just say we're looking anywhere between fifty million and
one hundred and fifty million dollars for this oil tanker

(12:12):
that they just seized, and that doesn't even include the
costs of the tanker itself, right, So they've seed this
this oil. Venezuela's entire GDP last year was about one
point eight billion dollars, So that's a good chunk out
of Venezuela's budget right there. So Donald Trump is enforcing

(12:34):
the sanctions, and he's doing it in such a way
that is going to create huge problems here. I mean,
he's working to not go directly at Iran. He's going
directly at Venezuela, but not not directly directly. Right we're
blowing up drug boats that are alleged to be a

(12:55):
source of huge income for the Maduro regime, and now
we're seeing oil tankers that was really the other big
source of income for the Maduro regime. He doesn't have
any other way to make money. His economy is in
his shambles. His currency is worth nothing. So Donald Trump

(13:17):
is going after this guy's two income streams, and he's
going after them hard, and he's going after them under
the reasoning that he's enforcing the sanctions that have been
in place for a very long time. This is kind
of interesting to watch because I don't necessarily think it's
just about Venezuela. I do think, of course, it is
about Venezuela. I think it's also about Iran. I think

(13:40):
they're just trying to continue to further destroy Iran's economy
because Iron's economy is not great either, in the hopes
that eventually it will lead to regime change. Same in Venezuela.
Now Maduro had a response to you guys this I
tried not to chuckle. Ever seen a toddler challenge their

(14:01):
dad to a fight? You know what I mean? Like
it's super cute. You're like, oh, look at little Joey
beaten up dad's knee caps. Look how cute daddy is.
That's how I felt when I read that the raging
Maduro vows to quote break America's teeth after US SEESUS
Venezuelan chip, and when asked about it, Trump just said, yeah,

(14:26):
we'll probably keep it. We'll probably keep the oil. We
haven't decided yet. Maduro called for the Venezuelans to give
the US a real beating. He thundered, in times like these,
we must be like warriors with both eyes peeled, working, producing, building,
keeping the country functioning, and be prepared to kick in

(14:47):
the teeth of the North American Empire if necessary. I mean, you, guys,
does anybody really It's kind of like when your little
brother's best friend cut squares up with you, you know,
and you're like, oh, come on, son, stop it. I mean,
there's a chance that Iron would arm them, There's a

(15:08):
chance that China would arm them. But at this stage
in the game, eight million young Venezuelans have left the country.
Who's left to fight and would they be willing to fight?
I mean, if they're all on the side of Nick,
if you're in with the regime in Venezuela, your life
is probably pretty good. It's like any other socialist economy
that allegedly is power to the people, but what ends

(15:31):
up happening is poverty. To the people, and power to
the people at top right, and all the people at
the top we know. I mean, you look back at
the way the Soviet Union was run. You look at
the people at the top. They wanted for nothing. They
had everything they needed, every amenity they could ask for,
while people in Russia were standing in breadlines. Same exact

(15:53):
thing in Venezuela. If you're in with the regime, you
probably have a good paying state job. You probably have
everything you need. And if you're not, but you're eating
zoo animals, sounds fantastic. The sad part is is that
I've known many Venezuelan people and it is apparently just
a jewel of South America in terms of natural beauty,

(16:14):
cultural interests. I mean, it's a really spectacular place, and
it's being run so badly, and most of the Venezuelans
that are young enough to fight have already left. So
this I'm curious as to what you guys think about this,
and I would love to you know what, a rod,
it's Thursday, feeling a little lazy. Let's open up the

(16:34):
phone lines. Let's do that, because I love to hear
what you guys are thinking about this. When I first thought.
I was my first thought, Honest to god, my first
thought was can we do that?

Speaker 5 (16:47):
Is that a thing we can do? And I'm wondering.

Speaker 4 (16:51):
And then, by the way, the more I thought about it,
I was like, yeah, I think we can. It's interesting
to have someone who actually says, if we're gonna have
these sanctions, then let's enforce these sanctions. Kind of interesting, Mandy,
donate the oil to a country that is an ally
who needs it, or just refill our strategic petroleum reserves

(17:11):
that were depleted under the Biden administration. And that's honestly,
if we're gonna just take the oil, if we're just
gonna seize it, put it into our reserves.

Speaker 6 (17:21):
Fill that up.

Speaker 4 (17:23):
Just saying Mandy, it's Animal Farm exactly right. Guys, if
you have not gone back and reread two books by
George Orwell nineteen eighty four, An Animal Farm, do yourself
a favor. Get them at the library, buy them and out.
They're like five dollars on Amazon for a paperback version.
Order both the books. They are a they're not very long,

(17:43):
they're such a fast read, but you need to be
reminded because they are absolutely spot onto what we're seeing, right,
now it's crazy. It's really crazy, Mandy. I think you
went directly in around a few months ago with bombers.
Come on, now, eh, that was a one off. It
was very specific, I mean talk about a street like

(18:04):
a targeted strike, and that was all about protecting Israel
from nuclear weapons from Iran. So there you go, Hey, Mandy,
why don't we just blow up the ship and kill
any survivors like the drug boats? Well, because the oil
is useful and it would be an absolute environmental disaster
to blow up a full oil tanker into the ocean.

Speaker 5 (18:28):
Text, you did not think that one through.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
Just throwing this out.

Speaker 5 (18:33):
There, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (18:35):
You may have heard this already about today's blog, but
Broncos Country is not a Philip Rivers fan. Could care
less that he's back unless we can see him lose horribly.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. We understand that.
But the man is a delight in a press conference,
I an absolute delight.

Speaker 7 (18:52):
I don't know how many people I speak for, but
I'll speak to myself as a big Broncos fan, obviously
working with Broncos, working with the social media Broncos all that.
I love Philip Rivers. I love Philip Rivers. I think
you kind of hated to love him as the opposing quarterback.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
He's just awesome.

Speaker 7 (19:10):
And if you watch any of the press conference of
him coming back, the dude's just really a cool dude.

Speaker 4 (19:15):
And I think he's probably a nice man.

Speaker 7 (19:17):
A nice man, probably a really awesome dad to his Yeah,
Jillian children and children, like I'm rooting for this so much,
and I just watch that.

Speaker 4 (19:28):
You don't have to love him, but you can appreciate
the the entertainment value of the pressers that he's already done.

Speaker 7 (19:34):
It's really fantastic creativity to find ways to not swear. Yes,
he is just awesome. I don't care who you are.
I don't care if you're a Broncos fan. I know
he's a longtime Charger and was a rival. The dude's
just awesome.

Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yep, we'll be right back. The United States of America
just took an oil tanker full of of a oil
tanker full of oil as it.

Speaker 5 (19:55):
Was leaving Venezuela.

Speaker 4 (19:57):
They had a seizure warrant for it for violating the
sanctions against oil shipments from Venezuela and Iran. I feel
like this is justified.

Speaker 5 (20:08):
But this is kind of a whole new realm.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
I don't recall, and maybe maybe those of you who
were more politically aware that I. Has this happened before?
Have we just got do we just randomly go and
take other people's stuff? Or is this truly the first
time that someone said, oh, we've got these sanctions, we
should probably back them up.

Speaker 5 (20:29):
I'm curious.

Speaker 4 (20:30):
Three oh three seven one three eighty five eighty five
is the common spirit health talk line. Don't make me sorry.
I'm opening up the phone lines people. Three oh three
seven one three eighty five eighty five. Let me talk
to Nathaniel. Nathaniel, what are your thoughts on this?

Speaker 9 (20:45):
I mean, any things for taking my call?

Speaker 10 (20:47):
Uh?

Speaker 9 (20:47):
First off, I love capitalism. I just want to point
that out before I say what I have to say.
I think that taking oil from another country far away
from US is very or willion and you know, just
to speak to a broader point, I think that the
reason that there's a lot of apathy towards capitalism and

(21:09):
increasing interest in socialism, especially amongst gen Z, is because
they're they're tired. They're sick of working as much as
they work and barely being able to save anything and
to a broader point, they're sick of trillions and trillions
of dollars in debt going right back to corporations, to

(21:31):
the wealthiest of the wealthy. And look, I understand that's
a democratic talking point, or at least it used to be.
Even though they benefit from it, they're not ever going
to do anything about it because they directly benefit from it.
I mean, Trump talked about that in his first debate
with Hillary in twenty sixteen. But still to that point,
tax payers are paying for all of these corporations to

(21:52):
come in and gut our cities, our jobs, any anything,
you know, I got to walk now their issue.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
Don't get me wrong, I agree with you that there
are issues. The rate of disparity between CEO pay and
average worker pay is insane right now, right, And that's
a function of how boards are put together, and they
reward their cronies and then their cronies appoint them to
the boards. That's a very incestuous place, and we should
probably start with figuring that out. And I agree that
there are things that have to be addressed, But to

(22:21):
say the corporations come in and gut cities doesn't make
any sense, right, It really doesn't.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Well it does.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
Yep, yeah, go ahead, go ahead, perfect.

Speaker 9 (22:31):
I mean, I mean look at Red Lobster. Okay, just
as a microcosmo this. So, a private equity company came in,
sold all of the land underneath the restaurants, and then
the restaurants leased that land from a third company that
bought them up, gave away billions of dollars in value,
and then the product cost was dropped significantly, the quality

(22:53):
of the food was dropped. Customers left in droves. That's
what private equity does. They come and they buy something
up the gut, out all the valuable stuff to get
a three, four to five X on their investment, and
then they sell off the carcass to another company who
eventually closes.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Well.

Speaker 5 (23:09):
No, that's a great example.

Speaker 4 (23:11):
No, that's a fantastic example, because before private equity bought
Red Lobster, they were not in a good place, right,
People's dining tastes were changing.

Speaker 5 (23:19):
Restaurant chains come and go.

Speaker 4 (23:20):
We now have one Benegan's left, when we had them
all over the country many many years ago. Private equity,
i would argue, feeds on the week, right, And they're
companies that need that money, they need that influx of
cash or otherwise, they would not be on the market
in the first place. If they were flourishing, if everybody
was making money, they would not be on the market
in the first place.

Speaker 5 (23:39):
I don't love private equity. By the way, You're making
really strong points.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
About the negative impacts for the people that work within
these companies that are bought by private equity.

Speaker 5 (23:47):
That's a horrible situation.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
You're not wrong about them running it all the way
into the ground, but I would suggest to you they
don't buy healthy companies, so they may speed the process along.
But I don't think we're talking about companies that are
in great financial health overall. And just because we have
a free, capitalistic society doesn't mean everyone's going to succeed.

Speaker 9 (24:09):
Yeah, I can agree with that, and I know we're
short on time. I just want to make one more
point that something you said when you said private equity
feeds on the week. This is a controversial thought that
I have, but I think private equity is feeding on
a mentally weak country. It's a democracy. We could do
whatever we want. We can have any kind of country
who we want. And people don't want to participate anymore.
They want to live in mental and emotional hospice and

(24:32):
doom scroll and eat microplastics and wonder why they need
depression mets.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
Okay, Okay, Daniel.

Speaker 5 (24:38):
We got a lot going on there, and a lot
I absolutely agree with.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
But corporations aren't necessarily the reason that we have so
much cultural rot.

Speaker 5 (24:45):
I mean, that's a whole other conversation.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
I appreciate the phone call, man, even though it wasn't
actually about the question that I was asking. Still a
very good phone call. I am not disappointed. I opened
the phone lines for that. It was actually quite good.
Thanks Nathaniel Jean in Greeley. What's on your mind?

Speaker 8 (25:00):
Gene?

Speaker 11 (25:02):
I am so glad that you opened up your phone line.

Speaker 6 (25:05):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 7 (25:06):
Well, I got it.

Speaker 6 (25:07):
I was in my car when I when I'm listening
to you, and I can't test and drive, okay.

Speaker 5 (25:12):
Personally, safety first, what's on your mind, Gene?

Speaker 11 (25:16):
So I wanted to address the gentleman before. One of
the reasons that cities are dying is that cities are enacting.
We continually enact more and more policies that make it
affordability go away.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
Yeah, I mean, there's there's a lot of truth to that,
but I will go ahead, go ahead, Gene.

Speaker 11 (25:37):
Oh, but my example is of lik in Colorado, the
way we have a condo versus apartment laws. It incentivizes
rents instead of ownership.

Speaker 5 (25:47):
I agree wholeheartedly.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
I mean, there are so many different policies that have
made living in Denver, Colorado so expensive and not all
that great right now, right if you've got to return
on your investment, right you got money, you feel like
government was spending money, well, it would be one thing.
I don't think that in many cities people are feeling
that way.

Speaker 11 (26:09):
Amen. I have a quick question for you, and then
I'll get out of your hair. Shoot, are you doing
anything on the natural gas law that they just passed?
Which if I have cloas to be able to talk
to somebody about organizing Northern Colorado about.

Speaker 4 (26:24):
That, you know what, Gene. If you can send me
an email Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com, I'm actually
I'm actually headed up to Greeley for an event in January.
We're doing a gubernatorial debate in January, and I'm going
to meet more people up there. If you send me
an email, I can try and connect everybody. After I
meet more people in Northern Colorado.

Speaker 11 (26:46):
I will send it this afternoons.

Speaker 6 (26:47):
Thank you, Thank you, Gene.

Speaker 4 (26:49):
I'd love to say you could organize against the ridiculous
schemes that were just passed by the Public Utilities Commission,
But until Republicans can get elected in this state, we're screwed.
Because the PUC is inhabited by people appointed by Jared Polis.
They're in there for a number of years. He is
married to this green dream nonsense because he's rich. He

(27:11):
can afford to see his power rates go up. So
it's gonna be really, really, really tough, really tough. So anyway,
nobody wants to talk about. Nevermind, then we're moving on.
Nobody else is worried. I'm not worried. I actually am.
Looking at the fact we just took an oil tanker.

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There's kind of like, well, wow, did not see that coming.
When we get back, I've got some quick tips for
those of you who are heading to a company holiday party.
Your things to not do and things to do because
the holiday party. Careers can get made or broken at

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the holiday party. We'll do that next.

Speaker 5 (27:53):
Murph, what's on your mind?

Speaker 6 (27:55):
Oh my gosh, how are you today?

Speaker 10 (27:59):
I'm super I know you are and I am so
impressed with you your dedication to actually spending the time
the effort to find out what the heck is going on.

Speaker 6 (28:13):
It impresses me.

Speaker 5 (28:14):
Oh gosh, I mean that's my job, isn't it.

Speaker 6 (28:18):
Well, too many people they'll take the responsibilities. I was
just speaking to a rod I was telling him how.

Speaker 10 (28:25):
I'm a retired old guy.

Speaker 9 (28:28):
I drive a lot and I've got a.

Speaker 6 (28:31):
Passion that has me drive all over the state almost
on a daily basis.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
What is that?

Speaker 6 (28:37):
And I'm a competitive shooter?

Speaker 4 (28:40):
Oh what do you shoot?

Speaker 5 (28:42):
Do you do sporting clays? What are you looking at?

Speaker 3 (28:44):
No?

Speaker 6 (28:45):
No clays. I'm going to learn to do that someday.

Speaker 10 (28:47):
I do uspsa IDPA steel challenge, mainly handgun stuff, right, and.

Speaker 6 (28:55):
It is it is just such a gas.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
And for us old guys, it it's it's so rewarding.

Speaker 6 (29:02):
It's my therapy time.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
I love it.

Speaker 6 (29:05):
But I joke that I'm investing in lead and petroleum.

Speaker 4 (29:12):
My dad used to say the same thing. He actually
was a competitive sporting clay shooter for many, many years
until he said he hit an age bracket where he
was he just his reflexes were not what they needed
to be to shoot Sporting Clays. If you're going to
take up Sporting Clays, do it sooner rather than later.

Speaker 6 (29:30):
Well, I'm sure he was very very good.

Speaker 10 (29:34):
But in all my driving, and I'm driving right now,
but I'm on hands free. There are so many people
on the highways everywhere I go. It doesn't matter morning.

Speaker 6 (29:48):
Noon or night. I live in Silverthorne.

Speaker 9 (29:51):
It used to be ski traffic.

Speaker 6 (29:53):
Well, I don't know what the heck they're doing nowadays,
but they're spending a whole lot of money everywhere I go. Oh,
the restaurants, the parking lots, the malls, everywhere, everywhere pack packed.
And I was telling ay Rod, do you know why
the credit card companies can charge twenty five thirty? Why

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because the people will pay it? Yeah, exactly, because they're
so addicted.

Speaker 9 (30:20):
I cannot believe that all.

Speaker 10 (30:23):
These people have been frugal for years and they've just
got the extra cash to drive herround and.

Speaker 6 (30:28):
Do all the stuff they're doing.

Speaker 10 (30:30):
I know how much I spend on just fuel right
counting anything else.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
Well, I mean it's a combination of people coming on
vacation too, you know. I mean we're a vacation destination
for they having their week long vacation to spend a
ton of money.

Speaker 6 (30:48):
Sweetheart, there are a lot of those people.

Speaker 10 (30:50):
But there's no way, there's no way that all.

Speaker 6 (30:55):
Those people that I see all the time everywhere I go.

Speaker 10 (30:58):
Are all the vacationers. The vacationers are good Summit County.
We love vacationers and tourists money. But no, there are
just so many people. The only thing I can figure.

Speaker 6 (31:12):
Is credit card companies are just rolling in the dough.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
Might be Murphy, it might be. I appreciate the phone calling,
and I hope you do very well in your upcoming
competitive tournaments.

Speaker 6 (31:25):
Thank you very it's a pleasure to speak with you.

Speaker 5 (31:28):
All right, Murphy, have a great day.

Speaker 6 (31:30):
Jack.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
Can you say it in just a couple of minutes
that I have left?

Speaker 3 (31:34):
I sure can. Can you hear me?

Speaker 4 (31:36):
I sure can.

Speaker 5 (31:36):
What's on your mind?

Speaker 3 (31:38):
Well, I don't know if I'm headed the right direction
or not. But spam calls the senior citizens. It's totally
out of hand. They're praying on senior citizens. They drive
them crazy. If you put a block on your phone,
they just call from a different number, Yes, another name,
and I get at least at least I block fifteen

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a day.

Speaker 5 (32:04):
Oh my goodness, Well, are you on the do not
call I know this is a crazy question.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
Are you on the do not call list?

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (32:12):
Okay, I do everything with them, I even yeah, I'm
talk to them. And there was you take me off
your call as pleased, and one person from another country
was nice enough to.

Speaker 4 (32:22):
Say if you Oh see, here's here's what I would recommend, Jack.
You have to look at it as a sport. Okay,
if you need a hobby, Jack, you don't seem like
you have much going on.

Speaker 5 (32:32):
You need a hobby.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
So your new hobby should be to just engage in
conversation with these morons, keep them on the phone as
long as possible, and you're basically a superhero keeping them
from calling someone else, and have some fun with it.
Lean in, Jack, you give them your best, tell them
that you're having Elvis over for tea.

Speaker 5 (32:50):
I mean, just you know, go all out.

Speaker 4 (32:53):
I know it's a serious problem, but I don't have
a good answer. So if you can't beat them, join them, right.
They're trying to scam you, you scam them back.

Speaker 12 (33:02):
Okay, Well I agree, and I'm going to give that
a shot. I'm busy a lot, Yeah, talking to other
people because I'm still kind of in sales, right, I'm
getting it then.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
Yeah, anyway, when I.

Speaker 6 (33:15):
Get a chance, I'm gonna do that be torture them
and let me know how it goes.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
I'm good at I'm good at bs, so I can
get them gold.

Speaker 5 (33:22):
Thanks Jack, I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
We're gonna take a quick time out. When we get back.
We're talking at a kid and taking more phone calls
because why not the Thursday. We'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
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Here's a second hour have the show. I'm your host,
Mandy Connell. That guy over there Anthony Rodriguez, and we're
having a mostly politics free day. Maybe we'll open the
phone lines a bit later. I don't know, we'll just
have to wait and see. Anyway, Mandy Pellets, did you

(34:17):
turn into a hamster after menopause? That must be a
reference to the Regan Revolution. No hormone replacement therapy one
way of doing hormone replacement therapy is you have these
little pellets with whatever hormone situation you need, testosteron, estradial,
different things, whatever your doctor says, and they actually insert
the pellets into the fleshy part of your buttock, make

(34:42):
little incision and insert it and then it dissolves. That's
what I was talking about. A lot of you are
making suggestions. In the last call, when I opened up
the phone lines, we had a gentleman call in and
complain about how many like spam calls he gets this
texture said just to tuned in. What is this segment
boomer bitching hour. No, that's not nice. But a lot

(35:04):
of you are making good suggestions. But I got to
tell you I think the best is this one. Let's
see here. How to get rid of scam calls. Keep
an empty three file of a modem on your phone.
When a scam call comes in, play the recording, the
auto dialer thinks it's a digital line and removes your number.

Speaker 5 (35:26):
That's actually pretty crafty, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (35:29):
If this gentleman caller has Android, he can just use
call screening on the settings. I will say this my
new Google pixel. You can set it up so they
will screen the entire call and you read it. Yeah,
we have a Yeah, it's fantastic. Yeah it's special, Mandy
if you work from how Oh No, I want to
get into my next story. I want to talk about

(35:50):
Christmas movies for a moment. I enjoy Christmas movies. I
like Christmas movies, Ay, Rod, I believe you liked them
as well, very much. So I went back and I,
you know, I like the classic Cristmas movies. I love
White Christmas still one of my favorites. The dance numbers
in it alone make me love it, but all the cast,
it's just a perfect, perfect Christmas movie and more modern

(36:12):
Christmas movies and I'll take it hold, which is fine,
that's the way it's supposed to go, right, But I
decided to look up the number one Christmas movie of
all time when it comes to domestic gross box office okay,
and I ask for inflation adjusted numbers because obviously the
newer it is, the more we have to pay it
to get into the movies things like that. So I

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was kind of shocked to know the number one top
grossing Christmas movie of all time. And by the way,
Diehard not on this list. You know why? Just letting
you know why because it's not a Christmas movie. Okay,
we'll have that conversation. If you want to bring it
a day ride, you can bring.

Speaker 5 (36:53):
It to a day rod.

Speaker 4 (36:54):
You can text us at five sixty six nine. Oh,
but I want to know your guess is what do
you think? And I asked it to go back to
It's a Wonderful Life. I was like, from It's a
wonderful life on what is the top grossing film domestic
grossing film of all time? And I guessed elf and
was wrong? Correct, he was wrong. So I have the

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list and it's fascinating. Mandy. Did you see your boy
Mike Lindell Pillow guy wants to be governor of Minnesota.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (37:24):
Yes I did, And I said back when I saw it,
I was like, you guys are gonna hear way too
much about the Minnesota governor's race because it is gonna
be a humdinger, are we Apparently they have like seventeen
people running. Oh yeah, it's gonna be super fun. Not
as many as we have running in Colorado. There's like
fifty people that have signed up to run for governor.
Of course, a lot of them were people that were

(37:45):
like got drunk with their friends and one of their
friends was like, hey, man, you gonna I bet you
won't run for governor, and the other guy's like, oh, yeah,
I bet I will.

Speaker 5 (37:53):
So there's like some of those candidates on there.

Speaker 4 (37:57):
No, Emmett Hotters jug Band Christmas is not the number
one grossing film Christmas movie of all time. Don't use
the Google just guess text it to five sixty six nine. Oh,
I want to know who you guys, because I was surprised.
I'm not mad about it. I should say what I
was surprised. So, No, it is not a Christmas story.

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A Christmas story when it came out was not very successful.
It was not very successful in the theaters. It's one
of those movies that has kind of grown and legend
over the years.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
Right.

Speaker 4 (38:32):
No, it was not Santa Claus three, which was actually
not the worst version of the Santa Claus movies. The
Santa Claus two wasn't Santa Claus two, the one with
Martin Short Evil Santa took over.

Speaker 5 (38:45):
So I was terrible, really terrible. Agreed.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
Diehard takes place during Christmas, but is not a Christmas
movie that from a Texter They you Mandy if anybody
says the Jim Carrey Grinch, I'm gonna refund my hand
to express ah the Superior Grinch movie. E Nope, yep, nope, yep.
Yeah so good.

Speaker 12 (39:10):
No.

Speaker 4 (39:11):
Now, the Santa Claus does come in one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
It is number seven. The Santa Claus the first one
came in at number seven. Christmas Story didn't even make
the list. No Lethal Weapon also not on the list. Nope,
because it's just a movie that takes place at Christmas.

Speaker 7 (39:29):
Has to have the Christmas spirit. Yes, I know that
is subjective, but it just has.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
To have it.

Speaker 4 (39:35):
Bad Santa also.

Speaker 7 (39:37):
Not on this list, the one I was just telling
you I just watched I met it's on the list
because it probably made a.

Speaker 8 (39:42):
Boatload of money. And that is a very good new movie,
Red One.

Speaker 5 (39:47):
Yeah it's not on this list. Really yeah, not on
this list.

Speaker 4 (39:50):
I had a chance. I know, I know very good.
By the way we just talked about this, very very good.
This text or guess Polar Express you are wrong. Real Express,
which came out in two thousand four, brought in about
two hundred and seventy seven million dollars, which brings us
in at number eight on this list. I do not
like Polar Express love the you don't find the animation creepy,

(40:11):
no way at all. I mean it just looks weird
like it was done by trainees chocolate. Come on, now,
I don't love saying I don't love it. I don't
love it.

Speaker 8 (40:26):
Come on, you're not allowed to get Express man.

Speaker 4 (40:29):
You don't have a ticket. Mandy, is it Molly Be's
Polka Party?

Speaker 3 (40:32):
It is not?

Speaker 5 (40:33):
Or nor is it Ernest Saves Christmas?

Speaker 4 (40:37):
Mandy? Did you finally see the movie Klaus on Netflix?

Speaker 2 (40:39):
No?

Speaker 5 (40:39):
I haven't, but I will.

Speaker 7 (40:41):
You haven't seen it yet? No, it was a top
five Christmas movie. Time you will cry.

Speaker 4 (40:46):
Yeah. A Miracle on thirty fourth Street did not make
the list. But here's why older films, the cost of
a film was so low, Like you could go to
the movie for a nickel that, even ingested for inflation,
you're still not hitting the the prices that you're seeing
for tickets. And therefore, any really old film like White Christmas,
like Miracle on thirty fourth Street, like It's a Wonderful Life,

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simply was it didn't make the list.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
It's not going to Rudolph never.

Speaker 4 (41:14):
Played in the theaters, Texter, First Blood, Rambo not a
Christmas movie. The best Christmas pageant ever came out last year. Nope,
that's too new. The Muppets Christmas Carol one of the
finest Christmas carols, but no, not on the list. A
lot of you were starting to guess number one and
number one. I'll do eight through one. Okay, number eight.

(41:37):
The Polar Express brought in two hundred and all of
these are inflation adjusted dollars. Okay, so Polar Express brought
in two hundred and seventy seven million dollars. The Santa Claus,
the first one with Tim Allen so good. I just
watched it again. Love that movie. That brought in three
hundred and twenty four million dollars. Batman Returns is on
this list for some reason. World I don't know it

(41:59):
brought in three earned sixty seven million dollars. Home Alone
two Lost in New York that brought in three hundred
and ninety two million dollars. Yep, Gremlins brought in four
hundred and twenty six million dollars. Again a movie that
takes place at Christmas. And then the two thousand version
of How the Grinch Stole Christmas brought in approximately four

(42:21):
hundred and fifty one million dollars, leaving at the top
with six hundred and five million dollars. Home Alone Kevin
McAllister's starring role. And I got to tell you it's
a charming film.

Speaker 8 (42:35):
Classic.

Speaker 4 (42:36):
It really is classic. You know, as a kid, you're like, dang,
I wish somebody would leave me alone, you know, at
home alone, so I.

Speaker 5 (42:42):
Could come up with's clever Rube.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
Goldenberg like traps to catch criminals anyway, teaching young men
how to shave yeah, or how not to shave Mandy.
It's got to be the movie Fat Man with Bill Gibson.
If you haven't seen that Christmas movie, you need to.
It's crazy. Have you seen Holiday Inn? I have another
old movie with Bing Crosby and I can't remember the

(43:05):
woman in that one. So but I was kind of
surprised by this because it's not the most traditional Christmas movie,
as I'll tell you. You know, you look at the
older Christmas movies and they're really about the Christmas spirit, right,
They're about something to do. And I guess Home Alone
really is about the Christmas spirit. Because Kevin thought he
got rid of his family, they were just negligent, you know.

(43:29):
When we got to home alone too, I'm like, at
what point do parents do Kevin's parents take extra measures?
You know, how are you not walking through the airport
holding Kevin's hand? How is no one doing that? How
does no one have a monkey leash on on Kevin?

Speaker 7 (43:46):
Can we have a moment for the slapping of the
Christmas spirit? In one of my favorites that the wife
hates Christmas vacation.

Speaker 5 (43:53):
I love Christmas vacation.

Speaker 4 (43:55):
Ah beeps fall, yep, yep. Classic. I think we've all
been Clark Griswold when he's trying to get the lights
to work, like he was the everyman in that scene.

Speaker 7 (44:07):
Somebody with lights. It's me with keeping inflatables upright? Oh yeah,
that's a odd Last night I could not get one
to stay up. So many steaks, so many different renditions
of steaks, so many twisting of poll things and this
and that.

Speaker 4 (44:22):
Granted is a really cool tall one, but so you're
inflatable has a little bit of arectile dysfunction. You can't
erect it all the way up the top three.

Speaker 8 (44:29):
That is Santa Claus.

Speaker 4 (44:30):
How dare you?

Speaker 5 (44:31):
I'm just saying that's what it sounds like to me.

Speaker 4 (44:34):
You're trying to erect a you know, an inflatable Santa,
and he's having trouble standing.

Speaker 5 (44:39):
Up right there.

Speaker 8 (44:42):
It finally got there.

Speaker 4 (44:45):
Anyway, do you watch? How many Christmas movies do you
watch in the Christmas season?

Speaker 8 (44:49):
As many as possible, Try to get one in a
day if possible.

Speaker 13 (44:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (44:54):
I enjoy them, and now at this point I know
them all by heart.

Speaker 8 (44:58):
But to your point earlier, there are two kinds of Chris.

Speaker 7 (45:00):
This movie is one when we have stuff going on
that we want to put on, one that we've seen
so it can kind of be background just to have
on in one that we have so support television, yes,
or one that we have time to fully invest in,
like a new one like Red One.

Speaker 8 (45:12):
Last night.

Speaker 4 (45:13):
Well, I'm gonna try and catch the Christmas Pageant.

Speaker 7 (45:15):
No, no, no, you will watch nothing except Klaus First, Okay,
you will. You and your family will love it and cry.
It is a top five, arguably top three Christmas movie
of all time. It is that insanely good the Christmas spirit.

Speaker 4 (45:31):
It's not like it's not like a horror movie.

Speaker 6 (45:34):
Not at all.

Speaker 7 (45:34):
And the best part is it is extremely unique. It
is a very unique story on Christmas.

Speaker 4 (45:39):
That's how I feel about Arthur Christmas, which is a
delightful animated film that came out a few years ago.

Speaker 5 (45:45):
It's not they don't play it.

Speaker 4 (45:47):
It's so good. It is absolutely fantastic, and you don't
eat a kid to watch it.

Speaker 7 (45:53):
Everyone.

Speaker 4 (45:54):
It's called Arthur Christmas. Everybody, It's so good.

Speaker 7 (45:56):
Everyone on the text line real quick five six six nine,
oh comment spirit health text line. If you've seen Klaus,
tell Mandy how right I am and how good it is? God,
you will cry. I cry every time, every single time.

Speaker 4 (46:07):
Mandy was The Wizard of Oz always shown around the holidays.
I don't know. I mean when I was a kid,
it was always shown on Sunday night after Thanksgiving. You
always like sat around and watched The Wizard of Oz
with your family. At least I'd watched it until the
Flying Monkey showed up, and then I was out. I
didn't know how that movie ended for a long time.

(46:30):
I was like, oh, flying Monkeys, bye bye, I'm leaving Mandy.
I love Scrooge with Bill Murray. That is also a
great film. It doesn't get enough play. Hey Mandy, is
it true? Lauren Bobert and Kid Rock are a thing.
If true, what in the world is Kid Rock thinking? Okay,
let me address that story. I have it on the
blog today. So Lauren Bobert apparently used campaign funds to

(46:53):
buy tickets to a Kid Rock show or some kind
of you know show where Kid Rock was performing in Texas.
And first, well, you can't use campaign funds for that.
You can't use campaign funds for personal expenses. And I
don't know if Congresswoman Bobert has responded yet, I don't know,
but there's all this speculation that they are dating Congressman

(47:13):
Woman Bobert and Kid Rock. And here's the thing, you guys,
if they were dating, she wouldn't have to buy a
ticket to his concert.

Speaker 5 (47:24):
I'm just saying.

Speaker 4 (47:26):
I mean, we're dating the star of the show. They
kind of get you in. She went to a May
sixteen event hosted by It's Rock and Rodeo and a
picture was taken of her with Kid Rock. But why
wouldn't she get the free tickets. She did not get

(47:49):
free tickets, because we know she paid for tickets two
four hundred and fifty five dollars and eighty three cents
to live by Low's a hotel in Arlington, Texas, as
well as nine er and twenty five dollars worth of
event tickets to AT and T Stadium you can't use,
So I don't know. First of all, I don't care
she's dating kid Rock. She's divorced from her husband. She

(48:12):
has the right to have a personal life. I don't
care who Lauren Vobert is dating. I do care that
she's playing fast and will loose with campaign funds. There's
nothing more irritating to me than the misuse of campaign funds.
And it happens way more than you guys could possibly imagine,
And it happens at every level because that's money that

(48:33):
someone else worked for and then made a conscious decision
to donate because they believe that this person, in whatever capacity,
is who they want to put their money behind so
they can get elected. And to misuse that just irritates me, really,
really does Mandy. The other non Christmas movie that shows
at Christmas movies is the Harry Potter series.

Speaker 8 (48:53):
Did they all?

Speaker 4 (48:53):
I mean they, but they celebrated Christmas. But it wasn't
just Christmas, right, I don't.

Speaker 7 (49:03):
Because one was a year right, but one of them
had quite a bit of Christmas in the books.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
Every one of the books was a year at Hogwarts,
So I mean they would have Christmas at all of those.

Speaker 8 (49:15):
Right, yeah, but only I think one of them really
features Christmas. It's one of the first ones. I can't remember.

Speaker 4 (49:20):
Mandy. Have you ever watched The Wizard of Oz two? Jason,
I think you're making that up. There's not a cry
no stop it. That's not no no.

Speaker 5 (49:31):
That is a dirty lie.

Speaker 4 (49:33):
This no journey back to Oz.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
What?

Speaker 8 (49:37):
Pretty sure it's very demented or one of them is what?

Speaker 7 (49:43):
Yeah, why would someone do that? Yeah, they go back.
I don't know if it's this one that they go
back and it's all messed up in the world. It's
very apparently really rough.

Speaker 4 (49:53):
John McClain might be compelled to just might not be
compelled to save a rod. That's not nice. This this
person says unpopular opinion. I think Christmas Carol is super boring.
You know what, It depends on the version you watch.
The story itself is kind of interesting in like the
older versions from back in the day, we're very dramatic

(50:14):
and well done. My personal favorite version of a Christmas
Carol is the Muppet Christmas Carol, And I'm not even kidding.
You got Michael Caine singing with muppets. What else do
you need? Anything else? Come on, it's fantastic.

Speaker 8 (50:28):
Thank you to everyone supporting my claim that Clouds is incredible.

Speaker 4 (50:31):
By the way, according to this Texter, Congressman Bobert said
it was a fundraising thing. Okay, alrighty, Mandy, best Christmas
movie is The Bishop's Wife nineteen forty seven. You can't
be carry Grant David Niven and Loretta Young, great Christmas
and life message. I haven't seen that movie in a
long time. I might have to seek that out. So,

(50:54):
Mandy Klous, where did it go? Mandy Klaus? This was
a very sweet film, reminiscent of UP. I recommend it.
My favorite is mup It's Christmas Carol. Well, Michael, see,
I'm telling.

Speaker 8 (51:07):
You, how dare you have that in the same text
with Klaus, which is a million times better?

Speaker 4 (51:11):
Oh my gosh, But that that version of a Christmas Carol?
I love it, I really do. I enjoy stage performance
of a Christmas Carol more than I enjoy the movies. Yes,
and see, I don't like It's a wonderful life. It's
not not one of my favorites. And yet we went
to the Miners Alley Theater in Golden and saw a
play that was a play of a radio cast from

(51:32):
the nineteen forties doing a radio version of It's a
Wonderful Life. And it was fantastic. My favorite way ever
to see It's a Wonderful Life.

Speaker 7 (51:39):
Honorable mention, Nutcracker Christmas in person as well. You either
love it or hate itt Ballet, Yes.

Speaker 5 (51:45):
I just don't love.

Speaker 4 (51:47):
Ballet is not my favorite medium. Cool, it is not
my favorite way to spend a couple hours. It is beautiful,
that's the thing. And I can appreciate the brutal nature
of the athleticism of ballet of people who are professional
ballerinas or what are what are male ballet dancers called.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
Females?

Speaker 4 (52:08):
Are? Are they ballerinos? Look and see if ballerino is
a thing, because that would be sore. Okay, the down
sours and the ballerinas. I mean, I know that I'm
impressed by their physical ballerino. Oh, there you go. A
lot of you are weighing in with Christmas Carol is
super boring. I know, come on, you don't have to

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watch it. Mandy. The Wizard of Oz had some bad
guys that have wheels for hands and feet that scared
the hell out of me as a kid. The original
series is the three book series. The two movies are
based on Huh Huh, Mandy Great Christmas movie Gremlins. I
don't know if Gremlins I would call it that. It
is on the Christmas movie list Mandy and a rod

(52:54):
Our family's favorite is Muppets Christmas Carol. Hi, Mandy, Muppets
Christmas Carol rocks. This whole extended family watches it every
Christmas Eve together. That leads me to my second question,
Can we talk about traditions on the other side?

Speaker 5 (53:08):
Because I realized something.

Speaker 4 (53:10):
I'm not good at traditions, So of course I married
someone for whom traditions are very important, and I thought
it might be interesting to talk about. Do you guys
have any weird traditions in your family?

Speaker 5 (53:22):
We'll do that next.

Speaker 4 (53:23):
We're talking all kinds of Christmas stuff right now, because
I'm trying not to do politics today because it has
been a lot lately. I want to move on though,
because I'm asking for traditions, and the reason why is
I you know, there are things about my childhood that
were less than idyllic, right and we didn't have strong

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sets of traditions, especially, I mean, my parents' divorced when
I was in fifth grade, so we didn't really have
you know, I don't know, it just wasn't great. So
of course I married a man who had great editions
when he was a kid and enjoys them and you know,
likes things to be the same year after year, whereas

(54:06):
I am much more prone to say, let's have something
completely different for the meal. The one meal that I'm
super traditional about is Thanksgiving, and Chuck loves turkey.

Speaker 5 (54:17):
I am okay with turkey.

Speaker 4 (54:18):
I don't love it. It's not my favorite, but he
loves turkey. So we're pretty traditional around Thanksgiving. But at Christmas,
we sort of switched things up.

Speaker 5 (54:26):
As we got married. What do you guys do for Christmas?

Speaker 4 (54:28):
Anthony? Starting Christmas Eve? Do you have traditions that you
because now you and Jocelyn are married, so I'm guessing
things changed a little bit there, But what do you
guys do?

Speaker 2 (54:38):
Well?

Speaker 7 (54:38):
Typically, so every other Christmas we switch off. One year
we go to Mexico with her family, and then one
year we're here. This is the year that we're here,
but in Mexico with what's tradition is you do Christmas
on right at midnight, Right at midnight, you open up
all the presents, you celebrate, You're up for quite a
while into the early morning, and that next day, actual

(55:00):
Christmas Day, you're just you're just having a hangover, relaxing,
kicking back, doing nothing.

Speaker 8 (55:06):
Nothing.

Speaker 7 (55:07):
Then here with our family growing up, it was full,
full blown, like straight out of the movies. You go
down right in the early morning, open up all the presents,
one at a time, a lot of them from Santa
like very very traditional.

Speaker 8 (55:22):
Had to be the same every time.

Speaker 7 (55:24):
Stockings had to come first, no matter what, could not
touch the bigger presence until those were done.

Speaker 4 (55:29):
My mom would do what is it?

Speaker 7 (55:31):
The is it the orange and the apple and the
stocking like that, right, So you had that going on.
It was very traditional and very i would say, like basic,
but it was the It was that same exact way
year in and year out. Like it felt wrong. It
would feel so wrong if we didn't do it that
way every single time.

Speaker 4 (55:47):
Well, that's a lot of that's very similar to some
of the stuff we have done, Like we do the
stockings on Christmas Eve, which doesn't make any sense because
you know Santa can't fill them up until Christmas.

Speaker 8 (56:00):
Whatever, It's fine, and my mom listening, Yeah, just reminded me.

Speaker 7 (56:04):
So on December fifteenth every year or around that dat,
as close as we could get. Every year growing up,
we would get our real tree because it was my
mom's dad's birthday. He unfortunately passed before I was born,
so we would use his birthday kind of as the
day we would get back to the tree and everything.

Speaker 5 (56:22):
Okay, I love this.

Speaker 4 (56:24):
You can text us on the Common Spirit help checks
line or hey, let's feel you know, festive. You can
call us at three O three seven one three eighty
five eighty five. This is a great one, Nandy. One
of our traditions is that our two sons always sleep
out in our treehouse every Christmas Eve. They're twenty three
and twenty this year and have not missed a year yet.

(56:44):
It's a big pageant to gather up bazillion blankets and
truck out there to set it up, no matter how
cold it is. My husband and I take the stockings
out there in the morning and we open them out there.
It's one of my favorite moments of the year. And
then later on they said, uh, oh shoot, they were
happy that their two sons are still close, and I

(57:06):
gotta tell you, enjoy that until one of them gets married,
and then it will come to a halt, and maybe
someday their kids can do it together. The cousins can
do it together, Mandy. I really enjoy bringing my husband's
family traditions and my family traditions for the holidays together
when we got married. All my all time favorite tradition
is cinnamon rolls for breakfast on Christmas morning. We too

(57:28):
have done cinnamon roles on Christmas Morning. Now I've been
making waffles. I make really good waffles, Mandy, or a rod.
What's the name of the tearjerker Christmas movie.

Speaker 7 (57:37):
Again, Klaus. It's spelled like claws, but with a K
k la Us on Netflix.

Speaker 5 (57:43):
Yep uh this Texter said my mom, this is hilarious.

Speaker 4 (57:49):
My mom has a tradition of buying her own gifts
like a sweater, and then acting surprise when she opens it.
She'll do the same for others, like my aunts, and
they act. I guess the logic is that at least
you know it fits. And although I was used to this,
my wife found it to be very strange. You didn't
warn your wife. You didn't give her the heads up.

(58:12):
You want to walk into that, Mandy, I really, Oh
wait a minute, let me see there. Up at Chrispys.
My husband was Italian and we would celebrate by having
the whole family over and we would have seven different
kinds of fish or seafood, always smelts, CODs, shrimp, squid, calamari,

(58:32):
and different kinds that were available for homemade pasta dishes
and pizzels. For dessert, I would always make a big
bowl of punch. Well, that is one of the traditions
that we have adopted in our household. We do the
Feast of Seven Fishes on Christmas Eve because A I
love seafood and b I love seafood, so I'll do
like a like a seafood stew, like a seafood showder,

(58:54):
but instead of like you know, when you get a
recipe for seafood chowder and I use Inegarten seafood chowder recipe,
which is sublime. It is so good, but she's like, oh,
a half pound of this, no, thank you, I'll take
a pound dinah. So my seafood showder is basically like
seafood with a little bit of broth. It's fantastic. One

(59:15):
of my favorites.

Speaker 9 (59:17):
Mandy.

Speaker 4 (59:17):
Every year, when we were really little, we would fill
up the fireplace full of cans and try and catch Santa.
We would also sleep in the living room with a
Christmas tree every year until he was caught. My dad
would be carefully removing every single can, leaving a note
saying we couldn't catch Santa.

Speaker 5 (59:36):
I mean, because that's what Santa does. Mandy.

Speaker 4 (59:39):
Going to see and hear the Messiah, Okay, I got
a funny story about the Messiah. Handles Messiah is a
coral piece and most of you recognize the Hallelujah chorus
from Handles Messiah a rod. See if you can pull
up anywhere, see if we have the handles Messiah. Course,
halllly your course. But the first time I saw it
it was a school trip. It was one of those

(01:00:00):
where they're like, hey, you're gonna get out of school
and you're gonna go see a production of Handles Messiah.

Speaker 5 (01:00:04):
And I was like, yes, get out of school.

Speaker 4 (01:00:06):
And then I went and the whole time I was like,
oh my god, this is so boring. I think I
was like fourteen, right. Well, I saw it again when
I was about thirty five, and I loved it. It's
amazing what a little perspective gets you. But the music
in Handles Messiah is absolutely glorious. But fourteen year old

(01:00:27):
Mandy did not feel it. Did you find it?

Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:00:31):
Dang it, Mandy. Christmas Eve is with my family. We
celebrate together with a Mexican food meal. Yes, we are transluent,
translucent European white, by the way, with the exception of
my aunt who is Latino. Christmas Day is a crazy
fest at my wife's loud family's house, where gifts regularly
get thrown out because they get lost in the wrapping paper.

(01:00:54):
That's fantastic traditions open one gift at a time.

Speaker 5 (01:00:59):
Doesn't everybody do that? Or is it a free for all?
Do you guys do like one at a time, one.

Speaker 8 (01:01:05):
At a time?

Speaker 4 (01:01:06):
Yeah, because then it makes it go longer. It's special, Yeah, exactly.
Texas Kim says on Christmas Morning, we always eat tamales.
Where did I just have tamalies that were just off
the chain good? I can't remember. I had the best
tomalies I ever had in my life. I got to
ask Chuck where I had the tomorrow? Oh, I know
where it is. Maybe no, I gotta think about that. Shoot. Shoot.

(01:01:32):
Several awesome traditions from my childhood. One that I still
do is go to the Nutcracker.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (01:01:38):
Food Wise, we have killbasa.

Speaker 6 (01:01:40):
Huh.

Speaker 5 (01:01:41):
I'm guessing there's some polish in your in your bloodlines there, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:01:45):
Christmas Eve is pizza, chicken wings, smoke tealipinos. On Christmas
Day for dinner, we have tea bones or some other
type of steak on the grill that.

Speaker 5 (01:01:54):
I don't know about that, y'all. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:01:57):
This year, we're going to see my kids and we're
gonna do a big lasagne on Christmas Day because that's easy.
I don't want to have to be cooking all day
on Christmas. Grandpa always slept under the tree with me
Christmas Eve. I do it with my kids now that way,
you know when they went to sleep. Mandy, did you
find it weird in the Christmas Vacation movie that the

(01:02:18):
family arrived early around the fourteenth and they still had
to shop and decorate. I found it weird. I mean,
was that that's the takeaway for you for Christmas vacation.
I'm not sure it can help with that Hey, hey, Rod,
No Tomali's on Christmas Eve. As a Mexican American, our
family had pasole and Tomali's on Christmas.

Speaker 8 (01:02:40):
I will never go around it around.

Speaker 4 (01:02:43):
I am sorry.

Speaker 5 (01:02:44):
I like pasole. It's a hangover here that's magical.

Speaker 4 (01:02:47):
Have you ever tried it?

Speaker 1 (01:02:48):
For that.

Speaker 4 (01:02:50):
Next time you're suffering, have a bowl of pasole. Oh no,
I'm sorry, I'm thinking of the nudo. My badnudo is.

Speaker 5 (01:02:57):
The hangover here.

Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
Since before I can remember, we've gone to breakfast on
Christmas Eve at least fifty nine years of this fifteen,
not fifty. Our family did the big Prime River dinner
in the family gift exchange on Christmas Eve. Christmas morning
was all about Jesus' birthday, Christmas story from the Bible,
singing Christmas hymns. We go around and see what gifts
we are giving him this year. Then we all make

(01:03:20):
puppy chow and rice chrispy treats and bring them to
the police and fire stations. See. I love hearing about
traditions that are about other people, because I don't have
any of those puppy joo. Yes, I'm not sure what
that is. We'll talk about that later. We're talking Christmas traditions, Mandy.
We adopted the Hungarian tradition for Christmas from my parents
who emigrated to the US in the late forties. Everything

(01:03:42):
happens on Christmas Eve. There's no tree until then. Either
for a week before Christmas Eve, a room or a
portion of a room is completely blocked off from the
rest of the house, away from the view of your children.
The children are told that the angels bring the tree
in presence and they better not look or they won't
ever come. During that week, we sneak behind there and
set up the tree in presence. One Christmas Eve, the

(01:04:03):
children are cordoned into the room where they cannot come out.
At night, we wait for the angels to ring the bell,
which is the signal that the tree and presents are there.
When the bell rings, they come into the room where
the tree is glowing with brilliant white lights. It's magical
for children. Their eyes are wide with wonder. Happy to say,
my kids are going to continue the tradition with their kids.

(01:04:23):
That is cool, that's super cool. My brother and I
says this text stage day Santa sighting for my younger
cousin when he was ten. Turns out he went to
school boasting to his friends. He saw Santa and then
had to fight him, but he excuse him of being
a liar.

Speaker 8 (01:04:38):
You just reminded me we did so much Norad tracking
as well.

Speaker 4 (01:04:41):
Oh yeah, sleep yep, Mandy. When my oldest son was
a nine month old, his eyes lit up when he
saw sparkly ornament, so I bought it for him. I
labeled it with his name and the date. He's twenty
seven now, and he and his three siblings that picked
out a new ornament every year. So fun to see
how gauny some of them are now. They have a

(01:05:04):
personal meeting. He's a pilot now and has a few
planes to boot. Why yogi. Every Christmas Eve we watched
the Battle of the Bulge. My dad always watched it.
His uncle was captured there, since it took place over
the Christmas holidays. Christmas Night, we go to Granny's for dinner.
Says this text her. It's a lot of potluck these days.
She's ninety six years young. Keep going, Granny, keep growing, Mandy.

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Our extended family would always be together for Christmas Eve.
My dad's favorite tradition would be to make an announcement
right after dinner. That he was leaving early to go
home to make a Santa trap. He convinced all my
cousins that since we lived north of the rest of
the family, he would get all their presents. There you go,
that's good. That's good, Mandy. Jewish Christmas food equals Chinese

(01:05:52):
because it's the only thing open. Yep, there you go.
Far rah rah rah rah rah rah rah rah. A
Christmas story when the end up from the Shinese restaurant
for Christmas, deck the hajs with bows of harah. Anyway,
Mandy Colorado's Symphony and Chorus are performing handles Messiah Friday,

(01:06:12):
Saturday and Sunday one week from this weekend. I'm one
of the singers. I'd love to see you. We're going
to be headed out of town.

Speaker 5 (01:06:19):
Thank you, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:06:21):
Every year my kids were little, we'd set up an
ice hockey rink in our backyard. After presents, my boys
and their cousins play hockey in the backyard for hours. Yes, sadly,
with the warm tempts. This looks like the first time
in twenty years we won't have ice amailable on Christmas Day.
Fingers crossed, we'll find out from day Fraser whether or
not you're gonna be able to get that done?

Speaker 6 (01:06:42):
Uh No.

Speaker 4 (01:06:42):
Boris Karloff did not sing the original Grinch theme Burl
Ravenswood saying you're a main one, mister Grinch, just letting
you know, playing strains and automobiles. I love this movie.
Movie technically takes place at Thanksgiving, but it's definitely a
holiday spirit movie. Quite possibly see Martin and John Candy's
best movie. Try and watch this one every year around

(01:07:04):
this time. The scene in that movie where John Candy
is trying to take his coat off in the car
and he ends up getting and then they get out
and the car's all messed up, and he goes, oh,
we can buff this right out.

Speaker 7 (01:07:15):
I die laughing, I mean, and then John Candy in
home alone, Yeah, with the whole gang exactly in the van.

Speaker 6 (01:07:24):
So good.

Speaker 4 (01:07:26):
Mandy could never sleep Christmas Eve because I was too excited.
So my dad would sneak up on the roof and
stomp around with some bells.

Speaker 5 (01:07:32):
Make me think Santa came.

Speaker 8 (01:07:34):
It was awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:07:35):
Yes, yep. We number the presents and then take turns
drawing a number out of a hat. You get what
you get, and then you can barter for a trade
love it. That's a Savage family tradition. That's fantastic, Mandy.
My in laws are big in a scavenger hunts. Can
I get a little old to take a half hour

(01:07:56):
to find a pair of socks? Yeah, I would imagine so.
And yes, Barl Ravens would also the voice of Tony
the Tiger when we get back. I do have other
things on the blog that I want to talk about.
They're all interesting. They're not necessarily political, although some of
them are. One of them, well, i'll tell you what
it is after this.

Speaker 1 (01:08:17):
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The nicety through free Andy Connal keeping sad thing. Welcome, Welcome,
Welcome to the third hour of the show. I'm Mandy Connell,
He's Anthony Rodriguez, and together we'll take you right up
until three pm. I must correct myself and thank all
of you who kindly but firmly let me know that

(01:08:57):
I was completely wrong when I said thorough Ravens would
it is Furtle Raven's Croft. Furl Raven's Croft, I knew that.
I was stuck on trying to remember what thurle. I mean,
Who's what would furle be short for? You know, no clue,
that's an old fashioned name. I don't know if it

(01:09:19):
needs to make a comeback, just saying let me grab Kelly, Kelly,
you're on kaway.

Speaker 5 (01:09:25):
What's on your mind?

Speaker 4 (01:09:28):
I'm good, Kelly? What you guy?

Speaker 7 (01:09:32):
My husband?

Speaker 3 (01:09:33):
I always do oyster stew on Christmas?

Speaker 6 (01:09:37):
Yum.

Speaker 12 (01:09:38):
We both grew up with that, so we still do it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:42):
Where did you grow up with oyster? Where did you
grow up with oyster stew? Because that used to be
one of my late nana's favorites.

Speaker 6 (01:09:49):
We both grew up in Wisconsin.

Speaker 4 (01:09:51):
Oh there, wait Wisconsin, Wisconsin? Is you're doing oyster stew?
You're not doing blossa and cheese.

Speaker 11 (01:09:58):
Well had that too, but both of our families had
oyster stew every Christmas Eve.

Speaker 4 (01:10:05):
Now, how do you make your oyster stew?

Speaker 5 (01:10:07):
Because oyster stew's really simple? So how do you make yours?

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
So I do it the way my mom used to
do it. She would cook the oyster separate, like in
a sauce pan. Just get them so they not boiling,
but right, so they're like cooked and then just milk, butter, celery, salt,
salt and pepper and that's it.

Speaker 5 (01:10:32):
That's all you need. That's perfect oyster stew.

Speaker 4 (01:10:34):
And then you serve it with little oyster crackers maybe yep, yes,
so good. You and are part from the same cloth, Kelly.
Enjoy your oyster stew this year.

Speaker 6 (01:10:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:10:45):
Our kids hate it so.

Speaker 6 (01:10:48):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:10:48):
You know, we do the best we can, right. We
try to pass it along to our children. If they
reject them because they don't have good taste, well then
that's not up to us, Kelly.

Speaker 11 (01:10:57):
We tried to teach them for thirty six and they
still well.

Speaker 5 (01:11:03):
I think that ship has sailed, Kelly. It's more for
you and your husband.

Speaker 4 (01:11:07):
That's right, all right, thanks, Kelly. I appreciate the phone call.

Speaker 7 (01:11:10):
Yes, Anthony, my mother reminded me, I cannot believe I
cannot remember this of my favorite Christmas tradition that is
now no longer exclusive to just Christmas and I do.
It's everybody so much fun, nesting doll style Christmas gifts
bagger box to the smaller box, to the smaller box,
to the smaller box.

Speaker 8 (01:11:26):
I remember.

Speaker 7 (01:11:26):
I think the coolest one probably was like a gigantic box.
And I think it was my sirt, my first cell phone,
I believe, yes.

Speaker 4 (01:11:32):
Oh yeah that and someone on the text line earlier.
I went to read it and then it was already gone.
They their Christmas gifts wire wrap with duct tape. We
do that in our household, but the boys know. Don't
do it to me because I don't think it's funny.
Oh I don't want to unknown something in duct tape.

Speaker 3 (01:11:48):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:11:49):
I don't. I would just be like, whatever this is,
I'm sure it's nice, thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (01:11:53):
I'm never gonna open it.

Speaker 8 (01:11:54):
Ah.

Speaker 4 (01:11:54):
Yeah, you will just pass them aggressively, still will.

Speaker 5 (01:11:56):
That's all passive aggressively.

Speaker 4 (01:11:58):
That's the way I do it.

Speaker 5 (01:11:59):
Okay. I want to give some actual news because I
do have actual.

Speaker 4 (01:12:02):
News for today. Listen to this story. You know, we've
talked a lot about how retail theft has been out
of control. Shoplifting is crazy. Well, there was a Walmart
in Shrewsbury, Missouri. Oh, I thought it was Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Shrewsbury, Missouri,
and they were having a lot of problems. They were
having to call the police a lot. Stuff was getting stolen,

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People were getting arrested all the time at the Walmart
and Shrewsbury, Missouri, so they decided to try and aggressively
go after stealing. Do you know the one thing that
they did that led to police calls falling by sixty
percent and arrest dropping by more than half. What do
you think it was a rod? What do you think
the Walmart in Shrewsbury, Missouri did? It is simple. They

(01:12:50):
removed all self checkout lanes. So when you go to
the Walmart and Shrewsbury, Missouri, it is staffed in the front.

Speaker 5 (01:12:57):
With actual people who are going to.

Speaker 4 (01:13:00):
Actually check you out. And that's how much it is
dramatically reduced theft. Now, how stores that have all gone
into self checkout as a matter of convenience, and I
know sometimes it is very convenient, but they've gone to
self check out as a matter of convenience and also
to save on labor costs. What I would love to see, Oh,

(01:13:21):
hang on one second, I would love to see and
I'm going to I'm gonna put AI on this. I
wonder if they've spent more on loss prevention than they
saved on labor. Let's see here is I'll have to
figure out how to ask that, so I get all
the information, but I'd like to know because they all

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went to self check out so they didn't have to
pay labor because labor is very expensive, and they found
out that people suck and people steal. What's been fascinating
to me is how many people that if you said
to someone, I need you to go into Walmart and
I need you to steal three apples, and you should

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go steal three apples, there are a lot of people
be like, there is a zero percent chance I'm doing that.
But at the same time, when they go through the
self checkout, oh wait, I'll just put the sentence regular
even though it's organic.

Speaker 5 (01:14:16):
Yeah, that's the old sneaker there.

Speaker 4 (01:14:18):
But the actual thieves have figured out how to manipulate
by ringing up something that weighs the same amount but
costs way less. They've learned how to manipulate the system.
And now this very simple change that also put people
back to work solves the problem almost in Shrewsbury, Missouri.
We'll see how long until it goes nationwide. Did you

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happen to see this McDonald's commercial, The AI McDonald's commercial. Okay,
so McDonald's in the Netherlands made a Christmas commercial and
I want to play it for you, okay, because it's
in English and the visuals are a series of calamities
that have to do with the holiday season.

Speaker 5 (01:15:00):
Just listen to the song that is playing.

Speaker 7 (01:15:03):
It's the most time Mother, all the shots to Mayhem,
even center and the dream.

Speaker 4 (01:15:15):
Playing calamity. It's the most tame.

Speaker 2 (01:15:20):
Fucking the reverse burns chocoks, burn too.

Speaker 6 (01:15:26):
Freaking k house.

Speaker 4 (01:15:27):
It feels like us. It's the most.

Speaker 5 (01:15:36):
Set believe from the madness, the lights.

Speaker 2 (01:15:39):
And the g and hide out in McDonalds Killed Jean.

Speaker 4 (01:15:48):
And the fact that they made a negative commercial only
gets even worse, gets.

Speaker 5 (01:15:54):
Even worse a rod.

Speaker 4 (01:15:55):
The fact that they need a negative commercial about Christmas
was only capped by the fact that they made it
all out of AI. That sounds terrible. The response to
this ad on YouTube was so severe and so loud
that McDonald's Netherlands pulled the ad and apologized. Now, the

(01:16:17):
second thing is is that there was an ad agency
in a production company that worked for like six months
to do all this stuff, and they're defending themselves.

Speaker 5 (01:16:25):
For the AI.

Speaker 4 (01:16:26):
They're like, look, it only created what we told them
to create. I gotta tell you. The younger generation, theyre's
hyper sensitive to two things about AI. Number One, they
don't like it that it steals other people's designs and artwork.
As a matter of fact, one of the reasons I
don't want to use AI to do my cartoons anymore

(01:16:47):
is because of that. I don't want to steal someone
else's art work. And whatever you create an AI is
based on someone else's work, right, because AI is not creative.
They're not making this stuff up. There's the Internet and
figuring out how to make it look right. And this
younger generation, they're not down with AAI. But what a
horrible who thought? Like, what what a dumb ad? Things

(01:17:11):
that will make you cry? I cried today watching an
interview with Joe Rogan and Jelly Roll. So jelly Roll
is he has got to be one of the greatest
redemption and change stories that we have seen in real
time ever. Jelly Roll, for those of you don't know,
he is a country rock rap artist and he kind

(01:17:34):
of burst onto the scene a few years ago. He's
been very open about the fact that he was sitting
in a jail cell and he decided to turn his
life around. He was sitting in jail, had been selling drugs,
rolling with a bad crowd. He was morbidly OBEs, like
huge guy, And in the past few years he's dropped
like two hundred pounds. He's taken control.

Speaker 5 (01:17:55):
Of his health.

Speaker 4 (01:17:55):
His career has absolutely taken off. And he's genuinely grateful
when you talk. When he talks and interviews, is so
flip and likable that even if you don't.

Speaker 5 (01:18:07):
Like his music, you will like this man.

Speaker 4 (01:18:09):
And he was on the Joe Rogan Show, and Joe
Rogan played a video of Jelly Roll performing at the
Grand Old Opry and for if you're not a country
music fan, maybe you don't realize that you know, like
we we're at Red Rocks, And so many artists say
that playing at Red Rocks is just the pinnacle of
their career, right like being able to play at Red

(01:18:30):
Rocks is just a high water mark because it's one
of the most gorgeous venues in the entire world. Well,
for country music artists, the Grand Old Opry is it,
it is it, It is the end all be all.
And in this interview, Joe Rogan played a video of
Jelly Roll performing at the Grand Old Opry, telling his story,
talking about being in the audience at the Grand Old

(01:18:52):
Opry and sitting there and crying watching country performer Craig
Morgan play. It's really sweet and it also gives you
a little bit of Jelly Rolls background. I put this
on the blog today if you want to go check
it out at mandy'sblog dot com. And then Joe Rogan says,
I want to play another video for you now, and
he plays a video of that country singer Craig Morgan

(01:19:15):
talking about how touch he was to hear that story
and inviting Jelly Roll to be a member of the
Grand Old Opry, and Jelly Role just loses it, loses it.
So it's like when you're looking, you know, kids idolize
famous people and singers, like, direct your kids to this
guy who is so open about all of the really

(01:19:37):
dumb mistakes that he made and all of the bad
choices that he had in his life, and how far
he's come physically career wise. This guy is riding high,
and the thing is is he didn't do it right
out of the shoot. He talks very openly about the
fact that he didn't have his first hit until his
late thirties, right he just became something, and it's just

(01:19:58):
one of those stories that if you're sitting there thinking
to yourself, man, I wish I had done that thing.
It might not be too late to do that thing.
I love inspiring stories of people who are like you
know what, I still got time. That person who decided
to go to law school when they were fifty, that
person who decided to start painting when they were seventy,

(01:20:21):
a person who decided to go in a completely different direction.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not going to sit here
and say you're going to be as successful as Jelly Role.
I don't know, but you're not going to know if
you don't try. So if you're looking for a little inspiration,
go watch the Jelly Roll story. It is absolutely amazing. Now,
when we get back from this next break, I am

(01:20:41):
getting into something I talked about earlier because I want
to hear from you guys again. I'm having fun talking
to people on the phone again. I'm not gonna lie,
it's been so long. I want to hear stories from
Christmas parties past. Now, Anthony, we don't have Christmas parties
now like we used to have when I first got
into radio in the late nineties when I Heart Orlando

(01:21:06):
where I was working, it was Clear Channel. Clear Channel
Orlando rented out a nightclub at Universal Studios City Walk.
They rented out the whole nightclub and that's where our
Christmas party was. And I've got a story and I
can't tell you the name of the boss because they
are still in the industry, but it was a story

(01:21:27):
of epic proportions.

Speaker 7 (01:21:28):
Years ago at one of our iHeart Christmas parties, we
had karaoke and I sang Queen Yep. Nerf was the
first to like, give me the biggest high fives.

Speaker 5 (01:21:38):
Nerse just crushes karaoke.

Speaker 4 (01:21:41):
Yeah, so he appreciated it. Yeah, oh man, I mean
he's excellent as well. But I want to hear your
Christmas party nightmare stories because I got a great one.
When we get back. You knocked a bunch of people
out of Wammageddon. Oh yeah, so they're mad at you
on the text line. Now, if you don't know what
Wamageddon is, it's like you're in the game until you
hear Wham's Last Christmas for the first time. Then you're

(01:22:03):
out of the game. What do you win if you
don't hear it? Nothing but you know, point of pride
kind of thing. So sorry about that bummer.

Speaker 5 (01:22:13):
Yeah, wah wah wah wah.

Speaker 4 (01:22:15):
Okay, I asked you guys, and we'll open up the
phone lines one more time today. Don't make me regret it.
The rest of the phone calls have been amazing. I
want to hear your Christmas party stories. Holiday company Christmas
party stories.

Speaker 5 (01:22:29):
I've got some for you.

Speaker 4 (01:22:32):
So back in the day when I worked for one
of my first jobs for what was then clear Channel
at Orlando, and they rented out a nightclub at Universal
Studio City Walk for our Christmas party, and Are the
president of the cluster at the time, liked to get
their drink on. And I'm going to use non gender
specific terms because I don't want to give up who

(01:22:53):
it was. So they like to get their drink on,
and UH proceeded to really get their drink on. And
then a couple guys from the rock station they were
our morning rock show.

Speaker 5 (01:23:07):
They came out and one of them started.

Speaker 4 (01:23:09):
Making comments on stage about how much she had been drinking, well,
he had been drinking. They had been drinking. The person
walked out, The president walked out and said, come see
me Monday morning. And we were like, you just got fired.
I looked at it this morning because there's an old
there's a rumor that people more people get fired the

(01:23:31):
day after the Christmas party than any other single day
of the year. But I didn't find that to be true.
But I did find that up to ten percent of
people say they have had some kind of disciplinary action
that resulted from their behavior at a company Christmas party.
Did that person? No, they were the president of the cluster.
Oh no, you're talking about the person who called her out?

(01:23:52):
Yeah her. No, did that person you can uh? No,
they did not. Good, No, they did not. Here's one, Mandy.
My boyfriend got drunk, picked a fight with someone and
got ejected from the premises. That feels worse almost than
if you did something yourself. You know, have you ever

(01:24:15):
been to like a while, I mean that the one
that you're talking about with a karaoke That was it?
Brecken Referraery, wasn't it, Ay Rod?

Speaker 2 (01:24:23):
Wasn't it?

Speaker 4 (01:24:23):
I think it was? Yeah? That was actually a fun party.
We don't even have one scheduled for this year. We're
doing it in January, which is fine. Mandy the lady,
Oh so this is funny. Earlier in the show, someone
texted me and said, what is that spice shop that
you like? And should I mention your name? And I said,
go into the one in south Lands. That's the one

(01:24:45):
where we talked to the manager of the Savory Spice
and tell her that you heard her on the show.
And they just texted and said, hey, Mandy, the lady
who helped me at Savory Spice said it was her
that was on the radio with you. I'm going to
guess you've done wonders for their business. I hope so,
I hope so I still love them. I'm actually gonna
go there this weekend and buy some gifts for people

(01:25:07):
because it's just so good. It's so so good. But
I want to say this about company parties. There are
a lot of people that make bad choices at company parties,
not only in what they do, but also in what
they don't do. I'm gonna give you a piece of advice.
If you are a couple layers down from top leadership,

(01:25:28):
or even way way down from top leadership, but top leadership,
you know, the c suite, the CEO, whatever the owner
is at the Christmas party, if you don't take the
time to walk up to that person and say, Hey,
I'm so and so, I love working here, love this party,
thanks for everything.

Speaker 5 (01:25:47):
Just introduce yourself.

Speaker 4 (01:25:48):
This is your chance to get a little face time
with the big cheeses, and so many people miss this opportunity. Now,
don't like do four shots of Jack Daniels to get
up liquid courage before you do it. Do it as
early as possible, as soon as possible. And one of
the things in this article that I have on the
blog today about what to do, this one is the

(01:26:11):
one that got me. Don't sit out on the fun
or ignore planned activities, and listen to this. If there's
a DJ or a band, prepare to get up and dance,
even if you don't like you or I think you're
not good at it. If their activities participate, that just
seems like that takes all the fun out of a
Christmas party.

Speaker 5 (01:26:32):
But the big one, the really, really big one. Get
off your phone.

Speaker 4 (01:26:37):
And also, don't take a lot of pictures of your
workmates at the Christmas party that they're not aware of.
It's quite one thing to say, hey, everybody get together,
let me take a picture, But when you're taking the
sort of you know, random you know, candid shots, that
might not be the best time.

Speaker 3 (01:26:56):
To do it.

Speaker 4 (01:26:56):
A lot of people don't want to have photographed. I mean,
I know national people that will not take a photograph
with a cocktail in their hand.

Speaker 5 (01:27:04):
No politician will. I think that's so stupid.

Speaker 4 (01:27:06):
But a lot of people are like, look, I just
don't want to be seen in that way, so don't
do it. Oh for the person who called me a
boot licker, I mean, do you want to get ahead
in your job saying thanks so much, I'm enjoying. If
you don't like the job, find another one. First of all,
if you can't walk up to the owner of your
company and say, you know what, I really like working here,

(01:27:27):
then you should probably look for another job, because life's
too short to spend it working at.

Speaker 5 (01:27:31):
A job you don't like. Mandy, was it Caine from
The Cane Show?

Speaker 1 (01:27:36):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:27:36):
I know it wasn't, but that dude had issues.

Speaker 2 (01:27:38):
No, it was not, it was not.

Speaker 4 (01:27:41):
This was a completely different This was twenty five years ago. No, wait,
I keep forgetting It's twenty twenty five, almost twenty twenty six,
So this was twenty eight years ago.

Speaker 5 (01:27:51):
How is that even possible?

Speaker 4 (01:27:52):
I have not aged a day since then, this Texter
says it best behave at the party like you do
at work. I mean, don't walk around asking for TPS reports.
Don't be that person. Don't talk about just work stuff.
There's nothing worse than being at a Christmas party where
everybody's like, God, did you see the new tech system

(01:28:13):
we got to learn next year? Blah blah blah. Ask
people about, you know, what they do for fun? What
do you do when you're not at work?

Speaker 3 (01:28:22):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:28:23):
Unfortunately for any of it's like I go home, I
stay at home. I enjoy being at home. That's what
I do for fun. Mandy, I heard a hundred bucks
from Savory Spice this last week based on your interview. Great, perfect, Mandy.
I one hundred percent.

Speaker 7 (01:28:40):
Agree with you.

Speaker 4 (01:28:41):
You got to greet the CEOs and the owner of
the business if possible. And it's not bootleaking either. It's
playing the game of life correct. Wherever you work, there
is a corporate culture, right and the sooner you begin
to understand the corporate culture, how it works, and how

(01:29:01):
to participate in the corporate culture, the better off you're
going to be. I always find it interesting and I've
had this experience with young men mostly, But you try
to explain the corporate culture to someone and they basically go, well,
I'm not going to do it that way. They'll yield
to me. No, No, they won't. You'll never get a raise,

(01:29:26):
you'll never get a promotion, and eventually you'll leave because
you will not, single handedly, as a lower level employee, change.

Speaker 5 (01:29:34):
A corporate culture. It starts at the top.

Speaker 4 (01:29:36):
And if you don't like the corporate culture of the
company you're in, find a different company, because chances of
a changing are not good. Actually, I've never been in
a place where the corporate culture changed significantly for the better.

Speaker 5 (01:29:50):
I've been in places where.

Speaker 4 (01:29:51):
The corporate culture changed dramatically for the worse. Doesn't take
much to destroy a corporate culture, all right. So the
other thing that this woman has on her list that
I think is kind of interesting, and I wonder who
does this packing up leftovers to bring home without permission?

Speaker 8 (01:30:10):
Do people really do that?

Speaker 5 (01:30:13):
Do you do that at a party?

Speaker 3 (01:30:14):
Now?

Speaker 4 (01:30:14):
It's one thing if you're at a party at someone's
home and they don't want all that stuff left around,
so they're like shoving leftover. I do that, take home,
take something holme with you. Go ahead, and figure out
fix a plate to take it home, but at a
like a party party where things are catered or whatnot.

Speaker 5 (01:30:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:30:34):
Three O three seven one three eighty five eighty five
if you want to call Hey, Mandy, my dear friend
was in his first job, first six months in a
prestigious law firm, had a few before loading the bus
to take the firm and spouses to the Christmas soiree.
The unfortunate party technicolor yawned into the lap of the
managing partner's wife. That is an epic Christmas party mistake.

(01:30:59):
God Is career was over, but no, he became a
cult hero of his colleagues. The wife was a terrible person,
and everyone secretly celebrated Mandy. I love the idea of
a holiday party in January or February. I don't mind it.
I don't hate it.

Speaker 1 (01:31:15):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:31:16):
I try to do something for all of my clients
every year, and I used to do a Christmas party,
but it got really, really, really frustrating because you're competing
against all this other stuff, and people get busy and
then they don't want to leave their houses, and so
we moved it to October this year and it was fantastic,
absolutely fantastic, just kicking off. I said, we're kicking off
the holiday season early, Mandy. In college, I was a

(01:31:38):
temporary phone operator. I was called to staff the phones
at the Christmas party at nineteen. I was darn shocked
at the pictures of people's intimate body parts that were
being made on the copy machine and then shown around.
I don't know when that became a thing, but now
I can't even work our copy machine, let alone xerox.
My butt.

Speaker 5 (01:32:00):
No clue how to work that thing.

Speaker 4 (01:32:02):
Now. It's like a copy machine and a printer, and
I think it makes soup if you know how to
do that, Mandy. I wish I worked somewhere that still
did parties. We were lucky enough to experience it, you
know what I mean, Like we lived through the Golden Era.

Speaker 5 (01:32:19):
I just think now it just wouldn't be as fun.

Speaker 4 (01:32:24):
We always need. Like I'm just gonna give you a
little window into the world of radio. When I first
started in radio back in the nineties, every day somebody
brought food. Literally every day, a pizza place brought pizza,
a restaurant bought food. There was always free food always
laying around everywhere. All the time. That does not exist anymore. Well,

(01:32:45):
occasionally have food brought in, but not at any level
that it used to be before. Jim Phillips one of
my idols in radio. Jim Phillips created this gene. Oh
my gosh, ay Rod, we should steal this. They created
a thing called snack Time, and on Friday afternoon, a restaurant,
like a really nice restaurant, would bring in an entire

(01:33:06):
spread of food and they would have snack Time and
then they would eat and talk about what they were eating.
We should do that. That would be fantastic, Like once
a week mad or food truck Fridays. Again, well, nobody's
in the building on Fridays. How do we make food
truck Friday work? Alliteration wise for Wednesday? You know, how

(01:33:27):
do we make that work? Because I would totally do it,
but I want to make sure there's enough people in
the building to make it worth the while of the
food truck too.

Speaker 12 (01:33:34):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:33:35):
Christmas parties in the eighties were epics, says this texter.

Speaker 5 (01:33:38):
Yes, they were.

Speaker 4 (01:33:43):
Mandy. I worked at a surgery center and loan tree,
and the management wanted the staff to set up corporate culture.
Very bad management. Nope, corporate culture comes from the top.
Meal truck Monday. Oh, that's good.

Speaker 5 (01:33:56):
Everybody's here on Monday too, most of.

Speaker 4 (01:33:57):
Cajion truck Tuesday. Oh that's good. Wheeling and eating Wednesday.

Speaker 5 (01:34:02):
Oh, I like wheeling and eating Wednesday.

Speaker 8 (01:34:03):
Wheels and meals Wednesday.

Speaker 5 (01:34:05):
That sounds like we're all elderly.

Speaker 7 (01:34:06):
Tasty truck Thursday, many options, hasty truck Thursday.

Speaker 4 (01:34:12):
Meal truck mondays, I don't I hate that.

Speaker 5 (01:34:13):
I think meal truck Monday is.

Speaker 4 (01:34:14):
No one calls it meal truck. I know, but we're
going to do it just for the sake of alliteration,
you know. New Year's Eve dinner at our house, says
this texter. Number one, opening a bottle of red wine
went wrong and spewed across the ceiling.

Speaker 5 (01:34:29):
Our house was going on the market in a few days.

Speaker 4 (01:34:31):
Yikes. Number two Hobby went to the kitchen to slice
more beef tenderloin for seconds. He discovered our dog had
dragged the meat off the counter and was dry humping
it on the kitchen floor. Number three, husband of one
of the guests, got so drunk he started celebrating early.
He literally passed out at the dining room table. Face

(01:34:52):
in the mashed potatoes. His wife wouldn't move him and
got a marker to draw silly pictures on his face.
They later got divorced. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's never good, Mandy.
The huge difference between being a brown noser and common courtesy,

(01:35:13):
and the difference between being a brown noser and a
butt kisser is depth per seption, depth, depth perception, depth perception. Liz, Yeah, Mandy.
We're part of a very small company and have worked
together for twenty plus years. At one Christmas party, a
guy participated in a skit of ac DC and then

(01:35:35):
when he got back to change out of his costume,
his clothes were gone. We all got a text with
him asking has anyone seen my pants? I mean, who
hasn't got that text? Come on, seriously, Mandy, wheels down Wednesday?
Are we pilots? Meal mobile, meal mobile Monday?

Speaker 1 (01:35:55):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:35:57):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:35:58):
No, food truck Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (01:36:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:36:02):
I like Monday.

Speaker 7 (01:36:03):
Mobile meal Monday or meal truck Monday. I like meal
truck Monday better. What do you think, zach Meil truck
Monday or mobile meal Monday.

Speaker 4 (01:36:11):
Meal truck Monday rolls off the tongue a lot.

Speaker 7 (01:36:14):
Better, exactly, But would your first thought be No one says,
Meal truck. You know what, We're gonna rebrand it. It'll
be fine, We'll start it. It'll be fine.

Speaker 6 (01:36:25):
Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:36:26):
Back in the late eighties, I was at a Christmas
party at Nakatoma Plaza. I still can't talk about what
happened and that traumatized die Hard is a Christmas movie?
Not for that man, it is.

Speaker 5 (01:36:37):
It'll forever be imprinted in his mind.

Speaker 4 (01:36:39):
What happened? Ever wrong? Absolutely a Christmas move. Will die
on this phone.

Speaker 7 (01:36:45):
Oh we lost Zach. I'll love to day's chancel today.
It's okay, Zach.

Speaker 4 (01:36:50):
A rod will die on this mountain, Zach. Ever, I
will die hard on this mountain. Zach. Seeger is in
the studio. Quick question, Anthony, the Christmas movie Klaus? Is
that animated?

Speaker 1 (01:37:00):
It is?

Speaker 5 (01:37:01):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:37:01):
That's an animal on Netflix? On Netflix? Have you seen Klaus?

Speaker 5 (01:37:05):
What's your favorite Christmas movie?

Speaker 13 (01:37:06):
No, you know what, I think I go back to
the classic Rudolph Like there's just something nostalgic about it
to me.

Speaker 4 (01:37:11):
I love the stop motion, I love the story of it.
I think that one's just special. Until he was useful. Yeah,
I'm right there with you.

Speaker 8 (01:37:18):
But with a year without his hand clause.

Speaker 4 (01:37:20):
Yeah, there you go. Well they're all they take it
were kids. That's how I feel about and other stuff
from my childhood. That was awesome. Yeah, yeah, definitely better
than I think the more modern ones. No, I do
think there's a modern film. I do think Elf is
a true classic. I really think that's amazing that movie.
It sort of transcends a lot of other modern Christmas movies.

Speaker 7 (01:37:43):
Again, the honorable mention for a new new one, Red
One was really good. Yeah last night.

Speaker 4 (01:37:49):
It's a fun movie really, but it's not as classic.

Speaker 5 (01:37:51):
I not like Elf.

Speaker 4 (01:37:52):
No, but it's very enjoyable.

Speaker 5 (01:37:53):
Yeah, worth watching anyway.

Speaker 4 (01:37:55):
Okay, tomorrow on the show, we're going to tell you
about a promotion the Humans Society is doing. We are
doing that tomorrow, right, Anthony, yep, all right, And I'm
looking to see if there's anything else on Nope. So
it is going to be an ask me anything Friday.
It's gonna be wild.

Speaker 5 (01:38:11):
I told Ad a little while ago. It's that time
of the.

Speaker 4 (01:38:14):
Year when every day feels like Monday. Tomorrow is going
to be a Friday that probably feels like Monday. I
think it's the extra short day. Oh god, it gets dark,
So that's gray for color. Well, I told Chuck, I said,
when I get home from work, we're going to walk
the dog. But we have to go the second I
walk in the door, so.

Speaker 5 (01:38:32):
It's not dark by the time.

Speaker 8 (01:38:34):
Yesterday with Christmas, I had to get that up quick.

Speaker 4 (01:38:38):
And now it's time for the most exciting segment on
the radio of its kind. Who of the Day?

Speaker 5 (01:38:47):
All Right, boys and girls, what is our dad joke
of the day?

Speaker 4 (01:38:52):
Three guys walking to a bar with golf clubs.

Speaker 7 (01:38:54):
The guy with a putter orders a beer, the guy
with a wedge orders it tequila. Was the well the
third one says nothing for me, I'm the driver. Oh god, huh.

Speaker 4 (01:39:08):
Anyhow, what is our word of the day? It is
verbs a verb? Oh, ski do not s dooche? Do
you ski?

Speaker 3 (01:39:18):
Do?

Speaker 4 (01:39:19):
Like skin you? Isn't that a dance?

Speaker 5 (01:39:22):
It's a nineteen twenties term.

Speaker 4 (01:39:25):
No, I'm thinking to twentieth century jet ski. No, that
is that ski do? That's right is to go away
get out? Oh you can do it on a jet ski.
I mean it's very close to skidaddle. Yeah, I wonder,
there you go. Today's trivia question what classic Broadway musical

(01:39:46):
tells the story of a London girl with a thick
Cockney accent named Eliza Doolittle who gets linguistic lessons letter
named Henry Higgins. You are correct. I will see that
I heard do Little?

Speaker 6 (01:39:58):
And when when?

Speaker 4 (01:39:59):
When does linguin'd it? Oh my god, linguistic.

Speaker 5 (01:40:03):
Yes, let's thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:40:04):
I was thinking doctor do little.

Speaker 4 (01:40:05):
Nope, Nope, Eliza, do Little?

Speaker 2 (01:40:08):
The rain in Spain.

Speaker 7 (01:40:12):
In the plane on the plane, yes, okay, what is
our jeopardy under the Christmas tree?

Speaker 3 (01:40:17):
Okay?

Speaker 7 (01:40:19):
Little Susie loves science. So the omano O M one
one seven L was a great choice. Zach microscope correct?

Speaker 8 (01:40:27):
What I got this Amazon hands free speaker?

Speaker 4 (01:40:32):
I control my voice? What is Alexa wrong? What is Zach?
What is then echo?

Speaker 2 (01:40:38):
Correct?

Speaker 4 (01:40:39):
Wait a minute, that's what it says. Because when it
came out, I got robbed. I'm not giving myself minus
twenty sixteen.

Speaker 8 (01:40:48):
I'm not giving myself one minus point five, minus point five.

Speaker 4 (01:40:51):
I'm not taking a hit za minus point five.

Speaker 7 (01:40:54):
Y coyote, I got this company's do weapon is acme correct?

Speaker 8 (01:41:00):
If Mandy wins because of this, you got to protest.

Speaker 4 (01:41:02):
I'm just telling you that I don't count the.

Speaker 7 (01:41:04):
Vote perfectly timed the first of my monthly boxes from
this Arboreal makeup mailer. Made it under the tree, Arboreal
makeup mailer, Arboreal.

Speaker 4 (01:41:19):
What the heck is that like tree or something?

Speaker 5 (01:41:23):
I have no idea.

Speaker 4 (01:41:24):
What is birch box? What the score? One?

Speaker 1 (01:41:28):
On you?

Speaker 4 (01:41:29):
Yes? Or one? I thought? We call it, we'll call it,
We'll call it even dead tie? How about that?

Speaker 5 (01:41:36):
I got an echo? I got echo and I got
whatever the first one?

Speaker 6 (01:41:39):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (01:41:40):
Look at her?

Speaker 8 (01:41:41):
You all right?

Speaker 4 (01:41:42):
Well for the win then? Or is it the win?
For the win?

Speaker 7 (01:41:46):
I'll only one in every ten thousand casks gets to
become a blue label bottle of.

Speaker 5 (01:41:52):
This Scott Manny what is Johnny Walker?

Speaker 4 (01:41:54):
That is correct? And that is no, that's baloney. Five.
I have three, he has two. So even if I
took away too point five, I've still got two points five.
He's got two protests. Protests.

Speaker 5 (01:42:08):
Do you know what's going away?

Speaker 4 (01:42:09):
Sports?

Speaker 13 (01:42:10):
Yeah, we got some great guests. We've got jail Skinner
right around the corner. And uh, I think CSU head
coach Jim Moore will even be joining at the top
of next hour.

Speaker 5 (01:42:19):
All right, Uh, we'll be back tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (01:42:21):
It's gonna be kind of a loosey goosey asked me
anything nonsense.

Speaker 5 (01:42:24):
Show buckle up, Buttercup. We'll see then