12-19-25 FULL SHOW - An AI Chat, A Visit With Susan Witkin, And Ask Me Anything!

Where is AI already affecting industry, my dear friend and former newsperson Susan Witkin pops by, AROD's parents stop in and it's an Ask Me Anything sort of day!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:27):
Welcome to a Friday edition of the show altogether now please,
Oh oh, oh jeez, we've added thunder to that or Blucifer,

(00:54):
whoever that is. We don't know both, all right, so
it's blunder, but it is.

Speaker 5 (01:00):
Oh, no.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Excuse anyhow. So today, guys, I just published the blog.
I am so sorry. You know, when you're young and
you have what I call the clock out and be
done jobs, And there is something to be said for
clock out and be done jobs. What's a clock out
and be done job? You might ask yourself. A clock
out and be done job is like waiting tables, Right,

(01:23):
if you're just waiting tables or bartending or working in
a restaurant, you do your shift, you clock out, and
you don't have to think about it anymore. Right, your
work is done, you turn it off, it's over. That's
an easy sort of job to go on vacation for.
You don't have to get ready. But when you reach
a certain level, things have to be done and have
to be taken care of. And I'm on vacation until

(01:45):
January second. I'll be back for that Friday. But all
the stuff that has to be done just er ah
er and I ah. But it's done now, Anthony, thanks
for asking.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
So now we have to wait until the blog publishes
so people can follow up, and they always do.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
It is published now, it may take a moment to
generate because, as I said before, sometimes it updates right away,
sometimes it doesn't.

Speaker 5 (02:09):
Nancy is just shaking her head in the back of
the room.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
You know what, But Nancy, here you go, Nancy. People
will be able to go to mandy'sblog dot com. That's
mandy'sblog dot com, and they will be able at some
point in the very near future to go and look
for the headline in the latest post section that says
twelve nineteen twenty five blog an aichat a visit with
Susan Wigan and ask me anything. Click on that, Nancy,

(02:32):
and here are the headlines you will find within.

Speaker 6 (02:34):
Oh Gods in office, half American, all with ships and
clipments and seen that's going to press.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
Plant today on the blog AI has been adopted faster
than any other advancement in history. It's Old Home Week
on the Mandy Show, A Rod's parrots stop I two
ask me anything more excel liability cutoffs. Today you will
never hear about this man again. I hate it when

(02:59):
Daddy and Magafi we may be near the end of
gender affirming care for children. People don't understand small nuclear
reactors scrolling will Colorado decide that subtle anti semitism is okay?
Where's the rest of the blog. Well, let's see how
we say that. I'm oh, god, so that is super

(03:29):
disappointing that the whole blog's not there.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
Oh no, what did you hit publish?

Speaker 7 (03:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (03:39):
I did, now know the whole blog is not there. Yeah,
on the back end site. So when you hit publish,
you published half of a blog. Correct correct, Well, just
in case you were wondering, I will.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
This is one of those where I'm like, you know
what you know, when you do something accidentally the road
and you get you know, you cut somebody off, or
you do something. I'm always like, that was me pointing
to myself.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
That was me.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
I'm sorry, tick oh, I don't even get the tic
tac dou no, just tick. You know what, I deserve
that When I was waiting tables one time, going back
to jobs that don't have a lot of requirement for
you to go on vacation, although you don't get to
go on many vacations, you don't make that much money.
But it's uh. I had a customer one time, and
it's just everything went wrong with the table. Have you

(04:27):
ever waited tables?

Speaker 9 (04:29):
No?

Speaker 4 (04:29):
Oh gosh, So it always seems odd. Everything happens wrong
at one table, right, Something's wrong with their drink, their
food order doesn't get made, something, it's all it always
happens at one table. And I had one of those
one tables and the guy was like, yeah, I'm not
gonna tip you, and I was like, you know what, sir,
I am perfectly fine with that. I am aokay. This

(04:51):
has been an absolute disaster from start to finish. Not
all of it was my fault, but some of it was.
So you do what you gotta do. And he started
laughing and I was like, I'll take that. Sometimes you
just got to own it. I don't know what happened here,
though I really don't. I probably would have tipped you
after you owned it.

Speaker 5 (05:09):
I know, you know what, Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
Well you know it was uh yeah, yeah, yep, Mandy,
it's a good thing. XL shut down power in downtown
Golden We have a stiff breeze occasionally. Let the revolt begin.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
Wait, that's when the text her, that's what happened to you.
You went to publish the.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
Blog out blown away.

Speaker 5 (05:29):
Yeah, they're blown away.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
I don't even know how that could have possibly even
I don't know how that happened, because you sent me
a bunch of really good videos that were on the
blog today.

Speaker 10 (05:39):
Yeah, no, I feel mad. I forgot about that being
part of it. So I'm really mad. I sent you
really good stuff today.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
You really did.

Speaker 10 (05:45):
I mean, I always do, but today extra, I was like,
I'm gonna get Mandy out on a high note before
for a while.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yeah and then yeah yeah, No, guy said, it looks
like a longer blog at KO. Wait no, you guys,
the blog was twice as long as this this morning
when I left my house. Mandy, you need to cueue
up on solo. It's not my fault. Mandy's short timers disease,
that's possible. And I had an appointment this morning, so
this morning got all jumbled up, not so not so hot.

(06:14):
But I have no excuse for not I don't care though.
I can talk about whatever I want to talk about
because it's my show and it's an ask me anything
kind of day. What do you guys, there's so much
stuff in the news right now. Oh, you know what
I really wanted people to talk I wanted to talk
about the New Millennia movie trailer.

Speaker 11 (06:31):
That show.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
Okay, here's my impression of the of the trailer. And
I actually love Malania Trump. I want to be clear
about that. I think Malania Trump has made her deal
with the devil and she owns it. She doesn't care
what you think about her. I think she and Trump
are actually a really good rel They're were good pairing.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
I buy more about.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
Their relationship than I do Bill and Hillary Clinton. You
know what I'm saying as far as political partnerships go.
But the way that they package the trailer for this movie,
she looks part like evil queen, business magnate.

Speaker 5 (07:06):
And first Lady Mandy.

Speaker 11 (07:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (07:09):
Over the last twenty seconds, I contemplated, do I let
her get away with this? Or speak on behalf of
every texture that saying, what the hell you think they're
a good couple.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
I think they're a good couple.

Speaker 10 (07:18):
Are you okay? You know what, let's on the wind.
Let's blame it on the short time.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
Right, the relationship. You cannot project onto their relationship anything
relating to your relationship with your wife, right, because you
guys have an entirely different, I would say, far more
functional relationship. No, hear me out. I'm trying being older

(07:43):
and seeing people in long marriages of all different sorts
and shorter marriages, and just watching relationships among all my
peer group. I've got like thirty more years doing this
than you do. Twenty more years doing this, and you
begin to understand that some people expect different things out
of their marriage. I think that Malania Trump does love

(08:04):
Donald Trump. But is it the same as the love
that you feel for your wife. I don't think so.
I feel like their relationship started out more transactional, and
to a certain extent, remains transactional. But it doesn't mean
you can't you don't love the person that you're with.
You would not do that for Malania. It works.

Speaker 10 (08:21):
You haven't watched it before, so I can't make the analogy.
But man, if you had ever watched House of Cards,
you would feel exactly what. We all know what That
relationship is bogus, not full of love. She hates him
and they are terrible together. We all know everything I
just said is one thousand percent.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
Actually, you know what, I can't even argue forcefully against
that because of a scene in the trailer where I
guess she calls Donald Trump and is like, congratulations, mister president.
He goes, did you see it? And she goes, oh, no,
I'll watch it later on the news, Like why would
you put that in there?

Speaker 11 (08:59):
Movie?

Speaker 4 (09:00):
I'm going to see the movie.

Speaker 5 (09:01):
Oh I am as well.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
I thought I would have to see it.

Speaker 10 (09:03):
I thought it was fan made. I thought it was
in real whatsoever. No, what's the beginning line she says
like here we go again or something like that.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
Oh my god. Yeah, I mean, but here's the thing, guys.
Milennia Trump came from the former Soviet Union. She's well educated,
she's beautiful, she married a billionaire. And not only does
she marry a billionaire, she still comes off somehow as
having some gravitas, like she speaks all these different languages.
I mean, this woman has done what women have done

(09:34):
since the beginning of time, and that is maximize their
options and take advantage of those options using the skills
that they have. And she's a beautiful woman and she
ran on high, high level circles and she landed Donald Trump.
And I'm sorry you guys can act like that's horrible.
First of all, happens all the time, you know, honestly,
go to Naples floor. And as I mentioned the other day,

(09:55):
in Naples has more money than God. You see all
of these men that are like a hundred and their
wives are like fifty.

Speaker 10 (10:02):
I'm not saying it doesn't happen. Doesn't mean we all
don't know what exactly it is. Yeah, and I ain't
love and it ain't happiness.

Speaker 4 (10:09):
I don't think those two things are mutually exclusive. Let
me finish this point, because that made me remember why
I started down that pathway. I've also seen long term
relationships where someone married a fifty year old man at
twenty five for a variety of reasons, economic security, you know,
daddy issues, whatever you want to say. But they're still
together thirty years later, and now he is elderly and

(10:32):
she is caring for him in a way that shows
me that there is deep and abiding love there like
it's it's kind of really sweet to watch. If I'm
honest and I did.

Speaker 10 (10:42):
Confrect it, I'll give you comfort over years. I'm not
going to give you love. I'm going to give you
any get used to somebody. You do what I want,
I do what you want. We get what we want
out of it, and we'll keep on going and keep
this train on the tracks. Doesn't mean it's love, but it.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
Doesn't mean it's not. That's my point. It doesn't mean
it's not. I have seen it for my own self.
I have seen it from I've seen it when women,
those young women, when they could divorce their husbands after
the prenup, you know, period of waiting is over, they don't.
And part of it is they want to keep their lifestyle.
But I do think you can, you can develop genuine affection.

Speaker 5 (11:17):
That was some high quality lipstick on pig.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
I'm telling I can't wait to see a movie.

Speaker 5 (11:20):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
So there's a movie coming out in theaters January thirtieth theater, Yes,
on the big screen. It's it's in theaters on January thirty.
It's called Millennia and her ex account put it out
today and the trailer is wild. Don't you think the.

Speaker 10 (11:35):
Trailer's wild, Well, you know, maybe maybe her movie can
be the lead in movie to the Hunger Games featuring
the United States of America.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Which I'm sorry, I'm gonna spit my coffee all over
the computer monitor.

Speaker 5 (11:48):
Yeah, it could be double feature. Okay.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
This was also on the blog the stuff that the
blog didn't appear, the what should we call it? The
phantom blog? Sure, okay, the phantom blog that didn't make
it to the publishing. Today, Donald Trump announces that there's
gonna be a series of games, one woman, one man
from I can't even say this without laughing. Yeah, okay,
you know what a Rod Right has a guy on

(12:11):
his show, and I don't know if you've ever heard
this guy. He does the most spot on impression of
Donald Trump. He sounds exactly like Donald Trump, but he
tries to say these outrageous things. Right, But the last
time I heard him on Ryan Show, I'm like, Ryan,
it's almost not funny anymore because it's not outrageous enough.
So when I hear Donald Trump announcing the Patriot Games

(12:34):
where one guy and one girl from each state is
going to compete in this giant whatever, and I don't
know if it's a pentap, I mean, what are we
I don't even.

Speaker 9 (12:43):
Know exactly and.

Speaker 11 (12:49):
What are.

Speaker 9 (12:51):
What are we doing this? I just no.

Speaker 10 (12:55):
One just showed Donald Trump in the Oval office the
longer games. He is just it's now been exposed years
later to the movie, to the film franchise, and he goes,
you know what, Yeah, that's not a half bad idea. Yep, yeah,
that's happening, and that's real life twenty twenty five Hunger Games.

Speaker 4 (13:14):
We have a lot of people weighing in on this
on the common Spirit health text line, and they vary,
So let's rip through these very quickly. This one, Mandy,
you can tell they love each other by the way
they tease one another. I agree with that, Mandy. You're
not coming off as a good person a Rod. Wait,
we'll leave that one there. Mandy. You they got married
twenty years ago. He was much better looking than and

(13:35):
that is true, he was much better looking at I'm sorry, Mandy,
first to find love, Mandy, I agree about the Trump marriage.
I think Malania knew what she was getting and she
accepted it. She has class and beauty. He has money exactly. Mandy,
who backed the Malania movie The Trump's are a liberal. Okay,
here's where it gets interesting. It was it's being distributed

(13:55):
by MGM, which is now owned by Amazon, which is
owned by Jeff Bay. The realignment of the tech bros.
Is stunning, so stunning. Mandy Milannia approves what I've known
for years. Slovenian women are hot. Mandy. You two are

(14:17):
some judgmental haters. I mean, I'd love to say I'm
not ever, but sometimes I am. Two things I've been
working on personally not being as judgmental. That one's rough
and trusting God, also sometimes hard. Mandy, they are a
perfect couple. You can tell she is one of the

(14:37):
only people in the world who can put him in
his place. I totally agree with that, Mandy. Maybe the
people of Golden should buy the Excel property in Golden
because municipal utilities are always run so well. I don't
think municipal utilities are the answer. What I do think
is that we need to Okay, let's just we're jumping
back here. If you have not heard this did make

(14:58):
it on the blog. I believe XL has announced that
a public safety power shut off or liability shut off
for the city of Golden will be well, they'll be
off all day, and that they should not anticipate power
coming back on on Friday, and all residents should prepare
to be without power, possibly through the weekend and into Monday.

(15:21):
Now as a monopoly utility, and I got into a
back and forth on X about this with some dude.
He's like, yeah, all utilities are monopolies. That's just silly.
I'm like, but it's accurate. They have a contract that
says they won't have any competition in these areas, and

(15:42):
in return, they are delivering the energy. Now I found
out today. I was talking to John Caldera today and
John said, look, you know, before this change in the law,
they had to deliver energy at the lowest possible price.
But when all the green stuff started being shoved into
the law, that changed, and the contract with and if
Excel is now a reasonable cost. Reasonable is one of

(16:04):
those weasel words because reasonable entirely depends on who is
defining it, right, Like, for I don't know, a millionaire
like Jared Polis, reasonable is a lot different than reasonable
for a working set of parents with two kids at
home who are barely getting by and renting an apartment. Right,

(16:25):
those are two very different words. But until we get
some change in Colorado at the legislature and in the
governor's mansion, nothing will change at the PUC. Not to mention,
XCEL does not make money when they do maintenance. They
make money when they buy new, build new infrastructure. That's

(16:47):
how the deal is struck, right. They're limited on how
much they can pass along the cost of production, but
they are not able to make a profit on things
like maintenance. My thinking is this the PUC should demand
in return for the generous monopoly that they have that
allows them to increase their profits nine percent this year

(17:09):
over last. And by the way, I'm a capitalist, you guys.
I am a capitalist. I am happy Excel is making money.
I'm thrilled for their shareholders. I truly am. I mean
that one hundred percent. That being said, they are not
operating on an open playing field. And because they're not
operating on a playing field that is level and has
competition that could possibly bring down prices, they have a responsibility.

(17:33):
And if the PUC had any stones whatsoever, they would
say to XL, hey, XL, at least in these danger
zones where every single year we're gonna have the same
winds kill the end of time, we expect you to
dip into your pockets, not ours, and we expect you

(17:53):
to start bearing power lines. We don't care how long
it takes, because you know what, the first year, fewer
houses will be negatively a affected, fewer businesses will have
to close because you're not mitigating any of this. Their
idea of mitigating the situation is to just turn off power. Guys,
it is the weekend before Christmas and businesses in Golden

(18:15):
are not going to be open. I'm sure that won't
hurt their bottom line at all. I'm sure, but for Excel,
you know, hey, we're not going to be liable for
anything if we do it this way and let the
people who suit us suffer. We don't care. That's how
it feels. I'm sure that's not what they're saying, but
that's how it feels. Now you can actually go in

(18:36):
and weigh in on this PUC decision. That link, ah,
that link did not make it on here? Oh yeah
I did. You can make your comments to the PUC
about this program, and I would strongly urge that you
respectfully and without cursing go let your comments be heard
by the public. Utilities Commission. I already did and I'm

(18:57):
not even an Excel customer, So you could you could
do this, You really really could. All Right, when we
get back, Oh, we've got a big day planned. By
the way, when we get back, we're going to talk
about did you guys realize this statistic? This blew my mind.
Today AI has been adopted faster than any other modern

(19:17):
form of technology or advancement has been adopted in the
last I mean hundreds if ever. Ever. We're going to
talk about that next. Trevor Wagner is the chief economist
and director of the Research Center Computer and Communications Industry Association,
and he's just put together a new report called the
twenty two it's it's a bit of a dry title, Trevor.

(19:37):
We'll work on that for marketing purposes. Twenty twenty five
Survey of Product Impact in the Connected Economy Artificial Intelligence
and some of the stuff in this report is fascinating. Trevor,
welcome the show. First of all, thank you very much
for having me. Yeah, we're going to focus group that
name and give you something a little bit a little
more sizzle, like everybody's doing it AI in the you know,

(20:00):
in the workplace that'll get you on the cover of magazines.
But this research is specifically about how quickly people are
starting to adapt and use AI. What did any of
this surprise you when you started looking into it?

Speaker 7 (20:18):
So probably the most surprising finding is the extent to
which adoption has been accelerating.

Speaker 5 (20:24):
So if you look at the rate at which it.

Speaker 7 (20:26):
Takes about sixty percent of consumers to be using a
new technology, we can look at some key technology is
and see that for the automobile, you know, it took
over twenty years. For the Internet, it took give or
take a decade, for the smartphone, it took about seven
to eight years.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
For generative AI.

Speaker 7 (20:44):
It took less than three years, which is just an
incredibly rapid adoption clip.

Speaker 4 (20:50):
I thought about this earlier because I used Chat, GBT,
I use GROC, I use Gemini, I use a lot
of them in very purposeful ways, and I've thought about
this is part of the reason, because unlike the adoption
of the automobile, let's use that as an example, we
didn't have infrastructure to make using an automobile between cities

(21:12):
as useful as it might be. Right, that took a
while for the infrastructure to keep up. But the AI
is using existing infrastructure as well as being intuitive about
how to use it.

Speaker 11 (21:24):
Right.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
This is for me, the easiest technological adoption I've ever
experienced as a Gen X person, Right, And I think
those two things in concert probably make it easier for
more people to say, Yeah, I'm going to do that.
What do you think?

Speaker 12 (21:40):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (21:41):
I think that's incredibly plausible because it's not as though
you need to have one specific prior technology to use
generative AI. You can use it on your smartphone, you
can use it on your computer. It's incredibly easy to
use so long as you find it useful. And that's
sort of the key takeaway here is that people have
found it useful enough that they're using it and increasingly

(22:01):
using it on a you know, regular weekly or even
daily case.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
So is this cutting across all age groups, socioeconomic classes,
is this everybody? Or is this concentrated in people like
me who work in an information industry, or is it
everyone is adopting it at the same time.

Speaker 7 (22:20):
So there are a few minor age gradients, but the
upward trajectory is very similar across demographics.

Speaker 4 (22:25):
And it really has to be.

Speaker 7 (22:27):
When you're moving this quickly when you've got sixty percent
of the population doing it. It's not as though there's
one hundred percent penetration for the under twenty fives and
zero percent for those over sixty five. You know, it's
relatively similar. It's just a little bit faster with the
younger cohort, but not that much faster. Everyone is using it.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
What did you guys find about productivity, Because we're being told,
you know, as productivity and increases productivity. For me, I've
had some frustrations in the sense that occasionally I can
still do something faster than AI. On occasion that does happen.
But what are you seeing in terms of productivity for
people who are using AI on a regular basis at
their jobs.

Speaker 7 (23:07):
So we're seeing an average reported productivity improvement of about
fifteen percent, and that's taking into account that a lot
of folks are feeling that they have to double check
the outputs because that may do something very quickly, but
you really want to check all of the links because
there are still occasional hallucinations. Even with all of that,
people are saying they're saving on average fifteen percent of

(23:29):
their time. And what we see is that, you know,
a lot of that is redounding to the benefit of
the workers who are saying, Okay, I'm saving some time,
they aren't necessarily, you know, doing more work than.

Speaker 5 (23:41):
They were before.

Speaker 7 (23:41):
And that's why it may not all the appearing in
productivity statistics collected by official government statistical agencies, because there
they would see an increase in the overall output. A
lot of workers are getting their work done and then
you know, browsing the news.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
Well, and here's the thing I always think about in
this in the terms of entrepreneurship, for a small business owner,
fifteen percent productivity increase on your own time is massive, right,
I mean, I think it all depends on where you
are in the food chain as to how important that
fifteen percent actually is. And for me personally, it has
got my research time on things down. I can't even

(24:20):
I don't even know if I can quantify how helpful
AI is for me on background stuff right where I'm
just trying to get a deeper dive on a topic
and it has just been game changing for me. But
the reason I asked that is, do you guys see
any and for lack of the better way to put it,
lutie tendencies in the workplace are there places where it

(24:41):
seems to be lagging behind in adoption or did you
go into any of that sort of thing.

Speaker 7 (24:47):
So what we found is that on both the worker
and employer level, there's an overwhelmingly favorable approach. So from
the worker perspective and consumer perspective, we found seventy seven
percent of users are report a favorable impression of the
technology versus only fifteen percent who report an unfavorable impression.
So in other words, if you're using it, you're generally

(25:09):
liking it. Now when you start looking at the workplace,
you see that there is a significantly higher rate roughly
two to one of workplaces encouraging the use of AI
as opposed to discouraging it. So overall by a two
to one or even a three to one margin, we're
seeing favorable impressions from both workers and employers just because

(25:31):
it is so useful.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
What did you find about which platforms are getting it done,
who's the big dog, and who's nipping at their heels.

Speaker 7 (25:41):
So, you know, surprising no one Chat GPT is in
the lead in terms of overall usage. They were sort
of the first out the gate in November twenty twenty two,
and they had that early adopter or early innovator advantage
on their heels. In second place is Google with its Gemini,
and then behind them are a series of other tools
that are all very tightly clustered, all of the other

(26:02):
big names that you sort of see in this space,
which is to say that this is a very competitive market.
You know, even though chat GPT was first out the gate,
if lead isn't insurmountable, at the same time, it does
still have a noticeable lead over number two Gemini, which
has a bit of a lead over the other contenders.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
And I'm going to be honest, I have paid for
premium memberships on multiple AIS and I have then canceled.
I think this is going to be an ongoing problem
for the subscription model because it's super easy to cancel,
and if you're not getting what you want and you're
getting better results from other AI, especially as more free
AI comes up, it's going to be really interesting to

(26:40):
watch how that business model ends up playing out, you
know what I mean? Just in terms of the ease
of changing, It's not like when you want to change
your cell phone, you have to go you know, everybody
knows it's like fifty fresh layers of Well, so this
is so easy to move as a consumer from platform
to platform in order to get the various benefits. I
find myself doing it quite often as a matter of fact,

(27:01):
depending on who's in the lead. So I think that's
an interesting part that I'd like to I just want
to see what's going to happen next with that.

Speaker 7 (27:09):
So we are seeing that the switching costs are effectively
zero between these different tools, which is keeping that competition
very very tight. We are seeing a general slight increase
in conversion from unpaid use to paid subscriptions more or
less across the board for the vast majority of the
tools that we're surveyed, but it's sort of a gradual process.
A lot of folks are still using these sort of

(27:31):
unpaid versions of these different tools and reporting that they're
mixing and matching them off and using two or three,
sometimes preferring one for work and one for their personal use,
or one for one type of use case maybe writing,
and another for a different use case which might be research.
So we are seeing that these low switching costs really
are encouraging people to try the different tools out.

Speaker 4 (27:54):
Well, I'm one of those people, and I will keep
doing it until they prevent me from doing it. I
very much appreciate your time, Trevor. Wagen a very interesting conversation.
The report is fascinating and the graphs are stunning. And
I put a link to that study on the blog
today at mandy'sblog dot com. Trevor, thanks so much, Thank
you very much for having me. All Right, I have
a great day, man, We'll be right back. From a

(28:15):
Texter who said, Mandy, I'm selling a collection of vintage
bamboo fly rods on eBay and Facebook. I enter rod length, weight,
number of sections, rod condition into Microsoft co Pilot and
it gives me a written informative product description for the listing.
That from Steve, and I said, Steve, ask it to
write the listing like a J. Peterman AD. Do you

(28:37):
know J Peterman is okay? Jpeterman was an actual catalog
But then Jay Peterman was also a Seinfeld character, and
Jay Peterman was known for writing these over the top
descriptions for its items. So I just on, Steve, Here's
what I did for you. I put in a Yellowstone
two fly rod, lightweight IM eight graphic fly rod with

(28:58):
a four piece travel design and write me an ad
for that as a J Peterman at and this is
what chat gpt just said for me, Am, I bought
my first fly rod the way some men buy their
first passport on a hunch, with little money in my
pocket and a lot of water is still unexplored. The
Yellowstone two fly rod is that kind of rod. It

(29:20):
begins as all good tools do, with restraint, lightweight. I
am graphite, strong, responsive, and unburdened by excess. So the
rod disappears into your hands and leaves only the cast.
You feel the line load, You feel the pause, You
feel the quiet confidence of doing something the right way.
Four pieces, because rivers don't announce themselves in advance, may

(29:44):
appear after long drives, dirt roads, and one last bend
in the trail. This rod breaks down easily, tucks into
a pack or trunk, and waits patiently until the water
tells you it's time on the stream. It's precise without
being fussy, delicate enough for weary trout and clear water,
strong enough to handle changing currents, longer casts, and the
unexpected bend of a good fish that didn't read your plans.

(30:06):
It performs across freshwater environments the way a well traveled
companion does adaptable calm and ready. This is not a
rod for showing off, it's rod for showing up. Yeah,
that's what you get from AI. Put that on Facebook.
See how fast it sells.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
Now.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
I got another text message that asked, are those AI
searches really that much better than just using the old Google?
And I use this today on the blog that did
not make it to the actual blog. I had a graphic.
Oh no, it did. I asked AI how much water
a small modular reactor used compared to other forms of energy?

(30:50):
And from that I went down this long rabbit hole
and there's a whole thing. The airport wants small modular reactors.
And already activists are like, we're so worried about nuclear
use it so much water? Except it doesn't. It doesn't. Anyway,
When you go and you go and you put that
into AI, you not only get the information that you want,

(31:12):
you get it in a usable format like a table.
And when I say I always ask chat GBT to
show me all of its links and to ensure that
whatever they're showing me is reflected in the links, because
then I have to check it and make check their work.
It may I promise you. It makes it so much
easier to do deeper dives on stuff and compare things
that otherwise we're not being compared. I also asked AI

(31:33):
to compare the number of injections that children get in
the United States of America from their vaccinations and how
many injections that Denmark gives kids. And not only do
they give me the numbers, it gave me the specific
breakdown of the different illnesses. It then asked me if
I wanted to compare rates of illness between the two,
which I did. It is just it is like having
an assistant, a personal assistant that you can just give

(31:57):
orders to. It's amazing. Mandy, Could AI do a Billy
May style advertisement? Of course it can, of course, Mandy
Coplot with co pilot with Microsoft Office makes you an
MS office expert. You know, the first day I knew
that I was gonna love Microsoft Office was the day

(32:18):
that I said, can you make me an Excel spreadsheet
with these categories in it and this information? And it
did and I never have to make another Excel spreadsheet
on my own again ever in the history of the world.
I fell in love right then, I did. I'm not
gonna I just fell I fell right in love. When

(32:39):
we get back and so ask me anything kind of
day and you guys haven't asked me anything. I'm opening
up the phones. We're gonna have a little chat. That's
all coming up next.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
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Speaker 2 (32:53):
No, it's Mandy Connell.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
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Speaker 4 (33:09):
Bendy Donald Keith, you sad babe, uncle local. Welcome to
the second hour of the show. And you know, in
the last segment of the show, I was talking about
how to use AI and how much fun it could
be to use and I read an ad for an
antique shop or a fly rod that was written in

(33:31):
the style of j. Peterman and it was very well done.
And then a texter said, can it write one in
the style of Billy Mays? And because it's Friday, ask
and you shall receive first. I want to give out
the phone number. It's ask me anything for this hour.
Whatever you want to talk about, let's talk about it.
There's no math questions, though I should that Kevin No

(33:51):
math questions three oh three seven one three eighty five,
eighty five. Hey Ron, I'll put them on hold while
you're reading. Ay Rod will now present the Billy Mays
version of the Antique fly rod advertisement as written by
Shot gpt.

Speaker 10 (34:05):
Hi Billy Mays here and boyd, Do I have a
fly rod for you? Are you tired of the flyer
outs I feel heavy, clunky and impossible to travel with.
Do you want precision casting, serious performance and a rod
that's ready to go anywhere? Then you need the Yellowstone
two fly rod. That powerhouse is built with lightweight im
A GRAPHI, which means it's strong, responsive, and easy to cast,

(34:27):
so you can lay down smooth, accurrate ligns without fighting
your gear. Whether you're fishing tight mountain streams or wide
open rivers, this rod delivers control and power right when
you need it.

Speaker 5 (34:38):
I guarantee it and get this. It's a four piece
travel design.

Speaker 10 (34:42):
That means it breaks down fast, packs easy, and it
goes wherever you go car, plane, backpack, no problem. You're
always ready when the fish are biting.

Speaker 5 (34:52):
But wait, there's more.

Speaker 10 (34:54):
The Yellowstone two is built for versatile freshwater performance, trout.

Speaker 5 (34:58):
Panfish changing conditions.

Speaker 10 (35:00):
This rod handles it all with ease, delicate presentations done
confident hook sets. You bet it's a Yellowstone two fly
rod get it down in nineteen ninety nine.

Speaker 4 (35:13):
I'm gonna give you a round on applause for that.
That was I almost felt like you were Billy May's
without the beard.

Speaker 5 (35:18):
But wait, there's more.

Speaker 4 (35:19):
I know there had to be one of those. That's
what you can use AI for. This is how I
entertained myself. Uh it's asked me anything. You can call
three oh three seven one, three eighty five eighty five.
You can text on the Common Spirit Health text line
five sixty six nine. How Mandy, do you feel the
Denver metro is still a desirable place to live there?

(35:40):
That is a yes to no question, because again, desirable
is one of those adjectives. But depending on your situation
and depending on your life and what's important to you,
the answer could be yes and the answer could be no.
You know, if you're do it okay financially and you
are in the upper level of you know, the income scale,

(36:00):
I think Denver is an incredibly desirable place to live.
I think Colorado is an incredibly desirable place to live, right.
I just we live in the most beautiful state. I
don't know about you, guys. But every day, every single day,
when I get my first glimpse of the entire front
range because I have to come, you know, I'm driving
to the west at one point to get to work,

(36:22):
and every day I'm like, oh, man, it's beautiful. But
if you are maybe just starting out in your career,
maybe you're not making a lot of money, maybe you
don't own a home, maybe you can't afford an icon pass.
I mean, then is it a desirable place to live?
It maybe one of those that is, you know, aspirational,

(36:43):
but maybe it is too stressful to live in a
certain place. I don't know. So, like I said, desirable
is you know, I I love living here, but I'm
not gonna I don't think I'm not going to retire here.
I can't imagine being on a fixed income here because
I look at everything that the legislature is creating right now,
and I look at how those costs just get bigger

(37:06):
and bigger and bigger and bigger over time. I look
at the future of a green energy plan being put
forth by Jared Polish just approved by the Public Utilities Commission.
It's going to require complete retrofitting of my house, which
runs on gas right now? How am I going to
pay for that when I'm retired? Oh, by the way,
energy's costs are going to go through. I just I

(37:26):
look at it. I see the trajectory that we're currently on,
and I am not hopeful that it is going to
be an affordable place to live in any way, shape
or form for most of us. Hey, Mandy, can you
or a rod let us know if it's safe to
use TikTok. Well, another story that was on the bottom
half of the blog that somehow didn't make it to
the blog is that TikTok has entered into a sale

(37:47):
agreement with a group of US investors. Now, I just
have this one question. What's the upside for my dance here?
Is it one of those things where you're going to
trade a player that you really like because you know
that in the next couple of years are going to
start going down and you just want to get something
for them. And the alternative for bike Dance who owns

(38:09):
TikTok would have been, we're going to be kicked out
of the app stores that everybody in the world uses
if we don't sell in America. I mean, I guess
that's the upside so basically we exhorted them into selling
and I'm fine with that.

Speaker 5 (38:20):
Do what they can before being shut out completely.

Speaker 4 (38:23):
Oh man, I have to do this. Uh oh uh
oh uh oh wait hang on, oh it's not in
here so I logged in. I'll have to redo it
because this is this is a somebody asked on the
text line Mandy, ask ai to do it in this
style of Joe Biden.

Speaker 5 (38:47):
Anyway, you have a decent Trump. I don't have a
good Joe Biden.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
No, not at all. Ask Mandy anything. Is koa FM
off the air again? Yes, because our translator. We don't
have a tower for the FM. It's complicated, but there
is a tower. We have a translator which then boosts
that signal and that is part of the power outages.
But you can always listen to us on eight fifty
Am or the always crystal Clear iHeart radio station.

Speaker 5 (39:12):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (39:13):
You can stream it. Mandy, who's your daddy? What's the
record for today? We're already at seventy one. Yeah, I'm
wearing a flipping sweater like an idiot. I got out
of my car here and I was like, ah, why
am I wearing a sweater? This is awful. I don't
love it this hot, you guys this time of year.
I like, if it was fifty degrees, I would be

(39:34):
over freaking joyed, But right now it's like it's like summer. No, Mandy,
did I did ask you a question? Has the power
ever gone off? At KOA? During your show? Here at
the broadcast facility, we have a generator outside. How big
do you think that is? It's like the back of
a semi truck, right, that's how big the generator is.

(39:55):
Because not only does it run this station, it runs
all of our radio stations. So as long as our
tower or our translator is up and running, then we
will be able to continue broadcasting. And at our AM
tower in Parker, we have another generator there to keep
that on the air. But the FM translator for some reason,
I don't know enough about how the FM translator thing works.

(40:17):
I'm not gonna lie, so I don't know. But it's
out of power right now, So there you go, Mandy.
There's a lot of talk about AI and its current
applications as being all positive. Do you think there should
be any concern about AI becoming self aware as demonstrated
in movies like The terminator or I robot. The idea
of self preservation never seems to be talked about in

(40:38):
the scientific community. Oh it is all the time. Here's
the problem, and I don't know how you overcome this.
The assumption is that our brains are essentially our computer. Right,
those are the things that make us self aware. They
give us our conscience, our soul, whatever you want to

(40:59):
call it, the thing that make so it's all uniquely us.

Speaker 13 (41:01):
Right.

Speaker 4 (41:03):
I don't know if that can truly be replicated. I
don't know because I don't feel like that part is
a computer. And I know that sounds kind of woo woo,
but I think there's more to it. And I think
when you try and break the way our brain downs
and our consciousness and all of this stuff into ones
and zeros, which essentially is what they're trying to do,
I don't know if that's possible. Now, I could totally

(41:24):
be wrong and we could all die. I mean, I'm
just being honest. You should make sure coming to terms
with your own you know, imminent death is a very
positive thing. It's very liberating. I've said it on the show.
I say it all the time, like if I die
right now, know that I had an amazing life and
I loved it, and don't be sad. But when my

(41:47):
family has a yard sale and estate sale to get
rid of all the crap that radio listeners, just buy it. Okay,
just hook me up that way if I'm dead anyway, Mandy,
can we get one more darn tootin for the year? Mary,
Chris say Rod, and Mandy. There you go, there's your
darn tuton. How scared? How scary was that Seahawks win
last night? That also was on the part of the

(42:07):
blog that did not get shown. So a Rod the
weirdest to point conversion in the history of two point conversions,
and I am going to be honest to say I
still don't quite understand what happened. So here's what happened.
Seattle's going for two. The quarterback takes the snap, turns
to his left, throws a short pass which bounces off

(42:30):
the helmet of a defender. It then kind of bumbles around,
rolls into the end zone. Seahawks guy touches it and
they count the two points. I am confused.

Speaker 10 (42:39):
If it is a backwards pass right, it essentially is
like the equivalent of abby of a quarterback throwing it
back to a running back and him fumbling the ball,
it's a live ball.

Speaker 5 (42:52):
If it's a backwards pass, it is a live ball.

Speaker 10 (42:55):
And because a Seahawks player was quick enough to take
possession of the ball across the end zone.

Speaker 4 (43:04):
And I must tell you, I'm guessing that most of
the NFL players on the field didn't know that role either.

Speaker 10 (43:08):
No one really did, it seemed, except for the replay
analysts Terry McCully on the broadcast last night.

Speaker 5 (43:16):
What I'm curious two things. Number One, how did anyone
on the field know to go wait? That could have
been a backwards pass? They thought of that very quickly. Yep,
a little too quickly.

Speaker 4 (43:25):
But this is the referees. This is their job. Their
job is to know every single rule.

Speaker 10 (43:29):
Good on them, because I wouldn't have had them thinking
about it on my being goal card number two, if
you listen to the game, kind of sounds like there
was a whistle before he picked it up, which means
the play should have been dead regardless. But still one
of the coolest and wackiest plays I've ever seen. No
one's seen anything like that.

Speaker 4 (43:48):
And if I managed to get the other half of
the blog published, with the first half, you would have
been able to see it there, but it didn't happen.

Speaker 10 (43:54):
But kind of I leaned towards good for the Broncos
because now the Seahawks have the inside track to getting
the one seed, and I'd be more worried for the
Rams to go all the way and meet the Broncos
in the Super Bowl. Less likely for that to happen
now without having a home field advantage unless crazy things
happen in the rest last three weeks.

Speaker 5 (44:12):
But good for the Broncos. I'd rather play the Seahawks.

Speaker 4 (44:14):
Yeah, me too, Rams. But you know what, here's the thing.
I always think about it like that, and I always
hear Dave Logan given Ryan Edwards crap about thinking, you know,
about about who you'd rather play or not, because by
the time you get to the playoffs, everybody's really good, right,
I mean, everybody's just good.

Speaker 5 (44:32):
But it's been ten years to think like this. We're
twelve and two.

Speaker 10 (44:36):
We can start thinking, oh my gosh, who could we
play in the playoffs or the super Bowl if we
get that first round?

Speaker 5 (44:43):
By who do we want? Yeah, these aren't thoughts we've
had in a decade. So Dave let us have our
cake and we're gonna eat it too. By the way,
the Broncos can clinch AFC West and the one seed
this weekend. That's insane. They have to win.

Speaker 10 (44:57):
The Chargers have to lose to win the division, and
Patriots and the Bills also have to lose to clinch
the one seede.

Speaker 5 (45:04):
So probably not this weekend, but we're getting close.

Speaker 10 (45:07):
We're getting close to the AFC going through Denver, Colorado.

Speaker 14 (45:13):
What time.

Speaker 5 (45:16):
It really is?

Speaker 4 (45:18):
It really is? All right, guys, let me talk to Chris. Hey, Chris,
you're on with Mandy. What's your thing? It's asked me
anything today?

Speaker 15 (45:27):
Hey, Mandy, I'm a first time caller. I got a
couple of things for you.

Speaker 6 (45:32):
This is going electricy.

Speaker 14 (45:34):
I used to work for a.

Speaker 15 (45:35):
Company when we remodeled convenience stores. We're up in North Dakota.
We're in this little town. There's a coal mine and
a coal fire power plant right next to it. The
guy that we were talking to that worked at the
coal mine, they.

Speaker 16 (45:49):
Paid about Kim and his wife and two kids about.

Speaker 15 (45:53):
One hundred dollars a month for electricity. Well, they went
to gas turbines because Obama shut down the coal plant.

Speaker 11 (46:00):
Now he pays over a little.

Speaker 15 (46:02):
Over three hundred dollars a month and he lost his
job and has should drive sixty miles one way for
a job.

Speaker 4 (46:09):
Now, well, Chris, those people don't matter. They can all
learn to code.

Speaker 14 (46:13):
Right.

Speaker 4 (46:14):
Well, we told like all those people that were put
out of work because of the coal mind shetting. Now
they're just out there learning to code. I'm being sarcastic,
of course, but Chris, you're not telling me anything I
don't already know. I look around the world at the
developed nations that have leaned the hardest and fastest into
renewable energy, and they have the highest cost in the
world as well. So it's a fool's errand to think

(46:36):
it's going to be any different here.

Speaker 15 (46:38):
Oh, it's It's so ridiculous, and I hate it. And
they're just the nicest people in.

Speaker 5 (46:42):
The world up there.

Speaker 15 (46:44):
The second thing is, I love it when you get
these politicians on there and you really tell us about
the evil things that are going on up there at
the Capitol and Denver. I wish you'd get somebody.

Speaker 16 (46:58):
On to talk about the the debt in Colorado, because
I don't know if our debt on this state adds
on to the national debt.

Speaker 4 (47:08):
No, No, our state is completely taken on by our state. Right,
And well, here's the thing, Chris, Right now, there's no
connection between debt that states assume and the federal government. Right,
there's no connection at all. This is like, you know,
the state has decided to sell bonds and all of this,
and the state is responsible for paying it back. But
unlike the federal government, we can't just print more money.

(47:30):
So it becomes a real concern for the states. And
one of my big concerns going forward is that these
big blue states that have massive, massive, massive debt loads,
or even my home state, my former home state of Florida,
who has taken on way too much debt in my opinion,
they're going to ask for a bailout from the federal government.
And I am staunchly against that. California laid its bet,

(47:53):
it made its bet, it can lay in it, but
there's no connection between the federal government and state debt.

Speaker 5 (47:57):
Now, I totally agree.

Speaker 15 (48:00):
It's getting scary, is what it's getting.

Speaker 4 (48:04):
Yeah, yep, it is. Things are not going in a
great trajectory right now, Chris. I appreciate the phone call.
I appreciate it very much. Do you want to hear
the fly rod style and the style of Joe Biden? Maybe, folks,
let me tell you something, this fly rod it's built right, solid, dependable.

(48:28):
You pick it up and you feel it. Not flashy,
not loud, just does the job, the waste. But it's
supposed to be done because fishing isn't about showing off.
It's about patience, it's about care, it's about being present.
It's a good rod, a trustworthy rod.

Speaker 7 (48:48):
And I mean that.

Speaker 4 (48:52):
And then I wish I could have And we need
to see if Ryan is out there as I got
one in the style of Donald Trump.

Speaker 10 (49:02):
We'll see if you can.

Speaker 4 (49:03):
Ryan isn't a fantastic Donald Trump impression? Fantastic? So yeah,
I'm just having fun with AI with that, just making
that happen, all right. Back to the text line five
sixty sixty nine, Oh, Mandy, do you feel sorry for
Elon Musk not being able to create a shuttle from
Earth to catch the alien stagecoach three to one Atlas

(49:25):
or three iye Atlas? Now what is that thing? I
you know, I hate this because you see all these
scary headlines of like a strange alien something is barreling
towards Earth, and then you read the you know kind
of the story, It's like it will come just a
short one hundred and ninety million miles away from us
or some crazy number like that. I really do a rod.

(49:49):
We have a request. We'd like a Rod's. But wait,
there's more for the blog. Mm hmm, but wait, there's
more exactly, Mandy, I've heard you reference Jelly je Hang on, Mandy,
I've heard you reference Jesse Kelly before. Have you ever
listened to him? He is what I listened to when
I'm driving home at night. It doesn't happen that often.

(50:12):
And then there's like basketball or something, no offense to
see you basketball. I'm just not a see you basketball fan,
and I'll listen to Jesse. I think Jesse Kelly is
freaking hilarious. He is so so funny. And then I
met him at the RNC. He broadcasts right next to
us at the iHeartRadio station area. Super nice guy, like

(50:34):
he plays his just big, you know, a hole on
the on the radio in the funniest way. But I'm
a huge fan of his, really really a big fan, Mandy.
Wait where did it go? Colorado is still the hot
chick of places to live. No matter how big a
mess we are, people are still attracted. So what you're
saying is that we are we are up on the

(50:55):
hot crazy matrix. We really are. We're like at the
top of the hot crazy mad Do you know what
I'm talking about?

Speaker 7 (51:01):
You don't know?

Speaker 4 (51:02):
Okay, So there was a video that went around for years,
it's probably still flying around the Internet of a guy
explaining that the hotter a girl is, generally speaking, she
is also crazy. So he had a whole scale, he
had like a x y graph thing going on, and
the more hot you are. So basically we are at
the top of the hot crazy matrix. Sure, Mandy, isn't

(51:24):
ironic that wealthy white leftist get to create an enclave
that's only affordable for other rich, wealthy white leftists. I know, right,
But they're tolerant as long as you're exactly like them. Mandy,
Is there a cartoon character that resembles your personality? Mine
is probably grizz from We Bear the care Bears and

(51:45):
My Wife We Bear. What is We Bear Bears?

Speaker 5 (51:48):
Is that no clue? Gear Bear, Gary Bears, Gear.

Speaker 4 (51:50):
Bears, the New Chicago Bears from now the Gear Bears. No,
I'm just kidding. And my wife is Ice Bear.

Speaker 5 (51:58):
Okay, so I do you know goofy. I'm it's easy
for me.

Speaker 8 (52:04):
No, it's not.

Speaker 5 (52:06):
My parents would agree. No, No, that's one of them.

Speaker 4 (52:10):
I get more of a Jimmy Neutron vibe from you.

Speaker 5 (52:13):
Ah, it's just the hair.

Speaker 4 (52:15):
Well, No, it's your energy.

Speaker 5 (52:17):
Yeah, do you have a lot of energy. You're not
the smarts.

Speaker 4 (52:20):
No, you stop selling yourself short. No, you definitely have
a Jimmy neutron vibe from me. I just see it
the energy that. Yeah, now I got to think about myself.

Speaker 11 (52:29):
MM.

Speaker 5 (52:31):
Textures help us out.

Speaker 4 (52:33):
Yeah, I'd like to know what personality, what cartoon character,
and it could be from anywhere. And guys, if you're
like a graphic novel lover and you love an obscure
series and you're like, oh, you look like whatever, I'm
not going to get that. By the way, Arono was
flipping through the Guy the other day and it went
past and I saw what I thought was x Misus
Warrior Christmas and I was like wow, and it was

(52:54):
zena Warrior Princess, And I thought, how did Xena not
ever have an ex miss Warrior Princess episod How did
you leave that on the on the table? Come on, people,
if you were a cartoon character, which cartoon character would
you be? And I'm assuming that Greg and Parker wants
to talk about that, Greg, what do you got?

Speaker 5 (53:15):
Hey?

Speaker 6 (53:16):
Hey, thanks for thanks for a call. Hey, just a
quick question. It might be a bigger topic for another day.
But whatever happened. They were talking about the Minnesota Somali
thing and all this money.

Speaker 2 (53:29):
So whatever happened to Doge?

Speaker 6 (53:31):
Like I thought, Elon Musk was gone and night to
twelve to fourteen, twenty something. Guys, we're gonna still continue
the program. So whatever happened to Doge?

Speaker 5 (53:41):
Like I thought?

Speaker 6 (53:42):
I haven't heard a single thing for months on end
about finding more money, finding more rates, fraud and abuse.

Speaker 4 (53:49):
Oh no, I'm right there with you. Doge? Has it
only had a mandate for a year because of the
kind of organization it was, It wasn't an official department,
but obviously Elon Musk left. I did see a statistic today,
but it was put out by the White House and
I haven't checked it yet. This showed a significant contraction
in the number of federal workforce, right, So I mean

(54:10):
like down, you know, one hundred and seventy five thousand,
and that's a lot. So I'm going to check those numbers,
and yeah, we can have that conversation because it's I
I'm trying to think of the nicest way to say
that Doge was fine as long as it wasn't inconvenient.
But the reality is is that Doge was up against

(54:31):
the entrenched bureaucracy in Washington, DC, the Democratic Party and
the media in trying to actually do anything significant. The
only way we're going to see real movement on anything
that resembles any sort of budget control is if we
go back to regular order twelve different budget bills, because
that's the only way we're ever going to be able
to get all the pork out out of the spending

(54:52):
that we have.

Speaker 9 (54:53):
Now.

Speaker 6 (54:54):
Yeah, thanks, no man, I appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (54:57):
I don't know what.

Speaker 4 (54:58):
Uh hello, Gary, you're on KOA. What you got?

Speaker 11 (55:03):
Oh, Mandy, I love your show. I've heard your accent
with that the New York lady.

Speaker 4 (55:11):
Uh huh.

Speaker 11 (55:12):
And I thought it'd be a good idea if you did,
maybe once or twice a week a sponsor a ten
minute skit where you did that accent and have somebody sponsored.
It's it's great. It's a full laugh there.

Speaker 4 (55:26):
I love I appreciate that, and that accent is hard
earned on my part.

Speaker 10 (55:33):
You know.

Speaker 4 (55:33):
I love doing funny voices and people either love them
or they hate them. Right, there's no in between. There's
no middle ground on that. I will take that under advisement, Gary,
Maybe that's something we do in the new year.

Speaker 5 (55:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (55:43):
I thought of it a few months ago and then
this is the first time I heard this phone number.
But no, it's great. I think you could get a
little sponsorship, maybe a five to ten minutes skit a
couple of times a week.

Speaker 4 (55:54):
I love it.

Speaker 11 (55:56):
Yeah, I think it's a great idea.

Speaker 4 (55:58):
I do too, Gary, great mind and all that. Thanks
for the call, buddy, I appreciate it. Let me get
John and Arvada. What's on your mind?

Speaker 16 (56:04):
John, Hey man, it.

Speaker 12 (56:06):
Was gonna make your head hurt a little bit. More
on that two point play last night, two point conversion. Yeah,
so we came this close to having the rarest play
in all of football. It's the one point safety. So
if the Rams had picked up the ball instead of
the Seahawks and got tackled in the end zone, that

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would have been a one point safety. It's never happened
in the NFL. It's only happened three times in college.

Speaker 4 (56:34):
Well, but we did not. We just had another weird
two point conversion thing happen instead. It was just a
weird play. It could have gone weird either way.

Speaker 12 (56:41):
Yeah, it was, and it was pretty smart of the
charbon Ay the Seahawks player to pick the ball up there.
When you're are tough football from the time you play
peeway up. If the ball is lying on.

Speaker 4 (56:51):
The ground, you take it out, pick it up exactly, John.
I appreciate the uh, the clarification that just made it
more obtuse, but I appreciate it's called have a good one.
Let me do this. So, I've got a couple of
people on the on the text line who sent suggestions
of who they think I am cartoon wise, Like what
cartoon character best exemplifies your personality was?

Speaker 5 (57:13):
The question.

Speaker 4 (57:16):
Started with this jabber jaw ha ha, Mandy, I'm gonna
be Captain Caveman, says this guy Natasha from Rookie and
the bullo Winkle. One of my fake personas in my
twenty was Natasha from Soviet Union. I go out to
bars and talk like that the entire night. It was amazing,
good times exactly. Mandy, I'm thinking for your cartoon character

(57:39):
to be Lucy from Peanuts. If I was going to
be a Peanuts cartoon character, it would definitely be Marcy. Yes, Mart,
that's that's Brady Bunch. I know, Mandy. Jessica Rabbit will
thank you for that. Mandy Snagglepuss. I don't think so.

(58:00):
Not a cartoon character, but you've always given me. Joe
Rivers vibe says that texture.

Speaker 10 (58:04):
Mandy.

Speaker 4 (58:05):
I know he's a dude, but you're rowdy and shooting
from the hip like Yoseementy Sam Peepew. Mandy, your cartoon
likeness is Daphne on Scooby Doo. I actually went to
comic Con is Naphti a few years ago. Now I
love that. I love that. Now Here's what I asked
chat Gpt, since we're talking about AI today, what cartoon

(58:28):
character would I be if I were a cartoon character?
Listen to this, Anthony, here we go, he said, the
closest fits. He's got top three my top picks with reasons,
says chat Gpt. Number one Lois Griffin, Why this one fits?
Smart assertive and absolutely unafraid to challenge anyone in the room.

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Can go from being polite to cutting in a half
in a sentence, holds your own surrounded by loud personalities
and often underestimated, which she then.

Speaker 10 (58:58):
Weapons, Yeah, i'mna pause if we get to the rest
of your list, because I just asked TATBT you guess
what got an honorable mention?

Speaker 9 (59:04):
What?

Speaker 4 (59:04):
Peter Griffin?

Speaker 5 (59:05):
Yeah, come on, dude.

Speaker 10 (59:07):
And then I've got Archer from Archer Homer Simpson in
the competent Homer era. And then you wouldn't know this,
but the guy named Rick from Rick and Morty is
Rick and Morty are Yeah, I don't like any of those.

Speaker 4 (59:19):
I didn't tell you another. The next two cartoon characters
that they're the chat loove me into Jessica Rabbit consistently
mischaracterized by people who only see the surface, highly intelligent,
strategic and in control. And then the last one, and
this made me burst out laughing. Ras from Monsters inc.

Speaker 10 (59:38):
Oh, Dave Fraser has one for you, he says, Foghorn, Leghorn, No,
not bog Horn. You will you would know this one.
I don't think the show was passed your time. The
fairly odd parents. Wanda the fairly odd parent, very caring,
very giving, h very authoritative.

Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
That's good for you.

Speaker 4 (01:00:03):
The other one that I got from chat GBT was Daria,
and I loved Daria. I loved it when it was
on MTV. It was fantastic.

Speaker 5 (01:00:10):
I'm gonna assume I know where this comes from.

Speaker 10 (01:00:11):
The text line, wonder if Anthony can pull an air
traffic controller impression? Since his dad has retired. Atc cardof
flight three or three, we've lost a count on the
vibe attention, all are unity going has air traffic control?
We got a wind hear runway clear, but you're clear
for Daga prush, the throttle wheels up and that's fly.

Speaker 4 (01:00:28):
Oh that's good.

Speaker 5 (01:00:29):
Thank you for that script.

Speaker 4 (01:00:31):
Yeah, very nice. Kung Fu Mandy or Snagglepuss. Yeah yeah,
hey Mandy. Here in western Nebraska, the power is rapidly
going out and outages are spreading wyoming. Two folks might
want to get their phones on a charger so they
are charged in case their power goes out. Yeah, oh,
here's one for both of us. A Rod not cartoon characters.

(01:00:53):
Mandy and a Rod. What was the food you wanted
most when you went from weight loss to macans on sota.
Is there anything you just don't eat any more that
you used to love? I gotta tell you, I hardly
ever eat dessert anymore. I'll have a bite and then
I'm like, that is not worth it.

Speaker 10 (01:01:10):
I will always and forever love and always miss French
fries see.

Speaker 4 (01:01:15):
Baked potatoes for me. I'd rather have a big potato
than French fries any day.

Speaker 10 (01:01:18):
There is nothing on God's green Earth because, of course,
because God can be a bit of a jerk sometimes
to bloat you more that big old batch.

Speaker 4 (01:01:27):
Of fries exactly bloat galore. Mandy fun Peanuts Christmas fact,
the girl with a naturally curly hair is named Frida
and the little red haired girl is named Heather. Huh,
there you go. This texture just keeps a short and
sweet Mandy and a Rod have a wonderful Christmas. You
do more if you're ask me anything questions? Gonna uk next.

(01:01:47):
It is my favorite retired cup it never Land. How
are you do, sir? How are you doing, sir?

Speaker 15 (01:01:53):
Well?

Speaker 14 (01:01:53):
Never Land being Las Vegas?

Speaker 4 (01:01:55):
I know I know how you doing.

Speaker 14 (01:01:57):
Man, I'm doing great.

Speaker 4 (01:01:59):
How are you I'm excellent, I'm excellent. Are you back
in town.

Speaker 14 (01:02:04):
I'm not, but all my hello out of people are
coming out here for the year.

Speaker 4 (01:02:07):
So oh, very nice, very very nice. What's on your
mind today?

Speaker 7 (01:02:10):
Man?

Speaker 14 (01:02:11):
I was going to send you an email, but I
didn't get a chance to. And I just wanted to
say thanks to you. Ross and a Rod, my two
most frequently listened to shows. Thanks for still being Thank
you Rod still being on the air. It kind of
keeps me connected because my daughter still lives in Denver,
so listen to you. It makes me still feel like
I'm in Denver, not so far away from my daughter.

(01:02:33):
So oh, you guys all have a merry Christmas.

Speaker 4 (01:02:36):
I so appreciate that. Man, you have a wonderful, wonderful Christmas.
And we'll talk to you after the first of the year.

Speaker 14 (01:02:41):
God see you soon, all right, by bye, coming up.

Speaker 4 (01:02:45):
At one o'clock. By the way, it's old. It's one o'clock,
ten o'clock. It's old. Homewek Susan Wit can already hear.
She's catching up with old co workers. Figure it would
just be fun to check in. I've spent some time
with her a couple of weeks ago. Like you need
to come on the show. So that's what we're doing
in the meantime. Mandy, are there any movies or musicals
that made you cry?

Speaker 11 (01:03:02):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:03:02):
My goodsh Of course, to this day, the movie Steele
Magnolia is the original movie. There's parts of that movie
that just gut me.

Speaker 10 (01:03:12):
It just guts me every single time I watch rent
Oh musical.

Speaker 4 (01:03:19):
Let's see if there's a m I cried at the
end of Dear Evan Hanson. That one got me. I
cried at the end of lane Is. And I don't
even really like lane Is that much, but the end
of lane Is always leaves me in tears somehow. Let's
see here.

Speaker 6 (01:03:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (01:03:34):
Every time I listen to Philip Rivers press conference, if
because God, that's a good guy.

Speaker 4 (01:03:41):
He is a good guy. Yeah, Mandy, it does a
cute want to follow your footsteps and study theater in college.
My son would, but I'm unsure about how much we
should encourage him to pursue that direction. Here's the thing.
My daughter's involved in theater. I do not want her
to major in that in college. And I told her
that with theater, you always have options to participate in

(01:04:02):
theater that are not your line of study. You can
get involved in community theater. You can do all of
these other things. And the reality is, if he has
some incredibly rare talent, nobody in Hollywood, nobody in New
York cares if you graduated from college. They really don't.
So if he really wants to pursue acting, tell him
to move to LA or New York, get a job

(01:04:23):
waiting tables with five other roommates, start taking acting classes
and save his money. And when he gets sick of that,
then send him to college. That's what I would do.
But do it before, do you know, tell him to say, look,
you guy. I have so many friends whose parents were like, look,
you got three years. You got three years to make
it before we start haranguing you about getting a real
career to a person. None of them became actors after

(01:04:48):
the three years. They all said, Okay, you know what
I tried. I tried. But chances of you making it
are far better when you are really young than later
in life. It just is true, Mandy, what's your recommendation
for TV streaming services? Direct TV is what we have now,
but getting pricey sling YouTube TV. We just have a

(01:05:08):
few channels that are dear Blad dear deal breakers, like
the one that Blue Bells is on. Yeah, I know,
well you do know that Blue Blood has been canceled, right,
I mean we do know that, right?

Speaker 6 (01:05:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:05:21):
Anything Mandy, who's in for you next week? I don't
know a little bit of Deb Flora, Yes, I mean
it's gonna be one of these people, dep Flora, Jimmy Singenberger,
Ben Albright and he could be any of these. I
feel like our our fill ins right now are the
best they've ever.

Speaker 5 (01:05:38):
Bet Christi Kate from Mixed In I see here as well.

Speaker 10 (01:05:40):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (01:05:43):
And more deb all right, So.

Speaker 4 (01:05:45):
It's gonna be all chicks next week. Yes, speaking of chicks,
one of my favorite chicks just walked in the studio.
Hey boy, damn Jimmy. So Jimmy is the lone soldier,
the one dude.

Speaker 9 (01:05:55):
Yeah, Hello, Susan Wikied Hello Mandy Connell.

Speaker 4 (01:05:59):
So somebody said and asked me, you know what's funny Susan.
For those of you who are you, there you go
who is new or new to the show. Susan was
my og newsperson when I first got the show over here,
and we have become just fast friends. I think is
safe to say and I saw her a few weeks
ago with our our mutual friend Amy had the best

(01:06:20):
weekend ever. We had a girl's weekend. It was unlike
any other girl's weekend I have ever experienced. I still
think about that a good idea. My friend Amy, who
is how old is Amy? Like thirty thirty one?

Speaker 9 (01:06:33):
Yeah, something like that.

Speaker 4 (01:06:34):
And so Susan is a little bit older than I am.
I'm fifty six. A girl's weekend does not mean what
it used to mean, you know, back in the day.
But Amy said, yeah, we were at like nine o'clock.

Speaker 5 (01:06:44):
We're like, we're gonna good.

Speaker 4 (01:06:45):
No, but but Amy said, bring over your family recipes
and teach me how to cook them, like teach me
how to cook the things that you cook. It was
so much fun. And then we all got food for
the freezer too. We divated up and took stuff home.
I will not lie, it's all gone. It's all gone.
It was so good.

Speaker 7 (01:07:03):
It was really good.

Speaker 14 (01:07:04):
It was so good.

Speaker 4 (01:07:05):
Trouble hydrate coma. It was excellent. We we when we
get back, I am wait, hang on, I'm just doing
this very very quickly. Mandy or a gen x or
have you ever experienced gen x? Amnesia, meaning have you
ever forgotten why you walked into a room? You guys
every dang day, every dang day. I'm not. It's like

(01:07:27):
I'm starting to think, like is this how it all ends?

Speaker 9 (01:07:29):
As anybody over fifty introlf what I'm getting sick of
introducing myself to you.

Speaker 4 (01:07:38):
I forgot to wear my ugly sweater. I didn't know
it was ugly sweater day today. Yeah it's his dog.
That's poppy.

Speaker 5 (01:07:47):
Yeah too cute, very cute.

Speaker 4 (01:07:49):
Anyway, last one, and I'm just looking at ask me anything,
very very quickly. Mandy of school was not in session,
but the school zine loads are lights are on? Must
you slow down? I mean the still give you a ticket?

Speaker 17 (01:08:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:08:06):
If the lights are on and they can still you
a ticket. So I am going, and I would pretty sure.
I'm pretty ruthless about school zones, like I comply. I
don't want to be the one who hits a little
kid running across the street trying to get to school, so.

Speaker 10 (01:08:18):
I comply at all, Like Mandy, if the lights are on,
act like somebody's own, I'm sorry that nice.

Speaker 4 (01:08:24):
I'll give you a nice car.

Speaker 5 (01:08:26):
One just one.

Speaker 4 (01:08:27):
It was about your car. It was in my thought,
bubble stop it, thank you back after this.

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Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
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Speaker 4 (01:08:50):
Got nice.

Speaker 9 (01:08:57):
Conn sad bab keeping it wet down because I leave
them titles for that.

Speaker 4 (01:09:03):
Oh, Susan Wicked in the studio with me, immediately gives
to what do they say, keeping ignorance? Ignorance? I go, now,
I'm not doing a day stop it. So this texter
said a Mandy. Colorado State Patrol is doing a round
robin on South twenty five just south of BUCkies. Don't
know why. I gotta tell you. In U down in

(01:09:26):
Douglas County where I live, they have been doing speed
enforcement everywhere. I don't mind it.

Speaker 9 (01:09:31):
This is the time of year I love. I know,
finally drive the speed limit or just a titch over.

Speaker 4 (01:09:35):
It's just a titch that voice you hear if you're
familiar in an old school listener. You know my former
news You know Goddess Susan Wickin who left us to
she had the nerve to retire people. And I'm not
still angry, but you know whatever, I'm left behind. But
I thought it would be fun to just have you.
And then we talked about this a few weeks ago

(01:09:58):
and we set it up. And then we have the
events in Bondai Beach in horrible Hanukka situation, and as
you are my favorite member of the tribe here locally
and very active in the Jewish community, I thought maybe
we could sort of touch on that, and I wanted
to kind of check in and see how Denver's community
is doing. To your knowledge, I'm not asking you to

(01:10:19):
speak for every single per so you know what I get.

Speaker 9 (01:10:22):
The emails things like that happen, and the emails from
the synagogues and the different community centers and such come
out and then say, okay, we've increased our security even
more than it's already up as it is. You can't
just walk in into a place. But that has been
like that for a long long time. Yeah, but even
so they'll say, okay, we even have more security.

Speaker 4 (01:10:45):
So that was that it was again.

Speaker 9 (01:10:49):
And also the emails that come from our rabbis and
our other community leaders will send out and saying we
have to stay strong, we need to continue to be
out there. Don't let this deter you from going out
and doing your things.

Speaker 17 (01:11:07):
But stay vigilant and stay strong and don't let anybody
bully you into not putting out your jewishness and and
that sort of thing I've you know, and.

Speaker 9 (01:11:17):
It's it's it, and then it hurts, yeah, and then
it's just a stab in the heart. And then I
look at my kids. One lives in San Francisco, when
lives in Manhattan, and I call them and I check
in on them, How are you doing?

Speaker 4 (01:11:32):
I got to tell you, it's and this is sad.
I never thought I would say this, because ultimately, one
of the things that I've always loved about New York
City is that you can walk three blocks and be
in a Polish community, and you can walk four blocks
over there and you're in You're in this kind of
community and this kind of ethnicity, and it's just this
giant stew of people from all over the world. But
I got to say, I'm more worried about New York

(01:11:55):
than I've ever been for a Jewish person.

Speaker 14 (01:11:57):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:11:58):
It's very disheartening to see what's been normalized there. And
is your daughter feeling any of that? I don't.

Speaker 9 (01:12:06):
I don't know if she's feeling a lot. I should
have I should back up after October seventh. She really
was concerned, and to the point where at one point
there was talk amongst the kids who had Jewish sounding
names to change it on the uber or lift account.

(01:12:27):
Oh wow, So that because everybody there's all there types
of people who are driving right and didn't want any problems.

Speaker 4 (01:12:37):
That's so incredibly crazy.

Speaker 9 (01:12:40):
She has a Star of David. She wears it proudly
if it's outside of her shirt, inside her shirt, it's
not just it's not a big deal.

Speaker 4 (01:12:48):
She doesn't tuck it in.

Speaker 9 (01:12:51):
Consciously to do that, although my sister pointed out she said, yeah,
it's the one that mom gave us and I gave
her mind. So she wears it, and she says it's
a little elongated, so you really can't quite tell. Like
the necklace I have on, Yeah, is a Star of
David in it? Yeah, And so oh yeah, right, So

(01:13:12):
it's one of those. And honestly, I don't wear this
all the time. It's a little bit more kind a
little fancy. It's a little blinky for Susan. Yeah, and
so I actually just recently got my little cousin who
lives in Israel after October seventh. Her husband was called up.
He is in his forties and it was their anniversary,

(01:13:32):
and so he came home with a pretty necklace and
she said, you know, that's a little too fancy for me.
Please take it back. I know exactly what I want.
He went out and got a Star of David, a
silver Star of David.

Speaker 5 (01:13:45):
She brought it home.

Speaker 9 (01:13:45):
She goes, perfect, that's exactly what I want, and indeed
I was. I continue to check in with my cousin
during this, you know, all the time, how are you doing,
how are the kids?

Speaker 4 (01:13:55):
That kind of thing.

Speaker 9 (01:13:56):
And because of that, she was so moved. She went
out and bought me a matching necklace, and my one
little sister also a similar one, because we were the
ones we were checking in with her, right, So we
got them just recently. And it's betterful I wear all
the time. So that's another one. And that one really
is and you can totally see it, and it's kind

(01:14:18):
of in your face.

Speaker 4 (01:14:19):
Yeah, because you know what Carolyn Levi is wearing hers,
I can wear mine, do you know why not? I
got to tell you about a conversation I had with
my nephew, which was kind of hilarious. He sends me
a text message that that says, So it's now a
thing that in the United States of America, whenever you
disagree with someone, you get called a Nazi. And I'm like, oh, yeah,
I've been called a Nazi so many times I just

(01:14:41):
goose stepped through my day at this point. I mean,
but he's like, why is that? And I don't know,
somebody from the outside looking in asks a basic question
like that, Okay, if somebody disagrees with you, now you're
called a Nazi. Why is that? Yeah, I don't know,
except it's intellectually lazy, but it's also you down to
shut down further conversation. But what I can call a

(01:15:03):
Jewish person on the day, Hell, really, it's it's incredibly stupid.
It's all very, very incredibly stupid. But he was talking
about sort of the Israeli sense of humor, and I
wanted to ask he and now, my nephew was part
of the idea for many, many years, and they have

(01:15:23):
definitely a dark sense of humor. Well, and he said, look,
well but yeah kind of. But he said, you know,
here we are like it's it's one thing for us
to sit here and have a conversation about what's happening
in Israel in the attacks of October seventh. But that's
their day to day life, right, And if you really
think about the sort of everyday existential threat that you face,

(01:15:45):
you would go insane and you would hide in your
basement all day long. You wouldn't go, No, you wouldn't
go anywhere. So Israeli's have a much different perspective about that.
And when I tell you, when I tell you what
he calls his bug zapper and what apparently everyone calls
their zappa in Israel, it is so ridiculously inappropriate, but

(01:16:05):
it really helps you understand the mindset there. I don't
want to ask you if that mindset is coming to
Jews here to your point where it's like the loins
are girded, the backbone is stiff, but you're not gonna
let it make you crazy, do you know what I mean?
We'll talk about that next. What have you been doing
since retirement? I know this is where it gets good.

(01:16:26):
This is what makes me want to retire.

Speaker 9 (01:16:28):
Well, we travel whenever we want to. Y's a dog died.
I know, a little Sammy died.

Speaker 6 (01:16:34):
It was so hard.

Speaker 4 (01:16:35):
So had a really cute little dog. Actually your dog
Sammy looked a little like Poppy, a Rod's dog. True, yeah,
I really did, and they were both. Poppy still the
sweetest dog, but Sammy was a very sweet dog. He
was just great. It's so hard, but is it also liberating, freeing?

Speaker 9 (01:16:51):
Ye, I'm telling you my sister, as she put says,
she says her full her her part time job is
finding a dog sitter.

Speaker 4 (01:16:57):
Yeah, and this is so hard and you have to
find way. We have a great dog sitter, and so
it's it's nice to you know, dogsitter slash house sitter.
It's just nice to have that. And it's hard.

Speaker 9 (01:17:08):
So traveling a little bit here and there. If I
want to just go see the kids, I can.

Speaker 4 (01:17:12):
And you made a Lapland and if not on your
slideshow of Lapland yet and those pictures, where where is
Lapland for those of us who are listening, and I
haven't made to Lapland yet?

Speaker 9 (01:17:21):
Is above Finland? Actually Lapland is a region kind of
like Patagonia in South America. Right, So Patagonia spans Argentina
and Chile. So Lapland spans Finland Sweden.

Speaker 4 (01:17:36):
Why is it called Lapland becauseway the three.

Speaker 9 (01:17:40):
Countries, so Norway, Finland, Sweden, Yes, thank you. And it
is up above its it's on the Arctic. Right, So
you you cross called circle? I don't know, because they do.
It's Weplanders. Why is pandiagon?

Speaker 4 (01:17:54):
You called that agon? I don't know that. I'm about
to ask chat both of them. And why is lap Land?

Speaker 9 (01:18:00):
There are Laplanders?

Speaker 14 (01:18:01):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (01:18:02):
And so I traveled with a group of women. Oh
my gosh, it was so much fun. And we started
out in you know, in Finland, in Finland, and then
we just kept moving our way up north and we
went we got to where Santa lives.

Speaker 4 (01:18:18):
Oh you know what, did you put in a good
word for me? Totally? Okay? Good, absolutely because I needed that. Okay,
here are you ready? Yeah? For why it's called Lapland.
The name Lapland comes from the word lap used by
Scandinavian and Germanic people starting in the Middle Ages. In
Old Swedish and Old Norse sources, lap referred to the
people living far north, especially reindeer herding groups. The land

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they lived in was Lapland lap mark, meaning land of
the laps.

Speaker 9 (01:18:45):
There you go, and let me just tell you reindeer
are yummy.

Speaker 4 (01:18:50):
I've had reindeer before it's yummy. I yek, yeah it is.
It's very similar to Hell. As a matter of fact,
if you put them both on the plate in front
of me and had me take them, I don't think
I would know the difference. So that was what I
want to go to Lapland because I could.

Speaker 9 (01:19:03):
Because this group of gals there are two travel agents
are their best, their best buddies. One lives in the
DC area, one lives here. And they put together a
trip of twelve women and said who wants to sign
up and go to come go to Finland and Lapland.
And I'm like, I will, Why not? It was super
fun and I totally recommend it. And yes, indeed we

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saw the Northern lights.

Speaker 4 (01:19:28):
In all the game.

Speaker 9 (01:19:30):
It was absolutely amazing. So that was a fun thing
to do. Is they've been in Namibia, which is in Africa.

Speaker 4 (01:19:39):
Normally trod places people go on vacation.

Speaker 9 (01:19:42):
No, so that's one of the things with this group
of gals that they do. They picked these places that
because if I one, they did put together a trip
to Colombia in South America, and I.

Speaker 4 (01:19:51):
Really wanted to supposed to be amazing, phenomenal. Tall went there.

Speaker 9 (01:19:56):
I had to say, no, I wasn't going to go
on that trip because that's a that's a place that
John wants to Oh, got.

Speaker 4 (01:20:01):
To say a note of that. But see I do
that for Chuck too, though. It's like if I want
to go somewhere and he doesn't want to go there,
and then he's like, fine, go, But if he wants
to go, he's like, come on, man. So that was cool.

Speaker 9 (01:20:09):
I would go back to the African continent in a heartbeat.

Speaker 4 (01:20:13):
Eventually, we're going to do an African trip with the
Mandy Connell Adventure to Tanzania, but I got to wait
until I get queue to college because that is like
you have to go in January. Yeah, so you know
we'll see Susan Wikin is my guest. I want to
continue to ask us anything. When are we bringing your
parents in? Because people have questions for a Rod's parents,
Well bring them in. They're here. It's all home week.

(01:20:35):
It's just you know what, Today is my last day
before vacation. I have to do a lot of actual
work before the show, and I don't want to do
any more actual work right now. So we're it, folks.
I just noticed we had a little Christmas tree in
the control room. Well, that's festive.

Speaker 9 (01:20:50):
Looks like cookies? Is that?

Speaker 4 (01:20:52):
Is that cookies behind you? What does that Christmas tree
make out here? Elsie? What we're gonna find out next?
Keep it right here on ka. A Rod and b
Rod or b Rod and Sea Rod are a Rod's parents,
but they have real names. Where's Paul McCartney's Courtney song ever?

Speaker 15 (01:21:07):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:21:07):
I kind of agree with you.

Speaker 5 (01:21:08):
Oh it's awful.

Speaker 4 (01:21:09):
I don't love it.

Speaker 13 (01:21:10):
Didn't even put it on the album that the year
that that his album came out, didn't put it on.

Speaker 4 (01:21:14):
There just an afterthought. John Lennons is worse and I
love the Beatles, but I agree with you both on
those songs. Susan Wickin, I have a text question for you.
You can text us questions and if you've ever wanted
to know about the people who created Anthony, now's the chance.

Speaker 5 (01:21:29):
Oh boy, like we're.

Speaker 4 (01:21:30):
Gonna get those questions. So think about the most embarrassing
little Anthony stories you can think of. Well, you know what,
and I enjoyed it, So let's do it again, shall we? Anyway,
it is my show, Susan. Have you crushed any weddings recently?
People may not know this if you're new to the show.
My very respectable friend Susan has a dark and dirty secret,

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and that is, for years she crushes weddings for cake,
not weddings per se, wedding receptions.

Speaker 9 (01:21:58):
We should say for the cake, just for the cake.
I so I've scoped them out.

Speaker 4 (01:22:08):
To be there was one in the mountains most recently.
I love that this question is actually this complicated to answer.

Speaker 9 (01:22:16):
And by the way, it was great and it but
it was being held at a time, and I love
I couldn't make it. What happened to us is that
it was in a park and I'm like, oh, this
is good. And with the with the reception, I'm like,
okay that I can do this. At the time, well,
the cakes were on the middle of each table.

Speaker 4 (01:22:35):
Oh yeah, that disaster and yeah, and to go and
get a cake like that, can't do it? Yeah, to
get to get a piece. Now you have a family
wedding coming out we.

Speaker 9 (01:22:48):
Do in June, and I asked her soon to be
daughter in the will there be cake?

Speaker 4 (01:22:54):
Please tell me yes? Don't? She hedged and went.

Speaker 9 (01:23:01):
Cake And I said, I'm going to cupcakes? Like, are
you gonna have cupcakes? Like, that's just Susan, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:23:07):
There's anything other than cake. I will personally have a
cake delivered just for you, like, oh, cheaper's creeper. Don't
rob me of this moment. Yes, ma'am, do you like
carrot cake? Susan is the winner of the Only Mandy
Connell carrot Cake contest?

Speaker 9 (01:23:23):
Well, you know who is it? Ben Aubrey does or doesn't?

Speaker 4 (01:23:29):
Ran loves it. I don't think Ben does. I don't
know what we had Ryan?

Speaker 9 (01:23:33):
Do we have Ryan? And we have Ryan was a
judge Ryan?

Speaker 4 (01:23:36):
And also, oh, that's right, we did have you.

Speaker 5 (01:23:40):
What do you think it's appropriate for a part of
a wedding cake though?

Speaker 11 (01:23:43):
Yes, so.

Speaker 9 (01:23:46):
A tear.

Speaker 18 (01:23:46):
It can be a tear, it can be a layer. Yes,
it will be married forty years next to April. And
I still hear about the fact that a layer of
our our wedding cake.

Speaker 4 (01:23:58):
Was carrot cake.

Speaker 9 (01:23:59):
You didn't like that?

Speaker 11 (01:24:00):
Huh?

Speaker 13 (01:24:00):
That was away training for air traffic controller And thanks
for the listener who sent in the question earlier.

Speaker 5 (01:24:05):
Yes, and uh yeah, she made most of the decisions
and that was one that I was not on.

Speaker 9 (01:24:10):
My mom loves.

Speaker 4 (01:24:11):
Carricter, right, she wrote, had a layer. Mom, listen, they
were paying for it. I was like the whole cake,
the wedding cake. The whole cake was your cake away
from your wedding.

Speaker 9 (01:24:20):
That you had a layer of carrot.

Speaker 4 (01:24:22):
That's the thing.

Speaker 9 (01:24:24):
What's your favorite cake?

Speaker 5 (01:24:26):
Anything?

Speaker 4 (01:24:26):
But that you know that for your fiftieth anniversary, your
son is now going to get you a cake that
has one layer of carrot cake in it, just because, right.

Speaker 13 (01:24:35):
I mean, as carrot cakes go. It was good, but
still a chocolate vanilla anything. I never pictured that for
a wedding cakes.

Speaker 9 (01:24:41):
One layer.

Speaker 5 (01:24:43):
This is like a five hundred.

Speaker 4 (01:24:47):
So you made him smell it too, not just made it.
You're still smell it for it. I want to do
a question from our Common Spirit Health text line for
ask me anything five six six nine. Oh, you can
text us your question, Mandy. I haven't asked me anything.
Question what is super Sure? I've gone to their website
and there's no real information. I don't know, but man,
we're annoyed by those commercials too, don't you dare don't

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sing it susan butter cream frosting or whipped cream butter cream.
I like a cream cheese icing on carrot cake.

Speaker 9 (01:25:23):
I like a cream cheese icing, and can actually make
a cupbo of cream cheese and butter and butter. So
it's a cream cheese butter cream. Yeah, like that can't
go wrong anyway. Oh, you're wrinkling your nose. This is
a rod.

Speaker 5 (01:25:38):
Cheese frosting.

Speaker 4 (01:25:40):
I see, I could eat cake without frosting and be
perfectly happy.

Speaker 6 (01:25:44):
I'm not a.

Speaker 18 (01:25:44):
Frosting love cupcakes, and a rod hates cupcakes.

Speaker 4 (01:25:50):
But don't the bottom off the cupcake. Put it on
the top of the icing, and then you.

Speaker 5 (01:25:54):
Have like a whoopie pie that makes it more manageable.

Speaker 9 (01:25:56):
Exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:25:57):
It's a terrible, terrible, overrated dessert.

Speaker 4 (01:25:59):
But I don't understanding. And a heapcakes. It's a piece
of cake. It's a single serving cake. PI No pie
is the cake, as like you know basketball is to football.
They're both cakes, but they have nothing in common other
than that they're both desserts. Well, Anthony are pumpkin.

Speaker 18 (01:26:20):
Pie because he's the Thanksgiving turkey. Be that's Thanksgiving.

Speaker 4 (01:26:25):
Let me answer this when Mandy's squirrel. I think I
distracted you earlyer with my Blue Blood's Tom Sellick reference.
What do you recommend for TV streaming? Do not ask
me such questions because I don't even know how to
turn on the television in my basement. Okay, I'm not kidding.
You can ask my daughter. I don't know how to
make it work. A TV is not my thing. I
don't watch a lot of TV. My husband is in

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charge of all that. We have cables still, I'm too
I don't want to have to learn something new to
watch the one or two show. They were asking about
which streaming services like YouTube, TV or who. I don't
know about any of that. What do you guys use
all of them?

Speaker 13 (01:26:58):
And right now, in the middle of watching so any
medical questions, I can probably answer them.

Speaker 11 (01:27:02):
There you go, there you go.

Speaker 18 (01:27:04):
I can't watch that because of the lumbar punctures. They
do love bar punch and I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:27:08):
Say bar puncture anymore. It's making me squeamish. I've had those,
and I don't want to watch Jee's cake. Wedding cake.
That's bold, this guy says, Mandy. Our entire wedding cake
was carrot cake, and related, my wife makes the best
carrot cake in the university. I love A daddy brags
on his wife and they're still married.

Speaker 6 (01:27:27):
Stop it.

Speaker 4 (01:27:29):
Here's a question for b Rod a Rod's dad. I
heard on Grant's podcast that he was an air traffic
controller in Long Lot. I grew up a block west
of that air traffic center in Long Lot. Anyway, does
a Rod's dad have any thoughts about the current air
traffic control situation?

Speaker 13 (01:27:46):
It's a total mess, and it's a train wreck that's
been coming for the last fifteen years, isn't just it?

Speaker 4 (01:27:51):
Technologically we are so not where we need to be.

Speaker 5 (01:27:54):
No, there's not enough people, not enough quality people doing
the job.

Speaker 6 (01:27:57):
What is that?

Speaker 4 (01:27:58):
Because you're stressful and it takes a certain kind of person.

Speaker 13 (01:28:01):
From the strike of eighty one, really, yeah, I was
hired in eighty five. I was in high school when
that strike happened. But it never recovered, and they never
really intentionally meant to recovered. We are always short. I
worked over time most of my career and it's even
worse now.

Speaker 2 (01:28:14):
I just watched it.

Speaker 4 (01:28:15):
There's a there's a show on Smithsonian Channel called Mighty
Trains and they go on these trains all over the world, right,
so they're in India after what. You know, when you
watch something like that, it should make you want to
go there and experience it. After watching the one on
the traffic control for the rail system in India. I
looked at my husband and said, I never want to

(01:28:37):
get on a train in India in my life because
it literally is them like with little little trains that
they would move onto a physical track. They didn't even
have it electronic. And sometimes I think that's kind of
where our air traffic control system is.

Speaker 5 (01:28:51):
No, it's not that bad.

Speaker 4 (01:28:52):
Well, it's good when you go and you fly somewhere.
Are you concerned?

Speaker 5 (01:28:57):
Lately?

Speaker 13 (01:28:58):
Over the last few years, I've been more concerned, not
because I'm not doing it anymore, just because there ever
since COVID caused a real problem. I'm glad I wasn't
there for that. They sent me home when that happened.
Then I retired. But yeah, it's a little concerning because
I know the people that are doing the job now,
most of them are not have no aviation background. I

(01:29:20):
was a pilot, I was a flight instructor at all
my licenses, and a lot of controllers did. It's not
a requirement, but it sure makes you a better controller,
makes you more understanding the situation, especially when you're trying
to save somebody.

Speaker 18 (01:29:32):
So you see, they lost five thousand Chinese and during
this latest shutdown what in the system, there was a
news article out that they've lost five thousand.

Speaker 13 (01:29:42):
The problem is there's an age limit of how old
you can be when you're hired, and if you fall
off that cliff during any kind of pause and hiring,
you're done for the rest of your life. You can't
get hired thirty thirty one? Is it because you have
to retire fifty six?

Speaker 4 (01:29:54):
Did you know Anthony applied? Well, he doesn't have the
personality to be at air tracing really right, he's social. No,
I'm not saying you can't do the job. I'm saying
it would be a terrible job for you. I know
you're a very social man, and that is a very
focused ice. You know you're kind of isolated sitting there
in front of your screens, aren't you.

Speaker 13 (01:30:12):
You're always sitting around with other people, right, and you
know we all chitchat in between things that are going
on on the scope.

Speaker 9 (01:30:19):
Can I educate your listeners on something?

Speaker 4 (01:30:21):
Please feel freebee run.

Speaker 18 (01:30:22):
So everybody assumes that an air traffic controller works at
an airport and a tower, right, and they need to
know there's like three different air traffic facility thirty.

Speaker 5 (01:30:30):
Five years, I never worked in a tower.

Speaker 4 (01:30:33):
Kind of disappointed.

Speaker 18 (01:30:34):
This was a radar controller. He worked Los Angeles Center,
which is in Palmdale in California. That's where he started
his career in eighty five. And then when he when
Denver Airport opened, we moved here very quickly and he
worked Denver Approach.

Speaker 4 (01:30:49):
So there's a center, approach, and tower. I mean there's
flight service too anymore, but the three facilities. So every time,
it just strives me crazy.

Speaker 5 (01:30:58):
Anytime, are you room with a bunch of scopes.

Speaker 18 (01:31:01):
Darkroom with radar screen at the airport?

Speaker 4 (01:31:05):
Usually not long mind.

Speaker 13 (01:31:07):
I think there's twenty centers around the country, and Denver's
one of them. But it's in long mind, who.

Speaker 4 (01:31:12):
Are you handing off to and who are you getting from?

Speaker 13 (01:31:14):
So you got the tower, which is five miles, usually
Denver's ten miles, just because the big airport, and then
beyond I know, you go up a couple thousand feet
above that as approach control, which is a little bit bigger,
goes out about fifty miles and it goes up to
about twenty three thousand feet. Everything else is centers, which
is air route traffic Control Center, which is where I worked,
and my airspace went from here pretty much all the

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way to the Grand Canyon.

Speaker 5 (01:31:36):
It's a big piece of airspace.

Speaker 4 (01:31:38):
Would you recommend it as a job, I mean, if
somebody is, if you have a temperament for it, yeah,
described that temperament.

Speaker 13 (01:31:46):
The worst part of the job is putting up with
the politics of all the people around you that are
not controllers.

Speaker 5 (01:31:52):
Well, that's pretty much is any job.

Speaker 13 (01:31:55):
But as far as it's the best job in the FAA,
as far as I'm concerned, because you have autonomy to
be able to do what you want if you're good
at it. If you get too stress, you get stressed
out too much, if you're too highly wound. He's a
little wound tight, I think for the job. Yeah, just
a little, just a little. I think you would get
mad at some of the nonsense that you have to

(01:32:15):
put up with at the job, And for me, it
just rolled off my back. And you have to have
that attitude or else it'll chew up and spit you
out and make you old really quick.

Speaker 4 (01:32:23):
Because I mean, it takes a long time to train
as an air traffic controller. But I think that there's
a lot of young people who don't even think about
that as a career path, you know, they just it
just didn't occur to them.

Speaker 5 (01:32:32):
I didn't. I took the test on a dare.

Speaker 4 (01:32:35):
I was going alot.

Speaker 13 (01:32:36):
I was on my way to be an airline pilot
and took the test on a dare. And because in
the mid eighties terrible time to be an airline piot. Everybody, well,
you're familiar deviation. It was a tough time to be
an airline pod. And most of all my instructors were
all furloughed airline pilot.

Speaker 5 (01:32:50):
Ye it was. They said.

Speaker 13 (01:32:51):
Out of my thirty career, maybe work fifteen of them.
I go, well, that's not very stable. And I knew
I was gonna get married and want to have kids,
stay in one place. But it's great pay, great benefits,
fun job if you can hack it. I did for
thirty five years. And I was one of the rare
ones where those thirty five years I actually sat in
front of the scope the entire time, right. I didn't
do what they call, you know, riding the desk, right,

(01:33:12):
you know, doing that stuff and being a supervisor or
being a staff job.

Speaker 5 (01:33:15):
I did the whole thing.

Speaker 14 (01:33:16):
There.

Speaker 9 (01:33:17):
Do you see AI being able to go into that.

Speaker 5 (01:33:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:33:21):
Well, actually before I even retired, which was twenty twenty,
it was they didn't call it that, but the computer
did make predictions about who was going to be a
problem to airplanes perhaps.

Speaker 4 (01:33:31):
Yeah, well those two look like they're going to have
beef at some points.

Speaker 13 (01:33:35):
That we had to do it with our own brains.
But I mean, I you know, most people still did it.
What to still do do it with their own brains.

Speaker 9 (01:33:40):
But what about you having AI actually come into being
part of the air traffic controllers and making sure people
are saying the planes are safe in the sky.

Speaker 13 (01:33:51):
Well, the problem is is that the airplanes have systems
on board to avoid each other. Those systems don't talk
necessarily to our systems. They may now it's gotten better,
and they may now, but quite often they'll tell us
that they're complying with something that their computer on the
airplane is telling them to do, and we have to
let them do it. We can't stop them. Sometimes that
can get scary, especially when it's telling them to climb

(01:34:12):
and there's somebody right above them right which has happened.

Speaker 5 (01:34:15):
It's called ta cast job.

Speaker 2 (01:34:18):
In my opinion.

Speaker 4 (01:34:20):
Bliss, there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:34:22):
It's a great job.

Speaker 4 (01:34:22):
Have a question for you guys. We talked about this
earlier in the week as I gave out all of
my gift suggestions, and the one that has been the
most controversial is the battery organizer. This text message says Mandy.
I asked my wife about the battery organizer, and she
looked at me confused. Why would we need that. It's
one of those things that you don't know how great
it is until you have.

Speaker 9 (01:34:41):
I totally won't what oppose to our plastic bags?

Speaker 5 (01:34:43):
Thank you the leads them, tell them the dumbest thing
about it.

Speaker 4 (01:34:48):
There is no dumb thing about it.

Speaker 5 (01:34:50):
Individually. Put every single battery into the organizer every time.

Speaker 4 (01:34:56):
Seconds two seconds. Here's just in a plastic bag.

Speaker 5 (01:34:59):
Y the box that they come with.

Speaker 4 (01:35:02):
Here's the problem. Hey, Rod doesn't have the c's, the d's,
the a's, the triple a's, he doesn't have the nine bolts,
he doesn't have any of that. What kind of house
do you have?

Speaker 5 (01:35:12):
Exactly normal one? And I will agree.

Speaker 13 (01:35:15):
I think pulling him out of the boxes and to
put him in there is a little silly. I leave
him in the boxes until I opened the boxes. Those
are for the leftovers that you something else and they
have a little bit of life in them.

Speaker 4 (01:35:26):
Uh huh uh huh yeah. Anyway, okay, I promise too
of the days today. So let's get cracking because we've
got Susan wickin. It's so good to see you on
the radio again. We've got a Rod, We've got well,
we got b Rod, we got c Rod, A Rod's
parents playing on the day because who wants to yell it?

Speaker 14 (01:35:43):
All of them?

Speaker 4 (01:35:44):
Now it's time for the most exciting segment on the radio,
on its guide and day well done? Well all right,
what is our dad joke of the day? I leave,
we have a guest dad joke?

Speaker 5 (01:36:04):
What do you call a snowman with a six pack?

Speaker 4 (01:36:08):
Snow man with a six pack?

Speaker 5 (01:36:11):
I don't know what an abdominal snowman? Oh god, oh booh,
hiss father, how it's done. How much did Santa pay
for his sleigh?

Speaker 4 (01:36:23):
How much did Santa pay for I don't know nothing.

Speaker 5 (01:36:26):
It was on the house.

Speaker 8 (01:36:29):
That's not.

Speaker 5 (01:36:31):
What goes Oh oh oh oh oh, we know this one.
I don't know Santa walking backwards? Thank you?

Speaker 4 (01:36:40):
One mom joke? Do you call them reindeer with bad manners?
Rude off?

Speaker 5 (01:36:51):
Dad jokes are bad.

Speaker 4 (01:36:55):
If you do this around the kitchen table, of course, yeah,
they will. Now, all right, what is our word of
the day. It is a noun veracity voracity needs truth?

Speaker 5 (01:37:05):
Yeah or accuracy? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:37:07):
Right?

Speaker 5 (01:37:07):
Correct.

Speaker 4 (01:37:08):
Today's trivia question in where and when did the custom
of kissing stop? And I went to a different question,
where and when did the custom of kissing beneath the
mistletoe originate?

Speaker 5 (01:37:19):
I don't know, but I like it land.

Speaker 12 (01:37:23):
That.

Speaker 4 (01:37:23):
The practice is believed to have been popularized in Europe
during the seventeen hundreds. It was practiced in the United
States at least by eighteen twenty, when author Washington Irving
referred to it in his story Christmas Eve. So there
you go. Okay, I gotta make the big checker here.
We gotta do.

Speaker 5 (01:37:41):
Susan hasn't played in a while, So Mandy, you have
to wait.

Speaker 10 (01:37:44):
And we have two categories to get there, all right,
First one in the Christmas song lyrics. Okay, everybody, we've
all been instructed to do this with bows of holly, Mandy,
what is deck the halls?

Speaker 2 (01:37:57):
That is correct?

Speaker 10 (01:37:59):
Waken always count on them in the twelve Days of Christmas.
The eight maids are doing this.

Speaker 4 (01:38:04):
Many what is milking.

Speaker 10 (01:38:07):
I mean it says a milking, milking milk magically with
an old silk hat they found some kids placed it
on his head and he began to dance.

Speaker 4 (01:38:17):
Around this bridge.

Speaker 5 (01:38:19):
I said it first. Mom was first? Mom answered, dance round?

Speaker 4 (01:38:25):
What not? You answered the question, Dad, is.

Speaker 5 (01:38:28):
Frosty the snow?

Speaker 11 (01:38:29):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (01:38:31):
These two words, these two words, these two words. Then
prospero al.

Speaker 4 (01:38:39):
Mandy, what is police?

Speaker 5 (01:38:40):
Navy Doda?

Speaker 10 (01:38:42):
And finally she'd been drinking too much eggnog and we
begged her not to go, but unfortunately this happened anyway. Chris, Yes,
who is Grandma? That got ran over by Rainer? Okay,
next one? Okay, Christmas characters. You know we do have

(01:39:03):
a Jewish person on the show right now. So there
you go. I believe in Susan. Go ahead, he's nipping
at your nose. In a Christmas.

Speaker 4 (01:39:11):
Songrandy, who is Jack Frost?

Speaker 5 (01:39:13):
That is correct?

Speaker 10 (01:39:14):
In a nineteen eighty eight movie, Bill Murray played Frank Cross, Chris, Yes,
what is scrooged? I'll give it to Evane's a scrooge?

Speaker 9 (01:39:23):
Ye?

Speaker 4 (01:39:23):
Yep yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:39:24):
In The New York City Ballets nineteen fifty four, Nutcracker
Alberta Grant was Clara and Maria Tall Chief.

Speaker 5 (01:39:33):
What how old do you think?

Speaker 4 (01:39:35):
Again? I didn't understand what was the question, Maria tall Chief?

Speaker 5 (01:39:39):
I mean the questions worded really dumb.

Speaker 1 (01:39:41):
What is it?

Speaker 4 (01:39:41):
Read it again?

Speaker 10 (01:39:42):
In the New York City Ballets nineteen fifty four, Nutcracker
Alberta Grant was Clara and Maria Tall Chief.

Speaker 5 (01:39:49):
And then it says Comma her.

Speaker 4 (01:39:52):
Oh, Mandy, who is the sugar plump fairy?

Speaker 5 (01:39:54):
It is correct?

Speaker 4 (01:39:55):
Okay?

Speaker 10 (01:39:56):
Character name of Edmund, Gwen and Richard Attenborough. In versions
of Miracle on thirty fourth Street.

Speaker 4 (01:40:05):
The character named Miracle on thirty four. I mean, I
don't know the answer to that. I don't know anyone
and I think I do, but I like the movie
is Chris Kringle?

Speaker 10 (01:40:14):
Oh it is?

Speaker 4 (01:40:16):
Mandy has two, Chris has one, Sea Rod has one,
and Susan and Chris person introduced your dad as Chris.
I introduced him as Sea Rod. And I didn't want
to confuse the.

Speaker 10 (01:40:27):
Audience of Victor Herbert Opeta, children, Alan and Jane see
a spectacular pageants in this place.

Speaker 5 (01:40:37):
I think again, how old do you think we are?

Speaker 14 (01:40:39):
Well?

Speaker 5 (01:40:39):
You know dinosaurs? I don't know what is toy lane?

Speaker 4 (01:40:45):
Oh, I didn't know, dang it?

Speaker 5 (01:40:46):
Anyone whin?

Speaker 4 (01:40:49):
Yeah, I got one more trivia question? Okay, okay, and
doctor Seuss how the Grinch stole Christmas?

Speaker 6 (01:40:54):
By?

Speaker 4 (01:40:54):
How many sizes does the Grinch's heart grow after he
understands the true meaning of Christmas?

Speaker 7 (01:41:01):
I know it?

Speaker 14 (01:41:02):
Or anyone?

Speaker 4 (01:41:04):
Three sizes?

Speaker 9 (01:41:05):
Three sizes?

Speaker 4 (01:41:06):
It got three sizes. Let me get three sizes. You
got grew three sizes that day? Anyway, Happy Hanukkah to you,
thank you and saying hello, b Rod c Rod's so
nice to see you. Somebody asked earlier. Do you guys
love Poppy as much a Rod's dog?

Speaker 14 (01:41:24):
You do?

Speaker 4 (01:41:24):
Yes, She's we love her more than Anthony. Oh I know,
well she is your favorite. Happy set in her next week,
Merry Christmas to you guys. Merry Christmas, Anthony. I'll see everybody.
I'll be back on January second. Okay, everybody, thank you.
Susan Wickin.

Speaker 9 (01:41:41):
I hope everybody just has a great end of the year,
he too, in a super beginning of next year.

Speaker 4 (01:41:46):
Yeah, we got KOI Sports coming up next. Keep it
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