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Sunday Mornings: Sports, Politics, and Family Dilemmas
What if your Sunday morning was all about sleeping in, indulging in mile-high chocolate cake, and reflecting on the Georgia Bulldogs' latest game? That's exactly how we spent ours, savoring the simple pleasures of camaraderie and football at the sportsbook in Tunica. Even if you're not a huge sports fan, the atmosphere there is infectious, and we share our thoughts on the Bulldogs' recent downturn and the impressive win by Ole Miss. It’s a blend of gratitude for past triumphs and hopeful anticipation for future victories that makes for a cozy start to the day.
Ever wondered what happens when political bias seeps into hurricane recovery efforts? We tackle this shocking revelation involving a FEMA supervisor and dive into the chaos and thrill of betting on football games. It’s not all serious though—as we dabble in quirky betting strategies based on team names, we also scrutinize the deeper implications of bureaucratic challenges and political indoctrination within government agencies. From the fun of the sportsbook to the gravity of government corruption, our conversation covers it all with both humor and sincerity.
How would you handle a wedding gift used for a post-engagement cruise? Our Dear Abby segment unravels the complexities of generosity and family expectations when a gift takes an unexpected turn. As we ponder the challenges of financial gifts, we also revel in the joy of cooking, reminiscing about cherished kitchen tools like a mandolin from friends. It’s a heartwarming discussion that invites listeners to share their own culinary stories and challenges, building a community rooted in shared experiences and thoughtful exchanges.
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Hello, good morning. How are you?
Speaker 2:You started that right when I was in the middle of a yawn. Good morning, how's everyone? And then you're over there yawning.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, we slept in late.
Speaker 2:Some of us slept in late. I was up with the chickens and making coffee and getting everything ready, and then I started drinking some coffee and then I went back to sleep too. So, yeah, we slept in late, yeah, but that's okay. It's Sunday. I think we do that twice a year.
Speaker 1:Twice a year yeah.
Speaker 2:So that was okay. But you know, somebody had us staying out until all hours of the night last night 11.30. Yeah, but we didn't get to bed until like 1. That's true, so you know when you start coming. It was a little after 1130 when we started making our way back up to the room and then you got to come up and shower and eat chocolate, cake and all that kind of stuff. It gets to be like. Did you end up having to eat chocolate?
Speaker 1:cake I did.
Speaker 2:I did and I was a good boy. Yeah, yeah, I came straight in and brushed my teeth, knowing that I'm not eating chocolate cake. I can't do it.
Speaker 1:I did and it was delicious.
Speaker 2:I know it is great they have this mile-high cake here that is a mile high and you can get a piece of it and eat on it for six days. They couldn't even shut the container. No, even after we ate on it for a night, you couldn't shut the container. So, yeah, it's really good. But yeah, we slept in a little bit and I hope everybody stayed with us because we've got an exciting episode of the podcast tonight.
Speaker 1:Well, we had to stay out a little bit late and watch the entertainment because you had to lick your wounds a little bit from the game.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, it was not an outstanding showing by my Georgia Bulldogs, but anybody who knows football has been waiting for not a collapse but for a downward turn a little bit, because we've been so fortunate over the last six years to have all the players that we've had, you know, lots of them making an impact in the NFL now and it's just hard to replace that kind of talent that we've had over the past four or five years. We've got some great football players no kidding, we really really do but it was just one of those times. You know, I've always said the playing field is getting more level as the years go on and any Saturday any team can beat any team and it just goes back to show you how really really special those three, four years of Georgia football were for them to be undefeated and doing what they did.
Speaker 2:So you know, more power to the Georgia football teams of the past and hopefully we can get it back together and play some more good football on the way on in. But congratulations to whoever it was we played. Oh yes, way on in. But congratulations to whoever it was we played, um, oh yes, my buddy of mine would not allow me to say oh, miss, but congratulations on this, on a great game it was.
Speaker 1:It was uh, it was, it was good I enjoyed watching it too, because when we come over here to tunica, we, when it felt during football season, we'll go down to the sports book and participate and sit amongst the other people and watch all the TV screens and it's a lot of fun. I enjoy it even though I'm not into football. But I enjoy that with you, sit there and watch, and I'll watch the game and I'll watch people watch and watch a little bit of poker because it's next to the poker room. It's fun, I enjoy it a lot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and your picks did okay yesterday. I think you went two out of five, so you know you won two. You lost three. All right, no, that's not bad.
Speaker 1:So you got some money to pick up today.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got some money, Still lost money on it, but, you know, got some money to pick up. Yeah, I got some money Still lost money on it, but got some money to pick up. So it didn't go broke on your football picks, which is okay, because, hey, guess what A lot of people can't do as well as you did. So you picked some off-the-wall games.
Speaker 1:I did. Hey I only picked them because of their names.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's not a whole lot of people the Owls, I only picked them because of their names. Yeah, the owls, north Texas Temple. Who else?
Speaker 1:was it Duke?
Speaker 2:people will bet Duke and Iowa State.
Speaker 1:North Texas Temple some kind of Cyclones?
Speaker 2:that was Iowa State.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:And I can't remember what the other one was.
Speaker 1:I can't either.
Speaker 2:But they were kind of off-the-wall picks for a sports book in Mississippi.
Speaker 1:I was probably looking and going what in the world Does he know? Something we don't know?
Speaker 2:Well, the first thing I did when I walked up was I said these are for my wife. She likes the names. He probably went.
Speaker 1:Must be nice to have some money to throw away.
Speaker 2:No, for $25 a game. He was like, well, it has to be for his wife, you know. So, yeah, so it was good, we had a good time. It was fun watching all the games. And the funny part about you know, if you've ever watched a football in a sports book like that, you'll be watching your team or watching the game that you want to watch and then all of a sudden you hear everybody cheering and you're having to shake your head left and right. What happened in what game? And then you look over and you see what's happened in that game. Next thing you know there's cheering in another game. You're looking to see what the hell happened in that one.
Speaker 2:Then you look back at your game and go what the hell happened. So it's fun keeping your head on a swivel trying to keep up with all the games.
Speaker 1:You know that's one aspect of the trip during football season when we come over here that I really and truly look forward to.
Speaker 2:Pro footballers games are today.
Speaker 1:I don't know what that was. I heard some weird noises.
Speaker 2:Anyway.
Speaker 1:Well, it's also nice to get over here, and when we do this I don't know about you. Well, it's also nice to get over here, and when we do this, I don't know about you. But I tune out the news because you know we get off schedule. I don't pay as much attention to the news because we're out and about doing things, so I really don't know what's happening, except for this FEMA thing. We heard about that on the way over here. I was reading about it and I just could not believe it. When I first read the story, I mean, it was from the Daily Wire, but still I'm thinking they must have got something wrong.
Speaker 2:Well, do tell what happened.
Speaker 1:Oh, sorry, no-transcript. This woman told her workers to skip over houses during, you know, the hurricane recovery thing.
Speaker 2:And she was a FEMA person.
Speaker 1:She was a FEMA person. Let me go find the story. I'll just read a little bit to you. Okay, fema supervisor accused of ordering her subordinates to skip Florida homes with Trump campaign signs has been fired. Marnie Washington was sacked for telling disaster relief workers in Lake Placid, florida, to not go to homes with yard signs supporting President-elect Trump. Fema Administrator Deanna Griswell said Saturday this is a clear violation of FEMA's core values and principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation. Wow, I mean, and she put it in writing.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:What in the world?
Speaker 2:Well, three things come to mind, but the first two things that come to mind are arrogance and ignorance. She's ignorant in the fact that she's not doing her job and thinking that it's going to be okay. You've got to be ignorant to think that, but arrogant in the fact that she thinks that she can do that and get away with it.
Speaker 2:She put it in writing and maybe even unawareness, not even being aware of the fact that you know that it's wrong. You know this is the thing I need to do. I've been drilled to believe that that's correct, so that's what I was correct. But the bigger part of that goes to me, to me, goes to you know, everybody talks about the deep state being this evil, undermined. You know, whatever, whatever. But the deep state is exactly this. It's the bureaucracy in all the agencies and it's that bureaucracy being deep, state being of having that liberal attitude all the way into these government agencies, that far down into it. That's embedded deep state. It's not this secret we're going to get you. It's the attitude or the what's it say, the way that they are indoctrinated into the liberal idea and thinking. That's the way it's supposed to be and that's the way we're going to do it, regardless of whether it's our job or not. Ideology before policy that's the deep state.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you know, when I first started hearing the term deep state, I was, like you, the person you're describing as that's not.
Speaker 2:Sinister.
Speaker 1:Yes, that's like something you would see on a soap opera. It's not real. It's made up bullshit. Whatever you can't believe that about. I couldn't believe the deep state. Come on, really it's like Victor Kiriakis on General Hospital. It's not real.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I think of.
Speaker 1:It's too much. You guys are exaggerating. It's over the top.
Speaker 2:I think of it as Rocky and Bullwinker. I think of it, I hear it. Come on, natasha, yeah, that's what the deep state is. But on Natasha, yeah, you know that's what the deep state is, but no, it's not, it's really. Political ideals embedded into the government.
Speaker 1:You know, and I thought I was waking up, I thought I was fairly awake with all this stuff happening and finally realizing that the government's not really what it said. You know it's not really that good for you, but and then you have stuff like this and I and I'm still kind of naive in thinking I can't believe it the government held to our constitution is the way it's supposed to be run, but our government is not run by the constitution right now yeah it is run by a deep state ideologue, that idea, ideology that has grown and embedded into, and that doesn't mean that it's just from that liberal point of view.
Speaker 2:You have to do that Right, you know it. It goes to a lot of corruption on both sides of it. You know of the, you know taking of money and, uh, you know I'm like I have to vote this way to keep my job because I have my, but this gravy train of being in Congress or Senator or whatever, just too good. Or, or, you know, I have to enforce the liberal policies because that's why I'm here and, of course, that's what I've been indoctrinated to believe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, I woke up the other morning, this morning and still astonished that Trump won. I'm thankful and you know my gut reaction is okay, take it easy, donald. But then I'm thinking, no, no, no, go in there full blast and take care of some stuff immediately. There's rumors that he's not going to have Nikki Haley or Mike Pompeo come back or do anything with it. I'm good, go in there and clean house immediately. You have four years. It's not a lot of time. I don't care, do it yeah.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 1:No apologies.
Speaker 2:Yep, you know, the more you can get in there, the more you can take care of that and unwind it, so that if they try to wind it back it's more difficult to wind back, the better it'll be.
Speaker 2:Because I think, and I hope, you know, I really hope that the Republican Party and I say the Republican Party in the sense that I think of the Republican Party, the upcoming part of it, the Vances, the DeSantis, those people who have that same idea of cleaning up the government, having a good fiscal policy, to getting rid of what I think is one of the biggest things that's going to hurt this country is the deficit. People don't talk about it much, but it's looming, believe me, it's looming. Oh, look at the stock market, look how it's going. Well, you know, guess what? You know how fast that can take a reverse, fast. So, anyway, you know, hopefully they can get in there and dismantle it enough to where it's too. It would take a long time to, you know, to wind it back up and you know we can keep that, you know, going on the trend of less government, more people.
Speaker 1:So we'll see one more thing, and then we'll. What do you think about the rumor is, then we'll. What do you think about? The rumor is on Twitter anyway. What do you think of the possibility of Peter Doocy being the press secretary?
Speaker 2:Boy. Wouldn't that be ironic. I don't think he's going to give up his job. Okay, I think he could go into some other part of the Trump administration, but I'm not sure Breast Secretary would be good. I can see him doing it, I'd love to see him do it, but I think of him more of being a little bit more. You know, not face the nation, but be the nation. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I tell you who I would like to see. She'll never do it, and that would be Megyn Kelly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she'd be good at it.
Speaker 1:She would be freaking awesome at it. No, take no bullshit, but she won't do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she wouldn't be good. So are we doing any Dear Abby's today?
Speaker 1:Oh, do we have to do some, dear Abby's.
Speaker 2:Don't we usually do them on Sunday?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess so.
Speaker 2:How many minutes are we in? It's 15 minutes in we can do one, all right, we'll do one. We're going to do one.
Speaker 1:All right. All right, we have a Dear Abby for you and we're going to just get right into it. Dear Abby, try to stay with me. This is a couple of paragraphs, okay, it's kind of convoluted and kind of goes down. Okay, all right, I'm just going to read it. Here we go.
Speaker 1:Dear Abby, my sister recently lost her husband, who passed away from a brief fight with cancer. Her daughter, my niece, was scheduled to be married later this year. They struggled with finances and my brother-in-law's death exacerbated the situation. In order to help out, my wife and I quietly gave them a thousand dollars to put toward my niece's shower so they could have it at a nice place. My sister was appreciative, but we unfortunately never heard from my niece.
Speaker 1:Fast forward a couple of months and the wedding is now called off. My sister and her daughter recently went on a cruise and have told me they have booked another. There has been no mention about returning our $1,000. My wife is becoming increasingly frustrated and wants to say something to my sister which will create a family feud. While I agree the money should be returned, I am inclined to just write it off rather than stir up a mess. I would love to hear your perspective Generous in the East. Can I go first? Yes, okay, there has been no mention about returning our $1,000. When you gave her the $ to help with the wedding and it didn't turn out, that's what happened. I understand, but money makes money's weird.
Speaker 2:I agree wholeheartedly. You know it's one of those ones you know you can give. Give them the money with your intentions, all well and good, but once it gets into their hands it becomes basically their money and they may have, you know, put part of it towards something, part of, you know, towards the wedding, and part of it, you know that, you know, didn't pan out like putting an investment to do I don't you know what I'm saying like down payment for something or whatever, and it never came due, could have been, who knows. Well, there are a lot of other circumstances. But again, once that money leaves your fingertips unless you're so anal that you have a contractual thing written down for the thousand, you know that.
Speaker 2:You know this goes there, this goes there, this goes there. And if you know you don't have the wedding, you know you forfeit the right to the money and it's all refunded with interest. You know, whatever the case may be, but you gave it to a relative here's a thousand dollars for your wedding. At that point it's not your money anymore. What they do with it might piss you off, but guess what?
Speaker 1:sure I understand the frustration. The wedding's called off, you would think you money should returned.
Speaker 2:I don't know if it should be or not, absolutely. You would think that if it were me that I was giving money for the wedding and the wedding didn't have it, I'd give it back. But some people think that you know, oh, that's just the gift to use for the wedding or whatever we really want to use it for. Thanks a lot. Here's when we go on and we use it. So they may have put it to good. You know, they may not have. They may have put that money to really good use, like you know, living off it, buying food because they were strapped for money, who knows? Yeah, whatever. But once it leaves your fingertips, unless you have anal contracts saying this- as far as you not hearing from your niece about it.
Speaker 1:Maybe the niece didn't know where the money came from. Maybe the mother didn't tell her.
Speaker 2:Maybe the niece never got the money, and what about?
Speaker 1:Mary Lou.
Speaker 2:Well, let's say, you bought a wedding gift, an actual gift instead of China or whatever for the couple. Would you expect that back? Absolutely not. What?
Speaker 1:about when a couple gets engaged and the guy gives the girl an engagement ring and then they break up. Should she give it back?
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:I think that's true. That's a different situation, but yeah, once you give, that's a difference, it's a different situation, but yeah, once you give that what's abby say oh, let's read what abby says.
Speaker 2:That's interesting we with each state, we know.
Speaker 1:Well, I gotta go get back to the story. All right, here we go. Dear generous, my perspective is that, where your sister and her daughter are concerned, you should firmly close your wallet. The money is gone and you are right that raising the issue will cause ill will. Your generosity should have been acknowledged and, when the wedding was called off, your money should have been returned rather than applied to a mother-daughter vacation. If your niece does manage to get married in the future, remember that you have already given her a wedding gift. That's correct. Well, there you go. That's what Abby says. I agree. All right. Do you want to do a question of the day or just skip over that part? All right, since we're talking about weddings, what is your most memorable wedding gift that you received from someone?
Speaker 2:when you got married. Very good, very good. What's yours?
Speaker 1:Well off the top of my head. I'm sure there are multitudes of answers here, but the thing that first jumped in my head was our white puffy blanket that we got from your mother's sister. Didn't even know us. I mean, it's a nice, but we've. It's a nice blanket. It's like a down blanket. One side is like furry, the other side is like nylon material or something it's.
Speaker 1:It's down it, yes, down, oh. And it's not a huge blanket either. It's manageable. It's like a lap blanket and I love that thing it was a good gift.
Speaker 2:I like them. Okay. Yeah, you, you like that, I do. The dog and the cat have liked it, so yeah and it's still good.
Speaker 1:After all these years, it's still in great condition well, I guess mine.
Speaker 2:As you know, I I do the cooking in the house, but there's one gift that I don't use enough of that I should, because anyway I like chopping with knives. But your ex-boss got us a mandolin and it's. I know exactly where it is and I should get it out and use it more often. But man, I, I cut up vegetables and potatoes and all that stuff cuts, even cuts, and all that stuff I really like that.
Speaker 2:I'll never forget tom and betty giving us that. Yeah, that was good. Those are. That's the one I'm all right?
Speaker 1:well, there you go. There's our, there are our, and I would like to hear from you guys absolutely all right, we gotta go have a great day.
Speaker 2:Go, dogs.
