Dixon & Vining Hour 4 (012725)
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January 27, 2025
TLDR: Discussion on entertainment news and food, featuring Steve, with a Question of the Day segment.

The latest episode of the Dixon & Vining Hour brings a mix of entertainment news, insightful discussions, and light-hearted banter among hosts Steve and Richard. The episode dives into various topics, including the Super Bowl rematch, music nostalgia, and pop culture commentary.
Weather Update
- A brief weather forecast starts the episode, noting cloudy skies with a chance of sunshine as temperatures rise to around 53°F.
Music and Entertainment News
Spin Doctors Releasing New Music
- The Spin Doctors, a beloved 90s band, is set to release a new album on April 11. However, their first track "Still a Gorilla" has been critiqued harshly by Richard, who points out its lackluster quality compared to their earlier hits.
Paul McCartney on AI and Copyright
- Paul McCartney warns young artists about the implications of AI on music ownership and copyright laws. He raises concerns about the British government's attempt to change laws allowing AI to learn from copyrighted material. Richard and Steve agree that this poses risks to artists' rights and creative integrity.
Current Events and Personal Perspectives
Health Struggles of Celebrities
- The hosts reflect on personal stories related to cancer struggles, particularly highlighting comedian Dave's battle with stage three non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. They discuss the emotional toll on both patients and their families.
Don Lemon Controversy
- Discussion shifts to media figures, particularly Don Lemon's controversial comments about reinstating Matt Lauer to television. The hosts critique Lemon’s lack of awareness of Lauer's past misconduct and draw attention to the ongoing issues regarding sexual harassment in the workplace.
Sports Spotlight: Super Bowl Rematch
Chiefs vs. Eagles
- The episode discusses the upcoming Super Bowl 59 rematch between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles. Key points covered include:
- Analysis of previous matchups and outcomes.
- Notable performances from both teams, with a focus on quarterback Jalen Hurts from the Eagles.
- Richard expresses his support for the Eagles, citing their chances against a vulnerable Chiefs team.
Nostalgic Reflections
90s Bands on Tour
- The conversation highlights the surge of 90s bands returning to the music scene, including Hootie and the Blowfish and Ringo Starr’s upcoming country album, prompting discussions about age and nostalgia in the music industry.
Conclusion
In this episode of the Dixon & Vining Hour, the hosts successfully blend humor, critical analysis, and personal anecdotes. They keep listeners engaged with lively discussions about music, pop culture, and current events while promoting thought-provoking conversations about industry dynamics, particularly concerning creativity and integrity.
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Good morning, everyone. It is 905. It is a little cloudy out there, a little drizzle earlier this morning. That is expected to move out of here on this Monday morning, January 27th.
and maybe we'll get a little sunshine in here before the day is up high about fifty three right now we're looking at about uh... forty eight so we're getting near that high for the day partly cloudy tuesday high fifty nine cloudy wednesday sixty six we could see and even by early next week seventy degrees potentially in the forecast so i think maybe we're shaking off this
Freezing temperatures here for a little while. I don't think we're done with it yet, but it's kind of nice to have this break. Enjoy the weather. Enjoy the warmth. Not bad. Oh, I will. Believe me, I will. Yes. I look forward to it.
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A group I really enjoyed back in the 90s. And then, you know, they put out like five more albums after pocket full of Kryptonite that I had no use for at all. And they have just come out with a new album or it is actually going to be released on April 11th on Capitol Records 12 tracks included in the record and they released one on January 17th called Still a Gorilla.
A little heavier sound for the spin doctors, as you can tell. Said a little miss, a little miss. Can't be wrong. Tell me more.
OK, you don't have to play the rest of that. I'll be happy to tell you. It sucks. Yeah, that does. This track is terrible. I mean, it really is. I listened to the whole thing yesterday. Yeah. And I was just like, well, this is just garbage. I mean, it is nowhere near the quality of stuff that they were putting out in the early 90s. And OK, and I guess people will spend doctors' capital records. We better hurry out there. Yeah. Who knows? The rest of the album could be gold. That track is crap.
so why they put that out it usually put out the best you got clearly they think clearly if you think that they are wrong they are wrong it really is quite a terrible track uh... they've cleared wife
has given a sad update about his cancer battle saying that he's struggling. The chemotherapy, you know, it comes and goes and waves. You get the chemo for a short period and then they want you to kind of, you got to recuperate and then they got to check you and go like this is working. And if it is, then they, you know, stay the course and keep plugging away. If it's not, sometimes they'll crank it up or they'll change a little bit. Yeah.
It's happening to a friend of mine right now, and he went from going to work every day to making it to work maybe once a week, and he's struggling. He's having a tough time with it. I get it. I understand. It's not easy, man. And Dave, apparently, having a bit of a battle trying to keep this stage three non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at bay, but she says the interesting thing is he's trying to keep everyone's spirits around him up.
That's gotta be difficult when you have to be both the guy with cancer and the cheerleader. Yeah, and the uplifter. Wow. Good one of you take either of these two roles, either one. I vote for someone else take the cancer, but you know what? If you want to be the cheerleader, we can do that. God get out. That's what he said to the doctors about the cancer. 65 years old. Yeah, 65. Uncle Joey, 65. It's amazing. Never saw that coming. Let's see, Paul McCartney.
concerned about a i interestingly you know he and uh... ringo used a little a i because back uh... now and then was a song that they came up with the uh... was a john lemon thing
And when they did that deal in the 90s when they came up with real love and free as a bird, they worked on that and they were thinking they might release it. But they just couldn't get it to sound right. There wasn't really quite enough John left on there. And most of what he was dealing with was stuff like a set tape that he had recorded that was just sort of a raw thing with him and a piano.
And so they're like, oh, this isn't as good as the other ones. We don't feel good about putting this out. Well, once AI came along, they could use that to enhance the vocals and what John was doing. And it really sounded more like, and George had done some work on it back in the 90s. So he was also on there, including his guitar solo. So they were like, OK, this is still a Beatles track. That's why they were able to release it.
I think it was late 23 that they did it. It's a really good song. I like it. Out of the three that they released since the Beatles broke up, I want to say my favorite is real love, but this one is a pretty close second now and then, and then free as a bird is just crap.
I didn't like it when it came out, and you were not allowed to say that at the time, by the way. You're saying it now. That's the Beatles, how dare you? How dare you. I'm sorry it was a stupid song, and poor rhymes, and John Lennon, in my opinion, was the third best songwriter in the Beatles, but that's just me. Everyone has their own.
view on that. So now Paul McCartney is warning young artists about AI. He says, Great Britain is trying to rewrite the copyright laws so that they can use, for instance, your copyrighted stuff to teach AI. No, no, no, not with your stuff. Yeah. Here's, I don't understand AI very well at all because I'm old and technology confuses me.
But what I get is that you and I could read probably a paragraph or two into some sort of AI program. It could capture our tone, our tenor, our style of speech, and then if you wrote something into it and said, I want this to sound like Richard Dixon or Valerie Vining, it could read it back in your voice or my voice. That's a little frightening. Oh, it's very frightening. And apparently they could do the same thing with singing that you could get
a singing voice, and you could say, all right, we want to sing this other song, but we want it to sound like this guy, like let's have John Lennon sing W.A.P. I don't think he would, but you know, he's been dead for a while, but we can do that because we took some of his old stuff and we put it into the AI and now it's- Well, and that's why you got to get all these protections in place. Exactly. And yet the British government is attempting to go the other way and change the copyright laws to allow such things and Paul McCartney is like terrible idea.
That's a terrible idea. That's very good. Let's say it would sound like it would be awful. What do you think Ringo? I agree. It's a terrible idea. Um, yeah, no, no.
No, I think that's an awful idea. They need to do everything to work to protect their music and their artistry and their voices and everything. Sure. I can tell you what's going to happen. Because this is what the problem is. Well, look, the quality of music has been going downhill for quite some time. I think you and I agree on that. You listen to what passes for hit music today compared to what was a hit back in the 70s or even the 80s.
And you're like, whoa, the musicianship is gone. They're using computers. They're using, you know, all kinds of electronic stuff instead of actually instrumentation. I don't do. Exactly. This is really different from the way things used to be. Well, they're going to start having AI basically create songs. And they're going to have AI. You will reach an entire
group of people with Justin Bieber just going, you know what, I'm going to type some stuff in here and there. It created a song with my voice on it. I'm going to put that out and people are like, oh, the new Bieber song is awesome. And he used chat GBT too. Yeah. I don't, I don't like any of them. Nope. But that's where it's headed. It is. And there's not going to be a whole lot. You're going to be getting pale comparisons, pale, pale impersonations of what music used to be kids. Don Lemon.
Does anybody care about what done? No, no, no, really not. I'm over it. I am. I love his. What have you got? He says, Matt Lauer should come back to TV. Women love him. Oh, what? Sure. You kidding me? If anybody knows the background of what Matt Lauer is all about, really? Wow.
Oh, you're so disconnected, Don Lemon. You are so, you have no clue what you're talking about. Well, my first question to Don Lemon is how do you know what women want? Right. Well, yeah, he said some pretty insulting things already. Obviously, he doesn't know. He does not have any idea. But Matt Lauer was, he left, he got paid his entire contract, by the way, left of his own volition. He didn't have to be fired because once everything came to light, he was like my career is toast now.
This guy was sexually abusing women under his command. He was the poster child for workplace sexual harassment. The poster child. He was taking women under him and it was understood that if you did not submit to Matt Lauer's desires that you would be
You would be gone, or you'd be demoted, or you'd be sent somewhere else that basically you had to play ball. He was having an affair with one or the other, you know, high among them. It was during the Olympics, yeah. During the Olympics he was doing all of that. The guy had a button installed on his desk that would close his door from across the room. Oh, that's frightening. Sweet young thing he wanted to sit in his lab. And the thing that offends me about this the most, okay, this is what really bothers me, is that
The network knew this. They knew what was going on. We as men have been saying for quite some time, whenever a woman comes up and goes, it's just an old boy's network and you have to submit to them. We're like, that was the 50s and 60s. It's not like that anymore. And then Matt Lauer comes up and it's like, it is like that. Okay, my bad. Here I've been defending the species and it turns out there are still slubs like this guy out there doing exactly what these women are saying.
And it's upsetting, it's annoying because it taints all of us. And it, yes, it kind of pushes things back once again. But, you know, luckily that all of this came to light and was made aware and Matt Lauer no longer had a job at NBC where everybody thought he was, you know, close to God. Oh no, but behind the scenes, do you know what's going on? Don Lemon thinks he should come back.
Oh my lord. I gotta tell you, maybe the most annoying thing, here's the thing I think. Maybe Don Lemon and Matt Lauer ought to do a show together. Well that'd be perfect. Let's see how that works out. Bring it on. Okay, negative ratings. There are a bunch of people who don't have TVs who said if they did have a TV they wouldn't watch it. That's negative ratings right there. Here's the thing, if I could really point to what I'm chapped about the most about this.
I can't find a guy to install that button on my desk. That's the thing that really gets me. I'm like, I have called a round. Trump's got the Diet Coke button. I know. I can't get one of those either. Right. What happens when he pushes that? Who brings in the Diet Coke? Where does it come from? Probably the chicks that were going to Matt Lowers office. That's what's going on there. Why doesn't he just have a little refrigerator in the? I need two solid buttons on the Dixon desk. Let's go button people. Where are you hiding? Bring it to me, Steve. That's where you hit the thing right there. Yeah, there you go. Hot. Bada.
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It's Steve's turn. So we now know that two weeks from yesterday, we're going to get Super Bowl 59, rematch of the Kansas City Chiefs, Philadelphia Eagles. They met just two years ago, resulted in the Chiefs win 38-35. Now this rematch is far from the first rematch in Super Bowl history, and while only two years separate them, it's also not the quickest Super Bowl rematch. So if you want to re-matches, they're actually not as uncommon as one might think.
First one happened back in 1978. Pittsburgh Steelers met the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl 13, but they had met three years prior in Super Bowl 10 as it turns out the two franchises actually met up again in Super Bowl 30. Steelers 2-1 in those games.
galleries Miami Dolphins versus what was then the Washington Redskins they met twice first in Super Bowl 7 then again in Super Bowl 17 they each split those two games San Francisco 49ers versus the Cincinnati Bengals they paired off twice in the 1980s Super Bowl 6 and 16 I'm sorry in 23 San Francisco won both of those in the heyday of the Montana to rice in company situation
The fastest rematch in Super Bowl history happened between those aforementioned Dallas Cowboys and the Buffalo Bills, you know, when the Buffalo Bills were going through their woeful 0-4 streak. Back-to-back year, Super Bowls 27-28. So again, Cowboys 2-0 in that.
The New England Patriots are going to take a big part of this right here. They played the Rams twice, the first time when they were in St. Louis, Super Bowl 36, the second time after they moved out to LA, Super Bowl 53, didn't really matter where they were based, the Rams lost both times. New England also played these Eagles into Super Bowl, Super Bowl 38 and 52, they split those two each team winning one each.
And then New England also played the New York Giants in two Super Bowls. Numbers 42 and 46 Giants claim both of those matches. So now we get up to the Kansas City Chiefs turn. This is actually their second rematch. They first played the San Francisco 49ers twice. Super Bowls 54 and again 58 just last year. Chiefs won both of those contests so that brings us back to the Chiefs and the Eagles.
And we have to ask the question. Are they going to be 2-0 when it's all said and done? Or can the Eagles do what they did to the Patriots and finally make a split here? Based upon what I saw yesterday, I think the Chiefs are a little bit vulnerable considering the fact that Jalen Hurt seems quite mobile, despite the fact that he was on the injured list going into the game.
And they got this guy by the name of Saquon Barkley who is just tearing things up. So yeah, I kind of get the funny feeling the Eagles might be able to make a split on this one. At least that's what I'm rooting for. Come on Eagles. I feel what I'm rooting for. I know that people who love the Chiefs want to see them win again and again and again. I get it. I understand. But you know what? I just feel like I've seen enough of them. We've all seen enough of them.
we all like jail and hurts right even though we have been to know that i'm a senior season i don't know if you have to have a high-end right he didn't need it to do what he needed to do fifth the crimson tie and we all know it i'd that is that is right there fake news no no no he he he he left like a father who owed back child support well he ran off
No, he crossed jail and hurts off. He did what was best for himself and it was a wise move on his part. Obviously won many awards as the quarterback of Oklahoma and then went on to at one point be the highest paid quarterback in the NFL. That lasted about two weeks.
uh... and yet still he's making a pretty penny and unlike a lot of people he seems to be earning that money you know yes he's fun to watch uh... i i don't just want the eagles to win because i don't like the chiefs anymore poured with the chiefs are what i don't have anything against the chiefs i really don't
But I want the Eagles to win because I want Jalen Hertz to be on a Super Bowl winning team and not lose to the Chiefs twice. That's really what it comes down to. She's been there too many. We know that song and dance. Let's have somebody else win the Super Bowl. Also, I have some Philly-based friends that will lose their minds if the Eagles win this Super Bowl. They'll be so happy. I know a couple of them too.
I will be happy on their behalf. He's a great sports town, man. Really, Pennsylvania is just a great sports state. Yeah, if you were for the home team. Oh, exactly. Hold on. Hold on. Oh, no, they're going to hate you a lot. But you got, I mean, you got the Flyers, you got the Penguins, you got Steelers, you've got the Eagles, you've got
76. Yeah. You know, a couple of good baseball teams. Truly great. You get the pirates. I mean, yeah, some some truly amazing stuff there. You got to give. You got to give props to Pennsylvania. They do love their sports.
Okay. Well, we'll see how that plays out in two weeks. Is the Pro Bowl still taking place next week? Yeah, this weekend. And it's just, it's a fake game. It's a flag football game and they added a whole bunch of skills competitions around it. Yeah. Yawn. Maybe we do it way with that. It was boring before. Now, they're going to make it even more boring. Thanks, but no thanks. Hootay and his blowfish. They are once again touring. All those 90s acts are coming back around again. They're nostalgic.
to a certain number of people now, the way 70s acts were nostalgic to us in the 2000s. Yeah, very similar to that, I would say. About 30 years difference there. It's just like, oh, well, you guys are still around. Yes, we were in our 20s when they had the hits now or in our 50s. Damn, I'm old.
It's feeling that way. It really is, isn't it? Yeah, when you start putting it in perspective that way, you're like, oh, goodness gracious. Yikes. There are some people I wish would just hang it up. Ringo Starr is coming out with a country album. Oh, no. I'm kind of like, Ringo, you're 84. You can lie down. You can rest. You can rest. You don't have to lie down. He just needs to rest. All right, sit. Sit. Sit is fine. Get a lazy boy.
Put your feet up. You're fine. Relax. Yeah. Take a nap. You'll be right. Right. Watch a little TV. Relax. Do something. Enjoy it on your phone. You're married to a Bond girl. Come on!
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All right, Mary's pit barbecue and Huntsville has burned to the ground 67 years. That's so sad. That thing was in business. That is sad. Apparently a space heater, they think, is the cause of the problem. Usually in a place like that, when you have that, it's because the chimneys get full of soot, which is still very, very flammable.
And you have to have them cleaned out every now and then, 67 years is a long time. But apparently that was not it. It was a small place. And those, I find that these barbecue joints, these hole in the wall barbecue joints, the best ones are the small ones. Yes they are. You know, because you can really keep quality control on the product that you're turning out.
Then you're usually got a very limited menu. It's just the main barbecue things with a couple of sides, a couple of choices of drinks, and that's it. It reminds me of Dreamland when they had the one location in Tuscaloosa. I mean, just the best food, but it was real limited. You got a bag of chips and some bread to go with it and, you know, get your ribs, and that was it. A place we were talking about a little over a year ago, I think, with Crossroads Barbecue, which is over there on, I think it's Old Springville.
I finally swung by there to try it out, and it was very, it was small place, really no dining inside, you know? All the space that they had in there was taken up with the cooking, and they had like two or three little tables that they had to wedge in, and then there was an outdoor eating area, but mostly it was like, buy this and take it home, eat it there, which I did. Outstanding, absolutely outstanding.
All the best barbecue places are like this. It's sad because this was a family business. It was much loved by the small community. Mayfield is what they called it, I believe. And it is within the city limits. Mayville, I guess, is within the city limits of Huntsville, interestingly. So it technically was a Huntsville business that burned to the ground. And they're like, we don't know what we're going to do. Do we rebuild?
I don't know, that one's tough because there's probably not much left and now you've got the old pit where everything was cooked on. I guess you could, but will it be the same? I can tell you, when all these moved from its location down here on Green Springs to a new place down on the corner of Valleydale and 31, that new place was awful.
I mean, I ate at the old Ollie's here a couple of times before closed and it was just outstanding because it had decades and decades and decades of buildup from that pit. You know, you're not just eating the cooking there, you're eating everything that's ever cooked on that smoker at one time. And it was just outstanding. Then I go try this stuff and I'm like, this tastes literally like gas station chicken. Like it was so bad. Yeah, it takes years to have that built up.
There's a brand of milk that is being recalled, get a load of this horizon, organic dairy, thousands of cases of self stable milk. Do they mean shelf stable milk by chance? I don't know.
They're recalling 19,688 cases of its eight ounce, 12 pack of horizon organic aseptic plain whole milk due to the potential for premature product spoilage. Uh oh, that's a problem. It is a problem. I found that when I was drinking a lot of milk, using a lot of milk for one reason or another, that organic milk tended to last longer.
which is good because even when a single guy is using, quote, a lot of milk, end quote, it's not enough to get through a half gallon before it goes bad on you. So I'd be like, okay, I'll spend a little extra. I'll get the organic and it'll last that half gallon will actually still be good when you get down to the bottom of it. Still didn't work. Still got down to about the last quarter and it was like, okay, it's turned on me.
That fair life is the only thing I've found that lasts as long as I can. Yeah, I remember you mentioning that. Yeah, that stuff actually makes it. But who's, first off, I wouldn't buy an eight ounce, I wouldn't buy a 12 pack of eight ounce whole milk bottles. Well, maybe it's a family with kids. I would assume so. Yeah. I mean, you never know. I was going to ask, who's drinking whole milk? The answer is my daughter, my daughter and her daughter. They love whole milk. My son loves whole milk. Really? Yeah.
I tried the skim thing. It tastes like water. It is. It's white water. Well, that's what happens when you try to transition from whole milk to something else. You got to stop at 2% along the way there. You got to get a little pause in at 2% to get a feel for it. I don't know. It's itty-bitty as his waist is. I'm like, you need whole milk. He's doing fine. Yes. Nothing to worry about there. Gracious. All right. Good news. Costcode member.
Their food court is switching back to Coca-Cola. I think they'll be just fine with that.
They switched to Pepsi in 2013. It was apparently a cost-saving measure. I remember when they did it, and the CEO said, we're doing this so we can keep the hot dog meal at about 50. Right, so what Coca-Cola do? Coca-Cola come in and make them a deal? Probably came in and went, you know what, we'll pull next to the price or whatever. They waited long enough and it was like, okay, we'll be willing to go along with this.
You do have to have a Costco membership to visit the food court. Yes, you do. A lot of people can't have that deal without a Costco membership. Who do you think you are? You are these people. The Buck 50 hot dog and drink has been the same price since the 1980s, 85. Listen, they're making that up in other places. Oh, exactly. Same with the rotisserie chicken, by the way. The rotisserie chicken is still under five bucks. And that is a lost leader. You go in there to get that and then you walk out with the 55 gallon drummer cream.
They're making it up with a pizza, because the pizza's like 10 bucks. The pizza's not bad for the whole pizza. If you think about it, really what it costs to make a pizza, they're making it up in other ways.
uh... chicken and bacon sandwich right now they're six ninety nine that's where they make it up maybe roast beef and turkey options sandwiches the most changed option on the cost code food court menu uh... uh... let's see locations are now selling sandwiches filled with roasted chicken breast cheddar cheese bacon jam and a male mustard blend uh... yes i think it sounds pretty good
Pizza's a buck 99 for a slice 9.95 for the whole pizza. Really? You can't beat that. And that would be either cheese or pepperoni. Those are the two. And I'm kind of like, wait a minute, if I'm getting just cheese, I should pay less. Not necessarily. They're putting extra cheese on there for you, Richard. Soda is 69 cents. It's 89 at Sam's Club. I'm getting ripped off. Come on over to the Costco side. Ice cream Sunday for $2.49.
The ice cream cup for a buck 99 chocolate chip cookie for 249. That seems expensive for it. How big is it? Pretty good size cookie. But yeah, you're paying above and beyond. That's making up for the buck 50. That's right. Here it is.
This chocolate chip cookie replaced the churro because, of course, Costco racist. We all agree with that. I don't think so. No, you don't think so. Based out of California, not likely. But they're keeping DEI, so look out for that. They are. I know. I thought that was interesting. I did too. I think you guys are missing the mark on this one. Well, you know, I look at it and go, you know what? Are you changing the products? Are you changing the way you do business? Are the prices remaining the same? I'm fine. You do you. I don't care. As long as you're not, you know, if I show up in the cashier is useless, then I have a problem.
because you made her a DEI higher. That's, that's going to be difficult for me. But if, if everything else remains the same and you're just doing this stupid training behind the scenes, fine. Knock yourself out. I don't care. It's on you. That's just costing you money and time. You're not at Costco anyways. So what is it? You're right. I don't care. You don't care. You don't care. You don't give a rip. That's why I really don't care. I'm over there going. I give a rip. Okay. Who are you behind the counter? Go ahead and rip away. Oh my gosh. Rip away. Rip away. Rip it up a little bit.
Fruit smoothie for $2.99, rotisserie chicken, a Caesar salad for $6.99, and the chicken bake for $3.99. What is this? The chicken bake is pretty darn good. Check this out, check this out, for under four bucks. It includes chicken breast, cheese, bacon, and Caesar dressing wrapped in bread. What's not to love about that? It's a hot pocket. Done by Costco. Oh, pocket.
So good. I have had one of those and they're delicious. Help me in. And they're frozen coffee or chilled coffee is really good too. It's very sweet. I realized as I was doing show prep and putting that story up on our pages.
I've never been to the food court at Sam's Club. I've never once stepped up to the counter and ordered anything there. I've never sat at those little tables and eaten anything. You are missing an experience. I have never done. It's like ordering food at the airport and watching people walk through with all their carts of stuff. That sounds like fun. It's all judgment all the time.
I judge people as I'm walking through the store and looking at them. Don't you have fun with that at either the mall or the airport? I'd love to just sit there and watch people walk through. Very judgmental. Super judgmental. Nice shoes. You need some new shoes. Hadn't had a bath in a while. Need a bath. Oh, there's the lady that stopped by the free sample thing three times.
Wendy's bringing back both the vanilla frosty and the frosty key tag. This is the one that you pay what a couple of bucks for three dollars. And this gives you an unlimited free junior frosty. Well, those are little itty bitty. Were they any purchase for the rest of 2020? Six ounces of something in it.
I got a time fine with that. You know, even a regular frosty, the small frosty is like, this is too much for me. The mini frosty I could do with the mini frosty. I'll take two, they're small. And by the way, it's free. It's free. It's free. You paid $3 for the key tag. Now, if you go to Wendy's and you buy something. Yeah. They go, oh gosh. Here comes that guy again with that frosty key tag. Yeah. So aren't you going to order some fries or see how much of that? You have to buy something else to get the free frosty. Yeah. Okay. All right. They're making up with a $2.50 to the chocolate chip cookie. Well, sure. No, that's cost cost.
But they are bringing back the vanilla, huh? Okay, good for them. Yeah, really, all it is, is they swap out the vanilla for these other flavors. When they went salted caramel, that was, oh, we're getting rid of vanilla, we're putting in salted caramel. Then salted caramel's gone, a vanilla's back. Next, it'll be like, okay, we're bringing in a red truffle, you know, for Valentine's Day or whatever. They always do this. The peppermint one they did at Christmas time? Yes. That was because they bounced the vanilla. Chocolate is a mainstay. Chocolate stays there forever. Chocolate never leaves.
Chocolate is time itself and delicious. Yes, it should be. Yes. Always. How about limited edition Lindor truffles for Valentine's Day? Uh-huh. Okay. You like it? Mm-hmm. Cocon cream, cherry vanilla, and raspberry cheesecake.
Hello Lindo. Okay. Let me tell you something. The bags they put their individually wrapped candies in, they've done a nice job with that. Yeah. I mean, you don't even need to wrap that up for Valentine's Day because it's so pretty. Well, you're paying for it. I know. I mean, I realize that, but it's all good. So you can show up and just hand your love up here. Here's a bag of stuff I found for you to check out. Right. I put a lot of thought into this. I didn't even wrap it.
Which, by the way, all the Valentine's stuff is out. Oh, yeah. Been out for a while. And every time I pass it in the store, I can think of as, I'm so glad I don't have anyone to buy that for. Aww. I am so happy. You can buy something for me, Richard. I won't. You can buy Steve a little something. I'm not doing that either. I like you, but not like that. Yeah. Come on. How about some sweethearts? Maybe I'll give my daughter some, yeah, I might give her the little bubbles. And your granddaughter? I gotta get your granddaughter some. She doesn't know what day it is. But you have. There's no idea. Grandpa.
Look, I'm going to tell her, I'm going to tell her it's 15 and get the half price. You are. No, that is not nice. You are the man in her life right now. How sad is that? You know what I'm saying? She needs to get out more. She's four and a half years old. It's time to start playing the field. You can have a little tea party with her and then present her with a little Valentine gift.
I'm so glad that you're here to plan my social schedule for me. What would I do without you? Just try to help you. Be a good grandfather to your granddaughter. Oh, you're so helpful. She's under the same roof with you. Thank you so much. Do me a favor. Stop helping. And while you're at it, put tomato cheese on your chicken sandwich. 949. I tried it. It's not the same. Coming up, kids, we have got the Dixon and I question to the date. I tried to...
I tried at one point to buy stock in the Hughes Corporation. I had that workout for you. They weren't really a corporation. Yeah, like Dr. Jones, not really a doctor. I'm like, why are we just lying about everything in music now? Is that what's going on? Yep. Is that the plan? I don't care for it. It's an honesty. Who did he didn't even have a blowfish? Oh, I know. Cargo full of love and devotion. Come on, everybody.
953 DixitiviningTalk995.com. Let's see. I tried the raspberry cheesecake very delicious, says Darren. So he just went out and bought some of these Valentine truffles for himself.
What's wrong with that? Absolutely nothing. Maybe he's single. Absolutely nothing. Well, maybe he was testing it before he gave it to us. I think that was any good. Let me tell you what, that was brilliant. I found out the other day you can go to Publix and just buy a birthday cake and nobody checks or anything. It's just like
I can take it home, eat it all myself. Nobody even bothers to go like, wait a minute. Let me see some proof. It's a birthday of yours or someone else's. No, you could just buy it and eat it. Absolutely. I know. No one is more shocked than I know. John says, have you had the ice cream at McDonald's? Yeah, I mean either. Exactly. Everybody wants it. Can't seem to get it. And get it. You got Devontae Smith on the Eagles also.
All right. Thank you. I got several Alabama and a couple of Auburn players on the eels. Chuck says, John Lennon was the Beatles. Okay. I thought there were three others, but okay. Two and a half. Oh, okay. Yeah. Toward the end, the only thing that kept the Beatles going was Paul McCartney's work ethic. Okay. People don't know that, but shortly after they finished like the white album,
The other Beatles were all to say, you know, all right, we'll get some stuff together. Maybe we'll do this. Maybe we won't. And it was, it was McCartney who was like, come on boys, let's, let's put another album. What are you saying? You know, he was constantly driving and pushing and he was throwing new songs out left and right. And then they felt like a competition like they had to keep up with him. So they started coming up with songs and
Eventually, they came up with a couple more albums, which was good, but you know, crazy. If he hadn't been there, I think the Beatles would have fallen apart two albums soon. Probably Sam. Almost certainly. Let's see. Let's see. Will says, A.I. wrote that song. Okay, Will. You say so. Just talking about the Spin Doctors song.
If so. That's bad. It was right because it's crap. It is. That's really bad. It's really garbage. That is one of the worst songs I've heard. I listened to the whole thing. I kid you not. I think at some point I started listening to it out of morbid curiosity because I was like, is it really as awful as I think it is? Yes, it gets worse as it goes on.
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Question of the day. What is the most flattering compliment you've ever received? Most flattering compliment, Steve West. Probably having my other bosses calling me the voice of Talladega. The voice of Talladega. Nice. He is the voice of Talladega. Was that us? Don't forget, my other bosses. Or the other bosses, you know, the ones that actually employ me over there. All right. Don't forget, employee of the month, too. That's right. That's pretty high up on the list. We call him the producer of Dixon and Vining.
Thank you. Not that big a compliment. What about you? It has to be anytime somebody says something about your kids and anytime somebody says, you know, Aiden's very loving and respectful. I'm like, okay, and my job is done here. See, I know nothing about that. I've never had anybody compliment my kid for anything ever, so I have no idea.
It makes you very proud. Well, I wouldn't know. It does. I thank you very much. Now I feel like you're just rubbing it in. Sorry. Well, you asked to give you an answer. I was on the elevator one day when a nice black lady would not stop staring at me. And you know our elevator, it's only three floors, but very slow. Yes. And it felt like an eternity and I could feel her eyes boring again and just looking at me. I'm like, what? I'm trying to look at her. She goes, you know, for a white boy, you got a really nice shape head.
The nicest compliment ever. And that's the nicest I've ever had. As good as it gets. Are you making that up? No, I'm not. Oh, that's what it sounds like. I think, you know, look, a lot of white guys, a lot of white guys can't shave their hair. No, I've never seen the one before or since. I kid you not. True story, nicest compliment I've ever received.
larry says in my nurse role i'm happy to see that it's you when entering a patient's room because the other nurses steal from them uh... young lady who have a lot of gray matter was nice jake had a lady walmart tell me i had beautiful and kind i sure you were wearing a mask uh... anything complimentary of the offspring sure it's called a world-class drummer one-time rick
says Pete, my sparkle in the moonlight. Martin says great looking family you got there. Spud says a basketball scorekeeper at the University of Montevalo said I'd look exactly like John Ritter. He was wrong. When my wife says, I would do I do for the rest of our life. Let's see. Randy, you're not the worst I've had. Okay.
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