Dixon & Vining Hour 4 (013125)
en
January 31, 2025
TLDR: Interview with star and director of 'The Valiant One' movie featuring entertainment, food discussion and a 'Question of the Day'.

In this lively episode of the Dixon & Vining Hour, the hosts engage in an entertaining discussion featuring an interview with the star and director of the new movie "The Valiant One." Alongside movie chatter, the hosts cover a variety of topics from NASCAR updates to popular entertainment trends, offering listeners a well-rounded and engaging listening experience.
Key Highlights from the Episode
Guest Interview: "The Valiant One"
- Interviewees: Chase Stokes (Actor) and Steve Barnett (Director)
- Film Overview: The film, inspired by real events involving military operations and a helicopter incident, showcases a story set in North Korea. Chase portrays an untrained analyst who unexpectedly finds himself in hostile territory.
- Production Journey:
- The film has been 14 years in the making due to various challenges including a prior unsuccessful attempt at production.
- Features military advisors on set to ensure authenticity, emphasizing the importance of storytelling centered around military and veterans.
Entertainment and Sports Discussions
NASCAR:
- The 2025 NASCAR season kicks off with an exhibition race at Bowman-Grace Stadium, featuring a multi-platform broadcasting strategy that includes Amazon Prime and Peacock.
- Innovative features like a driver cam experience via TNT Sports are introduced, allowing fans to experience races through the perspective of their favorite drivers.
Viewer Engagement:
- This approach to addressing cable-cutters enhances accessibility for racing fans while highlighting the trend of varied streaming platforms in sports viewing.
Expectations from "The Valiant One"
- Cultural Context:
- The film portrays American military themes in contrast to previous anti-war narratives, aiming to rekindle interest in military heroism stories.
- Noted movie critic comments on the return of classic hero archetypes, reflecting the audience's demand for uplifting narratives in contemporary cinema.
On-set Experiences
- Actor Insights:
- Chase shares insights on his journey through major roles in productions like "Stranger Things" and the extensive auditioning process leading to pivotal moments in his career.
- The production experience is emphasized as lengthy and filled with meticulous coordination to create effective visual storytelling.
Engaging More with the Audience
- Local Weather and Community Updates:
- The hosts discuss local weather conditions and community events, helping listeners feel connected with their local area beyond just entertainment.
Interactive Segment: Question of the Day
- Challenge to Listeners:
- Hosts invite listeners to engage by answering a fun prompt about what would lead to someone returning them for being unsatisfactory, showcasing a humorous and interactive format.
Conclusion
This episode of the Dixon & Vining Hour offers a delightful mix of entertainment, light-hearted banter, and insightful discussions on significant cultural narratives, particularly highlighting the military film genre through "The Valiant One." Whether you're a fan of movies, sports, or local happenings, there's something here for everyone.
Was this summary helpful?
Actor Michael Rosenbaum, he knows some of the most talented people in the business. Let's get inside of Kevin Smith. This is a great house. Who knew playing Lex Luthor would pay this well? Now I want to see Gene Hackman's place. John Krier's place. None will be as cool. And let's get inside of the great Tom Hopper. I always love it when you have these long-form conversations. Could you know you do these press tour? There you come with this energy. The host. What's it like? So it's like. And I just love just having a normal conversation. And that's sort of what the podcast is. The inside of you podcast. Follow and listen on your favorite platform.
Good morning Birmingham Dixitivining, talk then and then five, talk then and then five dot. Common is 9-0-4. Make it 9-0-5. Lovely day 63 once the rain gets out of here and it is on the way.
64 again tomorrow. Uh, no 65 tomorrow, 67 on Sunday, 71 on Monday. And in fact, looks like we're going to be in the low 70s for the first part of next week. So it looks like we have got several days. Once this rain is gone and it is, uh, it's still here, uh, taking a look at radar real quick, but it's, it's going to move out of here sometime after lunch. Yeah, boy.
And hopefully, maybe this afternoon, not so bad. We're going to be in for a treat. A wonderful, wonderful treat over the next several days. There's actually not much rain associated with it. If you're up in Huntsville, yeah, there's a lot of rain, North Birmingham, some rain, but what's back in Mississippi unless more is going to develop, it doesn't look like a, as they say, a gully washer, Richard. It's going to be a gully. It'll frog strangler. That's right. It's a little rain. Hang on to your umbrellas.
It is 906 and we've got work trucks bringing you portions of today's show work trucks downtown 23 24 third Avenue South. This is a place where you can go get a truck. Let's say you're in the flower delivery business and you go, I could really use a truck. Great. They got a van for you. Okay. And they can outfit the package, the inside of that to the van. Anyway, you like you want there to be seats for four for some reason and then the back be a place where you can put all the flowers.
They can make that happen for you. You want to just have a driver's seat and nothing else and everything else be flat. They can do that for you. This is what they do. This is who they are. They're very, very good at it. They've been doing it for 30 plus years now in the same location. And let me tell you, the businesses in and around the area that have gone there for flat beds, for utility bed trucks, for pickup trucks, large and small crane bodies. I kid you not, lift gates. They have it all.
Even just a little get about pickups to get you from point A to point B from one job site to another. This is who they are and this is what they do. You can find out more at their website, worktruckswithanxllc.com.
Find out about how they all go through a 125-point inspection. Find out how some of them are so new. They still have factory warranties on them, how you can trade, finance, get an extended warranty. It's all right there. Work trucks downtown, 23, 8, 24, 3rd Avenue South. That's where they're all about trucks. All right, we're rearranging things a little bit so that we can fit in our interview with the guys involved with the Valiant One coming up in just a few short minutes. So right now it's Steve's turn. It's Steve's turn.
Well, NASCAR's 2025 season begins Sunday evening, got the cash grab exhibition race at the historic Bowman-Grace Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. This is a place NASCAR's top series hasn't raced at since 1971. But that actually might not be the biggest news.
We're all getting into this habit now of cutting the cable. And for fans of really just about any sport, not just racing, cutting the cable makes things a little bit more interesting because of the different networks that carry all these different things. For example, in NASCAR, Cup Series is going to be split between four networks this year. It's going to start off on Fox, then it'll move to Amazon Prime, then it'll move to TNT before it goes to NBC Peacock.
So that's four different streaming services that you now suddenly have to deal with if you're an ass car fan.
Okay, now what do you do? Well, actually into the rescue comes TNT sports. They're doing a cooperative effort with the streaming service Max, formerly HBO Max. For NASCAR fans, they're launching a new NASCAR driver cam experience that's only going to be on the Max streamer and could be your answer if you don't want to go and get Fox Sports and Amazon Prime and TNT and NBC Peacock, which at that point in time you might as well just go and get cable, right?
The driver can experience allows the viewer to choose one driver you'll have access to the camera or cameras inside their car be able to see the driver or what the driver sees plus you get to listen to their team radio and hear what they're talking back and forth about with the spotter and the crew chief be aware it's not going to be family friendly necessarily because words do tend to fly over the radio.
All that's going to start Sunday evening. It's going to cover all the cup series races, all 36 points races and the two exhibition races, the clash at Bowman Gray, the all-star race in May at North Wilkesboro Speedway. You can choose any driver in the starting lineup in any race.
Or you can choose to go with a couple of preset multi-view options that'll feature four different drivers. One's going to be chosen based upon the storylines of that week or the rivalries between drivers. And then the X and Instagram page of Bleacher Report will have a poll done and the top four drivers will be chosen via the sent fans select option. I'm going to check this out on Sunday evening, try and get an idea of how it's going to work.
But this, again, might be away as I noted to be able to see these races without meeting four different streaming services if you are like me and have cut the cable. And I get the funny feeling this won't be the first sport that'll end up doing this because they're going to realize not everybody's going to want to go and get all the different streaming services that you need as we continue to see cutting of cable. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
It is kind of said, though, that, you know, if you're a football fan or a baseball fan or whatever, that all of these games are not readily available. So you're like, they used to be. They have got to go to a variety of different places and have a variety of, you know, I just, I refuse to buy peacock. I'm just not going to do it. I mean, I get it. I understand there's stuff on there probably that I want to see, but there's stuff everywhere that I want to see. Sure. You have to draw a line and say, I'm not going to spend another dime on this. If I do, I have to drop something else and it would most likely be Apple Plus.
And then I would move into some other area and get some. But you reach a point where you only have so many entertainment dollars available to you. And so much time to watch those. Exactly. Different things. Exactly. Right now my Netflix queue is about a mile long. And I go there. I don't watch something every night because it will be a little tedious. And it's mostly movies. There's a few documentaries up there.
You know, you gotta lighten the mood. Go watch a half hour sitcom somewhere or, you know, catch up on something that you missed.
during the week or something of that nature. I find this behind the scenes thing interesting that they're doing in NASCAR that they're getting more. I've seen a little bit of this where they've got the, you know, you can hear the radio and you get a view of the driver and you get a view of what's going on out the window. And I think it's really only in sports that we find this stuff so fascinating, you know, because I was commenting on the UFL earlier this week about how great it is that you can hear
You know, the conversations between the coaches and players. You can hear the referees. They actually let you hear what the referees are saying while they are watching the video, which is great. How many times have you wondered that? Because after you see a couple of bad calls made even after video review, you're like, what the hell were they talking about over there? Everyone can see that was a fumble. Crazy. But you don't do that anywhere else. Nobody goes to a play and says, I'd kind of like to see what's going on backstage.
No. The entertainment's in front of you. It's on this stage up there. You don't go to a movie and say, well, could we back up a few feet and see what kind of direction the director's giving? Nobody wants to see that. Why is that? Why? Why do we care about that when it comes to and really only certain sports? You know, NASCAR, football, maybe soccer. But I don't think anybody's like, boy, I wish I knew what was going on in the dugout in baseball. Let's get a camera down there.
A lot of spitting. Yeah, they're scratching themselves. I'll tell you what's going on. Spitting and scratching. Yeah, that's it. Something nobody wants to see. No. It's a strange thing. Yeah, and having been lucky enough to be on the set of a couple of the Erwin Brothers films I can tell you right now, if you wanted to be behind the scenes at a movie or a TV show, a lot of it is just a whole lot of hurry up and wait because they're moving things around off all the time between shots.
It is one of the most boring things you can ever do. I've been in three movies, only one of which I would consider myself a lead. And it is a lot of standing around waiting for things to be set properly so that you can go in
and do your takes, you know? Which I find interesting because there are people out there who memorize the whole script. I'm like, what scenes are we shooting today? Oh, this one and this one? Okay. I would, while they were doing all their relighting and arranging and making sure the set and the continuity was right,
I'd be off learning my six lines for this shot and six lines for that shot and you could do those and then tomorrow you could pick up and learn the next lines. I read the whole script. It's not like I wasn't familiar with the storyline. I knew where we were in it, but yeah, it was just like, I don't get this whole let's memorize the entire script thing. Why? There is so much time you could take a nap. I never understood the concept of the movie star trailer.
Why do they have trailers on these lots? Until I was in one, and then I was like, oh, yeah, you stand around a lot. Yes, we've seen that. Even movies that have been filmed here, if you've ever been on that set, it's just, oh, my gosh, you know,
I would have liked to have had one when I was out there. I was out on the set of Talladega nights at Talladega for three days. And on that first day, I really would have liked to have had a trailer because I got sunburned out there because they had me sitting on top of a crew chief wagon all day, day. Sunscreens your best friend, Steve. Yeah, well, you know what? They didn't offer that up, did they? You should have brought your own, man. If I had known. Come home.
Yeah, I know a bunch of people that were in that movie. And it's the whole reason I went to see it, by the way. I was like, oh, I got to go see my friends that were in this. The only one I reckon is the first time through was Matt Coulter. Yeah. He was, you know, big, big role at the end. The second and third and fourth times I've seen it, I saw Steve and I saw
Derek Scutter and his wife were in it. You got to look really, really hard for me because everything except for one scene that I did got cut. Yeah. And the one that didn't I was on screen for about a second and a half. Well, that's more than most. You were holding the flag. I was holding a checkered flag in the back of a pickup truck.
It's pretty cool. The same thing, they filmed the movie Cobb over at Rickwood Field and that was the one that Buffett came in for and a lot of big stars. But to be on that set and watch day in and day out about how one little scene would take hours and hours and hours and it literally was like 10 seconds. 10 seconds takes hours and hours. In order to get it right and then you look good on screen. Cut, do it again and you're like, oh my goodness.
Speaking of movies, we're going to be chatting with some folks who are involved in the process with a new movie opening today. It's called The Valiant One. And if things go properly, we'll be chatting with Chase Stokes and Steve Barnett in mere moments. So stick around. Ah, a little John Stewart. Very nice. 918, 919. Talk then and I've talked then and I've got Dixon and Vining. Not the John Stewart that is on the Daily Show. It's a different John Stewart. This is a
This is a musician, Jon Snow, who's in the Kingston trio. Did you know that? How about that? Another bit of trivia for you folks? I like to hand this stuff out like little pearls of wisdom.
so you're sitting around the water cooler you know you look like the smartest person at the water go absolutely and then the ball shows up and goes get back to work i don't pay you people to stand around the drink water gossip about uh... john steward joining us now in the phone line where we interview people it's uh... chase stokes and the steve barnett they are uh... the star and director of the new movie the valiant one which opens tonight at it's either theaters uh... it's either a theater near you
or a wide variety if there's a theater in your area. I'm not sure. It's one of those two. We'll get them to tell. Yeah, we'll find out. Greetings, gentlemen. How are you? Doing great. Come on in. Excellent. Who am I talking to? Which one of you? Which one of you is this? Stand up and speak up.
we're taking roll call chase you're here the dream the dreamy voices chase uh... okay all right and the other voice but i don't know on this one that this may be a case what one of those times and i'm steve okay very good steve uh... glad to have you on board here at first off congratulations on getting a movie made in this day and age i know that that can't be easy you know you gotta track down funding you gotta get a whole lot of stuff and then you know doing it on location
And it's a military film, so there was a lot of technical stuff you have to get right. Explain a little bit about that process. And did you have like advisors on the set to make this thing work, or what did you do? Yeah, all of that. You know, this movie has been in development for about 14 years. And one of the reasons for that was, yeah, one of the reasons for that is we were about to make it about 10 years ago.
And I don't know if you remember that, shown the interview with Seth Rowan and James Franco. But that was also set in North Korea. That one is very different movie. They made fun of the North Koreans quite a bit. And the North Koreans got upset and hacked Sony and released their emails. And it became a whole problem for Hollywood. Our movie died that day. So our movie was one of the casualties of that mess. So it took us a few more years to let things calm down. And over that time, we kept rewriting and rewriting.
And we were lucky enough to get Chase on board, and that allowed us to trigger the green light and go make the movie. As far as tech advisors, yeah, this all started many, many years ago, obviously, with my high school buddy, Todd Sharva. We're in a high school reunion, and he told me he's a Navy SEAL, and my head exploded, and I said, let's grab coffee, because I'm a big supporter of the men and women in uniform. I'd love to hear some stories.
And one of the stories he told me was the inciting incident of this film. That's the helicopter being pushed into the DMZ and complete out of control. But what I was going to say is we were lucky enough to involve him as a producer on the film, as well as our military advisor from the very beginning. He was on, he was on location with us from the beginning of prep all the way through wrap of production and worked closely with Chase and the rest of the team.
and i'll tell you what that was uh... that was that was the biggest deal i think out of out of all the pieces of this puzzle where did you guys for the most part do uh... the filming for the valiant one actually found this on location in vancouver uh... which fun fact if you look on the map it sits on the same latitude as north three s so a lot of
what you're seeing is is very similar to what uh... the dm z and in that area for a little they also didn't unfortunately they also both have free health care which is nice uh... probably not i'm glad that you didn't make this movie fourteen years ago because if you did chase would be six i don't think you would really fit in the role that well i don't think it would be alright not six years he's older than that
uh... probably one prepared or or you know enough to ask them to really pull this off uh... when you say state that this was a true story that was told to you by uh... your body a navy seal uh... i have a feeling this is sort of under the radar we in this line of work
We watch this stuff all the time. We read every story having to do with anything of this nature. And I know nothing about a chopper going down in the DMZ or in North Korea. So was this one of those that was kind of like, we're not going to make this a public thing? No, no, it's not top secret. I'm not revealing a top secret incident. No, what I said was,
The helicopter incident being blown over the DMZ was the inspiration for the movie. So it's really inspired by the ex-inspired by that incident. It's not based on a true story. Gotcha. Now the story, if I understand it correctly, I just watched the trailer here not long ago and I really want to see this film and make it the chance this evening.
From what I understand, helicopter down, turns out you're in North Korea. You were on a training mission and it just turned out to go down in North Korea. And Chase plays a kind of Jack Ryan-esque. He's an analyst. He's not supposed to actually be out there in the field doing the stuff. He's untrained to do these things. And somehow you've got to troop through enemy territory and get to safety. Am I close on this? It's pretty good. Yeah, I mean, I play sort of
A lot of the military doesn't see combat. And a lot of these guys are working on bases and they're doing, you know, pretty typical jobs. And so my, my character Edward Brockman, he's a sergeant who sits behind a desk every day. He goes out to fix a ground penetrating radar unit. And it's a pretty routine type of situation. And that's where things go south pretty quickly. They find themselves behind enemy lines.
very impressive uh... you of course were i i think really got a big boost out of outer banks but uh... uh... if if people had the chance to ask you about one thing it would probably be your appearance on stranger things that that thing blew up like nobody's business what was it like being on that set i mean i would change i would say for sure uh... yeah interestingly enough you know i'd read for every major role in that show and uh...
doing the entire table read uh... for two of the main characters and uh... couple months later the duffer brothers who graciously appreciated me you know investing time and uh... doing that with them if it had we want to put them in the show so they called me a month later and off to it and i went to drive by a car and given academy award-winning performance hey you take what you can get right was there a paycheck in it okay we'll take it
a well we gotta give you props we have a movie critic on this show by the name of debbie schlissel she uh... reviews films for us every friday
She is very hard to please, okay? That's saying it lightly. Look, people joke about it, they go, it's time for Debbie Hates movies. But the fact is, she just holds movies to a very high standard and I appreciate that because I don't feel like going to the movies and wasting, nowadays, what is it, 15 bucks to get in during primetime in Birmingham, Alabama, probably more in LA and New York.
You know, it's not cheap to go in there. So I don't want to waste my money on a movie that's going to suck eggs, right? And she saw this and raved, frankly. For Debbie, that was a rave. She thought it was great. Loves the fact that the American military are the heroes. North Korea is the bad guys. There's a stoic hero who's trying to do the right thing, the American way, so on and so forth. So I guess the question is this.
Do you feel like now is the time that there's a market for this kind of movie? Because I'm tired of the lions for lambs and the stop loss and the kind of anti-US war films that have come out in years past. And I'm ready to wave the flag again. Yeah, you know, I grew up on these movies going all the way back to deliverance and uncommon valor. And then as an adult, saving private Ryan, I mean, these are my favorite kinds of movies.
I'm with you. I hope that Hollywood starts to recognize that, you know, the men and women in uniform are worth telling stories about. There's so many stories that are worth telling in that world. So yeah, I mean, hopefully, hopefully this movie is a big success and Hollywood takes note and decides that they're going to go in that direction.
Is it fair to say that this was made on a slender budget? It's a little on the... I mean, it doesn't call for massive explosions and a lot of CGI, but could you give us a ballpark figure? What did you spend on this thing? Oh, I'm not going to reveal numbers. I will say it's an independently financed film, so obviously there's limitations to what you can do, but the truth is, we didn't set out to make a movie that would compete with the Marvel film, so we set out something that was
going to be an exploration of these characters in a really, really tough situation. So we do have some action to it. Obviously, the whole second half of the film is action. But yeah, we were focused on the characters more than it was the action that pieces.
and by the way thank you is that they have to review it and then he does movies dot com and i think that we absolutely will uh... you know it is fascinating to me because i think about this and
You know, every Hollywood movie nowadays is out to be a blockbuster. It's nice to hear somebody who says, you know, pretty sure when Van Gogh painted sunflowers, he wasn't like, this is going to make me $41 million. He was just trying to capture something on canvas. I think if you start out trying to do something like that in the end, you're going to get a better result in the long run, don't you think? I think, you know, you've got to follow your passion for storytelling as opposed
we're all trying to make movies so we can make money and continue to make movies. But yeah, of course. Really that delicate balance. A little seed money. Yeah, it's the balance between doing something that, you know, that your soul needs to get out there and a piece of art that needs to get out there with the commerce side of it all. So that's always the balance for press.
very much appreciate you joining us today. Now you got another interview to get off to. So the value of one in theaters everywhere starting today. Have a great one, guys. It is 934 with Dixon Devining. Talk then and I'm fine. Talk then and I'm fine. I will find myself near a movie theater later today. And if the times line up, I may just pop over.
kick back and watch a little value in one, because it does sound like my kind of movie, especially hour and 27 minutes. That's about the length of my attention span nowadays. Yeah, it's on the short side a little bit. Streaming has completely spoiled me. I can pause it, you know. I can stop and come back to it tomorrow. All that stuff. You're in a theater. It's like, doesn't work that way. You have to sit here for the whole movie. Watch it all. One big lump. Take it in. Take it all in. Yeah. You can do that. I don't care for it.
You don't like that you can't pause it. I want to be able to yell like at the production. Hey, I'm going to go to the bathroom. We pause it right here, plates. No such luck. Yeah, that's how it works. Dixitivining, talk that at 9-5.
Hey, you know, we get busy with our life and it's always nice to know that there's somebody like Danny Knowles that can help you. This is maybe a solution to something that you've been dealing with where you want to figure out exactly where to put all your money. You know, unless this is something you do all the time, it can be a little bit stressful. Like, you know, you got a 401k, maybe you got a pension. You know, maybe you've got some things you want to make sure that you've got enough money when it comes time to retire.
If you'd like to do that at a young age or maybe, you know, 67 or 70, something like that is more in your comfort zone, whatever it may be, let Danny Knowles and the Knowles group do all of that planning for you. They can help to customize something that's really going to make that nest egg grow so that when you're ready to do whatever it is that you want to do, kick back or travel or get that RV and travel the country, you can do that. Danny Knowles and the Knowles group for your financial plan and get in touch with them today, good people.
No matter where you are in life with beginning to invest or maybe you're further down the road, they can help you. The Knowles group dot com. The Knowles group dot com. There's nine thirty six with Dixon and a vining still talking about the plane crash on every major news media outlet. And you know, we don't really have any new information. More bodies brought up. They're still alive. Believe 17. They said 17 bodies that are missing. So they apparently got three more.
And which is, the whole thing is horrible. There's no question. I mean, it's just, it's just been awful. But listen, there's a lot of stuff going around about how we, oh, Donald Trump, he drove out the head of the FAA as soon as he took office. And then just a little while later, we had this fatal plane crash.
yeah yes see i don't know if you know how this works but i think you're on to something here when the head of the f.a.a. leaves every single pilot and every single air traffic controller forgets how to do their job that's how it works as soon as the f.a.a. head leaves everyone's like i forgot all my training i don't know what i'm doing don't be stupid come on if there is a problem at the f.a.a. or with air traffic controllers
That's very much on the shoulders of Alaska. Donald Trump has been president as of the date of this plane crash, which was the day before yesterday, a week and two days. Yeah. Come on. Yeah, it is kind of nonsense that, you know, finger pointing is it Donald Trump and it's like,
Now, let's look at, you know, again, it's too soon to do any of that. We don't even know the cause of this graph. No, we have no idea. We still have bodies in the water. Yeah. You know, we'll get there. We'll figure this out. Well, there are people. That is just insane. There are people who are tasked with exactly this job. You know, that is what they are doing, is they are digging into the information and getting it. And at this point, everything else is conjecture. So stop. You're not doing anybody any favors. A country singer, no one for duets,
Born in Tennessee and raised in Florence, Alabama, passed away at the age of 86. Melba Montgomery. Melba. Melba. What a great name. Yes. And then one other lady named Melba. I love their toast. She sang duets with the likes of George Jones, Jean Pitney, and Charlie Louvin. And she died after a long fight with dementia, according to her daughter, Melissa Solomon Barrett. If she was 86 when she died, how old is her daughter, you think? 66?
Uh, 20 years plus 20 to 25 years probably. Yeah. I mean, it could be 61, whatever you like. She's a daughter. Um, anyway, uh, she, um, was born in Iron City, Tennessee in 1938. Good gracious. Yeah. She was born about the time Hitler was invading Poland, you know, just, you know, going into the Sudan land. Think about that for a second.
And she was raised in Florence, Alabama. A big break came in 1963. The year I showed up, when George Jones brought her to United Artists, recorded several hits, including 1963s, we must have been out of our minds. That one I know. Also 1963s, let's invite them over. And what's in our heart? 1972s party picking.
And another hit with Charlie Lewin, 1970, something to brag about. Did you ever, a 1965's being there, which she sang with Jean Pitney? So she was kind of the chick that when a guy wanted to do a duet and said, I need somebody who's not going to upstage me. They grabbed her. Melba, get over here. All right, sort of the unsung. One of the unsung songs. I don't really know any of those songs. Maybe if I heard them, I'd know them. We must've been out of our minds. I think you would recognize. I knew it. I remember it from
my old days in country, because I worked for a classic country station when I... That was my first job. That was my very first job. I didn't know Jack about classic countries. It was 1984 when I was spinning these discs, okay? So a song from 1970 or 1965, that was only 20 years ago. That'd be the equivalent of us playing a song from 2004 now, which we do as bumper music all the time. So it wasn't that big a leap.
back then. But I'll tell you what, you know, after you do that, and again, thank you. Oh, this will be nice. You get thrown in the bath water. I was like, I really, really like this music. Me too. Oh, yeah. Oh, listen to her. Mm hmm. That's country, baby. Oh, my goodness.
Listen to George. I don't know. She's upstaging him a little bit here. See, and then you can just start singing right along. You don't even know the song. You know, you're already in it. Oh, yeah. Right? Yeah, that is classic. Good stuff right there. I loved it.
Yeah, growing up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, I was not exposed to a lot of content. No, I didn't, we didn't list any of it. We were always at South Florida, you were in another part of the country and we both collide here and a man. That was some fun times. I really was. Six months of hearing nothing but classic country. Everything very quick. Everything about that first job was awesome. Right up until I got fired. You and me both. Dr. Pepper, bringing you back a fan favorite flavor. This is right up your alley, Valerie. Come on, what do you got?
Dr. Pepper, it doesn't have to be zero circuit. They also have the regular kind. Creamy coconut. Oh, I would try it. Yeah. I'll be the guinea pig. You like Dr. Pepper and you like coconut. I do. This is a perfect combination because I hate Dr. Pepper and I hate coconut. So this is right up my alley too. They're saying they're bringing it back. I don't remember the first time. I don't remember it being around either. I don't either. But I'm going to go look for it.
Hmm. I have no idea. Dr. Pepper creamy coconut limited edition. Yep. Reminiscent of a virgin piña colada versus rather than straight up coconut. Dr. Pepper creamy coconut zero sugar has a little more of an artificial coconut bite than its full sugar counterpart. So what you're telling me is I need to go to the liquor store and get some rum and just pour it right on in there. Wow. You don't have to do anything else. Okey dokey.
If it tastes like a piña colada, come on. It all goes right to alcohol with Valerie. Have you noticed this? I'm just saying. It's straight to the booze. Dr. Pepper creamy coconut. OK, lush.
I think you were the one that said something about it. Margarita. It's Margarita Day. Margaritas? Everybody. Orpina coladas. Well, Pina coladas when it comes to this, but we were talking about Margaritas earlier. I know, but a minute ago, you said Pina coladas. I didn't say it. I was reading from People Magazine's review. Well, that's all I was doing. That's all I was doing. That's why I went down the alcohol aisle. I see. Because you said Pina colada. You were looking for an opening, admit it. I think both of you need some rum. Rum, that's it. Yes, thank you. Rum, rum. McDonald's New Burger.
is featuring a bold news sauce. It's named after Angel Reese, and just like Angel Reese, it's overrated and somewhat annoying.
uh... first time that they've tied in by the way with a female athlete which i find weird cuz you're like there's all kinds of great women tennis players why would you not have one of them involved in the club because they don't eat mcdonald's they're like yeah we're well they can stupid they can get away with it because they burn it off a lot of burning
uh... but here's what it is it's uh... actually a quarter-pound with cheese this is one of the only this is really the only burger mcdonald's that uses fresh they've been everything else is frozen but the quarter-pounder now uses fresh beef uh... it's with cheese bacon and then this bold barbecue sauce
along with iconic fries and your choice of beverage. No idea what that's going to set you back, but it is the Angel Reese special. And if you're interested in the bold barbecue sauce, I had one of the bacon cheese barbecue, and it's not the same barbecue sauce apparently, but I had one a couple of years ago when I was driving back from Arkansas. And despite the fact that it was $13 for the meal,
The burger was outstanding. I was like McDonald's, you have stepped up your game. I was very impressed, very impressed. I'm just curious as to what makes it bold. I mean, is it spicy? What? I would assume as spicy as McDonald's will let things be, you know? McDonald's is sort of the beige of food. They don't, they're not going to get too weird on anything because they're all about the masses. So whatever. Kind of smart. Yeah, on their part, I would think so.
Baskin Robbins bringing back the flavor that's been a cult classic for 30 years. I guess they bring it around every time.
This holiday shows up. That would be Valentine's Day, started in 1995. So here it is, 30 years later. Love potion number 31. Well, that's smart on their part. A swirl of white chocolate and raspberry flavored ice cream highlighted with a tart raspberry ribbon. Raspberry filled chocolate hearts and chocolate chips sprinkled throughout, adding the nostalgic taste of a Valentine's Day chocolate box to every bite. Yum.
Sounds pretty good man.
For the first time, the ends can try the iconic Love Day flavor in a sweetheart fancy cone. Yeah, the cone is pink and it's got little heart sprinkles on it. Mm-hmm. And that pretty. I like it. Chocolate on the inside of the cone? Yes. If I'm given the opportunity, I want that waffle cone, not the crappy store ball one. No, no, no. I want the one that they're making in the store. Yeah, the waffle one's really good. Dipped in the chocolate so you got it. It holds it all together, but the last time I got ice cream in an ice cream parlor,
was a very hot day at Gulf Shores and the whole thing just melted while I was sitting on a bench outside and it was falling. I was talking to some kids who were out there collecting money for their church.
And I was just sitting there enjoying my chocolate chip or whatever it was I got, because you know, I'm a chocoholic. And the whole thing just, I finally had to dispose of it. I was like, this is just beyond disgusting at this point. It's everywhere. I should have stayed inside. Yeah, well, I don't know that, you know, I'm kind of old school. Sometimes I like the cones that you get that come in the box at the grocery store that are like wafer thin.
I'll take that if that's all I can get. But I had enough of those. They're good to me. That was the only one you could get when I was a kid. When you went to Baskin-Robins, which was near the lake, occasionally, we'd go swimming at the lake in the summer. And then a block away from the lake here was this Baskin-Robins. It was literally on the way home.
Please, can we stop for ice cream, mom, please? You bugger enough. She'll stop. She would stop. Yep. Arches Carvel, and it was, oh, my gosh. Oh, man. Carvel was off the chain. Carvel is a crazy good ice cream. It is so good. Not available in all the country. New York and Miami, because they're the same city. Basically, yeah, a lot of cars. That soft ice cream was just so good. Like it, like it. Taco Bell?
Taking their inspo from dirty sodas. Remember we're talking about the dirty soda the other day that Pepsi and Coke are jumping on board with a dirty soda, which is adding a kind of a creamy beverage to the soda itself. This is the Pepsi and milk that Laverne and Shirley supposedly loved. I don't know. But now they're coming up with a Taco Bell Mountain Dew Baja Blast Dream Freeze. This is a Mountain Dew Baja Blast Freeze swirled with smooth vanilla cream.
Same would be true of the strawberry dream freeze and the Mountain Dew Baja Blast Dream soda. Now with vanilla cream swirled through just the regular Mountain Dew blast. So yeah, if that sounds interesting to you, I have difficulty believing that I'm good. First off, I don't even drink sugar and sodas to begin with. I don't, I mean occasionally, just occasionally if you're out somewhere. Yeah, I don't even do that. Fast food, it's usually a half and a half tea.
Yeah, every once in a great while. I guess in a year's time, I might have six or seven sodas in the entire year. When you say a half and a half, you mean half sweet? Half sweet, half unsweet because everything here is over the top sweet. Super sweet. I might as well have a soft drink. Just the way I like it. So I try to cut it. Just give me half and a half.
I get the regular tea and then I put the sweet and low in it because nobody has diet sweet tea anymore. It's a shame. They used to have regular and diet and now it's regular and regular sweet tea and unsweety. And so you have to mix your own, which it's difficult to get that stuff to dissolve in cold water. You have to stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir,
Never mind, I'll just have a water. Forget it. I'll just have a water. 949. You know what I want to hear more about right now, Valerie? You have any idea? What do you got? The people who are coming in Monday. I can hardly wait. Oh, yeah? Gonna be exciting. Yeah, they're pretty awesome. Talking about bloom and blind.
Bloom and Blinds, man or man, you know, I really had some blind envy. I mean, seriously, our brothers over there on Jock's got a motorized treatment from Bloom and Blinds. I was like, ah, well, that's exactly what we need in our studios. So yeah, Bloom and Blinds going to be here on Monday and putting in that motorized treatment. It's a massive window and it's one of the reasons that really works well there.
Maybe you've got smaller windows in your home of your business. Blind shutters, curtains, shades, what is it that you need? Blue and blinds will come to you and they'll show you the options and then they'll do the measuring, the ordering, and the install. Nothing for you to do other than to call them right now at 649-5746.
and tell them that you would like a free estimate. That's all you got to do. And then, you know, watch what they can do for you. It's pretty impressive. Beautiful things for your home. Beautiful things for your business. Get in touch with them today. It's bloomingblinds, Birmingham dot com. All right. Yes. It has now been made official. The news is that senior FBI leaders have been ordered to retire, resign or be fired by Monday.
This is the sort of house cleaning that is necessary got to be done in order to get the corruption out of there. I mean, you had an entire organization that was invested in bringing down Donald Trump. And as we saw, was perfectly willing to lie to do so.
uh... there was a raid on his marlago home there was necessarily zero reason for that zero reason for that uh... there were you know people who are signing off on warrants making claims that they'd been verified and nothing in that dossier had been verified uh... james comi lied i mean lied repeatedly and technically under oath as part of his job the man not only should have been fired but he should have been prosecuted
But that did not happen. He left of his own volition. This has to be so refreshing. I guess he was fired. I'm sure he was fired by Donald Trump to be able to go in here and just clean house of all the corruption that again was focused on him. And now he's in office and he's like, well, here I am. Guess what I get to do now, everybody. Bye-bye, top FBI agents. Picture all those guys on election night as they see the roof. Oh, they're like, it's over for us. Uh-oh. We're in trouble. Honey, do I have any resignation?
Uh, nine 55 Dix and a binding sentinel firearms, sentinel firearms dot us the place to shoot the premier place to pick up your next firearm, buy some ammo, get your gun smithing done. When I said gun smithing slide, cutting Sarah coating, uh, grip stippling, bringing older firearms back to life. If you want something plated, they can do that for you. They've done it before. They'll do it again. I've seen their work. I've experienced their work firsthand. I love these guys. They're very good at what they do.
I love their shooting lanes and I love the way they are so very friendly and helpful, not like everybody. I mean, not every shooting range is this way. These guys are and that's fantastic. Sentinel firearms, Sentinel firearms dot us there at 906 North 40th street and they are the proud sponsor of Jackson and Vining
Question of the day. If someone was returning you to the store, what would their reason be for finding you unsatisfactory? I'd like to return Steve West. His problem is too close to the expiration date. Ah, right up there. I didn't check the date before I took him off the shelf. I didn't realize how bad things were. How about you Valerie? She likes Smarties.
going broke buying smarties for this chick. That's right. I can't do it. The large ones, please. For me? Yes. He won't stop singing. Stop singing. He won't stop singing. He sings all the time. Everywhere he goes. Whatever he's doing, he's doing a project he's singing about it. He's happy. Stop it. He's happy. What's wrong with that? I don't know.
If you can't sing, that would be bad. Well, if you can sing, okay. There are those. Glennon says, does not play well with others. Oh yeah, put that back. Andrea, it makes strange noises when you turn it on and then quits about 30 seconds later. Okay. That's Andrew, who said that story. Heather, lactose intolerant, but each dairy anyway then cries about the pain. Oh, I hear you. Kyle won't stop talking. James, not age-appropriate.
Jamie, intermittent foul odors. Patricia, talks back with biting truth. Scott Attitude, Steve, past the expiration date. Sam, you screws loose. Tracy talks too much, possibly addicted to caffeine. Tanya, outdated model. Liz requires too many expensive accessories. I don't want to have to buy the expensive accessories. I can't do it.
Patrick, inappropriate comments, Jane. This answer is novel, and most people do not read anymore. I assume she's talking to somebody else here. I don't know. My obsession for Dixon and Vining, thank you, Pat. We love you. Defective, says Ray, laughs too much at inappropriate jokes. Oh, me too. Volty Wiring says, Tim. Becky, this one has a smart mouth.
Jonathan too condescending if you even know what that means Jennifer keeps relapsing into Christmas mode baking and listening to Christmas music Even I like Christmas, but not now Whitey won't talk about anything about military history Randy he doesn't know how to sing, but that doesn't stop him. Hey, there it is Hmm Jan won't won't sleep at night. I don't have that problem
The Sharon, too many accessories required mainly purses and shoes. Came without a filter, says Mike. Smells bad. Mel says that damn mouth chuck. The thing of a jig is broken and the watch of a call it is questionable at best. Okay. Jared talks too much, can't turn it off too loud. Just look at him. Too big. Wrong size. Ruent. Thank you, Emiri.
uh... passed the best by date to slow and we'll be cusses out the alarm clock every morning needs recharging too often that wouldn't follow directions warranties expired falling apart just a little off uncooperative won't hold a charge okay that's it for us we're out of here back monday morning dark early at six a m
Talk at you then, Dixia Devining. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you tonight. Talk to you
Wow, Jody Foster's on the show, I missed that one! So clearly, Starlius and you're saying, well, should I start Craig Jennings? I don't know, there's stuff against the Vikings. Let's see, this is what I'm talking about. It's a really cool hang here. Hey there, I'm Paula Pan, host of the Afford Anything podcast. Remember, you can afford anything, just not everything. Well, what? Yeah, it's true. I had some classmates who were struggling with FIFO and LIFO. They called it F my LIFO.
But investing is so much simpler. Industries yet paid to make you think that it's complicated. They want you to think they're a wizard. You're not Harry Potter. You're a muggle. Muggles are great too. No one hears anti-muggle. Afford anything. Follow and listen on your favorite platform.
Was this transcript helpful?
Recent Episodes
Dixon & Vining Hour 3 (020325)

Dixon and Vining
"Three Things You Need to Know"...60 Minutes to hand over transcript of Kamala interview...DOD ends identity days and months...controversy in TarrantSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
February 03, 2025
Dixon & Vining Hour 2 (020325)

Dixon and Vining
"Three Things You Need to Know"...texts...fast food spicy chicken sandwiches ranked...texts...Costco and union workers reach dealSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
February 03, 2025
Dixon & Vining Hour 1 (020325)

Dixon and Vining
"Three Things You Need to Know"...a look back at the weekend...immigration issues...military abortion policy endingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
February 03, 2025
Dixon & Vining Hour 3 (013125)

Dixon and Vining
Anthony Mackie retracts earlier remarks, GOP Senator behind debunked Hegseth allegation unmasked
January 31, 2025

Ask this episodeAI Anything

Hi! You're chatting with Dixon and Vining AI.
I can answer your questions from this episode and play episode clips relevant to your question.
You can ask a direct question or get started with below questions -
What was the main topic of the podcast episode?
Summarise the key points discussed in the episode?
Were there any notable quotes or insights from the speakers?
Which popular books were mentioned in this episode?
Were there any points particularly controversial or thought-provoking discussed in the episode?
Were any current events or trending topics addressed in the episode?
Sign In to save message history