Nashville's Morning News with Dan Mandis

The Chris Cross Hand-Off: Monday Edition

16 min
Apr 13, 20265 days ago
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Summary

Dan Mandis and Joan discuss spam call epidemics affecting listeners, then pivot to analyzing a controversial Trump post on Truth Social depicting him as Jesus healing a figure, sparking debate about its appropriateness and self-inflicted political damage. The hosts also touch on geopolitical tensions, oil prices, and lighter workplace humor.

Insights
  • Self-inflicted political missteps consistently undermine messaging more than external opposition
  • Controversial religious imagery can alienate core supporter bases and dominate news cycles unproductively
  • Spam and scam call volumes continue escalating despite do-not-call registrations, indicating systemic enforcement failures
  • Geopolitical conflicts create long-term economic impacts beyond immediate military engagement through infrastructure destruction
  • Social media platforms enable rapid amplification of controversial content with limited editorial guardrails
Trends
Escalating spam call and text scam volumes becoming normalized consumer frustrationPolitical figures using provocative religious imagery for engagement and trolling purposesLong-term oil price inflation driven by Middle East infrastructure destructionSocial media ratio dynamics as measure of public sentiment divergence from political figuresSelf-sabotage patterns in political communication undermining strategic objectivesWorkplace humor and internal culture content becoming shareable social media moments
Companies
Truth Social
Platform where Trump posted controversial Jesus-healing image that sparked significant public backlash and debate
Red Eye Radio
Show where Dan accidentally gave out his cell phone number, leading to increased spam call volume
Facebook
Platform where Dan posted screenshot of spam call logs and where Murphy Show content is shared
People
Dan Mandis
Primary host discussing spam calls, Trump imagery, and geopolitical impacts on oil prices
Joan
Co-host providing commentary on spam calls, Trump post analysis, and religious imagery concerns
Chris
Co-host contributing to discussion on spam calls, geopolitical tensions, and political strategy
Tony
Canadian listener who discovered show through Red Eye Radio and called in to provide feedback
Matt Murphy
Created viral wallet intervention content featuring Jackson that was discussed on the show
Jackson
Subject of wallet intervention bit and afternoon show host referenced for back pain concerns
Tucker Carlson
Referenced as alluding to Trump being anti-Christ, which allegedly prompted the controversial post
Joe Salci
Sponsored segment host discussing tax filing deadlines and extensions
Vince Colnay
Sponsored segment host promoting news talk show with in-depth interviews and caller interactions
RJ
Producer managing show timing and clock, referenced for nervousness about running over
Quotes
"I'd had like six or seven different potential spam calls. But I mean, basically almost every day, I'm getting at least 10 to 12."
Dan MandisOpening segment
"Between my husband and I, it must be like 20 a day. Yeah? I mean, it just drives me nuts."
JoanSpam call discussion
"I just think like he just keeps stepping in it. Like, dude. Why would you do this? Why are you your own worst enemy?"
Dan MandisTrump post analysis
"Every single one of them have been self-inflicted. I'm thinking there's a lot of things that he does that are self-inflicted."
ChrisPolitical strategy discussion
"I hope the troll is worth eternal damnation. You know what I mean? Like what are we doing?"
Dan MandisTrump post consequences
Full Transcript
Have you guys been overrun? Yes. Oh my goodness gracious. It is like never ending. I posted on my Facebook page the other day. It was a screenshot of my call log. And on this particular day, I'd had like six or seven different potential spam calls. But I mean, basically almost every day, I'm getting at least 10 to 12. What? Yes. That's a lot. Thank you. Chris, I know it's a lot. How many you getting, Joan? Say it again. How many potential spam calls are you getting, Joan? Oh, I get a lot. But it says scam likely. And I mean, I never answer them. I'm sure you don't either. But between my husband and I, it must be like 20 a day. 20 a day. Yeah? I mean, it just drives me nuts. Every day, I'm getting more and more and more of these things. I don't know how to stop it. I guess there is a way to stop it. I just haven't figured it out yet. I'm also getting a lot of scam texts. And once I, on your phone, once you hit like a delete and report spam, some of these people, once you hit that, use another number to text you back and say, what's the matter? Have you been getting too many? Yeah. Click baiting. It's so infuriating. OK. You don't get spam calls, Chris? You have nothing to add to this part of the segment? Not as many as you. OK. I mean, occasionally. Well, I think that's because I'm more popular than you are, Chris. That's exactly what it is. I'm totally kidding. People know that. Your phone's on some of your phone numbers on somebody's list. Have you added yourself to the do not call list? That helps. But it's not the cure. No. Because people have told me they don't even bother. People have said that. Probably not helping. Did I tell you what I did? Are those the people that are calling you? I don't know. If they don't answer it. But did I tell you what I did? I was, this was about six months ago. I'm on Red Eye Radio. I accidentally gave out my cell phone. No, you didn't. I did. I gave out my cell phone. Damn. I know. I was tired. It's the second time. Maybe the third time that I've done that over the years. So it's a wonder. Amy says, well, I don't know, Dan. I don't know why you're on all these spam lists. And so, yeah. Listen, when you get tired, these things kind of happen. You know, I got a new listener, this guy Tony from Canada who's super based, and it's because he found you on Red Eye Radio. Oh, no kidding. Nice. He gave you all the credit. Nice, did he do that on the air? Yeah, and then I said, but once I found your show, Chris, I knew I could sleep in a little bit. Well, yeah. I'm just kidding, I made that part up. I made that part up. Now, you know, Tony would like you because of course he has that kinship with you because you're both Canadian. Literally the text is that they said, what is this, Chris just having family members call in? Oh, there you go. Actually, I know, I remember Tony now. He rocks it. Tony, you're listening. He's a beast, we love Tony. He is, man, he's awesome. All right, real quick. So RJ, I got a picture up that I wanna share with the viewing audience. Joan, I'm really interested in your take on the picture that right now is on on the screen. For people that are listening on the radio, I guess, is that Donald Trump, like pretending to be Jesus and he's like healing some dude? Yeah. So he posted this last night on, or yesterday on Truth Social. He's dressed in robes. He's dressed, he looks like he's dressed in Jesus. Jesus, I'm here. Yeah, Jesus scarred. Yeah, and he's got his right hand and his hand is on the forehead of a person who is clearly in the last throes of life. And he's got glowing and the American flag is behind him. And then he's got like angels and what looks like demons in the background. Yes, it looks like a demon floating up above him in the clouds. So I just, it's funny because I just saw this and during the break, somebody actually said, what in the world is Donald Trump posting? Well, and then, I mean, people have been calling him the anti-Christ. Tucker Carlson alluded to him being the anti-Christ the other day and I was like, that's a bit too far. And then he posts this, I'm like, what are you doing? Why would you, I don't understand why, doesn't he not have other better things to do? Honestly. I mean, come on. Joan, what do you think? Hi, I'm Joe Salci. I hosted the Stack In Bedouins podcast. You know what? A lot of us get taxes wrong. Filing your taxes is basically data entry. There's been this trend of people going, oh, it's so cool to file my taxes in August. It's so awesome. Don't worry, I have an extension. It'll be fine. I like totally do it later. Stop, do your frigging taxes now. That was a really good fashion voice. Did you like it? You do that more frequently, please? Yes, every show for now. I'll be like that. Stack In Bedouins, follow and listen on your favorite platform. I think that he is trolling everybody again and everybody's talking about it and everybody's talking about Donald Trump. I mean, honestly, this is like him using bad language to describe somebody. Just ignore it, move on. It's hard to ignore it though, like if you are a Christian, which I am, and he does this, it's almost like, and I totally get what you're saying. I totally get it and I respect it. But on the other side, it's like, why would you do this? To troll Tucker Carlson. I mean, it's a single troll. But a lot of people are upset about it. Usually the comments on the true social posts are an echo chamber, like full disclosure. Like everybody's like, yeah, you go get him, Mr. President. This time it's completely different. What do you call it, ratioed? Yeah, first comment says, Mr. President, with all due respect, take this down, you are not Jesus. Even if this wasn't the intention, this is not a good look. Renee says that's actually blasphemy. Beth says blasphemy. Yeah. The more I look at the figures in the back and you can tell me if I'm wrong, Dan, does it look like it's supposed to be the village people in the sky? Oh, geez. I don't know, was one of the village people a demon? The guy up front's like hitting the YMCA pose. That's all I can see. Oh, he's got four arms. I don't think that's wings. Those are wings. Yeah, those are wings. Actually. They look like hands on the top. Oh, does he have four? I don't know. I think four arms. I wanna know where he got this from. Oh wait, he's healing somebody, is that? Yeah, he's healing somebody. Easy answer, AI. Everybody said the person he's healing is Jeffrey Epstein. That's what the internet's been saying. Is that what the internet says? That that's Jeffrey Epstein that he's healing? Yep. It'll late. I'm okay. I don't see the marks on his neck, so. The lick at your marks. Neither did the coroner. Yeah. Almost. I don't know, Joe. I don't know, whatever. I don't know. You know what, I'm. I just think like he just keeps stepping in it. Like, dude. Hold on, 4167 says that's supposed to be Uncle Sam. He is healing. Really? It doesn't look like Uncle Sam. It doesn't look like Uncle Sam. No. No. This is a mess. And then at the same time, he's starting beef with the Pope. Yeah. Yeah, but I got to beef with the Pope too. Yeah. Like I don't like with the. But you gotta just not look down and keep moving forward. There's 55 million Catholics in this country. Why? Why on earth would you need to start a fight with the Pope? 9223, Trump is trolling the Pope. Which is. He's trolling the Pope. He's trolling Tucker. He's trolling Amal. I mean, I hope the troll is worth eternal damnation. You know what I mean? Like what are we doing? People are saying this is not how you win the midterms. I totally get that. I think midterms are done. It's a wash. Like let's be perfectly honest. I was trying to remain as optimistic as I could be. And I was waiting for this four to six week timeline, but we're up. It's up. And now we're doing a blockade. We're screwed. We're blocking the blockade, which by the way is going to send oil prices even higher. The midterms are screwed. They're screwed. We're gonna have a lame duck president. We're gonna be dealing with impeachments. And then in the meantime, the Senate can't do anything. Imagine if they had nuked the filibuster three months ago when these talks originally came up. How much further down the field we would be? Chris, you're so young and naive. They're not going to be going after impeachments. They're going to be going after arrests. Yeah, fair. You know what I mean? I was just kidding about the young and naive. You're just young. You know what makes me really uncomfortable on this picture? What's that? Is the woman to the left of president, actually to his right, praying and she's looking up at him with folded prayer hands. Okay, I'm much more uncomfortable. I kind of glanced at it early this morning and just blew by it. Sure, yeah. And now I'm thinking I really don't like this. Not only at all. There's so much stuff that is going on right now with, I mean, the economy, just, okay, so to what you're saying, Chris, and I did mention this earlier, is that even if this thing wrapped up today, which is not going to, even if it wrapped up today, it's going to take a long time for that infrastructure to be fixed in the Middle East, because a lot of that infrastructure has gone boom. So we have that and it's- That's the technical term, gone boom. Gone boom. And then by the way, I've been well-danned. Don't let me forget to talk about why I've been well-danned by the supertextors. Okay. But a lot of that infrastructure has been destroyed, not only by us with Iran, but also Iran with some of these Gulf states, the oil infrastructure. So it's going to take a couple of years for all of that to be fixed, which means that oil prices to get back to where they were pre-Iran war, we're not talking about midterms. We may not even be talking about the presidential election, and people are saying, man, just don't be a panicking. I'm like being a panicking. We're being a real- Realistic. We're being realistic. Realistic. So, I mean, I don't know. Robert said, as usual, Chris, calm down. Like, I've been pretty calm. I've been pretty optimistic, 4682, this picture has discouraged me more than anything he's done. I'm looking at what people are saying. I thought you guys, let's see. Sure, what does Charlie say? Looks like Charlie's going to yell at us. Charlie said, I thought you guys are Christians. The Pope claims to have taken Jesus' place on earth. That would be Catholics. That's different. Thank you. That's a little different. Yeah. And no disrespect to Catholics. I know a lot of Catholics. I was raised Catholics. I'm not anti-Catholic. But there's differences. Yeah. And I went a little hard on the Pope today. I always get nervous going after the Pope because he just says some stuff that really makes me mad. Like I always get nervous going after the Pope. Like, it's something that happens quite often. Yeah, it's been, Joan, have I ever, since I've worked with you for the past, what, year and a half, have I ever gone after the Pope? Don't think so. Yeah, no. It's like every couple of years. Kind of like a midterm election. Every couple of years I go after the Pope. But anyway, so I just, I don't know what the upside is to this kind of a photo. And I still support the president. But do you know what? Just like if you have a friend that does stupid stuff, you ever have a friend that does stupid stuff? That's President Trump to me sometimes. Why? Why do you do that? Why are you, why are you, why are you your own worst enemy? It is what I would say. Honestly. Honestly. So, and you think about- Chris, this is for D.Chess. It's infuriating to hear that. But when you think about the biggest missteps that he's had this term, every single one of them have been self-inflicted. I'm thinking. I'm thinking. I'm thinking you're probably right. I'm thinking there's a lot of things that he does that are self-inflicted. I mean, this is a great example. Yes. Like I would just say, I didn't see this and you brought this in to me. And I, so I'm sort of reacting to this in real time. It's insane. Like why, why would we need to do this? I don't know. Again, not to belabor the point with so many things going on. I don't know why this would be your priority for today, especially when you're- Vince Colnay's is redefining news talk with the Vince show. It is a reflection of your response to this program that we get to take this thing to the next level. These gigantic shows, this is going to be so much fun. It's unbelievable. In-depth interviews, live-caller interactions, and a front-row seat to the most important conversations of the day. I've got updates. I've got big stories. We'll sort through the truth of what's really going on to buckle up. Here it comes. The Vince show, following listen on your favorite platform. Blockading the blockade. I don't know, whatever. Anyway. It's a mess. Let's see. Do we have anything fun and happy to talk about? Usually this is the fun and happy segment. And do we have nothing fun and happy? Oh, the well dance. This is the happiest I can go with the well dance. Self-deprecating. That's the best I can do. That's exactly right. I had said, Joan, you may have to help me out on this, but I had said something like, how good are we at taking out these little speed boats that Iran apparently has? Right. And people are like, why don't you ask Venezuelan num nuts? We took out like 20 of them. Remember the Venezuelan speed boats? Oh, yeah. Thank you, supertextures. I appreciate that. So on the other hand of that, what I've been reporting this morning is that Iran has like as many as 5,000 of them. Right. So, there may be something about that. Listen, they need to send them like one at a time to make it really easy on us. You know what I mean? And I don't know how many, can we take them out with a drone? We must be able to take out a speed boat with the drones. Yeah. We talked about this. We were destroying these speed boats these drug speed boats from Venezuela with missiles. And Joan, we talked about this. That seems like overkill. Like why would you use a big old missile to take out a little drone boat? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And whatever. I mean, I like bad guys blown to smithereens. It's effective. It is effective. That's exactly right. Except for that one where the guys tried to get back on the boat, so they had to use two missiles. 7788, Chris, amazing restraint when Mandis asked, have you ever had a friend that does stupid things? I would assume. You talk about me, of course, right? I would assume. Hey, speaking of which, have you seen Matt Murphy mess around? Did you see what he did on the socials? I posted it to Dan Mandis show. So I guess this might be a new Murphy show bit where he had a hidden camera. He walks up to Jackson is in the little room over there and they had to do like an intervention with Jackson's wallet. Because Jackson's wallet is like packed with crap. It's like a Costanza wallet? It's like a Costanza wallet. And so they started going through poor Jackson's wallet. I don't know if this was set up or not. They started going through poor Jackson's wallet. He had like a couple of old AAA cards, both expired. Receipts from like, you know, 1999 and all kinds of expired credit cards. Receipts from 1999? Yeah, he had, oh, I'm sorry. He was born in like 94. Wallet, he probably got it from his mom for his McDonald's Happy Meal. I don't know, but I'm saying that he just, he had all kinds of stuff in his wallet. And it's like, I would caution dear Jackson who we all love, even though he called me a moron, we all love Jackson. And if you have a wallet that thick and you're sitting on it, it can throw your entire back out of alignment. So it's very funny. So if you haven't seen it yet, go check it out. It's on Murphy Show's page or my page at Facebook, Super Talk, blah, blah. I mean, that's dangerous for Jackson because his back already hurts from carrying the afternoon show. So. Ooh. You know what I mean? Like to do anything else. Yeah, sure. I'm worried about him. Mm-hmm. I get that. Wow, you went there. What? What? I'm just, I'm saying what we're all thinking, you know? Okay, very good. Hey, what are we doing? You're pointing to me. We gotta go. All right, RJ's telling us we gotta go. RJ's nervous. He gets a little panicked when he's a little bit over. RJ, don't be a panicking. Don't be a panicking. We got this. I'm not panicking, just watching the clock. He learned the windmill of doom from Mason. Listen, RJ, at least someone is watching the clock, which is more than I can say for the three of us. I could have been nicer to you when it came to the Pope, because you said you were going hard on him. That's, well, moving right along. Vince Colonize is redefining news talk. I'm Vince Colonize, host of the Vince podcast. I'm bringing you the truth beneath the headlines of all of the nation's top stories. In-depth interviews. We feature newsmaking interviews with the top guests on the whole planet. And I'll ask the questions you only dream of other interviewers asking. And a front row seat to the most important conversations of the day. It's a show with an obsessive focus on what's good for America. You are going to love Vince. 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