Nashville's Morning News with Dan Mandis

The Chris Cross Hand-Off: Cats

13 min
Apr 2, 2026about 2 months ago
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Summary

Nashville's Morning News hosts Dan Mandis, Joan, and Chris engage in a lighthearted debate about cats versus dogs, discuss Matt Murphy's recent beard shaving, and explore the CIA's 1960s Operation Acoustic Kitty surveillance project. The episode features casual banter about personal grooming, fashion coordination with scalp caps, and conspiracy-adjacent commentary about government programs and political figures.

Insights
  • Radio hosts use controversial personal opinions (like pet preferences) to drive audience engagement and text line participation
  • Listener accountability and context matter—audiences react strongly to perceived misrepresentation of statements
  • Personal grooming choices (beards, facial hair) generate unexpected audience investment and discussion
  • Absurdist historical facts (like Operation Acoustic Kitty) serve as entertaining content bridges between segments
Trends
Radio call-in shows leveraging text-based audience participation for real-time engagementHosts using self-deprecating humor and accountability language to manage controversial statementsNostalgia-driven content (historical CIA programs, 1960s references) as entertainment fillerPersonal lifestyle choices (grooming, fashion) becoming pseudo-celebrity discussion topics
Companies
Boston Scally Company
Dan Mandis mentioned this as his preferred source for purchasing scalp caps and hats.
People
Dan Mandis
Primary host of the show who discusses personal opinions on cats, grooming, and fashion choices.
Chris Hand
Co-host who participates in banter and provides historical context on Operation Acoustic Kitty.
Joan
Co-host who engages in discussion about beards, grooming, and audience reactions.
Matt Murphy
Referenced for recently shaving off his beard and subsequent mustache styling choices.
Vernon Davis
Featured in a podcast advertisement segment discussing leadership and personal development.
Tim Burchett
Referenced for making comments about human-alien communication and Nephilim theories.
Matt Gaetz
Mentioned in context of conspiracy theories and political commentary.
Nancy Pelosi
Referenced in conspiracy-adjacent commentary about Nephilim theories.
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Mentioned in conspiracy-adjacent commentary about Nephilim theories.
James Carville
Referenced as 'The Ragin' Cajun' in conspiracy-adjacent commentary.
Steve Cohen
Compared to creature from Black Lagoon in conspiracy-adjacent commentary.
Jackson Williams
Credited with coining the term 'butt chin' used to describe Matt Murphy's appearance.
Quotes
"I just don't want them near me alive."
Dan MandisEarly segment
"Triangle face demons. If you think about it, that's what they are."
Chris HandEarly segment
"My wife says that beers are like a push up bra for men."
Dan MandisMid-segment
"When the world is hurting and in need, sometimes it gets my entire face as a gift."
Matt MurphyLate segment
"You're a professional dot connector."
Listener/AudienceLate segment
Full Transcript
you know, uh, Joan and Chris. Yeah. And Dan when when I say things and it upsets people, I do like to accept full accountability and responsibility for the things that I say that upset people from time to time. And apparently I upset a lot of cat owners when I said that I don't like cats, but I didn't say that I wanted anything to harm to come from cats necessarily. But I got all these people on the text line are like, you've upset thousands of people by you wishing cats dead. I don't want cats dead. I just don't want them near me alive. Also to all the members of the audience that are upset with Dan's just blatant cat hating. The audience is much, much worse. The things that the non cat listeners are saying. Yeah. Far worse than anything Dan said. You know what I used to call cats? Triangle face demons. Wow. If you think about it, that's what they are. They're triangle face demons. It's true. Now I've never had a cat pee on my shin like my dog is done. Bandit. And you love your dog. I do. I do. To be honest with you, I'm not sure why I somewhere down the road. I just decided that I was not a cat person. I've had cats all my life and I've never put a cat to sleep. I've never shot a cat. I've never harmed a cat in any way. I just I've no longer cat person just thought about it. By the way, 0458 tell just moving on not addressing. How dare you tell Chris hand that Matt Murphy enjoys watching him like he enjoys watching a monkey play with his poo. That's nice. Oh, you ever wonder what happens between three and seven? I don't know when we get these comments is like what in the world? By the way, did you see that Murphy show shaved off like every single whisker on his face? What? Yeah, it happens every now and again. Why does he do that? I don't know. I'm not saying that he doesn't look good. But I'm saying it's just a he looks dapper, but it's jarring. It's like the viral videos. I feel like the little kid who doesn't see their dad for a little while and they like to pull down the towel and you're like, Whoa, what is this? Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know what my wife says about Beards? Have I told you about this? I know. I know. I think I've said it to Joan. My wife says that beers are like a push up raw for men. It's true. It's very, very true. So in fact, I've seen a few fellows and I'm like, guys, just so do you know that thing out? You're gonna look great. So do you know what the conversation was last night in my house? Because I said, Hey, Matt shaved off his beard. And I said, should I go ahead and shave off mine? Sort of in in brohood with a Murphy show stand in solidarity, solidarity. You know what she said? God no. Hence, it's a good wife right there. Hence, apparently my beard is my push up bra. Now I don't I don't know if I should be like insulted or if you know, because you've you know, nobody I don't think anybody here has seen me without my beard. So you know, but it definitely helps. Yeah, especially with all the all the baldness up front. You got a new scally today. Looks sharp. Thank you. What number you up to next role with Vernon Davis. I'm your host Vernon Davis. Okay, y'all. Thank you. Thank you. That's my today. We have each week wise through my example on the field off the field during game day in practice. That was one way that I led because then it led to success. Next role isn't about what's next. It's about why they do it. My man, Bobby bones, like I've had a lot of stuff happen bad and good. And so I don't have any fear of mixing it up. That's problem man. Next role with Vernon Davis. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. I'm up to like, nine. Do we need a scally intervention? We might need a scally intervention. Actually, we might. So do you try to match your scally to your clothing? Okay, you know what Joan is trying to do? I'm just I know exactly what you're just trying to do because I just told matches today. Look how nice it matches. I told Chris hand the story that I told you earlier. If you're watching Super Talk TV, the coordination is on on fire and fray go. I kids still say fleek. That's still happening. Fleek. What is fleek? Is that it? It was like very cool. Oh, right. Sam back me up. Sam knows Sam's not here. It's Mason. We did the trade off earlier. Whatever. The kids still say fleek. No. That's two years old. She's really out of it. Chris. Did they still say flock? What? Excuse me. Drop the L real quick. No, I didn't. The L was right there. I'm just saying you should drop the L. That's probably a little more calm. It was a hard R. No, so I do. I do try to coordinate my my my scallies with my with my shirt and so forth. I do. It's an art form. Actually, it is I told Amy that I am now what I'm doing is I'm on the lookout for specific colors of scallies so that I can because I've got shirts that I want to wear and I want to wear a scally with it. So there you go. Hey, earlier, we were talking about 94 21. Were we? What did I shoot cats on a daily basis? Come on, man. Stop it. Trevor says you have a beard, Dan. You know what? When I'm talking to Joan and Chris, the the text line is just exploding with insults. Dan's got like the five o'clock shadow beard. I do. It's like you're rocking like the razor Ramon from back in the day. It's exactly right. Do you know why I do that? Because it itches if it gets too thick. Like I just you're not you're not going to go full weaver. We know I could not do a full weaves. If I even if I wanted to, I couldn't because it would drive me not he's been on vacation, right? He has. He's off probably killing innocent turtles like he does. You ever heard him talk about killing the turtles? If you don't kill him when they're young, they'll grow up to be ninjas. I'm just saying when he worked on the morning show and he told me how he heartlessly will kill turtles to I guess fish or whatever it is, I was like, why would you do that? And oddly enough, nobody seemed to care about the turtles, but everybody seems to care about the fact that I don't like cats today. Well, you're not fishing with the cat guts, right? You're fishing with the turtle. Do you want do you want the the background on Operation Acoustic Kitty? Acoustic Kitty, sure. That's what it was called. It was from the 1960s. This is when the CIA wired that cat. Yeah. CIA operatives wanted to bug an Asian head of state. So I mean, probably the cat is the wrong route to go. You know what I'm saying? But what are you saying, Chris? I'm saying, you know, you know, so headquarters thought about cats wandering in and out of the meeting area. And they thought, why not wire a feline field agent with an ear microphone and a skull transmitter because that's just the natural thing that you do. So they produced a three quarter inch transmitter to embed into the loose skin at the base of the cat's skull. And then a microphone was placed in the ear canal and the antenna was woven into the cat's long fur. According to the wizards of Langley, the tail was used as the antenna, but getting the Acoustic Kitty to follow orders was where it all kind of fell apart. Okay. The kitty walked off the job and was hungry. Had to go find some milk and a saucer. The kitty probably there's like a government shutdown and they decided not to pay the kitty and the kitty said, you know, heck with this and off he went. Going to go find some milk and a saucer. Going to go find some milk and a saucer. By the way, I'm now being accused of being CNN. Because I said the 94, 9421 said that he shoots cats and then I stopped there because there's all these texts that are coming in. 9421 says this, I shoot cats on a daily basis. Yes, they use the bathroom in my boat or my garden. They pay the ultimate price. A cat is the only animal that knows their crap stinks so bad they have to bury it. Then he says, read the entire text, Dan, you're no better than CNN. Just reading the headlines. I'm just reading the headlines, man. 9421, that's all I'm doing. Apparently Murphy texted us. So yesterday, you know, in relation to the watching Chris Hand is like watching monkeys throw poo. Yeah. Apparently he said, I don't hate people who deny we have been to the moon. In fact, I like talking with them kind of like I enjoy going to the zoo and watching the monkeys throw poo. Ask, hey, Matt, why did you shave your beard? That's what I want to know. Why did Murphy show? Yeah, he's absolutely deflecting. Yeah, he's deflecting, you know, talking about monkeys throwing poo with why he decided to shave his beard. It just, you know what, I'm going to be honest with you. It felt a little random. Do you think he just messed it up trying to line that thing up? Well, that's what happens to me all the time. Yeah. And then he was just like, I screw it. Yeah. Sometimes it's an emotional response. Like something happens in your life and you go, I got to get rid of the beard. I think Murphy should go mustache only for a while. He did. He did day before yesterday. Now, why I'm so invested in this, I don't know. But the day before yesterday, he had a, I'm going to say, he had kind of like a porn stash, but it was like a Spaniard porn stash. That's no good. That's no good. Are you sure? I'm very sure. What's no good? My description of the Spanish porn stash. Yeah. I don't like just the, the Justice Stash and no beard. No, I feel like he could go full Tom Selleck. You know what? He could go full Tom Selleck. I think he could get away with it. If you're 70, yeah. Well, here's what I want. I want, see he's now, now Murphy is texting. Right. We're getting the dancing dots. You better text fast, Murphy show, because we're about off the air. Let's see here. 89, 88, 97. Tell Mandis to look at the Boston Scali company. That is where actually I buy all my, my Scali caps is a Boston Scali company. My name is Bruce, by the way, longtime listener. Thank you, Brooks. Murphy has butt chin. What did the hell goes on in the afternoons? Murphy has butt chin. What does that even mean? That was coined by Jackson Williams. Of course it was. I love Jackson. It's so good. Butt chin. Well, now I've got to go relook at that video of yesterday of Murphy's show without his beard on. They talk about it right at the beginning of the show. Oh, really? Full send golf. You guys know how much I really, really love golf. And I think every week would be dope to post on the golf channel. I want to get a lot of guests on here. Salim's going to take a leap. I'm down to be in it. It's not really work to play golf. Join the party on the golf course. I was like, let's go to the range. So what are we putting on it? We said 10K, right? 10K. All right. We probably bet more than all the other golf channels, right? 10K, nine holes. Those guys bet for like cookies. I'm going to shank it. This guy's been trading like a Navy SEAL when it comes to golf. I'm very, very excited. You excited? Yeah. Full send golf. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. Okay, very good. Well, Murphy's texting too slow, so I can't, I'm not going to find out. We're not going to be able to tell the audience why it is that he... TB texts and he goes, I got enough Murphy from three to seven. Don't let him infect your show also. Let's see here. 93.11. Did we even go to the moon yesterday? Didn't we just go near it? Yeah, we didn't go to the moon yesterday. 93.11. We've explained this a number of different times during the radio broadcast today. We went to the dark side of the moon, or at least that's where we're going and we're just testing. Full Pink Floyd. Going full on Pink Floyd. And so we're going to test out the equipment and we're going to see how the astronauts, you know, from a human standpoint, body standpoint, physiological standpoint, deal with being that close to the moon and the radiation and all that. We'll get a phone call once they get there. I think that the phone booth that they left behind is still there. So it'll be a landline call. Did you hear what Tim Burchett said yesterday? Yes, on top of the Matt Gates comments. On top of the Matt about, uh, about, what are they like, like combining humans and aliens basically is what they're doing so that we can communicate with the aliens. It's called Nephilim, Dan. Nephilim, that's right. Fallen Angels and Humans mating. I know. I got a full thing on that earlier. But from Sam and Joan. Yeah. The Dan is Nephilim. What are you an idiot? Sorry. The listeners were pretty, they were well versed on it as well. It's just you, Dan. All right. So Matt has said this regarding the reason why he shaved off his beard and then we're going to move on. He says, when the world is hurting and in need, sometimes it gets my entire face as a gift. I do this for you, Dan. Wow. You know what's so funny? He spent like five minutes texting that out. That's what it took so long with those stupid dancing dots. Anyway, whatever. It was a long time of the bubbles. The moon is made up of Swiss cheese and spear ribs. That's what, uh, that's what I said yesterday. Nobody believed me. Anyway, so, I believe that we've already started doing the whole, uh, with Nephilim. Nephilim. Nephilim. So I think we've already started doing that. That's what Nancy Pelosi is. We started doing this years ago. Or Kataji Brown Jackson. Yeah. Or, I mean, who else on the left could be Nephilim? Nephilimistic. Nephillistic. The Rage and Cajun. Who's that? James Carville. James Carville. He's definitely, there's definitely some mating with a crocodile in there. Steve Cohen. Okay. Chicken Eatin' Steve Cohen. You and I've said this before, Steve Cohen looks exactly like the monster from the Black Lagoon. So in the context of mating humans and aliens, Steve Cohen is a nephillist. Nephillistic. He is nephillistic. Steve Cohen. Because last time I said this about Steve Cohen looking like a monster from the, people, creature from the Black Lagoon, people put it together and people said, man, just you're not as much of an idiot as we thought you were. You're a professional dot connector. That's exactly what, uh, This isn't your average podcast. This pot is about to be crazy. I don't even know what's gonna happen. This is Full Send. It's just like a boy scrap. Join the party. We threw like a spontaneous party out of nowhere. It was crazy. And we pulled off a crazy prank. Pranks, parties, and viral culture at its wildest. Just seeing like the guys that you brought in and like seeing their different personalities and stuff. It's been entertaining, dude. This could be the greatest content build of all time, bro. The Full Send podcast. Dude, let's get ready to rumble. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. Let's do it.