In December, Cassie (also known as Winnie) and Dave bought the Palmer House in Sauk Center. It's known for its ghostliness, so it was a no-brainer. It's also a no-brainer to predict that we have more sad celebrity news, because that's just how it is every day now.

Topics:

Katherine Short suicide

BAFTA Tourettes incident

Lifestyles of the rich and the famous

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees announced

Owning the Palmer House

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The word of the day is suicide, after Robert Carradine's death yesterday. It's not a happy word, and it doesn't lend itself to happy conversation. But it is important to talk about. Plus the longer we talk the longer we can put off driving on the Minnesota-sized sheet of ice that is our roads right now.

Topics:

Robert Carradine

Suicide

Learning about presidents

Landman/Taylor Sheridan leaving Paramount

Scrubs season 10 tomorrow

Freezing rain

Voiceover business

Canadian Olympics saltiness

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Everything is expensive all of a sudden. License plate tabs. Energy. Hay. Cartel wars. But what do you expect when they burn down all the Costcos? Regardless, Nik finds the means to go to Italy for months at a time, possibly funded by his social media videos. They may not be so big in America anymore, but there's still plenty of an audience when it comes to motorcycles.

Topics:

US Hockey team wins gold

Munich airport stranding

Stuff is expensive

Motorcycles in Europe

Mexican army vs. the cartels

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They're the latest craze, apparently: blue light traps for catching bugs. Because everyone hates bugs. And speaking of flying things that annoy you, UFOs are back in the public eye yet again. Apparently Trump is going to declassify it all. Anything to distract from the real issue at hand: Hollywood won't stop making sequels. Please, stop.

Topics:

Blue light bug traps

Pet healthcare

Tariffs going away

UFO files being released

Eric Dane dies

Landman

Gordon Ramsay documentary

Olympics wolfdog gets loose

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Prince Andrew has been arrested for vague nonsense. Whether the real stuff will come to light, we can't say. But if it does, odds are he'll never again visit Minnesota and sample our wonderful cuisine. And that's terrible. Almost as terrible as the fact that we can't safely put our snowblowers away until June.

Topics:

It snowed again

Prince Andrew arrested

Traitors

Hugh Heffner's scrapbooks

Zantigo

Brittany's grandmother dies

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Michele and Ralph both return after a long absence. Ralph is retired and is enjoying doing whatever he wants. Michele is the opposite of retired, choosing to vie for a senate seat here in Minnesota. Personally, I'd take the French cafes over attempting to talk sense into Minnesota, but someone's got to do it.

Topics:

Plastic surgery and dentistry among actors

Burt Reynolds financial woes

Celebrities all wear wigs

Michele Tafoya's senate run

Jude's health

Ralph Bashioum's trip to France and Italy

Vaping is not so good

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Members of congress make $174,000 a year. That's pretty good, right? Wait until you hear how much their stipend is for trips to the Capitol. It'll drive you to bring your state into the top 10 territories in the world for alcohol consumption. Assuming it isn't there already. Which it probably is.

Topics:

Jesse Jackson dies

Robert Duvall dies

Alcohol consumption per capita

James Van Der Beek GoFundMe controversy

Congressional salary/stipend

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Hollywood is largely uneventful as everyone watches the Olympics instead. If you like movies and don't like watching athletes be athletic, what's left? Gambling? We can't recommend it. Yo-J? They don't make it any more. If you've got kids or grandkids, you have plenty of entertainment there. And of course, there's always podcasts.

Topics:

Dance mom murder-suicide

Billie Eilish allegedly gets man deported

Barnard barn fire

Gambling

Prop bets

Yo-J

Reliving parenthood through grandkids

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Astonishingly, we managed not to bring up Epstein today. Instead, we focused on the inexorable passage of time and how everything you thought was new and cool is actually old. Then again, all that old stuff is being remade, so you're still correct. It's a very positive show today. Thank god.

Topics:

AI vs. jobs

English monarchy

Wuthering Heights

Boys of '80

Winter Olympics

What's on TV

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This episode's a doozy. We've got talk of Epstein, musicians having inappropriate relationships, Kid Rock vs. Bad Bunny, billionaire taxes, the decline of education. We even say something positive about Mississippi. It's crazy. But what's even crazier is allowing your heating bill to skyrocket due to lack of insulation in your house. Stay warm, people.

Topics:

James Van Der Beek dies

Zuckerberg flees California

CA billionaire tax

Minnesota's test scores

Bad Bunny

Vulgarity in music

Michael Jackson and Neverland Ranch

The Wiggles

Insulation

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