The Mandy Connell Podcast
Mandy Connell brings her intelligence and wit to explaining US politics as a whole and our pop culture in general.
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May 13, 2025 • 103 mins
Today we talk about our lost pop culture with our futurist Thomas Frey, along with the use of AI for education. Mandy goes on a tear about Jake Tapper trying to profit off his own failures, we discuss motorcycle fatalities in Colorado with DJ Summers from the Common Sense Institute and crime being down in Denver and Aurora, plus Boulder suing Exxon Mobil and Suncor.
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May 13, 2025 • 5 mins
Dad joke of the day, word of the day, Mandy's trivia question of the day & jeopardy! It's OF THE DAY! Today's opponent: Grant Smith.
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May 13, 2025 • 16 mins
IT'S DANGEROUS TO RIDE A MOTORCYCLE IN COLORADO And the Common Sense Institute has a new study to prove it. DJ Summers joins me today at 2:30 to talk about this study that shows that a disproportionate number deaths in road accidents are motorcyclists. DJ has the details on this new report about how declining traffic enforcement is making the roads less safe for most and much less safe for those on bikes.
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May 13, 2025 • 19 mins
WE'VE LOST OUR POPULAR CULTURE Let's not forget that the phrase "pop culture" means popular culture and it used to refer to those things that we ALL watched or knew about like the finale of MASH or the season premiere of Dallas where they revealed Who Shot JR??? Our favorite futurist Thomas Frey is on to talk about how highly personal algorithms have siloed us into so many different spaces that we don't have those cultural touchsto...
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May 12, 2025 • 105 mins
We talk the importance of energy for human flourishing and how Colorado is making it unreliable and more expensive with Amy Oliver Cooke, Jack Corrigan joined us to talk about the firing of Bud Black and more reasons for the team's troubles. Should Trump take a plane from a country that funds terrorism, and the Hope Scheppleman, and Tom Bjorklund of the former Colorado GOP leadership team says they are being unfairly criticized by ...
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May 12, 2025 • 3 mins
Dad joke of the day, word of the day, Mandy's trivia question of the day & jeopardy! It's OF THE DAY! Today's opponent: Ryan Edwards.
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May 12, 2025 • 17 mins
GREEN ENERGY IS EXPENSIVE AND UNRELIABLE ENERGY And Amy Oliver Cooke writes about it here for Complete Colorado. This is my favorite part:
Environmentalists appealed to consumers by saying wind and solar would save ratepayers money. From the outset, Governor Polis refused to provide a detailed cost analysis of his plan while rejecting Independence Institute’s 2017 projection that the transition could cost $45 billion. Polis insisted...
Environmentalists appealed to consumers by saying wind and solar would save ratepayers money. From the outset, Governor Polis refused to provide a detailed cost analysis of his plan while rejecting Independence Institute’s 2017 projection that the transition could cost $45 billion. Polis insisted...
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May 12, 2025 • 10 mins
BUD BLACK IS OUT AS ROCKIES MANAGER and Voice of the Rockies Jack Corrigan joined me to break down what it means and what the future looks like.
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May 9, 2025 • 102 mins
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May 9, 2025 • 2 mins
Dad joke of the day, word of the day, Mandy's trivia question of the day & jeopardy! It's OF THE DAY! Today's opponent: Rob Dawson.
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THAT TIME NPR PARTICIPATED IN THE GOVERNMENT COVERUP You know I'm talking about Covid and this column by David Strom at Hotair.com is about an NPR interview with a guy who has written a new book about how NPR silenced stories that didn't fit the narrative and now these people are going to PROFIT off their own malfeasance by writing books about it! THE NERVE. David joins me at 1pm to discuss it.
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May 8, 2025 • 25 mins
Short show today because of Rockies baseball, but Assistant Minority Leader Ty Winter joined the show to talk about what was inflicted on us in this last session.
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SINE DIE MEANS NO MORE BAD THINGS CAN BE DONE TO US AT THE CAPITOL and at 12:15 Assistant Minority Leader Ty Winter joins me to talk about what was inflicted on us in this last session.
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May 7, 2025 • 97 mins
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May 6, 2025 • 107 mins
Ross Kaminsky stops by to finish the conversation about TABOR and their value for Colorado, a new immersive Titanic exhibit sounds super cool, Irish dance and music are in town, Democrats double down on sanctuary status, the GDP shrank but not as much as it has in other administrations, and the history of Gaza.
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May 6, 2025 • 3 mins
Dad joke of the day, word of the day, Mandy's trivia question of the day & jeopardy! It's OF THE DAY! Today's opponent: Ryan Edwards.
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May 6, 2025 • 8 mins
WHO DOESN'T LOVE IRISH MUSIC AND DANCING? How can you not love Irish step dancing the music that is so distinctly Irish? If that's you, you're going to love a Taste of Ireland, the show that brings Irish music and dance to life. They have performances all over the front range and I'm talking with Alliyah O’Hare at 1pm about the show. The internationally acclaimed “A Taste of Ireland - The Irish Music and Dance Sensation” brings a l...
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