The Mandy Connell Podcast

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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June 5, 2025 99 mins
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In this edition of the Mandy Connell Show, it's not Mandy hosting! Benjamin Allbright fills in for Mandy and Ben talks about how women prefer dudes with dad bods, he gets into chatting with AROD about how he lost 100+ pounds... and drones!
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June 4, 2025 3 mins
BEN HOSTING OF THE DAY! Dad joke of the day, word of the day, BEN'S trivia question of the day & jeopardy! It's OF THE DAY! Today's opponent: Ryan Edwards.
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Mandy talks about why you should vote no on Home Rule for Douglas County with former County commissioner Steve Boand, she spoke with Mark Perez about competing in the international dragon boat championships, Jefferson county schools being investigated by the Department of Ed, the drama around a proposed Buc-ees in Palmer Lake, why non-Thai people can't have Thai hot, what childless, non working people on Medicaid do with their time...
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June 3, 2025 4 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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MORE ON WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE NO ON DOUGCO ON HOME RULE I've said it before, I am NOT opposed to the concept of moving Douglas County to a Home Rule style of governance, but I am very much opposed to the way this is being handled in Douglas County and will be voting no. If you need more reasons to vote no, listen up at 1 when longtime GOPer and former County Commissioner Steve Boand joins me with a list of reasons.
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HELP MY DRAGON BOATING FRIEND My friend and longtime physical therapist Mark Perez has a unique hobby and it's racing dragon boats. What is dragon boat racing? Check this out.
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Mandy talked about the terror attack against some peaceful marchers who were marching for the Israeli hostages. She spoke with Rep. Ron Weinberg to get his thoughts, the interviewed ADF attorney Suzanne Beecher about a lawsuit over free speech infringed by a trans rights, she also talked about Mike Lindell's defamation lawsuit and this year's Uncle John's bathroom reader.
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HELP DAD GET SMARTER IN THE CAN With the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, a fantastic compendium of useless but very interesting information in book form. Today I've got the guy behind the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Brian Boone at 2:00 to chat about it. Buy yours in time for Father's Day here! Here is some of the nonsense you might enjoy:
  • Some of the best facts and stories to help dad become the most popular guy at the barbeque.
  • S...
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A LAWSUIT HAS BEEN FILED OVER HB25-1312 And I'm talking to Suzanne Beecher from the Alliance Defending Freedom on the suit that has been filed on behalf of XX-XY sportswear over the free speech restrictions in the bill which prevent someone from calling a man a man or a woman a woman if they are trans. Suzanne joins me at 1. Find out more about ADF or even make a donation by clicking here.
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THE INTIFADA HAS BEEN GLOBALIZED IN BOULDER And not just Boulder. Let's not forget that in a very short period of time an anti-Semite tried to burn down the Governor of Pennsylvania's mansion with him and his family in it, two people were murdered outside a Jewish Museum in DC, and now we have a man throwing flammable devices, likely Molotov cocktails, at a group of mostly elderly people walking down the Pearl Street Mall to remind...
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Mandy talks to associate editor of City journal. John Hirschauer about Gen Z going back to church, David Waldenstrom about the truth about wealth inequality & what life is like in Sweden compared to the United States, And Natalie Daniels about being dropped by her running club for saying that me.
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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: Benjamin Allbright and Zach Segars.
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WHEN RUNNING LIKE A GIRL IS A GOOD THING Meet Natalie Daniels. She Ran Boston in 2:50:04. Then Got Cancelled. Natalie Daniels, a 5x marathon winner and new mom, trained hard to run the Boston Marathon just six months postpartum. Before the race, she spoke out with XX-XY Athletics about fairness in women’s sports — and faced backlash. Her teammates leaked her location, and her club told her not to wear their singlet. She ran anyway,...
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JUST HOW UNEQUAL IS OUR WEALTH? If you listen to Bernie Sanders rich people are literally stealing the change from poor people's pockets, but of course that is false. But the Gospel of Wealth Inequality is a powerful elixir doled out to gin up envy and greed in the people and it's effective. But is it true? At 1 I'm talking with Daniel Waldenstrom, Professor of Economics, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm, Swede...
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GEN Z IS SEARCHING AND THEY ARE FINDING GOD I love this story so much. Today at 12:30 I will talk to Associate Editor John Hirschauer from City Journal about this story he did on Gen Z returning to church. I love this part especially:

Yet these cultural losses may have laid the groundwork for a revival. Public Christianity in the United States receded in part because a rising counterculture successfully challenged its restrictions o...
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Mandy talks about how expensive it is to replace the Ford F-150 Lightning truck battery is, she spoke with a young man with a fatal disease who is advocating for Right to Try new meds, Rich Guggenheim with Gays Against Groomers pops on for an update, Hamas wants Palestinians to starve rather than take aid from a group that MAY be associated with Israel, and the Plum Creek Garden Market team visited to talk about glow in the dark pe...
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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: Plum Creek Garden Market and the Q!
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