The Mandy Connell Podcast
Mandy Connell brings her intelligence and wit to explaining US politics as a whole and our pop culture in general.
Episodes
May 30, 2025 • 105 mins
Mandy talks to associate editor of City journal. John hershauer about gen z going back to church, David waldenstrom about the truth about wealth inequality and what life is like in Sweden compared to the United States, And Natalie Daniels about being dropped by her running club for saying that men shouldn't compete against women.
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May 30, 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: Benjamin Allbright and Zach Segars.
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May 30, 2025 • 15 mins
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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May 30, 2025 • 19 mins
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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May 30, 2025 • 8 mins
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 Hirshhauer 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...
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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May 29, 2025 • 106 mins
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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May 29, 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: Plum Creek Garden Market and the Q!
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HOW ABOUT SOME GLOW IN THE DARK PETUNIAS? As gardening is my official hobby now I'm actually pretty excited to have Audrey Sharpe and Matt Niemann on the show. This year Plum Creek Garden Market is excited to announce the debut of the Firefly Petunia, the first bioluminescent petunia for sale (glow in the dark). This year we encourage Colorado gardeners to consider planting more native plants that have adapted to Colorado’s elevati...
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GAYS AGAINST GROOMERS IS STILL FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT And I've got Rich Guggenheim on with an update since the passage of SB25-1213 made Colorado a hotspot of trans affirmation. He's on at 1pm. We can talk about how a group made entirely of LGBTQ people has been named "Anti-LGBTQ" by the hate group SPLC.
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May 29, 2025 • 6 mins
A DYING MAN JUST WANTS TO TRY I realize that we are ALL dying but my guest today is on a fast track none of us want to be on. Elijah is 23 years old and is fighting for his life. He was only six years old when he was diagnosed with a fatal and incurable disease – Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The disease has robbed Elijah of the ability to walk. He’s losing the use of his hands and arms. He likely only has a few years to live. There...
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May 28, 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 and Benjamin Allbright.
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May 28, 2025 • 105 mins
Mandy talks about rainy days on Weather Wednesday, NPR taking tax payer money, she has a chat with 16th Street business owner Derek Friedman about how things are going downtown, free boob jobs for trans women but not actual women, Derrick Wilburn's accuser Bernadette Guthrie joins to explain why she's so upset, and the President of France is an abused husband.
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May 28, 2025 • 18 mins
DERRICK WILBURN'S ACCUSER IS ON AT 2:30 If you heard yesterday's interview with Derrick Wilburn you can listen to it here to get the backstory of the woman accusing him of all sorts of nasty things over his actions when fighting against inappropriate books in school libraries. Bernadette Guthrie joins me at 2:30 with her side of things.
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May 28, 2025 • 19 mins
HOW'S BUSINESS ON 16TH STREET? I've got Derek Friedman, the owner of Sportsfan and Sock Em' Sock Emporium downtown on at 1 to talk about the reality of doing business on what is now just 16th Street. I was downtown last night and I'm going to tell you it looks SO MUCH better than it has in years. Downright CLEAN. We saw ONE tent in ONE park. It was like downtown when we moved here! And we drove around quite a bit. I'm excited for w...
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May 28, 2025 • 8 mins
WE ARE PRACTICALLY A RAINFOREST THESE DAYS What with all these days of rain we've had. I've got Fox 31 Meteorologist Dave Fraser at 12:30 to talk about when it will stop and how much we've gotten.
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May 27, 2025 • 103 mins
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May 27, 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 and Nick Ferguson.
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May 27, 2025 • 14 mins
OPEN PRIMARIES COULD SAVE COLORADO And Jon Caldara writes about it here. I agree 100%. He joins me at 2:30 to chat about it.
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May 27, 2025 • 17 mins
MY FRIEND DERRICK HAS HAD ENOUGH OF THIS BROAD'S CRAP My friend Derrick Wilburn has been active in politics for years and as a Black Republican he's dealt with more than his share on nonsense. Now he's on the school board and has been dealing with an angry, out of control left winger for months now. She says her daughter and herself were traumatized by Wilburn's reading of a passage from a sexually explicit book that is available o...
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May 23, 2025 • 113 mins
It was a wild Ask Me Anything show where Mandy answered lots of radio questions and more. We also discussed Denver being broke, Trump's personal deals in the Middle East, and AROD's jury duty.
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