04-17-24 FULL SHOW - Weather Wednesday and NPR Proves the Point

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Welcome, Welcome, welcome. Ontoday's show, it's a little of this
and a little of that. Wedo Weather Wednesday with Dave Frasier, dip
a little bit into the situation atNPR and kind of talk about whether or
not they should still be getting taxpayerdollars. And then we talk about students
occupying Columbia, Google employees occupying Googleand what I think needs to happen,
and why is the media trying tostir up racial hatred? All that and

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more on today's show. Joined notby my right hand man, but my
former right hand man. He's GrantSmith. Everybody, welcome back, my
friend. Hello, good to behere. Yeah, a Rod will be
back tomorrow, I believe, andGrant filling in Grant. What's on the
Taking It for Granted podcast this week? Well, I'm in the process of
putting out the episode for this week, running a little behind because I'm here

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with you. Yes, appreciate that. Dave Logan joining me this week.
Excellent, that's going to be agood one. Yeah, it was a
really cool episode. We talked abouthis time in the NFL, obviously being
a hometown kid playing for CU forbasketball and football, and then we get
a lot into the impact has onyoung men coaching high school football. Still
so very cool episode. That hasgot to be the most gratifying part of

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being a coach. Yeah, isthe impact that you have on young people.
My sister taught in a lower socioeconomicsschool for a couple of years in
Florida and she just got an email. This was like seven or eight years
ago, and she just got anemail from one of her students that said
her faith in him has now madehim. He's the first person in his

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family to go to college and hewants to be. He's studying bioengineering.
Yeah, because she said, you'resmart in math, you can do this.
See, that's all you need sometimesis just one person to give you
that extra little push of motivation.You never know what it could impact,
exactly exactly. All right, wegot a bunch. Today's going to be
one of those this and that kindof days, a little of this,
a little of that. So let'sjump to the blog because it's all there.

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kick them out while teachers are quitting. In one video, our robot overlords
are starting to take real shape.Two minute drill Saturday is husband Appreciation Day.
Do you read nutrition labels when adream destination isn't what it seems?
Glenn Wood Springs has some new stuffthis summer. Terrence the Octopus is on
her way out. It's not giveher the onion, but time to check

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in on the kiffness. Hubert theLab says this can cure hiccups. The
best dog Nanny Ever, and mylatest YouTube discovery. Those are the headlines
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Now, Grant, you also work
on a music station, so Iknow you're a big music guy. You
love your music. I want toask you this question as the token young

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person on the show today, wheredo you find new music? Where do
you discover new music? Well,of course on ninety seven point three KBCO
Actually though, honestly, Brad whyour program director has been doing a great
job of putting in new music thatis more the taste of people my age.
So I find a lot of mymusic through him, and then also

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my friends, my closest friends.We have a group chat where we send
back and forth new music that wediscover, so that's how most of it
happens. And then on apps,you know, like they'll have their Discover
weekly, yeah, playlist that youcan find music. I have a fourteen
year old, right so she's constantlyintroducing me to new music. And her
musical taste is so broad that shehas like bubblegum pop music, she has

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country music. She played a bluessong for me today and I was like,
wait, what guys my music?But I found an artist before she
did, and I'm like, I'mwheelding it like I'm the mother of the
year right now, an artist thatshe actually likes. Well. I sent
her this song and I said,what do you think of this guy?
Because he's really really good and shewas like, wow, that's a really
good song, mom. And he'scoming to the Savant's Ballroom here this summer.

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I'm I trying to go see himthere. His name's Livingston. I
haven't heard of him. Oh mygosh. He's a young guy and he's
just got lyrically. He's just fantasticand musically, And it's amazing to me
people on YouTube that are making musicthat no one's ever heard of, but
then they kind of come out ofnowhere and they end up with millions of

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followers. And I bet you thatin the beginning of their careers. They're
making more money right now than anyartist in history ever made in the first
five years of their career right becausethey're monetizing their channels and all this stuff.
It's just I felt, really,I was like, I found some
new music before my daughter did.Have you ever been to a show at
Savante's? Uh no, not veryfun. Yeah, it is a small,

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small venue, which makes it evenbetter in my ball. That's making
it hard to find tickets. Thetickets that I did find on the secondary
market are two hundred and thirty sixdollars apiece. Oh my god, he
must up? Is he really is? And he's just so. That's on
the blog today. I got acouple videos we revisit the Kiffness Grant is

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well acquitated with my love for theman who makes music with animals and Huberman
Labs. Do you listen to HumanLabs? Are you onto that podcast?
I do? I do from timeto time. I don't catch all of
them, but I now go throughand he bookmarks all of his topics throughout
the three hour podcast that he does. So I skipped to bookmarks is what
I do. And I saw onethat said how to get rid of hiccups.

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And you know I'm in the time. They are my plague. I
have always had problems with hiccups.It's just I don't know what. I
obviously have some kind of you know, hitching the giddea up somewhere that gives
me the hiccups. So I'm goingto be trying this technique. It's breathing
technique. So we'll see, andif it doesn't work, I'm gonna write.
I'm gonna write, Andrew, You'vegon be like, what up show?

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I am dying to talk to himon this show and big Time,
Well he has big time now.And that New Yorker piece that came out
that was not flattering, Although canI ask you, I'm just going to
ask this question of our listening audiencebecause I I am Maybe it's because I'm
a child of the eighties and thiskind of behavior was just common back then,

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but apparently, and I've not readthe New york Or article because I
will not give the New Yorker mymoney and it's paywalled. And if you
subscribe to The New Yorker and youwant to cut and paste and send it
to me, I'd be really appreciative. With that being said, I've read
a million articles about the article becauseI love Andrew Huberman. The criticism seems
to be that Andrew Huberman dated multiplewomen at one time, but didn't necessarily

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promise exclusivity, but allowed the womento infer exclusivity. Do you see what
I'm saying? Like, there's adifference between sitting down with someone and saying
we are exclusive, right, andjust allowing someone to operate under the thought
that you are exclusive. Those twothings are very different. And all of

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these women still speak highly of himtoday. But the New Yorker was like,
this guy's a hard dog. Wellokay, well, if that's the
worst you can dig up on somebody, I say, a pretty good job
on you, Andrew Huseman, itjust is a different It was a different
times. It's just a different youknow. I don't know, I'm not
price when I find out that aguy is dating multiple women at the same

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time, especially if he's smart andattractive. You know, It's like,
I don't know, whenever I wasdating someone that was smart and attractive,
if I wanted to be exclusive,I was like, Hey, are we
exclusive or not? Right? Justask the question question and sometimes the answer
was no, right, and thenI could make my decision based on what,
you know, whatever that answer was. But it's better than guessing.
Guessing never ends well because then thatother person has plausible deniability. When you

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see them out with someone else andyou're like, wait a minute, I
thought we're exclusive and they're like,we've never had That conversation reminds me of
that scene from Friends when Ross andRachel are supposed to be on a break.
She writes him an eighteen page letterand back the best that show anyway.
But I'm wondering, like, isthis is this the worst thing ever?

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It's not like he was married andscrewing around on his wife, you
know, It's not like. It'snot like that. No, Like if
he would have had a second familythat was hidden somewhere, maybe that'd be
some dramas. But I mean,come on, you are too young to
remember the great Charles Karrault, whowas the driving force of my favorite show,
CBS Sunday Morning. And when CharlesCaralt died, we found out he

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had a completely separate family. Hehad two families, and I was devastated.
I was like, Charles Kralt's likethe nicest man ever. He's on
CBS Sunday morning every Sunday. Seriously, I was so upset, But I
was also really young when that happened. And now I'm like, oh,
nothing surprises me anymore, nothing atall surprises me anymore. The more weird

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stuff I hear about people's relationships,I'm like, oh, of course,
of course, how did I notknow that? Anyway? By the way,
the band seems considerably less drunk whenGrant is there. That from the
text line, they're a little bitafraid of Grant. I mean they're a
little bit. They're a little bitscared of Grant the band, and I'm
fine with it. I'm okay withit. This person Husband Appreciation Day mine

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is going fishing. Because if yougive a man a fish, you feed
for one meal, but if youteach him to fish, you can get
rid of him for an entire weekend. That's a good point. I actually
am the fisher person in our house. I like Chuck likes to fish.
I love to fish. I haveloved to fish since I was a child.
Have you been fishing out here?Yes, not a whole lot.

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And that's something I'd like to remedythat's something I need to remedy too,
because we spent so many days,long hours just fishing all the time growing
up. I'm going to tell youthis, there is there are very few
things in life that are better thanstanding in a stream with a fly rod
just casting. Even if you don'tcatch a single thing all day, there

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is nothing better than that experience inmy mind, the water's rushing by your
feet, I mean, it's justit is the most zen thing. Ever.
Unfortunately, I don't know where thesecret spots are, so when we
do go to go fishing, there'slike one hundred people right because we're all
going to the same spaces. Soif you have those secret places or better
yet, private property where you fish, that you would be willing to allow

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me to come along, I wouldbe forever grateful. Yeah. I've got
a buddy, a good buddy outhere that is a big fly firs yrman
and ties is all his own andit's like I need I keep telling him
every year. I'm like, I'mgoing to get out there with you this
summer, and I still haven't doneit. And some of the pictures he
takes of just the backdrops of wherehe is fishing that's all I would need.
I am one of those people whereI don't like to go and endeavor

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in something that I don't feel likeI fully know how to do. And
I don't know how to choose myties or choose my flies. I don't
know how to fish correctly for thesituation, you know what I mean.
And I'm uncertain about that. SoI'm a little bit uncertain about just going
out there by myself, and justlike you know, hurling stuff out there.
That's why you need to just makea friend with someone that knows what
they're directly. That's right. Idid my whole life fishing. Yeah,

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should I use here? Okay?Anyway, I have to have a very
serious conversation with the audience, andyou guys were going to get into the
serious stuff on the blog just afew minutes. We got weather Wednesday coming
up at twelve thirty five. Butcan we, Colorado, can we please
all learn how to do the zipperproperly when you go from two lanes to

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one lane? Can we just canwe agree as a society that this is
how this works? Say, asI was this morning, Grant in a
two lane situation and about a quarterof a mile ahead of me. I
could see the right lane end signsbegin quarter of a mile away. I
could see them clearly because it wasgoing up a hill. So I am

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in the right hand lane, SoI am going to go to the very
end of my lane, and thenthat's when we all zipper together. Right,
one car, the next car fromthe other lane, and you zipper,
you zipper in together. But no, could we do that this morning.
No we could not, because thethree people in front of me had
to come to a complete stop aquarter of a mile away from the act

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will merge, so they could tryand merge into a line of cars on
the left hand lane instead of goingto the end of the right hand lane
and then merging together. People ofthe East coast understand this. This is
not a problem east of the Mississippi. Why why can we not get this
in Colorado. It has happened tome now four times in the past three

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days. Because we all know constructionseason is upon us. That means every
road in the metro area is goingto have some sort of construction. We
have to get it together, people, We have to learn how to zipper.
I am begging you, for thelove of God, and then when
I get to the end of theright hand lane so I can zipper in.
Oh, no one in the lefthand lane is gonna let me in
because they're like, you skip,do all the traffic. And I'm like,

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this is how it's supposed to work, people. I'm doing it the
right way. You're doing it thewrong way. Why why? Why is
it because we're so nice? Idon't know why we cannot get I don't
think it's because people are too nice, because then you do it properly and
get to the end of your laneand then the car behind the car that's

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supposed to let you in zooms inand doesn't give you any space. They're
not zippering right because they all gotover into the lane with all the traffic
like a mile and a half ago, because they don't know how to zipper.
Good gravy, just good gravy.Eh, okay, Anyway, A

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lot of you are suggesting taking aguide. It's worth every penny. I
have done that multiple times, andI've enjoyed it immensely, But I don't
learn what I need to learn fishing. I know how to zipper, and
thank you to all of you aretexting now about the zipper. Ralph says,
no, we merge in when wesee the blockage. Racing ahead to

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get in front of everyone is notacceptable per my teen driver. She's called
stuff you can't say on radio.But that's the wrong way to do it.
You get to the end of thelanes and then you nipper, you
zipper merge. That's how it's constructed, Mandy. No one in Colorado knows
how to merge or parallel park.I don't know about the parallel parking thing.

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I know how to parallel park,just saying there are two seasons in
Colorado, road construction season and ChristmasDay. Accurate. Accurate. Why don't
you understand people are idiots? Thisis your problem. Okay, yeah,
maybe maybe, but it's so frustratingbecause it actually slows down traffic. When

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everybody gets over to the lane toosoon. It makes traffic go slower.
That's why they merge you slowly atthe end. This person says, Mandy,
you're pushing my hot button. Today. It's legal to enter an intersection
when the light is green or yellow, so pull out into the intersection when
you're making a left turn. Ohthat's a whole other can of worms.

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Is that is also that is thatis correct? And when you are in
there and the light turns red,you still have the time to go.
Do you do that? Or youa left hand pullar forwarder? Oh always?
Okay? Good? Well out hereit's like three cars go after the
light turn spread, so you betterget out there and get moving exactly.

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But the zipper thing is wearing meout. I would probably say I am
part of that problem out here inColorado now because I'm so nervous about having
to stop at the end. Sowhenever I see space, I'm going yeah,
And that is kind of the attitude. It's not helpful. It's not
helpful. Now it helps me,and then I let over like three cars
in front of me to screw theguy that was not letting me over it

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to merge. The zipper issue ismainly due to a few idiots that go
all the way to the front becausethey want to go in front of everyone
else. It comes down to selfishdrivers. No, they're doing it the
proper way. That's how it's supposedto work. You go to the end
and then you merge. That's notbeing selfish. That's how a zipper merge

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works. Oh my goodness, Ohmy goodness. When we were leaving the
DCPA the other night, we werein the parking garage. I will tell
you guys this, if you're goingto a show at the DCPA, the
parking garage right now is an extremelyfrustrating experience because the Arapa Hoe entrance is
closed because they're doing some stuff.And then there's one entrance in one exit,

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and it's just a nightmare. Andwe're sitting there in traffic and waiting
to get out. And then peoplestarted to zipper. Everybody zippered, and
I was I looked at my daughterand I said, this is a sign
that civilization is not over, becauseall of these people in the parking garage
are zippering properly. Yes, ohmy goodness, Mandy. Roadwork is a

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contest between the diggers and the fillers. The diggers are always winning. Afternoon,
Mandy. We are zippering in assoon as we see the sign that
is wrong, incorrect, correct,Mandy. How about all them drivers that
insist on driving on the right twolanes of a four lane highway, sogging
up traffic within when within I don'tknow what that's a mess? What grinds

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my gears is people that go arounda person turning left to go straight instead
of waiting. Yeah, Mandy,are you sure it's legal to pull into
the middle of the turn lane inthe state of Colorado. I don't think
that was legal. Even if itis, That's what I do is zippering.
The same thing that I learned indrivers at is alternating. I think

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the latter is much clearer. Isit really though? Is it really?
I'm just saying, Mandy, Idrive a big truck or pulling a trailer.
Nobody wants to let me in,Nobody wants to be behind me.
It's true. It is true.Big truck. We all know zipper merge
frustration. I drive a truck allday. Talk about frustration. You people

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out there driving trucks. I justwant to say, bless each and every
one of you. That is ajob that I couldn't. I'd never have
the patience to do it. Oh, thank you. I hate being in
heavy traffic. I mean I despiseit. I'm so grateful that my schedule
for the most part, keeps meout of heavy traffic. Yeah, I'm
the same way. Like, everyonce in a while, I have to
come in during rush hour either inthe morning or in the afternoon, which

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the afternoon it seems like it juststarts at three o'clock and goes to like
six o'clock. Now, yeah,but it is brutal, and it makes
me thankful that I don't have todo that every single day. And every
time I'm in it, I thinkthese people that are around me, this
is their life every day. They'redoing this twice a day, every day.
Bless all y'all. You I mean, bless all y'all, because I
just nope, cannot do it,can't. I would move to those apartments

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right across the street. If thatwas my situation, I'd be like,
sorry, honey, we're moving acrossthe street from work so I could walk
when we get back. Dave FrazerFox thirty one is coming on to answer
all of your weather questions. Textthem to me at five six six nine
ozer or go ahead and email meMandy at KOA NewsRadio dot com and just

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do it now because he's coming upnext. I think what I'm saying is
so now take that. I betDave Fraser knows how to properly zipper merge.
Hello, Dave, how are youtoday? Good? When man,
it's been a while since we talkedon Wednesday, and I'm glad you stayed
on that note, because yes,I do. I heard you mentioned that
people in the East do know howto do it correctly, and you're not

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wrong. I grew up learning howto do that move. I also know
how to zip in and out ofa rotary or at the round of buss.
Oh there you go. Yeah,that's like that's a skill that we
all need to develop. Yeah,And I hate it when the people dart
the eyes at you that are inthe right lane and they've merged way back.
Yeah, I'm zipping up the leftside and they're looking at you like
you're cheating and you're cutting in line. No. I was hoping you would

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mention see dot because they specifically talkabout that. With mountain traffic, we
are coming from three to two,go all the way up the end of
the of the merge lane, andthen we zipper that they have, yeah,
and then zipper one two yeah,two ye two. You know,
you go, I go, yougo, like exactly. It goes much
much faster than if everybody gets ina single file way back where the sign

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is saying merge ahead. You're justbacking the traffic up and it takes even
longer. So you are one hundredpercent correct. Thank you. Dave Frasier
from Fox thirty one. Not onlydoes he know whether he knows proper road
etiquette. So you know, Ifeel like this is the first time in
a long time that we've chatted thatwe haven't had some major snowstorm around the
corner. So that's good. Imean, although I liked the rain,

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I liked waking up to a littlerain the other day. That was nice.
It was pleasant, Yeah, itwas. It was Actually, it
was a decent shower in some spot. Some places didn't do as well.
The airport officially had a nice shower. Go Overridge and they picked up almost
four tenths of an inch. Andwhile that doesn't sound like a lot,
that is a significant amount of moisturefrom one little morning shot of rain.
And it actually got us right backon track for the month of April for

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where we should be. So westarted the month with like a third of
financial a little more than a third, and then it kind of got dry
for you know, a couple ofweeks, and then we picked that up
yesterday and we're right back on track. So I always say never give up
on a season. By the way, the word snow is something we will
be using in our forecast for thenext few days. But I don't want
anybody to hit the panic alarm.We actually have one of our digital managers

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for our web team said the twoweeks agoces, are we done with snow?
You want to put money on that? Yeah, absolutely, I'll put
money on that. We are notdone with snow. Yes again verse second,
snow is much so never counted out. So and those of you who
enjoyed the warm weather over the weekendand you're thinking about your plants, oh,
that's the break that the breaks folkswere not there yet. I just

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had an appointment with someone and theywere talking about the fact they'd already planted
their flowers and I was like,that's probably not the best idea, and
she said, well, I havefrost cover. I go no, We're
going to have one of more ofthose, at least heavy snows that just
flattens everything, you know, sogo ahead, go ahead. I was
gonna say, what are we lookingat this? This weekend is not going
to be nice like last weekend was. Yes, so we've got two incoming

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storms. One of them comes lateto night, right around those seven to
eight o'clock you may notice the windshifting and getting a little breezy out of
the north, and that's the coldfront. This first one coming in just
doesn't have a lot of moisture withit, but we do have showers in
the forecast that may mix with oreven debrief spotty snow showers early tomorrow morning,
but it should come to an end. And Tomorrow is going to be

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noticeably cooler at about fifty degrees,kind of a grayer day, but it
doesn't rain all day. It's mainlylate late tonight into early tomorrow morning.
And if you can get a grassyaccumulation, I wouldn't say that I would
rule that out, but most placesthis is going to melt as temperatures are
not cold. And then we'll dothat same thing again on Friday into Saturday.
Now that one has a little moremoisture with it, and so for

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that one, what we're telling peopleis it'll start as showers Friday afternoon.
You may hear rumble of thunder soone or two thunderstorms again, not a
terribly cold storm. Temperatures will beovernight into Saturday morning, just close enough
to freezing thirty three thirty four.Then it will change over to snow,
and then it should change quickly backto arrange snow mix and then showering before

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coming to an end late right aroundnoon on Saturday, and another day it'll
be in the cool fifties. Thatone could leave some light grassy accumulation across
the metro, but in most placesit's going to melt and there will be
no impact on the road. Soit's just going to be good moisture.
And by the way, if youhaven't put down your pre emergent or your
spring to get the grass picking andget rid of the weed, this would

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be the time to do that,to take advantage of both shots of moisture.
Especially Friday into Saturday. Some ofus have already aerted and wheedon feeded.
Dave. I don't know about you, slacker, but some of us
are already on top of the gameon that one. So I I did
with down the fertilizer. We weregetting an airation guy to come into the

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neighborhood this weekend, but he wantedto do it on Saturday morning, and
I said no, let's do itnext Saturday. We've got snow on the
forecast. I don't need you outthere tearing up the yard with snow on
the ground. So let me askyou this. We always have relatively large
storm somewhere around Mother's Day first weekendin May. But what is Is there
anything on the horizon that we shouldbe concerned about right now in the Pacific?

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No? Nothing much. I alwaysbefore I come on with you,
I take a look at the sixto ten day forecast. Obviously, we've
got the seven day forecast. Wework the seven day forecast and massage your
day in and day out morning tonight, so we've got a great handle on
that. There's just nothing there inthat seven days. And then I look
at the sixth to ten doesn't seemto be anything. And then I look
at the eighth the fourteen day outlook. Again, it doesn't give you a
lot of day to day detail,but I did look, and that takes

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us through the end of April Aprilthirtieth, and that eighth to fourteen day
outlook does show us being a littlewarmer than normal. Again, that could
be one or two days above average, and you're warmer than normal, But
it does show us being a weatherpattern, so probably the chance to continue
with some showers both rain and snow. Can't rule it out. It's always
the overnight temperatures at this time ofthe year where you have to be concerned

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about it changing over the snow,and then it's a question of is it
cold enough to keep it as snowand can it stick and accumulate. But
for right now, just not seeingthat in the next seven to ten days,
you know, since we're talking aboutseven to day and two week outlooks.
This question on the text line,I think is timely. What's the
farthest this text or asks that theycan trust a month long weather calendar,

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a weather forecast. Yeah, I'mguessing yeah, that they've got like a
month long forecast. How many daysahead do you feel confident that your forecast
is in the right ballpark? Maybeyou don't have the amount of snow or
the amount of rain, but howconfident are you out? Are we talking
seven days, three days, twodays? Because I use your weather app

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and I see that sometimes it canchange significantly the day before. Yeah,
Well that's that's weather period, right. Yeah, it's never a guarantee.
It's a forecast, it's a prediction. It's not a guarantee of events.
You know, generally, you knowyour confidence. And I love the fact
that you use that word because that'sa word that we use as a team

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all the time. We talk aboutas we analyze model data and stuff,
how confident are we and what we'relooking at that that's the scenario that's going
to play out. So your confidenceis strong in the you know, the
twenty four to forty eight to seventytwo hours, and the computer modeling of
today is just fantastic and the detailsyou can see, and when when you
see three and four different computer modelsturning you the same story, it's pretty

(27:22):
confident to go with that as yourforecast. Then you go to the four
and the five day still pretty high, and then six and seven has gotten
really better. And there are timeswhen I have one hundred percent confidence in
my seven day but there may betimes where my seven day forecast I'm thinking
day five. I've got some questionsabout what I'm seeing on day five,
so I've got to lower my confidencemeter there. I will tell you this,

(27:45):
when people ask me questions about longrange forecast, long range forecasting does
not give you the day to daydetails that you need. So when somebody
asks me about a seven day forecast, I say, if you're asking me
about a specific day, because you'rehave plans, I feel fairly to mostly
confident. So what I can tellyou in the next seven days will get
you what you need to know aboutwhatever your plans are seven to ten days.

(28:06):
If you're asking me specifically because you'vegot an outdoor event, I would
ask you to come back to meonce we get in on the seventh day,
and anything beyond ten days, I'mnot going to tell you anything more
than I just did. And it'sa warmer weather pattern, but I'm not
going to guarantee you on the twentyseventh of April that on Saturday that you
will go out right picnic. There'sno confidence there, and it's frustrating because
it's usually when you're trying to plansome kind of outdoor event. I've been

(28:29):
down this road before. But thenagain, you know, when we went
to Switzerland, we looked at theweather forecast, and every day for the
first week we were there was goingto be rain, rain, Raine.
It didn't rain at all. SoI was like, what are they doing
in Switzerland, Like, who's forecastingthe weather in Switzerland. They are terrible
at their job. Dave Fraser isgreat at his job. You can see
him on Fox thirty one and Ihighly recommend their Pinpoint Weather app. I

(28:52):
use it every day of my life. It is fantastic, Dave. We'll
talk to you again next week,my friend. Good to talk to Grant
too. Yeah, I look forwardhere from a rod next week. All
right, man, I'll talk toyou later. That is, Dave Fraser
will be right back. I can'tbegin to tell you how excited I am
about the firestorm of activity that hasbeen set off on the text line about

(29:15):
zippering. And people have very strongopinions about zippering. You non zipperers,
you're mad at those of us whoare zippering properly, and that's not the
way to go, Mandy. Whydoesn't Sea Dot put useful PSAs like everybody
let exactly one person in, whichis how I think of zippering or daytime
running lights aren't the same as headlightson their signs instead of or mixed in

(29:36):
with all the road rage and speedingstuff. I'd love to hear a show
with a Sea Dot rep about this. You know, we used to have
the head of Sea Dot on theshow, and then when shoshan Alou got
here, she was an abject disasteron the program compared to her predecessor,
Shalan Bott, who knew everything.Shalan knew everything about everything and now he

(29:57):
works for the Department of Transportation.But you know, she had just gotten
here. And perhaps we'll reach outand see if we can get somebody else
from seat on on just to talkabout zippering. Anyway, I do have
a lot of other stuff on theblog today, and one of the things
that I want to talk about realquickly because there's not a whole lot we
can do about it. Inflation hasbeen really persistent, and now Jerome Powell,

(30:18):
the Chair of the FED, iskind of indicated that the FED is
going to pump the brakes on anyinterest cuts for the foreseeable future. And
how does that mean the entire year. I don't know. He could do
one in the third quarter, buthe seems to be laying the groundwork for
another year without an interest cut ratetrying to tame inflation. And it's been

(30:40):
very interesting to watch as people startto wrap their heads around what they're dealing
with. Now, Oh, somebodyjust sent me a Southern Culture on the
band or a Southern Culture on theskids song dirt track date such a good
song. See if dirt track datesin our system grant anything by Southern Culture
on the skid might just say Scott'sbecause that's what you know, those of

(31:02):
us in the know, that's whatwe call them. The clear year ago
shut up still holds through to thisday anyway, But there will not be
a rate cut. And the onlyreason I bring this up is if you
are sitting on the sidelines waiting fora rate cut, whether you have to
buy a new vehicle or you arethinking about buying a house, you just
should pull the trigger now. Andfun fact, you can refi your auto

(31:25):
loan. Did you know this?You can refi your auto loan and go
ahead and roll it into a lowerinterest rate. And when that becomes available,
I just don't see interest rates takingaheader anytime soon. Just wanted to
bring that out. When we getback, we're going to talk and normally
I don't spend a lot of timetalking about NPR, but as part of
a larger conversation about media bias,I want to talk about the things that
have transpired at NPR and the stuffwe're learning about NPR because is it time

(31:51):
to defund NPR. Maybe we'll talkabout that next. I want to talk
about a story that is one ofthose stories that shouldn't be a big deal,
right this, this should not bea news story, and yet here
we are. And I feel likesince I got my first show in two
thousand and five when I interviewed BernieGoldberg about his book Bias, And if
you haven't read Bias, it's justa really well done story about how bias

(32:17):
took over at CBS News and Bernieworked there for two decades, almost three
decades before he wrote the book.But the book was not an indictment as
much as it was a plea tofix the issue right. And if you've
read it, you understand what Imean. It was not like here,
I'm ready to go Scorge shirts.Well, that pretty much ended Bernie's career
at CBS, and it did nothingto stop the further lean to the left

(32:44):
of CBS News. And I've lamentedon the show before about CBS Sunday Morning,
which has been one of my favoriteshows. I started watching CBS Sunday
Morning in college my freshman year ofcollege. I discovered CBS Sunday Morning with
a beloved Charles Carralt, who thenwe found out had a second family upon
his death, which was shocking andhorrifying. But that's okay. But CBS

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News Sunday Morning under Jane Pauley,who took over after Charles Osgood retired,
who took over from Charles Krault,has taken such a leftward lurch that it's
ruining my CBS Sunday Morning. I'mthinking about doing a carefully detailed email to
Jane Polly about this, with specificexamples, but nonetheless it will be nothing,

(33:29):
because it will be nothing coming fromme. But even when people inside
the belly of the beast of leftleaning media try to do something about it,
it is shut down, and therest of us who are standing there
going, oh, thankfully somebody istalking about the bias at some of these
outlets. We're told it's all inour head, that we're just crazy,

(33:50):
because the notion that there should besome navel gazing to find out if there
actually is bias at these news mediaoutlets is completely non existent. When they're
called on their bad behavior, Aman named ed excuse me, Yuri Berliner
worked at NPR for twenty five years, and he wrote a column for The

(34:15):
Free Press that was called I've beenat NPR for twenty five years. Here's
how we lost America's trust, Andhe talked about the fact that even though
there are people who are dedicated journalistswho take their responsibilities very very seriously,
that the overall tone and tenor ofthe NPR leadership began to demand a harder

(34:39):
and harder left wing bent. NowI have a love hate relationship with NPR.
I first of all, I thinkColorado Public Radio does a good job
here. They are out of allthe public radios that I've been exposed to
across the country. I think ColoradoPublic Radio does as good a job as

(35:00):
I've heard any public radio do.That being said, they still have a
decidedly left wing bent. And myfrustration with the entire NPR system is that
it is partially funded by taxpayer dollars, and it gives them a competitive advantage
over me here on commercial radio becausethey don't have to air commercials to pay

(35:23):
the bills like we do. Becausemy money, this is a kicker.
This is the part that really getsme. I am paying through my tax
dollars for my competition to have anunfair advantage over me. So on a
very personal level, that irritates thecrap out of me. But then when
you add in the fact that NPRhas been the national product, has become

(35:49):
to me unlistenable because of the blatanthatred for anyone who leans hard right or
even write. And still my taxpayerdollars in yours are still going to fund
National public Radio. And it's notthat I want to do away with the
concept of national public radio, becauseI do think there's value. But someone

(36:10):
has to write the ship. We'vegot to fix the issues that are that
are deeply embedded into NPR. Andnot only are they deeply embedded, they
are only going to get worse.How do I know because after jury,
Berliner wrote this column and he wentout of his way in this column in

(36:30):
the Free Press dot com FP dotcom. If you are not subscribing to
the Free Press, you are missingout on the best news coverage that's happening
today. Right now, I'm tellingyou you need to do it. It
was started by Barry Wise, formerlyof the New York Times, and is
now inhabited by all of these journalistswho said, wait a minute, the
ideology. And they're decidedly left wingjournalists, to be sure. I bet

(36:53):
they've never voted for a Republican intheir lives. But they are true journalists,
and they wanted to do true journalists, and they wanted to present both
sides of the issue. And theywere essentially told by their lord masters wherever
they were working that they would towthe left wing line completely or they know
their work would not be published.So they left and created the Free Press,
which is now the most subscribed tosubstack column. Ever. They are

(37:16):
number one, which is good news. And I fully expect Ury berlin Or
to end up at the Free Press. If not today, we'll get to
that I'm getting I'm putting the cartbefore the horse. So Uri writes this
column that he is. He goesout of his way to talk about the
fact that he works with journalists whoare very dedicated to good journalism, and

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he gives some very very clear examplesof the kind of top down left wing
pressure that is being exerted on NPR. And what did NPR do instead of
NPR coming out and saying, youknow what, this was not how we
would have wanted to have this conversation. By the way, he tried to

(37:59):
have the conversation internally and was completelyshut down or ignored. So this is
something he has tried to bring theattention of higher ups for some time and
was completely ignored. So this islike, this is his last shot,
right, this is his last shotof trying to write the ship at NPR.
So he puts out this column andNPR responds in the most NPR way

(38:22):
possible, And this is how Iguess it went. They call him into
the office and because it's NPR,they were like, or Urie, We're
gonna have to We're gonna have togo ahead and suspend you for five days
without pay because we find it untenablethat you have come out and called out

(38:42):
our flaws in public on another mediaoutlet, and you have a note in
your contract that says you are notallowed to appear on other media outlets without
permission, and we did not giveyou that permission. So I have to
suspend you four or five days withoutpay. That's how I mean, I

(39:06):
would imagine that's what it sounded likebecause it is NPR. But instead of
taking it lying down, he hasnow decided that he is going to leave,
as he announced his resignation. Hangon one second, I'd linked to
the wrong thing, and I wantto go exactly to his Twitter feed because
Fox News got one thing misspelled herethat will not work for me. One

(39:30):
moment, please while I fix myown mistake, and we'll be right back
to where we need to be,he tweeted out today. He said,
I am resigning from NPR, agreat American institution where I've worked for twenty
five years. I don't support callsto defund NPR. I respect the integrity
of my colleagues and wish for NPRto thrive and do important journalism. But

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I cannot work in a newsroom whereI am disparaged by a new CEO whose
divisive views confirm the very problems atNPR I cite in my Free press essay.
So what exactly does he mean?NPR just got a new CEO and

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she is a doozy. Her nameis let me see here her name,
I know it. I just wantto make sure I get Katherine Maher and
Kelly Maher wants you to know norelation the new CEO. Katherine Maher.
She's the daughter of wealthy parents whosewedding was announced in the New York Times.
Maher grew up in a wealthy whitesuburb of New York City before studying

(40:38):
at the American University in Cairo,the Institute Fronset de Puche Orient in Syria,
and finally New York University. Shethen got internships with a Council on
Foreign Relations and Eurasia Group in Londonand Germany before landing a job in New
York City at UNISF. She hadstops with the National Democratic Institute and the

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World Bank, among other global nonprofitgroups, before rising to become the CEO
of Wikimedia in twenty nineteen. Nowa lot of people have been mining her
Twitter feed and it is not pretty, not at all. She is a

(41:21):
vegetarian, she hates cars, Shehates white men flying on planes. Let
me get that tweet for you,because that's one of my favorite airline business
demographics. And wait here, letme get this right. Airline business demographics
are such a pet peeve of mine. In the lounge and on the plane,
usually over eighty percent male, usuallywhite. So obviously airlines are racist

(41:44):
because they only sell business class ticketsto white men. And then she clarifies
for the record, I don't usuallyfive business class, just board past it
on the way to the back ofthe bus. Yeah, okay, I
bet you don't. I bet youdon't. She clearly mentioned the lounges.
You don't get into the lounges withouthaving a business class ticket. She supports

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race based reparations, rioting the BlackLives Matter movement. She believes America is
addicted to white supremacy, and asa matter of thing, she said in
response to a different tweet, thenice thing is I'm a woman, so
vc Twitter will ignore me entirely.So America is addicted to white supremacy,

(42:29):
and that's the real issue. Sheis awful, just awful. She is
completely out of steps. She ispart of the liberal bubble that exists in
the cities of the coasts. Andshe is now the CEO of NPR.
And instead of saying, hey,you know what, does Uri have a

(42:50):
point? Does he maybe have apoint here? She suspended him for five
days and now he's quit. Thequestion that I have is why shouldn't we
defend or defund NPR. And Iknow I'm kind of speaking of the choir
on this, but I think there'svalue in having a national radio service where

(43:13):
people can get unbiased information, wherethey can hear all sides of an issue,
where they can hear deep dive reporting, which NPR, even with its
left wing bent, excels at.The thing NPR really does the best is
long form reporting, the kind ofreporting we don't have time for on our
station because we have to air commercialsto pay the bills. That's a big

(43:36):
difference. Yeah, if we didn'thave to run commercials, we'd have plenty
of time for our amazing news staffto do ten minute pieces on things that
are important. But we don't becausewe don't have taxpayer dollars that support our
programming. I realized that this wouldbe incredibly unpopul Remember the last time Republicans
tried to defund NPR, and itwas literally your killing you're killing big bird.

(44:02):
They're trying to murder big bird.That was literally the argument by the
Democrats, even though Sesame Street isone of the most profitable enterprises ever for
a nonprofit. I mean, arewe are we devoid of character items without
Sesame Street characters on them. No, we are not. You can't.

(44:24):
You can't swing a dead cat akid's area without seeing Elmo popping around a
corner telling you something, but youcan't go after it because that's all NPR
is for. That's PBS. Myapologies. When we try to defund PBS,
what would they do? We've alreadykilled Garrison Keeler, I mean his
career anyway, because he was weirdand appeared in a bathrobe around you know,

(44:47):
employees, which generally speaking great.I haven't ever appeared in front of
you in a bathrobe, have Imean, if I've ever made you uncomfortable?
Yeah? Okay, there's always time, Always time. You know that
I've gotten old when you show upand I'm just wearing a house coat and
slippers, and I'm just giving upjust wearing a house coat. You see
me in Walmart wearing a housecoat?Do people wear house coats out here?

(45:10):
Is that like a Southern thing?Definitely an Appalachia thing. Yeah, I
don't think so out here, butmaybe the text line of correct us.
Sure no. In my hometown,Like right now, right now, in
my hometown, it is three toeighteen PM. And if you go to
the Walmart, there's gonna be anold woman there in her house coat.
She'll have shoes on, maybe slipflops, but there's gonna be at least

(45:31):
one, maybe more, perhaps moreover. Compensating for European leadership from the
beginning of America is not a newthing for the left, Absolutely not,
Mandy. NPR should have been defundedof our tax dollars fifty years ago.
I don't think that they were thatbad fifty years ago. You know,

(45:54):
I knew that they've always sent inmy lifetime, they've had a left wing
bent, but they used to havemuch more representation on NPR. And I'm
not gonna lie you guys. I'velistened to NPR at every market that I've
ever been in. Not all thetime, but if there's a big story
going on, I dip in tosee what they're saying, so I can
kind of see what the other sideis doing. And now you don't hear

(46:16):
conservative voices at all in the nationalprogramming. You just don't. NPR should
have moved him to the basement,there you go, and taken his stapler.
Oh yes, this woman CEO maher. She's an awful, affluent,
white female liberal. An awful Ilike that at an acronym acronym, not

(46:39):
an acronym. That's totally different.Sounds like diversity at its best at NPR
are Yah Mandy, CBS Sunday Morningis not nearly as good as it used
to be. Largely lost me thelast few years. Jane Pauley is only
the host executive producer, as awoman named Shanna Thomas was at its best
under law long time executive producer RanMorrison. I don't know if you just

(47:02):
know that because you watch the show, But now I know who to who
to email. I you know what, guys, I'm gonna see if I
can get her on the show.I'm gonna see if I can get Seana
Thomas on the show to talk aboutthis, because two weeks ago, this
last week, the show was reallygood. There was a bunch of stories
that I really enjoyed. It wasvery, very good. Well like two
weeks ago, they had three differentstories that were just left wing either politicians

(47:28):
or political just crap, and Iwas like, wait a minute, what
about the other half of the country. Super irritating. I wrote that name
down. Thank you for that,Texter Mandy. I'm totally with you about
CBS Sunday Morning used to be myfavorite show of the week. Then along
came Jane Paully. I started likingit less and less and find myself not
even watching it anymore, which makesme very sad, as I always used

(47:51):
to love the stories I would seeon it that from Michelle. Well,
you know what I do, IDVR it, right, So I dvr
it, I get up, Iyou know, make my little breakfast or
whatever, and then at about eightthirty five I turn it on the recorded
version to see if there's anything Iwant to watch, and I just fast
forward through this stuff I don't wantto see. And there have been whole

(48:13):
shows in the last year that Ijust were like, I don't watch any
of that. This person said,for every thousand right wing talk stations in
the United States, there are fivestations where you hear any other opinions.
I really can't believe that you're gangingup on NPR. NPR has far more
stations than there are conservative talk stations. I mean, I'm not blowing smoke
here, I'm telling you the truth. There are public radio stations across the

(48:37):
nation in markets that we don't evenhave a footprint. And the fact of
the matter is it's not so muchabout this text actually makes my point perfectly.
This this station. We're not sittinghere talking about we're going to be
all things to everybody, because everytaxpayer has to pay into our coffers.

(48:59):
We're an entire we're a voluntary relationship. Right. If you like this show,
if you like what I do,you can listen every day, and
if you really love the show,you can use my advertisers and tell them
that you're using them because I sentyou. That's how our relationship works with
NPR. You can listen or not, but your tax dollars are going to
go there anyway, regardless of howyou feel about their programming or how they

(49:22):
feel about your ideology. So it'sa false comparison to compare those two things.
It's not about how many right wingstations versus how many left wing stations,
because if that were the case,we'd have to take every news media
station off television except Fox News andone other news media outlet if we're playing
you know, even Stevens. Butthat's not how it works, is it.

(49:45):
So there you go, there yougo. Uh, guys, when
you text me something that just says, huh, I don't know what you're
talking about. So that's a uselesstext message. Now we're not going to
talk about this much more. ButI fully expect Ury berlin Or to end
up at the Free Press, becauseuh yeah, he wants to work for

(50:07):
people who are not going to tellhim that he has to maintain and tow
an ideological line. And that iswhat every journalist should strive for. And
as much as people think that talkshow hosts get told, at least the
talk show hosts that I hurt media, I can't speak for other media companies
because I know other media companies.I have friends that have had other experiences

(50:30):
like this, but we are nevertold what to say or what not to
say, or who to talk aboutor not to talk about. In my
entire career, I have never hadthat experience, except one time when I
talked about an advertiser in an unflatteringway. But they deserved it, and
I'm not sorry, not sorry atall. Okay, guys, we're going

(50:52):
to do this right now. We'vegot two tickets to see America, the
long running rock band. They areperforming August seventeenth at the Paramount Theater.
You can buy tickets if you don'twin them. But today's trivia question,
what was their first number one hit? Don't overthink it. Just hit the
text line and the third person toget the right number, the right name.

(51:15):
Wendesday's tickets five six six nine.Oh is the text line. Do
it now and we'll be back rightafter this. I want to kind of
continue on the media, my criticismsof the media right now, coming off
that conversation about NPR, because thisstory is incredibly frustrating and I don't know
how to fix it. Because Iwant I want a thriving media. I

(51:39):
want thriving newspapers. I want thrivingjournalism, but I need it to not
be so skewed. And what we'reseeing now out of Chicago is is baffling
to me. I'll share the storywith you. So recently, you might
have seen a headline like the onein USA Today. USA Today had a

(52:06):
headline that said seatbelt check cops firedninety six shots at motorists, killing him.
Yeah, the Washington Post started theirarticle that said police fire ninety six
shots in forty one seconds, killingblack man during traffic stop. That was
the headline in the Washington Post.Now, if you saw that, you

(52:28):
would think that this poor African Americanman was just minding his own beeswax driving
down the road, maybe he wasspeeding, maybe had a blinker ount and
they pull him over, and thecops just opened fire and unloaded on him
and killed him. Now, ifyou actually read the stories way way way,
way way down, and I meanway way, way way down,

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they mentioned the fact that this guywas a criminal who had a firearm illegally
and that he shot at cops first, wounding a police officer before they fired
back and killed him. The WashingtonPost took eight paragraphs to get to that

(53:10):
little fact. Now, let meask you this question. If this were
a white man who had fired atpolice after a traffic stop, you know,
wounding one of them, and thenthey fired back and killed him,
do you think this would even bea news story. No, And in
all honesty, this should be ashort news story mentioning that a career criminal

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who was possession he was in possessionof an illegal, illegally owned firearm,
and he fired at police officers andthey fired back and killed him. That
should be the entire story. Rightthere. Reid had a gun. His
name is Dexter Reid, by theway. By the way, police bodycam
video backs up all of this.Even the Chicago Office of Police Accountability,

(53:52):
which is notoriously anti cop, hadto agree that Dexter Reid unprovoked a police
First, Dexter Reid had a gunhe didn't have a permit to carry.
According to the video, he woundedone officer at the beginning of his spree
and Reid was killed. If Reidhad been a better shot, a Chicago
police officer would be dead. Andlo and behold, he too is black.

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But this story's being framed in Chicagoas the next coming of George Floyd,
who we know also was a criminal, who we know that was got
into an altercation with police because theywere called to the house because of a
domestic violence call, and George Floydwas lionized. Oh my gosh, George
Floyd, he was the next comingof Christ. If you look at the

(54:38):
news media coverage and this is thesame thing. Why do they do this?
Do they want riots to cover?Are they so invested in getting eyeballs
on their product that they have tocreate news that is negative and scary and
horrible in order to get them.I'm truly confused by this. According to
the leftist local public television station WTTW, the lawyer for the Reed family,

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Andrew M. Stroth described the finalshots as a quote military style execution.
He claimed the plane clothes officers neverannounced they were police. He insisted they
initiated an unconstitutional traffic stop before theshooting. He says, how many more
black and brown young men have todie before this city will change? I

(55:30):
mean, you guys, what arewe doing. Why are we trying to
just stoke even more negative racial tensionsso we can have more riots. Maybe
we can have another summer of peopleburning things down and people being killed during
the riots. People forget, theyreally really ignore the fact that during the

(55:50):
Summer of Love as they called it. I mean, ironically, let me
make sure I have the number howmany people people die during the Summer of
Love riots. Summer of Love riotsis funny, okay, guys. Forty
three people died in the summer riotsthat happen forty three people. Thirty three

(56:17):
of those people killed were black people. And yet we have news organizations that
are trying to gin up the samekind of outrage and hatred that led to
the deaths of those people. Ireally don't understand it. You know,

(56:37):
we were told back in two thousandand eight that the election of Barack Obama
as president was was an era,a new era in race relations in the
United States of America. And Iknow I'm white. I get it,
I am white. I can't speakto the lived experience of black people in
this country, and I would neverpretend to. But even the black friends
that I communicate with about these sortsof things have expressed to me that everything

(57:04):
is so much worse now than itwas before. And I'm truly confused as
to why the people who ran aroundtalking about defund the police don't want to
talk about the fact that the peoplethat are disproportionately affected negatively by efforts to
make sure that there were not anymore police officers being hired or to take

(57:27):
police officers off the street are peoplewho live in dangerous neighborhoods, and many
of them, most of them areminorities. It's awful, and these news
organizations should be ashamed of themselves.How do you write that headline and not
know it's going to be inflammatory andincendiary? Of course they know it's going
to be, which is precisely whythey wrote it. Very very frustrating turn

(57:50):
of events. So if you seestuff like that, don't be so quick
to think or you know, withoutreading the story, because you know what
happens. They put out that newsstory on two and a bunch of people
see that headline and they don't evenread the story. They're just gonna retweet
it, retweet it makes some comment. This has got to stop, like
men are being hunted when in realityit's a much different story being told.

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And the Washington Post, especially,man a, what a hot piece of
garbage that once great newspaper. Nowis I subscribe to the Washington Post for
I don't even know how many years. At about two years ago, I
canceled my membership or my subscription,and you know what, I've missed nothing,
absolutely nothing, And that is sad. They used to be must read.

(58:36):
If you wanted to do anything thatwas happening in DC or politically,
you had to go to the WashingtonPost. And now it's like, why
would you go there? Why wouldyou waste the time on a paper that
is clearly a dying animal trying desperatelyto remain relevant by throwing out clickbait whenever
they can. So there you go, that is what's happening there. Okay,

(58:59):
when we back, I've got astory. This is so cool.
You know, we talk a lotabout how artificial intelligence is going to murder
us. I have a video onthe blog today by the way of Boston
Dynamics new Atlas robot. Did youlook at this on the blog today?
Arod? I need you to lookat the new Atlas robot from Boston Dynamics
near the bottom of the blog.Just watch this video and tell me if

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anything popped into your mind after youwatch it. We'll do that next.
So did you did you watch theBoston Dynamics robot video Grant Grant's in for
a rod today? Yes, I'mofficially creeped out. Okay, but what
did it remind you of anything?Specifically? Specifically, it reminded me of
the I Robot movie with Will Smith. Okay, I just watched the work

(59:45):
last night, and there's a scenewhen that robot that's sent down by Lokis
come down to kill him, theone that breathes fire out of its face.
Yeah, and the chick stabs itin the back and then it literally
turns around while it's stabbed in theback and turns it self around to face
her. Well, like, likethat's what this reminds me of joints completely

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all the way around, not terrifyingat all. Now imagine this though,
because it has a blank flat screenlike almost a porthole or its space should
be. Now imagine if it hadlike your grandma's space. I know,
does that make it less scary ormore scary? I think more scary because
I guess it depends on your grandma. Yeah, well both of my grandma

(01:00:30):
is very sweet ladies. But uh, I think it would be creepier if
they could use that technology to portraysomeone that you do feel comfortable with.
I think that's where we're going.Yeah, that's creepy. I'm actually but
I'm actually weirdly okay with this becausethis gets me one step closer to my
robot made. Okay, they mightbe robots made, I mean good.

(01:00:52):
I don't know. It's just Ithink for people to be comfortable with having
a robot in your house, itcannot have abilities that real humans don't have,
like reversing its body position without actuallyreversing its body, turning its head
all the way around, and it'slegs that when it gets out. So

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I'm telling you, guys, yougot to go watch this video on the
block. So what's the reason forthe face looking like it does the portal
that it I don't know, butI'm guessing they're going to have some kind
of projection there. It's going tobe a screen of some sort because ultimately,
before people will accept robots like this, okay, because honestly, for
me, like I'm looking at theupside, yes, they're going to be

(01:01:35):
our robot overlords and we're all goingto die. But before that, I
see this being incredibly beneficial in workingwith elderly people because right now it's very
difficult to find staff to work innursing homes and things of that nature,
and it would be wonderful to havepersonable Imagine being a ninety year old person
in a nursing home right now,okay, and in walks this robot with

(01:01:59):
a friendly face projected on its screen, that you could talk about the music
of your era, you could talkabout the sports that you went to when
you were a kid, because theyhave all of that stuff in their memory
banks. It could go a longway towards easing loneliness. So I think
they have to humanize these robots orpeople are not going to want some I
mean you saw the first version oftheir dog with no head. Yeah,

(01:02:21):
creepy ass looking robot dog with nohead. That's just gross. We have
to make it look more familiar beforepeople will accept it. Have you ever
seen Westworld? No? Oh?Okay, so I tried to watch one
episode, but it just did notstick. Not to spoil anything, but
I just it just makes me wonderhow long until they find a way to
put like human skin, like somesort of fake human skin over a body

(01:02:44):
to make it look just like ahuman that's a robot underneath. Well,
I mean, not for nothing,but that's already happening with sex dolls,
that's true. I mean, ifyou want to know where the real innovation
is coming from in this area,it's coming from the sex all industry.
As soon as Boston Dynamics pairs upwith the sex doll industry, it's over.
It's over for us regularly. There'sno point. We're never gonna have

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normal relationships again. It's going tobe horrible. The entire human race is
going to die out, and we'reall going to be happy about it.
We'll all have spouses that agree witheverything we say, unless we don't want
them to spouses that we say,hey, you want to go eat a
Thai food tonight, They're always goingto go, yeah, sounds good.
I'm not going to say I'm notreally no. I mean, wait,

(01:03:28):
let me ask you, do youwant Olivia? Now that you're married.
Does this happen to you? Itgoes like this, Hey, what do
you want to do for dinnernet Idon't know? What about Mexican? Nah?
Not feeling Mexican, And the sameperson and the couples like, what
about Chinese? What about taie food? How about you know, chicken?
Whatever? And you list like athousand things, like you're the server at
a restaurant that never ends. Yeah, and you know that your significant other

(01:03:50):
likes those restaurants that you're suggesting,and they still don't want to go to
them. But eventually you just getto the point where you're like, okay,
you want to go. Yeah,everyone's going to start. Everyone will
starve from this point on. AlthoughI did see a very clever TikTok video
where the guy said to his wife, Hey, guess where we're going tonight
for dinner and she said, Idon't know, tacos and he was like,

(01:04:11):
yes, I have used that trickbefore really did it work? Yes,
hopefully she's not listening right now.No one knows what we're talking about.
When we get back, we gotto talk about everything else. Columbia
University, I have I have somehelp for you with some rowdy students.
I'll explain when we get back.The people who are protesting to support AMOS
are not the smartest people ever,but sometimes they well they play smart people.

(01:04:39):
And I want to bring you twothings that are happening right now.
Number One, at Columbia University inNew York City, an elite university in
Ivy League school. This morning,at four am, they set up camp
on the lawn at Columbia, andthey set up a gaza solidarity in camp,

(01:05:00):
and they are demanding that Columbia Universitydivest from Israel. Okay, so
here's what's happened since four am.They set up all these tents. They
have a main tent in the centerand they have they're demanding that Columbia and
all business with Israel. They havesent in multiple administrators, they have urged

(01:05:21):
them listen to this. Reps fromat Barnard College entered the lawn at Columbia,
where hundreds of students have gathered fora Gaza solidarity encampment calling on the
university to divest from Israel. Adminstell students to talk to them to avoid
disciplinary action. Students laugh and chanthell no. It goes on from there.

(01:05:45):
Campus police early on Hubbardon took photosbut didn't engage. That seems to
be continuing. It's now entered itsfifth hour. Public safety entered the Gaza
solidarity encampment and they gave notices todisperse for engaging in disruption. Students responded
by singing all you fascists, boundto lose, and gaining a large support

(01:06:09):
crowd outside the now barricaded lawn.Public safety are at the entrances and they
are not letting anybody in or out. Speaker notes that they were told to
evacuate the lawn by eleven am.It's now after that no one has left
or been removed. And when CassHalloway, the Columbia COO who demonstrators say

(01:06:29):
forced investigatory hearings and the evictions offive pro Palestinian students, was spotted by
a Sundial, hundreds of students turnedto him chanting, shame on you.
They are eight hours in now Iwould like to take you to the California
office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Currion. It is now being inhabited by Google

(01:06:50):
employees with signs that say Googlers againstgenocide or no more genocide for profit.
Guess what they're talking about? Youknow, I know, we all know.
They're twitch live streaming their protest andthey can be seen dotting the headgear

(01:07:10):
of hamas and sitting on the floorin the CEO's office on the tenth floor
of the New York City Google office, where a simultaneous anti Israel rally took
place. Employees carried anti Israel signsand shouted chants asking the CEO how many
kids did you kill today? Now, I'm going to tell Columbia and Google

(01:07:32):
how to handle this. In Colombia, you print out letters explaining that you
have thirty minutes to leave this lawnor you are no longer a student at
Columbia University and you are trespassing andwill be arrested. That solves that problem.
At Google, you walk around andlook at people in the face and
say you're fired, you fied,you fired, you fired, you fired,

(01:07:56):
you fired, and problem solved.The workplace is no place to stage
a political protest, unless, ofcourse, you work in government. Current
commander in chief can be something ofa fabuloust. That's a nice way of
saying liar. And he regularly makesup stuff about his past and his background
and all of this stuff in orderto make himself seem more folksy and you

(01:08:19):
know, relatable. But I'm curiousabout this latest statement by Joe Biden.
He has now implied twice that hisuncle, Ambrose Finnegan, who was a
Navy pilot in World War Two,He's now implied that Ambrose Finnegan was eaten

(01:08:43):
by cannibals in New Guinea after hisplane went down. Now, military records
clearly show that the plane went downover the open ocean, and that after
the play went down, three crewmembers escaped, one did not. Wait,
one crewmember escaped, three did not, and the plane was never found

(01:09:09):
because it sank and it was overthe open ocean. But for some reason,
Joe Biden told reporters before boarding AirForce One, as he departed Scranton,
Pennsylvania, he got shot down inan area where there were a lot
of cannibals at the time. Theynever recovered his body, but the government
went back when I went down there, and they checked and found some parts
of the plane. He later toldunion steel workers he got shot down in

(01:09:32):
New Guinea and they never found thebody because there used to be there were
a lot of cannibals for real inthat part of New Guinea. Unfortunately,
there's no record of him quote goingdown to New Guinea, and there's no
record of his uncle's plane being shot. But at what who is he trying

(01:09:53):
to connect with? I mean,do we have a big cannibal vote in
the United States on this one?No, his other folksy stories where he's
told talking to Puerto Rican people andhe's like, I was raised in the
Puerto Rican community, or he's talkingto black I was raised in the black
community, or at Greeks, Iwas raised in there. I mean,
he just makes stuff up in orderto make himself seem more likable, right,
That's why people do that. Whenpeople make up crap like that,

(01:10:15):
it's so people will think they're morelikable. And but this one, I'm
genuinely confused about. If anybody hasany ideas on who Biden's trying to connect
with on this one, let meknow, because I this is a stumper
no clue on this one. Iwant to talk for a second about concerts.

(01:10:36):
You know, in Colorado we loveour concerts. We are regularly the
what's that I'm trying to think ofthe right way to say the statistic per
capita. We attend more live performancesin the Denver metro than any other city

(01:10:56):
in the country. We go tomore concerts, we go to more live
theater. We love our live performances. And I'm sure many of you have
had the frustration of having to buytickets from ticket Master, where even if
the ticket itself is reasonably priced,which is getting harder and harder to find,
even if the ticket itself is reasonablypriced, you got to pay all

(01:11:18):
of those stupid fees. Well,the Department of Justice is very close to
suing Live Nation. Live Nation ownsticket Master. They are the largest promoter
of concerts in the country. Andmy issue with Live Nation is mostly that

(01:11:39):
they demand exclusive exclusivity for a lotof venues. So if you want Live
Nation to bring their shows, andthey have every artist because they're the biggest,
if you want, and I'm gonnause Ballerina as an example, but
I do this is not what ishappening at Ballerina. I do not know
this to be true at Ballerina.I want to be clear about that,
but it would be like Ballerina signa contract with Live Nation, and Live

(01:12:01):
Nation is bringing concerts to Ballerina.But then Bob's concert promoting comes to Ballerina
and says, hey, we wantto bring this concert here, and Ballerina
is like, sorry, we onlytake concerts from Live Nation. So they've
created a monopoly on venues. Theythen used tactics to force those venues to
only sell tickets through ticket Master,which is their subsidiary. And I like

(01:12:26):
that. And going to a concertis prohibitively expensive for many, many,
many people. And you know,I'm lucky when you work in radio.
One of the big benefits of workingin radio is we get a lot of
concert tickets. And you know,for the most part, the concerts that
I want to see are not themost popular concerts, so I don't have
to pay for tickets. But I'min the situation now. Olivia Rodrigo is

(01:12:50):
coming this summer. I love OliviaRodrigo. My daughter loves Olivia Rodrigo,
So you better bet we're going togo to this show, and these tickets
are hundreds of dollars. Holy crap, Holy crap. So you know,
I'm never for the Department of Justice. I do think that the Department of

(01:13:14):
Justice goes after stuff that is reallystupid and nonsensical. But when going to
a concert is impossible because it isso expensive that a family can't afford it
because of these fees, because ofthe fact that nobody else can bring a
concert in and no other promoter canget their foot in the door, because
a live nation has locked this upso tight. It's frustrating, and I

(01:13:35):
feel your pain. Okay. Alot of you on the text line are
commenting on the fact that perhaps JoeBiden still thinks there's a huge fan base
for Fine Young Cannibals. I've forgottenall about them. You drive me crazy
and all that. I have afriend who looks just like the lead singer
of the Fine Young Cannibals still tothis day, I bet they look the

(01:13:56):
same, Mandy. He's trying toconnect with the illegal Haitian groups that are
working their way into America. Someof the gangs that are in control there
at the moment are Cannibals. Butit's just because they're starving, not because
it's their favorite meal, just throwingthat out there. Maybe the D behind
his name stands for the Donner Party, says this Texter. He just wants
to show that his family has ahistory of feeding the hungry. Well done,

(01:14:24):
well done, now this person,Mandy. Tickets to see America at
the Paramount are one hundred bucks.Okay, then twenty five dollars in fees.
That's a quarter of the price ontop of it. And I have
to download an app and get theticket on my phone. And that's the
kicker, right, We're not evengetting real tickets anymore. Back in the
day when you had to camp outoutside a record store to get your little

(01:14:46):
machine printed tickets. That kind ofsucks. So, because I mean Gramston
for Arod today, your other boss, Brad White, he has a h
canvas, a large canvas that hehas glued all of his concert tickets too.
I had one of those in myoffice too. But you don't do

(01:15:08):
it anymore. There's no tickets anymore. What are you printing out something?
And no, it's dwindling now Iknow. I did hit one last year.
I went and saw the thane ratelift and then night sweats at Red
Rocks, and we did have somepaper tickets for that, So that's my
only one in the past five years. That's the paper tickets too. They
suck. They're not like cool likethe old concert tickets. Well, yeah,

(01:15:31):
those tickets where souvenirs says this textare exactly. Ooh, this is
interesting, Mandy. When George H. W. Bush was shot down in
World War Two, he crashed nearan island inhabited by cannibals. At least
one of his crew members was beheadedand eaten. It sounds like Biden is
plagiarizing stories again, you are correct, oh, and bringing it full circle,
didn't We call that scalping Back inthe day. Scalping was when you

(01:15:54):
buy them on the quote secondary marketthe ticket master and I actually think this
is a genius business move by Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster realized they were only getting one
bite at the apple by allowing scalpersto buy the tickets and then they sold
them somewhere else. So Ticketmaster waslike, how can we make more money
by helping scalpers out? And thenthis secondary market was created and Ticketmaster is

(01:16:16):
getting fees, they're double dipping onthe fees and that's just wrong, anddy
I get the whole monopoly thing,but the market has to eat those prices.
Those shows are always sold out.They are always sold out, at
least in Denver. I have friendswho flew from Denver to Dallas because they
could get Taylor Swift tickets at areasonable price. They could not get them

(01:16:40):
at a reasonable price here because welove concerts. What was the last time
you paid for a concert, Grant? I think Old Dominion at Red Rocks.
I think four years ago, maybefive years ago. And then I
got tickets from work up selling mine. I paid for tickets to see Fresh

(01:17:02):
Beeat Band with the Queue when shewas like nine. That was the last
time. That was the last time, and they were not cheap. I
was just talking about this on thepodcast the other day, taking it for
granted podcast My bad. It waskids Pop. I love him, miss
kids Bop in my car I lovedAnd if you don't know what kids pop

(01:17:23):
is kids bop. They take popularsongs, they strip out all the bad
language and the sexual innu I know, and then they make a new song
out of it and they're sung bykids. And I for one, I
love kids pop and someday when youhave kids and you don't want your two
year old singing nasty lyrics, youtoo will love kids bop. But I
do have this rule where I don'tI will not pay for tickets anymore.

(01:17:45):
Like I'll have friends text me andhey, you want to go to this
show. Uh, let me seeif we have any tickets at the station.
Before I decide I'm going to go, I'm gonna have to buy Olivia
Rodrigo. I've already been told byJen and she's like, Nope, they're
not giving us anything. Yeah,that was like Taylor Swift. I had
some friends asked for tickets to thatand I was like, I can't even
get tickets to that? How areI'm not gonna be able to get to
you? So now Ian, I'mgonna have to pony up for those.
But I you know what where it'sme and Chuck and Q because now Chuck

(01:18:09):
likes Olivery Rodrigo too. It's amazingwhat you hear when you have a fourteen
year old. I can't picture ofBig Chuck staking along to Olivia Rodrigo.
Oh oh, her songs are sogood. I love her, no doubt.
Just got back to Yeah Coachella That'sone of those things that even if
I was young, I don't thinkI would want to go. No,

(01:18:30):
I don't think so either. That'slike, that's one of those places where
I immediately know I would go andeveryone would be way cooler than me,
and I don't want to do that. Or they act like they're way cooler,
and that's even worse. I've neverbeen good at acting like I was
cooler than I am. I mean, I'm you know, I'm You're cool
enough. I have a certain levelof coolness that's inherent, but not a
lot, you know, and everybodyhas that friend who just drips cool no

(01:18:55):
matter what they're doing, right.They could be like, you know,
your tube in or two been downthe river in Florida and they're just doing
it cooler than everybody else. Iwas never that person me either. Somebody
once said to me in my twenties, I just wish I could be as
cool as you, and I was. I literally did one of these grant.
I was like, like looking behindme to see who they were talking
about. What are about right now? I was like, I've fooled you.

(01:19:19):
That's that's crazy, that's absolutely crazy. Technology has done the exact opposite
of what was intended, made everythingmore expensive and complicated, a that that
is exactly right, exactly right.Mostly liberals at Coachella and people that are

(01:19:40):
are cooler than I am, that'sfor sure. That seems to be like
the famous People festival. Well,now I read I read just this past
a couple of days ago. GrandCoachella has lost its shine because now a
bunch of normies show up and they'rejust a bunch of influencers who change outfits
six times at Coachella, so theycontent for the rest of the year.
And it's just a bunch of peoplecoming with sponsorships, and it's just not

(01:20:04):
organically cool anymore. It's not I'veheard the same thing about Bonnaroo. Never
been to it either, though.Okay, so back in the day,
I'll say the glory days of festivals. I went to the first lallapaloozatur and
that was amazing because it was allthese completely different bands, like you saw
nine Inch Nails and then it wasIced Tea right right like right after it,

(01:20:26):
and it was just the best crowdand the most fun. And then
when I found out they were bringingit back later, I was like,
it's not going to be as good. But that is the best part about
music festivals is that you can seea wide range of different types of music
all in one setting. Yes,yes, or unless you go to like
hippie music festivals like Bonnaroo is ahippie music festival. I find it interesting

(01:20:46):
that Frontier Days at Cheyenne is nowthey've got jelly Rolls come in. I
was there a couple of years ago. Yeah, and I mean they've really
broadened the appeal of who is atthat concert lineup. I think that's really
well done. Yeah, I thinkthat's a smart move by them, A
very smart dude. Kids bop tries, but they screwed the pooch with their

(01:21:09):
version of uptown funk. How areyou gonna choose one song? They have
like eighty kids off albums. I'mtelling if you have little kids, kids
pop is the best. I findit disconcerting now when my daughter plays the
song for me that guy does everysong now I have the F word in
it? Wait, let me saythat in the right voice. Does every
song now have the effort in it? Crap? These Yeah, the singers

(01:21:31):
say just curse all the time,and they don't need to do that.
It's lazy language, you know,and that's songs that they don't even need
to be in all exactly. It'sgratuitous. Yeah, it is a gratuitous
F bomb. That is when Ihear all the time and I just want
to call up these young singers andjust go, you don't have to do
that. You are better than that. Even Nolah Khan, who's like the

(01:21:56):
most soft, subtle type of music, has some F bombs and songs.
This is why I like nf youknow, this is why I like these
these young like non there's a fewnon cursing people. By the way,
there's been seventy four Kids BOP's albumsrelease since two thousand and one. I
wasn't kidding when I said there's likeeight. We personally owned probably fifteen of

(01:22:19):
them at least at least if notmore. And that was the big thing
that was When Q was little,she would see a new kids pop at
the story and it would be likeplease please. That was the thing she
begged for, was the kids pops. See, I used to always beg
for those. Now that's what Icall music. Albums were awesome, yeah,

(01:22:39):
so good, but they were theactual songs I mean they were basically
they were basically a mixtape. Rightof the songs you loved. No Kids
Bop does not cover Nicki Minaj's wopThank You there were the song would just
be blank? I think, isit? I thought it was Nicki Minaj,
megane Stallion? Is it's two it'sMegan thee Stallion and somebody hang on,

(01:23:01):
let me see here. That isCardi B featuring Megan thee Stallion.
So didn't want to get that.And if you don't know what that song
is about, wow, we're notgonna We're not gonna talk about it on
the radio. I can assure youbecause I enjoy my access to an FCC
license very much. So Mandy JazzFestin New Orleans is still great and the

(01:23:23):
afterclub shows all night. This isso funny because one of my coworkers,
one of our salespeople, Melissa,is looking for information. I said,
have you ever been to Jazz Best? She goes, no, I've never
been to New Orleans. Jazz Bestis the best time to go to New
Orleans. The weather is still goodand you can listen to the most incredible
live music from nine o'clock in themorning until four o'clock in the morning NonStop

(01:23:46):
on Bourbon Street. And it's minusall of the discussing drunk people vomiting on
your shoes that you get at MartyGrass. See that's why I don't want
to go to Marty Gral. Really, I think I'm agent out. You
do it once. But here's mypro tip for Mardi Gras. Take a
pair of shoes that are your MardiGrass shoes and throw them away before you
leave New Orleans because they will smelllike vomit and urine and you cannot ever

(01:24:12):
get the smell out. So justtake your Mardi Grass shoes and then before
don't even pack them, just leavethem, throw them in the garbage before
you leave New Orleans and you're good. There you go. Pro tip for
Mardi Gras. Have you ever beento Marti Gras? Ryan Edwards? I
wait, wait, hang on,we gotta get you some volume. Oh
there's you know it's Grant's first dayon the board. Yeah no, I
I I've been. I've been toNew Orleans, but I've never been there

(01:24:32):
for Mardi Grass. So you've agedout for sure. Yeah, yeah,
you're too old. Grant's like onthe you're on the cusp the couple he
passes for you, I see.I think. Once I get the gray
and the beard, that's when Ifeel like, now I just start to
refer to you as the distinguished Ryan. Well, you're gonna be old after
this game, because now it's timefor the most exciting segment all the radio

(01:24:56):
of its kind. Wo nice ofthe day? All right? What is
I'm dang it? I lost myOh here it is again. Ross gave
me a pen too. Now whatis our dad joke of the day?
Please? This is a Wall Streetdad joke. Okay. I was very
lonely, so I bought some shares. It's nice to have a bit of

(01:25:18):
company. Yeah, we we actuallyjust did that one. Yeah he did
it yesterday. Turn the music down. Just dismage there. What is our
word of the day please, wordof the day, and we'll try not
to butcher it. Okay. Circumlocution. Circumlocution isn't that when you go all

(01:25:39):
the way around a globe or somethingthat does circumnavigate? I believe. Okay,
circumlocution you gotta be something with ayou talk in circles circumly, so
use using too many words to saysomething that could be said, are clearly
and directly nice worker down. Yeah, there we go. What is a
group of penguins? That's horrible?Oh, I know, seriously, I'm

(01:26:02):
gonna call it a wattle. That'swhat I would know. It's a great
guest. I think that's right.Oh it is. Oh my god.
How a group of things on landis called a wattle or a colony or
rookery if it's a group of breedingpenguins. A group of things on the
water is called a raft of penguins. Well, that's adorable. That is
adorable. I must have learned thatfrom one of my daughter's books and just

(01:26:24):
storted away just for this moment.Did you have the as for with all
the animal groupings? Yes, yes, yes, yes, that's probably where
I got that. All right,what is our Jeopardy category? Please?
Jeopardy category for today? Trying tohelp out the one and only Ryan Edwards.
Oh god, number one picks inthe NFL draft. Oh my gosh,

(01:26:45):
this will suck if I'm terrible atit. All right, go ahead?
First one nineteen ninety eight, PeytonManning. Wait a minute, what
I said, Mandy? First?Mandy, who are the Indianapolis Colts?
Correct? Okay, Yeah, that'sone. Okay, now I know what
we're doing. Yeah. Nineteen seventyTerry Bradshaw, Ryan, Oh, dang
it with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Allhang on, I got to walk now,

(01:27:11):
I'll go ahead, all right,next one. Two thousand and one
Michael Vick, Ryan, what arethe a lot of Falcons? Correct?
All right? Two thousand and nineMatthew Stafan or Detroit Lions. I got
one this work. I was tryingto trying to give Ryan some coffidence.

(01:27:32):
Nineteen seventy four, Ed too TallJones, Oh my god, Manny,
who are the Green Bay Packers?And correct? I have no idea?
Zero? There we go. Ishould know. You should know. It
was thousand men right now screaming intheir cars as well. They should I'm
blanketed. You're a journalist. Thereyou go? Okay, of course,

(01:27:54):
Well that was a really easy categoryfor our guests. Grant, well done.
To help the person I work withevery day. Yeah, check to
the mail brother, I see howthat works. Not the person who gave
you your start, Not that person, yeah, not that person, Not
the person who encouraged you to startyour wildly successful podcast. Not that person.

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Go over out. It's fine,how many times have you won the
tiebreaker? I goes to the runner, it goes to you, the host
of the show. Throw that out, just letting you know what's coming up
on ko Sports, A super abbreviatedshow, only thirty minutes because we got
it's already. But we're talking aboutthe Nuggets Lakers, all right, Round
two of that. So very excitedabout it. All right, that's coming

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up next. Keep it right hereon KOA