04-18-24 FULL SHOW - Denver Is Falling Into the Second Ring of Hell

Episode Transcript

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You know what it is. It'sthe dock and gloomy weather outside. It's

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a dock and gloomy day in Denver. And if you can croll back into
bed and pull the covezobe ahead,I highly recommend it. I'm here for
the next three hours. Mandy Connelljoined today by Jeff in for a Rod.
A Rod will be back in afew days and Jeff is going to
do just Jeff is going to doa bang up job on the show.

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Trust me on this because I putthe fear of God into him. I
was like any mistakes and in deathbecause it's a dock and gloomy day and
that's how I'm feeling. No,I'm just kidding. Let's do the blog
though, because today's one of thosedays. I got a lot of different
stuff on my plate. I alsohave some stuff that I saw since I
did the blog. So now it'sgonna be a crazy show. So you

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can kind of follow along with thebouncing ball. If you go to mandy'sblog
dot com, that is going totake you to Kiowa's page for me.
Look for the headline that says,for eighteen twenty four blog Denver is falling
into the second Ring of Hell.Click on that and here are the headlines
you will find within. I doyou do with the office half of American
all with ships and clipments of saythat's going to press plant today on the

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blog and event to help veterans.Denver Public Schools is defending its stifling a
free speech. Homeless shelters bring troublewherever they are. Denver arrests people for
violating the camping pan when buying ahotel for homeless people makes people homeless?
The facts about police shootings Coach Primesays, no way you tail kids where
to play. What's killing patriotism inthe US? First NPR and now CBS

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News? Has anyone done this ontheir yard? Piser lies to us again.
The ACOU makes criticizing a black personracist. Israel says they will strike
back. Red Lobster is headed tochapter eleven. Biden's staff calls Trump hitler,
pig scrolling, scrolling, women shockedthat whole foods is expensive? Can

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ozebic change your whole person? Twominute drill? Three Colorader breweries are in
the top fifty nationwide. Denver isstarring and Love is Blind. Havana Street
is noticed for its culinary diversity,can't sleep, could be your diet?
Oj is back a Rod winsor edancecontest, scrolling, how will this reporter

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be allowed to ask questions going forward? And are you in one of the
unhappiest jobs in the world. Thoseare the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog
dot com. And as you cansee, we've got a little of this
and a little of that. ButI'm going to start right out of the
chute with something that's not on theblog, but it's an update from yesterday.
So yesterday during the show, twothings happened. One, a bunch

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of students at Columbia University in NewYork set up a free gaza camp in
the middle of Columbia's campus. Theytook over one of the major green areas
and they set up tents and theyyelled death to America. Well I don't
know if they yelled that. Theyprobably did. They yelled from Palestine,
what is it? From the riverto the sea, Palestine will be free,

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which is an encouragement to slaughter allthe Jews that are currently living there.
And today, good news, policeis now detaining those protesters. This
also, we have news about anotherprotest that took place yesterday in New York
and California. This one launched byGoogle employees. They took over the offices

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in Sunnyvale, California, and alsoNew York City. And Google just was
like, oh, yeah, youwant to protest, Okay, you have
plenty of time now because you're fired. You fied, you fired, You're
all fired. And they fired everybody, and they arrested some of the people
that would not leave after they werefired. And I'm like, you know
what, Google, I've never foundyou as attractive as I find you right

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now. And good for Columbia.It's time to stop allowing people who want
to hear. Don't get me wrong, like the right to protest, the
right to gather, the right tovent your spleen, the right to be
heard is such an important part ofour constitution. But it doesn't mean you
get to disrupt other people's things inthe process. And I've got to tell

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you, we're in the process rightnow of trying to trying to make it
so a Rod and I can goto the RNC and the DNC this year.
I've always wanted to go to apolitical convention. We're looking for a
sponsor if your business wants to sponsorthis for us, We're going to have
people sponsor both so you can't beaccused biased by any potential customers. But
we're looking for sponsors right now becauseI really want to go to the Republican

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National Convention in Milwaukee and the DemocraticNational Convention in Chicago, because I mean,
how often do you get to goto a political convention, first of
all, and second of all,I think it's just this particular election cycle
especially. I want to go andsee these are going to be the most
enthusiastic parts of the party, andI want to talk to them both parties

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and find out why they're so enthusiastic. I really want to do this,
so again, can first sponsor.If you need more information, just email
me or hit the text line fivesix sixth nine out. That being said,
there is already a concerted effort todisrupt the Democratic National Committee or convention
in Chicago. I find this incrediblyironic, and it's all coming from the

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pro Hamas wing of the Democratic Party. They started calling Joe Biden genocide Joe
because he supports Israel. These areDemocrats. These are hardcore left wing Democrats
that are doing this. Now,you know the thing I would love to
ask these people. I would loveto ask these people. Okay, let's

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just say that Israel lays down itsweapons. We all know what would happen
next. We saw it on Octoberseventh, right, we already saw what
Hamas and has Blow want to doto Jews. So if you are on
the side of Hamas now and Israelsays, you know what, We're just
gonna lay down our weapons and we'regoing to demand peace without weapons, and
they get rolled over and raped andmurdered and beheaded, are you you now

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on the side of genocide, becausewhat you're arguing for is actual genocide and
war started by Hamas where innocent civiliansare killed because Hamas keeps putting weapons in
their homes, their hospitals and usingtheir hospitals as staging grounds for more terrorism.
That's not genocide, that's war.And the Israelis are bending over backwards

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to try and just minimize as manyof those civilian casualties as they can,
and they get no credit for whatthey're trying to do, while Hamask gets
all the cover in the world fordoing the thing that is causing the civilian
deaths starting with October seventh, Itmakes perfect sense to me. All that
being said, there is a concertedmovement happening right now in the basements of

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some or the bowels of some buildingor organization where left wingers are preparing to
create havoc at the Democratic National Conventionthe Republican National Convention, because I guess
they figure they can't affect any changeif they go to the Republican National Convention.
Two things will happen. The Republicanswill demand that everyone be arrested,

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like, just arrest everybody who doesn'thave a permit. Right this group said,
even if we don't get a permitto protest, we're coming anyway.
We're going to do it. Now. What conventions normally do when it comes
to permitting protests is they will kindof carve out an area near is ish
to whatever the facility is where they'rehaving the convention. Maybe it's like behind

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the convention where there's no doors,and they'll they'll carve out a little some
space for you, and they'll letyou rant and rave and carry on.
Maybe they'll even give you permission todo a parade, you know, from
one place to the other to yourlittle location where you do your protesting,
and they try and manage it thatway. There's a lot of big,

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important people at these conventions, andit would make it an easy and terrible
target for a terrorist attack. Sothere's a high level of security in all
of these things. But they're noteven going for the Republicans. They're going
for the Democrats. They're trying tothey're invoking Chicago nineteen sixty eight as their
model. It is just, itis just absolutely insane. These people are

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nuts. They're on the side ofpeople who want nothing more than to have
the opportunity to participate in the murderof Jews. And I'm not just talking
about Hamas. I'm talking about thecivilians that crossed over into Israel and participated
with the October seventh attacks voluntarily.They didn't have to be drafted into service.

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I'm talking about the people like Ihave this woman on the blog today
at Loyola University Law School. Soshe's in Loyola University, which is allegedly
a good university. And Gracie obisyou a Zuki. I'm gonna say,
Azuki. That's a guess. GracieObi Azuki is going to be graduating from

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Loyola University Law School in a fewweeks. She was previously Loyola's Anti Racism
Center Fellow for twenty twenty three ortwenty twenty two and twenty twenty three.
And in this video she yells,get the f out of here, all
you ugly ass little Jewish people inthis biach, and the crowd laughs and

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collaps. What the hell is goingon now? I'm hoping, I am
desperately hoping. I really tried togive this woman the benefit of the doubt,
like maybe she was re enacting whathappened in Nazi Germany before the Crystal
knock. Maybe maybe they asked herwhat happened, what she thought went on
in Germany before that happened, andthis is what she said. I don't

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know, because there's no other contextto this whatsoever. But it's like,
how is this allowed to happen?How do you have students at Columbia University
chanting into Fada, into Fada,into Fada. Do they not know that
the sole purpose of Intafada was tokill as many Jews as could be killed,

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and it didn't matter if they wereIsraeli soldiers or if they were just
people in a pizza parlor in thereto have dinner with their family, or
maybe they were just riding a busfrom point A to point B. The
Intifada is when all the suicide bombersgot on the bus and blew themselves up
just to kill Jews. And that'swhat these students who at last I checked,
I think Colombia is like seventy granda year. Jeff, do a

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quick Google search on how much ColumbiaUniversity costs annually. I mean, it's
not cheap. So these people mostlyprobably come for money, and they're chanting
for the murder of Jews. Andyou know when you go to the Holocaust
Museum in Washington, d C.And it's a museum every single person should
see. Every person in the worldshould go to that museum. The whole

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time you're in there, you thinkto yourself, like, I get it
that Hitler in his immediate circle theyhated Jews. I understand their hatred,
But how did the German people goalong with this? When you look at
what's happening right now, you beginto understand how it all went down.
Yes, Jeff, what'd you findout? Sixty five thousand dollars so sixty
five k a year, two hundredand sixty thousand dollars for an education at

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Columbia, And they are chanting forthe murder of Jews at Columbia right now.
Now luckily they're being arrested, andI'm one hundred percent down with that.
At the same time, I onehundred percent support the right of people
to protest and address their government inany way they see fit, but you
have to do it in a legalway. There's now a move by the

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way to make blocking a roadway afederal crime, but I don't know if
that would apply necessarily. Like ifyou decide to block Bellevue Avenue in the
is that gonna know because that's nota federal road. But it would apply
to all of the federal highways.And I don't think there's anything wrong with
making some laws about blocking the roadway. You know what, Remember when I

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was talking about someone I know thatmight have been me, ran a red
light so I didn't get caught bythe squeegee people. Another friend of mine
text me and said, oh mygod, I got caught at that same
intersection. And when she was goingthrough the intersection, there was like ten
guys and as soon as the lightturned red, they just swarmed into the

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lanes of traffic, and when thelight turned green, they were still in
the lanes of traffic, blocking traffic. And I was like, oh,
yeah, that's the same intersection.By the way, it was the intersection
at where Leedsdale turns into Parker Road, and it's Monaco and Leedsdale right there.
That's where it was. Maybe that'snot exactly where Parker turns into Leedsdale,

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but we've got to do something.And at the same time, we
need to be judicious as government agenciesabout permitting these these protests in a way
where people can let their voices beheard in a safe fashion for not just
the protesters, but for everyone aroundthem. Because I gotta tell you,

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blocking someone's way to work, blockingsomeone's way to the airport, maybe blocking
someone's way to the hospital is notpersuasive. And yelling and screaming and tearing
down barricades outside the DNC is notpersuasive either. Well, I don't know.
Maybe it is with Joe Biden,because you know, he's gonna go
out there and he's gonna address thecrowd, like you know what. I

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grew up in a neighborhood of protesters. When I was a kid, I
was sad I didn't have anything toprotest because I grew up with protesters.
Because you know, he grew upwith everything right before his uncle got eaten
by cannibals. I'm just gonna I'mgonna start building a yarn that I lay
out every time we talk about JoeBiden, just so you know who I'm
talking about. So let's just rememberthis from now on. People. Joe

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Biden says he was raised in aPuerto Rican, Greek, Italian, Jewish,
black neighborhood. Most of verse neighborhoodin the history of Delaware, the
history Delaware has like five people thatare not white. Have you ever been
to Delaware, Jeff No, I'venever been there. I've been there once.

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I did not see a person ofcolor, of any color. They
weren't even like tan, you knowwhat I mean. They were just pasty
white Delawareans. There was no peopleof color in Delaware. But he grew
up with all those people, andnow we know in his mind his uncle
was eating my cannibals. And somehowif a Republican said, you know,

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in New Guinea, there were alot of cannibals. Back then, he
would immediately be decried as racist,as degrading towards native cultures. And yet
Joe Biden says, and it's like, damn, his uncle gott eat my
cannibals. Who knew. No,his uncle did not get eaten by cannibals
ever. Uh, Mandy, ifyou ever make it to Poland, the

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Warsaw Rising Museum is outstanding. Iam going to Poland at some point.
I'm going to Poland, I'm goingCzechoslovakia. I'm going to those countries.
I just have not made it thereyet. And yes, I will put
that on my list. Chicago protesterswant sympathy from their own. Sympathy is
a validation and recognition, recognition ofself affirming. But what I don't I

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think there's two kinds of people inthis world when it comes to sympathy.
There are people who craze it foreverything, and then there are people who
find it mildly insulting. And Iam in the second camp, like,
I don't want your sympathy. Right. My friend lindsay when her daughters were,
you know, in their teen years, and they would be especially trying,

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and they'd be complaining about some firstworld problem that only teenagers can find
difficult. And you would just lookat them and say, if you're looking
for sympathy, find it between andshe would say the S word and syphilis
in the dictionary. That was herstandard line. I don't want your sympathy.
Now. If you want to offeryour condolences if someone passes away,

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I'm down with that. That's that'skind. But I don't like it when
people look at me with that looklike, oh look at her, Oh
you poor thing, oh sweetheart.I don't like that. But then there
are people who live for it,and they create their own victim narrative so
they can constantly seek sympathy from otherpeople. This person said, Joe Biden

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is not from Delaware. He grewup in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Because that's
ever all he ever talks about.Sitting around the dinner table in Scranton,
Pennsylvania. You know what I sitcorrected, You are right Scranton. Let's
Jeff, I get another task forme. I'll do it. I'll do
it because we got to take abreak here. Let's see demographic makeup of
Scranton in the fifties. Okay,I'll be right back with this information and

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we'll see. We shall see whatwe're going on. Oh, I can't
find well, I'll have to lookand see. I'm gonna have to do
a little deep digging on this commercialbreak, but I will. You've got
to go to the blog today becausethere's so many things on the blog that
are visual and that I really wantyou to see. So do that.
Go to the blog today and checkthat out. But in the next section

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here coming up, I'm gonna dipmy toe into some updates from yesterday's stuff.
Coming up at one point thirty,we're going to talk to my friend
Dave Prophet about a great gala that'shappening this weekend for a wonderful organization that
helps combat veterans and first responders thathave been injured, and you can help

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out and have a great evening aswell. But when we get back,
I want to give you an updateon that story we did yesterday about Denver
public schools and the use of nondisclosure agreements. We'll be right back with
that. In the entire break,I've been digging through census information trying to
find out the diversity of Scranton Pennsylvaniain nineteen fifty to find out if Joe

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Biden could be remotely accurate that hegrew up in a Greek, Italian,
Puerto Rican Jewish neighborhood in Scranton,Pennsylvania. Now, I can't find a
demographic breakdown in nineteen fifty, butwhat I did find is that in nineteen
hundred, there were four African Americansin Scranton, PA, and now there
are four thousand, eight hundred andfifty five. There are three thousand,

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one hundred and two Asian people,ten thousand, eight hundred and seventy eight
Hispanic or Latino people, and seventythree thousand, seven hundred and sixty white
people. So unless he lived inthe only block in Scranton that was utterly
and completely diversified, I'm calling BSon him. But whatever, it's fine

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because his uncle got eaten by cannibal. Now we're going to move on to
a school a story we had yesterday. There are some updates and our Rob
Dawson willing to watch a meeting,so we oh, you went to the
meeting though. Yeah, this isthat Brother Cultural Center on Wells Street.
All right, Brother Jeff Collin,things to order, because former Denver Public
Schools communications director Will Jones made aI think really shocking accusation at Monday's school

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board meeting that he was fired because, according to the district, his values
don't align with the values of AlexMorero or something, and in order to
get the settlement that they were offering, he would have had to sign a
non disclosure agreement and also give upthe right to sue in the future.
Now, NDAs were recently banned forpublic employees by the legislature, like a

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year ago. Last year, thegovernor signed into law measure that bars state
and local government agencies, as wellas school districts, from requiring current or
prospective employees to sign a non disclosureagreement as a condition of employment, with
some exceptions. So this seems tobe in clear violation. But Rob what

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Rob and I just literally talked tothe whole the whole break. There was
a lot of blobbery blog in thismeeting. There was forvoll. First of
all, is an hour, sowe were not anticipating it. I think
the Will Jones, the figure hereis the former executive director of communications.
How I had dealt with him whenhe was on the job, once or

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twice. He has two assistants thatI've dealt with more So, he says
that he wants to make it notabout the people but about the issue at
hand. He said there were alot of lab board for personalities over the
last couple of years that got theattention and is drawing the attention away from

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safety at schools and staff. He'stalking about a lot today about the limiting
of information right, and he attimes, without saying it, seemed to
indicate that doctor Alice More is notdoing his best to have free flowing information.

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That's clear. I mean, that'sclear by his action, but he
wouldn't. But he also said thatI have no beef with him because when
I've advised him on speeches and stuff, he did listen to me for the
most part and did advise my ordid understand my advice about how to deal
with the media. But I thinkthe part of what he was getting at
was there's there's something getting in theway of information. This policy governance thing

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which I've seen the Board grapple withwhere they say this is I think went
into effect that twenty twenty one,so that I've seen the Board say,
well, because of policy governance andexecutive limitations, and we don't know what
to do because of these things.These things are like in our way or
there. We don't know how tohandle what is before us. So policy

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governance. This is an example thatwas given to me by former board member
Tay Henderson who was at the Newestconference. So I think it explains it
well and I've read also background inthis. So let's say that a kid
isn't being picked up on the schoolbus and the parent comes to the board
member, whether it's an at largeor in their district, to complain about

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this issue. The previously the boardmember might be able to just go to
the transportation director and say, hey, what's going on? This parent needs
information and I would like to giveit to them. So, and you
know, transportation director talks to boardmember. Board member talks a parent.
What happened after policy governance and whatthat's defined as the board should stick to

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policy and not the operations of theschool right micromanaging. So he would inform
and someone may have that information,but they can't give it to the board
member. They have to go throughthe chief of staff of the superintendent.
Superintendent then gets the information or oris able to then tell the board member

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directly or through the chief of staffthe information. There's a lot of getting
in the way. There's a lotof middle people, not sure if it's
the information is getting out in atimeline manner because it's superintendent is busy with
other things going on. And here'sthe thing, what does that have to
do with the fact that they're usingNDA so and this is where I think
someone asked the question about why doyou basically about values? Brother Jeff actually

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was the one that asked. It'slike, do your values conflict with doctor
Marrero's values about information? You know? And and Will Jones said didn't say
yes or no, but he said, look at me, look at the
former director of public Safety. Ibelieve Melissa Craven who Ross has had it.
I don't know if you've had heron the show table. Look at

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us, we're all gone. We'rethe ones that have said that there's this
information thing has got to improve,and we're the ones that are that are
gone. I think the NDA thingcomes into effect of the controlling of the
information after they're fired, after they'refire show, there's no longer control or
these employees have to sign it becausemaybe they didn't all along share the values

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of how the policy governance and theway information comes out works. But nonetheless,
it's still not justifying the fact thatthey're making people sign NDAs in violation
of state law. And in theDenver Gazette article that I linked on the
blob today, one of the schoolboard members, let me get down to
find this right now. Up UPUP board president Carry Olsen said she was

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aware of the policy, but didnot recall when it was implemented nor by
whom. While calling the policy quotestandard business practice, Olsen said teachers are
not asked to sign NDAs. Theprotection of private, student and employee information
is important and NDAs are one smallstep we can take to protect our students

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and staff. So the people whoare with the studentudents all day every day,
who are creating their educational record,they don't have to sign an NDA
to protect students and staff. Butpeople who work in the main office away
from students, in the communications office, who may or may not have any
access to student information, they arerequired to sign an NDA. Yeah,

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and there was some talk about that, although again Will just tried to First
of all, he explained he didn'tsign one. He has a granddaughter in
the disc as a student and caresabout her well being and does not and
did not sign one, I believe, is what he said. So now
he's the one being able to speakfreely about what goes on. And then

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and he's starting to do that,he wants to get the for some reason.
During this news conference, he wantedto get away from us because the
media wanted to ask about the NDA. Yeah, he answered questions, but
he also says there's it's not themain issue here, but it is because
it's indicative of the larger problem.And we are know that Alex Morero is

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very sensitive to criticism. Do youremember the press conference or the meeting where
he essentially was like, I'm gettingkilled out here. You know, I'm
never gonna be able to get anotherjob. He's very sensitive to that stuff.
And I feel like this is justa control the narrative around him.
It is not helpful for the schooldistrict for that. So going along with
that, there are some instances wherethere's been confusion about what the board knows

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and what doesn't now and and andsome board members know things and some others
don't, And there's there was someexample given about soci guy Tan perhaps following
policy governance the one way and otherboard members following it the other way.
Well, policy governance shouldn't mean there'sno accountabilitiability and and and that's what I

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think some of the some parents arediscovering. Yeah, and some board members.
Remember they just had to shuffle onthe board. So there's three three
new ones, yes, so uhand three of the most awful are gone.
So it is a major shakeup onthe board, not just the fact
that we've got three new members.Is that a very disruptive force in Tay

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Anderson is not on the board anymore. Well, just think back to the
executive orders thing. Remember the executiveorder rumor that was coming out that you
meant to say. Yeah, soTay Anderson said Marera doctor Morero said there
would be an executive if we didn'tact on this, uh, bringing school
resource officers back then, Hancock wasgoing to do an executive order. But

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this is what Marrero said. Thenthere's some discussion whether that actually happened or
not. It was a lie,right, I mean, nobody nobody documented
that. The Mayor's office vmilly deniedit, So it was a lie.
That was told by Alice Morrara.I'm telling you this guy, I don't
love him. He needs to go. I'm just going to say it.
I know you won't say that becauseyou're a journalist. Well, there's just

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uh and whether there's a mechanism thatmakes it all difficult or now that Will
Jones wanted to center a lot onthe mechanism. Part of getting in the
way of information. I think tofocus on the mechanism is to focus on
the trees and not the forest.And the forest is that the superintendent is
highly sensitive to criticism and he's usingNDA's i think illegally to prevent people from

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going out and putting him on blast. That's what I think the story is.
And then there's the broad exception likewhat counts as proprietary information. And
if you're going to argue that studentprivacy is why you're doing this, then
there's no reason that every teacher wholeaves the district shouldn't be forced to sign
the same thing, right because theyhave more accents. Some of this will

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that mister well Jones said was thedistrict's failure to answer easy questions has now
fostered this discontent with parents and boardmembers that if you can't answer the easy
what can you answer, will yougive us answers? Well, the tangled
web continues, Rob, and Iappreciate you taking time from the newsroom to

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come in here and go over thatwith me. We'll be right back.
So I have a video on theblog today about sheet mulching and it uses
cardboard to create a new bed whereyou want to plant stuff. I have
a bed that is a mess up, a flower bed, you know what

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I mean. But I the thoughtof digging out everything that's in there.
Honestly, I'm too lazy. Imean I could, I could sugarcoat it.
I could tell you some you know, fantastic reason I can't. I
just don't want to. And thenI see this video that looks like the
easy way out, and I wantedto know if any of you have ever
done either. They call it nodig, no dig gardening or sheet mulching.

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And you take cardboard and you justlay the cardboard down and then you
put dirt on top of that.Then you put mulch on top of that,
and allegedly the cardboard is like likelights out, keeping the weeds down
and stuff. So I put thevideo on the blog, and I was
wondering if any ofview people had actuallydone this, so uh trying to find
out because I want to know ifit actually works before I do it,

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because y'all, I'm just gonna letyou know I'm doing it because this seems
like lazy man's gardening. My nextdoor neighbor is she works in their yard
all the time and it is beautiful, and I feel terrible because my yard
looks like crap and her yard looksbeautiful, beautiful. But I don't love

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yard work. I mean, Idon't mind it. Do you do yard
work? You have to have ayard. I don't know what The upside
of yard work here in Colorado isthat it has a finite lifespan, Right,
you only have to mow from xyou know, this point in the
month to that point in October,and then you're done for months you get
arrest. But in Florida there's nostopping. Like in the summer, you

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have to mow twice a week justto keep the damn grass at a reasonable
level. And then in the winteryou still have to mow like once every
couple of weeks, so there's nobreak. So that's how I grew up,
and I think that established my distastefor yard work. But if you've
done the sheep mulching, let meknow, this person says, works better
to do that type of mulching ina climate where you get regular rainfall.

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Well, this particular bed is irrigated, so it is an irrigated bed,
so the water part is not goingto be that much of a problem.
This person asks, talking demographics ofBiden's hometown of Scranton, what's the demographic
of your hometown when you grew up. We had a healthy African American population,
no Hispanics at all. But I'mnot the one who claims to grow

(31:41):
up in a neighborhood full of allthese other people. That would be Joe
Biden. So nice tri Texter,nice try, But I'm not the one
lying about it. He is.When we get back, Oh boy,
Pfeiser is lying to us again.How do we know Pfeiser has told us
that they lied to us again.I'll explain after this. In the meantime.

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First of all, thank you tothose of you who are texting me
about the sheet mulching garden style.And no I'm not saying sheep mulching.
That would be a completely different kindof mulching. Although it would be cool
to bring over some sheep, letthem take down that. Maybe I'll have
Kelly Maher bring over some goats totake down my bed. That would work,
That would be awesome, be superawesome. Okay, you know one

(32:30):
of my greatest regrets as a talkshow host, I have a few.
One of them was the day thatI went on the air on a sports
radio station talking about a less thansatisfactory experience I had at the What golf
tournament was that it was, Idon't remember golf. It wasn't Mayhill.
It was another one that happens atOrlando. I'd had a very unsacked,

(32:52):
unsatisfactory experience with Payne Stewart. Hewas a complete pain in the ass.
It was not a good experience.So I went on the air the next
day and proceeded to rip Paynes Stewarta new one for like half an hour.
And then it was about that timethat his plane drifted off of its
path and we found out he wasdead. And I still feel like dang.

(33:16):
I mean, don't get me wrong. Part of me was like,
don't cross me because I have powers. I don't even know about it.
I can't even I can't even controlthem. But my biggest regret as a
talk show host that I'm being genuinewith this one, is that I told
my listeners to get the vaccine fromPfizer, that I trusted the information that
Pheiser released. I trusted the studiesthey released like a moron, and I

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deeply regret that now and I amvaccine. I got two shots. And
now what's funny is I went infor my annual physical, which went really
well. Thanks for asking, butI wanted to get my annual physical.
And on my chart, if yougo to a doctor that's owned by a
healthcare system, they're constantly trying toshove you into like did you get your
flu shot? Did you get thisshot? Did you get They're constantly trying

(34:00):
to do this. On my chart, I can see it says due for
a COVID booster, and my providerjust like blew past that. She's like,
I'm not even asking about Okay,let's just end that conversation right now.
So but I do I regret itbecause I went on information that I
thought was valid, only to findout that Pfizer just simply did the studies

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in such a way that questions wouldsimply not be asked that could create a
problem. For instance, did theystudy to see if the vaccine actually stopped
the transmission of the virus. No, they didn't. They just ignored it,
just pretended like it was not athing they needed to worry about.

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And then we find out later itdoesn't do that at all, And then
Pfizer was like, oh, ohyeah, we didn't study that, even
though doctor Vauciin and others ran aroundtelling us we were gonna kill our grandmothers
if we didn't get the vaccine.That's neither here nor there. But let's
talk today about PAX's Lovid. PaSlovid is the quote miracle anti viral that
Pizor rush to market that was goingto help people stay out of the hospital

(35:07):
and die. They were going tohelp prevent them from dying of COVID,
especially people with comorbidities. This wasgoing to be a slam dunk best thing
ever. This is all we need. Everything's going to be fine, except
almost immediately we started seeing with paxSlovid what they called rebound infections. Now,
at this point, I think I'vehad COVID three times. I think

(35:31):
trying to remember. None of themwere super significant, right, none of
them were horrible. They were justI was sick. It was fine.
I worked through it. Twice whenI had COVID from home. I don't
even think I told you guys Ihad COVID, and it was that,
you know. But nonetheless, peoplewho took pack Slovid were almost immediately getting

(35:53):
COVID. Again, remember when thePresident Biden had covid, Like, I
feel like honestly four or five timesover a two year period, and every
time they're like, he's taking paxxlovid, so he'll be good to go in
just a few days. Well,there's a new study out, and the
new study studied specifically the effectiveness ofpack slovin. Now you remember Fauci,

(36:21):
doctor Fauci, or as I liketo call him, science, praising pack
slovan in twenty twenty two, hesays he believes pax Slovid kept him out
of the hospital even though he testedpositive again, so he had a rebound
infection after taking pax slovan, Andyet he was still telling Americans to take
pack Slovid. So finally someone doesa study and the newly released study on

(36:44):
pax slovid on randomized adults with symptomaticCOVID. One subset was given pack slovan
or a placebo for twelve hour everytwelve hours for five days. The intent
was to determine how effective it wasat sustain alleviation of COVID nineteen symptoms.
And I'm not going to read youall the medical gobbledygook that is in this

(37:05):
article that I linked to, Butyou can go read the gobbledygook if you
want. Let me just read toyou the summary of this study that was
done about the effectiveness of pack slovid. This is this summary, the actual
summary. The time to sustained alleviationof all signs and symptoms of COVID nineteen

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did not differ significantly between participants whoreceived pack slovid and those who received a
placebo. Even more than that.Even more than that, it showed confidence
intervals, and those are very important. They are the amount of confidence that

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the researchers have in the research thatthey've done. They even stretched to a
positive relationship, meaning that it's withinthe bounds of possibility that more people died
or were hospitalized after taking backslovid thana placebo. And you know, who
did the study, Lest you thinkit was done by left wing cranks like

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you know, or right wing crankslike me. Peiser was responsible for the
trial design and conduct, and fordata collection, analysis, and interpretation.
The first draft of the manuscript waswritten by medical writers funded by Pfizer under
direction from the authors. Yeah,now, let's talk about people who were
vaccinated versus people who were not vaccinated, because we're all told it's vaccinations that

(38:35):
are keeping people out of the hospitaland keeping people from dying. I know,
old people that have had so manyboosters their arms should be falling off
at this point because they are literallyafraid they're going to die if they get
COVID. COVID vaccination was once againproven to be almost entirely irrelevant where results
were concerned. Results were the samebetween high risk subgroups, meaning those who

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had been vaccinated but had an elevatedrisk for more serious symptoms meaning they had
another comorbidity, maybe they were overweight, maybe they had high blood pressure,
maybe they had a breathing condition already, Meaning those who'd been vaccinated but had
an elevated risk for more serious symptoms, and those who had never been vaccinated
or had received the last dose morethan a year ago, and this is

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from the study. Similar results wereobserved in the high risk subgroup and in
the standard risk subgroup. That meanssimilar results. Not only did pack slovid
not make a difference vaccination status,and pack slovid wasn't enough to create a
sizable gap in outcomes. This entirething is just falling apart. Viral load

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rebounds were also more common in thepack sloviad group, and symptom and viral
load rebounds combined were more common amongthose taking Pfizer's treatment, while percentages were
generally low. Other studies have pegpacked slovid associated rebound as occurring nearly one
quarter of the time. Twenty fivepercent of the people who took pack slovid

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got a rebound case of COVID.Do you know anybody who's had COVID that
did not take pack slovid that hada rebound case. I do not at
all. So, I mean,come on, come on, So that

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is what Pfizer has on pack slovid. I know. I mean, I've
lost count of the number of friendsof mine who have gotten COVID and taken
ivermectin and work well in a dayand a half. Now, is that
medical proof that ivermectin works. No, it's not. But at this stage
for me personally, I have enoughanecdotal evidence about ivermectin that I am inclined

(40:52):
to try it the next time Iget it. And I do think COVID
is going to be with us forso long. COVID is just going to
be a And no one I knowwho has taken ivermectin has had any sort
of long COVID symptoms. And don'tget me wrong, I don't know one
hundred people who have done this,but I know at least seven. And

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that's not a nothing number. It'snot the biggest number, and like I
said, totally anecdotal, but it'sconvincing enough that I'm like, you know
what, when I get COVID again, I'm just gonna try ivermectin. See
if that makes it go away faster. Do my own little experiment. But
yeah, just like I said,my biggest regret as a talk show host
is about this, these damn injections. Mandy. I also had my physical

(41:37):
and I'm not doing the shingles vaccine. What a joke. No trust in
any of it. I trust myvet more than these studies or science drug
company sponsors. I will tell youthis, I've had shingles. I don't
want it again. I was,I was. I got the first shingles
vaccine because my doctor completely misrepresented thepossibility of side effects. My side effects

(41:59):
were I was completely flattened, likeI had the flu for two days forty
eight hours. Then I was fine, completely fine, But for two days
I was flattened. But shingles sucks. And what happens with shingles, and
I'm gonna use a friend of minewho is now deceased as an example.
He was in his early seventies ina cancer battle and that's when shingles showed

(42:21):
up, and it took him likea year and a half to get over
shingles. So the shingles vaccine mayknock you on your butt, but if
it can prevent you from actually gettingshingles, and I understand it has a
ninety percent success rate, which isincredibly high, then consider it. Because
shingles is awful and it only showsup at the least convenient time. It
truly does. Mandy, We've triedto tell you all the COVID stuff for

(42:44):
years. Why do you think Iam falling on my own sword. Now,
why do you think I bring thisup and let you know how sorry
I am that I did that.This is my mea culpa, this is
this is why I do this stuff. You know it's important to me as
a talk show host. Let mejust take a little side here for a

(43:04):
second. I know that people whodisagree with me politically think everything that comes
out of my mouth is I'm justfull of crap and I don't know what
I'm talking about. I'm just makingstuff up. But I spend a tremendous
amount of time trying to find theright information. I try to find data
driven information. Although I know there'syou know, statistics you can make say
anything, but I try to findgood sources. I try to find good

(43:27):
information. I try to find alternativeviews that maybe challenge the narrative if I
think the narrative is stupid, asI do with climate change. And I
work really hard to give you guysthe right information. So when I get
it wrong and I feel like Igot it wrong badly, I'm gonna always

(43:47):
cop to it. And this wasa big one. This was a really
big one. I often wonder likedid I cause damage to someone in my
listening audience who said, you know, Mandy's been doing the research, and
she says, it's okay, soI'm gonna get it. I worry about
that stuff. I worry about ita lot. I mean, I'm not
a doctor, but I try reallyhard. And my god, did I
read a lot of medical studies duringCOVID. I mean, it got ridiculous.

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So this person said, up,my wife got shingles from the vax
I didn't know that was possible.There you go, Mandy Welda, and
you're breeding more and more anti vaxersfor all vaccines. But I've never been
anti vaccine about the vaccines that'd havebeen around forever. I'm not telling you
not to get your kid a poliovaccine. I'm not even telling your kid
not to get a measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. The one thing

(44:36):
I will advocate for is that youspace those vaccines in a reasonable way.
And there are doctors who will dothat. There are doctors who will say,
you know what, maybe we don'tneed to inject our babies with poison
all in one fell swoop. Soyou know, but this vaccine was rolled
out so fast and pax Slovid wasrolled out so fast, and now we

(44:57):
know that fis are lied about itSlovid stuff, and we know they lied.
They didn't lie. They withheld importantdata that they didn't have because they
didn't want to know the answers tothose questions. And we cannot go through
life allowing this to happen again andagain and again. And the only way
to prevent that from happening again andagain and again is to talk about it

(45:19):
when it does occur. And that'swhat I'm doing here. I'm not anti
vacs, but this vaccine is theonly one that's come out this fast.
I mean, if we can makea vaccine that fast for a virus,
why do we still have AIDS?Why do we still have the common cold?
These are all viral things. Soyou know, it's okay to question

(45:42):
this. It's okay to say wedon't need to do this again. This
person said, Mandy, don't regretit. I've worked in medicine for thirty
years and we never have all theanswers. We do the best with the
information we have at the time.And if that was only me making that
decision, it was just me andmy family, you know, going out
and getting vaccinated. I would notfeel bad. That would be our choice

(46:04):
and we live with it, andyou know, whatever happens, whatever happens.
But I take this responsibility this microphonevery seriously, and I just I
just want you to know I'm notcausing damage now, people, I'm the
person You're causing damage now, bandy, No, I'm not. People need
to know what the possible ramifications fromany medicine they are going to take,

(46:30):
what those ramifications can be. It'swhy I'm consistently sharing stories about the weight
loss drugs that people are killing themselvesto get without even looking at the negative
downside of some of these side effectsthat are starting to come out. I
want people to make an informed choice, That's all I want. And what
happened during COVID with the vaccine andpaxxlovid was we were not given the opportunity

(46:52):
to make an informed choice. Ourinformed choice was taken away when we were
told we couldn't go places without avaccine passport or we couldn't keep our job
without a vaccine passport. That isnot okay, and it should never happen
again, ever ever, ever,So yeah, yeah, yeah, I

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found that bourbon is as effective forthe vaccine as treating COVID. Yeah,
I can't drink. I just havegotten the voy where I drink so infrequently
anymore because I don't sleep anyway.Mandy, I got the shingles from the
from the Maderna COVID shot. Mydoctor said, Maderna increases the likelihood of
getting shingles. Oh, it's awful. Shingles is awful. Now, I'm

(47:38):
so sorry about that. Just awful, awful, awful. Mandy's shingles sucks.
I encourage the vaccine on that whenit can be stress induced, when
you're run down, the vaccine willkick your butt for forty eight hours,
but worth it. So I alreadyhad shingles when my daughter was born and
she was in the nique for elevendays. I got shingles right at the

(47:59):
end of that, and I willnever forget this. I go into my
doctor. It's like one of hercheckups, so it's a pediatrician, right.
We go into her doctor and Iwas like, hey, I've got
this rash. Can you just lookat it? And the doctor goes,
oh, yeah, that's shingles,and I was like, no, no,
no, no, Only old peopleget shingles, because have you ever
heard of a person under sixty gettingshingles? I had not up to that

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point. Now, since then,I know other people that were younger that
got shingles, and the doctor goes, no, people who are not sleeping
under incredibly high stress get shingles,and I was like, well, that
is actually fairly accurate to what I'vebeen through for the last six weeks.
So yeah, oh yeah, yeah. Anyway, Mandy, you're doing so

(48:47):
much damage to vaccines because you arereporting the scientific studies about them. Geez,
exactly, thank you. Text messager, thank you. This person said,
I've always appreciated your response after theUS cleared r E vaccines. I
will be honest, I was soupset with you during that time. I
felt you and Dave mocked people whowere questioning it. Skepticism is so necessary,

(49:08):
especially now. Vilifying anyone for questionsis dangerous. I don't think it's
dangerous, but it is rude,and for that I again, this is
my great talk show. Regret younow have it there. Now when we
get back, We've got you know, I know we talk about this all
the time, but I'm not gonnastop talking about it because things are starting

(49:29):
to shift ever so slightly in Denver'sresponse to homelessness. And I've got two
stories that I want to bring yourattention. One of is kind of follow
up on what we already know aboutthese homeless hotels and the crime that just
is drawn to the areas around them, And the other one is about something

(49:51):
really interesting that happened yesterday at ahomeless camp that was being set up by
people have been displaced by another homelesscamp sweep, and what happened to them
at this homeless camp, in mymind, is kind of a big deal,
considering that Mayor Mike Johnston essentially campaignon this never happening again in Denver,

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And it's one of those situations whereI want to give Mayor Mike Johnston
credit. We'll see what happens next, but I want to give him credit
for recognizing that perhaps the strategy thathas been laid out by Denver is not
the most effective one, and heis willing to make changes to this Denver

(50:35):
policy. Maybe in the light ofAurora announcing they're going to be clamping down
on camping. Oh my gosh,we didn't even get into the story from
yesterday's blog. The Supreme Court ishearing a case that will it could possibly
uproot everything when it comes to campingin public. Now we're gonna do that
a little bit later because I justremembered my friend Dave Prophet is coming in

(50:58):
to talk about a wonderful event forTerans that's coming up this weekend. We're
going to do that next. Idon't know what, please, just bunch
to have a man who is thefounder and president of an organization in Colorado
that works to get first responders andinjured firefighters and members of law enforcement outside

(51:22):
for outside therapy. And I ama big believer in outside therapy. Dave
Prophet with Americans American Heroes in Action. Welcome to the show. Thank you,
Mandy, it's good to be here. Well, you know, let's
talk about how American Heroes and Actioncame to be. First, Sure,
I spent a year in Iraq asa contractor, and I worked in the

(51:42):
Army post office over there. Abig part of my job was to inspect
the outgoing mail, making sure noone was mailing home something that they shouldn't
be right, And a lot ofyoung men and women close to my kids
age were mailing home purple heart metalswell and kind of got to me.
Yeah. I came home and Iwent to work in the oil field,
and I couldn't stop thinking about thoseyoung men and women. And I grew

(52:06):
up in Minnesota. I've spent alot of time outdoors hunting and fishing.
And you insane Minnesotans and your icefishing. What is that nonsense of crazy
talk. We'll get into that lestit's the only time that they don't swap
mesquites. There you go, thereyou go. But I felt a sense
of outdoor therapy, as you justmentioned, and I felt that maybe I
would be able to give something backto our men and women who earn purple

(52:29):
hearts, as well as our menand women who are firefighters, law enforcement,
and other first responders, if Icould get them some outdoor therapy.
So I launched back in twenty fifteen, I launched American Heroes in Action to
provide all expenses paid outdoor adventures toour combat veterans and injured first responders.
What kind of adventures do you,guys? Do? We have adventures going

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on all year long. We dohunting trips, fishing trips, golf,
whitewater rafting, downhill skiing via ferrataand a couple of years ago, what
ferrada? What is the via ferrata? A via ferrata is? It means
iron path or iron way and supposedlyit's the way that the military made it
through the cliffs in the mountains ofItaly during World War Two, and it's

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it's there's a route up by IdahoSprings where they've got a lot of hand
holds nailed into the cliff side andyou scale the cliffs and at the end
you have to jump off of this. Jump off of this it looks like
a dock, and you they havea pulley system so you don't crash to
the ground. You just slowly fallto the ground. That is horrifying to

(53:37):
me, But I know enough militarypeople that probably heard that was like,
where's that again? How do Iget there again? What is that?
The adrenaline rush? Yeah? Ithink what we're trying to offer exactly and
what is it about outdoor therapy thatis so useful for people who have been
wounded, maybe they're struggling with somepost traumatic stress or what is it that

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you found in doing this that hasbeen helpful. I think there's a sense
of peace that we all get fromspending time outdoors. So that is helpful.
But I think the other part thatis helpful is for these men and
women to get to spend time inthat environment with other men and women with
shared similar experiences. So when theygo when you go on these trips,

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are they some of them, I'mguessing our day trips. Some of them
are overnight trips. Is there atime where you just kind of maybe have
a a pizza and beer? Yeah, like a recap, I guess is
the way I'm looking at it.Well, we want that the camaraderie.
A lot of these men and womenwill tell us that having pizza and beer
was more valuable. Having pizza andbeer with men and women with shared similar

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experiences, meeting new friends is morevaluable to them than catching a fish right
or getting splashed on a white waterrafting trip. So you guys do these
How many trips have you done?How many people have you helped? In
twenty twenty three, we did fiftynine different adventures, more than one a
week on average. We went tonine different states and Canada, and we

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took out a total of two hundredand seventy three participants. That's amazing.
Thank you. That's really amazing.And what kind of feedback do you get
from the people who participate in thesetrips. One of the stories that I
like to tell. Last year wedid something we called a cast and blast
on an island seven miles from PortO'Connor, Texas, and they went fishing

(55:28):
during the day and they went hoghunting on the island. So, oh
my god, that sounds so fine. Casting and blasting, that sounds super
fun. One of the gentlemen thatwas on the trip, I heard this
story from the outfitter. He saidthat the gentleman just seemed like he was
quiet and didn't know if they wereif they were getting to him. And
at the end, they had abig bonfire at the beach and they had

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a guy out there with a guitarand there was a lot of fun.
Well, this guy that had beenrequired, his name is Johnny, came
up and put his arm around theoutfitter and said, I really hope you
can keep doing what you're doing becauseit's making a DMPT really and you know,
I hate it that we still haveso many veteran suicides. We do.
I mean, people do not understandyou kind of hear twenty two a

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day. There are some who saythat number is higher. There are many
who say that numb. Yeah,fire, and it's the biggest precursor I
guess to suicide is often the feelingthat you are simply not needed and would
not be missed and no one wouldeven notice if you were gone. I've
talked to people who have either hadsuicidal ideation or have had an unsuccessful suicide

(56:38):
attempt, and they all say thesame thing, and just showing that there's
other people going through the same things, there's so much value in that.
One of the things about our organization, there's a number of other organizations that
provide op adventures, right, wedo not include family members. I think
of these men and women need toregain a sense of family with their family

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members. But on our trips,they're just for these men and women who
have you know, served in combator the firefighters and law enforcement. And
the reason that I want to dothat We've had this happen many times.
We could be two guys meet forthe first time on a goose hunt and
they're sitting in a duck blind ora goose blind and they get to talking
to each other and one of theguys. They've become so connected. The

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guys said, you know, I'mhaving some challenges dealing with this situation.
Have you ever gone through it?How have you made it through it?
Well, that guy is not goingto say that if the other guy's wife
or kids are sitting there right right. So this is a chance for these
men and women to let their guarddown. You know, a lot a
lot of men and women in themilitary have no filter, and we don't

(57:42):
want to create an awkward situation wheresomebody's saying, dude, can you tone
it down around my kid, orsomebody shows up and said, oh great,
I have to have my political correctfilter on here too. Now they
can just be themselves. Yeah,to the point of not having a filter.
I know that I fit out that. So let's talk about what's happening
a week from Saturday, Yes,our seventh annual fundraising banquet. Now,

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I would like people to want tocome to the banquet because they want to
help raise money to provide these outdooradventures for our veterans and first responders.
But I know that most of themwant to come because we've got a lot
of cool stuff that they can buy. And win. What are some of
the cool things that you can buyand win there. Well, we have
a lot of guns. Yeah,a lot of a lot. This is

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from last year. These pictures arefrom last year. Yeah. This year
we have DCF Guns in Castle Rockhas donated the sponsor of this show.
Yes, I have donated a Frankiesix point five rifle creed More rifle with
a six hour rifle scope on itthat we're going to give away in our
coin flip game. We have achallenge coin and we're going to do a
coin flip game and whoever can matchthe flip of our auctioneer the longest wins

(58:52):
the rifle. Oh that's cool.We have a total of fifteen guns.
One of the guns, wait,so you know I have I may have
a challenge coin from the Secretary ofthe Navy. So if I could come
and drop that, I could trumpeverybody else. That would be something I'd
be drinking for free all night.So that's the coin flip. Anybody can
do that. But what are someof the other stuff that you have in
the auction Well, we have afully restored built in nineteen twenty seven,

(59:16):
a Remington Model eleven twelve Gage shotguns. Oh wow, I'm restored. It's
beautiful. Yeah, and we havewe have hunting trips. One of the
trips that we we had last yearand we think we're going to have it
again this year or something very similar. We did an analoe punt last year
with Carl Mecklenberg. Oh, whoa, that is cool. Yeah, that

(59:37):
was donated by Birds and Bucks outfitters. That's very cool. We might have
that again. We have two fishingtrips to Alaska. Have you been fishing
in Alaska? I love fishing.I love We went on a We went
salmon fishing when we were up there, and it was not too long after
my father had passed and I grewup fishing with my dad and I was

(01:00:00):
not catching anything and not catching anything. I'm like, okay, Dad,
you gotta help me out. AndI hooked a great salmon and it was
just the most It was the bestday ever, the best day ever.
So, how can people buy ticketsbefore we run out of time? The
tickets are online, They're only availableonline. There will be no tickets at
the door. The deadline is Sunday. There's seventy five dollars a piece,

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or one hundred and twenty five fora couple that includes the choice of steak
or salmon dinner. That can getthem online at American Heroes Inaction dot org
and just click on the Banquets andEvents tab And I put a link to
this page directly on the blog todayso people can just go. You're the
first entry on the blog and youcan also find out more information if this
is something you feel like you wouldlike to get involved with. I'm sure

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you guys always need volunteers, andif it's something you'd like to participate in
as a combat veteran or a firstresponder, you can reach out via the
website as well. Dave Profit,thanks for all you do. Thanks for
being inspired to come back and helppeople who have served this country in this
way. I just appreciate you andeverything you're doing. Thank you, Mandy.
All right, we'll be right back, Jeff when your here. Time

(01:01:07):
goes fast, so you just aregoing to have to come hang out even
when a rod gets back. It'smy superpower right there. You go,
well well done, well done.So I want to do another update from
a story we talked about yesterday,this situation with NPR. There's a lot
of blood in the water around KatherineMaher, the CEO of NPR, who
is an absolute, screaming left winglunatic. And there may be a chance

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that NPR, in order to saveface and prove that they're not hopelessly biased,
will get rid of her. ButI'm sure they're going to hire another
person who's just as bad. Butthat being said, CBS News is now
getting accusations of significant bias after firinglongtime reporter Catherine Herridge, and Catherine Herridge
did a lot of work on theHunter by Laptop story and things of that

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nature, and she got fired andCBS is like, no, no,
we just let her go as partof a mass layoff. Which happens.
Could people get laid off? Imean, I've seen it happen in the
radio industry more times than I caneven count. But that being said,
what makes it weird about the wayshe was laid off is that CBS seized
all of her notes and all ofher data and all of her information and

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all of her confidential informant stuff thatshe had at the office and would not
give it back. Now that iswhere you start to go ooh, that's
weird and hinky. As they sayon Scooby Doo. So a lot of
people are beginning to point out CBS. No. What's what's sad about this

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entire situation from my view, isthat every so often, every so often
we have some kind of dust up, we have some kind of media bias
conflagration, where everybody talks about itfor a few minutes, and then in
two months we've all moved on andnobody's discussing it anymore. And the major
news media outlets are sitting around wonderingwhy no one's watching their product because we

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don't want to see your hopelessly leftwing claptrap. And they never learned,
they never get better that no newsorganization that has been accused of bias has
ever, to my knowledge, andplease if I'm wrong, pointed out nobody
has ever said after these situations thesedust ups occur, nobody's ever come back
and said, you know what,we think you might be right. We

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think maybe we have become too insulatedin our newsroom. We think perhaps we
are not addressing the needs of allof our potential viewers and all of our
of our viewpoints in society. Andso here are the steps that we are
going to take to ensure ideological diversityin our newsroom and in our coverage.

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To my knowledge, none of thesemajor news organizations, newspapers, television stations,
networks have ever done anything remotely likethat. Do you have any clue,
Well, how excited I would be. Now. CNN had a brief
moment where Jeff licked came in andJeff Lickck was trying to make changes,
but he was summarily bounced out ofoffice by the same hardcore lefties that are

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the problem at CNN. The inmatesran the asylum there and got him out,
So now he's gone. I triedto watch CNN hoping to see some
changes, but if you don't havethe buy in of everyone in the newsroom,
you can't do anything. And whatneeds to happen is you need to
have somebody at the top, andNPR would be the perfect way to do
this. You have somebody at thetop that says, I think you guys
are all great journalists, but Ithink that we have an ideological bent that

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ignores half the country and we needto fix it. And I need your
buy in here and here are theconcrete steps we're going to take. As
a matter of fact, I'd beso bold to Steven offer my services as
a right wing fact checker for anyof these people. Send me a story
and I'll tell you where your biasis hanging out. That would be a
super fun job. That would bea and I would use a bluepen,

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not a redpen. Just saying Wholefood shopper in disbelief after claiming she paid
seven dollars for an apple, asshe posts expletive ridden rant, let me
change that headline. Daily mail TikTokerfinds out Whole Foods is expensive. They
don't call it whole paycheck for nothing. People. If you're worried about food

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costs, shop at Walmart. Theysell more organic produce than any other single
retailer in the country. And youcan afford it and not die and not
pay seven dollars for an apple.Although I will say some are calling into
question her claims because that particular apple, which was a delicious sugar bee apple,
there was only three ninety nine pounds. That would mean that she was
like almost a two pound apple.But take it for what it's worth.

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But if you're gonna complain about theprices at Whole Foods, really really all
right? Three Colorado breweries are amongthe US Brewers Associations top fifty in the
United States of America. These arenot surprising, we all know them well.
The first, of course, BreckenridgeBrewery comes in at number six.

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It was just bought by Tilray,a Canadian cannabis lifestyle brand, but it's
still trucking along with their amazing breweryright there on Santa Fe and their delicious
beer. Then, of course,longtime favorite Oscar Blues Brewery is number up
nine, number nine on the list, and Odell Brewing, which is honestly

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their beer my favorite out of allthese, comes in at number twenty five.
We know we love our beer herein Colorado, but now we know
the rest of the country recognizes itis awesome as well. Drill it too,
now, Michael Cooper in for aRod. Have you ever watched Love
Is Blind? I put this storyin here today because Arod loves this show.
I've watched the show. I'm nota regular viewer of it. Yeah,

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he loves this show. Where they'refilming in Denver, so I want
to know. I want to doa Love Is Blind sighting contest where if
you are out in you can goto different places that have already seen them.
Hello Darling at Union Station fourteen,or brewing company Monolith Brewing and retro
Grade, which is a cocktail barlocated in North Capitol Hill. If you
see them, take a picture andlet me know. I don't know why.

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I just think that's kind of cooltoo. Uh. One Aurora neighborhood
has been recognized as one of thebest for foodies, and I was like,
Okay, Aurora, what you got? But then I realized they were
talking about Havana. Havanah Street andAurora was named one of the best food
neighborhoods in the nation, and Ihave to say, I second this nomination.

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Havana is where you go when youwant to find incredibly good ethnic food,
all on one strip. And thething I love about Havana and Aurora
is wherever you go, for themost part, you're going to get a
reasonably priced meal that is going tobe really, really good. So it's
nice to see a street that hasIndian restaurants, Italian restaurants, Korean restaurants,

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knees restaurants, Middle Eastern restaurants,Korean karaoke bars, fried chicken joints,
Boba te shops all in one strip, finally getting the recognition that it
deserves too. Now, I kindof talked about this yesterday in one of
my soda commercials. Since I've beenon the Soda Plan, I'm sleeping like
a baby, which is something thatmy entire life has never happened. Well,

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now doctors who are sleep experts arecoming out to talk about food choices
are a huge part of how wellyou sleep. Some foods can actually create
a sleep disruption, while others willhelp you sleep like a baby. So
if you're having intense nightmares or dreamsand noticing changes in your usual sleep routine,

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look at your diet. Certain foodsand drinks can trigger that in you.
Foods that encourage better sleep include mealswith a good amount of lean protein,
meals that are high in fiber,and meals that are rich in complex
carbohydrates. The standard American diet,full of junk food and sugar and fat
not good for sleep, and itmay explain why so many of us are

(01:09:03):
walking around completely sleep deprived. Anotherstory about side effects from ozempic, and
this one is kind of fantastic ina bad way. Ozempic may not just
help people lose weight by completely tampingdown their appetites. It also affects anything
else that is a dopamine system inour bodies. Now, food makes your

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dopamine go up, makes you happy. But what they're finding with drugs like
ozempic, Manjarro and zip bound thatanything that kicks in dopamine can be dulled
by these drugs, including your libido. People who now here's the upside.
People consistently had a couple of drinksevery evening found they had zero desire to
drink alcohol on the medication. Othersfound their desire to splurge on random items

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in the shops had also decreased.Now, experts have revealed a fascinating new
explain for these wide ranging, curioussymptoms. They say it all has to
do with the drugs impact on dopamine. That means it's entirely feasible that injecting
ozembic could alter your entire personality.Read more about this on the blog.

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I find it incredibly interesting too.And finally, you guys know, I
watched nutrition News because it'll change.It'll change before you know it every single
time, and it has changed again. When it comes to orange juice.
Now you can take this study witha grain of salt as it was funded
by the Florida Department of Citrus.But a study of thirty six normal weight

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adults were tasked with drinking either onehundred percent orange juice, an orange drink,
or water before eating. The researchersfound that food and energy intake was
lower in subjects who drank one hundredpercent orange juice compared to the orange drink.
Calorie compensation from orange juice was eightyfour percent, while the orange drink
was under was my twenty five percent. And caloric compensation is the regulation of

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energy intake by adjusting one's intake basedon previous consumption, meaning you eat less.
That's what it is. There wasno significant difference in average appetite between
the beverages, but blood glucose levelswere lower after people drank the one hundred
percent orange juice. Now here's thekicker. You got to drink the super
pulpy orange juice or it doesn't count. The pulp kind of counter acts the

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blast of sugar that you get.And this only counts for orange juice.
If you drink any other kind ofjuice that doesn't have any pulp in it,
you're just basically drinking a glass ofcolored sugar water. So take that
under consideration. And if you loveorange juice, now's your chance. It
is back in our good graces now. That is the two minute drill at

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two and lots of good stories onthe blog today about that. When we
get back. I want to getinto the two things that are happening right
now when it comes to homeless camps, because I spent a lot of time
beating up the mayor about these plansthat I thought were going to fail.
I think they are failing, butsomething happened yesterday that could indicate a slight

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shift in tactic. And here's thething. I don't care if the mayor
it's not a shift in tactic.If they keep doing it, it is
a shift in tactic no matter howit's messaged. I'll explain after this.
Today in the Denver Gazette, ohdang it, Oh no, I did.
I'll put a link there. Ihad to check that. Today in
the Denver Gazette, they did anarticle about police calls around the homeless hotels

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and the various lodging areas. Thisis turning into a very very contentious issue
because when the mayor came out andunrolled these plans and met with community members.
There was a lot of assurances thatthese new homeless hotels were not going
to have a negative impact on theareas around them, and that has not

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turned out to be true. Andwe have had story after story of businesses
that have been robbed multiple times andnegative impacts of people openly doing drugs outside
of the immediate vicinity of the hotels. And there's a news story and they
talk to a couple who owns abed and breakfast on South Broadway. It

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is the only hotel along the SouthBroadway corridor, and for a long time
the Broadway Bed and Breakfast hotel hasbeen a really nice place for people to
stay. But now the owner saidhe has to watch his wife when she's
out watering the garden because he fearsthat a homeless person is going to come
and start harassing her. They havepeople passed out on a sidewalk, a
drug deal happening in broad daylight,and an intersection, and this guy says

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something that I think is like themost perfect description of what's happening in Denver.
The city is literally falling into thesecond ring of Hell. We are
under siege. Then the Denver Gazettepulled the call logs within one thousand meters
of the Miller's Hotel, three hundredand nine emergency nine to one one calls
were made in the last three monthsof twenty twenty three, but that number

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pales in comparison to the average eighthundred and thirty three calls made within one
thousand meters of Denver's five hotel turnedshelters for homeless people between October first and
January two. And then they havea list of how many of these calls
have been made, and the callsincluded reportings of shootings, drug use,

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theft, other acts of violence,and they sipped it through nine one one
calls. The Denver Gazette did forthree regular hotels, including the Miller's Bed
and Breakfast, located in corridors identifiedby Denver's law enforcement areas as crime as
where crimes are more concentrated, noneof them have attracted as many nine to

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one one calls as the homeless shelters. So wherever these places are set up,
the immediate vicinity around them is incrediblynegatively affected. So it's bad news.
But I got another story. ButI want to address something on the
text line really quick, Mandy.So you're saying that this year there is

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no minimum number of tickets that needto be sold in order for them to
give away the house on the MightyMillions Raffle. Hasn't that been the case
in the past. No, thereis another raffle and I can't remember the
name of right now. That isfor I think Boys and Girls Clubs,
that they have not given away thehouse in the past. The Mighty Millions
Raffle for Children's Hospital Colorado has alwaysevery single year given away the house,

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and they will give away the housethis year. There's no minimum number of
tickets. They give away a houseevery single year. So you have two
raffles. They are separate. TheMighty Millions Raffle that I am talking about
always gives away the house, andthey always have given away the house.
So I just want to clarify that. When do we get back, I'm
going to tell you something that happenedyesterday that gives me a little bit of

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hope that Denver is starting to wakeup that what they're doing right now is
not necessarily working as quickly as itshould. I want to talk about something
that I find super interesting when itcomes to how things are going with Denver
and homelessness. Uh, let's see. Oh wait a minute, the story
has been updated to accurately. We'relike, okay, anyway, I'm just

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going to read from our friends atFox thirty one. Katievr a sudden camping
ban enforcement action on Wednesday at Westfourth Avenue in Kalamouth Street in Denver's Baker
neighborhood, but individuals setting up campin a hard position. The people there
came from an encampment swept in theadjacent Lincoln Park neighborhood the day before.
The unannounced arrival of Denver police officersenforcing the camping van caught many by surprise.

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Craig Beck didn't know what to thinkthey came in and said, because
of the umbrella I had up,I was violating the camping ban and Denver
County. Beck said about thirty fivepeople set up in the area after city
enforcement forced them to leave another encampmentabout a half mile away at Eighth Avenue
and Mariposa Street on Tuesday that never. Police said eleven people were arrested during

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the enforcement because they had warrants forother criminal offenses. People staying at the
encampment say some of their belongings weretaken away together. Denver housing advocate Amy
Beck no relation, said we cannotcontinue this. This is what went on
with Mayor Michael Hancock. It wasineffective then and it's ineffective now. People
at the news site said they thoughtthey had permission to set up there.

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Honestly, I think there's a problemhere that nobody knows the solution to,
said Craig Beck, a member ofthe unhoused population. Another man told Fox
thirty one off camera that he justwants stability. An area business owner who
did not want to be identified,said the trouble started when unhoused people began
arriving. Over the past four days, since they've been getting swept, we

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have seen an uptick and crime.Our neighbor had his ac stolen office roof.
We've had several break ins over thelast four days as well. A
spokesman from Mayor Mike Johnson said thecity is quote monitoring folks from this and
other encampments to try and prevent thegrowth from camps to such a large number
that the site exceeds the number ofavailable housing units. Craig said he'd like

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one of those units, but fornow he'll just have to move again.
Outreach teams are working to provide resourcesfor the homeless through congregate shelters, according
to Johnson's office. However, homelessadvocates say they are concerned camping band enforcement
will continue and more homeless people willend up in jail. So I want

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to direct your attention. Let mefind this. I forgot to pull it
up during the break, so we'rewith me, and I apologize for not
doing this already. The reason thatpeople do not want to enforce the camping
ban is that there was a rulingsome time ago out of Idaho, Iowa,

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Idaho, Iowa, Idaho, outof Idaho that a judge said that,
hang on one second, I'm tryingto find there was a ruling in
Idaho where a homeless guy was rousedand moved along, and this judge found
right out of whole cloth, Imean, just created it out of whole

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cloth, where if a city didnot have a shelter bed available, they
could not enforce a camping van becauseyou've criminalized homelessness at that point. But
there's a case that the Supreme Courteither just heard or will hear Monday.
Yeah, they'll hear it Monday.They're going to hear a case involving homeless

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camping bands and on where people cansleep in public and the dispute evolves whether
laws that punish homeless people with civilcitations for camping on public property are outside
the balance of the constitution. Citieshave been searching for ways to address homeless
encampments that they say threaten public healthand safety as the nation confronts a spike
in homelessness driven in part by highhousing costs and the end of COVID aid

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programs and addiction and mental illness.Shame on CBS News for presenting it this
way, So this case is outof Grant's pass. Oregon there are a
city in southern Oregon that has apopulation of nearly forty thousand people. A
decade ago, it ramped up enforcementof a series of ordinances that bar camping

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on public property or in city parks. A camp site is defined as quote
any place where betting, sleeping bagor other material used for betting purposes,
or any stowe or fire is placed. Violators are subject to fines of at
least two hundred and ninety five dollars, but repeat offenders may be banned from

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a city park for thirty days.If the person violates that order by camping
in a park, they're committing acriminal trespass, punishable by after thirty days
in jail and a twelve hundred andfifty dollars fine. So here we come.
We've got that policy in place.And in twenty eighteen, three homeless
people in Grant's Pass sued the cityon behalf of the homeless population, alleging

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that it's public sleeping and camping ordinancesunconstitutionally punished them by violating the Eighth Amendments
prohibition on Cruel and Unusual punishment.A federal district court an organ ruled for
the challengers and barred Grant's Pass fromenforcing the ordinances. A divided three judge
panel in the US Court of Appealsfor the Ninth Circuit upheld the district courts

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ruling, and the City of Grant'sPass continued to pursue it. And now
it is going to be heard bythe Supreme Court. And this is a
very very important case because this isgoing to set the policy for cities what
they feel like they can do,because once the Idaho case was decided,
cities just gave up enforcing their campingpans. And what's absurd is this.

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Now we go back to the storythat I just told you from Fox thirty
one that they shut down a campthat was getting set up, and this
guy's like, well, I'm justgonna have to move somewhere else. Well,
how about moving to a shelter andthen beginning the process of working with
the I don't know hundreds of peoplewho are out there offering help every day

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only to be told no. Thisis one of the reasons that Aurora is
going to a full on tough lovestrategy because they're tired of offering services to
people who will not take them.And when you were in the throes of
addiction and when you are in apsychotic break situation where you are detached from
reality, you are not going tomake the best decisions for you and for

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all the people who say we justneed to get housing. I saw a
story the other day, and Idon't remember what TV station I saw it,
but they were talking to a couplethat was in one of the homeless
hotels and they were talking about thefact that you know, they're trying to
just you know, kind of gettheir lives together, and they're living in
chaos. This was right after twomore people were shot, but they didn't
die. And the guy said,now, they've been in this hotel for

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a couple months now, right,And he said he was gearing up to
take advantage of the alcohol treatment thatthey've been offering him, gearing up for
it and't done it yet, butgearing up for it. Well, how
how long does he get to sayready set, ready set, ready set
before we push him into go?And I think that's what the City of

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Denver's grappling with, the fact thatthey are no longer allowing these these sites
to get set up and expand tothis, you know, the point where
they have hundreds of people in them, is a very good sign, and
I hope a sign that the Cityof Denver and Mayor Mike Johnston are beginning
to realize that perhaps there's more tothis situation than they first assumed when they

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were out campaigning about how well,we just need to get people into housing
and all will be well. Allis not well. People are still not
getting the help that they need,and they're not being forced to do so,
and in all honesty, what isthe excess strategy to get these people
out of this so called transitional housingif they're not taking treatment and they're not

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getting help for the issues that landedthem on the street in the first place.
And some of these are economic issues, absolutely, some of these are
economic issues. But I think thatis a far smaller percentage of people in
the homeless population than the people whoare either addicted to drugs or alcohol or
are severely mentally ill or both.And as I said, the people in

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that second category, they're not makinggood rational decisions, they're not making good
choices, and we have to thinkabout that. And you know, I
despise the notion of forcing someone todo something for their own good, But
we're not just talking about people whoare living their lives the way they want
to live them without impacting anyone else'sright to life's liberty and the pursuit of

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happiness. And that's where it becomesa problem. When you have people that
are consistently disrupting someone else's ability todo business, someone else's ability to utilize
the services that their tax dollars goto pay for, like parks and playgrounds.
When you have people who have noplace to use the restroom, using

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the restroom in front of businesses,leaving their human feces for someone else to
clean up. That becomes a problemfor everybody else. And at that point
their ability to self determine is over. And that's where we are. So
we'll see what happens. But thiscase before the Supreme Court, we won't
have a ruling until at least Imean June, end of June. But

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it's an important ruling and I hope, I hope, I hope that the
Supreme Court gets it right, becauseif they get it wrong and they codify
this notion that you're not allowed toclean up people who are creating a public
health hazard because you don't have aplace to provide them to live,