04-19-24 FULL SHOW - Whiskey Lovers Listen Up, And Fixing School Funding

Episode Transcript

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Welcome, Welcome, welcome. Ontoday's show, we talk about a lot
of stuff, from school funding inColorado to the woman that designed the mighty
millions Raffle House, to a whiskeyevent to benefit veterans, and then the
unfortunate deaths of Fuzzy Sprinkles, ClaraBell and Snowflake and the fact that Colorado
was a hot bed of syphilis.Yeah, it's one of those kinds of

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shows. You're gonna want to listento the whole thing. Just stick around.
We got a lot of stuff onthe blog today. We got a
lot of guests today. It's goingto be another show. This whole week
has been kind of this in thatshow, which I've enjoyed immensely. I
hope you guys have two. Thatbeing said, let's get to the blog.
You can find it at mandy'sblog dotcom. That's mandy'sblog dot com.
Look for the headline this says fournineteen twenty four blog Whiskey Lovers Listen up

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and fixing school funding. Click onthat and here are the headlines you will
find within. I think with someonewho office half of American allmerships and clipments
say that's going to press play Todayon the blog. Taking from Peter to
pay Paul is not how to fixschool funding Withskey lovers, This one's for
you. Key designed this year's gorgeousshow Home for the Mighty Millions. Raffle,

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Fuzzy Sprinkles, Clara Bell and Snowflakeare all dead. Colorado is a
hotbed of syphilis. Survivors of Octoberseven speak at CU Boulder. It's soft
opening weekend for Elish Gardens, BBStripes back. The Trump hush money jury
has been seated. Matt Gates isa creep. Questions to ask yourself in

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life? Why fear setting can changeyour life? Would you marry your spouse
again? Papa New Guinea isn't happywith Joe's lies about his uncle. Two
minute drill ozembic face is not agood look. Taylor Swift dropped a surprise
double album last night. Apple Lovecensorship. Those idiot kids at Columbia were

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arrested. Scrolling Nike puts female trackand field stars on display. Another gender
clinic stops giving kids puberty Blockers notedplagiarists to teach a class on research at
Harvard. This baby met its match. The real life Simpsons dude wanted it
more. A Rod's new video isout. Five female athletes refuse to compete

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against a male. Those are theheadlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com
and Today's blog. Like I said, as a little of this and a
little of that, I would directyour attention down to the bottom of the
blog where A Rod's new video.His new Top ten Tour video is out.
This one about considering your first cruise. So you and Jos lit a

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leaning into the whole cruise thing,because first of all, it's awesome.
Twenty two days, twenty one hour, not that you're counting or anything.
We've done stupid amounts of research.Yeah, so much so. We were
talking to my cousin yesterday who hasbeen on as she told me yesterday,
sixteen cruises. Yeah, once youstart, you just it's like, you
know, you keep going. Notonly that, but I had some some

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affirmation because a lot of the stuffthat she is telling us, I'm saying,
like, Yep, are that yep? Are you ready to go with
that? Yep? That or that'sa little detail. I maybe you didn't
know that. Twice in all conversation, something that was totally new to me.
So I think we're ready. I'mexcited about you guys. I mean
we're having gone yet, and Ithink we're ready to help other people be
ready. Exactly right, exactly so. And the videos are great. They

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do a really really good job.So if you want to hit the subscribe
button, it would be great forthem as well. Now, I want
to start today by talking about Israel'sretaliatory strike on Iran and this entire situation,
though it could eventually blow up intoWorld War three, I don't know,

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but right now, do you rememberin high school or middle school when
everybody was like, oh, yeah, these two people are they're going to
fight this afternoon. They're gonna fightbehind the school or whatever. And everybody's
like, oh yeah, So everybodyin the school shows up to watch this
fight, and it's patently obvious fromthe very beginning that neither of those two
people actually want to fight. Sothey do a lot of like jogging around

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in a circle, kind of sizingeach other up, and then maybe a
quick jazz and then maybe a headthing, and then it's over and you're
like, that was a completely unsatisfactoryfight. But obviously they don't want to
fight. This is exactly what's goingon between Israel and Iran. There was
like some girls slaps, and thenthat was it, because Iran of course

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fired a bunch of super slow missileswhile telegraphing the entire time that they were
going to send the missiles. Heyguys, we are sending some missiles.
We're sending them. They're on theway, they're headed towards Israel, and
they're kind of slow because their cruisemissiles. But don't you shoot them out
of the air, Israel? Thatwould be bad? And so what at
Israel and the United States and Franceand Jordan. They shot them all out

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of the air. Okay, great? Like one landed, one kid was
injured, an Arab boy ironically wasinjured from shrapnel. That it was a
big nothing burger. So what doesIsrael do back? They send some missiles,
like five or whatever. There wasjust a handful, and they send
them to a remote military base andIran says they were all taken out by

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their air defenses, so there wasno damage whatsoever. Okay, great,
Can we be done with this now? Can we move on? Can we
stop with this? When I wasin college, I was at a party
and I was stone cold sober atthis party. I don't remember the circumstances
of why I was stone cold sober, but I was. And I was

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purposely not drinking at this party forsome reason. Maybe I was on a
round of antibiotics. I don't know, but you know how it is to
be the stone cold sober person arounda bunch of drunk people, just a
bunch so in this party, itwasn't a huge party, it was just
a house party. There's maybe fiftypeople there. During this party, two
guys start kind of jawing at eachother like oh yeah, yeah, were

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yeah you could so. I literallythey're standing face to face. I walked
up. I grabbed one guy's armand I tapped the other guy's face.
And then I grabbed the other guy'sarm and I tapped the other guy's face,
and I'm like, okay, canwe be done now? Can we
can we just is this over?And they both were like yeah, that's
fine and they walked away. Thisis what this was ron in Israel.
Now. Do I think Israel madea mistake by retaliating. I do not.

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And it goes directly towards the Arabmentality when it comes to things like
this, you know, one ofthe worst things that we do in the
United States. And in all honesty, this is my issue with these idiot
kids who are out there protesting forHamas because they don't understand how the Arab
mind is different than ours. Itis a cultural difference that is significant.

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You know, here in the UnitedStates, we look and using sports as
an example, if you have abasketball player and they kind of mix it
up with another basketball player and somebodygets knocked to the ground, unless they
have a long standing beef, chancesare they're going to reach over and help
that other player up right. Yousee it in football too. You see
it in football we're opposing team members, they reach over, and you know,

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in our culture you're like, oh, that guy's a good guy.
In Arab culture, that is seenas a sign of weakness. Anytime you
don't respond to aggression, you areseen as weak and it invites more attacks.
So if Israel had simply not doneanything, it would have just been
seen as a sign of weakness andcapitulation, and it would have been an

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open invitation to continued attacks. Butby striking back knowing they probably weren't going
to do any damage. If anyand if they did do damage, it
was going to be confined to amilitary base. Israel has sort of said,
We're not gonna put up with yourstupid attacks. Now, we're gonna
let you off the hook with thisone because you know, we're not looking

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for anything more. And by theway, that was the same thing Iran
did. Iron Files fires all thesemissiles. They get everybody on the phone
like, yeah, we just fireda bunch of missiles at Israel. We're
gonna take oh, Israel's going Andthen before the missiles even landed in Israel,
they take to Twitter to say,we consider this to be the end
of the matter. We're not interestedin anymore fighting. These two countries don't

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want an open war, especially Iran, because Iran right now is in the
catbird seed. Iran has all ofthese proxies in the hoothies, has blow
on Humas to do all of theirdirty work for them without any of the
actual realities of Iranians being dragged intoa war. Because here's what I would
imagine now if I'm Israel, thisis my war plan against Iran, and

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you know you can do it thisway? You will my war plan against
Iran looks like this. The firstthing I hit, first thing, before
military bases, before anything else.I take out their entire oil infrastructure,
blow it all to smithereens, blowup every oil rig that I can find,
every oil field, every oil storagesite, everything related to oil,

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because you immediately destroy what's left ofIran's economy in one fell swoop, and
then you go after military bases.Israel is tiny, you guys. Tiny.
It is a fraction of the sizeof Iran. So if you come
into Israel and you attack Israel,unless you attack a music festival full of
young people, you have very littleoption to attack Israel without hitting people,

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just because the country is so small. And they're never going to attack Jerusalem
because it is home of the AloxamMosque. They would never do that,
even though you know it would.There's as many Arabs in Jerusalem. Not
as many, but there's a lotof Arabs in Jerusalem and there's holy sites
there. It would be a disasterfor them. And why wad into that

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When you've got Hamas has Blah andthe hoothies that are willing to do it
for you. They just keep shovelingguns and weapons. Now, Israel's got
enough on his plate. They don'twant to have to deal with Iran as
well. And when Joe Biden saidWe're not going to back you if you
attack Ron, that created a hugeproblem. But they still had no choice
but to lob some kind of responsebecause if they hadn't, first of all,

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would have been a huge propaganda talkingpoint. Huge and that's the last
thing we need. I mean,Israel is the victim of so much propaganda
already. We don't need any morepropaganda. But that being said, something
had to be done, and Ithink Israel did the best thing that it
could do, which is hurlsome missilesand an isolated military base and know that

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you're not going to really do anydamage. So there you go. So
that was the war between Iran andIsrael. So far seems to be over
for now. Again, it couldblow up into World War three at some
point. I don't know. Anythingis possible. We won't know for a
while. Now. What I findinteresting is the White House has had a
no comment on Israel's strike on Iran. Why not say, for you,

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you know your strong ally Israel,why not say the following. We understand
that Israel felt the need to takeaction, but we're glad that their response
was measured and that no one waskilled. There you go, there you
go, because that puts a rounon notice that we still have Israel's back,
and so much of this stuff isjust posturing. It's just posturing and

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nonsense. And yet we have toplay this game because the testosterone ridden Mullahs
are. You know, they've gotto have their honor taken care of.
So here you go. Let's justplay this dumb game and move forward.
So that is all I'm saying onthat. I also want to say fairly
briefly, so yesterday I spent alot of time yesterday afternoon reading about the

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Trump jury and how that's going.And this I'm just gonna say it.
There's a zero percent chance that Trumpis going to get a truly fair trial.
These jury members, one of themis a single woman who works in
tech, and she says she hasno strong opinions about Donald Trump. I

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do not believe that. I don'tbelieve that a lot of one woman was
questioned hard about her participation in theWoman's March, Like if you went and
marched in the Woman's March, youdo not get to say you don't have
strong opinions about Trump, because theentire march was about Trump. It wasn't

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about anything else. It was aboutTrump. One woman actually said, oh,
I don't. I don't have reallya strong opinion about Trump. But
his followers are awful. They're racistand homophobic, and it's like, oh,
okay, okay, sure, buthe only needs one on the jury
and there are seven men, fivewomen, And I think that skews well

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for Donald Trump, because overall,I think men are more likely to understand
the argument of I didn't particularly wantthis affair trotted out in front of the
world because I didn't want tombars myfamily, which is a legit argument,
I think. And don't get mewrong, I don't think all men would
be like, yeah, that's agood I mean, but I think men
are more likely to be amenable tothat sort of argument. So we'll see.

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I just this the whole thing,and I said it before. Out
of all the charges that Trump isfacing, these are the most ridiculous to
me, just absolutely ridiculous. Andlast night I went and relooked at what
Michael Cohen actually went to prison forbecause somebody sent an email yesterday or a

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text message yesterday that said something alongthe lines of, well, Michael Cohen
has already been felt guilty of this. No, no, that's not what
Michael Cohen went to jail for.He went to jail for tax evasion,
and he went to jail because heexceeded campaign donations because of this. But
the funny thing about campaign finance laws, it's never the candidate who goes to
jail, because otherwise the Hillary Clintoncampaign would have not been just fined one

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hundred and thirty one thousand dollars formisreporting how they paid for the Steele dossier.
Instead of putting it as a lineitem opposition research, they put it
as a legal expense and then ranit through a law firm to Cooy Perkins
to hide the fact that they actuallypaid for the dossier, the Steele dossier.

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But Hillary Clinton was never charged withanything for that because the candidates,
somehow in campaign finance reform, neverget held responsible for these kinds of quote
donations, just the people who makethem. And I heard Rosse this earlier
and I stand by it one hundredpercent. It is not illegal to pay
hush money for something that is notillegal, and like it or not,

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the laws that used to make adulteryillegal. Have been off the books for
a very very long time, andI don't see anybody rushing to put them
back on the books. So havingan affair with a porn star and then
paying her to shut up about itis not illegal because he did not pay
her for sex, which would beillegal in prostitution. He paid her to

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shut up about sex. So thisis going to be This is ridiculous.
This entire thing is ridiculous. AndI was talking to a friend yesterday.
He sent me a text and said, who's going to step in if Trump
gets convicted. I'm like, oh, no, He'll still be the candidate.
He'll still be the candidate if hegets convicted. But I'm not certain

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he's going to be convicted in thiscase. It really depends on what the
makeup of the jury actually is,and we don't know that. We do
not know that until the verdict comesin. But man, what a dumpster
fire of a show this is.Took him a week to see the jury,
and then people kept dropping out laterbecause it was too challenging and they

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weren't completely honest. Let's be real. When you have someone who's on the
jury come back and say, youknow what, my dad is a lifelong
fan, our friend of Chris Christie's, and I don't think I can be
fair. Why didn't you say thatearlier because they were trying to get in
to stack the jury. Just throwingthat out there, just throwing that out
there. So it is time towatch this trial with great interest. We'll

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see what's happening. But today onthe show, we got a lot of
guests today and I'm pretty excited aboutthis. First of all, coming up
at one point thirty, my colleaguehere at iHeartRadio, Jack Jela, is
part of an organization called the VeteransWhiskey Society, and they use whiskey to
raise money for veterans causes. Theydonate to different causes. He's going to

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come in and talk about their upcomingwhiskey event. We've got Joanne Brush with
Casey and Company. She's the onewho designed the most beautiful show Home for
the Mighty Millions Raffle. We're goingto talk to her for a few minutes
about that. And then Aaron Kane, the superintendent of Douglas County Schools,
testified, or she was supposed totestify yesterday about this push to change the

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school funding formula. And guys,you cannot believe how complicated that is.
And let's just say they're what they'reconsidering now is not an imp So all
that's coming up will be right backwhen we get back. Fuzzy Sprinkles,
Clara Bell, and Snowflake are alldead. I'll explain next on the break.

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I'm on Twitter, ex whatever,and there's video. Christian Toto tweeted
it out. I just retweeted it. Climate Defiance, a hard left environmental
organization, posted their video announcing thatthey just shut down a gala honoring US
Senator Lisa Murkowski. They say Murkowskiis a murder Wait, let me give

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the right voice here. We justshut down at gala honoring US Senator Lisa
Murkalski. Murkowski is a murderer.She incinerates us to enrich her cronies as
Chevron's top lobbyist gave her an award. We stepped in and stopped the ceremony.
Respect us or expect us. Nowthe video, you guys, they

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are in a ballroom and you knowhow they have the small raised stage maybe
two feet up in the air withthe two steps going up. I mean
it's pretty common setup. The Iguess security comes in and the last part
of this scene is everyone falling offthe side of the stage in a big
clump of people. I don't knowif Senator Murkowski is in that clump of

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people, but if nobody got hurt, I'm shocked. But can we end
the narrative that it is the rightthat we need to worry about being violent?
Can we stop with that already,because frankly, number one, the
right has all the guns if wewanted to be violent, you know it.
Number Two, this kind of stuffwhere people are physically assaulting other people

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in order to get their stupid assmessage out there, like that's going to
convince anyone. They are getting moreand more violent. They are ramping up
the kind of violence that they areengaged in, and it's these are the
people we need to be worried aboutwell, because they think they're on the
side of saving the world. Oneof the problems fighting religious fundamentalist is that

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they will never stop because they believethey are fighting for God. Now imagine
believing you're fighting to save the world. That's a powerful motivator, a really
powerful motivator that we have to recognizeas being extremely potentially dangerous, and the
notion that somehow we need to beworrying about Moms for Liberty or some other

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organization on the right because they careabout the Constitution and that's some kind of
threat because they understand the Second Amendment. My gosh, you have to be
willfully ignoring all of the stuff thatis happening from the left. We saw
it in the so called Summer ofLove, the mostly peaceful protests where they
only burn down a I don't know, forty billion dollars worth of stuff.

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Forty three people died, and yetwe're still being told that we need to
worry about pro life activists who sitdown outside an abortion clinic. Those people
are being charged and they face elevenyears in prison. What are these protesters
going to face? Probably nothing,I mean, not for nothing. And

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I do not wish that anyone ishurt. But I sure hope Lisa Murkowski
was in this wad of people thatcrashes to the ground, because then maybe
they'll get a charge with assaulting asenator. Maybe there's some teeth behind that.
These people are becoming more and moreand more violent because they keep getting
away with it. Not only didpeople. To my knowledge, nobody that

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created the havoc in Denver in twentytwenty has ever been prosecuted. Are you
aware of anyone who's been prosecuted,because I'm not. And conversely, a
lot of those people then sued thepolice and got a settlement, So we
are paying them for their violent behavior. So why would they stop? Why
would they stop when they can shutdown the Brooklyn, when they can shut

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down the Golden Gate Bridge, Andthey're just like, come as if you
rolled your car up going ten milesan hour to just push them out of
the way, they would fall downin front of you and scream like a
soccer player flopping for a foul.They understand the pr and they're gonna use
it. Now. I have astory on the blog today, and this
is gonna seem totally unrelated, butI have a story on the blog today

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at the very bottom, five studentathletes in track and field in West Virginia
refused to compete against a male whohad decided he was female. They were
all shot put athletes. They allwalked into the circle and then they walked
back out the circle to indicate theywere not going to take their turn.
That's the kind of peaceful resistance thatpeople who are not insane need to understand

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has to happen on a regular basis. This stuff is being allowed to get
out of control. It's the samekind of nonsense on college campuses. We
did talk about the fact yesterday thatpolice were rounding up people at Columbia University,
and you know what, they arrestedone hundred and eight people. One
of them was the daughter of IlhanOmar, the noted anti Semitic member of

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Congress from Minnesota. Her daughter goesto Columbia and was part of this pro
Hoomas takeover of the Green and I'mthrilled that Columbia had them arrested, but
they better kick them out of school. You have the right to protest,
but you don't have the right toprotest and be disruptive and create havoc with
no repercussions. I gotta tell youthe DNC this year, they better call

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out the National Guard. It's gonnabe insane because the same people that are
doing this stuff to Lisa Rakowski,although she is an independent who leans right,
they're gonna be the same ones thatare doing this at the Democratic National
Convention because now they've decided that Joeis genocide Joe, and they're there to
break stuff and burn things down.They're there to try and create as much

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havoc as they can. And thisis what passes for protests these days,
whether it sees idiots who keep runningto throw soup on a major work of
art in a museum to protest oil, which honestly, can anybody draw that
connection for me, because I've tried. I've tried to figure out, Okay,
what does a work by Monet haveto do with oil and gas?

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These people are insane and they believethey're on the side of the world.
We're saving Mother Earth. We're savingit for all of you. Even if
you don't realize that we're saving itfor you. You're too stupid to realize
that we're the saviors of the world. I mean, it's getting out of
control and somebody's got to do something. I don't know what, but I
would say I sure hope that Columbiakicks those students out, allow the protesters

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really to be released from jail onlywhen their fathers pick them up. They'd
be in there forever. I know. I would have been the most interesting
thing is Act Blue, which isthe fundraising arm of the Democratic Party,
has teamed up with a George Sorosbacked organization to provide legal fees, bail,
and find money for all of thesepeople, so there is no repercussion

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other than an arrest on their recordthat they can proudly point to as that
time I tried to save the earth. The Democratic Party is propping up all
of this madness and all of thiscraziness they started back when they started propping
up people who were burning stuff downduring the back Black Lives Matters protests,
and now they're backing hamas protesters.They're paying their fines because they are on

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the side right now of people whorape and murder and lop off heads with
hoes and do all kinds of horrificthings because they're too stupid to understand the
history of the Middle East, andthey've just decided that because Jews are successful,
that they must be oppressors. That'show stupid these people are. Got

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it annoying anyway, Okay, whenwe get back, I am well,
I just want to I'll preface thisby saying this. I got a text
message that said the following. Letme see here blah blah blah. One
second, I gotta find this umandyas a wyoming ie. I have never

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met a rancher that names the calves. Where did you get these names?
I'll share that next Right after this, just as we are still mourning the
loss of pickles and buttercup, newscomes that there's been more bloodshed and now
fuzzy Sprinkles Clara Bell and snowflake EarlDad. If you're keeping count, that's

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six cows in sixteen days murdered bywolves that were brought in by the vote
of liberals on the Front Range.And uh one, one thing that I
you know, in all of mysarcastic glory, have not been making clear.
One of the promise that was madeto ranchers was that none of the
wolves that were going to be broughtin would have a history of livestock depredation,

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which is basically hunting livestock. Rightwhen you think about it, if
you're a if you're a wolf,hunting livestock is kind of like shooting fish
in a barrel, right in thatthere's they're not used to being hunted,
so their instincts are not as sharpas say, you know, pronghorn on

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the you know on the planes whereyou know pronghorn or spooky, like you
come up on a pronghorn accidentally andthey're gonna take off. Cows not so
much, and cows aren't exactly builtfor speed anyway. So now you have
all these cows. You have thetwo of course, pickles and buttercup or
baby cows. And yes, Irealize that they are called calves to the

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nice texture who pointed out, butI think baby cows has a better emotional
punch, so I realized they werebaby cows. These are yearling cows,
so a little bit older, butstill not able to outrun the vicious predators
that these wolves are proving to be. We do know now that at least
two of the wolves that came fromOregon did have a history of livestock depredation,

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and that means the government lied.Now wait, airs my shocked face,
the government lied, Mandy. Ican hear you all in your cars
right now with the vapors, like, no, no way. But now
we've lost six head of cattle.And by the way, there have been
other attacks, but the cows survived, and other ranchers say they're pretty sure

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that some other cattle have been takenas well. Now, you know what's
interesting. In one of the storiesthat I linked to on the blog today
about this, they show one ofthe murdered baby cows. And you know,
if you watch animal shows like Ido, and you see things like
a lion takedown on a you know, a water buffalo or something just for

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instance, you know what happens nextis that all the lions come around and
they rip that thing to shreds,right, They destroy it, They eat
it, they eat every part ofit, and then the carry on birds
come in and they pick it clean, and then all this leftist bones.
These wolves are not even eating thesecows, they're just killing them. Because

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this cow looked like it was inone piece. I mean maybe the rancher
got there right after they killed it. I don't know, but it looked
like, I mean, obviously deadand bloody, but it was not ripped
to shreds. I don't know.I think I would feel better about that.
But this feels a little Jurassic Park. Remember the dinosaurs that killed for
sport kind of what this feels like. And maybe wolves do kill for sport.

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Maybe some wolf expert in our audiencecan text me the answer on the
common Spirit health text line. Thisperson pointed out, plus most are in
some sort of fenced confinement at thistime of year because it's calving season and
ranchers need to be able to goand help a cow that is struggling in
having a baby cow. What happenswhen a human gets killed by wolves?

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You know, people keep saying that, but wolves are not necessarily one of
those wild animals that attacks humans.I look this up not too long ago,
and there's not a big track record, like hippopotamuses kill way more people
than wolves kill every year. I'mpretty sure mountain lions kill more people than

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wolves kill every year. But whatis going to happen is that wolves are
going to move into a neighborhood andI hope it's in Boulder. Oh please,
please, wolf gods, let itbe in Boulder, and they're gonna
start eating pets and people are gonnahave confrontations with wolves, and then the
entire tone in Tender is gonna change. Yeah, So the wolves are coming
onto private property from public lands,correct, texture, Mandy, All wolves

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I have a history of depredation.It's called evolution, but specifically livestock depredation
is what they're talking about. Sothere you go. These wolves attacks were
so predictable, it's what they do. Yeah, but the liberals on the
front range that voted to bring themback don't care. They're so pretty.

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Have you ever seen a wolf upclose? Oh my gosh, it's like
the prettiest thing ever. So ripfuzzy Sprinkles, Clarabelle and Snowflake. I'm
sure that when you got to thePurly Gates, Pickles and Buttercup were there
to just say, yeah, weknow, we know. When we get

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back, Colorado is a hot bedof syphilis. Oh yeah, we're talking
about that next. A lot ofyou are hitting the common Spirit health text
line saying, hey, can theranchers kill these wolves that are killing their
animals? Well, that is oneof the things that the ranchers in Grand
County are now asking Polis because thedeal was is that you were supposed to

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try and use non lethal methodology andthat the Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife
was going to describe or what amI trying to say here, was going
to determine what chronic depredation actually meant. Well, it seems like these two
wolves are. They're at it andthey're going to continue this until something happens,

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right, So they're asking the governorand Dan Gibbs, who's the head
of Parks and Wildlife, to goahead. And you know what, oh,
here we go. Sorry about that. I'm trying to log into the
Denver Gazette. I couldn't find thelog in button there. So they're trying
to get the government now to givethem a definition. How many cows does

(31:49):
a wolf have to kill before itis allowed to be killed, because apparently
it's the same two. You know, they have collars on these wolves,
so they should be able to tellwhere these animals are and where they have
been. And this group sent aletter that said there have been five confirmed

(32:13):
confirmed depredations of Grand County, butour producer is now more familiar with the
signs of wealth depredation wolf depredations,believe they've experienced multiple additional attacks and kills.
The group officially requested to the ColoradoParks and Wildlife and US Fish and
Wildlife to lethally remove these two chronicallydepredating wolves. And the problem is is

(32:34):
that they may be teaching other wolveshow to do this. So there you
go. There you go. Now, before we get to the syphilist story,
can we I just saw pictures,I did not see video of the
man who set himself on fire outsideof the Trump trial. Holy cow,
And a Texter said, Mandy,imagine being so trump deranged, either against

(32:58):
him or for him, that youset yourself on fire outside of his trial.
That is, that is such ahorrible thing to even consider. But
you're right, like, what happenedto this person that they either set themselves

(33:20):
on fire in protest of this trialor in support of this trial. But
either way, they thought that DonaldTrump was so important that they could set
themselves on fire outside his trial insome kind of statement. We don't know.

(33:44):
It's just it's shocking, absolutely shocking. So now we've got to get
to a more local story, andthis one, Yeah, this one is
interesting. This is the kind ofstory that I see and I'm like,
my god, I'm glad I'm notsaying, well, I'm glad I'm not
out there in the dating world.Colorado is apparently a hotbed of syphilis.

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Syphilis cases in adults have tripled overthe last five years. There's been a
sevenfold increase reported among newborns during thesame time period in twenty twenty four we've
had so far and now we're onlyon April nineteenth, so far we've had
twenty five cases of congenital syphilis.And though syphilis in a human being starts

(34:32):
out pretty easy to cure, nobig deal. You take some meds,
it goes away, it doesn't youknow, it's fine. But if you
allow it to linger and you don'tget treatment, it can cause significant,
significant issues, including it starts toeat your brain and you lose your mind.
But for babies, it is extremelyserious. It can lead to stillborn

(34:57):
births, it can lead to congenitalbirth effects, it can lead to death,
and twenty five babies born with syphilisis way too many. You know,
when I got pregnant at thirty nine, I was in a committed relationship
with my husband obviously, and yetthey still did all STD testing at the
beginning of my pregnancy, and themidwives were like, look, we do

(35:19):
this because a lot of times peoplejust don't know that they have them,
and they can be really horrible forbabies. But unfortunately, there is a
lot of women apparently out there thatdon't receive any any healthcare before their babies
are born any prenatal healthcare at all, and so what we're seeing now is

(35:40):
people having syphilis, not knowing it, and passing it along to their child
with tremendous, horrible, horrible outcomes. The number of people with syphilis has
skyrocketed to levels not seen since thenineteen fifties. Cases have increased eighty percent
between eighteen and twenty twenty two.Now I know what all y'all were doing

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during the pandemic. In Colorado,cases have more than tripled from one thousand
and eighty four in twenty eighteen tothree thousand, two hundred and sixty six
in twenty twenty three, and thenagain a sevenfold increase in the number of
babies that have been born with syphilis. Three thousand cases were reported last year,

(36:27):
fifty were among newborns. Since thebeginning of the year, we've had
twenty five and the increase we'll putColorado on track to probably have more than
one hundred cases by the end ofthe year. You know, I grew
up at the beginning like I cameof age, I guess in my teen
years at the beginning of the AIDSepidemic. So we had messages, especially

(36:52):
in college constantly drilled into our headsabout safer sex, about you know,
using a condom, how to usea on and properly never have sex without
economy. Does that still happen?Are we not doing that anymore? Are
people running around having unprotected sex becausewomen are on birth control? What is
happening in the world. It's beena long time since I've been in the

(37:14):
dating pool, a long time sinceI've had to have awkward conversations with someone
where things were about to get moreserious, but we had the awkward conversations.
So I don't know, I don'tknow. We shall see. But
if you're out there dating in Colorado, be where syphilis is lurking around every

(37:36):
corner. A couple of things onthe blog that I want to get to
before we move on. I've gottwo videos, and you know I'm obsessed
with humor and labs and thank you, thank you, thank you, thank
you to the listener who made mea PDF of the Andrew Huberman article so
I could read it. I'm gonnaread it this weekend. But this conversation
with Andrew Humerman, he's talking toTimothy Ferris. If you're not familiar with

(37:59):
Timothy Ferris, he's the guy whowrites The Four Hour work Week. He
is a fascinating guy. I mean, Timothy Ferris is kind of like Elon
Musk in a way. Hear meout in that Timothy Ferris, the way
his brain works is different than otherpeople's brains. Elon Musk is the same
way Elon Musk thinks about things andsees things that other people either immediately discard

(38:22):
as crazy and then Elon Musk turnshim into a company. But Timothy Ferris
does that. And have you everread The Four Hour Workweek? A rod
No, it's a great book.It's four hour day, four hour,
four hour work week, and itis a It's a fascinating book, but

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I don't think it is practical advicefor most people. But he does have
a ton of stuff in there thatis very useful if you're trying to use
your time more efficiently, trying tobe more effective at what you're currently working
on. He does a lot ofstuff on focus, he does a lot
of stuff on overcoming obstacles. AndI really like him. I've liked him
for a long time. And he'sgot a conversation A snippet of his conversation

(39:05):
with Andrew Huberman about questions to askyourself in life if you're stuck right,
But that led me to a secondvideo. It's a TED talk that Timothy
Ferris gave that I think is incrediblygood. So it's a TED talk.
It's like thirteen minutes long. Butif you have been wanting to do something
new, or make a change,or start something or whatever, and you're
stuck on ready set most of thetime, and I'm so guilty of this

(39:30):
very same thing. Oh my gosh, so guilty. We talk ourselves out
of things before we give ourselves anopportunity to actually see if something is feasible.
I have thought of so many businessideas and then talk to myself out
of them in the last thirty years. I can't even count them on two
hands and all my toes. BecauseI have a tremendous fear of failure.

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It's been paralyzing for me at timesand has led me to not try something
because I knew I was going tostruggle with it and possibly fail. I'm
better at that now than I havebeen in the past, much better at
that than I have been in thepast. But ultimately, I think it's
a really common thing to say,oh, I have this great idea,

(40:14):
but here's all the reasons that Ican't do it. And in the second
video that Tim Ferriss has on theblog today, he talks about instead of
goal setting. I mean, everybodycan goal set and you're like, oh,
dream big, write down your dreamsand all this stuff, and that's
very effective in its own way too, but he said, it's time to
do some fear setting, and hewalks through a process of how you define

(40:36):
your fears. And basically, theprocess is going to take you through and
you are going to define your fearand then you are going to mitigate that
fear by coming up with concrete stepsof what you will do if this happens.
And it was very, very interesting, and I'm wondering how many of
you are out there now with agreat business idea or an idea for or

(41:00):
something to make your life better ormore effective. Or maybe it's starting a
new relationship or asking someone out,or maybe it's ending a relationship that is
no longer working for you. Itcould be a myriad of things. But
this is a really, really goodstrategy and I thought it would be interesting
to find out for my listening audience, because I think you guys are really
smart if you have in the pastsuffered with that fear of failure, because

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I think fear of failure is probablyone of the most common fears that we
have, and it prevents a lotof us from stepping out and trying new
things because we don't want to bethe person who didn't get it done or
the person who couldn't do it.And when I turned forty, I'm now
about to turn fifty five. WhenI turned forty, I made the year

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I turned forty the year I wasgoing to say yes. I was just
gonna say yes, and people invitedme to do things. I was going
to say yes. And in thatyear, actually no, maybe I was
forty five. I was forty fivewhen I did this, because well after
I had Q when I was fortyfive, I got to go to Fort
Knox, Kentucky and go through aseries of training exercises that the soldiers there

(42:07):
have to do, and I failedmiserably at every single one of them.
But you know what, I hada blast. I had an absolute blast.
I learned how to repel like ayou know where you're just kind of
it was ugly. I possumed.People in the military know exactly what that
is. And I and when Igot to the bottom, the nice young

(42:29):
man that was helping me looked atme and was like, well, that's
not the worst one we've seen.And I did that thing where you hang
onto a rope and you go handover hand and you pull yourself over a
river. You know what I'm talkingabout. You see it in the movies,
So y'all. I got on thatrope and I was hand over hand,
hand over hand, hand over,I was flying. I just knew
that I was about to be acrossthat river. And then I'd dropped my
head back. I'm like a quarterof the way across the river. But

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in doing these things and failing prettysignificantly at all of them, but not
when it really mattered, I realized, like, what did I get out
of it? I got a senseof accomplishment because I did something I've never
done. But ultimately, you haveto start overcoming those fears if you're going
to accomplish anything in life. Thepeople that I know that regret the most

(43:13):
at the end of their lives oras they get older are the people who
will fully admit they were too afraidto pursue anything, and this strategy by
Tim Ferriss I think is absolutely soso so good, so so so good.
Ralph says, I have failed enoughthat I learned things. No fear,
Now there you go, Mandy.Is the rise in syphilis in any

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way related to illegal immigrants or homelessness, asked this texter. You know,
I don't think so, because itpredated the big influx of immigrants. It
may it may not. I doknow that there are other diseases that are
being brought in, and this isn'tan oh, look at those dirty people
kind of comment. But they don'thave mass vaccinations like we do in many

(43:59):
Central South American countries. So therehave been cases of tuberculosis. I know
measles is on the rise, andother illnesses like that, But I cannot
say. I would think that therise in syphilis has more to do with
the rise of drug culture, homelessness, people not getting proper medical care and
that sort of situation. But Idon't know the answer to that for sure.

(44:21):
I would say. Maybe this personsays same fear here. I'm in
my mid fifties. I don't likemy job, but I'm too chicken to
go elsewhere, worried that it won'twork out and I'll have to find something
crappy and not retire on schedule.I would ask you to do this.
Go watch this video by Tim Ferris. Texter, I don't know who you
are, but I have a challengefor you. Watch this video by Tim

(44:42):
Ferris and do this exercise that helays out. He lays it out very
clearly, and then think about it, because you know, we always tend
to think. And at one pointin this exercise you have to answer the
question what is the cost of inaction? So you lay out and then you
have to lay out what is thecost of inaction my mental health for the

(45:05):
next fifteen years? What is that? You know? You have to lay
it out. It's a fascinating exercise. I just thought it was really,
really, really interesting. Mandy saysthis Texter. It seems like it's time
to start issuing condoms like they usedto from AIDS in the late eighties.
Medical platoon sergeant used to stand behindthe formation with a big box. Oh
my gosh, you just reminded meof the funniest thing ever. So one

(45:28):
day in college I used to hangout with a group of guys, and
I walk into the house where they'reall sitting around watching something on TV,
like wrestling or something, and theyall have brown paper bags sitting in front
of them, like lunch size bags, you know what I mean. And
they're full, They're obviously full ofsomething. They're folded over, and I
was like, what did everybody bringa bag lunch today? And they're like,

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oh no, no, we wentto the health department and got condoms.
Okay, guys, if you hadseen this particular group of guys and
then seen the number of condoms thatthe health's department get them, I looked
at each and every one of themin the face and I was like,
in your lifetime, you are nevergonna have enough sex to use all of
these condoms. I don't know ifthat's true, but at that moment,

(46:10):
I would have bet my life onit. But they went back the next
month and got another bag. Iwas like, what are you doing stockpiling
in case you actually get a girlfriend? Spoiler alert, they did not get
a girlfriend. Nope, nope,nope. Measles are on the rise from
anti vaxxers. Also true, alsotrue, seniors are the fastest growing STD

(46:34):
group. Aren't they I've read thattoo, that's not part of the article
that I shared, meaning senior citizens. And yes, there is a massive
rise in uh A venereal disease amongUH seniors because when you can't get pregnant
anymore, you seem to think,okay, there you go. But you
know, in some of these places, some of these UH retirement communities,

(46:58):
people are getting busy left and right. So no matter your age, take
care of yourself. And if youthink you've been exposed, please just go
get a test, because especially withsyphilis, this is like an antibiotic thing.
No big deal, not a problem, not a big deal, Just
go do it. Now. Ihave an update from yesterday our story about

(47:19):
Joe Biden and Papa New Guinea.Remember he said his uncle Ambrose got shot
down in the Pacific in Papua NewGuinea, but they never found his body
because at the time there's a lotof cannibals in Papua New Guinea. Well,
guess who is not happy about thatstory. If you guessed Papa New
Guinea, you guessed correctly. PapaNew Guinea essentially said, look, dude,

(47:43):
if a white man dropped out ofthe sky, they weren't exactly,
just going to feast on him.It was a ceremonial thing, the cannibalism
that they engaged in, because itwas to eat a loved one after they
passed away, something along those lines. But Papua New Guinea is now demanding
a retraction and demanding an apology,neither of which will be forthcoming. Because

(48:07):
Joe Biden really believes that his unclewas killed by cannibals, just like he
believes that he grew up in aPuerto Rican, Greek, Irish Italian neighborhood
in scrant Pennsylvania. He believes thesethings, and as George Costanza says,
it's not a lie if you believeit. I think that's really how Joe

(48:28):
Biden lives his life. It's nota lie if you believe it. So
we have a lot of guests todayon the show. We have our first
guest coming up in just a fewminutes, my colleague Jack Jela. He
is part of an organization that useswhiskey to raise money. And you know,
if you want people to get loosewith their wallets, it's about time

(48:49):
to give them whiskey. But there'smore to it than that. So he's
going to come up next and talkabout that. But I have another story
on the blog today about ozempic,this one about ozempic face. Because we're
not gonna have the two minute drilltoday, I just realized because we've got
Joe Anna too, so I haveto get some of my two minute drill
stories in here as well. AndI love seeing celebrities who are using these

(49:10):
drugs to get skinny, only theydie it right through attractiveness and into gaunt
weirdness with sunken eyes, sunken cheeks, and now doctors have a name for
it. It is called ozembic face. So there you go, friends,
If you want your butt to betiny, apparently your face has to look
terrible or vice versa. One ofthose things is going to be true.

(49:31):
We shall see which ones are true. Remember how I started this hour talking
last hour, I guess talking aboutviolence on the left. They're now showing
anti Israel protesters around Columbia University andthey're shouting things like kill another soldier,

(49:52):
kill another shoulder, nypd kkk IOF. They're all the same. That doesn't
even rie people hope. There's noliterature majors in these protests. We'll be
right back with Jack Jela. Ifyou're a whisky lover, you want to
hear this one part of an organizationthat raises money to then give two veterans

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organizations, which I think is fantastic. Tell me a little bit about what
you guys are doing. Yeah,So we're called the Veterans Whisky Society and
started back in twenty eighteen, andwe actually modeled ourselves after another organization that
was doing similar things. So we'resitting around drinking bourbon one day, going
what can we do? You know? So there's five of us that started
the organization, and one guy's AirForce, one guy's Navy, the other

(50:37):
guy's army, and then there's twoof us who didn't serve. All our
families served, and it was justlike, you know, we still have
a hertford the military, right,what can we do to give back?
And we're like, well, peopleseem to like this brown water really well,
right, so there's a little bitof popularity on that. Yeah,
it's having a moment. Well,between the five of us, we have
like two thousand bottles of bourbon.Oh wow. And so we were like,
well, you know what if wejust started, you know, taking

(50:58):
barrel pics with different disc stillories anddoing you know, I have special allocations
with different liquor distributors and like youknow, bubbles or places like that and
doing special labeling and then if weauction them off, we do tastings things
like that, and any of theproceeds that we take in we give out
to different five o' one c threeveteran organizations. That's fantastic. So you

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do events like once a month,you said, what do they tell me
about some of the events. Soin fact, next Wednesday, the twenty
fourth, we're doing what's called aWhiskey Wednesday. We're trying to do these
each month at a different location,but we're gonna be at the Whiskey Biscuit
on was it Broadway in Floyd,just north of Hampton from four thirty to
seven thirty, and we're gonna havesome special bottle releases there, we do

(51:40):
some tastings there, and of coursethey're going to be doing tons of drink
specials there, but we do thatjust to raise awareness. We're going to
have some veterans benefits organizations there tohelp people walk through how to get the
most out of their veterans benefits.Oh, that's fantastic, because that is
a nightmare. Yeah, I mean, you know, because of Chuck.
Yeah, trust me, I know. It's It's never ceases to amaze me

(52:01):
how many ways the government messes withveterans. It's and I probably would have
thought it was overblown until I marrieda veteran, a disabled veteran at that,
and just the nonsense and idiocy thatwe have to deal with on a
regular basis is unbelievable. Yeah,it's so much tape. And my father

(52:23):
lost her of the two tours inVietnam, and for him to go in
and try and get benefits just likepulling teeth. Oh, it's a nightmare.
And then when you do get benefits, they do things like, oh,
we overpaid you for four years,so we're gonna start taking money back
and you're like, wait a minute, you didn't overpay me. And that's
fifty fresh layers of bell. Anyway, I don't need to go down that
whole rabbit hole. So when peoplecome to the event, how this is

(52:43):
an awareness event, you're not necessarilyraising money or are you raising money at
the same time? So we canalways take donations, right, we're platting
and certified with Apple Pay, soyou know, there's no worries about like,
hey, a they're going to misappropriateour functure right right? But yes,
to raise awareness, we have someT shirts and things like that we
sell. We give a hundred ofthose proceeds to different organizations, like we
partner with the Dougas County Veterans MonumentSociety and uh donating money to them,

(53:07):
the Auto Bill Foundation. So lotsof organizations locally and nationally. So like
one of the other events we're doingis the Rare Steake event downtown. I
just saw that I might buy aticket to that. But that that like
you're talking about meat, yeah,and I don't mean meat, I mean
meat. Yes, that's what Isaid. N E A T That's fantastic.
How is that gonna work for you? Guys? So really cool.

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So we so the organization is calledDining Out and they're the same company puts
in Top Taco, which will alsobe at Top Taco up in Westminster.
They do chicken fight, uh,and then they're doing similar events done in
Dallas. And so Jonathan Easley isone of the guys who leads to organization
with me, and he's in Dallas. So it's kind of seamless to be
in both locations together. But wehave a booth. There's a mobile cigar

(53:54):
lounge called Trinity Cigars, and they'regonna be at Top Talk. I'm sorry,
Rare, and so we're partnering withthem and with dining Out, and
so we've got a booth inside thatkind of that smoking lounge where people can
come up and sample bourbons that wehave, and we'll have a lot of
our partners there as well as differentdistilleries. Right. But the event is
all like the top steak restaurants throughoutColorado. Yeah, and you can do

(54:17):
well a lot of my favorites.We were meat Eating Family. I mean
yeah, we are meet eating family. And I looked at the list of
participants and I was like, thishas my name written all over. That's
really cool. Yeah, and youcan link, by the way, I
have a link to the Veterans WhiskeySociety event page and it also has a
link to the Meat event that we'retalking about right now as well, so
you can see all of that stuff. How can people get involved, Like,

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you know, to your point aboutbourbon, lots of bourbon is a
is as much a beverage as itis a hobby for a lot of people.
And I lived in Kentucky for threeyears, so I have friends that
have you know, thirty thousand dollarsbourbon collections. So it is definitely having
a moment. Now do you doyou have a piece where maybe novice bourbon

(55:02):
drinkers who have maybe just started theirbourbon discovery, because all you guys are
kind of experienced bourbon guys. Howdoes that all play into it. Yeah,
so we're happy to introduce anybody totasting bourbon, to enjoying the bourbon
experience, and it's you know,bourbon, whiskey, scotch, whatever your
choice is. But there's different nuancesto each thing. So yeah, one
of my good friends is Justin Riggs, and he's the estate manager for Rimy

(55:23):
Quantro. He's going to be theredoing tastings and samplings next Wednesday with some
special bottle releases. But it's easyto talk somebody through it and like how
to enjoy it, how to sipit for the first time, you know,
how to save it. Don't baseyour opinion on the first sip you
take, because you're just burning allthe spirit off your tongues. At that
point. But then you know,take your second sip, hold on your

(55:45):
mouth, rold it around your tongue, feel it, you know, get
the mouth, feel that it touchall the taste buds, so you're getting
all the different flavors out of it. You should always taste some sort of
earthiness, some sort of wood,some sort of fruit, maybe a little
smoke, yep, some sort ofsweet. And I say, this is
someone who hates bourbon. When Ilived in Kentucky, one of our very
good friends is one of those peoplewith the big collection, and he made

(56:07):
it his mission to find a bourbonthat I liked in a way I would
enjoy it. And he tried desperatelyfor two years, and I finally said,
dude, I'm just wasting your bourbon. Like I'm this is not my
thing. But for a lot ofpeople, it's a passion. You know,
it is a passion. Yep.There's there's I mean, there's so
much variety in bourbons and scotches,and I mean there's people think it's sacrilegious

(56:30):
sometimes, but there's peanut butter bourbonsout there. Yeah, you might like
something like that, you know,but no, Jack, I literally tried
everything. I tried bourbon cream.I tried everything, and it's just not
my It's not my thing. Thisis not my palate. But that doesn't
mean that other people don't love itand enjoy it. You can find out
more about the Veterans Whiskey Society eventcoming up or the organization. They have

(56:52):
a Facebook group. It is private, but if you want to join it,
they will let you in. Andso this is one of those things
where I actually have organizations too.If you guys are looking for organizations to
donate to, I have one veryspecific one in mind that might be appealing
to you as well because of ourindustry, because there's so one of the
things that we have an abundance ofin Colorado is incredible people who are working

(57:16):
so hard to support veterans and lowerveterans suicide and create a pathway back into
society that eases that transition. Andwe have, we really do have just
an embarrassment of riches in that area. So I have a few that I'd
like to talk to you about that. But the event Wednesday night again is
that the Whiskey Club. Whiskey Biscuit. It's a good name for a whiskey

(57:38):
bar and where's that. It's thecorner of Floyd and Broadway, just north
of Hampden, So come on down. They're basically doing Happy Hour four thirty
seven thirty, So come on downand do this. Jack Jla, thanks
so much for doing this. Firstof all, for what you're doing,
for taking a hobby and making itinto something that is going to help other
people. It's our honor. Ithink that's fantastic. That's Jack. We're

(58:00):
gonna be back right after this.Did you get your copy of Taylor Swift's
new double album yet? Hey?Rod, did you ours is actually being
shipped to us right now. Iordered the album for my daughter like three
months ago when it went on presale, but she has already broken Spotify

(58:20):
records for the most downloads in twentyfour hours and we're not even twenty four
hours in to the release of TheTorture Poet Society. And you know,
I am not as swifty like mydaughter as a swiftye but I like Taylor
Swift. But this is my daughterthis morning. I feel like I should.
I don't know if she's such aswifty you guys, She's like,

(58:43):
yeah, there's a song called thankYou Amy, and only the K,
the I, and the M arecapitalized, and that means she's talking about
Kim Kardashian. The conspiracy theories thathave popped up around swift albums by Swifties
are amazing, just amazing. Sothis person said, have you've seen the

(59:08):
new movie Civil War because we've beentalking about violence on the left. I
have not. I want to gosee it this weekend. I'm gonna try
and make sure I can go seeit this weekend. I don't know if
I'm going to be able to.We shall see. So there you go,
and I want to share this textmessage. This person said, I've
lost sixty five pounds on ozempic,no side effects, no problems, and
I feel great. So you shouldn'tjust put out all the bad stuff about

(59:30):
this on your blog and on yourshow. I actually try to give that
disclaimer because I personally know people whohave lost a ton of weight on ozempic.
But I also know a lot ofpeople who need to lose ten pounds
who are like, I'm just gonnaget ozempic and they don't know about any
of the negative side effects. Soyes, you're right, I will make
sure that I put the upside aswell as as well as the downside,

(59:52):
because I do know that it hasbeen life game changing, life changing and
life saving for people have used it. I corrected text her, but I
apologize for that. Did Taylor Swiftrelease any singles today with her album?
There's a video that drops today.The album is that on Spotify. I
don't know what the first single isgoing to be, but I'm sure she

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did because Taylor Swift is smart andI you know, even if I didn't
like her music, boy, Iadmire her business acumen. I really do.
And my daughter said something to methis morning. She said something about

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I cannot remember, oh oh oh, I remember what it was. So
after we ordered the one album,it was fifty dollars, by the way,
fifty dollars to get it on vinylbecause we want it on vinyl.
We can't just have it the normal. We gotta have it on vinyl.
So we ordered this, this fiftydollars album. It's a birthday present,
and like three weeks ago, shecomes down and goes, oh my gosh,

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oh my gosh. There are threeother versions of Taylor Taylor's new album,
and they have secret tracks on eachone. In a different track,
she wanted to buy all four ofthem, and I was like, that
is a hard pass. That isnot happening. That is the dumbest thing
I've ever heard. And I wassuper mad at Taylor about it, because
now she has a bunch of teenagegirls wanted to buy four versions of the

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same album to get the song andby the way, this new album,
they're all on there. It wasjust, you know, a marketing scheme,
which is fine. But today wewere talking about that and something else,
and my daughter said something else.She probably has people to manage her
business. From what I understand,Taylor Swift manages her business. She's sure,
she has a business manager, shehas accountant, she has financed people

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and all of that stuff, butshe manages all of her own business and
she's done it since she was veryyoung, and I think that is tremendous.
I just I have so much admirationfor that. I have admiration for
any young artist, male or female, that has that kind of wherewithal to
maintain control of what they're doing,because if you allow someone else to be

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in control of your image and yourreputation, then that's when disaster befalls you.
Not civil war, but Showgun onHulu is excellent. Half is in
Japanese, so lots of subtitles.But again, you guys, I don't
have Hulu and I'm subscriptioned out.I just don't want to pay for anything
else, although I do have DisneyPlus. Does that include Hulu? Now?

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Did you see this? Do youhave Disney Plus? I think it
does now or it's going to Ithink it does. I need to check
and find out. Do not takeyour daughter to see Civil War unless she's
prepared for lots of violence and killing. Is it graphic violence or implied violence?
Like I mean, do you seepeople? Is it? Is it

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saving private Ryan violence? Or isit people getting shot and fallen down?
Because I don't like saving private Ryanviolence? You know what I mean?
At first twenty minutes, I stillcan't watch it. Never been able to
watch it all the way through.First single is Fortnite. The woman is
a dang Unicorn genius, no gettingaround it, says this Texter, and

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that's it. I mean, Imay disagree with her politics, but if
my daughter said I want to belike Taylor Swift someday, I'd be like,
all right, make that happen whenwe get back we're gonna talk to
joe Ane Brush. She is thedesigner of the Mighty millions Raffle house and
honestly, if I ever paid adesigner to design my house, it would
be joe Anne. Her style isflawless, but livable and beautiful in this

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house is too. We're going totalk to her right after this the mighty
millions Raffle to benefit Children's Hospital.But I have had the chance to go
out and see this beautiful two pointseven million dollars show home that is going
to be given away. I wantto make clear this is the Raffle where
they always give away the house.And joining me now is the woman who

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is behind the design of this gorgeoushome, Joanne Brush. Thank you for
making time from interior design company Caseyand Company. Thanks for making time to
come on the show and talk aboutthis house. By thanks for having me.
I say this every year, Joanne, if I ever was going to
hire a designer to design my house, it would be you, because every
time I walk into a house thatyou have designed, it immediately feels warm

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and comfortable and not sterile, andlike I could just put my clothes in
the closet and that's it. Imean that that is how I feel walking
in your spaces. So thank youso much, Mandy, thank you.
And when we design these homes forthe Children's House Children's House with Colorado Mighty
Millions, we always want to makeit warm and inviting because we know a

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family or someone is going to winthis and they can just move in with
their clothes. Now you've done this. This is not your first home.
I know you did last year's aswell, but you how many homes have
you done for them total? Ibelieve this is our seventh. Yeah,
their tenth year. This is theirtenth year, so it's amazing project.
We love doing these each year.Well, I will tell you the views

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from this house are spectacular. Imean it's gorgeous. Yet they are gorgeous
in this new development called Ermuta Ranch, and all of the Florida ceiling windows
just look out on this beautiful rollinghills of ranch. And that was really
our inspiration for the interiors with tobring that beautiful the colors of the blue

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sky and the rolling hills into thehouse. When you guys are working on
a house like this, where you'renot designing with a specific client in mind,
and it's it's completely a blank slate. Is that harder or easier?
I would say a little bit ofboth, But it's it's fun. We
try to imagine, you know,in our heads, what a family would

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love or person would love, andjust bring it, bring it to the
spaces. So it it's really fun. Do you see do we see in
these houses? Are we seeing thetrends that are kind of taking hold?
Like I know every house that I'veseen has had a yoga room in it.
Is that something that Coloradin's are demandingnow? It's like, okay,
I can't have a new house thelast of my yoga room. Yes exactly.

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You always try to stay current buttimeless as well, so it won't
be out if you will. Butyet people, you know everyone, people
are working from their homes now,and they're exercising in their homes, and
they really want to be able tohave all of that, you know,
just within their their residence. Ilike the fact that you always, you
guys always find like a little spacekind of tucked away that's just for the

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kids. Yes, yes, Iknow. We love kind of doing that
little surprise playroom in each house.And sometimes it's under the stairs and sometimes
there's a little mini door and it'shidden. This year has a little playhouse
that looks like the actual house,and we just love surprises the kids when
they find that little play space.Where do you guys get the furnishings for

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the house? I mean, withouta comprehensive list. I'm sure you have
a lot of vendors that you use, but it's like I see this stuff
and then I don't see it instores. It all feels very unique and
special. Thank you so much,Mandy. We do just have a lot
of resources and it really just varies, but we as a design firm have

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a lot of great vendors and resourcesthat we like to fill the home with.
And to be clear, whoever winsthis house, it comes fully furnished.
So when I say you can walkin, put your clothes in the
closet, and move in, ittruly is that spectacular. What is your
favorite part of the house, Joanne? My favorite part this year, I

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have a favorite every year is thatmain living room. To speak to what
you were saying Mandy about the view, Just as soon as you walk in
that front door, you just seethis this grand living space with fourteen foot
high ceilings, and then you seethat beautiful view off the deck. It's
really expansive, and I think itjust really captures you as soon as you

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walk through the front door. Andit's got a great open floor plan on
the area that Joeann's talking about.You've got the living room, you've got
a fireplace, then you have areally nice dining area, and an enormous
kitchen that is absolutely stunning, justgorgeous. This kitchen with a big,
big, big island and so muchstorage space that it is mind blowing.

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And that was, honestly the firstthing I noticed was how much storage space
that this house has. Is thatsomething that people are demanding more of now?
Just as a general rule, definitely, I think people really want uncluttered
spaces and they want an opportunity tohide things away. So we did you
know, the Florida ceiling, wholewall of cabinetry in the kitchen where items

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can be hidden and put away andtaken out when needed. But it just
you know, really really clean,serene look the space. I love the
built in buffet as well, thatis fantastic next to the dining Is that
built in or is that a pieceof burnacy? Is it is a built
in its floating and it has lightingunderneath at night if you wanted to turn
on lighting under the buffet just fora fun little glow. And that integrated

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look. It's just a little morecontemporary and again just a very clean look.
And one thing I want to pointout that someone asked about on our
text line yesterday and I forgot torespond to. They were like, Sedalia,
it's so far it's outside Sedalia,and this is neighborhood is very very
convenient to itself obviously of Denver,but it sounds a lot further than it

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is. And the drive in andof itself. Talk about a blood pressure
reducing drive on the way home fromwork, that's going to be my lit
Yes, well that's what I'm goingto miss the most about this project being
over is I loved. I grewto love that drive because you're you're driving
through these beautiful, serene little rodbut it's not that far off you know,

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the main road, so you knowit does not take as long as
it sounds. You're close enough toDenver, you're close to Castle Rock,
but you feel very removed even thoughyou've got that close proximity that I always
say, like I want to livein the woods, but I want to
live twenty five minutes from Nordstrom,So this is as close as you're going

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to get in a beautiful show home. Juyan and Brush from Casey and Company.
Thank you, first of all forcontinuing to support Children's Hospital of Colorado
and the mighty millions Raffle and thesehomes that you do are just I love
them all. Every year I thinkto myself, I'm not going to like
this one as much as I likelast year's, but then I walk in
and I'm like, Okay, ofcourse, of course I love it even

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more in this house is just amasterpiece on so many levels. The location,
the scenery, and the interior designare just flawless, and I loved
it. So thank you so muchfor continuing to do what you do.
Mandy, thank you so much.And we always feel we're so honored to
have this role with these show homes, and that knowing that the money goes

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to such a great cause as Children'sPasple of Colorado, we feel honored every
year. And thank you for yourkind word. No problem, joining It's
good to talk to you again,you too, all right, Thanks Joe
Anne. That's Joanne brushed with Caseyand Company. Don't forget tonight. You
got to buy your early bird ticketsby tonight to be registered to win the
Porsche taye Can and the trip toGreece or one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

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But even if you win those tonight, you can also win the house.
And this house is just a masterpiece. Go to mighty millions raffle dot
com to see it and go aheadand buy your ticket. Tell Amandy sent
you. Coming up in about tenminutes, Dolco Superintendent Aaron Kin is coming
on the show, and we aregoing to try and make something that is
so convoluted easy to understand, butit is incredibly important. It has to

(01:11:54):
do with way schools are funded inColorado, because there is a bill working
itself through the legislature that is designedto tackle school funding. But I read
the bill and I have questions abouthow we pay for all this, and

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I feel like this is yet anotherbill designed to be so expensive that we
have to give up our table refundsforever. That is that is what I
think the endgame is on this.So yeah, yeah, yeah, we
shall see. I've got a lotof stuff on the blog that I want

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to get to that was going tobe in the two minute drill, and
then I realized that we don't havethe two minute drill. But can we
talk just for a second about thekerfuffle about the Nikes women's track and field
uniforms for the Olympics. You know, the Olympics are coming up this summary,
Rod, are you stoked or youexcited? I like the Winter Olympics

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better than the Summer Olympics. It'sjust going to say it. That's where
I like. I don't mind theSummer Olympics because you got gymnastics, you
got swimming, you got diving.I'm not a huge track and field fan,
but I always watch anyway because Ilike to cheer on the United States
and the Olympics. And so far, the track and field team has been
relatively woke free. Uh. Yougot women's soccer, but they man,

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they have really outworn their welcome.Megan Rappano or whatever her name is,
she really destroyed a lot of goodwill that the women's soccer team had.
But nonetheless, the Olympics are comingup, and Nike is the team that
is designing the uniforms. Hang on, I have the hiccups, and I'm

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trying to use the Cuberman way ofgetting rid of the hiccups, but I
can't see that. It's a wholebreathing thing. Oh I can't do it
and do a radio show at thesame time. I just realized, So
there you go. Yeah, therewe go. That was excellent. That's
all I need. So Nike designsthese new uniforms for the track and field

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team, and the men's uniforms are, you know, like running shorts,
you know, the tight mid thighWhat are those called? Why can't I
think of the right name for him? By short shorts, they're by shorts.
No, they're no short shorts.They go halfway down the thigh.
The women's uniform that they put ondisplay is basically a bikini bottom that's high

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cut in the front. And let'sjust say women track participants were not excited
about these new uniforms and said,the mannequin is standing still and you can
see everything. Now imagine that inmotion. Now Nike has come out and
they're like, wait, wait,wait, No, that was not going
to be the final uniform. Thatwas just one option that they and we

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were we were hard pressed for timeand they wanted to see something, so
we just put it out there.I don't believe that. I also want
to talk about the women's volleyball.Approved volleyball, the men wear shorts and
T shirt. The women are basicallysupposed to wear bikinis. I'm like,
if shorts and t shirts are goodenough for men, why aren't they good

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enough for women? And I'm nottrying to call sexism, you know,
out everywhere I see it, butI mean, come on, you guys,
it is a little sexist. Sowe'll see what the women actually run
in. I think that the womenshould be allowed to choose whatever makes them
faster, you know, whatever theyfeel good in that they're gonna compete the

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fastest in, because that's really whatit's all about. But there's always a
kerfuffle around uniforms. It seems itseems like, you know, now we
have to hear about the uniform thatthey're gonna wear where they walk with the
flags. Ralph Lauren usually does thatwhen and I always love them. I
love Ralph Lauren, but Ralph Laurenhas now priced me out of his price
range. I looked at a pairof Ralph Lauren pants online and I was
just like, Oh, those arecute. I looked at the price tag.

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Three hundred and forty eight dollars.Y'all, who spends three hundred and
forty eight dollars on pain? Whatare they made out of? Magic?
Fairy dust? I'll tell you whodoesn't me? Ralph Laurence lost me forever.
When we get back, we're goingto talk to Aaron Kin. We're
going to try and make sense ofhow schools are funded and what they're working

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on now at the Capitol, howit can actually make it worse and end
up with your Tabor refund being thevictim. We're going to do that right
after this, after having a systemin place that is I'm not gonna lie
so incredibly complex and unnecessarily confusing forso long. Now there's a move in
the legislature to fix the system.And I'll put fix in air quotes because

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the legislation as I read it thismorning, and I read the whole thing
this morning, there's some issues.There's some things that I like about it.
To be clear, I don't hatethe whole concept, but the execution
is going to be impossible without amassive tax increase or them eating our table
refunds. At least that's how Isee it. And I thought, you

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know what, I'm just a layperson outside of schools, and maybe I
should bring in an expert. Andnobody knows school finance better than Doug Co
Superintendent Aaron Kane. So I invitedAaron in, and we're not just talking
about Douglas County. I want tobe clear, this is a conversation about
funding for the entire state. ButAaron, I want to start by talking

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about one important issue, because Iguarantee you I don't even have to look
at my text line. I'm goingto have a text in the next twenty
seconds that says, our property taxesjust skyrocketed. How can we need more
money for education? What happens tothose property taxes that people are paying?
Well, First of all, helloMandy, thank you so much for having

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me on again. I'm happy tobe on talking about this topic. So,
yes, our property taxes all wentup mine certainly. Did I think
we talked off the air about howboth of our taxes went up significantly?
We are paying more of our localproperty taxes towards our local school districts wherever
we are in the state of Colorado. However, as you and I have
discussed in the past, the SchoolFinance Act, the way that it works,

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funding for school districts is made upof a local share that's what we
pay through our property taxes, anda state share, and the state share
and local share together are called totalprogram. That total program funding is determined
by the School Finance Act, andthen the local share is applied. So,
however much we raise locally from propertytaxes in our own district, and

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the state fills in the difference,right, So that means that when our
local property taxes go up, thestate share that the state has to fund
for our local school districts is reduced. Local school districts do not see more
dollars from increases in property values increasesof property taxes due to assess values.

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And the easiest way to explain thisis in round numbers that are not connected
to reality. Hundred percent. I'mgoing to say, you've got your student
funding is ten thousand dollars. Pursuitit. If local property taxes used to
make up five thousand dollars, wewould get five thousand from the state.
But now if they make up seventyfive hundred of that number, we only
get twenty five hundred from the state. We don't get more on that ten

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thousand. That is absolutely correct.So in Douglas County, for example,
it used to be that four thousandof that ten thousand was from local property
taxes and the other six thousand camefrom the state. And now it's closer
to five thousand from local property taxesand five thousand from the state. So
the districts still get the same tenthousand dollars in your analogy. Okay,

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so let's move on to what isbeing changed. I'm not even going to
ask you to explain the current systembecause you guys don't know. I don't
know if they purposely made it asconfusing as humanly possible, but it is
so convoluted and hard to understand.I have tried, and I still could
not give you a clear explanation.So let's move to what they're looking at.

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Now. Let's say the old systemis broken. We're going to concede
that. Yes, right, everybodyis like this system is not working.
New system that's being bandied about.Now, you went yesterday to the capital
to testify against it, and whatare the issues. Well, let's first
see if I can explain it inas general terms as possible. The new
system allows for base funding for schooldistricts on a per student basis and then

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applies student based funding. So inconcept, this is really good, right
right, money followers student kind ofthing. Yes, students who are in
poverty get more dollars, Students withdisabilities get more dollars, students that are
multi language learners get more dollars,and then there's kind of a base dollar
amount funding the challenge. So theconcept is great. We really do want

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our dollars to be allocated in away that the students who need them the
most, who need the most support, are able to get the most support.
So I applaud the principle. Iwill also say that one of the
purposes of the act is to helpadd funding to our rural districts, that
our rural districts really are underfunded.That being said, House Bill one eighty

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eight, the School Finance Act thathas added ongoing funding for our rural districts,
which we are all in supportive.Now, so why did I go
oppose the new bill? In practice, it doesn't work the way it's intended.
So there's a few issues one,it adds over time, it adds
five hundred million dollars to state educationfunding. But that five hundred million dollars

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is not from any kind of sustainablerevenue source. It's from the state Education
Fund, which is like a savingsaccount. Right, it's one time money
but being used for an ongoing purpose. So that's the problem. That money
is designed to cushion education if there'san economic downturn. Yes, right,

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I mean that's what the education fundis designed for. Absolutely. And in
fact, I'll give you a realworld example. As you know, the
state of Colorado passed free lunches forall students. Yeah, and I know
this is shocking, but it turnedout that the free lunches for all students
cost more than was anticipated. Sothey're taking the difference out of that state

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education fund because it overran. Andso likewise, universal preschool has been more
expensive than anticipated, and on andon and on. So that's one of
the reasons that fund exists. Sothe idea is to take this five hundred
million and eventually it'll be five hundredmillion a year and take that out of
the state education fund. How muchis in the fund right now, one

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point three billion. I believe.Now, I did go to public school,
but that's like less than three yearswell fund and depending on how it's
phased in it, it really is. And again it's being used for other
purposes too, so it's not safeto assume that a billion can be applied
for this purpose. So it's basicallywe're setting up our schools, our districts
to fall off a cliff. Sothat is challenge number one for me and

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one of the reasons I opposed.Additionally, this idea of the monies following
the students. I can speak formy school district, and a number of
my colleagues also spoke in opposition tothis bill because we all have very similar
we have different contexts and very similarconcerns. For Douglas County, we would

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see of that five hundred million,we would see an increase in our funding
of one tenth of one percent,whereas other districts will see significantly more.
So we'll increase the distance between usand other districts quite significantly, and as
you know, that is already anenormous challenge. R Specific to Douglas County,
I have ten thousand students in povertyin Douglas County. Ten thousand.

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That is more than a lot ofour districts that are entirely at risk.
I have ten thousand students in tenthousand students in poverty, and NUGGA are
larger than some other districts. Correct, Yes, students in poverty, and
yet my funding is going up byone time one percent, which is flat.
Let's just call it flat. SoI'm not able to allocate additional resources

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to my students in poverty. Solet me ask this question. So are
they going county by county because Iknow that some districts like Denver stands to
benefit tremendously from this. Yes,And how how I mean they're choosing county
by county or how is that formulabeing created? They're calculating the formula in

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the way that I stated early onthat the problem is they're not applying enough
to the base. So when youdon't have enough of a base, and
then you start to put that additionalthat backpack funding on top, when you
don't have enough of a base,then there are all kinds of problems.
So would it be more effective toincrease that base number and drop the numbers

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down? When you're talking about extramoney for kids? In poverty, that
have learning disabilities or other issues Englishas a second language learner, things of
that nature. Yes. And infact, the school Finance task Force that
the Speaker is using for the backingfor this bill, that task force,

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one of the very first things theysaid is there is not adequate base funding,
and we have to have adequate basefunding before we start to add those
factors on those factors on the top. That is correct, and that is
why for Douglas County our funding willbe flat virtually, and so therefore my
ten thousand kids in poverty will notsee another dime. And if I wanted

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to do what the Speaker intends,if I wanted to channel more resources to
my ten thousand students in poverty,I would have to make massive cuts across
my entire district. So now I'mcutting programming from schools, including the schools
that students in poverty attend, becausein Duglas County they're not necessarily concentrated.
So I'm cutting programming for all kidsin order to put more resources to my

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students in poverty. Because this formulathat is being proposed does not have an
adequate base and that is truly theobjection that most of us have had.
I spoke in opposition to the bill, Cherry Creeks superintendent spoke in opposition,
Littleton Public Schools superintendent spoken opposition,Boulder Valleys superintendent spoke, and Adam's twelve

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superintendent spoke, just to name afew. So those and we really do
share our pace funding issue, notadequate based funding, not a sustainable funding
source. See. And this iswhere I personally think that this is another
bill designed to force us to giveup our table refunds permanently, because when
the money dries up and all ofa sudden they start going, oh my

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god, our schools, we're notWe're gonna have to fire teachers, We're
not gonna have art, We're notgonna have pe. We're not and then
it's going to be. But ifyou pass this bill and give us your
table refunds forever, I'd rather justbe direct about it and say we need
a tax increase to fund this.If that's the endgame, well, and
truly that the School Finance Task Force, the School Finance Act Task Force,

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isn't done. They're not done withtheir work. They've made recommendations, but
the next step for them, accordingto legislation is to fund an adequacy study,
So they're actually going to do aformal study across our system about what
what adequate funding would be for educationfor generally and for different students. It
seems to me that updating a formula, even if you set aside the unsustainable

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part for a moment, which ishard to do, but it seems to
me that before updating a formula,we should probably see what the results are
of that study that we as taxpayersare funding. Let's see the results of
the adequacy study in order to informwhat next step we take. And and
even if it is Mandy, evenif it is a we need to increase

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base funding for a education because weare about two thousand dollars a student less
than the national average and it isa real challenge. And if that's true,
we need to tell taxpayers. Sohere's the deal, like, yeah,
here's where we are. Make thecase, here's what it. Make
the case and let the taxpayers decide. But just be really straightforward and make
the case. You know, thisis a completely side note here, but

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there's things in this where you attachmoney to kids who fit in certain categories.
We've seen this happen across the country. It happened to my family in
Florida when my son, who forgothis lunch money one day, was put
on Free and Reduce lunch. Andwhen I went in and asked about it,
they were like, Oh, it'sno big deal. It's no big
deal, you can just stay on. I was like, no, he

(01:28:40):
can't, that's wrong. But thenI realized they got more money for every
kid on Free and Reduce lunch.So if you're going to get more money
for kids on IEPs, which arelearning plans to help kids who are struggling
or maybe have some disability issues thatneed to be addressed, what's the motivation
to get kids off IEPs, becausethen you're funding drops. You know,
that is actually a really interesting point. I'm also serving on the or I

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am serving on the Accountability Task Forcefor our state, and one of the
topics we're discussing is there is asubcategory for your achievement and growth of students
with IEPs and the whole goal.Uh. I mean, when you have
an individualized education plan for a student, the whole goal is to meet the
goals and get the student off ofthat IEP and as soon as they come

(01:29:24):
off the IEP, they're no longerin the subset measuring achievement and growth,
So your achievement and growth is actuallygoing to go down. So you always
do kind of get what you incentivize. And I think we need to be,
you know, thoughtful about that asa state. Somebody asked, so
Jeff Co spoke against it as well. I believe Jeff Co was officially in
an amend position. The legislator fromJeffco did vote against the bill in the

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House Education Committee last night, andJeffco did sign. We all signed a
joint letter that we sent out acouple of weeks ago outlining our concerns.
Now, what if somebody's listening here, they're like, oh, it's just
the rich districts that are complaining aboutthis. So I would say the districts
who signed this joint letter that Iwould be happy to provide with you.

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The media has it, so youwelcome to post it on your blog.
Are we are a bunch of differentdistricts. We have rural districts, districts
that are highly impacted, suburban districts, so there there are many different districts
that have some concerns. And youknow, and I would say that in
Douglas County, I understand, Ihear that perspective. But the fact that

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we live in a community with propertywealth does not mean that the school district
is well funded because it is not. See the first problem we talked about,
the property wealth actually doesn't have anythingto do with how much money you
received through the School Finance Act.It just means that your PEX payers maybe
cover a larger portion but it butit doesn't make any difference. We're already

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in today's Under today's formula, DouglasCounty is funded one one thousand dollars per
student less than Denver Public Schools,for example. And I've never had a
problem with that because Denver Public Schoolshas a very different demographic of students.
But continue to increase that distance isreally really challenging. We are all competing
for the same teachers, we're allcompeting for the same support staff and bus

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drivers, all of it, andso to have us to have the distance
between us increase dramatically is really reallychallenging. For those of us who have
high cost of living in our districtand we pay the worst, that's a
really tough situation. And even withthat. As a doug Co mom,
let me brag a little bit.Doug Co is the number one district in

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the state in terms of student achievement, even with less in the Metro area.
We are, yes, We're veryproud. We're very proud to say
that we are the highest rated onthe state performance framework in the Metro area.
We're very proud of that, eventhough our pay is lower than everybody
else. I'm just throwing that out. There's something to open. You know
what our teachers write, So shoutout to doug Co teacher. Yeah,
they are amazing. Aaron Kane,thank you for coming in and trying to

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make sense of this. It isso complicated. I'm going to try and
get Senator Paul Lunden on the showbecause he's one of the sponsors. He's
a Republican sponsor. This is abipartisan bill, so I'm going to try
and get him on the show totalk about this next week. It is
critical, it's so important, andit means so much that I need people
to pay attention to this. SoI appreciate you coming in and taking the

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time. Thank you for your advocacyfor Colorado's kids. Man, Oh,
no problem. I have one,so I you know, I want to
make sure that that that is goodon the Big KOI Sports Show. Oh
well, we'll bum we're obviously insidea week to the draft. We'll get
to MINFL conversations. We have CalvinBooth, the GM of the Nuggets on,
very exciting for them because they're startingtheir series this weekend on Saturday.

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And then we'll talk to Cayle Fredericksonabout the Avalanche in the five quarts.
You know what doesn't make sense tome why the NBA Finals and the NHL
Finals are at the same time,because it is all the time and for
me the same thing. I'm like, you're tapping me out here. I
can only pay attention to one thingat a time. And there's such an
easy solution to stagger all of this, but they never do it, and

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they always have it. Have ithappened at the same time. It makes
very little sense to me, especiallybecause either sport would be able to have
the premiere attention if they just movedthem. Well, and what I was
been saying, especially because we getto beginning of July and when there's only
baseball on and so if one ofthem just shifted, oh, I don't

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know, KA Sports. You couldhear is our NASCAR drivers athletes. Yeah,
that's that's that's a pretty popular topic. That's after the All Star break.
That's between that and you know football. It's slim pickens for you guys.
It is a fascinating time. Weget it. We need to,
you know, a lot more movies. Alfred talks a lot more movies.
Yeah, because there's certainly no sportsgoing on where it's talking about. All

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Right, we're gonna make room.We'll be back on Monday. KA Sports
taken over. Now keep it righthere on KOA