05-13-24 FULL SHOW - When Parents Rise Up Against a Principal

Episode Transcript

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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to aMonday edition of the show. I'm your
host for the next three hours,Mandy Connell, joined by my right hand
man for the day, Michael Coover. He is going to be filling in
for a Rod who hopefully is havinga fruity beverage with a little umbrella in
it on his big cruise that wewill hear about when he gets back.
So he'll be back next week.And I have so much stuff on the

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blog today and a couple really greatguests, So let's jump right in by
going to mandy'sblog dot com. That'smandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline
that says five thirteen twenty four blogwhen parents rise up against a principle.
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I never noticed this about Denver before. Is time travel the reason need
to get motivated? Here is theway. Those are the headlines on the
blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Andtoday at twelve thirty, my friend and
yours, Stephan Tubbs, is backon the show. His new movie,
Devastated about the Fentanel crisis here inColorado, is premiering this weekend, and

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unfortunately I looked this morning all ofthe premieres are sold out, which is
great for Stefan, but unfortunately you'renot going to be able to go see
the premiere. But when he comesin at twelve thirty, we will be
able to ask him if the ifyou know where this is going to get
bigger distribution. So he'll be inin a few minutes to talk about that.

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And I am super excited about goingto see this. I'm going down
to the Springs to see it becausethat was closer to me than going anywhere
in Denver and less traffic. Sohe'll be here at twelve thirty to talk
about that, and then at onethirty. This is an interesting story.
I got an email last week froma mom of a kid at an elementary

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school in Chefco and she said,Mandy, if there's any way to help
publicize this situation, we'd appreciate it. And I get a lot of emails
asking me to publicize various things,and I hope you guys understand that I
can't always do that for a varietyof reasons, not the least of which

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is we would then be inundated withrequests to publicize everything, and there's just
not enough time in the show orthe day to do that. So Generally
speaking, I pass on a lotof that stuff, but this one intrigued
me because there is a there isa tension between schools and parents now that

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should not exist. And the tensionexists because schools, which for years told
us that student achievement wasn't high enoughbecause of lack of parental involvement, they
are now basically saying to parents,we don't need your involvement with your kid
when it comes to things like pronounsor they want to change their gender.

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You don't need to know about that. At the same time, parents,
after the pandemic, when they realizedwhat their kids were learning, have started
pushing back and pushing back hard.So it's created a bit of tension in
schools, which I think is ashame. I think it's a shame that
parents are being locked out in anysituation of their child's lives. I think
that's absurd that unless a child isbeing abused by a parent, in which

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case the police need to be called. I want to be clear about that.
But what we have now in schoolsis the assumption that if parents find
out anything untoward about their children,they are going to become abusive parents,
which is ridiculous. It's just absolutelyridiculous. And yet here we are,

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and at the same time, parentsare being more and more involved in trying
to dictate things like curriculum and what'sbeing taught, what's not being taught.
They're aggressively going after what I believeto be pornographic books in school libraries,
and the way that that has beenportrayed in the media is downright shameful,
because all you'll see in a lotof newscasts is, you know, parents

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would have been books, we're banningbooks, but they don't ever tell you
what's in the books that the parentsare trying to remove from elementary school libraries.
And they're obscene, their obscenities,their magazines that would have been sold
behind the counter for a very longtime in a convenience store. You know
what I'm saying, they're not appropriatefor children. And I'm not against having

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conversations with your kids about sex asthey're growing up. That's not what this
is about. This isn't about beingprudish. It's about recognizing that talking to
kids about why people go on tenderto hook up in fifth grade is not
appropriate. You know, It's abouta level of appropriateness for children and a

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parent's ability to be the one whodecides what and when their kid learns about
sex. And guess what, youguys, some parents are going to do
a terrible job talking to their kidsabout sex. So some parents are doing
a dynamite job and the easiest wayfor parents, And y'all, the first
time my daughter asked a birds andbees question, I could feel the terror

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rising in my chest that I wassomehow going to scar her for life with
whatever I did. But I justremembered all the other good mom advice and
I just had a very factual,biological conversation about answering those questions and those
questions only, and I said,do you have any more questions now?
And she said nope. But thatwas it. The ice was broken.
And there have been times later onthat she came back to ask questions and

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she knows that if she ever hasa question, I'm going to tell her
the truth. That's the thing.When we had this conversation, I was
like, look, you got morequestions. You can bring me any question
in the world, and I'm goingto tell you the truth. So you
just have to ask, Coober,did you have talks and now, how
old are your kids, couve theyare fourteen and fifteen, so you've already

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had talks right with them? Orwas that a mom thing who handled that?
We both kind of did. Didthe first time you got a question
from your kid, did you feelterror rising up in your chest? Like
I did? I mean that firsttime. I mean, honestly, I
almost had a little mini panic attackinside. Well, my fifteen year old
has a girlfriend now, so wekind of had to have yes going into

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that. So so it wasn't somuch the terror as much as it was
just having that first talk with himnow that he has a girlfriend and the
girl and he's been over at herhouse and she's been over at our house,
and just setting down the rules thatif you're up in the bedroom,
you have to have the door openright and stuff like that, right exactly.

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We're not there yet, thankfully,thankfully. But it's just it's,
you know, it's it could bean uncomfortable conversation, but your kids need
to know this stuff. They haveto. They can't be the only kids
that don't know stuff, you knowwhat I mean? Like, although my
daughter made a joke, there wasa funny joke, but it was.
It was a sexual innuendo joke,right, And I knew she had no

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idea what the sexual innuan it was. So I said, do you know
why that's a joke? And shewas like what? And I was like,
do you know why that's a joke? And she goes, not really
and I explained to her and shewas like, oh my god, Mom,
I used that joke with my friends. They're I was like, no,
I'm not. I'm not, Andit's only because it sounds innocent,

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but it is clearly not right.It was one of those where it was
the double entendre part of it thatmade it funny. And uh. Then
I told her that now she wasmortified. I was like, yeah,
you can't just go repeating things thatother people say are funny without knowing why
they're funny. Right now, ifyou want to repeat it after you know
it's funny. Okay, it wasfunny, it's fine, but you know,

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also it's like, yeah, youcan't do that. So it's it's
tough. So it's not about theseparents who are trying to interfere with library
books, not wanting their kids toknow about sex. Some kids, some
parents don't want their kids to knowabout sex. Ever, those are probably
the kids who are gonna getregnant whenthey fifteen, just you know. I
mean, it's it's going to happenat some point, right, But the

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parents who are trying to keep pornographyout of libraries are coming at odds and
it's created this this dementsion around schoolsthat is really counterproductive and not helpful,
and the schools have the ability tofix it. I'm just going to say
that the schools are the one thathave to back down from the nonsense that

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you're going to keep something like,oh, your child thinks they're an opposite
gender, but we're not going totell the parents that is unacceptable. It's
just not okay on any level.So back to where I was talking about.
So this elementary school in jeff Co. There's a change dot org petition
circulating to have the principle removed.And after reading the change dot org petition,

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it is really difficult when you havea school that you love and new
leadership takes over and their management styleis so different than the leadership that was
there before. And this is trueof any profession, Okay, even in
radio where we have like super Chillpeople working. You hire someone who is

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either Type A or who won't takeresponsibility for their own mistakes, or who
gets great pleasure in talking down tothe people that they are managing. It
creates a really miserable work environment.And I think this is what's going on
at powder Horn Elementary. So we'regoing to talk to one of the parents
about that, about the stuff that'sgoing on. And I don't know anything

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from the principal's perspective. I figuredafter we have these folks on, I
would reach out to him and seeif he wanted to come on as well.
But I'm interested to see because shouldparents have the right to demand that
a principle be moved? You know? I think it depends on how egregious
the behavior. So we're going tofind out about that a little bit later

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in the show. So what havewe got on the blog today? We've
got a lot of stuff on theblog today, But I want to talk
about a couple in the presidential election, which I have not really talked about
at all because it's too early.First of all, Trump is on trial
and Michael Cohen, who is theultimate scumbag. He was a scumbag when

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he worked for Trump, he's ascumbag now that he doesn't work for Trump,
but he's the star witness in thistrial and he's testifying today. But
ultimately that trial is going to bedecided, so we're going to have that
to deal with. But there's beenan interesting few things that have happened with
Robert F. Kennedy's candidacy that havebeen really strange. The first one was

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when they unearthed his divorce hearings.And I have a very strict no divorce
hearing policy where I would never goto anyone's divorce hearing as any kind of
indication of what they are, whothey are as a person, because Steph
is said in a divorce hearing thatis absolutely not true. Just garbage stuff

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is levied. But but this oneis kind of interesting. In his divorce
hearing, when he was trying toreduce his alimony that he was going to
have to pay, Robert F.Kennedy's medical records were entered into evidence because
he said he suffered from a parasiteand mercury poisoning and the parasite died in

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his brain after eating some of hisbrain. Okay, I mean that alone
is kind of weird. I thinkit'd be interesting to have someone ask him
about that now. But he's gota bigger problem in that he cannot decide
what to say about abortion. Now. We already know that Republican candidates are

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struggling mightily to dramatically shift their positions, because everywhere that abortion rights are on
the ballot, it has one meaningevery city or state that has put the
right to have an abortion on theballot, in any way, shape or
form, they have passed. Soall of this talk about US being an

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evenly divided country between pro life andpro choice has turned out to be a
big, fat lie. Once Roev. Wade was overturned, and now
people are faced with the reality ofstates completely eliminating the right for a woman
to have an abortion. Now allof a sudden, people are like,
oh, yes, that I waspro life, but I just meant for
me. I didn't mean for everybodyelse. I think that a lot of

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people are working their way to thenuanced And I hate the word nuance because
it makes it sound like you're hedging, and I kind of feel like I've
been hedging on abortion for a verylong time. But I'm also a realist.
For me, I would not havean abortion. If somebody came to
me who was pregnant and did notwant to have a child, I would
counsel them to look at other options. I would help them find out about

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other options. That is what Iwould do. But that being said,
I know too many women who havebeen faced with a pregnancy where they were
impregnated by a guy who, forwhatever reason, was like, I'm not
taking responsibility for that kid. I'mnot going to be a part of that
child's life. You're on your own, and they made a decision to have

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an abortion. And I can't speakto how all of those women feels.
I can speak to how some ofthem feel. Some of them have a
deep level of regret about it.Some of them have zero level of regret
about it. It's like anything else, right, I mean, I know
women who say it was the bestdecision they ever made because without it,

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they would have been crippled in multipleways and they just weren't ready to have
a child. Now. Is thatright or wrong? I'll let them and
their God decide, But for me, I'm a realist. People are going
to have abortions, whether you makeit illegal or not. And I think
that most people say, look,we need to have a reasonable restraint.

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I think a reasonable restriction is thesecond trimester. Anything after that for me
is just grulish and disgusting. Andyes, it does happen in Colorado.
And yes, in Colorado one moretime for those in the back, we
have abortion on demand until the momentof birth. That is what we have.
So you can argue with me aboutthat and tell me it doesn't happen.

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Then if it doesn't happen, thenwhy are we allowed to do it?
Just curious? So there you go. Can you post the joke on
Facebook? Lol? I'll see ifI can remember the exact verbiage. I
remember the punchline, but I don'tremember the exact verbage anyway. Cherry Creek,
these are from Texters. By theway, Cherry Creek has a course

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on six for fifth graders. I'veheard generally positive reviews having a biology course
like health class where all the girlsgo in one room, all the boys
go in the other room. That'show that's been done since the beginning of
time, right, it really hasbeen. Although I would say this,
now, did you have that experiencecoover where? But half of you,
like all the boys are in oneclass, all the girls are in the

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other class, and they talk about, you know, boys and girls stuff.
Did you do that? That wasa long time ago, Mandy,
that was like thirty five years ago. I still remember because I was mortified,
Like I remember being mortified. Iwas that kid. I was like,
oh my god, Oh my god, I'm gonna die of embarrassment.
I'm going to die. I didnot die. I am still here.
But I was trying to think.I want to know in the boys' class,

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do they ever talk about menstruation?Obviously not for boys, but I
think guys, you guys need toknow about this, Like every married man
in the audience says, yes,we should. We should know about this
because if you are in a relationshipwith a woman, this is something you
were gonna have to deal with fora very long time, very very long
time. But I will say this, Mandy, I went to a Catholic

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grade school. Yeah, from gradesone through eight, So you didn't get
a whole lot of oh, yeah, have sex in there. Yeah you
would have missed that. Yeah,you definitely would have missed that. So
I'm just curious. Oh great,this person said they teach about butt sex
in oravada. Excellent. Wow,that's great, and this person has my
favorite line here. For the healthof the mother, they do late term

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abortions. There's almost zero reason whyyou cannot save a baby in the third
trimester. There's almost zero. Andit's not just for the life of the
mother, because on the website forthe Boulder abortion clinic that does these third
late term procedures, it says oftenor mostly they are qualifiers in the language

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they use, which means that somewomen are choosing in the third trimester to
have an abortion because they want toknow. This person said, I'm torn
about abortion. I'm against it,but it is usually a liberal God,
that's one way to look at it. H Okay, thank you for the

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correction. Charles har to Elster's ghost. Verbiage is the word I needed.
Verbiage. I can unequivocally say thatabortion is wrong, but laws against it
do not change the hearts and soulsof anyone. Text that is exactly right.
And this is something we've talked aboutbefore on the show. I have
not even gotten into what rfk's positionwas because he doesn't even know. So

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last week last week he said heopposed any government restrictions on abortions even if
it's full term. Well, hiscampaign staff freaked out, and then he
said abortion should be legal up untila certain number of weeks and restricted thereafter.
But now he supports abortions up tothe point of fetal viability. And
he had changed his mind because hewas willing to listen. Well, he's

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changed his mind because he can't figureout what works with the voters. Let's
be real anyway. Ooh, Mandy, I am a woman a couple of
years older than you. Went toelementary school in Jeffco. Our fifth grade
said class was co ed. Iwould have died, absolutely died. Gee,
will Ockers. If the unborn childis dead, that's a completely different

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thing, because that could I'm prettysure it can cause sepsis at some point.
That's a completely different situation. That'snot an abortion. If the baby
is a lie or the baby isalready dead, I mean, that's totally
different. Anyway, We're going totake a time out. Stephan Tubbs coming
up next. Keep it right hereon KOA someday. Fetbury twenty two thousand,

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twenty two. Location of your emergency. Please, ma'am, there's no

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blood, there's no guns. There'sno brain matter, there's none of that.
The positions of the decease. Theydied where they stood and fell to
the ground exactly where they stood.That is the beginning of the new documentary
called Devastated Colorado's Fentonel Disaster. Andthe director of the Are you a director

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when you're a documentary? Is thata director? What is that? Yes?
Okay, Stephen Tubbs, you mayremember him from his work for a
couple of days here at KOA.I love what you've done with the place.
We told it up because we knewyou were going to come visit again
there. It only took six years. By the way, this remodel.
You think, I think I wasstill here when they started exactly. Stephen's
new documentary, Devastated Colorado's Fannel Disasterpremieres this weekend now. Unfortunately, the

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premieeres are sold out Wednesday. Thefirst one start wed Thursday, Friday on
Saturday. And I'm very happy tobe here. Thank you. I want
everyone to know, just in casethey're listening at the office, I am
on my lunch break. I'm onmy lunch break. It's a real job.
Now. He's got to he's agrown up boy. All all,
he's got a real job with reallunch breaks and things like that. That's

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right, without concert tickets and nofree pizza. No, no, this
is the most important thing I've everdone, though, Mandy Uh. The
documentary looks incredibly powerful. Why didyou choose this? If not me or
us as a production team tackling thefentanyl issue in Colorado specifically, I don't
know who else is going to doit. And I don't say that to

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pat ourselves on the back. Thisis a crisis not only in your neighborhood
wherever you're listening in Colorado, It'sin every county in the country. Every
state has a cartel presence. AndI wanted to after you know, on
my old show on another station,I for two or three years was on

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this bandwagon of do you know howbad fentanyl is? Do you know the
two mic milligrams can kill what youcould fit on the tip of a pencil
that is a lethal dose. Didyou know that seven out of ten pills,
according to DEA Labs, contain apotentially lethal dose. Do you know
that the tolerance is built up?We have people in Civic Center Park in
downtown Denver who are taking twenty thirtyforty a day because their tolerance has been

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built up. Did you know thatit costs on average between two and four
cents for the Mexican cartels to producesouth of the border. It can sell
up in Montana on an Indian reservation. This literally within the last month,
I got word these are something forone hundred dollars. Oh my god,
two to four cents to manufacture oneup to one hundred dollars. Now they're

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a bargain here in Denver because themarket's been saturated. They're about a dollar
pill. Wow. So I wantedto do this film not only to present
this issue that is so so realand is so deadly and destructive. It
is devastating Colorado families. So wego across the state. We talk with

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politicians, we talk with elected leaders, we talk with our elected officials.
They're not leaders, most of themthat I have tried to at least get
involved in this film. Many peoplewant to look the other way, Mandy,
and we don't want some point fingersanother organization that should be handling this
correct. I mean that that's theissue. Nobody wants to be the one

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to step up and say, okay, let's take this on. Yeah,
so when you started doing this,how did you get contacted with the families
who had been affected? Many ofthem would listen to my you know show,
they would send me emails. Iwould have to say, look,
we're thinking about doing this, asyou know, more than a year and
a half ago, we're thinking ofdoing this documentary film. Would you be

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interested and would you believe that duringproduction we ended up this could have been
a fifteen episode one hour each ona Netflix type series. We boil it
down to I think eighty two minutes. I've been told by some well that's
just too long. I'm like,you know what, if you think it's
too long, why don't you goahead? And instead of telling me that,

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tell one of these families. Sowe go around the state. We
go northeastern Colorado, we go outon the western slope, southern Colorado,
the metro area, Boulder, andwe talk with the people that are connected.
And it probably won't surprise you asto who didn't want a part of
that. The governor. The governorwas and has been a friend for twenty

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years. Let's just say he's notin the film. I told him as
a friend, I said, youneed to be in this film. And
the response, and I don't wantto give too much away, but the
response was, well, we normallydon't do documentary films. That's going to
be a new radio shows mine forinstance, you know. So yeah,

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there you go. The Denver Mayor, right, I got a text from
him last August during during literally aweekend of interviewing family members on the Western
Slope. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston absolutelyabsolutely crickets. Yeah. I think the
kids call it ghosting. Yeah.Yeah, that's in the film as well.
But we go through the let It'skind of like I did a film

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called Denver and Decay in twenty twenty, and that film also outlined a little
bit as to how we got here. There's a little bit of overlap between
this film and that. That's likethe primer as they say, like Denver
Decay, here's the end result ofall this addiction, I mean, and
here's how we got here. Soin this film and my team just did

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an incredible job from research to theclips that we used, and you see
that really. In twenty nineteen,the fentanyl floodgates opened in Koloraile with legislation
passed. I mean the fact thatit was a misdemeanor. A ticket to
have enough fentanyl four grams or lesscould kill up to two twenty five hundred

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people, and that was a ticket. So we go through in devastated Colorado's
fentanyl disaster, we go through theprocess of how we got here, and
sadly, there is no happy ending. This is only getting worse. And
it was worse than when you andI got up this morning. It's worse
as we speak right now. Solet me ask you this. You've got

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these families who have loved ones whotook a pill they thought was something else,
or a kid who thought they weregetting a xanax at school or whatever
it was. And were you surprisedat how egalitarian fentanyl is in terms of
there's there's no socioeconomic barrier. There'skilling blacks, whites, gays, straits,

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rich neighborhoods, poor neighborhoods, inthe club scene, on school campuses,
it's everywhere. It's pervasive, andit is the biggest drug threat the
United States of America has ever faced. Forget when you and I were kids,
and it was it was crack andheroine and heroin, methamphetamine. And

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the biggest thing that we also getinto this in the film is this is
absolutely a direct result of well,first of all, it's greed. I
mean the money. If if youcan produce something for two cents and sell
it for one hundred dollars, you'redoing pretty good. That's pretty good business.
Yes, oh yeah, almost asmuch as a cosmetics markup. But
that's the story for another time.That's that's your wheelhouse, not mine.

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But I'm telling you the fact isit's only getting worse. It is the
worst drug crisis ever. It shouldbe considered a war because I've had parents
tell me this is a weapon ofmass destruction. They feel like they're not
getting heard. And the fact ofthe matter is here in Choloradtto. The
legislature to me as a filmmaker isto blame. There is one party control

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in this state and what it hasconsistently done year after year after year after
year. Just this past legislative sessionthat just wrapped up, Mandy, there
was legislation to get tougher on fentanylpedlars. Right, Well, we don't
want to offend anybody. I amtruly, I am baffled. I mean

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is the drug dealer voting block asignificant enough block that we have to protect
their feelings. We do seem tohave a legislature that's very invested in making
everything harder for legal people, peoplewho are doing things right and then not
doing anything, whether it's making fentanelhigher penalty or increasing the penalties for stealing
a firearm. I mean, thepriorities of who they are protecting is honestly

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beyond me. I truly don't understandit at all. I don't understand the
logic behind it. You may know, you know when I used to listen
to your show, you used tolisten to my You may know where I
stand politically, But this is nota political issue. It is a matter
of what is right and what iswrong. And I've had parents tell me,
well, maybe it's going to takea state senator, a state legislator

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who has all of a sudden theirperfect child tried that pill for the first
time and and it killed them.Yeah. I don't even know. I
don't even know if that would matter, though, honestly I don't. I'm
try, like I said, Iusually I can. Usually I'm pretty good
at at least being able to putmyself in the other party's shoes to try
and figure out what their perspective is, right, the problem that they're trying

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to solve, what they're trying todo this is one of those that I
don't understand, Like who are isthe Mexican cartel paying you? What is
the underlying motivation there? And that'swhat I really cannot wrap my head around,
because we're not talking about people whoare, you know, otherwise upstanding
citizens. We're talking about drug dealers, even mid level drug dealers. If

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you do it away with enough midlevel drug dealers, you will run out
of mid level drug dealers. Right, But I don't understand how they've allowed
this to continue. Hang on onesecond. We've got Stephan Tubbs on the
show right now. He's got anew documentary coming out Wednesday, but all
of the premieres are sold out.But when we get back, we're going
to tell you how you can watchit in the comfort of your own home.
Right after this, All right,we are back with Stephan Tubbs on

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his new documentary called Devastated, Colorado'sFentinel Disaster. Before we do our speed
round with some questions from the techline. Tell people, because the premieres
are all sold out, which isfantastic. I'm thrilled for you. But
where can they see the movie?Write it down, memorize it. Devastatedco

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dot com. Devastatedco dot com.The trailer is there right now. I'm
urging you. If you have notseen this trailer yet, watch it seven
pm Wednesday, Mountain time Wednesday.The link will go live and it's the
same film that will be shown inthe four theaters Devastated CEO dot com coming
up on Wednesday. I conveniently puta link to that on the blog today,

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So if you go to a Manaday'sblog dot com and it's right there
at the very top. Let's dosome questions from the text line, very
very quickly before we run out oftime. This person said, I'm confused
about fentanyl. Did drug users doit because they want to get high on
fentanyl or is it added into otherdrugs just to keep the physical volume of
something like a bag of cocaine cheap. Are the victims ingesting fentanyl thinking they're

(31:33):
just doing cocaine or something else both? Yes, yes, yeah, but
you were just saying on the brinkit started out where fentanyl was being added
to stuff. But now, becauseit's so highly addictive, how much more
addictive is it than the other substancesthat we deal with, like heroin or
fifty times more addictive than the godfifty one hundred times more addictive than morphine,

(31:56):
Oh my god. And basically eatthree or four granules of sugar or
salt. That's enough potential fatal dose. Wow? Wow, you can you
can take take say five thousand dollarsworth of fentanyl powder, and of course
we don't have time. But it'sChina the precursors coming into Mexico. My
next question is about China. Fivethousand dollars could be turned into quarter of

(32:21):
a million like that. Wow.Somebody asked, what about the China connection?
Do you get into that in thefilm as well, tracing from China
to Mexico then Mexico typ here,Yes, ma'am, just terrible, uh,
Mandy our DSA legislators are committed todefunding police and prosecution and incarceration.
They believe all users are victims.So we are all about to get high

(32:43):
side. Oh no, we're notgoing to get safe injection sites as of
right now. I will fight thattooth and nail I've been to the time.
I have for I know you've beento Vancouver as well, having yes,
and anybody that tells you what's what'sgoing on in Vancouver is working needs
to step outside and go to allof the neighbors and ask them if it's
working. Yes, it is justthe neighborhoods in Vancouver where they've been allowed
to open destroyed them. This person, Mandy, it's all about money.

(33:08):
Oh wait a minute, that's notthe one I wanted to read. But
it's true. It's greed. Itis. It is what ages are appropriate
to watch. The documentary twelve andup twelve we'll call it PG thirteen sho
PG thirteen with a couple of fbombs. Yeah, it's about I mean,
it's about people dying of drug addiction. It can be very emotionally trying
on children, so keep that inmind. And this one, why do

(33:29):
the drug dealers want to kill theircustomers? They don't, but it's collateral
damage. Yeah, if you canhook one, they die. Sorry,
there's twenty more that they've addicted.There you go. So it's just basically,
you know, they're loss like likeWalmart puts shoplifting into their bottom line.
This is just how many people you'regoing to kill? Just in the

(33:51):
bottom line. Yep, this isthe most important thing, friends, that
I've ever done. I hope thatyou see the spirit in which we wanted
to do this film. It isfree. We hope that if we get
one family, maybe yours, totalk about fentanyl. I don't care how
old your kids are. If yougot thirty year old kids, if they
don't know, let them know,because clearly the message, the fatal potential,

(34:15):
the message is not resonating. Yeah, it's just not you know.
I mean, I don't mean tobe like, oh, young people,
but young people believe they are invincible. That's why they are called the ages
between eighteen and thirty four are theinvincible years, because nobody ever thinks I'm
gonna die. Between eighteen and thirtyfour. You assume everything's gonna be fine,
and you're gonna wake up the nextday and everything's gonna be all right.

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And as you'll see in the film, that's not the case. Between
the ages of eighteen and forty five, fentanyl is the leading cause of death
eighteen to forty five in the UnitedStates. Holy crap, stephan U Ray
of Sunshine to you. I loveyou, Thank you. I look forward
to seeing you all this Wednesday atseven pm. People can see it on
the online online Devastated CEO dot com. Please share the t trailer, please

(35:00):
please, please, and thank youto my team for outstanding work and we
hope that we can make a differencehere in Colorado and spread it around the
country. Stephan Jay from Highland's Ranchsays, Hi, Jay, word brother.
I was watching a news episode andI heard a drug dealer say it's
okay when people die because it nowleast everybody knows their product is top notch.

(35:22):
Oh yeah, we have word thatif oh man, that's that's some
good bleep. If it killed thatguy, I want some of that.
That's the insanity we're talking about here. Stephan Tubbs, I love you,
friend, love you. Thanks,I'll talk to you later. We'll be
right back. Welcome, Welcome,Welcome to the second hour of the show.

(35:45):
I'm your host for the next twohours, me Andy Connell join of
course by Michael Coover in for aRod who is on vacation. Now,
this is an interesting story that kindof has I haven't seen it anywhere in
the United States. It was firstreported by the Jerusalem Post and Hamas has

(36:06):
been reporting the number of people killed, right, And an interesting thing just
happened with the UN I'm trying tofind out very very quickly, Okay,
I want to give context to thesenumbers you're about to hear, as of
the last census in the Gaza Stripthat I can find was in twenty eighteen.

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In twenty eighteen, there were almosttwo million, nine hundred thousand Palestinians.
Wait a minute, No, waita minute, that number is not
right. One second, No,in the Gaza Strip one point nine million
people living in the Gaza Strip.So, and that's a rough Estimate's probably

(36:53):
a little bit higher because these numbersare for twenty seventeen, and obviously people
keep having babies and the population hasgrown. So we've been hearing all this
from the protesters about genocide, abouthow the Jews just want to eliminate the
Palestinian people, murder as many ofthem as they can, and fighting in

(37:15):
population centers is the best way todo that. Now, something happened at
the United Nations Office for Coordination ofHuman Humanitarian Affairs they go by OCHA,
so they are now revising some ofthe fatality figures from the conflict in Gaza.

(37:36):
And I want to start by pointingout that I want to make sure
you don't think I'm making light ofcivilian deaths, because I'm not. Every
civilian death is a tragedy. Everycivilian caught in the crossfire created by Hamas
is terrible and a heartbreaking situation.But the world has been us using the

(38:00):
numbers given out by the Gaza controlledGaza Ministry of Health, and wait,
let me back that up. Letme walk that back very quickly. They've
been using the numbers from the Hamascontrolled government media office in Gaza, and
as of May sixth, they werereporting fourteen thousand, five hundred children dead

(38:24):
in this war. They reported ninethy five hundred women dead in this war.
That was May sixth. On Mayeighth, those numbers had been cut
almost in half. They went downto seven seven hundred and ninety seven children.
And again, any child death isa tragedy, and nine hundred and

(38:47):
fifty nine deaths of women. That'sa significant shift. And analysts are looking
at this and saying, wait aminute, wait a minute. Has the
UN finally recognized that there's no evidencebehind Hamasa's original claims that all of these
people have been killed. So Amasais claiming twenty three thousand women and children

(39:08):
have been killed in Gaza. It'sa lot. It's a lot, but
the reality is it's about half thatnow, still a lot. But when
you've got almost two million people inthe Gaza Strip, which by the way,
is tiny, I mean it's Ishould see if I can get a
map of the Gaza Strip and thenoverlay what neighborhood in Denver we're talking about,

(39:30):
because that's what we're talking about.We're talking about neighborhoods or suburb communities.
We're not talking about a giant place. We're talking about a very small
piece of land in the Gaza Strip. And the reason this is important is
that when you have all of theseidiot college students, and yes they are

(39:50):
idiots, they're useful idiots, runningaround talking about genocide, and then you
realize that out of one point ninemillion people, we're talking twenty two thousand
total, not even twenty two thousand. Excuse me, m, eleven thousand
and change. Let me do thateight. I'll give it twelve five five

(40:14):
hundred people. Children and women havebeen killed. Lots of men have been
killed, A lot of them inHamas, and I'm okay with that.
They want to go meet Allah.Let's assist them in that dream. In
early April, the Gossam Ministry ofHealth admitted it had incomplete data to document
more than ten thousand of the deathsthat had previously reported. Subsequently, the

(40:35):
ministry indicated that it did not havenames for more than ten thousand of the
individuals it claimed to be deceased asof April first. The ministry also stopped
repeating the claim it made since thefirst weeks of the war that seventy percent
of the dead were women and children, even suggesting the media invented this number.
Meanwhile, the GMO continues to promotethe seventy percent figure while revising its

(40:59):
own numbers upward to remain consistent withthat claim. So what we have is
Hamas giving out information on how manypeople have been killed, and we cannot
trust those numbers. We just can't. I have a column on the blog
today that was written by Heather McDonaldat City Journals. She is so good,

(41:21):
she just does not mince words atall. Ough I linked to the
wrong thing. Hang on, Igotta find it real quick. In it
I can tell you what it says, because I read it this morning.
In it, she talks about thefact that a vast majority of these young
dumbasses on college campuses are actually women, and why in the world would women

(41:44):
go out and protest on behalf ofHamas when in Hamas women have fewer rights,
they don't have, their ability towork is limited, they have all
kinds of things that are you know, equal. They don't believe in gay
rights at all, not even alittle bit. As a matter of fact,

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in this article, Heather points outthe fact that recently in Iraq they
have made gay sex punishable by timein prison. So that seems like kind
of a big deal. And yetI cannot get to this story. It's

(42:28):
driving me crazy, you guys.I'm trying to do it while I'm talking
to you guys, and it's justnot working for me right now. So
what I'm gonna do is come andI don't want to come back to it.
So bear with me. I needyou to vamp for a second.
Couver talk for just a moment aboutwhat happened in the Denver Nuggets game yesterday.
I heard there was a big funmore than a half court shot there,

(42:52):
so that's always good. Yeah,the Denver Nuggets game was rather interesting.
I mean they went to Minnesota,down to the hammered Minnesota on Friday
night, I mean, absolutely obliteratedthem, got back in the series at
two to one, and then thatset up the big game last night,
a chance to even the series,and Nikola Jokicic just was dominating in that

(43:13):
performance. Jamal Murray also a biggame. In fact, there was a
point in the game that really kindof changed everything. Late in the first
half. There was about fifteen secondsto go in the half. Minnesota had
the ball down eight and Anthony Edwardsturned it over. They got a dunk
out of Michael Porter Junior. Thenthe Tea Wolfs tried to throw the ball

(43:34):
down the court and it got pickedoff by Jamal Murray, who then made
a half court shot, and allof a sudden, there was a big
five point swing there, maybe evena seven point swing had Minnesota actually scored.
And Denver wrote it from there andthey're back even in the series with
Big Game five coming up at ballArena on Tuesday night. Thank you,
Michael Cooper. That gave me plentyof time to find the story that I'm
trying to find if I got it. She calls it hysterics for her moss.

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Why have young women been so prominentin recent campus protests now here?
I want to share this little bitwith you because I find this fascinating,
because it's accurate. Why the apparentgender gap. One possible reason is that
women constitute majorities of both student bodiesand the betastasizing student services bureaucracy that cater

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to them. Another is the sexskew in majors. The hard sciences and
economics, whose students are less likelyto take a day or weeks out from
their classes to party correction stand againstgenocide in cool North faced tents are still
majority male. The humanities and softsocial sciences, the fields where you might
even get extra credit for your intersectionalactivism, are majority female. Not surprisingly,

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males have spearheaded recent efforts to guardthe American flag against desecration. In
progressive movements, the default assumption maybe to elevate females ahead of males as
leaders and spokesmen, But most it'simportant the victim ideology that drives much of
academia today, with its explicit enmityto objectivity and reason as white male constructs

(45:09):
has a female character. She continueswith one more paragraph I'll share and then
we'll get to the rest. Studentprotests have always been hilariously self dramatizing,
but the current outbreak is particularly maudlinin keeping with female self pity. The
university would rather see us dead thandivest, said a member of the all

(45:30):
female press representatives of UCLA's Solidarity Encampmenton x The university police and the LAPD
would rather watch us killed than protectus. The academic left, including these
anti zionists, opposes police presence oncampus. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block apologized in
June twenty twenty after the LAPD lawfullymustered on university property during the George Floyd

(45:53):
race riots. Command of language isnot a strong point of these student emissaries.
There needs to be an addressment ofUS imperialism and its ties to the
University of California's system, said anotherUCLA Encampment spokeswoman. She then goes on
to talk about administrators essentially making campusessafe spaces. And I've never thought about

(46:17):
the correlation between this nonsense of thesafe space and the fact that women now
outnumber men on college campuses. Butit correlates perfectly, and I would say
that even though correlation does not alwaysequal causation, in this case, I
would say it probably does. Asmore women came to campus and more women
were revealed by themselves to be incapableof dealing with any kind of high pressure

(46:40):
situation, administrators responded by creating safespaces. Remember we talked about this when
it happened, But remember when therewas rooms after Trump was elected. They
actually had special safe space rooms wherepeople could go in if they needed to
sit and cry, and there wascoloring books and crayons in there if people

(47:01):
just needed to get out their emotionsin the safe space rooms. After Donald
Trump was elected. I don't remembermen asking for such rooms. I really
don't. It's women who bring thisclap trap to the university, and it's
women who are driving these protests becausethese women are so stupid they don't even

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know that they couldn't even go touniversity if they lived in Gaza, if
they lived in Iraq, if theylived in Iran, the places that they
are now holding up in their ownway as superior to the United States of
America where they do go to college. Now, I shouldn't have said I
think women can go to college inIraq, they cannot in Iran. Their

(47:44):
hours are limited to when they work, so essentially they're like, okay,
you can work between eleven am andfour pm, but that's it. How
are you gonna get a full timejob that way? And forget about the
gay friends that these women might havebecause they're not welcome in any of those
places. Honor killings because you havea gay relative is still a okay in

(48:05):
many Middle Eastern cultures, not all, i'm sure, but many. And
yet these dumbasses are out there liketrying to fight the power when they don't
even realize who they are fighting for. They are so entrenched in the fighting
of the against that they don't knowwho they have aligned themselves with. And

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that's just pathetic and sad. Itwas not long ago when a predominantly female
professor, rate student population, andbureaucratic apparatus embraced the idea that students' safety
should be protected against hate speech thatallegedly jeopardizes it. Males by contract,

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says Heather MacDonald, place greater emphasison academic freedom and truth seeking, regardless
of the alleged emotional consequences of intellectualinquiry. Examples of dangerous speech included arguments
that racial disparities are not caused byracism and that human beings cannot change their
sex by proclamation. What is itI mean, you, guys. I

(49:12):
know lots of strong women. Iknow lots and lots of women who went
to college, got their degrees,came out and have been kicking butt ever
since. I know lots of womenwho didn't go to college and yet have
forged a path and created wonderful careerswhen they are kicking butt? What is
it with these women, these youngwomen now, who are embracing the labels

(49:34):
that are the exact opposite of whatwomen fought against for a hundred years in
this country. Women are too softto vote, they're too emotional to vote.
Those are the reasons that were leftbefore women were given the right to
vote. And these women are provingit. Speech is violence. That is

(49:57):
absurd, and they have to Iknow it. But yet here we are
trying to accommodate these idiots who sayspeech is violence, but don't think anything
about blocking the way of a Jewishstudent while asking if they're a Zionist or
not. That's not actual violence,but speech is actual violence. I mean,
I'm worried. I'm worried about whatcomes next. I was reading something

(50:22):
yesterday and it was out of aBritish paper, but they were asking if
your country was invaded, would yousign up to go fight for your country?
Okay, so this is in Britain. Do you know what percentage of
young brit said they would sign upto fight for their country if their country
was invaded. We're not talking aboutyou know, your country is saber rattling

(50:44):
and they might need to send somesoldiers somewhere to fight. We're talking about
somebody put boots on the ground inyour country. And thirty percent of young
brit said they would sign up andfight. And I have to think,
like, what about this crowd?What about this group of people? I
feel like I'm lucky to know manyyoung people that I absolutely know would sign

(51:06):
up to fight. If we wereattacked and someone came and attacked us on
our shores and there was boots onthe ground, they would be there to
fight. But how many of them, how many young people? You look
at how difficult it is for themilitary to get people to sign up voluntarily.
Isn't that signing up to fight foryour country, kids, they don't

(51:28):
want to be responsible for that.They certainly don't feel any sense of duty
to country. They don't feel anysense of responsibility to maintain the nation.
Is it any wonder they've been spoonfed a steady diet of America bad for
god knows how long now, foryears in schools. So yeah, it

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shouldn't surprise us that they don't wantto, you know, sign up for
that. Mandy, Sadly some ofthe stupid, ignorant women are going to
be the next presidents of these collegesand university. Yes, yes, indeed.
Oh here's a good comparison. Thankyou Texter who sent this, Mandy.
Gaza is one hundred and forty onesquare miles. Aurora is one hundred

(52:15):
and sixty two square miles. SoAurora is bigger than Gaza. Ralph said,
damned rife, damn right. Wewatch them starve collapse from no water.
The police are there to protect themfrom us. As we think they're
traders who are totally expendable, wedeliver them to the eers for organ donations
freshly. Whack. We would notdo that, Ralph. I'm gonna have

(52:37):
to stop reading your stuff on theair if you keep threatening people. Because
I don't have a chance to screenthese before I read them, this person
said, I'm convinced a lack oftrue and real character test through catastrophic events,
WARS has formed a generation that manufacturesfake ones to feel accomplished. What
is the old saying, hard timesmake strong men, good times weak men.

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We are definitely in that situation.Whenever I see these student organizations where
it's obvious the women have taken over, there's always that super beta male who
like accidentally goes to talk and it'slike, oh, no, no,
no, I'm sorry, I wouldn'thave let her talk. And you know
the only reason they're doing it isbecause they're trying to get laid and guys,

(53:22):
let me just explain this to you. And I think young women are
starting to get hip to this now. Women don't want to push over,
and the women who want to pushover are not women you want to be
married to. Women want men whoare men who are capable of standing up
for themselves and doing so in amanner that makes sense for the situation.

(53:43):
From being able to reason and logicallymake their own argument to being able to
protect their loved ones with a fistfightor something more severe. If that's what
it comes down to. We don'twant a guy who's so willing to acquiesce
that we justll over him. Now. Temporarily, sure, that's fine,
but it gets old and it's notfun. So all these young men who

(54:07):
are like you know, know,she's right, She's ohughugh, yuck,
yuck. I just can't, Mandy. I'm a thirty year old, lifelong
conservative, but the establishment corruption isso blatant to make it seem silly to
risk my life so Congress can keeppeople underneath them. I understand that.
But here's the thing. If I'mthirty years old and our country is invaded,

(54:30):
I am signing up for the military, and I'm a woman. You
know why, because this country hasgiven me so much opportunity. Not the
people in Congress, not the Presidentof the United States, whoever that party
is, not the people at theColorado Legislature, the country itself, the
people who live in this country,the people who I engage with every single

(54:50):
day. Those are the people I'mfighting for. I'm not fighting for Congress.
And if there are boots on theground from a foreign nation on this
soil. Should' matter who's in power, it should matter who's in Congress.
We have to repel that, andI certainly hope that Americans would step up
to do that. And I don'tthink they wanted almost fifty five year old
woman, but damn it, Iwould try. All right Now on the

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blog today, I have a storyout of a school in Jefferson County,
and this school is powder Horn ElementaryAnd currently there is a chainshot Org petition
circulating that has been put together bya bunch of parents, I mean out
of they're asking for five hundred signatures, they only have three hundred and forty

(55:44):
four. And in it it says, we the concern members of the Powderhorn
Elementary School community are united in ourcall for the removal of Tom. And
I'm not quite sure how to sayhis last name. I'll get this in
just a second from our guest.From his position as principal, his authority,
snitarian leadership style has created a cultureof fear and distress among both staff

(56:05):
and parents, undermining the well beingand success of our school. And then
there's a bunch of reasons that arethat are quite well explained. If you
really want the details. But we'vegot one of those parents on the show
with us right now. We havelet me hit the right button. Zach
Laufer, Welcome to the show.I appreciate you making time for me today.
Thanks Mannie. I'm happy to behere. How do I pronounce the

(56:28):
principal's last name? I didn't wantto massacurrent, so I just call I
do the same thing. I justcall him doctor S or Principal S or
Tom S would be all all sufficient. I'm going to guess that it's Sysney.
Sysney would be a good guess.There's a lot of continence consonants in
this name, not a lot ofowls, So we'll just call him doctor
S for this conversation. What isthe problem at powder Horn? So a

(56:53):
little little backstory. So both mykids, who now one is in middle
school and one is in high schoMy son was there since third grade and
my daughter was there for all sixyears. So I was able to see,
you know, different principles until doctorS came in when my daughter was
in fourth grade. But there's problemseverywhere every turn, as far as school

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safety, to parent involvement, asfar as you know, making a school
thrive Obviously, parent involvement is hugeto teachers feeling not comfortable in their workplace,
to teachers actively searching for new jobsbecause of this one individual. So
how many principles were there in theyears prior? Is this a school where

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the principals have turned over quickly orwas there a long time principal before?
Not too much. We had one, we had an intern. We had
one principle retired, and we hadan intern principle while they searched for another
replacement, and that was doctor sthat came in right after COVID. So
is it fair to say that hismanagement style is at the crux of the

(57:59):
issue. It is very dictator kindof leadership and very deflective. So you
know, someone brings up an issue, whether it's safety or whether it's a
school performance or play or activity orafter school event, and it's always deflective.
I mean to the point where youhave parents that will only communicate with

(58:22):
him via email or only record theconversation because they've had problems where he'll say
one thing and then do another.Now tell me about this talent show because
that seemed to be a big issue. So and that was my direct involvement.
So I mean we have two big, big things, obviously safety and
then the event, so the talentshow. Now I own three businesses.

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I'm a very busy guy. Itotally get being busy. My daughter's last
year was obviously or fifth grade beforeshe went to middle school, and they
were upset that they weren't going tohave a talent show this year. I
said, well, you know why. She's like, nobody will volunteer.
You know, no parents want tohave to deal with the principal and all
that stuff. Well I'll do it, like I don't. I'm not scared
of anybody. We'll just we'll justlet's get through it. Let's do it,

(59:04):
let's make it great. We madea flyer. I had some amazing
students that were part of the Schoolof Minds that we're going to volunteer to
be judges. He calls me theday of Friday is like eleven o'clock.
He's like, hey, we needflyers by two pm. Or he sends
an email he said, hey,we need flyers by two pm to you

(59:27):
know, get in the Friday folders. I said, great, we already
emailed you a JPEG file of theflyer. It's in your email. He
goes, well, I need youto drop off what are the three hundred
copies? And this I was alreadyat work and I was like, okay,
I'm like, you guys can't likeyou can't do it, or you
know, one of your staff can'tdo it. And he sends me back
a long, drawn out, youknow, six paragraph email about how he

(59:53):
doesn't think the talent shows. Youknow, obviously it's not going to work
this year, maybe next year,but like and just super passive aggressive versus
now, I probably could have hitthe copier button like sixteen times with how
long it took him to write thisone email, you know, And he
didn't ask. He didn't ask theteachers, you know, hey, can
you got copy this at break?Can you copy this at lunch? And

(01:00:14):
I had multiple teachers come up tome and say, hey, look,
we would have gladly copied them foryou. I was, you know,
I was nowhere close to be ableto say, yeah, let me drop
everything, let me get there bytwo o'clock. So so you guys are
actually doing this change dot org petitionto have him removed from the school.
Is that correct? Absolutely? Andit's not you know, we want to

(01:00:34):
make it clear it's not let's shakeup things of powder horn, it's not
let's move some staff members around.It is one sole concern, and it's
get it's to get him out ofthere. And it's it even proves the
point because he found out about thepetition obviously, I mean there was parents
posting QR codes everywhere. I mean, it's the parent involvement to get him
out of there is more involvement thanthe school's seen in the last couple of

(01:00:55):
years. Right, So they postedon Facebook about how you know he's aware
of it, and they post hisresponse, which his response was exactly what
the petition was saying. It's verydeflective bringing up stats of the school which
are because of the teachers and theteachers are amazing, and not because of
him. I'm sorry, not let'ssit down and fix this. It was

(01:01:15):
super deflective and didn't answer anything thatwas brought up in the petition, right,
And and it comes back to thebiggest concern, which is school safety.
So you know, we want tomake sure it's clear that it's it's
him that the is the issue.It's not the teachers are amazing. They're
already underpaid, and you know they'refocusing on teaching our kids, and then

(01:01:36):
when they get off work, they'relooking for a new job because you know,
they they don't want to be aroundhim anymore, or you have I
spoke to one teacher and she's like, I'm being moved a grade you know
who. And she's outspoken, butshe's like, I'm being moved a grade
now with no recourse. She's like, I don't even know how to fight
back because I wasn't even told whyI'm moving grades now. So, but

(01:01:57):
you know, our big thing issafety. Her in particular, got hit
in the head of the baseball batand she had a concussion and was on
a month's restriction of no electronics,which you know, at their age that's
the life. And his response were, well, kids will be kids,
no suspension, no detention. Wait, wait, I kid, wait,

(01:02:17):
A kid hit your daughter in thehead with a baseball bat on purpose,
not accidentally, and they didn't doanything correct. He was a problem child
that had anger issues in the pastwith other, you know, other students
and being disruptive in the classroom,and his exact response, kids will be
the comments section on the petition,you can see another individual, another parent,

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her first grade girl was on thebus home and she was punched in
the face by a fifth grade boy. Blood eied her nose and his Tom's
response was the same. It was, well, kids will be kids gave
him. I don't know what thepunishment was, but that's his response.
And you know, it's elementary school. These kids need to be taught.
They need to you know, asa principal, a man or woman,

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you got to be you got tobe leadership. You've got to be in
one with the community. You've gotto be there for the kids. You
got to be there for the teachers, you got to be there for the
parents. And he's none of that. He's not He's not in touch with
the community because nobody will volunteer withhim. He's not looking out and what's
best interest for the teachers because theones that are scared to talk to him
don't say anything, and the onesthat do say something get punished in one

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way or another. And then ofcourse you have the safety concern, which
I mean you have kids that arelike my parents will not let me talk
to you unless they are present,or he wants to talk to the dad
versus the mom. Which is verylike just a lot of red flags.
So have you guys talked to SuperintendentTracy Doreland about this. It has,
yes, and they have been forwardedto UH to everyone's attention. And what

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we understand is on Friday they camein to spoke to the teachers and a
lot of the teachers took that timeto voice their opinions and say, you
know, what they wanted to say, and closed doors in regards to this
issue. And that's that's all weknow that what's been done so far.
Okay, you know, I understandhow you guys feel because we've dealt with

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this in the past with one ofour kids. We're a principle that we
loved left and then we got aprinciple that was not very satisfactory for our
In our case, my daughter wasaged out of the school pretty quickly.
But we I mean, I don'tknow, I hear what you're saying.
It does sound like there is amanagement style issue here. And you know,

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I think it takes a special kindof person to be a really great
elementary school principle because elementary is soformative and so important to the points you
were making about making sure kids understandproper behavior and things of that nature.
So would you guys be satisfied ifthe district just said, why don't we
move him to a middle school oror you know, another opportunity where he's

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not necessarily working with elementary school studentsand elementary school teachers who are also a
very specific kind of teacher. Wouldthat work for you guys? I mean,
that would work in the sense thatthey would get him out of that
school, but it would also myconcern would be for the safety of what
school he goes to next, asfar as middle school or high school.
You know, especially in today's world, you can't have that mentality of like

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you have to you know, drawthe line. You have to explain,
like, here's our rules. Thesame thing we Color Row, which was
a neighboring school, recently closed theirdoors and Powderhorn took you know, a
very good majority of those kids inand there was no like basically like,
Hey, this is our these areour rules, this is what we expect,
this is what we do. Andlike the teachers are saying, well,
I have this kid that's problematic inour school, boy or girl,

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and you know his responsible move themlike not like hey, let's sit them
down. Let's right right. Stuffputs it right back on the teachers.
And the teachers are you know,we're already losing teachers, like we like.
There's multiple teachers that will be gonethis year because of him, and
there's other teachers three that I knowof for a fact, are currently searching

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for another job. Well, Zach, I appreciate your time, and I
appreciate what you guys are doing.I mean, I will say the change
dot work position is extremely specific,which is good. You know, it
gives very detailed reasons for what youguys are asking for. I as a
fellow parent, I have a lotof compassion for you guys. But I
also don't have doctor S's side ofthe story. So perhaps I will reach

(01:06:35):
out to him, But it's goingto be a very interesting thing to watch,
absolutely, and I would I wouldlove for you to reach out to
him so you can hear his response. He just he won't he won't address
it. And me as a person, if I was a principal of an
elementary school and I read this petitionand I didn't address any of them,
my goals for the safety of thekids and to protect the teachers and if

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I couldn't do it, I wouldstep down immediately. That's what that's that's
what he should do, or moveor transfer. But I mean I don't
honestly, I don't feel he shouldbe a principal of any school with the
way he leads and how he leads, right, Zach, I got love
for you to reach out and tryand get his side of it. I
will. I got to take abreak, and I appreciate you making time
for me today. Of course,all right, thank you, We'll be

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right back. You know, severalpeople being in on the text line saying
what's the problem with the principal?It is a it sounds to me like
a personality and management style conflict.But when you've got kids in elementary school,

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parents are on high alert, right, And I do think it takes
a special kind of person to bethe elementary school principal. You've got to
manage teachers, many of whom areelementary school teachers for a reason. They
enjoy working with little children. Thatis what gives them joy, you know,

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That is what they enjoy doing andwhat they're good at. It's just
a different kind of situation. Sowe'll see what happens. There, I'll
reach out to the principle and seeif he wants to come on the on
the show. So there you go. Uh, I did get somebody who
said, I'm highly suspicious. Ithink this guy has some dei and woke
motives up his sleeve that he doesn'twant to reveal. I know a tiny

(01:08:23):
bit about Zach and just from whatI know, that is not at all
what's happening here. It's it's justa management style dispute after that interview.
So today on the blog, bythe way, if you haven't checked the
blog today, it is outstanding,absolutely outstanding at mandy'sblog dot com. And
I've got a bunch of stories thatare kind of like like this one.

(01:08:45):
So, the VA Hospital, oras I like to call it, the
Tajmavia because it costs so much toget that hospital done, has now canceled
some surgeries. If the surgeries involvereusable medical equipment, those surgeries have been
canceled after residue was found on theequipment during an inspection. And this goes

(01:09:06):
out like big bless you to allthe people who work in these ors,
who before every surgery inspect everything,and I just you know, we are
so lucky to have the teams thatdo this. Most of the time it's
nurses, but they caught something.Now, if you have surgery that only
requires you know, single use items, and I don't know enough about surgery

(01:09:30):
to know which of those things youwould need, but those are okay.
It's just trying to figure out whythis stuff didn't get cleaned properly. And
I do know that like some hospitals, they send out their were usable equipment
to be sterilized by a company offproperty and everything is cleaned up and they
get it back inside these plastic bagsthat say it's been sterilized. So we'll

(01:09:53):
find out what's going on. That'son the blog today as well. Now,
when we get back, I've gota two minute drill of a lot
of stories that have to do withbrain health. But I want you to
pay attention because it's not just that. But you know, we've always been
told sleep is necessary because it helpsgive your brain time to clean all the

(01:10:14):
toxins out. We've just found outthat's completely wrong. I'll explain after this.
All right, kids, we gota two minute drill that is mostly

(01:10:36):
health related, and boy, someof these stories are good, but not
good, they're bad. Like thisone. Nearly ninety percent of adults over
the age of twenty in the UnitedStates are at risk of developing heart disease.
This from an alarming new study.Now, it doesn't mean that a
majority of adults have full blown heartdisease, it does indicate that many are

(01:10:57):
at risk of developing the condition.And here's the kicker. Even younger people
are falling into this category. Researchersidentified people at high risk using a recently
defined syndrome that takes into account thestrong links between heart disease, obesity,
diabetes, and kidney disease. Theythen put this through their little Oh I

(01:11:18):
got the hiccups. Hang on,guys. They put this new data through,
and almost a decade's worth of datafrom almost ten thousand people through their
little algorithm, and they discovered thatalmost ninety percent of people met the criteria.
And this is not good news,especially for younger people. I can't
get rid of hiccups. This isjust going to hiccup all the way through

(01:11:39):
this, So just bear with me. Just more than a quarter of the
group people listed as stage one,where it increased risk of developing heart disease
because of being obese or overweight,having excess belly fat and fat around their
organs, but didn't have specific symptoms. The next fifteen percent advanced disease,
a number that remained fairly constant betweentwenty eleven and twenty twenty. One of

(01:12:03):
the doctors said the biggest factor contributingto the fact is that the percentage of
people in the advanced stages is notimproving is obesity, which is very prevalent
in the United States. Time tolose weight, my friends, and get
off this list once and for all. Here's another kicker for you. Remember
how you're always told that you needsleep because during sleep, that's when your

(01:12:26):
brain kind of gets cleaned of toxinsand proteins and things of that nature.
So if you don't get enough sleep, you're not getting your brain clean well.
A team from Imperial College at UKin London's UK Dementia Research Institute used
a fluorescent dye to study the brainsof mice, tracking how quickly the dye
moved from one area of the brainto the other before eventually being cleared.

(01:12:48):
You know what they found, whenyou were asleep that clearance reduced about thirty
percent and fifty percent in mice thatwere under anesthesia compared with mice that were
kept awake. Now, if thefindings will be confirmed in humans, it
casts down on the long held beliefthat sleep clears toxins via the glymphatic system,

(01:13:09):
a mechanism that a mechanism that flusheswaste from the brain. Previous research
has suggested that sleep is important forpreventing dementia, as it is during this
time that toxic proteins are cleared fromthe brain. We don't know what this
means now, but maybe it makesyou feel a little bit better about not
getting great sleep. Here's a funone for you. Studies are showing over

(01:13:32):
and over and over again that resistancetraining not just boost your muscles, it
also boosts brain health. Weightlifting improvesbrain function, more so in the elderly.
Cognitive decline can slow down with resistancetraining. Weightlifting may also lessen depressive
symptoms. Weightlifting is beneficial for almostevery health issue. No drug achieves the

(01:13:56):
same combination of benefits, and theBritish Journal of Sports Medicine reports that resistance
training is inversely associated with medical disorders, let cardiovascular disease and diabetes. That
means the more you do, thelower your risk for these diseases. And
here's the best news about weightlifting.It doesn't matter when you start. You

(01:14:17):
could be completely sedentary for your entirelife. Pick it up when you're fifty,
sixty, seventy eighty and you aregoing to have significant benefits just from
picking up something heavy and moving itaround. This is a concerning topic that
many people don't know exactly how concerningit is. The world is not having

(01:14:41):
enough babies. We are very closeworldwide to dropping below what is called the
replacement rate. The replacement rate isthe number of babies that need to be
born to make up for the samenumber of people who are dying. We
the United States has been below thereplacement rate for some time, so as
Try and Russia. This could beabsolute disaster for the United States of America.

(01:15:05):
Other countries are ruling out programs tostop the decline, but somehow they
barely made a dent. Now,if you look at the numbers and you
see things like medicare, things likesocial Security that require younger workers to pay
into the system because the government liedabout how it was funding and now they're
just paying for all of the olderpeople living on it. Right now are

(01:15:27):
going to be impossible to maintain ifwe do not figure out a way to
have more babies. And I've beenthinking about this. I'm just going to
say this, that ship has sailedfor me. I am not having any
more babies. But what can wedo for young people to make having babies
more attractive. So many young people, and I'm talking about people under the
age of thirty, between twenty andthirty, have already decided they're not having

(01:15:49):
kids. Why it's expensive, itseems hard. Maybe they believe in global
warming, Maybe they just don't wantto sacrifice their careers. We have to
convince them that having kids is worthit. And as a parent, I
would say, most of the timehaving kids is awesome. Small percentages of
the time having kids is awful,But most of the time, having kids

(01:16:12):
is awesome. And I would notchange a single thing in my family and
my life. And speaking of childrenin this last story, this is horrifying
but not surprising. So there wasa jewelry maker who began using Instagram to
advertise. She had a five yearold girl wearing a sparkly charm and the
girl's face was facing away from thecamera, so the girl was not you

(01:16:36):
know, featured, but she hadthe sparkly charm on. So the lady
puts this ad on Instagram to sellthese charms. She gets the results of
her ad campaign from Instagram, andher ad was shown almost exclusively to men,
but not dads looking for jewelry fortheir little ones. If you guess
pedophiles, you guessed right now.The New York Times took that photograph,

(01:16:59):
created a fake profile, and relaunchedit on Instagram. And this is what
happened. They opened two Instagram accountsand promoted posts showing the five year old
girl, her face turned away fromthe camera, wearing a tank top and
the charm. Separate posts showed theclothing and jewelry without the child model or
with a black box concealing her.All of the paid ads were promoted with

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people interested in topics like childhood,dance and cheerleading, and aside from reaching
a surprisingly large proportion of men,the ads got direct responses from dozens of
Instagram users, including phone calls fromtwo accused sex offenders, offers to pay
the child for sexual acts, andprofessions of love. Do not put your

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kids on the Internet. I wasguilty of this in the past because I
didn't know better. Do not putyour kids on the internet, because there's
only creeps and weirdos out there onthe internet, and you don't need your
children exposed to creeps and weirdos.On Wednesday, by the way, the
New York Times asked the platform's algorithms. They asked about it, So wait

(01:18:08):
a minute, how is this happening? And well, Instagram's like we're working
on it. In all honesty,should they not be working on anything else
until they fix this problem? Likeall hands on deck. We have to
figure out a way to filter outthe pedophiles that use our platform for stuff.

(01:18:28):
I would think it would be thatimportant. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe
when we get back, I wantto play a piece of audio that's about
a minute long that if you're lackingmotivation, if you need to get something
done but you can't quite figure itout, this may help you. Because
I am doing this when I gethome today about a project I need to
get going. We'll do that next. All right, we are back.

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And I saw this like two weeksago as I was scrolling on my phone,
and of course then I couldn't findit again. So lo and behold
this morning. I'm scrolling again whileI'm eating my breakfast and it popped up,
and I'm so excited I got thisbecause I think this is incredibly useful.
No one second, I want tostop him so I can tell you

(01:19:26):
who he is. So this guy'sname is Brian Tracy. I have absolutely
no idea what his deal is,but he is, I guess, one
of those guys who's gonna help youknow. He wants to empower every person
on the planet to discover and unlockmore of the potential within themselves. Okay,
I'll bite listen to this. Itis less than a minute long,

(01:19:50):
but this hit me just in theright space. If you're trying to figure
out how to get motivated to dosomething you need to do, whether it
is you know, elevate your skillset to make you more likely to be
able to get a new job.Maybe maybe you're trying to lose weight and
you just can't. You're stuck onready set, ready Set, and maybe
you've even gone to the soda weightloss page and you haven't done it yet.

(01:20:13):
This is how you get moving onsome of these goals. Just listen
to this from now on, wheneveryou bring on a new person, put
them through this exercise. If theywill not go through this exercise, do
not waste a minute of your timewith them, because they will never be
successful if they won't follow your guide. Here's the exercise. Take a clean
sheet of paper and write down goalsand today's state. And then write down

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ten goals that you would like toaccomplish in the next twelve months. And
write them in the present tense.I earn, I achieve, I weigh,
I drive such and such a carI own. And then you take
this list of ten and you say, if I had a magic wand,
and I could waive this magic wand, and I could have any one goal
on my list within twenty four hours, which one goal would have the greatest

(01:20:55):
positive impact on my life? Andusually this will jump out at you.
Put a certainly around that call,and that's a goal. Where you transferred
to a clean sheet of paper,and then you follow the seven steps.
Write it down, set a deadline, make a list of everything you have
to do to accomplish it, andorganize and listen to to a checklist,
take action, and then do somethingevery day. If you'll just do this,
nothing can stop you but yourself.I love this. I love this

(01:21:19):
for so many reasons because I thinkthat motivation is one of the hardest things
as a human. About that,I didn't mean to hit the hit this
stop button there. Sorry about that, My bad, Cooper. How do
you motivate yourself? Do you havepep talks for yourself? Oh? My
gosh, have you ever seen thefootball life on Emmett Smith? Have you

(01:21:40):
ever seen the football life on thatone on him? I have not known.
Oh. First of all, Ishould hate Emtt Smith because he's a
Gator and I went to Florida State, right already, I should hate him,
but I can't because he's EMMITTT.Smith and he's like the nicest guy
ever. But in that I've watchedthis one like three times and I cry
every single time in watching the MtSmith of football life. But what he's

(01:22:03):
done since high school because his highschool coach made him write out three goals
on a on a piece paper andyou hang it next to your mirror,
so every day when you look inthe mirror, you see those three goals.
And when he was when he wasdrafted by the Cowboys, he had
in his locker be Rookie of theYear, go to a Super Bowl break

(01:22:23):
the rushing record. I mean,he had these goals written down and he
still does it. Like his wifesays, right now, he's out of
you know, he's retired. He'sthe rushing he's got the rushing title of
all time, and he still hasgoals written on the mirror every single day.
What do you do to motivate yourself? Coover, That's a very good
question. Uh, my wife andmy kids are probably my biggest motivators.

(01:22:45):
I'm really not very much of aself motivator at all except for my job
per se. And my wife wouldsay probably that home that I'm not self
motivated at all do anything. Butthat's why you found That's why you found
a good woman. Because the goodwoman will motivate you yourself. You don't
even need that. You just needa good woman to motivate you. Couverer.
It's hard. It's hard to findthat well of self motivation. And

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I think honestly, people like EmmittSmith who finds something that works for them
right away and they just glom ontoit and keep doing it. That's why
he's elite, right because that littlething he was like, great, this
is what I'm gonna do, andhe's done it his entire life. That's
why he's Emmitt Smith and we're not. That's very true. Do you ever
see that movie Invincible? Oh yeah, with Mark Wahlberg. Oh gosh,

(01:23:31):
yes, he does that same thingwith his girlfriend or whoever left him.
Yeah, that's that note saying you'renever going to be anything. Yep,
And he puts that up on thewall. And that's a different kind of
motivation. Back when I did Iwhen I first got into radio, I
did sports radio in Orlando, andI was there was no other women on

(01:23:53):
the station. There was a lotof listeners who were super salty about a
woman coming to the morning like.They would send me emails with the subject
line you stupid horror and I'm not. And it just went downhill from there,
right. So I printed out everyone of those emails and I put
them on a pile on my deskand I called it my f you pile.
And every day I would come inand go, if all of you

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I'm still here, I still havea job. And what was funny is
like six months later, you know, we would be doing an event or
something about and guys would come upto me and they'll be like, yeah,
when you first started, I justsay, you're a really mean email,
and you know you're not as badas I thought you were. That's
as high as the praise ever got. You're not as bad as I thought
you were. But that f youpile motivated. I moved it to my

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next job. That's how motivating thatpile was for me, because I was
like, there's no way I'm goingto give these haters the pleasure of not
being here in the morning. I'mjust not going to do it. And
when I left, I left onmy own terms. So it was it
was good. But just motivating yourselfto get up and do the right thing
it's hard. So hopefully this video, by the way, it's the very

(01:25:00):
a bottom of the blog today atmandy'sblog dot com, so you can find
it there if you want to getthe seven steps. I'll let you know
how my seven steps go when theygo. Sorry about that cover, that
was me. I ought to starton the old screen there. My apologies.

(01:25:21):
Hey, I got a question andI just saw this. It's really
dumb. It's a dumb question,but it's the end of the show.
But it's got me thinking. Gotthe wheels of my brain turning. The
question that I just saw on Twitteris what does your junk drawer have to
have for it to be considered ajunk drawer? Now I live in a
home with what I would call threejunk drawers. In my house. We

(01:25:47):
have the traditional drunk junk drawer thatis like where your rubber bands and stuff
like that go. And the randombattery that you're not sure if it's still
good because you took it out ofsomething, but then you're like, I
might still have some life in it. Twist ties, although it's getting harder
and harder to find twist ties anymorenow they don't put them on bread and
stuff, So now we have adearth of twist ties in our junk drawer.

(01:26:10):
And then there's also the like randomChinese food soy sauce packet, and
also uh possibly some chopsticks, andthen maybe some taco packets. But what
else has to go in a junkdrawer to make it a junk drawer?
And here's my real question that gotme thinking about this. We have an

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organizer in our junk drawer, aplastic organizer. Now, lest you think
it's organized in there, with theorganizer, the answer is no, it
is not. But it makes mefeel good to have the organizer in the
junctraur, like I'm somehow ahead ofthe junk draw game. Text me,

(01:26:55):
what is in your junk drawer?I'd like to know five six six nine
zero. I don't know why.Text me the weirdest stuff that's in your
junk drawer. There's always like therandom rubber bands, right, just rubber
bands, small, big, whatever. They just go in the junk drawer.
Perhaps a remote control to something youdon't own anymore, but it'll come
in handy for something. That's myhusband's favorite line. It'll be good for

(01:27:17):
something. No, no, itwon't. We don't even have a Beta
Max anymore, babe, But wegot the remote. No, we don't
really have a remote. We probablydo. I shouldn't say that we don't
have one. I want to readthis based on our conversation from the last
segment. I used to keep thesixty rejection letters from my search on the
wall of my apartment in Chicago formy first try to land a job prior

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to going back to grad school tocompete for those same jobs better. After
getting a graduate degree in internships,I landed my first job and moved up
from there. That was thirty yearsand thirty pounds ago. So there you
go. But oh, you guysare already there, Mandy. A paper
clip, a hair tie, anda battery. Yes, something to keep

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you from opening the drawer. No, that's what your potato masher is for.
And your potato masher should not bein the drawer. It should not
be in that drawer. It shouldbe in the other drawer with all of
your random kitchen utensils, right,because you got to have the drawer of
random kitchen utensils. And that's totallydifferent than the junk drawer. The junk

(01:28:26):
drawer is an entirely different proposition becauseit's truly for crap and junk. It's
just what's in your junk drawer,couver, And I know you have one.
Everyone has one. Don't try andlie and be like, oh,
we don't know, we're totally organizedin my house. That's a dirty lie.
A bunch of junk is in myjunk drawers. Ah, yes,
I mean paper clips, just randomcards, pins, scissors, yep,

(01:28:53):
calculators yeap, just a bunch ofcrap. Yeah, And that's hence the
name junk drawer. You guys aresending a bunch of them that are really
really funny, random buttons, coinsfrom other countries, a single earring of
course, of course, a ballof tangled cords. My junk durers have
taken over and now outnumbered my regulardrawers. That would make me insane.

(01:29:15):
In my kitchen is very organized forme. It's I'm not a good person
with an organization. Like if yousaw my desk at home, it's a
little bit embarrassing. But I readsomewhere that a dirty desk, a messy
desk is the sign of a creativemind. So I'm leaning into that and
I'm okay with it. Tape scotchtape is a requirement in the junk tour.
Whether or not there's any tape onthe roll remains to be seen.

(01:29:38):
We've got playing cards, chip bagclips, birthday candles, of course,
mandy sprouts in the bulk aisle.All the twist ties you want, Oh
good idea chargers, duck and goose, call, elk call, scissors,
screwdrivers, nail clippers. Why don'tyou have all your calls with your hunting
stuff? Mandy? Oh dang,you guys that just updated and knocked a

(01:30:00):
bunch of stuff off. Screwdrivers tofix things like glasses, really small,
random keys, seat packets. You'llget around to planting at some point.
My junk drawer has pens, pens, sticky notes, and eraser. That's
an organized junk drawer right there.Mandy batteries, Christmas tree light bulbs,
keys, scotch tape, coop toothpicks, a windows sensor for the security system,
of course, random batteries, mydead cat's collar. You can't throw

(01:30:25):
that away. Scissors, screwdrivers,scotch tape, command strips, pens mostly
not working, lottery ticket scratcher.I call that a quarter a sewing thimble.
I didn't even know those were stilla thing. My husband has a
coin purse with foreign coins in thejunk drawer. Sometimes he'll grab some to
throw at panhandlers. Pens that don'twork, pencils without erasers, lint roller,

(01:30:47):
dozens of ballpoint pens that are probablydried up. That seems to be
a theme, A soiled wig.What what. I'm actually pretty pleased,
you guys, because I think weall have the same stuff in our junk
dur poop bags, Pens that don'twork, lighter and we don't smoke.
Now, you got to have onelighter that doesn't work in there, right,

(01:31:10):
So in the off chance you needa lighter, you're gonna go to
the drunk drawer and you're gonna getit out, but it's not gonna work
anymore. And then you're like,why do we say this, Well,
we put it in the junk drawer. That's what you do in the junk
dur Toothpicks matchbook's menus, Where doyou keep your your takeout menus? Coover,
I have a whole drawer just fortakeout menus. I don't have takeout
menus anymore. I just have iton my phone, so I just go

(01:31:34):
on my phone or the app.Yeah, you crazy. Well, as
a matter of fact, I dothe same, and yet I still have
the menus. They're all in there, every one of them. But we
used to back in the day beforeeverybody put has their own apps. Yeah,
we would have a drawer with abunch of menus in it that we
order from. This is this isan actual reenactment from me going to a

(01:31:55):
restaurant. Coover, you're the server, and I need you to say this.
I need you to say just snapthat QR code for the menu.
Just say that. No, I'mnot doing that. I want a real
menu, and they bring me one. Yes, they bring me one.
They all have them. They justhoard them back there. They don't want
to give it. Uh many keysthat we don't know what doors there for?

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Will you have to have the randomkeys? Just keep your mind sharp,
you do, Mandy? Two emptysuper glue bottles. Do you know
what I did with my super glue? Because I got tired of just having
dried up super glue. I nowbuy a pack of four little tubes.
They're tiny tubes. They're like oneused tubes, And that way it doesn't
matter if they dry up after usein one time, because you got three

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more works like a super champ tiredof dried up glue. That's not cool.
Ah. Let's see rubber bands,expired batteries as well as raydoms,
screws and some spare change, alongwith some small tools like eyegrass eyeglass screw
drivers. Yeah, there you go, twisty ties, glue stick, potato

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bag clips, glass coaster stolen fromrestaurants and bars, some parts from things
we don't ow any good thing youstole those so you could put them in
your junk drawer. Come on,come on, a mouse TRAPSTI keep fly
traps. You live in a vermintinfested house. You got all that in
your junk drawer? Loose shotgun shells? You are? That was my dad,

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My dad's junk drawer always and theyweren't always full. They were just
empty. They were just empty shotgunshells laying around like in a junk drawer.
Whatever. You're like, Dad,what do we Why do we have
four empty shotgun shells in the junkdrawer? You don't know when you'll need
them? Well, they're empty.Well anyway, let's see match books.

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Does anybody even have matchbooks anymore?Do people even make match books anymore?
When I was a flight attendant inmy early twenties, so in nineteen ninety
one to nineteen ninety six, Istarted a matchbook collection because I was,
you know, going in cool clubsall over the country, and I had
this amazing jar full of matchbooks thatwere from all over the country. And

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then I moved and they somehow gotlost, and it was one of the
few things I was actually really bummedout about because it took me so long
to collect all of them, andit really it was a cool way of
walking down memory lane. When diggingout for matchbooks mandy gift cards with less
than a dollar on them, Ithink it's time to just give up those

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gift cards, ladies and germs.Everybody keeps their eyeglass cleaner in there,
apparently, oh chair pads, littlebrown ones to save floors from scratches.
I have a ziplock bag full ofthose. Why I don't know, but
I have a ziplock bag full ofthose. I also have these big deep

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drawers in my kitchen that are offon the other side, away from the
junk drawer. They've kind of becomea different kind of junk drawer, like
a specific there's the picnic specific junkdrawer with like picnic supply and you know,
plastic silverware and stuff like that.That's where I keep my giant bottle
of Costco vodka so I can refillmy forever vanilla. And my daughter who's

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fourteen, opens the drawer and goes, mom, why are you hiding vodka
like an alcoholic. I was like, well, I put it there because
the bottle is too big to goon the shelf. And then I use
it for the vanilla. Just likewhatever you need to tell yourself, Mom,
whatever you need to tell yourself.I will not ask about the junk
draw in the bedroom. That isnot something I want to know text or
thanks for reminding me of that,Mandy forgot. We also have our kitchen

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smoke detector, since the stupid thingwould always go off when we cooked.
This person says, bullets, flashlights, batteries, tape measure rubber bands.
Now that is a sensible junk drawerright there, a very sensible junk tour.
Various signs of screwdriver. Oh waita minute, Oh yeah, the
person said the chair things never stayin the packet. Yes they do not.

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Okay, thanks for sending those.You're making me feel a little more
normal. Pretty happy about that,very happy about that. Actually. And
then we have a drawer in ourkitchen that's just like manuals for stuff that
goes in the kitchen, just littlebooklets on how to use the you know,
water teapot. Yeah, because younever know when you're nine dollars hand

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mixer from you know, Walmart's gonnacrap out, you're gonna have to pull
that manual out so you can findout you don't know how to fix it.
Yeah, we have a box ofmanuals down in our basement. Well
why I kept them? But goodgrief. Here's the thing though, because
I have to go back. We'rein the process of re doing our homeowners
insurance and I realized I don't I'mnot taking the insurance. Uh what is

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it when you like mitigate something likeso they I can't remember what it's called
deduction? An insurance deduction because wehave a concrete tile roof. But I
have to find out how it's rated. So I have to go into our
giant box of manuals that we gotfrom the guy who owned the house before
us, that we've just added too. We haven't taken any of the old
manuals out for the stuff that isn'tstill in. We just keep adding more

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manuals to it. But I gotto find out about that so I can
get a discount. Ah ah,this person says, Mandy, a slide
rule. How old is your junkdrawer? What is that? A ring,
camera device, tools and replacement battery, plus miscellaneous plug and wall chargers,
a bag of googly eyes. Iwant to party at their house when

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my son got married. We hadthe rehearsal dinner at this really fun like
bar in pizza place that they loved, and we wanted to have a way
that people would know that we werepaying for their drinks. So I bought
googly eyes for everybody, and Ihanded out the google eyes to turn into
the bartender like that's how you getyour drink, and then he put all
their drinks on our tab, andthen you get a few drinks in you,

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and then the google eyes started gettingreally fun. Had a blast with
those googly eyes. They're super entertaining. My manuals and the drawer under my
oven? Well, where do yourwhere do your sheet pans go? Where
does your roasting pan go? Ifit's in the drawer underneath your oven?
And I'm being serious, isn't thatwhere all your sheet pans go? Underneath

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your oven? Extra parts from asimpled furniture, says this person. And
then you stand there with the extraparts going, I wonder where those were
supposed to go? You sit onthe couch. First, we have a
binder with all of our manuals insideplastic sleeves. Well, wait to show
off and make Cove and I lookterrible. Now we have to get a
binder couver with plastic sleeves. No, we don't. Coover does not feel

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us to pressure to conform that Ido. That's too much effort right there.
Okay, you know what to theperson who says in their junk drawer
right now, my husband's lost toenailfrom an accident. I need pictures or
it's doesn't exist, and you canemail that photo to Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia
dot com. I want to seeyour husband's toenail. I don't believe you

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what we have it in a drawer. Speaking of stuff like that, baby
teeth, Oh, I still havecues baby teeth. I don't know what
to do with them, like doyou make a necklace? What do you
do from when they get tooth pulledout? Obviously the tooth fairy comes,
yeah, of course, but thenthe tooth fairy lets the parents keep the
teeth. I mean, everybody knowsthat, yes, drops them off in
the parents room. It's fairly obviouswhat happens there with the tooth fairy.

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But what are you supposed to dowith them? Like, I mean,
do you make ear rings? Whatdo you do with the baby teeth?
We don't do anything. They justsit in a plastic bag. That's what
I'm saying. That seems weird andwasteful. I mean, we don't save
other body parts that fall off.It's not like you're like, look at
that callous, I'm gonna put thatthing in a bag and save it for
a while. Or if you're thisfamily, you just put the You put

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his toenail in the junk drawer,Mandy, drawer in the oven is to
keep meals warm great on Thanksgiving.I actually have an actual drawer under my
double ovens. That's just a drawer. It's not connected to the ovens,
a big drawer, and that's whereI put my stuff. Sheet and roasting
pants are in the oven. Wellthat's one way to do it. So

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you forget to when you turn onthe oven and forget they're inside there.
Oh my god. Somebody else said, how about the molt from our pet
tarantula cocoa. It's true. Soessentially you have your tarantula's discarded skin in
your junk drawer. What are youtrying to scare the hell out of people?
Hey, can you go in thatdraw and grab me a rubber band?
Don't mind the tarantula skin that's inthere as well. I mean,

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never to go to their house.Seriously, have you ever held a tarantula?
Oh god no, oh see,I was holding a tarantula when the
guy's like, you know, tarantulascan jump, right, that was a
piece of information. I need toknow that they can jump. Yeah.
Anytime that, like a spider showsup on a on the TV screen,
I like close my eyes or turnmy head. I'm one of those people

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that I trapped the spider. Iget a piece of paper and a cup
and yeah, because we're on thesame team. I hate bugs. They
eat bugs are practically teammates in theanti bug movement. So yeah, I
don't think if I see one,I have to step on it. It
has to be eliminated and then Ihave that's so sad, and then you

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run away. Yep, there's likebugs that I will kill. I will
kill a cockroach all day long,one hundred and I will enjoy it.
It's all of a sudden it becomelike a sadist, like a psychopath,
and I'm just like h and thenI'll leave it in the middle of the
room to send a message to theother cockroaches. I will kill a black
widow if I see one, becauseI got bitten by a black widow one

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time. That was enough. I'dprefer never to do that again. That
was horrible and you live to tellabout it. Yeah. Yeah, I
just had a like a huge,maybe like eight inch round circle on the
top of my thigh for like eightweeks. It didn't go away forever.
It was horrible and I just wokeup with that and then I went to

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the doctor and that I was like, yeah, that looks like a black
widow by to me. I waslike, I was in my bed.
Oh God, I probably ate it. Then I felt a little bit better
after I thought I could have eatenit. I's probably one of my eight
spiders a year that people eat,although that's a totally made up statistic.
It's probably much higher, all right. Ben has joined us in the studio.