05-17-24 FULL SHOW - Ask Me Anything, Plus Who Is Playing Video Games

Episode Transcript

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I had a morning today, nota bad morning, just a busy morning,
and I was looking perus in theinterwebs, looking for stuff to talk
about today, and honestly, Ifeel like it's been a lot of complaining
lately, and I was trying tofind stuff to be positive about, like,
yes, let's talk about something interestingand positive. And I found a
few of those things, but then, of course I found more stuff to

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complain about. But I figured thatwe'll open things up a little bit today
and get your texting fingers ready,because well, I'll tell you after I
tell you where the blog is.Go to mandy'sblog dot com, Mandy's blog,
no apostrophe, just mandy'sblog dot comand look for the headline that says
five seventeen twenty four blog ask meAnything, plus who's playing video games?

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Click on that and here are theheadlines you will find within. I think
there was in office half of Americaall with ships and clipas and say that's
going to press plats today on theblog. Way more people play video games
than I thought. It's an askme things sort of day. A area
leadership makes more idle threats. I'lltake a martini to go, please,
clean up after your stupid gender revealedpeople. Bobert panders to the Trump obsessed.

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Yes, the Colorado legislature is lurchto the hard left. Yes on
the people's tax cut. It's abouttime to end the reign of terror.
North Carolina moves to ban masks.Anderson Cooper realizes the Trump case is garbage
scrolling. Thank goodness, we're gettinga show on gay animals. Medicare advantage
isn't much of one for Wait aminute, Medicare advantage isn't much of one

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for insurance companies. Paul McCartney isthe UK's first music billionaire. Want to
feel refreshed, go outside. Thenew Coppola movie is great or horrible.
Let's all mock the new pixel pronounselling stuff on Facebook marketplace. The Bob
Menendez trial is wild. Scottish GreenParty denies reality. The national popular vote

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is unneeded. The Lea did legalweed to Troy Colorado. Biden is losing
working class voters. Marjorie Taylor Greenit's like a middle school girl. Guys,
It's not that hard to impress theladies. And those are the headlines
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot comand to the Texter, who just sent
our first text today on the koacommon Spirit health text line Mandy, I'm

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impressed. A classic wrestling reference tostart the show. Everybody knows who the
nature Boy is, and everybody knowshe goes whoo. Everyone knows that everyone
and if you don't, now youknow, there you go. You're welcome.
You can send us a text thatthe whole show could be a version
of ask me anything, and Iwould really appreciate it if you guys could

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send some stuff for us to talkabout, because, as I said,
I perused the news this morning tryingto find positive things to talk about,
but there wasn't as much to filla whole show. So I'm counting on
you to go ahead and just bringthe wood. Now. We are gonna
have a guest a little bit laterin the show. I should start this
by saying I do not play videogames. The last video game system that

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I played with any consistency was ourAtari when I was a child, and
yes, I played Asteroids until itflipped back over to zero one time.
I did it one time. Wehave photographs to prove it too. Anyway,
that was my last like serious videogame phase I've owned a wee that

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seemed complicated. I'm not gonna lie, and you know it wasn't my jam.
So when I saw this pitch lastweek about video game they did polling
on who plays video games? Y'all. I was floored when I saw the
results of this pol Like, Iapparently am the only one not playing video
games? Jeff, are you agamer at all? It's a little harder

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with the yeah kid nowadays, butI play a little bit when I have
a chance. Though. Okay,so you're not playing every day? No,
maybe like this week, I haveplayed it all. Well, like
a Rod and his wife, theyplay together, but they also don't have
a baby. Kids ruin everything everything. So, Mandy, I just wanted

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you to know I love it whenyou say scrolling when you're reading the bog,
Well, I actually am scrolling.So I mean that's not the not
the best vamp perhaps, but it'sthe most accurate vamp in the history of
vamping. Just to let you know. So, we're gonna talk to somebody
from the electro Let me get thisname right. I've gotten it wrong in
my head fifteen times already. Uh. The Entertainment Software Association, they were

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the ones who did the survey,and I am super excited. Okay,
somebody just said Richardon's Season three isout today. Did you watch Bridgerton the
first two? Did your wife makeyou watch them? She watched them all
by herself. Okay, see Idid too, Chuck Chuck's like, nope,
a hard pass. That's just asoap opera set in old England.
So but I need to know isdid they release all of season three?

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Because what I was gonna do isI was gonna download it for my trip
to Norway in a few weeks andjust watch it like on the plane on
the way back. I'm gonna tryand sleep on the way there. I've
never really had a lot of luckwith that, So I need to know
if all of the episodes are outnow, are just the first one?
Are we spoiled now in society?Remember, let me wait, let me
put on my this is my oldperson voice for the kids. Kids.

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Back when I was your age,they only put one episode on at a
time, and when that episode wasgone, we couldn't watch it again.
No, it was like it justwent away. And then maybe some day,
years and years later, when wewere old with our own children,
perhaps it would come back in theform of these things called reruns, but

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you never know what your rerun wasgoing to be. It was just just
a roll of the dice. Itwas wild, wild, I tell you,
that's that's what I envisioned that soundinglike, you know so because I
remember this is let me just continuemy walk down memory lane now. That
the Atari thing really set me thinking, right. So we had the Atari

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and then it was a big dealwhen my parents got the first VCR.
It weighed about three hundred and fiftypounds. It was the size of a
large suitcase. But it came witha remote control that was wait for it
connected by a long cord, soit was like you could be twenty feet
away, but you had to makesure the cord was plugged it on the

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other side. There you go,Oh, dang it. Only four episodes
of eight, so release the restof them June thirteenth. That's not cool,
dang it. Somebody pointed out,does that mean AOC was an adult
in their conversation, that she wasthe temper tantrum child and not MTG.
No. I would say there waspretty a bit. There was enough bitchiness

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to go route. It had avery middle school girl feel to the entire
exchange. I am certainly excusing AOC, but MGT brought it first. She
started it and with the personal attacksand basically said that AOC was not smart
enough to debate her. Now,whether or not AOC is smart enough to

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debate anyone, I will leave toothers to decide because that might be accurate,
but it's still not nice, andit's there's no decorum in that.
And this is just you know,you know, yesterday when we were talking
to Nick Triano about the rank choicevoting, and if you miss that interview
yesterday and you want to know aboutranked choice voting, please go and listen
to the podcast. You did itas a did you do it as an

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individual podcast or dccouver Okay, thankyou very much. Jeff took care of
that yesterday, So go find iton the iHeartRadio app and listen to it.
Because it's different than the National.Let me find that the National what's
it called? Why can't I rememberwhat it's called? National Popular Vote?
Because I've got to call him onthe blog today by Rob Natelson, who

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is just super about the National?What am I? Why can't I remember
these words? Today? I swear. I promise I'm not having a stroke.
It's just been that kind of day. The National Popular Vote, there
are certain words that I cannot remembertoday. National Popular Vote and the name
of the association, the Entertainment SoftwareAssociation. Those two have escaped me.

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But nonetheless they're two very different thingsthat ranked choice voting could go so far
in tamping down the the sort offringy catering that happens with the two political
parties. And I'd urge you togo back and listen to it because it's
a really important concept that we're goingto be voting on it in November.

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This person Mandy dating myself here,but I got my boys Atari back in
the day. One night around eleven, I started playing Yars Revenge. Suddenly
it was three am. I neverplayed video games again. That from Rocky
Mountain Bronx Bill. There you go. They are They are insidious, aren't
they? They're insidious If you actuallyrolled over an asteroid game, best game

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ever made. I am now abigger fan. That's something to be very
proud of and embarrassed by. Youknow what, I am not embarrassed because
when you're like twelve years old andyou don't like any of the kids in
the neighborhood. What do you dobut just sit inside and play Atari?
And that's what we did. Bygosh, by golly, we played Atari.
We loved it. The last Atarigame that I really loved though,

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was Pitfall. After that, Iwas just like, eh, this all.
When they were when they added morebuttons to the controller, I was
like, I'm out, I gotnothing for these buttons. Anyway, this
person, I don't understand all thesepeople upset about the fracking project east of
the Aurora Reservoir in a Rapaho County. Nobody lives there, and they're drilling

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seven thousand feet down, well belowthe water level of the reservoir and it
will provide over two hundred and fiftymillion dollars in tax revenue. I don't
see the downside, and I livein the area that from Eric, what
he's talking about is now there isa concerted effort by an organization, and
I believe it's called Save the AuroraReservoir. I don't have the story in

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front of me. I read itquite early this morning, but they were
banding together because to Eric's point,they're trying to do a fracking project not
even that close. But in thegeneral vicinity of the Aurora reservoir, Eric
is correct when they say it's goingto go down seven thousand feet, it's
not going to negatively impact the reservoir. And if the reservoir was built properly,

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the reservoir has a lining, andso there should be no cross contamination
here. And it's in my mind, I think it is two things.
Number One, people here fracking,and it's been made such a boogeyman that
they reflexively immediately go oh, no, no, no, you're not going
to do And they don't even reallyhave a clear picture of what a fracking

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pad looks like and how long anynoise lasts, because it's noisy in the
beginning, but then it just worksto, you know, get the oil
and gas out, so it's notnoisy like it is while they're actually doing
the active fracking. But the activefracking only only happens for a very short
period of time, and then oncethe well is active, they don't have
to do it. So I thinkpart of it is ignorance. That's the

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first part. And then the secondpart is is that being against fracking is
a fashionable position for the environmental left, and the environmental left exerts a lot
of social power over the left overall, to put it that way, and
so people want to be seen onthe side of the popular kids when it

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comes to this, and the popularkids are really just the loud kids who
have been running around, you know, with their Greta Thunberg posters, demanding
that we all, you know,take a horse and buggy to and fro
to stop carbon or whatever their thingis now, methane, whatever, whatever.
It's just going to change. Oncewe get a handle on carbon.
It'll be like, you know what, you know what's causing this farts.

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Farts are causing it, and sowe're gonna need everybody to just hold it
in from now on. And ifyou don't hold it in, will you're
a pariah. It will be walkingaround exploding, trying to fit in get
the you know, niceties from thepeople who feel the same way. This
texter answered Eric Eric oil is thedevil of these people. It has nothing

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to do with rational thoughts. AndI think that's a much shorter way to
say the longer way that I actuallyjust said. Mandy, I'm the person
who has only played pong and probablyonly played it once. I'm also sixty
six years old, so video gamesare just not my thing, agreed.
I'm I mean, don't get mewrong, I too have played Pong.
I have an original Atari, saysthis guy, want to buy it?

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You know what? I have enoughcarpal tunnel syndrome in my thumbs right now.
The last thing I need is anAtari joystick with one button. That's
the last thing my broken down handsneed. Eh. I gotta get fixed
at some point, But I don'tthink I can type when I'm recovering from
carpal tunnel surgery. Is that itokay? Texters? If you're out there

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and you've had carpal tunnel surgery andyou type a lot, because I type
a lot. Were you able totype while you were recovering? And how
does the surgery suck? Let meknow, just let me know. No,
I don't want to buy your originalAtari. Thank you. Though Space
Invader's record rolled over it six times, had no life. That is amazing,

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Jeff. Your generation probably doesn't evenrealize what that is like. Are
those foreign words to you? Doesthat sound like? Hand me the rolodex,
you know, and grab the factsoff the fax machine? A little
bit. But my dad would talkto me about that stuff. Ah,
so your dad would have the talk. Yeah, so I do know about
some of that stuff. That's good. That's really really good that he did

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that for you. I would saythat I stopped playing video games after Oregon
Trail. That's a hilarious. Hilarious, Mandy. Been playing video games since
the nineteen seventies and playing one now. It's my ope, dang it,
it's just updated. I'm trying tofind it now. I'll have no I'll

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find it eventually. But we haveno control of when the thing well,
I guess I do. I haveevery sixty seconds or whatever. Back in
the horse and buggy days, manurewas a big problem, says Rick.
But then we could use it toburn in our homes for fuel. Oh
wait, that's also awful. We'rejust supposed to sit in our homes and
freeze. Mandy. Of course,you don't play video games. You're a

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girl. Ha ha. By theway, there are several solid rock layers
between the oil and gas levels andthe surface or in this case, Aurora
reservoir. If there wasn't, wewouldn't need a well, we would just
go scoop it. Up in buckets. That is an excellent point this text
for Mandy. I fondly remember thenight in the eighties when Mom said it

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was bedtime, and I asked ifI could stay up just until I finished
my current game of Asteroids. Idon't remember how long it took, but
it was the best game of mylife. I think Mom felt duped,
but she was also rooting for mebecause she was a good mom. She
was a good mom, I cantell. This person asked a question,
what is the book club date?And I'm so glad you brought that up,

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because just today on the way towork, I called Dave the Intrepid
producer and he is going to joinus. The book club date is May
thirtieth. It's a Thursday at twopm. And not only will Dave the
Intrepid be joining us to talk aboutGeorge Orwell's nineteen eighty four, so get
reading if you haven't read it already. I've also secured a professor from Indiana

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who has written two books about GeorgeOrwell to help walk us through the process.
So I am looking forward to it. It's going to be a lot
of fun. Pick up your copyof nineteen eighty four. Or listen to
the audio version. It's about thirteenhours long. So there you go.
A lot of you have the originalpong. I wonder what's that, what
that's worth? Like how much youcould get for that, ma'am this person.

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Maybe AOC should go back to tendingbars. But I do enjoy good
cat fights. I like a youknow, and we'll talk about the whole
AOC Marjorie Taylor Green thing in alittle bit. But I don't like a
cat fight. But I do likea robust verbal spar you know. I

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like you to have a little class. I mean, not everybody has to
be as eloquent as Shakespeare. ButI do love it when you have people
sort of jousting back and forth withthinly veiled insults, but not fully unveiled
insults, unveiled inserts insults are youknow, in certain situations, they're just

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tacky. And if you're from theSouth, you know, tachi is not
a compliment. I hope you figurethat out, even if you're not from
the South. No typing for sixweeks? What what Mandy had that surge
around both my hands? Period?No, you will not be able to
type forty six weeks. It mustbe four two six weeks. Forty six
weeks seems like a lot, Mandy. I stopped playing video games in high

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school when I got a life andstarted doing things in the actual world.
Video games are for losers. Thatfrom a text messenger. When we get
back, I'll address that and talkabout some actual stuff that we have on
the blog today, because I gotsome good stuff coming up after this.
Definitely having someone from his campaign,but she just said I might be able

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to get mister Kennedy on the phone. I'm great. I would appreciate that
he's doing a rally here over theweekend, and I figured, what the
hell, you know, I'll talkabout it. I know, and this
is going to drive older people crazy, but I just want you to remember
back when you were young and idealistic. I've talked to more than one young
person who are like, I can'tvote for Trump for Biden. I just

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can't do it. And what doI do? I vote for Robert F.
Kennedy Junior. I said, well, don't like, just reflexively vote
for Robert F. Kennedy June,but check out his platform see if you
agree. You know, I thinkeverybody should have one of those votes that
they look back and go Really,that was my choice. That's not what
I meant. Somebody on the textline talking about video games being for losers

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and people who don't have a life. But I got this absolutely delightful to
email or rather a text message thatI think is kind of blows that out
of the water. This texterter said, Mandy, some kids go play catch
with their dads at the park.My dad and I would play computer games.
It morphed into family game night thatstill goes on today. We're currently

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playing Battlefield twenty one forty two onWednesday nights with a few family members and
friends. We started our game nightwhen I was about thirteen. I'm now
forty three. My dad is seventyuncles sixty seven. I think that's fantastic.
Anything that brings your family together todo as an activity I think is
wonderful. Now is it for me? Nope, it is not. But

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when my son comes home, myoldest we always played dungeons and dragons as
a family, and that's super fine. First of all, my son's a
great dungeon master. And for allof you out there who are like,
oh my god, NERD alert,NERD alert, you've never played a cool
game of dungeons and dragons. It'sfine, there's no shame in that.
But it's something we do as afamily. So you know, anything that's

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going to bring your family together,more power to you. Now. I
want to get to some of thestories on the blog, but I I
want to throw one comment out becauseI am I heard today on the news
on our news. I was drivingto work and I was listening to KOA
and I heard on the news thesound bites from the leadership at the Ara
Area campus, right, and Ialready had a story on the blog about

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this today where it's quoted several actsof tres, trespassing and interference are not
examples of peaceful protests. We willnot tolerate chronic intimidation, campus chaos and
business disruptions. Except I know that'sa lie. Just Jeff knows that's a
lie. And all of the peoplecurrently intivly square are they know it's a

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lie because this leadership has done nothingright when it comes to this protest.
They have not done a single thingcorrectly, and now it has what quadrupled
in size, and now it's startingto bleed off into other parts of the
campus. And now it's been takenover by people who aren't even students who

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saw that coming. Oh wait,where's my mirror? Look at me?
Look at me. So this bigtalk is so disingenuous because here's what has
to happen, and it's only goingto get worse. So I'd strongly recommend
they do it this weekend. Youhave to have the mayor you up the
area campus. You need to callthe mayor and say, look, we're

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no longer dealing with student protests,We're dealing with outsiders, including homeless people
who've taken over to We need youto announce that this camp will be swept
and that all of the homeless peopleneed to go somewhere else because we're gonna
sweep the camp. If anyone isleft there, they will be arrested for
trespassing. And immediately you bring inlike three dumpsters and you hire a team

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of people. I'm sure there's someundergrads who could use the money, hire
a team of people to come inand immediately, as the cops walk through
arresting people, you walk through rippingup tens, throwing them in the garbage,
and then you haul those dumpsters off. So things can't be pulled out
of the dumpsters, and if thereare any students on the green still,
you kick them out of school becausethey have the right to protest and you

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have the right to enforce consequences forthe disruptions that they have created. You
know, what I found out gotcanceled down there, the middle school Girls
STEM Day where they set up allof these girls with all of these engineers
and cool projects and things like that, and they spend the whole day steeped
in stick. Now, I personallythink that that should be open to both

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boys and girls, just letting youknow, I'm really tired of pushing girls
in STEM and then leaving the boysout. That's not fair because I happen
to think there are gender differences thatlead women to pursue different things and lead
boys to pursue different things. Now, it doesn't mean that they don't have
crossover, of course they do.But anyway, that's a side note.

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But that was canceled. So theopportunity for a bunch of middle school kids
to come out and spend the daywith people working in engineering and tech and
doing all of this other stuff wasruined because these a holes. Oh oh,
I forgot about this. I havea new name for him, Jeff,
put down your suit because you're gonnashoot. You're gonna shoot soup all
over the computer. When you hearwhat I'm now calling the people who are

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creating havoc at the Iraria campus,they are hummaus holes. That's humbas.
It's not original to me. Youneed to get some t shirts. I
know, but it's I didn't makeit up and I don't know who to
credit it to first. That one, you know. The the other thing
my husband made up the other daythat I think is hilarious because now we're
seeing cyber trucks. Have you seena cyber truck on the road. I

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just saw one the other day onfour seventy, So if you own a
cyber truck, just I'm sorry forwhat I'm about to say. They are
so ugly. They're like the DeLoreanof the truck world. And my husband
started calling them e cominos and Idied laughing because they're not really a truck,
but they're not really a car.They just do not I do not.

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They do not look like something Iwould want to drive. They look
like something that your like nine yearold son makes out of Legos, and
then it is like, dude,look at this and you're like, wow,
that's cool out of Legos. Butthen if they actually brought it to
life and made it electric, that'snot as cool. And for the money,
my god, what are they like? I mean, I'm seeing them

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on the secondary market already for likeone hundred and thirty thousand dollars. What
I realize I'm cheap, but youpeople are nuts with that. What is
a car payment on that? Imean? And how much of it?
I mean, how much of adown payment? I don't know. Hi,

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Mandy says this texter is meth campMike back from Ireland. He's way
too busy to worry about terrorist andhomeless drug addicts. Yes, yes,
indeedy how many students have actually beenexpelled? Says this texter and then follows
it up with Bueler, bueler,You're welcome. Have you ever seen Fieris

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Bueller's Day Off? Jeff? Becauseyou're young? Oh, of course that's
okay, good good, I watchedit the other day. Still stands up.
There is nothing wrong with that movie. Still fantastic, just excellent,
excellent, Mandy. It looks likesomeone flipped my fridge on its side and
added wheels A little bit, yeah, a little bit. There you go.

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This texter said, I also can'tvote for Trump Biden and RFK is
so so, but I can votefor him just to get third party attention
and tell the DNC and the RNCto give me a choice. Now,
first of all, you're really gonnawant to look at ranked choice voting because
it would give us better candidates.That being said, well maybe not presidential
candidates because it would have to beadopted nation Why neither here nor there.

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We'll talk about that in a moment, But that being said, in two
thousand, I voted for Ralph Naderfor president, not because I thought Ralph
Nader should be president or that hewould be a good president, because I
thought neither of those things. ButI was voting for the viability of a
third party candidate. So Texter,I feel you. I get it.

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I get it. Congratulations to allof the high school athletes participating in the
state track meet this weekend. Goodluck to them all. Run like the
wind. RFK has a great radiovoice that is not nice. You know
what's weird? Like I kind ofwant to go, dude, you need.
I've got a guy. I gota guy. I feel like doctor.

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I feel like doctor Offerman could fixthat. And as a matter of
fact, you know what, I'mgonna call doctor Opferman and I'm gonna see
if I can get him on thephone. I wonder if you would give
any kind of diagnosis about that,because it's obviously hereditary because his mother had
the same thing, so there's obviouslysome sort of hereditary issue there. But
it hurts me sometimes to hear himtalk, especially after what I've gone through

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with my voice. Okay, Irealized I'm late for a break. We'll
be right back right after this,you guys. I had my surgery and
it went great. I still strugglewith my voice. I still struggle with
it. I still am doing thethings that doctor o Aferman told me to
do, and I just think I'mgonna have voice problems as long as I

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live in a climate as dry asthis one. It's just gonna be because
I never had this severe an issueon the East Coast in the humidity,
and when I do get in humidity, it is like just night and day.
The difference for me personally. SoI feel sorry and I feel sympathy
for anyone that I hear who's inthe situation he's in now where he's out

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running for office, and you can'tsit quietly and run for office, right,
That's not how it works. Soevery time I hear him, I'm
like, oh, I just haveWe'll see, maybe we'll hear from him.
At one thirty. We are goingto talk to someone from his campaign
because he's doing a campaign event herein Denver this weekend. So that is
happening. Got a couple of thingson the blog that I want to get

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into. Now. Do you knowsometimes things happen in culture that everything comes
full circle. And when I sawyesterday that Colorado the legislature has passed and
now the governor has signed a billterminating the deadline that would have ended the
practice of alcohol to go. Sonow when you order from a restaurant,

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you can be like, yeah,I'll take a you know, Greg Goose
Martini, too olives, regular olives, not blue cheese, they're too much,
and no overmooth. I mean youcan get that and they can put
it in a little jar, Iguess, and send it on your way.
When I was very young in Florida, there was still a bar.
So the drinking age went to twentyone, and at some point they started

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to change the drinking and driving laws. But there was a bar in Perry,
Florida that served to go booze.And I don't mean like I'll have
a bottle of Jack Daniels. Imean all have a margarita, and they
would just hand it to you asyou were driving your vehicle, so you
could have your cocktail while you weredriving home. I mean, of course,
you know, of course, theseventies, golly, that was fantastic.

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But that being said, I findit kind of funny that now,
fifty years later, we were justpretty casual about the fact that now I
can order a margarita from a Mexicanrestaurant, get a takeout, and have
it in my car with me.Now we'll see if this is different now,
because in the nineteen seventies, afriend of mine just sent me a
video a couple of weeks ago,and we were kind of laughing about it,

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and it was these people back inthe seventies, and they were all
Southern, of course, and itwas a news story about this new ban
on drinking and driving, and itwas I'm not even getting it was like,
you know what, we don't livein a communist country. I should
be able to get my drink andI should be able to drive myself home
and nobody's gonna tell me what todo. I'm not gonna stop. And
there was like four people in thatilk, you know. But since then,

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drinking and driving has become something thata lot of people did very casually.
And I don't mean people going outand get wrecked drunk. I'm talking
about and I'll use my own familyas an example. When I was about
ten years old, so in nineteenseventy nine, my father would come and
he would pick me up and wewould ride around in the evening from house

(29:44):
to house and go visit people.Because in the South, you just did
that. You just went and showedup at people's houses and they were happy
to see you, like on aTuesday, right, and you just you
just appeared, and then you sitand visit with them for a while,
and they'd usually give me a snackor whatever, and my dad would refill
his scotch and soda and then wewould drive to the next house. And
so basically my dad would just drivearound having a scotch and soda that he

(30:07):
pilfered from other people's houses and wejust go visit people. That is not
the way it is now. It'snot not the way it is, but
socially it is changed. So sociallywe are in a much different place now.
It is not cool to drive aroundwith a beer between your legs,
and you know it's and I knowthat there are people who still do it

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because they weren't hard during the day. They stop at seven to eleven,
they get one tall Boy for theride home. I get it. I
totally get it. But it isnot as accepted as it was back then.
So I just I find that kindof interesting. But now you can
get that Decora to go. Yousure can, you sure can. Anyway,
we will be back after this,and when we get back, we're

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going to talk to someone from theElectronics something something Dagan, I can't remember
that today, from the Entertainment SoftwareAssociation about video games, who plays them.
You might be shocked, because Igotta tell you, I totally was.
We're going to do that next.So I want to clarify something.

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When we were talking about alcohol togo being legal in Colorado, it is
not legal to drink alcohol to goin your car. I should have clarified
that right out of the shoot,and I'm certainly not advocating for drinking and
driving. It was just an interestingreflection on how the arc of history comes,
you know, full circle. Thatwas really the purpose. But no,

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you cannot go buy a cocktail anddrink it legally in your car.
My question was more will people drinkit anyway? That was sort of the
question that I was asking. Nowwe are going to take things in a
completely different direction because I got anemail saying, hey, have you heard
about this new survey by the EntertainmentSoftware Association about video gaming? And I
was like, all bite, becauseI feel like I am in this like

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I'm on one side of the agespecter, where I assumed people my age
didn't play video games, but thisdata show is quite the opposite. And
I'm very happy to have Aubrey Quinnfrom the Entertainment Software Association, she's the
senior VP on to talk about theresults of this survey. So Arby,
welcome to the show. First ofall, Hi, thanks so much for

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having me. So first of all, what is the Entertainment Software Association.
Absolutely, the Entertainment Software Association orESA, because that's a mouthful, is
the trade association that represents the USvideo game industry. So that means it's
my job to talk about the positiveimpact that the video game industry has on

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people, culture, and the economyright here in the United States. How
much of the video game creation isin the United States versus overseas, like
as a percentage, what does thatlook like? It is truly a global
industry. The Entertainment Software Association focuseson companies here in the United States.

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Our members are the creators and innovatorswho are developing the new and engaging entertainment
experiences. We are the largest market. The United States is the largest market.
I don't have the exact percentage breakdown, but the games that we create
here in the US are played allover the world. Well, I was
kind of shocked because you did asurvey and it's a pretty big survey and

(33:30):
about who is playing video games inthe United States and what are some of
the things that you think are kindof the high points of this survey.
Right So, every year, theESA puts out the essential facts about the
US video game industry because we wantto understand who is playing and why they're
playing and how they are playing.What's fascinating is how much this has changed

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over time. You know, westarted doing the survey over two decades ago
that you know, no one hadplayed online, and even when we asked
that question it was on dashline.To today, over ninety percent of people
have right, so the way weuh, way we play has changed.

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We first started asking no one playedon a mobile device. Very few of
us had cell phones or mobile devices, and they certainly weren't smartphones with games.
Now virtually everyone has a gaming systemin their pocket. I just flew
an international trip from Paris back homeand the sweet French woman sitting next to
me was playing Candy Crush with Wordlethe whole way, and she was in

(34:36):
her sixties. And that may notbe who we think of the stereotype of
a gamer is, but the realityis everyone is playing games. Okay.
I just like, all day today, I've been like, I don't
play video games, that's not me. But I totally have Gandy Crush on
my phone right now. I didn'teven think about that. Than you,
Yeah, you're a gamer. Seeyou you're a gamer. You don't even
know what I feel like. Ibelong. Now you just let that just

(34:59):
I a weight has been lifted offmy shoulders. But you know, I
am of the Atari age. Wewere kind of talking about that earlier in
the show. How video games changedthe actual games that people play over the
years, and what are some ofthe most popular games now or what segment
of the style of game. Well, so if you take into account that

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our survey found that more than onehundred and ninety million Americans ages five through
nineties, So that's nearly two thirdsof us play video games at least an
hour a week. And for me, that might look like I'm playing games
on my Nintendo Switch er my Xbox. For you, it sounds like we're
planning candy Crush on a mobile device. So, when you are creating a
form of entertainment that appeals to somany people, there's really a game for

(35:46):
everyone. And so whether that isa game on mobile device that's free to
play it doesn't cost you anything toput it on your phone, or it
is a console game or you know, I have three kids, they played
very different games. I have ason who loves sports, so he is
so excited about the new EA collegefootball game that we know is coming out

(36:07):
the summer, he played with alot of NBA two K. I have
another son who's very into role playinggames, and so he is playing Valeriant
and Overwatch and he's always saving theworld from something. And then my baby
girl loves to create, so she'splaying Stims and she's building houses in neighborhoods
or Minecraft and you know, buildingthese whole worlds. And so what we

(36:29):
have seen is that there is moregames to appeal to more gamers. And
the gamer community is incredibly diverse.It cuts across every age, every demographic,
you know, gender, race,ethnicity, LGB two G, LGBTQWO,
orientation. Everyone plays games and that'swhy it's so important. The same

(36:50):
way there's so many books that appealto lots of different people, there are
movies that appeal with lots of differentpeople. There's truly a game for everyone
today. I was really surprised tosee SEP not just see that seventy two
percent of American parents play video games, but eighty three percent of them play
video games with their children. Andwhat's funny is before in the last segment,
when I was like, oh,I don't play video games, until
I realized I do. I gota text through who said he's been playing

(37:15):
a game with his father for thirtyyears. They've been gaming, and now
his dad's seventy and he's you know, it was just kind of a cool
story. But that's obviously if that'snot your family, that can seem a
little foreign. But was there anythingthat surprised you guys that you found out
here? So for us, it'srarely a surprise because we're so close to

(37:36):
it. We like to come outwith these numbers to bust all the stereotypes,
right like, and to help peopleunderstand that they are a gamer.
But one of my favorite fats notthat it surprised me because as a mom
of three kids, we play alot of games together. But one of
my favorite facts is that parents don'tplay with their kids, and they play
with their kids because it's fun.They can sit down and engage with their

(37:59):
kids. They can see what they'regood at, they can find out what
they're interested in. You. Whenit comes to kids, we encourage parents
to consult all the tools and resourcesand information to make sure their kids are
playing online they're doing it safely,responsibly. But in terms of benefits,
we know that video games are greatfor kids. One of my favorite studies

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i'm EESA one and academic one outof Europe is that playing video games helps
young kids learn how to learn.They're advancing cognitive skills, they're learning resilience.
If you think about two hours ofscreen time, you're just scrolling on
social media. Are you're just watchinga movie that's very passive. When you're
playing video games, you are engaged. You are making decisions. You're learning

(38:43):
how to lose, you're learning howto start over their strategy games, you're
learning to communicate. And we alsoknow that ten to fifteen year olds who
play video games regularly report lower levelsof stress than their peers, and girls
who played video games are three timesmore likely to get an advanced degree or
a STEM degree than they are peerswho don't. So the pilot of evidence

(39:06):
is, you know, growing thatvideo games are really good for kids.
That's fun, and all of ourkidsters are a little fun. I've got
a link to the information. Ijust found it super interesting, and now
even more interesting now that I knowI'm a gamer, because not only do
I have Candy Crush, I alsohave multiple word games on my phone.
I'm thinking about it now I'm likeway cooler than I was at the beginning

(39:29):
of this interview. So I'm feelingsuper hips awareness. I love exactly,
Aquent. I really appreciate your timetoday. Super interesting stuff. You know.
I think when we talk on thisshow, and this show we talk
about a lot of heavy stuff onoccasion when we sort of talk about what's
going wrong in society right and alot of people will say things like violent

(39:49):
video games are a huge problem.Well, obviously there are a ton of
people who play role player games thatcan be more violent who never have any
issues whatsoever. But I do thinkI think that like when we look at
our entire society, when you canfind a positive way to take this in
a positive way, to use videogames or allow your kids to enjoy playing
video games, there's upside too.It's like anything else right there. It's

(40:13):
all about balance. And I appreciatewhat you guys are doing, and thank
you for making me feel cooler thanI did. Thank it was great to
be on. Thanks for having meall right. That's Aubrey Quinn. Maybe
that's Aubrey Quinn with the Entertainment SoftwareAssociation. So you know, if you
play video games like me, Imean, if you're a gamer like me,

(40:34):
you know, just say it.Flipping my hair. Now that I've
found out I'm a gamer? Whichgames you have on your phone right now?
Jeff, I don't have any gameson my phone? What now?
What do you look at on airplanes? I try to read books. I
normally read books, but while we'retaking off, like, I don't,
okay, when I'm on an airplane, my former flight attend. I don't
know if you knew this. Iwas a flight attend in my early twenties.

(40:55):
So I'm on. I'm not goingto say I'm the perfect passenger,
but I may be the perfect passengerbecause I sit down and I pull out
my safety information card and I openit and I look at it, and
then I count the rods to myclosest exit front and back, and then
I do this thing called listening tothe safety demonstration. Now why am I
doing this? Not because I don'tknow how to buckle my seatbelt and I

(41:19):
can't figure out how to put ona life fest right. I know when
to pull the cord, I knowhow to blow into the thing with my
mouth. I know how to doall of it. But to show the
flight attendants that I care and thatI want them to be concerned about my
safety. So I just watch them, and you know, it takes a
minute and a half, three minutes, but then the rest of the time
TAXI out and stuff like that.I don't want to pull my book out,

(41:40):
so I'll just sit there on myphone and play Candy Crush or whatever
until I lose multiple times because I'mnot gonna pay them to pay Candy Crush.
It's not gonna happen. Not gonnahappen. Mandy said this. Texter
gamers are an odd group. Theyplay PC and within the last twenty years,
consoles. If someone plays on amobile, they don't consider them gamers.

(42:00):
Shut up, I'm a gamer.Shut up, hater, She said,
I was a gamer and that isan industry organization, so she should
know. Don't tell me anyway.I'm sixty eight and play Candy Crush in
Pokemon Golf. Oh no, Pokemongoes sorry, sorry about that. I

(42:22):
was like, Wow, there's aPokemon golf game. Now, that's kind
of but that would actually be kindof interesting. Like if Pokemon told you
where you have to hit the ballthe next time. Think about that.
Think you're onto something there. I'mI this might have legs. Pokemon golf
could be awesome, totally awesome,And then of course we got this exactly

(42:43):
where our country is in trouble.Here's the thing, you guys. People
are always gonna have forms of entertainment. You know, back in back in
my day, it was running aroundand building stuff in the woods and catching
crawdads in a creek and riding ourbikes and going to playgrounds and stuff like
that. Kids just have a differentform of entertainment. The problem is is

(43:05):
that, like anything else, toomuch of anything is not necessarily good for
you. So we just have tobe careful and make sure that we are
not, you know, allowing ourkids to do nothing but sit on the
computer or their console and play videogames. So this story, I just
want to kind of go over thisstory in the hopes that I have a

(43:28):
bunch of transplants who listen to thisshow. If you're new to Colorado.
As a transplant of over ten yearsnow, my root is deeper than yours.
I want to kind of go overa couple of things about how to
behave in Colorado. So there's astory on the blog today that drives me
crazy. And if it's been awhile since I've had a tear on litter,

(43:52):
but I could probably do three hourson how litter is one of the
sure signs of decay of society,because if you can't be bothered to pick
up after yourself, then you're notgoing to be a good citizen, right,
and our functioning society requires good citizens, and litter is like the easiest
way to prove that you're a goodcitizen. Throw your crap away. But

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when I get in the wild,I get even more angry about it and
more upset. So if you're newto Colorado, let me explain something to
you. It is the concept ofleave no trace. Now, in the
city, you know, there's partsof the city that are nice. There's
parts of the city that are adump, depends on how many homeless encampments
are in the area. But whenyou're in the wilderness, you go into

(44:37):
the wild because it's beautiful, right. You want to be outside and smell
the fresh air, and you wantto see the beautiful trees and just maybe
a bubbling brook, whatever whatever youare. We're in the outside to be
in the outside, and nothing infuriatesme more when I see garbage on the
trail. So imagine my chagrin whenI saw a series of image just captured

(45:00):
at the Brewin trailhead in Colorado Springs, North Cheyenne Canyon. And you know
what it was. It was theresult of something else. I am so
sick of so, so sick ofthe gender reveal party. I am sick
to death of the gender reveal party. We need to stop this. Make
it not a thing. We justneed it no more. We're making that

(45:21):
a thing. But apparently there isa baby boy being born to someone.
We know this because they left allof their blue garbage laying around. They
left balloons tied in trees, Theyleft streamers draped in trees. So let
me just break this down for you. They came to nature to ruin nature
by leaving crap all over it.So if you're new to Colorado, just

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remember, if you remember nothing elseabout anything, leave no trace. If
you want to have a dumb genderreveal party, and you want to go
to the woods to have your dumbgender reveal party, then just pick up
after yourself. I as a camper, not invited to your gender reveal party
because I wouldn't come anyway, Idon't want to know what gender child you're

(46:07):
having. I just don't. Okayto the person who just said how to
behave in Colorado, drive a Subaruand listen to NPR. That is funny.
That's very funny. That's hilarious.So we are we gotta work on
this. We gotta work on this. What else should we let people new

(46:29):
to the area know about Colorado becausewe do. We have so many transplants
here and so many people that arenew and they don't quite get the way
things are now. We're working onchanging one distinctly Colorado behavior, and that
is not knowing how to zipper mergeat the end of a lane closure.
Although not only did I successfully zippermerge, I gave a little wave to

(46:52):
the person behind me, just courtesywave. They gave me a little wave
back. It's like, this ishow it's done. We've been rolled down
our windows and we sang kumbay Yaat each other as we were driving away.
That last part didn't happen. Butit's not just our trails. This
texture said, that goes for parkstoo. Yes, leave it like you

(47:14):
found it, pack it in,pack it out, says another text.
The other one says the saying goestake only pictures and leave only footprints.
That's fantastic because we live here,because it is stunningly beautiful. There's nothing
more frustrating than when I see garbageon the trail, and yes, I
do pick it up. I havea little plastic bag in my bag that

(47:36):
I use to pick up trash andput it in there. The only thing
that I've left behind once was aKleenex that had been used, really used,
and I was like, I don'teven have like a stick I can
pick it up, and I'm not. Yeah, no, cause you know,
you never know with a Kleenex whathappened there. The Cortessy wave needs
to be used more, says thistext. I have gotten the Cortessy wave

(47:59):
three times in the last three weeks. Got it yesterday as a matter of
fact, driving up Bellevue and personout their blinker on us slowed down just
a hair bada bing bata boom.They come in, they give me the
wave. I was like, yes, yes, people, this is what
it's about. Mandy that super whoneeds a coexist sticker? I thought they

(48:19):
came from the factory with that isn'tthat factory standard now coexist sticker on the
back. How can you have agender reveal party before the kid is old
enough to decide? Whoever you are? Texter, you are the Texter of
twenty twenty four. Right there youget. You know, seven more months

(48:42):
somebody could take you off that perch. But right now, whoever you are,
know that you are on texture ofthe year pedestal. Right now,
there you go, Mandy, hikein nature the way nature intended naked.
That is a hard pass. Idon't like the thought of bugs getting in
places. N O, not gonnado it. No, And frankly,

(49:04):
nobody needs to see that. Nobody. It's never the hot people who are
naked. It's always the not hotpeople who are naked. Mandy, let
the newbies know and not to quicklytake off when the light turns green.
Lots of red light runners agreed,had that experience yesterday too, Mandy.
First true funny bumper sticker I sawwhen I moved here nine years ago,

(49:25):
Nederland, Colorado. A dog inevery subaru exactly right. Don't try to
pet the animals. Also, good, very good. Left lane is for
passing only. Yes, yes,it is passing. Imagine that passing,

(49:45):
Mandy, I twenty five and Iseventy must never be called the twenty five
and the seventy. Look in yourway. Californians. That for many also
correct because they do they call theirthe four oh five. They call their
like like they have their own identitiesinstead of just being roads. Ah,

(50:06):
Mandy, you cannot believe all themattresses, furniture and trash in the barrow
pits in our rural roads. Thatis super frustrating because when you live in
the country, people in the cityjust bring their crap out and dump it
on the side of the road.This was rampant in my hometown, rampant,
and it drives me great. AlthoughI did actually litter a couch into

(50:29):
a river accidentally. This is oneof my great shames, and I'm not
even kidding. So I lived ina cabin for four years and it was
up on stilts about fifteen feet up. We got new couches, so we
didn't have the trailer to take theold couches out, so we put them
below the house. And it waslike a week later it started raining and
the river came up. And whenthe river comes up, it comes up

(50:52):
fast. I mean really fast.Do you think it's gonna take like a
month. No, it comes upin like three days. So up comes
the river. With the river's upfor like three months, and it's about
three or four inches below the topof the house. It was very high
because the house was fifteen feet upon stilts. And when the river went
down, the couch was gone.And I was like, oh my God,

(51:15):
with all of my ranting and ravingabout litter, I managed to litter
a flipping couch. So I domy penance by picking up everybody else's litter.
It's the only thing I can do. I guess when we get back,
we're going to talk to someone fromthe RFK campaign right after this.
Today, I'm pleased to welcome tothe show Robert Kennedy Junior, who is

(51:35):
going to be coming to Denver.You may have just heard the spot this
weekend, sir, welcome to theshow. Thank you so much for having
me. You know, we'll talkabout your event, but I would love
to just talk about your race fora moment if we could, because you
have been one of those third partycandidates who is really impossible to stop paying

(51:57):
attention to. As as much asthe two parts parties would love to take
the spotlight off of you. Yourcandidacy continues to chug along. How do
you guys feel about your progress asa third party candidate so far? Well,
you know, Zogby just the largestpole of the campaign. So typical
poles like Winnipiac Gallup, Harvard,Harris, The New York Times, Ena,

(52:22):
et cetera, typically have about twelvehundred to twenty two hundred people in
them that they survey. The Zogbypole is fifty state and it's twenty six
thousand people, so it's more thanten times the biggest pole so far.
It has a margin error close tozero. And what it shows is that

(52:44):
in a head to head race,if it was just me, I guess
President Trump, I'd beat President Trumpby three Electoral College votes in a head
had raised if it was just meagainst President Biden, the President Biden a
landslide. I take thirty nine states, he takes eleven. And if the

(53:07):
poll also shows that if I'm inthe race, if three way race occurred
today with me, President Trump andPresident Biden, President Trump would win,
President Biden would lose. And ifI get out of the race, President
Trump wins with two additional estates,so he wins larger. He wins Maine

(53:30):
and Virginia. And what this showsis that President Biden cannot win no matter
what. And I'm for people whoare concerned about beeting President Trump. I'm
the only candidate. My favorability ratingsare higher than either of them. People
don't want the contest between President Bidenand President Trump. The reason that President

(53:54):
Trump and President Biden do well isbecause people are frightened. They're able to
orchestrate here against the other person andsay, if you vote for Robert Kennedy,
president Biden could get elected. Orconversely, if you vote for Kennedy,
president Trump could get elected. Sopeople, I'm eric concerned voting out

(54:16):
of fear. And you know,our job of the next six months is
to persuade people to vote out ofhope. And if they do that,
I'm gonna win. Well. Igot a text message earlier when I mentioned
that we may be talking to youtoday from a guy who said, look,
I can't vote for Biden or Trump. I don't think Kennedy's gonna win,
but I'm going to vote for himas sort of a vote for the

(54:38):
viability of a third party, somethingI've done in the past, So I
get it. Are you do youthink you're going to be able to sway
Republicans specifically, and how are youplanning on doing that? What is your
strategy there? Well, you knowwe are ready. We're among among them

(55:02):
among young Americans. So the biggestnational poll shows me winning among meeting of
President Trump and President among Americans hundredthirty five years of age. The in
the sixth outle ground states I beatboth President by the President Trump in Americans

(55:22):
under forty five. I also beatthem among independents. So that's the biggest
cohort. Is the first election yearwhere independence outnumber ban Democrats. About forty
Americans now help identify as independent versustwenty Democrats twenty seven percent identify as Republicans.

(55:45):
So I win that big just cohorts. The group that I don't do
well with, our baby bloomers.And you know that that's the group,
if you think about it, Ishould do best with because there are people
who still have nostalgia about camel On. They were alive during the Kennedy era,

(56:07):
they remember it. And I wasa very big champion among that cohort
during all of my years as environmentalchampion. But they get their news from
MSNBC, from CNN, from ABCNBCCBS, the mainstream media, and if you
want, if that is the newsbubble, the information bubble that you're living

(56:30):
in, you're going to have avery low opinion of me because they won't
let me on. None of thosestations will let me on for live interviews.
And you know, so what theyhear are mischaracterizations of my opinions on
a variety of issues. So mychallenge is really to get to break through

(56:51):
that barrier, to get on thosestations, and then you know, we
are a good chance of convincing thatcohort. We have a very very good
big conversion rate when they actually seeme speak. Well, what do you
think some of the biggest misconceptions thatthey are promoting about you? Because I
you know, I have sort ofa conception of your campaign platform, and

(57:12):
I'm going to be perfectly honest,I'm much to your right and there are
things that I disagree strongly with.But where do you feel like you've been
mischaracterized or even caricatured? I wouldsay almost on every issue. I mean,
you know, the biggest area isyou know, anti acts, anti
science, all of that stuff.My opinions and beliefs about those issues or

(57:37):
mischaracterized that I don't want to takevaccines away from people that you know,
I'm pro science. I just believethat I'm Mary if you like your vaccine,
I'm not going to take anybody awayfrom Everybody should be able to do
what they want. I believe inpersonal freedom, but people should have the
information. They should be doing thesame in kind of rigorous studies we do

(58:00):
for other medications. We see thecontrolled trials, and we should have long
term information about the risks, aboutthe safety and the efficacy, and we
do not have that, and there'sthe information chaos in that area. Also,
don't think he should be forced totake any medical intervention. Right now,

(58:23):
the CDC is recommending the ninth booster, so and there's ninety percent of
Americans are saying they're not going totake it. So people have lost faith
in CDC that you really believe thatwe should have a rule that says,
now you can't go to work,you can't get on an airplane, you

(58:43):
can't stay at a hotel, youcan't go into a public building unless you
take this intervention. You know,I think my opinion is the same as
the vast majority of Americans. Thegovernments shouldn't be able to force you to
take a medicine that you don't want. We are in complete agree on that,
sir. And let me ask youthis. This past couple of weeks,

(59:04):
there's been a little bit of akerfuffle around your thoughts on abortion,
which of course is going to bemade a huge issue by Democrats. Can
you clarify your stances on that issue? Yeah, I mean my stance is
the woman's is up to women tochoose. Every abortion is a tragedy.
Everyone is a trauma. But Idon't you know, I've been fighting for

(59:28):
medical freedom my entire career and forbodily autonomy, and I don't trust bureaucrats
of the government to make those decisionsnow in the last month of a pregnancy.
I think for elective abortions, Ithink the government does have an interest

(59:50):
in protecting a viable maybe so,you know, I that's my opinion.
It so maybe a late term fanwhat would be acceptable. But do you
believe it is the federal government's responsibilityor should it be left up to the
states. I'm comfortable with that,like we did under Roe v. Wade,
with that being left up to thestates, you know, But I

(01:00:13):
would say in the you know,prior to viability, that a woman should
have a right to choose. Andin fact, even in the Red States,
the states that have you know,since the Rov decision, the terminations
in the Road view Wade rights thathave come down in every election, I

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think in nine different states, includingvery very red states, the public has
voted to keep the option open.I think Americans, you know, do
feel that a woman's right should berespected. What are your thoughts on our
two biggest foreign policy issues right now? Ukraine and Israel? And I realized

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that's a big question, but Ikind of like to get your feel for
what your foreign policy would be.Yeah, I would settle the Ukraine War.
The Ukraine War should never happened.President Biden twice offered us extremely generous
I mean Putin offered extremely generous settlementsonce in April twenty twenty two. The

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settlement was initialed size when he's signedby Putin, and Putin was withdrawing all
troops from Ukraine, this before thereal killing started. And you know what
Putin wants is for us to agreeto keep NATO out of Ukraine, which
I think is a legitimate demand,and so you know, I would I

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would stop the hemorrhage of money.That money should be coming to our country.
We need it now. There's fiftyseven percent of Americans don't have enough,
can't put their hands on a thousanddollars if they have an emergency family.
We have a poverty problem this country. You know, we can't afford
to be the policeman in the world. Israel is you know, listener.

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I am against war, but Ithink we've only fought one war in the
past one hundred years that has beena moral war, and that was World
War Two because we were attacked andit was a defensive war. And I
think Israel is the same position today. It was attacked by Oz, and
OZ has pledged to its annihilation.I'm Oz has a and it's it's covenant.

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It has a shorter provision that saysthat any negotiation with Israel is against
Islamic law and except as a ruse, and the only negotiating position they have
is the extermination of all the Jewsand the annihilation of Israel. And so
I don't think there's a there's roomsnegotiate with adversary like that, and it

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has to be has to be removed. And so I support Israel's right to
defend itself. Israel, like anyother country, has a right to self
defense. One last question, andthis is a big one. The southern
border is a big issue because we'vehad such a huge influx of people come

(01:03:12):
into the country that we may ormay not know who they are. What
would President Kennedy do at the southernborder. I would sit here in the
border, shut it down. I'vebeen to the border, spent a lot
of time there. I've made adocumentary about it. In the devastation that
it's causing our from our country,I believe that we should have wide days

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so people who come in to ourcountry legally wait in line, who goes
through the process, that they shouldhave a quicker path to citizenship. But
people coming across the border, thatis not okay. And no country can
survive with the kind of influx thateyes on nine million people in three years

(01:03:52):
coming across illegally. It's destroying ourcountry and we can't tolerate it. And
I think one of the thing iswe launched our ballot access. As you
know, I have to get onthe ballot in all fifty states. President
Trump and President Biden will automatically beon the ballot. Right, I have
to go get a million signatures.I need to get twelve thousand in the

(01:04:15):
state of Colorado. We launched ourballot access yesterday. Colorado has unique rules
that require me to get fifteen hundredsignatures in all eight congrediates in each of
all eight congressional districts. So weare you know, we're launched, so
you'll see people on the street.If you're interested in helping us with this

(01:04:36):
effort, please call Kennedy twenty fourdot com. I will be in Denver
at the hangar let's see at StanleyMarketplace. You're gonna be at the hangar
at Stanley Marketplace, Yeah, onseven three pm, three pm on Sunday,
and I helped to meet on anyof you there who are who you

(01:04:58):
don't want to come out and sayhi and come to a rally. I
am going to add this to myvery widely read blog. Mister Kennedy,
it's been a pleasure speaking with youtoday and it's certainly given us a lot
to think about, especially in astate where we have as many independents as
we have. I'm guessing you're gonnado. You're gonna do pretty well here.
Just if you can get on theballot. We'll see you on election

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Day Sunday from three to five.You can go to a rally for Robert
F. Kennedy Junior at the StanleyMarket at the Stanley Hanger, the Hangar
at Stanley Marketplace. And I hopeyou enjoy your time here in Colorado,
as brief as it might be.Well, I always enjoyed Colorado. I'm
looking forward to being there. Myson is going to come with me and

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a couple of other family members.So all right, looking forward to meeting
people. Well, fantastic it's happeningSunday. Thank you so much for your
time today, sir. Thank youall right, bye bye. Got to
take a great day in the know. I listen for the traffic report,
wild weather. That's why I stayin the note with KOA and I went
along with RFK Junior, because whynot, that's going to be my only

(01:06:05):
shot. Got a swing big,But I thought that was a super interesting
interview. And you know he's gothe sounds like obviously he is to my
left on a lot of issues,right, but I agree with him about
vaccines and informed consent. I agreewith him that research needs to be done
to make sure that we're not harmingourselves more than a case of the chicken

(01:06:28):
pox would be, or something alongthose lines, So I actually agree with
him. His stance on abortion shifteddramatically over the past two weeks. First
he sent an interview that he wasin favor of no restrictions on abortion,
and then his position has become morenuanced on that. So I think he's
malleable on abortion. But it's kindof interesting because you would think, like

(01:06:50):
the laws we have here in Colorado, that it would be easy to get
find people that would say abortion upto the moment of birth, But apparently
the polling is not that good onthat. I did put a link to
his event on Sunday on the blogtoday. If it's not up yet,
it'd just give it a minute toupdate. But we've got to take another
break because I went long. I'llbe back after this column on the blog

(01:07:11):
today about the disastrous Democratic legislative session. This as John Caldera and the Independence
Institute are working to shorten the legislativesession so less damage can be done to
us. But just in case youwe're wondering what passed well, they created
a statewide welcome, reception and integrationprogram for illegal or illegal immigrants. They

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are extorting one hundred and seventy fivemillion dollars a year in new fees from
oil and gas producers to find moremass transit then no one will ride.
They've squashed property rights of owners oflarge rental properties by requiring them to offer
the property to the government before theycan sell it privately. Violators face finds
them up to one hundred thousand dollars. They unilaterally rewrote residential leases so they

(01:07:56):
don't just end because the lease expires. If a tenant chooses to be difficult,
terminating the least will become a costly, painful process, requiring a lawyer.
They've mandated gun owners by firearm liabilityinsurance. They added more class time
for concealed carry permits, and youbetter lock up your gun even if you
are in a dangerous situation, becausenow that's the law. They threaten schools

(01:08:19):
and teachers with lawsuits if they don'tcall a student by made up pronouns,
and they're not allowed to tell parentsabout those pronouns. They rated taxpayer refunds
to create a seven hundred million dollarfamily affordability tax credit. Those who pay
higher taxes will get a smaller refund, while those paying less will get a
refund that's often more than they actuallypaid. Yeah, that's a progressive dream.

(01:08:43):
It's all on the blog. Butthat's all I want to talk about,
because I'm sick of talking about thelegislative session too. Oh boy,
get ready for this one. NBCUniversal's Peacock Network is launching a new series
about gay and trans gender animals.Now, you, guys, I know
that animals exhibit gay behavior in thewild. I totally know this. But

(01:09:09):
if this doesn't just reek of thegay community wanting us to be like you
guys are normal. You're normal.You're normal. It's just weird and kind
of sad. But you can watchthe Gay Animal Show on Peacock soon too.
Well. Paul McCartney has really reachednew heights. He has become the

(01:09:30):
UK's first billionaire musician. Now,we have several billionaire musicians here in the
United States, but the eighty oneyear old's fortune was boosted by strong touring
A valuable back catalog and even alittle help from Beyonce, who covered the
Beatles song Blackbird. Now, TheRich List says that McCartney, whose net
worth was estimated at one billion poundswhich is about one point twenty six billion

(01:09:57):
dollars, has bucked the trend withthe amount of billionaires in the UK,
following from a peak of one seventyseven and twenty twenty two to one sixty
five this year. Now, Ijust think that's kind of cool. But
he hasn't had a lot of hitsas of late, you know, I
was just thinking about this. Sogood for him. He's eighty one years

(01:10:19):
old, he's finally a billionaire inthe UK. And now we'll see who's
next. Drill it too. Soeverybody's been talking about the Donald Trump trial,
but people are not talking about thetrial of Senator Bob Menendez of New
Jersey. And this thing is wild. It is so wild right now the

(01:10:42):
new case and this is from CNN, so not exactly a right wing fashion
of reporting. They say this newcase is a complicated affair involving multiple gold
bars, envelopes of cash, aMercedes and a lot more than that.
Prosecutor say the powerful former chairman ofthe Senate Foreign Relaateation's Committee and his new
wife obtained in exchange for helping ahalal meet monopoly, granting favors for people

(01:11:06):
from Egypt, and cutter, andtrying to influence New Jersey prosecutions. Now,
how it gets wild is do youknow where they found the gold bars?
The gold bars were just in acloset, in a safe that wasn't
even attached to anything. And apparentlythe envelopes full of cash were stuffed into
his pants pockets that were hanging inhis closet. Now, this should be

(01:11:28):
the biggest story around because he hasrefused to step down from the Senate.
He has refused to take any responsibilityfor this. But the evidence that I've
seen so far, man, dude'sgoing down and I'm here for it.
But man, this trial has beenwild too. This is fascinating. Our
last story of the day has astory out of North Carolina where the North

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Carolina Senate voted along party lines Wednesdayto ban anyone from wearing masks in public
for health reasons. Now that soundsa bit extreme, but Republican supporters of
the band said it is needed torepeal a bill that already exists, or
a law that exists in North Carolina. This says you can wear a mask

(01:12:13):
in public if you have a healthcondition. What's happening right now is that
all these protesters who are so proudto be on the right side of history,
they have conveniently taken to wearing masksbecause they're super worried about COVID.
But we all know what they wantto do is well, they want to
hide their faces. Lawmakers said they'vehad enough of abusing COVID nineteen norms,

(01:12:35):
and now they are going to tellthem that masks in public will not be
allowed, because amazingly people are wearingmasks to commit crimes again. It was
only a matter of time before wecame full circle. I, for one,
am glad we're here because you knowhow I feel about masks. They
never worked. They've never worked inthe past, They're not going to work

(01:12:56):
now. And if you continue wearingone, it's just because you don't followed
the science or you are up tono good. So no more masks in
North Carolina, and I fully expectother states in red states to follow along.
That, my friends, is thetwo minute trail. Now. I
also have something I just want totalk about for like a hot second here.
But Marjorie Taylor Green, the AOCof the Republican Party, got into

(01:13:20):
a bit of a catfight with theactual AOC from the Democratic Party. And
this is the kind of stupid namecalling that makes people look dumb, because
if you have to do some baseinsult and as a matter of fact,
let me just share it with you. Responding to a question from Representative Jasmine

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Crockett from Texas, Marjorie Taylor Greenresponded by saying, I think your fake
eyelashes are messing up what you're reading. So now you've got a personal attack
going. And AOC pipes up tostrike Green's words from the record and make
her apologize to Representative Crockett, AOCsaid, this is absolutely unacceptable. How

(01:14:04):
dare you attack the physical appearance ofanother person. Green then taunted AOC by
saying, are your feelings hurt?AOC shot back, Oh girl, baby
girl, don't even play like somekind of I don't know AOC from the
hood. I don't know, Like, what were they gonna throw down meet

(01:14:27):
at the tether ball courts at threeo'clock? Really, just mix it up
now, later on when the entirecommittee meeting devolved into chaos. James Comer,
who I actually like. I likeJames Comer. I got a chance
to meet him in Kentucky when Ilive there. Very nice man. But
he should be embarrassed by how hehandled this. He should have stopped it.

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Stupid and petty name calling is justthat stupid and petty. And Crockett,
by the way, to her discredit, could not resist jumping into the
mud, and when asking Comer forclarification about understanding personal attacks, she said,
I'm just curious just to better understandyour ruling. If someone on this

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committee starts talking about somebody's bleach blondebutch body, would that not be engaging
in personalities? Correct? So youhave three women on a congressional committee acting
like three housewives of Washington, DC. Nothing to be proud of here anywhere
in any of this. And youknow I declared it and asked me anything

(01:15:30):
earlier, and then I moved onand did other stuff. So if you
haven't asked me anything question, nowis the time. Just send it to
our Common Spirit health text line atfive six six' nine zero. And
I'm going back to this because Ilove this question, Mandy. What is
the largest fish you've ever caught?Species and weight? The largest fish I
ever caught was a six and ahalf foot black tip shark. It took

(01:15:53):
me like an hour and a halfto get it to the boat, and
before we could get it up enoughto ballpark the way, we didn't have
a big enough boat to land thefish. But I'm sitting there. The
fish is tired, I'm exhausted.And my dad caught a hooked a tarpin
and the tarpin whipped around my fishtwice, took off and snapped the leader,

(01:16:15):
and my fish just swam away.And I didn't even get a picture.
So I did the proper sportsman thing. I sat down and cried on
the floor of the boat. IAm not kidding. It was super fun.
I've got big kingfish too, butnot as big as that fish.
Mandy. I cannot believe any ofthese people are paid by us, the

(01:16:39):
hard working taxpayer. They're so disrespectful. I think it's time for manners class
again. How about they lose athousand dollars every time this stupid petty behavior
disrupts the proceedings. Get them whereit hurts their wallets and a timeout wouldn't
hurt either. This is the kindof stuff though, you guys. Marjorie
Taylor Green was elected by eight percentof the voter in her district because her

(01:17:00):
district is so safe. AOC waselected by thirteen percent of the voters in
her district. This is part ofthe point that's being made by the ranked
choice voting people that the incentive nowis to reward people who appeal to the
fringiest base because they tend to bethe most passionate people that show up in
the primaries. And this is thekind of behavior that ranked or that Ranked

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Choice voting is hoping to address.Mandy, what's the smallest fish you've ever
caught? I was fishing with mydad in Nova Scotia and we were using
We were fishing for smallmouth bass,and there's like fishing you can do that
doesn't require a lot of effort.You kind of dangle that, you know,
bait in front of him. Fishor stupid, they'll bite it,
you catch it. It's fine.Small mouth bass are like the smartest fish

(01:17:47):
in the history of fish. Andwe were in Nova Scotia fishing and I
caught a fish on my lure thatwas not bigger than my lure, and
I thought, this little fish isjust trying to beat this thing up and
get it out of the neighborhood.It was probably an inch and a half
long. That goes to my smallestfish of the day, Mandy. You

(01:18:12):
said, it's asked me anything.Why didn't you ask Kennedy about his brain
worm that died in his head.I was supposed to have him for seven
minutes, you guys. So Iwas trying to get in actual topics of
substance, actual policy positions of substance. And I have to say, I
think he did really well. I'vehad the opportunity to interview multiple presidential candidates

(01:18:33):
and I pretty much stopped because they'realso married to their talking points. That
it's a horrible interview because you canask him about one thing, but they
want to talk about their talking points, so they don't really answer the question.
They don't listen to the question.I thought he did a very good
job, A very good job.Did RFK say he needed signatures to get

(01:18:56):
on our ballot? How did KanyeWest get on the ballot? I I
don't know the answer to that question. I have no idea. But he's
obviously there's gonna be uh, there'sgonna be petition circulating. So there you
go, Mandy, what's your hunt? I almost read that questions about my

(01:19:17):
sex life will be ignored in AskMe Anything, I should call it ask
Me almost anything, amaa, becausethat's none of your business. But thanks
for asking. Thanks for asking.Now I've got a couple more stories.
You can text anymore Ask me Anythingquestions that are not obscene two five six
six nine O. I do havesome interesting data from a substack that I

(01:19:41):
read now called The Liberal Patriot,and it is a blog site on substack
written by people who are on theleft. But these are true centrist people.
They seem very reasonable to me,and they're very critical of the Democratic
Party, and maybe that's why Ithink they're reads. But their criticisms are
not wrong, that's the thing.So it seems that working class voters are

(01:20:08):
falling away from Joe Biden. Andthis is after the Democrats have been the
party of the working class and unionsfor so long, but they are no
more. Now they're the party ofthe billionaires. They're the party of the
tech class. They're the party ofpeople with big, big money. So
across the battleground. Biden is losingto Trump among working class voters, and

(01:20:31):
that's significant by sixteen points, sixteenpoints, and it looks ugly. You
can read the whole column about thaton the blog. We'll be right back
with more and more of your askme anything, and I've got an answer
about rfk's voice and an upcoming gueston that. We'll be right back to

(01:20:53):
stuff on the text line at fivesix six nine zero to carry us through
this last half hour, so Idon't have to ask you. So I'm
gonna ask you, guys this questionbecause I have an article today, and
if you don't know about BuzzFeed,BuzzFeed asked their BuzzFeed community to weigh in
on various issues, and some ofthem are so ridiculous, I mean so

(01:21:15):
ridiculous that I have to share themwith you. But this one, this
one, women, what things doyou notice or look for at a man's
apartment that are green flags? Guys? The bar is so low you barely
have to lift your feet to getover this bar. One of them is

(01:21:38):
hand soap in the bathroom. Likebefore you got Mary coover, were you
did you have hand soap in yourbathroom? And if not, how did
you wash your hands? Yes,I did have hand soap in the bathroom.
Okay, so you're in, you'rein, all right, Yeah,
I'm sure I fail load of theones though, Well, did you have

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more than one towel? No?Wait, what you had one towel?
Well I have I had more thanone towel, but only one towel hanging
up. Well, that's just morethan one is all we're asking, because
this lady said I was offered adamp towel from the guy's shower to dry
my hands, and when I askedif he had a dry towel, that
was the only towel he had.So more than one towel. This is

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how low the bar is coober solow? A plunger in the bathroom,
No, that is a great Whatdo you ever clogged your toilet? No,
I don't care who you are.Sometimes stuff gets clogged. Sometimes you
have Mexican You don't know what's goingto happen in there. I did not.
I did not have a plunger inmy one bedroom apartment. And then

(01:22:42):
what did you do if the toiletclogged? Did it ever clog? I
don't think so? Okay, allright, then plants. They like it
when you have plants. There yougo, yeah, I will add this
as this this person a clean dishrack, so that'd be a no too.
Okay, great? Correct. Wantto know another interesting fact? What

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one? I had never opened upmy oven and actually used it. You
are so lucky you found someone tomarry you. You are so lucky,
Michael Coover. My goodness. Andthe only thing I had in my refrigerator
was drinks. You didn't have anyfood? Where did you eat? I
ate out every day. Oh mygod. There was the Whole Foods literally

(01:23:29):
across the street. Okay, okay, and there was like a cheesecake factory
literally here. I thought the barwas so low that anyone in this listening
audience, including Michael Coover, wouldbe able to leap right over it,
only to find out he's bailed yourwalking red flag in your little one bedroom
apartment couver. Well, evidently somebodydidn't think. So here's this one.

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The bar is so low, saysthis person. I say curtains, I
once stated a dude without curtains,but he thought he found a clean T
shirt to cover my face from themorning sun. I didn't have no curtains.
What, no window treatments at all? No? What? So you
just the sun just poured in atall hours of the morning pretty much.

(01:24:15):
Oh god, there was nothing onthe slider glass door either to go out
on the balcony. Ah, that'sjust not Then again, maybe I didn't
have any sputty stay over. Theyalways kicked them on. Yep, maybe
maybe, yeah, all right,then I also slept on a foot on.
Oh and your wife's so married youdid she see you in this condition

(01:24:38):
before she married you? She did, unfortunately. Ah, she obviously thought
you had potential, cove because youwere not displaying the goods. You were
just you were just a ball ofpotential. I hope she's lived up to
that. You know, you've livedup to that. And the other thing
she makes fun of me about wasI used to stack stuff along the side
of the wall, what you know, Like I didn't have really any like

(01:25:00):
closet space or anything like that,so I just kind of stack stuff against
the side of the wall in mybedroom. Like what kind of stuff are
we talking about here? You nameit? Like your clothes yep? Were
they folded? Yeah, they werefolded, But you didn't have a dresser
No, didn't occur to you,like run down a goodwill and see if
you could pick one up. No, didn't feel like I needed one.
I am slightly horrified by this conversation. Cooper. A jar of miracle whip

(01:25:26):
expired by two years. That's what'sin this guy's bridge. That just hit
the text line. Well, miraclewhip is not a real food, so
you could probably eat that well beyondthe best by date on that one.
Jeez, Louise. Okay, severalof you, after the interview with RFK
Junior that was totally unexpected, havereached out to say the voice the voice

(01:25:47):
he has a thing called spasmodic dysphonia, and I reached out to doctor Opperman
and I'm going to talk to doctorOpperman on Monday about that. But it
doesn't look like there's anything he canreally do about it. But if you
heard the interview, and if youdidn't hear the interview, you can go
to iHeartRadio's free app and listen tothe podcast. What he said made a

(01:26:12):
lot of sense, but you haveto think, like, do you want
to listen to that voice? Andthis is so petty and small, you
guys, this is so petty Andfor the record, I would not think
this way. But I'm also notlikely to vote for our FK Junior.
I think people will vote against himbecause his voice is so challenging, really
challenging. So yeah, yeah,anyway, got a bunch of ask me

(01:26:39):
anything questions and we'll talk to doPropperman about that. On Monday, Mandy,
did someone win the Children's Hospital GrandPrize show Home? Yes, they
did, because every year Children's Hospitalgives away the house no matter how many
tickets are purchased. Does Rick Lewissing the Williams Jewelers song? I don't
know, asked him. But nowI'm going to this person said, I'm

(01:27:04):
finding some of the best journalism iscoming from disgruntled liberals like Barry Weiss,
Glenn Greenwald, Michael Schellenberger, toname a few. I subscribe to the
Free Press. I just went througha bunch of subscriptions that I have that
I got rid of because I don'tuse them anymore. I don't care for
their content or I'm not getting stufffor the show out of them, so

(01:27:24):
why pay for it? But Iwill pay for the Free Press for the
foreseeable future because they're doing great journalismthere and now they're gathering up even more
people doing great journalism. How canRFK get on the debate stage? Well,
the early debate in June, Ithink he's going to have a hard
time because they've set rules, andI don't have the rules in front of
me, so I don't know theexacts on this. But there's ballot access

(01:27:46):
rules, there's small donor rules,meaning you have to have x amount of
small donors from across the country toget ballot to get stage access for the
debates. And I don't think he'sgoing to be there by June for that
first debate, but he should bethere for the second debate in September,
so hopefully he'll make one of thosedebate stages. But trust me on this,

(01:28:09):
the Democrats are far more invested inkeeping him off the debate stage than
the Republicans are, because you heardhim talking about statistics. If he gets
out of the race, then hisstatistics and his polling says Trump wins.
If he is in a three wayrace, begainst Biden and Trump, Trump
wins. So if you want Trump, you definitely want RFK on the stage.

(01:28:29):
Because I don't think he's going topeal nearly as many off of the
Trump side, then he's going topeel off of the Biden's side. So
that is it. Oh, hangon, I gotta scroll down, Mandy.
Who did a better job, MayorHancock or Mayor Johnston. I think
that Mayor Hancock oversaw a period ofdecay that is so significant that I think

(01:28:53):
he's going to have to bear aresponsibility for that. And there was a
lot of stuff going on nationwide,but it was on his watch that we
saw Denver enter into what it's innow. And honestly, COVID just was
like the icing on the cake onthat the decay had started well before that.
That being said, Mayor Mike Johnstonis early in his reign as mayor,

(01:29:15):
so I'd have to say, let'stalk about it. If Mayor Johnston's
in office, you know, forfour more years or four eight more years
or whatever, let's talk about it. Then. So there you go,
Mandy. From your days as aflight attendant, who was the passenger that
most stood out in your memory?And why famous not famous? Doesn't matter?
Okay? So famous Ed McMahon.Ed McMahon was the nicest man and

(01:29:40):
I had him on multiple flights,and after the first flight he remembered my
name because we talked about we werereading the same book and a rule true
crime book. He was genuinely oneof the nicest people that I've ever met
in my life, and I lovedhim, and I was so sad when
he died. And then the mostmemorable also a celebrity, Well geez,
I got two. Alan Shepard,the astronaut, was on the flight.

(01:30:04):
He asked me out, so thatwas pretty memorable, and my dad got
super mad that I didn't go outwith him. I was like, Dad,
he's literally fifty years older than Iam. My dad's like, he's
an astronaut. And then Nick Noltygot on the flight and he looked like
a homeless person. And I'm notbeing engaging in hyperbole. He had on

(01:30:25):
a dirty brown overcoat, his hairwas like out of control and wild,
and he ate scrambled eggs with hisfingers. And I will never forget that,
never never, never, nope,nope. But then there's the guy
who reached up my skirt and grabbedmy crotch. That was memorable. He
was not famous. If he wasfamous, I would hope I would have
a nice settlement from that, butI didn't get anything from that. There

(01:30:48):
was a guy who had a heartattack that I always wonder if he lived.
We had to do CPR until welanded, and you don't ever find
out if the people lived or died, you guys. They don't ever tell
you. So I don't know helived or died. I hope he lived,
obviously. There are some really goodstories from my flight attendant years,
really good stories. Me see.Why would you still believe the election process

(01:31:13):
will be fair, especially with acorrupt judicial system that can hide or make
up evidence at will. You know, I'm not incredibly certain that our elections
are secure, but they're more securethan not. And until we have enough
significant hard evidence that there was enoughfraud in our last election cycle to overturn

(01:31:35):
the election, you know, wedon't have a better system, you guys,
We don't have a better way todo it right now. So we
shall see. We shall see now. Yes, Rick Lewis does sing the
jingle. I had no idea,no clue, Hi, Mandy. My

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mother passed away in late November,and she has a lot of packages of
poised pads. Do your listeners havea suggestion about where to donate them.
Huh. I don't know. Imean I would think that an organism,
maybe a church that has a foodbank or something like that, because older
people they use food banks and theyneed those kinds of items, and I

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would think donated to a food bank. I bet you they would take it,
and I bet you someone needs them. So there you go. Ed
McMahon died broke. I don't knowif he died broke. I know he
didn't die rich. But his lastwife was who used to fly with him.
She was much younger. She tookcare of him and made him eat
right and you know, kept hisdrinking under control. So I hope that

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he left her some money. Shewas very nice and very concerned with him.
So yeah, it's it's not pettyand small Mandy. To be a
good leader, you need to bea good communicator about RFK Junior. But
to base your vote on that,I don't know, but I don't think

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that's the best reason to choose someone. Now, someone says no, he
does not sing that jingle. Dangit. Hang on one second, I'm
texting Rick right now to find outif Rick lewis Oh, he's probably in
his hyperbaric chamber or some weird thinglike that. Right now? Oh is
he? Oh? Fantastic, SoI can ask him at the end of

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the day. Well, see ifhe's outside, rick Lewis, if you
can hear me walk in. Imean, you know, he could be
sitting out there on the couch.I don't know. I have no idea.
Mandy nick Nolty was a major abuserof GHB. I believe it.
Here's this one. Will you cagefight a wolverine for pay per view proceeds
to the charity of your choice,even if you are the charity. Now,

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you guys think I want to fighta wolverine, when in reality,
I'm just planning some strategicy in caseI'm hiking and I come upon a wolverine
and have to create some kind ofdistraction so I can get away. I
don't want to fight the wolverine.I just want to get away from the
wolverine. And if that requires aswift kick to the wolverine's head, then

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that's what's gonna have to happen.You know, Rick Lewis doesn't sing that
jingle. He debunked that when hewas on the Morning Show with Dave.
Okay, there you go, howdid that get started? Nobody ever accuses
me of singing stuff. Abraham Lincolnhad a terrible voice, but he got
elected. Well, that was ina completely different time, before the advent

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of radio or television or any otherform of mass media communication. When people
heard from Abraham Lincoln, they readabout it in the newspaper. They didn't
actually hear from Abraham Lincoln. Andnow that we have to, I will
tell you this. I would nothave voted for Ross Perot because his voice
was so annoying everything. It wasjust like, oh jeez, wheeze.

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Anyway, totally voting for RFK Sadly, my vote in Colorado doesn't matter,
so I'm giving him an a foreffort voting against the other two. You
know what's going to be interesting,You guys have to understand, like Colorado
Democrats went for Bernie Sanders in theprimary here, so there's a chance that
RFK Junior could do really well inColorado among disgruntled Democrats who feel like Joe

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Biden is not you know what theywant, Among disgruntled Republicans who think I'd
rather have anybody but these two whoare running. I mean, I'm not
saying I think he's gonna win Coloradobecause I think that would be just a
little bit, you know, itwould be kind of insane to say that,
I think, but I think hecould have a pretty strong performance here.
And if he pulls in up,wouldn't it be flippin' hilarious? If

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RFK Junior pulled enough votes away fromJoe Biden that Donald Trump won Colorado,
that would be amazing. That wouldbe the best thing ever. That'd be
incredible. Only it would give awin to Dave Williams, which I don't
want him to have. But we'llhave to wait and see. I mean,

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we will have to wait and see. Third party party spoilers are a
thing. But hopefully we can moveto rank choice voting and we won't have
to worry about that at all.Mandy, do not fight the wolverine and
will rip you a new ahole.We're not talking about fighting a wolverine again.
See my earlier statements. I'm justtrying to get away from the wolverine.

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That's it. What's the name ofthe cruise line you're using for your
vacation again? And it is CelebrityCruise Lines for Norway and Uniworld for our
Christmas Markets trip coming up in NovemberDecember. Both of them are like luxury
lines, and Celebrity is not liketiny ship luxury line, so it's still

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affordable, but their higher end.I love it. The food is amazing,
the service is incredible, and theships themselves are absolutely stunning, and
they have a great spa. Sothat's why I love. I absolutely love
Celebrity, and Uni World does thesame, but it's a cruise ship company.
By the way, donate pads toHoly Family Catholic Church. So the

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person asking about that, what doyou think of the crazy media losing their
stuff? On the chiefs kicker?One word on the Chief's kicker. He
was speaking to a commencement address ata very conservative Catholic university. He was
speaking to that demographic, most ofwhich agreed with what he was saying.

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And to take him and rake himover the coals over his beliefs that I
don't have to follow, and RyanEdwards doesn't have to follow, and Michael
Coover doesn't have to follow, Ithink is ridiculous and to demand to be
fired is absolutely just beyond the pale, so stupid