05-28-24 FULL SHOW - A Podcast on the Controversies Around Lauren Boebert

Episode Transcript

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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. ARod is finally back. We're gonna hear
a little bit about his summer vacation. But we're gonna talk to Bree Davies.
She is part of the Lauren Can'tLose podcast that is coming out fascinating
that you need to listen to.You. We're gonna talk about Israel.
We're going to talk about all kindsof different stuff today and my daughter the
Q makes an appearance for Q andA. So don't miss it. Four

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day work week kind of day.I'm your host for the next three hours.
Mandy Connell and the team is backtogether again. Anthony Rodriguez back in
the big chair. Hello, Yes, we're gonna Yeah, we're gonna talk
about A Rod's cruise in just aminute. But we've got to talk about
what's on the blog. I startedout today and I was, look,

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we have a new update on whatcan go on the blog A Rod that
I forgot to tell you about offthe air, So I'll just tell you
about it on the air. Now. The website are our web builder will
not accept Twitter feeds. Oh yeah, oh yeah, good lord, I
know. So in any case,let me tell you what did make it
on the blog. It's a weirdnews day to day. There's not any
big overarching story. I mean,you get the prosecution beginning closing arguments in

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the Trump trial. That's going tocome to a head at some point quickly.
But other than that, we're comingoff of a holiday weekend. So
I got a lot of weird stuffon the blog today, but nonetheless we
will make it a great day,as I can assure you. Go find
the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.Now, I've got to have a little
explainer because they've changed something about ourblog page. Now when you go to
mandy'sblog dot com. This is alot of information for those of you that

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don't go to the blog but reallylisten and go to the blog and your
life will be so much better.So you go to mandy'sblog dot com and
it'll take you to my Kowa page. But instead of having just the blog
post right there, now they've integratedthe podcast and the blog all in one
section. So if you go tothe blog after the show, normally a

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rod will have uploaded podcasts. Youhave to then go to the slider at
the bottom of the photos of latestposts. Look for latest posts go to
it's either going to have five twentyeight twenty four blog a podcast on the
controversies around Lauren Boebert, or you'regonna have to use that slider underneath to
go find it on the right handside. If podcasts had been loaded,

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I don't love it. They didn'task me. I don't do things like
most of their talk show hosts,and iHeart do things with my blog that's
not normal, so they don't takethat into consideration. Yes, ay right,
I will say selfishly, it iskind of nice one stop shop to
have both the blog and the podcastbecause otherwise before and I think this is
why they maybe have done it,is you kind of have to hunt a

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little to find the podcast. Yeah. Now it's just like boom, there's
a post today's show, Boom,there's the blog. Yeah. So it's
it looks like once you learn howto do it, it's super easy.
It's super easy. But I've beengetting an increasing number of emails from people
saying, Mandy, I know,and they always start the same way,
And I love you guys for this, Mandy, I know, I'm an
idiot, but they all start thesame line. No, it's it's needlessly

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complicated, but I can't fix it. So we just have to learn how
to do it. And then onceyou learn, you'll be like, oh,
Okay, I got it anyway.Uh. Find the podcast that Says
five twenty eight to twenty four blog, a podcast on the controversies around Lauren
Bobert. Click on that and hereare the headlines you will find within.
I think it's in office half ofAmerican all with ships and clipment of say
that ConA press play today on theblog The Life and Times and Rumors of

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Lauren Bobert. Could Lauren lose toIke McCorkle. Today is a day of
weird news. Yes, Israel struckcivilians in Rafa our Gaza. Peer is
becoming a laughing stock. Mountain townsare about to be grill free. Brandon
McManus is being sued. It's timeto choose on public safety see US Terrorist
Honoring Scholarships. Do you want abig stink basketball great? Bill Walton has

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died. Chuck Nasty is still gettingit done even at thirty seven, Fat
Black and get it Denver's best Burgers? What Colorado High School makes the most
NFL players? Libertarians choose their loserfor the year, a list of twenty
things that will become obsolete obsolete.Trump can't even compliment someone without it being

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the headline. Sixteen reasons Americans don'ttrust science anymore, the rise of the
disinformation industry. We may know themolecular underpinnings of Alzheimer's. Maybe rising temperatures
aren't so bad after all. Nothinglike this ever happens on my flights?
Do you dream? Scroll? Braggingabout being busy is bad Now AMC slaps

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the trigger warning on Goodfellas, y'all, Unmessy Smores is a thing. Don't
do this with your fiance training atChipotle if it's honest. Late addition,
congrats to the Brighton High School trapteam. Those are the headlines on the
blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Iwant to start at the bottom because you
may remember a little while ago,maybe a month or so ago, we

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had on a guy who was oneof the coaches to talk about high school
trap shooting, which is a growingsport, and he was very excited about
it. He helps coach the BrightonHigh School trap team. They are now
the state champions. They won thetwenty twenty four Colorado State Trap team championships
and I just wanted to say abig congratulations to them. And I've decided

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I'm going to take the queue outshooting very very soon because I love skeet
and sporting plays. I love it. It's so much fun, and we
have not done that with her,so maybe that's something she would want to
pursue, although she gets really madat me. Do I want her to
know how to operate a firearm?Well, I don't know. I don't
know. By the way, theQ will be joining me a little bit
later on the show. We're goingto have a kind of a what's going

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on or what went on in highschool week comin I had it right there,
a Q and a oh a Q. And I'm so bad at this
job. Sometimes you're here to helplift me up. You're the wind beneath
my wings, a rod, that'swhat you are. Now coming up at
one o'clock, I am super excitedto meet and talk to Brie Davis and

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Paul Crowley. They have the CityCast podcast. They do a great job
covering all things Denver and when Iheard that they were doing a new podcast
series, Lauren Bobert Can't Lose.I'm going to be perfectly frank, because
I know I don't know anything aboutPaul's politics, but I know Brie is
to the left of me, andI thought, oh no, they're gonna

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come out, They're gonna, youknow, have this kind of attack piece
on Lauren Bobert. But I listenedto the first episode this morning, and
it is not what you think.Now, I'm gonna let them kind of
get into the stuff that they found. The first episode is out. I
believe it's coming out weekly, soyou can listen to it as it comes
out. It is not, atleast the first episode is not an attack

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piece. It really is this thingcalled journalism and it's fascinating. So you
can put a link to it,you can go listen to it. They're
coming on at one o'clock to talkabout the series, why they're doing it,
things they might have found out thatare coming out in future episodes.
But it's very, very interesting.It's you know, there's a lot of
lies. There's to be perfectly frank, I'm going to call them lies.

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You can call them unconfirmed rumors,but if the rumor is unconfirmed, it's
a lie, right, And sothere's a lot of lies flying around Lauren
Bobert, And though I do notwant her to be my representative from the
fourth Congressional District, I don't thinkit's fair some of the things that have
been said about her. And ifthey were set about a liberal woman,
then there would be cries of misogynyand sexism and everything else. But it's

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okay to say whatever you want abouta conservative woman because you know, that's
just the way it is. Sothat's coming up at one o'clock. I've
got some information about some polling data. We're going to get into a little
bit later. But I have alot of like kind of like not dumb
news today, but I have justweird things on the blog today, some
of them far more interesting than other. One of them that I think is

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I'm going to bring this up,and it's just because a Rod do you
grill? Are you the griller?Or does Jocelyn grill? Do you have
a grill? Do you grill?We have of like a blackstone flat top
as really, Oh yeah, that'snice. Well, we could be moving
to a place where grills are goingto be banned if you want to have
homeowners insurance, because what's happening now, and guys I lived through a very

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similar process in Florida that started inearnest after two thousand and three and twait
two thousand and four and two thousandand five. I think those were the
two years, back to back yearswhere Florida got hit by hurricane after hurricane
after hurricane after hurricane. Okay,and when that happened, a lot of
people that I know lost their homeownersinsurance because where I grew up is not

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on the coast, Like, youdon't really worry about hurricanes where I'm from
because they're just rain events and windevents, but they're not horrible because by
the time those storms get to whereI'm from in northern Florida in the middle
of the state, they've weakened dramatically, so you're gonna get tropical storm,
maybe a Category one at the veryworst, right, so you don't have
to worry about that. And yet, and I don't remember which hurricane it

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was, but there was a hurricane, hurricane hurricane, and it brought rain
events to that part of the state, and all of a sudden, people
whose homes had been in place sincethe nineteen forties with no flooding whatsoever,
were flooded up. To the evesbecause of the hurricanes, and so a
lot of people lost their homeowners insurance. And what we saw after that was

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what I'm gonna start calling and I'mgoing to use this phrase because I don't
have a better one, and ifyou do have a better one, you
can text me at five six six's nine zero on the Common Spirit Health
text Lineques gonna come on at twothirty Texter. So they began what I
call the nickel and diming of homeowner'sinsurance. And it wasn't that they were

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nickel and diming literally with nickel anddimes, but they were trying to find
ways to exclude people from coverage.Oh I'm sorry, there's a chance that
in the next two hundred years homecould be flooded. You have to buy
flood insurance or we're not covering you. I mean, it was just like
one thing after another after another.At the same time as the ratel the
policyholders were being nickel and died withall of these new little requirements that you

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had to have. Then insurance companiesstarted pulling out of the state because they
didn't want to ensure people living ina hurricane zone anymore. Now Florida made
what I think is a terrible decision, and I have not checked as of
late to see what the status ofCitizens Property insurance was. But Florida got
the bright idea that they were goingto start offering homeowners insurance. This is

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a bad, bad, bad ideabecause unlike an insurance company that has actuaries
that run the numbers to figure outhow much to charge people to cover massive
losses, the state was like,heck no, we're going to keep ours
artificially low. And pretty soon peopleon the coasts were like, why am
I paying these high rates when Ican move my insurance over to the artificially

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low Citizens Property insurance and the taxpayerwill back me up. This was a
terrible idea, an absolutely terrible idea. I don't know. I don't know
who said it first. For somereason, I think it was Milton Friedman,
but it might be a friend ofmine from Kentucky. I don't know
who first said to me, ifit can be done in the yellow pages.

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Now, this is an antiquated statementbecause we don't have the phone books
with the white pages and the yellowpages. Kids, if you're listening and
you don't know what I'm talking aboutthe Yellow Pages is where all the business
is advertised, right, So thething is if you can see if you
can find it in the Yellow Pages, government does not need to be in
that business. So what Florida andwhat I'm hoping if Colorado reaches a home

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insurance crisis, which I hope wedon't, but I see it coming.
I absolutely see it coming down thepike. If we get into a home
insurance crisis, I hope that thestate, if they're going to do anything,
look into a reinsurance program for homeinsurers. Okay, Like basically,
a reinsurance program says, look,you pay us the state we as a

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reinsurer, and then any losses overthis number, whether it's one hundred million
or two hundred million, or fivehundred million or a billion or whatever it
is. I don't have any cluewhat that number would be, then we
will kick in after that point asa reinsurre but you're going to pay premiums
for this as well. Now,that would be the only way that I

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would want the state to be involved. And it is just really really frustrating,
and I bring this all full circlenow to get to the point of
this story. More and more hoasin the mountain towns are telling their members
that they can no longer have grillsthat work on gas, that work on
charcoal, that work on wood.No open flame grilling will be allowed if

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the HOA is to get insurance,because you have your homeowner's insurance, but
if you are an HOA member,you have to have insurance to cover the
common areas. Like if something happensin your clubhouse gets destroyed by a tornado,
you need coverage on that property.So hoa's have insurance and you have

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to have that coverage as an HOA. Well, what hoas are finding out
is their new rates are prohibitively expensive, so they're now having to come back
to people and saying, Okay,you got to get rid of your grill.
I I will be honest you guys, I would be super mad if
I had to get rid of mygrill. I understand it. I get

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it. And if the option is, hey, your hoades are going to
quadruple if you don't do this,I'm like, take the grill. But
it's this, It is incrementalism.A Texter sent the perfect word. It
is incrementalism because once they figure thatout, Okay, they're willing to give
up the grills, what else arethey willing to give up? And down

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to the losses that have been sufferedby insurance companies here in Colorado. The
Marshall fire was a devastating fire thathurt a lot of insurance companies, and
they're trying to figure out how tomitigate the risk. Right, it is
absolutely crazy. Steve points out,Yes, we still have the Yellow Pages.

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It's called Google, but they're notyellow, is it? No,
Steve? You smarty pants? Smartypants? Uh? This person said,
I lost mine two weeks ago inSarasota, spent two hours working on it.
Today thirty nine hundred and twenty twentytwo, sixty eight hundred in twenty

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twenty three, probably eighty one hundredfor this summer. Don't have to go
to citizens yet. This is wherewe're headed with insurance. I'd love to
know, and you can text meat five sixty six nine. Oh,
have have any of you had aninsurance either drop you with no claims at

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this point. If you make aclaim with your homeowners insurance, prepare to
be dropped in the near future.I mean straight up, because they are
like, oh, you're gonna makea claim because you're oh, sorry,
well we'll pay it, but thenwe're gonna drop you. That has happened
to five or six people that Iknow, and so ultimately, i'd like
to know if you were dropped orif you saw an incredibly large increase in

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your insurance. I'm just curious.I just consider this, like, let's
take the temperature of the insurance industryin Colorado, five sixty six nine out.
None of your grills, no,not well, no, I don't
need to know about your grills.But I guess that's another question if your
HOA comes and says you got togive up your grills. I had no
idea how many fires are started bygrills every year. I mean, I

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guess it makes sense, but Imean, like, I grill on a
wooden deck, but I have afireproof pad underneath my deck just in case
something drips, right, So that'smy first line of defense. I pull
it away from the house when Igrill. But all of this I do
because I almost burn down a rentalhouse in Louisville, Kentucky, So I'm

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super cautious with my grill. It'snot the grills I'd be worried about I.
I don't think i'd be too upset. What I would be upset,
and I would think it'd be alot more likely to be and it would
be my open wood fires that wehave. I'm sorry you didn't say that
on the radio. Oh no,no, of course not. No what
me? No, I don't doit. No. I have an especially
vigilant neighbor. So sometimes when I'mgrilling, like if I'm making fakes or

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something in the fat's tripping down andit's you know, he will call the
fire department on me grilling. Sothere's no way I could have an open
fire, No way, because hewould have like there would be five fire
trucks. Yeah, I wouldn't quitecall what we'd do bonfire, but it's
close. Wait no me, no, of course not. What are you
talking. I'm definitely not on theactual board saying that on the radio.

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This person's aid incredible increase not givingup the grill. Now I have another
question. Some people have already switchedto an electric grill, which I am
not excited about. Right, itseems like a glorified Panini maker to me,
you know it. But if Ihave to, I wouldn't be opposed
to it. With the winds thatwe get up north, I have the
wind guards like on our Blackstone.Yeah, but it puts out the flame,

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or it did before the wind guards. I would not be opposed to
electric. I really wouldn't. Forthe outside grill, yeah, I agree.
Do you to have somebody who hasan electric grill to give us some
guidance on this? If it's strongand good, I'm not opposed. I'm
really not. Okay to the personwho said, Hi, Mandy, you
will be so proud of me,I just zippered. Did you see my
Twitter feed? I still am tryingto understand what zipper merging means. Okay,

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well you missed it. Well I'vehad this. Zipper merging is very
simple. Is it new? No, it's just people in Colorado don't know
how to do it. It's beenaround since the beginning of time. On
the East Coast, We've been doingthis for decades. When you get to
a lane that is coming to anend, either because of construction, which
is where we are now, orit just comes to an end, use
both lanes of traffic up to thevery front, and then the right person

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goes. Then the left person goes, then the right person goes, then
the left your zipper merging merging zippermarget in theory. I do it all
the time. Now I'm like,no, I'm in the closed lane until
I die. I love those thatdo it well, Buddy, can get
screwed if you've come across people thatdon't do well. Now, after I
went on my tear on the showabout a month and a half ago,

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Wall you were Gone nine News,Kyle Clark's like, I've been meaning to
talk about this for eight years,but he hasn't until after I talked about
it on this program. Hey Kyle, what's up? My friend? Anyway,
So he talks about it now.Sea Dot has flipping signs. I
saw one. I took a picture. I saw one I took I made
Q take the picture because I wasdriving. But I was like take a

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back during that and I felt vidicated, And I will tell you this now.
I'm just like, you know what, whatever lane is open, that's
the lane I'm in. I'm gonnabe the person who forces the zipper.
And seven out of ten times timesI have been allowed to merge in three
out of ten times, those peoplewere basically like I'm not landing you in

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because you were trying to get aheadof me and I don't know the rules
of the road. That's what I'msaying. I love it in theory.
Yeah, but if you have thejerks who don't do it right, you
can cause an accident. Well,ultimately those people are wrong, I know,
I mean, they're wrong. They'regoing to have to get it.
They're going to have to get itright. Yeah, they're gonna have to
figure it out. Yeah. Yeah, but it's nice. I don't want
to be on the front of thezipper. I want to be in the

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middle of the zipper because I'm comingup in the closing line, closing lane
until I die. I'll be rightback. I'm quite surprised at how many
of you on the UH text lineare saying things like this. Mandy,
my Asian inform me in April thatmy homeowners carrier, American National, is

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discontinuing homeowners insurance in Colorado and droppingeveryone next year, so I would try
and get your coverage this year,just saying, and several of you are
essentially saying you can priy my grillfor my cold dead hands, and I
should say this, you don't sayexactly that, but there are a few

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things where I think that you haveto think of everyone else around you,
right, Because I'm a big believerin property rights, like you should be
able to do with your property whatyou want. But in the case of
fire, you will lose control ofthat fire very very quickly, and then
you are negatively affecting all of yourneighbors and potentially burning down their property as

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well. So I think you reallyhave to think about it in those terms.
I'd be willing to try. Ohwait, wait, we got it,
ay, Rod, Do you getbetter get it quick because they're coming
in fast. I mean, wehave a lot of the wrong answer.
Yeah, I guess she was onlyinvolved with Lindsay Buckingham in Fleetwood, mach
I'm going to give that wrong answer. Correct, involved with Q of the
members of a different band. Andif you look down at the bottom,

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those are the first two I thinkof the page. Right now, what
number did you say? I saidnumber three? I want to I have
the third one? You got itright there? Do you get his number
before six too? You see itby the way to the bottom, got
it? That's it? Want togive the right answer. Now that we
can The right answer is the Eagles. Yes, Stevie Nicks got around.
I just read a very depressing storyon the break Though that she was pregnant
with Don Henley's child and decided havean abortion and then wrote the song Sarah,

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which I love about what that baby. By the way, I guess
technically she has been romantically involved ifI'm reading this correctly. Wikipedia is never
wrong. Three members of the Eaglesdrummer vocalist Don Henley in the late seventies,
also with I just lost it here? Where did it goes? Blah
blah blah, hang on, JoeWalsh eighty three eighty six, and then

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technically a songwriter from the Eagles aswell, Jade the Southerer. I think,
well, Joe Joe Walsh wasn't stillin the band then when she had
an affair with him, because hewas already out. I just saw Joe
Walsh not too long ago on Liveat Darrell's house, and he looks like
somebody's from Miami Beach. Like hejust looks like a little old lady from
Miami Beach now. And I waslike, oh, that's an interesting look.

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There you go, there you goanyway, got a bunch of other
stuff on the blog that I wantto get into today, including this.
So got a lot. I gota sarcastic email from a guy who is
one hundred percent pro Palestinian and doesnot believe that Israel has the right to
defend itself because over the weekend itcame out that Israel bombed a tent in

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the Ratha area, and out ofthe forty plus people that were killed,
twenty two of them were women andchildren, which meant that twenty three of
them were not women and children.And Israel says they took out some high
like highly placed leadership. Because here'swhat happens. Hamas decided to fire rockets

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into Tel Aviv. Now ben totel Aviv. It's it's a modern city
that is high density in terms ofpopulation. Now, unlike what the what
Hamas has done for the Palestinian people. Everyone in Israel has a bomb shelter
at their disposal. Every place hasa bomb shelter built under it. If

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you're in a business and the sirensgo off, they will welcome you to
their bomb shelter. Unlike Hamas,who spent billions, well hundreds of millions
of dollars building tunnels with which toattack Israel, but will not let the
Palestinian people go into the tunnels becausethey want Palestinians to die. They need
as many Palestinians to die as theypossibly can, so they can use that

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pr for people like this guy Michaelto so he can say, look how
need israel Is, Look how awfulthey are. And Israel said, look,
we're really sorry that civilians were killed. We're sorry about that, but
we took out some very high poweredpeople. And when I responded to Michael's
email, this is his response.I want to just share it with you,

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Hamas rockets have the accuracy of Jacksquat. Israel knows this. Less
than fifty Israelis have been killed byenemy rockets in modern times. Tens of
thousands of innocent civilians have been killedby Israeli rockets. It's factual and verified.
Like most racist Arab haters, youdon't have a problem with this.
Such wilful ignorance coming from a smartwoman like yourself is par for the course.

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Israel was created by acts of Zionistterrorism, and the beat goes on.
So let me just dissect Michael's emailfor a moment. First of all,
tens of thousands innocent civilians. Ifyou get your numbers from the Gaza
Ministry of Health, which is Hamas, perhaps you can continue to believe this.
But the UN actually had to comeout and say that those numbers were

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not accurate. They were overstated bythe ten thousand number. Now let's get
back to the point where Hamas hasbad rockets. So we're supposed to believe
that because Hamas is incompetent at attackingIsrael, Israel somehow loses its right of
self defense. I don't buy that. It's kind of like if a kid

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walks up to a bully that ismuch bigger than they are and the kid
punches them in the face. You'reessentially saying, well, that person doesn't
have the right to defend themselves becauselook, the kid's much weaker and smaller.
No, the kid's a dumbass.The kid's an idiot for punching someone
much bigger and stronger in the face. But it does not mean that that
person loses the right to self defense. And that's what you're arguing because Hamas

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is incompetent. But see, Idon't think Hamas is actually trying to kill
israelis what I think Hamas is tryingto do is they're trying to get Israel
to respond and kill Palestinian people.And if you think about that for a
moment, Michael, you might recognizethat Hamas is the biggest part of this
problem. Hamas is the biggest partof this equation which has to be destroyed,

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not just for Israel, but forthe Palestinian people. They deserve a
government that will try to keep themsafe. They deserve a government that lets
them into the tunnels that they've alreadybuilt to but to shield themselves from rock
and fire. But they don't.So if you are pro Palestinian, you
must by default be anti Hamas,and therefore you're on the side of Israel.

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Thanks for playing, Michael, Havea good day. I have not
as much faith in our military operationsas some do, because I know,
because of my husband, a lotof people in the military, and I've
heard some stories that were like,you've got to be kidding me, but
yet they were true about things thathave been done in the military. So

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when I saw the story and manyof you may have seen it on Twitter
or on social media, of thegiant pier. Now you may remember Joe
Biden tried to cut the knees outfrom under Israel by announcing that we were
going to build a floating piece todeliver aid to Gaza. Now, I've

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got this from Newsweek, and theconstruction of the floating pier in its causeway
or trident section anchored to the Gazashore, adjacent to the north of the
Netserrim Corridor, was completed on Maytenth, two months earlier, Biden hatt
announced the peer and he was goingto use it to bring in humanitarian aid.

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The Pentagon said the project involved withoutone thousand US service members, mostly
from the Army and Navy. OneUS defense official told Reuters the cost had
risen two three hundred and twenty milliondollars for a floating peer. Now.
On Monday, the video posted onsocial media by the IDF showed the American

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Peer thinking in the water. Thestructure was bobbing up and down, some
was underwater, some wasn't. Asoldier who shot the video as over I
heard saying this is what happens whenyou helped the enemy. So what exactly
is going on? We're not sure. Apparently one of the four American vessels

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connected to the floating pier disconnected fromthe jetty due to stormy seas, and
the vessels had broken free from theirmoorings, leading them to get stuck on
the coast. One ship was stuckon a beach at the southern end of
Ashad, while another set to extractit also got beached. Two other vessels
were washed up on a beach nearthe pier. According to Scentcom, the

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Israeli Navy helped with their recovery.No one was injured. Good news,
but other problems have to set thePEER. Last month, the bad sea
and weather conditions had delayed the deliveryof components for the construction and this is
my favorite part from newsweek. Meanwhile, Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, the deputy

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commander of United States Central Command,told reporters last week the deliveries from the
Peace to warehouses inside Gaza had initiallybeen hindered by a hamas drone attack on
the IDF and some AID trucks werelooted en route. YEP five hundred metric
tons of aid offloaded at the pierhas been handed off to humanitarian partners,

(29:19):
two thirds of which is in theprocess of reaching those in need. But
the PEER we don't know. Isit sinking. We're not sure. What
we know is that three hundred andtwenty million dollars of my money and yours
has gone to create a peer togive food and supplies to Hamas. This

(29:41):
is incredibly typical of the United Statesof America. We're now funding both sides
of the war and have been fora long time. There you go,
there you go. Now when weget back, I'm excited about this.
Bree Davies and Paul Crowley from theDenver City Cast post Cast have started a
new podcast series about Lauren Bobert,and lest you think that this is just

(30:07):
a scathing attack on Congresswoman Bobert,you should listen to the first episode.
It is fascinating and really well done. I'm excited to see what the second
episode holds. We're going to talkto Brie and Paul when we get back,
so keep it right here. Whatwere you gonna? Okay, a
Rod just made a secret nonverbal motionthat said he was going to say something,

(30:32):
but then he didn't. He wavedme off. You just did it
again. You can't do the finger, I said, no, Oh,
I thought you did that. Oh, hang on, I thought it was
a hang on finger and it wasthe no no finger. Who was who
was away? For three weeks?Me or you trust me? It felt
like a year. Anyway, We'llbe right back, Mandy Connell. Joined,
of course by my right hand man, Anthony Rodriguez, and joined in
the studio now by another broadcast professional. Her name is Bree Davies, and

(30:56):
she and her producer, Paul Coroleido the City Cast podcast where they talk
about all kinds of stuff Denver relatedand interview new zy type people. And
it's a very good podcast if youwant to know what's happening in the city.
But they are working on a specialpodcast right now. As a matter
of fact, Paul is so workingon it that he can't come to the
studio today. But they have anew podcast about Congresswoman Lauren Bobert and it

(31:22):
is called Lauren Bobert Can't Lose.Bree Davies, Welcome to the show.
Thank you so much, Mandy.I want to offer a little disclaimer before
we start talking about this, becausemy audience knows I don't like Lauren.
Okay, they already know this,and I want to set this up by
saying, if you guys think thisis going to be an attack piece.
Just listen, because that's not whatthis is. So that's my personal commentary.

(31:45):
Why did you guys decide to doa podcast on Lauren Bobert? Well,
first, I just want to addresswhat you just said, which is
great because she's such a polarizing characterand figure in politics and here in Colorado
that people are automatically turned on orturned off by the conversation. And we
tried to approach this from a more, i don't know, just a bigger,

(32:07):
wider, more nuanced perspective of likewho is this person? It has
a little bit of an anthropological feeltoo, if you're studying her, and
that's how it comes across, whichis really what journalism should sound like.
You know. Well, yeah,and thank you for saying that, because
that was our approach. This wasn'tabout our personal feelings about her or her
politics. It was more about whois she as a person, Where did

(32:29):
she come from, how did shegain this much power, why is she
so polarizing, and how do wetalk about her? And why the way
that we talk about her matters Andwe talk a lot about that in this
series. So the first episode isout. I listened to it this morning.
It's about half an hour. It'snot a difficult listen, but you
guys jump right into some of thenastiest rumors and you present them as here

(32:51):
are some of the naziest rumors,let's talk about it. That was just
where what started this conversation for usto begin with, was there was the
way that she's talked about is reallyinteresting, and I think most folks know
her, honestly. I talked tofolks in her district that didn't know that
she represented them, but they knewher from the Beetlejuice theater scandal. Oh
no. And so that was onethat was sort of the tip of an

(33:13):
iceberg. And then we started diggingand digging and Paul, my producer,
found the gentleman behind some of theserumors. The escort rumors is what this
episode is called. There were rumorsthat she was allegedly an escort, and
this gentleman was behind the information thathad been revealed, and we just went
on this search to find out ifit was true. And what was fascinating
is that you guys treated this withreal journalistic integrity and said, okay,

(33:37):
you talked to the guy in question. Yeah, and then tried to confirm
his reporting. Yeah, we do. How did that go? I mean,
Paul says that, I think inthe episode, but he called twelve
different versions of the name of theperson that this gentleman gave him and said,
this is where these rumors came from. These women told me these rumors.
This is how I know the truegive you the contact information directly.

(33:59):
No, Oh, we couldn't geta hold. We couldn't find these women.
I mean Paul called numbers across thecountry trying to I mean you know
what, I mean. The internetcan give us many things. We could
not find these people to corroborate thisinformation. So, and that's really the
crux of this issue, because ifyou're a Lauren Bobert fan, you're gonna
think, well, I'm not goingto listen and they're just repeating all these

(34:20):
rumors, which you do, butthen you also say, uh, there's
not we haven't been able to confirmany of them. Yeah, and that's
pretty significant. I think so too. And I think what's really interesting is
like what we found just in thisresearch we did for months was that it
wasn't just folks that would support her, maybe more folks on the GOP side.

(34:42):
Some folks were believe those rumors justas much as more liberal folks believe
those rumors, right, So itwas really like trying to get down to
the brass tacks of what it isabout her that is so polarizing, especially
when we can't prove some of thisstuff that people hold up as the flag
for why they don't like her.So let me ask this about you know
what's coming. I don't know what'scoming yet, so I want to kind
of get into it. What otherthings do you cover in this series?

(35:07):
Are we going to talk about herpolitical positions? Are we going to talk
about obviously you got to talk aboutthe theater issue. How much of the
family drama are you getting into inthis That's a great question. So I
would say, we don't dig intothe current family drama arounds our son.
And part of that was intentional,to be honest with you, I found
it very disturbing as a mother thatwe kept pinning these things on a person's

(35:30):
well, this makes her good orbad as a mom, And we don't
necessarily talk about male public figures asgood or bad as dads, right,
And so that part we really triedto steer clear from. But what we
did do is dig into where shecame from. Where did this person grow
up? How did the community thatshe came from inform this person that she
became And so we do talk abouther relationship with her ex husband, we

(35:53):
read her autobiography, we went toher town. The next episode, which
you can hear tomorrow, is allabout going to Rifle, Colorado and trying
to dig into this this enigma thatcan be Lauren Bobert, beyond the sensational
stuff. Who is this person?Where she came from, What was her
upbringing, like, what was herfamily like, where'd she come from?
Where was there anything that surprised youthat you were like to I mean,

(36:15):
because I know even journalists have preconceivednotions, right, we have preconceived notions
about what we think people are.Was there anything that you found out that
you were like, huh, didnot see that coming? You know,
I grew up here in Denver,Colorado, So I grew up in the
city, but I have so manyfriends and family from Grand Junction, from
Montrose, Brighton, Keenesburg, FortLepton, places that Lauren Bobert is from.

(36:38):
And initially what was really interesting tome was her presence or just her
experience in the world reflected a lotof something I see in one of my
best friends in the whole world,who's a mom of four, who grew
up in a more rural area,who has a husband that works a working
class job, like this blue collarjob. And I was surprised to feel

(36:59):
like I knew the Lauren Boberts ofthe world. I know, she felt
familiar. She felt familiar to me. I mean when she veers off into
her politics, it's not like mybest friend at all, right, but
the person that she is and whereshe was raised that was I mean,
Lauren and here about five years apart. I know, I just know her
as the kind of person she is. That's a familiar person to me,
and that was very surprising. Iwill say that I have had that experience

(37:22):
only I mean, I'm from adifferent part of the country. But you
see people that stand out in aweird or odd way, and you do
like, I'm like, I knowthat person. I don't know that person,
but I know that person because ofmy shared lived experience and backgrounds.
So what are the specific issues thatyou guys are digging into and that we

(37:44):
can come to expect as this podcastrolls out, how many episodes is it
going to be? It's six episodes? Okay, ending with it it,
We actually got an interview with Laurenherself. We sat at a kitchen table
with her and were able to talkto her, which was really cool and
surprising, to be honest with you. But we kind of we really dig
into some of the rumors. Obviously, the escort one is the big one
that we start with. We talkabout the beatle juice stuff. We talk

(38:06):
about how the media talked about herduring that time and how that consistently still
is something that plagues her and makesher polarizing for both sides. We also
talk about where the GOP was atthis time when she rose to prominence,
right where did Because that's the thingis, there's such a conversation about this
is not us, This isn't whowe are. She's from Colorado, she

(38:29):
represents a contingency of voters in Colorado. She has moved districts and is potentially
poised to win again in a totallynew district. We don't know she represents
us, and so we really diginto, like was the what was happening
on the ground in Colorado that madethis happen. We really dig into the
moment when she faces off with BetoO'Rourke. We get into how she started

(38:51):
the restaurant, why the first orwhy the second Amendment is such a big
issue for her, and the issuesthat she represents kind of going forward,
and how she transformed from this restaurantowner into this larger than life figure that
represents an entire movement but also representspeople in Colorado that I know. Yeah,

(39:12):
so you got six episodes of this. It's gonna come out weekly.
As a matter of fact, Paul'sediting for tomorrow's episode right this minute.
Did you talk who did you talkto? Around her? On a personal
level? That was more difficult.So we talked to Laura and herself.
We didn't talk to her husband.We couldn't. We couldn't. We actually
met her mother when we did theinterview. I wish we could have actually
talked to her because we tried toget a hold of her. It was

(39:34):
harder to talk to people in herproximity. We talked to some folks who
had formerly worked with her who didn'twant to be on the record, and
we talked to a lot of reporters. People had been covering her rise.
I think one of the most interestinginterviews to me is is Kyle Clark here
in Denver because he was one ofthe first people to interview her in Denver
media before she picked up steam,because he was kind of just trying to
figure out who is this person.I think it's going to be a big

(39:58):
deal, and he has some reallyrevealing things that you'll hear in the third
episode of his observations of that interview. But it is a lot of like
reporters, political strategists, and folksthat had run We talked to Bob Bo
Pray, former groubadatorial candidate about thatpre the pre time we talked to reporters
in the area, So I wishwe had were able to talk to more
folks close to her, but Ithink ultimately we got to talk to her,

(40:21):
which is to me one of themost defining parts of this series.
Did you find you know, wasthere a lot of people that were coming
out with negative stuff or was itoverwhelmingly a more dispassionate view, Because your
point like trying to find the peoplethat allegedly said all these horrible things,
Yeah, you couldn't find them.I think they just don't. I think
folks just don't want to be attachedto this conversation anymore because she is so

(40:45):
polarizing anything crazy. I mean,it's something I've never seen before, for
sure, But I also understand likein politics, it's like people have just
stepped out. They're just like Ijust exhausted. I don't want to do
this, I talk or my nameto this situation anymore, which I have
a feeling is what happened with thesefolks behind the escort rumors. But it

(41:05):
is just speaks to the polarization ofpolitics, but also how it is embodied
in a person. I find theentire thing fascinating for a variety of reasons.
And I told Brie off the air, like I'm in the fourth congressional
district, I don't want her towin. I don't want her to be
my representative because she and I justhave a different view of how to comport
oneself, I think is the bestway to put it. But that being

(41:27):
said, I'm surprised that there werenot more people with knives out because the
coverage of her has been in somecases, you know, to the point
of ridiculousness. Because when you lookat like the things that Lauren has has
supported, and that the issues thatshe has brought to the forefront in her
role as a member of Congress arethings that are near and dear to the

(41:51):
heart of her district. It's notlike she's been a bad representative. I
could point to other members of Congressand I say, you're a bad representative.
But at the same time, herpersonality almost overshadows everything she does policy
wise, and I don't necessarily thinkit's a positive thing. It isn't for
voters like me, I will saythat, yeah, And you know that
reminds me. We talked to aveteran in Pueblo because the veteran contingency in

(42:14):
Pueblo is very strong and there wassome legislation that she worked on and that
wasn't in their favor, And thatinterview, you will find also later on
in the series, is very revealingabout how people feel about her that maybe
once supported her but then didn't later. And there's so many factors involved that
are beyond her politics. A lotof it is about her appearance and the

(42:35):
way that, like you said,she comports herself, and these things really
influence the way that people think abouther and That's one of the things we
try to focus in on in thisseries is why do we do this to
women in a certain way that wejust don't do the same way to men.
I would say that, and thisis just me as a right leaning
person, and I'm not working foryou to agree or disagree. I would
say that the kind of commentary directedat women on the right and women on

(43:02):
the left is very different and notalways complimentary. It's not like one is
glowing and the other is not.That's not what I'm saying. But women
on the left are portrayed to beshrill and crazy if it's a negative thing.
Women on the right are just portrayedto be crazy in a different sort

(43:22):
of way, in a way thatit seems like it's okay to pick on
Lauren Bobert and Marjorie Taylor Green andI do it because you know, if
you're going to make yourself a target, that's going to be part of it.
But women on the left, itseems like we focus more on policy
positions than personality. That there's alot of people on the left that I
disagree with, but I'll talk aboutwhy I think they're wrong on policy more

(43:45):
so than the fact I think they'rejust lunatics, you know what I mean.
And I just think that Lauren doesn'talways get that same grace for lack
of a better term, like itis easy to take potshots at her.
And something I found really interesting inthe research that we did and the interviews
that we did was left or right, people are just chomping at the bit

(44:05):
to talk about her behavior. It'slike she was great until the like Goop
side, she was fine until this. Till this moment, I had had
enough her behavior. I had hadenough. And that was initially was part
of the impetus for this project wasI remember during the beetlejuice scandal, I
was like, why is it whenDonald Trump says something totally outrageous, it's
like him being wild and crazy,and then she does this thing that people

(44:29):
interpret as a pale. Yeah,yeah, all of a sudden, it's
beyond the pale. And that waswhat was interesting to me was I don't
understand why her behavior is so muchbad, worse than some men of her
caliber's behavior. I have a theoryabout Donald Trump, and that is he
can do whatever he wants, true, but anyone who tries to be Trumpy.
That is not allowed. We don'twant that, we don't want that.

(44:51):
But Trump is Trump, I mean, he's he's like this entity unto
himself, and so he can dowhatever he wants. But anyone who starts
to veer into that lay in aneffort to appeal to those voters, it
has like the opposite effect, youknow, like you're not Trump, stop,
you're ready to be Trump whatever.So to your point, I think
absolutely so, Mandy. It seemsto me, this is from our text

(45:13):
line, by the way, ComicSpirit Health text line. It seems to
me that Lauren Bobert has presented muchthe same way Donald Trump's character is presented.
So the whole sex is biased thingdoesn't seem to work for me,
except it's not. It's not atall remotely. I mean, Donald Trump
right now is on trial for payingto cover up an affair with a porn

(45:34):
star, and yet he is stillthe candidate, leading candidate far and away
and doesn't say it doesn't have thesame criticism that Lauren Bobert has for groping
or date in a theater. Again, also, Lauren was in a theater
in and I have to say Ididn't know until we saw that surveillance that
I was being surveiled in spaces likethat. Oh, I always, I'm
surveiled everywhere. I just think theworld we live in, Yeah, I

(45:55):
mean, I sure in theory,but like I bet a lot of us
would be so prize by her ownbehavior if we were not, if we
were aware that people could see it. And so I do find that point
where your point really interesting is likehe can do no wrong. She does
not absolutely cannot do that. Yeah, she do at all. Somebody asked,
have you assessed how representative Boat representedher district? Kind of the point

(46:17):
that I was asking before. Didyou get into whether or not she was
covering the districts the issues that thatdistrict mattered. I think so, I
mean we do dig into some ofthe issues a little bit. Like I
said, we talked to some wetalked to veterans about some of her policy
around that, and I just Iwould just say that her voting, her
I'm sorry, her record. Shekeeps winning, so she's doing something right.

(46:39):
I think this next election will bevery telling for us. Right,
she switched districts, and we kindof asked her about that. How do
you just go to a new era. I mean, if someone asked me,
can you represent Aurora, I wouldsay absolutely not. I don't know
what the issues of Aura are,So I think this next election will be
very telling about that. But sofar she's won and she out She unseated

(47:00):
a four or five turned congressman whowas not unpopular by any standards. So
she's representing someone and there are alot of people in the fourth district that
love her. Absolutely clear, there'sa lot of people in the fourth district
who love her. I am notone of them. We shall see.
All you have to do is watchthe theater footage and learn how she dealt

(47:20):
with the employees there to say sheshould not be holding an elected office.
Done deal. That is from aTexter, by the way, And I
love this point because I agree.I totally agree. I don't like the
way that she talked to working people, right, these are folks just trying
to do their job. That wasvery That to me was more revealing than
what the surveillance footage showed in meas well. And that's just whether or

(47:43):
not you're a decent human being.Yeah, you know, Pye, you're
in the dark, groping whatever.But then when you behave in that manner
when you're being escort. Maybe theescort out was too much in her opinion,
but there's other ways to handle that. Sore Davies is my guest today.
She is half and I'm gonna givePaul here half of it. Paul
Corollis, I'm half of these CityCast podcasts. And then somebody said,

(48:07):
let me see if I can findthis before it scrolls off here. It's
kind of an interesting point, andI wanted to leave us with this question,
and that is dag nab it.The question essentially is is this a
hit piece or is it a propup right before the election? What role
is this going to play? Right? That's a totally fair question. We
tried to approach it as neither.This was an examination of something that's happening

(48:30):
politically in America, but also youpull back, it's happening here in Colorado.
We cover Colorado, we cover Denver. We talk about what's happening in
Denver in Colorado a lot, andwe were interested to figure out, beyond
all of this sensational stuff that shedoes make international headlines for, why is
she such a political powerhouse and whatdoes that say about who we are as

(48:51):
Colorado's absolutely and I would urge you, guys, I listened to the first
episode this morning. If you're thinkingthis is some kind of hit piece,
you're gonna be disappointed. If you'rethinking this is some kind of we're going
to prop up Lauren Bobert, you'regoing to be disappointed. You'll just journalism.
It's just journalism. And I thinkthe first episode, I hope sets
the tone. So the next episodecomes out tomorrow. So every Wednesday,
what time we drop it in thefeeds at three am? So if you're

(49:15):
an early riser and you can findit at you can find if you search
anywhere you get podcasts, it's calledLauren bober Can't Lose. You can go
to Denver, dot Citycast, dotFM and find it there. And yeah,
we'll be updating every Wednesday. Bree, thank you so much for making
time for us a lot of people. Mandy, there's a big difference between
national politics and politics. While sheis going on the national spectrum, it's
still local politics. So I thinkthat's an interesting take on it as well.

(49:37):
Bre thank you for coming in today. I appreciate it. Mandy,
thank you so much. All Right, we will be back right after this.
We do not have a Democratic challengeras of yet. We'll find that
out in the primary. Trisia Calabracyis also running. But the even money
is that Ike mccorkyl will be theDemocratic challenger in the fourth Congressional district.

(49:58):
I want to share with you fromColorado politics dot com. An internal poll
conducted last week for one of thethree Democrats hoping to deny US Representative Lauren
Bobert another term in Congress shows potentialchallenger Ike mccorkyl leading the Republican by double
digits in Colorado's fourth congressional district.But lest you panic, a whopping one

(50:21):
third of the voters surveyed said theywere still undecided. Now. Mccorkyl is
a marine veteran. It's his thirdrun for the seat. He leads Lauren
Bobert forty one percent to twenty sevenpercent thirty three thirty three percent undecided.
Now, the same poll has PresidentDonald Trump ten points ahead of Joe Biden
in the district, which we knowis reliably Republican. Scott Trumpet forty five

(50:46):
percent, Biden thirty five percent.RFK Junior polling at six percent fourteen percent
of votes undecided, and I wantto focus on that. You've got fourteen
percent of the district that is undecided, right, which is not a high
number or low number. It's justkind of an average ish number for undecided
voters. But when we go tothe race for Congress, thirty three percent

(51:08):
remain undecided. That's a pretty significantshift, especially because you would think since
Lauren Bobert had time to go toDonald Trump's trial, when she didn't have
time to go to her son's trial, that she would be aligned with all
of those people who would vote forTrump. But that doesn't seem to be
happening here. Now what does itmean. I don't know. These are

(51:30):
polls put out I would imagine bymccorkle's people who are trying to establish that
he is the candidate for the fourthCongressional district on the Democratic side. So
let's see here. The polls marginof era was four point seven points and
it included forty five percent unaffiliated voters, thirty six percent Republicans, and nineteen

(51:55):
percent Democrats. That's probably matches themakeup of the day. So there you
go. By the way, apoll conducted for mccorkyl earlier two months ago,
found mccorkyl leading Bobart by seven pointswith slightly fewer undecided voters. So

(52:15):
uh. Trump also extended his leaguesince that earlier district as well, So
do with that what you will.Bobert's primary opponents are Jerry Sonnenberg, State
Reps Mike Clinch, Richard Holtarf,and Deborah Flora, as well as business
consultant Peter Hugh. So yeah,do without what you will. But I

(52:37):
just found that kind of interesting,kind of interesting. Now, we've got
a lot of stuff to talk abouttoday on the blog that is not super
important. I mean to cast dispersionson the news here, but this is
kind of interesting. There's a columnby George Brockler. I'm a big George
Brockler fan, and he is nowrunning for a new congres retional district,

(53:00):
and he's written a column in theDenver Gazette that does a really nice job
of pointing out how important the districtattorney's races are in this election cycle,
like big time, big time.He goes through the history of various cities
that hired district attorneys backed with superpacks backed by George Soros. Now,

(53:25):
I realize that for people on theleft. You think that for people on
the right, George Soros is justkind of boogeyman. Right. If anything
goes wrong, just blame George Soros. But the reality is is that George
Soros has been shoveling money into superPACs across the country that are hell bent
on supporting district attorneys who don't wantto enforce the law. He goes through

(53:51):
multiple cities that have dealt with this. San Francisco Democrat Chase of Buden,
he ran for DA on the platformof d incarceration. He wanted to empty
out the jails in the prisons.We know how that went less than thirty
minute. Months after he took office, they recalled a progressive in San Francisco.

(54:14):
In Chicago, attorney Kim Fox,supported by a super pac with three
hundred thousand dollars of George Soros money, became Cook County State Attorney on a
platform that included reduced prosecutions and endingcash bail. In her first year in
office, the incarceration rate took adive by twenty percent. Crime got worse.

(54:36):
A Soros pack put two million dollarsinto her twenty twenty reelection, plagued
by growing criticisms of her policies.Fox chose not to seek reelection this year.
In Portland, Mike Schmidt was electedDA for Moltnomah County. That's Portland,
running on a platform that opposed mandatoryprison sentences and against treating violent juvenile

(55:01):
offenders as adults. His proud progressiveprosecutor refused to prosecute criminal offenders. And
we know what happened. Google crimein Portland to see how that approach worked
out, says Brockler, And despitean infusion of two hundred and thirteen thousand
dollars in sorows money, he wasdefeated by nearly ten points. And then

(55:22):
he goes through Colorado examples as well. And the point that he is trying
to make is if you are tiredof crime in Denver and you're tired of
crime in a Rapahoe County, it'stime to pay attention to who you are
voting for. It's time to payattention to the policies that they are espousing,

(55:43):
because these people are not hiding whatthey're running for. This is how
I feel about people complaining about MayorMike Johnston and his policies with homelessness.
He is doing exactly what he campaignedon to a t exactly. People are
like, well, look what he'sdoing it but a homeless a homeless shelter

(56:04):
in my neighborhood, and I votedfor him. I'm like, yeah,
that's that's what you voted for.That you actually, if you paid attention
to what he is doing, youwould not have voted for them. Because
if you love crime, then votefor another progressive da love it, do
it. But if you don't payattention to the words that these district attorneys

(56:29):
are using, pay attention to whatthey're saying. If they say anything negative
about mandatory minimums, which by theway, I don't love mandatory minimums.
I would love to trust our judgesto do the right thing. Unfortunately,
the reason we have mandatory minimums isbecause some judges suck. It's really that
easy. If they talk about decarceration, lowering the jail population, what's the

(56:53):
responsive policing, No restorative policing,anything restorative justice. If they're using words
that sound like gobblygoop, do notvote for them. Because I am sick
to death of hearing from police officersthat they arrest someone and by the time
they finished the paperwork, that personis already out. They're tired of picking

(57:16):
up the same people over and overand over again. And regardless of what
the anti cop, anti justice systempeople tell you, what happened to car
theft's in Colorado when they upped thepenalties for car theft, they dropped dramatically.
What happened when they lowered the penaltiesfor car theft, they went up

(57:38):
dramatically. So when someone says somethinglike you can't arrest yourself out of this
crisis, they're an idiot. Theeasiest way to prevent crime is to put
criminals in jail, because while they'rein jail, they cannot commit another crime.

(57:58):
Now, of course, a lotof money to incarcerate people, I
get it. Of Course, thereare people who say that there are more
minorities by proportion in the legal systemthat needs to be well, stop committing
crimes. How about we start withthat. How about we just start from
that proposition. You don't want tobe justice involved, then don't commit crimes.

(58:21):
Problem solved. Yes, there areinnocent people who get swept up in
the criminal justice system, oh absolutely, But everyone that's been accused of a
crime is not an innocent person.So we've got to start addressing this.
And he's absolutely right. You shouldread the whole column. It is outstanding.
It is time to choose on publicsafety, and I hope, I

(58:43):
hope, I hope you will choosewell when we get back fat black and
getting it. I kind of lovethis guy. I'm gonna tell you about
next. If you've ever been outhiking and you see other hikers out there,
I always say, hey, Rod, do you hike? I've never
asked you this before. Are youone to go hit the trail, go
for a hike? Count like hyke? Do you? Not as often as
most coloraden's. But I'm definitely belowthe bar of average, so about three

(59:08):
maybe four. I don't know.It was pre COVID. So how many
years ago? Five years ago Imet a black woman who is an avid
hiker. And when I met her, I said, you know, I
never thought about it before, butI don't see a lot of black folks
out on the trail. I justdon't. And she said, well,
black people are deathly and this iswhat she said. Don't at me for

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this, okay, she said,black people are definitely afraid of getting eaten
by something, and we laughed.I mean, it was obviously joke,
but she said, I'm trying todo my part to bring everyone out into
the woods. She also had asocial media account, but I don't remember
what it was now. So todayI see this article about Nelson Holland.
He is a three hundred pound AfricanAmerican man who loves to be outside,

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and so he's got a social mediaaccount on TikTok and on Instagram where all
he does is share his hiking adventures. And I love this kind of stuff
because, you know, for certaindemographics of people. And I'm gonna say,
white men, I'm not mad atyou. I'm just using you because
it's the easiest thing other than givingbirth to a baby. I can't think

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of anything that white men haven't seensomeone else of their same white man variety
do. Right, you want togo mountain climbing, there's a million white
guys out there. You want togo skiing, million white guys out there
doing it. You want to runfor office, million white guys doing it.
You want to work at a grocerystore, million white guys doing it.
But for people who don't fit intothat category, sometimes seeing someone who

(01:00:37):
looks like you doing something that youdidn't necessarily think was possible. Can have
a really positive impact. I mean, representation does matter. So I find
this really interesting that he is workingnow to bring not just black folks.
To be clear, he wants everybodyto come into the wilderness. I will
tell him this, Like, Ihave now started seeking out trails do not

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have a lot of people on thembecause going hiking when we first got here,
to going hiking now, inevitably nowthere's some jackwagon with their stupid music
on their stupid phone and not wearingheadphones, Like, don't do that,
don't be that person, but theirmusic is No. I'm in nature because

(01:01:21):
I want to hear birds chirping,I want to hear bugs buzzing. Share
No, it honestly makes me wantto walk up and just slap their phone
out of their hand as hard asI can. But I don't do that
because I don't engage in violence.Just makes me want to, That's how
it makes me feel. And stufflike that and garbage. I just super

(01:01:43):
frustrated. So I'm seeking out trailswhere there's not going to be as many
people because I just I'm tired ofdealing with it. However, that being
said, for me, being outin nature is like medicine. I go
out for a hike, I comeback. I I you know. I
mean some of it literally is likethe outdoors, like for your body feel
like a new person. It makesme so happy that I should want other

(01:02:04):
people to do it, as longas they're not a holes while they're doing
it. That's one of the issuesthat we've had here in Colorado. I
really, and I'm a transplant.I get it. I understand why people
get frustrated. But between that andlike people tagging rocks with spray paint,
I want to punch those people inthe face, Like, how the world
are your stupid initials supposed to makenature better? Expression? No, it's

(01:02:28):
not, it is yours Manny Ithink you should run for sheriff for poops
and giggles. Nope, nobody wantsthat. Sure, nobody wants that.
No one, no one anyway,Deputy, I would be a great character.

(01:02:52):
I could oh my gosh, ohkoa all the time campground. That
would be a really funny sketch todo campground Deputy where he's just driving around
like, oh that fires litll toobig? Well water on that fire?
Wrong? Radio station is a fiftycat. Your tent is facing in the
wrong direction. If it's gonna rain, you're gonna get full of tent,
full of water tent like little thingslike that campground deputy man. That would

(01:03:16):
be fun. I swear I sawon the internet that a white man had
a baby, and if it's onthe internet, it's true. No,
I had that story last week wherethey kept talking about his pregnancy. No,
that was a woman who looked likea dude. Not a dude,
just a woman who look like adude. You know how, I know
because only women can have babies,because we have eggs and ovaries and a

(01:03:43):
place for the baby to come out. Then don't have that. I never
will. Just letting you know,Mandy, I'm working in a park right
now and you are alive without headphones. You are a menace to society.
But hey, everybody, Mandy Candlesshow on eight fifty am. You should
check it out. Ninety four oneFMKOA Radio Monday through Friday noon to three

(01:04:03):
right here on this radio stage.Available anyway you get your bod guests,
yes, hopefully specifically the iHeart Radio. Well, of course, with the
iHeart Radio free crystal clear digital quality, you they're up on the hill free
for you too, just letting meknow, Uh, shouldn't hear us what
you do? This person said JerryJudy was scared of getting eaten by bears

(01:04:25):
after the Broncos drafted him. Isthat right? Is that right? Factual?
That's enough, that's enough. Peopleplaying music on trails is almost worse
than people playing in golf carts playinggolf. I hate that. I hate
it too. When I'm outside,I want to hear outside noises. I

(01:04:45):
don't want to hear your stupid rageagainst the machine album that's played out.
Before we went out on the cruise, in West Palm Beach, there was
a guy who was writing some sortof electric something or other and he passes
like four different times. He hada big old like boombox, just just
sharing his music with the world.Eh. Back and forth for the person

(01:05:06):
who just asked, Mandy, Ikind of wasn't listening, but I just
hear you say poops and giggles.I said poops and giggles. I did
not say the proper S word.I am a trained professional, Mandy.
Do you hike by yourself? Iam a sixty year old woman and my
family hates it that I hike onFront Range trails by myself. But now
I am really not wanting I'm reallynot willing anymore because of the increase of

(01:05:30):
crime and sketchy people on the trails. When I do I am armed,
period, and you won't notice itright away, but I assume if you
see me on the trail and Iam armed. But I will say this
as a matter of fact. Letme talk about this on the other side,
because I'm out of time here andI want to just have a moment
for women walking on trails. We'rejust going to have a moment, just

(01:05:51):
for a moment. Just bear withme. And I wanted to continue a
conversation that I started in the lasthour, and that is about women hiking
by themselves. I got a textmessage from a woman who said, Mandy,
do you hike by yourself. I'ma sixty year old woman and my
family hates that I hike Front Rangetrails by myself, and now I'm really
not willing to do it anymore becauseof the increase of crime and sketchy people

(01:06:12):
on the trails. And my responseis this, I hike by myself,
but I am always armed when Ihike by myself, and someone else texted
in and said, more and moretrails are plainly marked with I've considered getting
my concealed carry so I can carrywhen I hike, but many trails outlaw
guns, such as Jeffco Trails.So I am damned if I do,

(01:06:33):
and damned if I don't. Here'smy thinking on this. If I use
a firearm to defend my life,which is the only time I would use
a firearm, and then I getcharged for carrying it on a trail,
I will deal with that mess later. I will. That's fine. It's
not like I'm walking around with asix shooter on my hip, you know
what I mean. But if youare a woman on the trail, I

(01:06:56):
see this so often where women arewalking with headphones. And I actually tell
my daughter this. We were hikingthe other day and you know, I
said, look, you can't hikewith headphones on. Because we passed a
man on the trail and it wasme and her and Chuck, so it
was like, not a big deal. But I said, look, you've
got to be aware. When youpass someone on the trail, you have
to be aware of where they arebehind you. And if you feel like

(01:07:18):
it, look over your shoulder,let him know you're watching him, because
you just cannot be too safe.So if you want to hike by yourself,
get your concealed carry permit and letthe ships fall where they may.
If something happens, chances are realisticallyyou are never going to need to show
that firearm to a single other personever. So go with that. But

(01:07:42):
my thinking about this whole like,no gun's allowed stuff. I'm never going
to commit a crime with my gunever, not once. It's never going
to happen. And if it issafely stowed away on my person and I
never have to use it, thengreat. But if it is safely stowed
around my person and I have touse it to defend my life, I

(01:08:02):
will deal with the repercussions after that. There you go, And no,
I'm not gonna wear it on myhip. Not gonna do that. I'm
not that person. I love hearingabout people's vacations. I live vicariously through
them, and I loved hear excitingstories where people had a great time.
And Ayrod, did you have agreat time? One of the best times
of my life? WHOA there yougo? Tell people what you did first,
first ever cruise. My wife andI went to the Caribbean. We

(01:08:26):
went on Carnival Cruise Line. Wewent to three amazing locations. We went
to a Grand Turk which is inthe Turks and Keego's Islands. We went
to Nassau which is in the Bahamas, and we went to Ambercove in the
Dominican Republic, which was our favoriteand it was even close. That's their
private island, right, I thinkso? I think I think that is
their private island in the dr orat least the private portion of that island,

(01:08:47):
right right, It's a big resortisland, right, Okay, Yeah,
that is that. That actually isturning into a very interesting situation with
the cruise lines where they all havetheir quote private islands. Well they are
starting in twenty twenty five, Carnivalwill have their celebration Key Island, which
is a full on private everything.It is literally like water World and Elogy.

(01:09:11):
It is all on one island.That is all. There's no one
else is It's full on. Startingnext year. That is a really interesting
development for the cruise lines because likewhen we choose a cruise, we choose
based on where it goes. Yeah, we want to go to new locations,
and yet there's an entire segment ofthe cruising population that absolutely loves these

(01:09:32):
resort islands. And I don't hatethem. I don't want to make it
sound like I don't hate them,you know, I hate them. But
it's going to be interesting to seehow that affects these port cities that are
close, you know what I mean, Like, does that mean that nobody's
going to go to uh Like there'sa big one in the in the Bahamas
for several cruise lines, different ones, but now they're not going to Nassa
or they're not going to Freeport.So it's going to be interesting to see

(01:09:53):
how that kind of has a rippleeffect to the economies of these areas well
the Dominican Republic. Our experience thereof stress that I would much rather continue
with the authenticity of going inland andreally getting the full experience right. And
then the flip side what we didin Nasaw, which we stayed more closer
to the water, and what theykind of what Carnival kind of put on
with Nasau. Wasn't a big fanof that, so I think I would

(01:10:14):
mean more towards what we did withthe authenticity of going inland, spending time
with the locals, doing what wedid in the Dama Huagga Waterfalls, which
the hiking there and the dr wasI thought for sure the number one excursion,
number one takeaway would have been monkeyLand. Yeah, because monkey pictures
are I loved monkey Land. Maybemaybe it's what gave me COVID one of

(01:10:35):
the monkeys that maybe depending on whereit was from. But the dr waterfall
hike was beautiful, It was amazing. It was just it was really hard
to explain because well, first ofall, we full on jumped in like
seven waterfalls. We didn't think wewould be doing any major jumping the first
one we full on jumped in.But just the overall experience, especially with

(01:10:57):
because the locals were guiding us fromI mean it was an entire day excursion
that in monkey Land, but thewaterfall experience it was just beautiful. I
mean, the Dominican Republic is beautiful. It is morgeous. So again I
cannot stress enough from start to finish, Carnival Cruise Line, all the people
on all the different excursions, thepeople were just phenomenal and for anyone you
enjoy talking to people from all overthe country I did. We enjoy the

(01:11:18):
heck out of that. And that'sone of the things, Like Chuck is
the mayor of the cruise ship,right, whatever cruise ship we're on,
He's going to find out and talkto more people, just and we talk
to people from all over the worldand I ask them questions, and I
mean, that's my favorite part ofthe whole thing. Well, I gotta
say, I want to stress forthose that may not think they need it,
just to take extra care in mylittle PSA. Because for how nice

(01:11:41):
everyone was, the workers on Carnival, all of the locals on all these
different islands, I am surprised athow nice they were, because ninety percent
of the people on these cruises,the other passengers treated everyone like crap,
oh, just nasty and treating thesepeople like they are just not people,
like they are there, like they'rethere worker bees and they do whatever they

(01:12:02):
do. I don't understand it.We were shocked, like, like jaw
droppingly shocked at it was really theonly the only negative I can think of
the entire experience was just ninety percentof the other passengers were so rude to
all the world. It's awful.It was disappointing. These workers work like
eighteen hours a day some day.I mean, they don't ever stop.

(01:12:24):
That's terrible. We befriended one ofour bartenders by the way. We went
on the Carnival celebration. Highly highlyrecommend that ship. Oh my god,
food amazing, experience, is amazing. The shows Broadway ask having me darn
near in tears with how incredibly talentedthese performers are. I mean, Carnival

(01:12:45):
just blew it out of the water. Probably drinks did you have? So
as we wrap up on us,so we were. He was on the
right ship, he was on theparty ship. So you did decide to
get the drink package. We didwith it within minutes of star in the
cruise because I was made aware thatmy math was wrong in the sense of,
well, we're not going to drinkfifteen drinks a day, so we
don't need that. No, ifyou drink at least five the day,

(01:13:09):
it becomes worth it. So withinthe first hour we bought the We bought
the drink package, and between thetwo of us six days, one hundred
and thirteen drinks, we would havespent eight hundred more dollars if we did
not get the drink package and that'sthat's we're getting the drink package. An
how we're into the cru So itwas like five dollars more day because you

(01:13:30):
have to get it before for it'sand cheaper. But we still did it.
We still did it. I don'tremember the last time I've had like
ten drinks, even five drinks inone day. I mean, we had
just that many tasty, delicious,well brewed. Shout out to our favorite
bartender. We're not friends with themafter the fact, Milton shout out to
Milton on Carnival. But overall asa rabbit, the overall the experience was

(01:13:50):
just phenomenal. But I don't mindsaying it. We now found out out
in all of our Facebook groups afterthe fact, and the reason why I
was gone an extra week longer,if anyone's wondering where I've been. We
came back with COVID because the yearwas a full on outbreak on the ship.
A whole lot of people got it. And I don't know the name
of whatever we had, but callyou just say this a rod. Every

(01:14:12):
single person that I know that hastraveled in the last eight months to a
year has come back with COVID.So it is just a thing. Was
it worth it? Oh, absolutelyworth it, And that's saying something because
that COVID bout for a week long. Yeah, was some of the worst
sickness I've ever had in my life. So I know, from one of
the best weeks of my life,it's one of the worst weeks of my
life. But the cruise, that'show good. It was. Still worth

(01:14:34):
it. First one, We'll doit a million times over. Didn't have
the sickness. We're already getting readyto plan our next one. All right,
there you go, But of courseI'm leaving. Wait, hang on
a rod just one moment, please, I'll let you know when I am
departing, because we are headed toNorway in dag Navitt. Hang on,
well, I have my fingers gotso dry and jacked up from painting all

(01:14:55):
weekend that now my fingerprint will notrecognize my fingerprint on my phone. We're
eight eight days, three hours,four minutes and thirty five seconds away from
leaving. Not that I have acount down on my phone anything I did
yet because I need a breather.I'm almost jealous. Yeah, when we
get back. A couple of things. One, it's been nice working for
you. But I've received an anonymousletter that says they're going to get me

(01:15:17):
fired. I'll explain that, andthe Q is in today, So we're
going to do a Q and Awith my daughter right after this. If
you have a question for a newlyminted sophomore in high school who just finished
her freshman year of high school,it's time to ask the kids. Okay,
she would be representing all kids ofher generation. No pressure there at

(01:15:39):
all. I do want to saysomething really quickly. I have bad news
for those of you who are fansof the show. I've received an anonymous
letter in the mail outlining the planby a group of so called patriots who
are going to get me fired.Yet, they say I have spewed lies
about President Trump and his allies,like Dave Williams, who has been endorsed

(01:16:01):
by President Trump and is running tosucceed Lamborne in Colorado's fifth district. They
have also begun a campaign to holdtheir employer's Iart Media accountable for giving Connell
a paycheck. So I feel likethis is the beginning of the end.
I handed that to you, Sowhat did I deliver your pink slip?
You did Okay, well it's notpink yet. It's like a light red

(01:16:24):
right now. If you follow meon social media at Mandy Connell or on
Twitter or at the Mandy Connell onFacebook, I have actually posted a picture
of the writing on the front ofthe envelope, and I'd like to see
do you think psychopath, sociopath ormiddle school slam book writing? What do
you think? I'd like to know. So it's been good knowing you guys,

(01:16:46):
But I'm sure my pink slip iscoming right around the corner, right
around. I'm terrified now I'm shakingin my shoes. Cutout letters from like
a magazine on it. Dang,that would have been better. Come on,
but then they would have had tocut out and see you scissors.
We don't know, popularly sure thatthis is like a bunch of squares combined
with Grandma's writing like dad's moms.It does. It does look like grandma's

(01:17:12):
squares combined with her writing. Well, she was ninety three, though exactly
why she attacked by grown old men? Yes, yeah, probably can't even
stand up properly. Well, Idon't know, but but thank you for
the warning from Pueblo. I appreciateyou guys so much that I can go
ahead. I should just start lookingfor another job right now. Uh,

(01:17:35):
the queue is in. She hasfinished ninth grade. So que, what
was the biggest takeaway from this year? And I want you to think about
it for a second, meaning whatdid you learn not just in school?
What do you can't hear anything?I can't hear you. I can't hear
myself. Oh well, you're loudenough. You're fine. You shouldn't hear

(01:17:55):
yourself overwriting. It's fine. Justyou sound great in my headphones. That's
all that matters. A rod willmake sure you sound good, so don't
worry about that. So what wasyour biggest impression of your first year of
high school? Compared to like middleschool, it's always like you have that
routine where it's like they're always tellingyou this is gonna be harder, this
is gonna be harder. I learnedhalf of the things that I learned this

(01:18:18):
year in sixth grade, Like Idon't learn anything you went you went to
And now we can say she wentto American Academy in Parker at the Lincoln
Meadows campus, and they were constantlyletting her know that the amount of homework
that she had in American Academy,which was excessive, was nothing compared to

(01:18:39):
what you were going to get inhigh school, Wasn't that right? Yeah?
How did that work out? Myteacher literally doesn't believe in homework.
My math teacher was like, Idon't understand homework, Like I've found studies
that are like this doesn't even makesense for students to have because it doesn't
teach them anything. So if weare doing an assignment in class and you
didn't finish it, obviously I needyou to have it finished then like that

(01:19:00):
by the next class. But beyondthat, I'm not giving you homework.
That's just ridiculous. Yeah, youhad almost no homework this year compared to
last year. Yeah. My Englishteacher, however, gave us an unnecessary
amount of essays about things like wewould read one short story and have to
write two paragraphs on it, andI'm like, why, because writing helps

(01:19:25):
your brain work. I'm gonna findthe Jordan Peterson comment on why why you
write, and then I'm gonna makeyou watch it and you'll be like,
oh, yeah, give me anotherparagraph. Teacher. This person asks on
the text line, what is thebiggest thing you want adults to know about
people your age. We are trying. I have so many friends and like,

(01:19:51):
you guys do this too. Ihave so many friends that are like,
my parents are so onto me aboutmy grades, and I'm like,
you have a B and then allA. Why Hey, I'm not onto
you like my dad used to beonto me, your grandfather. That is
the literal like. That is themost gen x argument I've ever heard.
My parents were worse to me.Your parents were problems. I would bring

(01:20:14):
home all a's and one B andmy dad would look at my report card
and not even comment on all thea's and just go what happened with the
bee? And that was my entirechildhood. So now, why do I
tell you have to get good gradesbecause your parents brought down You don't know.
I've given you a lengthy explanation aboutthis. It's about what your options.
My options, your options going forwardare determined currently by your grades.

(01:20:39):
And I want you to have theworld wide open whatever you want to do,
wherever you want to go to school, and the better your grades,
the more options you have. Accordingto Ava, I was on honor roll
last semester. If they ever releasedanything on the website like they're supposed to
be doing. I would actually havethat information. Here's a question for you.
What would the constant need to haveearbud's head in for middle school and

(01:21:00):
high schoolers? Why do you alwayshave the headphones or the earphone? Quinn?
Oh, she just anyway, shegave her chore. One of her
chores at the house is to cleanthe kitchen every single night. That is
her job, and she does agreat job with it. But what do
you have to do before you doit? Get my headphones? Well?
Why ow that? It's at leastfor me. I don't like silence.

(01:21:24):
I really don't like being there insilence. And also I hate listening to
your guys's shows. They literally driveme insane. They're not that bad,
they still drive me insane. ButI don't like I don't like to be
in silence. I really just don't. And that is a lot think about
stuff. I don't like to thinkabout things. But do you ever ponder

(01:21:47):
things? Do you ever mull thingsover in your head? You know,
big decisions why I should try toget a better grade? I mean,
do you ever think about this?Even if so, how do you think
about it if you always have noisecoming in your head. I don't like
to think about things because it alwaysstresses me out so much because it's not
like I'm thinking about how am Igonna do this or puppies, Like I'm

(01:22:09):
not even like it's always dark,like I've I've talked to I forgot her
name, but it's like worst casescenario stuff all the time. Yeah,
it's always kind of like it's likeour heads are a dystopian novel. That's
what I've seen with every single oneof my friends. Why do you think
that is? Do you think we'veruined your generation? Depends cause one of

(01:22:35):
my friends, I know I toldDad about this, but I don't know
if I told you about it,But I'll tell you who it is.
After she had before she came tomy high school with me, and like
she finally joined, she had alot of problems with being at her middle
school because it was like awful forher and she hated it and it was

(01:22:55):
just like she fell into depression blahblah blah. And she like my high
school. She was like, Ilove it here, this is amazing.
I want to say forever and ever. And she was actually talking to me
at the end of the year,and she was like, I don't want
to go back home because I knowI'm going to fall back into that cycle
because I'm going to have to bestuck with my family. So it really
depends on what kind of person youare. Because I don't have a friend

(01:23:19):
that has good parents, I'm gonnaI am not my own friend. I
don't have a friend that I havefound that has good parents. I have
one, Well, I do haveone. You do realize that you're you're
only hearing one part of the story. I'm watching it too. Yeah,
I'm watching what goes down, andI'm like, are you okay? Oh

(01:23:41):
boy? We got some really interestingquestions coming in via the text line at
five six six nine O. Howmuch was discipline an issue in your high
school? Were the rules enforced now? They I actually went in to do
a volleyball camp. When I wentin to do that volleyball camp, at
the end of the camp, theywere like sit down with a couple of
like sophomores and upperclassmen and ask themquestions about coming into the school year.

(01:24:04):
And I had one of the girlsthat went to AA, she was now
she was becoming a sophomore, andone of the girls sitting there asked her,
how is the dress code? Nother specifically, but I asked,
how, like is the dress code? I didn't even know you guys had
a dress asked about the dress code, and she said, first week they're

(01:24:26):
really really adamant about following the dresscode. And then beyond that, it's
literally just nothing. It's like everythingjust false. Part think is what is
it? No boobs, no butts, No, they kept it really simple,
but trust me, by the endof the school year, there was
a lot of clothing that I wouldnot let you wear to school. I
wouldn't want to wear it. Iknow I wouldn't want to wear it a
period. But the they like it'shonestly a lot of their rules, they

(01:24:54):
stop really caring about things like withEnglish, because I had all of those
assignments that I had missed, andI was literally I was talking to my
English teacher about it, who hadbeen very adamant about if you don't turn
it in by two days after it'slate, then it's not getting graded.
And the end of the year,I was talking to him and I'm like,
I need this, this, andthis because it says it's missing.

(01:25:15):
But I've never seen these things inmy life. And also I've literally looked
at the A lot of them weregroup works. So I looked at the
names on the group work and I'mlike, if my name is not with
the people I sit with, thenI wasn't here when we did this.
No, that's different when you causeyou missed the h but it was marked
missing because he thought I was there. Oh why not done? Oh sorry?
Like he even was like he evenwas like, just get it to

(01:25:39):
me by the end of the year, and you did, which is why
you have an A in that class. Well done anyway, Hugh. If
you do not like silence, howdo you survive at home because your mom
never shuts up? I am not, like I don't talk constantly at home.
Doesn't talk at home? You don'ttalk. You're like, you never
shut up here because it's your job. But like you get home and you

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say absolutely nothing like hi, andthen you go do something else and just
lay around and just breathe. Idon't really, but then I am married
to my husband who does talk.Yeah, it mean it like that.
That's not nice. Let's see forQ. Now that you're older, are
you finding more appreciation for your father'swords of wisdom. I think I'd say

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yes on this number one, becauseyou listen. You've always been a good
listener. It depends on what he'stalking about. He will say things and
I will be like, this isn'tnineteen seventy four. Dad. We both
do that. We both do that, and I have to catch myself because
the switch of how life was whenDad and I were young and how life
is now he has been It's likeone hundred and eighty degrees because technology was

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not a thing when Dad and Iwere young. And as a matter of
fact, I mean, we werejust talking to your older brother about our
mentality is don't quit a job untilyou have another job, right, That's
how we always But now it's muchdifferent, especially in the industry your brother's
in. He's like, a,it's okay, my network is fine.
Uh, it'll be good. Andhe indeed did find another job before he

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found another job. I think,so yeah, uh up up up uh
Hey cue. Do you think youwill one day become your mom later in
life. No, I don't thinkshe will. She's got too much of
her dad in her. I mean, and that's not a bad thing.

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You got. You've got a personalitywise, you have a mix of me
and your father. You're definitely yourown, Yeah, your own little person
there. I don't know. I'mdefinitely not gonna go to college for theater.
That was a bad choice. Andwe've already talked about that. There
you go. You didn't even finish. I know that's what all the useless
degrees you could get, you didn'teven get it. Yeah, drugs and

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bullying worse today than five years ago. Are they? Do you? I
mean, what's the drug situation inyour school? I do you hear about
it? I hear about it.But the thing is, I don't go
to the bathrooms in my school,and I've had friends that are like,
this stuff is going down in thebathrooms. I've had friends like I've and

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I don't know if it was inscience. It might have been. It
was in science because it was oneof my friends. And she walked back
into the science classroom and she satdown and she leaned forward and to me
and one of my other friends hewas sitting next next to me, and
she was like, So I walkedin and there was a group of girls
just sitting around, handing around avape in the bathroom. But is it

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really just vaping kind of stuff?Do you hear of other kind of drug
stuff? I think your friends arenot in this circle. Uh no,
I really don't think any of themare. But it's vaping. I did
hear something about because there's an instantrent page that I don't know who created
it, but people can submit likerandom gossip that they heard from one of

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the high schools, and one ofthem was like up in one of the
I don't know, like buy somebody'scars. There was like I think it
was like twenty forty minutes after schoolended. They were like doing drug deals
in that parking lot. And yeah, that's all I heard about that.

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Somebody asked last question, because wegot to play out the day here,
do you want to play out theday? Sure? Right? Are you
gonna come in to play out theday? All right? Because I can't
just beat my daughter that would betacky. So that a question. Does
Q use cash or is it allphone fake money? She's a cash girl?
I? Well, yeah, becauseI just keep asking you to debit
card about getting your bank account,I'm doing it tonight. I promise you

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were doing it tonight. I don'tbelieve that. What is an impressful part
of ninth grade? Last question quickly? Yes? Okay, great, that
worked out well. Ryan Edwards makinghis way in the studio right now.
Thank you for that speedy Q anda session. It's a beautiful day out
in Dender, So Alfred will talkabout that. We will obviously talk a

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little bit of the latest of theNBA playoffs. We have Joey Harrington,
former Oregon Duck and Detroit. Areyou gonna talk about this Brandon McManus thing
at all? Did you see?Oh? Man, I did see it.
I'm a former Flighters, didn't Ihad a very similar experience to that,
So it sounds very believable to me. Listen, but a million dollars,
I don't know. Yeah, Andthat's where it's so tough for me.

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We have a personal relationship with Brannon, so I don't want to I
don't want to come across to speculate, right. Yeah, So it's it's
a little bit of a convoluted thingwith certainly thoughts are with the victims.
I never ever want to take that, you know, a different stance in
that. Yeah, yep, itjust sounded consistent with my own experiences.
That's all I'm saying. Anyway,we'll be back tomorrow. Keep it right

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