05-29-24 FULL SHOW - Jenna Ellis Says She Was Wrong, Plus Comedian Dude Dad

Episode Transcript

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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. Today'sshow is a hum dinger. We get
to talk to do Dad, avery famous internet celebrity who's doing some live
comedy dates coming up. We alsotalked to Holly Kinney about the upcoming Tsorro
Cultural Center, Indian pow Wow andMarketplace, and we're gonna dip our toes
into Jenna ellis losing her law licenseand would you want to live forever?

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I'm telling you this show is allover the place. You're not gonna want
to miss a minute. I lovea short week. I'm your host for
the next three hours. Mandy Connell, joined, of course by my right
hand man. I call him AnthonyRodriguez, you can call him a rod
And today we have a bang upshow. I cannot believe that I was
on Ross's show and I forgot aboutdo Dad coming on the show today,

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and that's just wrong. We're excitedvideo about Colorado transplants. I watched it
in full show. Dude Dad money, Let's get to what he's talking about,
because he is right, it ismoney. Okay, We've got to
talk about finding the blog one moretime, because I got six more emails
from people asking two questions forty numberone. I got three emails this morning

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every single day, you guys.Facebook just doesn't show it to anyone,
which is why I'm not active onFacebook anymore. They've made it miserable to
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I'm notified, and it's glorious.Yeah, I'm very clever on Twitter.
Just ask me. Okay, let'sgo back and actually go do today's blog.
Look for the headline that says fivefour blog Jenna Ellis says she was
wrong, plus comedian do Dad.Click on that, and here are the

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headlines you will find. I thinkoffice half of American all with ships and
clipments of sansa press plat Today onthe Blood Jenna Ellis says she was wrong
about the stolen election. Dooke Dadjoins us today. Whether Wednesday is here,
it's time for a pow wow.Closing arguments are done. Will Denver
voters fork over more tax money forschools? The mayor and police chief don't

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seem to be on the same page. We must undo the damage that defund
the police caused. Biden's guz appeeris a metaphor for his foreign policy.
Just give kids peanuts already? Wouldyou want to live forever? Having kids
is tough on a man's heart.I'm a proud Costco cult member. Great
interview with Jerry Seinfeld and Barry Weiss. We need leaders who refuse to jump.

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Great marriage advice. Biden sleeps throughMemorial Day. I miss being young
too. Oreo needed some snacks,Harrison, Butker isn't backing down. Should
spouses control each other's phones? Thoseare the headlines on the blog at Mandy's
blog dot com, so you canfind them all there. If you have
never heard of do Dad, You'rewelcome for what you're gonna learn about today.

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You know, one of the thingsthat I have enjoyed having a fourteen
year old for is that she watcheseverything on YouTube, so she shows me
things that I would have never seen. And because my kid is really I
don't want to say innocent, that'sthe wrong word, but she gravitates towards
more wholesome content. I guess that'swhat I would say. She's the one

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that showed me Doddad. And thisguy, his name is Taylor Kalmus,
and he was he started the channelwhen he lived in California, but then
he moved to Colorado and he doesI have a video on the blog today
about Colorado Transplant School that is sofunny, and all of his stuff is
family friendly. I could play anyvideo of his and I don't have to

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worry about an F bomb or anyof that stuff. And he lives in
Fort Collins now. He actually isa Colorado transplant so we'll be able to
chat with him later on in theday at one o'clock. And then if
you've never been to the Soro CulturalCenter's Indian Powwow, it is so good,
and I mean so so so good. If you have kids and you

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want to give them a little tasteand I do mean a little taste of
Native American culture. This powow bringstogether all of these different tribes there's arts
and crafts and stuff that you canbuy. I bought a really cool picture
there last year of a young Cheyennewoman artist. It's fantastic. I absolutely
love it. But they have allthis stuff, and then they have dance

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competitions where the different tribes come outand they do the very specific different dances
that all mean something different. Butthey're in full regalia, so you get
to see the tribal dances in away that is just it's so good.
So Holly Kinney from the Fort isalso so good. She's one of my

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favorite people that I've ever met.She's just wonderful and kind and just a
great person. She's coming in totalk about that. And it's this weekend,
so if you don't have anything onyour calendar, put that on the
calendar for this weekend. And ofcourse Weather Wednesday coming up at twelve thirty
with our cheap meteorologist Dave Frasier.You know I always say chief meteorologist.
Ay Ron. A listener asked,why do you always call Dave cheap meteorologist?

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So, uh yeah, we gotthat going for us. You've been
saying cheap. No, I've beensaying cheap. Thank you, so listener
heard cheap, and I was like, well, he prefers thrifty, the
thrifty meteorologist from Fox thirty one,the legendary Yes there you don't, Yeah,
and he's gonna tell us about theinsane hal correct. Correct. Although

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I did not plant any flowers onmy deck this year because we just wrote
an enormous check to have the drainpipe in my house replaced, a new
carpet, new flooring, and blahblah blah blah. So I was like,
you know what, flowers are expensive. I decided not to do it.
And today when I was like,ooh, hail, haha, I
don't have to worry about that becausea couple of years ago I spent like

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five hundred bucks just getting flowers formy deck and then hail just annihilated all
of them. It's horrible. Sothis year I was like, oh,
there's my upside because I've been kindof depressed about it's boring out there with
no plants to fiddle around with,just saying that's how I piddle in the
summer. I go outside, Ijust piddle around with my flowers. So
I don't know what I'm gonna dothis year. Maybe I'll actually address my

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yard. Uh. None, that'senough of that. Let's jump right into
the big story of the day.There's two big stories of the day.
One I will talk about one Iwill not. One is that the jury
now has the Trump case. Wewill find out soon enough what the verdict
is, at which point we willdiscuss it. But if you just heard
the end of Ross's show, youknow that people love to say, why

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aren't you talking about the Trump trial? You? What are you gonna say?
What are a rod? And I'regonna sit here and go do you
do? Uh? I think thejury's going to do this? No?
I think who cares. The jury'sgonna come back in a few days,
have some patience and won't move on. But related to Donald Trump, I
think the more interesting story of theday is that attorney Jenna Ellis, part
of the Trump dream team of attorneys, has now been had her license suspended

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for three years hearing Colorado because shepled guilty to a felony in Georgia.
And when you are an attorney,if you have fled guilty to f felony,
then you can be disbarred. Soto be clear, I do believe
that the Colorado bar really cut hera break on this by only suspending her
license for three years. That beingsaid the stuff she said in her letter

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to the court. I want toshare this with you because this is one
of the things I don't understand aboutthe slavish devotion to Donald Trump. And
this isn't This isn't a commentary onDonald Trump's policies, which I still believe
were way better for the country thanJoe Biden's policies, not even close.
Okay, so I'm just gonna concedethat point. But this is one of

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the things I don't understand. Everysingle attorney that was part of the so
called dream team that was going tounleash the Kraken whatever, they have now
lost pretty much everything because of theirassociation with Donald Trump. Now you can
talk about how that was the leftwing aggressively and viciously going after anyone associated

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with Trump, and you'd be right. But what I don't get is is
that he doesn't seem to have thesame loyalty going the other way. Rudy
Giuliani is a perfect example of this. Rudy Giuliani, his life is over.
He just turned eighty years old andat his birthday party in Palm Beach.

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They served him legal documents where he'sbeing sued in Arizona on his eightieth
birthday. He has no money topay the judgments that have already been rendered
against him, as he made upfabulous worries about Trump and Georgia and everything
else, fabulous stories which got twowomen. You know, they got death

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threats. They had to move.So you got Rudy Giuliani. Now you
have Jenna Ellison. I want tojust read what she said in her letter
to the court. In the beginningof my involvement, I genuinely believed that
the election challenges were made in goodfaith, basically a repeat of Bush versus
Gore situation, not an effort toundermine the public faith in the integrity of

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elections. But I admit that Iwas overly zealous in believing the facts,
and she put quotes around facts beingpedled to support the challenge, which were
manufactured and false. Had I donemy duty in investigating these alleged facts before
promoting them as the truth, Ido not believe I would be here.
I turned a blind eye to thepossibility that senior lawyers for the Trump campaign

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were embracing claims they knew or shouldhave known were false. I just went
along with it. I was wrong. I will hopefully encourage others who may
still believe that the election was stolento consider changing their position. Everything that
has come out since has not proventhat claim. So she's had her license

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suspended for three years, and Iknow I understand what it must be like
to be swept up into the innercircle of the president of the United States
of America. That's a pretty powerfulair in that space. No matter who's
president, right, it doesn't matterif it's a Democrat or a Republican or

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an independent. It does not matter. The office of president of the United
States is powerful. So I gethow she got swept up in this.
I do think that if she coulddo it all again, I don't think
she would. And now she's gonnahave to sit out three years. The
thing I wonder is, even ifshe petitions to get her law license back,

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what kind of law are you goingto practice at that point? What
kind of law are you going topractice where your past notoriety is not going
to be a significant drawback. Nowthat, in my mind, takes litigation
off the table completely. Like youcannot expect a jury to be completely free

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of bias aimed at the attorney forone party or the other. Right,
So it's just it's it's just sadthat that she threw away her life in
the service of lies. And thereason that I bring this up is not
too Trump bash, as this textersaid, but to point out that so

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many people have lost everything in theservice of Donald J. Trump, it
makes me wonder why anyone would wantto be in that inner circle at this
point. It's like talking about theVP race. Who who's in the VP
race? And I have to thinkto myself, I almost don't trust someone
who would take that position unless theydid not have higher aspirations for office.

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And here's why we see what happenedto Mike Pence, right, Mike Pence
doing what I think was the rightthing constitutionally destroyed his political career because he
ran up against the guy who washis boss, a guy who did not
necessarily support him at the end thereand has since said terrible things about him.

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But who wants to be his VP? If you're young, if you're
Tim Scott, do you really thinkthat you're going to be able to come
out of that four years unscathed politicallyenough to go on and run for president.
I don't know, it's weird,this person said, so she went
to re education camp to get herlicense back. You know, you can
believe whatever you want to believe.It is. It is amazing to me

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how many people, when faced withincontrovertible evidence or lack thereof, I simply
refuse to consider that they might bewrong. This is how I spend a
lot of my time considering to myself, what if I'm wrong? What if
I've had this totally totally wrong.But you know what, every single time
as of late and this, I'vehad two instances, both of which I'm

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not going to divulge on the airbecause they're private things. But I've had
two people in the last year anda half two years that I instinctively didn't
like, instinctively did not care for, even though everybody else was telling me
they were great people. So inboth of these instances, I have been

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proven right. These people are notgood people. And I'm thinking to myself,
I do trust my gut. I'mnot right all the time, but
when it comes to the people,I'm pretty good. I mean most of
the time. Ah some of thetime. It's fine, this person said,
Are you sure, it's not becauseof the one sided, crooked justice
system. Just because the current systemdoes not aggressively prosecute the other side the

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way they aggressively prosecute ours doesn't meanour side didn't do something wrong. And
yeah, I do think that thereare people on the left who have gotten
away with a lot of stuff thatpeople on the right, like Trump are
now being are now on trial forHillary Clinton lied when she paid for the

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Steele dossier campaign out of campaign funds. That was a falsehood. Did anything
happen to hurt No. But nowDonald Trump is being accused of the exact
same thing, and it is ina courtroom. Now. Is it okay
that Hillary Clinton walked away scott free. No, it's not. But that
doesn't mean that Donald Trump didn't dosomething unseemly. Now, in this case,
I don't think he did anything illegal, just unseemly. So there you

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go. I had a better lawyerfor the misdemeanor I was accused of.
What are they doing? Yeah,I don't know, I do not know.
I will only go to the blogif you change your photo to the
eighties hair. Oh no, Wow. Wow, I'm gonna have to mull

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that over. I might if Ireally think about that, because the eighties
hair, y'all, that's something thatis maybe I'll do that, like for
my birthday. I'll make it theeighties hare for just one day. See
see if you can pray jam adifferent kind of cut you could have mullet?
Did it over? I did,indeed rock the mullet that was ninth
grade. That was actually a reallygood haircut on me. I'm just saying.
Wasn't called a mullet back then.It was called I don't know,

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it was a cutting edge haircut whenI got it. Hey, Barbara,
give me that blank. You didn'thave any for it? No, I
didn't. And as a matter offact, I got my haircut in Fort
Lauderdale when visiting my aunt one summer. Came back to my hometown and nobody
could figure out how to cut it. They were like, I don't know
what to do with this, andnow they can. Back in the day,
did you have to like without youknow, phones, like show pictures

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like from magazine give me this cutyyou guys did it back in that is
how back in olden days? Yeah, in ancient times. Yes, we
bring in a magazine and then yourhairdresser would look at it, and because
I'm from the South, it wouldsound something like this, Honey, I'm
a hairstylist, not a magician.Your hay ain't gonna do that. Oh
they don't. They don't sugarcoat itin the South. They just they're straight
up. Wait'll tell you look atthe image on stones back then. You

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know, wasn't that we didn't haveto use an abacust to figure out how
much to pay. Wasn't quite thatold. So Fani Willis still has her
license, but uh, but takelost hers and you don't see that.
It's completely what I never said.It wasn't one sided. I never once
said it was not one sided.My point is, just because it's one

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sided doesn't mean our side didn't dosomething wrong. I mean, you have
to be able to see that it'snot like, oh, they're not going
to prosecute them, so that letsus off the hook. That's a great
like Kindergarten way of thinking about it. But it's not the world we live
in. What we need to dois elect people who will kind of clean
house at the Department of Justice atthe highest levels and start over with people

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who are hopefully better. But Ijust I don't have a lot of confidence.
I used to scoff at the notionof the deep state, but I
think we've all seen since the electionof Donald Trump, how the deep state
actually operates. We saw it inreal time. We now know after the
Moller investigation and fifty one former intelligenceofficials signing a completely ds letter, we

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know about all of it, allof it. And I don't know if
we can fix it that easily.I really don't. I don't know who
you're gonna hire that will work forthe government, you know, I don't
know. We're gonna take a timeout when we get back. We're gonna
have Fox thirty one's chief meteorologist,Dave Fraser. We're gonna talk about that
storm that hit Greeley yesterday. Youguys got pummelled, and we'll find out

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if you're gonna have any more today. That all coming up next from people
who were up north yesterday, DaveFraser and are like Dave, you had
ed morns. What happened. Let'stalk about that storm yesterday. What happened.
So it's typical, you know,typical late May going into early June,
you get these thunderstorms and they createoutflow boundaries where one thunderstorm will collapse

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and you get like a gush ofwind across the ground. And when those
boundaries collide, they have to gooff. They lift and you can generate
additional showers and thunderstorms, and sometimesthose that form on those outflow boundaries kind
of stall out, and so you'vegot rapid intensification, which leads to the
hail, and then you've got thestalling out factor where they kind of propagate.

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So in other words, you getone that builds and it drops,
and another one builds right behind it, and all of a sudden, you've
got this continuous downpour of rain,which if it sits in an area like
it did yesterday and you're Greeley,it can certainly cause low line flooding.
And so that's just that's the natureof the storms at this time of the
year. And we may have acouple more of those today. However they
look to be like they may movea little faster. So what will what

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specific condition happens to make that kindof come to a screeching halt. What
is going on in front of thatstorm as it's moving that just goes no,
no, we're out of steam.We're just going to sit here.
It just it's it builds its ownenvironment and it thrives in that environment.
It's okay, and it just andit's it's just like a it's like a
cycle. It's it's one's collapsing anotherone's coming up. And sometimes we get

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what we call a training effect wherethe storms propagate move along the same access
over the same area time and timeand time again. So when it comes
to outflow boundaries, the computer modelsdon't do a good job. There's such
short duration, finite little areas,so we just have to watch the radar
and look for the outflow boundaries andsee if they intersect. It's fun to

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watch them on on radar because sometimesyou can see the two boundaries going towards
each other and you wait for somethingto develop, and sometimes it does,
sometimes it doesn't. It's, uh, you know, we're baking a thou
fle here and and the ingredients arethere, but one wrong ingredient or of
mismeasurement, and you don't get something, or you do get something. And
well that's what happened in Greedy lastnight. Well when you when you look

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at that, I mean your teama meteorologists. You guys just sit there
and go, dang it, dangit didn't we didn't know. You know,
that's going to be frustrating. Whatdo you How do you so when
you see a storm coming on radar, there's no way to predict as you
just said, that that's going tohappen. Yeah, I mean each storm
has its own personality. Some ofthem are easy to track, some of

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them have more dynamic characteristics to them, so that you know, like if
it's a longer cold front, youknow it's going to push from one air
to another. But when you're dealingwith the convective nature, think about a
boiling pot of water, and youknow at some point it's going to the
lid's going to pop off, right, the bubbles, the bubbles are going
to start to go. Well,at this time of DEA, that's what

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we're dealing with. We're dealing witha steady pot of water, which is
the higher humidities and the heating ofthe day we'll get. We're in the
eighties today, and so you're boilingthis pot of water. The question is
where the first bubbles pop up?Gotcha. So that's the convection. That's
the convection. So the storm oneand then there's storm two, and maybe
storm two and three bumps into eachother, or maybe one of them collapses
and pops up another storm. Soit's that very kind of heating convective nature

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that we're dealing with. Sometimes youhave broad as storm systems like we get
in the winter, or it's widespreadand you can canvass a whole area,
But when you're dealing with these small, tiny convected storms, each one of
them has to be managed and watchedon its own. That's why we go
with chances. It's never I don'tlike chances, and I say there's a
thirty percent chance. It's not thatit's not that there's a thirty percent chance

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that you, Mandy will see rain. It's that within a given area,
we feel like the coverage of stormsequals thirty fer it's a whole mathematical equation
will equal thirty percent eighty percent.So when you're dealing with a large scale
storm system like in the winter,it's easy to say one hundred percent chance
of snow because we can see it. But when you're dealing with convection like

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this. The problem with saying athirty percent chance is if you're the person
walking out of the grocery store andit rains on you, your chance just
went to a hint. No,that makes perfect sense about where's the bubble
gonna pop? I mean, thatreally does make a lot of sense and
kind of helps me understand this muchmuch better. I have a question from
the technical too, and our terrainplays into that too, because obviously the

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foothills in the mountains teap faster thanthe green that we have down here,
and the rock in the mountains andeverything. So you've got this uneven platform
right, so it's like the podis tilted a little bit right, So
you've got to you've got to factorthat in and then everything drips from west
to east. Where's the higher moisture? Like right now, Denver's a little
bit dry. I think the betterchance for storms today is going to possibly

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be back to Greeley, past theairport and onto the plane. Doesn't mean
Denver won't see a couple of storms, but the moisture that we're dealing with
here is much less than it isout on the planes, which is typical
because we get a dry flow offthe mountains sometimes and that limits convection from
popping here along the front range.But you get on the planes and it's
a different story. This is actuallya question that goes along with what we're

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talking about from the tech line.A decade or so, your colleague Chris
Tomer mentioned that convection allowing computer modelsworked great in the planes but were nearly
worthless in complex mountainous terrain. Isthat still mostly true? Or have high
resolution models now advanced to be alot better at predicting mountains thunderstorms. They've

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gotten better, but they're still notgood. Yeah, still not great because
all it takes is one area thatyou did not anticipate to throw the whole,
the whole array of storm coverage off. So the high resolution models,
let me tell you something. Inthe last ten years, fifteen, twenty,
excuse me, twenty five years,computer modeling has gotten really, really

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good. The problem with high resolutionmodels is they're updating sometimes in fifteen minute
intervals. So if you looked atit now and you went back and looked
at it fifteen minutes later, itmay have two different scenarios because it picks
up on all the little nuances outthere and it tries to figure out,
okay, wait a minute, thisis happening. Now is this going to

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happen? So it's a whole mathematicalequation that has to happen, and so
sometimes the high resolution models are actuallymore confusing a forecast standpoint, you want
to look at the bigger picture andgo with the Hey, look, here's
how we play the forecast today,right and I think if you're listening to
me right now, this forecast shouldbe helpful. There's a thirty to forty

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percent chance that we will have thunderstormsfrom about three to eight o'clock moving from
west to east across metro and thenmaybe lasting on the far eastern plains till
ten o'clock tonight. So there's yourtimeframe, the chances there. Most places
may see a storm, a lotof us won't. And what you're going
to deal with is lightning is alwaysa threat when thunder roars head indoors kale

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like we saw yesterday, and thepotential for gusty wind, the rain threat
today is a little lower than whathappened yesterday. However, having said that,
we can always get a storm thatdid like it did in Greeley last
night, and so we just bevigilant. We watch the radar and try
and update as much as the pertinentinformation as we can as the scenario plays
out. Okay, I got abunch of questions and very little time left,

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so let's rip through these and I'mgiving you fifteen seconds to twenty seconds
to answer all of them. Okay, you ready, question for Dave.
My family and I just survived ourfirst tornado at Lake Mac last week.
It just barely went around our houseand devastated like thirty houses. We live
right on the lake, and I'mwondering what the effect of a large body
of water has on the strength oftornadoes. Depends on where form. Probably

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not a lot, but you doget you can get windflow because of the
difference in the temperatures, so thewater would be heating at a different ratio
than the land, and that differencein heating can cause spin up. That's
how dust doubles form the difference inheating. So sometimes you'll see videos on
the Internet where like a dust doublewill come up next to a pool and

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it's because the air is rising atdifferent temperatures because of the difference between what
the water is doing and the concretenext to the pool, and so that
difference causes the rise and you geta spin up. So it can have
an influence, but overall large tornado'sprobably not a huge pack sector. Somebody
wants to know air force graduation tomorrow. What's that weather looking likely? What
time's the graduation? I'm guessing duringthe day. I'm pretty sure it's during

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the day, like it in themorning. Yeah, at this time of
the year, anything before two o'clockyou're probably okay. Anything after two o'clock
you've got to watch for the darkerskies. And that goes for any plans
from now through probably the end ofJune early July. We're just in that
type of the season where just theheating of the day gets things going.
Some days it'll be dry, likewe're going to start a dry forecast on

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Saturday through early next week, lookingto take our first crack at ninety degrees
probably by Sunday, so we'll havedry days. But at this time of
the year, if you're planning somethingimportant outside, anything before two o'clock is
a better bet. All right,I have a really good question from a
listener, but I want you tothink about it and next week what we
Oh, no, we don't havethis for the next two weeks, Dave,
because I'm on vacation starting next Wednesday, so we want to do all

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the way back. One of mylisteners said, I really want to know
what Dave's favorite sayings are, becauseyou just used one when the you know,
when the thunder roarers go indoors.He wants to know your favorite little
weather quest catchphrases. So when Iget back, okay, we'll do those
with Dave Fraser from Fox thirty one. Dave, I appreciate your time.
Yeah, we're leaving next wednesday forNorway. Won't be back for a week

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and a half. Well, youhave a great trip. That sounds like
fun. I know they have.They run. Shoot me a text with
that question and I will off tothe side and have my stuff ready when
you get back. No problem,I'll talk to you soon, Dave.
All right, all right, thatis chief Meteorologist. Now I'm getting Chief
Meteorologist Dave Fraser from Box thirty one. We'll be right back. So the

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Jerusalem Post is reporting today that theIDF has now taken control of the entire
Philadelphia Corridor and the Philadelphia Corridor iswhat they call the land that makes up
the border with Egypt. If youwant some perspective about how small territory is
that we're talking about. The entireborder of Egypt with the Gaza Strip is

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eight point seven miles long. That'show small we're talking now. In addition
to completely taking control of that corridor, the IDF is located twenty tunnels near
Egypt and the Philadelphia Corridor, andthey have located eighty two tunnel shafts.
Not all of the tunnel shafts gounder the border with Egypt, but many

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of them do. So the idea, well, where's the rest of the
story, now, Hang on onesecond, let me see here, Uh,
the rest of the story that Iread this morning has gone Nonetheless,
let me just break this down ofhow important this is. Unless Israel controls
all of the choke points where Hamashas been able to smuggle in rockets and

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ammunition and whatever else they're getting fromacross the border in Egypt, Hamas would
just keep going, they would continueto fight, they would keep going.
But now that Israel is controlling thatentire border and is now controlling the tunnels
that Hamas has been using to bringstuff into the Gaza strip. This is
how they start to strangle Hamas completely. And this is what is going to

(30:17):
have to happen. Hamas is goingto have to be utterly and completely dismantled
within the Gaza Strip because if they'renot, we're just going to do this
again. It's going to be nextyear, the year after the year after
that. There's never going to beany semblance of peace. Now. If
they can completely dismantle Hamas and setup some kind of provisional government, I
don't even know who's gonna run thatthing. I mean, what happens next

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is the part that everybody's like,oh, that's gonna be a little tricky
to deal with. But that beingsaid, they have to dismantle Hamas if
there's any chance for a two statesolution. And I think at this point,
imagine, imagine if they can dismantleHamas and they feel like they have
brought Hamas to heal and destroyed whatwas left of that infrastructure, flood of

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the tunnels with concrete, made surethat no more goods or services can be
brought through there, and then theycome up with some kind of provisional government
using the PLO, which the PLOthe Palestinian Liberation Organization, or excuse me,
the Palestinian Authority, not the PLO. Palestinian Authority is who rules the
West Bank, and they're not verypopular in Gaza. But I do believe

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that they're not very popular in Gazabecause Hamas has had so much control over
the propaganda that the people in Gazahave been getting for so long that I
think that there's a schism there becauseHamas needed to make sure that those Palestinians
would ever vote to put the PalestinianAuthority in charge there. Now there's a
lot more of that history, alot more of that history that I'm not

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going to spend any time going intobecause frankly, I just don't care,
right I wish I did. Ijust want the Palestinian people to have their
space so they can do with itwhat they will. But I also want
Israel to have security. I wantboth of those things. I want the
hostages released. I actually think they'reeither. You know, the horrifying thought

(32:10):
I had the other day, Thisis so awful. I'm pretty sure that
the most of the men are dead, the male hostages, I just feel
like they're dead. And I wonderhow many of the female hostages are pregnant.
You know, I don't know ifyou saw the video a Rod you
were on vacation. There was avideo last week of when they were taking

(32:32):
these young women hostage, and oneof the Hummas terrorists said, these are
the ones that can get pregnant.I mean that sounds like a pretty pretty
direct comment to make. But Iwant those people released. And as long
as Hamas has the ability to bringin rockets and food and arms and whatever

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via those tunnels with Israel, thewar would never end. This is a
huge game changer, huge because nowIsrael controls all the choke points for Hamas
and they are gonna have a verydifficult time getting what they need to continue
launching attacks on Israel. And thisis incredibly good news. And I'm interested

(33:15):
to see when this hits our newsmedia. It had not when I saw
this story this morning. Let mesee if I can find it on this
break. But when we get back, we're going in a completely different direction.
I'm super excited. His name isTaylor Kalmus. You may know him
on the internet as do Dad.Very funny guy, very clean, very

(33:35):
entertaining and a proud and disruptive transplantto Colorado. We will talk to him
next. Mandy Connell, joined,of course by my right hand man,
Anthony Rodriguez. And now I'm joinedby a man who is famous on the
Internet and probably somewhat famous in reallife as well. You may know him
from his work as dude Dad onYouTube or other social media outlets, but

(33:57):
his real name is Taylor Kalmus.And now I feel like, now I
feel like I know something special,even though it's on the Internet, so
really a lot of people, butI feel special knowing that do Dad,
who is joining me now has areal name. Welcome to the show.
Should I call you Taylor or shouldI call you Dude Taylor? Fantastic?
Thank you. I want to ask, Taylor, you have created this wonderful

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channel that is family friendly. Ican play anything from your channel on my
radio show and not have to worryabout the FCC coming down on me.
And yet you are so wildly popular. Was all that by design? Did
you just decide I'm going to makeclean comedy and go from there? What
happened? Tell me the backstory?Yeah? Kind of. I mean I've

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been, you know, making videosand stuff. Most of my life.
I got my first camcorder when Iwas like, I think ten, But
really it all kind of took offand found a direction when my wife got
pregnant and I decided to make contentabout fatherhood. And I didn't really know
what that looked like, but Ijust kind of started making it, and

(35:05):
really the audience told me what directionto go based on how things were received
and stuff, and then I justkept doing more of that. But yeah,
we've always like my wife has alwaysbeen really good at like keeping me
on track and you know what,what's okay, what's not okay, when
to push the envelope when not to. But I mean, and sometimes we

(35:27):
get a little bit edgy, butfor the most part, like almost all
of our content, even if itis edgy, will be positive, right,
Like, we never go negative becausethere's enough of that stuff out there
already that we just want to bea happy place, happy little corner of
the internet. Well, we havea lot of people on my text line
that have similar things to this.Please tell dad dude that our favorite segment

(35:49):
of his is Tom Brady in Retirement. For months now, my wife says
Tom Brady whenever she wants me todo something in the same tone and voice
of his Giselle character in this set. So funny. And I bring that
up because what is it like tohave that kind of positive impact on people?
Now you've become a part of thatcouple's dialogue, you know what I
mean? That's kind of powerful.Yeah, I love it. But honestly,

(36:14):
like, in a way, they'repart of our dialogue because like when
we make content, we're just tryingto hold up a mirror and show you
yourself, you know. So alot of the times that means like using
our own lives as a vehicle tofind what that content is and be open
and vulnerable to share our experiences.Well, really what we're looking for is
like something that like we do inour relationship, or that I do as

(36:37):
a dad, or that our kidsdo, and that we recognize that other
people are probably going through as well, and just try to like, you
know, make content about that andkind of turn it around and make something
that's just really relatable for other people. And then you move to Colorado and
you started making content about being atransplant. It is so perfect because it's

(37:02):
absurd, but it's also incredibly accurateat the same time, I feel like
this is an incredibly target rich environment, oh one hundred percent. And like
the da vidion, we haven't madeyet because I'm too nervous to, but
I definitely know we need to.Is the Colorado Natives belife? Because are

(37:23):
you native? I gotta know?Are you a native? No? I'm
a transplant as well, which iswhy I currently Okay, in both podcasts
they are intense. Yeah, okay, yeah, Now, I mean they're
also intense when they go camping,but they're just all around in intense like
with their opinions and the only thingthat they agree on is that they're right.

(37:46):
Well, I will tell you myrecent Yeah, this is my natives
versus transplants experience from the past weekand a half two weeks. Right,
So, I've been on a littlebit of a tear about zipper merging,
okay, because zipper merging is anecessary thing and we all need to learn
how to do it. So I'vebeen on a tear about this for a
little while. And I should Ishould print out the emails and the text
messages that say I'm a Colorado Native. We don't do that here because that's

(38:09):
rude, and then right next toit, as a text message says,
I'm a Colorado native. We've alwaysdone it that way here, so there's
no like rome or reason to whatthe natives consistence. Yeah, yeah,
it's amazing. It's absolutely amazing.Now, when did you go from being
a guy on the internet to doinglive shows? When did that happen?

(38:30):
Last year? I've done. Idabbled in stand up comedy years ago,
but I never, like never,it didn't feel like the right time for
me or whatever. But then,you know, I've got a few friends
that kind of made that transition,and I was interested in doing it because
when you just make content and putit online every day, you kind of

(38:52):
miss some of that interaction with youraudience, right, that you get from
a live show and getting to traveland seeing, you know, how far
our content is reached and how it'simpacted people and get to like meet them
in person, and also like youknow, tell a joke and get the
instant reaction of that joke. Isthere's nothing there's no rush greater than that.

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But also it's a bucket list thing, right, you know, like
not anybody, especially nowadays the waythe Internet has grown with short form content,
literally everyone in their mom is makingcontent, right, So doing live
shows is just another way to likekind of stay ahead of the curve,

(39:34):
you know, and you've got tobuild an audience. There's so much you
can do. It's just so muchfun. But because of your success on
the Internet, I'm assuming that you'vegot that built an audience who already know
what to expect. To a certainextent, they know who you are.
You're not trying to like introduce yourselfwhen you go and do these shows.
Is there anything different in the liveshow in the tone or tenor than is

(39:55):
on your content on a daily basis? What can people expect? It is
an eighteen and plus show, soit's we take it a little bit further
than we do in the videos,but it's still it's just very much geared
towards marriage and relationships and fatherhood.But it is content. It's for the

(40:17):
parents, not for the kids.So that would be the one thing that
would tell people, just to makesure they know that. But other than
that, it's the same type ofhumor for sure. Well, you've got
three shows coming up here. You'vegot one in the Springs, You've got
one in Greeley, and then onein I have this in front of me
and then I closed the window likean in Denver. Yes, they're coming

(40:38):
up at the beginning of June.I put a link on my blog today
where people can actually buy tickets straightfrom there. And I know that the
one in Denver is almost sold out. So if you want to go see
them in Denver, you want togo pick up those tickets now. But
you know, I want to know, have you gotten any kind of pushback
from And I'm gonna put air quotesaround this, real comedians, the guys

(40:59):
and gals who have been working sloggingit out at the comedy store, you
know what I mean, Like thepeople that have been coming up a more
traditional way and here you come inand you're selling out shows all over the
place because you're the guy from theInternet. Have you gotten any pushback from
from those folks? No? Notreally. I mean most people understand,
Like I mean, there's there's probablylike some people that are uh that have

(41:22):
feelings about it, but the realityis and like like the guy that opens
for me, his name's David Rodriguez, brilliant comedian. He's you know,
took that traditional path and now heowns the comedy for here in Fort Collins
has become a really good friend,and you know, because I've had that
conversation with him and he's like,dude, He's like, you put the
work in. Your work was justdifferent than ours, you know, but

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like at the end of the day, you did. You've been doing the
work for years and years, andyou can sell the tickets now, you
know. You didn't fast track anything. I've been You've been doing this for
eight years. You know. Isjust a different path than what other people
have taken. But yes, Idon't know, but I do. You
know, it is kind of feellike I'm operating outside of the normal comedian

(42:07):
scene in a way that we haveour own little, you know, bubble
that we've created and can bring peoplein to do these shows. And we've
had, i mean just a lotof fun with it, and crowds have
loved it, and yeah, sowe're happy to be able to do it.
I love that the Internet has sortof democratized entertainment, Like you don't
have to have an agent, youdon't have to be hired from somebody else.

(42:30):
You can just do what you didand start putting out great content.
I know, I say that flippantly, like just put out great content.
It will be fan. It's alot harder than it looks. I don't
want to devalue your skill and yourcreativity when I say it that way.
But the access is fantastic. Imean, you've built a thing here,
You've built a huge following and ahuge success, and I'm assuming this is

(42:50):
how you make your living fully now, because I know it was a side
hustle when you started, exactly.Yeah, I mean it's really cool to
have direct access to an audience andbe able to build an audience on your
own based off of who you areand what you're about, what you want
to do. And you know,you don't have to go through that traditional
Hollywood system where you have to getcast in something and then presented a certain

(43:15):
way, or you've got agents tryingto you know, gear you towards this
or whatever. You can just doyour own thing. But yeah, it's
been a it's been a wild ridefor sure, and yeah, wouldn't wouldn't
trade it for the world. Well, a couple of pop and well now
you've got the natives restless on mytext line. Okay, I just want
you to know this. They're like, hey, we don't know. I

(43:37):
started saying that I'm like, oh, and I'm gonna get myself in trouble.
I just want to say I'm superhappy and grateful to be here and
thank you for having me. Well, this one says us Natives can take
a joke, tell him to createhim so he's ready. But then this
native said, hey, Mandy,okay, good good. The only thing
all natives can agree upon is thereare too many transplants. So there you

(43:58):
go. That's that's that. Yeah, but there you go. Somebody else
asked this question. I said,Hey, do dad is great? We
saw him with Charlie Barns a coupleof years ago. Can you ask him
how he met Charlie. I'm aMidwestern transplant and Charlie hits all the right
stuff about Wisconsin. If there isa little bit of a crossover in the
family cleaner friendly YouTube world with aholder his family and Charlie and how did

(44:22):
all that? Do you guys havesecret meetings that we should know about?
Kind of? I mean really,it's just like a support system, like
we all kind of started coming upat the same time and kind of entering
into this viral video like I don'tknow world at the same time and took

(44:43):
notice of each other, just reachedout. At the time, Charlie and
I were both in Los Angeles,so we met up and shot a couple
of collabs and then saying with Penn, you know, and and it's been
a really cool thing though, becauseall of us us went from being like
broke, struggling artists just trying tofigure out what our thing in life was.

(45:08):
Literally, I was like eight yearsinto Los Angeles and pursuing acting and
being like, oh crap, it'sbeen eight years and I haven't exactly broke
through yet. What if I haveto move home? Yeah, Like,
what do I do? I guessI'm the work construction. I don't know.
That was my fallback plan. Andthen you know, and then started

(45:30):
the page and it started to takeoff, and all of a sudden,
you go from not knowing what you'regonna do to being like, oh,
this is what it rested my life. Like not only is this the rest
of my life, this is adream come true. And now I get
to, you know, bring mywife into it and my best friends and
we can all do it together.So Charlie and Penn and a few others

(45:53):
that I've met along the way allkind of have similar stories and to be
able to like connect with them aboutstuff like, Hey, how how do
you hire people like you? Whatdo you do? Like? How do
you manage this? You know?What do you do when someone comes up
to you at the trampoline part andwants to talk But your kids ran in

(46:16):
separate directions and you can't find them, and you don't want to be rude,
right, but you also need tofind your tiny children that might be
drowning in a ballpit. Well,I've got the following text messages very very
quickly. Taylor's target dads in parkinglots is awesome. Tell him thank you.

(46:37):
This one I like how he makesfun of what his people have done
to Colorado. And this one pleaseask Taylor if he will do backyard playground
designs for families again. So,you obviously have touched a lot of people
in this audience and in Colorado.Does your stuff work as well outside of
the state? And how does thatplay out when you're talking Tom? Obviously

(46:58):
we don't. Nobody else might getwhy chaffstick bit is so funny, but
we lived. That's our lived experiencefor sure. I mean, you know,
like the chaffstick bit is really justan arid climate bit, so that'll
transcend past Colorado. But most ofwhat our content is is more family oriented,
and there's just a small percentage that'sColorado oriented. The background playhouse builds

(47:22):
that the one listener talked about,that's about our TV show. We had
a TV show on the Magnolian Networkcalled super Dad where I'd help other dads
build cool backyard projects for our kids. We ran two seasons of that and
extremely proud of that TV show andwhat it is, but also reality and

(47:43):
television is a lot of no jokein that. Yeah, So I don't
know if it'll ever come back.I love it. If it did,
we just have to find the rightscenario where it worked well. You can
see Taylor and Experiences Comedy live onJune seventh in Denver, June eighth in
the in the Springs, not justColorado. Just I actually put the video

(48:06):
today on my blog of Colorado TransplantSchool, and it is so it's like
it's like, I don't want tosay it's like the Mona Lisa, but
it's so perfect in its way thatit might be the Mona Lisa. A
transplants how do you say the nameof our state? Well, now I
say at Colorado. But when Ifirst got here, I said Colorado.

(48:28):
But then when I run the radiofifteen hours a week, well at the
time it was twenty hours a week. You get corrected enough like snotty horrible
emails about how horrible your pronunciation is. It's not just hey, you're saying
it wrong. But I just movedfrom Louisville, Kentucky, where no matter
how you say Louisville, someone's gonnatell you say it wrong. Right,
it's Louisville louis I mean, theynever say Louisville. But so I'm used

(48:52):
to being corrected. I just rolledwith it. So then, how do
you say the full name of thesprings Colorado Springs exactly? Yeah, you
Golrado. Who we say Colorado Springs, but then we say Colorado. Yeah,
when you're just talking about the state. Yep, don't expert logic.

(49:13):
I don't think I've ever heard anyoneever say Colorado Springs. No. No,
well no, there's there's like fourguys who are eighth generation Colorado's who
are yelling at the radio right nowbecause they live in Colorado Springs. I
would say that's just the way itis. I mean, yeah, but
there's just more and more than they'reyelling at the radio saying no it's rot
and the whole few. I mean, it's a very funny video. I

(49:36):
want my listeners to go watch itbecause I want the web traffic. I'm
not gonna lie. But you canalso go and see him live. You
know, when you told your wife, because you were married and had a
child when you started this thing.So when you told your wife, hey,
wife, I'm gonna quit whatever normaljob I have and just pursue this
full time while we have a smallchild, what did that conversation go?

(49:57):
How did that go exactly? I'mjust curious about that. Well, first
off, I didn't just up andquit my job. I kept my job.
I kept my series of jobs Ialways had, like in order to
like be creative and like in orderto pursue my creative endeavors, I always
had just a lot of side jobs, right side hustles that I used to
make money. But uh so Iwas just doing on this on the side

(50:22):
for the first several years, andit was about but one year into it
actually is when this sort of conversationhappened, and it was you know,
we had a we had a oneyear old. We had just moved because
I lost my job as an apartmentmanager because the manager that owned the building

(50:43):
he passed away and his wife soldit and the new company came in.
They had their all their own people, and they just pushed us out there,
like you don't have a job anymore, you need to move. So
like I started working sec construction tomake money. Anyway, long story short,
it was like I was overwhelmed.I had too much going on.
I wouldn't handle it all. AndI finally broke down to my wife and
said, I have to quit.I have to quit something. I have

(51:04):
to cut something out of my schedule. I've got too much going on.
And before I could even say it, she looked at me and she said,
you can't quit. Do dead.Your wife is a genius she I
mean, she is, but likeI think it's the the nuts and bolts
of it. She just knew howmuch it fulfilled me, and knew the

(51:30):
impact he was having on other people. And money doesn't really matter to her,
you know, never really has.So she was just like, yeah,
go for it. This is whywouldn't you you know, and and
and the other thing I got tomention too about my wife is she is
going to be at all the standardshows and she's a part of it in

(51:52):
some way that I can't tell you. But everyone loves her more than they
love me. I don't want tomake sure that I tell people that,
because it's always the comment is like, is HI going to be there?
Yeah? Yeah, yeah. Onemore comment here, Taylor before I let
you go. This one just says, well, wait a minute, my
text just updated here. Mandy Tayloris an awesome guest. Yes, I

(52:14):
said, too many transplants, butthere are a few gems like you and
do Dad. So I think we'vebeen given some kind of native dispensation,
a dispensation there where we're somehow.You know, we're in, Taylor,
We're in. That's what's happening.Just let's not give native in the mouth.
We'll just move. Your listeners areawesome. They are awesome. If

(52:34):
you're when you're down in Denver,come stop my although not next week because
I'm gonna be in Norway, sodon't stop by next week. But I'd
love to have you. I'd loveto have you on anytime, Taylor.
I love what you're doing with doDad. It just it brings a spot
of joy in a world where thereis so little. So thank you for
doing what you're doing, and keepdoing it. Thank you very much.
All Right. That is Taylor Calmus. You know him as dud Dad Taylor.

(52:59):
Well, hopefully we will talk againsoon. I appreciate it. Andy.
All right, thank you, andyou can go by the tickets to
see his show at the blog.He has some really funny merch Have you
seen his merch ay Rod. Ohand by the way, merch is short
for merchandise. Hebcats know what that'sall about. Oh yeah, yeah,

(53:20):
some of it's really funny. Goask your dad. Mm hm, I
might get one of those big Dadenergy. I love that one. That's
a good one. That's a reallygood one. Okay, when we get
back. I don't normally schedule interviewsback to back, but I didn't think
I was going to talk to Taylorthat long, and I did because he's
such a great guest and I'm sucha huge fan. When we get back
in just a few minutes. HollyKinney another person, I am a huge

(53:43):
fan of the owner of the Fortand the driving force behind the Tisro Cultural
Center where a big Ol'd Indian powWow is happening this weekend is coming up
next Now, I do want tomake sure that you guys know that if
you or anyone else you like,if you know someone who loves do Dad
ay Rod will have that podcast upright after the show, so you can
always send them to Amandy's blog dotcom and they can listen to that interview.

(54:04):
I always forget to remind you guysthat these interviews go up right away,
so if somebody missed them, like, I'm going to send this and
have the que listen to it becauseshe likes them and she doesn't listen to
the show. So anyway, we'llbe right back with Holly Kennedy to talk
about the Indian Powwow coming up thisweekend at the Fort. First of all,
let me just have this little moment. This is an unpaid endorsement for
the Fort. The Fort is wherewe always take people from out of town

(54:29):
because it is Colorado centric food thatis just outstanding. It is an incredible
atmosphere, the service is always perfect, and the proprietress behind the Fort is
not just the proprietress of the Fort, but also the driving force behind the
Tasro Cultural Center, which is dedicatedto amplifying Native American culture. I think

(54:50):
that's the best way to put it, Holly. Yeah, Well, we're
a replica of Ben's Sport, andthey had many cultures that traded at Ben's
Sport, and so there was aSpanish culture, a lot of Indian tribes,
the Southern Cheyenne, the Rappaho,the Ricara, the Pawnee, the
Kiowa, and so we celebrate allthose cultures and black culture. There are

(55:10):
a lot of black traders and trappersand so anyway, that's what the Tasorrow
Cultural Center is. It's a nonprofitfive O and C three and we call
it the heart and soul of theFort because it's if I remember this correctly,
your father started the fort to supportessentially the entire cultural aspect of what's

(55:31):
going on. Yes, originally itwas to be a living history museum,
but then to create the adobe bricksand the construction costs got so high that
they decided to turn it into arestaurant and serving foods of what they ate
at Ben's Fort. Well, theyate buffalo el quel American Indian foods,
So that became the basis of ourcuisine, and it's all of those but

(55:54):
elevated, you know. And thefood I like right now, I thought
about the buffalo bone marrow and nowmy mouth is watering because it's so good.
It's so so good. But we'renot talking about food because I'm gonna
get hungry. Let's talk about thetwenty third Annual Indian Market and Intertribal Powwow
that is happening this weekend at theFort. Tell people what this is.

(56:15):
Well, it's a gathering of sixtydifferent Indian nations and it's like a total
immersion of Indian culture. You're atall interested in Indian jewelry with turquoise and
silver, or sculpture or painting,or dance and song, and the fascination
and the tribal cost it tribal whilethey're actually called regalia because okay, I

(56:39):
feel that's what they would normally reallywear in our normal street clothes. Is
really the costume, right, Ohwow, So they're called regalia, but
the tribes come out in their fullregalia and they honor these songs from and
we honor a veteran who's fought forfreedom. Every year, an American Indian

(56:59):
veteran. And we have a womanMarine who we're honoring, and her name
is Adriana Almobadar. She's a memberof the Oglala, Lakota and Santee tribe
and she's actually a staff sergeant sergeantin the Marine Forces in Germany and she's
now working in the Thornton Police Department. Oh excellent, and we're very happy

(57:21):
to honor a woman Marine as ourhonoree. And so the public will get
to see this full honoring ceremony witha color guard, the American Indian Color
Guard that are from Southern Cheyenne IndianNation in Oklahoma. And we've got drummer
groups, the hosts drums coming fromthe Dakotas. We think we'll get close

(57:45):
to two hundred dancers and sixty differenttribes. This is the coolest event.
And we've taken a queue and ifyou want it all, if you have
children who would like to learn moreabout Indian culture, or maybe they don't,
maybe you want them to know moreabout Indian culture, this is a
wonderful way to do it. Andyou can sit and talk with the artists

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that are there. I bought thisincredible painting that is on a ledger,
and I learned from this Cheyenne youngwoman, she was eighteen that back when
paper, right after the Civil War, Indian nations started getting access to paper
for the first time, and theywere in the form of old bank ledgers

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or maybe they had looted something andthey finally had paper. So they started
doing art on the back of theseledgers, like a bank ledgure Mine.
The ledger date is nineteen seventeen,but obviously the art on the other side
is brand new. But it wasso fascinating just to have that conversation,
and you don't think about things likewhen did they get access to paper?
That's never a thing that crossed mymind, right, But that's the thing

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I know now because of going tothe Indian market and intertribal powwow. When
you call it a powwow, whatdoes that actually mean? In Indian culture,
powwow was really started at the turnof the century, and it was
a way it started it away,like a big picnic and inviting the different
tribes together to suddenly they were ableto start dancing their dances because it was

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forbidden when they were in the nineteenthcentury. The army wouldn't let them d
dance and sing in their own languages. And so it became kind of when
it opened up and they were allowedto dance, they started the different competitions
in dancing and the different tribes comingtogether. So it really was like a

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gathering of celebration of their cultures,of the different cultures. How large is
this powow compared to other powows acrossthe country, because I knew there's a
big one in northern Colorado at somepoint coming up, usually right after shortly
after this one. How many tribescome to this one versus others. They're
expecting we'll get maybe sixty tribes.Okay, they are coming. They are

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coming from the Dakotas. And alsothey have the host drum is like a
celebrity drummer group and have won EmmyAwards, the Gemmy Awards, and so
they've been chosen by our organizers whoare Southern Cheyenne, George Curtis Levi and
Francis Sherwood who is of the DenverIndian community and he's a Ricora and aman

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dan a dots in Avajo. Theyare coordinating our powow and they selected this
host drum from the Dakotas because oftheir they're famous. They're like celebrities,
and all the dancers will want tocome and dancing competition. Yeah, they're
singing and they're drumming, and thenthey're visiting drums that come from all those

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different areas across the country. Alot from New Mexico, many from the
Dakotas, some from Texas. Buteveryone's welcome. But it's like a picnic.
You don't quite know who's going tobe there till they show up.
So the regalia that you were talkingabout, and they're very elaborate, I
mean some of these things, especiallylike the the dance with the bells where

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they has all the little bells onthe little jangling thing dances. Is there
a central location, like do theyhave a website that they order this stuff
off of where they all handmade?They're handmade, But ores Ors Trading Post
has was on Broadway there you canbuy a lot of the items that you

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can then make them for your regalia. So and there are online sites that
various Native people can go online andbut they're all handmade and some are very
sophisticated. Some take three four yearsto do the beadwork for their pow wow
dresses. But you also see teenagersincorporating Superman or other kind of fun cartoon

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characters into their regalia. And soit's very contemporary. It's it's cool,
and it's who they are, whothey admire. So you can go this
weekend Saturday and Sunday. Correct,yes, yes, Saturday and Sunday.
It is fifteen bucks to get in. What does that money go to.

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It goes directly to pay for thedancers, contest money, as well as
the costs of the putting on thewhole event, from all the tents that
we have to rent, the portapotties, we rent security. This is
not a profit making activity, No, this is a This is a labor
of love. I know that.So that's why the tickets are so reasonable.

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It's free parking, yes, andit's very organized parking. So it's
very organized parking. It's ten dollarsfor kids six and under. And this
is a wonderful, wonderful thing totake kids to. I cannot stress that
enough. They've got a great wayfor you to buy some food, some
fork food that is absolutely delicious.You can see all the concessions, you
can see the dance, a oflive hawks and eagles. Oh, yes,

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Nature's Group. They bring live hawksand eagles and reptiles and so kids
can learn about how important reptiles andhawks and eagles are to native culture.
It's just a great event. AndHolly Kenney, it's a joy seeing you
as always. And if you've nevereaten at the Fort, if you're a
transplant, put it on your listto do it, because it is a

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wonderful dining experience. Every time Igo, it is an outstanding dining experience,
and I just think to myself,I wish I live closer. But
that's Oh, we have some ticketproblem that I have, Holly, is
I don't have any way to fulfillthis. Is there any way we could
do a list? Do you havea list? Yeah? Yeah, can
we if you get the names andwe'll put it all at the front door.

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Why don't we do this right now? A Rod. The first four
people to call right now people actuallyget a ticket. Well, we'll do
four people packs of two. Okay, yeah, So the first four people
that text A Rod just switched itup, text five six, six,
nine, oh, saying I wantto go. We will then immediately call
you back and get you on thelist, so you can go with a

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friend to this event this weekend.Holly, thank you so much for coming
in today. Thank you, Mandy. All right, we'll be right back.
The Fort is actually in Morrison,Colorado, and if you google a
Fort Morrison, you're gonna find it. And at this event, there's so
many of you said I want togo. The good news is these tickets
are super cheap, so even ifyou don't win them, and we do

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have our winners, you can stillgo. It's fifteen bucks for an adult,
ten bucks for kids under six.It's just outstanding. By the way,
it's just such a great event.Now, the Denver Gazette has been
doing a very interesting series on thechallenges faced by Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and
the challenges faced by the City ofDenver, and they have today's installment.

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Well, I should check to makesure it was today's. Yes, it's
nopeuse yesterday's installment about what seems tobe a little of conflict or I don't
want to say conflict, I'm gonnasay lack of clarity between Denver Mayor Mike

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Johnston and Denver Police Chief. AndI want to hang on one second,
I'm loading this up here. Ihad to put in a password there.
Sorry about that. It is alittle bit of a disconnect, and let
me share why so. Denver PoliceChief Ron Thomas is obviously in charge of

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getting officers where they need to go. Well, Mike Johnston made an announcement
had a press conference where they weretalking about how they have come up with
a new campaign that is very similar. And I'm not knocking the campaign.
I'm just saying this is very similarto the campaign that was started by Mayor
Michael Hancock, who said, look, we're going to focus our attention on

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the hot spots where more crime isactually happening. Now, Mayor Mike Johnson
has come up with five hot spotsthat are going to be a priority to
improve public safety. He wants toreduce gun violence by twenty percent by the
end of the year. Now,on the one hand, I really appreciate
what the mayor is doing here byputting measurable goals. But what I've seen

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is sometimes the measurable goal doesn't actuallyaccomplish what you want it to accomplish.
When you look at the measurable goalof getting a thousand homeless people into housing
by the end of the year.That's an admirable goal. But what have
we actually done there. We haven'tsolved the long term homeless situation. We
just moved a bunch of people intohomeless hotels where they say they're still not

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getting services, they're not getting treatment. Crime is up around those areas.
We haven't really changed their lot inlife. He's now pivoting on that.
We'll talk about that at a differenttime. But there's parts of this article
in the Denver Gazette that I founda little confusing, and it goes like
this, So Mayor Mike Johnston says, look, we're going to put more

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cops in these areas. We aregoing to take care of this. We're
going to put more more police officersin those areas. And Mayor Mike Johnston
said, and I'm getting down tohis quote very very quickly, the mayor
said, part of the challenge isthe need for law enforcement. Oftentimes,
there are other structural challenges in thatneighborhood that we haven't addressed that are making

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it easier for people to commit crimes. Some of the increase in certain areas
is due to the transient nature ofpeople that live in these areas, and
he also added that some of itis due to drug issues that have migrated
to the areas. Now, hesays Mayor Mike Johnston that this is going
to be a joint plan and orhe said, but it's going to be

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cops on the ground in the community. Mayor Mike Johnston said, we'll focus
on this ability to surge resources inthose places that are most at risk.
The second step would involve increase policepatrols and response times to calls in high
crime areas. The third step isincreasing relationships between police and community members in
each neighborhood. And the fourth stepis putting more officers on Denver streets broadly

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speaking and not just at specific locations. Except Chief Thomas says, yeah,
we're not making more arrests. We'rejust going to have more police in the
neighborhood. But we're not going tomake more arrests because if you go and
arrest in a bunch of people,that actually hurts the relationship between the cops
and the community. And I thinkobviously that would be a problem if they

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just rolled up and started arresting people. But what are we sending cops in
there to do? The first thingI thought of is that when you're in
a concealed carry class, they tellyou never to brandish your weapon unless you're
going to use it. So neverwhip your gun out wave it around,
because inevitably that's not going to gowell. But this feels a little like

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we are putting some cops in there, waving them around and hoping for the
best. Here's my follow upon that. I would like to know the answer
to what are the rules of engagementfor these police officers? What is their
task? Are they just supposed toride around talking to people in the neighborhood
and turn a blind eye to crimesthat may happen in front of them,
like drug dealing and things of thatnature. Because I'm not down with that.

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You really should read the whole article. I linked to it on the
blog today. It is there.When we get back, I've got the
two minute drill. I've got aton of stuff on the blog today that
I have not gotten to, includinga question that I find fascinating, what
do you want to live forever?I'm going to ask Ayrid when we get
back after we do the two minutedrill, because I think his answer might

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be different than mine. Maybe weshall see. We'll do that next.
From the Common Spirit Health text line, Mandy, don't they let you know
when an emergency notice interrupts you?The answer is no, they do not
because they do not originate in thisbuilding. They are sent down by the
ea A system. We get nowarning that they are coming. Now if

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it's a test, and a testof the emergency broadcast is so that's one
thing we know when those are comingwith just a straight up tornado, watch
your warning. No, we don't, we don't need. We kind of
do, but the timing is off. It's hard for us to understand when
it's going to take over. LikeI generally get ideas, get overall alerts
when it's coming in here. Whenyou get the alerts, me, I

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know, I got it. Ididn't want to interrupt you, okay,
But again, the timing, itwould be pointed for me to tell you
because when it exactly clicks and takesus over is in sync with the warning
I get. So we should keepon going. And that was important.
I mean, there's a tornado onthe ground and lead and so people need
to know that and take cover andall of that stuff. And also if
I were to tell you. Wealso would know when we'd be back on

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right there, so it would bekind of like a do we go back
in my vamping? Yeah, Igot it, That's why I got it.
Yeah, and thank you to thetext who said protect yourself from flying
debris. I will do just thatin my room full of windows sit in
every day. The question was this, would you want to live forever?
A Rod said yes because he's ayoung man. But this text or a

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Rod is kind of kind of howI'm feeling about it, Mandy. When
I was younger, I wanted tobe immortal. Now at sixty, I've
lost too many people in my bodyhurts too much. So no, I
mean this is coming from someone againone of my I know, my number
one biggest fear is loss. Ohyeah, that makes sense. Consider it
just because I want to see allthe cool stuff that comes to fruition.

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You know what's interesting about loss.I was actually thinking about this the other
day because I have lost some wonderfulpeople in my life, you know,
some to suicide, some to massiveheart attacks that we didn't see coming,
some to cancer that slowly killed them. And the thing about loss is you

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never really forget about that person.And they pop up in the weirdest ways,
the weirdest little things. They maketheir presence, you know. And
so it's kind of a cliche thatno one really dies if they live on
in your heart, right. Imean, it's it sounds like a platitude,
but it's true. The other day, I was thinking about one of

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my favorite restaurant tours in Louisville,and his name is Dean Corbett. It
was Dean Corbett. He has sincepassed away, but just what a phenomenal
guy he was and how happy Iwas that I got to know him.
And I think that's what you haveto do. You just think to yourself,
you can't focus on the fact thatyou don't have them in your life
anymore. You have to focus onthe fact that you got to have them
at all. Well. Absolutely,And one of my jobs here at KOA

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is I do a lot of socialmedia coverage when we do our Broncos stuff,
And you know, I just hadmy big one, my biggest,
well really my first big loss inmy grandpa. And he's one of the
biggest reasons behind my Broncos fandoms.You think the upcoming season, all the
Broncos covers I'm gonna do. I'mnot gonna be thinking of them every step
of the way I'm gonna so youhave to envelop them, keep them a
part of that, you know,those moments that that you're happy about and

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remember remembering them. Yeah. SoI don't know. Like I said,
I have a very stra and mytheological belief system is non traditional. Okay,
that's the best way I can putit at this point. I grew
up Catholic. I very much believein God. I believe in Jesus.
I believe in it. But thenotion that somehow we're going to die and

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we're either going to go up toHeaven, we're Saint Peter's standing at the
gates to let us in or kickus out, I don't necessarily feel like
that's the way it goes. Ijust that's not my belief structure. So
I think all of these people thatyou've come in contact with, and all
of the people that you have apositive feeling about, you get to see
him again in whatever form, andI'd like to think that you're going to

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know that they were important to you. Don't you have anyone in your life?
Do you have anyone in your life? That you just feel like,
you know what, this person andI have a very special relationship that we
had to have had some kind ofconnection previously. I have a friend named
Greg, and I've known him sinceI dated one of his really good friends
in college. Okay, Greg andI have stayed friends for the last thirty

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years. There's nothing romantic at allgoing on in any way, shape or
form between me and Greg, butI love him. I love him like
a brother. I love him,and I just think to myself, I
bet he was a brother in someother situation. Because you meet those people
and you immediately have that connection withthem and you can't explain it. Some

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people you just click with right away, and it could be in a romantic
sense, it could be in aplatonic sense, it could be in a
working relationship, but you just knowyou meet that person, you're like this,
this person is a person I wantto have in my life because they
feel like they've always been there.It makes me wonder if it's been possible
the whole reset in like what Imentioned earlier to you about whether you'd want

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to do reincarnation if in previous livesyou guys had that you know, connection
in some capacity, but if wealready had it, I don't know.
It's very well like like it getsreset. But some things that are so
strong like that continue in another life. The life you're in now, I
don't know, deja vu? Youknow, this life, but the last

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one. A lot of people weighingin, Mandy, no way. I'm
sixty two, lost my daughter sixyears ago and it sucked the life out
of me. And that is whychildren are not supposed to die before their
parents. I'm so sorry that happenedto you. I'm so so sorry.
It's never easy, but somehow that'sjust not the way it's supposed to be.

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We will be right back when weget back. I've got some marriage
advice that I thought was actually reallygood, and then a question for people
that are in a relationship, shouldyour spouse control what is on your phone?
Two Hollywood celebrities are talking about thefact that they do this, and
I got to tell you, Ithought it was nuts when I started reading.

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Now I'm like, oh, nota bad idea. We'll talk about
that next. What we're talking aboutthis story is I think extremely interesting,
and it involves two celebrities. Oneof the celebrities, I know really well.
The other one, I'm confused abouther being a celebrity. Do me
a favor. Google Lily Allen.So Lily Allan. She's a singer.

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I guess she's a British singer.That's why she's famous. Does she have
any songs we know? Eh?I mean, look, I don't think
so. I mean, I'm justcurious because it's amazing to me how many
British singers are super famous in Britainand they're not famous at all here will
Lily Allen would be one of thosefor me, maybe I'm missing something.

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She's married to David Harbor, whoI really like. Stranger yeah, although
doesn't he Isn't he one of thoseguys Like couldn't you see meeting David Harbor
at a party and just get aweird vibe. He's got a weird look
about him in an intensity that kindof freaks me out. Yeah, that
would beat you up, but alsoyeah, yeah, verbally beat you up,

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physically beat you up, but alsohave cocktails. If I had to
guess, like a celebrity that Ithink has multi personality, it is or
I'd be m yeah, crazy drunkjerk, really really nice, soft guy.
But maybe he's just acting and he'sjust that good. I mean,
he's really acting. He is areally good I don't think I've ever seen
an interview with him, so Idon't have a vibe off who he is

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as a person. The interviews I'veseen, he's very very nice. Okay,
very very nice, very down toearth. Doesn't seem like hey,
big times anyone. Okay. Butthen that's good to know, because this
admission by Lily Allen and David Harberhas created a kerfuffle. Here's what it
is. Lily Allen says, Inow have a kid's phone called Pinwheel.
It has no browsing capability and nosocial media, but you can still have

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Uber and Spotify. My husband isthe caregiver on it, so he controls
what I'm allowed to have as anapp on my phone. Now, lest
you think this controlling husband of hers, she is the caregiver of his phone.
Now, before you say trust ishyis trustshy is? It's gonna be
a big failure, listen to thereason behind. Lily Allen balked at the

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idea of social media taking up hertime in lieu of creative expression. She
says that the creative side of herbrain has been ruined by smartphones. She
said, I feel like everyone feelsthe same. I don't know anyone who
could possibly say that the quality oftheir life is improved by the presence of
a smartphone. And there are certainthings about smartphones I love. I love

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being able to say, high qualityphotos whenever, wherever I am, I
don't have to worry about having acamera. I love that aspect of it.
But I realize this today that Ithink I have a problem because I
never stop working on my phone.I'm constantly looking at the news like non
stop. So I'm looking forward togoing on vacation and not doing that,

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and maybe when I get back,I'm gonna try and put some hard limits
on myself. Does anybody have agood app, like a hard limit app
that just reminds you, Hey,you've on your phone for an hour or
whatever. That just that's what Ineed. I don't know if Google has
that on their phones. I havea Google Pixel, so I have an
Android platform. And I don't wantto nag. I don't want to like
set up tie. I just wantsomebody to go, hey, you've been

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online for an hour. Check itout, because I do I zone out?
I think we all do. Buton the flip side of that,
you guys have so much news informationin my head because of that stuff that
may not come up on the showtoday, but will come up on the
show in three or four weeks ora month or whatever, two months.
I don't know. Does anybody elsein the listening audience feel like your phones

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have taken over your life? Imean it just I don't know. Well,
here's the thought for you. Onthe cruise, we did not do
any of the package with social mediaanything with the phone. Yeah, it
actually took. And this is alittle bit of a bad thing because it's
part of my job to do allthis a lot of social media stuff.
So this was actually kind of frustrating. I had to like focus back in

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to get myself retrained on staying intune with the news for topics for you,
for different stuff going on social medialike that. Disconnection was like bad
for my line of work, butit felt really good. Well, I
firmly believe that in any line ofwork. It's not just this one.
Everybody needs that complete mental break fromlife. I can read the last time

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I've had it, Well, Ijust had a conversation with a friend of
mine who said, you know what, I've just given up watching the news
and I'm so much happier. AndI was like, oh, that sounds
amazing. Sounds amazing, but obviouslyit's not an option for me, and
I'm fine with that. This isthis is the job that I've chosen and
I love. So I don't wantto make it seem like I'm whining.
I kind of am. I'm justcurious. I do think that smartphone stifle

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creativity. And I see this withmy own kid. When we make her
put down her smartphone, she'll goin and she'll write, She'll write a
short story. She'll sit in hercomputer and write a short story and it
just flows out of her. Andthen when I ask her, yeah,
you've been on your phone for acouple of hours, it's like, what
creative thing have you done today?She's like, eh, you know,

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Eh, we shall see anyway,But would you give I bet you would
give Jocelyn control of what's on yourphone? You would get out to your
wife. Yeah, I'm the sameway. I'm the same way. And
if we'rep did Chuck, I wouldnot have any social media, no web
browser. I would have none ofthat on my phone. I would have

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Uber, I'd have a camera,I'd be able to call in text and
that's it. Although I do doa lot of like ordering of things on
my phone. I have Chewy,I have Amazon of my shopping apps.
Those would stay on. Did thesame thing in Balley A Rod stayed off
my phone for nine days and lovedit. Loved it. It was really
nice, but it was really weird. I do not recall the last time,

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maybe ever that I can remember whereI've had that distay. Did you
guys hop in like when you werein Port? Did you log in?
Wow? That's impressive, I knowfor you. We were smidge worried because
I had realized a couple of daysin because we have the Apple air tag
for Poppies callers, yeah, andyou can give access to other people like
temporarily, and we've forgotten to dothat, and so we're like, oh,

(01:22:13):
I'm sure it's fine because like mymom and my brother took turns out
my house and Poppies. Okay,so we almost did for emergency reason,
nothing to do with like social mediawanting to reconnect. Nothing. We just
we're like, you know what we'venever done it. We were tempted at
first, like maybe post some stufffor the YouTube channel. You know,
you know what. Nothing enjoy thatnow because when you have kids, you
don't get to fully disconnect. Ifyou're away from your kids, you don't,

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yeah at all. Well, wewere the people we were hanging out
with. They had to for thatreason exactly. And I get that.
Yeah, so that happens for avery long time. You cannot disconnect.
This person on the text line saidMandy, I completely agree about phones.
First of all, smartphones are notsmart. Secondly, the social aspect of
phones has basically destroyed people being socialwith each other. I don't do my

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social media except read your blog.And I've started listening to a few podcasts,
but need some recommendations. Too manyare really bad. Well, depending
on what you want, what podcastdo you listen to? Do you listen
to podcasts to show? I know, I was gonna say this is enough.
My younger brother, who's a realestate mogul in Las Vegas, has
a really good podcast called Escaping theDrift with John Gafford, and it is

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super good if you're like a businesstype person. He interviews a lot of
movers and Shakers, but he justhad a guy and did a podcast on
marriage that was outstanding. Michelle Zelner'spodcast is really good if you're into sort
of health and fitness, spiritual health, mental health, that kind of thing.
Her podcast is really really good.Of course, the taking it for

(01:23:43):
granted podcasts, Grant's podcast, whichyou heard on Memorial Day. I'm trying
to think of what other podcasts Ilistened to on a regular basis. I
listened to Triggernometry with Constantine Kissen.I listened to that one Tom Bill.
You b I L Y E IEU. How does these spells? Last
name? He's really good. Idon't know. I have like ten.

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But honestly, you guys, whenI'm not here, I don't listen to
a lot of spoken word because,first of all, when you're a talk
show host, you don't want somebodyelse's thoughts and voice in your head.
Right, So everything you hear fromme that maybe you heard from you know,
some other person, I can assureyou it's just because we came to
the same conclusion. Because I don'tlisten to a lot of talk when I

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am not at work. This personsaid, that's typing, not writing.
You know what, she writes onthe typewriter, and many, many,
many books by many famous people havebeen hammered out on keyboards, not written
longhand as a matter of fact,very few books have been written in long

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hand in the modern era since likenineteen hundred. So there you go.
Go to the blog Today's to seesome great videos, including one of a
bear who broke into a garage,went into the refrigerator and got busted coming
out of the house by the guywho lives there, startled the bear.

(01:25:10):
The bear starts to walk away,but then no, the Bear's like,
you know what I went to allthis trouble. I'm not leaving without my
snacks. Spoiler alert. The bear'snickname is now Oreo. You'll have to
watch the video to see what happensafter that. I also have a really
good interview with Jerry Seinfeld and BarryWeiss. Barry Weiss from The Free Press.
Jerry Seinfeld, you know, Ilove him. I love Seinfeld.

(01:25:33):
When it was on, I lovedthe series. I still quote Seinfeld all
the time, even though it's suchan outdated thing to quote, but it's
all still so funny to me.But this publicity tour, he's been on
after his new movie came out,Unfrosted. It's on Netflix. I'm downloading
it for the trip so I canwatch it. He's been so vocal in

(01:25:56):
his support of Israel, and he'stalked openly about the challenges he's had in
his life and his love of stoicismand the sort of freedom you get when
you recognize that there's very little youcan control in this world. That's ultimately
the core of stoicism is like,look, you just can only worry about
the things that you can ultimately control. Everything else, you're wasting time worrying

(01:26:19):
about it. So this interview theydig into that, they dig into his
visit to the site of the Supernovamusic festival where so many people were murdered.
It's just a really, really goodinterview. So check that out as
well. And then on this laststory that we're going to get into today,
I love it when people that areyounger than me are out there giving

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advice on things like parenting or marriage. Let me just say this, until
your own child is a happy,healthy adult with maybe a family of their
own, but in a healthy relationship, don't get a smug about your parenting
because a lot can go wrong.You think your kid's like fourteen and doing
great, and you're like, ohmy god, we've so nailed this.

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Our child is fourteen. Everything isso fantastic. Oh, there's four more
years in your life, people,There's four more years of a potential dumpster
fire around every corner. But thisyoung couple took to Twitter. His name's
Tyler Todd. He took to Twitterto give out marriage advice, and I
honestly opened it with like, Okay, let's see. But he's got really

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good advice, and a lot ofit is kind of meant for our new
ways of communicating or not communicating.And I'm not gonna read them all,
but I'm gonna rip through the onesthat I think are really good. You
know, never have big issue talksvia text, Chuck and I don't really
fight via text message. Like theremay be a little bit of snap at

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well, you know, here orthere if you're super annoyed about something,
but we never go into big issuesvia text message. And this is a
great point. You can't communicate yourintent. There's none of the nonverbal communication
that happens that is so critical whenyou're having a difficult conversation about a serious
subject with someone you love. Right, the nonverbal aspect of those conversations is

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so so important, so important.Uh. Number two, never involve outside
people in your marriage. And thisis something that my mother told me decades
ago. She said, Look,when you have a problem in your relationship
and you go to your best friendsor your mom or your dad or whatever,
and you talk about those problems,you usually don't go back to talk

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about the resolution. You usually don'tgo back and say, yeah, we
talked about it. It was sucha great talk. We worked everything out.
So your parents and your friends andother people are left with the impression
that you're married to a giant ahole. Keep your family's business in your
family. Now, if you needhelp, if you need to bring in
an outside party to mediate or whatever, go to some counseling. Get that

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disc passionate, non emotional second opinion. That's totally different, because when you
go talk to your friends and yourloved ones, they're absolutely going to back
you up, and they're going toget a lower and lower impression of the
person that you are married to.Don't do it. Oh, thank you
for this little tidbit. Texter MarkTwain claimed to be the first person to

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write a novel Huckleberry Finn on atypewriter eighteen eighty three or eighteen eighty four.
There you go, There you goto the person who just said,
Mandy, could you clarify how Governorpolus twenty nineteen decision not to request a
waiver of EPA air quality requirement affectgas costs in twenty twenty four, I
feel like I've done this like thirtytimes, but I'll do it one more

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time, real quick. I'll giveyou the thirty second version. In twenty
nineteen, when new Governor Jared Polistook office, he decided to withdraw a
request for a waiver from the EPAthat had been submitted by Governor John hick
and Looper. He said at thetime to CPR he welcomed the downgrade.
It was going to be a greatopportunity to final to finally tackle the ozone.

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Since then, we've been downgraded again, and now we are about to
pay for California gas starting June first. So Philip tomorrow in the next day,
my friends, because June first,it's just going to be a dumpster
fire. Now back to some ofthese other things we say, same team

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that is so important when your parentsparents. Parenting is a team sport,
and if you are not on thesame team when it comes to parenting your
kids, you are doing your childrena disservice. You are creating up an
imbalance of power in your household.You are creating potential alienation from one child
to the other parent, and thatis wrong, completely wrong. Now back

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to the text line, this iskind of fun. I have windows open
right next to each other. Mandy, what was your favorite Seinfeld episode The
Hamptons. No, not The Hampton's, although The Hamptons is a good one.
The water was cold. I lovethe one where George is trying to
get a new job and he hasJerry listed as a reference and Georgian's ends

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up flying out of the bathroom,falling down, and Jerry looks at him
and just says, you want tobe my LATEX salesman. And I still
use that to my day to thisday when my kids do something dumb,
I just look at him saying,and you want to be my LATEX salesman,
And they know what I'm talking about. I love to think about that.
I'm gonna go back and data minemy Seinfeld knowledge and think about which

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one was my favorite? Ooh,sponge Worthy was a really good woman.
That was a good one. Theonly good contribution. No soup for you.
Well, Soup Nazi is good,but not the best. Now I
have to think, Oh, theone where Kramer adopts no, no,
stop the presses. I know.My favorite episode. My favorite episode is

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the one where Creamer is shooting golfballs into the into the bay, into
the into the sea. There andGeorge is lying to get a date with
a woman and he tells her thathe's a marine biologist and they're walking down
the beach. This whole show goeson in the de numont of the show
is there. He's walking down thebeach and there's a beached whale and the
woman says, you've got to dosomething save the whale. You're a marine

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biologist. So he jumps onto theback of the whale and he looks down
and there's a golf ball in theblowhole of the whale and he pulls it
out and he's telling this story toJerry and Kremer, and Kramer says,
was that a titleist? That's myfavorite episode of Seinfeld, that one right
there, because it is a perfectlycrafted episode of comedy from start to finish,

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with two completely desperate threads that weavetogether perfectly in the end. Stop
it okay, we got to makeroom. Kawa Sports coming up, dang
it. I miss I miss thegarbage can too. I'm just I'm a
giant loser right now, so I'mgonna go regroup. I'll be back tomorrow
with a better show. So keepit right here on Koa