06-19-24 FULL SHOW - Gabe Evans Wants To Go To Congress

Episode Transcript

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I do want to do the blogand say Happy Juneteenth to everyone. We
are live today. We are notgovernment employees, so we are here doing
the show for you today. Ihave a great column on the blog by
Condoalza Rice that we're going to share. I hope you guys just heard Thomas
Toronto Witter on Ross's show, becauseTom does an absolutely fantastic job talking about

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why Juneteenth is a holiday we allshould celebrate it. Truly is this isn't
just a holiday for African American people. This is a holiday that celebrates the
end of a moral outrage. Andwe're celebrating the progress that we've made in
this country. And I say,celebrate progress all day long, every day.

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Let me tell youyone else is onthe blog and where to find it.
You have to go to mandy'sblog dotcom. That's mandy'sblog dot com.
That will take you to my KOApage. Then look for the headline under
latest posts that says six nineteen twentyfour blog Gabe Evans wants to go to
Congress on that and here are theheadlines you will find within. I think
you list in office half American,all with ships and clipments of seen that's

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going to press flinch today on theblog Get Your Weather Questions Ready, Gabe
Evans is running for CD eight.Ty Shade wrote me a song universal basic
income has some positive outcomes. Twelvethings to know about Colorado before you come
here. What the sale of thetattered cover means? Primary ballots are coming
in? Should we stop taxing tips? Congressman Matt Gates paid a woman for

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sex. All the people crying cheapfakes now? Disney has finally killed the
Star Wars franchise. Russia and NorthKorea are best friends now, rip Willie
Mays DPS can't get discipline right.Kandy Rice shares why Juneteenth matters. China
is shedding high earners too. Girlsare self harming at alarming rates. Another

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whistleblower about children's gender affirming care.Our summer Solstice will happen quite early this
year. If fireworks are your jam. Seattle is masking again, wrote in
Aurora's Global Food Competition. He's lyingor a lightweight? What a lovely pregnancy
reveal fault. She admits he waswrong about destroying children's lives, poor people

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dating rich people's spill the beans,Ah Young Love and Bill Belichick I used
to be. I used one ofthose self cleaning toilets in Switzerland using AI
for an interview. Protect your pupsfrom the heat? Can I get a
doctor's note for this? Gen zmen are buying into plastic surgery. Just
stop. Oil needs to just stop. Another fake hate crime exposed and Krispy

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Kream makes Friends Donuts. Those arethe headlines on the blog at Mandy's blog
dot com. And let's start withthe most important story of the day.
Krispykreme Donuts have introduced a line ofdonuts in honor of the sitcom Friends,
and they've made a terrible strategic error. They're only releasing them in the UK.

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What and they're gonna meet me?Right? Why would they be mediocre?
First of all, their Krispy Kremedonuts. No, just like the
show. No, stop it rightnow, right right now, I'm gonna
start talking about Marvel. I'm gonnastart talking crap a lot, all right,
mediocre was nice? Yeah? Waitwait till I bust out. I'm
gonna be talking about all your littlesuperhero friends in just a minute. That's

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okay, keep it up, that'sokay, keep it up. Chief,
Actually, Krispy Kreme donuts are onlygood if the Hot Donuts Now sign is
on, and then you could putlike six of them in your mouth at
the same time. There'll be nofollow up questions about how I know that.
Anyway. I got a bunch ofstuff on the blog today and I
have several guests today. We've gotDave Fraser coming in at twelve thirty,
and the first question I'm going toask him is about his little sayings that

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he uses in the weather forecast.You know, things like turn around,
don't drown when you're talking about drivinginto water. Because the listener asked that,
and I think it's a really goodquestion. How do you pick those
up? How do you make thoseup? Somebody asked me one time where
I got the intro to of theday, And you know, in all
honesty, I just started saying that, and then I started saying it exactly

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the same way, and that's howit came about. There was no like
sitting down and writing it. Noneof that happened. I didn't workshop it.
No, I don't plan anything forthe show that much. I just
don't. As you can obviously tell, for three hours a day. Gave
Evans is running for the eighth CongressionalDistrict GOP nomination. I've had a chance

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to see Gabe speak. I sawhim at the Weld Women of Republican Women
of World Rumble fairly recently, andI am highly recommending that you vote for
him. Now, my voter guideis not out yet, you guys,
and I'm so sorry. I couldlie to you and tell you that I've
been diligently working on it NonStop,but until last night I didn't get any

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good sleep. Last night I gotsleep, and I'm feeling so much better.
So this afternoon, when I gethome, I will sit down and
knock this out. I've got afew things like State Board of Education races.
Those are tough. Those are tough. Not all of them, but
some of them are. So I'mworking on that. And in the meantime,
you can go to Roskinski's voter guide. He thinks exactly the same way

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I do. He just didn't doall the races that I'm working on.
A lot of you are asking aboutDouglas County races. Some of you are
asking about Jefferson County races. Sohopefully that will be done for you tomorrow.
In the meantime, though, wehave Gabe coming on today at one
o'clock, and I think you'll findhim very impressive. That seat is currently
sort of viewed as a toss up. You dear a Caraveo holds it now,

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but it is not a particularly liberalpart of the state. It is
a more balanced purple district after redistricting. But I think Gabe is a very
appealing candidate for a lot of reasons. He's very reasonable, he is conservative,
but not crazy. He has notbeen endorsed by the Colorado GOP,

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his opponent who carpet bagged up fromColorado Springs to run for this seat.
That seems to be a theme theTrumpets when they find out they can't win
in their own district, then theymove to a different district to try and
win. So that is going on. So we're gonna talk to Gabe and
you'll hear from him yourself. TyShade is the guy who wrote the Mandy

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Connell song that we played right beforevacation. We're gonna talk to him today.
I want to find out about thatprocess because first of all, it's
super good and I love it alot. But second all, he used
AI and I want to talk tohim about that what that process would he
did? Yees? Oh, notfor all of it. Not for all
of it. So I want tofind out the process of how the song
came about it. It's just itmade me very happy. It's very complimentary

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that someone took the time to dothis in any way, shape or for
him, and I just wanted tosay hello and chat with him about it.
So wait a minute, is thisthe World Cup that's on right now?
There's like a you what is that? U DFA euro twenty twenty four?
What is this? It's the EuroCup? Why is soccer on my
television? Here's what I'm asking.I'll find out. Make it stop,

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make it stop? It is?What is A twenty four? I don't
even know what that is. Itmatters to people in your about soccer.
I'm sure that it matters to peopleoh nil about soccer. Very good.
That was very sharp. That wasthe way to slide that in. So
when we were in London on ourvacation, we started in London before we

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went to Norway. We asked mydaughter, we said what do you want
to do in London? And shesaid, I want to go to the
Harry Potter platform and Chuck and Iended up going, but she didn't go
with us because she wasn't she wastired and she just wanted to sleep,
so she stayed back in the roomand we went to that platform, platform
nine and three quarters, and it'svery disneyfied and there's like, you know,

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ropes that you stand in and thenget your picture taken with the luggage
that is going into the wall.But it's so cute. And then she
said, I want to go tothe black Dog Pub and I was like,
okay, I didn't know you knewabout pubs. Apparently Taylor Swift has
a song on her new album calledthe black Dog. So off we go
to Vauxhall to go to the blackDog Pub and there was apparently a huge

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cricket match just around the corner,and all the cricket fans were in the
black Dog Pub and I started talkingto someone about I made a mistake.
I made a terrible strategic error.And I said to a guy, you
know, I tried to read acricket box score once and I found it
to be very confusing, and arod he took that to mean she wants

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me to explain this to her,and he started talking and I was like,
wait, nope, nope, nope, see you misunderstood. I don't
want to know. I just foundit confusing. Unnecessarily I did. He
didn't care. He didn't care.It was fine. It was rude.
Yeah, well no, I've beento a cricket match in the in the

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Cayman Islands. It lasted seven hours. You stayed, well, yeah,
I was with a bunch of people. I was a guest of someone else.
You can't just leave. They brokefor tea for an hour in the
middle of the match. The players, Yes, everyone sits down and they're
little whites. They all wear whites, you know, and they all sit

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down, pinkies out, have teaand then they get up and they finish
doing whatever it is they're doing outthere in the Cayman Islands. Cayman Islands
are a part of the Commonwealth.Wow, so they have all those British
sports and whatnot. So it wasit was. It was not the best
day of my life. But itwas not the worst day, I should

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say it is. It was.It was just not something I ever want
to do again, kind of like, you know what, I've done that
now and I never have to doit again. But Apparently cricket people are
insane. Not as insane as soccerhooligans, but cricket people are nuts.
And now Germany has taken out Hungryin the euro Cup that I'm you know,
my only team I would have cheeredfor is now over. Anyway,

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got some actual news on the storyon the blog today that I am going
to talk about one of them.And I realized that many of you when
I talk about the tattered cover inthe sale and the bankruptcy, a lot
of you are like, oh God, Mandy doesn't really matter. But here's
a fun fact about your host.I love a bookstore. I love a
bookstore like I can go into abookstore and spend multiple hours in the bookstore

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wandering around, looking at things andlooking at books and just seeing what's out
there that I'm missing, and youknow, now you can get coffee and
you walk around, and it's justit's one of my favorite things to do.
So I care about the tattered cover. And if you heard yesterday,
they were just purchased by Barnes andNoble. They were in bankruptcy. They
owe a lot of money, andthey were looking for someone that promised to

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keep their locations open, and theywent with an offer from the CEO of
Barnes and Noble. Now, theDenver Gazette called the CEO of Barnes and
Noble and said, Okay, whatcan we expect because for you non bookstore
owners, let me give you alittle kind of thumbnail sketch of what makes
the tattered cover so special. Theystill do these author events. They bring

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in really big authors where you cancome and hear them talk and do a
reading and ask questions. And thatis really valuable for people who love books.
They are very responsive when you aretrying to lay your hands on something
that maybe they don't have in stock. And now with Barnes and Noble behind
them, now they're gonna have themoney hopefully to keep doing this stuff.
And the CEO of Barnes and Noblehas said in this article and I loved

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that he said this. He referenced, you've got mail the wonderful Tom Hanks
Meg Ryan movie. Have you seenall the Tom Hanks Meg Ryan movies?
Have you seen Sleepless in Seattle andYou've got Nope? Oh they're from the
golden age of the rom com Ohmy god, they're so good. And
I just watched You've Got Mail,and it completely stands the test of time.

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So this weekend you and Jocelyn haveto watch Sleepless in Seattle, and
you don't have you don't know,I'll try. It's so good. I'm
sure if you've got start with You'veGot Mail, because it goes with a
story. So the premise of You'veGot Mail is that Meg Ryan has this
little adorable corner bookstore, and agiant book chain moves in right around the

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corner. That's the foundational premise.And I'm not going to give you anymore
because that's not the rom com partfour dollars, Oh my God, or
dollars oh my God. It's sogood, though, and Tom Hanks is
the owner of Fox Books in thisthing and the CEO of Barnes and Noble
in this article in the Denver Gazetteactually reference he references You've Got Mail.

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He's like, look, we're thebook bookseller, but he used to be
an independent book owner himself. Less. Seattle's free to watch, but one
either one is good, but theSleepless in Seattle is like slightly better,
but just barely. I assume ittakes plays in yet, Yes, and
no okay takes place in Chicago,Seattle, and New York. I just

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watched that took. Yeah, totallyworth it, totally worth it. But
James Daunt, when speaking to theDenver Gazette, literally says, look,
I'm not you've got mail. Thisis what's going on here. So their
move is to keep the Tattered Coverbranded as the Tattered Cover and to empower
the people who currently work there,but yet give them the sort of buying

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power that Barnes and Noble currently has. And here's a fun fact. Barnes
and Noble after contracting mightily after Amazoncompletely disrupted book sales. I mean Amazon
came out of nowhere started selling booksonline. And I remember at some point
I might have said, Who's goingto buy a book online? Because it
was so foreign to me because Ilove a bookstore. But apparently the answer

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is everyone is going to buy booksonline. That being said, after contracting
after Amazon disrupted and Borders went outof business, their main competition now,
Barnes and Noble is starting to expandagain, and part of their expansion is
scooping up these independent booksellers and keepingthem branded as independent booksellers, but giving
them the buying power of Barnes andNoble. I just think that that is

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that is the best possible outcome forTattered Cover, and I hope it just
goes just the same way. Thisperson said, Mandy, I can't go
to bookstores for the same reason alcoholicscan't go to bars. Well, here's
a fun fact, and I've donethis. Leave your credit card in the
car, and that way you haveto actually physically, like put down your

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books that you want to buy,walk out to the car, get the
credit card, and then walk backin. And that walk out walk in
you can really rationally talk to yourself. But some people it is a problem.
I have a pile of books atmy house right now that is mocking
me that I haven't read yet.They're sitting next to a chair, taunting
me every time I come in.But I don't have the same kind of
time to read a rod. Mandyis wrong. Sleepless in Seattle is way

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better that from a sixty two yearold male. I love them both.
I love them both, and Ijust watch them both and I think they're
both great. Oh, you're right, Mandy. It takes place in Baltimore
and New York and Seattle, sothere you go, There you go.
So you watch that. It's areally fun movie. You'll like it.

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I mean, if you have asoul, you'll like it. Mandy,
please consider not disparaging soccer and soccerfans. The Euros are important for people
all over the world, including theUS, but see, they're not important
to me. And this is theMandy Condle Show. So we will not
be doing a deep dive. Butyou feel free. I have a lot
of friends who are dedicated soccer fans, and I say, bully for you,

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bully for all of you. Goodon you. As they say,
everybody needs a hobby. This oneis just not mine. We'll be right
back. Dave Fraser, a Foxthirty one. Dave Fraser, how you
doing, my friends? Good?I'm doing good. Welcome back. Good
to connect with you again. Thankyou. It was chilly in Norway and
Chili today. What's up at this? I like it? Yeah. Yeah,

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we had that cold we had thatcold front come in yesterday. You
know, a little bit of abreak after reach ninety nine degrees just the
other day. I'm okay with it. It's nice to cool things down,
be nice to get a little moremoisture and rain we have some chances,
but overall, you know, nota wet pattern coming up for anybody.
That's what I was gonna ask you. So are we just gonna have sprinkles

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around the metro area just at random? Well, we should get some showers
in thunderstorms. It's a little warmerin the mountains and there's a little more
sunshine up there, so that shouldtrigger some storms and then a few of
those should drift our way after threefour o'clock this afternoon. So we're hoping
to get some rain out of it. But because the air down here is
so cool and the atmosphere is alittle calmer, you don't get the volatility

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of thunderstorms, which you could hearsome thunder. We'll have a couple of
chances tomorrow. I think tomorrow isthe best chance for a few more of
us to get a couple of showersand thunderstorms. Again, it won't be
widespread, and Friday the rain chancesdrop off, and then as we head
into the weekend they kind of disappearagain. Other than the foothills in the
mountains, we're going to be dryand get right back to those hot nineties.
So we are not part of theginormous heat wave across the country right

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now. What is happening and howlong is that going to last for people
who may be traveling into it.Yeah, it's it's basically the upper Midwest,
the Great Legs on into New England. There's a big area of high
pressure out there, and under thatdome the heat has just been building.
And so you have not only theheat and the possible record high temperatures exceeding

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ninety five degrees, which is hotfor that region of the country. You
add in the humidity factor and nowyou've got a dangerous situation of you know,
people being outside and heat exhaustion andheat stress because you can't cool down
in that environment, and their overnightloaves don't cool when it's that humid out

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either. It's the same thing whenyou think of the desert southwest, you
know, you think of Arizona.Yeah, it's baking during the day at
one hundred, one hundred and ten, one hundred and twelve degrees and they
never get the cooling effect at nightit's still eighty five degrees and night.
Our benefit is we do get thatcooling, so even on our hot days
at a one hundred degrees. Wemight touch that temperature for an hour or
two, but then as soon aswe get to the afternoon evening we get

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the refreshing fifties and sixties like we'vehad for the last couple of nights.
It's kind of funny, and Idon't mean funny, haha, but it's
kind of funny because I you know, I look at the British papers every
day as well, and they're freakingout because it's going to be like eighty
five, oh eighty five, howare you gonna lie? But they don't
have air conditioning like we do.I mean they do now way more than
they used to. Yeah, Andit's it's you know, you just have

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to look at the climate as awhole, and by climate, I don't
mean I mean what is what isnormal? Right? Right? What are
you used to so you know wecan have you know, there are parts
of the country that will get aheat advisory where it might be say ninety
with eighty percent humidity, and they'reconcerned about people being exposed not being able
to cool off. Yet it couldbe one hundred and ten and Tucson and

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you're not going to have a heatadvisory, right, So it just it
depends on what you're used to andwhat makes you know sense what's what's hot
for one region versus another. Well, and I want to ask you totally
unrelated to that, because a listenerI was trying to find it right then
as you were giving that answer,and I can't find it. A listener
sent it in yesterday and said,hey, I really want to know the

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answer to this question. And heis talking about the little sayings that you
use in the weather forecast, andsome of them like don't you know turn
around? Don't drown when there's wateron the road, and do you how
do those things come up? Becausefor me, the things that I say
on a regular basis that that areyou know, if you're going to call
it a catchphrase, they've all sprungup organically. But is there like a

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weatherman cliche school that you go toin order to get these snappy comments that
you make in the weather. No, I think some of them are,
and I will I will pass thecredit to the National Weather Service. As
part of their initiative for a weatherweather ready nation, making sure people unders

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stand and can be prepared for theproblems that can come from weather, they've
created some very catchphrase sayings, andso we've picked up on some of them,
some of the ones you just mentionedwhence thunder roars, go indoors,
turn around, don't drown, youknow, slow and steady when you're driving
in snow. They just created thesethings so that you know, it becomes

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part of our culture. The restof it is exactly like you said,
It's just it's wisdom. It's oldage to keep saying through the years.
There's some things that stick with you. And I hear you, actually,
I think you drew a fantastic Joe. I hear you saying things that take
me back in time, and it'sthe same kind of a thing. I
can hear my grandfather making that statement. Yes, my dad making that statement,

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And they just kind of stick withyou and some of them. So
I haven't created anything. I willsay I've stolen things, yea, but
it does become part of an easyway to pass along the message. There's
no new ideas, Dave, it'sjust those of us who have found a
way to repurpose the old ones doinghere. Yeah, what a go ahead
right now? I say we saythat all the time in TV and in

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TV news. There's really nothing newWe're just all kind of looking around to
see what might be different. Butyou know, it's just a matter of
you know, do you pirate it, take it for your own, or
do you create something? But thereality is it's the same. So what
do we got in the next fewweeks? What do you see in the
long term look that we maybe shouldpay attention to or we just headed into

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to settle into our hot, drysummer? Yeah, I think so.
I am looking at the long rangemodels, and again I always want to
preface this that they don't give youany information about day to day. It's
kind of an overview of what mighthappen over a thirty day, or a
sixty day, or a ninety day. So the ninety day outlook, the
three month outlooks through the end ofthe summer does look to be hot and

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dry. That can be above average, but again that could be two degrees
above average or five degrees above average, so we're looking at warm spells.
We didn't have any ninety degree heatin May, so May was a good
month for ye June we've already postedsix days, but we're nineteen days into
the month, so six out ofnineteen at ninety or higher. Ninety nine
was the hottest. We just hadye not yesterday, but the day before

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and so on Monday. So that'sbeen the hottest so far. And dry,
we've certainly dried out. And Iwould caution people that while I don't
know if we'll leap headfirst into extremefire danger, but you're starting to notice
some of the natural grasses, thesage brush and everything getting a little bit
rough and looking a little more tan, if not round, And so just

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be careful, especially on breezy towindy days, that you're not creating any
type of an open spark or aflame or anything. We certainly don't want
to go there, but we'll seewhat plays out. We have been in
great shape for moisture. We're justbeen a little starved here in June.
Well, I mean it's typical.You know. When I first moved here,
I was like, oh my god, we're ready to drought. Now
I'm like, oh, yeah,we're gonna drought again. It's fine,
It's so fine. But it's justthe cycle of life here in Colorado.

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Absolutely it is that. It's thecycles of the summer and everything. Last
summer was a good summer for us. It came with a lot of severe
weather. We've certainly had our severeand I chuckled two weeks ago this Thursday,
So two weeks ago from tomorrow.I was on your show that Wednesday
before. We were talking all aboutoutflow boundaries and how to state ale.
And then that next night we havethat huge hail outbreak that lasted from like

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nine o'clock at night till midnight onthe northeast side of Town Green Valley Lands
got tumbled and went close to theairport, and I'm sitting there we play
in our conversation, going wow,this is several other season, this is
this is what we have to dealwith here in Colorado. I got a
couple of questions, and I wantto ask you quickly, what's the chance
of his storming during Thursday nights RollingStones concert. I think the fact that

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we were talking about that yesterday,we think that they probably won't take that.
I don't know what time they takethe stage. You know, they're
a little older. Yeah, exactly, I'm gonna I'm gonna, I'm gonna
stay. They're gonna wait to closerto the sunset because they want the stadium
and the lights and all of therest by that time, you know,
eight to nine o'clock timeframe, mostanswers for storms will have gone past the

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airport, so I think overall we'resafe. We've had many a concert at
Mile High in that timeframe that stormshave been in the forecast that they've passed
by, so we'll keep our fingerscrossed. It does look like that's the
timing that everything should be gone eastof the metro of the I twenty five
quarter by about eight o'clock. Andthen one more question, and this is
for Dave on the pinpoint whether appwhich I use all the time, Why

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does it seem that the radar isnot as accurate as it has been in
the past. Sometimes it doesn't showthe rain that is falling in the area,
or it may show rain but nothingis happening. It can sometimes there
could be a filter setting on itwhere it's taking out maybe the lower level

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stuff, so where it might bea lighter shower or sprinkle. The radar
is kind of masking that, ifyou will, and focusing more on where
the heavy rain is. Right.It's part of the design of it,
and that happens. I have theability with what I use and play on
on air where we can control thatkind of filter setting and go down to
the lowest levels. So it's kindof built that way. The great thing

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about the app, and I willsay this and you know that is the
lightning detection on it at this timeof the year, and that you can
put it into future radar. Soas you're looking at storms that are off
to the west and you're insane Lakewoodand you're wondering what time they might come
through, it's pretty good at trackingthose through. Plus, any storm that
has a track on it, youcan click literally touch the interface and it
will give you information about that storm, the direction it's moving, how quickly

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it's moving, whether or not it'sproducing al So it's pretty good in that
respect. I won't say that it'sperfect when it comes to the radar,
because it does have some type ofa filtering system in it. Right,
all right, Dave Frasier Jority totalk to you as always. We'll chat
again next week. All right,joy the rest of your week, you
too, you two. That's theranger from box thirty one. We'll be

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I like Star Wars too. Absolutelyhave you watched this new Acolytes show?

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Yes? How bad? Is it? Absolutely atrocious? And I am in
unison with most Star Wars fans thatI'm friends with, we all think it's
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Wars did a Christmas special back innineteen seventy eight that was that was the
low bar. Watched that within thelast couple months. Than this, that's

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probably better than this. Well,yep, Disney has decided in its infinite
wisdom to put a woke woman incharge of the Star Wars franchise. And
apparently I've not watched this. Ihaven't watched any of the Star Wars shows.
What's her name again, Voldemort?Voldemart. Well, I'm saying her
name should be Voldemort. Well,what is it? She should be Mud?
Her name is Mud. No,I don't know what her real name

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is because I don't care that much. But the outcry about this, and
apparently there are lesbian space witches?Is that what I'm getting? Give you
the premise of the show, Ican't even explain. I have no idea.
Basically, Okay, do the nonnerdy version, do the non NRDI
version. So, okay, youknow Anakin Skywalker Darth Vader. Yes,

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yes, you're right, he wasborn without a dad. Okay, like
he was a miracle birth, immaculateconception. The premise is one or two
and if you've watched, it's notreally much of a spoiler. One or
two. And I say one ortwo because there's like twins that are kind
of the main characters. The chickis from she's rue from Hunger Games,
the actress Okay, she's basically animmaculate birth and the lead in the show.

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And her twin is like evil andthey just go through this hole.
Wow, what happened about the differentWhy did they separate? One of them
might be a killer, the killsJedi. They're bad, but it's it's
the where you talk about the evilspace, which is her family. Are
these people? And that's all Ican explain to you. There's no good

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plots. They're trying to figure outher background. What's going on. Well,
if you want to know what's wrongwith Hollywood, let me just read
you the quote. Kathleen Kennedy isthe woman. His name I couldn't remember.
Kathleen Kennedy swung back and told theNew Times about all the criticism that
is being heaped on this and ithas like a fourteen percent positive rating on
Rotten Tomatoes. For an audience.Oh, the critics loved it. The
critics gave it like seventy Let mesee here, let me find this really

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quickly in this article. Eighty fourpercent yes for the critics, fourteen percent
audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. ButKathleen Kennedy came out swinging and she said,
I think Leslie has struggled a littlebit with it. I think a
lot of women who step into thisbecause of the fan base being so male
dominated, they sometimes get attacked.My belief is that storytelling needs to be

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representative of all people. That's aneasy decision for me. She needs to
be fired right now by Disney becauseI don't don't get me wrong, I
want to see representation, but Idon't want you to destroy the canon of
a long beloved franchise in order tomake lesbian space, which is acceptable in
society. You know. So let'sjust stop this. And the biggest problem,

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well, aside from that, thesecond big problem is they've also with
that plot that I just mentioned.This is the nerdy part, the plot
that I mentioned about the immaculate birth. Yeah, Anakin Skywalker like the most
famous You think Star Wars, Youthink Anakin you think Darth Vader, right,
he was an immaculate birth. They'venow made more of them to make

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him totally like, Oh, he'sno special. Yeah, he's not the
chosen one. There's the chosen two, three fours. An oppressor. He's
an oppressor. So there it is. This whole thing seems to be oppressor
oppressed narrative. So undermine that withthe oppressor oppressed native and there you have
the Acolyte, which we just savedyou hours of your life. Now you
don't have to watch this because noone else is. We'll be right back.
This text is interesting. I votedfor Evans as opposed to the other

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doctor after I received a text criticizingEvans for not supporting the anti gay email
sent out instantly new where each candidatestood. So there you go. Oh
here's an interesting fact a rod aboutthe Acolyte. Why Niogi weighing in.
She's a big star, wars NERD. I don't know if you knew that
about her. The Acolyte showrunner wasalso Harvey Weinstein's personal assistant for six years

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and put her wife, who can'tact, in the show as well.
It seems she is trying to doanything to promote female power. Ask about
the male Jedi representation in the show. It infuriates me what Disney has done
to the Star Wars and Marvel's signedgirl Nerd that's from Yeah, And then
somebody else pointed out meanwhile, ParamountPlus is hitting home runs with Star Trek,

(31:30):
the Card Discovery and Strange New Worlds, and they are if you like
that sort of stuff. And weactually have a texted version of an air
airhorn and if you wondered what thatlooked like, yeah, texted version and
it says, oh, by theway, bpitpit bu FYI, that was
an attempt at a texted airhorn.That from Steve excellent, very very good,

(31:53):
very very good. And apparently southPark has been skewering Disney joining the
pander verse is the episode I'm Gonnago seek Out. South Park's one of
those shows that when I watch it, I laugh. But guys, I
just I don't want to commit toa program. I just don't watch a
lot of TV. It's just notmy thing. Now let's get to a

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news story, shall we. Souniversal basic income. This is one of
those things that as a right leaningsmall government person, I am supposed to
hate However, Milton Friedman, whoI have a tremendous amount of respect for
as an economist, has written extensivelyabout the potential of universal basic income to

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lift people out of poverty. AndI've read a lot of what Milton Freeman
has written on universal basic income.So when I see these universal basic income
experiments that are happening around the country, I'm very intrigued. And we've had
one going on in Denver. Now, if you're not aware, the Denver
Basic Income Project began with this question, how might a guaranteed income with no

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strings attached impact homeless people in thecity. And I realized that Immediately You're
like, well, they'd have plentyof money for drugs or alcohol or whatever.
But the reality is is that thoughthe outdoor homeless, the people,
the urban outdoorsmen that we see downtownin Denver that are living in tents and

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tense cities where drug addiction is rife, there are a lot of people who
are technically homeless who don't live onthe streets, who aren't addicts. They
are people who are struggling to makeends meet for a variety of reasons.
So I'm assuming, and I hopeand I don't know. I'm going to
try and get someone from the DenverBasic Income Project on the show. They're

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in partnership with the University of DenverCenter for Housing and Homelessness Research. It
started back in January of twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, excuse me,
and it has provided over nine pointfour million dollars in aid to more than
eight hundred people. And they didit in three different ways. They gave
out. Let me see if Ican get to where they actually gave out

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the money. The project enrolled atotal of eight hundred and seven homeless people
in Denver, more than six hundredof whom agreed to participate in the research.
By the third milestone, called timepoints, roughly four hundred continue to
participate in the research. Now,I realized that in a research program,

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any research program, there are goingto be people that drop out of the
program. It's just people move away, they know, they have other things
come up, they die. Imean, there's all kinds of reasons that
people drop out of a research program. I'd like to know why they dropped
out if they know, that's mythird first question. The participants were randomly
split into three groups. The firstgroup received one thousand dollars per month for

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twelve months, or a total oftwelve thousand dollars per year. The second
got a lump sum of sixty fivehundred and then twelve monthly payments of five
hundred dollars, so they got upfrontmoney and then they got monthly money.
The third group only received fifty dollarsper month for twelve months. Now,
early results results shared by this seemedto indicate some success. When the program

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started, less than ten percent ofparticipants had some form of housing. By
the end of ten months, atthe program's third check, forty five percent
of those who continued to respond ownedor rented some kind of housing. I'm
guessing rented, and that's fine,That's perfectly fine. So now this is
where I hate statistics, and I'dlike to see the underlying report because at

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the end of ten months, soI guess, wait, never mind,
I can do the math. Soabout one hundred and seventy five, one
hundred and eighty five out of fourhundred had some kind of housing. And
then they talk about the qualitative findingsfrom the group. And this is what

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I care less about out it's aboutfeelings. I don't care how feelings are.
I don't want to give government moneyto someone for feelings. Okay,
that's not what I'm doing here.But participants shared having reduced financial stress,
and the monthly payments enabled significant lifeimprovements for some participants, such as changing

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their housing situation or the ability topurchase a car. In fact, the
perception of housing stability rose. Atthe start of the program, one in
five believe their housing was stable.That increased to nearly half reported feeling that
their housing situation was stable at theend of ten months. Now, these

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programs are currently being funded through kindof one off means, and I know
that the standard conservative response is thisis socialism, this is socialism, and
this is I want to make thispoint, and that is we already have
social programs in place that you cancall socialism. We have snap benefits,

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we have rental assistance, we havemedicaid, we have all of these things
designed to lift people up out ofpoverty, and a universal basic income could,
in theory, replace all of them. Now, what I don't want
to see is those welfare benefits continuedwhile universal basic income comes into play.

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But imagine allowing people to make theirown financial decisions. By giving them a
chump of money. And yes,y'all, some people are going to do
the wrong thing with it. Somepeople are gonna buy hookers and blow,
and they're gonna blow at all andthey're not gonna have anything left and they're
still going to be living on thestreets. Those people are gonna never gonna
fix themselves. They're just not Somepeople are just not going to do the

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right thing, and it's unfortunate,but that's just the nature of any population.
In any population group, they're gonnabe people that can start with nothing
and achieve at the highest level andend up with just a huge amount of
wealth. You're gonna have people thatcan start with a huge amount of wealth
and end up with nothing, andyou're gonna have people that start with nothing

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and end up with nothing. Becausewe're all built differently, we all have
different trauma, we all have differentlife experience, we all have different things
we bring to the table. Sothis is not a perfect answer. It's
not There is no perfect answer forthis, But it's really interesting when you
allow people to have agency over theirown decision making, how many of them

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can actually achieve. Now, I'dlove to do a deep dive on this,
and like I said, I'm gonnareach out to the Denver Basic Income
Project. I'd like to have themon the show to talk about this.
And it's not happening just here.It is happening around the country. There
are various cities who are in differentstages of the universal basic income program.
But here's the question I would liketo have answered. How many people that

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got a chunk of money are deadnow? How many people got a chunk
of money and ended up killing themselveswith it with drugs or alcohol or whatever.
I'd like to know the answer tothat. But again, I'm not
looking for perfection. I'm just lookingfor something that has a reasonable number of
failures. And yes, someone dyingafter getting a chunk of money I would

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consider a failure. We do realizethat Mayor Mike Johnston says people dying is
not a negative outcome and when itcomes to their homeless program whatever. Sure
that sounded good before they said it. This person and the text line said,
I just don't care about any ofthis. I just have an issue
with people that complain about getting exactlywhat they asked for. I don't understand

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that text message, Texter. Imean, are you talking about the people
getting the universal basic income or thepeople? What is that? And the
email to send your KOA memories tois a Rod at iHeartMedia dot com.
That's a Rod at iHeartMedia dot com. What are you doing in here?
Aro? Just walked in the studioand he's doing stuff? What are you

(40:00):
doing now? You didn't turn yourmic on? Yeah, and there's no
producer in the other room. Areyou saying we can't give Hunter Biden universal
income? Hookers in blow? Yes, that is exactly exactly what I'm saying.
No doubt in my mind that whenHunter Biden was at the height of
his addiction, he would have blownat all on literally hookers and blow or

(40:22):
crack. I mean, he wasa crack guy from what I understand.
Crack and meth was his combo.I guess what were you doing in here?
I'm getting our studio ready for ourguests coming up in an hour.
Oh my gosh, Arod's so excited. Who am I playing of the Day
against today? That would be aRod's mom and dad. And if they're
listening, I'm showing no mercy justbecause it's your mom and dad. I'm

(40:45):
not going easy everything not happening,not happening at all. So we'll get
the universal basic income. People onhere, no, let me ask you
this on the text line on theCommon Spirit Health text line. Would you
be in favor of something like thisif it replaced other welfare programs, because
I'll tell you I absolutely would.First of all, it would streamline our

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entire welfare system if we had universalbasic income. This is one of the
reasons that I'm a proponent of thefair tax. And I haven't talked about
the fair tax in a long time, but I still am a true believer
that we need to do away withthe income tax and go to a national
retail sales tax. But we haveto constitutionally do away with the income tax

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before I am in favor of institutinga fair tax, because I don't trust
politicians to not do both. Thesubject line to a rod is koa memories
that's all you need. There yougo. Stock market was my trauma,
blew fifty five thousand dollars in thirteenminutes. I need to hear more about
that. So imagine if we replacethis. Let me go back to the

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fair tax for just one second.So the fair tax is a national retail
sales tax that is twenty last Iheard it was twenty three percent, very
high sales tax. And yes,you would still have to pay your state
sales tax on top of that.However, all of the other taxes the
corporations currently pay and pass the costof onto you would go away. You're

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withholding in your in your paycheck,your FIKA, it would be gone,
All of that would disappear. Youwould get all of your paycheck and the
only people paying taxes to the federalgovernment would be businesses, and they would
remit their taxes to the federal government. And there's a really simple way to
make that, a very simple process. Now, our current tax code is

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like forty thousand pages, and theFair Tax Bill is two pages long.
So for one respect, the FairTax feels a little like this universal basic
income because imagine being able to stayto the irs. We're doing away with
all a vast majority of those agents. We don't need them anymore. That
would be lovely. If we wentto universal basic income, we then have

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have one agency, one agency thatgave all of the money through one agency.
We don't need a massive USDA dealingwith food stamp programs. We don't
need housing. You know, HUDto deal with housing programs. It would
streamline the process and save a tonof money on the administrative side. So

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you know, there you go,Mandy. I'm against any kind of welfare
state, no matter what form youput it in, even if it is
universal income. So I understand howyou feel, text because I, in
my own life have known people thatmy father, my late father would have

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just referred to as sorry individuals,people that have been milking and bilking the
welfare system since they were old enoughto do it. I know multi generational
welfare families, and I grew upwith people that everyone in their house hold
was on disability, not because anythingwas really wrong with them, but because

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they knew how to work the system. I know people that have never had
a job in their lives and theyhave lived off of the hard work of
you and me, and I don'tlike those people. But I also know
people who, for really legitimate reasons, found themselves living in grinding poverty,
who took advantage of welfare programs towrite the ship, and after being on

(44:30):
a welfare program for a few years, worked their way off of them and
are now vibrant, successful members ofsociety again. So I'm not anti welfare
program. I'm anti welfare for life. And if we can create a system
that allows people to have some certainty, I don't know how I would be

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for it. Milton Friedman thought itwas a great idea, and I gotta
tell you, I think he's probablya lot smarter than me. And you
no offense, You're probably very smart, but he was super smart. Fair
tax, UBI and HSA programs insteadof entitlements won't let politicians bestow enough favors
to donors, so it will neverhappen. Sadly, Texter, you are
correct, You are absolutely right.And this is what's wrong with our system

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right now, is that we havepoliticians who are more invested in getting re
elected than they are in doing what'sright for the American people. That's why
we are spending so much more moneythan we should be spending right now,
and they're going to spend us intooblivion. Here's the other part about this
spending issue, and I've got awhole thing on this today. We're getting

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to the point where the service onour debt is now so large that we
are not going to be able tocontinue some of these welfare programs, and
well it's going to be more thanthat, Mandy. I'm self employed,
so no withholding difference for me,how would I cheat on my taxes with

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a national sales tax? And that, my friends, is one of the
other reasons that I am in favorof the fair tax. I have a
story on the blog today. Actuallyit's an editorial from the Denver Gazette,
and it dovetails with a bill thathas just been put forth by my friend,
Congressman Thomas Massey that would stop taxingtips. So if you're a tipped

(46:22):
employee, you would be able tojust not claim your tips. And as
a former tipped employee, I'm gonnabe perfectly frank. I never fully reported
my tips. I think the statuteof limitations is over now. I never
fully reported my tips. When Iwas a server. I reported my credit
card tips because they're hard. Youknow, you can't get around that.

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But cash money, no way,no way. Well, now there's a
move to not tax tips in orderto inspire people to want to work in
the service industry. That's part ofit. Another part of it is you
could view tips as a gift,like when some waits on you, they
get an hourly wage, just justnot very much, and then you're giving
them a gift for their service thatthey provided for you, so you don't

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tax gifts, and the argument isthat you should be able to keep all
of your money. Now, Ihate income taxes, so I like this,
But what I don't like is thatthey should not be taxing anyone's income.

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They should not be taxing our income. They should be taxing our consumption.
And that's what the fair tax does. Mandy, is there any other
country that uses the fair tax system? I don't know the answer to that
question. A lot has been happeningover the last five to ten years about
the fair tax, so maybe it'stime for another visit from the fair tax
people to give me an answer forthat question. Universal income needs to be

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universal, says this texter. Getrid of the welfare programs that trap people.
Give the money to everyone. Goodchance that inflation will go through the
roof, but at least I knowthat every person on the corner has at
least a little bit of money.The fair tax actually would create a prebate.
A prebate meaning at the beginning ofevery month, you get a check

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put into your bank account. Thatcovers the amount of sales tax up to
the poverty level, so people livingin poverty would not have to pay the
sales tax. And every month,at the beginning of the month, they
get a little injection into their bankaccount to cover the taxes that they would
be paying under the fair tax.So in a way, that's kind of
universal basic income. But it's reallyjust a prebate and everyone gets it.

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Every single person, every single taxpayer in this country gets that prebate.
And I love it when people saythis is too complicated. You guys,
are you kidding me? Right now, we've been getting people their Social Security
checks, their Social Security disability.We've been doing all that for years now.
Rich people will never agree with thefair tax because and then they will

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be paying a fair tax. Firstof all, rich people pay more than
poor people in taxes. Let's bereal. The income tax is not fair
at all. It is a progressiveincome tax and it's ridiculous. But that
being said, they could pay it, or they could buy their stuff used,
because if you buy something used,you don't pay the fair tax.
It's only on new goods and services. They would I don't care if they

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if they want to save money,they can go shop at Walmart. I
don't really care about that. I'msure you don't either, Mandy. I
always tip in cash. Uncle Samgets enough of our money to waste.
Amen to that. Agree to simplifyingeverything, says this text, or income
tax to fair tax, welfare programsto universal basic income, and I think
that that is the way to lookat it. Let's simplify everything. Doesn't

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need to be reinventing the wheel.Canada has a vat tax. Now that
taxes are a little bit different,and this is why I would not be
in favor of any kind of fairtax until the income tax was repealed from
the constitution, because again I don'ttrust politicians, because in Europe you've got
a vat tax, You've got,I mean, taxes out the wazoo.

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It's ridiculous. The biggest problem withfederal taxes in any form, says this
Texter, is there's no correlation offederal spending. Amen to that, which
is why I'm also in favor ofa Convention of States for a balanced budget
amendment. But we'll see what happensthere. Now when we get back talking
about making something way more complicated thanit needs to be the new Denver Public

(50:34):
schools safety matrix is dumb. It'sjust dumb. When I was a kid,
it went like this. You actedthe fool in the classroom, You
got sent to the office. Youmay have gotten a suspension, or you
may have gotten wax, you mayhave gotten paddled, depending on what the
situation was. If you got introuble enough, they suspended you for a

(50:55):
long time. If you got introuble more than that, they expelled you.
It was not complicated. We didn'tneed a matrix. We just needed
to allow principles and vice principles todo the right thing and make good decisions.
We needed to allow teachers to havesome expectation that they would be able
to maintain control in their classroom andhave the administration back them up. We're

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of legal stuff, we all knowthat Denver Public Schools has been a bit
of a dumpster fire when it comesto students. Say, after Taita Anderson
managed to get SROs thrown out ofDenver Public Schools, We've seen incidences at

(53:07):
the schools, especially East High School, of people being shot both inside and
outside the schools, and it's reallybeen kind of a disaster. Our parents
have been very and rightfully so upset. And Denver Public Schools a year ago,
y'all, it's been a year sincethey said they were going to redo
the matrix for discipline. So thesuggested matrix is eighteen pages long and it

(53:34):
includes a bunch of boxes that thentalks about what happens next. Right,
it's got this entire And don't getme wrong, I love a matrix.
And if you don't know what amatrix is, because we never used these
things. Did they use matrix's whenyou were in school, Like when you
had a project, did you geta matrix, a grading matrix, I
think. So they did not dothat when I was in high school.

(53:54):
You were just guessing what the teacherwanted. A matrix in that sense is
that you get at a list ofthings that it says, look, if
you do these things, you getan A. If you do these things,
you get a B. If youdo these things, you get to
see. Yes, yes, okay, you didn't have those. But I
love a matrix because it clarifies everything, or it should. In this case,
it doesn't clarify anything. Listen tothis. So they go through all

(54:19):
of these different things. The offense, the definition are refer a discipline ladder
reference and recommendations for expulsion or schoolreferral. Now, they did bring expulsion
back, especially if a kid bringsa gun to school. Mandatory expulsion,
hearing, and expulsion. And that'sthe only thing that has mandatory expulsion as

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the answer. Robbery nope, firstor second degree assault and sexual assault nope.
You rape somebody and still not getexpelled. Yeah they'll be you know,
they'll have a mandatory review, butyou won't get expelled. Sail or
distribution of her intent to sell unoffdrugs or controlled substances. Are you gonna
get expelled? No, you're not. You could have a mandatory review,

(55:05):
but that doesn't say you're gonna getexpelled. It means that you're gonna have
to get a mandatory review. Now, dropping down to lesser crimes like arson,
you could set a building on fireand not even get a mandatory review
for expulsion. This thing is sounnecessarily complicated. And did Jimmy talk about
this when he was filling in JimmySangerberger because he wrote a great column about

(55:27):
it for the Denver Gazette. Andthey have made this so ridiculously complicated that
it is going to be impossible toequally apply it. I mean, this
is the kind of stuff that leavesso much wiggle room that there's always going
to be an excuse. And AlexMorrero is the second worst superintendent I have

(55:52):
ever had to pay attention to.And I've talked about Hilly Berman. He
was in Louisville, Kentucky when Iwas there, and he was the absolute
worse. But Marrero is bringing upa close second. In this article,
Jimmy quotes him and at this meeting, Hang on one second, I'm trying

(56:14):
to find this Marrero conflated calls forreform with opposing equitable education, insisting he
would not quote abandon our students whoneed us the most because their mistakes make
others uncomfortable. You know what,You're right, someone getting shot at my
kid's school, it makes me uncomfortable. Am I crazy for wanting to have

(56:36):
some kind of certainty that that kidwon't be back in school after they shot
someone? Equitable outcomes is garbage.Equitable outcomes are not reasonable or rational.
And I really firmly believe this,and I've talked about this before, and

(56:58):
this is how I feel about kidsand discipline in school. I think that
in any classroom, maybe not allclassrooms, but in most classrooms, you're
gonna have a vast majority of kids, maybe eighty five percent of kids who
are just there. They're gonna gowherever the wind leads you. Right,
If the class is well controlled,if you have a teacher that keeps control
of the class and enforces discipline anddoes all these things, then those kids

(57:22):
are gonna be good. You havefive percent of the kids that are always
going to be horrible regardless of what'sgoing on. They're just gonna be disruptors.
They're gonna be a problem there.Don't want to be in school,
they don't want to be in class, they don't want to pay attention to
anything. So you've got those fivepercent, and then you've got another five
to ten percent of kids that canbe easily led by the bad kids.

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Of that five percent, and ifthose kids go with the bad kids,
then the other eighty five percent,you're gonna have some you know, trouble.
And when you give kids clearly definedoutcomes, and I mean clearly,
as in, if you do this, if you do these things, we're
going to expel you. And thenyou actually do them. You actually expel

(58:05):
kids who do things like rob fromother people, sell drugs on campus,
sexually assault another student. Word getsout pretty quick, and all of a
sudden, a lot of these littlestupid tiki tak kind of discipline issues.
For the most part, especially inthat eighty five percent, they disappear.
We have a situation now where teachersdo not have an expectation that the administration

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will back them up. We havea situation where students are sent out of
the classroom and sent to the principal'soffice and they are coming back in the
same period to create the same problems, and other kids don't get to learn
when this kind of nonsense goes on. We need to empower our teachers and
our principles. We need to tellthem that we're going to have their back.
We need to allow them to kickkids out of the classroom. We

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need to allow the school system tosay, if you can't behave and follow
the rules in this school, you'regoing to have to do online school.
That's going to be your early option. You won't get to go to school.
Now, I know that sounds funny, but for a lot of these
kids, school is even if theyhate the learning part is their social outlet.
So by saying look, you're noteven going to be allowed on school

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grounds at any school if you keepthis up, or send him to an
alternative school. We all had analternative school in our neighborhood or our town
when we were growing up. That'swhere the kids who couldn't act right in
school went, and some of themcame back to regular school and some of
them didn't. But this overly complicateddiscipline matrix that is designed to make sure

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that you punish exactly the same amountof white kids as you do black and
Brown Kids is just going to beanother epic failure by a superintendent who needs
to be replaced. Of course theywon't because then they're going to be accused
of being racist because he's Hispanic,and so he'll just have the job forever,
and Denver Public Schools will still continueto do a lousy job keeping our
kids safe and teaching them how todo math and read and all of those

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things that they're supposed to do.That's my prediction. Sad but true.
That's what I think is going tohappen when we get back. Yesterday I
had a story about people leaving theUnited Kingdom and not just any people high
earners. Now we have that happeningin another country, and this should be
warning to the United States. Andthey tax the rich crowd returning one hundred

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this year. So we're gathering upyour favorite memories of Koa and if you
want to email, just do itlike this. Send an email to a
Rod at iHeartMedia dot com and inthe subject line use Koa memories and do
it in the next eleven minutes becausewe're cutting it off at two cutting it
off and then we'll announce the winnerat two thirty. But You can also

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enter on Facebook and excuse me nowrong. You can enter on Twitter,
and you can enter on Instagram.Both of those are at Koa, Colorado.
Find those accounts, look for thepicture of Mick Jagger and follow the
directions to a t okay follow thedirections. That's incredibly important now in the
meantime. Yesterday I had a storyon the blog about people in the United

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Kingdom who are very high earners,very wealthy people, and the United Kingdom
has been losing high wealth individuals ata very very rapid clip. And the
clip has only increased as the politicsof the United Kingdom have changed. Because

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politically it looks like that labor isabout to take over from the Conservatives,
and that's not going to be goodif you're a high earner, because they're
going to come after them. We'regoing to tax the rich to pay for
all of our social programs, andthey have tons more social programs than we
have. So rich people are takingup stakes and leaving. But it's not
just the United Kingdom. Today Igot a story about China. China saw

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the world's biggest outflow of high networth individuals last year and is expected to
see a record exodus of fifteen thousand, two hundred people in twenty twenty four.
Uncertainty over China's economic trajectory and geopoliticaltensions are top of mind for many
Chinese millionaires who choose to leave theircountry. According to a report by investment

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migration firm Henley and Partners, theUS, China's international art rival stands out
as the top destination. China lastyear saw thirteen eight hundred high networth individuals
depart, mostly to the US,Canada and Singapore. Such individuals are defined

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as those with at least a milliondollars in assets. Now, why are
we talking about rich people leaving Chinaor rich people leaving the UK? Whenever
people on the hard left decide tojust say we just need to tax the
rich, which we all know isnot going to work. But they want
to tax the rich, the superrich, the billionaires. The Now,

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notice Bernie Sanders, since he madea million dollars one year, as you
know, when he sold his book, he doesn't talk about millionaires anymore because
now he's one of them. Sonow it's just billionaires. These billionaires that
we've got, these billionaires, theyneed to pay more. Except billionaires can't
pick up and relocate. You thinkthey won't, but they will because they're

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not billionaires, because they hand overa bunch of money to the government.
Right, that's not how you doit. They will absolutely relocate. You
can see it in the exodus ofhow Worth people from California. California has
been losing people because of their taxstructure. So it is one of those
things that we should pay attention tobecause people who think tax rich, tax

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the rich, the rich won't putup with it. We were talking when
we were on our trip in Norway. Norway offers a very high level of
social services, but boy, theytax the crap out of their people,
and they tax every you know howin this country the bottom twenty percent of
income earners really pay nothing. Andas a matter of fact, the way
our tax code is, they makemoney off of the tax code, especially

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if they have children. And thenthe bottom fifty percent barely pay anything in
income taxes. And all of thesepeople in the bottom lower part, they're
like, you know what, wewant services, we want free healthcare,
we want this. Well, youknow what, in Norway, you're gonna
pay twenty percent even if you're poor, you're gonna pay thirty five percent.
If you're middle class, they payout the wazoo for those services. So

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if people in this country want,you know, more socialism, they better
get ready to shell out for it. And I don't think they're ready for
it. I don't think that's whatthey want. They want someone else to
pay the bill for all of theirfree stuff. I mean, nice work,
if you even get it. Butat some point, you know,
the sugar daddies are gonna leave,just like they're leaving China. Now.

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When we get back, it isthe two minute drill. Then we've got
Gabe Evans excited about that. Heis running in the eighth congressional district and
I would like you to vote forhim. I'm not endorsing him, because
you know how that goes, butwe're gonna talk to him, and then
we're going to talk to the guywho wrote the Mandy Connell song. If
you haven't heard it, you're gonnahear it later. It's all coming up
after the news, trafficking weather,and I've got even more stuff on the

(01:05:18):
blog today. We haven't even talkedabout some of the videos on the blog.
Oh can we just have a minute, just a second, justin Timberlake
just got popped for DUI. Now, I don't have an opinion about this.
He was on Martha's vineyard. Idon't care. But y'all, he's
either the biggest lightweight in the worldbecause he told the cops that he'd had
one martini. Go look at hismugshot. Dude did not just have one

(01:05:42):
martini. Liar he is anyway,I'm sure he'll work his way out of
it. Gabe Evans It wants tobe your congressman from the eighth congressional district.
He is currently in a contested primary, and he would like your vote
now, he joins us. Hi, Gabe, how are you good?
Always great to be on with you. Well, you know, I had
a chance to see you at therumble in Weld County fairly like a couple

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of weeks ago, three weeks ago, and I will tell you I was
very impressed with your presence and yoursort of vibe, if that makes sense.
And I don't normally say that topeople running for office, because it
sounds weird, but you've got toYou've got a very what's the word that
I'm looking for, You've got avery confident demeanor, about you, and

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in my mind, that's what Iwant from my representatives. But I'd love
for you to tell my listeners whyit is you've decided to run for the
fourth congressional district for the for theeighth. I'm sorry, eighth. I
was just talking about ballots being returned. Sorry about that, the eighth Congressional
district. Go ahead. Oh,no worries at all, and thank you
so much for that. I mean, you know, my background really kind

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of does tell the stories. Bornand raised here in Colorado, homeschool of
all twelve years, spent twelve yearsUS Army and Colorado Army National Guard,
another ten years in law enforcement.Made it up to the command level in
both of those different careers. Andthat's why I'm in this whole political arena
is because I saw boots on theground what the left is doing to my

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state and to my country. Justquick statistic. When I started my law
enforcement career in twenty eleven, Coloradowas nineteenth best in the nation for our
crime rate, you know, solidlyabove the national average. We're now third
worst in the nation. We're numbertwo for property crime, we're around number
eight for violent crime. And Iwatched all of that happen over the course
of my career in law enforcement.And so that's why I'm fighting down at

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the state Capitol as a current staterepresentative. That's why I'm running for the
eighth Congressional district because this is notthe Colorado. This is not the America
that I put twenty two combined yearsin military and law enforcement, you know,
put my life on the line.This is not what I want to
hand on to my kids, tomy grandkids. This is not the America
that I fought for. So it'sthe exact same motivation that led me to

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do those other jobs that's leading menow to throw my name into the hat
for the eighth Congressional District. Well, let me play Devil's advocate for you
just a moment. You're actually amember of the legislature now, and would
you be able to tackle those problemsbetter as a member of the Colorado legislature
or how do you see that translatingas a member of Congress. Yeah,
so right now on the Colorado StateHouse, you've got a head of sixty

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five representatives and thirty five state senators, so total total legislature for Colorado hundred
folks. You got thirty one Republicans, and yet sixty nine Democrats and Republicans
have no statewide offices anymore in thestate of Colorado. So really what we
need to do is we need towin some seats back in Colorado. The

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left in Colorado is governing as ifthey haven't lost an election since twenty fourteen,
which is kind of true. Thelast big race they lost was when
we unseated mark u Dahl and sentCory Garker to the Senate. That was
the last time they paid a priceat the ballot box. The eighth Congressional
district is a national top five pickupopportunity for Republicans. It was decided different

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candidate, but it was decided byzero point six y nine percent two years
ago. The far left Democrat that'sin that seat right now is she's top
three most vulnerable Democrats in the nation. So we flip this congressional seat.
That has an impact all across Coloradobecause it's the first time that the left
has lost a major race for adecade, and that sends a message not

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just at the federal level, butthat sends a message here in Colorado.
The Colorados are ready for their electedrepresentatives to get back to actually governing and
trying to fix the problems that areplaguing them like high cost of living,
high crime, the fact that sixtypercent of third graders can't read at the
third grade level when they're in thirdgrade. So let's talk about immigration.
Let's start with that. That seemsto be a very big issue. I've

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talked to multiple candidates and they say, as they're knocking doors, that issue
keeps coming up over and over andover again. You represent an area that
has a high level of how youwill represent an area that would have a
high level of agricultural needs? Andwhat are you hearing as you're knocking on
doors? What are you hearing frompeople in the eighth Congressional District. Yeah,

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so the state House seat that Irepresent right now, ninety five percent
of that is in the eighth andit's in the eighth and basically the same
percentages when you when you look atcounties, the eighth is sixty percent Adams
County, thirty five percent Weld County. I currently represent Adams in Weld County,
So I currently represent the heart ofthe eighth And so these are my
folks when I'm talking to them.Yeah, the immigration conversation comes up.

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There's a lot of concerns there.You have just the national security concern.
We don't know who's coming across ourborder, or we do. We know
there's ICEIS affiliated terrorists coming across theborder. We know there's people that oversees
chant death to America that now havefree access to our country. That's not
why I spent twelve years as acombat veteran of the Global War on Terror
fighting overseas in the Middle East,to just have those folks come up across

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our border. Same thing as apolice officer. Colorado is the number two
state in the nation for kids teenagersages thirteen to seventeen overtoasting and dying on
illegal drugs that are streaming across oursouthern border. And then obviously you brought
up the agriculture. Honestly, oneof the big issues that a lot of
the ag producers in my area haveright now is because of so many illegal

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immigrants that are bogging down the system. They don't have the ability to actually
go hire folks that are trying todo it the right way, that are
applying for a visa, that havea legal authority to be in the United
States because all of our systems aregetting swamped by the illegal immigration. Just
look at our hospital systems. Ourhospital systems in Colorado are out tens of

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millions of dollars in uncompensated care toillegal immigrants, and that impacts our economy
across the board, to include ouragricultural producers up in the eighth Congressional So
what do you want to see happen? You know, for me Gave,
it is first to secure the border, and then we have to have immigration
reform. We have to allow thosefarm workers who want to come across the

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border and work on our farms tohave the ability to do that. So
what would you like to see happen? Yeah, well, I mean you
pretty much said it there. Firststep, we've got to secure the border.
You know, as a cop,I look at all of the cases
that make the headlines of somebody thatwas in our country and in our state
committing crimes, got deported five,six, eight, ten times, came
right back, continued to cause problems. So until the border is secured,

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don't pass go, don't collect yourtwo hundred dollars. We have got to
secure the border. But then,as you said, we know that you
know, we can't. We haveto have that lawful commerce back across the
border. So when I say securethe border, that means we know what's
coming in. If it's not allowedin, it doesn't come in. But
for that lawful commerce that helps oureconomy, we have to have more capacity

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to be able to screen and properlyprocess those individuals who are trying to do
it the right way, who wantto come to the United States, pay
their taxes, be a contributing memberof society. And we can't do that
right now when our southern border isin Joe Biden's leftist induced chaos. Now,
we only have another minute or so, and I'd love for people to
go to Gabe's website, which Ilinked on the blog today, to find

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out more about these issues. Butwhy should people vote for you instead of
your opponent who has carpetbagged up fromthe Colorado Springs area to run in this
district. Well, I think again, my motivation speaks for itself, military
law enforcement state representative. I tooka sixty percent pay cut when I stepped
away from law enforcement to go bea state representative. That's the same motivation

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that's driving me here. I'm tryingto fix problems. I know what my
principles are. Those things I'll nevercompromise, but I can collaborate with anyone.
That's why, even in a superminority down at the State Capitol,
I've still had more bills get passedthan not because I'm working to solve those
every day problems that are facing Coloraden'sand Americans, and those things transcend quite
often party lines. I've had Democratstell me I don't know what's wrong with

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my party. I like you,Gabe, because you're working to make Colorado
affordable. You're working to keep ussafe, You're working to make sure that
our kids actually get an education inschools, and not agenda that resonates with
Republicans, independents, that resonates witha lot of Democrats. And when the
Democrats have gone hard left, folksare looking for balance. I bring that
balance, and I bring that balance. You know, tested by twenty two

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years in military and law enforcement inanother two years in the state Capitol.
Find out more about Gave Evans bygoing to his website. Elect gave Evans
dot com and that's Gabeevans dot com. Gabe, I wish you the best
and hopefully we'll talk to you againafter the primary. I really look forward
to it. Thanks so much forall right that is gave Evans, and
as I said before, that wouldbe my preferred choice. I've seen his

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opponent and he's just one of thosepeople who spouts off hard right talking point
set in the eighth congressional district.That is not going to get anyone elected.
It just isn't. We'll be rightback shortly afternoon. If t'acki's a
not employe. There's a voice sonkill. Hey, you got it here

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today. She's the mistress of thenight with you raise a shop with many
conne you cannot quit Andy Conda.We need a montage night. We need
a montage while this is playing.We need some kind of you know,
like seventy sitcom opening type situation.This is the Mandy Connell theme and it

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was done by a listener. Hisname is Ty Shandon. Ty is joining
me now, hello, my friend. Well hello, So first of all,
Ty, I cannot thank you enoughthis. Actually, like I I
got emotional about this because it's oneof the nicest things that anybody has ever
done for me as a listener.I just appreciated it so much and it's
so good, and the first thinga Rod said was did he use AI

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because it's that good. So Iwanted to bring you on to talk about
how you made the song. Firstof all, I'm pleased I inspired it,
But what were you just sitting aroundone day with nothing to do and
thought, you know, I'm gonnamake a Mandy Connell's song. Yeah.
So I am gifted musically in onearea, and that's when a song comes
on, I immediately know if Ilike it or not. That's as far

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as my musical genius goes. Somost all of this is pretty much AI.
Here at work, we do alot of training, and I was
thinking if we could put something tomusic, students might like it more.
Right, So then I started researchingAI music because I can't do anything,

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and it started turning out really well. And then so the more and I
just started in January, and themore I dug into it, the more
it got. And so when Ithe more it got better. And then
when I got to your song,I was trying multiple different programs just to
create one song. So yours waskind of an experiment and it came out
so well. I'm like I'm justgoing to send it to her because this

(01:17:11):
turned out pretty good. This isreally cool. So did you write the
words? Did you? I mean, how does this tell me what the
process is like? Yeah? Sothe only thing that's that's completely mine is
the lyrics. So I did allthe lyrics. Then there's various AI programs.
The main one I used is calledLala, and that basically takes a
song. It can strip it downinto all of its individual tracks, and

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you can alter all those tracks.So I used a program to create the
drums, I used a program tocreate the guitar, and other program to
create the vocals. And then youjust mash it all together. Oh that's
super cool. So that's an AIsinger. Yes? No, yeah.
Now over the weekend, I justfound out I found a new AI program
where you can train it with yourvoice and they generate your your scene voice.

(01:18:00):
Get out. Yeah, what's thename of that one? That's super
cool. It's brand new. It'scalled I think it's pronounced audio me au
d I M double e. Butyou basically just talked to it like you
would programming anything, and eventually itknows how to create your singing voice.
It's easy to do with celebrities becausethere's so much audio right out there,

(01:18:21):
so AI can rip their voices quick. But if you want to do yours,
then you just have to train somethingto do well. It sounds a
lot like well, I don't knowif you heard the interview yesterday with James
Duprey, the guy who worked withOh my gosh, Randy Travis, who
was left without a singing voice,and they used AI and James Duprai's voice
to recreate Randy Travis's voice, andnow he's got a new song out because

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of it. So it's kind ofI mean, it's very very similar.
But the thing that I find themost interesting about this now, I'm glad
you wrote the lyrics, because ifyou hadn't written the lyrics, I would
be like, man, this isactually super catchy for a completely computer generated
It makes me feel better that therewas a human component to the lyrics somehow,
because I don't want to be replacedby AI. You are doing my

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job. So how long did allthis take you? About two hours?
The first thing I went for wasa guitar track because I wanted something that
felt I don't know, it soundsweird, but I needed it to feel
like bumper music, right, So, oh my god, that's very hard.
I found the guitar track first becauseI figured, man, that'll appeal

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to Mandy more than anything. Andthen when I had that, I wrote
the lyrics so it fit that tempo. Then found another program that would put
in the drum beats, found anotherprogram that would do that guitar solo,
put it all together and there yougo. That is super cool, ty
just really really. I appreciate itso very much. And now you have
the problem is you know, youcan't copyright anything that's made by AI.

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This one is copyright. So Iwent through and looked at all the programs
I used to create this one,and all of them let you use whatever
you generate with their stuff. Youcan copyright it's yours. Oh no way,
No, I was under the impressionand I'll have to look into this
more that the copyright office was rejectingpossible applications because they can't be sure of

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where the AI was quote inspired by. But if you're manipulating the guitar and
you're manipulating all the different pieces,that to me would seem like you you
actually composed it. Yeah, Ithink it more like arranging, but yeah,
I'm more of a jazzy Jeff.When I pressed that's myself. I
love that, just kind of justkind of throwing everything together. And I

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found another program this weekend too,where you make noises with your mouth and
that turns into the musical instruments.What are you authentic too? Like?
You make a noise like and itturns it into a musical instrument. Yes,
what is that one called? Ohjeez, what was that one called?
I want to say, email itto me when you find it,

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tie, email it to me.Yeah, it's there's there's so much,
and it's moving so fast. Ijust started in January, like I said,
because I wanted to help my students, and now it's going so fast.
I can't even keep up with allthe with all the changes well I
was doing. I can't tell youhow much I appreciate it. I was
very moved that you thought of meand that you made me a song,
and I love it. And I'mgonna have a j R. Production director

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like work it into our into ourintro because I just think it's it's absolute
fantastic and I just wanted to bringyou on and thank you publicly because you
made my day. I send itto all my friends, like all of
my prison and I'm like, ohmy god, I have a theme song.
All I need is a cape andI'm practically a superhero. Well,
you make everybody a day better,So if I made one of your days

(01:21:45):
better, that's worth Tye. Iappreciate you, man, I appreciate that
so much. Well, you're welcome, all right. That's tie. Did
I say your last name right?Is it Shade? It's actually Dan And
I was gonna say that, butthat seemed too fane. So anyway,
ty shawt A, I appreciate yourtime today, my friend. I have
a good dame, all right,you two. So that's just like a

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super cool thing that I did.Now, I want to show my daughter
this stuff because my daughter's been makingmusic. She writes songs. My fifteen
year old daughter writes these lyrics thatare like really good. So maybe I'll
turn around some AI music and seewhat she can come up with. We
have a winner in our KOA Memoriescontest for two tickets to the Rolling Stones

(01:22:30):
tomorrow night, and I just wantto say a huge thank you to all
of you entered, because as weare entering in December our one hundredth anniversary.
Here at KOA, we're going tobe using some of these memories.
We're going to be using and talkingto people and recording some of these memories.
So you guys kicked it off ina big way. Now, this
was also extremely difficult. So letme know what. Let me just let
you know what I did here.I picked a top ten and then I

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had someone pick a number, soI couldn't even narrow it down to one.
But Mark Doring, you are thewinner of this contest. You have
win tickets to the Rolling Stones.And let me just read you part of
this entry. Oh dang it,I opened the wrong one. Hang on
one second. You think I wouldhave already done this, but I was
excited about talking about the song.So let me scroll down here. Okay,

(01:23:20):
here we go. This is Mark'smemory. I grew up in Denver
in the nineteen seventies. My earliestmemories associated with KOA are associated with my
maternal grandparents. Two specific memories andmy grandparents come to mind, not specific
instances, but ongoing memories that areassociated with them and remind me of when
I think of KOA. Number onegoing to Mile High Stadium with my grandparents

(01:23:42):
to go to Broncos games. Theywere original South Stand season ticket holders and
the first to take me to thegame in the magical nineteen seventy seven season
when I was seven. My Grandpawould have KOA on the small battery powered
AM radio that he brought to youevery game to hold to his ear to
hear Larry Zimmer call the game becausethere was no play calling. I still
take an AM radio to this dayinto the stadium for my tickets. I

(01:24:05):
use earbuds to hear Dave. Mygrandparents would drive us three kids to my
aunt's house in Bird City, Kansasto go on vacation for July fourth,
to buy real fireworks, and wewould listen to KOA. In the nineteen
sixty seven Chevy. It only hadAM radio as we drove Highway thirty six
East to go to Bird City,Kansas, and Grandma and Grandpa would always

(01:24:27):
discuss what was on the station.It could have been crop reports for all
I remember. We would always hearKOA all the way there. I still
have the Chevy and it still hasthe AM radio, although it stopped working
twelve years ago and I installed separateradios elsewhere. I will always associate Koa
with fond memories of my mom's grandparentswho have long since departed this earth.

(01:24:48):
And now Mark is going to goto the Rolling Stones. I will be
emailing you in just a minute.Mark, Yay. Now I've got two
very special guests in the studio today. They are the people responsible for A
Rod. And I don't mean theyhired him or welcomed him to Kaaway.
I mean they actually produced the manthat produces my show. I have A

(01:25:11):
Rod's B Rod and C Rod inthe studio. Your parents, that's right?
Clapping? Are we clapping? Don'tknow? We need air horn?
Can you just you just he justbuzzing. I don't take credit or responsibility
for that area. Now that Ihave you, let's talk about embarrassing stories

(01:25:33):
about Anthony? Shall we? Oh? My god? Was he He was
probably a good kid, wasn't he? He was a great kid. Yeah,
he's a great human being. Anthony'sshow. It was always we called
him the Anthony Show. Now sameas now, Yes, did he ever
do anything that you remember as beingespecially ridiculous in car? We don't know

(01:25:59):
about that. What wait a minute, I don't know what this is I
did not. Supposedly on a fieldtrip to end car, someone flooded the
boy's bathroom. He was not me. Did you have burritos the night before?
What happened that? That kind ofsame? And he blamed for it,

(01:26:24):
and I told him, I goon your deathbed. You're gonna my
deathbed, You're gonna tell me thetruth. He never did anything like that
any other time, so I don'tthink he did it. He did it,
dad, like he didn't do it. I problem for him. Let
me see this video and there wasnothing on it. There was no video.
Wait a minute, he got akids on a video and walking out
of the bathroom. I go,oh, you mean like everybody else?

(01:26:45):
Oh my gosh, who threw youunder the bus? A rod who tried?
I don't remember, you don't know. But the problem with this with
Anthony, like all the other kidswould be doing bad stuff, Anthony would
do it too, but he wouldput on his show and make it obvious.
Oh my, could you be alittle more just great about the wrongdoing?
Like that is so on brand forthe man I know today. He

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doesn't. He doesn't do bad things, but if he did, he would
want to be recognized for those things. Is that it was he a good
student? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I mean he made a lot of
we always remember the musical talent.I mean he made honor choirs and the
higher level choirs, and he wouldbe the stage performer. And did you
have you ever seen the Elvis video? No, there's an Elvis Joseph in

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the Amazing Technicolor Dream Cone. Haveyou ever seen that? I have seen
that show, but I've never seenit with him and a pharaoh is Elvis
inspired? Oh my God, madethe pharaoh as Elvis. That's fantastic.
And then the band director liked itso much that he had him perform with
the marching band as Elvis white jumpsuitElvis. That is How do I How
have I not mind? I needto see video of this right now.

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You're the one that brought your parents. I was like, you're data mining
right now. I'm just gonna show. I'm making notes over here. I'm
like, okay, what else dowe need to know about this? Yeah?
No, it is not time yet. It is not I've got four
minutes. But he actually got Chrisis the one who got him started in
basically radio because he would do ahome we had a home show podcast that

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we would do from our home.We would do politics and sports, and
Anthony and his friends started a sportsshow. It to MAT's a mixer?
How to people call it? Now? How did you know how to do
that? Sea Rod? It's easy, It's give away our secrets. Okay
we were yeah, okay, sothat's I was saying. It's pretty random

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for somebody to just take up amixing board for no reason. So no
music that we were in local Weworked local politics. We worked on the
local campaigns and stuff for in LongLunt and Chris started a radio show to
be able to talk about what wasgoing on in politics. So and then
he would bring on air traffic controllercoworkers and they would have it back and
forth talk show. And then Anthonywanted to do the sports. So when

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he went to Metro State, wetook him on a tour of the media
department and he walked in and hegoes, I know how to work all
that way ahead of the game.Yeah, so you made sure everyone knew
how well. He's very, veryvery good at guitar and stuff. I
mean he is. Somebody asked methe other day about a rod we just
got back from a listener trip andsomebody asked about a Rod and I said,

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if you guys knew half the stuffthat he does behind the scenes,
right, because you see the littlebit of us, you know, having
a conversation on the air, Buthe does so much technical stuff behind the
scenes that I have no idea howto do this. My industry has zipped
past me since the time I wasin his seat to now. Technology is
completely different. I mean when Ifirst got into radio, we still had

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carts that he had to plug in. They were like eight track tapes and
ridiculous. So what we're doing nowand the stuff he brings to the table
is just amazing. You guys dida really good job with him, Yeah,
with his own show. Had himhow to edit the wave files,
how to upload him for the podcastspeed, how to put it up on
the blog, how to spread itout for everybody and all the feeds,
and a lot of this stuff hegot from me, because I wrote,

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I love that your parents are basicallylike we did everything. We introduced him
to it, and like I said, it's always been the Anthony Show his
whole life. Yes, so itgave him an outlet, you know,
like whoa, my god, Imust have driven you crazy. Otherwise you
gotta give them out. You wouldhave callers. I would be why would
be Studio B. I called myselfStudio B, and I would screen the

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calls coming into the sports show thathe would take calls. And then I
worked for I wrote for an onlinenewspaper in Denver. Remember Examiner dot com.
No, that was prior to right, guys, not even plugged the
name of our old network. Nowcome on the Lightning Rod Radio. Okay,

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But a lot of the social mediaI was. It was when Facebook
first started and Twitter first started,and I got paid per page few for
my articles. So I started onTwitter. And he used to always tell
like your you know, James GomesHuh. He used to always tell James
go MEAs I taught him Twitter,So I always got credit twitter is on

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Twitter and I followed James, andJames thought, I is that your sister?
Like not us my mom. ButI'm always trying to be discreet because
I'm like, I don't want tolike you know, now you're famous,
be right on social media? OnTwitter's you ever wait my Twitter? Now
you're b rot? He's rot.We as a matter of fact, I'm
not going to be back tomorrow.I am going to go have a colon

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oscary tomorrow. But we had abaseball game, so Ross is going to
do the half hour of the show, so you'll have thirty minutes of Ross,
and I'll be back on Friday,hopefully cancer free. We'll see uh
so keep it right here until then.