06-25-24 FULL SHOW - It's Primary Day!

Episode Transcript

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Welcome, Welcome, welcome. Wetalk about all kinds of stuff on this
primary day. If you're listening beforeseven, did you drop your ballots off
yet? We spend a little bitof time talking about summer Olympic sports,
and I got to tell you I'msuper excited about them now. And We've
got the lead singer of Yutley CruePhilly Ocean coming on today. It's going
to be a good one. Youwant to listen up. I've got a

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lot of stuff to talk about,but I just want to start by saying
this. If you have not votedin today's primary, I'm just going to
encourage you to do it if youhave any contested races. Now, if
you don't have any contested races,you don't have to do that. I
mean, I wish it mattered.It looks better stat wise that more people
participated, But when you don't haveany contested races on your ballot, it's

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like why bother that being said,if you do have contested races on your
ballot, please return your ballots.Turnout has been very low, and that
means your vote could literally mean thedifference between victory or defeat. So go
out and turn your ballots in especiallyif you are voting for the people that
Rosskaminski recommended his voter guide. Uh, but please participate, it would be

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lovely if you did. Anyway,let's go to the blog. All you
have to do to find the blogis go to mandy'sblog dot com. That's
mandy'sblog dot com. Look for theheadline that says six twenty five twenty four
blog It's Primary Day. That's howyou have to read it in your head.
You can't just read it's Primary Day. You have to read it's Primary
Day exactly. Click on that andhere are the headlines you will find within.

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I think you're missing office half ofAmerican, all the ships and clipmas,
and say that's going to press flinchtoday on the blog, drop off
your ballots or vote in person today. Filly Ocean of Yachtley Crue joins us
at two point thirty. Sign upfor the Freedom for Miler. Trump has
decided on his veep. The ParisOlympics are gonna be a hot ticket.
There's a church kerfuffle in Dylan Denverwants to raise sales taxes again. Julian

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Assage will be a freeman soon.Democrats soft on crime policy still haunt to
Colorado. How much do you spendon travel per day? How much time
do you spend on travel per day? The Sixteenth Street Mall is in a
bad way. One group says enoughextremists. Jimminy Glick interviews Bill Maher.
The Kowait Cast is back with thefirst debate this Thursday. The new faux

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pas of the ozempic era Hooters SAgsan earthshaking rule in Israel. Info Wars
is going belly up. People areflying like crazy. What are you spending
money on today? When men fantasizeabout having periods, the science of getting
sleep? Millennial parenting is something aconvention we never knew we needed. And

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now poop talk grown up versus toddler. And those are the headlines on the
blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Andwe have some very very good videos on
the blog today, not the leastof which is the one about millennial parenting.
And not every millennial pain falls intothis category, but oh my,

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too many of you do the wholeyou know what. I'm so sorry I
got upset, but you know that'smy trauma, not yours. Do you
have friends who parent well? Youdon't really have friends with kids yet,
do you? Oh? I do, and you're right, Oh yeah,
all of them. No, Anddon't get me wrong, I don't endorse
child beating or things of that nature. No, no, no, no,

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But I do think that we areraising a generation of tyrants without who
don't have any respect for people whoare older and smarter than they are.
And that's unfortunate because the more thatthey are told they are right in their
opinion matters just as much. Theyare then shut off from learning from people
who have much more experience and knowledgethan they do. Don't get me wrong,

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I love to hear a kid's idea, But when you say what should
we have for dinner? And yourhusband says, well, I think we
should have steak and potatoes, andyour seven year old says, I think
we should have ice cream and cookies, which one of those is going to
be weighted with more are more seriousness. So in any case, if they
want cookies, and if they wantwhatever they want, their feelings on that

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are valid. Well, feelings gonnabe valid all you want, I mean,
but feelings, I just I don'tknow. There is a video on
the blog a rod you send itto me, and I watched it trying
to figure out what I was missing. And then after I watched it like
four times, I realized I'm notmissing anything. This trans woman is missing

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ovaries. And therefore, I imaginemy surprise when the headline on this video
is I got a period as atrans woman. If a trans woman is
bleeding from that area, she needsto seek medical help immediately, because the

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equipment that creates that whole situation doesnot exist in a trans woman. It
simply is, it's not there,doesn't do the same things, doesn't doesn't
you know, have all of therequisite uh stuff. And yet that's where

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we are now in society. Andfirst of all, it's it's absurd to
me that any man would pine awayfor a period out of Like if you
asked me, like if it wasa Yelp review for having a period,
I would be like, no,stars, do not recommend, do not

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no. So this is just it'sit's it becomes you begin to see I'm
trying to think of how to phrasethis to I say it the way I
want to say it. It makesthe whole trans woman thing feel more like
a fetish than an identity crisis,and like that, that whole being a

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woman and the unpleasant parts is fetishizedby that. In any case, that
video is it's on the blog todayif you want to have your mind blown
for a second. We do haveactual things to talk about today. One
of them is it is election day. As I just mentioned, do not
mail your ballot. You can mailit, but it won't count because it
will not get there by seven pmtonight. You have to find a dropbox
or even go back into olden timesand go into your voting location and cast

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your ballot and then yes, hello, young man, I'm here to cast
my ballot. And then it's sodisappointing though, when you walk over and
it's a little cardboard stand with thelittle flimsy little you know, view blockers.
It's not exciting like it used tobe when the curtain would slam shut.
So good, we have fil theOcean of Yachte Crue in studio today.

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Now I know what you're thinking,Mandy, I don't know who that
is. Yachte Crue is the mostsuccessful yacht rock band in the country.
And if you don't know ya,oh yes, yes you do. If
you were alive in the seventies,and eighties. It was the music that
you heard in the doctor's office,in an elevator, or at the grocery
store. They're the songs that whenthey come on, you find yourself reflexively

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singing along with them, even thoughyou haven't heard the song at thirty five
years, and yet you still knowall the words, even though you cannot
remember the password that you changed yesterday. That's you ot rock and they are
playing at the Oriental Theater tomorrow nightand looking forward to it. So Philly
Ocean is gonna join me in thestudio. Did I mention that today's primary
day? A rod? Did Imention it? That's today? Yeah,

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that's today. Are voting? Yeah, you're bailing right. No, no
mailing it in. You've got todrop it off at a ballot box,
or you can go in and actuallycast your ball. Some of our listeners
are used to mailing it in,but it's too late. Now you missed
your window. It's not going toget there. I heard you. I
heard you used to mailing it in. I got it shot across the bow.

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I hear you, I hear you. We are also going to talk
today to the board president of theColorado Veterans Project. They do great work
supporting a variety of veterans causes,and they have a fun run coming up
and not this weekend. Wait,maybe it is this week. It is
this weekend. I for some reason, I keep thinking this weekend. It's

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like June seventeenth. Yeah, Iknow, I lost a week. I
did too today. I'm not quitesure what happened. There no clue.
I put the wrong date on theblog, which is not uncommon, but
I did catch it this time andtime. But I was like, wait
a minute, I've completely lost aweek in this. But it is a
fun run. There's a mile run. There's also the Freedom four miler,
and so they scheduled it this weekso you did not have to mess up

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your Fourth of July plans. Speakingof fourth of July, there is a
story on the blog today that Ifind fascinating and I want to ask you
guys a few questions. You know, I love to travel, you know,
I fly all the time. Butthe TSA says that they screened more
people in one day yesterday than everbefore. They screened two point ninety nine

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million people yesterday. I know,I know, so I am what I
am wading Now have you flown whereyou just came back from South Florida?
Yeah? Were your flights full?Both ways? Uh? The way there?
Yes, the way back. Now. See, I haven't been on
a flight that wasn't full in solong I don't even know, Like,

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I don't even know what that's like. Our flight on the way back from
Europe was over sold, oh,meaning they had people at the gate that
did not have a seat. Iwould say half the time in the last
couple of times I've flown, weget the empty middle seat. Yeah,
that's nice. But going to theairports, the airports are absolute madness,
just madness. And so I'm guessingthat we still have a lot of pent

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up demand from being sort of youknow, kept home after COVID or during
COVID. Going in the fourth ofJuly, that's staycation, baby, all
we're going to Ohio to see ourkids. So we're traveling on the fourth
of July weekend. Always stay athome. Now, that's a good time
to go see like the kids andthe grands So we're going to go do

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that. But to me, that'sa neighborhood affair. It always has been
for me, you know, whenI am in Florida, where sort of
redneck rules presided. In my hometown, there was always, you know,
the neighborhood fireworks display that rivaled anyfireworks display you've ever seen in your life.

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But we didn't have fire danger likewe have here, so it didn't
feel as dangerous until somebody blew theirfingers off and that only happened once.
But here, I'm I have somuch fire anxiety. I truly believe that
that's a thing, and I haveit. So it makes me nervous when
people fire off fireworks in my inmy neighborhood. Oh, I lose track,

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honey throughout the night. And really, I mean to be real.
The week of around before the July, everyone's doing it. You've seen so
many land on roofs. See thatstresses me out really bad. But and
we have a ton of dogs inmy neighborhood, and so that's where people
get really upset. It's best workfor Fourth of July fireworks, you think
too, for the dogs. Noticeshe's like other dog that's not Jeans Coffy

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that is definitely afraid of lightning andthunder. Probably need to get one of
those thunder vests. A yes,okay, I love the commentary that I'm
getting on the Common Spirit health textline about periods. I will not be
sharing any of that on the radio. Yeah, no, no, anyway,

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explanations here now, Yes, we'rejust gonna move on this. Texter
said, there's absolutely no way totell if your ballot was actually counted or
counted for who you picked. Youdo get a notice from ballot tracks if
you sign up for that. Whatthat tells you your ballot has been counted.
So that is a Now was itcounted for the people you actually turned

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it in for? I mean that'sjust if only if there's mass fraud that
is perpetrated by people being watched bypole watchers of both parties. So I
mean, I guess it's possible.I just don't think it is. Mandy.
When I was a mailman and gotballots a couple of days before election
day, I would drop them intothe absentee ballot box in front of the
rec center. Aren't you a kindmailman? I'm sure that violates some sort

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of mailman rules, but you area kind mailman to make sure that they
were getting counted. Hey, Mandy, Ari trans oh, I better read
that first. Okay, Well,that's not obscene. The other ones not
so much. Mandy Ari trans womanperiods. This quote came to mind.
First we overlook evil, then wepermit evil, then we legalize evil,

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then we promote evil, then wecelebrate evil. Then we persecute those who
still call it evil. So thatis here's the thing. Do I think
that that deluded person, I mean, who is suffering from a delusion that
they are having a period when theydon't have anything that causes a period.

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Do I think they're evil? No, I think they're sad. I think
what we do to children in thename of trans ideology is evil. So
in that one. But this person, I just I just feel I feel
sad for them because something's not addingup there, something is not going the
way it should. This person.Fireworks does not cause that many fires.

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So I guess if it's not thefire at my house, I don't care.
But if it is the fire atmy house, I do care.
And I don't think you get topick right. I just don't at all.
Okay, so we've got a bunchof stuff on a blog today.
I did not mean to go onthe sidewinder about the transwoman peer. For

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a second, there but I havea lot of different stories that I want
to talk about, and we haveour guests coming up. But one of
the most interesting things is this,I have a prediction about Thursday night's debate.
And by the way, a Rodtell the people what we're doing Thursday
night. Oh, I don't know. Just the world famous KOA Cast once
again because they are vastly popular,and we are adding a special guest.

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Not only not Acorn, but weare bringing pop pop popcorn, a lot
of other tasty treats and beverages.I'll leave it there. Mandy and Ross
going to be joined for the firsttime, making his KOA Cast debut Benjamin
Albright Kowa Broncos Insider, NFL Insider, right here, Broncos Country Night host.
He will be joining the KOA Caskdest of awesomeness and it's gonna be

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so much fun. What time doesthat start? Well, we're gonna do
a pregame show if you will bringingin football. We're gonna do pregame show
six to seven right here on KOA, and then at seven when you can
hear the uninterrupted straight Field the debatehere on KOA. We will be doing
a ka cast over on the KawaFacebook page starting at seven with those three
crazy people all in one room.I don't know if Ben's politics are.

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They are definitely to the left ofme and Ross. Yes, I mean
he's not raging lunatic, but he'sdefinitely to the left of me and Ross.
So he's going to be a lotof fun and I'm very very much
looking forward to it. So byour friends, Oh yes, Golden Spike
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you got to call Golden Spike Roofingbecause they're truly the best. Those two
awesome groups of people are responsible forus also going to the rn C and
DNC. Yeah, I have anissue with that right now. The guy
that I ran at the vr VOfour from the RNC is ghosting me.
Uh oh yeah, and somebody elsejust go a review that said, yeah,
he just canceled on us at thelast minute. Oh, so I'll

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be taking care of that because there'slike no other I know. It'll be
fine. R V, It'll befine. Don't worry about it. It's
all gonna be good. All gonnabe good. We cannot share an r
V a rod. We're sharing.We're so air Rod and now are the
only ones going to the r nC and the d n C. So
in order to save money, Igot a VRBO like an Airbnb with two

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bedrooms, so each have our ownspace. But I'm not sharing an r
V with you. I have abackup plan. Weird, I have a
backup plan. What I will callMike Kaufman, Okay and ask him for
his experience of living on the streets, so we could have a backup plan
to uh do that in Milwaukee andChicago. That's a great idea. Chicago,
we're set. I am in contactwith Chicago. Chicago. Done deal.
No, that's fine, We're all. No. They have great reviews.

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Nothing bad is happening. They're respondingin a timely fashion. Their corporate
overlords, so they have a bunchof these properties, so they're professionals.
Okay to do that. Wait,so Chicago set, Chicago want to be
Jimie Walker is the one that's turninginto a little bit on the streets.
It's a little bit of a problem. We shall find out. But I'm
waiting for VRBO to intercede and andfigure something out for me. So I'll

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let you know. It'll be exciting, though we can just stay upside down
Dempstey Uficer. It'll be good.It'll be totally good. So Trump has
decided on his vice president, orso he says. He says, I've
decided. No one knows. Andhere's my prediction. This is where I
got off track. I'm talking aboutThursday Night's debate. If Trump performs well

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in Thursday Night's debate, then hewill announce it in a week or so.
But if Trump doesn't perform well,he will announce his choice for VP
on Friday. This is my prediction. And here's the thing with this setup.
The more I read about how thisis going to go down, I'm
actually concerned that CNN is not goingto be able to help itself. And

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we'll try to intercede on behalf ofJoe Biden and I know you guys are
laughing, like of course they are. There's a lot that's going to be
writing on this. I think thisis going to be one of the most
watched debates in the modern because there'sso much writing on this election. Is
Option three not at the RNZ announcementof the VP. Sure it is,
Okay, sure it is. That'swhen they traditionally do it. But if

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he has a bad performance of thedebate, you drop that news the next
day and then bada bing bada boom, you suck out the oxygen out of
the criticism of your debate. Noweverybody's talking about your v PIC. So
yeah, yeah, I don't know, Mandy, what's wrong with an RV.
It's not that there's anything wrong withan RV. It's that I don't
want to share a space that smallwith a rod. I'm want a big

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one, okay, but who's goingto drive a big one? Do you
know how to drive a big RV? I don't want to buy. Oh
my god, that does not inspireconfidence. We're going to take a quick
time out. When we get back, we'll see if he gave any clues
to who that might be. AndI want to know from you. Text
me who you think the VP willbe? Five six, six, nine.
Oh, and when we get back, we may have tickets to see

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new kids on the Block when weget back. That's all coming up next.
A lot of people are weighing,Okay, you guys, who are
coming into the text line to tellme that A Rod and I should just
ran an RV and that we justneed to find a place to park it
in Milwauk. No, no,oh, I'm not doing that much work.
It'll be fine, We'll figure itout. It's fine, fine.
Some of you are weighing in because, as I told you before the break,

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Donald Trump says he has made uphis mind who he wants to be
VP. During a Philadelphia campaign stop, Trump told a reporter he's decided on
his vice presidential pick, saying nobodyknows his choice, and he said that
person will most likely be at CNN'spresidential debate on Thursday. You know what
that is, A Rod, that'sa tease. Oh, you weren't planning

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on watching the debate? Don't youat least want to see who's there who
could possibly be Trump's VP? Andlet me tell you who's going to be
there? All of them? Ibet you jd Vance of Ohio's there,
at least to Phonics there, DougBergham's there, Marco Rubio's there, Tim
Scott there, Tom Cotton's there,Byron Donald's is there. I bet they're

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all there, just to confuse peoplebecause that I mean Trump. Here's the
thing. Now we're talking about it. Now we're talking about it. A
lot of you have sent in alot of people saying things like this for
VP. I hope jd vance thevag for some cabinet job. If it's
Scott, another establishment person, Iwould worry about his health. Yeah,

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Jared points out, excuse me,what running is fun? You are fake
news. I only run when I'mlate for the bus, and since RTD
is never on time, I don'thave to run. Haha. Jared from
Bohler, He hopes that Tulsa Gabbardwould be VP, and also reading for
Ben Carson. But I don't thinkBen Carson is really in the conversation.

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He's not really there right now.Mandy called me crazy. But I will
sit out your Thursday night commentary.I'm not interested in hearing three Trumpeters bad
talking the whole night during a riggeddebate. Okay, that's a really good
thing to address, because ultimately,and Ross, he's an ever Trumper.

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He's not going to vote for DonaldTrump. He's going to give his vote
to a third party candidate something alongthose lines. But I am far more
pragmatic I don't think the country canstand another four years of Joe Biden's policies.
I think that we are in notjust a bad way in the United
States, but we're in a badway in the world when we are perceived
as weak, and right now,Joe Biden is perceived as weak. And

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if you don't believe me, golook at some of the papers from overseas
who commented on the G seven summit. When Joe Biden was caught on camera
wandering off doing whatever he was doing. I mean, apparently the White House
says he was doing something incredibly important, but the Prime Minister of Italy had
to come over and grab him andwalk him back over. And the world

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noticed. Vladimir Putin noticed, Jujuonbeing noticed, Aaran noticed. They all
noticed, and they don't want tohave to deal with Trump again because they
have no idea what Trump is capableof, and it's that unknown that make

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him the right leader for this momentin time. So you know, I
don't love the man. I wishI had a different choice. I wish
there was somebody else at the topof the ticket. But I'm voting for
Donald Trump because honestly, I justI don't think we can handle another four
years of Biden. I just don'tthink we can do it. I think
the country is on a very dangerouspath now. And though Trump oversaw a

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massive, massive chunk of spending,much of it related to the gendap response
to COVID, that turned out tobe anything but by the way, as
we're still spending alleged COVID dollars inDenver on the homelessness issue and immigration.
So yeah, that turned out tobe a giant slush fund, as they
always do. But that being said, at least I have confidence that Steve

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Moore is in the ear of DonaldTrump trying to reign and spending. I
think he's been very serious talking aboutwhat needs to happen to make the country
take off on a trajectory of economicgrowth, and that is we have got
to shrink the size of government spending. We cannot keep doing what we're doing,
and I know that Joe Biden willnot do that. I know he's

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not going to listen to people thatare worried about the deficit because he has
shown over and over again his willingnessto further mortgage the country's future in order
to try vote to buy votes fromyoung college graduates who are having trouble paying
off their loans for their gender studiesand you know, a fairy tale degree.

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God, I wish I'd been ableto make a snappier joke right then.
Dang it, dang it. SoI I have a clear picture and
I'm interested to see how both go. But if you think this is going
to be three hours of Trump,hay. First of all, I think
you're going to be surprised. Ihad a conversation with a young man who's
younger than I am, and hesaid, you know, this debate,

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it's going to be like, yeah, when Trump tries to hit Biden on
immigration, but Biden's just going tosay, well, we had a bill
and you blocked it. Well,that's not going to fly for people who
feel like the country is being overrunand the polling on immigration is bad for
Joe Biden, really bad. Andno, it's not all xenophobian racism.
It's also people concerned that we haveno idea who is walking over the southern

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border. Large groups of men fromChina, Yemen, Iran are walking across
the southern border. Some of usare like, you know, I feel
like that could be a problem.Not sure, but I just think maybe
it could be so in the grandscheme of things, I want Donald Trump
to do well for two reasons.Number one, I I do not want

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to create a situation where both menlook so bad that everybody just goes,
oh MG, what have we done? Although maybe that would be good.
Now that I said it out loud, I'm like, wait a minute,
Wait a minute, because this debateis before the conventions, and that I
think is by design. But Iwant Trump to do well and have a

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strong performance to hopefully put to restsome of the accusations that are being levied
at him. But I don't doyou think. Let me ask this question
for the text line as we goto a break here in just a second
question this time, is Trump hasa tremendous argument to be made against Joe
Biden's policies, Like if you justlook at where we are right now compared

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to where we were four years ago, it would be hard to argue that
people are not keenly aware that weare paying twenty percent more for the exact
same stuff right to ignore that,especially if you're in the middle class or
you're on the margins and you're justgetting by. So there's a lot to
hit him on the chaos in theworld, Whereas when Trump was president for

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four years, no wars broke outaround the world. Now is that coincidence?
Maybe, but maybe not. Whatwe do know is that we now
have Russia and Ukraine at war.We have i'd say Lebanon and Hamas at
war with Israel. We have Chinasaber rattling and essentially announcing they're going to
take over Taiwan. So he's gotall these really powerful arguments against Joe Biden's

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policies to make. But is hegoing to squander this opportunity by whining about
what's happened to him so far?I don't know. What do you think?
Five six six' nine ozero isthe text line? We'll be right
back. Is Trump going to beable to stay on the many policy issues

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that he wins on and by wenton, I mean people are frustrated with
the following things in this country.They're they're frustrated with the unfettered immigration.
And Trump has the argument that undermy administration we actually brought illegal immigration down.
Border crossings had fallen dramatically, andat the same time over the last
three and a half years, JoeBiden has done nothing. And after saying

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there was nothing he could do,what did he do? A month ago?
He put forth some general you know, restrictions or limitations, and now
they want to talk about how muchit's curbed illegal immigration while ignoring they could
have done it three years ago thenbut they didn't. So can Trump stay
on these topics or does he spendstoo much time whining about the ways he

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has been attacked? And don't getme wrong, I think that the case
in New York, where you havea politically motivated district attorney in a politically
bent in one direction jury with anamenable judge to put a case up in

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that situation with the kind of evidencethat Alvin Bragg had was ridiculous. But
he knew he was gonna get itbecause he was in Democrat country. So
yeah, Trump has a reason tobe aggravated, a reason to talk about
it. But is that wasted time? Does that win over any voters who
may tune in to see who isthe most sharp, alert and best to
run the country. I don't know, I do not know this person,

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says Mandy. When will people wakeup this overspending national debt. Why not
just a race it. This moneydoesn't even exist. It didn't exist when
we spent it, and it doesn'texist now. It's all completely made up
by a group of private bankers.Oh, let's take paper and put fancy
drawings on it. How insanely ludicrous. Now that's not at all how this

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thing works or how it got started. Our money actually did used to mean
something into fiat currency when we detachedourselves from the gold standard in the Nixon
administration, and that's really when spendinggot out of control in the United States.
You can go back and look atthe graph, like if you put
in US federal government spending between nineteensixty five and twenty twenty four, before

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we departed from the gold standard,it was you know, you'd have government
spending growing at a reasonable clip duringthat time, not anything crazy. And
then after that it's like it goesright up the side of the mountain.
You're gaining altitude every single year afterthat. So you can't just erase debt

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because that means you are defaulting onthe debt because people have bought our treasury
bonds investment groups. I mean fouroh one k's own US treasuries. People
all over the world own US treasuries, and if you default, that destroys
your credit rating completely and makes thecost of borrowing almost unattainable, and it

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will pretty much destroy the economy ifyou default on dead So you can't just
wave your hand and make it goaway. I understand what you're saying,
Texter, but I know that youknow you're being way overly simplistic and it
won't actually happen. This person askedthis question, and I think is a
good question. Do you think CNNwill be fair for this debate? No?

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I do not. I do not. I don't think that Jake Tapper
is going to be able to resist. I fully expect some kind of no,
mister President. Don't you mean thismoment where the President rambles on to
say something and they pull him backin and maybe feed him enough of his
position that he can try to becoherent. I don't know. Do you

(30:45):
think we're gonna get angry Joe Bidentonight a rod or not tonight Thursday night?
I think we're gonna get angry JoeBiden. Absolutely angry Joe. He's
fiery, can't be sleepy. Diaryso we'll have to see anyway, when
we get back, we have joiningus when we do, is that want
thirty others? One o'clock. Iwant to make sure I got the right

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thing here. We have the boardpresident of the Colorado Veterans Project coming up,
Brandy Mouranian is going to join us. She's going to tell us about
the four mile Freedom Wait a minute, let me get this right. Freedom
four miler that is coming up thisweekend where you can help them raise a
bunch of money to help veterans andveterans causes across the state. We'll talk
to her about that after this.Joining me from the Colorado Veterans Project,

(31:32):
the new Colorado Veterans Project board presidentBrandy Morianian herself a US Army officer veteran
who works with the organization that thenworks with veterans organizations. I mean,
that's that's the easiest way for meto explain it. Brandy. Welcome to
the show. Oh thank you,Mandy. I really appreciate being on the
show today. So you just toldme off the air you were you were

(31:56):
you the first woman to go toWest Point or one of the first women
to go to West Point. Oneof the first The first graduating class was
nineteen eighty and this is aging me, but I graduated in eighty seven and
started there in eighty three as afreshman. Please, you have served yourself
and now you are serving again fromthe other side. Tell my listeners who

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have never heard of the Colorado VeteransProject, what did you guys do?
Absolutely so. Colorda Veterans Project isa non profit and we really have focused
our efforts on helping veterans transition outof the military to find many full careers,
whether it's to be an entrepreneur,whether it's to go into corporate world,

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whether you know what, training,anything that they're looking to do.
We've identified that a lot of timesthere's a mismatch when veterans leave the military
and their ability to find their mission, and so that's our focus is to
help with that well and a lotof people to understand why that's so difficult.
What makes that so challenging for aveteran to come out and work in

(33:07):
the civilian world. Yeah, that'sa great question. So this is one
of the reasons why I joined CaleraoVeterans Project. I had, as we
mentioned before, a thirty five yearcareer after the military in the corporate environment.
And I spent a lot of thattime hiring veterans out of the military,
and what I found personally, andI think this is this is common.

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There's sort of a translation that needsto take place when a veteran gets
out of the military. What they'reactually signing up for in a new role
and a new job in the corporateenvironment. It's a totally different language.
But also a lot of companies don'treally understand what they're getting unless they're a
veteran in themselves doing the hiring.What they're really hiring who they're hiring,

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which is a lot about leadership andmission and maybe not so much transferable skills
they actually did in the military,but that can be learned in their new
skills and new environment through training withthe leadership and the responsibility and the accountability
sort of style that a lot ofveterans who joined the military have already is

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what's really valuable, I think toa lot of companies, so very passionate
about it from my own personal experience, and so that's what we're really trying
to drive to. My husband isa veteran, and he, like many
he struggled to find the right jobwhen he got out, and he said,
for me, it was that themilitary was so professional in how the

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chain of command. It was easyto understand and everyone respected it, and
a lot of times that didn't translatein the civilian world at all. And
so to your point, it isan interesting transition and that's what Colorado Veterans
Project does. So let's talk aboutthe Freedom for Miler coming up this weekend.
Brandy, Oh, absolutely, yes, We're very excited. This is

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one of our more fun events.It's one of the events we used to
raise funds to provide some of thistraining for our veterans. It'll be this
weekend, this Saturday, and it'shosted by ourselves and Charles Schwab at the
Charles Schwab Campus in Lone Tree.It's a great event. It's a lot
of fun and it's a great wayto kick off the July fourth holiday.

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We have a four mile event.We also have a one mile fun run
event. It's for kids and family, but probably the most fun is the
costume uh Costume Award ceremony and folks. We've had folks show up as in
bright colors and traditional type of stuffand you name it. So that's that's
been a lot of fun for thatevent as well. I saw some of

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the pictures on the website, andby the way, I already put a
link on the blog to the websitefor you to sign up for the Freedom
four miler or the one mile fundrun. You can see some of the
photographs and people dressed up like allkinds of stuff, very patriotic added to
red, white and blue. Maybethey're dressed up like you know, Ben
Franklin or a Lincoln or something likethat. So that is a lot of
fun. But what if what ifI'm not a runner? Brandy? What

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what I mean? Do I haveto run in this race? Is this
competitive? Is someone going to runup my back if I don't if I
don't run, No, not atall. We do have a one mile
fun run where you can just joinand participate in that as well. We
have a lot of booths, alot of veteran booths, and a lot
of other organizations coming that support veterans. There'll be some food and you know,

(36:30):
it's just it's just an all outkind of fun event. We also
plan to have the new mayor ofLaundree Mayor Harmon. She'll she'll be attending
as well, so a place she'llhave a couple of comments to cheer on
the walkers or runners or costumes.Is that is the Charles Schwab Campus at
Park Meadows and Lincoln. Is thatwhere they are? It's on the actual

(36:52):
efforts is nine eight nine to nineSchwab way in the country. Okay,
I think it is near. It'sover near Lincoln and Park Meadows. I
think I'm pretty sure, but I'mnot positive, So just look at up
online. I did put the linkup on the blog where people can participate.
Randy Moriani and I so appreciate firstof all you stepping up into this

(37:15):
role and becoming president of the board. And I hope you have many years
of good guidance for the Colorado VeteransProject, and I hope you guys have
a wonderful event this weekend. Well, thank you so much, Mandy.
I'll play folks, and your listenerswill come out. Registration is it's not
too late. It starts at sixpoint thirty even on event day and up

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until the race, So if youwant to make a last minute choice or
decision for you and your family,please come on it. Out all right,
Thanks so much, Brandy. Thankyou, Mandy. You take care
all right? That is something youcan do this Saturday. I couldn't run
four miles if my life depended onit. Like at some point, if
someone was chasing me, I wouldbe running. As soon as I started

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running, I would be negotiating withmyself, like can I take them?
What's my better option here? Wherecould I kick them? You know,
like the mongoose that I'm not reallygoing to kick the mongoose anyway. We
have a bunch of other stuff onthe blog today that I want to jump
into. Nothing more important than this. I love the Olympics. We've talked
about it. I can't wait forthe Olympics this summer. It's in Paris.

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Kind of a big deal. Lotsof Americans, including a bunch of
Colorados, that are going to goover there and hopefully win a bunch of
medals. But the Mayor of Parishad made a decision, I guess or
someone had made a decision, andthe Mayor of Paris expressed this. She
said she wanted the Paris Games tobe exemplary from an environmental point of view,

(38:46):
and so when they put together thedorms, which honestly, Olympic dorms
look like prison self. They're sobad. They're so bad. There's no
air conditioning in these dormitories. Tomake it environmentally friendly. They're hoping that

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they have a oh, what's itcalled when they have the water in the
in the what is it ambient cooling? Maybe ambient cooling where they put cold
water through the floor and then theyhope it, you know, rises up.
They're hoping to keep the dorm roomsat a Bomby's seventy nine degrees.
Y'all. There is no way anelite athlete needs to be sitting at seventy

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nine degrees. So this is whereit gets good. Here we have the
Paris mayor talking about making these gamesthe most exemplary games ever from an environmental
point of view, and now theUnited States, Germany, Britain and more
countries have come forward to say,nah, we're sending air conditioners with our

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team. So they're sending portable airconditioners for these athletes to use in their
rooms, which use a billion timesit was more energy than if they had
just done something to create some kindof central air or whatever. Europeans do
not match us in air conditioning atall, at all. I mean even

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when you're like, you'll see arestaurant you're walking around in somewhere in Europe,
and I could be talking about anywhere. I could be talking about Athens.
I was in Athens, Greece whenit was one hundred degrees and all
you can do was sit by thepool under a shade tree and try not
to die because the air conditioning insidesucked. You'd be in London and it

(40:34):
can just roast and there's just it'sjust miserable. But nonetheless, Paris in
France are even further behind on theair conditioning front. Now you might think
to yourself, have they done this? But y'all, London is on the
same latitude as Iceland. London latitudinallyis north of the United States of America,

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and Paris isn't far below. They'relike in Michigan latitude dish. So
yeah, they don't need air conditioninglike we do. And they make fun
of as far as air conditioning.But you know what, you can pry
my air conditioning out of my colddead hands. And now US athletes and
athletes from Germany and other countries arethrowing a monkey wrench into Paris's greatest games

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ever. By the way, theaverage high in Paris on August first is
seventy nine degrees. The rooms,by the way, will also be equipped
with fans. This reminds me ofmy freshman year in college Florida State University
in Tallahassee, Florida. I signedup for housing late because I did everything

(41:43):
late because I didn't know what Iwas doing. Sign up for housing late,
and I end up in an allgirls' dorm, which I'm perfectly fine
with, and it is one ofthe last two buildings on Florida State's campus
that does not have air conditioning.So you guys, right now, it's
hot outside. It's hot outside rightnow. Now imagine imagine that you add

(42:08):
eighty five to ninety percent humidity intothis heat. That's what it's like living
in Florida in the summer. Andby summer, I mean April to October.
That's your summer. It was miserable. It was the most miserable you
could possibly imagine. We used toopen our little mini fridge and put our

(42:28):
fan in front of it and haveour own little cheesy air conditioning. So
yeah, I'm not even an eliteathlete and they're competing. This is I
think this is just a plot bythe French to throw a monkey ranch into
the performance of everybody else's athletes.But we're not buying it, my friends,
we are not buying it. Wouldyou ever go to an Olympic game?
Well as you like to, Like, I'd love to go to the

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Olympics. I mean that would beawesome. But what would you go see?
What would be your top fourth Like, if you could get tickets to
the top four sports, you gotfour sports summers, just summer games.
I don't know where it's in thetop four. Definitely one of maybe like
the gold medal game for USA basketball. Okay, oh man, No soccer,

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no, no, I can't thinkof any soccer that I'm I gotta
like, look up a here's mine, No, here's mine. I would
want women's gymnastics. I definitely wantthat. I want uh, swimming,
and I'm gonna try and just sayswimming and get Badminton is awesome, yea,
So swimming and then track and fieldreally yeah, I would go see

(43:38):
track and field because I think weI don't think you can get the scale
of how fast those athletes are running. It's kind of like when you watch
a NASCAR race on TV. Youyou know they're going fast, right because
they're telling you they're going very,very fast. But when you're in Daytona
at the Daytona five hundred and yousee those cars go past you in real

(43:58):
life, it is like, likewhat just happened? Okay, I've got
I think I got my four.Number one is badminton, okay. Two?
Floor hockey absolutely? Three is theUSA basketball game, like one of
the final final games. Four.If I could go back, like ten

(44:20):
years in time to a swim meetwith Michael Phelps in his prime, we
still have great swimmers, we do. I it would have been cool to
see Phelps. But yeah, Iwould sill go that's probably still four.
Okay, So I would do let'ssee here, I'm looking, I'm looking.
I might throw in judo just whynot? Right? I thought breakdancing
was a sport this time, wasn'tit? Is it? Yeah? Breaking?

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Oh? Breaking? Okay? SoI want I want this is what
I want. I want wins gymnastics, I want swimming, I want breakdancing,
and I want track and field.Volleyball is an honorable jullyball forgetting about
volleyball. Yeah, that's an honorablemention. But bad floor hockey are the
top too easily. Okay, youcan go to a basketball game anytime,

(45:05):
right, I mean you can seeall those prime athletes at any time.
But seeing some of the world bestbadminton and floor hockey players. I don't
even know what floor hockey is.It's what is it on the floor.
They have field hockey, but Idon't see floor hockey. Oh well,
field hockey. Same thing. No, not even remotely the same thing.

(45:25):
Field hockey is like its own sport. I mean I'm looking right at it
looks like, yeah, that's that'slike basically, well, no, this
is what I mean, like thehockey floor field hockey. It's the same
thing, is it not. No, field hockey is much different. What's
field hockey? Field hockey? Theyplay out on a big field. It's
kind of like lacrosse a little bit, but it's on the ground oll than

(45:46):
this floor hockey. It's what Imeant field hockey. Floor. No,
the one that's in the Olympics,isn't it floor hock. No, it's
field hockey. It doesn't look likefield hockey based on this picture. Well,
I'm looking at the there's only onehockey you whatever it is, that's
number two for me. Bad men'sclear number one. It's not even close
hockey. Let's see. You knowwhat, I'm gonna take basketball off because

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you can see those guys any time, So I'm gonna put volleyball in there.
Yeah, I would put whitch,volleyball, volleyball, Oh yeah,
beach volleyball. Do they only dothe twv two? Is that the only
one they have in the Olympics?Two? They may have four v four,
But I don't know if two wellvolley regular volleyball's for four v four,
isn't it? Or the two vtwo is fun to watch? Yeah?

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No, it's six players for regularvolleyball. You got six who see?
I should know more than I calledvolleyball at Metros, tam. I'm
super excited about this. I mean, there's so much good stuff to watch.
Squash what about squash? What?I don't even know. I'm not
even sure I could identify squash ifthe game was happening right in front of
my home Number one, not cricket. I'm sorry, I've already seen.

(46:50):
I've been to a cricket match.I've done my time check that's done.
We get another honoraball mention. Seeingin person some of the coolest and the
best skateboarders in the world would probablybe really cool in if you have like
a seat or standing room right nextto like the halfpipe, that'd be kind
of cool. So what about BMXfree styling? Ah about that? Yeah?
I think I think the skateboarding inperson would look more epic, be

(47:14):
more entertaining. I think you docooler tricks on the skateboards. Like again,
fast back in time, I've seenTony Hawk. Did he do it?
This is a stupid, stupid question. Yep. Did he participate in
the Olympics or was he only likeon the I don't think it was a
sport when he was at I'm sureI don't know, That's what I'm saying.
Hang on looking, see if hehas any See if he has any

(47:37):
Olympic medals on his uh wiki?Uh yes, yes, let's see.
Uh. Well, it didn't becomea sport until twenty twenty one. Okay,
and he's so, I don't thinkyeah retired he retired three wow?

(47:58):
Well, but he still competed onan occasional basis and he kept breaking his
legs. I know he's an Olympicthat would be cool. There's a lot
of cool. I take it back. It's closer than I remember in terms
of because I liked winter more butsummer. I mean, a lot of
these sports are pretty awesome, That'swhat I'm saying. And when are you

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really ever going to watch a competitivebadminton game? You know what I'm saying.
Are you going to have that?Oh not like these dudes play?
Well? No, well, Idon't know, it's pretty nasty. Well
have you seen this sport where theyuse a ping pong table but then they
use a bigger ball and they kickit with their feet. I have seen
that. I don't what is thatgoing to be an Olympic sports whatever it's

(48:40):
called. It's called the Olympic Handball, That's what I'm saying. What about
squash? What about handball? I'venever understood handball. It seems like you're
just catching it throwing it really fast. And again I'm thinking of the sports,
and this is the problem. Whatabout equestrian This is the problem,
the biggest problem I have with soccer, And this is one of the few
sports where we can say is thehigher the level of competition. I think

(49:05):
the more boring the sport because they'retoo perfectly technical. I love by calling
metro state soccer games because they're nottop of the line. Obviously it's D
two. There's more action because they'renot as technically sound, right, So
I don't want to watch the soccer. I don't want to watch Olympic lacrosse.
I don't want to watch Olympic whatelse? What else kind of falls

(49:28):
in that category. Olympic boxing,Oh right, Olympic boxing is awesome.
I don't know, I don't know. It's so good. Olympic boxing is
amazing because it's not for money,right, it's just for pride. A
lot of these guys will go onto fight on bigger fights. You sometimes
see athletes from these smaller countries thatyou've never even heard of. Who are
these amazing boxers? I would totallydo boxing, Okay, I need tickets

(49:50):
to everything. I think sports thatare centered around being technically sound are hard
to watch at the highest levels.It's a weird take, I get it,
but it's just makes some more botmakes it so you don't want to
watch. Like Simone Biles, whohonestly is the greatest gymnast in the history
of the world. That's different.That's a solo act where she's not going
mono e mono in a match withsomeone that is also looking to be is

(50:14):
technically sound because you're on the Ithink those other sports I mentioned are based
on the defensive of being technically sound, and it's hard to create action.
Does that make sense at all?No, it totally at I don't like
I have found myself gravitating away ornot gravitating away, moving away from the
sports where the decision is based subjectively. Like I love women's gymnastics, but

(50:38):
it's a subjective sport. Judge you'vedone well and the Russian judge gives you
a two point zero. I meanit's you know, there's the individual biases
of the judges can can ruin things. Another individual, technically sound, entertaining
sport in the Olympics archery. Archeryis one of those sports where I always
feel like I had a shot,you know what I'm saying, Like like,

(50:58):
I'm like, you know, whatif I was going to be in
the Olympics. I think if Ipracticed, I could be an archer.
Geena Davis, the actress did it. She tried out for the Olympic team.
I don't think she made it tothe text or who said, Mandy
sometimes listening to you should be inthe Olympics and then everybody would get a
gold medal. Interest in equestrian.I love equestrian. And I went to

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the Equestrian World Cup. It waspart of the Olympic Trials. And I
was probably fourteen years old, soI don't even know when. This was
eighty something before the eighty eight Games. And I went to the Equestrian Olympic
Trials and they were being held inJacksonville, Florida, and we had somehow
I don't even know how we gotthese tickets, but we got to go

(51:42):
on the field or whatever they callit, the course. We got to
go on the course and stand nextto the things that these horses are jumping
over. They're like six and eightfeet tall. It's unbelievable. By the
way, how dare I not mentionthis? That's right there with bad me
And you said it ping pong,table tennis. Baby, there you got
that right there is right there withme for badmint in person. These people

(52:05):
are not human. How the hellthey do it at that speed? From
that far from the table with thatprecision is unreal. Just watching that on
TV. That that on TV orin person, unbelievable. That's right there
with me for badmin those would bethe two I locked in to watch.
So we'll be watching all of these. We're gonna have to have them on
like different ones on all screens here. I know we can bring in a

(52:29):
couple more. It'll be fine,it'll be fine. What amping? What?
Wait? What trampling? Trampling isyour own sports? That's cool?
What yeah, trampoline? Oh see, I am stoked about the Olympics now,
man, Now, just need myralp florin jacket to come in.
Water polo cool. Water polo justlooks painful to me because it's just although

(52:51):
I will just say this, waterpolo guys, those are good looking space
simmons of the male species right there. Those are the most in shape.
Yeah, athletes, I think onEarth. You know what. I wouldn't
argue with you about that. Maybeboxers, just because lightweight boxers not heavyweights.

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Another technically sound and also way toofast. I understand what's going on.
Fencing. I understand fencing, andI'd like to try fencing. But
my knees say no, I don'twant to, you know, mess myself
up when we get back. There'sa church kerfuffle in Dylan. That is
an interesting situation, and leave itto big aatheists to ruin it for everyone.

(53:35):
We'll do that next. There isuh Dylan, y'all. I love
Dylan. Dylan is like a cutelittle town. It's got mountains on one
side. It's got the beautiful reservoir, so you got the big water front.
I love Dylan. And they havethe cutest little amphitheater there. And
I don't mean to sound a meeting, but it's a smaller town and it's

(53:57):
a smaller amphitheater, but it's areally beautiful amphitheater. And for years,
let's see how many years, fortytwo years, forty two years, they
have been allowing a church in Dylanto use the amphitheater on a semi regular
basis, meaning not all the Sundays, but many Sundays. So it has

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been going on for forty two years. Enter the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
These are big A atheists who wantto make sure that not only they tell
you you're an idiot for believing inGod, they want to make sure that
any mention of God or a higherpower of religion or faith is scrubbed from

(54:43):
the public sphere because oh my gosh, what if someone hears the word Jesus
and becomes a believer? Ah,so's scary In any case, the Dylantown
Council was made aware of their complaintsabout the decision to allow the Dylan Community
Church to use the town's Amphitheater inthe summer. They called a special meeting

(55:07):
after the town government found itself inan uncomfortable legal position following the five to
one vote last week that extended aninformal policy that has allowed the church to
host Sunday services at the Amphitheater foryears. Dylan's town attorney, Kathleen Kelly,
announced her resignation following that Tuesday,June eleventh meeting, where the town

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council went against her legal advice.She had raised legal concerns that the town's
long standing agreement with the church couldviolate the US Constitution's First Amendment since other
private groups haven't been allowed the sameaccess to the Amphitheater. And there you
have a point, You absolutely havea point. But this is why this

(55:51):
is the kind of stuff that frustratesthe crap out of me. It's been
going on for forty two years.The people of Dylan have been going about
their lives, going on about theirdays, not worrying at all about not
being able to use the amphitheater ona Sunday morning. You know. I
And forty two years later, theFreedom From Religion Foundation that just runs around

(56:14):
the country litigating cases that they sayviolate the separation of church and state.
They agreed, of course with theformer attorney. Chris Lane, a staff
attorney at the foundation, penned aJune fourteenth letter to the Dylantown Council raising
constitutional concerns with its vote. Sohere's what needs to happen. Dylan just

(56:36):
has to have a consistent policy,and if the church wants to pay to
be there in whatever capacity every singleSunday, they can just work it out.
But why does it matter? Whatdoes it matter to the Freedom From
Religion Foundation. You probably didn't evenknow this was going on until some angry
aatheist sent them a letter, amissive an email. There are few people

(57:01):
more insufferable than big aatheists. AndI'm not talking about all atheists because a
lot of atheists just don't believe inGod, and they don't care if you
believe in God. They don't care. They might think you're stupid for believing
in God, but they don't carewhat you do. They really don't.
And if someone says, you know, uh, Merry Christmas, they don't
freak out. They don't care.Doesn't make any difference to them. Then

(57:22):
there's the big A atheists, andthe big aatheists are the ones that not
only think you're a complete moron foryour belief in God, They're going to
do everything in their power to proveto you that you're a moron. And
then they are going to work tomake sure that there is no mention whatsoever
of God in any way, shapeor form in any public sphere, even

(57:42):
though we all know that our countrywas founded by people who believed in God.
They didn't want a theocracy, butthey believed in God. It was
literally started by people who believed inGod and wanted to be able to worship
freely. So this kind of stuffjust drives me crazy. I mean it

(58:04):
just and the you know, otherpeople have been denied the opportunity, Well
where are the other people? Becausewhat I see right now is this is
an inter town issue that there doesn'tseem to be an aggrieved party that said
no, we wanted to use thison a Sunday and we were told we
couldn't because this church has exclusive rightsto it. As far as I know,
that person or entity has not comeforward. Maybe they have, we

(58:27):
shall see. The Dylan Community Church, by the way, has been in
Dylan for over a century. They'vebeen using the Dylan Amphitheater for services in
the summertime for forty two years.Back in April, Kelly and Dylan Events
and Recreation director Jesse Kleefoff brought thisto the town Council's attention, suggesting that

(58:47):
the town formalize a policy for religious, political, and other outside groups looking
to rent the Amphitheater. Cleioff atthe time said the Amphitheater had grown to
be widely popular and that many differentreligious, political, and private groups have
asked to use the space. Sothere you go. It's and by the
way, this has made international newsand I don't get that either, Like

(59:12):
is it that slow a news day? I don't know. But all I
know is if you want to goto Dylan, you want to do something
like you know, stage of playfor your child's school, through a disco
event. Whatever you want to do, you can do that in Dylan.
Maybe maybe not. We don't knowyet. The sounds doing something or maybe

(59:32):
they're not. We'll just have towait and find out. I just this
this kind of stuff is at whatpoint do religious stuff like this? It's
been going on for forty two years, At what point does it move from
a religious issue into a town tradition. It's kind of like Christmas parades,
you know, some some cities havegone away from Christmas parades and now they

(59:53):
have holiday parades, but they allhave Santa Claus at the end. Right,
they've all got that part of it. It the sort of hurt feelings
that exist in the big aatheist community. They're they're special, they are very
very special. All right, kids, we have a winner, and I'll

(01:00:15):
be right back to tell you whoit is. Can you imagine training your
whole life to go to the Olympicsand then have something like that happen.
That's just awful. No, I'dbe the worst. The worst. You
know what else is the worst thatwe are spending an enorm amount of time
worrying about asking people if they're onozembic. Okay, now ay, let
me ask you a question. Becauseyou've lost you lost how much total weight

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over a year and a half?Well over a hundred boundary? Yeah,
so you went from the big fatguy to not fat guy at all.
Damn. When you see someone youhaven't seen it a long time, how
does the conversation go? Does itgo something like this, Wow, you
look great? How'd you do it? Does that happen to you? Or
is that just something women do toeach other? No, No, it
happens. The how'd you do it? Maybe comes a little later in the

(01:00:58):
conversation, but it happens every time. And here's the thing, Like,
if you're a person and you wantto lose a little weight, then asking
someone else who has obviously lost weightseems like a natural thing to do,
right. We're all looking for thesecret. We're looking for the and now
when people say, wow, youlook great, how do you lose the
weight? I just homosoda weight loss. But I think there's a natural inclination
to want to know what you didbecause you want to hear that. You

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know, Oh it's super easy.I ate ice cream all day and I
still lost weight, which doesn't happen, so I think it's very common.
But now it seems to go likethis, Hey a Rod, you look
great? Are you on no zempic? And this is a really interesting thing
because you know, Arod and Iboth lost weight using a program of diet

(01:01:44):
and mild exercise that was very structure, very rigid, and it worked for
us, right with the soda weightloss plan worked great for us. But
other people have tried a lot ofthings and none of them work for whatever
reason, and so they're using theseweight loss drugs to lose Wait. I
don't think that we should look downon people or shame them for using a

(01:02:05):
tool to help them get to ahealthy place, because there's a lot of
people out there who aren't even doingthat. But got a big story today
and this is I kind of Irolled it this. It came from the
Washington Post and it started when Iguess Melissa McCarthy, who has always been
a bigger actress, posted a photoof herself online and Barbara streisand responded,

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give him my regards? Did youtake ozempic on Twitter or Instagram? Rather?
And everybody was like, Barbara,come on. But the reality is
is that that a lot of peopleare using this tool, but I think
a lot of people who did itthe old fashioned way. Maybe a little
salty about the notion that people aredoing it the quote easy way. I

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actually think it's the reverse. Ithink making permanent changes to your life is
the easy is the easy way inthe long run, versus taking a medication
that you have to take forever.But regardless, I find this whole conversation.
Here's the thing. If you seesomebody and they look great, and
they're in shape, and they lookfantastic, this is what you do.
You go, well, you lookamazing, and then you can just go

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on from there. I don't mindit. The latter question, well,
typically fixed Again, I really don'tcare regardless, But I really don't mind
it if I believe they're asking becausethey want to know for themselves. Correct,
not correct? How'd you do it? Man? Yeah? And you
don't need it. It's well,isn't it weird that people feel the need
to make a comment about anyone's body. I'm going to tell this story.

(01:03:39):
I should have asked my trainer ifI could share it, but I'm cheering
it anyway. My trainer is inincredibly good shape. She's been in fitness
for thirty five years. She's alsoa tiny person, just a naturally tiny
human being, and she thought shehad recognized a woman walking on a trail.
Turned out to be a case ofmistaken identity. But this woman then

(01:03:59):
looked at her and said, oh, you work there and you do this.
You're so skinny, you need toeat. This is what she tells
my personal trainer, who is inincredible physical condition. Obviously, But I'm
thinking to myself, why would youthink that was okay? We just need
to stop talking about other people,unless, of course, you are heavy

(01:04:20):
and you see a friend who haslost a bunch of weight, then why
don't we just go you look amazing. I would like to know what you
did so I could do it formyself, and that opens up a whole
different conversation. But yeah, it'sa huge article in the Washington Post.
Apparently in Hollywood this is a bigdeal right now. And if all the
Hollywood celebrities who were taking these drugsjust admitted it, everything would be so

(01:04:45):
much easier. It's like when supermodelsin the eighties would put these articles in
Cosmopolitan magazine and it's like, howdo you stay so slim. I eat
a cup of oatmeal and fruit inthe morning, and then I have a
snack at like eleven, and thenI eat a salad for lunch with some
chicken, and then at dinner Ihave fish and some veggies. Except all
they're really eating is cigarettes and cocaine. You know, it's like here,

(01:05:06):
we all just be honest about whatwe're doing. It would make life so
much easier, so so much easier. When we get back, we've got
the two minute drill. I havea couple of things on the blog that
I want to get to you beforewe have Philly Ocean, the lead singer
of Yachtlee cru coming on the showtoday, including a pretty earth shaking story

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out of the Israeli High Court thatcould actually upend the balance of power by
requiring every Israeli citizen to be availablefor the drafts. So we're going to
talk about that next and the twominute drill coming up after this. One
of those stories that if you don'tunderstand how things operate in Israel, you
may be confused. In Israel,every Israeli citizen at the age of eighteen

(01:05:48):
is essentially drafted, and you signup for the military men do three years,
women do two years. Women donot serve in combat roles. They
serve in combat support roles. They'realso bad as is. But up until
yesterday, there were a group ofultra Orthodox Jews that were exempt from the

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draft, and there is there's athere's a group of ultra Orthodox Jews who
believe and have always been supported inthis belief that their role in Israel is
to maintain the Jewish tradition in thereligious sense, and so they spend their
entire lives studying the Jewish faith.They are extremely Orthodox, they follow all

(01:06:34):
the rules, and they've been exemptedfrom service because they it was thought that
forcing them to be in the militarywould somehow corrupt their religious experience. That's
the sort of official reason, Butthe unofficial reason is that they are a
powerful political bloc in Israel, andthey are part of Benjamin ett Yahu's government.

(01:07:00):
They also happen to be some ofthe most jingoistic parts of Benjamin yeah
Who's government. They want to destroyHamas. They are in the you know,
we are not stopping until we destroyHamas, which by the way,
I happen to agree with in thiscase. But I'm just saying so they
are the ones who want to continuethe war, but they are not the
ones who have to fight the war. So I don't know what court case

(01:07:21):
started this ball rolling downhill, butIsrael's High Court, which is not ultra
Orthodox, has now come out andsaid that these men must submit themselves to
the draft. And the hyperbole aroundthis is indicative of how, I don't

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know, irrational the argument against itis being made, I think so anyway,
and you have ultra Orthodox people thatin the past, when these things
have come up, they said,I'd rather die than be drafted into the
military. And my answer would belike, oh, okay, this is
what we all have to do here. And what's interesting to me is that
when you go to Israel and youtalk to Israelis and you talk to people

(01:08:02):
that were born in Israel, becauseit's not everybody didn't move from somewhere else.
At this point, there are multiplegenerations born in Israel since its founding,
and everyone there that I have evertalked to has such a strong sense
of duty to the country of Israel. It's why they won't leave, right.
I mean, we've been trying toget my nephew and his wife to
just come here. They won't doit. They're not going to leave Israel

(01:08:25):
because this is their home and theyfeel deeply rooted in a deep sense of
responsibility to the country. And nowwe have this other group of people that
ostensibly are serving a different role toensure that the Jewish tradition and faith are
protected. They don't want to fightto do that, but they want other
people to fight on their behalf.And now the Supreme Court has said,
Nope, that is not a thingthat's going to happen. You have to

(01:08:47):
be drafted and it's up to thepoliticians to figure out how this is going
to look. Now. The storythat I read this morning out of a
Middle Eastern paper was that this couldbe the final straw well in the Net
Nahoo government because he has a coalitiongovernment. It's not like it is here.
We have a coalition government, andif the ultra orthodox part of that
coalition government breaks apart, then theycould call for elections and possibly unseat net

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and Yahoo. But here's my question, I don't know who else is going
to be better for them than netand Yahoo. You know, it's kind
of like where are you gonna go? Where you're gonna take your business.
So there's so many different inter countrymachinations that are happening right now. We
talk a lot about the war,we talk a lot about what's going on
externally, but everything within Israel isas There's as much churn there as there

(01:09:38):
is here when it comes to politics, lots of churn. So this is
going to be something to watch.We'll see what happens. We'll see how
many dramatic ultra Orthodox men decide tokill themselves instead of going in the military.
That does seem extreme, just seemsa little extreme, But the Supreme
Court is actually what net Yahoo wastrying to shame to prevent a ruling just

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like this. So it's you know, politics, Politics suck no matter where
you go, but politics exist andare important everywhere you go. It's a
terrible, terrible situation, and yetthis is the situation we deal with all
the time. We're going to takea time out and go from one topic

(01:10:23):
to a completely different topic. Ifyou love the slow jams of the nineteen
seventies and eighties, My next guestis a guest you're gonna enjoy. You
can see him in concert tomorrow night. We'll be back with Filly Ocean Not
only is he wearing his captain's hat, his blazer with the Yachtlee crew logo.
Love that, his white shirt,his white pants, he has now

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got the headphones tipped behind the hatso as to not mess up the entire
look that you are rocking. Well, you know, I always like to
make an entrance. What can Isay? You know this? The suit
goes with me pretty much everywhere andas well as should Why would you not?
Have you seen the new This isso random? But have you seen
the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies doneby Ralph Lauren? Uh? No?

(01:11:09):
Blue Blaze the road? So Ihaven't blue Blaze. It looks so good.
I want one. I want tobuy one. Apparently he came to
a yacht the Cruse show. Ihad no idea exactly. Let's talk about
yacht rock for a second. Whendid this become a genre? That is
a great question. I don't knowif we can pinpoint it. But we
got started in twenty seventeen and noone knew what the heck it was.

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I mean we would tell people yachtrock and they'd be like, what's what's
that? So we've we've gotten inthe habit of describing it. And I
always tell people, if you've neverheard the term yacht rock, you already
know what it is. We justdidn't know what's called that because it's all
the seventies and eighties soft rocks.And by the way, yes, Christopher
Across will be we'll be playing someChristopher Cross last tomorrow night. Holland Oates,
Toto, Steely Dan, the DoobieBrothers, Michael McDonald, you name
it. This is what makes upall of the yacht rock genre. These

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songs. There are the songs.I mean, I'm a child of the
seventies and eighties, and I alwaysthink these are the songs that we're playing
in your Dennis office. Yep,they were playing, and your elevators,
they were playing, at your grocerystores. They were playing because they were
kind of the absolutely unoffensive soundtrack ofour life. Right, So, how
in the world did you get togetherwith a bunch of other guys and say,

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you know what, we should playthe soft rock favorites of the nineteen
eighties or seventies and eighties, andyou found other guys that were like,
you know what, great idea.How did that happened? So our bass
player, Baba Booie of course,and our drummer, Sailor Hawkins. They've
been buddies and they've been in bandsfor thirty years or maybe more. And
they weren't doing anything really at thetime, and Baba said to Sailor,

(01:12:35):
you know this music. He waslistening to serious sexem and he, I
don't know, can I say that? Yeah, he was listening to a
lot of this music. He's like, no one's doing anything with this,
wh why don't we bring something together. I found out about the band through
a friend that I used to karaokewith. I used to go to karaoke
and she was like, you wouldbe perfect for this band. Her brother
is our guitar player. So it'slike one degree of separation. Yeah,

(01:12:58):
So it just it kind of cametogether really organically, and we all have
a love for this music. Igrew up listening to this music. I
mean, my dad was a hugeDoobie Brothers fan and Michael McDonald and yeah,
yeah, yeah, exactly so.But it just kind of it does
have a bit of magic to itbecause we're all friends. We're family now.
We've been doing this for seven years, and we love each other.
We love the music and at whatpoint were you like, you know what,

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kids, I think we can makethis a career. We're still kind
of at that point, don't dopeople have second jobs? Not anymore.
This past year has gotten to thepoint where this is all we can do
because it's just so busy. Imean we're literally on the road now in
the middle of our twenty twenty fourfull Steam Ahead tour, on a tour
of bus for two months straight.And I mean, I don't want to

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make you sound like you're ancient,but you're not twenty years old here,
no, no, So what isthat experience as adults because you're you're you
appear to be a grown man.Yeah, I mean I understand, like
when young guys are my wife,Yes, Like young guys are like,
yeah, let's get a van andjust touring the country in the van.
There's a certain amount of romance tothat. But you're over forty. You
need a comfortable bed, I'm assuming, Well, yes we do. And

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you know, it's it's one ofthose things that we've been building this and
we we care deeply about what wedo, and we're all kind of blue
collar musicians. You know, thisis something that we've wanted to do our
whole lives, and for many ofus, we've had other bands and other
projects that we've been involved in.This has been the thing that has taken
off and it's and it's been moresurprising to us than I think anyone,

(01:14:25):
because you know, people look atus like yacht rock is a thing,
like is this really what you do? You hit a niche that apparently is
a deep niche that was completely untappedbecause all of us want to think back
to those days. Drive like inmy house, drive into the pool in
the in the summer. Absolutely,but that's what made me love the song
Copacabana. Right. I love BarryManelow. I'm not I'm out of a

(01:14:45):
closet he's fan. Yeah, butit's like it does take you back.
It takes you back to simpler times. It takes you back to when you
were a kid. How do youchoose the songs that you guys play,
Well, a lot of them arejust they already exist within this genre.
You know, if you if youspend any time on the internet looking up
yacht rock, there's no shortage ofopinions. But we have really shaped our
set list over the last seven yearsbased on audience feedback, oh wow,

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and you know we want to puton the best show ours is. By
the way, for people who've neverheard of Yachtley Crew before, We're not
just in your average band that standsthere on stage. You know. We
call ourselves Yachtley Crew for a reasonbecause that's the kind of energy we put
in. You bring a heavy metalenergy to a soft bring rock and roll

(01:15:30):
energy, okay, soft clock,but the show and the performances are super
energetic and enthusiastic. We're not juststanding there going through the motions. Well.
I saw Christopher Cross fairly recently ona tour with Todd run Wren,
and he don't well, he soundedgreat, he played great, but he
doesn't do much on stage, andhe would as the other band bands were

(01:15:51):
playing, he would just kind ofwalk off very very slowly, like kind
of just fade. That he wouldcome back, but he was just fade.
So that won't be any of thattonight. We are the opposite.
Okay, yeah, the exact oppositeof that. It's so much energy and
so much fun. We want ouraudience to have the most fun that they've
ever had at our show. Imean, we want people to walk away

(01:16:11):
going this is the best concert I'vebeen to in memory. Yeah, that's
really what we go for every timewe perform. I got a bunch of
people hitting our common Spirit health textline. OK with questions. One this
just says so excited we'll be atthe Oriental tomorrow. So there you go,
Mandy. Ask him how long theopening act is? Do you have
an opening act? This is whereyou should put in some of those one
hit wonders from the seventies. Iknow, you know what we got to

(01:16:33):
We actually played a show and Ambrosiaopened for us. They opened for us,
Yeah, we soon, but wedidn't find out until like the week
before, and we were like,we got a message from our agent.
He's like, do you guys,You guys are cool if Ambrosia opens for
you, and we're like, yeah, that's amazing. They sound incredible.
I mean, they still sound absolutelyperfect. I'm going to be real.

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I don't know much about what happenswith the opener because we don't handle that.
That's usually decided by the venue.Okay, so I don't know,
but usually the openers are incredible,and usually there are a lot of local
musicians, So come on, outsupport local music as well, all right?
Do that? Can you ask Billyif the set list will be the
same as the last time they werein Denver? No, we change it
every time we come back to amarket. Every time we come back to

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a place, it's different. Weobviously we have about twenty songs that we
have to play. If we don'tplay Africa, we'll get hate mail.
People will literally terrorists to shred.You know what social media is like.
Now. If we don't play YouMake my Dreams Come True or Baker Street,
people are going to lose their minds. So there's the solid twenty songs
that are in every show. Butthen we mix it up and we always

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try and bring in new stuff.We have a couple of new songs that
you've definitely never heard us play before, so it's going to have some new,
fresh energy for sure. All Right. The band is called Yachtley Crue,
and if you go to I'll know. I don't know if I just
put a link to the Orientals page, but I will go back and link
to the Yachtly Crew page because thisperson said, where can I find out
where they play? Because we havelisteners all over really far away from here.

(01:18:03):
So hey, Mandy found out aboutthese guys the last time you had
them on the show. Can't waitto see them in July at Indian Ranch.
That's Bob from Massachusetts. Love itright there, there you go.
Then another person said they're an amazingperforming group. So thank you. You
guys are going to have a greatshow, Philly Ocean. You can see
him and the rest of the guystomorrow. Wait, give me the names

(01:18:25):
of all the people in the bandreal quick. Okay, so you heard
me say Baba Booie, Saylor Hawkinson drums, Tommy boo and guitar,
Pouli Shores on saxophone, Stony Shoreson keys, and Matthew McDonald on keys.
Of course does he also saying LittleDoobie Brothers. Everyone sings, Okay,
everyone sings yeah, perfect, Allright, tomorrow we have some baseball.
Now I will have a show.I'll see you tomorrow night, Hilly.

(01:18:46):
Thank you. We have a baseballgame tomorrow, but it is an
early game, so I'm not quitesure when the show will start. It
could start anywhere between two and three, or maybe not start. It's always
fun for me because I still getup and do show prep as if I

(01:19:06):
have a three hour show, eventhough I clearly will not have a three
hour show, So that will happenon Wednesday. But tomorrow night, our
Thursday, two things are happening.I'm sorry, I got this all messed
up in my mind. The firstthing that is happening is tonight on k
HOW, our sister station six thirtyk HOW. They are going to have

(01:19:28):
just complete primary election coverage. Andif you have not voted, please drop
your ballot off, do not mailit. It will not count. And
turnout has been incredibly low. Soif you've ever wondered if your vote matters
in this election, it will absolutelymatter. And if you are in the
fourth congressional District and you're not goingto plan on filling out your ballot,

(01:19:49):
I would appreciate it if you wouldjust mark Deborah Flora and drop that ballot
off today, nothing else. Idon't need anything else. Just do it.
It would be fantastic. Anyway.So tomorrow A do you think do
you think we'll to thirty two tothirty to start the show? We got
baseball? Really, I think it'san eleven am game, pretty sure.

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The post game two, Rockie saida really cool record. I thought when
they became the first team to scorea walk off win with a pitch clock
violation, that's like a nerdy littlething you'll see on Jeopardy at some point.
So we shall see day. Don'tthink we'll get on tomorrow. Oh

(01:20:30):
it's a twelve to ten game,yes, yes, yeah, yeah,
never mind, guys, nice knowingyou don't actually have a show tomorrow.
For some reason, I thought itwas an eleven to ten pitch, not
a twelve ten pitch. Eleven thirtypre game twelve ten pitch. Yeah,
so the games have been about tooYeah, it has to be like the
fastest of the year and a fastpost game show. Yeah, but Thursday

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night, don't forget. Starting atsix o'clock right here on KOA me Ross,
we are going to be joined byone mister Ben Albright, who if
you know Ben, if you don'tknow Ben, if you don't listen to
Broncos Country tonight. The man isnot afraid to be spicy. He is
not afraid to vent his spleen andexpress his opinion. He usually does so
about sports. And then he's goingto be joining Ross and I to do

(01:21:15):
that before the debate, and thenat seven when the debate starts, you'll
be able to hear the debate livehere on KOA, and then you'll be
able to see us on our Facebookpage for a KOA cast with Me,
Ross and Ben. There will bepopcorn, there will be peanut m and
ms, there will be snarky commentary. It should be a lot of fun

(01:21:38):
and hopefully we will make the debatebearable. So tonight you want to listen
to the primary coverage over on sixpoint thirty KL Thursday night, you want
to tune in here at six forthe debate pre game with Me, Ross
and Ben, and then join uson Facebook for the KOA cast. Thanks
to our amazing sponsors that are sendingA Rod and I to the RNC and
the DNC Golden Spike Roofing Spike McCarthey, longtime friend and advertiser, just a

(01:22:02):
phenomenal human being, and the RockyMountain Voice, the new voice for Conservative
News online. And thanks to HeidiGanal for making that happen as well.
So that's going to be a bigday. But I'm out of things to
say. A Rod and I justrealized I have five more minutes. What
am I four more minutes? Whatam I supposed to do for four minutes?
That's gonna be a long vamp.Should we go back to talking about

(01:22:24):
Olympic summer sports? We could?I mean poop? Oh, I forgot
the poop video. I actually foundthat very useful. It is very useful.
And so what we're talking about.Nobody's actually pooping in the video.
Just in case you're freaking out rightnow. No, there's a guy just
talking about if your poop looks likethis, this is fine. If your
poop looks like this, this iswhat it could be. Poop is a

(01:22:45):
very important indicator of our overall physicalhealth. Do you do a poop inspection?
You know, just give it aglance there? I mean you do.
You have to check it out exactlylike what's going on? Well,
sometimes you don't have to look.You know, it's not you. You
know, you're like, I don'tneed to see that. I do not
need to see that, but youknow it looks like I don't know.

(01:23:10):
When I went to I had agasterontologist in Louisville, Kentucky. Before I
got here, and in his officehe had like one of those desk things,
you know, like it was ait was a flat bottom and then
it had little spikes coming out ofit with like plastic poops put on the
spikes or like the various kinds ofand I think they looked just like this

(01:23:30):
guy. Yeah, so it mustbe a common thing, Like you can
just buy plastic poop. You could, you know what, next year for
Easter, forget easter eggs a rodhigh plastic poop instead. It would be
really really crappy time. But youcould do it nice. You could do
it. I also have one morevideo, and I almost didn't put this

(01:23:51):
on here a rod and then Iwas like, I'm not going to talk
about it, but I watched thisvideo twice today. There are now fat
conventions fat con is what they callit, and a bunch of fat people
get together. And I'm not tryingto shame anyone for being overweight. I

(01:24:13):
am not. Please don't take itlike that, but it's a bunch of
overweight people. They get together andthere's some cool things like that you can
learn about fashion and things of thatnature. But they are continuing to perpetuate
the myth that being obese is nota medical issue, and that's as dumb
as cigarette companies trying to tell usthis smoking isn't bad for you. And

(01:24:36):
I just found this, I don'tknow. I mean, part of me
is glad that they found people thatthey're connecting with, because obviously this is
something that bothers them a great deal, or otherwise they wouldn't feel they need
to tell us all the time howmuch it doesn't bother them. But I
found out the other day that alot of these fat positive organizations do you

(01:24:57):
do funds them. Drug company,the same drug companies who make ozempic weight
Watchers funds these fat positivities. Foodcompanies fund the fat positivity movement. And
it's like, what are we doingyou guys? We know this is terrible,
not just because you feel bad allthe time. And it's not about

(01:25:19):
being a size too, it's notabout being a supermodel. It's about maintaining
a healthy weight so you don't haveto have your knees replaced when you're fifty,
you know, so you don't havehigh blood pressure when you're thirty,
so you don't have to worry abouthaving a heart attack when you're forty.
It's just that's really disheartening. Andthis is just kind of another whenever I
see stuff like that. I think, there you go. That's another example

(01:25:40):
of news speak being heavy. Usedto be bad, now it's something to
be celebrated. It's crazy. Andif you did near us talking about the
poor delusional trans woman who seems tobelieve in a TikTok video that she had
a period, y'all, not onlydoes that show a stunning lack of biological

(01:26:03):
knowledge, it's just sad because anybodywho wants that, oh obviously is not
a woman. Just saying, videospaint modern pentathlon? What is that?
Videos paint modern Look? Did thatmean a rod? That was obviously a
voice to text? Videos paint modernpentathlon? What is that? I have

(01:26:27):
a friend who competed in the pentathlonin the nineteen ninety two games. They're
telling us to look up a videopentaflon. Oh maybe modern pentathlon is horsemanship,
fencing, swimming, shooting and whatevents? Yeah, there's that's why
it's called a pentaflon. Five events, biathlon, two events, shooting in
ski Is that in there too?I can't remember that. Yeah, that

(01:26:53):
that is it? Long jump,javelin throwing, discus throwing. No,
I mean that's what that's what itsays, wrestling and stadium, which is
the foot race, No I no, this is from Oh those are from
the ancient Olympics. Yeah, that'snot it at all. Olympic pentaff lawn
long jump, we know, that'sall the ancient one codn shooting, swimming,

(01:27:15):
fencing, equestrian and cross country running. A cross country running, that's
what I forgot. I'm never goingto do that. That sounds like a
lot of work, a lot ofwork. Okay, kids, we're probably
not going to be back tomorrow,but KOA Sports will be here in just
a minute, so keep it righthere on Koa