07-08-24 FULL SHOW - Will He Or Won't He Drop Out, and Jill As Lady Macbeth

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Welcome to a Monday edition of theprogram. I'm your host for the next
three hours. Mandy Connall, joined, of course, by my right hand
man. We call him a Rod. You can call him Anthony Rodriguez.
Okay, I just want you toknow, Okay, when you play that

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before the airhorn, it's like Ihave this visual of an elderly man with
an airhorn who has to gin upenough strength to actually push it right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, anyway, Rod, stop it, stop it

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right now. We cannot I'm justgonna say this right now, when we
are at the d n C,when you and I are covering the Democratic
National Convention, you cannot play soundbites like that. Oh no, no,
you can't. I can, no, you can't. We are going
to be on our best behavior,our best behavior. We are going there
to learn. We're gonna go togo in there, We're gonna listen,

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We're gonna learn, We're gonna askquestions. We're going to bring the other
side to our audience. Yeah,and then I'll wait an hour. I
will wait for No, we cannot, we cannot, we cannot get bounced
out of the d n C.I mean seriously, No, that's not

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aspirational. It's not so No.No, let's do the blog and we'll
talk about that later. Go toMandy's blog. Just realizing got the date
wrong. Go to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mendy'sblog dot com. And then
go back in time and look forthe headline that says seven to eight two
forty five blog Will he or won'the? Drop out? And Jill as

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Lady Macbeth click on that and hereare the headlines you will find within.
I think with some of in office, half American, all the ships and
clipments, and say that's go topress plant today on the blog? Is
Jill the woman behind the puppet?Why I hate fireworks? Can we talk
about the brawl for a minute?A fourteen year old girl is dead.
Democrats want Joe out this as hisadministration pursues to remove any age limits for

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trans surgeries, would change the nameof the sixteenth Street. Mall matter your
timeline cleanser for the day, Coloradorestaurants are closing a lot. RFK Junior
is going to be on the ballotin Colorado, and just who is the
Republican Party? George Brockler says,not so fast on unity. Are we
at the beginning of the end ofthe world. No, we don't need

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to ban mountain lion hunting. TheSwingsy patrols are breaking the law. The
Pipe's peak, the Pike's Peak orbust Rodeo is this week. Denver is
doing the reverse of broken windows theory. Nuclear verdicts are rising and that is
not good. We've lost confidence incollege. Those are the headlines on the
blog Manday's blog dot com. AndAy, Rod, you sent me a

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bunch of good stuff. But myday went like this. I got up
and I'm having trouble shaking off thelong weekend. You know what I mean.
I'm feeling a little fuzzy, tryingto shake it off because it was
great. I hope yours was.Did you have a nice It was fantastic.
I mean you got pushed all theway back to the year two forty
five, so traveling back here tooka little Yeah, you take it out
of me. Yeah, a littlejet lag, full time travel lag.

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I'll fix that eventually. No,it's a fantastic weekend. I'm just having
trouble getting back into the groove,you know what I mean. It's a
beautiful day, a day outside.I'm just having trouble just getting back into
things getting together. I'm trying.I'm ready. I'm trying. Mandy,
I hope you played Joe's every DayAnd that is a very nice, finetic

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spelling of of that. Mandy lovedthe opening song, how did you get
that? Well? A wonderful listenernamed Ty made that for me. He
uh, using a combination of lyricsand that he wrote himself and some AI
came up with a fantastic theme song. And I love it and I and
I'm danced to it, y'all.I'm I reabop every day to that song.

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It's fantastic, absolutely fantastic. Keepingignorance at Bay good. We try,
Yes, Mandy. Another from Biden. By the way, I'm proud
to be, as I said,the first vice president, first black woman
to serve with a black president.Wow, Wow, Wow, A lot

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of you already jumping into a topicthat I do not have on the blog
today, but I want to talkabout So. I have been on Twitter
since two thousand and nine, andI'm not one of those people that have
thousands and thousands of followers I have. I mean I have thousands, but
I don't have like thousands and thousands. I'm never gonna break any Twitter records.
And my tweets sometimes do okay,but I don't really care if my

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tweets get a lot of play becauseI tweet for myself. I tweet because
I enjoy it. I tweet becauseI can, as they say. But
that being said, I posted atweet earlier in the week as we were
leaving Denver, and it was allof the people waiting in the train area
in Terminal C, okay, AndI mean they probably had to wait for

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at least three or four the thirdor fourth train to come to get on
the train. And I just askedthe question on my Twitter, why can
I not walk from Terminal C oror Concourse C to the terminal. Now
many of you may not know this, but if you've flown in and out
of the Atlanta Airport, you knowit's ginormous. And they have trains that
go in between their concourses as well, But there is a walkway. You

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can literally walk the entire distance thatthe train travels. Now, it's like
a mile and a half from theFurthest terminal in Atlanta to get to the
main terminal. But every single timeI have walked it, and I have
walked it more than once, justas a choice. You get off a
long flight and it's like, geez, do I want to stand here and

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be stuffed onto this train with allthese other people are doing And I just
hope it and I hoof it.And I'm not saying that everybody who's waiting
for the train is going to walkit, because that's not going to happen,
But men, wouldn't it be niceto have that option? Now?
I didn't say all that in thetweet. I just said, why can't
I walk from Concourse see to theterminal? And that tweet it may be

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one of the most widely seen andviewed tweets that I have ever tweeted out
ever got a lot of run.I'm looking at it right now. I
mean just keeps going and keeps going, And as more people find it,
it's like, oh my god,why can't I do that? And there's
a lot of misconceptions out there becausethere is a bridge, there's the bridge
security checkpoint, and you can walkover the bridge to Terminal A, but

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then your only option to get toB or C is the train. You
have to get on the train inA, and if you wait to get
on the train in A, alot of times the train is full from
all the people who just got intothe terminal. So it's not a great
situation and you cannot walk beyond TerminalA, and a lot of people were
kind of back like fighting with eachother about that. I'm like, no,

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I promise, I've tried. Ihave tried. Ooh, somebody wants
to know if we can make Joea ring tone. I mean you could,
if you could upload an MP three. I'm sure they exist. I'm
sure been done with that very soundby problem. Yeah. Yeah, I

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want to say you traveled on Julythird, though, so there's a people
there and it wasn't so much itwas that was just a perfect example of
why we should be able to walk. Because in Denver's airport, as long
as the luggage takes to get fromyour airplane to the luggage carousel, you
have plenty of time to walk.It's like forty five hundred yards, so

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it's not even a mile from fromConcourse Seed to the terminal. And I
know, like I said, noteverybody's gonna do that. I absolutely would
do it to just be able tostretch my legs after a flight, and
then you'd get there. You'd probablybe there before your luggage. Anyway,
I don't know. Well, noteveryone are the speedwalking Olympian wannabes like Mandy
Cooms. Well, and now I'mhaving a knee issue. I got to
see Regent. I gotta go haveit checked out. Oh so the train

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would be okay today. No,I still would have walked. I went
hiking twice this past weekend. Wellbecause I liked it. Well, probably,
but I'm having a little bit ofa knee thing. I don't know
what's going on anyway. Somebody said, have you been to the Salt Lake
Airport? I have. The walkis almost two miles and after a long
flight. I like that. I'mnot like schlepping one hundred bags. You
see people get on the airplane nowlike they're a sherpa taking a party of

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twelve up the side of a mountainwith their backpack. Right, They get
on with backpacks that are going overtheir head by like two and a half
feet. They will not fit inan overhead bin, will not They're too
big. Like, where are yougoing with that backpack? Where are you
going? How far are you actuallywalking with that backpack? These are the
things I think of when I'm atthe airport, Mandy. I ran from

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D to A in Atlanta with myduffel bag on my back to make a
connection. And that, my friends, is a story for the ages when
that person and I'm gonna assume you'remale, and I hope that's not,
you know, wrong, But thisguy's gonna be on his deathbed and his
family's gonna go, did you havea good life, Grandpappy? And I'll
go I did, especially that day, oh so long ago, when I

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strapped my backpack my dapa onto mybag and I ran like the wind from
D to A. And yes,it was up here both ways somehow the
whole time. And I made it, my friends, I made it.
And then you just expire gone tellingthat story. Oh maybe forty five yards

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is more than a mile, You'reright, I was saying, is it
forty five hundred feet? Oh?Man? I looked it up last night
when I was tired. I needto look it up. Look up how
far a concourse see is from theterminal in in in feet or yards?
It might be feet. Hang onone moment. Clarification message to travelers,

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check your blanking bags. Correct,correct, my friend, I will always
be one of those people strolling throughthe airport, not looking like I'm about
to buckle into the weight of whateverI'm carrying on my back. I'm gonna
cruise on to my flight. It'sgonna be a delight. I'm not in
the restaurant knocking everybody over with mybags. Nope, not me, Nope,

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nope. I did say forty fivehundred yards. But I'm making a
rod figure outs. I looked itup last night, but I was very
tired. So let's try to geta rod. Let's get let's reach out
to the airport authority and see ifwe can get the head of the airport
authority on the show to answer thesequestions, because I would like to know

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because here's what I understand, andthis is going to be completely wrong.
So if you know more about this, and y'all, if you're just spitballing
and making stuff up. That's fine. Just let me know that you're just
guessing, because I'm looking for realinformation. Lots of people responded that the
luggage system that was originally built atDIA was completely not functional. It never

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worked right, But it's still thereunderneath the airport. So if that's true,
there's got to be like some kindof tunnel system for that. Why
can we just make that a walkingtune. Oh, he was fresh out
of basic training when he ran it. We'll have that. Oh, it
was fresh out of basic training.What I had to make that connection between
DNA in Atlanta. It was glorious, Mandy, I replied to your airport

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tweet, I'm serious about a gondolasimilar to the ski areas. I've also
been through Atlanta. The underground walkwayshave the conveyors too. That's another thing.
You slap some moving sidewalks down thereand you're good to go. You
got it, by the way,I did the Atlanta without the moving sidewalks

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one day. Yeah, just tosay I did it, Mandy, Did
you do the stare ahead challenge onyour flights? I did for a while,
but I was trying to read twobooks and I finished both of them.
I finished one on the way thereand then one on the way back.
So as I was reading, Ihad things I had to get done
reading that needed to be attended to. Mandy. Why are they expanding seacourse

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to make folks walk so far whend was part of the original plan?
This I do not know. Ido not know. So let's get somebody
from the Denver Airport Authority on arod to answer some of these questions.
So I've got a lot of otherstuff on the blog today coming up.
At one. Mary Rook from theDaily Caller is joining me. She had
a call him last week that actuallymade me laugh, and then it got

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really sad, and then I gotreally angry. And it has to do
with the way that Joe Biden's familyis propping him up, and Joe Biden
especially. I will tell you thisabout my marriage to my husband, and
I hope your marriage is exactly thesame way. I truly do. I
can be so furious that my husbandbehind the scenes, so furious about whatever

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doesn't matter. I'm not gonna letthat show to the rest of the world.
I'm gonna protect my husband because he'sthe one I chose. He is
half of my team. And I'malways gonna have his back, and I'm
always gonna try and make him lookgood, and I'm always gonna try and
present his best side because I knowwhat a wonderful human being he is.
And if he went anywhere and showedthe kind of decline that we just saw,

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there's no way I would put himout to run for any office.
I wouldn't put him out to runfor county commission because it's just not right.
But Mary wrote a column about thatlast week. We're going to talk
to her about it. I dohave this to say, so, I
did not watch the George Stephanopolos cannedinterview with Joe Biden. I did hear

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about it, as I knew Iwould. I figured I would hear about
the best parts and I could skipthe dumb parts. And I seemed that
that's what happened today. But JoeBiden is absolutely not withdrawing from this race
right now. And I'm always goingto use that caveat because the power of

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a political party to pressure one manto do what they want them to do
can be brought in a myriad ofways. And I think that Joe Biden
and his family have left themselves opento not just criticism, but the potential

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to face charges for some of thebusiness dealings that he and his family have
been doing. And Hunter Biden sureneeds him to stay in the White House
at least until his cases are adjudicated. You have to believe that the father
will pardon the son on the wayout of office. So I mean,
do they do they say, Look, whoever comes up next will pardon Hunter.

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We'll make sure of that. Imean, what do you dangle in
front of him to get him toquit? Is there anything you could dangle
in front of him to get himto quit? I don't know, but
this is this is not going theway I think. Okay, let's let's
put on our political conniving hat forjust minute. And I generally try in

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life. This is something I've beenworking on for several years to give people
the benefit of the doubt, right, like, assume positive intent until proven
differently, And it is really challengingin politics to assume positive intent. It's
easy when you're talking about policy positions, but stuff like this, I look

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at if I'm the leadership, theleadership the sort of pulls the strings in
the Democratic Party, And yes,there is leadership in the Republican Party.
I just couldn't tell you what itwas. They just don't have the power
to pull the strings like the leadershipand the Democratic Party does. If the
leadership really wants to get rid ofBiden and do the least amount of damage.

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This is why they're now throwing theirweight behind Kamala Harris behind closed doors,
because as I know right now,Kamala is the least popular vice president
in history. And let's be real, you guys, vice president is not
something that most of us could evenname beyond the modern era. Who was
vice president? You know? Butbefore who was Herbert Hoover's vice president?

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I don't know. I'm gonna behonest, Woodrow Wilson, anyone, anyone,
Teddy Roosevelt, you got that one, James Madison, Andrew Jackson.
And I'm naming the big guys.I'm not even naming the ones nobody talks
about. But if they were tryingto do that, I think that they

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they let Biden continue, knowing thathe's going to lose, and hope they
can mitigate the damage to the downticket, and then they just plan on
throwing everything they've got at a newTrump administration and crippling it from the very
beginning, and creating and sowing suchdoubt that the American people will clamor for
some Democrat to come in and promiseto restore normalcy even though they won't,

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and they vote get voted back intooffice in twenty twenty eight. You know,
all things considered, It's not agreat solution in the eyes of people
who would much prefer to win anelection to lose it. But there are
worse ways for this to go down, Mandy. If Joe Biden steps down,
how will Hunter Biden and Joe Bidenmake money from selling influence to China,

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Iran and any other enemy to theUS. That's a big part of
this family decision, I believe,Sean, is that the family loses their
ability to make money because they don'thave a product. They don't own a
company that actually makes something. Theydon't have Biden bolts, they don't have

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Biden bread, they don't have anyof this. They don't have any any
actual product making companies. So howexactly are they going to make money now?
I mean, man, come on, According to that liberal cheer leader
who was on with Ross last hour, she is the most accomplished VP.

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I heard that. I heard Rosstalking about it after the fact. But
then don't you just ask, well, what if her accomplishments do you feel
are the most significant? I'd liketo hear one, wouldn't you, because
I'm not aware of any at all? But hey, you know, far
be it from me to criticize delusionalpeople anyway. Can you please talk about

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the Epstein documents released with Trump's nameall over it. We're talking about nonsense
right now. Let's talk about gettingthe child rapist out of the running for
president. I did not see that, So if you could email me that
Mandy at May, we'll do thiswhen Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com Mandy

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Connell at iHeartMedia dot com, I'dbe happy to take a look at it.
But isn't it interesting that just asthe drums are beating to get the
current president out of the race,all of us sending some bombshell document is
out. It makes Trump look bad, so weird, so weird, so
weird. I have not heard thisaudio. I've just heard good things.

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Not that it's good, mind you, but that it's worth listening to you
because it's actually that bad. Isthat a fair assessment, Aeron, I
don't want to oversell it. Okay, this is Whoopy Goldberg on last week's
debate. I'm just gonna have mytwo cents because I wasn't here on the
day that y'all talked about it.I don't care if he's pooped his pants.

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I don't care if he can't puta sentence together, show me he
can't do the job, and thenI'll say, Okay, maybe it's time
to go now. He had abad night the first time that he went
out and debated with Kamila Harris,and everybody wanted him to quit then and
say you can't talk to women likethis. Are you're doing this wrong?
You're doing that wrong. He cameback and said, you know what,

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I got it and gave four years. So, yeah, I have poopie
days all the time. All thetime. I step in so much pool
you can't even imagine. Now,I'm not running the world, but I
don't know anybody who doesn't step instuff at some point. So I'm just

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simply saying, yeah, there aretwo debates, and if he can't do
what he needs to do for thesecond debate, I'll join any crew that
says, get rid of him,but loyalty to me. If you are
doing the job. I might notlike everything you're doing. I don't like
it all, but I'm gonna standbehind you like those guys stand behind the
guy who should have been the personthat people were talking about saying, yeah,

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Biden had a bad day, butthis guy couldn't tell the truth if
it's split his lip. But nobodysaid that. But I believe what's something.
She's not quite as callful as ire. But the question now, the
question now is because lots of Democratsare coming out and saying, you know,
oh, find somebody else. Butwhen we try to do that with

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DT, that's my new way ofjust describing. And we said, listen,
he shouldn't be on the ballot.Everybody said no, no, no,
he was. The people chows him. We can't take him off the
ballot. Well, I don't understandwhy anybody thinks it's gonna be any easier
to take Botom off the ballot.She's got a point in the last part.

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She's absolutely right about that. Butjust so you know, the standard
now for WHOOPI Goldberg, for acandidate she can get behind, is someone
who could poop their own pants andthen stepping it. I wasn't sure about
how much poop she said. Iwasn't sure if she was using a metaphor
or she's being serious there. Ihave poopy days all the time. Yep.

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I mean, are we talking actualpoop? What are we talking there?
What is that? What is that? I step in so much pulling
out? No, I don't wantto think. I can't tell. I
figured it would be obvious, butit's not. I think she was,

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you know, kind of like weavingin and out of metaphor maybe or I
but I think when she was talkingabout him, she was actually talking about
him pooping his pants. That's that'swhere we are. You can't go from
literally to figure it early when we'retalking about poop. Yeah, you can't
do it. This is you guys. On the one side, we have

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people who are like, you knowwhat, thirty four felonies be damned.
I can't wait to vote for thisguy. And now on the left we
have I don't care if he poopshis pants. I can't wait to vote
for that guy. This is whatwe This is a So the question is
will you vote for either of these? I guess the answer is it depends.

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Wow. Wow, Wow, thisis an interesting text text message.
Biden will change and get better likeany other chameleon, like it or not.
With Trump, what you see iswhat you get. Now, Texter,
let's take the Trump particide just fora second. Let's just look at

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that particide. Okay, because youcould argue, but tiger doesn't change its
spots whatever. Wait, leopard doesn'tchange in spots. Tiger doesn't change its
stripes. But the first part Bidenwill change and get better. I change
diaper. But I don't know.I'm being genuine to this text, and
I hope that they think about thisand text me back. What we're seeing

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and what we saw during the debate, what we've seen over and over and
over again in multiple instances on theworld stage, is the result of the
aging process. And the issues thatJoe Biden is now facing and is being
called to account on are issues ofthe aging process. So unless you have
some kind of fountain of youth,you have to understand that the path for

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Joe Biden from here on cognitively becauseof age, is going to be downhill.
I don't know how quickly. Idon't know how precipitously. I don't
know what that's going to look like. It could be a long, slow,
drawn out process. It could behim falling off a cliff. I
mean you've if you've known older people, everybody ages differently, so not Benjamin

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Button. No, there's no BenjaminButton here. Okay, no, no,
no, to clarify, And I'mwondering if the text really thinks that
Joe Biden is going to quote quoteget better and it's so in what way?
Because I'm relatively certain as an Americanright this second, that Joe Biden

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is not remotely running this country.And I just have this fear and it's
completely without evidence as of yet,although more and more people are coming out
to say everyone in the White Houseknew he was like this and we had
these problems. But it's kind oflike when you have well used my own
experience as a guide. When mygrandmother was at the end of her life,

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none in the last two years ofher life, she would have episodes
of dementia where they were mostly atnight. It was not complete sundowners.
Some evenings she was okay, butsome evenings she wasn't, and she would
want to know why she wasn't inthe office. My grandmother is a very
hard worker her entire life, andshe would say, well, I need
to get to my office to takecare of this, and I would always

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respond with some kind of patronizing lie, and it was always something like,
oh, Nana, you don't remember. They're painting the office. That's why
we're here. And it was somuch easier than trying to tell her,
in her confused state a nonsense factthat did not matter at that point because
in the morning she would wake upand she wouldn't have any recollection of the
entire conversation anyway. So the optionswere tell her whatever she wanted to think,

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or argue with a woman who couldnot help where she was in my
way. Seemed the kindness, andit worked and everybody was happy and we
all went about our business. ButI just feel like they're basically shoving stuff
in front of Joe Biden to makehim feel important, and then you know,
this is what we're going to do, sir, don't you agree,

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sir? And he just goes sure, and then they're off to the races.
And then at some point somebody askedhim about a policy platform and he
just doesn't know what they're talking about, because he doesn't know that's his policy.
I have a story of that onthe blog today where there are now
emails out that show Admiral Rachel Divine, the transwoman who is very highly placed

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in the Biden administration, she sentemails to WPATH, the most black organization
in the world. They're the onessetting the policy positions for transgender affirming care,
even though many of them are justactivists and not doctors and they don't
use actual science. But WPATH,we'll send emails by Rachel Devine saying we

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want to lower the age for genderaffirming surgery. And yet the White House
comes out and says we're not infavor of gender affirming for surgery for kids.
They don't even know. They haveno idea what policy positions. They
have no clue, Mandy. Now, now, Mandy, Republicans are voting
for a guy with thirty four feloniesand who poops his pants. Sorry Texter,

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sorry that hasn't been on display.I mean they just haven't. Mandy.
You talk about how Whoopee has nostandards. I agree. Hard to
cast that stone though, when yousupport a lying sexual predator and felon I
support Donald J. Trump because thealternative is that much worse. Trust me,

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there was any other way to dothis, any other way that I
thought was viable, it would besuccessful. I would do it. But
there's just not And for that Imake no apologies. I did not put
myself here. Others chose the pathfor me. I feel like it deserves
a second dip. The whole thing. How long is it? So it's
two minutes from today's episode of View. And the only reason I'm playing it

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is this text. A got reallymad that we just focused on the part
where she said she didn't care ifhe pooped his pants. So we're gonna
play the whole thing, and thenI'll come back to the part where she
says she didn't care if he poopshis pants. Go ahead, hey,
Rod, I'm just gonna have mytwo cents because I wasn't here on the
data chill talked about it. Idon't care if he's pooped his pants.

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I don't care if he can't puta sentence together, show me he can't
do the job, and then I'llsay, Okay, maybe it's time to
go now. He had a badnight the first time that he went out
and debated with Camille Harris, andeverybody wanted him to quit that and say
you can't talk to women like thisand you're doing this wrong, you're doing

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that wrong. He came back said, you know what, I got it
and gave four years. So yeah, I have PUOPI days all the time.
The time I step in so muchpool you can't even imagine. Now,
I'm not running the world, butI don't know anybody who doesn't step

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in stuff at some point. SoI'm just simply saying, yeah, there
are two debates, and if hecan't do what he needs to do for
the second debate, I'll join anycrew that says get rid of him,
but loyalty to me. If youare doing the job. I might not
like everything you're doing. I don'tlike it all, but I'm gonna stand
behind you. Let those guys standbehind the guy who should have been the

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person that people were talking about saying, yeah, Biden had a bad day,
but this guy couldn't tell the truthif it's split his lip. But
nobody said that, but an Isaid, I believe it's something. She's
not quite as callful as I.But the question, now, may a
chance I'm gone. The question nowis because lots of Democrats are coming out

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saying, you know, oh,find somebody else. But when we try
to do that with DT. That'smy new way of just describing when we
said, listen, he shouldn't beon the ballot, and if I said
no, no, no, thepeople chows him, we can't take him
off the ballot. Well, Idon't understand why anybody thinks it's going to
be any easier to take BoNT offthe ballot. She's right about that last

(31:34):
part. But let me go backto that part where she said she didn't
care if he pooped his pants.Then she went on to say, I
don't care if he can't make asentence, and then she went on to
say, show me that he can'tdo the job. What exactly does that
look like? WHOOPI Goldberg. Thisguy is not auditioning to be a production
assistant at the View. This isnot an entry level position at a restaurant

(31:57):
as a dishwasher. This isn't evena job in an accounting firm. This
is president of the United States ofAmerica. So what does that even look
like? What he needs to seeanother debate? She obviously hasn't seen any
of the video of him freezing upor locking up, or you know,

(32:19):
standing there having no clue where heis with his mouth agog. So she's
waiting for some kind of show meyou can't do the job. And the
texture who said she went on tosay, show me some way that he
can't do the job, exactly mypoint. Think about that for a second,
and while he's not able to dothe job, do you really think

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that they're the rest of the administrationthat has been covering that has been covering
up his condition for at least twoyears now, at least, if not
longer, You really think they're gonnalet the rest of the world know.
They're just gonna run the country completelyunaccountable and not at all what the people
voted for. And that's not okay, It just isn't. So in any

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case, when we get back,I promise we're not going to talk about
this all day. But you guys, this is the biggest story out there,
and I just don't see it goingaway until one of two things happens.
One is that the George Stefanoflas pretaped interview where the President said repeatedly
he is not stepping down finally convincesthat Democrats that he's not stepping down and

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they need to just go ahead andboom accept it and figure out how to
drag him across the finish line.That is the first thing. So I
don't know, we'll see, butwhen we get back, we are going
to continue this conversation one more timebecause about Mary Rook from the Daily Caller,
we're talking about Jill Biden's role inall this. She is certainly not

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ready to give up any power.And the Biden family, which doesn't produce
a product in their many, many, many, many, many many show
corporations that they have it, doesn'tthey don't actually make anything. They're going
to lose their ability to make aliving as soon as Biden leaves office and
loses his influence, because you reallythink at this point Biden is going to

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be taken seriously by anyone anywhere inthe world. The answer is no,
We'll be here with Mary Rook.Next. The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored
by Belle and Pollock accident and injurylawyers. No, it's Mandy Connell,
andy Ton on Kam Goddy can thenicety through many Connell keeping sad bab Welcome,

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Welcome, Welcome to the second hourof the show. And last week
before the holiday, a column waswritten by a woman named Mary Rook.
The headline Lady Macbiden desperately clinging topower as has been trumbles before her eyes.
And Mary Rook in this column askedthe question that honestly, as a
wife, as a daughter, asa human being, I asked, and

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that is, how can his familylet him continue to be out in the
world when he looked so terribly badat the debate? Mary Rook joins me
now to talk about it. Mary, First of all, welcome to the
show. Hi, Nandy, thankyou so much for having me. I
appreciate you having me on. Sowhen you I want to start when you
obviously watched the debate, okay,so what were your thoughts. I we

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did a thing here at Koa wherewe do a live KOA cast and we
kind of make fun of the debates, and it's very lighthearted, and I
was really looking forward to coming inand making fun of everybody and having a
great time. But in the firstten minutes the fun was gone because what
we were watching was really serious.How do you feel as you started to
realize holy crap, this is worsethan I thought. You know, it

(35:59):
was like worthy from the moment itstarted when you saw Biden kind of shuffling
onto stage, there was this momentinside me that goes, man, this
is just going to be so badfor Democrats. And it was like from
the moment he started rambling in hisopening statement to the very end when Joe
Biden had to help him off stage, it was just a sad realization that

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this man is well past his prime. His family is not protecting him,
and the Democratic Party and the mediaregime as a whole have been protecting this
part of him from the American publicfor the last four years. And you
start you start to ask yourself questionslike who is actually running the country,
who is actually calling the shots,and why have they allowed someone that is

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clearly, you know, incompetent tocontinue to have his hand on, you
know, such a powerful button asthe presidency. You wrote in part of
this column and I just want toread this one small portion and said,
think what you want about Joe's corruptionand tainted legacy, and I surely do.
But Jill betrayed him their marriage andthe promises she made before God on

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their wedding day. She likes thestate dinners, designer gowns, and being
treated like royalty when she travels abroadmore than she cares about Joe. That
is a super hard statement, butI got to tell you, when I
read it, I was like,right on, Mary, That's how it
looked to me. I think that'show it looked to a lot of people.
You know, my husband reads everythingI write, and so when he

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read this piece, he sent itback to me and he was like,
you did not hold back on thisone. And my response to him was,
if this was happening to you,I would never in a million years
allow people to see you in thisstate. Your dignity, your honor,
your legacy as the head of ourfamily means so much more to me than
any you know, perk that Icould get from you continuing the fallacy of

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your job. And I would hopethat as the first lady, she would
understand that that the American people arewatching her, not just as you know,
the kind of face of their feminineside of their family and all of
that, but also just as howdo you treat your husband and how do
you treat a you know, anelder husband and how do you go through
life as a married couple on themain stage. And I feel like she's

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doing such a disservice to young adultswho are looking at marriage now and thinking,
Okay, well, this was clearlyacceptable from the first Lady of the
United States, so that whenever Iget older in my husband's feeling, then
I can, you know, essentiallyact the same way. I just thought
it was such a disgrace to marriage. And you know, the vows that
she made. Well, you know, Mary, you write a lot about

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election integrity, and you write alot about politics, but I don't.
I don't think that I've ever reada column by you that felt like it,
and I don't want to. I'mtrying to think of the best way
to say this. It felt verypersonal and it wasn't a personal attack so
much is this felt like it wasa very personal issue for you. Yeah,

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you know, I really try andalthough whenever you're reading my stuff,
you can clearly see that I havea point of view to be made,
and it may not be accepted byhalf the nation, but it is a
point of view that's important. Inthis one piece, it really felt personal
to me. You know, ifyou've ever experienced in your life a family
member that is going through a cognitivedecline. It is it's a stark reality

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between where they are now and wherethey were, say, ten years ago.
And when I'm watching Joe Biden,it makes me remember my grandfather and
it also makes me feel for myfather. If my father's wife was allowing
this to happen, I would belike the loudest voice in the room against
it, saying, absolutely not.You can't take it taint his legacy in

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this way. And I guess it'skind of what I meant when I said
I surely have my opinions of JoeBiden. I mean, we've all seen
the Hunter Biden laptop. I've reportedon it several times, I've talked about
it at length. But regardless ofall of that, he is a human
being, and all humans deserve acertain level of dignity, and the people
that should be on the forefront ofensuring that dign dy stays intact, as

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his family and the fact that hedoesn't have anyone around him just made me
feel like, like I said inthe piece, he's waking up realizing that
he is a man dying alone,and that is and I think it's very
calculated by the family because I don'tthink they have any other means of making
money. Yeah, without him inoffice. You know, I really think
they view him as their livelihood andthey put that ahead of what's probably best

(40:30):
for him. Oh absolutely. Imean, if you look at Hunter Biden
and what he needs from his fatheras far as the presidential pardon and just
making sure that he stays out oftrouble. And then also on the other
side of the fact that their familyfor the last thirty years have made their
millions by selling access to power.And so if the power source is gone,

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meaning Joe Biden is out of office, and they no longer have a
connection to the White House or tothe Senate, then what point can they
tap into that for any of theirfamily dealings. And they just can't.
And I'm not sure that they knowhow to make money any other way.
They've leveraged their house. You know, there was a report that said over
thirty times they're clearly a family thatneeds to have this type of connection.

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And one of the things that Iwrote about in a different piece was the
fact that he's not like Obama,and he's not like Clinton, and he's
not like Bush in the sense thathe's never been one of them. He's
always been on the outskirts, kindof their dumb guy, the guy that
is left holding the bag and theone that they make do all the dirty
stuff and kind of put him outin the public eye in that way.

(41:35):
And so because of that, whenJoe leaves office, there's not going to
be this line of universities or tedTalks or whatever for Joe Biden and you
know, and her advice for youknow what the first lady of the American
people want to see and all ofthose things. So there's not gonna be
one hundred thousand dollars speaking fees beingthrown her way. So and what other

(41:57):
way with the next four years tobe able to, you know, sure
that their legacy makes enough money tosurvive, then keep him in office for
the next four years, which isjust such a sad state of affairs,
not only just for their family butfor our country. Knowing that Democrats have
essentially one option. They can eithernot vote or they can vote for a

(42:19):
man who clearly does not have hismental faculties around him and is being controlled
by everybody else. So they haveno idea really what product they're buying.
And that's a question that you addressin a previous column if I'm not mistaken,
where you basically say, look,this was a coup against the president
to let him appear this way.And I made a very similar argument on

(42:40):
my show, which is, ifI am behind the scenes Democrats and I
know how bad it's getting with thepresident, I want him out, but
I want him out in a waythat lays the groundwork for twenty twenty eight
if I can't replace him at thepolls. One thing I'm curious about is
why didn't the Democrats signal to peoplelike Gavin Noos and people like Adam shiff

(43:01):
that the primary was open, likethey could have had an open primary and
gotten a different candidate. But theydidn't. You know, they all were
like, no, we're not goingto entertain any part of that. I
think that there are two factions insidethe Democratic Party. The one that understood
that Biden would not win against Trumpbecause of his mental feelings, and then

(43:22):
the other faction that thought, intheir hubrious that they would be able to
get him over the line. Andso I think that those two parties are
fighting right now, and we're seeingthat play out, and you know,
mainstream media every single day, youhave the people that are going on going,
you know, would be gold Birdtoday on the views that I would
vote for Joe Biden even if hepooped his pants. I mean, what

(43:43):
a statement, you know. Andthen then you have the other faction who
is like, he's too old,he you know, let's let him go
off into the dark, knight,let's let him go off with his legacy
and tap. And I think thatin the reality, like I said,
it's the hubrius of this side whothought that they continue to have a controlled
puppet in the White House, andthat's what they were planning and hoping to

(44:05):
be able to keep away from theAmerican public. And they also hoped that
he would be able to provide themthe cover and he would have the best
day possible if they kept him atCamp David for twelve days and all of
those things. But the problem iswith people that are dealing with cognitive decline
is that you cannot bank your moneythat they are going to have a good
day no matter how much rest theyhave. And that is the problem that

(44:27):
they had. You know, youhad Obama leading him off stage in that
California fundraiser, that California fundraiser,thank you. And I think that that
was a really calculated move. Imean, I wrote about it in that
piece that you spoke about about thecoup, in the sense that Obama has
always been a showmanship if nothing else. He knows how to control a crowd,
he knows how to invigorate the peoplethat he's speaking to. And I

(44:51):
believe that he knew exactly what hewas doing whenever he went to that side
and led him off stage. Therewere different ways that he could have gotten
his attention, and they could haveleft the stage without harming Biden's you know,
I guess legacy or the way thathe looked to the American people,
But the way he let him offstage, it felt to me, was
very intentional in order to signal Okay, listen, it's time. It's time

(45:12):
to show the American people what thisguy is actually like. That is a
great point. Mary Rook writes forThe Daily Caller. You can find her
page. I just linked to iton today's blog along with last week's column.
She's writing a lot of stuff onelection integrity, the Save Act.
It's all there on The Daily Caller. Mary, Thank you, so much
for making time for us today.Absolutely, man, You'll come back anytime

(45:34):
you want. All right, thankyou, Mary Rook. That is the
column she writes are really interesting,especially about some of the stuff that is
coming up. The Republicans are nowgoing to push a bill requiring voters to
prove that they're US citizens before castinga ballot in the federal election. And
I think that a vast majority ofAmericans would agree with this. But watch

(45:54):
how the media presents it. It'sgoing to be Republicans are anti immigrant.
That's exactly how they're going to spinit already, So I don't need to,
you know, I just wanted thaton the record. So when it
happens, Arod, when I say, hey, Arod, remember that time

(46:14):
when I said that the media wasgoing to spin it as Republicans are anti
immigrant? Are you making a notein the calendar? Not? He really
did too, He made a notein the calendar. He did? He
did. I have a question foryou guys in the listening audience. I
keep getting text messages from people whohate Donald Trump and who are trying to

(46:36):
convince me, I don't know,to not vote for Donald Trump or somehow
vote for Joe Biden or whatever.I'm not doing that. I'm not voting
for Trump because I'm super enthusiastic aboutvoting for Trump. I'm voting for Trump
because I think four more years ofBiden would be an unmitigated disaster. And
I don't think that the Democrats aregoing to get him out. He seems
very entrenched, and I don't thinkhe seems that he doesn't believe he needs

(47:00):
to get out. But what's weird? And I just realized this. Let
me see here, here we go. Wait, wait, wait, wait,
let me find it about. Thisis a text about Trump. Trump
literally wanted his own vice president hungand the Speaker of the House assassinated.
Now nowhere, nowhere have I seenany evidence that Trump said, I sure

(47:25):
hope they hang Vice President Mike Penceand assassinate the Speaker of the House.
So this kind of hyperbole, itdoesn't have any effect anymore. I realized
that. And I'm not even aTrump's supporter in the sense that I voted
for someone else in the primary.I would have loved to have had a
different Republican to be talking about rightnow, but I don't. I don't

(47:46):
think RFK can get over the finishline, even though he is now the
Libertarian candidate, and honestly, R. F ke Junior has some whack a
doodle. Oh wait, let mewalk that back. The Libertarian candidate in
call Colorado only I have this storyon the blog today. So the Libertarian
Party has now agreed to put theKennedy ticket on the Colorado ballot as the

(48:09):
Libertarian Party ticket, and I guessthey can do that. I mean,
whatever, more power to you.But RFK Junior has some really, really
really out their opinions about a lotof stuff, whether it's climate change,
whether it's vaccines, not just theCOVID vaccine, which there's a lot of

(48:30):
people very skeptical of that, butjust vaccines overall. He is a strong
part of the anti vaxx movement.And though I think we should space out
a lot of the vaccines we giveour kids, more than we do my
kids vaccinated, I think they've savedmore lives than they have harmed. I
mean, in the grand scheme ofthings. Now, that's easy to say
unless you're the one who's harmed.Right. That being said, RFK Junior

(48:53):
is not the perfect candidate by anystretch of the imagination, and We've got
basically three candidates that I don't love, So I'm going to look at the
candidate whose policy positions most mirror myown. That's the only thing I can
do. I find all three ofthese dudes distasteful for completely different reasons.

(49:15):
So I'm not gonna apologize for votingfor Trump. I'm not going to apologize
for bringing up the fact that everyonein America in the political sphere, is
talking about Joe Biden's cognitive decline.And if you think that is being overblown,
you need to check your bias.You are so far down the Biden

(49:37):
rabbit hole or the Democratic rabbit hole, that you cannot see what is in
front of you. Because see,I can see who Donald Trump is.
I see all of his absolute distastefulness, his boorishness, his propensity to exaggerate,
his inability to remain faithful to hiswives, especially when they're pregnant.

(50:00):
I would want to have dinner with. He's not a person I would want
my daughter to date. But he, out of the three, is the
one that has the policy positions mostlike mine. So, but it's shocking
to me you're sending all these allegedlyscandalous things, and I'm like, so
what I mean, we already knowthis stuff. We already know this stuff.

(50:21):
Mandy. It's funny because you saidyou never vote for Trump after January
sixth, Mandy, I did.This is why I never say never,
because lots can happen between then andnow. Never did I think we'd be
in a situation where we don't knowwho's running the country. And I don't
think that you can argue, ifyou're an informed person right now that after

(50:42):
four pm Joe Biden is running thecountry, because even his aid say he's
not so good after four pm.Hey, Mandy, this is dawn for
me. I'm almost to the pointwhere I'd like to have Liz Cheney back
in the mix. That pissed mostof your listeners off. All I said
was I respect Liz Cheney's principles.I know Princevill's got her bounced out of

(51:04):
office, so it's fine. Ijust you know, Mandy, what's up
with the anti Trump hate? Arethose people voting for Biden? I'm suppose
those surprise those folks are listening toyour show. One of the best things
for me as a talk show isis that I have people from both ends
of the spectrum and the people inthe middle. I don't think I have
any hardcore lefties or hardcore rightys.I don't think I have a lot of

(51:27):
those people. Maybe I have somehardcore rities, but I don't think any
hardcore lefties. Maybe, but there'sa lot of people that listen to the
show that think a lot of differentthings what I find interesting. And there's
part of me that wishes you guyscould see the text line in its entirety,
because there's a lot going on here. First of all, tons going
on here, and it is notevenly divided because usually the anti Trump people

(51:50):
will send like three or four textmessages in a row, and I can
tell who texts me. There's phonenumbers next to every single one of them.
But it's funny to me, howhow you on the anti Trump side
immediately assume the worst about the proBiden side, and the pro Biden side

(52:12):
immediately assumes the worst about the proTrump side. And I don't even mean
like the candidates. I'm talking aboutthe voters. So they send things,
they send things that are so crazyabout that, but the level of deep

(52:35):
distrust and hatred between the voters themselves, that's the part that I find unnerving,
And I have a question, andI mean this genuinely. Is there
anything I can do as a talkshow host other than do what Ross did
today, which is bring on someonefrom the far left to talk about how

(52:57):
great Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are. What can I do to create a
space on this program where we couldhave a conversation where perhaps the pro Trump
and the pro Biden crowd could getpast their team colors and have conversations about

(53:19):
how we could actually fix the issues, like how would that look for you?
Would you even because I will tellyou I try to have guests on
that are offering solutions to difficult problems. And you should see the hate that
we get from one side, usuallyTrump supporters that hate whatever it is we're
trying to do, the conversation aboutranked choice voting. What we're doing now
is clearly making things worse. Sowhy not look at options that would,

(53:45):
hopefully, if done correctly, cleanup the dialogue and make everything less vitriolic?
And you should see the vitriol weget about that because people love the
devil, they know way more thanthe devil. They don't. I think
it's projection from both sides, saysthis text her. You know what,
there's probably a lot of truth inthat. I just read the woman who

(54:07):
we had on right before the vacationabout the new book about working to bridge
our differences. So I read iton the way back on the plane,
and it's very interesting. Although youcan immediately know take that back. You
can tell as you read the bookwhere her political allegiances lie. You can
tell based on the sites or youknow, the sources she cites. And

(54:30):
her disdain for Donald Trump comes throughlater on in the book, which I
thought was very interesting because here sheis promoting how to move beyond that,
and yet in her book there wereseveral instances where people on the right would
be like, look, lady,you're skipping over a whole bunch of stuff
on the left, and she does, so what Yes, yes, the

(54:52):
book is actually very good. Butin that book she talked about polling data
that shows people on the left andpeople on the right have no clue what
the other side really thinks, andthey think that they are far more extreme
on the other side than they actuallyare. And it's a fascinating concept.

(55:12):
But this is something I'd like todo but here's the thing. I don't
need the sound of every radio clickingoff at the same time, you know
what I mean. It's like,I want to do it in a way
that's going to be interesting and valuablefor you. You can also send your
suggestions if you have a longer one. Mandy Coondle at iHeartMedia dot com.
A lot of people asking about Projecttwenty twenty five. And this is a

(55:34):
platform put out by the Heritage Foundation, and they've done this stuff in the
past. I don't know why thisis getting like so much bruhaha now,
except it does sound ominous, doesn'tit. Have you heard about Project twenty
twenty five? Have you heard aboutthat? So I just said a ride
the link to reach out to someonefrom Heritage to talk specifically about Project twenty

(55:59):
twenty five. It's like a onethousand pages long and I'm not engaging in
hyperbole. It's like a thousand pageslong. So but I will try and
get a guest on that as soonas possible. We'll go right to the
source and figure that out as well. Can we talk for just a second
about why I hate fireworks? Didyou guys like fireworks? This weekend?

(56:20):
Anthony maybe maybe maybe you hate them, so now of course I didn't.
Well, And here's a couple storieswhy. This is why in Centennial they
set a three acre fire in aCentennial neighborhood. Yeah, in the Willow
Spring open space. They did manageto get that under control before anything structure

(56:42):
or anything burned. Then there arethe four homes that were damaged, displacing
four families, ten structures destroyed ordamaged, and five people in the hospital
or five people injured over the Fourthof July holiday just from fireworks. That
I mean, you, guys,I'm telling you right now, if somebody

(57:07):
burn my house down with fireworks,I would lose my ever loving mind.
I would I would go absolutely berserkover that. I would own every I
would own everything of theirs for therest of their lives. They would they
would never get out from under thelean I would put on them through the
court system. I would be soangry. And I just don't understand.

(57:28):
I try, I try, becauseI'm like, what am I missing?
What is the cool part here thatI don't get is is liking fireworks?
Could there be a genetic component tothat? Do you think? I wonder?
You really don't enjoy good fireworks.I don't. Here's the thing,
I am completely agnostic towards fireworks.I neither love nor hate. I just

(57:54):
don't care. I don't care.And then I see people's houses getting burned
down, people's fingers getting blown off, people getting injured. If I may,
sure, idiots are gonna idiot regardless. Fireworks is just an outlet,
so I think they're gonna be donewith just about anything. So I don't.
I particularly don't blame it on thesmall sample size of people that don't

(58:15):
know how to handle anything, letalone fireworks explosions that they light themselves.
Probably not for everyone. That's justwhere I come down on. I think
for people that respond handle it responsible, especially for I mean, let's be
real, who loves it the most. It's the kids. The kids love
a good fireworks show. They loveif it's like a safe one, like

(58:37):
they are vicariously lighting it with liketheir mom or dad is that they're on
the sidewalk. Mom or dad goesyou ready, kid, and they go
up and light it for him.I did that when I was a kid.
Wanted to well, Sparkler's no thankyou. I would like to Yeah,
eight hundred degree fire all pass.You are the outlier. I think
I might be. Yeah, Ijust don't and you know, speak of

(58:59):
the lowest common denomen I have anentry on the blog today that says,
can we talk about brawls? Apparentlya rod I clicked on a story about
a Carnival cruise ship where there wasa brawl in the buffet. Yeah,
okay, did you see this?Then I got in. I got in
brawl algorithm, right, So,like every story on my feed for about

(59:20):
three hours was just, oh,look at this brawl on a Ryanair flight.
Look at this brawl outside of mall, Look at this brawl here.
Are we just more aware of brawlingthan we've been before, or is there
more brawling going on right now?And they era of World Star, we
just we just see all of itmore. I'm thinking that too. But

(59:42):
also I do feel like people arethrowing up the fisticuffs a little too easy.
If you were in the buffet ona cruise ship and you are in
a fist fight, you need toreevaluate all your life choices, one percent
of them. I can speak fromexperience. The Carnival Cruise Line buffet cane
get a little long, but you'reon a cruise. You're on vacation.

(01:00:02):
The food's gonna be there. Relaxexactly, Relax a little. These women
could not relax. The hotcakes willbe there. No, no, the
seven minutes, they're not not accordingto these names. I do think that
there is a a and there's noway to say this without seeming incredibly classist,
but I'm gonna do it anyway.There is definitely a socioeconomic factor,

(01:00:24):
I think because I have never seena brawl on a celebrity cruise line.
I have never although you can geta brawl on pretty much any airline,
but where do you see the normally? The brals that I saw all weekend
long were on Ryanair in Europe.Ryanair is the cheap o depot, move
everybody, Greyhound bus of the skies, plastic seats, the whole nine yards.

(01:00:45):
They are that airline. And Ryanairhas a brawl like every five minutes,
so it's not just an American thinglike Europeans love to brawl on Ryanair.
But again it's like, who arethese people that are running around as
grown ass adult thinking it is okayto throw the fists up at the latest
or or at that at the smallest, whatever it is. There are some

(01:01:08):
people who are always looking for afight verbal or I don't, I don't,
I don't. I don't know thosepeople. I've seen them. I
don't really particularly know them or careto, but I've seen them, and
you can just see it. Iguess I have seen them. You see
them, like you know the packsof rows that are walking around looking for

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a fight. Oh wait, waitingto bounce into somebody so they could,
uh, you know, throw itout. I don't, I don't.
I don't get it. Like takea boxing class, call it a day,
and I'll watch. Oh no,no, no, I mean intervene.
Uh. Typically with people that arecrazy, the better idea is to
not call an authority if you wantto, you know, take it that

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level and try to address it thatway. But intervening with those that aren't
dealing with a full deck probably notthe best idea. I've learned my lessons.
Cruz says, this person prisonship withdecent food. No, not the
cruises. I go on again,Mandy, are greyhound buses for bottom feeders?
You know what? I've ridden agreyhound bus. Have you ever ridden
a greyund bus? M I feellike I probably have, maybe not maybe

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not. Grayund bus in my experience, is for college students and people who
are at the very lower socioeconomics partof the spectrum, or really old people
who don't want to fly, orcriminals who can't make it through security.
Well, if I'm in a certainstate, I'm taking the bright line anyway,
so it's fine. Well, Imean that was what bright line was.

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What I mean, when I wasyoung, we didn't have any other
form of you know, transportation.I didn't mind the Greyhound bus. I
thought they did a good job.Now that was I don't even know how
many years ago, since I've beenon a career hump are they now?
I mean I think they look likeit. They look luxurious. Yeah,
I don't think greyound buses are forbottom feeders. I think they're for people
who have a variety of needs,like being broke is one of them,

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or those one just you know flying. Lot of older people still have sort
of a romantic view of taking thebus because they did so much when they
were younger to get anywhere. Anyway. We went to the festival and fireworks,
and Thornton says this Texter it wasreally cool, but the professional show
even started a small fire. Wewere actually in Dayton, Ohio for or

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fourth of July. I am.I will tell you, going back east
in the summer when everything is likerush and green and verdant, it's just
absolutely beautiful. It does make melong to be back in the humidity again
because it was just gorgeous. Butback there you can light fireworks and not

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set stuff on fire. I'm nota fan of fireworks, but I don't
I don't advocate for like banning them. I mean, you know, if
you want to do that, that'sfine, but don't do it in a
state where you could set somebody's houseon fire. I will say this to
go a little to the other sideas pro firework as I am, because
I think it's fun. I thinkin the right setting and especially if there's
a lot of kids around to geta lot of enjoyment. I the drone

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shows are awesome. They are.I mean, I would not be like
super upset if you know, thebigger ones replaced with drone shows. I
still want there to be firework showsavailable, absolutely, because there's nothing that's
like that. But the drone showsare wicked cool. They are very cool
to me. They're sort of likethe difference between a combustion engine and an

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EV. They're sort of the same, but they're not at all the same.
And I'm gonna venture to guess,based on absolutely no information at all,
that the drone shows to put on, they probably still are cost wise
for someone to hire a drone showprobably just as expensive, but to put
on I would say probably significantly cheaperthan a firework show, just on the
insurance alone. Just yeah, Imean, just charge the drones, but

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you also got to have them sothey're all perfectly coordinated and doing the awesome
stuff, or it's just a bunchof drones flying around that sucks. I'm
sure there's a lot of licensing involvedthat probably is expensive. Yeah, this
texture said Mandy, seems country musicconcerts are also an outlet for the brawl
these days. My fourteen year olddaughter went to Zach Bryan and Morgan Wallin
and was in the vicinity of twoseparate brawls. At each event. She

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was in the cheap seats for both. None of those seats were cheap.
They're not. That's not greyhound cheap. None of those seats for cheap.
None. We'll be right back here'sthe thing, guys, I don't want
to see him banned. I don't. I really don't. You want to
blow your face and fingers off.That is entirely your prerogative. I just
I don't get it. It's oneof those things I don't understand. It's

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like I don't necessarily understand why peoplewatch Suma wrestling in a complete non sequitary
but why I don't get it.There's dirt, dirt throwing, big dudes,
bam bam, Mandy, wait too, you have grandkids, then you'll
change her two. No, Iwas with my grandkids four fourth of July.
I went to Betterly, like,do whatever you gotta do. I

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don't care. I do not care. So I'm trying to find the one.
Oh. Now people are arguing aboutwhether the country music brawl is a
Morgan Wallin crowd problem and not acountry music crowd problem. You know what,

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I think the fact that and somebodyelse said, uh, not to
make an excuse, but I thinkalcohol was involved with those brawls. Well
that's not an excuse, you guys. I've told my daughter this and she
doesn't understand it yet, but shewill. And when I say it,
you guys will be like, righton, Mandy, when you have that

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friend that you go out with andthey get really, really super drunk and
they become a horrible person for therest of the night, Like it's like
add alcohol, turn into a Tasmaniandevil situation. The next morning when they
wake up and you're like, yeah, you are a whole person last night,
and they're like, oh my god, I was just so drunk.
Run away from that person, becauseanybody that will use I was so drunk

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as an excuse to excuse horrible behaviorreally probably engages in that horrible behavior a
lot of the time, even ifthey don't have an excuse. There you
go, Mandy. Did you hearabout the guy who wore a top hat
and put a firework on top ofhis head and died as it blew up
and caused massive head wounds? Iate fireworks, loud, dirty, dangerous,

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and a giant waste of money.That person is on hashtag Team Mandy.
But we are sadly very alone,Texter. We are outnumbered by all
of the people who love to watchstuff explode in the sky. Whatever,
It's fine now, I've got abunch of stuff on the blog today.
That has nothing to do with politics. It just has to do with our

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stuff here in Colorado. One ofthem, though, has nothing to do
with us here in Colorado. Butlisten to this. We could be at
the end of the world. Wellnot quite. I don't know if you
guys remember Baba Venga. Baba Vengaalso known as vengel Ja pandev A Gustrova.

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She was a blind Bulgarian woman whowas renowned for her prophecies. According
to Baba Vanga, we are enteringthe end of humanity. It starts in
twenty twenty five. Here's how it'sgoing to go. According to Baba Vanga,
here's the rough timeline timeline to theend of humanity. Don't worry,

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you have plenty of time. There'sno need to panic. Don't rack up
your credit card bills. Okay,twenty twenty five. The inciting incident that
kicks off the ultimate end of theworld or excuse me, end of humanity
will be an unspecified conflict in Europewhich will devastate the continent's population. And
then in twenty twenty eight, weneed more energy, so we fly to

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Venus to tap into Venus's energy source, which is weird because Venus is basically
an inhospitable healthscape with an atmosphere soacidic that nothing can survive. But whatever,
that's what we're gonna do. Intwenty twenty eight, twenty thirty three,
climate change is very dangerous. BabaVanga supposedly predicted that at this point
the polar ice caps would melt andsea levels would rise drastically worldwide. And

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then in twenty seventy six, youwe're already in twenty seventy six, we're
still around. We're totally around,Baba Vega says. In twenty seventy six,
communism will not just be back,what will take over the entire world
twenty one thirty skipping ahead, humanityat this point will supposedly make contact with
aliens. I'm sure that'll be fine. Twenty one seventy, climate change is

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gonna get worse, and at thispoint a drought is supposedly supposed to spread
across the world three thousand and five. Now you see why I said,
don't get too worried about this,because we're aready in three thousand and five
and we're still around. When doesit all wrap up? Fifty seventy nine
that's it, the end, thegrand finale. We have no idea why,
but in fifty seventy nine we're gonnahave to party like it's fifteen seventy

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nine. Someone make the song now, just to get ahead of the curve.
You got a lot of royalties coming. If that's accurately a thing,
I'll be right back. The MandyConnell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock
Accident and Injury Lawyers. No,it's Mandy Connell, Mandy Ton on kla
AM ninety one FM, god WayStudy and the Nicety the three Bandyconnell keeping

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a real sad thing and I didop, Sorry forgot about that. Go
ahead the two minute and drill attwo Hey, we're I go to too
minute warnings, rapid fire stories ofthe day that we don't have more time
for. It will take longer thantwo out. Here's mandycuddle. All right,
my friends. If you're looking fora good time at a roado,

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this week is your week. InColorado Springs, the Pike's Peak or Bust
Rodeo, which has become one ofthe biggest rodeos in the country, kicks
off tomorrow in Colorado Springs. Itwill be going on all week. People
will be competing for millions of dollarsof prizes in various rodeo events and it
runs through July thirteenth at the NorrisPenrose Event Center. There is a big

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parade tomorrow that oh wait no,that probably actually kicked off last Saturday.
And there's a whole good story aboutwhere this came from and interesting facts about
the rodeo. So if you wantto know, I'm gonna check the link
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot comand then go go see some bronco busting
or whatever it is they do.There really interesting story in the Wall Street

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Journal today about nuclear verdicts. Andnuclear verdicts are verdicts where a jury comes
back and awards a planeti if millionsand millions and millions of dollars because they
want to punish the corporations or theorganizations that they perceive to be wrong in
these instances. And when people feelpowerless politically or they don't feel like these

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companies are being managed by the government, they will step in and try to
manage them themselves, and that meansthey get jury verdicts that are massive.
Now, you may think to yourself, good. Those corporations deserve what they
get. But the reality is isthat the rest of us pay the freight
on this. The rest of usend up paying higher costs because well,
then the company has to buy insuranceat a higher rate, and insurers are

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now looking at nuclear verdicts and tryingto decide how to raise rates and how
to make people pay for this.So it's a great makes you feel good
when you're on a jury. Butoverall, a lot of these are overturned,
and the ones that aren't overturned simplyraise prices on products for the rest
of us rill it too. Thisis kind of interesting, kind of sad,

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because more and more of us arewondering whether or not college is worth
it. Thirty six percent of adultssay they have a great deal or quite
a lot of confidence in higher education. This according to our report released Monday
by Gallup. That confidence level hasjust declined steadily from fifty seven percent in
twenty fifteen down to thirty six percentthis year. Now we know that people

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have started to question whether or notthe massive amounts of student debt that come
along with going to college are worthit. And this past weekend I learned
a lot about Western Governor's University,an online school where my donar law works,
and they are trying to make collegeequitable and accessible to everyone with a
flat cost model. That is absolutelyfascinating. I mean, just really,

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really fascinating. It's going to beinteresting to see how many regular universities that
are struggling to keep up enrollment lookto pivot to a more flexible model that
would allow people who are maybe alreadyin the workplace who want to go back
to school but don't want to havethat whole college experience, an option to
do so. If they don't,what we're going to end up with is

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a bunch of elite universities and abunch of big state schools, and a
lot of the smaller schools are justgoing to dry up and go away.
So I hope they adapt and overcomeinstead of getting left behind it too.
There's a really good editorial in theDenver Gazette. I don't know if it
was today or yesterday about Initiative ninetyone. It is in today's Denver Gazette.

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The animal rights movement is putting anotherballot initiative on the ballot, and
this one could be an unmitigated disaster. It would ban the so called trophy
hunting of mountain lions. Now thissounds like a really feel good thing.
Poor mountain lions, they're being huntedto extinction, except they're not. We
have a very healthy mountain lion population, and Colorado Parks and Wildlife does a

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really good job managing aunt Mayan hunts, specifically to help them manage the population.
It prevents too many well negative consequencesbetween humans and mountain lions, and
it helps manage the population. Thatensures the population has enough food for all
of the mountain lions without completely decimatingour dear milk population. It's a very

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careful balance. We do not needInitiative ninety one. Just vote no.
I'll remind you in November. Drillit too. We've also got an article
today about Joe Biden and members ofhis administration, specifically Admiral Rachel Levine.
He has well, she is atrans woman, and she tried to intervene

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in the construction of new medical guidelines. They're put out by an organization called
Wpath, and w PATH is allegedlythe official organization when it comes to deciding
trans affirming care. Except wpath isinhabited by a lot of activists, not
medical doctors, and certainly not scientists, because they don't base their recommendations on

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science. Admiral Levine sent emails askingthem to lower the recommended age for gender
affirming surgery. Now this is irreversiblemes ectomies. So yeah, you can
get a boob job, but youcan't breastfeed your child if you want to
do that later. These are irreversiblesurgeries. They cannot be taken back,
and they are mutilating. They wantto mutilate children. And the weird thing

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also on the blog today, alsofrom the New York Times, is that
the Biden administration had to come outand say, oh, hey, no,
we're not in favor of gender affirmingcare for minors. So again they
have no idea what's coming or going, what's happening, what their policy positions
are. But that's what you getfrom an administration because chief checks out at
four pm every single night. That, my friends, is your two minute

(01:16:49):
drill, and we've got that goingfor you. I did not realize that
both of those New York Times storieswere paywaald. I'm sorry about that.
I've been trying not to give youguys Paywald stories. But I just realized
they both are heyn wouldn't matter ifthey change the name of the sixteenth Street
Mall. I mean not really nowyeah wait oh oh, for the exact

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reason when I said, would itmatter if I changed the name of the
sixteenth Street Mall, you went uh, Because that's the feeling we all have
when we hear the Sixteenth Street Mallused to be a crowning jewel in the
crown of Denver. Now it isan albatross between the takeover of homelessness and
crime that occurred four years ago tothe ridiculously long renovation project that they've been

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doing down there for forever. Nobodywants to go to the sixteenth Street Mall,
right, nobody including tourists, becausewhat do you think you see when
you go to trip Advisor, youknow, So you change the name,
you rebrand the whole thing. Ata minimum, you're gonna get turists that
are going to come down there,and maybe for tourists come other people will
come as well. They got todo something. I will say this.

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So Chuck and I were visiting ourkids who live in Inglewood, Ohio,
which is a suburb of Dayton,Ohio, and at one point we were
driving through downtown Dayton. Holy cow, you think Denver is devoid of business
Dayton? I mean you could firea cannon in downtown Dayton and not hit

(01:18:26):
anybody because there's no source, there'sno retail, there's nothing down there.
It's so depressing. So here's thething. How do you crack that nut?
Well, I have a theory.I have an idea, and it's
gonna sound nuts and really crazy toa lot of you, But I'll explain
the process and then you'll go,wait, Mandy may be onto something.

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Mandy may have an idea that couldsave not just downtown Denver, but a
lot of downtown spaces where people havejust decided they're not coming back. I
will unveil my solution, and bythe way, anyone from the city of
Denver listening that would like to stealthis idea, feel free. I'm basically
open sourcing my idea to save downtownDenver. I'll do it next. Now,

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you have to understand the real estatelife cycle of cities, and there
is a real estate life cycle ofcities. Cities fall into disrepair and ruin.
I'm not saying Denver has fallen intodisrepair and ruin. We're trying to
compact some of these steps here withmy master plan. Denver is not there
yet, but cities fall into disrepairand ruin. Young people and artists move
into buildings that otherwise were falling apart. They generally start this weird process of

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artistic gentrification, which isn't the actualgentrification of buildings, but all of a
sudden, a neighborhood that was consideredto be terrible before is now the neighborhood
where all the artists and musicians live, which makes it cool. Then come
restaurants and bars to cater to thecrowd, or we're coming down to hang
out with the artists and musicians.And then richer people start buying buildings in

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that area because they want to livewhere it's rich when it's hit and cool,
and they start actually gentrifying the area. Then they bring in more activity
around that. They want to beable to work, they want to be
able to have grocery stores, theywant to be able to do all of
those things. And that's how thecity starts to get revitalized. That's how
neighborhoods start to get revitalized. Sowhy not just jump ahead? Why not

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if you're the city of Denver,talk to all of these business owners who
are losing a fortune every single monthon all of this open real estate in
downtown Denver. And I'm only talkingabout street level real estate here. I'm
not talking about the building and officesthat are upstairs. That's just an issue
we're not going to be able toaddress just yet. Okay, we're going

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to do this as fast as possible, and it's going to take a minute.
Don't know how long that minute's goingto be, but it's going to
take longer than like a minute minute. It's going to take a longer minute
than that. And then you say, look, we've got nothing in these
downtown storefronts. Let's find a wayto bring artists and musicians and activity and
art projects downtown. We make downtowna cool, hit place to be again.

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And then people want to move downtown. People wanted the grocery stores downtown
and downtown starts to come back alive, which brings me to my next question.
They want to perhaps rename the SixteenthStreet Mall. We all know that
the sixteen Street Mall has fallen onvery hard times. I actually think a
rename would be an absolutely fantastic idea. But I've I've been racking my name,
my brain, sorry, all morninglong, trying to come up with

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a new name for the Sixteenth Streetmall. They want to get away from
the mall name because people are toodumb to know that a mall is actually
a walkway, and they think it'sjust a shopping mall. So they want
to get away from that. Andokay, I already got some cheeky tongue
in cheek suggestions. We are notgoing to call it poop Alley or the

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hob Oh Highway. That's not goingto bring people to downtown. Come on,
Mandy, Artists and musicians have nomoney, exactly exactly right. Do
you know how much money the ownersof these buildings are making on empty store
fronts. Do you know where theirprospects are for getting a real business in
there? Zero? We got tothink out of the box. Somebody's gonna

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take the hit. And if youown the building, you have the most
to gain by Downtown coming back alive. Right, you want Downtown to come
back alive, so you're building usvalue again. So make the deal,
Mandy. I'm downtown every day,tons of people on the sixteenth Street Mall.
They are all wearing yellow vests,jacking up traffic, gifts. There

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is a lot lot of people downthere. Jared and Boulder asked this question,
and I'll leave you with this,and I want to know your suggestions
on what we should rename the sixteenthStreet Mall. You can text them to
five sixty six nine. Oh.Jared and Boulder asked this, Mandy,
it is now past four o'clock Easterntime. Do you know who's running the
country. No, Jared, Idon't. Here's why we have to rename

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the sixteenth Street Mall. I wentto TripAdvisor dot com probably the most used
travel review website in the world.I don't know if it's actually but it's
got to be close. And Ijust pulled up sixteenth Street Mall and I
want to share with you the firstfew reviews. Okay, I just did
not filter nothing. These are thelast most recent reviews of the sixteenth Street

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Mall. May have twenty twenty fourthree out of five stars. It can
get pretty packed, especially on weekendslike Elbow to Elbow kind of packed,
but hey, that's part of thefun, right, Lots of cool shops,
good eats, and street performers tocheck out. That feels like they
got paid to write it. InApril of twenty twenty four, you have
this three out of five shopping streetthat runs from one end of the city

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to the other. Usual suspects ofstores, restaurants, and fast food places
completely dug up for construction, soin parts very difficult to navigate, especially
as avoiding the many homeless that frequentthere. Looks sketchy in places, so
just be aware. Construction says thenext run limits ease of access to places.
This area still has a significant amountof restaurants and shops, It's difficult

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to navigate due to construction. Therewere some homeless, but no more than
you typically see downtown in a bigcity. We did use the free shuttle,
which was convenient and felt safe duringthe day, but wouldn't recommend alone
or at night. Next one numberone avoid this area or one out of
five stars. While I can imaginethis was once a vibrant area, is
currently full of the empty storefronts,homeless individuals, A massive construction project in

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the smell of weed feels unsafe inan area to be avoided. Denver needs
to get it off its places toVisit lists unless this area is revitalized,
as listing this and attraction hurts avisitor's impression of the city. This is
why we have to rename the sixteenthStreet Mall, because after it's renamed,
then they won't show up in TripAdviser that way, and they could change

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all the lists of stuff to visit. Now many of you are not taking
this assignment seriously. I know thisbecause I am seeing text messages like this
one call it fentonel Square. Nothink about how that's gonna look on trip
Advisor. Okay, Mandy Mile Highshopping center, but it's so much more
than shopping lance. I never wentdown to the sixteenth Street Mall for shopping.

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I went down for the restaurants thatwere down there. Here's some serious
suggestions for the sixteenth Street Mall,the sixteenth Street Experience, the sixteen Street
Promenade, the Promenade at sixteenth Street, the Row at sixteenth Street, sixteenth
Street, Denver Row. Sixteenth Streetstrip. Strip sounds too vegacy, like

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any anything that you call a strip, I immediately compared to Vegas and you're
gonna come up short. But Ido like the promenade, because the promenade
actively implies people walking, doesn't itlike, oh, where are you going?
We're going to strow the promenade together. Whyfey is looking beautiful today,

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We're gonna go stroll the promenade together. I like those. Here's Denver Central.
That's not bad. Denver Central kindof like that simple and you could
the branding could be very hip,very upscale, but also very cool.
I like that. I like thatone too. That les Yeah, I'm
riting. I'm writing that one down. Denver Central has legs, good,

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good idea texter Mall of the RockyMountains. They want to get away from
mal. Uh yeah, they wantto get they want to get away from
Mal because that's confusing. I willnever forget. We took a bunch of
kids to a conference in Washington,d C. There's your seventh, eighth,
and ninth graders. And there wereparents on that trip that were chaperoning

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who went to take their girls tothe National Mall and they thought it was
actually a mall where you shopped.And I was embarrassed for them, not
the girls, but their parents.One already said this one and this is
the Seattle Lover in me saying this, and it would work with a little
alliteration action. The Mile High Market. I like the Mile High Market,
but it also implies that there wouldbe more food items and more marketing type

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shops. Like when you go tothe Seattle Pipe's Place market, you can
buy literally everything everything. I mean, you want fish, you got fish,
You want flowers, you got flowers, you want some clothes. They
got that everything in that market.So it would really have to they'd really
have to work to bring in amore diverse set of things there. Denver
Times Square, I feel like you'rejust e e yeah. Yeah, poop

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Plaza is not under consideration. I'mtelling you. Some people did not take
this seriously. The Mile High Milea little redundant, but I kind of
like that the Denver Mile. Idon't find the Denver Mile short and sweet.
Yeah, but I really like whatdo we say Denver Central. I
think that might be the winner rightthere, because I could see some branding

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that could go in a multitude ofdirections depending on who you're targeting. With
Denver Central. And even though it'stechnically not but in the center of Denver,
really it's not. But no oneneeds to know that it's fine.
It's absolutely fine. Uh scrolling downhere, a Mandy, when you were
in Dayton, did you happen tovisit Dayton's Oregon district? I did not,

(01:28:15):
but I will next time I amthere. I think we're gonna buy
a house there in that area.So when we're really old and we need
our kids to take care of us, they don't have to drive for to
do it. After flying back andforth across the country when my dad was
sick for fourteen months, I swearI would never do that to my children.
So in any ways, Mandy Shooter'sAlley, that is not No,

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we're not doing that. Urban Decaywait, no, not, You're missing
the point here entirely Urban DK Wait. So well, first of all,
there's an entire makeup brand called UrbanDecay. The fifty two eighty walk that
always sounds like a bar crawl.You could put together, you know what
I mean, like the fifty twoeighty walk and make that kind of ironic
fifty two eighty Central kind of hybridof the two. That's okay, that

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seems too complicated. I like Ilike Denver Central. It's simple, it's
straightforward. The logo could be supercool. It doesn't really particularly say what
it is, so it could beeverything, could be anything. The Rocky
Mountain mile high experience too long,wouldn't sit out a logo? Mandy Connell
broadcasting life from Denver Central this week. You know exactly seth Camp Mike's Main

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Street. No, we're not You'regetting You're not getting it. We're not
doing it. Why did I haveMarky mark in the funky bunchun Mandy.
Our office is for my engineering firm, are on the sixteenth Street, and
we are tired of what Denver insixteenth Street have become. We are moving
to the DTC next week. Ido not blame you. The air down
here in the DTC is quite rarefiedair Rod and I enjoyed. Although when

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you move to the DTC you canonly drink with your pinky out. After
that, no more pinky's on thecup. We welcome you here in the
DTC. No, I actually youknow. I started this as a joke
because I knew you guys would deliverwith your silly stuff. But I actually
really like that. I like DenverCentral and what's happening is Downtown leaders have

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asked They sent it a request forproposal in Mark in April, asking marketing
agencies to create a brand proposal forthe pedestrian mall to roll out with a
planned reopening in twenty twenty five.And I think it's a good idea,
you really know. Not the sixteenthPrecinct, no Texter, no Denver Crime

(01:30:29):
Fest. No, that's only ona certain weekend, and we don't publicize
that to other people. Fifty twoto eighty Central Promenade, Promenade, you
guys, I will say this,and I realized this is blasphemy. I
feel like we have tapped out thefifty two eighty thing. I just feel
like we've it's enough with the mileHigh, the Denver prom the Denver Promenade.

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Yeah, I like that one too, And people would call it Denver
prom for sure. That's good.Yeah. I like so we got Denver
Central and Denver Promenad. I likethe promenade, I do. I like
that. It feels it feels yeah, and it feels like you inviting an
inviting place to stroll down. Yeah, exactly. And imagine you're you're you're

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just a tourist. You're coming fromsomewhere else. You go to things you
must see in Denver and you seeDenver Central or the Denver Promenade and you're
like, yes, Like when wego to Milwaukee for the R and C
next week, we are going tothis. I don't even know what it's
called, but it's the Milwaukee likemarketplace. We're going to at beers there
after we get done Wark in oneday. It's happening because I love it.
And when you see it, you'llbe like, why don't we have

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this in downtown Denver. It's theirmini version of the Seattle Pikes Place Market,
tiny mile high quarters. Eh,Denver Central Market already exists. Where's
the Denver It's not We're not goingto call it the skunk stroll stop it
methatropolis. No, that is nota good marketing term. The gauntlet that

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sounds ominous, scary. Yeah,it does not inviting. No, this
person says, you can make thename whatever you want unless it's cleaned up.
Trip Advisor will say the same stuffin a week. And that's the
thing, you guys. They don'tlaunch the new name until they open everything.
And hopefully businesses are gonna want togo back down to downtown Denver.

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But I'm I'm we are starting tosee the negative, the real, honest
to god, real life negative effectsof the policies that we have in place
here. And you can read acolumn or an editorial rather that the Denver
Gazette wrote, inflation closes our favoriterestaurants before dining out, call ahead,

(01:32:45):
they say, not for a reservation, but to ensure the restaurant has not
closed permanently. Closures last year inDenver alone left the city with thirteen percent
fewer restaurants going into twenty twenty four, and the trendso's no signs of letting
up. Across the country, majorchains or closing locations are going out of
business. Corporate chains come and go, and consumers can take or leave them.

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What cannot easily be replaced are theunique, single location, long standing,
locally owned restaurants that are also fallingto inflation and minimum wage mandates.
It's something that we've seen statewide,said Colin Larsen, director of affairs for
the Colorado Restaurant Association Restaurant tours.Those holding on in those closing their doors

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say inflation is crushing them and theircustomers. Restaurants can't find food supplies that
prices affordable to consumers. Who haveless to spend because of inflation, affecting
other goods and services they need.No state has suffered more restaurant inflation in
the past year than Colorado, whichsaw a whopping increase of twenty four percent

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in twenty twenty three. Based onUS Census Bureau data. For average wage
earners, eating out is no longeran option. This is not a slight
increase relative to the rest of thecountry. While prices at Colorado restaurants increased
by twenty four percent, they decreasedby six percent In Alaska, Florida's restaurant

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prices decreased by two percent, hawaiisby three percent, and tennessees by five
percent. The cause for Colorado's problemis no mystery. Only seven states have
higher non tip minimum wage mandates thanColorado's fourteen dollars and forty two cents.
Denver's minimum is a whopping eighteen dollarsand twenty nine cents. Few states,
if any, have imposed more rulesand restrictions on small employers. We had

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a huge regulatory burden over the lastfour years, coupled with additional things like
family paid medical leave, paid sickly. The Colorado Secure Savings Act and additional
regulations on hiring and labor practices comingout of the state legislature, which has
been really difficult. Higher wages andforced savings for employers sound great, That

(01:34:56):
is right up until the manager announcesa permanent closure cau by soaring overhead.
At that point, the high minimumwage, the medical leave the sickle,
the secure savings, and other statemandated benefits become moot. Restaurant closures place
workers in a precarious situation, explainsa recent article in Forbes about mass closures
of restaurants across the country. Employeesimmediately lose their source of income and employment

(01:35:19):
benefits, including health insurance. Thiscan create significant financial hardship, especially without
severance pay. Colorado's far left democraticleadership, which conflates socialism with virtue,
probably cannot connect the dots. Theylikely cannot comprehend how imposition of unfunded mandates
can instantly wipe out single digit profitmargins, leaving business owners no choice but

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to raise prices beyond what consumers canafford. And there's just a little bit
more, but I'm not reading itto you. And by the way,
Mike Johnston just had a big oldpress conference where they want to raise sales
tax to raise money for affordable housing. They really don't get it. They
don't get Ooh, this person says, den send for Denver Central. So

(01:36:02):
those of the new you're gonna goto den Sun tonight, Denver Central.
I like it, a rod.Should we call the mayor's office and tell
them we have an answer. Let'scall the mayor's office, tell him we
have an answer. We want toget him on the show. We've solved
this problem. They can take awaythe request for a proposal. We have
focus grouped it, and we likeDenver Central. No, we're not going

(01:36:23):
with Denver deathwalk or no or protestpromenade. That's no, that's not it.
This person said, was recently inSan Diego and certain restaurants were cheaper
than Colorado. You guys, wejust went to Norway where we were told
everything was so expensive, and everythingwas cheaper in Norway than it is in
Denver. We are so just immutI mean we don't even feel it anymore.

(01:36:48):
We just don't go out to dinner. I mean, how often do
you and Jocelyn grow out to dinner? Now? Realistically, if we're lucky,
honestly, probably every ones every twoto three weeks. That's kind.
We go out to breakfast way morethan we go out to dinner, and
we only go out to breakfast maybeonce a month, now maybe twice if
things are crazy. You know,going out to dinner is the first thing

(01:37:12):
you cut when you when your budgetfeels tight. That's the first thing that
you're like, oh, I cando without that. This person, mister
or missus negative Nelly, let Denverimplode. Can't turn yourself around until you
hit rock bottom. Honestly, don'tcare if Denver falls off the cliff,
unless, of course, you wantto sell your house, unless, of
course they're asking to raise your taxesbecause of shortfalls in the tax space that

(01:37:34):
used to come from Denver, thenyou'll care. What Wait a minute,
what is Kowa Hookie Day? Andwhy are we here If it's Kowa Hookiy
Day? Wait? What, RyanEdwards? Are you playing hooky right now?
Well, some of us are.I guess it depends on the bit

(01:37:56):
of your definition. But no,I am not. I am. I'm
dressed in koa gar and I amsitting in a room ready to do a
broadcast, which I guess by definitionmeans I'm not playing hooky. Well,
who is playing? Listeners? Are? Oh, well that we are giving
away four packs last week to playat Cherry Creek Golf, our country club.
So enough to play golf with yourlisteners? You're my listeners are too

(01:38:20):
are too wet? Or we're notgood enough to play golf with your listeners?
Oh, I know what it is, my listeners. Don't take a
day off. I feel like I'mmargining with my teenager all of a sudden,
you are She does this all thetime to me. Yeah, like
every time I'm like, oh no, you can't do this. Is that
because you hate me? No,No, it has nothing. I never
said that she's smart, though sheis smart and knows anyway, what do

(01:38:44):
you guys? It's it's yeah,we got we got a short show.
Rockies are at four thirty today.We're gonna get into uh one of the
newest Nuggets got into a bar fightlast night. Oh no, great,
great, so I'm gonna be Didyou hear me talking about brawling earlier?
I mean, what is up withthis? No? I did not?

(01:39:05):
It is now what? Oh no, I had a whole story because I
accidentally clicked on a video about abrawl in a carnival cruise ship right at
the buffet, so I click onthat and then I get into algorithm.
So all I got for like twoand a half days was brawls all over
the place, And I'm like,what the what the heck, he's got
too much to lose now, andsomebody needs to explain that to him before

(01:39:28):
he does something dumb. For whatit's worth, though, and we got
to get the other day, butwhat it's worth, he actually was defending
his friend. His friend was theone that in the fight. He jumped
in, but then he got chokedout in the process. But once again
he's in the midst of it andhe's not even like he needs to call
somebody croatia. Yeah, stop,no, you can't do that. You

(01:39:49):
now have It's the conversation that mydad had has with a lot of young
adults. You have things to lose, so you can't act the fool.
He has things to lose. Yep, he has to let his friends for
get his butt kicked. I'm sorry, he just does anyway. So sometimes
sometimes that's where it is correct.And his friend may have been running his
mouth and started old. We don'tknow, we don't know, right exactly.

(01:40:10):
But now it's time for the mostexciting segment all the radio of its
kind in the world. I likeyour commitment, even when you're away from
the studio, Ryan, you werenot. You didn't hold back just because
you wouldn't deserve somebody's putter. It'sfine, it's all good. David's making
fun of me now people are lookingat me. But I for you gotta

(01:40:30):
stay committed because you're so good atit. You don't want to just let
me down or let the audience downjust because you're out in public. Is
our what is our dad? Jocleto day man of the people? Most
all people still own a comb.They just can't part with it. Oh
my god, Okay, well whatis our dad? I completely forgot to

(01:40:51):
do Limerick of the day, soobviously it'll be a limerick when I think
of it again. I just keepforgetting again, I keep forgetting. This
was a rough morning this morning.I had our time coming back from the
four day week. Our word ofthe day where the verb castigate. Oh
well, you can castigate me fornot doing the work of the day.
It means to give somebody the businessto dress them down? Is she right,

(01:41:14):
Ryan? Yes? Yes, tocriticize harshly. In other words,
yes, to castigate correct, I'msorry, I told you i'd trouble get
back from vacation. What is anabbot? Your A B A T hyphen
j O. You are like afancy wine. Well, I feel like

(01:41:39):
djure is of the day, Soan abbiture it could be like a lost
day or you don't get something done. Oh wow, I'm totally not right
at all. Okay, you're notgoing to guess this, Ryan, so
I'm giving it to you. Adevice that deflex daylight downward as it enters
a window. The term, whichoriginated in French, is used for skylights

(01:42:00):
and other devices that direct sunlight intoa building. About JR. There you
go. That's the thing we knownow. Okay, okay, what is
our jeopardy category? It is twoout of three at bad, which means
each response will be three words.Yeah right, One of those words will
be bad. The other two wordsare not bad. Okay, you got

(01:42:20):
it. Answers, one of thewords is bad. And because Ryan's on
remote, I'm gonna make it alittle more fair. You have to wait
until the end. Ryan can guessat any point. Okay, Okay,
all right, proverbially, it issaid to spoil the whole bus. What
is a bad apple? That iscorrect? One bad apple? Yes.

(01:42:42):
Disney Channel had a movie called thisWhen you what is that word KOI fer
c O I F f U RE quaff when you's yes? Okay.
Disney Channel had a movie called ThisWhen Your Quaffer just won't cooperate Three words.
One of the words is bad Manny? Is a bad hair day?

(01:43:06):
That is correct? Ryan? Havewe lost you? Right? Yeah?
I just yep, okay. Alot of Disney Channel my life. But
this song by CCR says, lookslike we're in for nasty weather Manny,
bad moon rising? Can I beto wait till the end for these?
I just want you to know thatI thought it would help, Ryan,

(01:43:26):
But alas VCD is short for thisnot so great way of getting out of
the military. I don't think somethingI don't know, Ryan, Ryan,
what is bad conduct? Discharge?Conduct? Thredo on that one? I

(01:43:48):
know that, okay, Last,but not least, Henry is the first
name of this naughty character created fornewspapers in the eighteen eighties. I got
nothing on that. What pet badboy? Okay? Perfect? All right?
That was a that was a greatass kicking for you, Ryan,
and I'm gonna leave it on thatI will be back tomorrow. And Ryan

(01:44:11):
is now going to talk about anotherkind of fight uh with Koe Sports.
That's all coming up next