07-25-24 FULL SHOW - Biden Passed the Torch and a Bunch of Non Political Stuff

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who did this? Those are theheadlines on the blog namby'sblog dot com.
And you know we have TV screenson in this studio, and normally I
do my best not to pay attentionto then, but I am sometimes like
a little squirrel like that, andI'm looking over and it's the White House
breathing and it says First Wife White. I'm watching Fox and they're chirn the

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words on the front of the screen. It says first White House briefing since
Biden's Oval office speech. And I'mwonder, and this is somebody to keep
an eye on, because how muchof the White House press updates and briefings
are now going to be about KamalaHarris. I wonder if that shift is

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going to happen, because Kamala Harris'scampaign is obviously separate from the White House
technically, So I'm wonder if it'slike I might go back and watch this
later to see how many questions areabout Kamala or whether or not Joe Biden
is capable of leaving. Let's startthe show there, because last night I
was leaving Regen Revolution. I wasgoing to have dinner at the Butchery in

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Arvada, which was right around thecorner. It's a great restaurant. You
should go try it. And it'sa it's like a fifteen minute drive,
or actually it was a twelve minutedrive. But then I took a wrong
turn and I ended up making itfifteen minutes. But as I got in
the car, I'm listening to KOAbecause I knew they were going to air
the speech by Joe Biden, andobviously I wanted to hear it. So
he starts talking, and he soundedso bad on the radio that I thought,

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God, he can't look that bad, can he. So I pull
over, I pull up CNN,and I'm watching it, and he looked
terrible. He looked terrible, Hesounded terrible. He was there a beaten
man, and it showed. Atone point though, he started to kind
of meet and talking about, youknow, Ben Franklin's story about a republic

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if you can keep it, andhe just and then he would repeat him
say it was just this is verybad, you guys. Not that Joe
Biden has gotten out of the raceand Kamala Harris as a candidate, that's
politically, you know, challenging forthe Republicans, far more challenging than running
against Joe Biden. That's not whatI'm talking about. This is the President
of the United States and he lookslike he is near death. Story and

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it really got me to thinking andI want to throw this out, not
as a conspiracy theory, but asa as a wild prediction. My prediction
is is that Joe Biden will notsurvive his term. And I wouldn't be
surprised if he didn't survive his termbefore the election. Not on purpose.
I'm not insinuating that Joe Biden is, you know, but the man looks

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like he's not well. He hadso much make upon last night. He
looked like Donald Trump. He wasorange, you know. He did not
look good. By the way,has anybody else noticed that Donald Trump has
significantly cut back on the self tannerand he's really dropped that oopa lupa orange

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shade that he rocked for so manyyears. And the other day at a
rally, he made fun of hisown comb over, and I was like,
who is this man? Anyway?I digress. I just don't know
if he is well enough to getthe job done. And politically, I
don't want him to step down becausethen Kamala Harris has the veneer of incumbency.
She has President Kamala Harris on theballot instead of you know, Kamala

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Harris or vice president coma. Idon't know how they're gonna put her on
the ballot. I don't know,but I don't want that to happen politically,
but for the good of the country, I don't think this man should
be in charge. I don't thinkwe should be signaling to the world that
he is in charge, because he'sclearly infirm. So I'm in this very

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interesting predicament where, you know,I'd like my team to win, and
right now my team is Donald Trump. That is my political choice, not
one I am you know, enthusiasticabout, because I still have reservations.
But the alternative is an absolute disaster. Kamala Harris is so much a hardcore

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left wing progressive she would be justa nightmare as president, an absolute nightmare.
So here, I want my teamto win, but I'm more worried
about the world. I'm more worriedabout China, looking at who's in charge
now and going, oh, yeah, we can take him, and we
can own Taiwan by the time he'sout of office. I'm worried about Vladimir

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Putin being in Bolden. By theway, Russia is now bringing warships to
Cuba. Saw this story, thislittle blip in the in the radar I'm
guessing this is a much bigger storyin Florida, where you're supposed to wait,
you know, where you can actuallybe hit by missile fire. And
I don't blame him. I mean, we're playing in his backyard, so
now he's gonna come play in us. So we're headed for what a second
Cuban missile crisis? And if JoeBiden's in charge and I'm Vladimir Putin,

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I'm like, hell, yeah,we're headed for another Cuban missile crisis because
I'm gonna win this one. Thatscares the crap out of me. It
scares the crap out of me.You know. The domestic stuff, I'm
not particularly worried about because I thinkthat he as of Sunday, Joe Biden

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becomes the forgotten man after they heapall these accolades on him and call him
George Washington and everything but a child, I mean everything, the He's just
the best thing ever, He's thebest. As a matter of fact,
George Washington sucks compared to Joe Biden. That's the narrative going around right now.
Oh yeah, sucks. What's wrongwith you people? He chopped out
a cherry tree. He didn't actuallydo that, by the way, it

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was apocryphal. I learned that froma cartoon movie. Anyway, I'm I
mean, do you how do youguys feel about this? Do you feel
good knowing that Joe Biden is inthe White House right now? I don't.
I don't feel good at all becausedomestically there's nothing more that he can
really do. I mean, hecan do a lot of stuff by executive

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order, and if Trump wins,then that's fine. But if Trump doesn't
win, a Kamala is going tobe worse, So it won't matter what
he's doing the executive order. Buthe's a dead man walking in DC,
so no one's going to pay attentionto whatever it is he wants. And
in him saying I'm going to workwith Israel to get a seize fire,
why in the world would Israel payattention to him? Why would any world

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leader take his call. He's He'scompletely dead in the water politically, and
I just think to myself, thisis not what's right for the United States
of America. It's bad, extremelybad. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Five sixty six nine. Oh isthe common Spirit health text line that's
five, six, six nine.Oh, Mandy, I wouldn't be surprised

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if the ballots read first Blackish womanKamala Harris and convicted fella in Donald Trump.
That would be actually very funny,aim Or Gault, And I wish
I didn't, at least part ofme didn't think that was possible on some
level, Mandy, you have towatch one of Biden's speeches with subtitles on
talk about a Kamala word salad.Oh no, I can get the word
salad when he's when I'm just listening. I don't have to do that.

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I'm shocked. Shocked I say thatyou don't think Biden should be president?
Shocked, I say, well again, though, here's my problem. Politically,
it benefits the Republicans to have himstay in office, to take away
any sort of incumbency bump that Kamalamight get from being president. So it

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benefits, you know, the Republicanparty to have him stay. But as
an American citizen, he's not capableof leading the country. And that speech
last night, if we're leaders arelooking at that, they're basically like,
Okay, take his name out ofthe rolodex, because it doesn't matter.
He's not a person that's going tobe remotely, remotely necessary move forward.

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Now, Barack Obama, when heleft office, I'm guessing that people all
over the world have recognized that hehas maintained a tremendous amount of influence on
the Democratic Party behind the scenes,and he's I think that Barack probably has
more influence on the Democratic Party thananybody else that isn't in elected office.
And even then, even in electedoffice, I don't think King Jeffrey certainly

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doesn't have the kind of juice thatBarack Obama has within the Democratic Party.
I mean, he's still very mucha player, He's still very much a
part of the leadership of the DemocraticNational Committee. Does anybody believe that Joe
Biden is going to have any ofthat? Why would you? First of
all, he's eighty one years old. I mean, I'm not saying that

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he shouldn't be buying green bananas,but you know, he's not buying a
twenty year CD. So I justI'm concerned. I am more concerned right
now about the country then I amthe election, if that makes sense,
because that's how bad I think JoeBiden looked last night and sounded last night

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and appeared to the rest of theworld like that. Mandy, Mandy,
if you support Trump, how doyou rationalize that choice to your daughter.
I can absolutely rationalize that choice tomy daughter. I'm not voting for Trump,
the man. I'm voting for thepolicies that Trump and the Republican Party
will bring to the United States ofAmerica. And in the United States of
America, we need a strong andhealthy economy, we need smaller government.

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We have to do something at somepoint to reign in the debt. And
I know there's a zero percent chancethat the Democratic Party is going to do
it, and maybe a twenty percentchance that the Republicans will. But I'll
go with the twenty percent because ifI don't, if government spending continues like
it's going right now, inflation willonly get worse, and then my daughter
has no future whatsoever. The entirecountry falls into decline. And when we

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fall into decline, the rest ofthe world is not better. The rest
of the world is way worse becausethen in a vacuum, in a vacuum,
including a power vacuum, something we'llmove into that space. And China
and Russia would love to be abig part of that conversation. That's how
I justify it to my daughter.I don't vote on one issue. I
don't vote. I can't vote basedon character, because what choices do I

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have right now? If you couldfind me a perfect candidate who espouses all
of the policies that I want andacted, I would be thrilled. Nothing
would make me happier than to pullthe lever for that perfect person who doesn't
exist. But right now, mybest chance to deliver a future for the
United States of America economically is goingto be with Donald Trump. And that's

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what I'm going to tell my daughter. I'm then going to tell my daughter,
don't ever marry a person like DonaldTrump, don't ever even date a
person like Donald Trump. But we'renot doing either of those things, are
We We're voting on what we thinkis going to be best for the United
States of America, and right nowthat's Donald Trump. If you have a
better option for me, let meknow, an electable better option for me,

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Please let me know. I'd loveto know. Mandy. I heard
Kyle Clark say that you gave upbeing a Republican. Kind of sad how
you slithered your way back couldn't yoube a libertarian. I've been a libertarian,
a registered libertarian in the past.And here's my take on the Libertarian
party. And if you're a registeredbig L Libertarian and you've never been to
a meeting, let me just tellyou what they're like. You go and

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there's a bunch of dudes. It'sall dudes, and like three women among
five hundred dudes, and they're allarguing about really inane and arcane points of
liberty that don't mean anything. Thatmakes them absolutely and completely unelectable at a
big scale. And they never tryto win local races. The Libertarians only

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put up a candidate for the presidency. Why is that because they'd rather sit
around and talk about their principles thanactually win. So why bother with that?
Why it's a pro test vote,and a protest vote is great,
but you, as a protest voter, have the luxury of knowing that the
rest of us are going to holdour nose and vote for something that can

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actually get elected. I hate tosay it, I mean, you can
do whatever you want. I neverjudge people for a voting third party.
I voted third party in the past. But you get to do that because
you have the cover from the restof us who are going to take it,
take the hit, and go aheadand pull the lever for the person
that we don't love but we knowcould win and would probably do what we

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want most of them to do.So I don't have a problem with that.
And I think a lot of Democratsare rationalizing a lot of stuff right
now in order to be enthusiastic aboutKamala so to act like somehow it's just
well, it's just the Republicans whoare rationalizing. No, it's really not.
It's really not. We're all rationalizingaway our votes in this election cycle

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because when you look at the polling, nobody likes any of these candidates.
Kamala Harris's approval rating until she wasthe candidates elect by the Democratic elite have
been in the toilet, absolutely inthe toilet. And yet the woman who
did not win one single delegate whenshe ran for president is now being talked

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about as the answer for the DemocraticParty who rejected her just four years ago.
So there's a whole lot of rationalizinggoing on on all sides. So
if you're trying to like trip meup or make me feel bad, you
cannot do that because I'm very clearon how i feel, and I'm very
clear on what I'm doing and whyI'm doing it, So there's no rationalization

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needed anyway. Didn't you mention intwenty twenty two or twenty twenty three that
the Democrats may have been planning tooust Biden do to his health. That
wasn't just me, you know,there was a lot of people saying,
I mean, they can't. ButI never thought it would go this far.
I never thought it would come downto July. The end of July.

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That's madness. So I think thatthe master plan got away from the
Democratic part already because Joe Biden didn'tknow that his political future was over,
and when they tried to tell himby putting him on the debate stage,
so he was humiliated in front ofthe world, he ignored it. And
now this is what it's come to. So there you go. At what

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point does keeping Biden in office elderabuse? I wouldn't go that far,
we interjected Jets in a bomber yesterdaybefore Biden spoke, FBI said Iran is
a real threat on Trump. Well, Ron is a real threat on all
of us. We need to understandthat there war right now with Israel using
proxies to do it, They'll comeright at us. I mean, if
they want to be stupid. That'sthe ultimate f around and find out moment.

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It really would be. But wouldn'tit be funny? And I don't
mean funny haha, but I meanironic that if Iran ever attacked us on
our soil, I have to believethat we would go skorts to earth on
Iran in a way that is evenmore severe than Israel. But we would
be able to justify that, evenas people in the squad tell us that
Israel is bad for defending themselves.Now, I got a bunch of guests

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coming on the show today, Imean a bunch, and they're all different.
They're not about politics. We're goingto talk to in just about one
o'clock. We're going to talk tosomeone about Colorado agriculture and growers because it's
such a huge and important part ofour economy. But when we get back,
we're going to talk for a minuteabout Benjamin net and Yahoo's speaking to
both Houses of Congress yesterday last oryesterday, Benjaminett Yahoo spoke to both Houses

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of Congress and his speech was veryvery good. If you are unfamiliar with
Israel, if you're unfamiliar with themakeup of Israel, he did a really
good job reinforcing what is true,and that is Israel is made up of
Israeli Jews. It's made up ofsecular Jews, it's made up of Drews,
it's made up of Muslims, it'smade up of Arabs, It's made

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up of this really Middle Eastern meltingpot of people, and they all fight,
they all fight for Israel. Soit was a very good speech.
Well, I found interesting was howmany people ignored it. Nancy Pelosi couldn't
be bothered. She was meeting withfamilies that had been victimized since October seventh,
the Jewish families. By the way, Ilhan Omar announced her intention to

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boycott. She didn't go, soshe wasn't there. No one missed her,
but she wasn't there. There wereseveral members of Congress that were like,
I'm not coming. Rashida Talib,the vile anti Semite in Congress,
stood up during the speech and heldup a sign that selled guilty of genocide
while wearing a cathea. So antiSemitism is Okay, now, now,

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don't get me wrong. I heardRoss talking about this as I was driving
into work, and he said exactlyhow I feel. I used to love
benjaminette naw who I loved him.You know, this is like, he's
the longest serving prime Minister of Israel, and he's served in a split capacity,
served many years ago, and nowhe's back, and I used to
love the guy, and I justthought he was such a great leader of

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Israel. In the past few years, in an ongoing attempt to cling to
power, he has done some thingsthat probably need to be done. I
mean, the judicial review is somethingthat needs to happen. Their system in
Israel, they don't have three.They don't have three branches of government.
They don't have the executive and theCongress and then this and the Supreme Court.

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That's they only have two. Theyhave Congress and they have the Supreme
Court. So if Congress runs afoul of their charter, then then the
Supreme Court comes back. And theSupreme Court has been increasingly left wing over
the years, and rather than youknow, do things that could mitigate that.
Although you know, sometimes it's conservative, sometimes it's liberal, it's just

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the way it is. But insteadof saying what I would be in favor
of something that's being talked about nowabout the Supreme Court, and we haven't
talked about it, this is theSupreme Court. Here, I would be
in favor of term limits for theSupreme Court. Now. I don't know
how long it would be, becauseI do think that when you are elevated
to the Supreme Court, there's apretty significant learning curve that has to happen,
probably over a couple of years.So I would want to make those

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terms. I'd be happy with atwenty year term for justices, and if
we wanted to put that in effectnow, you could essentially say, you
know, three justices will expire intwenty years, three more will inspire,
expire in twenty five years, threemore will expire, and then you kind
of work into a schedule so younever have more vacancies than you want.
You don't want to turn the wholecourt over. At the same time,

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you need that institutional knowledge now.Instead of doing something like that to change
the court, Benjamin net and Yahutried to push to some reforms that were
over the top, and now hewas in charge. On October seventh,
at a bare minimum. He bearsthe responsibility for the obvious intelligence failures that

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Israel suffered from and as a result, you know, over a thousand people
were slaughtered in one day. SoI say, don't change horses now,
because I actually like his focus oncomplete victory, on absolutely destroying Hamas,
their infrastructure, their ability to rebuildquickly. Now do I think AMAS will

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go away? No, no Idon't, because they are a RAN's proxy
and Iran will prop Amas. Backup. Now, if you missed,
and I don't know if I putit on the blog yesterday or the day
before, there's a video from Prageryou that is interviewing the son of the
founder of Hamas, and you reallyneed to go watch that because if you

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want to understand the mentality of thepeople that we are fighting, and when
I say we, it's not justthe United States and Israel, it is
the Western world. Because you haveto recognize it's not about the destruction of
Israel. It's about the destruction ofeverything that is not Islamic. It is
about creating a worldwide caliphate where anyonewho is not Islamic would be subject to

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taxation or subjugation in some way.It's not about the peaceful version of Islam.
It's about the violent version of Islamthat calls for a one state solution
with the complete elimination of Jews inIsrael. And this son of the leader
of Hamas talked about the fact thatwhen his father had to choose between him
or the movement, he chose themovement. And when he was arrested and

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they took him to an Israeli prisonand the Israelis said, look, you
know, we can help you ifyou work with us and become a spy.
And he was like, yeah,totally, I'll do it because he
wanted to become a double agent.And when he went back to the prison
and told the other people from Hamasin the prison, he said, look,
they want me to be a spy, and I want to be a
double agent and let them think I'mspying. And Hamas didn't believe him and

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interrogated him over and over and overagain, and he started to see that
he would never be able to livein peace in that situation because there's no
peace. Peace is not what Hamaswants. They want destruction. They don't
want to live side by side withJews. They want all Jews murdered.
They want them destroyed, and Benjaminnet Ya, Who's like, you know

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what, No, We're not gonnalet them limp out of here to reconstitute
instantly like we did with the Talibanin Afghanistan. Somebody sent a text message
because I said something, you know, if Iran ever attacked us directly,
and they said, seriously, you'regoing to talk about Iran in what fever
dream? Does Iran have the abilityto attack the United States in any significant

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way? No one has ever invadedthis country successfully. Ever, you're worrying
about a country with essentially no navyor air force somehow making a full scale
attack on the US. A bunchof goat herders from Afghanistan launched an attack
that brought down the Twin Towers andcrashed planes into the Pentagon. I'm not
saying Iran is going to bring bootson the ground to the United States of
America. But do I think Iran, if they could pull it off,

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would set off an emp to takeentire swats of the United States down through
our electrical grid. I do believethey do that because they don't care about
the massive loss of human life thatwould happen after that, they don't care
because we're the great Satan. Andthe fact that you said that, like,
oh, we're such a badass country. Really, really, let's see

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how we're doing against Middle East people. At this point, we were doing
great, but then Joe Biden decidedto precipitously pull out of Afghanistan. Thirteen
service members are dead, and thelast images we have are Afghanis hanging onto
the outside of airplanes under his leadership, and he thought it was a great
job. He thought it was spectacular, so much so that he's never mentioned

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the names of the servicemen or womenthat were killed. And he managed to
look at his watch while their bodieswere being brought off the plane. That's
how well we're doing in the MiddleEast. Why wouldn't iron think they couldn't
pull something like that off? Whywouldn't they They already did. And the
fact that you're just poo pooing thatis just will for ignorance and normalcy.

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By Oh, nobody's ever invaded us. They don't have to invade us.
They just have to take us downeconomically, and there's a myriad of ways
to do that. None of therequire boots on the ground. I mean
last weekend, our entire airline systemwas taken down because someone uploaded some code
on a third party site. Youguys are thinking like old school World War

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two. Do you realize how devastatingit would be if an MP went off
over a major city. People wouldbe rioting and fighting in the streets because
they would be serving almost instantly.People in the cities are not prepared for
that. We've seen it over andover again with minor weather emergencies. You
guys got to think bigger, badder, and more frightening, as I do

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every single day. We'll be rightback coming up. In the next segment,
We're going to talk about Colorado agriculturefor a minute. We've got Marilyn
bay Drake. She is the executivedirector of the Colorado Fruit and Vegetable Growers
Association, and agriculture is such ahuge part of what we do here in
Colorado that I just like to doa little chick in every once in a
while. And I know that myfriend Greg Brophy his watermelons got washed out,

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so I don't know that the actualsituation with the watermelon is, although
I find that ironic that watermelon's gottoo much water. But we'll find out
how the overall field is doing withher in just a moment now. In
the meantime, though, I dowant to throw out some of these text
messages. You guys have been onfire on the text line. And I
was telling somebody yesterday sometimes the textscome in so fast that I cannot read

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all of them before they fall offthe bottom, because they don't. You
have a certain number of text messagesthat you can see at a time,
and the text message has just beenreally, really crazy. Really Mandy at
a commencement for women leaving college hisOh no, this is the same guy.

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There's a guy emailing me who actuallysays, do you want your daughter
to have to be a homemaker?Because that's what the Trump That's what Trump
is trying to do. He's tryingto take all of the women out of
the workplace. He's trying to makethem force them to stay at home and
be stay at home moms, andhe's trying to prevent them from being able
to live the lives they want.That's the kind of nonsense that is being

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floated around on the left, andit's absolute nonsense. We all know it's
nonsense. We know that it's justridiculous, and this is what this says.
You know, I get criticized fornot having a lot of faith in
institutions. I don't trust the FBIanymore. I truly don't have a story
on the blog today about Christopher Raytestifying that they're not even sure if Trump

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got hit by a bullet or forsome shrapnel. You No, he didn't
specify where that shrapnel was supposed tocome from. But the teleprompters were intact
after the shooting, so it wasn'tglass. But the director of the FBI
wanted to make sure that they don'tknow. I mean, they could probably
ask the agents who were there whatthe womb looked like. They all saw
it. We're all going to havea chance to see it eventually when it

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heals. He's not going to weara band aid on here for the rest
of his Lifeublican Party is not tryingto roll back the rights of women.
The Republican Party is not trying toinstall Donald Trump as a dictator, even
though there are Trump supporters who wouldlove that. I am not among them,
and I believe in the institutions asthey have been for the last two

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hundred something years because it worked.January sixth was a nightmare. It was
ridiculous. Should have never happened.But you know what happened on January sixth,
The Electoral College vote was certified.And you know what happened after that?
Donald Trump left the White House andJoe Biden moved in, and you
know what happened after that. Democratshave been systematically hiding the president's declining condition
from us since then. But nobody'sworried about that. I'm supposed worry about

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things that didn't happen in the firstfour year term, and yet no one's
talking about the things that have happenedin this last term for the president.
We as the American people have beenlied to in such a way that it
shocked the country to find out howmentally degenerated our president is when he showed

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up for that debate. That's howsystematic the cover up has been. But
you're not worried about that. You'reworried about a fantasy where women have to
go back to wearing handmaid's tails andwe're all gonna have to have clean aprons
when our husband's come home for dinner. I mean, I don't know how
you think you pull that off.I really don't. And if that's the

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world you're living in, then Idon't know why you're listening to this radio
station because you're detached from reality.But rather than talk about the policies which
actually went into effect when Donald it'snot like we don't have a track record
for Donald Trump. Let's see,became a dictator, failed, forced women
back into chains. Failed, Andfor anybody who's gonna say he appointed the
justices that overturned Roe versus Wade,do you know what's happening right now across

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the country. What's happening right nowis that states are, one by one
by one, even red states arecodifying a woman's right to abortion in their
state constitutions or in other laws onthe books to make sure that women have
access to abortion. There are validinitiatives across the country this fall where voters
are going to have a chance tovote on in their state whether or not

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they want abortion restrictions, and ifthey have them, what they look like.
Because it's a state's issue. Thereare very few places where that is
not true. And we'll see ifRepublicans who have passed these abortion laws remain
in office. The problem in oursociety with stuff like this is that people
expect instant gratification. That's why theylove like the gay marriage ruling, it

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was instant gratification. I have noagree with that ruling, but it was
still instant gratification, So why peoplelove it. But when the wheels of
government grind and rolled slowly, theyhate it. But ultimately, I believe
that, with a few exceptions inthe Deep South, you're going to see
abortion rights codified into law across thecountry. Many of that happening. This

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fall as it should be. Ifyou believe that abortion is a state issue,
this is as it should be,regardless of the outcome. We are
going to take a quick time out. When we get back, Let's talk
a little bit about agriculture in Colorado. It's a huge part of our economy
and frankly, they're feeding us,so let's give them some airtime. We'll
do that next. The Mandy ConnellShow is sponsored by Belle and Pollock Accident

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and injury Lawyers. No, it'sMandy Connell, Mandy donaka ninety one FM,
got want to Study and the nicetyMany Connell keeping no sad thing.

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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, tothe second hour of the show, and
finally something non political sort of totalk about. I've got Marylyn Drake.
She is the head of the ColoradoFruit and Vegetable Growers Association Maryland. Welcome
to the show. Thank you,what a pleasure to be on with you.
Mandy. Thanks well. Tell myaudience first a little bit about the
Colorado Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association.What is it? Well, the Colorado

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Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association is arelatively new association. We were formed in
twenty fourteen, ironically around some ofthe same issues we're dealing with today,
the agg labor issue and where we'regoing to get the workers to work produce
farms. And I came on boardas executive director in twenty fifteen, and

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since that time, we've grown inmembership and scopes of service that we provide
for members. And that's in anutshell, who we are. So let's
get down to brass tags when youtalk about agg labor, and I'm just
going to go on what I haveknown in my own life because I grew

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up in a rural part of Floridaand a lot of my father's friends were
farmers. They utilized a lot ofmigrant labor, and back in the eighties
it was it was all very underthe table, and I think that's the
best way to say it. Well. Through the immigration battles of the eighties
the early two thousands, with theestablishment of everify, has it gotten any
better or worse to get migrant laborto come over and pick fruits and vegetables.

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It's gotten very difficult. So goingback even further than what you're talking
about the eighties, like my grandparentswere migrant farm workers at times from both
sides of my family. They traveledand what do work within Colorado, and
you know, that was a verycommon thing. Then eventually we got to

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a place where all, you know, permanent residents in our country did not
want to do the farm labor,and so we did rely on a lot
of immigrants from other countries. Atthis point, it's still a challenge.
There is a program we referred toas the H two, a program that

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brings legally brings in qualified workers thathave experienced working on farms, and it
is expensive, it's a lot ofpaperwork, but so many farms have gone
to that because that's the only wayto find workers that consistently. You know,
I've heard stories antadotally about farmers herein Colorado that'll hire someone locally and

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maybe they don't even come show upfor the orientation, or maybe they come
to orientation and work caffe day andthey're gone. So it is gruelling work.
It's also in Colorado it's very seasonal, so you work really really hard
for a few months and then you'retoss worker. So Colorado growers have had
to bring in a lot of workersfrom other countries Mexico, Honduras, you

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know, countries, but also onesthat we may not think of, like
Ukraine and Moldova in South Africa.They are all I know right now workers
from those countries that are working onColorado farms. So what makes the I
know it's a government program, soI realize this may sound like a dumb

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question, but what makes that programso inefficient? And are you able to
make suggestions that could make a processor streamline a process so people could participate
legally and it not costs the farmerso much to do all this? You
know, above board, I don'tknow if I have specific A lot of

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our concerns have to do with morewhat's happening in our state. But yes,
federally it's a problem too. Forone thing, they have what they
call an adverse wage rate, andin Colorado, the minimum wage that these
workers in it get paid is sixteendollars in sixty three cents an hour.
That does not include any over time, and there's been a lot of criticism

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of how that wage is determined andis it really accurate. They're trying to
set a wage that won't interfere withlocal workers. Essentially in a nutshell,
there is a lot of paperwork,there's fees. If you have back the
same people, the fees are nowhigher. There's just a lot of rules

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that don't make a whole lot ofsense to a lot of farmers. So
I guess I wasn't prepared entirely totalk about that's a lineral program and kind
of make it easier. But theycould definitely streamline it, they could make
the fees more reasonable. I thinkthere's been a tendency to not want to
do that by actually people on allsides of the aisle, because they have

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the feeling that that they have thewrong assumption that that is going to keep
American Americans from getting jobs but thereality is they don't want these. So
let's talk about the state of Coloradoand what they're doing and why they're making
it harder, and how we couldfix that problem. Sure, sure,
and if I don't if you don'tmind, I'd like to back up a

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little bit or talk about the lossof farms throughout the United States. From
twenty seventeen to twenty twenty two,five year period, the Census of ag
told us that we lost almost onehundred and forty two thousand farms in our
country, and in Colorado the numberis two thousand, eight hundred and thirty

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seven farms, or seven percent ofour farms in that five year period.
So you know, we've got alot of people moving into our state and
farmers just aren't able to in somecases find the labor already. So that's
where we are. Then, intwenty twenty one, the Colorado General Assembly

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passed and our governors signed a lawthat put over time into farm workers,
made it mandatory. I will sayit could have been worse. Many states,
or some of the states that haveadopted over time have stopped it at
forty hours. We have a littlebecause there's such a short compressed season.

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They fortunately gave us a period offifty where we could go to fifty six
hours, so that was very helpful, but that was a huge blow to
our farmers who are already paying aminimum this year of sixteen sixty three per
hour to these workers. And it'sjust really challenging for farmers to make a

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living. And that's why I relateit to the loss of farms, and
Colorado hey was the leading loss ofacres of farms in this same survey.
And much of this has to dowith the loss of the ability to find

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and hire these workers that are sonecessary, especially in produce. You know
you've got hand weed and hands inand hand harvest so much of the produce.
Well, let me ask you thisquestion because I know, and I'm
talking with Marilyn Drake. He isthe executive director of the Colorado Fruit and
Vegetable Growers Association. The minimum wage. When I have been around farming and

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farm workers, a lot of themeal, a lot of the stuff was
they paid on piecemeal, They paidby weight, they paid by volume.
So the more you picked, thefaster you picked, the more money you
made. How has this minimum wageaffected the overall wages for an experienced farm
worker. Have they gone up?Have they gone down? Is it the
same? You know, how hasthat changed? Done way up? And

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there are farms that still do thepiece work, but that's still the minimum.
They can't make less than that.They can only make more than that
they do the piece work. Mandyyess Okay, So that was my first
question. Has this increase in minimumwage made it easier for Colorado farmers to
get labor because they're going to makemore in Colorado than they would make in
Texas or New Mexico or one ofour surrounding states. Is that showing to

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be true? Actually, the overtimehas made it harder because some of the
farm workers have said, we're outof Colorado because we can't work unlimit.
Farmers aren't going to pay the overtime. They just don't have the money.
They would love to pay their workerstwenty dollars an hour, thirty dollars an

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hour, but they just can't afford. They won't stay afloat if they do
that. So some of the workersage two eight workers have said, we
don't want to go to Colorado eventhough the hourly rate is good, they
can make more in other states becauseI mean sometimes I know it sounds a
little outrageous to some average American workingan office job, but during the summer

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or farmers and their employees may beworking sixty, seventy, even eighty hours
a week during certain periods of timebecause you can't just say, well,
gosh, we'll get to that tomorrow, because you may have a hailstorm come
through or a rain or overripe produce. You've got to pick it when it's
ready, and you've got to thinit when it needs to be thinned.

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And you know, that's the realityof farming. So it actually has kind
of been the opposite. We eventhough the higher rate you would think would
attract more people, if anything,it's pushing people into other states that don't
have the overtime requirements. Colorado isjust the I believe it's the sixth state

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that has adopted overtime for aag workers. Let me ask, is this led
to any kind of you know,usually when there's a labor shortage, and
we're kind of seeing this in areaswhere they have jacked the fast food minimum
wages up so high that fast foodoperators can't afford to do it. So
they're looking at automation. And Iknow that farming has a certain amount of

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automation, especially in a larger farm. But what what what what is preventing
us from develop developing technology other thancost? Okay, we'll just say this
is going to be a costing butare there specific things that make it difficult
to to automate some of these jobs? There is automation going on, particularly

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like in the weating category, andc FUGA has for the last two years
hosted a demo of these machines thatdo weating. I mean they're really big,
they're really you know, laser guidedAI programmed machines. Are you know,

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we're talking a million, a millionand a half, so, you
know, significant amount of money.But there is definitely a push to do
that. But there's still some reallydelicate produce like a strawberry or you know,
things like that that it's really difficultto have these, you know,
automated, widespread automation. I thinkit's coming, I really do, but

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in the in the meantime we're stillfaced with this. And in the meantime,
we're going from a nation that supportsmore food than it imports to one
that imports more food than it exports. And that is largely in the produce
industry. So you know, that'sreally scary to me. That should be

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alarm bells for everyone. Hey,we're a net importer of our food now,
well is part of that and thismight be a question that you are
not in the right position to answer. But how much of that is I
feel like corn because of ethanol mandatesand other things that we're making corn,
has corn become even larger as acrop or is it the same or smaller

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than it has been traditionally? You'reright that I don't know those numbers.
I think we're still producing a fairand my dad's a corn not a sweet
corn producer, I you know,representing the produce industry. But I think
there's still a fair amount of cornbeing produced. I couldn't speak to whether
that's gone up or down. Ijust know about produce in general. Well,

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Maryland, what to my listeners?What do my listeners need to know?
What can they do to help Coloradoagg producers going forward? Well,
they should be shook by this statthat I just shared with you. We're
now importing more food than we're exporting. We got to change that post haste,

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because that's a really scariest statistic.And how they do that, I
mean, specifically, they can supportColorado produce by going to their grocery stores
and looking for the Colorado produce inseason. You know, we're short compressed
season here. And the way youfind what's in season when in Colorado is
on the Colorado Produce dot or website. Our website, there's a fine Colorado

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Produce button and there's also a calendarthere and you can see you know when
to you don't expect strawberries in February, greenhouse production. But that's a really
good way to familiarize yourself with whatis available when and go into those retailers

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and if it's in season, ifgreen beans are in season, now we
should see some green beans from Coloradoon those grocery shelves. And if not.
As the produce manager, why not, I would put that pressure on.
Certainly, support your farmer's markets,all that sort of thing, and
also elect legislators, whether they're inthe city or the country. The countryside

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tend to you know, still listento farmers that will listen to agriculture and
say, hey, guys, youknow you keep doing this and we're not
going to have ag and or especiallynot going to have a produce industry in
this state anymore. I really appreciateyour time, marilynd good information. It's
such an important part of our economy. But also this is what we eat,

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so it's incredibly important that we haveaccess to food. You know,
just it's gonna sound paranoid, butyou want to be closer to your food
than not, right, you wantto be closer to the people that are
producing your food than not. AndI have great information. Thank you for
all you do, and we'll chatagain hopefully and have better news about the
labor situation. Yes, thank youso much for having us. Mandy,

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all right, thank you. Thatis Marilyn Drake with the Colorado Vegetable Produce
Growers Association. Their website's really cool. If you want to find stuff that's
in season, it's super super easyand it tells you where to find it,
and it's just it's just very cool. You don't really think about that
stuff, but there's so many differentlittle farms all over the place that you
can find on that website. Andagain, always look for Colorado made product.

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So now we've got several other guestscoming up today, I should go
ahead and do that, because Ididn't do that after the blog. If
you haven't checked the blog today,okay, I'm just gonna say this.
If you're not even a reader,like you don't even read things. You
don't want to read news you don'twant to you need to go to today's
blog and you just scroll right downto the bottom because someone has taken the

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introduction to the Dukes of Hazzard andsuperimposed Donald Trump and JD Vance's face is
over it, and it is absolutelyhilarious and you will laugh your head off
when you see who they have superimposedthe head of onto boss Hog from Dukes

(48:45):
of Hazzard. It is so funny. I laughed so hard this morning.
First of all, because I loveDukes of Hazzard. I loved it when
I was a kid. I stilllove it. I'm not gonna lie.
But the original why not the newremake that didn't work for me at all.
So watch that on the blog today. But I also have two more
guests coming up. I've got anotherguest coming up in a little bit about

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Denver tourism how much money it actuallybrings into the city. And then we
have comedian Leslie Lee Awl. She'sgoing to be at Comedy Works this weekend.
She's very funny and she's going tobe in studio with us. So
we got a lot of guests comingup. One thing I want to point
out, I'm not going to spenda whole lot of time on this because
I'm trying to get a campaign financeexpert to come on the show and talk
about this story. But the Trumpcampaign has filed an official FEC complaint against

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Biden Harris for transferring ninety one pointfive million dollars from the Biden for President
campaign coffers into the Harris for Presidentcampaign coffers by changing the name on the
account, and the Trump crump tapto say, no, you can't do

(49:53):
that, and I read it,but I am no elections law expert.
An election law can be kind ofdentse sometimes, So I'm trying to find
somebody to come out and talk aboutthis. But just reading it the way
I read it, and you canread it too. It's linked on the
blog today. It seems like there'sa pretty good case here based on the
structure of how money can be movedaround. Money can absolutely be moved around.

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Okay, can be moved around,but there are limits on how it
can be moved around, and whoyou can move it around to, and
in what context you can move stuffaround. You can't just say, oh,
I'm not gonna run for office anymore, but I like her, So
we're just going to rename my campaignfunds in her name. And that's gonna
It doesn't happen like that, especiallybefore the official nomination, and that seems

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to be what has happened. Sowe'll have to wait for the Federal Elections
Commission to decide whether or not theycan tap into Joe Biden's money. But
if they can't, you guys,that will be a stunning blow to the
establishment. When we get back,wait a minute, let me see our
guests are coming up. Then I'lltell you what we're gonna do when we
get back. No, I've gotJustin wrestler. He is with visit Denver.

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We're going to do that first.But I have audio from Casey what
the heck is her last name,Casey, Casey, Casey something on CNN.
She was on a panel discussion andshe said the exact same thing that
I just said yesterday about what happensto the Democratic Party if Kamala Harris loses
in November and Democratic voters go,wait a minute, we didn't pick her
anyway, because everybody. If Trumpwins again, people on the left are

(51:31):
going to lose their minds. IfTrump doesn't win, people on the right
are going to lose their minds.This is going to be a wild run
up to this election. I hopeyou stick around because we are going to
cover all of it when we getback. How much money to tourists put
into Denver's pockets? We'll talk aboutthat next. Now I'm going to get

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to my next guest. Justin Bresler, works with Visit Denver, the organization
responsible for bringing people to our greatcity, and we're going to talk about
that impact with them right now.Hey, Justin, how are you?
I'm great? How are you?I am doing just fantastic. You were
with Visit Denver. Now we firstmet because of your work with Colorado Veterans

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Project, which of course we couldthank you for that. But when you
went to work for Visit Denver,had you worked in the tourism industry before
you went to work for them?I know he's the chief marketing officer.
But where was Did you have anybackground in tourism And there's a reason I'm
asking you this. Oh yeah,as a matter of fact, I did.
I worked on the private side.We're a nonprofit, but I worked

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on the private side with an organizationthat did visitors, guides and website for
organizations just like visit Denver around thecountry. And it was a great proving
ground before I got here. Well, that's the great, That's fantastic because
that gave you a frame of reference. And I want to ask you just
a basic question, how are wedoing tourism wise in Denver. You're doing
very well in tourism in Denver.We just released our results from calendar year

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twenty two three and thought some nicegrowth over our previous record in twenty twenty
two up to about thirty seven pointfour million visitors who came to Denver in
twenty twenty three. And those visitorsspent a ton of money, more than
ten billion dollars in direct economic impactfrom those visitors. And I think we're
you know, we brought them ina a in a steady and responsible way

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throughout the year, and I thinkenhancing their residents' quality of life well,
I want to ask you specifically aboutwhat are the main attractions. Do you
guys have the opportunity to ask tous, like what are they coming to
see? Or do you their spendingto find out the attractions that people are
spending the most time at. Yeah, well, all of the above.
And if you think about Denver hasa destination overall, we're really a best

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of both world's locations because obviously Denverhas become as an urban center, a
real destination in its own right.And then of course the appeal of Colorado
for people coming from you know,coastal cities or even internationally, that's got
to be there for them, sothey know they can get a lot of
groundcovered when they come to Colorado.And so yeah, you know, we

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kind of know the individual places thatpeople spend a lot of time at,
but really overall, it's this sortof festival world destination that we have here.
You've got some really pretty staggering numbers. Overnight visitors total twenty point five
million. That was a three percentrise from twenty twenty two, generating eight
point eight billion in spending. That'sa ten percent increase over the prior year.

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Have you guys been doing a fullcourt marketing press or is this word
of mouth? People just wanting tocome and see what Colorado has to offer.
How are people finding out about us? Oh, we are definitely marketing
aggressively to these audiences. We liketo say that, you know, tourism
doesn't just happen. There's too manyother great destinations across the country and around
the world that really buy for people'sattentions, and so we really need to

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lean into this with aggressive advertising,social media, public relations. And then
of course we have an amazing websitefor them and visitors guys for when they
do And yeah, there is greatword of mouth, and so once people
someone does make the decision to visithere, they become a great ambassador.
And so are our residents as well. You know, they're the ones that
are telling their friends and family,You've got to come visit here, and

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you know, you know, I'dlove to host you in my basement,
but it's a little small, soyou should stay at a hotel and it
gets your gets your family here andyou don't have to actually host them.
We love it. Where are peoplecoming from? Are they international visitors?
Are they coming from within the UnitedStates? Yeah? Well, the study
that we just released. Those areour domestic visitors, and they are coming
from a lot of markets that weadvertise in, including you know, Los

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Angeles. They're coming from regional citieslike Cheyenna and Port Collins, Chicago,
Minneapolis, so really from all overthe country. But again we do like
the fact that they are coming fromour advertising markets in addition to some of
our neighboring cities here in Colorado.The international studies are different, but we
get a lot of people from Canadaand Mexico as well as UK, Germany,

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France and some other Western European cities. And of course it helps that
Denver International Airports keeps bringing not newaction to international flights here. And I
know, you know, obviously wehave some obvious things that people come from.
They come for Red Rocks, theycome for various you know, arts
stuff. But how much does sportsplay as a as a role in tourism,

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because you know, when you goto a Rockies game, especially like
we just had a series with theRed Sox, I think there was more
Red Sox fans they're the Rockies fans. So what does sports impact our tourism
numbers? How big is that?Well? You know, I think especially
for people coming from kind of thegreater Rocky Mountain region, there just started
as many professional sports teams in theadjacent states, and so I think the

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Rockies and the Broncos and as theNagat they almost become a de facto home
team for if you're if you're sittinganywhere within five hundred miles. But yeah,
like I love I was driving arounddowntown yesterday and I saw a ton
of Red Sox uniforms, and Ithink, just like I was saying,
like, if your team is playinghere in Colorado and you think, you
know, you're playing in Denver,and you think that you can come and

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see a game here in a greatdowntown stadium and then you know, bounce
up to the mountains for a coupleof days, I mean, that sounds
like a dream vacation to me.I've been to a lot of baseball parks
around the country. It's I lovebaseball, So I've been to a lot
of different parks and stadiums, andcoursefield is what is the best experience you
can have, you know, otherthan where the you know Padres used to
play. Yeah, I mean,it's just it's a great experience. So

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yeah, people do want to comehere and support their teams. I really
appreciate the information. I mean,it's important for us to remember, even
though sometimes it can be frustrating forNative Colorado's who feel like Denver is being
overrun, but this is such acritical part of our economy. And do
you know how much it makes howmuch it makes up of the overall economy
in the Denver metro area. Well, I know, it's one of the

(57:50):
largest industries, probably a top fiveindustry for the Denver metro area. And
as a tab space, you know, you've got to remember that the downtown
hotels are paying huge amounts of propertytoxes. And then of course, you
know there was a billion dollars inspending on food and beverage and that's generating
taxes, and so the impact ofthe visitor is not just seen at the
spend, but you know by thedirect spending, but also by the tax

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dollars they generate, which which whichamounts into the tens of millions of dollars.
And you know, I think we'vewe've surveyed our residents that we know
they actually appreciate the impact of tourism. They don't feel crowded out by visitors
here. And so you know,we ask our residents just to make sure
because because there really are are ourmain customers, and making sure that we're
you know, enhancing their quality oflife as I said at the top,

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And and they see visitors and theand the energies that they bring and the
spending that they bring as really enhancingtheir quality of life. And so you
know, I think it's a winwin. Justin Wrestler, he's the chief
marketing officer of Visit Denver. Iappreciate your time today, man, thanks
so much. All right, thankyou, and uh, there you go.
It is a huge shot. Youknow. Growing up in Florida,

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I grew up in the part ofFlorida where tourists did not come if there's
nothing for We had the Ross AlleenAlligator Farm that they built when I was
a kid, but it was solike unpopular because of where it was located.
They changed it into a water park. They did remove the alligators before
they made it a water park.But nonetheless, growing up in Florida,

(59:13):
like tourism is such a part ofthe fabric of Florida. It has never
bothered me to allow tourists to paybills for us, like, oh,
yeah, gas taxes, hotel taxes, things like that. Gas taxes in
Florida are pretty high for that reasonbecause they're like, let the tourists pay
it, and yeah, the peoplewho live there is like, oh,
they're offsetting quite a bit of moneythat we don't have to pay. So
if you see a tourist, benice to the tourist. It's fine.

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When we get back. Political storyalert, the DNC is making a show
of letting other people into the race, but it's not a very good show.
I'll explain after this. This personsaid, Mandy just encountered someone at
King Supers asking for signatures to putsomething on the ballot. Doesn't it cost
taxpayers money to put more things onthe ballot? He was very rude when

(59:58):
I said no, thank you.He said, why do you even vote
now? First of all, there'stwo parts of this number one. The
only way it costs taxpayers more moneyto put something on the ballot is if
the ballot initiative in and of itselfspends more money once it's passed. So
that's potentially costing taxpayers more money,or a very small amount of money.

(01:00:19):
If they have to add a secondsheet on the ballot. So I don't
want that to dissuade you from signinga petition for a ballot initiative that could
be really good. And there's somegreat ballot initiatives out there right now gathering
signatures. So don't just reject itbecause you think it's going to cost the
taxpayers, reject it because it's abad ballot initiative. Right here's my standard
for ballot initiative is because right inthe petition gathering process, early in it,

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there's a ton of stuff that I, even as a talk show host,
I have not had a chance toresearch. So I will ask them
if I can read the ballot initiativeand it's clear and easy to understand,
like the property tax ballot initiative thatis out there, I think they've already
gotten enough signatures to get on theballot. If it's clear and easy to
understand, and I can very clearlyunderstand it and I agree with it,
then I'll sign. If I readit and it's not clearly understood, and

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if I have any questions at all, then I say no. But I
say I'm not you know, maybein the future, but I got to
find out more information, and thenI find out more information. But you
know, don't worry about like theactual cost of the initiative. It's an
insignificant cost unless the initiative itself isdesigned to take more taxpayer dollars for something

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else. Right, speaking of that, the Denver City Council has delayed a
conversation on the extra sales tax thatMayor Mike Johnston wants to put on the
ballot this November to pay for affordablehousing. And if you read the coverage
in the story that I have todayfrom the Denver Gazette, it shows clearly

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how much political capital that Mayor MikeJohnston has burned through in his first year
in office. With all of themassive spending that has been done over the
last year finding places to house homelesspeople and give illegal immigrants whatever they need
to hang out until they have somekind of legal status. I mean,
those two things alone are well overone hundred million dollars. And the Denver

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City Council is now no longer willingto rubber stamp and ask for a tax
increase. Now think about it,They're not even they're not even passing a
tax increase with this, they stillhave to ask the voters to raise their
own taxes, but Denver City Councilis like, yeah, we don't even
want to ask them because they havequestions about how this money is going to

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be spent, which gives me genuinehope that they learn their lesson from writing
blank checks when it came to ourresponse to homelessness, which has been very
successful in one regard, and thatis getting these giant tent encampments off the
streets of Denver. I have togive the mayor credit for that, But
what are we going to do withthese people now? And currently there are

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situation and we've talked to David Heights, who is a reporter who lives in
some of the long term housing designedfor homeless people, and the situation there
is miserable addicts, some crazy peoplepulling the alarm every night. The internet
works spottily, it's been working asof late, but just all of these
weird things that have to be takencare of, they're not being taken care

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of yet. But the mayor askedcity council. City council approved, and
they've spent a buttload of money onthis in the last year, so the
fact that they're now asking questions beforehand. Instead of writing a blank check or
in this case, asking the votersto write a blank check and pay more
money into the system, they're askingvery specific questions like don't we already have

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organizations that handle this, what arewe doing there, what is this going
to look like? Who are buildinghousing for? What is that going to
look like. So it's definitely ashift in the city council. And they
have they pushed off further discussion.And I don't have the date in front
of me right now, but there'sat the end of August. If they
don't have this done, I thinkAugust twenty seventh, I think that's the

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drop dead date, then it won'tmake the ballot. So they're not taking
it up again until August, andthen it has to be heard twice in
order to go through the proper procedure. So I thought that was kind of
an interesting conversation. What a perfectplan, says this Texter, We're going
to make housing more affordable by raisingyour taxes. But isn't that kind of

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the mentality of people on the leftis we're going to raise taxes, take
money away from everybody to benefit asmall group of people who need it.
Now, before we leave this segment, I happen to have a pair of
tickets to give away. And ifyou are a Santana fan and you've never
seen Santana, OMG, I've seenSantana like six times and it's just so

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good every time I see him.He's playing with Counting Crows on the twenty
ninth of the this month. Soin a few days, you can win
a pair of tickets right now toSantana and Counting Crows. It's this Monday
at Red Rocks. And you canwin by answering this trivia question. Texter.
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your answer to five sixty six nine. Oh. One of the biggest hits

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Santana ever had was his album Supernatural. What was the biggest hit off the
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it's Mandy Connell, Mandy ton onkoa ninem God, want to stay?
Can the nice cuts through three?Andy Conald Keeth you sad thing?
The two minute drill at two?Hey, we're gonna go to too minute

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warnings, rapid fire stories of theday that we don't have more time for
play checklin, let's call this willtake longer than two minutes. Are you
out? Here's Mandy Coddle perst ofall congratulation, Sir Ryan Marcone. He
was the winner of the big ticketsand he guessed correctly that song was smooth
the duet with Rob Thomas from theSupernatural album. And it's now time for

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the two minute drill. More idiocyin the Republican Party. Now out of
El Paso County, we have Chairpersonof the l Paso County Republican Party,
Vicky Tompkin, officially censuring her vicechairman, Todd Watkins, who you just
heard on the show here about Saturday'smeeting to remove the useless scrifter Dave Williams

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from the chairmanship. It is justan ongoing dumpster fire of a political party.
We're gonna win nothing in Colorado fordecades because because we cannot get it
together. I am so over this. It's ridiculous. I might just have
to go to a meeting. It'strue, it might happen. You can
read about the soap opera on theblog today it too. If you are

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an Excel rate payer and you aretired of your bill's going up, you
need to participate. Today four tosix pm there's a hearing with community comment
on another ask for more money fromExcel. They want to raise rates on
natural gas now. They say theyneed more money now, but then they're
going to drop it down later.I don't know that they've ever dropped rates

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on anything, and you have toweigh in. One of the things that
I want to convey to you ishow effective a decent number of people showing
up. And it's a zoom meeting, so you really have no excuse showing
up to say enough is enough.We're tired of our bills going up.
And they always say it's only twodollars at thirty five sents a up,
but they don't tell you about allthe other rate increases that they've passed over

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the past couple of years. Now'syour chance to weigh in. It's time
to be a part of this zoommeeting. I linked to the article that's
in the Denver Gazette. If you'retired of your power bill going up,
go to this meeting today at four. It's a zoom meeting. We can
all make it too. The DenverNuggets are in a little bit of hot
water, not over their play onthe basketball court or anything else. It's

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about the music they play as theyplay on the basketball court. Now,
several about a dozen NBA teams havebeen sued by music published publishers who say
that the teams use music by Drakejay Z, Beyonce and others in promotional
videos without those publishers consent. Thishas got to be one of the biggest

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rookie mistakes I've ever seen in mylife. Everybody knows you can't use music
unless you're paying the royalties for thatmusic. I can't. I asked a
friend of mine who does the musicfor the Orlando Magic if all of their
music is licensed, and he went, of course. And I said,
well, why don't all NBA teamsdo this? He goes, I don't
know, so we'll see. Myguess is is that they're going to end
up paying retroactively. They'll settle outof court. It will be taken care

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of and from this point forward theywill only play and use music after it
has been properly licensed. There arelicenses that you buy as sports teams to
play in arenas and stuff like that. I'm sure they'll take care of the
problem, but god, guys,come on, this story is kind of
the stuff that like an after schoolmovie's made out of. A Colorado mother

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has filed a lawsuit against the DouglasCounty School District as well as a Palm's
team coach and athletic director, allegingher freedom of speech was violated. What's
the issue? The issue is isthat Kristin Martin, she is a parent
of a student with the thunder RidgeHigh School Palms team, had to sign
a contract at the start of thetwenty twenty four season. The contract outlined

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expectations regarding support of athletes, communication, and financials, and in it it
actually prohibits parents from talking to oneanother about issues with the Palms team.
And if you read it, youcan go to the story and read it
yourself. But ultimately, the reasonthey put these rules out is because parents
acted badly in the past. Nowthese rules go way too far in my

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estimation, and their borderline ridiculous.And this is yet another reason I'm glad
my daughter never wanted to do palms. But it just goes to show you
that even in you know, uhsports, and I'm gonna call palms the
sport because I think it is evenin sports like that that are, you
know, relatively inconsequential on the grandscheme of life. Nobody's ever gonna become
a professional palmer. That's not reallygonna happen. I mean, maybe you

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could be in NFL cheerleader and NBAcheerleader, but realistically, this is not
a sport that's gonna take you forwardin life. It still is full of
idiots. So we'll see what happens. But you know, parents should be
able to disparage people behind their backs. Don't you think if you're looking to
win the lottery and you want thebest chance to do it, you're gonna

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want to head down to Pueblo.Yeah, there's a store in Pueblo called
Winner's Corner that is add an extraordinarynumber of winners over the years. Out
of the top one to the toptop ten locations for selling tickets, Winners
Corners in Pueblo at three oh sevenNorth Wayne Street has had a ton of
winners, some of them winning big, big bucks. There are no stores

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in the metro area. The closestone I think is in Fountain, because
I don't know where Newcastle is.But if you want to win the lottery,
just drive down to Pueblo. I'msure it will help the two drill
it too. And finally, ifyou want to ride a free gondola up
a mountain, there are still placesin Colorado that do that. Tell your
ride to Mountain Village is free.Breck and Ridge Bretconnect gondola is free,

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and the American Legal Eagle Lift atCopper Mountain is free. There are a
bunch of gondolas in the summer,but most of them charge you money.
So if you want to go andgo for free, there's a old list
and you can see the other onesas well and find out how much they
charge you to go up the mountain. But honestly, I actually prefer the
mountain in the summer, so I'llpay the gondola ride to get up to
the top, most of the timewalk back down. All right, That,
my friends, is your two minutedrill. When we get back.

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I saw something today that broke myheart, and it may be the end
of a long, long relationship thatI've had with an organization that what they've
changed now, they've just changed.They used to be this humble, fun

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to be around, kind of placewhere you wanted to hang out. You
know, you wanted to be there, you wanted to be a part of
it. And now they're just turninginto everybody else. They're just like everybody
else, all those other people whoare nickeling, dimuted death. I'm talking
about Southwest Airlines. My heart isbroken today. They're doing away with one

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of the things that I love aboutSouthwest Airlines, open seating, and the
reasons that they're giving for it,Well, it doesn't fly with me for
a variety of reasons, and I'llexplain those reasons when we get back.
Obviously, it's about making more money. Everybody's got to make more money,
and I get it. It's Iunderstand that I'm a capitalist at heart.
Make more money, go crazy.But I've been flying Southwest almost almost exclusively.

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If they're flying where I'm going,I'm flying on Southwest. The only
time I don't fly Southwest is ifi'm flying where they don't go. And
I do it for two reasons.One, I love the boarding process because
you have the best chance to nothave someone sit between you if there's spaced
on a plane. And now I'mgonna have to buy an aisle and a
center seat, and that's not good. I know. No bueno, no

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bueno, not good Southwest. AndI'll tell you what's coming next, and
if it comes, I'm done.I'm done. I'll explain after this the
end of Southwest Airlines, at leastmy relationship with them. I have been
a Southwest fan. I'm gonna sayfanatic, even even though I work for
a different airline. In the earlynineties, I work for Delta Airlines,

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and I don't mind Delta, butyou can't go anywhere on Delta without going
through Atlanta, and I don't likethe Atlanta air although I do know where
everything is in the Atlanta Airport.So you know, I've flown Southwest almost
exclusively. If they fly there,I will fly them. As a matter
of fact, just booked our ticketsto the to the DNC on Southwest Airlines.

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And now I find out that theyare caving. They're caving because a
good chunk of their stock got boughtby a venture capitalist who I'm not a
fan of right now because he's theone that said your seating policy sucks.
And if you've never been on Southwest, their seating policy is open seating,
and it means that you line upin you know, A through one through

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sixty and you all go get on. Then B one through sixty gets on,
and if you're in C, you'rescrewed. You're in a center seat.
It sucks, but that's why Ipay for early Bird, and they
logged me in automatically, and I'musually in the A group and so I
love it. I love it.A really Bird is a higher priscent worth
it. But they also don't chargefor bags. So when you look at
a Southwest fair, it might seemlike it's higher, but it's all inclusive,

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right, you just pay the fairyou're going. Now they're doing away
with open seating, and not onlythat, they're gonna charge you for the
good seats. Now, I'm gonnabe frank with you. I don't care
because I'm gonna pay for the goodseats. But if they tell me they're
gonna start charging for bags, whichI promise you that is already probably under
discussion. That is a game changerof just an earth shaking capacity. It's

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just that that's a nightmare. Ilove Southwest because you fly free with two
bags. It's one of the reasonstheir tickets are usually a little more expensive.
But that's why I fly them.And if they do away with the
free bags, and now they've doneaway with the seating, and by the
way, I'm so in the minorityon this. A vast majority of people
hate the seating a lot. Ifthey did polling, eighty percent of Southwest

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customers would prefer to be able tobuy their seat. Six percent of potential
Southwest customers would prefer to pick theirseat. So I am definitely in the
minority here. I get it,but just but I don't like it when
people change things that I like.I don't like it when people move my
cheese. Mandy, I'd never flySouthwest, Mandy, how come both a

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pilot and a flight attendant I've knownwe're always able to fly free after employment
ended. Their kids fly free too. The major carriers have a program for
their retirees, not if you justlike I worked for Delta for five and
a half years, so after fiveand a half years. I quit.
I didn't like retire, I didn'twork there for x amount of enough years

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to be considered a retired employee.Retired employees still get passes, and it
varies from airline to airline. Allthe policies are different. There's no standardization,
but different airlines have different policies anddependents are allowed to use some of
those passes. Sometimes they give youa certain number of passes and they basically
call them friends and family passes.But when you go to the airport,

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those are all stand by tickets.So if the flight is full, you're
not getting on. That's the firstthing. And within the standby hierarchy,
certain people have a higher ranking.So you could be a standby on a
regular pass because when you work forthe airline, you can fly either super
cheap or free, depending on theairline. Again, every policy is different,

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but you may be at the bottomof the standby list. Whereas an
active duty person going to their nextassignment, a deadheader is what they're called.
They're going to be given the firstpriority. They're going to be getting
on the plane. They can actuallybump a paying passenger because they're repositioning them
to get on a flight that wherethey are needed. So it's actually really
really cool. And you know,as a flight attendant, I made no

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money. I made so little moneyit was ridiculous. But I could get
on a plane and fly anywhere.And that's why I did it, and
I regret nothing. It was worthevery bit. It was worth having three
roommates in a six hundred square footapartment in Los Angeles. We were all
flight attendants, so we were neverthere at the same time, but four

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of us in a six hundred squarefoot apartment, not even six hundred square
feet, I'd probably say probably fourfifty one bedroom, little tiny apartment.
Mandy, I would so much ratherthe airline screw me up front and just
give me the bags versus Nickel andI me to death. I'm also den
with Southwest if this is where we'regoing. Unfortunately, we're at the mercy

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of both Southwest and Frontier Now.I am never at the mercy of Frontier
airlines because when I see their fares, their super chief fairs, you know
what I do, I keep going. I am at a point in my
life there's a couple things in mylife that I have worked very hard to
get to a point of financial stability, where I can order the guacamolea Chipotle
without worrying about how much it costs, where I only drink top shelf liquor

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when I drink liquor, and whereI can buy the ticket I want on
an airline that I know with certaintyis going to get me there and allow
me to use the bathroom without chargingme for that. These are the luxuries.
Oh and I buy brand name Kleenex. Yeah, yeah, and Q
Tips. By the way, I'mnot going generic on those two items.

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Coober, Do you have any itemsthat you must go brand name? Are
there certain things that you will notveer off the brand name for? Because
I'm getting more of those as Iget older. Q Tips is number one.
Like fake Q tips are horrible.They're bendy. You know, you
can't really get in there. Likeyou need to toilet paper. Oh,
what's your toilet paper brand? Oh, you're a guy. You can't stand
the Kirkland stuff. I like clean, Well, we're cleanex Cottonell people.

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I enjoy the Cottonell. It's agreat toilet paper. But I feel you
I get it. The Kirkland toiletpaper and paper towels at Costco are horrible.
They're both horrible. The sheet theKirkland paper towels don't rip. They're
awful. You can never get likeone even sheet off of it. And
the toilet paper, I know it'snot good either, not at all.

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Flight attendant apartment equals a bird's nest. Ha ha, that's funny. You're
very funny, Mandy. I'm withyou. On Southwest, I hate they're
gonna make us pay for seats.Now here's the thing. They're gonna have
seats that are gonna be included inthe ticket. I just had to buy
tickets on unite it and the ticketsin the back of the plane. Those
are all like, oh yeah,those are free. You can pick one
of those, or we're gonna signyou one of those. Those are free.

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But if you want to be fromthe wings forward, you have to
pay extra for those seats. AndI was buying tickets for my sons and
I'm like, the alm sit inthe back of the plane. I am
not. I'm not doing that newwe oh, Mandy and Sherman, we
will be uh oh, never gowith an off brand rectal thermometer. Good
to know, Texter, thanks forthat comedian Lisa Leol coming up next on

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the show. Oh, a womanwhose name no one could forget. Her
name is Leslie lel and she isgoing to be at Comedy Works this weekend.
And Leslie, first of all,welcome to the show. Thank you
so much for remembering my name.We had a conversation about this. My
audience knows it's kind of my shtick, like I annihilate people's names all the

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time. I was being completely seriouswhen I said that, even if it's
written on a paper in front ofyou, you're directly in front of me.
It's like my brain is like,you see the words, but you're
gonna have you call them the wrongname anyway. It's just it's what I
do. It's it's my thing.Yeah yeah, I mean, so everybody's
going to have a niche and that'smine. What is your niche, Leslie?

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I guess comedy. I'm so goodat promoting myself, like I barely
believe in myself. I do standup okay, Yeah, I'm trying and
it goes overwell sometimes and other timesnot. My stick is a comedy worrying,
Yeah, spending a lot of timeon my phone when I shouldn't and

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uh being always a little bit hungry, you know what. You and I
have a lot of that in common. But one of the things we have
in common that I want to bringup to you is you also have a
deep voice. I do. Andhow many times do you get called sir
at a drive through? I've beencalled I mean, I have a joke
about this. I've been called surtof my face Like it's not even an

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audio thing like it. This islike I have a joke about how I
like one time I had no makeupon and I was at the airport and
I just got off like an internationalflight and I was I was giving mail
energy, I get certively walking.But the person called me sir with like
so much confidence, like one momentsir, I was like okay, and

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then I kind of was. Ikind of just like accepted it. But
if you throw yourselves back just toget the moves out just a little bit,
like I kind of relish the moment, like let me just take advantage
of being respected as a man.And you know, I don't know,
but the third thing it happened,it happens here and there. But I
mean, I I'm glad I havethis voice now, I too have had
a voice like this for a longtime and everybody is like, oh,

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it's from smoking and drinking. I'mlike, well more for me for cheerleading.
Cheerleading really because I needed to bethe loudest because I was the tallest,
so I needed to be the loudestand this is the result. Oh
my god. I have a lotof sympathy for you on that. Did
you have any tricks as a cheerleaderto like protect your voice? Like if
I had, I probably wouldn't soundlike this now. So maybe it's a

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maybe my ignorance worked out for thebest. I don't know. It's all
good. You have a very It'sit's almost like this is gonna sound I
hope this is insulting, but yougot a little bit of a kind of
a Jewish comedian kind of you know, worrying feel about you only so,
you know kind of kind of.I just feel like I could see you

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in the Cat Skills a little bit, but as the first Asian Cat Skills
comic because of the kind of observationalcomedy you I take that as a huge
compliment, Like you are calling mea Jewish comedian like that is like the
top of the top. Yeah,I'm constantly I always think the worst.
It's one of my fun little quirks. I always assume something bad will happen
at any moment, and it isa bad quirk, but it kind of

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protects you. And like I mean, anytime I travel, I'm like constantly
stressed because I I did flight AmI allowed to say Delta? Yes you
can plug airlines, Yes you can'tdo I did flight Delta yesterday and I
made it. But there's a lotof drama with that. Yes, they're
having a rough week, and Ijust assumed I wasn't going to make it.
So in my mind before the wholeweekend, I was like, my

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flight's gonna get canceled. Comedy Workswill never book me again. It's gonna
be my fault somehow, like Ipicked the wrong flight. Whatever. But
I love to worry, and itdoes help with comedy, It really does.
It works. Worrying is hilarious.It works for you very very well.
Thank you. Now, when didyou decide you wanted to be a
comedian, Because when you when theolder stuff that I watched averre is you

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were still working another job. Yes, I had a day office job up
until early this year, so Iwanted. I started comedy seven years ago
at age twenty nine, which Ibelieve is late for a stand up just
statistically, like if you whoever Iworshiped in comedy, like they all started
when they were like twelve. Yeah, they would like go to open mics

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after junior high and I'm like,what the hell? So I almost didn't
start because I was twenty nine andI thought, what's the point. But
it was really like at that timein my life, everyone what Every time
I would I'd be the friend whowould be assigned to tell the story.
Right if we had a phase weekend, Everyone'd be like, let Leslie tell
it. So I would tell it. And then I realized I would tell

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it for other people in different differentdays, different situations, And I had
the story memorized yea, and everytime I told it. The second time
it got funnier. I memorized thebeats, and then I added flourishing and
some all my friends were like,that didn't happen. You're like adding fake
things to the story, and itwas I was like amateur doing stand up
with my friends, and then everyonejust told me to do it like my

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friends did so I it's really like, what's the worst that can happen?
Like, it's just terrifying. Itold Leslie my story of my five minutes
of stand up that I did inlike nineteen ninety and I came out stage
and went straight to the bathroom andthrew up. And considering what I do
for a living now, people probablywouldn't believe that. But being in a
radio studio, assuming you people areall laughing about the funny stuff, I

(01:25:49):
say, it is so much easierthan staring at all these people looking at
you like stun bullets and they're juststaring at you. That is terrifying to
me. That story is credible.I have yet to throw it from a
set, but the moment, I'msure it'll happen, and then you can
just think and I'll be like,oh my my text, fat yes please
my puke. Sister and I we'vehad the same experience. You know,

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when you go when you're working onnew material to your point about telling a
story and recognizing what works and whatdoesn't. How long is that process for
you? This is something I've alwayswondered, like when does a joke come
to you? And then you knowhow long before you go, okay,
that joke is where I want it? Or is it always evolutionary? Unfortunately,
it's very inconsistent for me and myjokes. Some jokes fall out of

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my mouth on stage and it's perfectright, and I go, oh my
god, lock it, lock it, it's locked, you know, Like
I write it down, it's laminated. Some I have been trying to fix
for five years. So it justand then just a challenge, like you
don't want to be defeated by thejoke. You're going to defeat the joke.
It's like a death match with someof these. I'm very competitive with

(01:26:57):
myself, like it's known about myself, but like I just want to prove
that I can make this into something. So it is kind of yeah,
like every premise is a death match. Like I know there's something there.
I just have to figure out howto graduate it to something that's worthy of
someone to buy a ticket to ashow to listen to. But some sometimes
you like rant on stage, likeyou have the love we talked about.

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We love to over prepare. Yeah, I love to prepare, So I
will write down literally in my setfor like Denver, I'll be like tie
I'll type it in my computer what'sup Denver? Like like it's so waste
of everyone's time, but I needto like get myself in the zone of
like, Okay, how do Iwant to start it? And then some
jokes are like to the te written. And then sometimes you just want to

(01:27:40):
let loose a little bit on stage. And I have had jokes that just
fell out of my mouth and I'mlike, I guess that's it. Like,
so the process is there's no rhymeor reason to how I've been doing
it lately. So it's a comboof preparing over preparing, but then let
yourself be present at the actual showand you'll see what happens. It feels
like right now we're kind of havinga golden era for female comedians because I

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know of probably more really good,funny female comedians right now than I can
ever remember. I mean, I'mfifty five, so I've been around the
block a couple of times. Thisfeels like we're having this wonderful moment,
the renaissance. Yeah, I loveit. Is that what I mean?
If you feel it too, Ijust I yeah, I'm surrounded by hilarious

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comics. Female comics in la Likethey're everywhere and I love it, and
everyone's style is so different and it'slike, but I mean, if I
look at the comments on our videoson social media, I'm like, oh,
people don't want us around, likewhat I see. Yeah, but
like I'm going through these shows allthe time and seeing them like annihilate and
be amazing. I am all like, it's so dreamy. Well, it

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is a male dominated industry. Imean it haspened since the beginning of time.
The fact that we all know thefamous FEMA comedians from the sixties and
seventies because there was like four ofthem. There was only four, so
yeah, you know them. Ithink it's kind of cool when I'm seeing
all these new comedians pop up inmy social media that I've never seen before.
Yeah, I just think it's Ijust think it's it's a it's a
beautiful time to be alive. It'sa it is a beautiful time to be

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there's even though like the world iscrumbling, you know, when we don't
talk about that, it's positive.Let's just be positive. I agree,
it's fine burning down around us,but we're all good. We have on
our fire suits. It's fine.Do you do political at all. No,
Like I I don't because I'm sonot an expert at it. If
you asked any of my friends,like I am the last one to like

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bring up a hot political topic atdinner, Like I don't have anything to
add. I pay attention. Ihave my beliefs and stuff, but it's
like that's kind of where I leaveit. I have nothing funny to add
to whatever other funny comics are talkingabout. It's truly like all I'm an
expert on is my silly little life. So it's like dating life, just

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being a tired woman every day,just having a deep voice, like debating
if I want kids. Those arethe only things that I'm like, I
know more about this than anyone else, right, I don't think I could
say that about anything else. Ijust feel like politics is so divisive.
I mean I do it every dayall the time, and you could see
see my text message line, youwould know how devisive the conversations are.
So good move on that one goodmove? Now? Is your family supportive?

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Do you have brother, sisters,all of that stuff? They're supportive.
They're supportive now that they're like,oh you make money, do yes?
Because before it was just like Leslie'sscary little hobby but good things.
She has her day job. Butparents are so supportive. Now I have
an older brother who was like ahardcore fan, Like he offers to sell
merch up my shows, like he'slike so into it. So I'm so

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lucky and like they're all funny intheir own way. Yeah. Now that
I look back at my childhood,I'm like, oh, I got it
from somewhere, right, it didn'tcome out of nowhere. But like now
they when my parents see me onlike my parents get my videos recommended to
them on their YouTube, and I'mlike, the algorithm is good. That
is really cool. We think you'regonna like her. You should check her,

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like the video dow You're like,we know her very well. We
don't need to. That's not accurate. Ilish that story. That's not at
all what happened. I just wantto let you know my text message that
I got. Now we are theones who run to the bathroom and throw
up paha, just kidding. That'sthe love I get on my text line.
There you go. So I definitelyfeel that one. So what can

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people expect when they come to theshow. It's a lot of it's a
little silly, and it's just likea snapshot of basically what it's like to
be a straight millennial woman. Italk a lot about how tiring it is
to get ready for everything you doin the day and have to get ready

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to go to bed. Like allwe do is get ready, you know
what I mean. We're always preparingand getting ready and getting ready. And
like I do have silly jokes,right, like like process that I'm a
straight woman, and what that meansfor me is like I love straight men,
so I have this whole like likeI pray straight men awkwardly in the
show, and some men like Cloudit's it's just get the whole. Yeah,

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Like they're like, yeah, gooh wait, is this joke over?
Why should we wait until see itfor the punchline. Yeah, it's
it's just like it's silly. It'sreflecting on like do I want to be
a parent? Like all it's justit's i'd say, it's like really real
life, raw topics, but Itry to make it just real silly.
Well, you know, there's somuch everything feels like it has such gravity

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these days. Everything is the mostserious thing ever. So it's the best
time to go see comedy and Ichecked your VIP seats are sold out,
but you got some seats lap Iknow, fancy fancy, you're gonna play.
You already did doing tonight at seventhirty. Friday, you're seven thirty
at nine forty five, and theSaturday seven thirty and nine forty five.
Can I just say this on behalfof gen X. Can we talk about

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no, we need to work thisin. Can we have like Mattinees?
Because I'm at the point in mylife right like a nine forty five show.
I can assure you that you wouldlook over and be like, is
that woman sleeping right now in myshow? Because I can't. I literally
start every show with a rant abouthow offensive it is that all the women
are out, like we all shouldbe sleeping. So there's a whole five

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to ten minute brant in the frontof the show where I'm like, I
know you all want to be here, but I know deep down inside you
cannot wait to go home. Well, I'm now at the age where I
get tickets for something and then thetwo days before I have the tickets,
I'm like, oh God, whydid I get these tickets? I have
that a bit I'm like, sotired and now, but then I go

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and I have fun and I justkind of remind myself. But the older
I get, it's harder to remindmyself. Like, we have tickets to
see one of my favorite bands onSaturday night at Red Rocks. Love this
band, but even now, I'mlike, oh, it's so far and
it's a Red Rocks. It's notjust a concert, it's a workout.
It's a whole day, right,you have to commit to the whole sit
and the stairs, in the everything, and it's just so lot and and
so I'm just I'm aging out offun. I sympathize with the audience,

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like I'm a millennial and I wantmy shows to be at I want to
say four to thirty. Let's doa late afternoon late afternoon, would get
late after digest, go home andwind down for bed. Because I this
schedule, the stand up comedy schedule, is designed for young straight men,
not for a lady like me.But you know what, you are absolutely

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right a patriarch. Everyone smashed thepatrio. Yes, nine so has tickets
for you youngsters out there? Areyou youthful people who haven't had all the
joy and fun sucked out of youby age. You should go to the
nine forty five show. You're gonnabe at the Landmark. Oh no,
larum Er Square, so you're gonnabe downtown. That's a great space.
Both of these you've never played herebefore, have you first time? Well,
I said you off the air andI mean it. Colorado people love

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comedy, and I have never hadseen comics that I didn't think were super
and even really well, that's justtop secret thing. Well, here's the
thing. You don't know their names, and neither do I at this point.
That's how mediocre not it comedy works. So there they only do the
best of the best here now everyday Leslie Leslie Leel is my guest.

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By the way, every day Ido this thing at the end of the
show, call of the day.It's really stupid and it's trivia and it's
a dad joke and it's a triviaquestion. And then at Jeopardy category everybody
does. I'm generally speaking, Iset this up twenty years ago so I
could beat people at the end ofmy show. That's the whole purpose of
this segment of the program. Iwish I was kidding about that. I'm
not. I mean that deadly serious. But Ryan Edwards is a regular player,

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so he'll be in here. Becausenow it's time for the most exciting
segment all the radio of It's Kinein the World of the Day. I
used to do in the World,but then I had to have vocal court
surgery. I'm like, yeah,so now's my best portion of her.
Also, we just recorded it theMadness Top the Madness. That's her show.

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It was my show, which iscoming up next. We do it
because Ryan's so good at it.He did it so good. Okay,
what's our dad joke of the day. We'll run this. Feel free to
steal this if you're looking for adad joke for your for your set there
lesson. I'm not sure if thisis going to live up to the high
expectations here. Well, we'll see. Where do rainbows go when they've been
bad? I do not know aprism, so they have time to reflect

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on what they've done. No,wait, that's a very long answer.
Did you say to prism yeast,Yeah, to reflect on what they've done.
Don't feel don't feel like you haveto use that joke. Let we'll
leave that one alone. What's ourword of the day. Please filthy.
Oh, fielty is a submission,like when you show fielty to someone,

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you could sort of bow down tothem. Fieldy, I don't think I've
ever heard that. I have avast vocabulary of useless words I never used,
but they're only good for this segment. Is how close am I?
Fielty is an old fashioned and somewhatliterary word. There were first who intense
loyalty or fidelity to a person orgroup. It's good, Thank you,
William Shake, come here, nice, Thank you for that. Yes,

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our trivia question today. Where inthe world can you find Pando? Also
known as the Trembling Giant, ahuge grove of quaking aspen trees that share
a root system and are collectively consideredone single organism. I don't know.
I feel like I should. Idon't even know Utah Utah's Fish Lake National

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Forest. The roughly forty seven thousandtrees in the grove are genetically identical.
Yeah, how do you break outfrom that? How do you establish yourself
as an individual with forty seven thousandidentical genetic There's probably a warm oft joke
in there, but I don't wantto make it, okay, moving on,
all right, now, Leslie,if you want to answer the question
for Jeopardy, First of all,it's a blood sport. We don't wait

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for the end of the question.You just anytime you think you could guess,
you just say your name and thenif you ring in first, we'll
let you answer the question. Okay, And you have to answer the form
of a question like Jeopardy. Okay, that's our category. All right,
I think Leslie'll do the good bythis one. Okay, he's by hotel
Okay, okay, okay, now'spotential Okay, all right, here's question

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number one. The waldorf Astorian Ryan, what is New York? Yes?
This next one is gonna be reallyeasy. The Venetian the same lovely it
was it did, Leslie? Editor? Did I get it? That's pretty
much a tie. I'm gonna getyou guess. Then go ahead, last
like what is Las Vegas? Yes? Yes? All right? Question three

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the ambassador side of RFKS. Wherewhat is? Where's Washington? DC?
No? Where is where is?And I lose? I lose a point
because I got it wrong? Allright. The rest of the question is
the ambassador side of rfk's assassination innineteen sols Ryan Null, Ryan Dallas,

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No, oh, back to zero. I don't know. I don't that's
a that's a trick question because it'sa trip. What is Los Angeles?
Too soon? Didn't listen anyway?Go ahead? Right? Question four the
fair amount after which James Brolin's TVhotel was modeled. I remember that show.

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It was really good, Mandy,what is San Francisco? Mar behind
zero? Pulled that one out,all right? Finally, Copley Square Hotel,
the Omni Parker House, and backBay Hilton. Mandy, what's Boston?
Yes, yes, no, ohdies, yes, all kinds of

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machinations here. All right, Sowe're gonna go with a question from isn't
it grand? Okay? So grandis going to be in the answer.
Okay, And we're gonna go withthe four hundred dollars question. Bobby Fisher
was only Bryantine. It was agrand master. Yes, give me another

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question. You have zero? Youwould, but I said, lastly,
we are tied. That implies moreout. I'll take his point. Go
ahead, all right, and bridgeit's winning it thirteen tricks. I have
no idea like bridges even a thing. Go to the next one. Do

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you know anything about Bridge. No, I don't either. Go to the
next question. What does he answer? Slam? Oh of course Grand forgot
about Grand? All right. Thisgroup decides whether there's enough evidence to try
a person. What the Grand journey? Yes, I was gonna say Grand
on your birthday? Usually nobody getsnobody. No guests ever get a point,
so you are like head and shoulders. Yeah one. Very nice to

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gift yourself a win on your birthday. Thank you very much, appreciate See
Leslie Lee all this weekend. What'scoming up on KOA Sports? A lot
of reaction to Broncos training camp today, so we'll get tonto it as we're
going to be at Broncos training campfor until it's over. You got to
check that out and I'll be backtomorrow with another full show, So keep
it right here on KOA