07-30-24 FULL SHOW - A Deep Dive On Project 2025 And The Lies About It

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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Tuesday edition of the show.
I'm your host for the next three hours. Mandy Connell.
Still afflicted by my head cold. But I'm strong, I'm tough,
and I'm here for you, dear listeners, joined of course
by Jeff. Just Jeff. He is in for a Rod
who will be back tomorrow. Correct, Okay, I think so.

(00:48):
I don't know. A Rod worked like eighty days in
a row. So you know, by law we have to
give him a few days off, so we had to
get that done. But he'll be back tomorrow. But it's
always good to have you, Jeff. Let's talk about what's
on the show today. Oh, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun fun.
I started this morning. I had a great walk with

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my dog. It was lovely outside. We had a nice time.
I came back in, I started reading the news and
like a half an hour later, I'm just mad, just
and I realized this is not healthy, right, So and
because this is my job. I can't turn it off.
But I got very zen about things, and I've got
some stuff on the blog today about my new well,
no it's not on the blog because it all happened

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after the blog was done, but my new zen outlook
on the world, On the world, I'm doing a sweeping
arm gesture you can't see. Just imagine me both arms
in the world, big sweeping arm gesture. Let's go to
the blog. Shall we go to mandy'sblog dot com. That's
mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the latest posts area and

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the headline that says seven thirty twenty four blog A
deep dive on Project twenty twenty five and the lies
about it. Click on that. Here are the headlines you
will find within a think you with some in office.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
South American all with ships and cliffas and sanscona press class.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
Today on the blog. So what's up with Project twenty
twenty five? Democrats raised your taxes by taking your table refunds.
Kamala is a nasty boss and she loves segregation. Scrolling scrolling.
Venezuela is collapsing scrolling scrolling. That's for you, Scott Aurora,
Venezuelans have some explaining to do. The fire in Loveland

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is not contained at all. United keeps making the Terrell
Davis thing worse. Our national debt just top thirty five trillion,
this as Americans do not have confidence in the economy.
Congrats to the US men's gymnastics team Hesley Rivera. Won't
be competing tonight for the women. Men will be boxing
women in the Olympics or on Colorado Days. Celebrate our

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in our constitution. Germany's shift to green energy has killed
their economy. It's the economy, stupid. Hey, Weld County got
some old tires laying around. Seven ways to celebrate celebrate
Colorado Day. This family takes Taco Tuesdays super seriously. And
now a dramatic husky buttcat plays cards against humanity and

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uh oh, that's it. And those are the headlines on
the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. I was gonna embed
one more video, but I couldn't get it to in bed,
so sorry about that. You can tell a Rod's not
here because I'm very short in the video department. But
I was too mad getting mad about everything. Y'all. We
have got a good long bit. It's going to feel

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like way longer than it actually is until the election
in November. And I made a promise to myself this morning.
I was like, Mandy, people count on you to help
them not bang their heads against the wall. They rely
on you to keep them from kicking something really hard
with a barefoot, knowing it's going to break their toe.

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They relying on you to keep from wanting to find
the nearest ledge to just hang off of because of
all the political news that are going to be happening
between now and November. So here's what I have pledged.
I have pledged to give it to you straight, but
also try to make fun of it as much as
I can, just as across the board. I think that's

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the best strategy because some of the stuff that's happening
right now is so comically ridiculous. Now today on the show,
we have Hans von Spakovski from Herod the Heritage Foundation.
I've spoken to Hans many times. He's got the largest
name in your mouth. Try and say it. Try and
say you're driving in your car right now, no one

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can hear you. Just say Hans Elsa it slow, Hans
von Spakovski. Now say it fast, Hans Vonspokowski. There's a
lot going on there, a lot, Kathy, you got an
update for me. Whenever Kathy walks in the studio with purpose,
I'm like, uh oh, something's happening with the fire. What
is going on? You bet?

Speaker 5 (04:57):
We've just heard from the Larimer County Sheriff's office and
new evacuations that have just been ordered, which is not good.
The evacuations that have just been ordered, or in the
Masonville area, which with all due respect, is getting closer
to populated areas. So everyone in the Masonville area, I
believe it's off of Glade Road now needs to evacuate.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
It sounded like from some of our news coverage I
heard earlier that people are already moving animals, They're already
moving large whatever they can move. Please keep doing that.
Keep doing that if you are around this fire. Don't
wait until you're out order to evacuate and then try
to scramble to get things done. The more you can do,
the better. At this point, and it was pretty stark
to me. We had sixty two people spend the night

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at the church in Loveland that was the official Red
Cross shelters. That's a lot of people most people avoid
going to a shelter.

Speaker 5 (05:48):
They just don't want to do it. So the fact
that people have heated those warnings is really really great.
Like I said, stuff can be replaced. People can't.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
So there you go, Kathy, thank you, and we will
continue to bring these updates throughout the day as need
is to keep you updated on this fire as it
continues to rage. What I was saying before about Hans
von Spakovski and his large name, see, it is hard
to say you were practicing while Kathy was talking, weren't you.
You were saying it out with the hawns von Spakovski and

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there's a lot going on there. Jeff just took a
bite of something. I should try and make him say
Hans von Spakovski. Since you just ate something, Hans v
already messed it up. I couldn't even get it right.
It's a lot, a lot going on in that name.
I've spoken to Hans many times before. He's a great
guest and he is with Herridge Foundation. And if you
heard my coverage from the DNC or excuse me, the RNC,

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we're going to the DNC, but we're not there yet.
I spoke with an attorney from Sarah Perry partial. I
think I wasn't three p's in any case, it was
something like that, and she kind of laughed at the
way that Project twenty twenty five had been blown up
and turned into this, you know, secret, nefarious bond villain
like plan to take over the universe. And then nine

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News did an absolutely ridiculous news story. It was Marshall Zellieger.
I blamed Kyle Clark, and I apologized to Kyle because
I hope he wouldn't put his name on this trash.
But it was the worst kind of scare journalism. And
I'm putting journalism in air quotes, in scare quotes. And

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I said, why don't you just call the Heritage Foundation
and have somebody come on your show like I'm going to.
And I called the Heritage and we got Hans. Only
since then, a few things have happened. Number One, Joe
Biden was deposed. He was It was a coup, a
bloodless coup in the White House, and he was forced
to step aside, and Kamala Harris was anointed the new

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Democratic nominee anointed. Not a single vote was cast for
Kamala Harris, not a single one and don't tell me
she was on the ticket and that doesn't count. Her
name wasn't at the top of the ticket anyway. I digress.
So Biden has to figure out some way to stay

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in power, can't do it, gets booted out, and now
we have Kamala So Hans is going to come on
to talk about Project twenty twenty five when all of
the Democrats have now moved on because the reason Project
twenty twenty five was the worst thing ever. They have
a website dedicated to connecting Donald Trump to Project twenty
twenty five, even though he has repeatedly said I didn't

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have anything to do with that, and Heritage just said
he didn't have anything to do with this. That's still
that was what they were going with when Joe was
the candidate and he was so bad and he had
nothing to run on, they had to pull a boogeyman
out of whole cloth. And for about a week we
were told this was the plan that was going to

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put black people in chains. Women were going to be
chained themselves to a stove with a baby on each hip, barefoot, uneducated.
We were told that trans people were going to have
their parts actually reattached because of Project twenty twenty five.
We were told, I mean it was honestly that was like,

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this is the most nefarious, evil secret plan, well secret
plan that was also on the internet, but whatever I mean,
don't get cut up on the details. So for like
ten days it was Project twenty twenty five everywhere because
they had nothing else to go on. Well, now they've
got their anointed candidate. They've got Kamala up there, and Kamala,
who was wildly unpopular as a presidential candidate and wildly

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unpopular as vice president, is now, for whatever reason, the
most popular woman on the planet. I'm just gonna guess
and say it has to do with the billions of
dollars of free positive prs she's gotten from all of
the orgasmic networks, who are so happy that their team
has a chance that they cannot hide their delight. They're

(10:01):
talking about come a loot.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Now.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
I almost cannot get over the bes merchment of an
amazing score by Rogers and Hammerstein, But part of me
is intrigued, like, who's going to do the first parody song?
If I could sing it all, I would have already
done it. Okay, I would have already done. The Camelot

(10:29):
come a lot parody. So as soon as any of
you people hear that, I need to know it. I
need to hear it right now now. Over the last
couple of days, the corporate messaging and the Democratic messaging
around JD Vance's coalesced, and we've talked about this fairly
recently that one of the things the left does so

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well is that they accuse you of doing the things
that they are doing before you can accuse them of
doing the things that they are doing. And the perfect
example here is that an organization, a group of people
who I'm trying to think of the best way to

(11:12):
say this without it being as offensive as it's probably
going to be anyway, they're a motley bunch. The Democratic Party.
They have an awful lot of people with mustaches who
wear lipstick and heels and steal luggage from Minnesota. They
have an awful lot of people that think they're the
opposite gender or are you know, queer. Just the extremes

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of every movement seem to reside in the Democratic Party.
Let me just put it that way. I don't want
to besmirch all normal gay people or any you know,
average men who wear lipstick with mustaches, who don't steal
luggage from baggage carousels in an airport. I don't want
to besmirch everyone, but they do seem to attract the

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most extreme parts of a lot of different identity groups.
I think that's the best way I can say it.
It's a diverse group of victims in the Democratic Party,
and they're calling jd Vance weird. I find that fascinating
because of all the things to call jd Vance weird,

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He's like the most normal guy out there. He's married,
he has kids, you know, he went in the military
to pay for college, then went to law school. I mean,
he's just like the most average American and they're calling
him weird. Now I realize that they're calling him weird.

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And Ross and I just talked about this at the
end of Ross's show that jd Vance said, Look, you know,
people with kids, their votes should count more. Now that
in and of itself is ridiculous. You can't I can't
go to the ballot box and say, well, you know,
I have three kids all together, so my vote should
count three times more. Jeff only as one kid, his

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vote should only count one times more or two times
more than someone without. It's just it's it's an absurd thing.
But the bigger point that he was making I actually
agree with, and I think a lot of Americans would
agree with that. It as well. One of the problems
in Europe right now, and I've read multiple articles and
columns about this very thing, a vast mantory. I think

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all except one leader of a European state is childless,
and when you don't have kids, your motivations are entirely different. Now,
I'm not saying that people without kids cannot make a
selfless decision based on future generations. I don't want to
imply why I am implying it, but I don't want to.

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I want to clarify and say, there are wonderful people
who are childless who make selfless decisions all the time.
But as a general concept, human beings are very motivated
in personal self interest. They are motivated by what is
good for them and theirs. Now, you can still be
selfless to a certain extent, but the thought that this

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is why I'm such a deficit hawk. Our deficit is
now thirty five trillion dollars. It's projected to be fifty
three trillion dollars in twenty thirty five. The debt service
alone on that kind of debt is going to be
more than what we're spending now on everything. There will
be no money left over for any other program. Forget

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free lunches, forget free abortions. We're not going to be
able to pay the promises we made to elderly people.
We're not going to be able to have a military.
We're absolutely going to lose our status as the world's
reserve currency. Our life as an economic superpower is over.
But if you don't have any kids, do you really care?
And I'm not trying to be mean, but who are

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you worried about it for? Maybe you have nieces or
nephews you're really close to and you worry about it
on their behalf, and that would be great. But you
get my point. I know wonderful, fantastic, amazing, giving, loving
people who are childless. And I know that some of
the most selfish, self centered adults I know are childless,

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especially when you get to like my age. I saw
a thing on Twitter the other day. I'm sure I'm
riling people up because there are a lot of people
out there who are childless now and perfectly fine with
it that maybe they don't necessarily choose that path, it
just chose them. And I apologize if anything I'm saying
offends you. But for the people who are just like

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you know what, I am not going to have kids,
For a lot of the women out there who are
not going to get married, you know, it's an interesting dynamic,
but I understand the point behind it, even if what
he said was an unwieldy way to say it. I
do think we need to be encouraging people to have kids.
And there's too many young people who say things like, well,
we're going to wait until we're in a better financial position.

(16:00):
Guess what, my friends, that is not going to happen.
It's not And as a mom who had her first
biological child at thirty nine, trust me on this, do
not do that. Having babies is a young person's game.
I mean it is. It's tough the older you get.
Not only that, I think there's a lot of women

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out there who have sold a bill of goods. You
know what, just freeze your embryos, go have your career. Well,
guess what. IVF doesn't always work, and sometimes those embryos
end up not being viable and I know this from
personal experience of friends of mine. And then you go
from thinking you were just going to control when you
became a parent to not being able to be a
parent anymore. And it's just it's depressing and sad. And

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by the way, I'm not saying this because I think
having kids is always a joy. There are times in
your child's life where it is incredibly joyful, just the
most incredibly joyful experience you can imagine. And then there
are times in your child's life where you think to yourself,
I have made a terrible mistake. But right on the

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other side of that coin is if anything happened to
that child, you would want to lay down on the
ground and die yourself. And the thing for people who
have never had kids, this is something you cannot possibly
have a judgment on because it's one of those things
that until you do it, you can't know what to expect.
It's like marriage, only a billion times more emotional investment.

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And I'm not saying this to make anyone feel bad
or guilty, but man, we've got to get over this notion,
this negative mommy blogger crap that's out there that is
selling a bill of goods, that there's no joy in parenthood,
because now that I have two grown sons that are
done and they're on their way, that, my friends, is
the greatest accomplishment of my life. Anything that happens on

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the radio, any award I win, anything I do, will
pale in comparison to that accomplishment. And I want that
for everyone. I want that. I want everybody to have
that experience of seeing your children do well. And so
if I sound a little over the top of looney
or even weird about this, I make no apologies. I

(18:17):
stand behind what I said. As half of an infertile couple,
says this texter. The stats are one in six couples
are infertile. I am incredibly sorry that that is your
lot in life. If you want children, I'm terribly sorry,
and I certainly hope that you would explore other options
of adoption. I have so many friends who've adopted their children,

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and their lives are just as rich as mine. I mean,
my two older boys are not my biological sons, but
in my heart they are. I mean, in my heart,
they absolutely are. I don't have kids, but I would
give my life for one, says this texter. And you,
sir or madam, are one of the good ones. All right,

(19:04):
we are back a lot of you responding on the
Common Spirit health text line. You can always text us
at five six six nine oher. Several of them are
of this sort of variety. And this was probably the
best written one that I want to find and now
I can't. Oh here it is. I grew up lower
working class. I grew up in lower working class conditions.

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I work my butt off to get through college and
get a good job. I absolutely associate having kids with
being poor and living in poverty. I'm glad I never
had them. I understand that, I truly get it. But
I know young people who are doing pretty well financially.
I mean they're not, you know, millionaires, but they're making
over one hundred g's each a year as part of

(19:47):
a couple, and they're saying, well, we can't really afford
to have kids. Well, yeah you can. You can if
you don't want to, that's fine. Maybe they're just saying
that to get everybody off their back, but the reality
is there's lots of ways, and they're actually people who
have kids and then managed to have somebody stay home
with the kids and that's not for every couple, but

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I think having a parent home with your kid is
the best possible scenario. But it's really challenging, but people
are still doing it. It's it's really for and I'm
going to say middle class and above. It's just choosing
that you want to make this a priority in doing it,
because you know, when Chuck and I were first married,

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and really when we had Q, we didn't really have
a lot. We had enough. I mean we were getting
by and you know, we were okay, but we didn't
have a lot at all. The a lot came later,
and I you know, I'm not trying to talk people
into having kids because that everybody should be a parent.
And I got several of your text messages that said, hey,

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you know what, my parents were horrible. I had an
awful childhood. I just don't trust myself to be better.
I get that too, But we're talking about people have
just said, you know what the climate change thing? You guys,
when are you going to realize you know what it
is when you get old like me? Because when I
was a kid, we were all going to freeze to death.

(21:12):
We were all going to freeze to death. Coming ice age,
we had a population bomb book that was written in
if we didn't shrink the population, we were all going
to die. We were going to use all the Earth's resources.
Because all of those mindsets, they all come with a
they start from a static position, a static assumption. We're
never going to be able to adapt to colder temperatures

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or warmer temperatures. We're never going to be able to
adapt farming to be more productive in a smaller footprint,
which is exactly what's happened. We produce far more food
on way fewer acres than we did even when I
was a kid. We never assumed that man is going
to adapt, even though since the beginning of time man

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has been adapting to our environment. We've been containing our environment,
we've been controlling parts of our environment. And so if
you say, well it's climate change, way, just trust me,
that's gonna change, and you're gonna feel really stupid, really stupid,
because sooner or later, well I'll be freezing again. I mean,

(22:14):
it's just it's the notion that somehow we have all
the information we need because we've been keeping pretty good
records since the late eighteen hundreds is just dumb. It's
just stupid anyway, Several of you are saying right on
the best thing ever is watching your kids grow up
and succeed. This person said, I became a parent at seventeen,

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twenty three and the last at twenty eight. I'm so
glad I chose young because I'm fifty three and I
can barely keep up with my dogs. I will say
this about being an older parent. I do think at
fifty five, I am a lot younger than I would
be if I didn't have a fifteen year old daughter. Tonight,
she and I are going to go and try to

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score good tickets at a reason price. To Olivia Rodrigo,
we don't have tickets now. We have a strategy, so
we're gonna just go down there. That's not something I
would do normally if I did not have a fifteen
year old daughter. So there's ups and I truly I
know this in my core. I am a way better
parent now than I would have been if I'd had
a kid when I was young. Everything about me is

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more And I'm not saying I'm a superparent. I'm just
saying I am a better parent now than I would
have been because I am a better person than I
was when I was young, you know, so there's upsides
and negatives. I don't know. I don't want to make
this whole thing about having kids. Don't forget the rainforest,
says this texter. We were going to use up all
its resources from the paper we were wasting and run

(23:42):
out of oxygen exactly right now, we know that the
Amazon rainforest is a net exporter of carbon. Huh Do
you hear that one? Yeah? Yeah, they produced more carbon
than they suck up that whole world's lungs thing. That
was just in a commercial, just like the ten thousand
steps thing. If you heard this, Jeff, did you know

(24:04):
that the ten thousand you know you're supposed to Oh,
you're supposed to walk ten thousand steps? Did you get
your ten thousand steps in everybody's talking about their steps?
Did you know where that came from? I don't know.
Not based in science at all. It was a Japanese
marketing campaign for a pedometer, and everyone in the world
is like, oh, yeah, ten thousand steps, that's like the
gold standard. Everyone knows, I mean everyone knows that you're

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supposed to walk ten thousand steps because we learned it
from a Japanese commercial. God, we're just the most malleable
human beings in the world. Oh yeah, that sounds good.
I'll go with it. If you say anything with enough
you know wherewithal enough veracity, people will believe you. Someone
told me that when I was in high school. They said,

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you know, if you just say something with enough authority,
people will automatically believe you. And I decided to test
it out. One day. We're in biology class. We're watching
a movie on dolphins. Okay, you know, dolphins in the
water eat that dolph, those dolphins, and one of my
classmates leans over and the narrator goes and the female dolphin.
And the guy leans over and goes, how can they

(25:07):
tell him that's a female dolphin? And I said, oh,
she has long eyelashes. And he was like, oh okay, totally.
Like that was it for him. That's all he needed.
And I realized the power of saying things assertively. Yep,
this person is thirty eight with a thirteen and a
nine year old. Best thing ever, that's the perfect. You

(25:27):
got that, you did it right, You got the perfect.
You still have energy, your knees still work properly. You
can still fix things without your glasses because that's, you know,
right around the corner. I'm fifty two, says this Texter
had daughters at twenty four, twenty eight, and thirty four.
It was easier when I was younger, but it's been
the greatest joy of my life. Headed into baby's senior year.

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Doesn't that freak you out when you say baby's senior year?
Ten thousand steps is is six? What does that mean?
Six months? Doubt? Many actually do it? I do about
ten thousand steps every day. How many steps do you do, Jeff?
Do you have a a fitness tracker?

Speaker 2 (26:11):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (26:12):
If I had a guest though, with having kids, probably
close to.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
That, mate.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yeah, I do like six thousand when I take the
dog for a walk. So that's a huge chunk right there.
And that's just two miles. So there you go. Thirty
five thousand a day for me? What are you a
professional walker? What do you do? I walk on a treadmill.
Now I just walk around. People just pay me. I
just come in, I walk around, look like I own

(26:37):
the place. Great gig. Thirty five thousand steps a day? Yeah,
right on, dude, right on. Another person in the texts,
I think it has gone now said something to the
effect of let's see here if I can find it,
said something to the effects, and I'm gonna paraphrase as

(26:59):
best I can remember that said here, we've got an
economy where people can't afford to buy a house, and
you want them to have kids. I want them to
have kids because our future economy doesn't just you know,
hope for it, It demands it. Did you not hear
me talk about thirty five trillion dollars in debt? Did
you not hear me talking about not being able to

(27:19):
take care of our older people? Yeah, we need babies
or nobody's going to be here to pay for any
of that. I hate to say in our entire country's
welfare system is built on a comp Ponzi scheme. Ross
said he does at least thirty seven steps today, not more,
not less. I added that last part because it is
a prime number. I'll be right back. All right, we

(27:45):
are back, and a lot of you lighten up the
text line. I am deeply sorry if I offended anyone
who is childless. And here's the thing, like, I stand
by my statement that, in my own personal experience, the
most self absorbed people that I have ever met are
childless people over the age of forty childless by choice.

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And that doesn't mean that there aren't wonderful childless people,
because I know them too. But I'm just saying there's
something about having kids that forces you to grow up.
And I'm not saying all of you are childless, never
grew up, but I think there's a good chunk of
childless people who didn't. You know, And when you have kids,

(28:27):
you don't have to grow up because you just get
to play with their toys now, but you have a cover,
You have plausible deniability. Were you playing Candyland? No, I
was just putting it away. I mean, but I just
saw you draw a card because I wanted it to
be in the right order. Duh, Oh Jeff, you haven't
even begun the joy of Candyland, have you. I haven't yet?

Speaker 2 (28:47):
No?

Speaker 4 (28:47):
Oh, boy, boy, howdy. Every parent listening right now that
had Candyland and a girl. I don't know if boys
play this candy Land as much as girls do, but ah,
I never let the Q win. Don't let your kids
win that stuff. I mean, don't like dunk on them
after you beat them, but don't let them win candy Land.

(29:08):
It's so tempting, so tempting to just let them win
because it goes on forever. It's the monopoly of kids
games never ends. Mandy love this topic. I'm fifty two
with a fifteen and eighteen year old. If they wait
until similar age to have kids, their kids will never

(29:29):
really know us as their grandparents. I think this is
tragic from a selfish standpoint in societal missing the words
of wisdom from our elders. I agree with you, but
only because I have two grandkids already, but they live
in Ohio. Dang it, dang it, Mandy. I'm a Democrat.
I'm also a homeowner, a parent of two daughters. Even

(29:51):
got an American flag hanging off the front of my house.
I work a blue collar job. I'm everything the GOP
claims they value about Americans. However, because I'm a Democrat,
Republicans tell me I'm satanic. They tell me I'm trying
to destroy the country. They tell me that, but that
by believing everyone should be able to live as free people,
free from discrimination and hate, that I'm a problem. If

(30:13):
you let me on the street, you would never know
I was a Democrat. You would assume I was a Republican.
There's a lot of us out there, and that's just
a sad commentary on the state of our political discourse
because I'm now about to get fifty and I mean
fifty text messages from people saying, oh, yeah, well, here's
what the other side called me, you know, and I'm

(30:35):
not downplaying what you went through, and I'm sorry about that.
But you know what's kind of sad about this text
message is that by saying by having to say I'm
a Democrat, but I also fly the American flag, or
and I fly the American flag because there are certain things,
certain images, certain you know, iconnery I guess, that have
been assigned to one side or the other. And I'm

(30:57):
just going to give you two examples in the last
two minutes of this because when we get back, Hans
von Spakowski say it with me is coming on to
talk about Project twenty twenty five. When I see a
person with piercings in their face and rainbow hair, you know,
wearing a T shirt and slouchy pants, I'm going to
immediately think Democrat. When I see someone who is wearing

(31:21):
an American flag hat, possibly a beer shirt, and maybe
they have a beer gut I'm gonna think Republican, and
I think it's sad that Democrats can't fly the American
flag and you just assume look at that patriotic American
instead of oh, well, that's probably a Trump supporter. That's
an interesting text. I appreciate that the keywords childless by choice. Yes,

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there's a big difference. A lot of people are childless
because it was not in the cards for them for
whatever reason, and those tend to be the people who
are the best aunties and uncles in the entire world. Mandy,
you can't go to water World without kids as a male,
it's just creepy. Yeah, that is kind of creepy. I'm
not gonna lie a little bit. Didn't know that. Go

(32:09):
visit the all the expat parents living in Costa Rica,
most self absorbed group of humans on the planet. You know.
I'm not saying that everybody that's a parent as a
good parent. To be clear, they're horrible parents out there,
or we wouldn't have child abuse. Every kid would be
in school prepared on the first day. We already know
there's bad parents out there, but it's their children that

(32:30):
are going to be the ones working and paying into
the system that we require to keep the rest of
us alive. And it's important, absolutely important. Mandy, I'm fifty two,
no kids. Regretted it for a long time. Now it
seems like one of the best decisions I ever made.
The world country they're going to inherit is eft wouldn't
bring a child into this world. But who's going to

(32:51):
fix it? I mean, maybe it's just my ego talking,
but I look at my children as part of the solution,
not part of the problem. When back Hans Hans von
Spakowski joins me to talk about Project twenty twenty five,
which oddly has disappeared from the mouths of Democrats. We'll
talk about all that next.

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Speaker 4 (33:39):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
I'm thrilled to have Hans von Spokowski, the man with
a large name in your mouth, on from the Heritage
Foundation to talk about Project twenty twenty five, which, depending
on who you talk to, is an evil Bond villain
like plan to take over the world, or it's just
a document put together by one hundred conservative groups of

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a conservative wish list of policy positions that they believe
would make the country better. So we'll talk to Hans
about which it is. Hans, welcome back to the show, Mattie,
Thanks for having me back. So I want to start
by that if this is a secret Bond villain like
plan to take over the world, you guys probably should

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not have put it on the internet, right, I mean
you should not have created its own website, project twenty
twenty five dot org so people could go read it
from themselves. What was the super secret, machiavellian thinking behind
putting it on the web.

Speaker 7 (34:39):
Well, you know, the claims being made about it are
so bizarre and just so stupid. It's just astonishing. Look,
we've been doing this since the Reagan administration. That was
the first time that the Heritage Foundation put together what
we called Mandate for Leadership. Basically, it was a a

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set of policy proposals for every single executive department, the
reforms we think we're needed, how those departments ought to
be run. That's exactly what this is. Except we expanded it.
We got, as you said, over one hundred conservative think
tanks and organizations involved several hundred people in twenty twenty two,

(35:23):
and we said, look, if you were put in charge
of the executive branch in a new administration, what would
you reform? How would you run each of these departments?
So we have a nine hundred page policy book. There's
a chapter on every major department, whether it's DoD or
Justice department, education, and it sets out what we think

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those departments ought to be doing instead of what they
are doing, which is often far beyond what they're authorized
to do under the law.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
This really and I've not read the whole thing. I'm
not going to pretend I've read the whole thing. I've
dipped my toe into various sections to kind of get
a feel for it. This is essentially a giant HR
manual for how to run a federal government. When you
get right down to it, it's actually quite dull, right,
I mean, it's it's kind of a dull policy oriented

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on the functionality of government document. From where I'm sitting,
Am I reading that right?

Speaker 2 (36:26):
No?

Speaker 7 (36:26):
No, you are reading it right. And look, I know
that the average person doesn't have time to read nine
hundred pages. But if you want to know just how
wrong all these critics are, you know, you can go
to the website Project twenty twenty five dot or just
pick one chapter, you know, pick a department you're interested, Defense,
maybe Justice, Department, Education, maybe the Energy Department. Just read

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that one chapter and I think the majority of people
are going to come back saying, you know what, this
is common sense. These are kind of reforms that are
needed the federal government. And Mandy, it does things like
stop the Energy Department from coming out and telling all
of us that we can't have gas stoves in our homes.

Speaker 8 (37:12):
Right.

Speaker 7 (37:13):
It says that the federal government can't force us to
buy electric cars, which is the way the administration is going.
It's trying to push back from this over regulation. And
like I said, have these apartments do what they were
originally intended to do and as opposed to what they're

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doing now, well.

Speaker 4 (37:35):
I have to ask you, and I've known of and
been to the Heritage Foundation, and you know, it is
well esteemed in Washington, DC as a policy think tank,
well known to have conservative viewpoints, but also kind of
a stayed institution in many ways, it's the nature of
the beast. You know, were you surprised? Was did you

(37:57):
guys start getting the word Wait a minute, they're talking
about twenty twenty five. Was it a shock when this
became the new talking points for everyone, including the media,
who we're obviously working for the Democrats.

Speaker 7 (38:11):
Well, I think there were two things going Well I
was kind of surprised, but not really. I think there
were two things going on here. Remember this has been
out for more than a year, and yet all of
a sudden it was the major topic. It started being
the major topic after the presidential debate, right, And I
gotta tell you, I think it's because the left needed

(38:35):
a distraction from the physical and the questions that voters
started having about the physical and mental infirmities of the president,
and so they picked this even though they hadn't really
been talking about it before. The second thing is, look,
liberals want an all powerful central government, one that there's

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no limits on what it can do, and a government
that can can run our lives for us and tell
us what to do. And this policy and these policy
proposals are the exact opposite of that. We want government
doing what it should be doing. You know, for example,
making sure the cars are safe, but not telling us

(39:24):
what kind of cars we can buy.

Speaker 4 (39:27):
I want to ask you, I mean, can I throw
you a curveball today, Hans. I've interviewed you enough times
to know that you're pretty good with curveballs. So I
wanted to ask a little bit about election law, because
that is in your background pretty significantly. And we have
Donald Trump on the stump right now talking about making
changes to make sure that elections are safe. What role,

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if any how broad, is the role of the Federal
Elections Commission in micromanaging States election policy? Because that really
is seems to be the issue for a lot of people.
And I figured, since I have do I ask you
that question?

Speaker 7 (40:04):
Well, it's it's actually kind of funny because you know,
the Federal Election Commission, where I once served as a commissioner,
actually has nothing whatsoever to do with running elections in
the States. Its only job actually is to enforce the
federal laws that govern the raising and spending of money

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for federal campaigns. The Justice Department does have a role
in our elections, but only to enforce our federal laws
that prevent really discrimination in the voting contest, and also
the National Voter Registration Act, which for example, says that

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you know, states have to give you the opportunity to
register to vote when you go get your driver's license.
But other than that, no, it's it's state governments and
really local governments that are responsible for administer our elections.
And frankly, that's the way it ought to stay.

Speaker 4 (41:04):
I agree, and I wanted to make sure that I
knew that as I thought I did. So it's a
little bit it's a bit of a hollow promise for
Donald Trump to say he's going to clean up elections,
because that has to be done at the state level.
So you know, that is going to be an interesting
position going forward. It's been fascinating for me to watch
the president pivot, the former president pivot from it was

(41:26):
stolen to we're just going to ensure from here on
out everything is good, which I think is the way
to go. One more question yanking you back to Project
twenty twenty five haunts who can be briefed on this,
and you know, did you guys brief the Trump campaign?
Was the Trump campaign involved in the creation of Project
twenty twenty five as being as is being alleged by
so many.

Speaker 7 (41:48):
No, Remember we started this in twenty twenty two. There
was no Trump campaign in twenty twenty two, Trump wasn't
running for office. And the critics pointed to the fact
that some former members of the Trump administration were involved
in helping prepare some of the chapters on some of
the departments. But look, we had I think over four

(42:12):
hundred people involved in riding this. We had people from
the Trump administration, the Bush administration, the Reagan administration. Why well,
because we wanted people writing these chapters and what the
reforms ought to be who had worked in these departments.
So yeah, there were former officials from the Trump administration,

(42:33):
but also from several other administrations. And the Trump campaign
had nothing to do with riding this. This this mandate
for leadership is for whoever's elected president. We hope they
will consider it and follow it the way Ronald Reagan
did when he first got into office, and that.

Speaker 4 (42:53):
You know both times and I know that Trump used
a lot of the policy suggestions economically from the Heritage
Foundation in his term, and then you have Reagan using
the recommendations as well. Call me crazy, but I'm thinking
the eighties and the late twenty tens were a pretty
good time for the United States economically. So I guess
you guys are giving good advice.

Speaker 7 (43:15):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. Listen, Ronald Reagan liked our mandate
for leadership the first time we did this so much
that he handed out copies of it at his first
cabinet meeting and told his secretaries to follow the Heritage
Foundation's recommendations. And as you say, we had a tremendous

(43:36):
economic expansion. We had low gas and food prices. In fact,
the eighties, once Reagan was well in an administration, those
were a good time for Americans.

Speaker 4 (43:47):
Yes, they were. One last question for you, and it's
a It just has to do with the way this
is being covered. Do you know how many mainstream news
organizations have come to you guys and said, hey, let's
talk about Project twenty twenty five. Let's find out what
it really is. Has that been happening to your knowledge?

Speaker 7 (44:07):
Yes, Now, we've gotten a lot of calls about this,
And you know what's so interesting about it is even
some of the very left stream media organizations have started
pointing out the lies have been told about. Even CNN
recently wrote and talked about the fact that some of

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their claims being made by Kamala Harris were just simply
not true and were complete fabrications. So actually, the more
people learn about it, the polling shows, the more people think, Wow,
these are good ideas.

Speaker 4 (44:45):
Does it strike you as odd that the Democratic leadership
who decided to make this their campaign point when Biden
was obviously not capable of running a campaign and they
were looking for a boogeyman to distract, which I think
you're absolutely right when you said that, Hans. Do you
think that they were They're so out of touch that
they don't realize that these things that are in this

(45:06):
actually makes sense to the American people and resonate with
them in a way that maybe the Democratic Party isn't
right now.

Speaker 7 (45:16):
I gotta tell you, I think they are very patronizingly
dismissive of the American public. I mean, I frankly think
they believe the American public is stupid and that people
won't realize when they are being told lies about not
just what we've done, but about other public policy issues.

(45:36):
I have a lot more faith in the American people
than I think they do. So listen, the more they
talk about it, I think the more people will actually
go and look at it, Well, what is Heritage actually recommended?
That's good for Project twenty five twenty twenty five because,
like I said, I think they'll think, boy, this is
common sense.

Speaker 4 (45:57):
You can go to Project twenty twenty five org and
you can download the document. You can search it like
a word document if you want to search any specific thing.
Where they the part where you put people back in chains.
What chapter is that, Hans? Or the part where women
are now chained to an oven with a baby on
each hip. What pages are those on?

Speaker 7 (46:18):
Well, well, that's like you know, the claims that it
bans abortion, bans contraception, bans no fault divorce, none of that,
all those claims, None of that is in the mandate
for religion. None of that's in any of these policy pros.
Those are the kind of lies that are being told
about is to try to scare voters.

Speaker 4 (46:40):
That's just a sad state of affairs, but absolutely believable.
Hans von Spitkowski from the Heritage Foundation, thank you so
much for your time today and thank you for much
for clarifying this super one last question before I let
you go, how many left leaning think tanks in DC
are trying to influence policy on a daily basis.

Speaker 7 (47:04):
Listen, when the Biden administration came into office, all these
left wing thank tanks, the Center of American Progress, the
Brookings Institute, they lost huge numbers of their staffs who
went where they all went to work in the administration.
So they clearly are influencing everything that the Biden administration

(47:25):
has been doing. It's like I said, the idea that
where the only conservatives do this is just ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (47:32):
When I something caught my ear in the President's press
conference about the Supreme Court, where now you know, he
wants to do something about the Supreme Court now that
they're losing, and he said a report he had read
determined that eighteen years was the proper amount of time
I think it was eighteen years on the Supreme Court.
And I thought to myself, I wonder who wrote that report,

(47:53):
And I wonder if they put it on the internet
for everyone to see. And I wonder why we don't
hear about that from the left the same way we
hear about it from the right. Just questions that came up.

Speaker 7 (48:05):
Well, you know, it's funny the president proposing an eighteen
year term for Supreme Court justices. He says that's necessary.
He served thirty six years in the US Senate twice
that and I don't hear him saying that there should
be term limits of eighteen years for US senators. That's

(48:25):
necessary for the good of America.

Speaker 4 (48:29):
I agree, Hans von Spakovski. I'm glad I asked that question.
That was a perfect answer. I appreciate your time today, sir,
and hopefully we can chat again soon.

Speaker 7 (48:39):
Sure thing, anytime, all right, Thank you.

Speaker 4 (48:41):
That, Hans von Spakovski. Stay it with me, everyone, Hans
van Splikowski. It's harder than it sounds. Okay. So Project
twenty twenty five is a giant nothing burger, and I
mean nothing burger. Oh gosh, Texter did not see this question,
and it was so so good. Please ask is what

(49:06):
was done with the campaign funds for the president transfer
funds to Harris by changing bank account names? Legal or ethical?
That is already being challenged in court, so we're gonna
find out. We'll get a ruling on that. But yes,
I should have asked that question. Dagnam it, dagnam it.
People are under the impression it's the government's job to

(49:27):
tell them what kind of car appliances they can buy.
The government's job is to ensure that I can buy
whatever car or appliance I want to buy. Correct, correct, yep. Anyway,
so you can go to Project twenty twenty five the
easiest ways to download a copy and search it. I
just dropped in and I read like random just started

(49:50):
and said, here you go. I'm gonna look at this.
I started with the Department of Energy and just ran
a bit, and you start to realize, first of all,
when I say it's boring, this is exactly why this
was a genius move by the Democrats. Two reasons. Number one,
Heritage Foundation. They sound racist right to people who don't
know anything. Heritage. Heritage is race. I mean that's yes,

(50:12):
they're obviously white supremacists. They're not, but you know, obviously
they are. And then okay, what's the longest thing that
the Heritage Foundation is written ever? Oh? Project twenty twenty five.
Oh nine hundred pages. Oh, there's no f and way
people are going to read nine hundred pages sold? And
I honestly that's probably how it went down, very much

(50:33):
like that, and genius because guess what, people are not
going to read nine hundred pages. During the Obamacare battle,
I was on the air in Fort Myers, and obviously
there was a lot going on with Medicare and stuff
like that, so my audience was Medicare dependent and I
wanted to make sure I understood it, and I read
every single iteration of that bill. The shortest one was

(50:56):
like seventeen hundred and ninety pages. That was sure one
and so yeah, I know what it's like to have
to slog through it, but yeah, this is genius stroke.
But you'll notice, before Joe Biden was ousted in a
palace coup, it was everywhere, and now it's like, oh

(51:17):
my god, can you believe how good Kamala is. Kamala's amazing.
Have you seen how amazing she is? She's so amazing.
Has there ever been a more amazing candidate in the
history of amazing candidates than Kamala Harris. As soon as
the bloom is off that rose, I fully expect Project
twenty twenty five to pop its head back up. Mandy,

(51:41):
we need to keep nine News Kyle Clark and Marshall
Zelliger in check about Project twenty twenty five. Yeah, Marshall
Zelliger did a story that was just I'm surprised the
music leading into it wasn't something like da da dud
dud because it was such a scare tactic story that
was just absurd. Marshall took the Republican platform, which is official,

(52:04):
Trump's announced platform, which is official, and then he then
added in Project twenty twenty five, look at all of
these things that Donald Trump is going to do, except
Project twenty twenty five is not part of the Trump campaign. Yes,
he probably will institute good ideas because they're good ideas.

(52:26):
You know, it's remarkable that nobody talks about the fact
of what's actually in it. They just say limits on
things like but they don't talk about what it actually says.
But that's just part of it. Yeah, Manday, is he
comparing a lifetime appointment with having to get re elected
every few years? Seriously? No, he was making the point

(52:49):
that it's a bit ironic for a guy who's spent
fifty years in Washington, DC milking the American taxpayer for
his only income that he would be the one to
call for term limits of any kind. I mean, you
have to admit that's a smidge ironic, don't you think
when we get back, I've got all kinds of stuff

(53:10):
in the blog today and I'm gonna skip over some
political stuff. No, we have to talk about Venezuela. I
have been waiting since two thousand and five for the
collapse of Venezuela. Not happy about it, but I saw
it coming. We'll talk about that next. All right, we
are back, and if you have not been paying attention

(53:32):
to what's happening in Venezuela, let me bring up to speed.
But first I got to tell you about my weird
obsession for the last nineteen years about Venezuela. When I
first got my own show in two thousand and five,
I got a pitch interview from I don't even know
who the dude was. I can't remember at this point
or what his connection to Venezuela was. But I was

(53:54):
a new talk shows and I was like, oh, I
got a pitch. Because I wasn't getting a lot of pitches.
I was like, oh, I gotta take the pitch so
I'll get more pitches. Oh those days anyway, So I
took the picture to talk to this guy about what
was happening in Venezuela. Hugo Chavez was still in control
at that point, but the socialist revolution that started, I
believe in nineteen ninety seven. Should probably look that up

(54:16):
and make sure that it's in the late nineties. I'll
take that date. Was already starting to have some issues,
and the guy that I was talking to was kind
of giving me the lowdown, and I was like, Wow,
we are going to watch the rise and fall of
a socialist nation in real time in my lifetime. Now.

(54:36):
I thought it would be faster than now. When I
read this story a few years ago about people eating
zoo animals, I thought, you know what, we're near the
end of Venezuela. But what happened yesterday was pretty spectacular.
There was an election, and in the election, the opposition
clearly won the election. I mean it was not even close. Now,

(55:00):
what did now Dictator Nicholas Maduro do? He just went
nah h nope, not doing it. But here's a funny
thing happened on the way to stealing an election by
Nicholas Maduro. His entire infrastructure is now turning against him.

(55:21):
I want to read you this. Venezuela's military chief claimed
Tuesday that the country was facing a coup as new
protests were expected to follow President Nicholas Mduro's disputed victory
in the weekend's election. The country's opposition leaders say they
won by a significant margin, and a local NGO has
reported at least six people killed in unrest that has

(55:43):
followed the official declaration of Maduro's win and will put
win in air quotes. Venezuela's Attorney General, Trek Williams Sobs,
said seven hundred and forty nine people had been arrested
amid the protest and warned that the number could rise
in the coming hours. Would be charged with resisting authority
and in the most serious cases terrorism. Now, the problem

(56:09):
is is that yesterday on x there were so many
videos of local police that were tasked with taking on
these protesters, local police taking off their uniforms rather than
suppress this protest against Maduro's clearly fake you know results.

(56:30):
He did not win this election. So lots of national
organizations are now coming out to say, hey, let the
people decide, Let them decide. Even some countries that would
normally be allied or saying let them decide. Maduro took

(56:52):
office in twenty thirteen. During his presidency, more than seven
million Venezuelan citizens have fled the country. It's been mired
in poverty and violence. Now You have to remember, before
Ugo Chavez took over to create the socialist utopia, Venezuela
was the richest nation in South America. They had a
booming oil and gas business that is no longer booming

(57:16):
because when you have a socialist nation, you don't hire
people based on their merit. You give your friends jobs
running an oil company, and running an oil company isn't
just about getting oil out of the ground. It is
about maintaining everything and making sure that everything works properly
and looking for new efficiencies. But when you're disappointed to
your job because you're friends with the president, you don't

(57:37):
do any of that. All of the nationalized industries are suffering.
Inflation has been through the roof. I mean when I
say through the roof, like where over you're complaining, Oh,
price is a wrap twenty percent in three years? How
about twenty percent in three hours. That's what they've been
dealing with in Venezuela. Now, don't get me wrong, I
actually have a great deal of sympathy for the people

(57:58):
of Venezuela because if they can pull this off. Let's
just say, they can pull this up, and it's not
guaranteed because they don't have guns because why they took
the guns away because crime was too high. So familiar.
So if this takes and they can get this regime out,

(58:18):
they are in for a real shock to the system
before they can grow again as an economy. And I
hope it's happening for them.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
Now.

Speaker 4 (58:28):
I want to talk about something that happened in Aurora yesterday.
So apparently a large Venezuela and population lives in Aurora.
And this is the part where I actually am like
I get it. If I had to flee the United
States of America and I knew there was a bunch
of other people from the United States of America that
lived in that area, and all of a sudden what

(58:49):
I had been fleeing was overthrown. I would want to
celebrate with similar people as well. But damn, y'all clean
up after yourselves. They were blocked roads, there was some
gunfire at some point. We are not a third world country,
Please don't bring that here. And then after they left
the parking lot, it was full of garbage. I cannot

(59:13):
stand litter. Litter is the surest sign of the downfall
of society. You can't be bothered to pick up your
litter what else are you gonna not be bothered to do? So,
Venezuela is in flux. We don't know what's going to
happen there. The military chief is now backing the opposition.
That doesn't bode well for Nicholas Muduro. I just have

(59:34):
this vision of him, and this is small and petty,
but I'm gonna make it anyway. For some reason, I
always think of Nicholas Mdureau as like Lord Farquad from Shrek,
you know, annoying little chatterbox. By the way, they have
been toppling Ugo Chavez statues in Venezuela and they are

(59:58):
They're not going anywhere. So sayonara, Venezuela as we know it.
I hope you rise from the ashes like a phoenix.
I'm rooting for the Venezuelan people to take their country back.
I'm rooting for them to go back to the days
when they were flourishing. And don't get me wrong, they
had poverty. They had grinding poverty in Venezuela. They should

(01:00:20):
address that before another dictator comes in and says I'm
gonna fix it and destroys the entire economy. But he
delivered on his promise to equalize everything in Venezuela, the
suffering pretty much goes across the board, unless, of course,
you're part of the Maduro regime, in which case you
are ao K perfectly fine. Nothing to see here, So

(01:00:43):
there you go. If you know any of the Venezuelans
and Aurora, I tell them I was like, dude, I
wanted to be excited with you, not mad at you,
because you left all your crap in a parking lot.
How hard is it to pick up your trash people?
The answer is not hard at all, because I do
it every day, every time I'm out. I dropped a

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gum wrapper on the ground in the parking lot of
King Soupers the day before yesterday, and you know what
I did. I chased it across the parking lot in
the wind like a moron because I hate litter that much.
And yes I did get it. I did the stomp
with my foot thing and then squat down and get it,
because otherwise I would just look like a moro and

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try to catch the gum wrapper flying across the parking lot.
And if you saw me and honked, number one, I
heard you. Number two, I almost passed out because you
scared the crap out of me. Anyway, We'll be right back.
I gotta tell you about my weird obsession for the
last nineteen years about Venezuela. When I first got my

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own show in two thousand and five, I got a
pitch interview from I don't even know who the dude was.
I can't remember at this point or what his connection
to Venezuela was. But I was a new talk shows
and I was like, oh, I got a pitch. Because
I wasn't getting a lot of pitches. I was like, Oh,
I gotta take the pitch so I'll get more pitches.
Oh I rue those days anyway. So I took the
pitch to talk to this guy about what was happening

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in Venezuela. Hugo Chavez was still in control at that point,
but the socialist revolution that started, I believe in nineteen
ninety seven. Should probably look that up and make sure.
But it's in the late nineties. I'll take that date.
Was already starting to have some issues and the guy
that I was talking to was kind of giving me

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the lowdown, and I was like, Wow, we are going
to watch the rise and fall of a socialist nation
in real time in my lifetime. Now. I thought it
would be faster than now. When I read the story
a few years ago about people eating zoo animals, I thought,
you know what, we're near the end of Venezuela. But

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what happened yesterday was pretty spectacular. There was an election,
and in the election, the opposition clearly won the election.
I mean it was not even close. So what did
now Dictator Nicholas Maduro do? He just went nah, uh, nope,

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not doing it. But here's a funny thing happened on
the way to stealing an election by Nicholas Maduro. His
entire infrastructure is now turning against him. I want to
read you this. Venezuela's military chief claimed Tuesday that the
country was facing a coup as new protests were expected

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to follow President Nicholas Maduro's disputed victory in the weekend's election.
The country's opposition leaders say they won by a significant margin,
and a local NGO has reported at least six people
killed in unrest that has followed the official declaration of
Maduro's win and will put win in air quotes. Venezuela's

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Attorney General, Terrek Williams Sobs said seven hundred and forty
nine people had been arrested amid the protest, had warned
that the number could rise in the coming hours. Most
would be charged with resisting authority and in the most
serious cases terrorism. Now the problem is is that yesterday

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on x there were so many videos of local police
that were tasked with taking on these protesters, local police
taking off their uniforms rather than suppress this protest against
Maduro's clearly fake you know results. He did not win

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this election. So lots of national organizations are now coming
out to say, hey, let the people decide, Let them decide,
even some countries that would normally be allied or saying
let them decide. Maduro took office in twenty thirteen. During

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his presidency, more than seven a million Venezuelan citizens have
fled the country. It's been mired in poverty and violence. Now,
you have to remember, before Ugo chab Has took over
to create the socialist utopia, Venezuela was the richest nation
in South America. They had a booming oil and gas
business that is no longer booming because when you have

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a socialist nation, you don't hire people based on their merit.
You give your friends jobs running an oil company, and
running an oil company isn't just about getting oil out
of the ground. It is about maintaining everything and making
sure that everything works properly and looking for new efficiencies.
But when you're disappointed to your job because you're friends
with the president, well you don't do any of that.

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All the nationalized industries are suffering. Inflation has been through
the roof. I mean when I see through the roof,
like where over you're complaining all prices the wrap twenty
percent in three years? How about twenty percent in three hours.
That's what they've been dealing with in Venezuela. Now, don't
get me wrong, I actually have a great deal of
sympathy for the people of Venezuela because if they can

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pull this off, let's just say, they can pull this up,
and it's not guaranteed because they don't have guns, because
why they took the guns away because crime was too high.
So familiar. So if this takes and they can get
this regime out, they are in for a real shock

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to the system before they can grow again as an economy.
And I hope it's happening for them.

Speaker 6 (01:06:31):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:06:31):
I want to talk about something that happened in Aurora yesterday.
So apparently a large Venezuela and population lives in Aurora.
And this is the part where I actually am like,
I get it if I had to flee the United
States of America and I knew there was a bunch
of other people from the United States of America that
lived in that area, and all of a sudden, what

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I had been fleeing was overthrown. I would want to
celebrate with similar people as well. But damn, y'all clean
up after your They were blocking roads, there was some
gunfire at some point. We are not a third world country.
Please don't bring that here. And then after they left
the parking lot it was full of garbage. I cannot

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stay a litter. Litter is the surest sign of the
downfall of society. You can't be bothered to pick up
your litter. What else are you gonna not be bothered
to do? So Venezuela is in flux. We don't know
what's going to happen there. The military chief is now
backing the opposition. That doesn't bode well for Nicholas Mduro.

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I just have this vision of him, and this is
small and petty, but I'm gonna make it anyway. For
some reason, I always think of Nicholas Mdureau as like
Lord Farquad from Trek, you know, annoying little chatterbox. By
the way, they have been toppling Ugo Chavez statues in Venezuela,

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A and they are They're not going anywhere. So Syonara
Venezuela as we know it. I hope you rise from
the ashes like a phoenix. I'm rooting for the Venezuelan
people to take their country back. I'm rooting for them
to go back to the days when they were flourishing.
And don't get me wrong, they had poverty. They had

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grinding poverty in Venezuela. They should address that before another
dictator comes in and says I'm gonna fix it and
destroys the entire economy. But he delivered on his promise
to equalize everything in Venezuela. The suffering pretty much goes
across the board, unless, of course, you're part of them
into au regime, in which case you are ao K

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perfectly fine. Nothing to see here, So there you go.
If you know any of the Venezuelans and Aurora, I
tell them I was like, dude, I wanted to be
excited with you, not mad at you because you left
all your crap in a parking lot. How hard is
it to pick up your trash people, The answer is
not hard at all, because I do it every day,

(01:09:04):
every time I'm out. I dropped a gum wrapper on
the ground in the parking lot of King Soupers the
day before yesterday. And you know what I did. I
chased it across the parking lot in the wind like
a moron because I hate litter that much. And yes,
I did get it. I did the stomp with my
foot thing and then squat down and get it, because

(01:09:27):
otherwise I would just look like a moron trying to
catch the gum wrapper flying across the parking lot. And
if you saw me and honked, Number one, I heard you.
Number two, I almost passed out because you scared the
crap out of me. Anyway, we'll be right back. It's
a news article. This is a very small town news article.

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And by a small town news article, my hometown newspaper.
We were in the newspaper as kids so many times.
You know how I know this. When my grandmother died,
every single time I had been in the newspaper. She
had cut it out, and I got a big old
manilla envelope fall of clippings of little Mandy doing various things.

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But when you're from a small town and you do stuff,
you're going to be in the paper. This is what
this feels like in the Denver Gazette. But I just
love it. Five years, two hundred and fifty nine restaurants,
Cherry Creek, Dad's weekly taco Tuesday tradition reaches special milestone.
And it's just about a guy, a dad who wanted

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to create a special something with his girls. He's got
two little girls, and he grew up in a household where,
you know, his family was busy and they didn't spend
as much time with his parents, and he wanted to
create a tradition that they do together. So every Tuesday
night they go have tacos. Only they didn't just go

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to the same place over and over and over again.
They go to a different taco joint every single Tuesday
for tacos. And they have been to two hundred and
fifty nine different taco stands. And I love this story
because you know, my daughter's fifteen now, and you realize
when your kid's fifteen, you've got three more years with them,
and she's talking about going to school in Europe for college.

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So I got three years to maximize this. And now,
I mean, don't get me wrong, I can always get
my daughter up for tacos. But I love the intentionality
of this guy. I love this dad who said this
is the way I'm gonna be a better dad. He said.
The family's visited all taco restaurants in the Cherry Creek

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area now has turned into sort of a hunt to
find the latest one. He estimates ninety seven percent of
the taco places they visited are in Denver or Aurora.
He said. If you're driving around, they're pointing out restaurants
and whatnot. We've sort of built up a connection over it,
even at a young age like Alice. You know, she
was almost two when we started this and she's almost
seven now to this day. She's in it just like Garlic,

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he said. Growing up in a family of workaholics, Warnick
sought a consistent tradition with his daughters, a way to
create a bond. Now, he does say that they may
venture into other cuisines in a year or so, so yeah,
he figures it'll last for another year. And then they'll

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find something new to do. But what a fun thing
to do with your family. And it got me to
wondering back when I was a kid, I didn't grow
up in a very functional household, to say the very least,
my dad worked up we Oh geez, we got a
new fire. Kathy's in here to tell us about it.
Holy cow, where's this one? What's going on? Mandy?

Speaker 5 (01:12:43):
This is not a good day, as we can tell.
Red flag warnings everywhere. Boulder Counting crews are now responding
to a fire on Eagle Ridge north of Lions. Evacuations
had been ordered for the Stone Mountain neighborhood. This could
be also called the Stone Canyon neighborhood. We're getting more
information as we speak. All right, we'll have the latest
throughout the day.

Speaker 4 (01:13:03):
If you are at all worried about now fires unfortunately
to worry about, we will have the updates for you
throughout the day. And again, let me just reiterate this.
If you are given an evacuation order, please evacuate. Too
many people die in these fires. They've just come so fast,
and we always have those tragic stories. I will never
forget the older couple that was killed in one of

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our fires and they found them huddling in the basement together.
That's not how you want to go out, you know it.
Don't get me wrong. It would be devastating to lose everything,
but it's more devastating to lose you. So please. This
is a good reminder though, if you have not checked
around your house to make sure it's fire wise. If
you don't know what being firewise is, you can I

(01:13:47):
think it's firewise. I'll find the website. As a matter
of fact, I'm going to try and get somebody on
the show about firewise in your house to make it
less likely to burst into flames. Because this is the
scariest thing about living in Colorado. Like the snowstorms every
once in a while, not a big deal. I mean
it's a big deal, but it's not a big deal.

(01:14:08):
This is the scariest part about living in Colorado or
these fires. Check your homeowner's insurance, make sure that it
is up to speed and you know where you need
it to be. Go ahead and videotape everything in your
house very very quickly. All you have to do I've
done this twice in my house. Now all that you
have to do is take your cell phone. Start in

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one room at one end of the house, and just
walk into every closet, open every drawer, and then just
keep going. You can grab those stills later. You could
probably do your whole house. Unless you're like, you know,
unless you have like a giant house, you can probably
do your house pretty quickly. And it just helps if
you do have an insurance claim to have that information

(01:14:50):
either on the cloud or on your person in your phone,
because you have to fill out everything you own on sheets,
you know, so be ready, be ready. We can't control
a wildfire, but what you can control is your preparedness
for it. We're going to take a quick time out.
We'll have the latest. If there's any updates on which
neighborhood is being evacuated, we'll have that next on KOA.

Speaker 1 (01:15:13):
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Speaker 3 (01:15:28):
God wait, stay the Nicety's there many Connell keeping sad thing.

Speaker 2 (01:15:39):
Keep the two minute drill at two. Hey, we're going
to too many warriors rapid fire stories of the day
that we don't have more time for let's call this
so we'll take longer than two minutes.

Speaker 4 (01:15:50):
Are are you out?

Speaker 2 (01:15:51):
Here's Mandy Condall.

Speaker 4 (01:15:54):
All right, kids, you may not know this, but Thursday,
Colorado is celebrating a big birthday. We're going to turn
one hundred and forty eight years old. We don't look
a day over one forty seven. But if you want
to celebrate, I've got a list of stuff you can do,
from well the easy to going to a museum, do
the more difficult, which is going to a state park

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on Monday for a free day. But celebrate. And the
Denburg Gazette as an editorial urging you to do something
that I found out when I first moved here. Nobody
reads the state constitution. Coover, have you ever read the
State Constitution of Colorado? I know, okay, I did. I
read it when I got here. I just wanted to
be hip. I wanted to be like all the cool kids,

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only to find out no one's ever read it. First
of all, our constitution has a bunch of stuff that
it doesn't need to be in there. We could probably
thin the herd quite a bit at this point. But nonetheless,
there are things that you should pay attention to, especially
Article five, Section one of the Citizen's Initiative part. There
would be no Tabor, which we know is being gutted,
and there would be no opportunities to bring your great

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ideas directly to the people without that. There's some really
great stuff in the Colorado Constitution. If you've never read it,
it's not that long. It's not like Project twenty twenty
five long. You could read it in a very short
period of time. And shitn't you, as a good American
just asking the drill it too? Hey, Weld County, now's

(01:17:19):
your chance to get rid of some of the most
onerous trash out there. And I am talking about tires.
This weekend, the Weld County Department of Public Health and
Environment is hosting a free excuse me, first tire disposal
event for Weld County, and you can get rid of
those old tires for free. After I said free, I

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saw it first and I was like, oh my god,
did I read that wrong? And it was actually just
first and not free, but no free. Where I'm from
in northern Florida, this is the kind of litter that
makes me insane because people just drive around, they just
hurl old tires out of the back of their truck,
and I wish I was kidding and they become mosquito
breeding grounds in Florida. Not so much here because we
don't get that much rain. But you need to dispose
of your tires responsibly. Now is your chance in Weld County.

(01:18:03):
It is happening this weekend from nine to four at
the Household Hazardous Waste Center, the old HHW Center. You
can find all the details on the blog today at
mandy'sblog dot com. And a few Olympics stories to wrap
things up. Yes, and Ned, I watched the Olympics last night,
watch the men's gymnastic team win a medal for the

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first time in sixteen years. And you know what, I
don't like the way NBC is covering the Olympics because
at night we did not see one single When we
saw one gymnast from Japan, they ended up winning the gold.
Then we saw a Chinese gymnasts twice, but the rest
of it was just Americans. Don't get me wrong, I
want to see the Americans. I want to see how
they do. But back when I was a kid, you

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used to have the drama by seeing the other competitors
and seeing their scores and then knowing you were cheering
for someone to beat that score because those damn Russians
had to be stopped.

Speaker 2 (01:18:57):
We don't get that.

Speaker 4 (01:18:57):
Now, I don't like it as much, but congratulations to
the US men's gymnastic team. They absolutely crushed it last night. Now,
bad news for you who are fans of the absolutely
adorable Hesley Rivera. She is the fifth woman on the
women's gymnastics team. You will not see her compete because

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the coaches decided that the four veterans would be the
ones representing the United States in the all round competition.
And this is because Hesley struggled a little bit. She's
only sixteen, and she struggled a little bit on the
qualifying and they decided to say, you know what, You're
gonna sit this one out now. If the team wins

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a medal, and I can't imagine what kind of catastrophic
situation would occur that we would not win a medal.
If not the gold medal, Hesley will still get the medal,
and because she's sixteen, we will absolutely, most certainly and
assuredly see her in future Olympics, barring any significant injury.

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
It too, one of the.

Speaker 4 (01:20:02):
Most outrageous stories to come out of the Olympics is
not from the opening ceremonies. It is from women's boxing.
We have two biological natal males who are going to
be boxing against women. I say it like that, because
of all sports to allow men to compete in, it
would seem that boxing, where the literal point of the

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sport is to knock out your opponent, would be the
worst way for men to compete in women's sports. But
the IOC, the Olympic Committee, they punted on this a
long time ago. They're like, weave this to other organizations
to make this decision for us. And now, because these
two dudes have women on their passport, they are going

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to get in a ring with boxing gloves and physically
assault actual women. I am genuinely worried that someone is
going to get killed here. I don't know how good
these boxers are. One is from Algeria, one is from Taiwan.
On that of course, is being rebranded as Chinese Taipei
or whatever because NBC loves China and their money, so

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watch women's boxing. This could be an absolute disaster, and
I hope it isn't. But if both of these two
dudes go one and two on the metal stand. Can
we stop with the oh, there's no difference, because obviously
there is a huge difference ladies and gentlemen. That is
your two minute drill for today. When we get back,

(01:21:31):
I've got some political stories that I want to diper
toe in the United Airlines. Terrell Davis story keeps getting worse.
United Airlines, stop digging, And granted, I'm giving a lot
of difference to Terrell Davis. You've probably met Terrell Davis
on many occasions, haven't you kouver you used.

Speaker 8 (01:21:52):
To host a show here now about a year or
so ago.

Speaker 4 (01:21:54):
Exactly what is he like? Just in real life? As
we say, he is.

Speaker 8 (01:21:58):
A nice guy. He is really nice, and it was
very surprising that story that came out.

Speaker 4 (01:22:02):
I have never, in all of my days, I have
never heard anyone say anything negative about Terrell Davis in
terms of his personality. I've never heard a bad word
about the guy. So I'm giving him a lot of
you know, I'm on Terrelle's side on this because if
past history is any indication of future performance, he was

(01:22:22):
going to be a nice guy and I think he
got wronged in this and United is just making it worse.
They've actually made it worse now, So I'll have that
update coming up next Keep it right here on KOA.
Paul Dan's has stepped down as the director of Project
twenty twenty five amid intense criticism, including from the former President.
Dan's departure was confirmed in a statement to CNN by

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doctor Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation. Under
Paul Dan's leadership, Project twenty twenty five has completed exactly
what it set out to do, bring together over one
hundred and ten leading conservative organizations to create a unified
conservative vision motivated to devolve power from the unelected administrative
state and returning it to the people. This tool was

(01:23:06):
built for any future administration to use, so. In a
statement Tuesday, Trump campaign manager Susie Wiles and Chris La
Savita said President Trump's campaign has been very clear for
over a year that Project twenty twenty five had nothing
to do with the campaign, did not speak for the campaign,
and should not be associated with the campaign or the

(01:23:27):
president in any way. They continued. Reports of Project twenty
twenty five's demise would be greatly welcomed and should serve
as notice to anyone or any group trying to misrepresent
their influence with President Trump and his campaign, it will
not end well for you. So that basically was putting
the Heritage Foundation on notice for saying that Trump wasn't

(01:23:56):
part of Project twenty twenty five. Confused. There must be
more going on that I don't know about. We already
know that the Trump campaign doesn't like to have its
power usurped. This is why I think that when the
vote is finally taken to bounce Dave Williams out of
his chairmanship, the National GOP will accept it and put

(01:24:17):
their stamp of approval on it. Because Dave Williams broke
the rules put out by Republicans to not fundraise off
of Trump's conviction, and he did so maybe there's more
going on. Maybe the Heritage Foundation has been out there saying, hey, look,
you know we're doing this plan for Trump. I don't know,
but they also the Trump campaign has no chance of

(01:24:40):
doing anything but doing exactly that and completely distancing just
to dull the stupid attacks, which are just so dumb,
so so so dumb. Now, when I talk about this
Trell Davis story, if you didn't hear about it, it's
just it was so bad. So Trell Davis, who by
all accounts is genuinely a nice human being. I've talked
to and now probably twenty different people who have either

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worked with Terrell Davis or knew him on some level,
and they're all like, nicest guy in the world. He's
exactly like he is on TV. He's always smiling in
an upbeat, positive frame of mind. He's just one of
those guys. So when a United Airlines flight attendant accused
him of quote hitting him after Terrell Davis says he

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asked for a cup of ice for his son, the
flight attendant forgot and pushed the cart down a little further.
Terrell Davis says he turned around tapped the flight attendant's
arm to ask for the cup of ice, and the
flight attendant turned around and said, don't hit me. And
then when they landed, they told everyone to stay seated.
They brought police onto the airplane to put Terrell Davis

(01:25:46):
in handcuffs and take him off the plane. Now everyone
seems to agree that after speaking to mister Davis and
a few other people that the authorities said this was
a misunderstanding and the flight attendant does not have the
right info here, so he was allowed to leave. He

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was allowed to go. He made the rounds on television
about this because it's just so bad.

Speaker 2 (01:26:13):
And now.

Speaker 4 (01:26:18):
Now he says he's gotten an email from United that
has notified him he has been banned from traveling on United.
The email said Davis is not permitted to fly with
United until the committee reviews the incident and possibly considers reinstatement.
In the meantime, the email said Davis could submit a

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summary of the incident. Following Davis's Instagram post, on Monday,
United released another statement. Mister Davis received this letter of
the day after the incident. It was generated due to
the report of the flight attendant, who is no longer
employed by United. The day after the letter was we

(01:27:00):
discussed with mister Davis's team that it had been rescinded.
We have apologized to mister Davis for his experience and
continue to review our handling of incidents like this to
protect our highest priority, the safety of our customers and crew. So,
by the way, Charle Davis's attorney says he is going
They're going to sue, and can you sue for just

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massive embarrassment, And by the way, I would be massively embarrassed.
Couvert the last time they put you in cuffs? Were
you embarrassed?

Speaker 8 (01:27:34):
If I ever get put in cuffs, I sir, I
will be.

Speaker 4 (01:27:36):
I hope that you would be embarrassed. I mean the
people that are not embarrassed are the ones to keep
your eyeball on right, people that are like, yeah, I'm
in cuffs, what of it? So yeah, we shall see
what happens in this. But it was just an automatic letter,
you get it. And obviously they did not communicate that
this letter was coming, that it's automatically generated. And now

(01:28:01):
United has more egg on their face. Just absolutely you
guys that just hit me with who won the gold
and the women's championship. I'm not watching it right now.
I'm not watching it. Don't do that. I do have
swimming on right now, and I have volleyball on because
I'm not gonna be able to watch them next you tonight. Anyway, Mandy,

(01:28:25):
I can vouch one hundred percent that Terrell Davis is
a gentleman and a very nice guy. He's been friends
with John Mobley, former Broncos linebacker, and have both been
to my house in Florida on several occasions. Both of
those guys are gold. I would anticipate that when he's
with his family that his good just gets exponentially better.
Isn't that, wouldn't you? Isn't that what you want people

(01:28:47):
to say about you? I mean, that's the nicest way
to say nice things about someone. He's an amazing person,
and I bet with his when he's with his family,
he's even more amazing. Should we should all be able
to address this. Mandy sounds like a woke, lefty flight attendant,
and another one bites the dust. I have worked with
flight attendants like this one, mad with power, meet people

(01:29:10):
who just want to flex on people because they have
nothing good going on in their lives. That is what
I suspect this flight attendant is like. So talking. I
got a lot of stories today about the Harris campaign.
There's stories coming out about the kind of boss that
Kamala Harris was, and I've got one of those today
where apparently, when she was Attorney General, according to an

(01:29:33):
unpaid intern who worked in her office for one month,
when Kamala Harris walked in the office every morning, they
were supposed to say good morning General. That cannot be true,
you guys, I mean who would do that? Who does that?

Speaker 2 (01:29:50):
Who?

Speaker 4 (01:29:52):
That's on the blog today. But then I saw this
story on the break. It's not on the blog, but
I want to share it with you. So at a
recent rally in Las Vegas, two reporters, one from the
New York Times and another from the Las Vegas Review Journal,
reported that several campaign staffers followed them around to listen

(01:30:13):
to what those being interviewed were telling them. So they
were doing kind of man on the street interviews at
this rally. If the attendee said anything negative about Joe Biden,
the staffer would try to cut the interview short. The
one from the Las Vegas Review Journal indicated that in
one instance, the person she was interviewing seemed intimidated by

(01:30:35):
the Biden Harris campaign staffer, and after this, obviously Joe
Biden breaks out or drops out. In an update to
the story, it appears to what happened at the Nevada
campaign event was not just a one off. According to
Associated Press reporter Steve Peeples, a Monday Kamala for President

(01:30:55):
campaign rally in Pennsylvania featuring Michigan Governor Greguen Whitmer Pennsylvania
Governor Josh Shapiro saw staffers actually trying to block reporters
from interviewing rally goers beyond what he called the press pen.
Here's what he wrote in his Twitter feed, Harris campaign
is blocking reporters from talking to voters outside the press

(01:31:17):
pen here at Whitmer Shapiro event in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Note that the Harris campaign staff here at the Pennsylvania
event allowed me to leave the press pen to talk
to voters after someone from the Delaware headquarters intervened. Appreciate
all the feedback. Glad everyone agrees that press access and
transparency is an important part of our democracy. The incident

(01:31:41):
sparked talk of how Harris's press avoidance campaign in the
coming weeks and months would make Biden's twenty twenty basement
hideout campaign strategy look like child's play. What remains to
be seen is if there will be a very out
in the open revolt among the traveling Kamala press corps
going forward, assuming these tactics continue. That is a laughable statement.

(01:32:04):
It's laughable because the media that is supposed to have
been covering the White House for the past three and
a half years has done a lousy job mentioning to
the American public that A they've had no access to
the president that wasn't carefully handled, managed and scripted, and
B we should look into that. Do you really think,

(01:32:25):
I mean, they didn't show any intellectual curiosity. Where were
all of the stories from the media about Joe Biden
not making himself available for the media. Where was the
stories about him not having a cabinet meeting since last October?
Where were those stories? So why in the world did
you think that the press would have enough of this
with Kamala Harris? They did that to protect Biden because

(01:32:46):
they hate Trump that much. So the notion that somehow
the press would all of a sudden wake up and
be interested in why they're not getting access to the
candidate and that's just not a thing that's going to happen.
It just isn't. And I told you guys, one of
the things that shocked me the most about the RNC
was the political handlers. These people are like, they're like

(01:33:10):
the Berlin Wall over there between you and the person
you're trying to talk to for two questions. It was insane.
Those people are mean. I don't want to mess with
those people at all, Not at all. Now, I couldn't
let the show go all the way by without talking
about yet another segregated zoom call for Kamala Harris supporters.

(01:33:34):
If you were black, or brown or yellow, you were
not invited to the white Dudes for Kamala call. Yeah,
white dudes for Kamala. And honestly, every Hollywood celebrity that's
ever played the nerd you know, the funny best friend.
They were all there last night, all of them, but

(01:33:58):
Pete Booty Juice was there as well. And this is
a lot has been made of this particular exchange that
Pete Booty Juice shared with the group and coover. Can
I get my audio for just one second, turn my
computer up. I want you to hear what Booty Juice
has to say about abortion and why it's important for
namely freedom.

Speaker 9 (01:34:19):
I'm so glad she has made freedom to the theme
of her campaign. So I think in so many ways
that's what's at stick. And yes, women's freedom is exhibit
A after Donald Trump demolished the right to choose. But of
course men are also more free. In a country where
we have a friendsident who stands up for things like
access to abortion care, men are more free when the

(01:34:41):
leader of the free world and leader of this country
supports access to birth control and to IVF.

Speaker 2 (01:34:48):
And certainly men like me and my.

Speaker 9 (01:34:50):
Husband are more free when we have a president who
supports our freedom to get married.

Speaker 4 (01:34:55):
For okay, So nobody is suggesting that gave people not
be able to get married. Ah. Donald Trump is not
suggesting that. Donald Trump is not suggesting that we do
away with the IVF. Donald Trump is not suggesting we
do it with birth control. And Donald Trump did not
rip away a woman's right to choose. The court. The
US Supreme Court sent it back to the states, and

(01:35:18):
I would be shocked if we did not have pretty
much every state in the Union with some kind of
referendum on the ballot in the next year, or Republicans
losing control of legislatures over the issue of abortion. If
states want to make it legal, keep it legal, and
they want to do what Colorado does, which is make
it legal to the moment of birth, and that's what's

(01:35:39):
legal in Colorado. So save me your text messages. Because
it's legal in Colorado. Then you know the people of
the states are going to be able to decide. And
even in red states, by the way, the right to
get an abortion is being being affirmed even in solidly
read states, So this is not one of those things.
What it is is that people don't like they want

(01:35:59):
instant they want instantaneous. I would have preferred that every
state in the United States legalize gay marriage, but I
understand the impatience felt by gay people who just wanted
to be able to marry their long term partners that
they've been with for decades. I get it one hundred percent,
But it just shows we want that instant answer. This
will get sorted out, and any state that decides that

(01:36:23):
they want to limit abortion is a state that you
can move away from if you are the person who
only votes on that issue. But Pete Booty Juice, the
gay man talking about how men are freer. They're freer,
I tell you when women can kill the result of
their sexual activity with men. So men don't have to

(01:36:44):
worry about anything. Are you kidding me? I can buy
that new Jet Ski now, they don't have to take
care of a baby. Sure, I mean, he's not wrong,
It's just gross, absolutely gross. And uh, dudes, white dudes
for Kamala actually started out with a guy and I'm
going to describe him and I'm not going to be kind,

(01:37:04):
but he looks exactly like these comments would make you
think he looks.

Speaker 10 (01:37:09):
And that happens at the same time as the myths
around America that we grew up with that we as
men are expected to be protectors and providers are going
out into economy that doesn't really allow for that, especially
for working class folks, and sort of like compounding on that,
you know, masculinity as a trope has been co opted

(01:37:31):
by the magarite into something that feeds into and exacerbates
the loneliness epidemic as well as the mental health crisis
that many face that end up leading to really disruptive behaviors.

Speaker 4 (01:37:42):
We aren't the only ones that are hurt by these things.

Speaker 10 (01:37:44):
Black and brown people, LGBTQIA plus people, especially trans women
and Indigenous people, and you know, all sorts of other
folks in our society open historically and often still today
are marginalized in being hurt, demonize, and you like, marginalize
even further so.

Speaker 4 (01:38:06):
So that is that dude talking about masculinity. It's been
co opted as a trope on the right, and it has,
it really has, but only because the left has been
hell bent for years, absolutely years, telling us that our
sons are the problem, that it's boys that are the issue,

(01:38:27):
and it's men that are toxic. You notice we don't
have toxic femininity. We don't have that because no one's
saying it's women that are the problem. Although jd Vance's
childless cat ladies comment was the closest that someone's come
to making that argument. But the reality is we have
toxic masculinity. We've been telling men it's all their fault.
All the ills in the world are your fault, which

(01:38:48):
is ridiculous. Some men do some bad things, but you
cannot paint all men with a broad brush of awfulness.
I mean, and people on the right are like, you
know what, I want to take care of my family.
I want to protect my wife and my family. So yeah,
if those are tropes of the right, how pathetic is that?

(01:39:10):
And by the way, I just want to guess I
want to throw this out here, a real quick question
you can answer via the text line at five sixty
six nine, Oho, do you think that man has a
man bun or no? Yes or no? Five six sixth nine? Oh, Mandy,
how dare you suggest that only women can have abortions.
I know, I know, yeah, I know, Mandy isn't replacing

(01:39:37):
Biden with Harris with no vote insurrection kind of seems
that way. But yeah, anyway, Mandy, what about the old
saying why buy the cow when you're getting the milk
for free? Abortion? Just keeps that freebies going. Men never
have to take responsibility. There's a lot of truth in

(01:39:58):
that statement, although personally I don't love being compared to
a cow. I mean, I take it a little bit personally,
So maybe find a different analogy. You just throwing that
out there? May can that happen for you? All of
this is on the blog, By the way, you really
have to see it. The whole White Dudes for Kamala.

(01:40:19):
Has anybody else found themselves despising Star Wars because of
Mark Hamil on Twitter? Anyone else? Anyone? Mark Hamill is insufferable.
He's as bad as Rob Reiner and Rob Reiner, and
he's of that whole ilk, that Rob Reiner, that Sean
penn ilk. Oh, by the way, we should have done

(01:40:40):
an homage to Oh. I wish I'd thought about that earlier,
Dag Nabbitt. There are so many soundbites out there of
Sean Penn talking about Ugo Chavez and the beautiful utopia
that he created in Venezuela. And I just want to
find them and play them back and laugh and laugh
and laugh at him. Uh yeah, yes, yes, indeed, yes

(01:41:02):
he does. Yes, man bun. How do they all continue
to try to brainwash society with groups like whitesper Kamala?
Sounds like a cult. Oh my gosh, Mandy, you so
has a manbun. Yes, you are all correct, You are
all correct. Oh look at this funny texter. Mandy talks
of femininity, but I repeat myself. Okay, I'm so hurt

(01:41:25):
by that. This is my sad face. Yep, Mandy, what's
the Oh wait, got that one? Yes, the manbun. You
are all correct. A man bun, A fanny pack and crocs, y'all.
I know it's cool to hate on crocs, I get it,
But have you ever put a pair of Crocs on
your feet? I got a couple pairs of croc flops.
I don't have the traditional crocs, but I have a

(01:41:47):
couple pair of croc flops. They are the most comfortable
shoes I have ever had on my feet in my life.
If I could wear them every day and not look
like an idiot. I would, but we all know if
you wear crocs, you do look like an idiot. But
I would wear them proudly. Proudly. Mandy, what an entitled
thing to say that someone who doesn't agree with the

(01:42:08):
abortion issue can just move to another state? Seriously, Okay,
let me explain that very quickly, because I have one
minute left and I'm going to do this one minute.
The greatest thing about the United States of America is
our portability, meaning if you don't like the way they're
running things in Colorado, you can move to another state.
As a matter of fact, a lot of people are
doing that right now. Does it mean that everybody can
pick up and move, No, it doesn't, but it means

(01:42:29):
that the option is there. Is it easy, No, but
the option is there. That's one of the great things
about the federated form of government that we have is
that each state can do its own thing, and each
person can decide whether to stay or whether to go. So, yeah,
I meant that, but I don't think it's stupid. Man Bun, Yes, definitely,

(01:42:54):
Man Bun, for sure. That is toxic masculinity. Mandy is
a masculine man with great hair. I say, you can't
paint manbun crowd with such a broad brush. Okay, but
masculine man with great hair. A lot of the people
that wear man buns are not masculine. Just throwing that
out there. Don't get me wrong. I've seen some very

(01:43:16):
attractive dudes wearing man buns. This guy not one of them,
not at all. You know who doesn't wear a man bun,
Ryan Edwards. He does not wear a man bun, mostly
because his hair is too short. Yeah, and it's thinning.

Speaker 6 (01:43:29):
So I don't think that that's something I could I
could try to pull off even if I wanted.

Speaker 4 (01:43:33):
Oh, you would look weird like Gallagher if you tried
to grow it out now for a man bun. You
can't do that. But hold on free start knocking Gallagher.

Speaker 6 (01:43:39):
There was a time and place where Gallagher was No,
that's not right.

Speaker 4 (01:43:42):
Yeah, in never mind. Yeah, I was going to say,
you need to stop talking right there. Because I've been
a Gallagher fan since the early seventies. I know what
the man looked like back then. He did not have
glorious locks of hair. He did have the smash of
mattic which he used to slam watermelons, which was awesome.
So on that note, now it's time for the most
exciting segment all the radio of its kind in the

(01:44:03):
world of the day. All right, what is our dad
joke of the day?

Speaker 11 (01:44:08):
Couper right, Our dad joke is what do you call
a penguin in the white house?

Speaker 4 (01:44:14):
Penguin in the white house? Gotta be some kind of
black and white joke here. I don't know what lost.
Oh oh, that's funny. That was funny. That sounds good. Yeah,
that was I will accept that as a good joke.
What is our word of the day? Please purport purport
as you purport purport. Dang it, I can use it

(01:44:41):
in a sentence. I don't know if I could actually
define it, which sounds so stupid. Even say purport means
you are implying you are inferring your I can't. I
can't get it.

Speaker 2 (01:44:54):
Yeah, I got nothing, all right.

Speaker 11 (01:44:57):
To purport is to claim to be or do a
particular thing when this claim may not be true.

Speaker 4 (01:45:02):
Okay, okay, Like that time I told you I want
a gold medal at the Olympics, I'm purporting that I
want a gold medal. There you go, dribbling Ryan Edwards
wasn't permitted in the original rules of basketball, so you
had to pass the ball as soon as you caught it.
When was dribbling introduced to the game. Damn, I'm gonna
say nineteen thirty seven. Now I was gonna say somewhere

(01:45:23):
in the.

Speaker 2 (01:45:25):
Close was too late?

Speaker 4 (01:45:27):
Oh really wait, okay, that I don't know. Nineteen oh one. Oh,
the wolves were adapted so you could bounce the ball
once before passing it. Continuous dribbling was introduced in nineteen
oh nine. There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:45:41):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:45:41):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:45:41):
Someone on the text line just pointed out they are
not going to let you into slow jama stand with
that pro croc attitude. Oh my god, don't tell the sultan.
All right, what is our jeopardy category?

Speaker 2 (01:45:50):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:45:51):
Turn that music down just to hair goober. There we go.

Speaker 2 (01:45:55):
All right.

Speaker 8 (01:45:55):
Our jeopardy category is spell that name?

Speaker 4 (01:45:59):
Spell that name?

Speaker 8 (01:46:00):
Okay, get a spell?

Speaker 4 (01:46:01):
Okay, all right?

Speaker 11 (01:46:03):
Question number one the last name of the nineteen eighty
eight Democratic vice presidential nominee.

Speaker 4 (01:46:10):
Eighty eight eighty eight Mandy? Yeah, who was Jack Kemp?

Speaker 6 (01:46:18):
No, dang it, I think I know what it is,
but I don't think I'm know how to speller name.

Speaker 4 (01:46:22):
So, Oh, I got to spell it. I'm such an idiot.
I'm sorry. Go ahead, Benson Lloyd Benson, I yes, yes,
like a spell day it? Go ahead, all right?

Speaker 8 (01:46:33):
Question number two?

Speaker 11 (01:46:34):
According to its fifties ads, it makes the very best chocolate, Ryan, yeap?

Speaker 2 (01:46:44):
What is I mean?

Speaker 4 (01:46:45):
It is?

Speaker 8 (01:46:45):
Hershey's?

Speaker 2 (01:46:46):
I think so?

Speaker 4 (01:46:46):
It's h E R s h E Y postorbs. No Ah,
that's why I sat it out. I didn't think that
was it. I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:46:54):
I don't know Nestle's.

Speaker 4 (01:46:55):
Oh please, okay, there you go get this category, Ryan,
at least I spelled her. She's writing, I know you did?
You did you did? I would have corrected you.

Speaker 11 (01:47:06):
This Houston Menace is Michael Jackson and Captain EO.

Speaker 4 (01:47:11):
This Houston Menace menaces? What say that again?

Speaker 11 (01:47:16):
This Houston Menaces Michael Jackson and Captain EO.

Speaker 4 (01:47:22):
I have no idea, I have no.

Speaker 2 (01:47:25):
Just move on.

Speaker 8 (01:47:25):
What is the answer, Angelica?

Speaker 4 (01:47:27):
Ah? There? Oh Houston got it?

Speaker 8 (01:47:29):
Never mind?

Speaker 4 (01:47:29):
Oh okay, yeah, Ryan, Edward's killing it. Go ahead.

Speaker 11 (01:47:34):
Last name of this actress who co starred with Madonna
in Desperately Seeking Susan Ryan?

Speaker 2 (01:47:41):
Yes? What is s A R A inn d O
n No.

Speaker 4 (01:47:50):
I have no idea. I don't remember who else was
in that movie.

Speaker 8 (01:47:53):
This would be Rosanna our Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:47:58):
One last question. I'm sitting on my big minus one lead.

Speaker 6 (01:48:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:48:02):
Two.

Speaker 4 (01:48:02):
I'm killing it, Ryan, We're killing it all right, like golf.

Speaker 11 (01:48:05):
Right, Yeah, last question, last chance for Ryan to get
back into it.

Speaker 8 (01:48:09):
Orville the popcorn King spells his last.

Speaker 4 (01:48:12):
This way good luck. What is r E D E
N B A c h E R ro Reddenbacher You
got it? Oh my god, D zero one D I
win with zero.

Speaker 2 (01:48:29):
I would have had two d's.

Speaker 4 (01:48:30):
This is a shameful. We're gonna, okay, you know what, Ryan,
what's coming up on k O Sports. We're gonna plan like.

Speaker 6 (01:48:34):
This never happened well spelling for sure, We're gonna have
to redeem ourselves. But now we have to obviously everything
going on with the training camp out here, we're gonna
be monitoring the fires. Uh, the one that popped up
New Lions, of course, is something we're gonna be checking
in on, making sure we get everybody home safe this afternoon.
But yeah, we'll definitely cover quite a bit of what
happened at a training.

Speaker 4 (01:48:52):
Camp, all right. That's coming up next. Keep it right here,
on Koa