07-31-24 FULL SHOW - Weather Wednesday, Three Fires Burning, +Tina Peters On Trial

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Welcome, We welcome to a what day is it? Wednesday?
It's Wednesday, right, yes, Wednesday edition of the show. I'm
your buffunnled host for the next three hours, Mandy Condle.
I've got just Jeff in with me today until what time? Jeff,
I don't know when the handoff occurs, like one and
then who and then a Rod's back from trying to
camp back. Okay, so a rod will be back today.
We have so much stuff going on right now, and

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as you just heard during the news, there is a
lot of activity. We've got three fires burning in the area.
We are going to do weather Wednesday at twelve thirty,
but it's gonna be a quick one. We're gonna take
a quick break because at twelve forty there's going to
be a press conference. The governor is going to be
talking about this. They've got emergency management people coming on.
It is all going to be really good information about

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what resources are coming in. I just got an alert
a press release from FEMA. FEMA has now released federal
funds to fight these fires, especially the Alexander Mountain fire,
So we'll find out more about that, and if you
are in the area, please pay attention. We just found
out today that they did find a body or bodies

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in one of the homes that had burned. And this
is just terrible, we all know. Unfortunately, I hate to
say this, like if you're where I am, I'm down
south right and I'm for some reason, I have this
measure of confidence, like, oh, gosh, youo. The fires are
far away from me. Not that I wish them on anyone,
to be clear, but it's like, oh, but these kind
of fires can break out anywhere. Right now. Everything is

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so dry, we have no humidity. I'm driving home last
night from the Olivia Rodrigu show, which we're going to
talk about in just a moment, because you guys have
to hear this story. Must hear this story about last
night's show. But I could see lightning and I was like, ugh,
you do not want to see lightning right now. We
do not need another fire on the south side, on

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the north side, on the west side, anywhere. So hopefully
we are going to be able to get something under
control here. And it's just this is this is going
to be a really bad fire season. Now that's not
all what that I have on the blog right now,
but I just wanted to let you know Kathy's going
to be coming in throughout the show. Whenever there's any
updates throughout the rest of the day, you can always

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tune into KOA And if there's an update, we're going
to give it to you as soon as possible. So
let me direct your attention to the blog. You can
find the blog mandy'sblog dot com. That's Mandy's blog dot com.
Look for the headline under latest posts. This is seven
thirty one twenty four blog Whether Wednesday, three fires burning
and Tina Peters on trial. Click on that and here

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are the headlines you will find within.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
I didn't miss in office half of American all with
ships and I must say that's a press.

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Plat today on the blog weather Wednesday at twelve thirty
three fires are burning. Now some Venezuelans are not here
in peace? What's the next for Venezuela? Kids under nineteen
can ride RTD for free. The Springs doesn't want legal pot.
Even with all the fawning Kamala press, Trump is still winning.

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Israel took out some trash FBI we'd never doubted. Trump
was hit by a bullet scrolling? Was the Secret Service
set up to fail? So much non political news for
you today. A police recruit who lost his legs is
now suing. Stub Hub is facing a lawsuit. Tatter Cover
is officially sold. Don't eat that Boarshead Deli stuff. Ultra

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processed foods may hurt your brain. Training to failure is
not the best for strength. Sloones Lake is gross right now,
don't toss or take your cup from Red Rocks. Get
your pancake eating pants on. No one likes the hot
tub hog. And now deep thought with Kamala Harris. What
song is that? Mister President? Well done, Mom and dad.

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Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com,
and you should check out all the stories there. We've
got three guests coming up today in addition to the
press conference, we have weather Wednesday coming up at twelve thirty.
We're gonna ask Dave Frasier how long this smoke is
going to be around? Yuck. We already know it's going
to be hot and dry. Let's find out we're gonna
get a rain this weekend, or these winds are gonna

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shift or anything. We'll do that at twelve thirty. Then
at one o'clock I've got Jimmy Singenberger scheduled. He is
coming on. He's been doing great reporting on the saga
of Tina Peters and oh my god, I'm so happy
this trial has started. It is time to put this
nonsense behind us. So we'll talk to Jimmy about that
trial and the fact that not only do I believe

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and others, obviously the prosecutors believe that she broke the
law in her don Keyxoti like quest to prove that
there was massive fraud in Mesa County that somehow swung
the presidential election. And I'm just I'm ready for it
to be over because there is still a good chunk

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of the Republican Party that visits the website she has
set up, freetina dot com. There are people giving her money. Now,
I was told that she was representing herself at trial.
I'm gonna check with Jimmy about that.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
But if she's.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Representing herself, where did the hundreds of thousands of dollars
for legal fees. Go just curious, just curious. And then
we have a young man. He is I believe in
his twenties now, he grew up in Venezuela and until
he was sixteen, and we're going to talk to him
about what's going on now in Venezuela. There is a

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coup going on in that the military has now aligned
themselves with Maduro's opposition. So what has to happen. Do
you think Maduro ends up getting killed? Maybe? I mean,
how long before the peasants from the castle? Right, So
we'll talk to this young man in the two o'clock
hour about that. But I want to start right now.

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In Israel. Right now the White House press griefing is
John Kirby being grilled on the killing of Hamas. Now,
if you guys have not heard about this, y'all, if
there was ever any doubt, the Israel basically looks at
the rest of the world and says, hey, you guys,
let us get slaughtered in World War two. We're not

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waiting for you to help us. It's what has happened today.
I have two stories on the blog about this, and
then right before the show another story broke. Listen to this,
you guys. First of all, Hamas's top political leader is
killed in Iran. Yeah, they hit dude in Iran. He

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went to attend the inauguration of the puppet president of
Iran and they took him out with an airstrike in Iran.
You know what that says. That says, hey, Iran your
number one double fingers. If you know what I mean,

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that says to Iran, you feel froggy jump, but it
gets better or worse depending on your perspective. In Beirut,
now you all know that from Beirut, where Hezbealah is
ConTroll laying Lebanon, they fired a rocket into a soccer
field that killed twelve Dru's children. Now I'm not saying

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Jews weirdly, I'm saying Drew's Druze. This is an Arab
subculture that lives in Israel. And when we went to
Israel to visit my nephew, we got to meet several
of his fellow IDF soldiers that were Drews, and we
went to one of them has a restaurant literally in
the middle of the desert, like you're driving along and

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all of a sudden you're like, oh, what's that in
the field. Oh, that's my friend's restaurant. Okay, whatever, the
best homis I've ever had in my life. I'm just
throwing that out there. But my nephew said, the Drews
people are incredibly private. They do not evangelize their faith.
If you are not born Drews, you are not allowed
to convert. Okay. So it's a very insular faith of people,

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and whoever leaves them alone or protects them is their friend.
But if you mess with them, they will come for
you with a fury that you simply cannot understand. And
so they killed twelve Dru's children on this soccer field.
And today Israeli Air Force fighter jets killed Hesbala's most

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senior military commander at the head of its strategic unit. Yeah,
in Beirut, they struck a military target and killed this dude.
But that's not all. Oh no, this from U. I
don't know what news outlet this is, but listen to
how this starts. In a dramatic turn of events, unconfirmed

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reports from Siria suggest that Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajjizza
don't know how to say that last name, not even
gonna try because he's dead. Why bother. The commander of
the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Forces has been assassinated
in attack near the Syrian capital of Damascus. Hai jes

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the day, Hajiza Day. We're gonna go with that. Hajjizu Day,
a key figure in the Iranian military hierarchy, was reportedly
the senior commander behind the Iranian ballistic and cruise missile
attacks against Israel in April. So in one day, they
take out Hamas leadership in Iran, they take out Hesbal

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leadership in Beirut or right outside be route, and they
take out the head of the Iranian Guard. I mean,
you guys, nothing says come for me Biach more than this.
This is incredibly consequential. This is like, this could be

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the beginning of World War III or not. I don't know,
because genuinely, this could be the thing that makes Iran
versus everyone a hot war. And right now Iran has
China on their side and Russia on their side. Now
Russia is busy with Ukraine, so I can't imagine that
Russia is going to be all that helpful in the

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grand scheme of military campaigns. But China on your side,
that's kind of a big deal. So this although I
truly believe that Israel will never be able to live
in peace as long as Iran is backing all of
these terror fingers right next to Israel, they are completely
Why do you think the leader of a moss was

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at the inauguration of the president of Iran because he's
just a conduit of the Iranian in government, as is
hesbalah as are the Houthis. But to take out if
this is true about the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary
Guard a aerospased forces, that is a direct provocation. And

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this is Israel sending a huge message. And the message
is this, we don't care where you are, we will
kill you. Don't believe us. Try it again, we will
kill you. And I'm sure that Kamala is having a
heart attack right now. She's probably, you know, wondering how
to call the the you know, Benjamin Nett Yahoo, who

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is not taking her seriously in demand that he stopped
killing enemies of his state around the world. He should
wait until they try to come into Israel and then
kill them. That's their strategy. I'm sure, I'm positive so
that This is huge news, and absolutely huge news. I

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have no doubt about that. Mandy. Hi, Mandy just returned
from a week in Hawaii with my family. My earworm
was your theme song all week. So thank you. You're welcome.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
It gets me too. Oh oh, I have to wait
till A Rod's here. No offense, Jeff. So after we
played the Mandy Caddell theme song that a listener time
made for me that I love so much. A guy
that I've worked with at iHeart his name is Ross.
He made me a bunch of different theme songs and
I was crying at my desk yesterday. I was laughing

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so hard. They are so funny. I mean, there's a
country version, there's a hip hop version. It is absolutely hysterical.
Not of this song, not of the same song. Oh
my gosh. The ska version is my favorite. I'm telling you,
it's magic. So we're gonna be getting to those when
a Rod, Yeah, a Rod does this. This person said,

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love how you love to talk about illegal immigrants, but
illegal Israeli settlers are just fine. I've never said a
word about Israeli settlers being fine, not once, because I
strongly disagree with some of the policies allowing settlers. But
the thing you also have to realize is that until
you've seen what a quote settlement looks like, you should
probably shut up. Because I've actually seen it, and until

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that point I thought that Israelis were moving into someone's neighborhood,
taking over their neighborhood, you know, laying down roots whatever. No. No,
the settlements are when Israelis go to a barren spot
in the desert and they build a kibbutz, and they
build greenhouses, and they build things to grow things, and
they grow build welding shops and things to create an

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economy and produce things for the kibbutz. That's what a
settlement is. They're in the middle of nowhere, in the
middle of the desert. So the notion that you probably
have about settlements is not at all accurate. But I've
never said anything because I disagree when an area has
been said, Look, we're gonna stay out of the West Bank,
We're gonna stay out Gaza Strip. By the way, they

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left in two thousand and six. They ripped Jewish multi
generational Jewish families that had been in the Gaza Strip
for decades out of their homes in order to give
them to the Palestinians so they can have a place,
a state where they could live. And the first thing
the Palestinian people did. This is like my favorite story
about this conflict because it's so instructive for those who

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have no idea what's actually going on there. When they
told the Jews to get out of Gaza, and it
was two thousand and five or two thousand and six,
I don't remember which year. I suck at year, so sorry,
but Israel said, go ahead and get all of your stuff,
take it out. And a Jewish businessman from New York
as the farmers who had built these giant greenhouses because

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it's hot as hell, you're in a desert. You cannot
grow things out like we grow them here. It's impossible.
So they have all these very complex, you know, greenhouses
with growth systems and irrigation and all this stuff. And
this business band from New York said, how much do
you need to leave those greenhouses for the Palestinian people?
How much do you need and they said, we need
seven million dollars to pay for all of the infrastructure,

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so we can then go buy new stuff and build
another greenhouse on somewhere else, and he said, great, here's
a check. Leave the greenhouses. So they left all the
greenhouses intact. They left everything for the Palestinian people. Do
you know what the Palestinian people did with those greenhouses?
They destroyed them because they didn't want any of the
dirty Jews stuff. Now, that just goes to show how

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incredibly irrational the Palestinian people are when it comes to
stuff like this, and when people talk about it's like
that prison in there, No, it's really not. Gaza has
some of the best beaches on the Mediterranean right there,
and they had big hotels and shops and walkways and thoroughfares,

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all because Israel was providing their electricity in their water.
Because they never used any of the billions of dollars
in aid for things like desalination plants or electricity plants.
They never did. They've never done it because they spent
all that money digging tunnels so they could kill Jews.
There you go, that's the that's the conflict right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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I think Israel should adopt the USA. The USA women's
gymnastics team FAAFO. Well, it's just FAFO. Use f around.
Comma find out FAFO. Everyone knows right FAFO. So yeah,
to be clear, I don't agree with everything that Israel does.

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I don't, I never have. But what I do agree
is that Israel would be happy, overjoyed even to coexist
with neighbors who were not trying to murder them on
a regular basis. They would be happy to be able
to have a demilitarized country where you didn't have to
go through checkpoints to get from one point to another

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in certain parts of the country. They would love that.
But the reality is they keep getting attacked by people
who spend billions of dollars on aid, not building infrastructure
and taking care of their people, but building tunnels specifically
with the purpose of killing Jews. So until you Texter
can fix that, keep your little sonawty comments to yourself,

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because you just make yourself look foolish, at least to me. Anyway.
Illegal settlers period, not their land. Ooh guess what if
we're going to decide whose land is what based on
how long they've been there? Okay, let's just use that
stand Who was there first? Who was there first? Do
you know the Alexa temple right there in Jerusalem? Do

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you know it's built on top of a Jewish temple.
Do you know that the history of the Jewish people
goes back three to five thousand years in that region
of the world. Do you know that that Jordan is
called Jordan because of a Jewish word? I mean, you, guys,
if it's a battle of who was there first, the

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Jews were there before everyone. The Jews were there for
thirteen fourteen hundred years before Muhammad was even born. So
I don't know where you get this, not the land
the illegal settlers. Okay, by what standard? By what standard?
Because if you use my standard, Israel wins every single time.
But thanks for playing. We are going to come back.

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We're going to do a quick whether Wednesday with Dave Fraser.
Are specifically focusing on are we going to see blue
skies again anytime soon? And what the wind is doing
and all that stuff, and then right after that we're
going to take a break. Come back at twelve forty five.
There is going to be a very comprehensive press conference
about these fires, the response. We're going to carry it
all here on KOA. If you are in the fire zone,

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we're going to have all the latest news all day,
so keep it right here with us, and know that I,
for one, am praying for everyone in these areas. I'm
praying that these fires only consume trees and brush and
land and not homes and humans. So if you're a
prayerful type, you may want I do the same. We'll
be right back. Dave Fraser from Box thirty one. Okay, Dave,

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you got the smoke out last weekend for the weekend,
and I need you to turn your smokinator dial and
go ahead and send it somewhere else for this weekend too.
Can you do that for me?

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (19:35):
I actually think we'll start to see that later tonight
and tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (19:39):
Yeah, here's the thing, And I know we're short on time,
so a little bit of good news, but it's not immediate.
It is on the horizon, so you may not notice
it and know where on anybody else. But we had
a week cold front come in this morning. By that,
I mean we're dropping temperatures maybe three or four degrees.
You're not going to notice the difference in the heat.
Humidity levels are still low. So when we talk about

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fire weather conditions, we look at three things warm temperatures, humidity,
and wind. That is the driving force. That cold front
that came in has switched the wind to an easterly direction.
So for the last couple of days, we've had a
westerly wind kind of blowing on the back side of
these fires off to the west of Denver. That smoke
is what you're seeing outside today. This easterly wind will

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become a southeasterly wind tomorrow and that will push the
fire back up the foothills and disperse the smoke. So
I think you will notice the conditions.

Speaker 4 (20:28):
Down here at lower elevations, and when.

Speaker 5 (20:30):
The foothills close to the fire, there's still going to
be air quality concerns for smoke, but down here we
should notice this improvement as soon as tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
Any chance of rain in the forecast for this weekend
that can help with these fires.

Speaker 5 (20:42):
Yes, And that's the other thing with the cold front.
So we're going to turn the wind.

Speaker 4 (20:46):
To the south and east.

Speaker 5 (20:47):
That eds in higher humidity and even higher humidity even
if we can't yield rain. You hail the fire officials
talking about conditions cooler temperatures, lighter wind, and higher humidity.
A higher humidity to suppress the fire doesn't extinguish it,
but it's like a mistiss the moistures in the moisture
is in the air now. I do have a chance

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in the mountains that they could see scattered storms starting
tomorrow and every single day moving forward for the next week.
Down here at lower elevations. I think southsiders over the
Palmer divide, so think of four to seventy and south
could get a storm or two tomorrow and there could
be pockets of heavy rain. Friday, I think is a
better chance for scattered storm. Saturdays looking dry, Sundays not great.

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But then next week Monday, Tuesday looks fantastic, Wednesday looks great,
Thursday looks great, Friday looks good. I think we're going
to tap into the monsoons. Temperatures are going to drop
into the eighties as early as Tuesday, and I think
over that four day period, the front range in the
foothills could be looking at an inch or an inch
and a half more in the foothills, and we could

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be looking at a half to three quarters of an
inch of moisture over that four day period. That would
be fantastic, and that's what we're focusing our podcast on.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
That is what we're all hoping for. That would be
absolutely out incredible. I was reading yesterday, Dave. I've got
about a minute and a half here. There is a massive,
the largest I think in California history firefire fire out there,
and they've got no rain in the forecast, and this
thing is like one hundred and eighty five thousand acres
or some crazy amount like that. Yeah, are they going

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to be able? Is anything coming their way now?

Speaker 5 (22:23):
The pattern isn't shifting for them. It's beneficial for us
here in Colorado. I don't know that they're going to
get much help. And when you're dealing with that large
of an acreage fire, yeah, you really need a big,
big storm system. All we need right now is to
get a handle on it. The fire's behavior today, it's
always a radic in the fire, but the lighter winds
are definitely happening. I mean look outside right now, you'll

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notice things aren't moving, and so you know, the wind
is like a billow on a fire right in downs
the plans and we don't want to do that. I
think we're going to see improvement here. The challenge for
the firefighters that you guys have been reporting is the
rugget terrains to be an air support. So they're attacking
it from the air, but they're defending on the ground
the property right the local firefighters and stuff. So my

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hope is that we can contain it and not have
to be talking about additional depths or additional loss of property.
As we saw with the Stone Canyon fire yesterday. We
could see it on the air with our helicopter. When
you see black smoke, the fire has hit something combustible, right.
That can be a car, it can be a home,
something with chemicals in it. The white smoke, the dingy smoke,
that's the wildfire. But when you see black smoke, you

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hit something different, And we were watching that happen yesterday.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
Unfortunately, I hope we don't see a whole lot more
black smoke. Thanks a lot, Dave. We'll talk to you
next week, my friend.

Speaker 4 (23:35):
I take Caremedie.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
All right, that's Dave Frasier of Fox thirty one. We're
going to take a break right now. As soon as
we come back, we're going to be joining a press
conference out as soon as it starts with more information
about the fires, the support systems, all of that stuff
that is coming up next on KOA. Got a couple
of stories that I want to touch on really quickly one. Okay,
so yesterday I was talking about that massive takeover of

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a second of Aurora by a bunch of Venezuelan immigrants
who and I'm not saying they're not citizens. I don't
know the nationality or the current status of any of
those people, but what I do know is they all
have a connection to Venezuela. They all got together, which
I get to celebrate the possible, you know, destruction of
the Maduro regime and return to some kind of normalcy

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in Venezuela. But I was mad about the trash left behind,
and somebody said, well, what about the violence. I'm like
I all I saw was that there were some gunshots
fired into the air, because in third world nations, that's
what they do, and now Venezuela is the third world nation.
It didn't used to be, but it is now. So
apparently that texture may have been talking about the fact

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that Venezuelan gangs have now come to Denver and in
a rather concerning story, I think, although I don't know
how many of these kind of warnings they get, the
Venezuelan street game trend eerra oh hang on, something just
popped up trend ar Regua. My Spanish is as good
as my Arabic. Just to let you know. They are

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believed to have been given the green light to attack
and kill police officers in Denver.

Speaker 6 (25:14):
Now.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
I don't know how often one of these little reports
are put out there, but the Albuquerque Police Department was like, hey, yeah,
this Venezuelan streaking is going to start killing cops, so
be ready. And I'm thinking that's not good. That's not
good at all. These Central American gangs are incredibly dangerous.

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How do I know this? Chuck and I watched the
shows on gangsters all the time. It's one of our
you know how couples have like go to shows. Everybody
has a go to show. Right in our house it
is Bones. We watch Bones repeats, We watch NCIS repeats,
and we watch gangster shows. Anything about the mafia. There's
a narrator from I think he's did a British or Australian.

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I really can't tell, and normally I can, and he
doesn't say mafia. He says mafia, the mafia. So we
watch shows about the mafia, and then shows about drug
lords and gang members and all these people that have
just been and the Central American gangs. Man, they don't play.
They don't have the same sense of you know, and
I put this in air quotes honor that the Italian

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mafia had or they worried about, you know, indiscriminate killings.
These people they don't care they're dealing drugs or knowing
they're full of fentanel and knowing that they're going to
kill a certain number of their client base, and they
just view it as a costume doing business. It never
occurs to them to think, Wow, we're just murdering human

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beings with these drugs. Nope, They're just all about the benjamins.
And so now apparently this Venezuelan gang is in Denver,
and Denver cops need to look out for this. That's unnerving,
really unnerving. We'll see if we can get anyone from
the Denver Police Department. But I want to ask the
police officers in our audience, and we have several how
often do things like this come across How often are you,

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as a police officer given some kind of hey, this
gang could be after you now warning? Is this all
the time? Is this normal? Is this you know? How
it's done? I don't know you can text us on
the Common Spirit Health text line at five six six nine.
Oh Mandy Tda is a Venezuelan MS thirteen nasty, nasty ombres.

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There you go, there you go. Anyway, let's see here
looking at the text pass, they are only dangerous because
our society and government prevents us from defending ourselves. You know,
here's the thing, Okay, First of all, I don't disagree
with that. I mean, you know, you gotta be able

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to protect yourself, but ultimately you as a human beings,
as a good and decent human being, as I am
inclined to believe that the people who listen to this
show are. I'm sure there's some scumbags among you, but
I think overwhelmingly are a good and decent you know population.
Most of us do not want to have to kill someone,
right Like I would defend myself and my family. I

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would kill someone if they were trying to kill me.
It's why I have a concealed carry permit. It's why
I know how to shoot a gun. I mean, that's
why I do it. But the thought of it still
I don't want to do it. I don't want to
have it happen. I don't want to live through that.
I don want to live with the aftermath because I'm
a good and decent person and I grew up thinking
that the Ten Commandments sounded like a pretty good idea,

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and do not murder is pretty prominent in that. So
these these guys have none of that. They have no remorse,
they have no no empathy, no sympathy for the people
whose lives they destroy and murder. I mean, they just
don't have it. This text are great. Thanks so much,

(28:49):
Biden Harris. Correct, thanks so much, Denver. Hey, let's welcome
them all in. You realize that most of the people
that we have helped, and I'm not implying that all
of the people that we have helped are in a gang, Okay,
that's not what I'm saying, but a vast majority of
the people that we have helped are from Venezuela. So
there is a possibility that your tax dollars in mind
went to buy apartments, food, computers, cell phones for Venezuelan

(29:15):
gang members. Now we don't know that they're Venezuelan gang
members because there was no vetting whatsoever done, Thanks Biden Harris.
We have no idea who's in our country. We have
no idea what their intentions are, We have no idea
what their entire like what they're doing. So A Rod

(29:36):
has now joined me in the studio. Good to see you,
a Rod. I thought you were dead. I'm alive and
well I know you're alive and well. So we're going
to go to this here as soon as this press
conference starts, correct, We're just gonna jump in. We don't
know how long it's going to last, but there's a
lot of people that are scheduled to speak, including the governor.
Congressman Joe no Goose is going to be there. I'm
sure he's going to talk about the federal government support

(29:57):
and response and all that stuff. So, uh yeah. Mandy,
a friend works for Aurora Water. He received a call
from an apartment building owner. He wanted the whole building's
waters shut off. When asked why, he said Venezuelan gangs
had taken it over and he hoped by shutting off
the water they would leave. They wanted to tell the

(30:19):
shut off workers to be accompanied by Aurora PD. I
would love it, Texter, if you could email me about
that story. I think that is the kind of thing
that needs to be talked about because who are their neighbors?
What's going on there? Are they in their cooking meth?
What are they doing anyway?

Speaker 7 (30:40):
Mandy?

Speaker 3 (30:40):
A few weeks ago there was a post that these
Venezuelan gangs in the Denver area were posing as delivery
people and robbing houses when people answer the door. That
from Alexa, Great, Alexa, Does anybody answer the door for
the Amazon guy?

Speaker 2 (30:53):
Know?

Speaker 3 (30:54):
No one does? Ring my doorbell? Take your picture and
you can go.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
I do half of them ring the doorbell, and half
of them don't.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
I never know, Well, ours says ring the doorbell? Oh,
just so we know they dropped the package. Ours does
not and have to and half don't. And then the
other half one of those half did They just ding
dong and then leave, ding dong and leave. And then
the other half just throw it and walk away.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Some ring, some don't, Some walk across the lawn, some don't,
Some throw it, some don't.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
Now are these Amazon drivers or FedEx drivers? Because I
have a FedEx friend who might be listening right now,
Anton might be listening right now.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
I would say ninety percent of them are Amazon drivers,
and maybe seventy percent of those are in like an
official Amazon vean. There, that's weird lights. Weird lights.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
Little you've never noticed the little tiny lights on the
front of the Amazon truck with a little orange They
go around this.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Superly, get the side view, and they pull up along
the side the house.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
But then the other thirty percent or so are in
their private vehicles.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
But Amazon out, have you been getting packages at like
four o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
I do something overnights.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
Sit back and watch the ridiculous trial of Tina Peters
take place. Today is our day, people, and no one's
been covering the story better than Jimmy Seingenberger in his
columns in the Denver Gazette and also on this program
and Ryan's program and other programs. Jimmy, welcome to the show.
First of all, oh did I hit the button?

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (32:14):
I'm sorry, corn popping times.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Yes, it is finally, finally, finally. Now, Jimmy, how wanted
you to come on because you just did a great
column and we're gonna have to take a break here
in just a minute. Can you stay to the top
of the Oh no you can't. So let's get in quick,
sure layout. What happened as briefly as possible kind of layout.
Why team of Peters's on trial.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
Yeah, bottom line. In twenty twenty one, in about May,
somebody who The New York Times discovered was Goes by
the name of Conan and Hayes. He's the former pro
surfer back in the nineteen nineties, went in during the
process of updating election equipment called a trusted build with
the name badge for a Gerald Wood. Now that was

(32:55):
not who the person was, gerald Wood. It was this
Conan Hayes. But they may copies of the election servers
and leaked those online. This was surrepicious, This was allegedly illegal,
flagrantly on ethical The other day, I filled in for
Ross on Monday, and I had Jerry Wood and his
wife Wendy on the show to talk about this, and

(33:18):
he had He says he had no idea that his
badge was going to be used. He was just being
brought in to be on standby for possible it work,
to maybe help out with copying some drives, but had
no idea it was going to go like this. And
now here we are. It's an alleged election security breach
involving a complex identity theft scheme. Mandy and that's what's

(33:39):
happening in Mason County.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
And now Tina Peters, who has managed to get this
thing delayed, delayed, delayed for two and a half, almost
three years, she is now facing trial. Now, Jimmy, did
I hear right? Is she representing herself?

Speaker 5 (33:53):
You know, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Sure about that.

Speaker 4 (33:55):
I thought she was on a fifth legal team. If
she is, and that's some that I had missed, and
I would want to check into that. I know she
has burned through at least five different legal teams over
the last two and a half years. This whole investigation
began in August of twenty twenty one when it was
leaked these images of the hard drives were leaked at

(34:17):
Mike Lindell's conference Cyber Symposium, and then she was indicted
on seven felonies and a handful of misdemeanors in I
think about February or so of twenty twenty two, and
in that time, five legal teams and four trial delays.
And I'll tink auble check on that.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
If she is representing I thought I read that somewhere
and I thought that would truly prove to be absolute
lunacy on her part, because as a lawyer will tell
you a person who represents themselves as a fool for
a client. So what is the possible outcome here.

Speaker 4 (34:51):
Well, I think it is entirely possible that there could
be a prison time depending on what the jury ends
up deciding. I mean, the bottom line here is that
she is alleged to have undergone all of these steps
and admitted to a lot of the facts too. By
the way, in terms of having had the hard drives
copy gotten somebody in there, we know Colin Hayes's confirmed

(35:13):
that he was the one who used gerald Wood's badge
to go in and make the copies. So a lot
of these things we know enough certainly to say that
she is guilty of unethical conduct. The question is is
she guilty of felonies here which could include prison time
as a result. And I would just say this too,
she underwent this to prove some sort of stolen election

(35:37):
during her campaign or fail bid to be the Republican
nominee for Secretary of State. In twenty twenty two, she
released three different so called reports that if you talk
to actual election experts, reveal bupkiss In fact, they don't
show anything in terms of election fraud or anything of
the sort. And I interviewed her at the time and

(35:58):
she could not back up of those claims. And so
if you make the cases some of our supporters do, Mandy,
that the ends justify the means. The problem is that
there are no actual ends that were achieved there except embarrassment.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
Well, and it's not going to help that two of
her assistants, her chief deputy and an aid, have already
pleaded guilty the lesser charges in exchange for their testimony
against Tina Peters. So this is not going to end well.
And the level of delusion she is continuing to show
is mind boggling. It's almost George Costanz alike. It's not

(36:34):
a lie if you believe it, Jimmy, and that's what
Tina Peter seems to be rolling with up to this point.
Good luck to her. I don't think it's going to
end well.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
Yeah, I don't think so as well. I have a
feeling that the jury is going to look at these
facts and draw a conclusion that isn't going to work
in her favor. But you never know. I mean, when
we're talking about ethical conduct, that's clear, but that doesn't
mean that specific laws were necessarily broken and the jury
process right.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
Jimmy Sandingberger, thanks for your time today. You're doing a
great job covering and obviously we'll be talking about it
as it comes to its resolution. Thanks for making time
for me today.

Speaker 6 (37:09):
Jimmy, Hey, thanks, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
All right, have a good one. Kathy Walker in the
studio with us. Now we've got a new evacuation order.
What is that?

Speaker 8 (37:16):
Yeah, we know the Alexander Mountain fire west of Loveland
has pushed over six thousand, seven hundred and eighty one
acres today and now mandatory evacuations have been ordered for
dun Raven Glade that includes the area along County Road
forty three, Streamside Drive Dunraven Glade Road.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
The evacuation area.

Speaker 8 (37:36):
Extends north past Miller Fork Road and dun Raven Trailhead.
Residents in this area were previously under a voluntary evacuation status.
They have now been upgraded to mandatory evacuation status west
of Loveland.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
All right, we will have all your updates as they
become available on all three of the fires burning in Colorado.
We'll be right back. I'm intrigued because the listener said, Mandy,
did you see this? And the other day, I talked
about Trump not just running against Kamala Harris. He's running
against the full orgasmic left wing media who are so
excited that their horrible candidate they've been propping up for

(38:12):
two and a half years is not the candidate. And
now they've elevated this woman without a single vote, and
they're all excited about saving democracy by throwing out votes.
But whatever, it's fine. But ABC's Rachel Scott, this is
from Greg Price's ex account. ABC's Rachel Scott opens her
interview with President Trump at the NABC conference National Association

(38:34):
of Black Journalists Conference by calling him a racist for
criticizing black politicians and journalist And this is how that
what let me mention that williumes up Eric, Yeah, give
him my computer real quick. It's not true.

Speaker 9 (38:50):
You have told four congressmen women of color who are
American citizens to go back to where they came from.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
You have used words like animal and.

Speaker 9 (38:57):
Rabbit to describe black district Attorney n You've attacked black journalists,
calling them a loser, saying the questions that they ask
are quote stupid and racist. You've had dinner with the
white supremacist at.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
Your monologue resort.

Speaker 9 (39:11):
So my question, sir, now that you are asking black
supporters to vote for you, why should black voters trust
you after you have used language like that.

Speaker 10 (39:22):
Well, first of all, I don't think I've ever been
asked the question so in such a horrible manner a
first question. And don't even say, hello, how are you
are you with ABC? Because I think they're a fake
news network and terrible network.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
And I think it's.

Speaker 10 (39:41):
Disgraceful that I came here in good spirit. I love
the black population of this country. I've done so much
for the black population of this country, including employment, including
Opportunity Zones with Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, which
is one of the greatest programs ever for black workers

(40:04):
and black entrepreneurs.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
I done so much.

Speaker 10 (40:07):
And you know, and I say this, Historically, black colleges
and universities were out of money. There were stone call broke,
and I saved them and I gave them long term
financing and nobody else was doing it. I think it's
a very rude introduction. I don't know exactly why you would.

Speaker 7 (40:26):
Do something like that.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
And let me go a step further.

Speaker 10 (40:29):
I was invited here and I was told my opponent,
whether it was Biden or Kamala. I was told my
opponent was going to be here. It turned out my
opponent isn't here. You invited me under false pretense, and
then you said you can't do it with zoom. Well
you know where's zoom. She's going to do it with
zoom and she's not coming. And then you were half

(40:50):
an hour a Just so we understand, I have too
much respect.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
For you to be late.

Speaker 7 (40:54):
They couldn't get their equipment working or something.

Speaker 10 (40:57):
I think it's a very nasty question.

Speaker 3 (41:00):
I have answered the question.

Speaker 10 (41:02):
I have been the best president for the black population
since Abraham Lincoln Johnson signed the mounting right back for
you to start off my question and answer period.

Speaker 7 (41:14):
Especially when you're.

Speaker 10 (41:15):
Thirty five minutes late because you couldn't get your equipment
to work in such a hostile manner, I think it's
a disgrace.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
I really now that that's a different kind of take
to the question. Essentially, she started the interview by saying,
when did you stop meeting your wife? You know, it
was one of those like, Okay, you're a horrible person,
so why should we vote for you even though you're
a horrible person? Interesting take. You know, I understand journalists,

(41:43):
in all honesty, you get one shot in these situations.
She knows that she is never going to have the
opportunity to interview Donald Trump again. And it doesn't have
anything to do with her question. It's when you are
a certain tier of journalists, you don't get access to
the president. Soh she decided she was going to step
up and take a big swing, and I have to
say that was That's one way to go about it.

(42:08):
Shut him down. But what was interesting is you heard
people clapping, not a lot I'd liked. I'm gonna go
find the rest of that interview and watch the rest
of it to see how it went from there. But
great point, Hey I'm here, she's not. I showed up.
She didn't. I mean, just showing up matter. I kind
of think it does, but then again that's just me. Now,

(42:30):
when we get back, we have so much stuff on
the blog that I've got to get to. And coming
at the two thirty, we're going to talk to a
young man who stay he was at He was in
Venezuela until he was sixteen years old. He actually spoke
at the twenty sixteen protest against Maduro and obviously he
is excited about what's happening. Now, we're going to talk

(42:51):
to him at two thirty. When we get back, though,
I've got a bunch of stories that have nothing to
do with politics. One, if you're under nineteen, you can
hop on the art TD for free. Well free to you.
Nothing's free in this world. The rest of us will
pay for it. But I don't hate this plan. We'll
be right back. The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by
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Speaker 2 (43:12):
No, it's Mandy Connell on kla AM ninety one.

Speaker 3 (43:21):
M s got Way Stay and the ninety's three, Mandy Connall.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
Keeping the real sad thing, the two minute drill at
two Hey, we're gonna go too minute warnings.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
Rapid fire stories of the day that we don't have
more time for.

Speaker 7 (43:41):
IM not check.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
Let's call this so it'll take longer than two minutes.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Are are you up?

Speaker 2 (43:46):
Here's Mandy Connall.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
All right, my friends, I just mentioned this story before
the break. RTD fares are now free for people nineteen
and younger. Now we all have to look at RTD
as basically everyone else that drives a car is subsidizing
the free rides or cheap rides for everybody else. So
if we're gonna subsidize rides for other people, let's make
it kids. Because free bus fair is often the thing

(44:12):
that allows a kid to take take part in an
extracurricular activity and it allows them to stay after school
to get the tutoring that they need because they don't
have to worry about transportation home. I actually am in
favor of this, but it's really a marketing plan by RTD.
Much like Joe Cammell was put forth to get young
kids hooked on cigarettes, this is designed to get kids
used to riding the bus. It's not a bad strategy,

(44:34):
and maybe they'll turn into good rate payers or not.
I don't know, but at least it will help some
kids do better in school and be able to participate
in things they otherwise would not be able to participate in.
So if my money's gonna pay for somebody else's stuff, eh,
this one is not as bad.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
As it could be too.

Speaker 3 (44:53):
Absolutely horrible story on Fox thirty one's website today about
a recruit named Victor Moses that was going through the
police academy in Denver. He's filed a lawsuit that alleges
aggressive officers knocked him down multiple times in the second
round of Fight Day last year. What is fight day?

(45:13):
Fight day is the couple of days where police recruits
have to fight. They don't do this just to prove
how tough they are. They do this because on the
streets there are times when they are going to have
to fight. Amazingly, not all criminals want to be arrested,
and many of them put up quite a brewjaja. A
police officer has to understand this and has to be
able to take a beating and continue working. Now, what

(45:36):
I find fascinating about this is that mister Moses has
sickle cell anemia. I don't know a lot about sickle
cell anemia, but he says that it puts in at
an increased risk of medical complications from high intensity exercise.
Shouldn't that be an excluding factor from a job that
offered requires short bursts of high intensity exercise. This just

(45:57):
seems like a bad idea. And I'm not being judgmental
because I don't know, but that seems like that should
be taken into consideration.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
Drill it too.

Speaker 3 (46:07):
It's final. Barnes and Noble now owns the tattered cover
and you know I love a bookstore, so I'm gonna
keep talking about this. But a bankruptcy judge sealed the deal.
All the creditors have been paid, and Barnes and Noble
has promised to not do really anything to change the
tattered cover and it's local bookstore feel. But the tattered
cover will have the opportunity to tap into volume buying

(46:28):
that Barnes and Noble can bring. So it's going to
be interesting. But tattered cover is here to stay. We'll
see if any changes actually take place.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
Drill it too.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
If you love Borshead Deli meat like I love Borshead
Deli meat, you need to know. Boar's Heead is now
recalling seventy one products made between May tenth and July
twenty ninth under the Boar's Head and Old Country brand names.
These were all made at the same factory in Virginia, Jarrett, Virginia,
and there's been a listeria outbreak attached to these cold cuts.

(47:01):
If you have any cold cuts you bought recently a
King Super, go ahead and take them back or whatever store.
Take them back, get a refund, and do not eat
your boars Head meat. Although it seems like a terrible,
terrible thing to throw away delicious cold cuts. But here
we are sometimes it's necessary.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
Rill it too.

Speaker 3 (47:20):
Speaking of ultra processed foods, do they harm your brain?
People who regularly eat processed red meat like hot dogs, bacon, sausage, salami,
and maloney have a greater risk of developing dementia later
in life. This was a conclusion to some research presented
this week at Alzheimer's Association's International Conference. Now, the researchers

(47:41):
were very, very careful to point out that correlation does
not equal causation, and that lots of people eat these
things every day and don't develop dementia. So I'm guessing
this is just one of many risk factors that exist
that probably need to be paid attention to. But I
would not throw your rights brand bacon out just yet,
not yet anyway. But it does lead to a longer

(48:03):
conversation about ultraprocessed foods. What are they? If you pick
up a package an item at the grocery store and
you flip it around to look at the ingredients. If
you can't buy the ingredients that are on the back
of that box or can or whatever in the grocery store,
that should be considered ultra process because those chemicals, those additives,

(48:23):
those are the things that make an ultra process. Try
and eat as much real food as you can, real food,
unfettered food, food that you actually cook yourself. It's amazing.
I can get you a cookbook if you need help.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
It too.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
And finally, I kind of love this story because I've
had personal trainers who are like you, go to work
to failure every single set. But now a very comprehensive
study from the Florida Atlantic University has showed that if
you want to gain strength and be healthier, working to
failure is not necessary. Now, if you don't lift weights,
working to failure is getting to your last set and

(48:57):
not being able to finish that last set, or coming
very close to not being able to finish that last set.
If you want to build bulk, you want to work
to failure. If you want to build strength and be healthy,
you don't need to work that hard. You can lift
lighter weights and get through that last rep without a
problem and still gain as much strengths as the people

(49:17):
working to failure. But you're not gonna get his bulky,
which is fine with me. I mean, that's it, that's it.
For the two minute drill today. When we get back,
I got a bunch of stuff on the blog today.
I'm trying to figure out what I want to You
guys have to go see the blog and you know
what I'm gonna do when we get back. The congressional
hearings with the new head of the Secret Service, the

(49:40):
interim head of the Secret Service. And this dude he
looks like he is from the Secret Service. Have you
seen these videos a rod You got to go look
at him. He's got the high and tight crew cut.
He looks like like, you don't want to mess with
this dude. But you know who messed with him, Senator
Ted Cruz and Senator Mike Lee. Holy mackerel, did they
take him to the woodshed in a big way. The

(50:04):
Secret Service is not helping itself by not having answers
to these questions in these congressional hearings. It is getting
harder and harder to believe that there was not willful
misconduct that allowed the shooting of Donald Trump to happen.
I'm trying so hard because I want to believe in

(50:26):
our in our you know, I want to believe in
our law enforcement officers. Some of my favorite people I've
ever known have been in law enforcement. I've known people
in the FBI, I've known people at law enforcement agencies
at every level. Some of my favorite people. I just
think that, for the most part, people get into law
enforcement to do the right thing, and I just don't
feel like that is what's happening, and I don't like

(50:46):
that feeling. We're going to talk about what happened yesterday.
I'll play some of this audio, scorching audio by Ted
Cruz and Mike Lee, directed at the Secret Service. This
is kind of interesting. Tech is is moving towards Trump.
David Marcus is the CEO and co founder of light Spark.

Speaker 7 (51:05):
They do it.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
It's a payment platform. They he does crypto, He's worked
for Meta, he led PayPal. He's really really rich and
he is in tech. And he just posted this. And
I'm not going to read the whole thing because it's long,
but I'm gonna read the opening part. I am crossing
the rubicon and backing the Republican Party and President Trump. Many,

(51:29):
including a former version of myself, get trapped in a
mental framework that becomes their identity and prevents them from
radically evolving their thinking with new facts and information. I
finally broke free from it. And then he goes on
to talk about how even back in twenty seventeen, he
was meeting with the DNC to raise one hundred million

(51:49):
dollars from Silicon Valley founders and executives to create a
better framework for the DNZ and they essentially said, we'll
take your money. Well, you're not going to tell us
what to do with it. But that wasn't even the
worst part. He went to DC in twenty nineteen when
he was with META and he was meeting with lawmakers,
and this is what he said. He said, however, I

(52:11):
was shocked to learn that, for the most part, Republicans
cared more deeply about their constituents, while Democrats, in my experience,
cared more about government power and control. This is my
observation on balance, with many stories to back it up.
I also found that more Republicans wanted to understand our
project's goals and took the time to learn about the
risks of censoring payments. I found myself remarkably aligned with him.

(52:34):
Then he goes to talk about COVID and so on
and so forth. I just retweeted it, it's worth your read.
I'll put it on the blog tomorrow, but now I
want to get to Senator Ted Cruz talking to the
new head, the acting Secret Service Director. And y'all, I've
never been a Ted Cruiz fan. I never have. He
looks like Grandpa from the Adams family to me, and

(52:56):
he's always seemed very like everything he does seems very contrived.
And you know, we all know he wanted to run
for president, but I'm starting to like him, especially after
interviews like this. Oh give me my audio there ered sorry.

Speaker 11 (53:09):
The incumbent upon this committee to determine why those security
failures happened. Just after the shooting, Secret Service put out
an official statement from your spokesperson that says, there's an
untrue assertion that a member of the former president's team
requested additional security resources that.

Speaker 7 (53:29):
Those were rebuffed. This is absolutely false.

Speaker 11 (53:32):
In fact, we added protective resources and technology and capabilities
as part of the increased campaign travel tempo.

Speaker 12 (53:39):
Was this tweet accurate with respect to Butler Pennsylvania? It
is accurate, sir.

Speaker 7 (53:46):
It is accurate that.

Speaker 11 (53:50):
The Trump team had not asked for additional security and
had not been rebuffed.

Speaker 12 (53:54):
If you're talking about Butler, Pennsylvania. All assets requested were approved.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
If you're talking about the media.

Speaker 12 (54:00):
Reporting of assets requested, there are times when assets were
unavailable and not able to be filled, and those gaps
were staffed with state, local law enforcement tactical assets.

Speaker 11 (54:15):
So I'm reading from the Washington Post July twentieth, twenty
twenty four. Secret Service said to a denied request for
more security at Trump events the opening paragraph, top officials
of the US Secret Service repeatedly denied requests for additional
resources and personnel sought by Donald Trump's security detail in
the two years leading up to his attempted assassination, according
to four people familiar with the requests. Is that right

(54:38):
that repeatedly the Trump detail asked for more resources and
repeatedly Secret Service leadership turned that down.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
That is not accurate.

Speaker 12 (54:46):
Senator, assets are requested. There's a process that has made
How many requests.

Speaker 7 (54:53):
Did the Trump team or the Trump.

Speaker 2 (54:55):
Detail ask for?

Speaker 12 (54:56):
I can get you that number in a Q.

Speaker 7 (54:59):
You don't know.

Speaker 9 (54:59):
Now.

Speaker 12 (55:00):
I can speak to the ones that reported in the
Washington Post and we can go through them if you like.

Speaker 7 (55:04):
But you don't know how many requests there were in general?

Speaker 12 (55:09):
How many requests since twenty twenty one, that the former
Trump Detail has made a requests for asking You've had
two weeks.

Speaker 11 (55:14):
You had a spokesperson put something out that is false
on its face. By the way, did you approve this
statement when it went out?

Speaker 2 (55:21):
I don't know if I did or didn't say.

Speaker 7 (55:23):
Has this spokesperson is he still employed?

Speaker 2 (55:25):
Does he still still employed?

Speaker 7 (55:26):
So he lied on behalf of the Secret Service? He
still has a job. Did your predecessor, the former director,
does she approve the statement?

Speaker 2 (55:33):
Senator?

Speaker 12 (55:34):
Our comms team they send out statements, they do deconflict them,
and they put them out.

Speaker 7 (55:41):
Did she approve this statement?

Speaker 2 (55:43):
I don't know if she did or did not say.

Speaker 7 (55:45):
And you don't know if you did either.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
I don't recall approving it.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
Senator.

Speaker 11 (55:52):
Will you commit to provide this committee in writing every
written request for additional resources from the Trump Camp pain
or the Trump Detail, and every response from Secret Service?

Speaker 12 (56:04):
Senator, I will commit to providing responses and getting you
the information that you are seeking.

Speaker 11 (56:12):
May ask you something and who makes the decision to
deny those requests?

Speaker 7 (56:16):
Did you make that decision?

Speaker 12 (56:18):
Which requests are you talking about?

Speaker 6 (56:19):
The ones that read any of the posts?

Speaker 7 (56:21):
Yes, the processor.

Speaker 12 (56:23):
Is that a detail will make a request for either
staffing technical assets that is handled between the field office
and the detail. It goes up to a logistics office between.

Speaker 7 (56:36):
Okay, so there's a bureaucracy. Is there a decision maker?

Speaker 11 (56:39):
It's not a bureaucracy, it's a person that's a decision maker?

Speaker 12 (56:42):
Is there one, Senator, It's a conversation.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
It's not just an absolute yet.

Speaker 7 (56:47):
So let me tell you what I believe.

Speaker 11 (56:49):
I believe that the Secret Service leadership made a political
decision to deny these requests, and I think the Biden
administration has been suffused with part of and politics.

Speaker 7 (57:01):
Did the same person who denied.

Speaker 11 (57:02):
The request for additional security to President Trump also repeatedly
deny the requests for security to Robert F. Kennedy Junior,
whose father was murdered by an assassin and whose uncle
was murdered by an assassin?

Speaker 7 (57:14):
Did the same person make that decision?

Speaker 2 (57:16):
Senator?

Speaker 12 (57:16):
What I will tell you is that Secret Service agents
are not political.

Speaker 11 (57:20):
Okay, you're not answering, but you know what we were
by the president, appointed by the president is political.

Speaker 1 (57:27):
I have a simple question, yes or no?

Speaker 11 (57:30):
Did the same person deny the Trump requests that also
denied the RFK request.

Speaker 7 (57:36):
That's a yes or no question, Senator.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
That is not a yes or no question. One.

Speaker 12 (57:41):
There's a process for a candidate nominee to receive protection,
is there, ay, camer does a bike stop body artisan process.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
That they now?

Speaker 3 (57:51):
He goes on from there. But isn't this reminiscent of
the White House? No one's in charge. The buck doesn't
stop anywhere. When we get back, we're talking to a
young man about what's happening in Venice joining me is
I guess I'm extremely excited to talk about one peeve.
I should have asked one how to say your last name?
And I try it via s mill vs. What is it?

Speaker 2 (58:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (58:15):
Yeah, you got it?

Speaker 1 (58:16):
It did?

Speaker 3 (58:16):
I really? I never get anybody's names right. It's kind
of my calling card as a talk show host. He
spent the first sixteen years of his life in Venezuela.
He is now part of a group of young voices
and talking a lot about what's happening over the last
few days that we've been talking about on the show.

Speaker 7 (58:31):
One.

Speaker 3 (58:31):
First of all, welcome to the show.

Speaker 6 (58:35):
Hey, thank you very much for having me.

Speaker 3 (58:37):
Now, when did you immigrate to the United States?

Speaker 11 (58:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (58:43):
So though I'm a real American, I was born in
the US, I grew up in Venezuela for the first
sixteen years of my life, so I was there from
the very beginning with Chavis, although I was a baby
till the very end of Chavis the first year sin Maduro.
I officially left by the end of twenty sixteen, which

(59:05):
was when I think it's the last big protest we saw, right,
because in the last eight years we saw some protesting,
of course, but nothing as big as what we were
seeing today.

Speaker 3 (59:16):
Well, and today for people who've been living under a
rock for the last couple of days. There was an
election over the weekend, and even though exit polling and
other data and evidence show that the opposition candidate, who
was the opposition candidate is a figurehead representing the actual
opposition candidate, who was a woman named Machado. So this
guy she was decued from running, she was disqualified from

(59:39):
running by the corrupt Madura regime because she was going
to win, and so this other man stepped in and said,
I'm going to run on your behalf. She's been campaigning
with him. They are aligned, so a vote for him
is essentially a vote for Machado. Can you tell me
a little bit about her, because you know her, you've
appeared at protests with her. Would what are the policy
positions that you would think she would adopt if she

(59:59):
find gets into office.

Speaker 6 (01:00:04):
Yeah, I do think that really got to get to
the office before we even think about those. But if
I could dive into it for a bid, she's a
classical liberal.

Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
I know that.

Speaker 6 (01:00:16):
You know there's many stances on like what to do
exactly to move forward as a nation. The reality is
that in the very specific context of Venezuela, attracting capital
as a priority, and that's why you've seen very interestingly
a rise of classical liberals slash libertarians in South America.

(01:00:37):
You saw with Malay unlike other regions of the world
where you've seen like a populist statist figures Rice. And
this is because Venezuela, like Argentina, has a very very
big state, has a very very big problem with inflation.
And that's why Myra Karina has become more peeling day

(01:01:00):
by day. I sorry, before I go back to you,
if I could go back to history really quickly, if
you go back and look at every single other opposition candidate,
they were moderate left wingers. They were democratic socialists. They
didn't talk a great deal about privatizing companies, they didn't
talk a great deal about liberty. They had a Maduro

(01:01:24):
Tevista light message. Mark karna Is, I would say, the
first person to vocally make a case against socialism and
not just one against authority arianism.

Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
So that's why this is such an important election and
a sea change in Venezuela. Now, since the election, Maduro
has declared himself the winner, there have been massive protests
on the streets. I've been following it on x watching
in real time. I've watched his police officers take off
their uniforms because they don't want to go against the citizens.
They're joining the protests. I've watched soldiers reach out and

(01:02:00):
high five protesters as they go down the bus. Is
this the moment that we've been waiting for? Is this
the beginning of a coup? Because currently Maduro controls the courts,
he controls the military, he controls the police, he controls everything.
But now the military seems to have said, we're not
going to defend you anymore. Is this the beginning of
the end of Madurero's regime?

Speaker 6 (01:02:25):
I would say it's complicated. It certainly feels like that,
but feelings still matter that much when we assess form policy,
even with someone you know who has like connections with VENEZUELA.
Part of the work that I do, aside from my journalism,
is with the Center for a Secure Free Society led
by Joseph Humeyer, which for your listeners a very great

(01:02:49):
thinker in all things Labin American security. And when I
talk to him, it does seem like there is the
moment this now, there's never been a better moment for
some sort of citizen enforced uh and militarily enforced us
well domestic change. But at the same time, the Madure

(01:03:11):
regime instructed by the Cubans and by the Russians have
been very effective at like having loyalty tests. So we
haven't seen any generals changed our minds on Maduro. We
haven't seen any of the of the the upper rings
say something different, demonstrate support for the Moon, the Solace

(01:03:32):
and Marcarina Machado. What we have seen you as you
as you just explain, has been you know, the people
on the ground, so right, the cops or like the
lower rank military officials, and that's something. But to change
your regimas it's not enough.

Speaker 3 (01:03:50):
Oh you're breaking my heart.

Speaker 12 (01:03:51):
Win.

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
I was hoping this is it. I've been waiting for
this for so long. You said before we came on
the air that you are still in contact with a
lot of people. Your grandparents still live there. What are
the people that you talk to saying? What is the
mood on the ground among the people right now?

Speaker 6 (01:04:08):
Yes, so I have a lot of friends there that
I you know, my whole life, and of course like
my grandparents and one of my aunts. Well, I hope
are doing okay. I know they're doing okay at least
for now. Hopefully things don't get much uglier. I wrote
a piece for The Spectator the day at the election,
and it was amazing to see the empty sassm One

(01:04:28):
of my friend's undress. I don't say his last name
because I don't want him to get killed. He woke
up at three am and he put the national anthem
on to wake up his family. Because they wanted to
build really early. Everyone voted really early because they wanted
to make the election Frau proof And honestly, it kind
of worked because in the eyes of the international community,

(01:04:50):
in the eyes of Venezuelan's it's impossible for Madrid to
have one, right you see any single video if you
don't believe your long eyes, you know, that's another thing.
It's impossible for a drow to have one by a
seven percent margin. Mark Rona Machado won well in Mundo
one by twenty to thirty percent of the bill. That's
just the truth. Whoever doesn't believe that, it's I don't

(01:05:12):
want to say the word, but they're not very smart.
So yeah, people really excited and now slowly the hopes
have deteriorated, but there's still some remaining and it's it's
been very interesting to see how Marcream Machado managed to
bring those hopes back, because if I go back two
three years ago, it seemed like people were adapting to

(01:05:35):
the misery, which is one of the sad the saddest
things about growing up in a regime. Under a regime
that has governed for so long, people slowly lose motivation
and it takes a leader like Mark Kuruna Machado to
bring that energy back. And hopefully that energy doesn't disappear,

(01:05:56):
because if it does, and I don't want to be
overly passive mystic it may be you know the Yeah,
it may take like ten more years to see something
like this come up again.

Speaker 3 (01:06:08):
Well, I mean history is rife with revolutions that took
years to come to fruition. It's not a one and
done situation. What's interesting to me is that the point is,
even if the generals give the order, if the soldiers
are not willing to do it, if they're not willing
to act on those orders, it becomes harder and harder

(01:06:29):
for the military to manage these protests. Now, are the
protests still actively going on? What is the government doing
to shove them down?

Speaker 6 (01:06:40):
Yeah, so's there's a couple of things. In the beginning
was you know, classic intimidation and arrest, and then there's
been some shootings. The numbers are are unclear, but we
know that at least more than thirteen people have died
last time I checked, not that I have been killed
by armed forces, and we know that several have been shot.

(01:07:02):
There's likely dozens and dozens of people injured. Again, in
a country like Venezuela, getting the numbers quickly is hard,
but there's plenty of videos and what we also see
we also saw and this was actually kind of funny

(01:07:22):
but kind of depressing. I was doing a job interview actually,
and my dad interrupted me in the middle of my
soom Coney went there's a coup. There's a coup, and
I was said, what are you talking about? And what
ended up happening was that the Defence Minister of Venezuela
made an announcement saying that there was a coup. But
this was of course, like, this was false. This is

(01:07:43):
an exaggeration. So what they've been trying to do. Yeah,
they're trying to create this image of mark Ria Machada
some sort of fascistic agent. It's kind of funny because
they call her a fascist and then you see her
speak and it's like if she's a fascist and I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:07:57):
Know why I am, yes exactly, I'll join her there.

Speaker 6 (01:08:00):
Yeah, they're trying to make it seem like there's uh.

Speaker 3 (01:08:05):
Yeah, it's it's here. It's interesting they don't They usually
accuse the other side of doing what they themselves do though, Oh.

Speaker 6 (01:08:14):
Well yeah, this is like a classic strategic move.

Speaker 7 (01:08:18):
But this time around.

Speaker 6 (01:08:19):
It's especially funny because mark Cream and shot are like
number one. You just see it in her demeanor. Uh,
she's a well spoken woman who actually has some like
social liberal views.

Speaker 3 (01:08:34):
She's not a fascist like you can.

Speaker 6 (01:08:36):
I guess you could call her like a neoliberal and
like a US pawn like at least does make like
some sense, like she's not like uh an anti American
like them. But if you call her a fascist them,
you don't know what a fascist is.

Speaker 3 (01:08:51):
Yeah, but he just looks like one. I appreciate your
time today, one writes for The Spectator, and he's a
research fellow for the Latin American Focus for a Secure
Free Society. Thanks so much for making time for me today,
and I'm sure that we will be talking again, and
hopefully we will be talking about regime change in Venezuela
finally happening.

Speaker 6 (01:09:13):
Hopefully hopefully.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
All right, thanks one, I appreciate it. You know, I
gotta tell a story. I mentioned stub hub being sued
in Washington, d C. Over their ridiculous practice of not
telling you how much the tickets you're about to buy
are going to cost you with fees and service charges
and everything else. So last night, Olivia Rodrigo is playing

(01:09:34):
ballerina and my daughter and I both love I love
her more than my daughter does. If you want a
window into the mind of twenty something Mandy, go listen
to Olivia Rodrigo's music because she just taps right into
my stupidity at that point. But I love her and
I wanted to see her in concert, but tickets on
the after market were like four hundred and fifty bucks.
So I was like, that's not happening. And I told C.

(01:09:56):
I was like, let's go down to Ballerina. We'll wait
until after the first act starts. We'll we'll just I'll
sit there with all the aftermarket ticket apps and we'll
get some tickets when the price is dropped, because the
prices do normally drop at that point. So we get there,
the opening van starts, the price is barely move but
they drop down just a tiny pit And I called
Chuck and I said, I'm about to expend an ridiculous

(01:10:17):
amount of money on tickets to see Olivia Rodrigo, So
just get ready, it's coming. So I buy tickets through StubHub.
When you buy tickets through StubHub, there are ten different
pages you have to go through before they show you
how much the service charges are. Ted Okay, it's ridiculous,
but I buy the tickets because that's all I got,
and then we wait because the tickets are supposed to

(01:10:38):
be emailed to me, and I'm waiting and I'm waiting,
and I'm waiting. We're standing in front of Ballerina. I'm
now chatting with StubHub customer service. I'm like, I can
hear the opening van. They're finished now, so where are
my tickets? And they're like, we don't know. Let us
find out. At that point, one of my friends, she
was previously a co worker, she's gone to work for
another radio company. I see her walking up. She goes,

(01:11:01):
did you guys get tickets? Because I had posted on
Facebook we needed some prayers and juju to get into
the show, and I said I did, but I don't
have them, so I don't know if I have tickets
or not. She says, I have two extras. So I'm
chatting with stub Hub. I cancel my order, They refund
my money, and I got to go in with her
and see the show. I hate stub Hub. That's the

(01:11:22):
lesson of this story. By the way, the tickets never came.
They said, oh, these tickets are no longer available, and
I was like, well, that's unfortunate. So I refunded my money,
got to go see the show and it was outstanding.
It was so good, so so good, Ryan Edwards, to
your girls like Olivia Rodrigo.

Speaker 1 (01:11:39):
They do, I don't know if they. I mean, they're
you know, thirteen is the oldest like she probably they
probably know who she is.

Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
But are they Taylor Fansy or Taylors. Okay, well she's
like Taylor's child. That's what my daughter told me. Olivia's
like Taylor's child, so they probably know about Olivia. But
she does have a lot of botty melts in some
of her songs.

Speaker 4 (01:11:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:11:57):
See, that's the thing is, I can't think of a
single song I know who she is? Good for you
misery business. Oh wait, that's Paramore that she ripped off. Sorry, wow,
well she's awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:12:09):
I loved it. It was absolutely fantastic. But now it's
time for the most exciting segment all the radio of
its kind in the wild of the day. Right Edwards
and the crew broadcasting live from Broncos training camp. Right now,
what is our dad joke of the day?

Speaker 7 (01:12:27):
Please?

Speaker 1 (01:12:28):
Do you know what I would do if laziness was
an Olympic sport?

Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
Nothing?

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
I would come in forth, just so I don't have
to walk up to the podium.

Speaker 3 (01:12:37):
That's a good one. That is a great job, A
great job findly too. All right, what is our word
of the day? Please? It is a verb verb purport
This yesterday is yesterday changing.

Speaker 1 (01:12:52):
Let's get another aspersion.

Speaker 3 (01:12:56):
Oh we've had that too. Was thank you for like
looking into the future where.

Speaker 1 (01:13:02):
No, I'm not even going to try to pronounce this.
Why if he's done this one, I give up.

Speaker 7 (01:13:06):
Noun jurisprudence.

Speaker 3 (01:13:07):
Jurisprudence means something to do with the law. Jurisprudence's judgment
over or a legal case. Jurisprudence has to do with
legal stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:13:16):
Ryan, Yeah, I was just going to say it's certainly
uh so, I've only heard it in legal movies and
TV shows. So refers to the science or philosophy of law,
or to a system or body of law.

Speaker 3 (01:13:29):
Correct.

Speaker 2 (01:13:29):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (01:13:30):
Okay, today's trivia question. In the twenty twenty two film
The Batman starring Robert Pattinson as the Cape crusader who
plays Catwoman, I know this.

Speaker 1 (01:13:38):
Oh it's daughter Joey Kravitz.

Speaker 3 (01:13:41):
Yes, I knew that. Did you see that?

Speaker 9 (01:13:43):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:13:44):
Robert Downey Junior is coming back as doctor Davies. They
just announced it. More than I dislike it, I'll say
that you're the guys. Do jurry out on that.

Speaker 1 (01:13:53):
I have to do it right.

Speaker 3 (01:13:54):
Okay, we'll see about the jury about that.

Speaker 1 (01:13:56):
Oh, he's great in everything that he is. It'll be
a full time guy. Because that's just a cop out
and a money grab and can't do it. But he'll
make it work, Carsel.

Speaker 3 (01:14:04):
Fix I have faith Robert Towni Junor will make it
work anyway. All right. So what is our Jeopardy category? Oh?
By the way, coover picked the most impossible category yesterday.
The final score was zero to minus two.

Speaker 7 (01:14:18):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (01:14:18):
Yeah, yeah, have faith today?

Speaker 3 (01:14:20):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:14:21):
Is it categuary? Is the Olympics?

Speaker 3 (01:14:23):
Oh, okay, we'll see how we do.

Speaker 1 (01:14:24):
Yes, this is a tough one. I don't know any
why this is the two hundred Olympic medley swimming events.
Have these four strokes in one race?

Speaker 3 (01:14:32):
What is the breaststroke? Uh, the free style, the backstroke,
and the butterfly? That is correct?

Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
Nice?

Speaker 3 (01:14:38):
Well, I just watched that. It was so good.

Speaker 1 (01:14:40):
This eighteen year old from Louisville, I assume Louisville. Louisville
won the light heavyweight boxing gold medal in nineteen six.

Speaker 3 (01:14:47):
Who is Muhammad Ali? Correct? The Muhammad Ali Museum is
a great museum in Louisville. You should go to it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:54):
Denmark's Ellen, I'm gonna say it's Ostler foiled many of
her opponents in nineteen twenty four to become the first
woman to win gold medal in is excuse me in this.

Speaker 3 (01:15:04):
Sport, Mandy, what is fencing?

Speaker 2 (01:15:06):
That is correct?

Speaker 9 (01:15:06):
Dude?

Speaker 1 (01:15:06):
I did not watch a lot of Olympics show.

Speaker 3 (01:15:08):
Well, I didn't know that. But Foyle was the clue
there in that in that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:11):
Clue during the opening ceremonies parade of nations, this country
traditionally goes first. I should know this.

Speaker 3 (01:15:22):
I'm gonna say it is not Russia. I'm gonna guess, Mandy,
Albania wrong.

Speaker 6 (01:15:26):
Dang it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
Brian doesn't count. Oh god, I don't count. That's what
is grease cruel.

Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
Because they were the first people to do the Olympics.

Speaker 1 (01:15:34):
That makes sense, makes sense. Reminiscence of witches. It's the
bowl like structure that holds the flame in the host stadium.

Speaker 3 (01:15:41):
Mandy, what's the Olympic cauldron?

Speaker 7 (01:15:42):
That is correct?

Speaker 3 (01:15:44):
Nominant I've been watching the crap out of Olympics right now,
and I haven't.

Speaker 1 (01:15:50):
Other than basketball, that's that's really all. I've watched. One
word badminton.

Speaker 3 (01:15:56):
Did you see table tennis and table tennis?

Speaker 1 (01:15:58):
That's my one.

Speaker 10 (01:15:58):
It is.

Speaker 3 (01:15:59):
My daughter goes. Table tennis is an Olympic sport. I said, watch.

Speaker 7 (01:16:04):
Watch that.

Speaker 1 (01:16:05):
Table tennis and volleyball have been so good. And then
and then the the gymnastics yesterday of the US just dominated.

Speaker 3 (01:16:13):
I have not watched that yet. Chuck taped it for me.
I already know they won a gold medal. I knew
it was gonna be great domination. And Simone and the well,
I won't spoil that for you. I know the vault.
It all came down to the vault.

Speaker 1 (01:16:21):
No, well, I've been in the last one. They pretty
much had in the bag. And you guys, you guys just.

Speaker 2 (01:16:25):
Wanna you know.

Speaker 3 (01:16:26):
I'm sorry. It over to broadcasting live from Drugo's training camp.
Won't be back tomorrow. Beady here on KOA